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INSTRUCTS PATIENT Laurence Parks, membir of the American
Red Croti entertainment and instruction service, is pictured
here teaching photography to' patient at the Roseburg Vet
erans hospital. Perks-Chitwood picture).
Second American Mrs. Simpson To
Marry Into British Royal Circle
LONDON, Sept. 28. (M Soclalitei on both sides of the Atlantic
gossiped today of the announcement that a second American
Mrs. Simpson would marry into the British royal court circle.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A GERMAN scientist (a profes
sor Otto Hahn, generally re
garded as one of the discoverers
of nuclear fission, which is the
principle that makes the atom
bomb work) remarked in Ger
many the other day:
"The news that Soviet Russia
has the atom bomb is. GOOD
news. If both the United States
and Russia have it, there will be
-no war.". . . - '.vr-
DONT know whether this Pro
I lessor Hahn (who, by the way,
lives in OUR part of Germany;
NOT the Russian part) is a psy
chiatrist as well as a physicist.
But he certainly talks like one.
What he means, obviously, is
that the communists who run
Russia HAVE AN INFERIORITY
COMPLEX. Having an inferiority
complex (so his thinking ap
parently runs) they couldn't
work with us as long as we had
the bomb and they didn't. Having
ai Inferiority complex, all they
could do was to thumb their noses
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Thief Takes Only Such
Money At He Needs
DAYTON. O., Sept 2 4!P
Somewhere In Dayton there is
a reluctant thief who knew Just
how much money he needed and
took it.
When Julian Tangeman re
turned to his home yesterday,
he found $126 missing from a
small metal box in which he
keeps valuables. A note left in
O the box read:
"Will pay you back as soon
as possible.
langeman said an additional
$98 in the box was untouched.
CROWDED SCHOOLS STRESSED
City Educators Explain
Necessity For Finishing
Building Program In 1950
The extreme necessity for completing Roseburg's school build
ing program by the time school opens in September, 1950, was em
phasized by City Superintendent Paul Elliott, speaking before
the Kiwanis Club Thursday noon in the Hotel Umpqua.
Elliott's appearance was part of
a school administrators' program,
arranged by Junior High Prinl
cipal R. R. Brand. Introduced also
were Benson Principal Koy k..
Crain, Fullerton Principal Lyle
Eddy; Riverside Principal Earl
Ladd. Junior High Vice-Principal
Robert Sabin: Senior High Vice-
Principa'l Owen Price, and Senior i
High Principal George Erickson. i,u. "'- "TTT?
7 ..... , ? r., lined plans being studied to en
An additional guest was Elmer !,arge fhe faclmi and ated ;le
Flemmine. Cottage Grove s super- v,j , ,v.J .. .
llir-IU III Ul BlIIUlll!.
Elliott discussed the difficulty ;
of educating more than 2 800 chii-j
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rim i hi a mft nrak noraecarv In tu.-r
aF thorn Tha ..nin. kink nhru
of them. The senior high school,
built lor 350, has over 700 stw
dents, and the Junior high an even
greater number in a building in
tended for 500.
Even the new building program,
w hich will add 11 rooms at River
siue ana eigm bi runenon,
gether with expanded high school
faalit es. i not completely
solve the enro lrnent problem. For
example, said Elliott, two new
rooms a: Fullerton were Intended
for high school use, but enroll-
ratio
7J
The Marquis of Mllford Haven,
handsome cousin of King George
VI and one of Britain's most eli
gible bachelors, announced his
engagement yesterday to Mr.
Romaine Dahlgren Pierce Simp
son, a New York Park avenue
divorcee.
The nattily-dressed Marquis,
30, who makes his living now sell
ing heaters, told newsmen today
he and his fiancee will sail Oct.
14 for America. The marriage, he
added, would be "late in Novem
ber." Mrs. Simpson, attractive 26-year-old
and mother of an 18-month-old
girl, was divorced in
1948 after two years of marriage
to William A. Simpson, whose
father was once nresldent. .of
Marsh.rll Fieltf and Co, Chicago
uepanmeni store.
