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Newspaper Page TextComp. rn U. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon (Pgr TO q)c The Weather Clear tonight and Thursday. Established 1873 US. Opposes Soviet Demand for Share in Control of Dardanelles Defense Task Up to Turkey H Note Declares Straits Should Be Ruled On United Nations Policy, State Department Holds WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. UP) In an historic claim to direct imprest In Black Sea affairs, the United States today formally de- Russlan demands for a share in military control 01 ine uuiuu nelles. The American note to Moscow was one of two factors that sent relations between the United States and countries within the Soviet orbit plummeting to a new postwar low. The other was this country s angry protest to Yugoslavia over the "outrageous performance" of Yugoslav fighter craft which at tacked and forced an American transport plane to crash land. Premier Marshal Tito retorted that his country wants peace "but not at any- price." Bearing the signature of Under Secretary of State Acheson, the Dardanelles note expressed the Continued on Page Slx In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (JOR months there have been 4 r rumors of huge sugar sur - pulses in the West especially in warehouses along the Pacific Coast. These rumors have upset everybody who has heard therri. They have shaken confidence in the government's sugar rationing policy. The story has been widely spread (and increasingly believed in the face of mounnting reports of bulging storage warehouses) that our government is withhold ing sugar from the people in an effort to prevent bootleggers from using it to make tax-free moonshine whiskey. The story is absurd, of course. But you never can tell what peo ple will believe when they .GET SUSPICIOUS. WE get finally, from a logical and reasonable source, what appears to be an approximation of the truth about the sugar sit uation in the West. P. T. Tattersall, Pacific region al OPA rationing chief, explains in Portland that "presence of HUGE SUPPLIES OF SUGAR warhoused at distribution points in some sections of the West Coast has caused irate and unin formed criticism aimed at pro continued on page 2) A. J. Geddes Ends 29 Years Dufy WM School District; A. B. Collier Appointed Clerk A period of more than 29 years served by A. J. Geddes with Roseburg's School District No. 4, was ended Monday night as A. B. Collier assumed the duties of school district clerk. Geddes, who held a directorship from 1917 to 1927, has been clerk since 1927. He announced last month that he would not again be a candidate for the position, and Collier was named to succeed him. Superintendent of Schools Paul S. Elliott lauded Geddes today for his long service, and expressed regret that he will no longer serve the school district. Seven new teachers were named to the school system by the school board, one resignation was ac cepted, and the opening date of school was set for September 9, Elliott reported. Teachers elected were: Miss Helen Savage, seventh grade in structor, Junior High School; Miss Edna Turner, English instructor, Junior High School; J. A. Stras burg. music and English, Junior High School; Mrs. Helen'P. Greer, English, Senior High; Leonard Kimbrell, English and art, Senior High; Miss Ruth Katlin, director of hot lunch program for the school system; Mrs. Violet Wil shire, fifth grade, Benson School. Resignation accepted was that of Mrs. Agnes Conyne, instructor, whose health will not permit her to continue, Elliott stated. Rentals Charges Upped Due to the increased costs of op Derby Winner Ollbert Klecan of San Diego, Cal. holds his trophy as his mother proudly hugs him after he won the Ail-American Soup Box Derby at Akron, O. His time was 27.13 seconds. In addition . to the trophy young Klecan won a $2000 scholarship. (NEA Tehnhoto) j Army Wives in Tokyo Loose AngerWhen Betfer Housing Is Provided for Newcomers TOKYO, Aug. 21. UP) Eight angry U. S. Army wives called on the colonel today and complained about living conditions at their quonset hut village, known as neither a palace nor heights. The wives s'aid they had put without plumbing, screen doors, matttesses or carpets because they understood they would have to live there only until permanennt units were finished. Overcharged Buyer Wins Treble Damages 9 Cents PORTLAND, Aug. 21. UP) Arthur J. Erickson of