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Hunt Continues For Slayer Of Woman Lawyer NASSAU, Bahamas. April 21 (. Two heartbroken brothers ere to view the body of their murdered younger sister today at police sought the person who strip ped her almost naked and tossed her into a well to drown. The semi - nude body of Miss Betty Renner, 38-year old Washing ton attorney, was recovered from a shallow w-11 Wednesday. She was wearing onlay a brassiere. ' Dr. H. B; Taylor, who performed the autopsy, said there was no positive evidence of rape but the possibility was still being investi gated. Her older brothers, Frederick P. Renner, 40, and Charles H. Ren ner Jr., 39, arrived from Miami, Fli , last night. Major G. H. Ranoe, chief of police, said the death was de finitely murder and that a Negro of the waiter type was being sought. The Negro was seen bicy cling with Miss Renner in the area before she disappeared Tues day. Ranoe said there was a ragged cut on Miss Renner's head and burises on the lace. A struggle apparently took place about six feel from the well. Miss Renner was dragged over rocks to the de pression, and then tossed uncons cious into the well, he said. The chief of police said it ap peared Miss Renner was. trving to run away when she was drag ged down. Her bicycle was found neatly parked near the well, in dicating she went there to see the place. Townsfolk reported Miss Renner often went on bicycle trips by her self. She was well liked and ap parently had no romantic attachments. Gasoline Price Boost Ups British Taxi Fares LONDON, April il.-tjpu-hoa-don's taxi fares were boosted today for the first time in 16 years. The government approved an in crease of 3 cents per trip to meet increased gasoline costs. Gasoline went up to 4? cents a gallon Tues day after the Labor government's new budget added lOVt cents per gallon to the gas tax. The increase is a temporary re lief for taxi drivers pending de cision on their request for all-round far inpFa.cA. Cab fares presently are about lO'i cenis for the first two-thirds of a mile and three cents for every third ol a mile thereafter. PP&L Gets Nod To Issue First Mortgage Bonds WASHINGTON, April 21 -tm-Pacific Power and Light co., Port land, Ore., won authorization from the Power commission yesterday to issue $9,000,000 in first mort gage bonds. Conditional approval for the is sue was given April 7. The order yesterday approved a coupon rate of 3 percent a year, the price of 101.8011 to be paid by Blair, Rollins and Co., Inc., and Carl M. Leob, Rhoades and Co., and the initial offering price of 102.399 for resale to the public. AUTO BLOW FATAL PORTLAND, April 21 UP The toll from traffic was up to 11 in Portland today, following the death of Mrs. Minnie M. Bliss. 76, who was struck by an automobile at an intersection yesterday. k)i4utHdt tew Looking for bargains in tumblers? You'll find them at LESTER'S GIFT AND MODEL SHOP, 337 N. Jock son. They ore the Perma-Hus tumblers, of un break -ible colored metol, now specially priced. The 1 4 -or. tumblers which were $6 75 for o set of 8 ore now wily $5 25. Sets of 6 have been reduced to $4.50. The cunning squatties which were sold in sets of 8 for $6.25 ore only $4.75. Get matching coasters at a reduction, too sets of 6 for only $1.95, or sets of B mode up to your order. These Per mo -Hue tumblers sist dnts and the colors won't chip or wash off be cause they are actually in the metal itself. They art .ust right for the fomily with small children think of the relief to mother's nerves And speoking of Mother, bet she'd like o set of Perma-Hue tumblers for Mother's Day. Get them now, while they last, at this wonderful reduction! may like o zircon ring in yellow gold with two side diamonds in floral settings. You'll be dazzled by the beautiful white gold Harvel watch with 20 count 'cm 20 diamonds set in the case. What young Mom wouldn't be thrilled with a gift like that? Sweets to the sweet, dd you soy? Then by all means moke it the Country Store candies at the ROSEBURG PHARMACY, 241 N. Jockjoo. These candies are mode by on old-fashioned family reripe with generous quantities of creamery butter, thick country cream, ronch eggs, rich chocolote, choice nutmeats ond other expensive ingredients. This condy is rushed to the Roseburg Pharmacy the same doy it's mode, for heav enly freshness ond rich flavor. How about one of their new assortments for Mother's Doy? It's old-fashioned nut-filled condv in a distinctive miniature wooden crate in Early California