The name of Milford Haven's
fiancee recalled the romance of
Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson 13
years ago when King Edward
VIII now the Duke of Windsor
gave up his throne to marry her.
The two Mrs. Simpsons are not
related.
The future Marchioness Is the
daughter of Mrs. Clark Mcll
waine of Washington. Mrs. Simp
son's father, scientist Vinton U.
D. Pierce, died In a railroad ac
cident in 1925.
Mrs. Simpson Is a former Bar
nard college student.
Court's Advice Followed,
But Not In Sequence
BALTIMORE, Sept. 28 IJPI
"Go out the same door," advised
Judge J. Howard Murray as he
gave another chance to a young
couple in his court yesterday
with marital troubles.
They did. They left the court
room together.
Outside, the husband left his
wife and walked away with an
other girt.
QUICK POLIO DEATH
SALEM, Sept. 28 fPV John
Reinwald, 12, died of polio today.
He had been in an iron lung since
Saturday, two days after he was
stricken with the disease.
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en' here ' ,a'ready "luir
their use when the school goes
off a double shift and returns to
normal hours with the building's
completion.
Technical difficulties in the
high school expansion have neces-
!!."ted,,re.vA"inS thf or Pan'
to the public at an early date.
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Despite enrollment problem,
Elliott stated he had some things
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staff, which he considers one of
the best, and another is the edu
,,), program. An evaluation of
curriculum extens on course, con
ducted by Hugh Wood of the
University of Oregon, has begun,
with its purpose to evaluate the
io-f.hnri itt-ri,ii,,m r.i., hiu
ln the program and eliminate du
piication, in an a which empha.
"stream lining." Another ex.
tension course in elementary
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The Weather
Mostly cloudy wit few
light showers today one) Thurs
day. Sunset today 4:00 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow 4:08 a. m.
Established 1S73
Fires Fought In
Umpqua Forest
North Sector
Near Disston
Battle Scene
Blazes Originate In
Slashings; Situation
Elsewhere Improves
Forest Supervisor M. M. Nelson
said today that 235 men were
figh'lng two fires in the northern
section of the Umpqua National
forest east of Cottage Grove.
The two blazes helped put the
state's live forest fire area well
over the 10.000-acre mark as fire
threatened homes in several west
ern Oregon communities.
Both Umpqua forest fires broke
out Monday afternoon in logging
company slash areas. Nelson said.
The largest of the two blazes, on
Adams creek southeast of Disston,
has already covered over 200
acres and is still raging out of
control. A total of 180 firefight
ers from the Forest service and
five logging and mill companies
are battling the fire.
The smaller fire, a 100-acre
blaze on Patterson creek, north
east of Disston, also started from
slash burning and stiread Into 100
acres of green timber. Nelson
said the Patterson creek fire Is
believed to be under control with
55 men, two "cats" and two tank
ers being utilized.
According to Nelson, the 200-
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Pay Raise Voted
For Workers In
Pdsiai Service ""
WASHINGTON. Sept. 28-W)
The house Tuesdav voted pay
raises ol about $180,000,000 a
year for an estimated 500,000
postal employes.
Passage was by overwhelming
vote
In preliminary debate, there
were scattered demands for
increases in postal rates to help
offset an estimated $700,000,000
postal deficit.
The president, through his
budget bureau, had opposed the
legislation. The senate has not
yet acted on it.
The civil service commission
had opposed the bill on grounds
it discriminated in favor of postal
employes by comparison with
other government workers.
The post office department also
opposed it.
In addition to raising the pay
of all field service employes, in
cluding postmasters, the bill gives
postal employes 20 days annual
leave instead of the 15 they now
have. It provides $100 a year al
lowance for employes required to
wear uniforms.
In some cases, members of the
House postoffice committee said,
the raises would be as high as
$700 a year for employes with
long service.
