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TO Prosperity of The Weather Cloudy tonight and Wednes day: occasional light rain Wednesday. All Essential, Briton States Ml Established 1873 Comigiressmmami Mimes W Heart Attack Suffered on 62nd Birthday House Member 1 1 Years; Idaho's Senator Thomas Also Claimed by Death WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 P Rep. James W. Mott (R.-Ore.), a member of Congress since 1933, died yesterday of a heart attack on his G2nd birthday. He had been In the Bethesda, Sid., naval hospital three weeks and on Thursdav underwent an operation for relief of an Intes tinal obstruction. The House political lineup now is 241 Democrats. 188 Republi cans, two members of other par ties and four vacancies. Congressman Mott's death fol lowed that last Saturday of an other Republican member of Con gress. Senator John R. Thomas of Idaho, at the age of 71. His successor may be a Democrat, as the governor of Idaho, with the appointing power, is also of that party. Mott was a member of the House Naval Affairs committee. He was first elected to the 73rd Congress, and re-elected to the 74th, 75th, 76th, 77tht, 78th and 'Continued im page 6 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE Chinese Communists de mand that General Wede meyer (commanding U. S. forces In China) apologize for and that COMPENSATION BE PAID FOR American "interference" in China. FHE Chinese Reds are obviously on the prod. We naturally wonder WHY. On the surface, it looks as if they're trying to drag the United States in on the Chungking side in the hope of bringing Russia In on THEIR side. If that should happen, another first-class world war would be well on the way to getting started. IF all-out civil war gets started I in China, with us lined up on one side and Russia on the other, our hopes of a peaceful world will go glimmering. REMEMBER that over all of us hangs the grim threat of the atom bomb whose secret for brief moment in history WE ALONE possess. The possibilities of atomic warfare are so fantas tically terrible that they might even induce Stalin to come to America to talk things over. WE get a glimpse of atomic warfare's wierd potentialities In a dispatch from Alamagordo, New Mexico, which reports that cattle changed color and a ranch- (Continued on page 2) Secretary of War Patterson Upholds Doolittle's Right to Rap Navy's One-Sided Claim WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. UP) Secretary of War Patterson backed up Army officers today with the assertion they may "ex press their own personal convictions with force and vigor" when discussing proposals to merge the armed forces. Patterson took this stand In his reply to a letter from Secretary of the Navy Forrestal protesting statements by Lt. Gen. James H. Doollttle before the Senate Military committee. "I have read his testimony,' Patterson wrote, "and I am cer tain that he had no intention of presenting the case for unifica tion on other than Its merits." Doollttle touched off the row when he remarked "our B-29 boys are resting uneasllv In their graves" because of claims bv Ad mirals Nimltz and Mitvher about the Importance of the Navy's role in the Pacific victory. "Remarks reflecting on those who hold mntrarv views or Im pugning their motives, as well as statements claiming that anv branch of the service won the war single-handed, are hound to produce more heat than light and to nrovoke useless recriminations. 'This docs not mean, however,1 i: V .- 1 ': i l ji) ,... taMMttiB . m. ., Rep. J. W. Mott Died on 62nd Birthday Senator John Thomas Idaho Solon Passes Indictments Hit Six Persons Here Five Indictments involving six persons were filed in circuit court here late Friday with five defend ants pleading innocent upon ar raignment before Judge Carl E. Wimberly. Indicted were: Ben T. Chllders and Dewey Washington, charged with as sault and robbery, August 2, at Keedsport, upon Oscar Plumber. They were allgeed to have stolen $175. Alex Steve West, accused of having stabbed Fred J. Hayes following an altercation at Can yonvllle May 14. Anthony John Campaln, ac cused of the theft of $136 from the Marcellus Pate home at Myrtle Creek, Oct. 21. Charles Harold Dunn accused of non-support. James J. Holmes, charged with assault and battery upon the per son of Eugene F. Small, Rose bur?. June 21. Dunn has not yet been ar raigned upon the non-support charge. All other defondents an nounced intention of standing trial at the November term of court, starting today. that officers should not freely ex press their own personal convic tions with force and vigor. Lt. Gen. Doollttle did that In present ing his views to the committee." Patterson Disagrees As for Forrestal's suggestion that "inlurious acrimony" he avoided bv "elevating this whole deliberation to the level of a sne cial inouirv bv a presidential commission." Patterson replied: "I do not agree that the delib erations can be 'elevated to a hieher level than the Senate Com mittee on Military affairs. I know of no higher forum for