style. You con moil it with out wroppmq. Be sure to order it at leost o week in odvonce, to hove it for Mother's Day, May 1 4. The only theory tfiet it ef any velue it the ene that lets yoM started right new. Local News Undergoes Operation Mrs. L. J. Fiusimmons, of Bob's Salvage Yard, underwent an operation at Mercy hospital today. To Mm Tuesday The F.S. club will meet at I o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ma bel Wilson, 242 S. Rose street. Te Install Officers Benton PTA will hold installation of officers Monday night at I o'clock at the schoolhouse. The program will be in charge of the Dads. Visits Parents Charles Scofield, student at University of Oregon, spent least weekend in Roseburg visiting his parents, Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Scofield. Cafeteria Supper A cafeteria supper will be held at Sutherlin Grange Saturday night beginning at 6:30 o'clock. The public is in vited. Bex Social A box social will be sponsored by Riverside PTA to night at 6:30 o'clock in the school lunchroom. The public is invited. Prizes will be awarded owners of the best boxes. Petluck Luncheon Neighbors of Woodcraft Thimble club will meet at a 1 o'clock potluck lunch eon Monday at the home of Mrs. Robert Burton. 1005 S. Kane street. Those attending are asked to not bring their table service. Pinochle Party A pinochle par ty, fish pond and puppet show has been planned at the Elgarose school Satureay night to raise mon- , ey for the Projressive 13, 4-H stock I club. Tickets are on sale by the : members. I Te Install Officers Douglas court No. 18, Order of Amaranth will i install new officers at 8 o'clock Saturday night at the Masonic tern- pie. This will be an open meeting : and will be followed by a recep tion. I Badovra Club te Meet Radoura club, Daughters of the Nile will sew for the Shrine hospital at meeting next Tuesday, April 25. at 1:30 o'clock at the home of the president. Mrs. Earl M. Bleile, in Westmoreland. Box Social Tonight The MIA of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ter Day Saints will sponsor a box social for members and friends at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the K. of P. hall. Proceeds will go to the fund for the MIA next year. Leaving This Evonine Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Sarff of Miles City, Mont., who have been here the last six months visiting their son, Glenn, are leaving tonight for their home. They plan to return to Rose burg about Nov. 1, Unit te Meet -S- Olalla-Tenmite Extension unit will meet at 10 a.m. fnr in .II.H.V icinn TuatHav the home of Hazel Ison with Julia HreiienDiicher, project leader with Mrs. Ison. The topic is to be the nrenaratinn an4 &Fvina a! f-An foods. Ail women of the two com munities are invited. For Mother on Mother's Doy, the gift that only you can give your portrait! It's o little bit of your heart that or ; along with this very pe'sonol gift to Moth er ... o port ro it of you mode by CLARK'S STUDIO, 105 S. Jackson. This will be a gift thot Mother will treasure for a lifetime . . , something to bring you near when you are for away. The love and the com forting pretence of the fomily she has raised ore best x pre tied by o portrait of the whole fomily, that Mother will keep with her always. Call Clark's Studio for on oppointment now, so your portrait will be fin ished In time. They will be hoppy to make a portrait of you alone or of the whole fomily group. Life it en Art, wet Science. It It mastered by ex periments, end patience. Thinking of something in the jewelry line for Mother? Then be sure to see the selection of lovely cameos, rings, ond watches at ASHCRAFT JEWELERS, 106 S. Jackson. For the grey-haired mother, cameos art especially appropriate. For younger mothers, there ore diamond eorrings for pierced ears, with olmost Vi-corot diamonds set in white gold florets. Or you I Well, it looks like good ice cream weother I ogom, and o long time coming, too. Go to the I ICE CREAMERY, now, tor sodas, molted milks ond I milk shokes mode with their own delicious home- I mode ice cream. You'll find oil the most wholesome Isondwiches on the menu ot lunch time, too I minced horn, tuna, cheese ond bocon, ham and j cneee, wTTuce ona lomoio, nave a nourisning i lunch every doy ot the 'ce Creamery, and order I 0 dnh of ice cream or a sundae for dessert. Toke . home o quort of freshly mode ice cream, hand I pocked m generous Hi-Pok style. It's o grond des- I Isert tor Sunday dinner, ond the Ice Creomery is . open Sunday from