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Newspaper Page TextU. o o. Library JoMfi. Eugene, Oregon mm Ml 11B Wounded One The Weather Light rain tonight and Satur day; warmer Saturday. m Expired, Says Radioed Word Apology Demanded, Also Guarantee of No Further Meddling In Civil War SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13 n ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1 3, 1 948 Established 1873 3748 i - J 1 -Kr t-jCM. IS irs LONG HARD ROAD TO WASHINGTON Costless in Wash, ington't tub-freezing temperature, President Truman takes a few minutes out from his morning duties to examine "Honey," one of three horses which with their owners made an 8 Vi -month, 3,500 mile trip across the country from Tacoma, Wash., to the capital. The horses are owned by Ned Kennedy, 61, owner of the Horse and a Half Ranch near Tacoma, and his foreman, Cecil Gary, 31. Russia Orders East Germany To Establish Economic Board Lacking Government Power BERLIN, Feb. 13. CP) Germans In the Soviet-occupied East ern zone were instructed by the Russian commander today to set up an economic commission lor their part of the country. Marshal Sokolovsky issued the order. Another Soviet spokesman said it does not mean establish ment of sn East German go-ern-ment. The marshal had objected to 9 German economic administra tion for the United States and British zones In the west, now being formed, and demanding. f Continued nn Pre Six) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS SECRETARY OF AGRICUL TURE ANDERSON, comply ing with a demand from Senator Young of North Dakota, tells the senate agriculture committee that E. T. Maynard, a Chicago trader, made "several hundred thousand dollars" on the recent price breaks in wheat and oats. (Sena tor Young tavs the amount was $400,000.) Do you feel the hair turning up on the back of your neck? If so, wait a minute. SECRETARY ANDERSON went on and told the senate com mittee that Maynard had NQ in side information and that no cor ruption was Involved. Maynard Just used his knowl edge of market conditions, the secretary said, and acted accord ingly. Presumably his knowledge (acquired by hard study when a (Continued on Page Two) Grain Prices Display Signs Of Rallying While Butter Leads Short List of Retail Drops NEW YORK. Feb. 13. .PV Commodity prices began to show signs of gaining a little strength today but a violent downswing hit the wholesale butter market. Grain prices were Irregular. But they gave Indications of at tempting to climb In contrast to the downward slides of the past week. The price of wholesale butter slamed down 5 to 61 cents a pound on the New York mercan tile exchange. The drop was immediately re flected In some retail prices. The National Association of Re tall Grocers said key city survey showed reductions in flour, bacon, ham, lard, vegetable shortening, eggs and butter, and in some cases beef. These price cuts were not lors leaders poster to attract trade, said Pasty D'Agostlno, president of the Association. They are gen uine reductions, made possible bv the flexibility of grocers to ad lust to market conditions quickly, he said. Grains showed widely diver gent tendencies. Corn swung down as much as the full limit at the start, but wheat and oat deliveries were steady to slightly higher. Corn prices subsequently came back from the lows. Cotton fell almost $4 a bale at New York. Shortly after the open ing, however, mills began buying and there was a rebound that x. 4. "asef fV--.J Penicillin Sans Pain Developed WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 UP) A new type of one-shot-st-day penicillin with a built-in pain Killer has been developed. Up to now, penicillin injections often have been either numerous or painful. The new type is called "pro caine penicillin." It's made by combining penicillin with pro caine, a chemical widely used as an anesthetic. The procaine, besides killing the pain, also helps the penicil lin to be taken up slowly by the blood. The compound Is mixed with cottonseed oil, which fur ther helps in the slow-down process. The common type of penicillin preparation Is simply dissolved in water. Injections with this type normally are painless ex cept for the initial needle prick. But they must be repeated every two to four hours because the drug, In water solution, is ab sorbed quickly by the blood, and therefore leaves the body rapidly. President Truman's Name Going on Oregon Ballot PORTLAND. Feb. 13. (,P Petitions to place the President's name on the Democratic primary ballot in Oregon will go into cir culation soon. Monroe Sweetland, Molalla pub lisher, said a committee would begin collecting the 1,000 signa tures necessary to win a place on the ballot brought the price about 12 above the low at the start. Ae New Orleans, cotton $1.25 to 2.60 a bale lower. wat Stocks were Irregular and act ivity was moderate. Price changes were small. At Chicago, selleri were hold ing hogs at about yesterday's prices of $23.75 to $24.25 a hun dred pounds. The best bid short ly after the opening was $23.50. The pits hardly more than opened at Chicago when soy beans were offered at the eight cent limit decline from Wednes day's prices. Inflation or Deflation? The question In economic and ay i J4u.iau n.w tyojp potitiod problem was inflation or defla tion. The National Association of Retail Grocers surveyed Indepen dent food stores and found price cuts ranged from 10 cents a