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JOSEPH R. HANLEY. above,
74-year-old Spanish - American
war veteran, and lieutenant gov
rnor of New York, hat an
nounced hit candidacy for the
Republican nomination for gov
ernor. Hit announcement fol-
lowed the decision of Govern
or Thomat E. Dewey to retire
at the end of hit present term.
GOP leaders said they ex
pected no opposition to Hanley
at the state convention in September.
Hungary Demands
Crown As Ransom
For American
(Br The Associated Press)
Vienna dispatches said the Com
munist Hungarian government has
asked the return of the Allies
held ancient crown of St. Stefan
as the ransom price for freeing
American business man Robert A.
Vogeler. Reliable sources said Vo
geler, sentenced to IS years im
prisonment on a spying charge,
might be released within a few
weeks.
The Nazis took the crown to Ger
many and it is now in Ameri
can hands. The United States, re
portedly at Vatican urging, has up
to now refused to return the crown.
It is a .venerated religious relic
as highly prized to Hungarians as
the Liberty Bell or the Statue of
Liberty is to Americans.
Many Hungarians attribute mir
aculous powers to thn crown and
believe that no government holds
power legitimately unless it has
possession of the relic.
f " The famous crown was given by
' PopeSilvester-in 1001 to Stefan,
Hungary's first king his title
was "Apostolic King" for con
verting the Hungarians to Christ
ianity. The United States almost five
years ago returned to the Hun
garians another highly-prized relic
of the king-Saint, his embalmed
hand. Its return in August, 1945,.
Deiore uie uommumsis seized pow
er and just in time for the an
nual St. Stefan's day observance,
touched off one of the greatest
celebrations in the country's post
war history.
Josef Cardinal Mindszenthy, Hun
gary's Roman Catholic primate
now serving a life sentence for
treason, was charged by the Com
munist government with urging the
Americans to release St. Stefan's
crown only to the Vatican.
District 116 Rejects
School Budget Excess
Voters of school district 116,
comprising Dillard. Winston and
Brockway, rejected a budget pro
posal to exceed the six percent
limitation, at an election Monday.
Gilbert Weaver of Myrtle Creek,
unopposed, was elected for a
three-year term to the rural school
board, and C. C. Fosback of Dil
lard, also unopposed, was elected
to the Douglas county non-bgh
school board.
George Bacher of Winston was
elected director for a three-year
term. He succeeds Marshal
Haughn, who resigned. Roy Fish
er was the other candidate for di
rector.
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GROUND BREAKING Ceremonies honoring the first step in
construction of a building to house the Faith Lutheran church
of Roseburg were held Sunday following the morning worship
services. Members of the congregation and their pastor, the
Rev. Willis F. Erickson, pertiripated in ceremonies which in
cluded ground breaking ection pictured above. Excavation for
the new church building, located west of the-1300 block on
West Second street, wei completed Monday. When finished,
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Council Procedure For
Airport Manager Begun
tease Form
For Contract
Is Approved
Plans For Improvement
Ordered; Schedule For
Bond Payments Offered
The Roseburg city council last
night approved a lease agreement
form for the airport committee to
use in negotiating a contract with
a manager for the municipal air
port. The committee has been inter
viewing several prospective man
agers, and expects to make a
choice, to be submitted to the
council for final approval, within
the next few days.
At the request of Councilman
George West, committee chair
man, Mayor Albert G. Flegel
agreed to call a special meeting
as soon as his committee is ready
to make its recommendation. Ap
proval of the lease agreement was
necessary in advance, he said, to
give tne committee a basis for ne
gotiating. Plans Authorized
The council authorized the city
manager to prepare plans and
specifications for the improve
ment of the airport, along the
lines laid down in the preliminary
airport survey and conforming
with the $200,000 bond issue voted
June 6 by the public.