matters of Continued on Page 6) '4' if 1 : J Japan Must Pay Enormous War Penalty Five-Fold Boost in Taxes Forecast as Commission Begin Reparations Talk TOKYO. Nov. 13 (if Presi dent Truman's reparations rep resentative. Edwin S. Pauley, reached Tokyo tonight and an nounced "I want a couole of davs to size ud the situation before making anv definite statements" about the reparations bill defeat ed Janan will be asked to pay. He arrived with Naw Undersec retary Artemus L. Gates. Seventeen members of the reparations commission began Dreliminary discussions with of ficers of General MacArthur's staff here Nov. 9. and Pauley's arrival signalled the start of of fcial deliberations. Another crushing reminder of the cost of war was brought home to Jananese hv forecasis of taxes five times hipher than cur rent levies desnite a halved budget. Both points were con tained In a recommendation given the finance ministry by the semi official postwar currency council. The newspaper Yomiurl Hochl. reporting the sharp warning, said that the council had been charged with preparation of a five-year program to stabilize currency already ballooned bv a mush rooming black market. Indicating smoothness of his occupation program desnite signs of restlessness among the Jaoa- nese, General MacArthUr today announced consolidaton of his two armies in Japan into one force under Lt. Gen. Robert L. Elchei berger. Food Problem Posed Allied headquarters directed the Japanese government to say (Continued on Page 6) Former Roseburg Resident Hurt in Auto Accident Mrs. R. M. Day, a former Rose burg resident, aunt of Mrs. Charles V. Stanton and Mrs. Fred L. Perry of Roseburg, and her grandson, Rav Collins, were in jured early Monday in an auto mobile accident at Woodland, Calif., while en route from their home In Eugene to Los Angeles. Mrs. Dav and Mr. Collins, the latter employed with the Eugene radio station KORE. visited brief ly in Roseburg Sunday night. The Woodland Clinic, where the Injured couple was taken fol lowing the accident, reported Mrs. Day to be suffering from a broken pelvis and fractured ribs, but her recovery was expected. Collins was less seriously Injured. Details of the accident were not learned. Mrs. Day's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harlowe of Eugene, left Monday afternoon for Woodland uoon re ceipt of news of the accident. Japs From Tule Lake Sue To Regain Citizenship SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 13 liPt More than 1.000 Japanese today filed suits seeking to re gain United States' citizenship which they contended thev had been forced to renounce during the war. The suits, entered as the gov ernment prepared to start de portation of all renunclants on Nov. 15, were in behalf of Japa nese residents of the Tule I-ake center in northern California. The Japanese filed two mass petitions for writs of habeas corpus In the U. S. District court here, charging they were victims of duress bv the government and seditious groups. Cancellation of Doe Deer Season in Oregon Urged LAKEVIEW. Nov. 13f.P-A fish and wildlife representative urged todav that the IVc. 1-5 doe deer season In the Fort Rock Silver lake area be cancelled. James A. Andrews. Fort Rock, declared that lllepal killing of does durinp the buck deer season was so hleh that another open time would endanger the herds He estimated that almost as mnnv does as bucks had been killed, and left to rot In the for ests. The state game commission had scheduled 800 permits lor the doe cccr season. ROSEBURG. OREGON, TUESDAY. v - '-'It, J" VALENTINO'S WIFE Revealed by relatives as the original "Lady in Black," who yearly placed flowers at the tomb of screen lover Rudolph Valentino, Marion E. Wilson, above, Is in a Santa Monica, Calif., hospital receiving treatment for an over dose of sleeping tablets in a suicide attempt. A onetime fol lies beauty, she kept secret for 20 years her marriage in France to Valentino and the birth of their daughter. New Indonesian Premier Chosen As Warfare Rages BATAVTA, Java, Nov. 13 P) Sultan Slahrir, 36-year-old So cialist leader, described as a moderate with whom the Dutch are likely to deal, became pre mier of the nrecognized Indone sian republic today as British forces blasted at Indonesian na tionalists In the heart of Soera baia. Sjahrir's selection as premier by the cabinet meant that the nationalists had decided on a new governmental system under which President Soekarno appar ently will have but a minor role. The Dutch had refused to deal with Soekarno. Meanwhile the warfare be tween the British, charged with the task or occupation, and the nationalists rose in Intensity. with naval and field guns and RAF planes supporting troops which hammered through at least nair of hoerabaja. British headquarters announced in an official statement that the bodies of two Japanese wearing Japanese uniforms were found in an overrun Indonesian bunker at Soerabaja. The report, noting evi dences of Japanese-style tactics in Indonesian fighting, said "there is little doubt that some