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WHO DOES WHAT
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ALBERT KOSEL is manager of Craig's, having just recently
been transferred to this position from a similar one he held
with the company in Klamath Falls. He and Mrs. Kosel managed
the store here for several months last spring during a change
of managership period, hence already are somewhat familiar
with Roseburg. Mrs. Kosel also is Craig-trained, having been
with the Klamath Falls store for six years. The two, with their
ion Artie, nine, are earnestly seeking a home, with indifferent
success. Homes at least the kind one happens to be looking
for at the moment still are difficult to find.
Uncle Sam Loses On Deal To
Dispose Of Surplus Potatoes
American Food Brokers Find It
Cheaper To Buy Canadian Spuds
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8. (API . While the government
offers surplus potatoes to farmers at one cent a hundred pounds,
American food brokers are buying Canadian spuds because
they find the American price-supported tubers too costly.
Th situation came to liqht here yesterday when a million
pounds of potatoes from Canada
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Mormons Missing
In Czech Province
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Feb.
8 UP) The U.S. Embassy an
nounced today itjiad received re
ports that two American Mormon
missionaries "disappeared" in the
province of Moravia Jan. 28 and
have not been heard from since.
The embassy said it had asked
the Czechoslovakian foreign minis
try to supply information "con
cerning the welfare and where
abouts" of missionaries Stanley E.
Abbott and C. Aldon Johnson.
While the embassy announce
ment made no mention of arrests,
reliable western diplomatic sources
said the two men had been arrest
ed by Czech police near Olomouc
on unspecified charges.
These sources said the mission
aries had been incommunicado and
that all efforts of American au
thorities to see them have failed.
Wallace Toronto, head of the
Mormon church in Czechoslovakia,
,,Md Abbot, 23, came from Lehigh,
Jtah, and that Johnson, 22, was a
resident of Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Both were unmarried and had
been in Czechoslovakia a little over
two years.
The Mormon church has been
meeting with difficulties from the
Czech government since last May
Since then 13 of its missionaries
have been ordered expelled from
the country on charges of "en
dangering the safety, and security
of the state."
Western Lumber Industry's
Protection Asked In Congress
Ruination Faced From Canadian
Competition, Legislator Asserts
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (API Rep. Mack (-Wash) asked
tha House ways and means committee today to develop some
policy to protect the western lumber industry and its employees
against runination from Canadian competition."
Mack made public a letter to
Chairman Doughton (D-NC) sug
gesting this might be accomplish
ed by restoring a tariff rate that
"would compensate for the differ
ence of wages in British Colum
bia and in the United States or
by imposing a quota limit on the
amount of lumber Canada is per
mitted to ship into the United
States."
Mack told Doughton that dur
in 1948 Canada shipped a total
of 96,071,920 feet of lumber to the
Atlantic coast states but that this
jumped to 303.525,459 feet in 1949
He said the shipments are steadily
increasing.
"If this flooding of the Ameri
can Atlantic coast market by Can
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were unloaded from a boat,
T Gaaapj TJauf Drleanx fnnH
broker and consignee of the Cana
dian potatoes, told newsmen:
"I don't know why I can buy
choice potatoes from Canada and
have them shipped down here
cheaper than I can buy them from
Maine or Idaho but I know I can
do it.
"I'm not alone in importing the
less expensive Canadian potatoes
Why a boatload comes into Savan
nah, Ga., Tampa, Fla., Jackson
ville, Fla., and other places about
every two weeks."
He said the situation is some
thing like this: !
The government guarantees
American farmers a certain price
for potatoes. When they can't get
that much on the open market,
they sell them to the government.
Then the government, stuck with
the surplus, offers them back to
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Girl Held In Mystery
Slaying Of Oil Man
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. UP) An
18-year-old attractive blonde was
held here by park police today in
connection with the mystery slay
irig of W. A. (Tex) Thornton, 58,
in an Amarillo, Texas, tourist court
last June 22.
Detective William Gunter told a
reporter the woman was booked
by federal park police at the re
quest of Amarillo authorities in the
death of Thornton, a well-to-do oil
man.
Gunter said she gave the name
of Diana Heney Johnson. He said
she had lived in a number of cities
over the country but had been
mostly in Detroit.
adian lumber continues to in
crease," Mack said, "and there is
every indication that it will in
crease, serious damage will be
done to both the prosperity and
to the employment of those who
work in the woods and mills."
He said the lumber shipped from
British Columbia to the Atlantic
coast states last year was valued
at approximately $4,000,000.
