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Newspaper Page Text"5 uiuy Sagging Bridge Halts Use of Established 1873 ' ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1947 120 47 U. Ut U. Liururji Eugene,' Oregon Loggfitig kfffMcks Face Mew Band mm Dairy Operation Melrose Plan of Chit wood Family Distribution of milk In Rose burg from the new Melrose Dairy, located on the former Dr. E. B Stewart farm, will bepin about June, 2, it was announced today by L. L. Chltwood, manager. Reoresentlng a total invest ment of nearly $12,000, the instal lation of equipment and construc tion of a processing plant is near ing completion, Chitwood said. The new dairy will distribute milk from Chitwood's herd of 28 Jer seys and Guernsevs and Dr. Stew- art's 12 cows. "Eventually we hope to build up our herds to 75 to 100 cows producing approximately 300 gal ions of milk a day," he said. "Our milk will contain 5 per cent but terfat." The new Melrose Dairy will be a family operation. Under Chit wood as manager, will be his two sons, in charge of the processing plant, and Clarson, distribution manager. In addition all three cooperate in the operation of the dairy farm, from driving the cows to pasture to pitching in the hay. A feature of the farm not com monly seen elsewhere,. is its over head Irrigation system. Almost 305 gallons of water a minute are pumped from the South Ump qua River and sprayed by means of a piping system over the rich clover pastures. Until now, the farm has sold its milk through other outlets. As soon as its concrete block build ing is completed, and all new pas teurizing and refrigeration equip ment Is installed, it will retail its milk through the Melrose Dairy. All treatment of milk is com pletely automatic ahd under sani tary conditions. The dairy is in- (Continued on Fngp fi In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THERE are intimations from Washington ' that no' more. money for spending abroad will be provided by the present ses sion of congress. Well, we've provided a fairish amount already. Congress has au thorized $400,000,000 for aid to Greece and Turkey and is putting the finishing touches on a gen eral foreign relief bill that will run up to about 350 millions more. That is a total of three quarters of a billion. Indications are that we won't stop there, but three-quarters of a billion dollars Is at least! a good start. THREE-QUARTERS of a BIL LION dollars still sounds like quite a lot of money. It is. But this is a big country. Roughly speaking, it costs $1 per person every time congress appropriates $140,000,000. That is based on the fact that we have approximately 140 million peo ple. If you are the bread-winner for a family of four, every con gressional appropriation of $140, 000,000 costs you $4. At that rate, three-quarters of a (Continued on page 2 FISH CATCH POOR ASTORIA" Ore., May 21. -P Packers reported today the com mercial fishing season closed yes terday was disappointing. No official figures on the catch were immediately available, but packers said the good catches of the first few days after the April 30 opening did not continue. The commercial season will reopen June 10. Use of Ten Per Cent of U. S. Production to Build World Peace Advocated by Sfassen JEFFERSON, la., May 21. UP) Former Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1948, advocated today that the United States devote ten per cent of its total national production of goods and food for the next ten years "to building for world-wide peace and plenty and free dom." , "It should not be a sharpster lending program. It should not be a light-headed giveaway pro gram. It should be a practical, sound, long - visioned business like approach to the situation that exists in the world today, and what we can forsee In the years ahead," Stassen said. The former Minnesota govern or, recently returned from a tour of Europe during which he in terviewed Russian,Generalisslmo Stalin. Stassen said he believed America could find a "strong and wise and humanitarian world policy" be tween what he called two "ex tremes" advocated by former Vice President Henry Wallace Picture by Paul Jenkins NEW DAIRY TO START OPERATION Pictured above are the cows whose milk will be distributed in Roseburg after June 2 by the new Melrose Dairy. They Inspect the delivery truck, parked in their pasture. Lower, left to right, are operators of the dairy: L. L. Chitwood, Clarson Chitwood and hjs son, Andy, and Harold Chitwood. The new dairy Is located on the former Dr. E. B. Stew art farm on the Melrose road. Independent Wins Denver Mayoralty DENVER, May 21. W) Den