Japanese are still art i vol v en gaged in the disturbances at Soerabaja. U. S., Britain to Confer On Palestine Problem LONDON. Nov. 13. For eign Secretary Bevln announced today that the United States had accepted an Invitation to cooper ate with Britain in setting up a Joint Anglo-American inouirv to examine the question of Euro pean Jewry and make a further review of the Palestine problem In the light of this examination. Bevln told commons that there recently had been demands made on the British government for "large scale Immigration" of Jews Into Palestine from war ravaged Europe. Girl Killed When Auto Goes Over 400-Foot Bank PORTLAND, Nov. 13. P A 15-vear-old school girl was killed and three other companions In jured yesterday when their auto careened off the Wolf Creek hlghwav and plunged over a 400 foot embankment. Police reported I m 0 g e n e Cohoes was dead when admitted to the Astoria hospital and her friends, Florian l.askl. 20. Mrs. Evelyn Maver. 78. and Donald Moorman. 18. Injured. The four were en route to the beach on an outing. French Assembly Names DeGaulle Interim Head PARIS, Nov. 13. fzPI Gen. De Gaulle. France's wartime mili tary leader, was unanimously elected interim president of the French government by the con stituent assembly todav to direct the creation of the Fourth Re public ! J I '.u- aV - S....-.E 123 1 , NOVEMBER 1 3, 1 945 Hflott Atomic Bomb Control Said To Be Mapped Attlee's Plan Reported To Have Found Favor, but Details So Far Unknown WASHINGTON. Nov. 13 .m -iThe Truman-Attlee conference was reported todav to have reached general agreement on steos toward international con trol of the atomic bomb. An an nouncement is possible before the weekend. This information was obtained from diplomatic officials who de clined identification. They report ed that President Truman and Prime Ministers Attlee and Mac kenzie King have been in sub stantial agreement since their Sundav afternoon talk, and the task at the moment is one of working out wording for a com- munloue on which all can agree. Tentatively, the conference rr.av he wound up Thursdav nipht and the communique Issued Fri- dav. The onlv flv in the ointment from the point of view of Amer ican, and possibly Canadian offi cials, Is the amount of informa tion emanating from British sources here as to the pre-emi nent role played by Attlee in the talks. Attlee Offers Plan One plan for putting atomic bomb controls under the United Nations security council, pooling scientific Information through tbvsame agency and pencrally strengthening the United Nations throuph closer cooperation or the United States, Britain and Russia has come to be known here as the Attlee plan. However, some of Attlee's own associates say that his ideas were presented to the president and King orally rather than by writ ten memorandum. Others on the inside of the talks claim that In (Continued on Page G) Shortage of Fuel Threatens Closure Of Jr. High School The continued lumber strike, with resultant fuel shortage, Is threatening closeur of Roseburg Junior High school. Paul Elliott, city school iupcrintendent, re ported today. The school now is being heated with supplies of sawdust delivered daily. There Is no reserve sunplv, as the school has only limited storage space. Arrangements have been made to secure one load of sawdust daily temporarily, Elliott states, but there Is no assurance how long deliveries can be maintained. One load is the minimum require ment and would not be sufficient in the event of extreme cold. The heating plant at Senior High school Is being converted to use cordwood and It is believed a fuel supply can be maintained. Grade schools have larger stor age space and have been stocked with sufficient fuel to maintain heat until the first of the year. Retail Ceiling Prices In Roseburg Area Hold The retail community ceiling price list covering fresh fruits and vegetables in the Roseburg at pa. Issued Nov. 8. will continue In effect until further notice, the Roseburg OPA headquarters was advised today. All retail stores are authorized to maintain prices ay prescribed In the Nov. 8 reg ulation. Train Hits Auto; Woman Gives Birth to Son While Dauqhter Burns to Death PUNXSUTAWNEY. Pa., Nov. 13 Thrown from an automobile which was mashed by a apeedinq train, Mrs. Frank Marti, 39. qave birth to a son en a railroad embankment here while her dauahter, Mary 21. burned to death in the flaming wreck age yesterday. The baby, uninlured, was in fair condition today. The condition of the mother, who suffered shock, a broken right arm and two broken legs, was serious. Mrs. Marti" husband, who was rushing her to the hospital for the imminent birth, was also thrown from the car but re ceived only minor Injuries. DSes NO AUTO PRICE HIKE Pressure Groups Get Stinging Rap From OPA Head WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (JPl Bitterly denouncing "govern ment by pressure," Price Admin istrator Bowles told Congress to day he Is rejecting demands of automobile dealers for higher re tail prices on new cars. He said