COMP
JV
Government
Tito Woollier
Mostly cloudy today and
Wednesday wit few scattered
showers today.
Sunset today 7:07 p.m.
Sunrisa tomorrow S:14 a.m.
WHO DOES WHAT
Pushes Finn To
Effect Pecce
U of 0 Library
Eugene, Ore
res
to
18
THE YOUNC LADY pictured above doing oh, such an intri
cat dance itap, it Dana Rhodan, two-year-old da ugh tar of Mr.
and Mrs. Lowall Rhoden. Sha is practicing in har mother's danca
studio for a ballot tha lattar soon is prasanting, and if you ask ma
I think Dana shows pratty good form. A lot of it, anyway..
City Planning Commission
Approves One Offered Plat,
Tentatively O. K.s Others
Tha city planning commission Monday night- gave final ap
proval to Hously Haights plat I, subdivision of block 10, and ten
tative approval to other plats.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I'D like to offer for your thought
ful consideration today a recent
exchange of political statements
between Howard Morgan, of
Monmouth, a former Oregon state
representative, and Oregon State
Senator Tom Mahoney, of Portland.
In Monmouth the other day, Mor
gan .charged that Oregon State
Treasurer Walter J. Pearson, who
is running for the Democratic
nomination for governor, is being
supported by "the John Hall wing
of the Republican party and the
Tom Mahoney wing of the Demo
cratic party."
That brought from Mahoney In
Portland the following blast:
"Former Governor Hall and ' my
self have never discussed at any
time or in any manner the current
governorship campaign. We have
never acted together in any way,
shape or manner concerning that
or any other campaign."
I'D ike to ask you this question:
Do you believe a word EITHER
of them says?
I don't. I simply assume that
they are talking for purely political
purposes and let it go at that. I
Continued on Page Four)
PROTESTANTS ON DEFENSE
East German Reds Spur
Campaign Designed To
Bury Church Altogether
By Daniel Da Luce
BERLIN, April 25 (API Protestantism in Soviet-occupied
oast Germany is fighting with its back to tha wall,
- Church sources accuse Communist leaders of:
Forcing Protestant clergymen to join tha "national front Com
munist mass organixation at tha price of their moral integrity;'
Using tha schools and tha "Free Carman Youth" organixation
to turn the younger generation against religion.
More than 14,000,000 of the is.
000,000 Germans in the Soviet cone
are baptized members of the Evan
gelical (Protestant) faith.
With so much at stake, eastern
Protestantism has sought repeat
edly to avoid an open break with
the Communist-controlled govern
ment. But the Communists have
appeared to interpret this as a
weakness.
They have stepped up their cam-
ftaign first to capture the church's
nfluence and eventually to bury
the church altogether.
The struggle may be racing to
an early showdown.
Last Sunday in more than 4.000
churches of east Germany Evan
gelical pastors read a common de
nunciation of Communist pressure.
Communist Prime Minister Grote-
Tentative approval was given to
Darby & Foster subdivision oi a
part of subdivision A, Kinney's
improved plat. Block 71, subject to
the cutting of the corner of West
Second street and First street to
a minimum of a 15-foot radius and
that the park within the plat be
eliminated.
Tentative approval was given to
Hucrest Plat A, subject to all
streets being 60 feet in width, ex
cept Almond St., which is to re
main at SO feet.
Ed Miller Homesteads plat was
rejected, but the plat will be re
considered if Miller can obtain 30
feet of property on the westerly
boundary from Mr. Cook, the own
er, to provide a 30-foot street. Mill
er was told to check on this and
report back.
H. D. Kinnear was present and
proposed that an 'additional zone
be provided in the zoning ordi
nance similar to the present class
1, except that it would provide
for multiple unit dwellings.
A committee was appointed to
study such a plan with study also
given to height limitations. On the
committee are Fred Lockwood,
Paul Elliott and Paul Geddes. .