The bill provides a fiat raise of
$150 a year for all employes, plus
hourly increases for workers
hired on a part-time or hourly
basis. It provides also for auto
matic increases based on length
of service and for a raise from
$2,500 to $2,900 a year in the start
ing pav of regular postal
employes.
Probation Granted On
Penitentiary Sentence
M. H. Renhard, 36, charged
with obtaining money by false
pretenses, was sentenced to one
year in the state penitentiary,
but was released on probation,
upon his plea of guilty to Dis
trict Attorney Robert G. Davu'
information.
Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimher
ly, who imposed the sentence,
granted probation upon provision
that Renhard make good within
60 days checks which he alleged
ly had issued without funds.
A charge against Renhard
brought by Port Angeles, Wash.,
authorities has been dropped, ac
cording to information received
by Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter.
Victoria Sanders Taken
To Oregon Penitentiary
Victoria Sanders, convicted on
a charge of manslaughter for he
death of Ralph Mojonnier Oct.
28. 1947. was taken to the state
penitentiary Tuesday to begin
serving her seven-year term, im
posed Monday by "Circuit Judge
Carl E. Wimberly.
Miss Sanders also has slightly
over a year to serve of an origi
nal three-year sentence on three
ficticious check charges. The
manslaughter term will begin at
the end of the check charge term.
She was taken to Salem by
Mrs. Walter Wilson, matron, md
Deputy Sheriff A. A. "Red" Eck-hardt.
ROSEBURG,
JURY DEADLOCKED
Judge Asks New
Accord Try In
Tokyo Rose Case
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2
(IP) Six silent men and six silent
women tried once more today
to decide whether Tokyo Rose is
guilty ol treason lor ner war
time radio broadcasts from Ja
pan. They reported late last night,
34 hours and 30 minutes after
they had received the case, that
they were unable to agree un
animously on a verdict.
Judge Michael J. Roche urged
them to "reconsider and re
examine all the evidence." as
leisurely as they liked, to pre
vent if possible a second long
and expensive trial. This trail is
in its 12th week.
They had begun deliberating
the case against the American
born defendant, Iva Toguri D'
Aquino, at 11:44 Monday.
The trial "has been a long and
expensive one for both the pro
secution and the defense," Judge
Roche told them.
Iva was bland-faced as De
puty Marshal Herbert Cole, his
arm about her shoulders, sup
ported her on her way back to
her cell for the night.
She Is charged with eight overt
acts of treason
The grave-faced Jurors yester
day asked for stenographic re
cords of testimony on three of
those eight.
During the afternoon Jurors
also called for and got the
notes taken by war correspon
dent Clark Lee when he inter
viewed Mrs. D'Aquino In Tokvo
shortly after the Japanese sur
render In 1945,
Yugoslavia Hits
Back At Hungary
With 9 Ousters
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept.
28 (JPh Yugoslavia slapped back
at a one-time communist part
ner last niRht by ordering nine
Hungarian diplomats to get out
of the country.
The action, widening the Iron
curtain rift between Premier
Marshal Tito and the Russian
Bloc, followed by 24 hours Hun
gary's action ln giving walking
paper to 10 Yugoslav legation
officials in Budapest.
Tanjug, the official Yugoslav
news agency, said Hungary ob
viously intended to "bring about
severance of diplomatic relations
between Yugoslavia and Hun
gary." Meanwhile Marshall Tito In
an address accused Russia and
her Cominform (Communist In
ternational Information bureau)
satellites of "rattling their arms,,
along the Yugoslav border The
Cominform countries, said Tito,
are "digging trenches in Hungary
and Romania."
Just before Tito's speech, Yugo
slavia's Foreign Minister Kar
delj told the United Nations as
sembly in New York that Russia
is using all sorts of pressure
from economic blockade to arm
ed demonstrations t o further
"imperialistic" aims against his
country.
