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U of 0. Library COMP 1 IFairdl Coifed h Fmy Mmm Mm(BV .y J " ..-. t fail's: A: x RIVER RAGES The American norsr rencn near aacremenio. street bridge. -The first line of end line et trees is the bank ot buildings look es if they were Indictment Void, But Sheriff Still Under Suspension TALLAHASSEE, Fla. CrP) i An indictment charging Sheriff I Jimmy Sullivan of Dade county (Miami) with non-enforcement of gambling laws has been ruled void by the Florida supreme court,, but Sullivan remained under suspen sion today. The court held that the indict ment failed to charge Sullivan with commission of any crime. It said the count charging Sullivan with non-enforcement of gambling laws did not charge that he wilfully or corruptly failed to perform -any duty, or that he acted corruptly. .Gov. Fuller Warren suspended Sullivan after the indictment sev eral weeks ago. Warren had no comnjent when be was informed of the court decision. The decision said the "best law yer in Florida" could not tell from the indictment that duty of the sheriff "is being corruptly per formed." "When the founding fathers made indictments essential to prosecu tion they had no scattergun pat tern in mind; they shot with a rifle directed to th hullpvv" th ut-cisiuii niu. i Sullivan's suDension can I lifted only by the governor or the a i a cAnniaa . state senate In the Day's News - By FRANK JENKINS The news as this ia written seems in run neavny to tne SIUMH-1 CANT side. This, for example, from ! rramuun, Germany, wnicn American headquarters: idoiiarters "West German Socialists fierce opponents of the creation of a new German army to bolster Western defense won a thumping week-end election victory in the American oc cupation rone , . . Voters in two states (Hesse and Wurtemberg- D.ant ,mil.k.J Ik. ........I !.:. BIIUUIIVU IIIC IUWCI1U1 IB- Ok tian Democrats, who dominate theiLOOSe aleeve Betrays teneral west German government and have urged GERMAN RE ARMAMENT." This is the point:. The Christian Democrats (who are in power in West Germany as the Democrats are in power in the unitea Slates) are for a West Ger- man army JXW- Mp fieh ; the Russians NOW. FIGHT NOW to stop communist Russia, and hope that after Russia is stopped a free Germany will be created again. The Socialists contended in their paign that German, should hold ' t from any unified army until cam hack the allies have massed enough (Continued on page four) Douglas County Contributes Fifty To Draft In November Local Selective Service board 14 fodey reported that e total of 50 men have been inducted from Douglas county during the month of .November. The following men reported fo the induction center et fcugene today: Homer Aultman. Roseburs: Vir- i gil Hansen, Florence; Lawrence1 . . . -J . K.eoaing. Koseourg: Floyd Shu-iT, ert. Scottsburg; Harold House-! holder, Roseburg: James Booth. 1 Glendale; George Perkins. Wolf Cieek; Don Stoner, Sutherlin:, ' ",ous,r)'- Noble Blsnchsrd. Yonralla: Wil . Saunders further stated thit reg-; liam Kidd, Gardiner: Eugene An-j,5trnts ho feel their classifies-1 derson, Canyonville: Beivon Black, i ,,on unjust or in error are asked Curtin; William Conn, Roseburg;,'0 contact the local hoard otfice Robert BodenncfrJ Roseburg: Ken-i1" roo,n M2. Carter building, at j neth MrKenrie r'aele Pnint AnH I an early date. Often the rCBIStrant ! Robert Telgenhoff. Umpqua. Douglas county's induction cair for Dec. 12 is for 12 men. On MondaV. N3V. 20. 24 men matnlv . in the 20-year-old age bracket, were sent to f.Uiiene lor prereduction physical exams W John L. Saunders, local board chairman, emphasised that indue- lions under the .Selective Serivce C'k J.? r MrK"y eccordmg to birthdate. arious parts of the county may feel that they are being called upon for a larger per- centage of voung men than the population warrants in some par- river, swollen by heavy reins end me eny or saeramento is snown trees in the picture (upper center! is the highway while the sec- the American river normally. Waves in the water make the ranch planted in the ocean. IAP Wirephoto.l News-Review Will Not Be Issued Thursday - The! NeiVI. tt eW inttf in kuninfi