pound in bacon and porkchops to 4 cents a pound for hamburger. Flour, lard, butter and eggs were lower in many stores. Brltaimi Launches All Consumer Goods Come Under Order Warning Given on Pay, Profits: France Also Acts To Curb Price Increases LONDON, Feb. 13. tW The Board of Trade moved today to freeze prices on virtually all con sumer goods. Sir Stafford Cripps, austere cnanceuor 01 ine exeneouer, told Parliament last nieht the freeze, at December-January levels, would be on manufacturers' cell ing prices and distributors' prof its. A Board of Trade official es timated the orders would be ap plied before the end of February. Criops coupled the new effort to arrest the cost of livin with a warning to labor and industry to curb wages and profits voluntar ily or face government compul sion. A government spokesman said the order affected four-fifths of all goods and services covered by British controls. Food, clothing and furniture, are among them. Crippa said he hoped a "volun tary freeze" would extend to goods not covered by the controls. He opened debate In the House of Commons on a Labor Govern ment proposal to fix wages and incomes voluntarily. The pro gram, offered last week, has stir red revolt In some powerful Brit ish labor unions, backbone of Prime Minister Attlee's regime. France Acta Similarly British unions, some 5,000,000 strong, have been insisting upon higher pay despite Attlee's hold-the-llne plea In last week's gov ernment white naper. They are in coal mining, railroading, ship- (Continued on Page Six) Flash Fire Kills Eleven Persons UTICA, N. Y., Feb. 13. IIP) Eleven persons were believed to have perished today In a flash fire that wrecked a two-story frame dwelling near the New York Central Railroad tracks in Western Utica. Five bodies. In cluding those of three children, had been recovered six hours later. Fire Chief Leo Barry said 14 other persons had escaped. Three members of one family, who jumped from a second floor win dow, were hospitalized. Firemen found the charred body of three-vear-old Dana Lois Hoage In the' rubble. She was Identified by her uncle, Dana Pave, Jr. The walls of the long, ram shakle building, In Cedar Street, collapsed before most of the sec ond floor occupants could get out, firemen said. St Elizabeth's Hospital said Mrs. Ella Paye. 48. was in crlti- cal condition with three-fourths of her body burned. Her husband, Dana Paye, Sr., suffered first and second degree burns of the face and head. Their daughter, Catherine Paye, 19, received first and second de gree burns of the face and arms and suffered shock. Mary Hoage, 13, who Jumped from a second storv porch into a snow bank told of other members of her family waiting In a room to be rescued when the building collapsed. ne and tnree other survivors were taken to a nearby home. Marriage of 52 Years Lands in Divorce Court OREGON CITY. Feb. 13.-P) A marriage that lasted 52 years was In the divorce court here todav. the result, said Mrs. Rose Mlddleton of West Linn, of her She complained In a circuit court suit that not only did her husband, Ira Frank Mlddleton. nag her, but once disappeared for 17 years. She forgave the ab sence, she said, but can't stand the return. The couple married Nov. 27, 1895, at Eldora, la. Power Shortage Hits Central Oregon Region BEND. Feb. 13 'TV-Three Central Oregon countlea were short of power again today. The cold weather was blamed. Low temperatures Increased demand for electricity at the same time tnat lowered stream flow In the frozen Deschutes River and Ice-hogged fuel at power plants cut the supply. Power was being alternated among towns In Deschutes. Crook and Jefferson counties. Lumber mills curtailed operation. Republican Chiefs Lambaste Truman as Dixie Democrats Volley at Civil Rights Bills (By the Associated Press) Political brickbats showered down on President Truman from a full battery of Republican campaign speakers today. Another came sailing up from a Southern stronghold of his own Democratic party. Anthropologist Gives Uplift Plan For Human Race PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 13. HP Now there's a Hooton peace plan. Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, Harvard anthropologist, proposed to a Stanford University audience last night: Universal birth control "to pre vent the incompetent from repro ducing their kind." Weeding of social misfits from the educational system. Efforts to raise the "low L Q." of government!. Dr. Hooton saw danger to de mocracy in the idea that poverty, stricken, inefficient people have any innate right to be support ed in idleness from the public purse." Now, he said, the fate of hu manity is in the hands of govern ments "which almost always ex hibit behaviors resultant of the low average Intelligence of their citizens." Livestock Assn. Opens Meet Here Grass as a nautral resource Is "as important as timber to the continued prosperity of Oregon," and stock ranchers should "step Into the breach as timber Is re moved and plant grass," State Senator Thomas Parkinson said in his welcoming address this morning at the opening of the 11th annual meeting of the West ern Oregon Livestock Associa tion. One hundred and six delegates from 12 Western Oregon coun ties had registered at a late hour this morning for the convention. Sessions of the two-dav meet are being held at the Knights of Pythias Hall. Following a response by George Fullenwlder of Carleton. Ore., to