Of this, he continued, about $7,
000,000 was a direct labor charge,
representing a loss of that amount
to American workers.
He also assserted that the ship
ments were made in foreign tramp
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The Weather
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Cloudy today, tonight and
tomorrow with shower. Little
ttmporaturo change. .
Sunset today 5:35 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:1 a. m.
Established 1873
Milk Dispute
Negotiations
Mark Time
Temporary Price Boost
Offer From Dairies To
Producers Under Study
Negotiations in Roseburg's milk
dispute reached the waiting stage
today, as producers mulled over an
offer for a temporary price in
crease which would not affect the
public.
Ormond Feldkamp, co-owner of
Umpqua dairy and one of the
spokesmen for distributors, said
today his group had offered to pay
farmers $5.96 per hundredweight
for four percent milk. The offer,
if accepted, would be retroactive to
Feb. 1 and would run for 60 days
to care for what is termed the
"high cost period" for producing
milk.
Although the producers' group
does not consider this offer an
actual increase, it is $.23 per Cwt
more than farmers are now receiv
ing. The farmers, however, are
still seeking $6 per CwL, a partial
return to the $6.12 they received
before a state milk marketing or
der 'established the minimum at
$5.50.
Feldkamp said today no definite
agreement had been reached with
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Capital Credits
Plan Adopted By
Electric Co-Op
Bylaws of the Douglas Electric
Cooperative, Inc., were amended
at the tenth annual meeting Mon
day to permit adoption of the capi
tal credits plan, according to Har
old Backen Jr., manager.
the new plan, similar to those
adopted by other cooperatives, pro
vides a patronage dividend to the
co-op's consumers, with all money
in excess of actual operating ex
penses prorated back to the con
sumers Approximately 200 persons at
tended the meeting at the Knights
of Pythias hall and discussed and
approved the financial and operat
ing reports of the co-op.
Principal speakers at the meet
ing were Fred Hartt of the man
agement division of Rea, who
spoke on the capital credits sys
tem; Gus Norwood, secretary ot
the Northwest Public Power asso
ciation, who spoke on the extent
of the recent storm damage in the
Northwest; and William E. Trom-
mershausen, district manager at
Eugene for the Bonneville Power
administration, who explained the
Bonneville program.
Concluding the meeting was the
movie, "The Columbia," which de
picted the development of the Co
lumbia river from the time the
Coulee and Bonneville dams were
begun.
H-Bomb Leading U. S. On
Nazis' Path, Soviet Says
LONDON, Feb. 8. UP) Moscow
radio, commenting on President
Truman's decision to maks the
hydrogen super bomb, said today
the United States is following "the
path pursued by the vanquished
Nazis."
At the same time, however, the
broadcast in English heard here
spoke of the possibility of peace
ful competition" between the So
viet and capitalist systems and
held out an implied invitation to
the United States to step up trade
with Russia.
The broadcast said there was
"widespread . opposition in the
United States" to the H-bomb
project.
It accused the Truman adminis
tration of pushing the country into
an "unbridled arms drive but said
the "forces of peace now have
every possibility to subdue the
forces of war."
Accusing the U. S. "ruling cir
cles" of creating an anti-Soviet
trade boycott, the broadcast said
Russia can build up her economy
in spite of it.
Horse Remedy Mistaken
For Coffee Kills Woman
D ANBURY, N. H., Feb. 8-WP)
A spoonful of powdered horse med
icine she mistakenly brewed for
coffee killed Mrs. tva Huntoon. 64.
within 15 minutes last night.
State police said the woman ap
parently took tbe wrong can from
a kitchen shelf, getting, instead of
coffee, the poisonous powder.
About five minutes after drink
ing the fluid she went to the barn
and told a son, Willard, she did
not feel well. She died shortly.
Deaths Follow 75th
Wedding Anniversary
PORTLAND, Feb. 8 (.
Mr. and Mrs. John Conrad Bill
man were married 75 years last
Nov. 15. On Sunday Billman. 98,
died. Monday night Mrs. Billman,
94, died.
Six of their eight children three
living in Oregon survive. They in
clude Mrs. L. C. Foster and Mrs.
C. M. Young of Portland and Mrs.
Charles Wing of Medford.
ROSEBURG,
$10 GIVEN GOVT.
No Tax Due But
Giver Would Aid
A-Bomb Project
CHICAGO, Feb. t-UPtThe gov
ernment received $10 it wasn't ex
pecting today.
