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Newspaper Page Text1 U. of 0 Library CCVP Kugene, Ore 1 5) A If JL mm 9i ffliO DOS WHAT Wftn j, ' '" j f JOHN MORGAN. loft, and DIZ the Senior cln play Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. Tha lucky stiffs! I diicovarad thet tha calf includas soma of tha school's eaiiest-to-look-at girls. Just what tha two young man think thay managa Is anybody's guais. Mayba tha girls but anyona knows battar than that; it just would ba too big a job for any two fallows to handla. Tha play is to ba given in tha Sanior High auditorium March 31. Master Warrant System To Cut Interest Adopted By City Uia of tha mastar warrant systam of financing city expend! turai was announcad today by William Bollman, Rotaburg city racordar, who said tha legislature authorization allowing such a mova had provan to ba "vary satisfactory." ' According to S. B. 385, anactad by tha 194? stata lagislatura, Oregon citias ara authorizad to issua mastar warrants for short farm leans at a low rata of intarast to covar tha pariod whan most citias run short of funds, tollman believes Rotaburg Is ona of tha first citias in tha stata to taka advantage of tha new act. ' -The new system replaces tbe former practice of issuing Indi vidual warrants to cover such expenses as payrolls and other city-incurred bills. Previously, these warrants were discounted at tha bank and a fairly high rate of interest was charged. Under the new act, Rosaburg borrowed $24,500 from Nov. 15, 1949 to Feb. 10, at which time tha principal and $1 1 1.63 interest was repaid from tax money collected by the city. Interest rete was 21 percent. The mastar warrant is not subject to a bank dis count, i In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS LATE tha other afternoon, Just as the press was about ready to roll, our teletype paused dra matically, stuttered, choked and then began to chatter excitedly. The gist ot its chattering was the crashed flying saucer, with its pint size, wierd-headed, other-world, dead pilot which a Los Angeles man had allegedly aeen near Mexico City. We all read the teletype's mut tering!, swallowed a time or two and found our mouths a little dry. Then, just as somebody was start ing out to stop the press, the ever cautious AP killed the story, but later reinstated it and the radios went to town with it and the next morning's Portland and San Fran cisco papers printed it under kid ding h'eadlinea with cute little sketches by their comic artists. All in all, we afternoon paper people felt that we had been done in the eye again. e IN the office where I work, wa have a probably reprehensible habit of gathering around for a spot of coffee at mid-morning and that day, as you can imagine, the latest (Continued on Page Four) FASHIONS. SPORTS, DANCE All's Ready For Spring Opening In Business Zone Here Wednesday Night A variety of stunts, displays and shows will ba offered visit ors to Rosaburg's business section Wednesday night, when local merchants pool their resources to give this area its latest Spring Opening. And tha bast of it is, everything is free. rirsi sucn eveni, starting at 7 p.m., is Lawson'a log chopping con test. Led by Babe Fenton. Suther lin and Douglas county champion, contestants will make the chips fly with one of Lawson'a shock-proof wrist watches strapped to each axe handle. To any contestant whose watch stops running during the event. Lawson's will award a du plicate. To the log dropping win ner, goes a 17-jewel timepiece. The event will be held at the in tersection of Jackson and Case. Miller's hair styling and (ashioa IURNETTE are co-managers of Belgium Votes To Restore King (By T!m AjaociaUd Praia) A shade more than 55 percent of Belgium's voters came out yes terday in favor of restoring exiled King Leopold to his throne, but the margin was so slim observers fear ed a political crisis if pro-monarchists tried to follow through. Leopold, who lost his crown for surrendering to the Nazis in world War II, skinned through witti 57 percent of the vote in yesterday's referendum. He had said he would abdicate if he got less then 55 per cent. The question was far from