City Attorney Paul Geddes pre
sented a tentative schedule for
retirement of the bonds, which are
to be offered for sale shortlv. The
schedule approved by the council
would call for retirement of the
issue on a 20-vear basis-, with
periodical. paymenur-to'range fromJ
$13,500 to 14,500, based upon the
interest amounts which would be
due in the respective years. The
payments would take care of both
interest and principal.
Geddes also asked the finance
committee to study the method of
handling interest as a basis for
selling the bonds, and the date the
bonds are to be offered for sale.
Action on procedure for sale of
the bonds may also come up at the
special meeting. Geddes advised
that the bonds be sold in a lump
issue, rather than breaking the to
tal into smaller amounts to be of
fered forsale as needed. The city's
initial need for airpot funds will
be for the purchase of property
to the north required for extending
the airport runway. Geddes said
he believed a better interest rate
would be possible if the entire issue
were sold at one time.
The lease agreement to be en-
tered into with a manager of the
airport would permit the lessee to
maintain as an independent bust
ness a commercial flight operation,
consisting of aircraft sales, rental.
charter, repair, flight and ground
school instructions, and other ac
tivities incidental to the conduct
of the business.
Revenue Fees Specified
The city would receive as reve-
nue 2Vi cents per gallon of gaso
line put through the pumps or
otherwise sold or delivered on the
premises; five percent of all gross
sums received by the lessee from
the collection of fees arising out
ot the use of the airport facilities
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Clarenbach Wins
School Board Post
William G. "Bill" Clarenbach
yesterday was named by Rose
burg voters to the school dis
trict 4 board position previous
ly occupied by A. J. "Bud" El
lison. The vote was 141 for Clar
enbach and 127 for Ellison.
Clarenbach, now principal
owner of the Roseburg Pro
Flame Gas company and a four-
year resident of Roseburg, will
serve on a school board for the
first time. He was a student at
the University of California
where he studied architecture,
heating and air conditioning.
During the war, he commanded
a destroyer in the navy's Paci
fic fleet.
He replaces Ellison, who com
pletes ten years service on the
board June 30. Ellison is chair
man of the board and has
served in that capacity for six
years.
MONEY IN PANTS
Buyer Discovers
Sum Forgotten
By First Visitor
DETROIT, June 20.-UD Here
after Milton Fierce will be careful
when he tries on a pair of pants.
And of course he'll remember
Harold Hoffman with gratitude.
Hoffman, in town from subur
ban Royal Oak, bought a, pair of
slacks yesterday at a department
store.
As he pulled them on at home,
he thrust his hands into the pock
ets in the satisfying way a man
does with a new pair of pants.
Hoffman was more than satis-
tied. He was astonished. He pulled
out a $61 roll of bills and an en
dorsed pay check for $90.05.
Hoffman went to the Royal Oak
police. The police called Detroit
police. Hoffman called the check
endorsee.
It was a very happy ending.
The' endorsee was Pierce. The
police record showed he had re
ported that exact loss last June 3,
Now he has it back.
Abashed but pleased, too, Pierce
said he must have switched his
money to the slacks and then for
gotten all about it when he left
without making the purchase.
Two Boy Scouts Killed,
10 Hurt In Truck Upset
LUV.BE RTON, N. CJune 20
(PI A truck hauling 24 Boy
Scouts home from a jamboree
turned ever on a curve near
here today and killed two and
Injured 10.
The dead were listed as Eus
tace King, 12, and David Lee
Faulk, 18, both of Freeland in
Brunswick county.
Three of the iniurod were re
ported in critical condition.
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the structure will be the first church building here for the
Faith Lutherans. Since the church wes founded here, the con
gregation has met at the armory. Persons pictured above ere
some of the members of the board of administration and the
building committee. They include, from left. Walt Samuelson
Mrs. B. J. Paulsen, Frank Johnson, Arthur Siemann, Vernon Quist,
Arlo Jacltlin, Andy Schlick, Conrad Quist, Fred Aamot and
Kev. Mr. trickson. (Photo Lab
ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1950
Bakers' Strike
Still Shows No
Sign Of Peace
Federal Conciliators
Sitting In Parleys In
Effort For Settlement
(By The Associated Press)
Empty bread shelves confronted
housewives in five west coast
cities again today, with no signs
of a settlement in the two-day
old strike of 3100 AFL, bakers.