government by lobby pressure "Is-an ominous sign of our times." Appearing before the House Small Business committee, the OPA chief estimated members of Congress have received more than 5,000 telegrams protesting OPA's auto price plans. Describing this as tne great est single pressure group opera tion since OPA was established," Bowles declared: "Two and one-half years In Washington has made me some thing of an expert on pressure groups, lobbyists and pressure group tactics. I have been alarmed at the tendency on the part of some to feel that Con gress and government officials should base their decisions, not on the validity of a particular issue, but on the measure of pres sure which could be focused at any given point. "This Idea of 'government by pressure' is an ominous sign of our times. It Is a threat to the democratic rights of all the In articulate, silent, little people of America." Bowles told the committee. In the presence of hundreds of auto dealers gathered in the House caucus room, that under the OPA price schedules for new automo biles the dealers "are likely to have their best profit year In lb-lb. ' FBI Knew Japs Would Open War WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.3 (Pi A congressional Pearl Harbor Investigator today quoted J. Ed gar Hoover as saying the FBI had Information on Nov. 20, 19-11, that "war was imminent." The statement was made to reporters by Represenative Gear hart (R.. Calif.l. member of the Senate-House committee looking Into the circumstances surround ing the successful Japanese at tack on the fleet at Hawaii De cember 7, 1941. Gearhart said Hoover had given "very valuable Informa tion which I believe will result In startling disclosures." quoting tne cnier in con nection with advance informa tion on the "lmmlnenco" of the war, Oarhnrt said: "As a result. Mr. Hoover told us he had alerted his men in the Islandr. "If the Armv and Naw had done that there never would have been a Pearl Harbor. Chinese Nationalists Win Wall's Coast Anchor CHUNGKING. Nov. lXtm Oneralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops nave captured the strate gic rail town of Shanhaikow from Chinese Communists, neutral sources reported todav. Shanhalkwan, coastal anchor of tne oreat Wall, has been the ob jective or povernment troops seek Ing entry Into Manchuria. American officials meanwhile denied a Communist-circulated re port that the Chinese povernment would get a $04,000,000 loan from the United States to buy muni tions, and that the United States had gone bevond its wartime promise of equipment for 39 umsions. Move to Defer Military Training Law Rejected WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.1. fP) The House Mllltarv committee today relected by a lS-to-12 vote a move to oeier consideration of universal military training until next year. It agreed to resume hearings Thursdav on the plan reauested Oct. 22 bv President Truman. The witness that day will be General Elsenhower. Truman Sets November 22 As Day of Thanksgiving WASHINGTON, Nov. 13-W -President Truman has pro claimed Nov. 22, fourth Thursday of the month, as Thanksgiving dav. His proclamation asked that "we give thanks with the hu mllltv of free men, each know ing It was the might of no one arm but of all together bv which we were saved." 45 265 a a aaeejp m ami . mai.inmam OFF WITH CASANOVA Elea nor Deveny, 2b, above, wife of a soldier in Japan and moth of fwo small children, is under arrest at Oroville, Calif., follow. ing elopement from her Lonq Beach home with Ellsworth (Sonny Boyl Witecarver, 16, also held in Sonny Boy crashed the front pages two years ago, at the aqe of 14, when he married another woman with two children. The marriage was annulled on the basis of a child-stealing charge prefsrred against the bride by the boy s mother. Auto Crash Sends Two to Hospital Sam Black. Baker. Oregon, was critically injured: Mrs. Earl G. Chauin. Roseburg, is being treated at Merev hospital, and Mr. t'hapln, suffered cuts and bruises when an automobile driven by Chapln crashed Into a signal tower at the traffic di vider .it the Intersection of Sec ond Avenue South with the Pa cific highway Saturday night. The automobile skidded on wet pavement, one of the real wheels crossinj; the concrete divider and :hrowlir i tic autoniobili against a rono.rtc pillai oimporiing a i affie '.?ML Chief at Police Et in Sho't reported. Mr. and Mrs. Chupln were tnrown firm th automoh.le while Binck, who wns r'ding in the froi-t wat with the Roseburg couple, ucs pinned in t'io wreck age. Black remained In a semi conscious condition through Sun day, but was reported todav to oe snowing improvement. Mrs. Chapln, although badly cut ami bruised, is expected to recover. Mr. Chapln was able to leave the hospital after his injuries had been treated. The automobile was demol ished. Requests Pour In to Save Doomed Oregon Murderer SALEM. Ore., Nov. M-J?pt Acting Gov. Howard C Belton said today he hns received many requests to commute to life im prisonment the death sentence ol Andrew W. Denuhi, Porlland, who