Vanport won his case in district court yes terday and emerged with a judg ment of nine cents against a gro cery firm. Alleging that he paid 19 cents for a can of grapefruit on which the ceiling price was 16 cents, Erickson sued under a provision of law allowing treble damages or $50, whichever is larger. Judge r rea L. uison, nowever, held that the overcharge was a clerk's error and allowed only treble damages. Truck Driver Killed SALEM. Ore.. Aug. 21. UP) Virgil N. Hall, 24, was killed yes terday near Scio when he was thrown from a gravel truck in which he was riding. He was working on a logging road con struction job. eration, rentals for the Junior and Senior High auditoriums were increased: For use of the Junior High auditorium when no admission is charged, $20; when admission is charged, $30; for use of the Senior High, no admission. $20, admission, $10; Senior High gymnasium, when available, prac tice sessions an hour; admis sion games. S25. A eeneral faculty meeting nrior to the orwning of school will be held at'10 A. M., Saturday,. Sen tombpr 7. at the Junior Hiph School Registration at the Jim. ior and Senior High Schools will start September 3, Elliott an nounced. Tuition cts thl vear it Is et. mated, will be S1 79.45 for the school year 'or each punil from outside the Roseburg district at tending hiph school. Last vear's costs for tuition vre found to be $163.14, Elliott said. ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2- 1 and His 'Best Girl' Palace Heights although there is up for their two months in Japan Then what they see in the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes this morning that depend ents arriving in September would go into the new housing units and they would stay in their quonset huts. So they say they are "tired of having rank pulled on our hus bands" who are all captains or lower grade, and they go off and call on Col. R. P. Thompson, ex ecutive officer for the headquar ters and service group. Thompson heard their beef in private and "it was not a very Continued on Page Six) Dude Ranch Stays Dry Till Financier Named PORTLAND, Aug. 21. UP) Patrons of a dude ranch planned for the Rogue River area by Claude L. Cox of Medford will have to go dry unless the State Liquor Commission is advised who is financially supporting the proposed $60,000 resort. The commission refused to ap prove the application for a permit until the financier was named. Cox declined yesterday to name his partner in the venture. In another action the commis sion ordered an investigation into how many grocery stores and automabile service stations are selling beer and allowing its con sumption on the premises where minors are permitted. One commissioner indicated he also opposed sale in drug stores for a similar reason. Treason Trials Facing Americans Adjudged Sane NUERNBERG, Germany, Aug. 21. UP) Three Americans who broadcast for Germany have been adjudged sane and will be sent to the United States to face trial as traitors. U. S. Attv. Gen. Tom Clark said today. He did not name them. Only one of the original ten in dicted for treason the aged poet Ezra Pound, who broadcast for Mussolini has reached the United States. He has been ad judged insane but the treason count still stands should he re gain his mentality, Clark said. State Employes Ask More Pay, Less Work SALEM. Ore., Aug. 21. VP) The Oregon State Employes As sociation and the AFL asked the State Civil Service Commission toda" to establish a flve-dav 40 hour week for state employes, as well as time and a half for over time. The state employes now gener ally work 41 to 44 hours during a six-day week. Price Curbs on Meats Slated About Sept. 3 WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.- P Price ceilings on meat, or dered re-established by the De control Board, probably will go into effect at retail stores about Sept. 3, an OPA official said today. This tentative arrangement, sub'ect to approval by the Ag riculture Department, will put back retail ceilings on meats 12 days later than OPA pre viously had planned. Revised plans call for reestab llshment of controls Friday on live animals only, with packer and wholesale ceilings following a few da"s later. An OPA official said this pro cedure would "give the industry a chance to clean out meat sup plies acquired at higher prices during the period of no control." SEATTLE, Aug. 21. VP) Packers and retail meat dealers today predicted