New Apartment House To
Rise On Chadwick Street
Ground is being broken on
Chadwick near Washington for
the erection of a new apartment
house.
Carl V. Trued, Glide rancher,
has filed his plans with City In
spector C. H. Boniols and is ex
pected to take out a permit with
in a couple of days for the erec
tion of the building to house five
apartments and three garages.
The structure will be two stor
ies high, of frame and stucco
construction. The garages will
front on Chadwick, with the build
ing extending eastward. Two of
the three-room apartmems will
be on the ground floor and three
on the upper story.
The area to the south will be
landscaped.
Swinson and Peterson are the
contractors.
Ellsworth's Bill Asks
Douglas Dam-Dike Job
WASHINGTON. Sept. 28-JI
Rep. Ellsworth IR-Orei has In
troduced a bill In Congress to
authorize Oregon to construct a
dam and dike In Douglas county
which would prevent tide watei
flow into Otter slough.
The legislation provides for
army engineers approval of the
I plans. The act will expire if the
work Is not started within a year
and completed within three
yean.
TO
OREGON WEDNESDAY, SEPT.
British Labor
Rule Blasted
By Churchill
Ouster Demanded In
Speech Saying Nation
On Verge Of Bankruptcy
By HAL COOPER
LONDON, Sept. 28. UP)
Winston Churchill asked parlia
ment today to throw out the labor
government which succeeded his
own f gime in 1945.
"Most of us agree that It is
high time for another parliament
and that all our difficulties would
hve a much better ehance of be
ing solved in a new House of Com
mons," the conservative leader
declared.
Churchill opened the second
day of debate in a three-day emer
gency session brougnt on by the
government decision to devalue
the pound.
He said Britain has reached a
point which is "both serious and
strange."
"Over-ail there looms and
broods the atomic bomb which the
Russian Soviet, for reasons not
yet explained, have got before the
British, though happily not before
the Americans," Churchill said.
Churchill said that what with
Britain's financial crisis, the con
flict between its leading parties,
and now the atom bomb ques
tion, "it will be generally agreed
that the hour is grave."
The government has asked for
a vote of confidence.
That means the Attlee cabinet
is asking "How have we done?",
Churchill said, and he com
mented: 'That is a question
which the electors will have .o
pronounce upon at no distant
date.
Ouster Improbable
The conservative counter-motion
of no confidence says a re
turn 1 1 prosperity" can never be
assured under the present admin
istration." If it should carry which Is
hrdly even i possibility tradl
tio would require Prime Minister
Attlee to dissolve his government
and call the election immediately.
The laborltes, however, hold
393 of the 640 seats in Commons.
Reports are that the party has a
virt il pledge from all but ex
treme left wingers to support the
cabinet when the vote comes
tomorrow,
"On Vsrgs of Bankruptcy"
Churchill declared:
"in this lnat fnur lavrtch vur.
IhA . T.i 'i 1 i . t ntarnmant hatra A V .
acted upwards of 16,000,000,000
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Another Province
Of China Deserts
To Communists
By Spencer Moosa
CANTON, Sept 28-MP) The
vast northwestern province of
Sinkiang, which fronts on the
Russian border, was reported re
liably today to have gone over
to the communists.
Tihwa, political center of the
sparsely peopled but rich pro
vince, had been out of radio con
tact with Canton for two davs.
That fact adfced weight to the
report all nationalist officials had
pulled out of Tihwa Into south
ern Sinkiang.
An informant said he assumed
Chinese communists had taken
over control of strategic centers
throughout the northern part of
Sinkiang, at least. He also sup
posed that Gen. Chang Chih
Chung, turncoat nationalist who
formerly was commissioner for
the northwest, had manipulated
the surrender of Sinkiang to the
communists whom he had been
courting. He was last reported
In Pelplng where he went mon
ths ago as a "peace emissary"
to the communists.
With an immense treasure of
natural resources Slngkiang once
was known as Chinese Turke
stan. It has been an historic area
of Russian penetration.
