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10 The News-Review, Rosaburg, Org. Tuti,, Mor. 21, 1950 New Schools Training War Vets Require Rigid Local Examination .By PETftR EDSON NEA WMhlnglon CorrDondnt WASHINGTON (NEA) District of Columbia'! experience with vet erans' trade schools may give a clue to what has gone wrong nation ally with the GI below-college level Last July the D. C. Commission era p a r 1 1 e u 1 a r 1 y Commiss ioner Guy Mason became con cerned over complaints against the mushrooming GI trade schools in Washington. Over 300 academic, arts and vocational schools had been approved by the Board of Education for GI training. The Act 0' 1U N. Jockw Phone 441 Need a new diet? w, HEN THE doctor "puts you cause your diet is unbalanced. Insurance is something like this! Too often a person re same amount each time with news his insurance for the out figuring that a change in values calls for revision. How about you? R. O. YOUNG Phone 417 205 W. Cost St. Roseburg 4 W V Vlliyf .1 FW F t RY FREE DEMONSTRATIONS oh (ftttx toil fo &&otv yacc cv&y 0sm mn 0A6 3 H P. Model JR12 Nwipptd for New Typ "fluff In attachment! s 125 00 DOWN Easy Monthly Tarmi O Till, mulch, cultivate. ..boon quality and crop yield. eJKIl attachment take lest than a minuie lo change . . . attune vear 'round ute. 0 Patented linn guaranteed against breakage . . . ail eo cine 4-crcte. air-cooled. O Vi'eed eradication tinrt avail able oow. Cof or Slop In lor FRff education, Board was required to certify only that the schools had the faculty and equipment to train veterans. It had no responsibility over the quality of the training. Nearly 10 per cent of the district vets were enrolled in trade schools and IS per cent more were taking college-level courses. The schools were doing a $10,000,000 to $12,000, 000 a year business. There was no complaint against the old-time colleges nor against the established correspondence, trade and vocational schools which had been in business 20 years and more. All the complaints were against the newer schools. Disputes Snag Inquiry So a 20-man committee was named to investigate. Leon G. Chatolain, Jr., an architect, w a named chairman. Gino Simi of the District of Columbia apprentice ship office was made secretary. The committee was made up of businessmen, labor representativ es and public figures. There were no spokesmen for the trade schools. But all the veterans' or ganizations were represented to look out for GI rights. Almost immediately the comm ittee bogged down in disputes on what it should do. There was at first a charge that the schools had used fraudulent advertising to attract students. Yet none of the advertising was Investigated. One feeling developed in the committee that all these new schools represented new business enterprises in the community and that they should be encouraged. Also, there was some feeling that the schools were being fought by labor unions that-wanted to re strict the number of men trained in any trade to their own appren tices. After six months of wrangling over points like these, a number of the members felt that the com mittee wasn't getting any place and ought to disband. The secre tary re-signed. The chairman ap pointed himself a committee of one to write a report. Local Inspection Needed. The moral of this story, as It can be applied nationally in all the states, is that unless there is good local inspection of vets schools, there are bound to be complaints of abuses and waste of both the taxpayers' money and the GI entitlement to educational benefits. There is a great congressional fear of federal control over educa tion. This was apparently what motivated Congress in taking the inspection and certification o f schools, for GI training out of the hands of the Veterans' Administra tion. Everything was left up to local authorities stale boards of education and their designated agencies. For the training and education HEATING OILS Diesel and Stove Oils Quality Oils For Every Purpose PROMPT METERED DELIVERIES E. A. Pearson, Distributor General Petroleum Products Phone 321-J 12".Id".J" JfJ'.arrf.n t,Un fi tractor powor tmi-eff motth. 1 McMheat, mm Demonstration This Weekl Jesuit Claims Church Supplies Forced Laborers VATICAN CITY, (JP) The Kremlin has turned the Roman Catholic church in Russia into one of fie biggest sources of manpow er for its forced labor camps and industries, the authoritative Jesuit journal "Civilta Cattolica" declar es in its current issue. Therefore, said the magazine, "Many thousands of Catholics must face a long but glorious martyr dom for their faith." Writing on Russia and the 1950 holy year, the Rev. G. M. Schweigl pointed out no pilgrimages to Rome were being permitted from Russia or other Communist dominated countries. Yet, he said, the return of Russia to the church is one of the chief Catholic hopes of the Holy year. After 30 years of Communism In Russia, Father Schweigl wrote, "over the entire country there now spreads a network of millions of adherents to Communist ideology, and over this, another lesa con spicuous network of millions with out faith, uncertain or indiffer ent." Nearly the entire Roman Cath olic hierarcy of Russia is in jail or in exile, he declared. Russia's population of 170,467,186 in 1939 included 500,000 Roman Catholics, the Jesuit writer con tinued. Of 23,000,000 persons add ed to the Soviet population by ter ritorial increases after world War II, 8.000,000 were Catholics. Administrative measures against the Catholic church in the past four years have "sharply cut" the number of Russia'a Catholics and will continue to