eleven to eleven. Here's a I FREE quart of ke creom for Nonce Adkms Duncan, I H 5 E. Lone St. Come in soon. Nonce, for o quart I of your favorite flavor obsolutely free' H.r. yen tried rhe whipped creem kekery tee's et Ctee's Umr We jutf cu t decide whet's ht . . . creem pvfh er eclair. Aits' the Cle ket lettm Cream pies with whips) creem end Chocolate Left with whipped crrn end H yen ere lucky yea'll find hm ef theie freiee cherry pits with wkipptd cream. Tke are really hk. CLIO'S QUALITY IAKMY ic 114 N. JkIum, convenient te the downtown tkeppine eree. Don't ferie, rltmek, te cell Cle et lt-J and kee her sxtt yeer order ewer while eke evpp'r or freih kektd feeds ia complete. ' Unable fa Return te Work Mrs. Helen Lane of the Valley Beauly salon is still unable to return to her work on account of illness. Irene Smith is working in her place, until she is able to resume her work. Visits The Scans C. B. McCully of Los Angeles, brother of Mrs. Herschel D. Scott, has been visitini at the Scott home on Melrose road the past two days. He left Friday for Eugene where he and his broth er. R. A McCully, plan to fly to Tombstone. Ariz. Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Scott were business visi tors in Eugene last Monday. At Lydon Heme Mrs. T. H. Ness arrived in Roseburg this week to visit several weeks with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Lydon, and twin son and daughter, on Harrison street. Mrs. Lydon is the . former Genevieve Ness. Mrs. Ness has been in Oak land, Calif., visiting her daughter, the former Virginia Ness, and in Medford visiting two daughters, Mrs. Frank Bash (Kathleen Ness) and Mra. Charles Wakefield, (Mar ian Ness). Barkley Kisses Three Women; Groom Escapes BUFFALO, N.Y., April 21 The "Veep" kissed three women yesterday and told a bridegroom: "glad you came in , the water's fine." As Vice - President Alben W. Barkley arrived at the Buffalo air port, his attention was directed to newlyweds waiting for I plane to Washington, D. C. Barkley gave the bride, Mrs. Samuel Verdi, a cordial kiss. Then he kissed her sister. Miss Theresa Giardina. and the matron-of-honor, Mrs. Chsrles Palvino, and congratulated Verdi. - The former Mrs. Carleton Hadley of St. Louis, who became Mrs. Barkley last summer, did not ac company her husband here. Hollywood Bans Parade For Convicted Writers HOLLYWOOD. April 21 - (,P) - By decree of the police commis sion, there will be no parade down Hollywood boulevard today in be' half of the 10 film writers who wo'-'dn't tell Congress their polici es! leanings. The parade was planned by the Arts, Sciences and Professions council to publicize a plan to pe tition' the U.S. supreme court for a rehearing on the Congressional contempt convictions of John How ard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo. The police commission ruled yes terday that the parade would de lay traffic and require too many officcri for patrol duty. Granddaughter Of T. R. Sues Russian Husband NEW YORK. April 21.-P-A 22-year-old granddaughter of Presi dent Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Edith Roosevelt Barmine, is suing for separation from Alexander Bar mine, 51, former Russian general and diplomat. She, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. -Archibald B Roosevelt, of Cold Spring Harbor. N. Y. Roose velt, a New York bond dealer, is the only surviving son of the late President. Barmine, now a U. S. citizen, left the service of the Soviet Union in 1937. Barmine's present wife Is his third. They were mirried at North port, N. V.. Sept. 8. 1948. Details of the separation petition are withheld under rules of the New York state supreme court Convention In Hawaii Gives Boot To Bridges' Aide HONOLULU, April 21 CT) - The Hawaii consitutional conven tion last night expelled delegate who refused to tell a congressional committee whether he is or ever was a Communist. The S9-to-7 vote ousted Frank G Silva, Kauai island business agent for Harry Bridges' CIO Longshore union. Silva twice had refused to ans wer the Communist question put by the House un-American Acti vities committee investigating Red innuence in Hawaii. An avowed forme Communist, Ichior Izuka. told the committee Silva had showed htm a Commu nist party card in 1946. bilva. In an Impassioned speech, told the convention he never had been a party member. He said he had refused to testify because he had a constitutional right to sil ence. Silva took a non-Communist oath April 4 when seated by the con vention. Samuel Wilder King, former