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COMP o Calif!? m tmllmm FI(slfS EIH)5)(o U. of 0, Library Eugene, ire. V o Plans Of Airport Get Council O.K.; Bid Forms Ready Thre. Juveniles Held On Auto Theft Charge Three juvenile, aged 14 end IS, were arrested Monday morning on a charge of possessing stolen prop erty. Chief of Police Calvin Baird reported today. Baird said the three youths stole an automobile from a Seattle park ing lot Sunday afternoon and started driving south. They were stopped by Roseburg city police after buying gas at a local station at 4:30 a.m. Monday. The boys are being held in the county jail, pending their return by Washington state officials. . Parole Granted Japan's Former Foreign Minister TOKYO Japan's wartime foreign minister, Mamoru Shige mitsu, was released on parole from a seven-year prison term today de spite Russia's strenuous objections. It was the first parole granted a principal defendant in the war crimes convictions growing out of World War II. Shigemitsu was con victed at the Tojo trial in 1948. War - launching Premier Hideki Tojo was convicted and hanged. The seven-year sentence given the veteran Japanese diplomat was the lightest imposed by the interna tional tribunal. He was paroled be cause of good behavior. Shigemitsu, 63, was one of two Japanese who signed the historic surrender aboard the U. S. battle ship Missouri in Tokyo bay. Russia protested his release from prison as an "illegal and arbitrary action" taken by General MacAr thur. The Soviet no(et following up two earlier protests, asserted that MacArthur lacked authority to pa role any Japanese war criminals. '. In reply to a Russian protest last summer, the United States said the parole system was "in accordance with the practice in enlightened and democratic countries." Mac Arthur had established the parole system in Japanese war criminal cases March 7. Tne allied occupation legal sec tion said six more Japanese will be parolad Dec. 3, bringing to 148 the number of minor defendants re leased. Talent Previewed For Charity Show A lot of exceptional talent was discovered at the Roseburg Elks club's pre-casting talent show last SanirHnv owonmu .rHin. in Jerry Gilbo, general chairman. j display and booklets issued by the , neignts facing tue advancing u. a. The turnout was for the purpose j c''y- ., , l''"- "rps. of developing acts for the Elks' an- The council canvassed the votes j To the west, Reds were estab nnal rhnritv minctrpl ,hnw rue 11 cast in the city election herd in I lishing blocking positions on hills 15, and IS at Roseburg junior high school. Gilbo says the show prom ises to be the biggest and best yet. The regular casting rehearsal is scheduled for Tuesday evening, Nov. 28. at the Elks temple. Proceeds are to be used entirely for Christmas charities. Money from this will be used to sponsor parties in Roseburg's three thea ters Dec. 23 for the kiddies. It will also provide food basket needy families- 0 r In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Reading the news from day to day, it seems to me that the pres ' nt situation in North Korea is screwier than the "phoney war" that preceded the last war. As a WAR, H just doesn't seem to make sense. Look at it this way: I think everybody, including our top military mm, will agree that if the communist Chinese, hacked by communist Russia, WANTED TO they could drive us out of Korea. They are supposed to have a vet eran army of a million men strung tint ilnnfl th Vain rivnr Rii' nt this cocked-and-primed striking force on the Yalu, they are sup-1 posed to have reserves of around FIVE MILLION men in North i China. It is generally reported that i they could dig up five million more in ALL of China Opposed to this staggering ac cumulation of cannon fodder, we have around 250.000 men in Korea and maybe a few more in Japan. The Chinese are right at home. They have only to cross a river to Continued en peg four) Girl Blames Devil For Going On Shooting Spree NATCHEZ, Mat VP -A frail, 14-year-old girl nad a simple ex planation today of a two-hour shoot ing spree in which she terrorized the cross roads community of Stan-i ton. Miss. Highest temp, fer any Nov. . "It must have been the devil in Lowest temp, fer any Nov. . me." said she of yesterday's ram- Highest temp, yesterday page in w hich she wounded her i Lowest temp, last 14 hours uncle and fired rifle shots at her!Preip. last 14 hours step father, mother, grandmother Precip. from Nov. I . . and two officers. ' E,t, from Nov. 1 Sheriff Robert Burns listed her Precip. from