I with it custom ! bwrving n. tionHy r.cognii.d holidays, will not publish a ppr Thursday, Thanksgiving day. Most placts of business, tx cpt thos normally opn Sun days, will bt closod for th day. Observances ,pf Thanksgiving locally will bo confined to the churches. A city wide, interde nominational church service will bo held for one hour Thursday, starting at 10 a.m. at the Meth odist church. The prog r a m is under the Roseburg Ministerial association's direction. Prophecy Proves True For Donor To Ambulance Fund E ASTON, MD. (1 "Sure, you never know when you-misht need the ambulance yourself." said Jim Sewell. So he cheerfully con tributed last week to a campaign! for funds to maintain an ambulance I in this eastern shore area. Last Friday the ambulance had , - f-" ..-w... farmer about 38 years old, he had i ' rn P'cker and lost hi rich! m r m inn lot?. There wasn't much hope then j that he would live. But the am- bulance crew applied tourniquets i on the way to the hospital and j made it there faster than ever. I Neighbors besieged the hospital with otters of blood. Monday hrio.H. ll h r.rm hr., mm. hri mirnixl vr Keull'i isn. acre place to finish the corn nick- i i :t .i. ing and plowing and see if there in anything else they could do for his wife and five children. Today doctors at Easton hospital I said Sewell had slopped bleeding j anu secinra uiiueuevauiy strung. They expect him to recover. i Girl Forger's Identity SEATTLE (P) A 27-year-old barmaid was held for trial on for gery charges today because she had a long sleeve that wouldn't stay put. . Secret service officials said Phyl lis Colleen Higgins had admitted !f01ging 19 treasury checks stolen from manboxe,, ,nd chlng them ! m Seattle stores. She said an ac- complice took the checks and gave them to her. lipped ' nd . storekeeper noUced , k, ,m. .Tnll.en" i.Li She was arrested when her sleeve height wsrHe'irS;e:iT0,m''.0Wner'.Ch'rle Fe" secret service. ,.i , n ,1 ,.1 t .. . '. nil en hiniuni thai tk, , - .. i " -'" "'" ".; ' v1? "f woraing " T. j V j m" L" "ij ""isciy vj ine mm-; h" neglected to furnish complete 'nforn,""on' which might affect j his proper classification. Selective nerVICe. has Often been Criticized foT induction men who have actu- "J oeen -iiiito up oy a reserve i "x ?u".r" ",d- ,, Hc Massed tne tact that the calling "f oi reservists is completely sep. Iron, .selective .Service. The local boarti(Jffice is open i fiom S a m. to S p.m. on weekdays and from f m. to 12 noon on Saturdays. Off Thanksgiving Day. Nov. 23. the board office will re- main closed. melting snow, swirls around the ' at upper left above the M Profits Tax Spells Gas Price Boost, HoUSi GrOUB Told i,,WIOC V'OUP WASHINGTON (JPi Stiff in-1 creases in consumer prices for natural gas were foreseen today by an industry spokesmen as one re-1 sun oi me proposed excess profits lax- The higher prices prediction was made to the house ways and means committee by WUIiam G. Woolfolk. cnairman of the American Na- I tural Gas company. Woolfolk was one of a group of itnesses called on this final dar witnesses of committee hearings on Presi dent Truman a request for a 75 percent tax on excess corporation piofits tax to raise 14,000,000,000 yearly in new revenue. Like other business snokesmen. Woolfolk opposed the President's request, which so far has found major support only from organized labor and the Treasury department. "Even tinder most favorable con ditions, he said, the excess profits tax proposal would increase the tax rate on the normal, regulated earnings of his company from 45 j nprretlt In A3 rwrmnl ..In thi. ftl SVfltpm WftllM nave to applv for increases anniit Clal fiTUi IVafi m Wk of in it, charie t0 lhe puic for . . r . percent utility service to bring its earn- ings up to a normal return said. he "If our earnings, regulated by law, are reduced, we cannot raise new money, construction must stop and gas must be rationed," he added. Bartender's OvoKiah I A,J. T- n a . lU,vj niun PHILADELPHIA (ft Nicho- las J. Potere left his oil-deliverv truck and went Into a taproom to maxe a telephone call. He ,.,nte1 . ,,k his of,it., .hr.,,1 his next delivery. "Right back there under the