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CHOSIN FOR VOYAGE Nancy Rabuck. the smiling Roseburg
Salvation Army Ussi pictured bov, was notified recently that
she it en of two young ptrsons chosn to repreient Oregon
and loutharn Idaho at tha international Salvation Army Youth
conference! t b held f his summer in England. Nancy and tha
ether area representative, a Coos Bay girl, will join 2,000 Sal
vation Army young people in the two-week London conference
provided $300 cen be reised locally to. sponsor her journey.
She it shown above with her step-father, Charlie Noble, who
gave her a matched set of luggage for use on the trip. (Staff
photo.)
Population Count Only One
Of Census Bureau's Top Jobs.
District Supervisor States
' . By MERLE PUCH
Pointing out the position of employes of the U. S. Bureau
of Census, Ray Faves, district supervisor, told members of the
Roseburg Rotary club: "In years ending I to we play tackle
and n one knows eur name. But, In years ending xere, we
really carry the ball."
Speaking at the Thursday noon
meeting of Rotary at the Umpqua
hotel, Feves emphasixed that the
Census bureau gather information
for all other branches of govern
ment and ia continually taking sur
veys and censuses of various types.
One of the oldest bureaus in the
government, the bureau is in the
Department of Commerce.
Feves, who is supervisor of this
district for the coming population
census, April 1-21, stated that
there are hundreds of other cen
suses which keep the bureau busy
between the 10-year ones. During
the intervening years, surveys are
made of everything from religions
to businesses, and these are the
only official figures concerning
these branches, organisations, and
ao forth. Many eensusea are taken
every month.
Maior Phases Teld
The population census soon - to
take pltice is really just one of
many, Feves said, but an important
one, of course. It will involve two
major pointe: (1) To take inventory
of the country in many phases
besides population auch as hous
ing, irrigation, employment, mari
tal status of citizens, etc., and (2)
to determine the number of repre
sentativea to the House of Repre-
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS ,
riE United States court of
appeals upholds the constitution
ality of the government's employee
loyalty program. The decision con
cerns a woman employee of the
federal aecurity agency who was
suspended from her job in Novem
ber IMS on grounds that , her
loyalty . wsa ' questionable. She
, sued for reinstatement, contending
among other things that th whole
loyalty program ia unconstitutional.
The court of appeals says it IS
constitutional. Th final authority,
of course, is the supreme court
. of the United States.
I'M deeply disgusted with the way
in which loyalty ia being made a
political issue. But I feel better
because the court of appeals has
, upheld the right of our government
to fire employee whom it suspects
of disloyalty and I'll feel better
still if the supreme court backs
up the appeals court
I ran think of nothing worse than
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Protestants Denounce
Anti-Semitism War
NEW YORK. March 24 -(&-
War against anti-Semitism is urg
ed by a powerful Protestant com
mittee, which also proposes ef
forts to bring Jews Into th Chris
tian faith.
.Th committe said is a state
ment yesterday that it rejected
the view that Jews should be omitt
ed from church evangelistic ef
forts on th ground that they wor
ship the same God aa Christiana.
Christian missionary efforts must
include all groups th .statement
saia.
The committee, saying it was
launching the first "common strat
maw" tnm fl, r, i .n. t.ivicl. ..I
tions, declared that "whereier
anti-Semitism thrives, Christianity
cannot long survive." It called
anti-Semitism "absolutely irreon
cible with Christianity."
Holdup Tried With Spoon
Loads Ex-Convict To Jail
COLUMBUS, O.,' March U.-OPI
A man who police said tried to
rob a drive - in restaurs nt with
a teaspoon last night turned his
"weapon" over to them and re
marked: "Silly, ain't ft?"
Police agreed with Charles Trua
ley, 27, of Ottawa. W. Va.
They said Trusley tried to rob
Daniel Manes, proprietor of th
Cottage Drive-in, holding the spoon
in his pocket as if it were a pistol.
Manes said he tricked the man
into thinking police were nearby
and the spoon bsndit fled. Folic
caught him after a chase.
Police quoted Trusley as saying
he served six years in Mansfield,
O., reformatory for a SS.2( rob
bery, in which he hit his victim
over the head with a beer bottle.
Deportation Of Doomed
Romanian Is Opposed
NEW YORK, March 24
Immigraion authorities have
started action to deport th son of
a former Romanian premier, but
they hope they don't have to go
through with the case.
Vintiia Bratianu, 33, under sen
tence of Ufa imprisonment by the
Communist government in his
homeland, and hi wife and two
daughters were arrested last night
on a deportation warrant.