settled, however.' The referendum was only an advisory vote. Parlia ment still must decide if Leopold may return from exile. The key question at the moment appeared to be whether the liberals would join (tie pro-Leopoldist Social Christians (Catholics) in asking parliament to rescind its ban on the king's return from Switzer land. SLAYIR'S TRIAL OPINS COLFAX, Wash., March Wayne Odell of Steptoe waa to go on trial today for the slaying of Harold Rogers,. Winona wheat rancher. He has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. Rogers was killed in the bed room of his daughter when ke an swered her early morning screams for help last December. show will begin at 7:15 and tha Mabel Lewis fashion show at S p.m. Also slated for S o'clock is the fashion show for men, held at Joe Richard's Men's store. The Roseburg fire department will give a first aid and life sav ing demonstration, spired with a comic act, at the corner of Wash ington and Jackson atreeta begin ning at I 30. And at :J0 at the armory. Local (Continue, on page Two) Cloudy w'Hi imm ft-day. $h0W0l"$ tOalojbt Cod tOOSOITOwV Sunset today 4:17 p. m. Stuarts tomorrow 4:2t a. m. Established 1173 Hoover Board's Economy Plans Given To Congress Crash Of Cars Sends 2 Men To Hospital Collision Occur North Of Oakland; Truck Hits Man Ar N. Dillard Bridge A head-on crash of two automo biles on highway 99, about eight milea north of Oakland, injured two Roseburg men at :45 this morning, according to a reDort received by Stata Police Sgt. Hol ly noicomrj. George Lund Jr.. and Francis Leslie Cannan were taken to a bugene hospital with undetermined injuries after the car in which they were riding waa struck by a car dri.en by Nils Albert Nor man, Eugene. Norman and two other Eugene men, Hana Hol aas and Pete Larsen, passengers in his car, were uninjured. Norman, traveling south, at tempted to pasa a truck at mile post 174, and struck the Lund ve hicle, Sgt. Holcomb said. The Lund car is a total wreck and the Nor man auto is badly damaged. Man Struck By Truck Raymond Olson, a member of a State Highway department sur vey crew, was injured at the north Dillard bridge about 1:20 this morning when struck by a log ging truck operated by Jerome Patrick Klea, Winston, Sgt. Hol comb reported. Olson was taken with undeter mined injuries to Mercy hospital, where he is report "resting satis factorily." According to the state police report, Olson was standing at the northwest -corner of the bridge doing survey work when the truck approached from the north. The truck driver put on his brakes and the trailer broke loose from the tractor and caught Olson be tween it and the bridge railing. Olson jumped or was thrown over the side of the railing to the river bed, 20 feet below. He has not been questioned concerning the ac cident so it was not yet known whether he jumped in trying to escape or was hurled off the bridge. Tbe truck driver was not held. State police are still investigating tne accident, Holcomb said. Smuggler Out On Bail Caught Repeating Crime MIAMI. Fla.. March IJ -UP) Two men awaiting aentence for smuggling aliena into this country were caught yesterday doing it again. a They readily admitted guilt, said acting chief border patrol Inspect or Donald R. Kelley who described them aa tha "nerviest smugglers I ever encountered." He identified them as Gaylor Saxton, 26, and Charlea Cramton, 27, both of whom cama here about a year ago from Grand Rapida, Mich. They were picked up, Kelly aaid. after flying two Chinese nationals in from Cuba. Ten days ago, Saxton and Cram- ton pleaded guilty in federal court to flying 19 aliens to Miami from Cuba last fall. They were freed on $1,000 bonds pending a pre-sentence investigation. At their earlier arrest, they brag ged openly of their prowess. They boasted that their planes were parked only a few feet from the border patrol's hangar space. Freak Blast Of Ga Cloud Kill Woman, Burn 2 Men MARTINEZ. Calif.. March 1J ltP A freak explosion of a cloud of low4ianging gaa killed a wom an and seriously burned two men yesterday. The blast occurred over the high way along the east shore of San Francisco bay at nearby Oleum. Highway patrolman Gordon Camp bell said the las apparently escap ed from an overhead pipe carrying waste from an oil refinery to a dump. Three automobiles caught fire after the explosion. Tha blast waa believed set off by exhaust sparks from a car or an ignition apark. Mra. Ursula Adama of Alameda. Calif., was killed. Pvt. Burnett Hale, 21, and John Esta of Berke ley, Calif., were burned. City Manager Slankard Wed California Woman GRANTS PASS, March 11. 