A petition, bearing 22 names,
was presented opposing the rezon
ing to business, commercial or in
dustrial, block 6, Chadwick's addi
tion and a portion of the property
north of Mock 6, bounded by Deer
creek, Fowler street and Pitzer
street.- The petition was tabled
inasmuch as there is no such ton
ing change before the commission
at this time. .
RESERVATION SPURNED
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 25
UP) Shungnak natives rejected by
a vote of 51-25 yesterday the in
terior department's proposal that
they accept a reservation.
No word of the outcome of sim
ilar elections at Kobuk and Byda-
burg was available.
wohl called this an "attack on the
constitution, the government and
the republic."
Under the loosely-written Com
munist constitution of east Ger
many, each nastor laid himself
open to possible imprisonment or
even death by his act. None ha
been reported arrested yet. But
the threat hangs over all pending
a conference Fridav between
Grotewohl and Bishop Otto Dibe
lius of Berlin-Brandenburg.
Church sources said the next de
velopment may depend entirely on
what orders the east German gov
ernment get from Russia. Anti
church campaigns in Poland,
Cxechnslovakia and Hungary since
the war have bad the whole-hearted
endorsement of the Soviet union.
Established 1173
Economy Try
In House Loses
On Two Items
Fresh Effort Slated To
Prevent Boost In Funds
For Public Hospitals
WASHINGTON, April 25. UP)
Routed House economy forces
beat the bushes for votes today in
an attempt to defeat a move to
add $75,000,000 for public hospital
funds to a $29,000,00,000 appropria
tion bill.
They were up against a strong
coalition of Republicans and Demo
crats who have announced that
they will try to double the $75,000,
000 recommended by the House ap
propriations committee for the hos
pital program.
The program is handled by tha
Federal Security agency, whose
funds are included in the section
of the one-package money bill
which came up for House considera
tion today. The funds are in the
form of contract authority and
are used by the FSA to help states
and local .ommunities build pub
lic hospitals.
The appropriations committee
has recommended $1,591,784,590 'n
cash and $79,288,000 in contract
authority for the FSA for the fis
cal year starting July 1. This com
pares with $1,635,083,600 cash and
$161,211,000 contract authority re
quested by President Truman.
Economy Efforts Lose .
The "economy" headed by Rep.
Taber (R-NY) fared poorly yester
day. It was unable to cut $2,000,000
from the Reconstruction Finance
corporation's administrative ex
pense allotment and was beaten 93
to 88, on an amendment that added
$1,000,000 to the bill.
An amendment to add $22,000,000
for the postoffice department'!
operating expense allotment was
defeated without a major fight
To date the House-voted cuts
total $7,700,000, or less than one
half of one per cent on the basis
of items totaling $2,192,584,402 al
ready t-ted on, '
Taber earlier had called for total
cuts of at least a billion dollars.
While major sections of the bill
are still to be considered, there it
a possibility that substantial in
creases may be voted in funds for
national defense and for rivers and
harbors and flood control projects.
Ailing Veteran
Commits Suicide
Tony Dutchick, 62, a patient at
the Veterans hospital, took his life
by strangling himself with his belt
last night .according to Coroner
Steams' report. An autopsy was
being held today to determine the
exact cause of death. Hospital of
ficials report Dutchick was found
almost immediately but efforts to
revive him by artificial respira
tion and use of oxygen were of no
avail.
Dutchick, hospitalized since April
1947, had been suffering from ar
terio sclerosis (hardening of the
arteries), the hospital officials
said. Born in Russia, he had served
in the U. S. army from Sept 9,
1918, to Dec. 9, 1918.
A nephew, Fred Zelich, of Hines,
Ore., survives. He has been noti
fied, and funeral arrangements
will be announced later by Long
& Orr Mortuary, which took
charge of the body.
The hospital officials said this
was the first suicide to take place
inside the hospital. They said close
watch is made of any person who
shows any inclination to take bis
own life.
