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Klan Units Unite
To War On Reds
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 30
W) A newly consolidated Ku
Klux Klan minus the big Geor
gia group today iet out to lick
1,100 pro-Communist organiza
tions In the United States."
After completing a merger of
three Klan groups here yester
day, spokesmen caiiea lor active
war on Communism and what
the Klan called "hate move
ments. '
The Klan singled out as targets
the National Association for the
Advancement o( Colored People,
B'Nal B'rlth nd the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ In
America. . .
It called them the kind of
groups "designed and intended
to stir up racial and religious hate
among the minority."
In New York, an official of
the Federal council called the
Klan statement an absurd charge
and said he assumed the issue
will be taken care of locally.
An NAACP spokesman pledged
continued work toward equal
right for all American citizens
"despite the organized bigotry of
such groups as the KKK.
While the Klan credited the
Roman Catholic church with ac
tively fighting Communism, it ad
vised members against Catholic
domination ol tne light.
Merged were the Federated
Klans of Alabama, the Southern
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
and the Association of Caro
lina Klans. Only Samuel Roper's
Association of Georgia Klans re
mains outside the fold.
The United Klan elected an
"emperor" known publicly only
as minan ii.
Maximum Salaries Set
For Rural Teachers
(Continued from page One)
school principals serving as ad
ministrative heads of the districts
range from $4,000 for schools
with three teachers on a grad
uated scale up to $5,000 for
schools of 13 or more teachers.
Band and orchestra Instructors'
salaries are set at a maximum of
$1,650 on a half time basis, with
recommendation that the instruc
tor be a regular faculty member
to teach other subjects, If the size
of the school warrants.
School clerks' salaries begin
with a maximum of $75 for one
teacher districts with $40 for each
additional teacher and a celling
of $1,500. An additional $50 Is al
lowed for an elementary and
high school combination under
the same board. A maximum of
$50 is allowed for clerks In dis
tricts not maintaining schools but
transporting students,
No 8lck Leave Pay ; ;
No allowance Is made for teach
ers' sick leaves, as districts have
not adopted a uniform policy.
Janitors' salaries range from a
maximum of $270 for one room
schools' to $1,800 for five-room
schools for 10 months' work, and
$2,400 on a 12-month basis for
schools of six to 10 rooms. Help
ers may be added for schools of
more than 10 rooms.
The policy sets up a standard
for purchasing of teaching sup-
Klles, text books, janitor supplies,
ealth service of $2 per pupil, li
brary books, bus drivers' salaries
of $150 a month, other transpor
tation matters, and $25 per teach
er for an emereencv fund.
No allowance is made lot such
Items as long distance telephone
calls or expenses not connected
with operational costs, such as
capital outlays and other expenses
connected witn general control,
supervision, teaching, operation,
maintenance and repairs and hot
lunch programs.
Funds desired by the district
over and above the amounts al
lowable by the rural board must
be raised oy special levies on tne
individual districts.
Street Drives Boost
Funds For Polio Cause
(Continued from page One)
speaker over which thanks to
contributors and progress of the
drive were broadcast.
Weather Handioap Battled .
As the dollar chain lengthen
ed. Javcees moved to the middle
of the street to stop motorists
for donations. An impromptu ton
system was set up and most mo
torists gladly "forked over" to
aid the cause. This scheme was
abandoned shortly after 1 p.m
as the chain fell apart after being
softened by snow and rain, but
Jaycees returned to the job later
in the afternoon after drying tne
bills.
City drive chairman Del Mc
Kay termed the Saturday cam
paign a successful one, altnougn
workers did not equal the amount
gathered during a similar day
last year. However, McKay said
workers were bucking a cold,
wintry day which accounted for
the relatively small total collect
ed. Boy Scouts took In $214.55 for
their mile-of-dlmes activity and
Jaycees nearly doubled that
amound during the day.
The current drive will continue
this week and include such fund
raising schemes as a special
"coffee day" Friday, the bene
fit auction to be neid Friday oy
Roseburg Lions and a special tal
lent show at the senior high
school.