An industry spokesman in Los
Angeles, where 1800 bakers are
idle, said, "the strike can go on
for months if the union insists on
a 35-hour week." And the union
was still insisting.
The struck bakeries produce
about 90 per cent of the bread sold
there and around Portland, Ore.,
aeattle, Everett and Bremerton,
Wash. The strikes, called almost
simultaneously on Saturday night,
have cut off bread supplies to gro
cery stores.
The Seattle area's 70 strike
bound plants are suing local No
9 of the bakers' union for $20,000
a day damages. The companies
accuse the union of breaking its
contract by not giving 60 days no
tice ol contract termination.
Negotiations also were stale'
mated in Portland. The union of
fered to forego its demand for five
consecutive work days in ex
change for higher night pay, Sun
day time-and-a-half and more
sick leave. The bakeries said no,
Federal Men Sit In
But negoliaions were continuing
ju lu uic silica luuajr, wuu (toj
eral conciliators' sitting' in. About
5,000 other workers in the indus
try are idled by the walkout, and
company representatives in Los
Angeles estimated that the tieup
there was costing employes $50,
000 a day in wages.
The strikes are not affecting in
dependent concerns and restau
rant suppliers. The independents
and neighborhood bakeries were
turning out enough to prevent an
actual bread famine, but you had
to get there early.
The main issue is the 35-hour
week with no pay cut. Portland
companies made the best offer a
36-hour week. Elsewhere, manage
ment wanted to maintain the 40
hour week with wage increases.
Canyonville OK's School
Budget, Names Director
Glen White, Canyonville electri
cian, was elected director for three
years in the Canyonville school
district 8 election Monday.
White tallied 88 votes, James L.
Zumwalt received 33, and Susan
Crowl received 29.
The school district budget
amount outside the six percent limi
tation was approved by the vot
ers, 106 to 40, at the same election.
Other members of the district
8 board are chairman Paul Stra
han and John Bingham Jr.
White, in a last-minute cam
paign circular distributed Monday,
promises efficient administration of
the school district and the desire
to hire local teachers when pos
sible for district schools.
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UNFRIENDLY TRAINS An
burg Southern Pacific yards turned these cars topsy-turvy early Monday. Trainmen said the
damage was relatively slight, "in spite of the looks of things." Workers succeeded in removing
the wheels from the four damaged cars and righted them Monday. Irhoto Lab picture I.
Death Inflicted By
Drug, Police Find
District Attorney Robert G. Da
vis reported today the state police
investigation of the death of Lila
Lee Graham indicated she died of
a self-inflicted overdose of a drug,
nembutal.
Mrs. Graham died at her home
in Myrtle Creek June 17.
Davis said Mrs. Graham had
been employed by a Roseburg den
tist to care for the office during
his two weeks' absence. During
the investigation, state police de
termined that Mrs. Graham had
pilfered the drug from the dentist's
office, I Davis said. He said the
dentist', her employer, had no
knowledge of her activity and did
not learn of her death until he
returned from his vacation Sun
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The dentist classified nembutal
as a barbital and said lis charac
teristics include analgesic action,
that it induces sleep and that un
der certain circumstances the drug
is habit forming. He said it is
regularly used by dentists, but only
upon prescription.
Pint Of Blood Weekly Life
Need Of Disease Victim
LINDEN. N. J.. June 20 UP)
Mrs. Minnie Ciriani, 38, needs a
pint of flood a week for the rest
of her life.
She is the victim of a rare kirinpv
disease. When she was released
from Johns Hopkins hospital, Bal
timore, early this year, doctors
told her she would need a Bint
of blood a week to stay alive.
tier husband, anthony, has given
all the blood he can for now and
doctors say he must wait three
months before giving more.