stairs," Potere quoted the bar tender as saying when he asked where the telephone was. Potere walked to the rear of the taproom and into a little cubicle under the stairs. But he never made his call. When he looked up from where he had landed flat on his hack in the cellar, he said he saw the bar tender from above him, calling: "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you. ..." And that, said Potere in a com- ! "ZSmmVL", ;an" 5'000 damages rom th Potere charges he went straight through a. trapdoor when he stepped up to the telephone. I COUNTY'S FLOOD Rapid Work Roads, With The county road crews and pa-1 trols have rffine record breaking ,. ... . . work in repairing Dnages and roads i Ul the Douglas county srea which ! were damaged jr totally washed o,it by the recent flood. This was . the report of County Engineer F. i C. Frear Tuesday. i It took the crews very little time I to put the county back on wheels I after the demoralizing flood and i now they are in the process of re- nairintf the U-. nrMtina om,a, Some needed work, however, will ; have to be put off until summer, ! said Frear. On M the firtt hie; Ink. u... that , Curr. No. 2 bridge about .seven i mih-V from Roseburg on the Gar- en Vlley road. This structure was completely washed out, hut within . , r4fnlete spanking new ; wooden bridge had n-placed the old one. A 75-foot approach to the Bullock bridge 14 miles west of Sutherlin. ' on the North Umpqua, was iO- wiped out. Although it had to be built out 40 feet above the water Established 1173 20 Dead Injured List On Canadian Line Totals 58 Majority Of Casualties Comprised Of Soldiers Destined For Korea EDMONTON. Alii. Twenty persons are dud or mis - sing and 58 are injured following the head-on collision high in the Rocky mountains Tuesday of twt Canadian National railways trains. senger and a westbound trooper rammed together just west of the tanoe river siding, 312 miles west of here. They were sechduled to pass there. Armv ni-f...i ..iH that th. in u; . .i fm tie wreckage oi t hr.e .. . . coaches. Two died last night en- rdule to hmtnital in an emervenrv train. Four are missing and be - lirved dead. Four engine crew men were still burled today in the crum - Died wreckace of their ffiant loco - motives. The injured toll also mounted with the arrival here of the emer. gency train. In addition to aA i iniured servicemen, five train crewmen were hurt, two seriously. ne train, carrying 340 officers nd n"n- bound for Fort I Lf w is, Wash., where Canadian Sol- diers will be trained to fight with United Nations forces in Korea. Both trains were travelling at r!'. "T1' but ,hf " IIBU-MUl Ul A1IUW Ull lllfl KIUUIIU and the temperature was near itro. As the 17-car troop train and the 10-car limited collided, cars from .. .. .. . ..i.. . ...... -J j tearinJ down communications . ;nll A cloud of steam from the broken heating line on the troop tram surged through the cars, scalding those trapped in the wreckage. lhe fatalities followed seven oth ers that have arisen since the special force was mustered in A,,n,,c( In unrl f'onnna in k'nra. or elsewher- Four aoldiers were Kiiiea in a monac-nomo acciaeni IWO in a car cracnup ai reiawawa, another while hitehiking out of Fort Lewis. Grand Larceny Charge Faced By Two Prisoners Glen Ronald Haight, 24. of Phoe nix and Eucene Errol Bellows. 2Y of Medford are being held in the county iail on bail of $1,000 each for grand larceny, reported Suth-1 erlin Justice of Peace Ward C. Watson. After their arrest by the state police at Medford, a complaint was filed against them for alleg-jment edly stealing a welding outfit, in-j eluding two hoses, a torch and two tips. All the equipment reported missing was property of the Kogap Lumber Sales, Inc. located near Drew. Bomber Crashes In Texas; Occupants Bail Out FORT WORTH (P A B it bomber crashed today about ten miles north of Cl.burne in north ctntral Texas. There ware unconfirmed re ports t.n men bailed from the craft the world's largest land based bomber before the crash. Only once before has one of the far-ranging giants crashed. . On Sept. le, 1949, five eirm.n were killed when e B-M failed to complete e take-off from Cars w.ll