"I will never send these nic
people back into the jaws of death
unless I am forced to," aaid Watson
B. Miller, commissioner of the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalisation
service.
The family was released from
custody shortly after their arrest,
pending further proceedings.
Safety
Strike Threat
Again Faced
By Railroads
Union Veto In Fovor Of
Walkout On Issue Of 3rd
Diesel Engine Crewmen ,
CHICAGO, March U.-Jrfy-k na
tionwide strike Involving some 60,
000 railroad firemen and engine-
men threatened again today in the
dispute over a union demand for
a third crew member on multiple
unit dieael locomotives.
In a vot by mor than 00.000 1
members of the Brotherhood ofiaru-
Firemen and Enginemen, the union
said "an overwhelming majority
has authorized a strike if a
favorable settlement of tha Issues
cannot be reached."
David B. Robertson, president of
the rail brotherhood who announced
the vote, aaid no strike date had
been set pending further negotia
tions. Robertson and a committee
of general chairmen are meeting
nere. The union claims some 110,-
000 members on 160 U. S. rsilroads.
Wo are holding up setting a
strike date in hopes that our dif
ferences can be settled without the
necessity of a walkout," Robert
son said. "All peaceful methods
under the railway labor act have
oeen exhausted tor peaceful settle
ment of the dispute."
A presidential emergency board
last Sept. 1( rejected the union's
demand for a second fireman on
diesel locomotives. The union claim
ed an extra man was needed on
th diesels for reasons of safety.
It also said the more efficient
diesels were depriving firemen of
jobs by cutting down th number
of trains needed.
The carriers said that putting on
a second fireman would be "feather
bedding" made work.
The board's report said that die
sels are being built for greater
safety and the second man ia not
needed. They are actually creating
more work by bringing mor freight
to the rail lines."
Last spring a presidential board
rejected a union request for an
other engineer on diesels.
In a statement last night, the
union said the railroads are "real
ising a savings of $4,500,000,000 an
nually through th operation of
diesel locomotives. This amounta
to mor than double th cost in
volved in these issues."
Boundary Extension
Vote Slated At Albany
ALBANY, Ore., March 24.-MV-Albany
will vot in th May pri
mary election on a proposal to ex
tend the city boundary farther
west:
Th area proposed for annexa
tion ia about a third of a mile
square, just west of Broadway
street. It contains about M0 persons.
MORI THAN SOO CAMP Nil ftlRLS r pictured ebove In
dress rehearsal at th junior high school Thursdey night prac
ticing for th "Camp Fir Story," to be proiontad t the public
Saturday at I p. m, This is the largest ovtnt vr scheduled by
the Deugle eaaty Cmp Fir organisation. Charlea RiktH
sormed Beyond
Point
Warning Results In Call From
Committee On Military Budget
WASHINCTON, March J .(API Senators working on
the military budget voted unanimously today to ask Can. Dwioht
0. Eisenhower for testimony en his viw that America has dis
armed beyond th point of safety.
Chairman Cannon 10-Mol ef the House appropriations com
mittee said the five-star general's statement bolsters his own
belief that military spending can't b cut In a major way.
3rd Firm Accused
Of False Ads Of
Cold "Remedy1
WASHINGTON. March 24
The Federal Trade commission to
day accused a third company of
false and misleading advertising
V P"0" th aale of
anti-cold
The latest action-involves the
sntihistamine preparation sold un
der the trade name "Kriptin" and
manufactured by Whitehall Pilar
macal Co., of New York.
The FTC complaints closely fol
lowed those made earlier in the
week against Bristol-Myers Co. and
the Anahist Co., Inc., also of New
York. .The trade commission ac
cused all three firms of "unfair
and deceptive" practices in adver
tising their antihistamine products.
Of "Kriptin . nt specifically
said:
"The us of Kriptin by persons
who have a common cold infec
tion when such infection first be
come msnifest will not prevent
such manifestations from becoming
more severe, prevent the develop
ment of other manifestations, or
result in a cure of all auch mani
festations." Under federal law, the trade
commission can order a halt to
the allegedly "false and mislead
ing" advertising if the agency's
charges of such practices are
proven. In thia connection, .FTC! I
gave Whitehall as it did Bristol
Myers and Anahist 20 days to an
swer the complaint.
Chrysler Offers Trust
Fond To lock Pension Plan
DETROIT, March 24 (
Chrysler Corp. today offered to set
up a $30,000,000 trust fund to back
its promise to psy $100 a
month pensions to its 81,000 strik
ing employes.
The offer cam as the strike,
idling another 140.000 workera al
together, was In its SOth day.
There waa no immediate com
ment from the CIO United Auto
Workers.