She has been getting blood from
the blood bank of the Elizabeth
General hospital, but it must be
paid back. A list of donors is being
collected.
The Cirianis have two children-
Peter, 8, and Eileen, 4.
Forests In Two States
At Perilous Dry Stage
097 Tile Associated Press)
By The Associated Press
Rain-starved Colorado and Wyo
ming forests are so dry that a
veteran forest ranger says he's
"never seen a comparable situa
tion."
And a U. S. weather bureau
and added that "there's been no
rain to speak of in some parts
since June 3, and then very little,
It's quite a serious condition."
w.s. (bum) Davis, a fire con
trol officer for the U. S. Forest
service, said in Denver that seven
Colorado national forests have a
high fire danger." In short, they're
ready to road into wild infernos
at the drop of a match, or a bolt
of lightning.
580,000 Italian Textile
Workers Out On Strike
MILAN, June 20 (IP) An esti
mated 580,000 Italian textile work
ers struck today in 24-hour walk
out over failure of employers to
sign a new work contract.
Both Communist and anti-Communist
unions are participating in
the strike.
Salem Vote Assures
$3,500,000 For Schools
SALEM, June 20 (IP) Salem
area voters Monday approved a
Sl.000,000 school bond issue and a
6-mill continuing levy for elemen
tary school construction.
The tax levy will supply the
district with S2.500.000 to be used
for school expansion.
DRUNK DRIVINO CHARGED
State police today reported the
arrest of Ralph Allen Lewis, 49,
Portland, who was lodged in the
county jail on a drunk driving
charge. He is to be arraigned in
justice court today.
error in judging the clearance required for box cars in the Rose
Judy Garland Slashes Her
Throat: Wound Not Bad
HOLLYWOOD, June 20.-(PI
Judy Garland cut her throat In
a fit of anguish, her studio dis
closed today. The wound Is not
serious.
The 27-year-old Judy was sus
pended by MGM last week tor
failing to report en a picture.
Friends said she took the news
badly. It was the climax of long
troubles with the studio.
Negro Bishop Presides
Over White Methodists
REDLANDS. Calif.. June 20
(.IP) For the first time in the his
tory of Methodism a Negro bishop
presides today over a white con
ference at the week-long 100th ses
sion of tie Southern California-
Arizona annual conference of the
Methodist church.
Bishop Alexander P. Shaw of
Baltimore. Md., was specially in
vited by the conference to peside
at the gathering which began yes
terday on the campus of the Uni
versity of Redlands.
Last night he and other church
leaders were entertained at a re
ception given by Dr. George H.
Armacost, president of the univer
sity and Mrs. Armacost.
The bishop heard reports yester
day that churches and individuals
have pledged more man si.iuu.uuu
for the Methodist "advance for
Christ and his church" campaign.
School Board Member
Wins Recall Election
NORTH BEND. Ore.. June 20.
VP) An effort to recall a school
board member failed by a narrow
margin in a special election here
vesterdav.
Bv 354 to 332 biggest vote In
local school district history
Ernest Frye was retained on the
board.
The recall move started when the
school board failed to re-hire Vic
tor Adams, veteran coach. Adams
has since been signed at LaGrande.
John Nelson, insurance man, won
a place on the Coos Bay school
board, defeating William Walsh,
president of the Oregon senate.
163-112, in yesterday's vote for the
tive-ycar term.
Worker Ignorant Of
Deadly Caps In Pocket
CHICAGO. June 20 (IP) Har-
hip pocket full of sudden death for
hip pocket full of sudden death fo
three hours yesterday and didn't
Know it.
While working with a subway
construction crew, he picked up a
dozen small, unfamiliar objects and
put them in his pocket. For three
hours he worked in cramped spaces,
brushing against walls. Then he
spotted his foreman and turned
over his find.
The objects were blasting caps
Sgt. Drew Bown of the police
bomb squad said "just one of
these would blow off a man's arm
. . . it would have been death for
Carlin if all 12 had gone off."