Truman Ready To Act
In Coal Miners' Strike
(Continued from page One)
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for. the President to hold off,"
said the official who declined
to be quoted by name.
At another point, he said In
conversation with a reporter that
the President might Intervene
"within 48 hours."
Thus the next flteD anneared to
rest with those of Lewis' United
Mine Workers who have been on
strike for three weeks to support
tnelr demands lor a contract
guaranteeing five days a week.
Lewis instituted a three-day
week to bring pressure on coal
operators to grant UMW contract
demands, short ol an all-out
strike. The strike of the 8,000,
who say they can't live on three
days' pay, does not have official
umw aunorization.
Two Courses Open '
The White House official sold
the President will decide on the
basis of any return-to-work move
ment whether to Invoke the
emergency powers of the Taft
Hartley act, or take other action.
Mr. Truman has repeated v said
In recent weeks that a national
emergency had not arrived, al
though a number of people In and
out of congress disagreed with
him. The T-H law's emergency
provisions Include the use of an
80-day injunction to keep the
mines going.
ine alternative action might be
to set up a fact-finding board
with power to make recommenda
tions for settling the coal dispute.
He did this in last year's steel
strike, asking the parties to con
tinue production while the board
studied the case. '
The White House official dis
cussing possible presidential
moves said the scheduled resump
tion of contract talks here Wed
nesday between Lewis' and north
ern and western operators would
not oe enougn in liseii at this
stage.
He noted that contract neuo-
tlations by themselves would not
put men back to work at once.
James Boyd, director of the bu
reau of mines told Mr. Truman,
and later a congressional commit
tee, last week that unless coa Dro-
duction Increased substantially at
once, tne nation would be in an
emergency if It wasn't already In
one.
McWilliams Speaks In
Portland Despite Ban
PORTLAND. Jan. 30.-im
Carey McWilliams. who was ban
ned from speaking in the public
scnoois, opnverea nis address in
Red Men hall last night.
His talk was about civil liber
ties. But at the end of it, his au
dience voted to demand the resig
nation of Capt. William D.
Browne from the city police
force.
It was Browne's recommenda
tion thnt decided the school board
Battle For Civil Rights
Ordered By CIO Chief
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 30 UP)
Five hundred CIO United Steel
worker officials today embarked
on what their president, Phillip
Murray, termed a "noiy cru
sade" to fight for civil rights.
Murray urged his deputies to
support president Truman i civil
rignts program in every way pos
sible. He said of Mr. Truman:
"Not since Lincoln has a presi
dent gone to bat for a people as
has Mr. Truman. He has put his
head on the political block and
his party has been torn asunder
by the issue.
Murray told a United Steel-worker-CIO
civil rights confer
ence yesterday that the civil
rigIVs campaign Is virtually as
Important to the gteelworkers as
their successful drive for pen
sions. - -
The meeting launched a series
of cross-country sessions the
steel union hopes will result In
enactment of national civil rights
legislation.
Intensified Search For
Lost C-54 Continues
(Continued from page Onel
aerial search Armada last night,
officials anxiously awaited word
from a ground party sent to In
vestate a lone clue to the
plane's whereabouts.
It came from a forest ranger
In an almost Inaccessible spot
approximately 40 miles to the
southwest.
The ranger said he saw a large
plane overhead late Thursday,
then heard an earth-shaking thud.
an explosion and saw billowing
clouds of smoke.
Air Commodore Martin Costel
lo of the Royal Canadian a i r
force, search coordinator here.
described the report as the
most nieniy probable yet re
ceived.
Parachute crews staved readv
for an immediate take-off should
the ground crew report back it
has found the craft.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 UP)
Names of the 36 passengers
aboard the strategic air com
mand C-54 that vanished In the
Yukon wilderness Jan. 26 on a
flight from Ancorage, Alaska, to
Great Falls, Mont., have been
released by the air force.
me plane s eight crew mem
bers were identified previously.
ine passengers included:
Eldon V. Dolanskv. Sunnyside.