4MarioA W. Slankard, 41, city manager ef Roteburf the est three years, anal Cwen I. Drake, 39, Lea Aneelee, were married here Saturday. They were merriea) at a friend'a heme here by the Rev. Homer D. Kimmell and left Im mediately far a honeymoon trip alen the Oraen ceest. Thay plan te return to Reee burn Weelnossloy. ROSESSURG, OREGON Truman Requests Abolition Of Maritime Agency, Office Of NLRB Counsel Denham WASHINGTON, March IJ. 1API President Truman today sent Congress a sheaf of plans to raorganiia a long list of federal agencies and abolish ona tha Maritime commission. Seaboard congressman and shipping interests war expected to fight tha proposal to shift control of tha merchant float over to Secretary of Commerce Sawyer. I. White Friends Of Slain Negro Band To Seek Justice HOUSTON, Tex.. March IS-lPt Thirty-five white friends of a slain Negro handyman have banded to gether "to aee that justice ia done." Carter Boyd, 34. disabled veteran and father of eight childrenCa ninth is on the way) was shot to death by a white man Saturday night. The shooting occurred after a col lision between his parked car and the car of two white couples. Yesterday 35 white friends of Boyd, residents of a swanky Hous ton section, met to (1) "see that justice ia done," (2) to do some thing to help Boyd's expectant widow, Callie Mae, and (3) to do something "about special deputy constablea carrying pistols." Wash J. Howard. 25. a aneMal deputy constable and a University of Houston student, waa charged wnn muraer. The 35 citizena signed a petition to district attorney A. C. Winborn: "We, the undersigned . . . wish to testify to the personal charac ter . . .he was always cheerful and peaceable, and bis integrity was beyond question. "We . . . wish to go on record as being willing and ready . . ' to aid in any manner the complete fulfillment of justice in this case ." Federal Engineer Perishes In Cold KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., March 13. UP) A searcher said today that two California engineers, miss ing since Friday, were found today one of them dead, the other in "bad shape." A. B. Ribbeck, 38, chief of the Federal Reclamation bureau en gineering office at Sacramento, Calif., waa reported dead from exposure and exhaustion. His companion. Rudy Simonson. 26, Weed, Calif., waa reported in bad shape. The two men had left here in their car Friday morning on an in spection trip of reclamation work in the Klamath basin. H. W. Thomson, Sacramento, superintendent of the bureau'a transmission lines, who was work ing with search parties, reported this morning that the men were found in a sheepherder's cabin on an old lookout road in California, about 70 miles south of here. The men's car had bogged down on the road, the report said. They apparently struggled to the cabin in heavy snow and below-freezing temperatures. ' rz. ' " - I a ; e i r i J m LaiiiiiibiifyiLJ! FIREMEN were celled to this rural horn on Keasey read Sunday forenoon when a spark sailed on roof and sat th two-story structure afire. Hampered by lack of water, firemen were on the job mora then twa hours. Damage in an undetermin ed amount was inflicted ta th house. Th occu pant, A. E. Koop, lost approximately $250 in bedroom furniture. Th house was insured. Owner of th structure is Mrs. W. Hayden Fisk of Portland and formaly of Roseburg. (Mastar Studio phot I. V . MONDAY, MAR. 13 1930 In another of hia 21 proposals, Mr. Truman lit the fuse for a sec ond major explosion in Congress by calling for abolition of the almost-independent office of the gen eral counsel of the national labor relatione board. The post ia held by Robert N. Denham. Denham, prosecutor and police man of the Taft-Hartley law, is at odds with the