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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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
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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
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