Don't Trail Firt Dept.
Too Closely, Warning
Fire Chief William Mills today
issued a reminder to persons who
disregard Warning tickets given
drivers who follow too close to fire
department vehicles.
"According to the state fire
marshal's law," Mills said, "per
sons receiving such warning tickets
are liable to a fine of $100 and
ten, days imprisonment if the of
fense u repeated. We keep the
names of offenders on file
Mills referred to the penalty
clause contained under section
115,395, state fire marshal laws.
Girl In Tragedy-Hit
Family Ends Her Life
STOUGHTON. Mass.. Aoril 25
(JPl Helen Schmnitchel, 14-year-old
junior high school girl, has gone
voluntarily to death, which In vio
lent form had claimed six mem
bers of her family in eight years
Yesterday her body was found
in the home of her uncle and aunt.
She was lying on a couch. Four
gas jets were open on the kitchen
range. She left a note but police
declined to reveal its contents.
Dr. A. C. Woodward, assistant
medical examiner, called her a
"suicide because of despondency."
In 1942 Helen's father, Henry
Schmnitchel Jr., was killed in a fall
from a window.
Since then she had lost her step
father. Clarence A. Vines, in the
war; and her mother, grandmother
and a sister and brother in fires.
a uuiim'i w imi.il. i l. n ,
BUDGET DIRECTOR Frederick
J. Lawton (above I has been
appointed budget director suc
ceeding Frank Pace Jr., pro
moted to secretary of tha army
by President Truman,
Father Tries To
Slay His Four
Children With Gas
LAWRENCE. Mass.. April 25
UP) A former Lawrence postal
employee was booked today on a
charge of attempting to murder
his four children with illuminating
gas.
Deputy Police Chief Arthur J
Riley said James M. Ryley 36.
was taken to a hospital for mental
observation.
The deputy said Ryley tied the
four children, ranging from six to
14 years of age, to chairs and
then turned on gas in a kitchen
stove and a jet on a gas heater.
The eldest child, James, 14,
freed himself, the deputy added,
and notified neighbors. They called
Dolice.
Two patrolmen found Ryley in
and upper room of the two-story
single family house. Thev found
the other three children,, all. tied
to chairs, in the kitchen.
None of the children was over
come.
They were Ryley's children by a
previous marriage. His present
wife, Dorothy, a registered nurse
was out on a case.
The deputy police chief said that
Ryley could give no explanation
for his act.
U. S. Bonds Safe,
Holders Assured
WASHINGTON, April 25 UP)
The Treasury said today that the
people of this country need have
no fear for the safety of their in
vestments in government bonds.
"Never in the history of this
country has the federal govern
ment defaulted on any of its obli
gations or paid them at less
than par," the Treasury wrote Sen
ator Magnuson (D-Wash). "The
present debt will be no exception.
Nor need they have any concern
as to the ability of the United
States government to protect its
financial position or to meet its
obligations under any conditions
that may exist."
The question was called up by
a constituent who wrote Magnuson
that he has been investing $75 a
month in E series bonds. He said
it had been pointed out to him
the government was not using the
money to retire its debt but for
feneral purposes " Including re
emption of bonds being cashed .n
by frightened citizens."
Magnuson sent the letter to the
treasury and received the reply.
In it the treasury said that the
only way to repay the debt is
"From excess of government re
ceipts over expenditures."
Entertainers Sue On
'Commie' Label Claim
(NY) HARTFORD, Conn.. April
25 UP) Two entertainers come
into federal court today, each
seeking $100,000 damaged from a
Greenwich, Conn., housewife who
they complain called them pro
Communist. Paul Draper, dancer, and Larry
Adler, harmonica player, contend
Mrs. Hester McCuflough damaged
them by charging they were "pro
Communist in sympathy" and
"open supporters" of Communist
front organizations. She is the wife
of a Time magazine editor.