Sept. 1 a.C)Ollie May Byrne, a high school, etiident. and held her in jail with- Sunset today, 4:4S p.m. c4g) charge. i Sunrise tomorrow, 7:14 a.m. Project Awaits . Final Nod From Federal Agency Plans and specifications for Rose- ! burg's new airport, as prepared by Engineer Ben B. Irving, were ap proved by the city council at Mon-i day night's meeting. i The plans are now to be for-1 warded to the Civil Aeronautics I authority in Salem and thence to the Seattle office for final approval. Contract forms for letting of bids have been prepared by the city manager's office to be ready as soon as final government approval of the airport plans have been made. The council has expressed hope the work can get underway in the not too distant future. The $200,000 city bonds have been sold, and to date assurance of govern ment matching money haa been given. The plans and specifications pro vide for a 4600-foot runway with a 100-foot wide paved strip and 100 foot aprons on either side of the runway. The plans also provide for elevations, drainage and location of buildings. The location of the ad ministration building ia subject to change before final plana are adopted. New Lights Awaited In answer to a letter requesting the location of a street light at Booth and Eddy streets, City Man ager Slankard reported that six lights for Miller's addition and 10 for West Roseburg have been on order for the last several months, but they have not yet arrived. He said also that California Oregon Power company has to run special circuits for the lights and the com pany has not been able to get transformers. The lights ordered would give more light output at a cheaper cost than the lights now in use in most of the city, Slankard said. He said he would try .to find out what is holding up the order and speed the installation as rapidly as possible. New City Hall Discussed .The council spent some time dis cussing progress work on the South Kane street improvement, West Roseburg sewer work, general property tax assessments, and pro posed plans for a city hall, sub mitted by the city manager. The city hall plans were drafted to ob tain an idea as to how the present city hall site might be put to best advantage, if the bond issue elec tion Dec. 12 is approved by the voters. Mayor Albert G. Flegel, council men and city manager, who at tended the recent League of Ore gon. Cities meeting, reported , the session. They commented also on tne attention given the Roseburg i connection with the Nov. 7 general election, and passed a resolution declaring the following to be elected: mayor, Albert G. Flegel; councilmen from ward 1, Frank Ashley and Elton Clark, and coun- cilmen from ward 2, Bernard Saar i and Cecil Hugh. All but Clark were present for the meeting. Liquor Licenses Issued Liquor license renewals were is- i.sued for the following: Loyal Order ui muuse, ciuo license; naieway stores, package class B; William A. Mardorf Sr., Idle Hour tavern, reiau man Deverage, class a; nil Ham DeBolt, and Howard G. Light ner. Monogram Cigar store, retail malt beverage, class A; Oscar L. Hunnicutt and Estle L. Paris, S. Stephens Market, package, class A; Leonard S. Zacher, Friendly tav ern, retail malt, class B; L. E. Henninger and A. G. Henninger, for Henninger's Mart Nos. 1 and 2, package store, class B; BPO Elks lodge 326, club, more than 500 and master locker, more than 4S9; Frank S. Webster. Mill Street store, package store, class A; Ed gar A. Vanderhoef, Van's retail malt, class A; Alfred J. Lavasseur, The Club, retail malt, class A. A new license was issued to John C. Reese, West Side grocery, package i store, class A. Death Blow Follows Drunk Driving Penalty EVAN'S VILLE, Ind f.4 Hush Bodrrwr. at, of Baker, Ore., died in a hospital Monday from being nit oy a car nere Sunday night. The accident happened near the home of his daugher. Dr. Stella Boyd, Evansville pnysician, with whom he had planned to spnd the winicr. The driver, Robert Cullen, 28, I Evansville, pleaded guilty earlier ! in the day to a drunken driving ' charge in city court. Judge Frank Fish fined him $100 and sentenced him to 180 days on the state penal farm. The Weather Partly cloudy with occasional I rain today and Wednesday. Established 1873 Yanks No Shot Fired In Occupying Ghost Town Reds Preparing Fresh Defense Indicating End Of War Months Distant SEOUL VP) American in fantrymen today burst into the Korean border town of Hyesanjin, cross the hazy Yalu river lrom t communist Manchuria Hyesanjin was a ghost town. Americans took it without firing a shot. Tanks, flanked by bearded in fantrymen of the U. S. Seventh di vision, lumbered up to the slushy banka of the Yalu, the first Amer icans to reach the border. Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond, Tenth corps commander, who was with his men when they reached the border, jubilantly announced the drive to he Yalu boundary through snow - covered mountain passes has "divided enemy-held territory and isolated all signifi cant forces east of the 127th paral lel east longitude." However, the Communists still have a great network of military highways and railways in the northeast, linked with Manchuria where Korean Red armies were re ported being reorganised. And strong Red buildups, com bined with the rigorous Korean winter, brought predictions from United Nations intelligence officers the war will continue well into next spring. Col. Herbert B. Powell, com manding the 17th, said Red Man churia was within easy artillery range, but his guns would not lire across the river "unless they fire at us first." Paralleling the 17th's advance, the South Korean capital division pushed ten miles up the east coast j Monday, capturing Chuchonhu- j jang, 75 miles east of Hyesanjin. j This put the Koreans just 85 miles I from the Soviet Siberian border. Reds Building New Defense j General MacArthur's intelli gence officers in Tokyo expressed more concern over reorganization i of Red defenses along the north west front. J A MacArthur spokesman said' iled armies are organizing a de fense system across strategic dominating the flat ground lead ing to Sinuiju, main enlryway for Chinese troops into Korea. These defenses block the U. N. approach toward the Suiho hydro electric complex along the west- era Korea - Manchuria border which supplies power to both areas. A hint of dissension in JJ. N. ranks was checked quickly. Mili tary sources said the commander of a Philippine battalion who had I asked that his trooeis be called ' home because they weren't used as a unit was himself -ordered home. U. N. air forces, which are play ing a key role with the U. S. navy in the advance up the east coast, were augmented by South African veterans. Four nations now have fliers in the U. N. air force U.S., Australia, Korea and South Africa. Defense Program Means Sacrifices, U.S. Told CHICAGO VP) The nation's partial mobilization program, says army Secretary Frank Pace Jr., will mean higher federal budgets and higher taxes for several years and further sacrifices "that would ,fct our fntire "v oi li(e-" There may be price and wage controls. Pace said, and a lower ing of the American standard of living. Pace, speaking to members of the Economic club of Chicago, said that for the next several years we are going to have to devote a major portion of our national income and effort to defense needs. . . ." ! He said that "this period we are . entering of indefinite semi-mobil-: ization is tragic, difficult, confusng i and cosily but it is infinitely better than a total war mobilization which it may prevent." - HelDlesS Invalid Found Dead Near Mother's Body SALEM I.V) Walton Shatturk. 42, an invalid, was found near death in his bed last night. His mother's body lay t few feet away. Marion countv Deputy Coroner Charles Edwards said Shattuck'a I mother, Melissa, had died perhaps 74 ten days ago of natural causes, .... 14 The son. unable to care for him ... . S self, had lived on decaying food the ..14 ! mother cooked before she died, trace j He was auffenr(ff)from malnutri . J.12;tion and food poisoning. 1.12 j A neighbor discovered Shalturk's 11.11 , plight and called polite. Officers j searching the ill-kept home later found 7M in (ash JMden in a I closet. w ROSEBURG, ORECON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1950 Alt Manchurian Attractive Array Of Prizes Posted For Best Exhibitors At Northwest Turkey Show There will be priies galore, (or exhibitors at the Northwestern Turkey Show, Inc., to be held at the Douglas County fairgrounds Dee. 4 to 8. In the championship competition, trophies will be awarded to the grand champion bird of the show, the champion young brome hen, the champion bronie torn, the three most uniform young bronze hens and the three most uniform bronze toms. Georgia Furore Follows Ouster Of School Heads ATLANTA P One of the biggest political explosions in Georgia in years threatened today in the wake of the abrupt firing of 12 school department supervisors. The Southern Association of col leges and Secondary Schools has been asked to see whether alt of Georgia's 158 accredited high schools