and roared into e nearby lake et 100 miles an hour. DAMAGE ESTIMATED $250,000 Done By Crews, Repairing Major Bridges, Some Needed Jobs Deferred 'Til Summer level, it was replaced in two days. One of the fastest operations was . . .. aone on the I'runer bridge at Kia-: die. The roaring South I'mpqua hsd drilled out the bed under the snppor tin the middle of the stream. But within 10 hours the support was reseated and the span was ready for traffic. Total Losses There is still plenty of damage as vet unattended, however. At Glen- hrnnlr rn,,r mil- annth nf RirtHIn on Cow creek, a 226-foot bridge was completely washed out. Be- cause the bridge was at the head of . Innn in th mH nrl train em still reach Riddle from either side, no work has been done on it yet, :d Frear. Another total lues is the Galey slough bridge one .nd a half miles north of Canyonville. It aNo has not been replaced since traffic may still travel to both Roseburg and Canyonville with little inconveni- ence. The Rice creek and Willis creek areas south of Dillard were hK KOSEIURG. OREGON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22. IfSO Or Missing In Train Crash Communists Mass Troops Along North Korean Border To Resist Allied Advance (By lh AwUM PraMi United Nations forces mode a cautious advance along will North Korean fronts today while American Superfortt pounded Communist betes nd troop concentrations in fne northeast. Allied intelligence showed thet the Communists ere messing trooDi end eauioment on both sides of the border In tht oreot of lMusen end Tumen. These ere in Aiiln Rmk Killc IA... : uope case i-igure, Clla.laJ flailfl a-M w v I w w wiiiiw FOR WORTH, Ter. (A) Nel- I son Harris. 41-year-old figure in the .rwni I) r a son narcotics case, was i i k"le0 b" mb- His "i")r ,0. HS!". S0"' ..... f.,.li.. mnrrh IniiirH thai SavmI Kihrian fty injured The bomb exnlodefl as he started 1 his car. Harris was identified by ac- ! quaintancea as an aide of Herbert' lvnkl. n.n. n.mkl.r uh... ,.tm I klled in a similar manner several months ago. a k.k . .ki-k nr. u.. 1 waa expected to give birth in about . u.. nrnnnlln. a. .a minuteslater. '' 'led o'cers said the South Koreans , . . , 1 so far have been up against a re- The explosion ripped the top from ,nd dlsor(,nilrd ,nfmy. Hams coach shattered windows ( A fd wpr c,lltlouI nearby and blew bit, of the auto- bec,use of lhe untMy f ,n mobile over a 100-foot radius. .. llp,..lh r.rii.r .., ih Harris' body was still in the charred and smashed car an hour later, clothing ripped off and flesh blackened, as police collected bits of debris. The bomb, apparently connected to the car's starter sys tem, contained an "extra heavy charge," police saivl, blowing en gine parts away and twisting others. "This explosion Is typical of a ' gangland assassination,'' Detec- live A. C. Howerton eaid at the scene. A gambler here told the Star Telegram Harris and other gam blers in this area and in Houston haH kun havinff Hifferenrei - Mrs. Harris' body was found on CHICAGO Ml The head of (he ground beside the car, seared Chicago's police censorship div hy the blast anil perforated by fly- ision ssys he favors banning t new i in. mciai m .. o . g metal apparently as she started " step in. ine -year-oin woman had been married to Harris since 1945. Belgian-Russian Pact Calls For Swap Of Goods BRUSSELS. Belgium (.in Bel. ! gium is to sell Soviet Russia 84.000 i tons of steel products and 18.000 tons of copper, zinc and other non. ferrous metals, the Belgian mm istry of foreign trade revealed. lhe ministry published details of a Belgian-Russian trade agree- signed on ivov. 15 nere. Among other Relgian exports to Russia will be intlustrial diamonds and two floating cranes, i Among Belgium imports from . Russia will be 125,000 Ions of wheat 1 45.000 tons of manganese, 60,000 tons of phosphates and S50 Russian "Moscovit cars. Boy Bicyclist Injured In Collision With Auto Billy Revans, 11-year-old Rose burg boy, was seriously injured when he collided with an auto mobile driven by Robert Weinberg while riding a bicycle on East Douglas street Tuesday, state po lice reported. The boy, police reported, turned into the path of the oncoming auto mobile. Weinberg, ax oid the accident trying to hit a parked car Young Bevans was taken Merry hospital for treatment. to I harder than probably any other sec - lion of the county, according to .. r . r rear, lie noted that tne Hire bridge took a heavy pounding, but didn't completely wash away. The 21-year-old structure was at one ; time, said Freer, covered to a depth of almost two feet of water. lit look such a terrific haltering from logs and debris that loads for ' vehicles crossing it alter the flood hod to be limited to three tons, Th nl fn.iraa nu,.