TOUGH CHARACTER
DAYTON, 0- (IP) An ugly
looking character with a gun was
standing on her porch, a west side
housewile excitedly telephoned po
,ice. The radio dispatcher sped three
cars to the scene. They found:
One 14-year-old boy wearing a
false moustache, false protruding
teelh, a large artificial nose and
spectacle set.
His weapon? A water pistol.
MURDER GUILT DENIED
NEW YORK, June 20-WP-Ben-edetlo
Macri, 37, sought for a year
in the knife slaying of William
Lurye, union organizer, pleaded
innocent Monday tr a first-degree
murder indictment. He was re
manded to jail to await trial.
Macri gave himself up Sunday
night to columnist Walter Winchell.
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Six Nations Plan
Industries' Pool
(By Th Associated Press)
Six nations of Continental Europe
met in Paris today to work out a
notable integration of their econo
mies under the bchuman plan to
merge their coal and steel Indus
tries.
Insular Britain Is conspicuous by
her absence, but is being kept in
formed of the talks and may join
tne pool plan later.
Under the plan, the participating
nations must give up part of their
sovereignty to an international su
pra-authority. The rewards held
out lor tnis national aacrmce are
peace and prosperity.
The countries entering the
scheme have a combined popula
tion ot 150,000,000 people. Their in
dustries combined produce annual
ly 210.000.000 tons of coal and 20.
000,000 tons of steel. The nations
are: France. Western Germany,
Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands,
and Luxembourg.
The revolutionary scheme was
first proposed May 9 by French
Foreign Minister Robert Schuman.
He forsaw as a start the merger
of French and German basic in
dustries with the idea of healing
aiii'ieni puuuL-ai unu ecunuuiit:
wounds left by three wars since
1870. Germany and four other na
tions readily agreed to the plan.
Britain dragged her feet because
of empire commitments. She has
always been slow to become Involv
ed in continental affairs. ,
Byrnes' Retirement Pay
Assailed In Campaign
LEXINGTON, S. C, June 20
(IP) Federal retirement pay drawn
by former Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes was injected into
the South Carolina governor's race
yesterday.
Lester L. Bates of Columbia, one
of Byrnes' three opponents for
the governorship in the Democa
tic primary, declared that Byrnes
draws $6,637.08 a year in a federal
pension. Bates said the money, no
doubt, "is deserved" and "is being
put to good use." But, he added,
"the regrettable thing is that all
our people cannot be provided for
in the same proportion as the po
liticians provide for themselves."
Byrnes called Bates' remark's "a
personal criticism," and said that
the money goes into a foundation
he has organized fo college schol
arships for needy orphans.
72 Crewmen Missing In
British Ship Disaster
SUEZ, Egypt, June 20 (IP)
The British freighter Indian Enter
prise exploded and sank in the
Red Sea yesteday, and 72 crew
men are missing, agents for the
vessel announced today.
Only one member of the crew
of 73, an injured man, was res
cued after a blast tore the ship
apart about 300 miles south of Suez.
Spokesmen for the agents said
the 7,100-ton ship, en route from
London to Indian ports, was car
rying 580 tons of explosives con
signed to the Indian government.
The vessel, which carried no pas
sengers, was officered by Britons.
The crew members were mostly
Indians,
Timber Brings Record
Sum In Willamette Sale
EUGENE, June 20 (PA Wil
lamette National forest timber
auction yesterday brought a record
price of nearly $4,000 per acre.
High bidder on a 12-acre tract on
Wiley creek, east of Sweet Home,
was the Nvland Lumber Co., which
bid $48 per thousand on 960.000 feet
of Douglas fir and the appraised
price of $1.85 on 70,000 leet of
hemlock.
The Nyland company's $48 bid
erased a previous Willamette for
est bid of $38 per thousand for
stumpage established in an auc
tion in 1948. Nyland bid a total of
$45,969.50 for the fir, which had
been appraised at $25.30 per thou
sand for a total of $24,417.