should lose accredited standing. The request will be presented to the association's executive com mitee in Richmond, Va Dec. 3, said Secretary A. J. Geiger. If an investigation is ordered, a com mittee of out-of-state experts will look into charges of "political in terference" with the school system, and loss of quality. All of the state's 12 supervisors (field men) were released without warning Friday by the state board of education. The reason cited was economy. Salaries and expenses of the supervisors cost $65,000 last year. The state school appropria tion was more than 51,000,000. The board, appointed by Gov, Herman Talmadge, and state School Superintendent M. D. Col lins, elected by the people, have been scrapping over who is boss of the school repartment. Collins said the board'! firings were illegal. In the past, universities in Geor gia, Texas, Mississippi and Louis iana have tcmporarly lost accredi tion because of the firing of pro fessors or presidents. The Georgia incident occurred in 1940. It created a furore during the administration of the late Gov. Eu gene Talmadge, Herman's father. It was a torrid issue in the 1941 race in which Ellis Arnall beat the elder Talmadge for governor. Thanks Service Set By Ministers City-wide Thanksgiving service, sponsored by the Roseburg Minis terial association, will be held 10 a.m., Thanksgiving day at the First Methodist chairch. Following a tradition that dates to 1918, many Roseburg churches will join in the one-hour union service. The meeting place, partic ipants and speaker for the occasion are rotated among the churches from year to year. ' This year, the role of host pastor falls upon the Rev. W. A. Mac Arthur, president of the Roseburg Ministerial association. Speaker for the service will be Lieut. Dal Madsen, head of the lo ci. I Salvation army unit. The public is cordially invited to j this inter-denominational service. I HISTORY IN REVERSE Soviet Bloc Peoples Given Distortion Of Real Facts About Second World War BERLIN (API Men with apparently the shorteit mem ories in the world are rewriting modern history for 800,000,000 inhabitants of the Soviet bloc. What they claim to be historical truths are being dinned into all peoples under Moscow's domination in Europe and Asia. The last war? Russia fought I alone, they say. j Because illiteracy is high among American lend-lease aid? Never , Iron Curtain peoples these Kus heard of it. ! sian allegations are most ef- Winston Churchill? A blood-1 fectively illustrated in documen sucker imperialist who always plot-1 tary films. ted the eaitjavement of jttissia. j People can see and hear whpn Roosevelt'' A weak progressive ; they can not read or write. The behind whose back Wall street sen-1 documentaries compare favorably ators flew to Berlin seeking a sep-jwith Moscow radio broadcasts in arate peace with Hitler. - j influence and seem far more itn) The exterminated Jews?(-?.'ever j pressive for the untutored masses heard of them, either. It was the ; than communist books or newspa Soviet people who bore all the sac-; pers. rifices. j Two super epics from Soviet General Eisenhower? He never i studios now are making the rounds fought a battle. The Nazis juatviuit of village theaters from the Kibe on his phony western front. river to the China coast. Allied bombin!? It was carried ; Both are in color, number their on to terrorize innocent German casts in thousands, and cost up civilians, destroy world industrial wards of lO Wsl.OfK) rubles to pro competition and lay waste the cul-;duce. Each calls itself a literal re rural hecitage of Europe. Russia ! creation of. wartime events, based disapproved. on Soviet official records. Stalin? Genius of resolution, i In the srhs, press and public builder of socialism, generalissimo : forums, ruh Communists now of victory, leader of the world ! are hallyhnoing the Soviet war pic peace camp. . Hires as the gospel truth. in ine special cnampiunsmp com petition, the live bird coming the greatest distance will receive a cash award. There will be first, second and third prir.es in the dis tance competition. To qualify for the distance prize, an exhibitor must enter at least three birds. A cash award will also be made to the exhibitor with the heaviest bird. A first and second cash prize will be offered for the best birds in tiie breeders' live birds display. This contest requires one old torn, one young torn, one old hen and one young hen from each exhibitor. Uniformity and quality shall be chiefly considered. Other Awards Listed The processors' display award will be given for the best display of dressed turkeya entered by any one plan,. The idea is to show the type, finish and general appearance of turkeys that are ahipped, plus sales appeal for turkey and gen eral educational dislay. For the most attractive booth, considering display of merchandise, interest shown by the public and advertising appeal, three mer chants' exhibit ribbons will b e awarded. Generous cash premiums will be paid to exhibitors in both the dressed division and live division. 