The entertainers claim they lost
professional engagements as the re-
suit oi alleged libelous statements
made by Mrs. McCul ough in an
article published in a Greenwich
newspaper and in spoken corn-
menu.
Jail Term, Fine Meted
For Pointing Firearm
Elbert King Troxcl. 31. Glen.
dale, was arrested by state police
officers Sunday on a charge of
pointing a firearm at another per-
I son. Troxel, arraigned in justice
court, was sentenced to serve 30
days in the county jail and fined
$100 plus M.50 costs, reported Jus -
tice of the Peace E. S. Skillings
of Glendale.
State police said Trcxel pulled
gun oa an officer called to in
vestigate a complaint.
ROSEIURG, OREGON TUESDAY, ARPRIL 25, 1950
Senators Given
Hew Urging On
Rent Controls
Failure To Extend Would
Spell Chaos, 'Violence.'
Warning To Committee
WASHINGTON. April 25 UP)
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois
told senators today a sudden end
of federal rent controls on June 30
would result in disorder, contusion
and "perhaps some violence."
Stevenson said that unless Con
gress extends the federal controls
he will be forced to call the Illinois
legislature into special session to
pass a state control law.
But under questions oi cnairman
Maybank (DSC) of the Senate
banking committee, Stevenson said
he could go along with a reported
compromise.
This would retain existing con
trols until the end of this year with
a provision for an additional six
month extension if states or cities
request it.
Stevenson Is among a number of
state and city officials urging the
full-year extension of controls
asked by President Truman.
Unless controls continue, Steven
son said the "Chief Justice of the
municipal court of Chicago, which
handles eviction cases, informed
me . . . 'It is safe to predict that
there will be mass protests and
perhaps some violence'." He add
ed: "If we are forced to state legis
lation and local' control in Illinois
it will be unavoidably a last min
ute improvision with serious dislo
cations in effective administra
tion." -Regardless of whether the con
trols are extended, Maybank said
in advance of the hearing that
Congress should provide funds to
carry on the present program to
June 30.
Maybank was commenting on the
testimony of Housing Expediter
Tighe E. Woods that his agency
will be "broke" by May 26 unless
it gets another aDPropriation.
Woods, whose office administers
the controls, appeared before the
committee yesterday to urge a
year's extension of the regulations.
Support for the control extension
also came today from officials of
other cities, including Aaron w.
White, assistant city solicitor for
rnnadeipnia.
White said the housing shortage
still is critical for middle and low
income groups who must rent their
homes.
Mayor Ralph A. Villani of New
ark. N.J.. said it is "absolutely
essential" to continue federal con
trols "for at least another year.
Bulletin!
PERU, Ntb., April 25. (Pi
Dr. B. K. Baker, psychology pro
fessor at Peru State Teachers
college, today killed Dr. William
Nicholas, president of the col
lege, and Dr. Paul A. Maxwell,
another instructor, and then
killed himself.
Kiechel said a note was found
beside Dr. Baker's body which
said In part "Willie (Dr.
Nicholas) tried to fire the wrong
person."
Expelled Students At
Salem Abandon Fight
SALEM. April 25 WP -The
18 boys who were expelled from
Salem high school for belonging
to a secret fraterniry gave up
their court fight today.
Ralph Moody, attorney for the
boys, said they withdrew their ap
peal to the state supreme court.
The circuit court ruled the school
board had authority to expel them.
RESIGNS AS REGENT
Banker Giannini Quits
U. Of California Body For
Dropping Anti-Red Oath
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., April 25 ( API Because of his
"conscientious convictions against communism," tha head of the
world's biggest bank hat resigned from the board of regents of
the University of Californie.
L. M. Ciannini, president of the Bank of America, hes fought
for weeks to preserve the anti-Communist "loyalty oath" once
ordered, then dropped by tha board of regents.
You can t make peace with a
Communist," Giannim said last
,... ""j.