do so, father Schweigl wrote. Britain Will Get B-29s In U.S. Aid WASHINGTON, March 20 -JPl-The first batch of about 75 Ameri can B.29 takes off for Britain to day under the $1,000,000,000 arms aid program to strengthen West ern Europe's defenses. The seven-year-old planes, once the heaviest the American air force could send aloft, now are classed as "medium bombers." The giant B-36 is alone in the heavy bomber class now. But the B-29 2,000-mile combat range and 10-ton bomb load are expected to add considerable strik ing power to the British air force. The British in linjt uitk -n;,.! defense plans, have concentrated on ouiiamg speedy jet fighters. raving oomoer production to the United States. Forty eight American Hellcat fighters and Hclldiver bombers Were loaded ahnarrl th L- k. aircraft carrier "Dixmude" at Nor- toin, va., March 8. These were the first American weapons actually given to an Atlantic pact nation. Additional carloads of American military equipment are now piling up at east coast porta for ship ment to other Western European nations. Gunshot Wound Kills Seattle Cartoonist SEATTLE, March 21. (.TV-Sam Groff, widely known Seattle Timet cartoonist, was found dead of a gunshot wound in his Hunts Point home here Monday. Coroner John P. Brill said Groff had been shot through the chest, apparently accidentally while cleaning a pistol. The artist has been on leave of absence from ths Times for more than a year be cause of ill health. His pen and ink cartoonings of the Seattle baseball team of the Pacific Coast league were widely known In the Northwest. of disabled veterans, the VA was given this authority. That program has been run off without much complaint. But the fear of giving the VA too much control over local education may have back fired in training vets not disabled One trouble is that there are no established standards for training barbers, bricklayers or b e a u t i cians. Schools approved in some states would never have been ap. proved in others. Barbering courses for instance, varied from 11 to 104 weeks. Too many new schools were ap proved too fast. Thus 5600, or two out of three trade schools approv ed for vets, were established after the GI bill was paased in 1944. To correct these situations. Vet erans' Administration, Budget Bu reau and the President have re commended that the federal gov ernment be authorized to set min imum standards under which these schools can be operated. 24 Hours a Day Call 446 during the day or 1073-J at night or on holi days for complete tow car service. HANSEN Motor Co. oak A Stenhena Phone 44 4i i "f"" ;fec; :ii .'' r i ri r Ib-i i r i ri- i is-vr ttss msn " Heart, Slood VmI end Kidney Disease CAUSES OF DEATH The Newschart above shows how diseases of the heart, blood and kidneys have grown as major cause of death from 39 in the Twenties to 81 in 1949 while deaths from infectious and other diseases have declined. The development of "miracle drugs" to curb Infectious diseases, and the fact that people live longer now, accounts for the rise of disease associ ated with old age. White Man On Trial In Killing Of Three Negroes KOSCIUSKO, Miss., March 20 VP) A white ex-convict goea on trial today for the massacre of three Negro children. Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Turn er it accused of shooting to death Nell Harris, 4, Mary Burnside, 8, and Frankie Thurman, 12, in their home near here shortly before mid night last Jan. 8. District Attorney Henry Rodger said he would ask the death pen alty. In Mississippi, the death pen alty carried out in the electric chair is rare for a white man charged with murdering a Negro. Rodgers described the slaugh ter as "a drunken orgy of re venge." Last week Windol Whitt, 24, also accused in the three slayings, was convicted of the murder of the Har ris child and was given a life pri son sentence. A brother, Malcolm Whitt, 27, under similar charges, is slated to go on trial March 27. In Windol Whin's trial, the Whitt brothers testified that Turn er alone entered the Negro home and come out declaring he "had killed the whole damm bunch of them." Turner did not testify. State witnesses said Windol Whitt, armed with a shotgun, blocked the victims' escape. The parent of the slain children, Thomas Harris, 27, told the jury that a bullet from Turner's gun shattered his spine. Harris said he lay halpless on the kitchen floor while Ruby Nell uleaded for water. The child died after officers ar rived about dawn. The other vic tims were his step-children. Another step-daughter. Verline Thurman, 14, testified in Windol wnitt s trial mat Whitt flushed her from under the house and that Turner shot her. She has recover ed from two bullet wounds. Harris' wife, Mary Ella, clutch ing an infant, ran out a side door, shoved aside a gun barrel and fled into the darkness. Rodgers said the three white men had forcibly entered the Har ris home and had attempted to rape the negro woman on Dec. 22. After the Dec. 22 foray, the white men escaped from jail. The Jan. 8 slaughter, Rodgers said, was prompted by a mistaken idea that the Harris family had caused the arrest of the trio. Malcolm Whitt surrendered the day after the shooting. The other two were taken after a 57-hour manhunt. Bloodhounds handled by Clarence Mullins, state prison trus ty, led a posse to the potato hut where Windol Whitt and Turner were hiding. Turner was shohilv wounded when Mullins fired into tne hut. Pay Increase Advised For Portland Employes PORTLAND, March 21. .T A $426,288 pay increase for 3.230 city employes was recommended to the Portland city council today. The recommendation