another critical meat shortage with restoration of price ceilings tomorrow mid night. W. S. Greathouse, an official of the Western States Meat Packers Association and head of one of the city's largest packing houses, said the shortage would be im mediate, within a dav or two. "We may have to go back to rationing so that what meat there may be will be distributed a little more evenly,'' I. W. Ring en, secretary of the Washington State Retail Meat Dealers Asso ciation, commented. He -called price ceilings a "crime." Tucks to Be Halted At Olympia, Fred C. Martin, state director of agriculture, said state patrol cars would stop meat trucks on highways, especially at night, to insnect any dressed meat they may be carrying, to combat any black market developments. He termed roestaonsnment oi Continued on Page Six) Chinese Reds Set Up Own Regime NANKING, Aug. 21. UP) China's communists announced today establishment of their own government of Manchuria, and said they would not discuss par ticipating in any coalition gov ernment of China until all of the current fighting is stopped. Some informed quarters here said that establishment of such a coalition had become the last hope" of mediators seeking a per manent peace. Comrrfunist spokesmen denied that their Darty was calling for all-out mobilization against Chiang Kai-Shek's forces, and said they "have no desire" to ov erthrow his national government which is strictly a one-party re gime now. But. they added: "The first thing is to stop fight ing. Then we can talk about reor ganizing the government." Some observers here said that General Marshall and Ambassa dor John Leighton Stuart, having failed to stop the shooting first and talk politics later, now were trying to reach a political accord first. Jews Threaten Reprisals For Scheduled Hangings JERUSALEM. Aug. 21. UP) Stern gang leaflets posted on Tel Aviv walls last night threatened reprisals to Palestine govern ment officials, all police person nel and to members of the Bri tish armed forces if 18 young Jews sentenced to death by a Haifa military court are execut ed. The leaflets, addressing the sentenced comrades, declared "In case you should hang you may be assured none of your hangmen will survive you." The 18 were sentenced last Friday after beini? cantured In an armed raid on British installa tions. Two Scuffling in Boat Fall Overboard to Death' PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 21. UP) Two persons, standing In a rowboat, fell Into Columbia slnneh and drowned vesterdav. Denuty Sheriff Walter Jahn said he was fold by a witness that the two, Enhralm A. Felock, 29. and Alma Delorme, 18, both of Vannort, were seen standing In the boat, anparently scuffling, when thev fell overboard. Neith er could swim. Felock is survived riVhls widow and five children. Miss Delorme is survived by her father. , .1 946 New Aircraft Hurls Aviator Into Space, Opens His Parachute i DAYTON, O.,' Aug. 21. P The air materiel command dis closed today that First Sgt. Lawrence Lambert, 29, of Ber keley, W. Va., was the first hu man In the United States to be pliot out of a high speeding air craft with the aid of the newly developed pilot ejection seat. .', Lambert was shot from a P 61 flying at more than 300'mlles per hour at an altitude of 6,000 t f eet over Patterson Field. He squeezed a handle setting in motion the automatic apparatus that catapulted him from the . plane, separated him from his seat in the air, caused the para chute to open and landed him safely. Russia Rapped by Veterans, K. oft SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21. UP) The American Legion in California today was solidy be hind a program of military pre paredness and absolute control of atomic secrets as the third day of the departmental convention convened. A resolution adopted unani mously called upon President Tru man to retain United States secrets of atomic military power and to scrap plans for interna tional control of. atomic weapons. After speakers two days in a row had emphasized their sus picions of Russia's international intentions, the Legion delegates adopted the resolution stating that powerful or potentially powerful nations "have clearly in dicated that only by another war could they be forced to forego the development and manufacture of anv weapons." Warren Atherton, chairman of the Legion's National Security Council and former national com mander, voiced the latest blast at Russia. ."Let Stalin take his foot off the neck of Poland and Rumania as a gesture of peace," he said. "Let's get to the point where no power hungry dictator can say. 