Th main Issue la tha long strike
hss bean th method of providing
pensions. Th union has insisted
that they be paid out of a trust
fund. Chrysler previously had in
sisted on becking pensions by
it "promise to pay."
ARMY AID! Rf SIGNS
KEY WEST, Fla., March 24-')
President Truman today reluc
tantly accepted the resignation of
Tracy S. Voorhees as undersecre
tary of the army.
Eisenhower
Eisenhower said in a speech at
Columbia university in New York
that this country already has dis
armed to th greatest extent
"in some directions even beyond
the extent that I. with deep
concern for her present safety,
could possibly advise until we
hsve certain knowledge that all
nil ions are doing likewise."
He did not go into details on
wher the military weakness lies.
Eisenhower said that for this
country to display military weak
ness in face of Soviet strength
would be "well nigh aa criminal
as war itself."
It would be a "rrpugnatnt absur
dity", he said, to give up hopes
for peace "because there is one
towering force in the world that
often seems bent upon engulfing as
much territory and as many people,
as it can." .
Alternatives Cited
On the other hand, he aaid, it
would be "far better to risk a
wa of possible annihilation than to
grasp a peace which would be
the certain extinction of free man'
ideas and ideals."
He said that the "heads of gov
ernment everywhere, even the
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Belgian Workers
Protest Return
Of Exiled King
fit Tfc AmIiIb,
Belgian eoeieliat's.wratn against
King Leopold boned over today
in Brussels, wher 15.000 work
era demonstrated against the ex.
iled king who wants to come back
to th throne. They carried ban
ners laying "abdication" and
chanted "death to Leopold."
The socialist labor unions staged
a 24-hour strike and were joined
by workers across the nation. The
socialists want Leopold, in exile
since he surrendered Belgium to
the Germsns 10 years ago, to ab
dicate in favor of his son, Baudoin,
1.
Despite a police ban against
a parade la downtown Brussels
th worker marched in fore.
They stoned streetcars manned by
some transport workers who did
not heed the strike call. Police
could not cop with th situation.
windows were smashed and trol
ley-ropes slsshed. Traffic was dis
organized for two hours.
The Belgian nation is a house
divided over the royal question.
In an advisory referendum Leo
pold won 57.W percent of the votes,
but this is not deemed sufficient
show of confidence in a monarch
th socialists contend. The Bel
gian coalition cabinet fell last Sat
urday when Liberals refused to
support a Christian Socialist plan
to recall trie exiled King,
is musi director with Mrs. Lynn
'"o K:p-
organ. The girls' colorful costumes, service and ceremonial will
add background to the oaoeent. Boy Scouts will uiher at the
evening performance. The Kiwanis club Is furniihing th pro
(rasa -far tha pge. (Pietae by Paul Jankint.)
Search On For
Four Portland
Air Tourists
Plane Missing After
Leaving Lakeview On
Return From Havana
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., March
24 ift Search planes went into
clearing akies today to learn the
fate of four Portland residents
who flew 7,500 miles to Cuba and
bark, only to disappear a few
miles short of home.
Their Diane, one of M that took
part in a good-will flight from Ore
gon to Havana, waa missing on
the last leg of the return trip.
It took off from Lakeview. near
the California border. Tuesday,
and headed north for Portlafd. No
flight plan was filed, and it was
not reported missing until relatives
in Portland became worried yes
terday. The four were Lee Blakkolb. st:
his wife, Thelma. 39; W. B. Lund,
strom, 30; and his wife, who was
31. Blakkolb was the pilot.
Th mass flight of th planes
officially ended at Cuba three
weeks sgo, and the 250 partici
pants "returned at leisure in su,ll
groups.
Two Others Crash
Two other persons in the flight
came to grief. They were Mr.
and Mrs. Ros Sayles, Pullman,
Wash., who were killed In the
crash of their light plane near
Price, Utah, Wednesday.
The missing plane left Lake-
view on a day In which anow
squalls swept mountains over
which the plan had to ass. Con
tinued squalls and occasional high
winds have swept the area since.
An early morning snow stopped
falling her near dawn and the
low ceiling began lifting and the
sun broke through.
It appeared to be a good day
at least in some areas for aerial
search.
The missing plsne was a biplane,
a single-engined beachcraft. It
was yellow with blue trim, and had
the number NC80303.
The plan had returned across
the southern states, then turned
north-through California. It stop-
pea si eurnare creek in Califor
nia's Death valley before landing
at Lakeview to refuel. There it
took on enoexh gasoline for five
hours' flight, and leaded for Port
land. Blakkolb expected to reach
Portland in 2V hours.