NLRB majority. He calls it "pro-labor". Labor unions in turn have demanded Denham'a removal. In 23 accompanying messages to Congress, Mr. Truman aaid the plans will save "modest" to "sub stantial" sums. All are based on proposals of the reorganisation commission headed by former Pre sident Herbert Hover, he said, add ing: "These plana will taka us well along the road toward more ef fective, economical and responsible government." The Commerce department' would take over all activities of the five-member Maritime commis sion, which haa regulated Ameri can shipping for 14 yeara. Six of the White House plans strengthen the power of cabinet officers the secretariea of Trea sury, Interior, Agriculture, Com merce and Labor, and the attorney general. Seven of them build up the ex ecutive authority of tha chairmen of commissions regulating businesa labor, and finance. Each chair win becomea the administrative boss of his "agency. Two plans build up the Labor department. It would take over all workmen'a compensation activities of the federal government, aa well as wage-hour enforcement on fed eral conlracta. Five plans affect the new gen eral services administration. GSA would lose several iobs to Interior department, including the new Alaska public works program. When these become law, Mr. Truman said, "we shall have act ed on almost hair of the 317 re commendationa of the Hoover com mission. More plans will be sent to Cspitol Hill this session, he udd ed. "BoH Of Fire" In Sky Sighted In Amity Area AMITY, Ore. March 13 (.TV Residents here reported a "ball of fire" in the sky last night. There was still no explanation of the re ports today. State police reported about 100 persons claimed they sighted tha bright object hovering at a seem ingly low altitude northeast of here. A. A. Anderson said It ap peared orange-colored and moved slowly to the northeast. "It wss too large to be an aircraft light anl moved too slowly; there was no en gine noise," tie said. He said it appeared to speed up a few minutes and then disaD- ! peared. , -0-50 Excise Tax Cut Quickie' Voted Down Republican Move Fail In Committee; Truman Goal May Be Exceeded WASHINGTON. March IS.-JUPt The House Ways and Meana com mittee rejected today a new Re publican effort to ram through a -quickie" nm sinning excise taxea immediately by about $1,000.- 000.000. The rigid party line vote waa IS to 10. The Vmocrits, however, gave soma ground, trying at the same time to head off a veto if excise cut ting goes beyond the limits act by rresiaeni Truman. Taey pressed through the committee, on a simi lar arty vote, a resolution saying urc cuinmiucc win; 1. Approve excise slashes, per haps far beyond the S655.0O0.OOO the President has requested. Some members privately are estimating the excise cut will be around si ,000.000,000. 2. Try to replace the lost reve nue "by closing loopholes in exist ing tax laws, by strict enforcement against tax evaders, and, if neces sary, such other tax changes as may be deemed feasible." The Democratic-SDonsored reso lution made no mention whatever that any attempt will be made to raise $1,000,000,000 net extra reve nue beyond that necessary to off set losses from excise cuts. Any idea of a new tax incresse, which Mr. Truman reauested. ap parently has been abandoned. Veto Threat Faced Mr. Truman has said he will veto any measure which cuts federal taxea on such items as jewelery, luggage and transportation tickets, unless it also provides for new tax income to make up the loss to tha government. No one can say for sure now what tha tax-framing committee will approve, but the trend ia shap ing up about like this: - I. A slah of about SI ,000,000,000 in excise, including mora itema in the list of cuts than the President suggested. 