Dimensions For Cutting
Curbs Fixed; Plans For
Sewers Given Attention
There won't be any change in
the city's peddlers' ordinance, at
least not for the time being.
The controversial city law was
disposed of in quick order last
night, before any one of the 20 or
more business men present could
speak for or against.
Mayor AlDert u. f legel put tne
issue on the table. Councilman
Percy Croft immediately made a
motion that no action be taken to
repeal the existing ordinance, un
til a new ordinance can be phrased
to more adequately deal with the
matter. The motion was passed
unanimously and the issue was de
clared closed by the mayor.
The city manager was authorized
to draft plans and specifications
for installation of storm sewers on
Lane street. This project would
have to be a general obligation im
provement and approved by the
voters before any final action
could be taken.
Curb Cuttlnf, Rule Set
An ordinance was passed, with
an emergency clause, setting forth
regulations for cutting curbs, for
private and service driveways.
The ordinance restricts private
curbs cut to nine feet widths, and
service station driveways as fol
lows: 30 to 50-foot lots, 20 feet;
50 to 75-foot lots, 25 feet, and 75
to 100-foot lots, 30 feet. A fee of
$1.25 for a permit for cutting the
curbs eill be charged.
The problem of securing rights-
of-way for west Roseburg sewers
was discussed at length. The city
is prepared to go anead witn tne
calling of bids for the project, but
is being held up by several prop
erty owners who are unwilling to
give an easement through their
property.
The city itself is faced with
granting an easement through
property it owns in North Rose
burg adjacent to the Veterans
hospital grounds. C. V. Landis,
chairman of the North Roseburg
sewer district board, was present
asiung tor tne easement, ine mat-
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Man Slays Family Of 4
Then Drowns Himself - -
LEIGH, Neb. June 20 UP)
A coroner's jury was summoned
today to probe the sledge-hammer '
slayings of four members of a,
farm family and the drowning of 1
a fifth already labeled by auth
orities as "quadruple murder and
suicide."
Mrs. Henry F. Bahns, 48, and
her three children,Eldon, 20, Ar
dith, 14, and Helen, 8, were found
yesterday dead in their beds in
a blood-spattered farmhouse six
miles southeast of here.
The body of the father, Henry
F. Bahns, 49, was hauled from
an abandoned well In a pasture.
County Attorney Lloyd Pospishil,
who called the inquest, said "every
Indication points to quadruple mur
der and suicide by Mr. Bahns."
"ADoarentlv he killed them with
a sledge then drowned himself in
the well, where his body was
found."
Census Office Locked By
Landlord; Rent Overdue
CALDWELL, Idaho, June 20
(IP) Census takers have opened
many southern Idaho doors in re
cent weeks, but district Supervi
sor H. B. Bray finds it will take
more than a police rap to open his
office door.
It was closed and the lock
changed by James J. Gilgan
Jr., owner of the one-story building
in which the census office is lo
cated. A sign In the front window
reads: "Closed until the rent is
paid."
Gilgan says he hasn't received
the rent for the month of May
although his lease agreement with
the federal government calls for
payment the last day of the month.
Disincorporated Town
To Get Liquor Revenue
SALEM, June 20 tf 7 Draper
vilie, in Linn county, will receive
its share of the state liquor tax
revenues for the quarter ending
June 30 despite the fact that it
was disincorporated at a recent
election, Attorney General George
Neuner ruled Tuesday.
Ncuner held the disincorporation
does not become effective until 60
days after the date of the election.
Los Angeles Transit
Strike Ending Impends
'Br the Associated Press)
A tentative agreement wai
reached early today in the crip
pling four-day Los Angeles transit
strike. If union members okay the
agreement the terms of which
were not announced streetcars
and buses will begin rolling in the
west coast city early tomorrow
morning.
The bread shortage attend
ant en the bakers' strike gives
the June bride a timely oppor
tunity to demonstrate who she
can do with a combination of
flour, yeast end shortening.
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