Is scheduled tj die Friday morning for slaying Mrs. Anna Bells McNallen, his mother In Iw. Pelton said he Is not yet readv to i nnounee his decision, as he wants more time to study the cue. Prison Warden George Alex ander said Dennis shows no slims of nervousness, and that he is eating well. Dennis has had no visitors. Banking Right Restored To Oregon Grange Unit SALEM, Ore., Nov. 13 iP Harding Grange In Clackamas count v. which was Imnrixir ited In 1H75 and authorized to do a general banking business, was re stored to corporate status today by Acting Governor Howard C. Helton. A few weeks ago, It was dis covered that the grange lost Us corporate status In 1912 because of carelessness on the part of Its officers. However, It had con tinued Its meetings for the last 33 years as a corporation. Neuner Issues Ruling on Restaurant Ordinances SALEM. Ore., Nov. 13 OPt Restaurants licensed under mu nicipal sanitation ordinances are not affected by state laws which requirerestaurants to he licensed by Ibe state healtn oincer. Attor ney General Neuner held todav. Cities with such ordinances do not have to make the ordinances conform with the state law, I Neuner said. Atomic Bomb Prompted Trip to U. S., Lawmakers Told by Prime Minister WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (& -Prime Minister Clement Attlee told congress today that the foun dations of peace must be "world prosperity ana gooa neignoor llness." There is "no reason," he said for economic rivalry between Great Britain and the United States. Speaking in the House of Rep resentatives to Senators and Con- pressmen who must approve any U. S. financial aid for Britain, Attlee frankly sought to remove what he called "some apprehen sions" about his labor party's program. In his address, tne nntisn leader mentioned only briefly the prime purpose of his visit to this country to discuss with President Truman the eventual disposition of th secrets of atomic produc tion. He gave no indication of the course which the conferences are taking. Nation Must Begin Afresh Attlee likened his country to a man In Britain returning irom the war to find "his home blitzed and his business runled." 'We went all out to win the war and now have to start afresh." he said. "Like him, we are facing the future with cour- aee and a determination to win through." Attlee said he looked forward to "an era of Increasing coopera tion and frlendshin" between the U. S. and Britain. That friendship, he said, should not be "exclu sive." but rather "a contribution to the knitting topether with all peoples through the United Na- (Continued on page fi Adeauafe Forces Heeded in Europe, Eisenhower Says BOSTON. Nov. 13 -(.'Pi A cau tion against too rapid return of American soldiers from Europe was left with the nation today by lifiwai Dwtsnr t-isennower. The general said that he be lieved American soldiers "should be returned to their homes." but added "American's obligations to the world and ourselves should he fulfilled." Speaking last night at a state dinner. Eisenhower said: "If disintegration of our forces goes too far. It will provide evi dence to the German people that we are not equal to our task, and an enduring peace mav disappear and the war may have been foueht in vain. "The day of critical decision Is rushing upon us." rne geenrai said tne "plain fact" is that "the keeping of the peace requires maintenance of adeouate forces in Europe. "We have a responsibility to the displaced persons of Europe," he said. "We cannot neglect them. The sad fact is our Job will be a con tinuous one until they have been given the opportunity to develop themselves a self-respecting standard of living." Senators Seek Return of Free Circulation of Gold WASHINGTON. Nov. 13 UPl A return to free circulation of gold was proopsed today by Sen ators Murrav (D.-Mont.) and Tavlor (D.-Idaho). The two announced they would present a bill to: 1. Permit coinage of a 3U gold piece. 2. Provide for free circulation of gold and the convertibility of gold with currency. 3. Authorize the president to In crease the price of gold about $35 on ounce. 4. Permit mints to exchange coined gold or currency for gold bullion. Truman Asks More Funds For Foreign Relief Job WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 P President Truman asked Con gress todav to authorize a new appropriation of $1,350,000,000 to help carry forward In Europe and in Asia the works of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilita tion administration. This would match an orlg'nal authorization by Congress on March 28. 1944. Of the original authorization, $550,000,000 re mains to be appropriated. The House has approved the sum but Senate action is still pending. LvltyFactnnt My L. T. Itelzenitela The Industrial huddle at Washington has agreed en tha principle of collective bargain ing. It should ba explained, how ever, that the eellectivt phase refers- en ene tide te all the nation's business Interests, and en the ether side to the "group" composed of John L Lewis in dividually. I ' 1
