Firemen Fight
Lebanon Blaze
Lebanon, Feb. 7 Firemen
fought for an hour Monday eve
ning to control a fire which par
tially destroyed a business build
ing that was occupied by three
firms.
The building, at Maple and
Main, housed the Union Oil of
fice, Billy's Welding shop and
the Stevenson Fuel company,
Mrs. Victor Carlson, wife of
the operator of the oil company,
discovered the fire and turned
in the alarm. Firemen were able
to prevent the blaze from spread
ing. Elmer Fitzgerald, fire chief,
Is holding an investigation today
In an attempt to determine the
origin of the fire. Extent of the
damage will not be known until
an inventory is completed by
the three chief losers.
Rich Girl
Fights to
Win Career
Hollywood, Feb. 7 OJ.PJ The
songstress, Gina Janss, is dedi
cated to proving that a rich girl
has as much right to a career as
a poor one.
It's just twice as hard when
you're rich, Miss Janss says. No
body thinks you need any help.
Miss Janss, who has been bill
ed as the "poor little rich girl,"
is the daughter of a millionaire
California realtor who rakes in
money faster than he can give it
away.
"Go home and mind your
yachts," agents told her when
she tried to break into show bus
iness. "Let some poor kid have
chance."
"It made me mad," she says
now. "After all, in a democracy
there ought to be a chance for
the rich as well as the poor to
make good."
So Miss Janss went to New
York. She introduced herself
as Virginia McKay. She got
jobs in New York, Washington,
Miami and Chicago, just like any
poor girl.
"When I proved to myself, my
family and the world that I
could do it," she said, "I came
back west and got work under
my own name."
Now, not satisfied with a sing
ing engagement at the Macayo
supper spot, Miss Janss is study
ing acting and public speaking
with an eye on bigger things.
"I've always been afraid of
movies,'' she said. "But since
I've been on television I've got
over that a little. In fact, I
rather like working in front of
the cameras, even though I miss
the applause.
"In television you don't have
drunks yapping loudly while you
tear out your heart in a torch
song. And you don't have wait
ers interrupting a cute comedy
number by dropping a tray on
the floor.
"I like television, and I might
be brave enough to try movies.
If I get a chance, that is. I hope
the fact that I'm not a poor,
struggling extra won't make any
difference.
"After all, money isn't every
thing." Assembles Data on
Sfayfon Irrigation
Loyd Burnett, irrigation tech
nician for the bureau of the cen
sus, is now in the Stayton area
assembling information on irri
gation. About 10 farms in that
area are under irrigation.
The arrival of Burnett was an
nounced today by Cornelius
Bateson, supervisor of the cen
sus for this district. Burnett is
from the Seattle regional office
of the census for 1950.
Burnett will gather informa
tion on all drainage projects and
enterprises as well as checking
on irrigation. He is a soil con
servation official and is on loan
to the census bureau.
You'd Know They Were Paying Taxes Better weather has
enabled many folks to reach the collector of internal revenue
at the post office building and those shown in the waiting
room and standing in the doorway are concerned about
paying their federal income taxes.
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Second Dividend to Veterans
On Insurance Begins in 1951
Washington, Feb. 7 MP) There's another big dividend on
World War II veterans' life insurance coming up next year.
It won't be nearly as large as the $2,800,000,000 payment now
Being distributed, but it will run into millions.
The veterans administration has informed congress it plans to
nay out about 65 per cent of theS
new special dividend in the first
six months of 1951, and the
rest before the end of that year.
Thereafter, said H. W. Brain
ing, VA s insurance administra
tor, the National Service Life
Insurance program probably will
start paying dividends annually
in the years when a surplus is
available.
'We have no idea of the
amount that will be available for
the 1951 dividend payment,"
Breining told a reporter.
"We won't have, until we de
termine our mortality experi
ence for the years involved, and
the size of the reserves that
must be set up to cover the many
contingencies.
'We have the help on this of
an acturial advisory committee
made up of some of the top in
surance talent in the country."
The current $2,800,000,000
dividend is from a surplus that
developed during the first eight
years of the program from 1940
through the 1948 anniversary
date of each of the 20,000,000
policies issued to 16,500,000
World War II veterans.
The forthcoming special divi
dend, Breining said, will cover
three policy years, through the
1951 anniversary date of each
policy.