John T. Jarecki, deputy collector
of internal revenue, said the fol
lowing letter came with the mon
ey: "I have gone over the enclosed
1040 (income tax form) very care
fully. No tax due this year.
"Nevertheless, I think I should
kick in something under the cir
cumstances. In aU truthfulness, I
am not a dime ahead after all
the bills are paid, nor have I been
ahead all year.
"But we are eating better than
before and no landlord can put us
out of here. So here's ten bucks,
and let's build a bigger and better
A-bomb than the one Joe Stalin's
cooking up for us."
Jarecki deposited the money to
the treasury's general fund credit.
He declined to disclose the name
of the sender.
Search Launched
For Attacker Of
Gardiner Woman
pital suffering from shock and
i-uui, iviiuwiug an auacK oy an un
known assailant early today, ac-
pnrHtncr in a raiuirt fmm tk nrri
of Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter.
ine report received by the sher
iff's office i that Vrc ?..k
tered her store about 6:15 a m to
day, when she saw a man crouched
near the stove in the rear of the
store.
The man jumped up and attacked
her with a knife, cutting her cloth
ing and causing minor lacerations
to her body. He then, according to
the report, fired at her with a gun.
The bullet missed, but gun powder
burned Mrs. Greb's face.
The assailant then fled out the
front door, taking with him a seven
mi luttuaur ruie ana a .zz-caUDre
WnnHvmnn niotnl T, I. ... I.
whether other items were taken.
accuraing 10 ine information tb
tained here. ""
A ear Us- lia.nl1 k. 1 1. - 1
mistress across the street leaving
. n 1 1 laLR. aiHie,
county and local officers have
thrown up road blocks and are
milling a cnecK ot ine area.
. u.u .uu.ni ucaiiuni UIC
man as about 55 years of age, and
having a rather flabby face and
slightly slanted eyes.
Damage Suit Against
Bandon Is Dismissed
RANrinW Fah fl tt-. A iAuin
.., . , u tLn fiu,wni
damage suit, brought against the
ciiy auer a jau prisoner burned
to death in 1947, is being dismissed,
the countil has been advised.
The suit was filed in behalf of
the daughter of Harold Bennett
Clark, who burned to death April
5. 1947. whita a nriennot. TUn
plaint alleged negligence on the
viiy a pari.
At the time of the death, a cor
oner's jury found Clark had set
the fire.
DRUNKEN DRIVER RAPPED
Euepnfl riphc Smith r pnca
burg, was fined $100 and sentenced
to 30 days in the city jail, upon
his nlea of imittv tn a ifmnV Hri.
ing charge in municipal court to-
uajr, reporiea juage ira a. Kiaaie.
Smith's jail sentence will be sus-
npnHari nnnn niumiuil nf r...
His driver's license was revoked
ior one year, according to the
judge.
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MICKEY COHEN'S HOME BOMBED Mickey Cohen, Southern
California ganf leader, is framed by the damage to his Los
Angeles home, at he wistfully surveys damage to his houit and
clothes after a bomb exploded, causing damage estimated at
$50,000. Cohen told police he was at puziled as they are in
wondering who planted tha bomb. Mickey, his wife and their
maid escaped injury. INtA
OREGON WEDNESDAY, FEB.
High Postal
Official Quits
By Request
H. F. Ambrose Resigns
Following Collapse Of
Stamp Selling Scheme .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-WPV-A
high postoffice official has quit
by request in connection with
dealings in special stamp issues
which reportedly cost "investors"
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Postmaster General Donaldson
confirmed last night that Harold F.
Ambrose, his special assistant 'n
charge of public relations, had
been asked to resign and had
done so Jan. 11.
Donaldson would not discuss the
case in detail, saying that it was
"still under investigation by the
postoffice inspectors.",
He did say he had requested the
resignation after getting reports
that Ambrose had offered to act
as agents for buyers of large blocks
of commemorative stamp issues.
Ambrose, married to a liece of
Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo), was
said to have entered the Postoffice
department's information section
in 1933, when the senator was first
assistant postmaster. The special
assistant's job Ambrose held until
recently pays $10,000 a year.
Mrs. O'Mahoney told newsmen
last night that Ambrose had gone
to the .senator and reported being
"in a jam." O'Mahoney's advice,
she said, was to tell the full storv
to Donaldson, then quit. .,
scneme blows Up
There had been reports that a
postal official had promised a 50
percent profit in 90 days to inves
tors in eastern cities who went in
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Bank Bandits Get
$120,000 Booty
PHOF.NTY iri. ITak ax
Two men, at least one of them
armea, . eariy toaay ronned the
Bank of Douglas in downtown
Phoenix of $120,000 tash.: ,.