Attempt To Slay Prohibition
In Oklahoma Fails Fifth Time
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 28. (API Oklehome ii still
legally dry, end victory-flushed prohibitionists proclaimed their
intent to make it literally dry too.
The fifth attempt in 42 years of statehood to repeel the
itete's constitutional ben on intoxicents wei decisively beaten
in a special election yesterday.
With 3,584 out of 3,720 precincts reported, the unofficiel
returns were:
For repeal 264,66 1 .
Against repeel 313,071.
' Victory wes conceded to the dry forces lest night by A. G.
Kulp, Tulse attorney who heeded the repeal orgeniietion in
corporated as the Oklahoma Economic institute.
The chairmen of the victorious United Dry association, David
C. Shepard, promptly announced a cempeign for "ridding our
state of bootleggers end the evils of the whiskey traffic."
But the wets seid the bootleggers were the reel winners.
Other repeel efforts were defeeted in 1908, 1910, 1936 and
1940. Mississippi is the only ether state with a statewide
liquor baa. ,
28, 1949
PARKING PROBLEM
Don't Ride, Walk
To Work, Advice
To Commuters
How to solve Roseburg's auto
mobile parking problem? Mem
bers of the Roseburg Toast mast
ers club had an answer last night
more people should leave their
cars at home and walk to work.
The question was posed during
the club's regular "table topics
discussion which opened the
meeting at the Hotel Umpqua.
Several solutions were suggest
ed, but most members agreed
that too many city residents
drive their cars a few blocks to
work, when they would be better
off walking.
One Toaatmaster suggested
that the city purchase a large
parking lot, then lease space to
business houses for employee
parking. Another said that all
new building ought to provide
roof parking for cat's. Anothi-r
idea was that new businesses
should be located in the subu.b)
where adequate space for park
ing would be available: citizens
could then use the public transit
system If they wished to go down
town. The parking problem, it was
agreed, is one that any city must
face if It has both streets and
automobiles.
Foreign Aid Fund
Accord Reached
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. P)
A Senate-House committee ap
proved a $3,809,990,000 foreign
aid program today.
The vote was a victory for the
Senate's economy plan for Euro
pean recovery.
In the final voting the House
members approved the Senate's
figure of $7,778,380,000 to carry
the Marshall plan program un
til June 30, 1950.
An early report had said the
conferees were In tentative agree
ment on a $200,000,000 boost in
European aid above the Senate
figure. But in the final ballot
the House members dropped their
!gnt lor an increase.
The measure 1 expected to get
quick approval in both Houses
and go to the White House with
in a few days.
iAs the bill now stands It con
tains: $3,628,380,000 for ECA.
$150,000,000 In loan authority
for ECA.
$1,074,000,000 to cover ECA
spending in final quarter of the
last fiscal year,
$15,000,000 for Greece and Tur
key. $912,500,000 for army occupa
tion costs in Germany, Austria,
Japan and Ryukyu islands.
$110,000 for a congressional
watchdog committee to keep a
check on foreign aid spending.
The conferees agreed to a pro
vision designed to save further
German Industrial plants from
being dismantled or destroyed.
Deer Season Shut North
Of Douglas-Lane Border
SALEM, Stpt 28 it North
western Oregon's deer hunting
season will not open Oct. 1 bo
eaute of the fire dangtr.
Gov. Douglas McKay's office
reported the postponement last
night In the area north of the
Lane-Douglas county line and
west of the Cascade mountains.
The season will open Satur
day as planned in the rest ef
the state.
The governor Is to Issue a
proclamation opening the
northwest area season when he
eonsiders the woods safe.
Everett Waller Fined
$100 For Drunk Driving
Everett Paul Waller, Roseburg,
arrested by city police on a drunk
driving charge, pleaded guilty
and was fined $100 and sentenced
to the city Jail for 30 days upon
arraignment in municipal court,
reported Judge Ira B Riddle.