4-H members and Future Farmers .of America will also be able to share in the premium cash and ribbons. Flames Destroy Alaskan Hospital .JUNEAU, Alaska P Scores of patients were evacuated safely t ol ay when fire destroyed the Alaska native nervice hospital at Bethel, in the Yukon valley, in zero weather. None of the patients was injured but one hospital employe was hurt during removal of the invalids. Hugh Wade, area director for the Alaska native service, said a re port received here from Dr. Dun can Chalmers, head of the hospi tal, said the $300,000 building was a total loss. Dr. Chalmers asked for imme diate aid in providing suitable quar ters for 27 patients tieemed in need of immediale hospitalization. Bethel is approximately 1,000 airline miles northwest of Juneau and 600 miles southwest of Fair banks. It is the center of a largely native area which recently has been the scene of a severe typhoid fever epidemic. Chalmers said the blaze began in the boiler room but its cause was not known. ON RETIREMENT BOARD SALEM 7T) Frank B. Ben nett, Salem school superintendent, has been appointed by Governor Douglas McKay to the state public employes retirement board. He succeeds the late James Bur gexs, Astoria. 273-50 lorder Govt. Expense Slash Urged On Congress Alternative For Truman Tax Plan Asked By U.S. Chamber Of Commerce WASHINGTON-,! The V. S. chamber of commerce called on Congress today to cut govern ment spending for non - military purposes by at least $6,000,000,000 before it considers taxing excess profits of corporations. Ripping into administration pro posals for a 75 percent tax on ab normal business profits, Ellsworth C. Alvord, chairman of the cham ber's finance committee, declared it was impossible to devise a work able excess profits tax to produce the $4,000,000,000 yearly asked by President Truman. Alvord set forth the chamber's views in a statement for the house I ways and means committee, which is winding up hearings on the profits tax proposal which Mr. Tru man says is necessary to finance the expanding defense program. As business wheeled its biggest guns into the hearings, Democrats on the tax-writing ways and meant committee continued to hold firm rein on Republican efforts to dis cuss substitutes for the adminis tration plan. GOP committee members are plugging for a raise In the corporate income tax rate or a combination of that with an excess profits tax. But the Democrats are sticking by a mamdate from the White House to draw up an excess profits tax bill. 3-Point Program Urged The committee haa voted on party lines not to take testimony on alternate tax proposals, but Al vord. offered for the record the rhamber'a tax - writing ideas ap proved by its directors last Friday. These embrace: 1. An overall 50 percent corporate income tax rate, comprising t 38 percent normal aoi surtax and a 12 percent "defense emergency tax." This was estimated to pro duce $2,000,000,000 yearly In new revenue. 2. Additional excise taxes to bring in another $5,000,000,000. As possible methods, a manufacturera excise tax or a consumer sales tax were suggested, 3. No increase in individual In come tax rates, but posihly low ered exemptions. Following the chamber of com merce, the Committee for Eco nomic Development j national organization of buiness executives added its voice to the denuncia tion of excess profits taxation by spokesmen for business and indus try. The CED also has proposed flat cororate tax increases through addition of a "defense profits tax" to the regular corporate in come tax. CED says its program which would mean a total taxrate of 5.1 percent would raise $6, 000,000,000 a year. Child Swallows Toy, Cop Saves Her Life ST. I.OUIS VP) A nine-months-old baby girl, 4hoking on a toy train wairel she had swallowed, was saved this morning by the alert work of a probationary policeman. The policeman, Sam Russo, was directing school traffic when he heard a woman scream, a block away, ile ran to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Broderson and found their baby