-.. fk.t ging operations are bottled up in' that area until the bridge is either j reinforced or rebuilt. No plans have I hn maHa, U ih. f ik. i ! effect yet. according to Frear. Damaqe Estimated J250.000 : rUjdces took a large part of the tot.Vf damage, but roads felt the major j-ffect of the rampant wa - trr. s-Vfl Frear. He noted that a section of the Cow creek road was at one time six feet below the aur- f. ce of the water. It was necessary tn put in a new right of way for n feet whea the waters had sub- sided. Road crews are presently the far northeait panhandle of the Korean peninsula. Should the Reds break out from this areea they could cut off the U. S. Seventh division's armored spearhead which Tuesday planted the United Nations flag on the south bank of the Yalu river at Hyesanjjn. , The buildup of Communist Chi nese and Korean forces in the M vi sa n staging areas may be primar- I n"Tch '"""d Sov"1 !"" I border. South Korean capital division uml h,ve pushed up the east eost to m"" uln ' ho" - jin. 5S miles from the Soviet border ! hr,T ,h "J' w,re P'rP"nt to m" siana. 1 Heavy gun-fire from the U .S. ' cru'sfr t .Paul prepared the way tor the boutn Korean advance. At Korean force that moved to the border had to pull back and parta of it were severed by overwhelm ing Communist strength. The Chinese are building a sys tem of tank traps and road blocks against an allied push towards Sin uiju. important border base, through which much of th Chinese war potential has been funnelled. The Reds meanwhile stepped up guerrilla activity behind the allied lines. Ban On Erotic Novel Asked By Police Censor novel oy tne ex-wue oi nr. noneri - -j : . " . mijnira mi - a city judge decision before tak ing action. Capt. Harry Fulnvrr, termed the book, "A Diary of Love," "vulgar, purple and in spots filthy." He asked Municipal Judge Matthew Hartigan to deride whether the novel by Maude Phelps Hutchins, divorced wife of the University of Chicago chancellor, ought to be banned. Mrs. Hutchins, at her home in Soiilhport, Conn., described the book as "simple, innocent, per haps a little canilid." She added: "The only question is, is it work of art? If so, it will defend itself." The book was published recently by New Directions of New York City. Suspended Students Reinstated By U. Of O. EUGENE (P Five univer sity of Oregon students, suspended from school last week after they were caught with beer in a dor mitory room, have been reinstated. Ray Hawk, director of Men's af fairs, said he felt it unfair to "exact a toll from five individuals, when there were many, many more not caught." The students were Vernon Cook, Roring; Fred Risser, Wisconsin; Thomas Slapleton, The Dalles; i George Murphy, Bristol, England; and George Dock. New York city. All are over 2.1 years of age and four are veterans. 1 working also on the Cow Creek can- yon roao near Byers which is pock - . : marked wim holes five or six feet deep. Add to this the msny small culvert fills that have been washed ; out and the total dameie. arrord ing the Frear, is close to $250,000, ; estimating conservatively, j Frear said that although his estl- : male of damage to roads and 1 bridges of a quarter million dollars i cannot he brushed off lhlly, it k.J it V. . u.a As a case in point he compared the 1927 flood with the latest inun- dation. In that year, he said, the ln.i He k.i.... Tk;. J.....