The Jail sentence will be sus
pended upon payment ef the fine.
Waller's driver's license was also
revoked for one yefir.
M
228-49
Pineapple Is
Unloaded At
The Dalles
Non-Union Men Ignore
CIO Pickets: Truckers
Arrive To Haul Cargo
THE DALLES, Ore., Sept. 28.
Six non-union workmen began
unloading a Hawaiian pineapple
barge here at dawn today.
Officials of the Hawaiian Pine
apple company, owner of the 2,-700-ton
cargo, unhooked the first
sling load as It came to rest on
the dock platform.
CIO longshore pickets appear
ed about an hour after the un
loading started the second un
loading operation ln Oregon in
two days for pineapple barged
from strikebound Hawaii.
At Tillamook an empty barge
today was a reminder of a one
day unloading that went off witn
out trouble yesterday. That barge
slipped Into Tillamook bay under
cover of night and fog and moved
up the Tillamook river where It
was unloaded at a log dump.
The barge here arrived Satur
day after CIO longshoremen
linking It to the Hawaii longshore
strike refused to unload It at Se
attle. AKL longshoremen at Ta-
coma also refused to unload.
Robert Tarr, stevedore super
intendent for the owning com
pany, recruited labor here to
start the unloading and at 7:15
a.m. issued an appeal over the
local radio station for more work
ers. A seventh workman was
brought to the dock by Lyle Hic
kok, chairman of the port.
An hour after the unloading
started, Kred Kamahoahoa, Ha
waiian longshoreman, appeared
to picket. Police told him he
would not be allowed on Port
commission property at the en
trance where pickeis have been
stationed since the barge's ar
rival. He moved across the rail
road tracks.
Six police patrolmen were on
dutv. - ' .
1 As the pineapple was unloaded
it was moved by hoist truck into
one of the commission warehouse
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ARMCO Steel
Agrees To $100
Monthly Pension
MIDDLETOWN, O., Sept. 28
CP) Armco Steel corporation an
nounced today it agreed to a pen
sion plan of $100 a month for
approximately 4.500 workeri ln
two of its plants here.
The workers now get between
$110 and $65 a month, a spokes
man for the company said.
Elmer Davis, president of the
Armco Employes Independent
Federation said the company has
agreed that under the present
contributory group life Insurance
plan, the insurance of retired
workers will be continued at no
cost to them.
The pension agreement we ne
gotiated is in line with, and in
many respects greatly exceed3,
the steel fact-finding board's rec
ommendations on the subject,"
Davis said in his statement.
Contract negotiations for the
steel Industry threatened with a
strike for weeks continued ln
Pittsburgh today.
Negotiations between the lnde.
pendent union and Armco on oth
er union proposals, Including so
cial Insurance, are continuing,
Davis said.
Lakes Region Iron Miners
Call Off Strike Plans
DULUTH, Minn., Sept. 28-P)
Leaders of the Union Iron Ore
Miners today called off plans for
a strike on the iron ranges of
Minnesota, Wisconsin and upper
Michigan.
Henry Burkhammer, district
director for the United Steel
workers union, said the miners
would remain at work until fur
ther notice.
It had been announced last
night that the miners would walk
off the Job tonight. Because of
this, union leaders here hastened
today to notify presidents of local
unions in iron range cities to
keep their men on the Job.
Burkhammer had said the
strike order came from the of
fice of president Philip Murray
of the steelworkers union.
Showdown Nearing On
Steel Contract Parley
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28. (.TV
A showdown on steel contract
negotiations appeared Imminent
today with widespread reports
that the Industry has come out
with a new settlement offer.
Neither side would comment
on varied rumors as closed-door
talks continued In an effort to
avert a nationwide strike set lor
Friday midnight.
There was no official word
from Philip Murray of the CIO
United Steelworkers or Vice
President John Stephens of United
States Steel on progress of their
long conferences. Any decision
thev reach Is expected to set the
pattern for the Industry.