ver's 20-year mayor, Benjamin F. Stapleton, was swept from office today by a ballot box revolt in favor of Quigg Newton, Jr., youthful,' politically independent veteran of World War II. Thomas J. Morrissey, former U. S. district attorney, ran sec ond to Newton with 77-year-old Stapleton a poor third to the 35-year-old attorney who won his first political campaign. Tueiling far back were District Judge William A. Black and Wil liam Dietrich, an avowed Com munist. The count in 407 of the city's 412 precincts gave Newton 78,388; Morrissey 34,829; Stapleton 17, 335; Black 5,125 and Dietrich 399. Late returns ran Newton's vote up to alomst 60 per cent of the total cast which was the heaviest for any municipal election in Den ver's history. Attaches at his office said New ton never had voted in a regular primary election. He was en dorsed by.both Denver daily news papers. Morrissey and Stapleton are Democrats, Black is a Repub lican. .-. A native of Denver, the new mayor graduated from Yale Law School, served a year with the Securities and Exchange Commis sion and practiced law in Denver. He went into the Navy as an en sign in 1942 and was separated last year as a commander. Me never before had made a political race, but had been president of the University Board of Trustees and was named by the Junior Chamber of Commerce as the city's "outstanding young man of 1946." Last 1,500 of Gl Brides Offered Air Trip to U.S. LONDON, May 21. UP) The United States Army, which al ready has shipped 46,423 brides and babies oi American service men from England, is in a hustle to transport the last 1,500 before the transportation office shuts down June 20. Congress has voted an extra million dollars so that brides who wish can be transported by air instead of by sea. The Army gives up as full time nursemaid June 20, although ar rangements will be made for any brides who remain after that date to be transported. - Girl Shot While In Garden of Her Home HOOD RIVER, Ore., May 21. (JP) Eighteen-year-old Mary Lou Sparks was in the hospital here today with a gun wound in the abdomen and attendants said her condition was serious. Officials reported the girl was shot while in the garden at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Sparks, and that the gun, believed a .05 caliber pistol, had not been fodnd. and Robert McCormick, publish er of the Chicago Tribune. "As I see it the Wallace doc trine would make of America a nation of fellow travelers down the wrong road," Stassen said. It would centralize our economic authority in America and bring about lower and lower production at home . "The McCormick doctrine would make of America a nation of cold-hearted misers passing by on the other side. It too would lead to tragic results for our country. It would make us hated around the globe. It would lead us to boom and to bust and fin ally to a defensive war." ... V- jjrj Quit Grumbling, Striking, German People Warned BERLIN, May 21 UP) The American and British military governors warned the German people yesterday to stop striking and grumbling against the allies and face the present food crisis with "hard work and courage." In a special proclamation, Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Air Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas sharply told German political and trade union leaders they "should face reali ties and shoulder squarely their obligations to their country and fellow citizens.'' An even sharper warning was Issued by Sumner Sewall, Ameri can military government director in Wuerttemberg-Baden, who said that protest strikes against the food shortage might cost the Germans relief supplies from the United States. Cardboard Boxes Shelter Impoverished Spinsters WARREN TOWNSHIP, N. J., May 21. UP) Two elderly spin sters whose great grandfath er helped shelter the Colonial Army at Valley Forge were established today in an abandon ed cabin : alter' spending five nights under a pile of cardboard boxes which they improvised as makeshift living accommodations rather than accept charity offers. Forced to vacate the farm house they rented for ten years, the sisters, Misses Mary and T.nilf0 Waanpr haH hnilf thpir ' cardboard hut in a secluded sec I tion of rural Warren Township. I They set up temporary house- Keeping tnere, hoping somehow, they said, to raise $45 needed as three months' advance payment on an old cottage they had locat ed. ' Ford Motor Co. Faces Strike of 3,800 Foremen DETROIT, May 21. UP) An estimated 3,800 foremen began a strike at the Ford Motor Co. today. Initial reports indicated the strike, affected only Detroit