- ; 1 lusht a costly lesson which kept . damage down this time. Since then, ! the county has been eliminating small hndges by using culvert fills. ' An average of from 10 to 40 such fills have been made yearly since 197. Frear said that had it not been for these fills and bridges being built higher, there would have been easily loo spans lost in the flood of 1SS0. q 274-50 Levee Breaks Threatened In Flood Area River's Oncoming Crest Increases Peril In Two California Localities By Th AMK-titd Pr-ai Two north central California areas today faced new threats from avalanches of muddy, debris filled flood waters that had be?un a general recession elsewhere in ! California and Nevada The floods have caused at least nine deaths and more than $20,000, 000 damage in three days. Army engineers warned res idents along the Sacramento river between Sacramento, Calif., and its mouth to watch for possible levee breaks as the crest of the combined Sacramento and Amer- . jcin rivers surses downstream The engineers termed the situation 1 critical and ordered out ISO men , in natrol levees near Sacramento , Crews worked on levees weakened by nine days of rain The second danger area was near Modesto, where runoff waters from the Don Pedro dam are expected to invade lowlands and residential areas today. The dam filled yester day and 26.000 cubic feet of water second are still flowing into it. General relief seemed to be at hand, however. The U. S. weather bureau in San Francisco reported "the ex- cessive rainstorm is ended The bureau predicted generally fair weather over northern and central California today. Kane Situation Eased Reno faced a tremendous clean up job. The waters of the rampaging Truckee river are once again re tained by their banks after 12 hour flood termed "the worst in Reno's history" by the mayor. Most of the (2.000,000 to $3,000,000 loss estimated by the Reno chamber of Commerce was suffered in dam aged hotels, stores and merchan dise. Mud and water filled many basements containing stocks o f Christmas goods. California damage was esti mated at (16,000.000 to $20,000,000 by the army engineers. The toll is expected to go higher. The state public works department says $2,000,000 damage has been done to highways and bridges alone. Water Receding The water still was high, but receding, in two California areas. Near Marysville, 10.000 persons evacuated from their homes looked over a huge sea of miAl and debris and waited for the Yuba river to fall. At I.odi, preparations to evac uate the entire population of 14.000 were suspended. Authorities pre dicted a fall in the Mokelumne ri ver, which had threatened to leap its banks. The stale department of public health rushed typhoid vaccine to Sutter, Yuoa and Tulare county health officers to combat drinking water troubles. The Red Cross, busy providing food, clothing, blankets and hous ing for refugees, registered flood victims as a preliminary step to the huge rehabilitation job Soviet-Built Jets Flee Before U.S. Challenge TOKYO. (If) Ten Russian built MIG-1S Jet plsnes were spot ted Tuesday by American planes over extreme northwest Korea but sped back into Chinese Communist Manchuria when challenged. The Far East air force said one formation of six jets "darted bark rrMi thm Vain river a the V.MI attempted to engage them in com- i oat. ' Later four other Red Jets did likewise when sighted hy sir force planes over Sinuiju I ' Motorist Unhurt When Switch Engine Hits Car ' nosenurg. oper- i ,,ln 1 1S4H sedan, narrowly es- pinul -Arts,,, a ,n mrw lukan hi- r a r ' '"i" ""'"'" "'".''"'''"' V was hit hy a houthrrn 1'arilic switch engine on Lane street late l.i it night, Chief of Police Calvin Baird reported. , Hand said Hart was guovg west on Ijine street snd did not see the oncoming engine. Hart's car was P , en si I S'e V "n c" puched several feet along the track coming to a stop. Hlion was issued, Baird said, and Hart was unhurt. The Weather ! 'I' wi,h mornina cloudiness today and Thursday, Highest temp, for any Nov. . Lowest temp, far any Nov. . Highest temp, yesterday Lowest temp, last 24 hours ... Precip. last 24 hours Precip. from Nov. 1 I E scats frem Nov. t Precip. from Sept. 1 Sunset today, 4:4 p.m. 1 Sunrise temerrew, :! a.m. . 14 . M . 