2. Increased collections of about $1,000,000,000, obtained at least in part by following the Presi dent's suggestions. The administration has proposed these excise changes: Halving tha 20 per cent levies on furs, luggage, jewelery and toilet preparations, erasing the 3 per cent tax on freight, reducing the passenger ticket excise from 15 per cent to 10 and cutting the rate on long dis tance telephone and telegraph serv ice from 25 to IS per cent. A new 10 per cent excise on television sets also was proposed. Cross Burned In Front Of Judge's Residence NEW YORK, March 13. VP) Federal Judge J. Watiea Waring says the burning of a cross outside his Charleston. S. C, home was not the work of pranksters as officers declared, but an example of the "savagery of southern while su premacists." Waring and his wife have been under attack in some sections of the south because of their out spoken racial views. The Warings are in New York, where the judge presently is pre siding in this district's term of court. A small cross, crudely con structed with KKK scratched on the base, was burned Saturday night in front of tha Waring home. Only 3 Survive Disaster That Hits 7elsh Football Fans In Midst Of Victory Celebration CARDIFF, Wales, March 13. (Ar) Eighty persons dies! her yesterday In tha crash of chartered Tudor airliner Backed with Walsh football fans celebrating a. victory over th Irish. It was aviation's worst commercial plan disaster. British aviation experts, headed personally by Minister of Aviation Lord 'akenham, began an Inquiry her today Int th latest accident Involving th unlucky Tudor ships. The crash cam as th giant plan was landing on return flight from Dublin. Of th 71 passengers and five crewmen aboard, nlythra survived. It brought th toll of deaths In Tudor planes Britain's first postwar four-engined commercial aircraft to 144. ay awawi'' A ' r KILLS IN MERCY Held on a homicide charge, Harold Mohr (above), 36, Is in ail at Allan town, PaM after he yielded to th persistent pleadings of his blind, cancer-ridden brother and killed him with a rifle bullet In their horn at nearby Cop lay. Th victim, Walter Mohr, had suffered from cancer ef th face for th pest six years. Friends of Harold ar raising a fund for his defense. (NEA tale photo I Truman Lives In Princely Fashion WASHINGTON, March 13 -WP) President Truman la on his way to ney west, ria., lor a vacation ne hopes will laat the full three weeks scheduled. Mr. Truman Is aboard the presi dential yacht Williamsburg, which tie boarded in Waahington. - Along with other matters the va cationing President left behind in Washington was a aummation by Rep. Woodruff (R-Mich) of Mr. Truman as "one of the best, if not the best paid man in tha world today." Woodruff calculated in a state ment that: "A private cititen, to match the standard of living now enjoyed by the President, would need an income of between $3,000, 000 and $3,500,000 a year." Woodruff began with the presi dential salary of $100,000, plua an additional $50,000 tax free allow ance. He figured that even after $40,000 in taxes, Mr. Truman still haa take-home pay of $110,000 a year. , To round out his estimatei. Wood ruff included: planes, 35 automo biles, the yacht Williamsburg, a private railroad car and vacation retreats in Key West and in Mary land. He added varioua other White House expenses, and travel money. - 19 Church Unite In Relief Fund Project NEW YORK, March 1S.-C More than 100,000 Protestant and orthodox congregations throughout the United States took up special collections yesterday to support church relief work abroad. Congregations joining la the special offering called the "one great hour of sharing" have a total of nearly 25,000,000 members A 9-month planning drive pre ceded yesterday's nationwide ap peal. No reporta on the amounts do nated were available immediately. Among usee to which the money will be out ar resettlement of Hia. placed persons, missionary work Asia and Eurooe. distribution of food and clothing, expansion of medical and educational facilities, and aid to refugees. ine renet funds of IS participat ing denominations will receive the proceeds of the offering. Quarrel Followed By Fatal Auto Accident EUGENE. March 13. m Mra. Ava McDaniels. 