'Peace be damned.' " MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Aug. 21. UP) The 2,000 delegates attend ing the annual convention of the Knights of Columbus here heard Supreme Knight John E. Swift of Boston last night call for a "cru sade of education in our Ameri can way" to halt the spread of communism. He described such a crusade as (he only way to preserve "our American ideals" and to prevent the collapse of Christian civiliza tion in the face of Communism spreading from Russia. Three Prisoners Flee From Ft. Lewis Hospital FORT LEWIS, Wash., Aug. 21. (JP) Three long term prisoners described by Fort Lewis author ities as "potentially dangerous" escaped from the Madigan Gen eral Hospital closed section last night, it was announced today. The three men, sent to Madi gan from Missoula, Mont., dis ciplinary barracks, were Herman L. Sears, 22, Mount Victory, Ky.;. William Areola, 22, Los Angeles, and Frank F. Lucas, 28, Chicago. All were serving long sentences for chronically being absent with out leave. Priest Little Hurt When Auto Upsets Onto Him PORTLAND, Aug. 21. UP) Fifteen men were needed to lift a car from the Rev. Leo LInahen, Oswego priest, when it overturn ed on mm last nignt. Oswego Police Chief W. A. Knowles said he apparently lost control of the car on Iron moun tain near Oswego. His injuries were reported not serious. Timber Cut Almost Double Rate Recommended Under Program of Sustained Yield Timber removal at almost double the rate recommended under sustained yield practice Is shown In a survey recently tfompleted by the Roseburg district office of the tratlon, J. E. Slattery, district forester, reports. The area covered by the survey includes that portion of Douglas county under the jurisdiction of the Roseburg office, embracing what is known as the Douglas and South Umpqua master units, eliminating the Glendale area and the coast section west of Elkton. The ourvev. Slatterv savs. lists 140 mills, with an etmnted cut ting capacity of 3.500,000 board feet ner day. Based on an aver nee of 200 working davs per year, the annual cut would be 700 mil lion board feet, as comnarert to an allowable cut of 380 million hoard feet over the same general area. Inspectors of the State Fores try Department have issued per mits to 109 sawmilling operations, while 31 mills are located in areas where permits are not required. in addition to timber utilized 19846 GOP Shows Strength Gain In N. Y, Voting (By the Associated Press) An upsurge of Republican or ganization strength in some sec tions of New York City was noted todav in the results of Tuesday's primaries. J Organization-backed candidates beat down attempts Dy Keps. vi to Marcantonlo. American labor, and Adam Clayton Powell, Negro Democrat, to capture the Repub lican nominations for Congress as well as those of American La bor and Democratic parties. Two years ago they were successful in winning all three places on the ballot. And Ren. Joseph Clark Bald win. ReDiiblican. denied G. O. P. organization endorsement, failed of renominatlon. Marcantonlo Has Close Call Marcantonlo and Powell won Democratic nominations and were unopposed as American La bor candidates. The Democratic nomination was a close squeeze for Marcantonlo, however, de spite Tammany backing. He won over Patrick J. Hannigan by a vote of 9,778 to 9,216. Frederick V. P. Bryan took the Republican nomination from Mar cantonlo, and Grant Reynolds won it from Powell. Baldwin lost the 17th (silk stocking) district nomination by 5 to 1 to State Senator Frederick R. Coudert, Jr., who was support ed by the Republican organiza tion. Baldwin aides contended he was denied organization support because he voted for some major New Deal measures. In another race on which much Interest was centered, Rep. Au gustus W. Bennet, lost Republi can renominatlon to Mrs. Kather ine St. George, a distant cousin of thelate President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Two vears neo.iBennet ousted Hamilton Fish, a veteran of Con gress, from his seat. Aside from Bennet and Bald win, Republican Congress mem bers from New York who had op position were renominated. Results In Other States In Delaware. Democrats In con- Continued on Page Six) Starr Fruit Co. Plans $1 Million