Wash., Philco Co., techncian fly
ing to the stales from Adak.
Mrs. Joyce M. Espe, Elmen
dorf Air Force Base Alaska.
Victory E. Esne. 2 years old.
Elmendorf Air Force base, Alaska.
S-Sgt. Clinton D. Tompkins,
Rangley, Wash.
Pvt. Robert M. Hlatt. ToDoe-
nlsh, Wash..
PFC. Francis D. Hofer. Seat
tle.
Cant. Frank E. Gregory. Eiel-
son AFB, Alaska.
s-sgt. jacK . Dickerson,
Dunsmuir, Calif. - r
Cantain Gregory was on emer
gency leave orders. .
They gave him priority and he
bumped" another passenger off
the plane. ,
Mentally Ailing Man " .
Kills Mother And Self .
BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Jan. 30
IIP) A man who left four sui
cide notes killed his aged moth
er and himself in their home yes-
teroay.
Luther Housel. 62. made his
plans so carefully that he posted
a note on the door saying: "Do
not enter. Bring tne law with
you.
inose who entered the home
In Ellettsvllle, near here, found
Mrs. Martha Housel, 87, beaten
fatally with a hammer, and
Housel dead of a shotgun wound.
Dr. Robert E. Lyons Jr., Mon
roe County coroner, said the
notes showed Housel was suffer
ing "a severe state of mental
melancholy and a defeatist attitude."
MEDFORO FLIER KILLED
MEDFORD, Jan. 30 (IP) A
tailspin and crash on a highway
brought a fatal ending yesterday
to the afternoon plane ride of
private pilot John Charles Blgh
ler, 25, Medford.
The plane crashed on the Sams
Valley highway 10 miles north
of here. Bighlor leaves a widow
and two young sons.
not to permit McWilliams, Call
fornla author, to speak at a
school. Browne is head of the
American Legion's subversive ac
tivities committee here.
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tions of a policeman in Champs Llysees durmr visit to Paris.
ONE-YEAR FAMIL YMrs. Thclma r.ibbs, of Atlanta,
Ga., sits with her twins, Jane and Wayne, born Jan. 16, 1949, and
triplets, Lynda, Brenda and Glenda, born Nov. S the same year.
Oil Explosion, Fire
Kill Terrified Child
PULLMAN, Wash., Jan. 30 UP
A . terror-stricken six-year-old
youngster died early yesterday
when an exploding oil stove set
fire to his parents home. ;
Four . other children escaped
unharmed with the aid of police
officer Kenneth Lowry and' a
Washington state college fresh
men, Eleanor Dixon, who was
acting as baby-sitter.
The victim was Robert Jeffrey
Jr, his body was found on the
second floor of .the home five
hours after the explosion. Lowrv
said the boy was too terrorized
by the flames to jump from a
second story window Into a snow
bank.
Ex-Military Policeman.
Slays Estranged Wife I
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 30 UPl
Sheriff Jim Thompson said a
former military policeman, who
pumped two fatal bullets into his
estranged wife as she held their
year-old son, would be charged
wun muraer today, a.
The 20-year-old mother, Mrs.
Margaret Louise Vinson, died yes
terday of wounds suffered In the
climax of a marital spat
Her husband, Floyd Vincon, 24,
said he couldn't remember what
had happened.
His arrest came a few hours
after the shooting, which took
place at his mother-in-law's home,
where his wife had stayed since
their separation Christmas.
Minnesota Cold
Far Below Zero
IBv Th AMMlated Preul
Most of the western half of the
nation was locked in a frigid blast
today while eastern states had
comparatively mild weatner.
At Bemldil, Minn., the tempera
ture plummeted to 50 degrees be
low zero as the center of the cold
wave hovered over the Dakotas
and Minnesota. At Moose Lake,
Minn., It was only two degrees
warmer at -48, and the -45 at
Bralnerd, Minn., was the coldest
recorded there In five years.