City police said the men caught
the lanilnr nnlciHa tha k.nt ih.i.f
6 a.m., forced him to let them
into the building and waited until
Jim Wise, a bank employee, ar
rived about 7:40 a.m.
WISH WAS tnrPtkA tn nnan fha ..f.
The robbers then locked the em
ployes in a room and left.
Bank officials estimated the men
escaped with $120,000 in bills of
various denominations.
t Police had only vague descrip
tions of the men. One was a white
man. 32-35. vpars nlrl ahnut icn
pounds and between five feet eight
aim nve ieet ten incnes tall. He
wore light tan trousers .and a dark
brown iarkel and rnrriarl a 94
caliber automatic.
The orher man was a Mexican,
25-30 years old and about the ssme
size. He wore work clothes. Both
men wore gloves.
Police said it was not known how
the men left the scene but were
believed to have had a car.,
Ban On Tipping Asked In
Mississippi Legislature
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 8 IIP)
Two members of the Mississippi
Legislature say tioping is a nui
sance. They've introduced a bill to
stop it.
Rep. Lowell Grisham and B. T.
Weeks asked the house to approve
a $100 fine on firms allowing tip
ping. They suggest $50 fines on
those accepting or handing out
tips. lelephotol.
8, 1950
MERCY SLAYER FREED
Applause Greets Verdict
For Girl Who Killed Her
Cancer-Stricken Father
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. . (AP) Carol Ann Paight, ac
quitted in the mercy slaying of her cancer-doomed father, plan
ned to return to collage at toon at the rettt up from the ordeal
of her trial.
The 2 1 -year-old blonde, who pleaded temporary . insanity,
wat freed last night by a jury of 12 parentt.
one spent ner urn mum ai nome
in nearby Stamford since she shot
her father, Police Sergeant Carl
Paight, last Sept. 23 as he slept la
Stamford hospital.
"Oh God," the attractive six-foot
girl sobbed as she broke down at
the verdict. She was near com
plete collapse.
Her attarney, David Golstein,
termed the verdict "just and fair,"
but added:
"This is no precedent for a
mercy killing, in my opinion."
He said the case was tried solely
on the issue of whether Carol was
insane at the time of the shooting.
State's Attorney Lorin W. Willis
had no comment.
The jury deliberated four houra
and 51 minutea before Foreman
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Narcotics Worth
$2,400,000 Taken
With Two Arrests
NEW YORK. Feb. 8 ' UP)
A cache of narcotics worth $2,
400,000 was seized last night part
of it in a telephone booth in the
hotel McAlapine, where it alleged-,
ly had been left for a customer
by peddlers.
The seizure and two arrests were
reevaled today by police and feder
al agents.
The prisoners were linked with
a dope ring that has been trailed
since last November, police said.
They were booked as Isidore
Halitzer, 31, and Philip Shear, 31,
both Of Brooklyn. ' '
Tha two men were arrested after
parking their automobile off Her
laid square 33rd street and Broad
waynear the hotel.
After the arrests, police said, 33
1-3 ounces of pure heroin were
found in the car, 13 ounces in a
i U - ,Aal ntinna luwtth
fjainagc in uic iivvci ,,uic uvv..,
one ounce on Smear's person, and
66 2-3 ounces in a Brooklyn apart
ment.
Police said Halitzer telephoned
a customer and told him a pack
age would be left for him in the
telephone booth. It was Maimer's
practice, police added, to wait
nearby until he aaw a customer
pick up a package.
Police, who found l.vuu pairs oi
nylon stockings in the rear seat
of the car, said the two prisoners
used hosiery in cartons as a cover
up for delivers of narcotics.
Narcotics agents estimated the
114 ounces of pure heroin could
have been diluted and made into
nearly 1,000,000 capsules to sell at
price.
Halitzer and Shear were report
ed by police, to be assoicates of
Alfred San Antonio and Paul
Graci, who were arrested at La
Guardia Field Jan. 31 as they al
legedly prepared to fly to Nash
ville, Tenn., with narcotics valued
at $300,000.
Henry Balitzer, a brother of the
nrisoner. is serving ten years in
Sing Sing prison on a narcotics
conviction, police said.