Canning Plant PORTLAND, Aug. 21. UP) A modern canning plant to cost $1,000,000 is planned here by the Starr Fruit Products Company, H. G. Hohwlesner, vice president, reported today. Application for construction approval called for completion In time lor the 1947 season, ine plant will replace one occupied for 30 years and recently sold. The company expects to employ 1,800 workers compared to tne present 500. The firm has other plants at Salem and Yakima. Crime Increase Highest Of Record, FBI Reports WASHINGTON', Aug. 21. UP) FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover announced yesterday that crime Increased 13 per cent in the first six months of this year compared with the corresponding period of last year. "This Is the highest rate of In crease of crime In the United States since 1930, when national figures on the extent of crime were first compiled," Hoover said. Bullock Injures IS Persons ROMFORD. England, Aug. 21. UP) A bullock ran amok in Romford market today, fifteen women and children were taken to a hospital. O. & C. Revested Lands Admlnta in sawmills, an additional 30 mil lion board feet are represented In the volume of peeler logs, poles and piling shipped from the area for manufacture or processing, Sl.ittery says. "To total up the volume hv board foot measure would indi cate that nroductlnn In the Doug las and South Umnnua master units Is fast aonroaching a billion feet per year." Slatterv said. "This figure is nearly twice the allowable productive capacity es tablished for the entire county." Dairy Products Kept Free of Controls, but Board Warns Hot To Let Prices Jump Further WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (AP) Pork chops, beefsteak", hamburger and all other meats are going back under OPA ceiU ingj "at or close" to June 30 prices. Milk, butter, cheese and all other dairy products remain free! of ceilings, but controls will be slapped back on if prices of thoser items jump further. Those main decisions of the Price Decontrol Board yesterday prompted widely varying reactions. The meat industry spoke of dangers that black markets might spring up again and that the public would find less meat to buy. And the CIO Cost of Living Committee said the decision to keep dairy products free of controls "will bring greater inflation! to the American people. CHANGELING The little white hen ain't what she used to be, Henry Schneider, of Milwau kee, recently found out to his astonishment. His three-year- old White Leghorn turned into a rooster, quit laying, developed 4 comb and a lusty crow. Freak gland action caused the switch. Schneider's pictured above, with the changeling chick. Soap Box Derby Hour Announced Saturday's Foap Box Derby on Winchester S';reet has been set for 10:30 A.M., It war announced by H. W. Gray, city recreational director, who Is managing the race for Its soonsors, the Hansen Motor Company. Winchester Street will be pa trolled by city police to keen off all traffic, In order to provide utmost ssfoty for the youngsters participating, Gray said. How ever, the boys who race their midget cars must receive parent al permission before entering. Signature blanks may be obtain ed from the recrcn'ion office in the City Hall. . The race will start at the north end of Winchester Street and will enter E. 2nd Avenue S. The race will be conducted In heats, according to the number of entries registered. Each car will have a special number, Gray said. Special headgear will be Issued the drivers of the midget cars. Rules of the derby provide that contestants be between the ages of 11 and 115. Their racing cars must be "boy-built" without the aid or help of parents. Passengers Survive Crash That Kills Two Fliers MOLINE, III.. Aug. 21.-4P) Pilot Captain James Steen and Co-Pllot Marvin Fox of a char tered plane were killed and 10 passengers were Injured, none seriously, early today when the craft crashol a mile south of the Mollne airport while attempting to make an emergency landing. The two crew members were thrown out cf the plane. Two babies among the passen gers were unhurt. A passenger said one of the plane's two engines caught fire about 50 miles from Mollne and that the pilot shut It off and headed for the alrnort. He circled the field three times, the last time only a few feet from the ground. The plane was over the run way on the last round and when the pilot gunned the engine a wing dipned and struck the ground. The