.uriruucr. ""j - 7 " -
w.uiniiiuiui, juu win wwn iinu
that you have traded your heart
away."
Giannini said he had mailed his
resignation to Gov. Earl Warren.
He declined to nuke public the
contenu of the letter but said he
had empowered Governor Warren
to do so if he wished.
The professors opposing the
"loyalty oath have maintained
j that Co ..munism was not the issue.
1 iney neio mat uie controversy was
over the right of the board of re-
1 gents to set up conditions which
could result in the firing of faculty
membeii without a hearing.
But Giannini said last night, "I
esnnot understand w iy the issue
of academic freedom is being
Lumber Market's Boost By
Intensive Publicity Told By
Arthur Priaulx, Assn. Agent
Importance To Douglas County
Stressed By Its Great Timber
Resource, Expansion Prospects
Two great industrial stories for
day by Arthur Priaulx, manager of advertising and publicity for
tha Wast Coast Lumberman's association.
Featured at tha Chamber of Commerce noon forum luncheon
at Hotel Umpqua, Priaulx highlighted tha value of timber re
sources and their development in Douglas county and told of tha
"transition in thinking" of west coast lumbermen.
Flying Saucers
Reported Seen By
Men In Klamath
KLAMATH FALLS. April 25.
(At People were seeing things in
the sir here yesterday. At least
three men said their eyes saw saucer-like
shapes in the sky.
' The first report came from Keno,
14 miles northeast of here. Carl
Engbloom, a lumber mill mecha
nic, reported silvery objects
wheeled overhead and on over
Green Spring mountain. Later,
Harry English of Dorris, Calif.,
saw a "saucer" appear, float about
and then streak off.
A Hearld and News reporter
phoned Harold Newman, at Muni
cipal airport control tower.
"Harold." said the reporter.
"what's going on in the sky? I've
had two reports of flying saucers
today."
"I haven t seen anytning, re
plied Newman. Then he looked
and said "darned if I don't see
something right now."
This description followed:
"I'm looking north from the
tower. This thing must be 1,000
feet up. It looks the size of a paper
plate. Now and then it jeems to
fire off a silvery flash like maybe
it's rolling over. I ow there's
something above it that may be
another one. But I can't be cer
tain." ' """ r :
The reporter became dubious.
"You're sure it's not an illu
sion?" -
Newman was sure:
"There's something up there."
About that time the "something"
faded off toward the hills.
Oregon Colleges
Have New Heads
PORTLAND, April 25 P
Dr. Roben J. Maaske, 47. presi
dent of Eastern Oregon College of
Education, today was named presi
dent of Oregon College of Educa
tion and director of elementary
teacher training.
The state board of higher educa
tion made the appointment to fill
th varanrv at the Monmouth in
stitution caused by resignation of
Dr. Henry M. Gunn.
To take over at La Grande, the
hoard anDointed Dr. R. G. Lang.
ston, 35, president of Eastern
Oregon college. He now is asso
ciate professor of education at the
University oi Oregon.
These were the top changes In
the annual personnel list.
But high in general interest was
the board's acceptance of the
resignation of William A. Schoen-
feld. dean and director of agricul
ture at Oregon State college. It
will be effective next October 1,
the date set by the dean in his
request ior retirement.
He Is 61. He has held his present
position for 19 years, having been
named to it after a long record
of educational and governmental
service in agriculture.
j broul!hl ,, the pcture. Academic
freedom is absolutely mcnmpati
bie wun Communism. While I have
great faith in the university s
academic senate (faculty self
governing body), I I .lieve there
are manv men who will et by with-
: out signing anytning
I La,t Friday Giannini was the
lone dissenter when the regents
j meeting at Davis, Calif., voted to
idrop the order that all university
. employes sign the "loyalty oath"
Dy April 30 or resign.