32. of the Jasper area, died in an auto accl- dent Saturday evening after sue ran away from a party following a quarrel with a friend, the Lane county coroner's office reported. Deputy coroner Fred Buell said Mrs. McDaniels and a friend, Dale Blighton, were having a party with another couple at the letter's home. After the couple left Blighton and Mrs. McDaniels quarreled, Buell said. She ran out of the house, jumped into Blighton's car aad started down a steep gravel road. Members of the party found the car over turned on a bank, a short time la ter, and Mrs. McDaniels wat pinned beneath. f t Tired but happy rugby football enthusiasts aboard had traveled by plana and train to Belfast to sea Wales down Ireland, -j. it th United Kingdom championship After a night of celebrating in Dub lin, they were returning bom by their chartered aircraft Th big four-engined plan ap- Cared to be touching down at endow airport near her for a normal landing in sunny weather when, without warning, it roared back into a climb. It amashed to earth in a field after making a right-hand turn and sideslipping. Tha huge plane craahed 15 yards from a house. It did not explode or burn. Meny Of Dead Miner Two of th three survivors, brothers-in-law. walked out of tha wreckage unaided and virtually un scathed. They had been aitting aid oy sioe in tne iau ot in plan. Tha third survivor waa erltu-all hurt. There were five women aboard. one waa the plane's atewardesa. All were killeJ. Moat of the dead were coal min ers, scheduled to return to tha pita laat night They had scraped and saved for moo tha to get tha money for the trip. Tha Tudor line of planea waa de veloped from th wartime Lan caster bomber at a coat of (11.000, 000 ($44,800,000 before devaluation). in reoruary, 1947, three defects were found in th Tudor during trials. In August a trial plan crashed, killing four persona. That September tha British Overaeaa Airways Corn, reiected it for naa- aenger service. An inauiry in 1848 vindicated tha Tudor. Lesa than three week later a Tudor iv, tha Star Tiger, diaap peared off Bermuda with 31 people on board. A year later another Tudor IV, the Star Ariel, disap peared on a flight to Jamaica with 2 persona aboard. - - Youtiis Jailed On Larceny Charges State Police Sgt. Holly Holcomb today announced the arrest of two Douglas county you tha on patty larceny charged during routine In vestigation of a recent mill fir, Holcomb aaid state police ftt cera were investigating a fir at the DeGnath, Corder and Corder sawmill, located two mflea west ot Tenmil on the Olalla and Berry creek' road. During the investiga tion, officers came across evidence relating to recent thefts in tbe Ten-ntile-Olalla area, involving Theo dore Lincoln Hamlhond, IS, of Ten- mile and Willow, Calif., and Al bert Carl Shattenkirk, IS, of Brock way. State police aaid Hammond has admitted taking toola, gasolin and equipment from milla and varioua vehicles and implicated Shattenkirk in a signed confession. Officers have recovered a partial list of the stolen articles, including a rifle stolen in tha Rica creek area. The youths ar currently lodged in the county jail. In the reference to th - mill fire, investigating officers aaid there was "no evidence" indicat ing the fir was accidental. Th mill haa been closed since lata in November and baa not operated sine that time. Police ar still investigating th bias which in flicted approximately $3,000 worth of damage to the premises. Racing Auto' Flying Wheel Kin Spectator WALL TOWNSHIP. N. J., Man 13 wheel torn from a "hot rod" racing car smashed into a crowd of spectators yesterday and killed a 17-year-old youth. The wheel also injured another boy. Some 3,500 persona were watching the race at the Monmouth county airport raceway. The hot rod driver. John Chap man, 23, of Metedeconk, told state police his racer had blown two tires, throwing tha vehicle into a spin. Seventeen-year-old Albert A. Jes ter of Avon died in an ambulance from injuries suffered when struck by the wheel. Henry Fee, 15, also of Avon, waa hospitalised with a neck injury. Chapman waa held in $2,500 ball pending a hearing today on charge of causing death by auto. levity fact Jant By L. r. Kefaeeieteta The oral duel between mm tors and the Stata daaartmaat over the charge that tha latter employ either Cammaaltt or their sympathiser may be da scribed succinctly a ta Involved Individuals la tha f ellewleej words: Doslgisated, tsm!t lgga&lg-ta-gvJ fsaTJjejileajaAaald! ltTBafBBjaarrV smaPfVfaT)