Pembina, N. D., had a -41, Grand
Forks, N. D., a -32 and Bismarck,
N. D., chilled at -29. The twin clt
ies of Minneapolis-St. Paul shlv
ered through 20 below. -
The temperatures graduated
upward on the south side. Kansas
(Jity naa a cnin ij aoove zero,
Denver 14, and Salt Lake City 12,
but the mercury was below freez
ing throughout Oklahoma and
northern Texas.
Chicago, with a low of 7 above,
was near the eastern edge of the
cold air mass.
January Snowfall Sets
New Local Area Record
(Continued-from page One)
when leaving Roseburg, "going
either direction." For the first
time in two weeks, all major high
ways in the state are open to
travel, although driving anywhere
in the state was termed "danger
ous" by the state highway comis
sion. The Columbia river highway,
which had been closed for eight
days by snowslides, was reopened
this morning and snowplows and
bulldozers finally cleared the sees
tlon between Hood River and Cas
cade Locks. But the highway com
mission said travel there is tough
because of wind and drifting
snow.
Police Chief Accuses
Plumber After Battle
BAKER. Jan. 30.-(P) The po
lice chief and the plumber have
tangled here.
Chief uuy Church has tiled
an assault and battery charge
against Francis Mann, plumber,
after an altercation here Satur
day which developed when Mann
was served with a parking ticket
The police chief has cuts and
bruises on his face.
Only eye witness to the fray.
which took place in the city
clerk's office, was city clerk Mar
cus Swan who is out of town
until Thusrday, when a hearing
on the case will be held in the
Justice of the peace court.
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Mostly oloudy with occasional
snow showers today and Tues
day. Continued cold.
highest temp, any Jan. , 71
Lowest temp, for any Jan. (
Highest temp, yesterday ... . 3
Lowe.t temp, last 24 hrs, ... . 32
Precipitation last 24 hrs. ..... .13
Precipitation from Jan. 1 ....10.62
Preoipltation from Sept. 1....22.0S
Excess, from Jan. 1 .............. 5.85
HOLY YEAR MEDAL This is
the special "Holy Year" medal
to be distributed to all pilgrims
to the Vatican during the Holy'
Year 1950. . The head of Pope
Pius XII appears on one side,
and on the other the Holy Door
in St. Peter's Basilica.
OK'S "MERCY DEATHS"
Dr. Clarence C. Little of Bar
HBrbor, Me., above, outstanding
cancer authority, has suggested
a law legalizing "mercy killings,"
with proper safeguards. Dr. Lit
tle endorses the idea of allowing
a person to make a will, to be
opened if and when he-is stricken
with an incurable disease, stat
ing whether he wishes to be
killed painlessly. The forthcom
ing trial of Dr. Herman Sander
, at Manchester, N. H., on murder
charges growing out of the
"mercy death" of a woman can
cer patient has stirred new con
troversy on the subject -
U.S. Vice Consul In China
Flees From Spy Charge
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30
UP) Communist China's radio
today charged Douglas S. Mac
Kiernan of Stoughton, Mass,
American vice counsul in Sin
kiang province, "has been ex
posed as an espionage agent'
The Red radio said three Whit
Russian confederates surrender
ed. It said they named MacKelr
nen as a hard riding spy who
sought to organize the bandits
of the far western Chinese pro
vince where Russia has special
privileges. ' ,
It said MacKiernan fled to In
dia after riding horseback over
hundreds of miles to bandit lain
in the wild back country.
CRASH CLAIMS LIFE
BAKER, Jan. 30. William
Nelson Marlln Jr., - 40, Miami,
Fla., who with his wife was in
jured in a car wreck near hi:r
last Monday died Sunday in the
Baker hospital.
Mrs. Marlin, also seriously in
jured, is said to be improving
but will be hospitalized here for
a while yet.
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at the home of Mrs. C. S. Hein-
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