The regents instead approved a
jcumprunune pnipuncii uj m luuiui
association. This calls for a clause
I in working contracts disavowing
, Communism but 'lso provides
1 for th right of appeal by those
who 0 not wish to sign. The cases
of o Rectors would va decided upon
individually by tha regents.
1
W-50
tha Northwest were told Mon
Priaulx, a former Roseburg
resident who was graduated from
semo- high school here before en
tering the newspaper business,
mentioned the relatively low tim.
ber cut noted here in the 1920s as
compared to the present volume
"In those early years, Douglas
county was cutting only about
45,000,000 boaid feet of lumber a
year, and most of that near Reeds
port," he said. "Last year, Doug
las county cute 796 000,000 board
feet, more than the entire period
from 1925-35."
He also touthef on the Increase
since 1940 when the first marked
climb was noted. He said the
lumber industry meant to this area
alone more than $50,000,000 cash
and employed more than 7,000
workers.
On the resource side, Priaulx
said the latest survey Indicated 71
billion reet of 'imber is now stand
ing in Douglas county "more than
all of the New England states put
together." Ha said no other state
has as much standing timber as
Douglas county, except Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and California,
and that the standing timber hero
covers 78 of the county area.
ruDiiciry Launched
Priaulx spoke at length on what
he called the "transition in think
ing by lumbermen of this area
and cited the "amazingly success
ful results" noted during the na
tional advertising campaign con
ducted by west coast lumbermen.
"Our lumbermen got together in
1944 to map operations for enter
ing the highly-competitive postwar
building market and decided on a
campaign to appeal directly to the
consumer," he said. Priaulx called
this approach "highly unique,"
since lumbermen were trying to
sell unfinished goods by consumer
market methods.
On this one advertising cam
paign, he said western lumbermen
spent $1,000,000 with 20 national
magazines in an effort to convince
the nation that there still was
lumber in the West "enough to
rebuild every home in the nation"
and to tell of the advantages of
lumber as i building material.
A second campaign was soon
launched to sell the nation, on low
graae lumoer. LtumDermen auopiea
as their slogan, "There's a right
(Continued on page Two)
Jury Acquits Man Of
Killing Woman Friend
KINGSTON, N. Y.. April 25
UP) Theodore Lutzel, 47, was ac-
?uitted by a jury last night on a
irst degree murder charge In the
shooting of his woman friend,
Ruth S. Bergemann, 36.
The jury of seven women and
five men was out less than four
hours after a two-week trial.
Lutzel had faced a possible death
chair verdict.
The state accused him of shoot
ing the woman and leaving
her body in the village square of
High Falls, N. -Y., last Nov. 27
after a round of taverns.
In his defense. Lutzel claimed
that the woman took a pistol from
her purse and that it was dis
charged accidentally during a
struggle for it.
Husband Slays Escort
Of His Wife To Movie
PRINCETON. W. Va . April 25
P Frazier Harless, 24-year-old
Blueficld, W. Va., truck driver,
unk anuiner men wue iv ui ivv
in movie last night in his truck.
Her husband spied them.
Harless drove quickly to the
Princeton police for refuge. He
and Mrs Eva Carper, 30. scam'
pered up the stairs to the desk
sergeant's office. There were two
shots.
Harless tumbled down the steps
and died of wounds in the back.
"Sure, I killed him and I'm not
sorry," Patrolman A. E. French
quoted Irving Carper, 36-year-old
strio miner.
The husband is charged wun
murder.
Atomic Powered Sub Is j
Plan Of U.S. Navy Dept.
WASHINGTON, April 25 -J!P)
The navy today disclosed plans
to build radically new type sub
marines one to be atomic pow
ered and to convert a cruiser
into a guided missile combat ves
sel. These construction plans were
made known in a request to Con
gress for authority to build 111
vessels of varying types.
Adm. Forrest Sherman, chief of
naval operations, told the House
armed service committee tha pro
posed program would cost $333,
000,000. -I
Prospects For Settffirf
Dispute In Telephone
System Appear Very Poor
(Br Th AiMcUtad Praia)
A two-weeks truce was called 1
one of the nation's two major
threatened strikes but there ap
peared little hope today of settle
ment of the second.