Ha waii delegate to Congress and a member of the convention, siad Silva 's actions placed the entire convention in "ill repute before Congress. Hawaii must seek congressional ratification of its proposed consti tution. It hopes this will speed statehood. ' ' Newr-Review classified ads bring results Phone 100. Nfp?w 7r hMm fd 1 V rjound-the-clock S. P. Trains Te Operate On Standard Time SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (.W The sprawling Southern Pacific lines will continue to operate its passenger trains on standard time after April 30, when California adopts Pacific daylight saving time. But local trams and most trains operating entirely within Califor nia will advance their railroad time 'schedules one hour, so they will arrive and depart at the times (Daylight saving) to which travel ers are accustomed. Southern Pacific trains running from California to other states will operate one hour later by the clock on daylight time, just as such trains on the Union Pacific, West ern Pacific and Santa Fe. Mrs. James B. Patton Named DAR President WASHINGTON, April 21-(.V Mrs. James B. Patton of Colum bus, Ohio, today was elected presi dent general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She defeated Mrs. Edwin Stanton Lam men of Dallas, Texas, by a vote of 1.494 to 762. Mrs. Patton, a vice president general in the outgoing adminis tration, succeeds Mrs. Roscoe O'Byrne of Brookville, Ind. She will hold office for three years. A widew, Mrs. Patton 's a native Iteinnino April 22 IRENE SMITH will ke et the Volley Beauty Sjlon Volley Hotel yildinf. I OS I. Wotkiniren Phone S07 far Appointments Pick your cottons now from our superb collection frocks. More thon ever, It's Q seoson of cottons of Bore ond beautiful cottons with brief, cover-up cottons that dance 'til down. You'll find 0 cotton for et meek, sleek little prices. Second Floor of Fashions Oddities Crop Up In Divorce Suits LOS ANGELES. April 21 .-.- The honeymoon lasted two days. Then the bride lost her husband on a technical knockout. Mrs. Gladys Price, 38, filed suit yesterday for separate mainten ance, asserting that two days after their marriage, Charles Price, 43, walked out of a restaurant with "an old girl friend," leaving her flat on the floor. Mrs. Price named Miss Marguerite Carey as co respondent and said it wss Miss Carey's fisjs that knocked her down. Two days later Price phoned, said Miss Carey had dosed him with sleeping pills, slugged him and 'rriered him not to see his wife, Mrs. Price's complaint said. He is still missing, she added. LOS ANGELES, April 21. lPl Instead of prosecuting him, Mrs. Florence Moya has decided to di vorce the husband who gave her a Mohawk haircut. She appeared yesterday at the of a email town, Circieville, O. Her husband was a lumberman in Columbus. 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Afterwards, Mrs. Moya aaid she and Moya "have agreed to a di vorce, and I will drop the charges against him." DETROIT, April 21 .-UP After three years of marriage Mrs. Pa tricia J. Stephens came to divorce court yesterday. A decree uncontested was granted after she testified that her husband Robert "used to think it was very funny to kiss the dog. give me a pat on the head, and walk out the door." SPIAKS TONIGHT Rev. E. L. Rasmussen. represen tative of the Radio Kids Bible club, will speak and show pictures tonight at 7:30 in the armory, un der the sponsorship of the Conser vative Baptist church. SLABWOOD In 1 2-16 and 24 in lengths OLD GROWTH FIR DOUBLE LOADS WESTERN BATTERY SEPARATOR Phone (SI Corvollis Native New Geneva College Proxy BEAVER FALLS. Pa.. AprU 2t iJP) -Dr. Charles Marston Lee, former Pacific northwest resident, became the 14th president of Ge neva college yesterday. A native of Corvallis, who also lived in his youth at Pendleton and Seattle, he was installed as president in campus ceremoniea witnessed by representatives of 2H other colleges. He formerly was j head of the department of Greek ! and Latin at Geneva college, a re I formed Presbyterian school. He Is the son of the Rev. George H. Lee of Portland. Ore. Give your children MUSIC nd all their livee they'll thank you. Let us place i tine Baldwin or Wurlltzer . Piano In your home this week. 4r Convenient terms OTT and RICKETTS Comer Jackson and Cass Sta. For Juniors In sties 7 to 15 we've carefully se lected styles by Carole King, Judy Hall, Gay Gibson, June Bent ley ond Betty Barclay, Cotton Frocks Jt Mil ler's Second Floor of Fashions . . . priced S.fS H 1f.S.