daughter, Maria, already blue from strangulation. Ile applied artificial respiration and dislodged the wheel. Hospital attendants gave him credit for sav ing the child's life. Cigaret Tax Favored To Pay Soldier's Bonus SAI.EM (IP) A cigaret tax of three cents a package was sug gested by the legislative interim tax committee to finance the sol dier's bonus. The committee sard the tax would raise about $5,000,000 a year. The ' bonus was passed by the voters, i but financing it is up to the legis- latiire. That was the only means of d i ditional revenue recommended by : the Committee, despite the fact that the stale has to find a total of about $79,000,000 more during the next two-year budget period. Oregon School Children Donate To Fountain Plan ' SALEM VP) The school chil , dren of Oregon are giving pen i nies, nickels and dimes to help ' build the central fountain in front of the secretariat building at United j Nations headquarters in New York . City. The drive In Oregon is headed hy Mrs. Douglas McKay, wife of ; the governor. IrV part of a na j lional move spoiWired by th wives of atate governors. o Disaster Also Strikes Reno; Death. Damage Tolls Increase, Ninth Day Of Storm Forecast Oty the AuoctatMl Proul Torrents of mountain-fed flood waters ripped through north trn and central California and western Nevada this morning, driving thousands of persons from their homes and doing untold amounts of property damage. At least nine persons were dead from the floods, which started on its third day of rampage with added fore from moun tain rains and melting mow. Her it how the tituation stacked up: NEVADA The main section of Reno wat a tumbled matt of mud, debrit and torn paving after the twirling Truck river normally three to four feat deep at thit time of year roared 20 fet deep and thre blocks wide through th center of "Tho Biggest Little City in th World." Th Truck burst itt banks with crushing fore last night, flooding swank hotels and gambling casinos. For hours th down town lection wat under tlx feat of water, but th flood wt re ceding today. On death wat attributed to th raging waters. Emergency Declared by Gov. Warrn CALIFORNIA Governor Eerl Warren declared a stet of emergency over th raging floodt in th Central valley. Th Yub county sheriff's office ordered th evacuation of an es timated 3,500 residents from Easf Linda, near Maryivilla, in th face of th threat of th flooding Yub and Bear rivers. Th muddy torrent, which hat already tmathad through levees In thr placet and inundated th townt of Hammonton and Mr. gold, cpntinuet to rise. Th American river bunt its banks near Sacramento and flooded thoutandt of acres of tuburban land, driving 1,000 peopl from their hornet. Eight California deaths war attributed, directly or In. directly, to th floodt. Th U.S. wther bureau at San Francitco predicted "mod rat to heavy rain" for th high Sierra today th ninth straight China Dominated By Soviet Agents, Spokesman Says LAKE SUCCESS -UP) Nation alist China's T. F. Tsiang told the United Nations today 45,000 Soviet agents completely dominated the political, economic and cultural life of Communist China. Eventa of the past 12 months, Tsiang taid, have fully proved that the Peiping regime is the stooge and tool of Moscow. He spoke be fore the general assembly t co nation political committee. Tsiang told the committee Russia has completely ignored the as sembly's 1049 appeal to all nations to refrain from Interfering in the internal attain of China. ..H blamed Russia for the interven tion of Communist China in th Korean war and said Russian im perialism waa responsible for most of Asia's unrest. He said the resistance movement on the China mainland is growing rapidly. Before September, 1949, he said, there were only some 395.000 men operating against the regime of Mao Tze-tung, but now there are about 1,667,000. About IS percent of these, Tsiang said, are Com munist troops who have swung their allegiance to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Tsiang charged that the North Korean attack on South Korea and the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet were part of the same problem. He proposed that the as sembly consider the Tibetan question along with his own charges of Soviet aggression against China. "Tibnt is a land of considerable strategic Importance," he said. "It is made a base for the im perialistic schemes of world com munism. In Tibet, at in other parts of China, a foreign conquest has been staged in the disguise of rev olution or liberation. This is the true meaning of