Railroad firemen, called to strike
against four of the country's big
gest carrier systems tomorrow
morning, last night nostooned their
walkou until May 10. Meanwhile,
ine government pushed efforta to
effect a settlement before tha new
strike deadline.
The government, successful In
averting the rail walkout, attempt
ed in last minute negotiations to
nead oil the walkout tomorrow
morning of some 230.000 teleohone
workers.
But neither side In tha telephone
dispute was hopeful of settlement
of the twice-postponed strike. Af
negotiations resumed in New York
today, some 10,000 equipment in
stallers were on strike against tha
Ben system with orders to jam
long distance lines wherever possi
ble. Telenhone service to the gen
eral public, however, wai not hin
dered immediately.
ine teiepnone walkout, unless
there Is an unexpected break by
possible arbitration or appoint
ment of a presidential fact-finding
board, is set for 6 a.m. local
time tomorrow. President Tru
man's strike truce ends at mid
night tonight. A general strike
would cut off virtually all of tha
country's phone service.
Long-Standing Dispute
Wages and other benefits are tha
chief issues In the bitter dispute)
between the Communications
Workers of America and the parent
Bell corporation, the American .
Telephone and Telegraph Co., and '
its many subsidiaries. Negotiations
between the company and 24 of
the union's divisions have contin
ued since last October with vir
tually no progress.
The threatened walkout by soma
18,000 railroad firemen was to be
against four major carriers tha
Pennsylvania, the New York Cen
tral, the Santa Fe and the South
ern. The strike was called by tha
urotnernooo oi Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen to enforce its
demands for an extra fireman on
big diesel locomotives. The dleaela
now have two-man crews, an en
gineer, and a fireman.
In another labor development,
federal mediators called the dis
pute between Chrysler and the CIO
United Auto Worker! a hopeless
deadlock. The strike waa in tti
92nd day.
Fire Razes One
Sawmill, Poses
Threat To Second
The Sanders Lumber company
sawmill at West Melrose was des
troyed by fire Monday at 2 p.m.,
resulting in damage of approxi
mately $20,000.
Vern Sanders, mill owner, said
the fire evidently started at tha
diesel motor and spread so quickly
that workmen were unable to check
it. The loss was not covered by in
surance. Sanders indicated he win re
build the mill immediately.
A second sawmill, located a
mile south of the Sanders mill.
was threatened by fire earlier in
the day. However, workmen at
Morgans mill soon extinguished
the blaze and little damage wai
inflicted. Origin of the second fir
was not determined.
These two fires bring to three
the number of mill fires noted in
this area during a two-day period.
The Tyee Lumber company saw
mill west of Sutherlin was also
destroyed by fire early Sunday
morning Extent of the loss and
origin of that fire hat not yet
been determined.
Alaska Easy To Capture,
Senate Committee Told
WASHINGTON, April 25 CP)
A warning that Alaska could be
captured in "a matter of 48
hours" by psra'roopert today
faced a Senate committee consid
ering statehood for the territory.
William L. Baker, editor and
publisher of the Ketchikan
(Alaska) Chronicle and long-time
Alaskan resident, said that lack
of voting representation in Con
gress makes it tough for Alaska
to build up and maintain adequate
defenses.
"Defense begins at home," ha
told the interior committee yes
terday. Not having senators and a con
gressman in Washington to "swap
votes" puts Alaska at a disadvan
tage when Congress talks defense,
he said.
I. evity Fact Rant
By L. F. Relzerutein
Eugene voters or to be osked
to ballot on proposed retail
ales tax to moat municipal
financial needs without adding
to existing burdensome prof
arty toxe. It's m straw ie the
wind that may blow to other
Oregon cities. Including, o n o
with Dama that starts with
X"