impact split the plane in half, hurling some of the passengers to the ground. Collision on Railroad Kills Two in Ambulance EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 21. UP) Edward B. Button, 38, and Al Averlll, driver and attendant of a Eugene ambulance, were dead today as the result of a train ambulance collision on a blind crossing near Jasper, south of Eugene, yesterday. Button was Instantly killed when the north-bound Southern Pacific Oregonlan plowed Into the ambulance and dragged it 174 feet un the track. Averill died shortly afterward on the way to a Eugene hospital. The two were en route to the Hills Creek Lumber Co. at Jasper to pick up William Brown, car rier driver, who had been lniured earlier when' he was hit by a hoist at the mill. jl iliiiUiuim.i.T WMi,iMi .i.)y !.!) ill . i HH"" On other points in Its first decision, the congressionally created decontrol board: 1. Ruled against restoring cell in-s on nearly all grains. 2. Authorized livestock . and meat subsidies tc be paid again, at June 29 rates. ' 3. Ordered price controls re established on soybeans and cot ton seed products, including salad and cooking oils. Shortly after the three-man panel announced Its unanimous rulings last night, OPA Chie2 Paul Porter told a reporter: ..- . "Restoration of subsidies on meats means we can re-establish . ceilings at or close to June 30 levels. "This is the case on beef, pork and veal. We have not decided yet on lamb." OPA had announced earlier1 that ceilings would become ef. fectlve Friday on any commodi ties recontrolled by the board. Officials said today, however, that a plan under consideration calls for putting ceilings on live animals Friday, with a time lac: In each case before they apply at the packer, wholesale and re tail outlets. If this procedure Is adopted, officials added, it may be several days before, retail ceilings are re-invoked. n Dairy Industry Warned " In allowing milk, butter and cheese to remain ceiling-free, the board cautioned: "If (prices, for) dalrv products move upward from here on out, this board can and will put the Industry back under control." Board Chairman Roy L. Thomp son said in a radio address ex plaining the decisions that retail miiK prices nave climbed an aver age of three cents a quart since ceilings lapsed July 1, and that two cents of this Increase "Just made up for subsidies" which were discontinued at the same time. As for butter, Thompson said the subsidy was about 15 cents a pound, and added: "When you add that 15 cents to the prices you were paying under ceilings In June, I think: you'll find the present prices are, not far out of line. ... Continued on Page Six) Inquest Scheduled Into Sam Russell-Wife Deaths An Inquest Into the deaths of Sam Russell, 54, and his wife, Blanche, 36, will be held at the county courthouse tonight at 7:30, County Coroner H. C. Stearns announced. The couple died yes terday In what police described as murder and suicide. Named to the six-man jury which will officially determine the cause of death from evidence presented by District Attorney H. A. Canaday, were: Verne Hill, Billy Mohr, Will Tubbs, Robert E. Morton, Elmer Lawrence and Joe Martin. The jury this morning viewed the bodies as they lay at the Douglas Funeral Home, where they were removed following the fatal shooting yesterday. Fielding Yost, Famous Football Coach, Dies ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 21. HP) Fielding Harris (Hurry Up) Yost, University of Michi gan's grand old man of football, died yesterday. Yost was 75 years old. He retired in 1940 to the post of athletic director emeritus after compiling a national reputation as a coach at Michigan since 1901. A native of fairfield, W. Va., he attended Ohio normal, now Ohio Norlhci-i, College, and later coached at Ohio Wesleyan, the University of Nebraska, the Uni versity of Kansas, and Leiand Stanford University, before corn ing to Ann Arbor. . Woman Bears 9th Child By Caesarian Operation TOLEDO, O., Aug. 21. OT Physicians reported todav that Mrs. Walter G. Shrlver, 35, wife of a bus driver, has given birth to her ninth child, all by Caesar ian section, a six-pound, three ounce boy. Like the other eight, the ninth child was born about two weeks nrematurelv. 'Necessity knows no law.' If the consumer craves meat and can't get It legitimately, he'll patroniie the black market. He'll prefer a twinge of con science to a pang of hunger. .