Ha told an airport attendant at
Lakeview he intended to fly to
Prineville, Hood River and then
into Portland.
Tha Blakkolbs have three chil
dren, the Lundatroms, two. -
JCetel Strikes Snog In
Astoria Housing Plans .
ASTORIA,' March U.-UPITt-fort
to get 100 new home built
her on the former naval hospital
sit have struck a Federal Hoi
ing administration snag.
The Chamber of Commerce re
ported today that th FHA had ad'
vised H. R. Ketell it would insure
only 25 of the homes he plans to
build. Th report said it was be
cause th FHA hsd been told th
need for housing her was not suf
ficiently acuta to warrant lb larg
er number.
Ketell waa quoted as saying th
smaller number would add $1,000
each to tha cost of the houses.
leeltley as accompanist at the
ConiitteePrc?32tst!:re
Personnel For D:p:rtir.:nts;
Present Sdcrles Ccnl ir.::d
Roioburg voters will bo aikad t approve $71,917.17 uf.
lid th statutory six percent limitation for city operating
ponies the next fiscal year.
Th budget committee last night approved a total eperat
Ing budget ef $23, 5, compares with th present year's ex-
Jam account ef $J22,il.0. However, estimated receipt
rem sources ether than taxation amount te only $141,200, tem
pered with the pre tent budget's estimated receipt ef
$2IMH.0t.
Adding $1,000 estimated taxes that will be uncollected,
there remains $153,495 t be raited by taxation. Of this sum
$11,497.11 will be within the six percent limitation.
Mother Drowns
2 Children, Loses
Nerve For Suicide
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. March
24. (jP Mrs. E. R. Oebusk drown
ed two of her six children yester
day and then loat her nerve before
she could carry out a plan to kill
a third and commit suicide, Sher
iff Ernie Shore aaid today.
Shore said Mrs. Debusk, who was
estranged from her husband, ap
parently waa despondent becsua
she hsd been thrown aside by a
married man with whom aba sad
been going.
The sheriff said the woman would
be charged with murder.
Here is the story th sheriff said
Mrs. Debusk told him:
She took six-month old Iva Le
In her arms, clasped th hand of
Charlea Franklin, two, while he
held the hand of Ruby Le Debusk,
live. They waded into a creek until
the water was over the children's
heads.
Th mother returned and laid
them out on the bank. Iva Le and
Charlea Franklin were dead, their
hands elapsed. Ruby Lee wsa still
slive, but Mrs. Debusk didn't have
tha heart to trv again.
Federal Fugitive
Nabbed In Oregon
PORTLAND. March 24-IJPV-On
of th FBI's most wanted criminals
wss captured quietly near her last
night.
Frederick A. rletcher, FBI agent
in charge, identified him as Orbs
Elmer Jackson, 43, who escaped
from th federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth, Kan., ia 1041.
Fletcher said Jackson was work
ing as a hired man en a chicken
ranch at th community of Aloha
and was arrested when he returned
to th farm from a trip to town.
He was not armed and th arrest
was mad ''without incident" by
FBI agents and Oregon Stat
Patrolman Jamea Bauman.
Jackson, who hsd been sent to
Leavenworth for an armed rob
bery at Poplar Bluff, Mo., and
was a trusty at the time of hi
escape, has been ia Oregon for
about two years, working under
th nam of Kenneth Jam Vaa
Kempen, Fletcher aaid.
The tip leading to th arrest
cam from a man who saw an
FBI poster listing Jackson as
sought. Fletcher said h understood
th man who asked not to be
named aaw it In a postoffice, and
recognised Van Kempen aa Jack
son. -
Medford Fruit Grower
Killed In Auto Crash
WOODLAND, Calif., March 24
(iTV-David Holmes, SI, Medford,
Or., fruit grower who with his
brother developed an orchard into
a $$,ooo.000-a-year business, died in
an automobile crash near her yes
terday. Holmes. SI. wss th David of
Harry and David's Bear Creek
orchards near Medford, which
started as a small venture la the
1930a and grew into a eoast-to-coast
Duiiners specialising m mall order
gift packages.
1, car skidded out of control on
a highway eight miles south of
here, and rolled over twice.
Holmes' companion, N. B.
Bender, also of Medford, suffered
minor cuts.
Train-Auto Crash Kills
One Nurse, Injures Two
TACOMA. March 24 -tJPt A
Northern Pacific railway passenger
train smashed into a ear carrying
four army nurses a mil west of
Camp Murray last night. On of
the nurses wss killed, th others
injured seriously.
Th victim. Mary Obendorfer. IT.
of Youngstown, O., died enroute
to a hospital in an ambulance.