Another Cargo Of Toys
Leaves For Europe
PHILADELPHIA, Feb.D UP)
Another "tide of toys" from Amer
ica's children moves to the chil
dren of Europe today aboard the
S. S. Robert Maersk.
Today's cargo the second in as
many days is bound for England,
France, Italy, Greece and Norway.
The first shipment of approxi
mately 1,000,000 toys headed for
the contient yesterday aboard the
U. S. lines flagship American De
fender. More than 500 Philadelphia
school children were among those
present to bid bon voyage to the
gifts for Europe's children.
George N. Craig, national com
mander of the American legion
which is sponsoring the 'tide of
toys' campaign, said the gifts are
being sent with "the assurance of
a child's toy and a child's word
that the spirit of peace and fellow
ship, introduced by another Child
2,000 years ago still lives."
The toys will be distributed to
needy children in the Netherlands,
Austria, Berlin and the three Wes
tern zones of Germany.
Dog Burned Alive In
"Terrible Mistake"
GRIFFIN, Ga., Feb. t -UP)
Joe Williams, head of the sani
tary department, promised today
no more dogs will be burned alive
at the city dump.
Williams said it was true that
one was burned alive as charged
in a letter to the Grilfin News.
He called it a "terrible mistake."
The dog, he explained, had been
shot as a stray and wat believed
dead. While it was being incinerat
ed, however, it began to whimper
and moan.
Herealter, he announded, dogs
will be buried instead ot burned
after being shot.
32-50
CAROL ANN PAIGHT
Freed; Back Te College
Mother Ends Her
Life Under Train
THORP. Wi Poh a im
The rieranitnlAH twlv nf M TA..
nuiiier, La, momer ot two infant
children, was found on the rail
road tracks near her trailer home
vesterdav.
Police said a note found in the
hlnnd-KnnttAroH trailot BM. iit..
: 1 ....... BU lit . 4 to
alwaya been afraid to be alone and
iv seen airaia ot every
thing. I haven't taken good care of
the children and that's partly why
I'm getting out, so someone else
can."
Police Chief Ed Harycka said
Mrs. Rottier, apparently distraught
over crowded living conditiona in
the trailer, had cut her wrists and
then WflllfnH tn th faHmaJ
some 300 feet from her trailer
nome. ner nead was severed by a
passing freight train. .
Her husband. Rnhprr
depot agent, was in Milwaukee at
uie iime, visiting a doctor. He is
aone-legged Veteran of World War
Deputy Coroner John Bergman
of Clark County termed Mrs. Rot
tier's death a suicide.
Rottier. anffnrintf fmm hn.lr
was under the care of a physician!
ine cnuoren are Deing cared for
by neighbors.
Famine Adds To Misery
Of War-Ravaged China
By The' Associated Press '
Chinese nationalists on Formosa
today atepped up their bombing
attacks on the big cities of China.
The rnmrnnnitt rnnital DAin;M
and nine other cities were warned
of impending mass raids.
bnangnal was struck from tho
air fnr IhA aocnnrl flaw In a m...
The Communist radio said Mon
days raid on Shanghai killed 1,
000 persons and disrupted power
and water supplies.
The Communist news agency
said famine is sweeping East
China north of the Yangtze river.
Sixtlfn miltinn ruiAnla nra taalinn
the pinch and some 2,790,000 are
lai'iug starvation, urougnt, noons
and disruptions in the aftermath
of Civil war are blamed by the
Communists for the famine.
House Bill Allows Jap
Wife Of Ex-GI U. S. Entry
WASHINGTON, Feb; ft-tyR-The
House Tuesday passed a bill which
would let a former Portland, Ore.
G.I. bring his Japanese wife to the
United States.
Under the bill Mrs. Janis Shl
mada Page, wife of Gordon Leslie
Page, could enter this country for
three months. During that time
she and Page would have to mar
ry under American laws.
They were married in a Japa
nese ceremony in Japan in 1948
and have one child, born in 1949
Page was discharged from the
Army In 1946.
The bill now goes to tha Senate.
AGED SHOPLIFTER PINED
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence, 81, of
643 S. Mill St., Roseburg, was fined
$25 in justice court Tuesday, upon
a plea of guilty to a shoplifting
charge, reported Judge A. J. Ged
des. She was arrested by city po
lice upon the filing of a private
comlaint by a local store, accord
ing to Police Chief Calvin Baird.