plants. There was no immediate com ment from the company after the Foreman's Association of Ameri ca, (Ind.) ordered its members off the job. R. H. Keys, union president, outlined the chief issues at dis pute as raiding of ranks of the unionized foremen at Ford, fail ure to equalize the wage struc ture, recognition, shift differen ces and overtime pay, and what he labelled "arbitrary actions of the company." Morse Warns of Peril Of United States Decline CHAPEL HILL, N. C, May 21. UP) The decline of the United States will be recorded as" begin ning in 1947 unless America ac cepts "the price of peace," Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon said here last night. The present trend, he told a University of North Carolina audience, is "rapidly becoming a course of economic isolation" and if it continues, "time will pass us by." The people, ho said, must give thought to the part this country is to play In international affairs a part to be determined in large measure in the next six years. This, he said, was why "I stress the importance to our nation of the present 80th Congress." Morse alternately flayed the Congress and the people for the isolationist trend he said was de veloping. Dying Editor Dictates His Own Death Notice ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 21. P William Green wood Naylor, 73, retired busi ness representative of News paper Enterprise Association and former editor and publish er, called his wife to his bed side Sunday and dictated: "Retired by death, William Greenwood Naylor, known as the Bard of Skaneateles, for the last 20 years a devotee of floriculture, died at his home today." He died yesterday. He was a former managing editor of the magazine Puck. 28 White Men In Lynch Case GREENVILLE. S. C, May 21. (iW A South Carolina jury was summoned today by Circuit Judge J. Robert Martin, Jr., to give an ultimate verdict In the unprecedented mass-trial of 28 Southern white men who are ac cused of lynching a Negro. Final arguments in the lengthy case were concluded yesterday on a note of sectional prejudice. Public prosecutors Samuel Watt and Robert Ashmore de manded conviction but not the death penalty for 21 who are charged with murder, and for seven others who are accused of conspiracy and of being acces sories before the fact. Although the state did not ask for the death penalty, a verdict by the jury of murder without recom mendation of mercy would make a death sentence mandatory. The state reminded the jury of eight fertile workers, two sales men, a mechanic and a farmer that they represented the public conscience of South Carolina in (Continued on Page 6 Wife Kills Co-Respondent In Husband s Divorce Suit NEW YORK, May 21. UP) A frail Bronklvn housewife today shot and killed a pretty, brunette mother of two children she had befriended for two years, police said, and then was pointed out as the slaver by her own husband who had been named co-respond ent in the dead woman's divorce suit. Mrs. Margaret, Jannazzo, Si, was killed by five revolver shots in a hallway off a busy Brooklyn street. Deputy Chief Inspector Will iam T. Whalen said that as he and other police examined the body, Rocco Scavone pushed through a crowd gathered out side and told him his wife, Philo mina, 41, mother of his three children, had shot Mrs. Jannazzo and was' at the moment across the street in the crowd. Mrs. Scavone said calmly: "I'm now at peace with the world and my maker. I'm glad it's over." Ted Chambers Named to Higher Education Board v SALEM, Ore., May 21. (P)-i Ted Chambers, 52-year-old Salem meat packer, today was appoint ed by Governor Snell to the State Board of Higher Education, suc ceeding Mrs. Beatrice Walton Sackett, who died Sunday at her home in Coos Bay. Chambers will serve the rest of Mrs. Sackett's torm, which ex pires March 2, 1951. Born in Pennsylvania, Cham bers came to Oregon in 1910, graduating in mining engineer ing from Oregon State College in 1916. He engaped in engineering work a few years, and has been in the meat packing business here for 27 years. Chambers has been active In civic and community affairs, hav ing been president of the Oregon State College Alumni Association. The Weather Clear tonight and Thursday; cooler Thursday. . t i , : , -i , , . 1 n fj : t f . v-y " hr - Yi I y y.Jr-' ', ; W,., 1 . v ;y ; ANNUAL CLEAN-UP DAY Members of the Roseburg Kiwanii Club, above, gathered at Kiwenis Park on the South Umpqua River yestarday evening for their annual clean-up day. A picnic supper was served. Purpose of the annual affair is to make the park ready for summer recreationists. Radioactive 'Cloud' Prospect Tangles Underground Hiding Plan as' Atomic War Defense ; WASHINGTON, May Sl.