40 .01 11 is m , Snowy Mount In Wyoming Tragedy Scene Religious Sect Owner Of Craft; Eight Victims Formerly Of Oregon MORAM. Wyo. (Jp) A Mis sionary plane with 21 aboard 10 of them children apparently crashed anil burned last night in s-virhng clouds on snowy Mount Moran. Rescue units headed for the scene. Grand Teton national park of ficials were sure climbers making their tortuous way up the 12.100 foot peak would find wreckage of the plane. They held only slim hope there could be survivors. A resort owner said he saw t burning fuselage in the flames far above timberline on the precip itous east face of the mountain. When the fire subsided, he could see nothing resembling e campfire. The missing plane was bound 'rom Chico. Calif., to Billings, Mont. Owned by the New Tribei mission, a religious organization, it was on the first leg of a flight to South America. Passengers included two young mothers with their children, wid owed in the crash of another mis- I ,ic,n-owned plane in Venetuela last June which killed IS. In Los Angeles, Irving Samuel son, an official of the New Tribes mission, said its director, Paul W. Fleming, was believed to be aboard, along with two women and three pilots. Victims From Oregon He said the widows of two mis sionaries who lost their lives in the crash of the mission'! plana in Venezuela last June are Mrs. John Greiner, together with her five children ranging from two to eight years of age, and Mrs. Ben Wetherald, widow of the pilot of the Venezuela plane, with their baby son. The Wetheralds are from Portland. Ore. Both were grad uated last year from the University of Oregon. Pilot of the missing plane Is Cy I,owrey. the co-pilot ia Jack Den- nis and also aboard wai Bob Cram- mer, formor B-17 pilot in the Phil ippines and Indochina. Samuelson sard the plane was scheduled to stop at North Platte, Neb., Minneapolis, Kenosha, Wis., Chicago and other points, picking up about 20 more missionaries for Bolivia and Brazil, and leaving Miami Dec. 12. He said the plane had been flown but a few hours and was thoroughly checked before it left. Chico. Pilots of the mission's plsnes, he added, are experienced fliers. The interdenominational m I s sinn, Samuelson said, is supported by churches in all parts of the United States and has missions in Africa and the Oreint as well as South America. Merchants Press Movt For Trade Law Ruling PORTLAND (Pi The Oregon Food Merchants association wants the question of constitutionality of the state's fair trade law settled but it isn't going to seek damages from the grocer who started Port land's coffee price war. That's what Robert Green, asso ciation secretary, said. He said the law permits suit for triple damages. But the association doesn't want damages. It just wants the law's status cleared up. W. V. Luther, Portland grocer, was arrested and charged with violating the law when he cut coffee prices two weeks ago. The price war ended after housewives had had several days in which to buy at prices that ranged down to 51 cents a pound. Driver Cited Following Crash; Passenger Hurt Kenneth Ford was cited for op erating a vehicle without a driv er's license as a result of a side swipe collision Tuesday on high way 225, four miles west of Suther lin, the state police reported. The police said Ford, accom panied by a passenger, Herman Aydelott, were driving on the nar now road when they met a logging truck driven by Derral Robert Pohl, Sutherlin, and collided. Ay delott received head injuries and broken ribs, police stated. Ford and Pohl were unhurt. District Attorney For Josephine County Named SALEM (P Max L. Me Millin, 33-year-old attorney for the State Public Utilities commission, was appointed by Governor Mc Kay today as Josephine county district attorney. He succeeds William F. Johnson, Grants Pass, whose resignation was effective three days ago. MrMillin has lived in Oregon seven years, and is sssistant chair man of the Young Republican Fed eration of Oregon. HALSETH TO SAK Ttev. Otto Halseth. former Look ingglass resident, who spent sev eral years in Norway, will apeak at the Lookingglass church at S o'clock tonight. All interested per sons are invited to come and hear Rev. Mr. Halseth speak. Levity Fact Rant By L F Relzenstein Count that day as rare Whosa records show net entry , Of Qohri Law's hefty swot At dninken driver gentry. o