Injured were Merle Russell. 22.
Toronto, Kss., driver, reported in
serious condition; Helen Losgrov.
23, Baltimore, Md., lacerationa and
other Injuries; and Mary Bradley,
24, Oshkosh, Wis., a fractured leg
and ribs, condition criticsl.
The four nurses, all stationed at
Madigan, were driving across th
tracks to a service station for gaso
line when th accident occurred.
Quest For Perfect Wife
Ends In ligomy Penalty
LONDON, March M.-MV-ficr
trying five times John William fay'
lor, 31, admitted he had failed.
He didn't find th perfect wife,
and at Old Bailey yesterday ha was
sentenced to four yesrs for bigamy.
In court were th wives Alice,
Phoebe, Marjorie, Lillian and
Oliv. Taylor, a cook, atarted get
ting married in 192S. Without in
tervening divorcea be carried on
through 146, when be married
Olive.
She got auspicious and Just it
time because, it was testified, Tay
lor was engaged again. tj
The eatimated millaga ivy will
be about 11.90, compared t the
present levy of 16 .S mills. Thia ia
based on an assessed valuation ef
$8,100,000.
The city tax base Is enlv SSS.-
015 83, but certain Items having
previously been set up by a vote
of the people are exempt from the
statutory limitation. These inchid
nond payment and interest. $10..
M0; offic of city manager, $,J00l
and public library, $6,480.
Mere Per sennet P'raps sad
Th proposed budget, to be pre
sented to the voters at a date
to be set later by the city coun
cil, holds very much ia line ta
salariea with last vear'a budeet.
but provides for personnel increase
in practically every department.
Th offices of city manager and
recorder are provided two full
time atenographers, compared with
on full and on half-tim em
ployes. Two offic clerks arc pro
vided to augment th police de
partment; two hosemen were add
ed to th fir department; twe'
men were added to th street de
partment, one for th park de
partment and substantial Increases
were provided for th city library
department.
The new budget provides $7,800
for extension of street lighting
south on Stephens St.; sets up
$3,000 for a coopers tlve city, coun
ty and private mosquito control
program; $1,000 for metal street
signs; $1,60 for a new street de
partment pick-up truck; $1,000 for
an asphalt spreader, and provide
$150 for replacement of a police
car. .
Eliminated from th budget wag
an alternate request for a street
weeper to cost $10,300. While the
item was considered needed, th
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Texas School Again Bans
Matjnider's Textbook. ,
HOUSTON. March 24 UP!
A civica textbook has been ban
ned tha second Urn by the Hous
ton public school system.
Th textbook committee of the
system rejected a proposal yeatar
day that th revised 104 edition
of th lata Dr. Frank Magruder's
American government be used.
Earlier thia week a seven-mam.
ber group of civics teachers un
animously selected Magruder't
text from among four already ap
proved by the state textbook eo-m
mittee.
Last October tha Houston aehanl
board banned Mairuder'a text rm
board th grounds that a passage in
an edition might causa students to
think Socialism and Communism
are good.
AHotjod Aide In JoH
freak Attempt Arrested .
EUGENE. March 24 -UP- A
man accused of helping Jamte L.
Thompson in aa cscapa attempt
wai held ia th Lan county jail
her today.
Thompson la chargn with killing
the Oakridg police chief, Clyde
Dubell, in a fight early Sunday.
Accused of concealing and aiding
Thompson afterwards is Murl L.
Stevens, 28, Oakridg. He warred
preliminary hearing yesterday.
Bond is set at $1,000.
Thompson waa arrestac near
0-kndg Sunday evening.
Loom Granted For Now
Oregon College luildlngt
WASHINGTON, March 24.-4.'P)
The General Services administra
tion Thursdsy approved loans total
ing $.120,680 for preparation of plana
for 16 local public works project ia
10 states.
The estimated construction cost
of the. projects is $10,404,463.
Recipients included:
Corvallis, Ore., $29,000 for a $730,
000 addition to a home economics
building at Oregon Staie college.
Eugene, Or., $27,000 for a $700,
000 addition to the com mere build
ing at th University of Oregon.
Johnson Lumber Mill
Dispute StlH.Umettied
TOLEDO, Or., March 14 -f
Th shut-down of th C. D. Johnson
lumber mill went into its second
week today with only on thing
certain: management and labor
still were tslking to each other.
They held another meeting with
U. S. conciliation representatives
today. Participants refused to com
ment on whether progress was
made in yesterdsy's session.
Tb mill closed Isst Friday after
th AFL. posted pickets in protest
of tha dischsrg of three men.
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9y L 7 Re4eet9ete4afj
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