November 1st
Date Fixed By
City Council
Miller's Addition And
Sleepy Hollow One Unit,
West Roseburg The Other
West Roseburg and Miller's
addition-Sleepy Hollow residenta
will go to the polls Nov. 1 to
vote upon the issue of being an
nexed to the city of Roseburg.
Date for the election was set
by the Roseburg city council at
a special meeting late Tuesday,
after petitions from the two dis
tricts asking that they be an
nexed were read and checked.
An ordinance setting the election
date and setting forth the bound
aries of the two districts waa
passed through its third and
final readings.
The West Roseburg petitions
bore 206 names. However, only
161 are at the present time re
gistered votciu. The petitions for
the Miller's addition-Sleepy Hol
low section, directly south of the
city, contained 89 names. The
numbers were, however, suffi
cient for the council to take ac
tion. City Vote Comes Later
Election within the city of
Roseburg will not take place at
the same time. Under a new law
passed by the 1949 legislature
the city is not required to carry
the expense of an election, until
after the outcome of voting in
the respective areas seeking an
nexation is known. If the election
carries, then the city election will
be set. If It falls, the city will
not be required to vote. Pre
viously annexation elections were
held simultaneously in the city
and suburban areas.
The city election would be)
held prior to the first of the year,
in order that the new city cen
sus would include the enlarged
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Negotiators In
Find Effort To
Avert Ford Strike
By GLENN ENGLE
DETROIT, Sept. 28 (.)
Weary negotiators worked furi
ously today to write a Ford con
tract and head off a strike before
a midnight deadline on bargain
ing. unconfirmed reports from the
coniererKietable' mdtearre ford
had offered company-pa Id pen
sions at the age of 65. It was also
reported that an unusual two-and-a-half
year contract was ln tha
making.
If a new contract is not signed
by midnight, the UAW has threat
ened quick strike action. Ford'a
1 15,000 hourly workers are stand
ing by.
The reported Ford offer, cou
pled with social security pay
ments, would give retired work
ers between $80 and $100 monthly
in pensions. Retirement would be
required at age 68, but worker
with 30 years' service would have
the option of retiring at 60, It
was reported.
Any pension plan at Ford pre
sumably would set a pattern for
heavy Industry and affect mil
lions of other workers.
There were no official state
ments from either side at nego
tiations. However, a Ford official did
say last night that his firm waa
ready to give a pension plan that
would cost a maximum of 10
cents an hour per worker the
amount recommended by a pres
idential fact-finding board in the)
steel industry.
In a speech at Youngstown, 0
Ford Vice-President Ernest R.
Breech made the first public
statement that the company waa
willing to go all the way with the
panel's recommendation.
Stay-Away From Polls
Beats School Levy Plan
SPOKANE, Sept. 28. VP)
Spokane voters defeated a spe
cial 10-mill school levy Tuesday
by staying away from the polls.
Voters actually favored by a
margin of more than 60 per cent
the levies to permit new school
construction and Increase teach
ers' salaries.
However, only 26,770 votes were
cast. This was about 1,000 short of
the number needed for a valid
election. The law requires a vote
of 40 per cent of the ballots cast
at the last general election.
Redmond Man Killed
In "Russian Roulette"
REDMOND. Sept. 28 (.H Lou-
Is Popish, 23, Redmond, died in
a hospital yesterday after dis
charging a revolver he thought
was unloaded.
Coroner George Winslow said
Jack Hassler, a companion of
Popish, reported they were rid
ing home from a rabbit hunt.
He said Popish dumped shells
Into his hand, suddenly raised the
pistol and said "Didja ever play
the game of Russian Roulette?"
he pulled the trigger and the .22
caliber cartridge went off.
Lvity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenetelii
Pranosed new monthly sty
rates for married members of
the armed services ere cer
tainly based on broad-minded
policy. Even 2nd lieutenants are
listed for a boost of from $212
to $330.
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