MONEY CHARGE FACED
Fred Cooper, 62, Myrtle Creek,
charged with obtaining money by
false pretenses, was lodged in the
county jail upon failure to post
$500 bail in the Canyonville justice
court of Nina Pietzold, Sheriff O
T. "Bud" Carter reported.
Lewis, Mine
Owners Agree
To New Parley
Step Taken At Request
Of Truman; Lewis Hurls
Lit At Inquiry Session
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. UP)
President Truman's coal fact-finding
board today won agreement
from John L. Lewis and the coal
operatora to try again for agree
ment on a coal contract through
negotiations.
The new bargaining sessions were
set for 2 p. m. with the board
nieinoers suung in as ooservers.
The board members were opti
mistic that the whole coal dispute
might be settled before nightfall
David Cole, chairman of tha
board, had remarked that he be
lieved an agreement might ba
retched "in two or three hours."
Lewis said it was "possible.
' The operators indicated the
were less optimistic.
Lewis Hurls Lie .
The board's proposal came after
a somewhat stormy hour and a
half of hearings during which
Lewis once called coal man
George H. Love "a liar by tha
clock."
Cole asked whether Lewis ever
had presented any specific con
tract demands to the mine opar
atora. -
Love said he was Informerl h
Cyrus S. Ching (federal mediation
chief) that "it was the union bar
gaining technique to say that "You
men own the mines, I have tha
men in Uie palm of mv hands
what do you bid?"
Lewis jumped up and leveled
off at Love across the table:
"That's an infamous and de
liberate lie. I said we represented
the men. I say to ynu, 'George;
Love, you're a liar by the clock'."
i.oie tried to interrupt. Love pro
tested: "I don't want to go into
personalities, Mr. Cole."
"Why not?" Lewis shouted.
"Why not?"
Cole restored calm and tha hear
ings went on.
The chairman announced just
before the Lewis outburst that tha
board would not take formal testi
mony, but would instead question
the principals in public hearings to
determine the facts.
In this way, Cole said, tbe board
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2nd Search Plane
In Alaska Missing
WHITEHORSE, Y.T., Feb. 6-UP)
Two planes droned through the
darkness early today over the Arc
tic wastes northwest of here look
ing for DOSSihle fires nr flere from
a missing U.S.A.F. C-47.
The plane, carrying 12 Canadian
and U. S. Airmen, -vanished yes
terday while searching for a C-54
transnnrt Whifh riisnnneararl Tar.
26 with 44 persons aboard.
Mearcn officials said S.O.S. sig
nals from the C-47 were picked
lin 1fl-t ni0ht htif effort- tn .M.i.
a "fix" on them were fruitless.
u round radio posts in the area
were ordered into a 24-hour alert.
The -iffnala ronnrtnrtlu ufam rlif-
ferent from those heard earlier
in tne day by planes and coast
guard stations along the Pacific
coast. The earlier signals, reported
from the United States to Alaska,
were similar to those picked up
from time to time since the search
for the missing C-54 began.
It uat the Kefntin1 isdmiI, mIama
to become missing since the far-
nung searcn Degan nearly two
weeks ago. Another C-47 crashed
on a mniintflin nealr 91 miles tenth
of here last week. All six persons
auoara were rescued.
Slays Wife, Sets Homo
Afire, Kills Himself
ASTORIA, Feb. 8 UP) Glenn
Doolittle, 43, sent his 14-year-old
son Dale, to a neighbor's for the
night, then killed his wife, 34, set
their house afire and put a bullet
through his brain.
That was the way sheriff Paul
Kearney and Coroner Raymond O.
Luce reconstructed a tragedy in a
Knappa farmhouse.
Doolittle left a note that told tha
story. It was left in a car outside
the house, addressed to his borther
in Linton, N. D. it said "by the
time you get this we . will ba
gone."
The charred bodies of Doolittla
and his wife were found early Tues
day. Survivors besides Dale, includa
twin daughters, Mrs. Peter Hanna,
John Day, and Marcella Doolittle,
19, and Betty, 17. They were not
living at home.
Kearney said Doolittle, a painter,
had been out of work since 1 hanks
giving. FALL KILLS LINEMAN
PORTLAND, Feb. S-1&U-Lineman
Joseph L. Nelson, 46, Beaver
ton, fell to his death from a 30
foot perch on a power pole yester
day. He was employed by the Port
land General Electric company.
Levity fact J ant
By L. F. Relzensteln
Canadian lumbar Is under
sailing tha Oregon and Wash
ington product, and Canadian
potatoes ore underselling right
in tha Unitad States tha do
mestic spuds. That's something
for Undo Sam to chaw en be
tldat canned corned beat im
ported from Sooth America.