came from a city survey service agency hired by the city to study the situation The increase would bring Port land in line with other west coa.it cities, the agency reported. Increases would range from $5 to $100 monthly. The average would be St 1 a month more. You need ROSEBURG DAIRY milk in your diet Milk does mora for your body than any other food because It contains vital protein, calcium and vitamins. Drink ROSEBURG DAIRY milk with every meal for your health's soke. Buy it at your i Pwrv-Foh coa toinf or fwer. ontvad by Good ROSEBURG DAIRY O Cexer 3 A"ot!0umn 1223 Wises C3 Burned Spokane Hotel To Be Rebuilt Soon SPOKANE, March 21 (."PV-Owners of the burned out Ridpath hotel are working on tentative plans for rebuilding the structure at a cost of more than $1,000,000. Thomas Gose of Walla Walla, representative of the Ridpath es tate, told the Chronicle in a tele phone interview that it may take from three to five months to pre pare definite plans. The Ridpath was all but destroy ed by a fire which started early in the evening Feb. 28, and was con trolled the next morning. Damage was estimated at $1,000,000. That figure has not been confirmed by the owners. Gose said the tentative plans call for an eight-story building with ap proximately 200 rooms on the same downtown site as the old building. Sentenced To Die, Man Only Laughs NEW YORK, March 21 -(.'Pi-Convicted wife slayer Lewis Wolfe broke into peals of laughter Mon day when sentenced to die in the electric chair the week of April 23. The wealthy 42-year-old Montreal contractor was sentenced by Kings County Judge Louis Goldstein, wtio had adjudged him sane. Permitted to address the court before sentencing, Wolfe spoke in coherently of his "beautiful love" for his slain wife and of voices that "whispered" to him on the night she was bludgeoned to death with a steel-tipped shoe. "No jury in the world would call me insane," Wolfe said, agreeing with the sanity finding of Judge Goldstein. Wolfe was convicted of first de gree murder for slaying his acress wife in 1944. The state charged that he did it in a fit of rage when she confessed infidelity. Portland Bank Takes Meadows Race Track PORTLAND. March 21. UP) The First National bank of Port land took over the $2,000,000 Port land Meadows horse race track at a sheriff's saje here Monday. The bank ocquired the plant with the only bid submitted. It was for $476,092. The sale resulted from mortgage foreclosure proceedings, started by the bank. William P. 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Paul Abel of Bolivar, Mo., was given 20 years at hard labor and Sgt. John Frankey of New York City 15 years. Both also were ordered aisnonoraoiy oiscnarg from the Army and to forfeit all pay and allowances. ine veraici ana semence. were announced by Col. M. Tharr o H San Antonio, Texas, president of the court-martial which heard the case. A detailed confession by Abel, in which he described how their vic tim, Oswald Elder, was kidnapped, was read to the court. The confession said Eder was taken from his home in an army jeep by Abel and Frankey and handed over to five Russiaas near an old factory outside Vienna. They were paid 7,000 Austraian schillings (about $700). The prosecution has described Fder as a mysterious former sol dier In the Germany army who has been suspected by several nations of spying. -INSURANCE-AUTO LIFE AUTO FIRE State Farm Mutual Insurance 0. L Rote S. C. Compb.ll P. O. Box 489 Phone 288' 116 W. 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The Liberals brought on the cab inet's fall when they refused to join the Social Christians in spon soring a parliamentary session to invite Leopold back to his throne. The king a week ago won 57.68 percent of the vote in a country wide advisory referendum, held to advise, parliament of the popular feeling with regard to Leopold's proposed return. Public Hospital Issue Likely To Go On Ballot FOREST GROVE, March 21 iPl Sponsors of a public hospital proposed for Western Washington county said today the issue proD ably will be on the May 19 pri mary oauoi. chairman Joseph M. Loom is id petitions calling for a vote on the proposition now have 1,- son names, signatures of 1,031 registered vot era are needed. The proposal to construct the public hospital at Forest Grove is opposed by the Washington Coun ty Medical society, which contends hospital service available at Hil'.s boro now is sufficient. Utah became a state in 1898, the 45th to be admitted to the Union. 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MEO, Anlilmt MB! Member Nejaral Dtpaill Iftivraftt Horsemeat Stored A Beef Tenderloin Seized CHICAGO, March 21, Seisure of 12,000 pounds of horse meat stored here as beef tender loin was reported Monday. The seizure was announced by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, presi. dent of the city board of health, which impounded the meat March 10 in cooperation with the stale health department and the federal Food and Drug administration. Dr. O W. Seher, inspector in charge of the Chicago federal meat inspecting station, said the horse meat was shipped to Chicago from Southbend, Ind., by truck, in boxes marked "tenderloin." He said it was stored as "beef tenderloin" and that government labels had been removed. 4-Wheel Drive Vehicle Medford Man's Device MEDFORD, March 20 CP) A new four-wheel drive vehicle has appeared here. Ivventor E. M. Tucker, presi Inventor E. M. Tucker, presi- is the envy of motorists having parking problems in small spaces. Tucker's latest machine steers all wheels. 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