The current dividend is being
paid on all policies that were in
force three months or longer.
Breining said the 1951 pay
ments probably will be made
only on policies in .force for a
year or longer. It will, however,
cover policies that lapsed during
the three years as well as those
still in force, he said.
Overpayments to veterans un
der laws administered by VA
will be deducted f'om those
checks as they are from the
current dividend, Breining said
VA cannot deduct overpay
ments that were made by the
armed services or other federal
agencies, however, nor can it
withhold amounts owed by the
veterans in income taxes. The
dividend payments are not sub
ject to income tax or to attach
ment for private debts.
The government is currently
rolling out refund checks far
faster than the top-speed goal
set when deliveries began three
weeks ago.
Treasury officials said their
mechanized mass production sys
tem has attanied an average
daily rate of 250,000 checks or
more against a 200,000 goal set
at the start.
They reported 3,615.076 checks
with a cash value of $641,671,
184 making the average over
Skiing Star Gets
Hug from Rita
Gstadd, Switzerland, Feb 7
(U.R) A 209-pound skiing star
said today that the hug he re
ceived from Rita Hayworth Sun
day night "was better" than the
trophy from her husband. Prince
Aly Khan.
"No I did not hug back," Au
guste Masson said. "I was too
surprised. Besides, I was hold
ing the trophy."
Masson won the downhill race,
feature of the Wassern Grat ski
ing derby here Sunday,
Then Miss Hayworth, dressed
in a black tulle dress and an
ermine cape, helped her husband
hand out the prizes in a cere
mony at the Palace hotel.
Prince Aly handed the skier
his trophy. Then Miss Hay
worth, instead of extending her
hand in the usual custom, held
his shoulder and hugged him.
"Miss Hayworth was charming
and more beautiful than she has
appeared on the screen," Masson
said.
Rita, still recuperating from
the birth of her daughter Prin
cess Yasmin more than a month
ago, is not well enough to ski,
But Palace hotel sources said
she enjoys watching her husband
ski.
Ladies of South and Central
America often fasten great num
bers of fire-flies to their evening
dresses for decorative lighting,
according to the Encyclopedia
Americana.
S177 had been turned out when
ihe tally was made on opera
tions through yesterday.
While the major part of the
operation was scheduled to wind
up before June 30, a consider
able speed-up is in prospect if
the present pace can be held,
Named Mrs. Thaha Massie
Bell.taDove), 40, central figure
in a 1932 Honolulu murder
trial in which four persons
were convicted for avenging
her honor through murder, is
the defendant in $10,000
damage suit charging her with
an attack on her pregnant
landlady in Los Angeles. Mrs.
Bell was the wife of Navy
Lt. Thomas H. Massie when
he was arrested for slaying
one of five Hawaiians hf be
lieved had raped his wife the
preceding year. (Acme Tele-photo)
Girl 'Chutist Against Nazis
Finds Happiness in Gl Marriage
Johnstown, Ja., Feb. 7 U.PJ Nine years isn't a lony time and
4,000 miles isn't a long way, but the combination represents a
lifetime to Mrs. Toni Showe.
Mrs. Showe made 82 parachute lumps against the Nazis when
she was only 14 years old.
The attractive blonde, happily
caring for her two young sons
and hustling from store to store
on shopping sprees, gives little
indication that she once suffered
four years in Nazi concentration
camps.
The Czech war bride was born
Prague 23 years ago. Her
family took her to Poland when
she was a year old.
When Tom was 11, the Ger
man army followed dive bomb
ers into Poland from the west.
The Russians invaded from the
east. Toni and her family be
came "Russians."
Her father disappeared short
ly when the Rusians took him
to a work camp. Russia and the
Nazis were allies then and Toni's
father was an outspoken anti
Nazi. He was released when
Hitler tore up his "non-aggression"
pact with Russia.
When she was 14, Toni and
her 17-year-old brother joined
a sabotage and espionage group
behind the Russian lines. There
were few members in the under
ground and for those few, there
was no rest. The Nazi war
machine rolled across Europe in
two directions.
Toni was assigned to a group
of 60 who flew over the Ger
man lines at night. One by one,
they parachuted and scattered
for individual missions. After
three days of spying and destroy
ing Nazi war equipment, those
who could escape met at a pre
arranged rendezvous and were
flown back to the underground
headquarters.