-l-UPJ-The deadly potentialities of a "radioactive cloud" weapon are complicating plans for hiding men and machines underground In event of atomic age warfare. But the problem of sealing off subterranean sites against poi soned air is under study, according to an article in the current un official service publication, Armored Cavalry Journal. Yoncalla Sawmill Owner Suspected of Suicide in River Here Search by relatives and po lice began yesterday for Har old W. Thorpe, 25, sawmill owner of the Yoncalla vicinity, who is suspected of having committed suicide. Thorne was last seen locally by a saw-filer in Roseburg last Wed nesday morning, stating that he would call In the afternoon for a saw, but failed to return, i His pickup truck was found bv state police Monday on the Umpqua Park road. Directed by Thorpe's father, W." C. Thorpe, and his two sons, the city fire department and state police began search of the South Umpqua River for the body, on the theory the missing man may have drowned himself. Thorpe was reported to be dis tressed by financial difficulty in the operation of his sawmill. His wife and young daughter left the family home nine miles south of Yoncalla two weeks ago to visit relatives in the midwest. . End of Sugar Rationing Asked in Senate Bill WASHINGTON, May 21. OP) Senators McCarthy (R.-Wis.) and Bricker (R.-Ohlo) yesterday introduced legislation to , end supar rationing immediately. "I am confident congress will pass this," McCarthy told report ers. "There Is already such a sur- filus of sugar that it Is now back rijr up, in warehouses." " Under present law, sugar ra tioning is slated to end Oct. 31. In a separate move, Senator Dworshak (R.-Idaho) asked Sec retary of Agriculture Anderson today to lift sugar rationing to housewives Immediately. School Levy on Census Basis Need Not be Made SALEM, Ore., May;21. (0) Counties again won't have to levy the county. sohool levy of $10 per census sohool child during the fiscal year begin ning next July 1, the 8tate Tax Commission said today In an nouncing there would be enough surplus income tax revenue to offset the county school levies. The school levies for all 36 counties total $3,189,120. The. commission will an nounce the state tax levy late In July. BABY SURVIVES ORDEAL PORTLAND, Ore., May 21. UPh-Patricia Sullivan, the two-months-old baby critically injured when two girls thought she was a doll and dropped her in their play, is home again. Hospital attendants said she was expected to recover fully. Picture by Paul Jenkins The article was written before Plane Maker Glenn L. Martin's disclosure last week of experi ments by the Army and Navy to create radioactive clouds. These clouds, covering a mile-square area, could be formed by a burst of radioactive matter released from an airplane. Martin's disclosure was made before a congressional commit tee, and he declined to go into detail on the method. It was recalled, however, that several possible methods for spreading radioactive death have been suggested unofficially, In cluding the release of dust or oil spray impregnated with radio activity. Revealed In Bikini Test The armed forces have been aware of the menace of radioac tive air since last summer's Bikini atom bomb experiments. It was discovered there that even the use of a welder's torch or a grinding wheel would release into the air radioactivity which had adhered to solid objects such as warship fittings. . The Journal, in reviewing (Continued on Page 6) Amelia Earhart Seized By Japs, Mother Believes NEW YORK, May 21. UP) Mrs. Amy Otis Earhart, 79, of Boston, Is convinced that her daughter, Amelia Earhart, was taken prisoner by the Japanese after her disappearance over the Pacific ocean In 1937. Mrs. Earhart said her daugh ter, at the time of her round-the-world flight attempt, was on a government mission "bo secret that it was even kept from me." "I think my daughter landed and was taken prisoner of the Japs," Mrs.. Earhart said.' "I have letters, documents and mes sages addressed to me that con vinced me thoroughly that she landed on land." Boys Sell Their Blood For Spending Coin, Claim MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 21. UP) Authorities of at least one Memphis high school are Investi gating reports that schoolboys were selling their blood to get spending money. The Rev. John A. Elliott, prin cipal of Catholic High School, said 23 students from his school sold blood to a clinic for $10 a pint and that they reported that students from other schools are doing the