the communist in vasion of Tibet." Freight Rates Slashed On New Automobiles WASHINGTON UP) The In terstate Commerce commission has ordered an average 12 per cent reduction in railroad freight rates oa new automobiles. Officials estimated the cut, dated to become effective Keb. 20, will involve savings of $10 and up for new car purchasers. The retail price of new automo biles traditionally includes the rail transportation charge from the manufacturer's headquarters fac tory to thehnme city of the pur chaser, regardless of how delivery is made between these points. Thus the revision in the basic rail rate will be reflected in the local sales tag, in amounts varying according to location and the weight of the car. Labor Chief To Head Demo Committee, Report BOSTON VP) The Boston Herald said today that Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin "ia ex pected to resign soon to succeed William M. Boyle .lr., as Demo cratic national committee chair man. Boyle, the newspaper said, "is relinquishing the position because ' of poor health. Present plans of I Democratic leaders call for Tnhin to succeed him shortly after i Jan. 1." Eisenhower Buys Farm Near Gettysburg Field PHILADELPHIA (,P Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has bought ' a 200-acre farm near historic Gettysburg, Pa., and will make it his permanent family home, it was j disclosed today. ! The property it dairy and gen ; eral farm, with I nine-room house, j three miles south of Gettysburg. It I has,, good view of th Civil war IbatiWield. V day ot ttormt. Reno, gaudy little city of casino and quickie divorces, reeled un der the impact of the flood. Muddy waler raced through the businesa district in stream three block wide, aweeping treet, benches, cars in ita rage. The plush Riverside hotel had five feet of water on ita main floor. The ultra twank Mapea hotel' basement was flooded to th cei ling. A six-foot wall of water was kept out of the lobby by aandbaga. Merchants reported thousanda ot dollars of damage to Chritmaa mer- cnanms stored in flooded base- menu. The two main hishwavi In rati. fornia, 40 and SO, across the Sierra were washed out in placea and blocked by slides. Train service west was suspended by the South ern Pacific when tracks on the Cal ifornia tide of the grade were washed out Bear Norden. , , An unidentified man died of heart attack aa he attempted to save stock from the basement of Reno department store. Another unidentified man, who jumped into the flood waters in an apparent au icide attempt, turned un alive sev. eral hundred yards downstream. Troops Called Out The Nevada national euard waa called out in arms to prevent loot ing and keep residents from dan ger zones. All of Reno's eight bridges serosa the Truckee were completely un der water. Two big aewer mains nver th river on the east side of Reno wer broken. The biggest threat in California was in the Sutter-Yuba county area. Dikes along the flooding Bear river broke, sending streams (Continued On Page Two) Fire Feared Fate Of Missing Plane WILLIAMS, Calif. fP) Searcher, for a plane missing in the Sierras with four prominent Bay area residents got a lead today from a Santa Rosa hunter who said he saw a plane aflame near her Saturday. Ralph Evans of Santa Rosa, who was hunting pheasants a few milea nnrtnwest of here, said he and six companions saw a plane go down in flames at 10 a.m. .Saturday. The hunters didn't report the in cident until today because "we were sure othera must hav teen it." Air search has been almost im possible because of the heavily overcast, rainy weather. But it was hoped that a number ot planea could reconnoiter the coastal range west of Williams today, weather permitting. Ground search parties have found no trace of the plane. Aboard it were the pilot, William V. Hanley of Berkeley, Standard Oil executive; Dr. Harold Becker, Piedmont dentist: his 13-year-old son. Curtis: and Wesley Carpenter, Oakland executive of th Pacific Gaa & Electric Co. The weather was rainy and visi bility was poor Friday morning when Hanley took off for Williams with the hunting party. Drunken Driver Fined, Given Jail Sentence Virgil Broxson, M, of Roseburg, arrested by the state police on the charge of drunk driving, pleaded guilty and waa fined $l and sen. tenced to servf)30 days in th county jail, reported Sutherlin Jus tice of Peace Ward C. Watson. Levity Fact Rant By L F Reizensteln Th devastating; entrat Call fornia flood may tot! wot blanket ever future aqitatie) far diversion to that state of tur pi ut Columbia river water.