The plucky youngster and her
brother made 81 successful mis
sions together. On the 82nd,
Toni's luck ran out.
Her parachute dumped her
roughly to the ground and she
broke a leg. Limping along the
road, she was accosted by a
drunken German soldier who de
manded that she state her busi
ness.
She had a set of memorized
stock" answers to questions and
the soldier dismissed her. For a
moment, she thought she was
safe, but before she realized
what had happened an SS man
and two dogs confcrted her.
One of the dogs lumped at
her. Having no other recourse,
she shot it. She was arrested as
a spy and the SS man put a
bullet into her good leg.
The next four years were
spent in the squalor and filth
of Nazi death camps. Often for
months on end, she saw no light
but the dim incandescent bulbs
of her hut.
Finally the tide of war turn
ed and sovereign German terri
tory got smaller and smaller.
Toni was moved from one camp
to another as conquering Amer
ican armies swept across the
German plains. When she reach
ed a camp near Liepzig, she was
freed.
One of her liberators was
Pfc. John Showe of Johnstown,
and a friendship grew up be
tween them. Showe was return
ed to the United States and dis
charged, but he re-enlisted and
returned to Germany. He found
Toni in Frankfurt. In November,
1946, they were married.
Four months later, they mov
ed to Johnstown.
Mrs. Showe hasn't seen her
family since the concentration
camps. They were swallowed up,
as were millions of families, by
war and the aftermath of it,
Silver Shirter
Pelley Paroled
Washington, Feb. 7 U.PJ Wil
liam Dudley Pelley, 60-year-old
Silver Shirt leader, Monday was
granted a parole after serving
almost half of a 15-year federal
prison sentence for wartime
sedition.
Pelley was sentenced to 15
years imprisonment by a feder
al court at Indianapolis, Ind.,
August 12, 1942.
His parole becomes effective
February 14. He has been serv
ing his sentence at the Terre
Haute, Ind., penitentiary.
Pelley, claiming that the ac
tivities for which he was con
victed were a fight against com
munism, sought twice in recent
years to gain his freedom
through writs of habeas corpus.
He had been eligible for parole
since August 11, 1947.
The governments case was
based upon articles in the mag
azine "Galilean" which Pelley
published.
Through the magazine and
pamphlets, the government
charged, Pelley made false state
ments intended to interfere with
the success of United States mili
tary and naval forces and to
promote the success of Germany
and its allies.
Obscene Phonograph
Record Shipments Hit
Washington, Feb. 7 (U.R) The
supreme court ruled Monday it
is illegal to ship obscene phono
graph records in interstate commerce.
The decision reinstated the
conviction of Alexander Lawr
ence Alpers, San Francisco, who
had deposited some obscene rec
ords with the Railway Express
agency.
Justice Sherman Minton read
the 5 to 3 opinion. Justice Hugo
L. Black joined by Justices Fe
lix Frankfurter and Robert H.
Jackson, read a sharp dissent.
Justice William O. Douglas did
not participate.
Black said congress did not
specifically ban the shipment of
phonograph records, "therelore
this court should not do so."
"History is not lacking in
proof that statues like this may
readily be converted into in
struments for dangerous abridge
ments of freedom of expression,"
he said.
But Minton said "the obvious
purpose of the legislation under
consideration was to prevent the
channels of interstate commerce
from being used to disseminate
any matter that, in its essential
nature, communicates obscene,
lewd, lascivious or filthy ideas."
Fifty years ago federal taxes
amounted to only $3.88 per per
son. Now it's about $270 a head.
Delayed Installation
Calls Lodge Officers
Independence The Willam
ette Valley Association of Ma
trons and Patrons will meet at
8 o'clock Thursday evening, in
the Masonic hall at Corvallis,
when the 1950 officers will be
installed. St. Mary's Chapter,
No. 9, will be the hosts. The
meeting, originally scheduled for
January 12, was postponed be
cause of bad weather. The new
1950 year books will be given
out.
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Announce February
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Salem Elks Bridge club were
Mrs. Milton D. Parker and Ellis
H. Jones, and Mrs. Paul F. Bur
ns and Mrs. Harry I. Wiedmer,
Out-of-town attendance was
cut down because o icy high
ways, but 13 teams competed.
Hating points were won by
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