same. Jobs, Pay Lost by Strike Against Govt., Ruling WASHINGTON, May 21. UP) Employees who strike against the government forfeit not only their jobs but their right to un delivered pay for work done be fore they walk out, Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren ruled today. His decision came in a case involving three union carpenters who were employed by the Vet erans Administration in remodel ing its Waco, Texas, center. Washington Flier Among 7 Killed in B-29 Crash SEATTLE, May 21. JP Col. Raymond E. O'Neill, Chanute Field., 111., native of Port Town send and University of Washing ton graduate, was one of seven men killed In the crash of a B-25 near Champaign, 111., last night, the Chanute Field chaplain re vealed today. Surviving, besides his mother and brother are his widow, Mrs. Edith O'Neill, and a son, Bar rett. AUTO BLOW FATAL NEWBERG, Ore., May 21. OP) Hugh Davis, 69, who was struck in downtown Newberg Sunday night by a car which failed to stop, died today in Willamette Hospital. Davis, a widower, lived just out side the city. Police are Investigating. Excise Levy Repeal Asked By Phone Lines WASHINGTON, May 21. UP) With the Senate ready to open debate on the House-approved $4,. 000,000,000 income tax cut, the telephone industry asked Con gress today to repeal the excise levies on communications. This would save taxpayers an other $400,000,000. The excise is levied on telephone, telegraph and other communications serv ice. The recommendation was placed , before the House Ways and Moans Committee in state ments submitted by the American Telephone and Telegraph Com pany, A. T. & T.'s associated com panies, and the United States In dependent Telephone Association. It was the first recommenda tion for a new tax cut in the committee's move toward general revisions of the tax structure, which Chairman Knutson said should mean "substantial" tax re ductions bevond the current $4, 000,000,000 bill. The committee plans to write the general re visions Into law next year. ' The telephone industry asked that the communications excise repeal be made a part of the 1948 revision. The industry described this excise as a tax upon a neces sary business and social service and not a "luxury" tax. In the Senate, Finance Chair man Millikln predicted that op ponents of a 1947 income tax cut will reach their "high water mark" on a postponement vote but that the mark won't be high (Continued on Page 61 Social Security System Expansion to be Sought PORTLAND, May 21. UP) Social Security legislation to ex pand the program for new groups and nay larger monthly pensions is being prepared, Watson B. Mil ler, Social Security administrator, said here. Miller said the purpose of the bills, soon to go before Congress, would extend the ( coverage to agricultural,- domestic and sell emnloved workers, including busi ness and professional men; ex tend benefits to totally disabled of any age and lower the age maximum for female benefici aries from 65 to 60 years. The proposals would lift the taxable salary base from $250 to $300 a month, raising the maxi mum retirement payment fur a single person from $44 to $74.25 a month. The family m iximum payment is now $85 and the proposed maxi mum would be $120. Miller said the expansion couhd be put into effect without an immediate in crease In the payroll tax. Drain City Marshal Held On Charge of Assault Richard Knight, 30, Drain city marshal, was nooKeo at tne countv iall this morning, pending nis arraignment on a charge of assault while armed wltn a dan gerous weapon, Sgt. Lyle Harrell of the state police reported. The charge to be lodged against Knight Is the result of fracas Monday night at Drain, In which Knight was reported to have shot David R. Dickson, 35, through the shoulder, after Dick son allegedly accused Knight of bootlegging. Sgt. Harrell said. Arraignment was being delay ed tins morning until tne com plaint against Knight could be signed by a witness to the shoot ing, whose name Sgt. Harrell gave as W. H. Blomberg. Mysterious Explosion Blasts 'Jim Crow' Car FORT WORTH, Tcx May 21. UP) A mysterious explosion blasted windows from a Santa Fe "Jim Crow" passenger coach a few miles north of Ardmore, Ok lahoma, early today. Two persons were injured. Lem ihomas, special agent here for the railroad, said the blast apparently originated from the top of a water cooler built into a toilet compartment. Filipino Plane Bearing Government Officials Lost MANILA, May 21. (.IP) Presi dent Roxas tonight announced the loss of the presidential plane Lily Mariene In the wlids ot Nor thern Cotabato in Mindanao. The greatest local air search got un der way today. The plane was carrying Irom 12 to 15 government officials. The craft was formerly the per sonal plane of Lord Louis Mount- Dattcn. Minister Ordered to Trial on Arson Charge MILWAUKEE, May 21. UP) Municipal Judge Herbert Steffes today ordered Dr. John Lewis, pastor of fire-swept Calvary Pres byterian church, to stand trial June 9 on charges of Arson, aft er three alienists had testified that the prominent clergyman was sane. The state charges Dr. Lewis started a $150,000 fire at his church last January, Melrose Rood Temporary Makeshift Advised to Avoid Costly Detour on Tenmile Route Logging trucks coming Into Roseburg from the Landers Mountain area were denied the use of Melrose road Tuesday by an order of the County Court, due to a 5-ton load limit on the : Melrose Creek bridge,- County Judge D. N. Busenbark said. Unless the construction of a temporary bridge for logging1 trucks is approved by the county roadmaster, Judge Busenbark said, the logging trucks must con-, tinue to use the route via Tenmile and the Coos Bay highway. In order to reach their Roseburg mills. The County Court's order was issued the next day after the Roseburg City Council had estab lished a route through the city, which the logging trucks might use to proceed to mills north and south of the city limits. Alternative Suggested Bill Evans, president of the Loggers and Truckers Associa tion, who conferred with the County Court yesterday after noon, offered the suggestion that the log truckers who use the Mel rose road throw a temporary span across Melrose Creek with several big trees. The temporary bridge would be, only for the use of logging trucks.' both loaded, incoming, and out bound to the logging operation. The bridge would be removed at the end of the summer logging season. v "It's definitely a summer show," Evans snid. "We would naturally remove the bridge at the end of the season. That would be one of the stipulations. The route by way of Tenmile is 20.4 miles longer than coming In by way of Meli rose, and It will break the boys if they have to operate by that route." Up To Roadmaster Judge Busenbark said Xi county would approve use of the Melrose road for loggers if the county roadmaster reports favor' ably on the construction of a tem porary bridge and the truckers (Continued on Page 6) Heart Attack Cheats Death Chair of Slayer CHICAGO, May 21. UP) Julius ( Dolly) Welsberg, a for mer Chicago night club owner and convicted slayer, who had lost all court appeals to escape death In the electric chair and who was to have been executed early Friday morning, died yes terday in his death cell, apparent ly of a heart attack.' Welsberg, 50, who was con victed a year ago of the slaying of an automobile salesman, died less than two hours after he was transferred to' the death cell about 25 feet from the electric chair. Convict Flees With Only 60 Days Left to Serve SALEM, Ore., May 21. UP) A 21-year-old state prison convict who escaped yesterday when he had only 60 days left to serve of his four-year sentence for burg lary was still at large today. The prisoner, Harry W. Octil lion, escaped from a prison gar den work crew. He was sentenced from Marlon County Feb. 14, 1944. Detllllon would have been re leased in two months because of time off for good behavior. If re captured, he would lose the good behavior credit. 10 Perct. Price Cut Plan Given Up by Merchants NEWBURYPORT, Mass., May 21. UP) This old seaport com munity has virtually abandoned its widely heralded 10 per cent price cutting program a month after it became effective be cause, merchants said, they did not get cooperation of suppliers. Sponsors said they were still receiving inquiries about the plan, but In reply they were stressing that a 10 per cent across-tlic-board cut cannot be sustained until prices come down all the way from maker to con sumer. Solution Found to Keep Bread Fresh for Week KANSAS CITY, May 21. VP)-. Members of the American Asso ciation of Cereal Chemists In con vention here learned that soon week-old bread may not worry the housewife. Research Chemists H. H. Favor and H. F. Johnson of East Nor walk. Conn., reported discovery of a paste solution, known as poyioxethylene sterate, a fraction of an ounce of which will keep bread fresh for seven days. Shortage of raw materials for the paste has prevented wide spread use so far. jevlty pact flanf Bjr L T. lUlamiMUi Political loaders and econo mists are urging that the Unit ed States 'sell Itself to other nations. So far, however, none of these advisers have suggest ed a 10 per cent reduction in the price.