Parkinson's welcome, an address was given by Albert Julian of Lyons, Ore., president of the association, who said that the organization was formed n Roseburg 11 years ago with stock ranchers from three counties In attendance. Julian declared that the asso ciation Is "making Itself felt" In legislative and social channels. It has endeavored to build good will by working with other or ganizations during the past year. He said that the association's legislative committee has at tempted to "put teeth in the spot lighting law. since persons who hunt at night with use of spot lights "kill stock all to often." A standing tribute was paid to the late R. C. Burkhart of Lebanon, past president of the as sociation, who died last autumn. Discussions were held this morning by Dr. J. N. Shaw of Oregon State College on sheen diseases, and Dr. Charles F. Haynes, state veterinarian, on the spread of foot and mouth dis ease from Mexico. British Troops Banned From Holy Land Sector JERUSALEM, Feb. 13.-.P The Jewish quarter of Rehavla and the business sector of Zlon Square In Jerusalem were placed out of bounds to British troops to day. There was mounting tension over police reports of the deaths last night of four Jews. Police said five Arabs were killed and 12 wounded last night when Hagana, the Jewish militia, made a bomb attack on the Arab village, of Abu Kehlr. Hagana said Its men made a similar sortie against the-Arab village of Yazur. The unofficial Palestine death toll since the United Nations de cision to partition the Holy Land last Nov. 29 now stands at 1,16;. Trucks Crash on Coos Highway; One Driver Hurt COOS BAY, Feb. 13J.P-A head-on collision of two trucks critically Injured one driver near here yesterday. Glen Potts. 32, Coqullle, was hospitalized here after his lum ber truck and a freight (Consoli dated Frelghtway-s) truck met on a Coos Bay-Coqullle Highway curve six miles south of here. The driver of the other vehicle. Edwin Ellis Jr., about 30, Port land, was not seriously hurt- On the side, two candidates for the GOP presidential nomination differed publicly over how gen erous this country should be In helping Eurorje. The added attraction featured Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Senator Taft of Ohio. Both gave the Truman foreign policy a severe raking, but they split In their discussion of the Marshall Plan. Dewey told a Boston Llnleon Day audience the foreign policy "should be thrown overboard lock, stock and barrel." Taft. speaking at St. Paul, blamed if ror "the losing of the peace thus far." However, Dewey said It would he better to give the administra tion all it has asked for spending under the Marshall Plan than to "limit it with an amount which mieht fall to do the lob." Taft Insisted that foreign aid spending should be held to es sential food and Industrial pump priming. He said he is against inviting the 16 western Europe nations to "add up their desired imports, subtract their possible exports and hand us a bill for the difference." 8tassen also Dlsrents Former Governor Harold E. Stassen of Mlnesota, who also Is running for the Republican nom ination, said In Germantown, Pa., he thinks the Marshall Plan should be carried out as finally developed under the leadership of Senator Vandenberg. Vandcnbere Is chairman of the Senate For eign Relations mrmlttie. -The administration wants $8.- SOO.OOO.OOO to get the Marshall Plan under way and finance it for the first 15 months. California's Governor Earl War ren, who also aspires to the White House, told his Republican listeners at Los Angeles that If the GOP wants to follow Llnclon It should be the party of the poor ana ncn alike. Southern Bolt Considered The new outburst by Southern Democrats who have been steam ing over civil rlirhts proposals from the White House came at Jackson, Miss. There 5.000 party members called for a conference (Continued on Paee Six) Winter Hands Out Snow, Sleet, Rain CHICAGO. Feb. 13V Freez ing rain, sleet and snow pelted areas from the plains states to the east Gulf reelon todav as winter's heavy snowfalls and sev ere cold prompted the placing of a partial embargo on rail freight movement Into narts of New Eng land and New York state. Freezine rain and sleet extend ed from Southeatcrn Kansas and Northeastern Oklahoma through Missouri, narts of Illinois and Ind iana. Hlehway travel was report ed hazardous. Snow fell in parts of Nebraska. Iowa, Minnesota and Southern Missouri. Most of the South was drench ed with heaw ralrs. Nenrlv all of Texas shivered as tempera tures dlpned far below normal. In Corpus Chrlstl, on the Gulf, the mercury earlv todav slid to 35, one depree colder than In far north Edmonton. Alberta, Can. There were some sub-7cro read Inirs In Colorado, Wyoming. Utah. Idaho and also In Darts of New Mexico and Nebraska. Florida's temperatures tonned the nation's weather msn aialn vesferdav with a high of 78 at Jacksonville and 77 at Miami. Slayer of Woman Convicted of Murder CHETTAUS. Wash.. Dec. 13 V A Jury of six men and ix women vesterd.iv convicted Wil liam Andrew Christian. 43-year- old Mineral Cafe operator, of flrt degree murder. The Jury recommended against the death penalty. Chrlntlan was tried on a first degree murder hcarge for the fatal shooting of Mrs. Winifred Logan. 30. a cook employed In his restaurant, last rvov. .). A plea of Innocpnce because of Insanity was entered on his be. half. Witnesses said Mrs. Logan was shot In a dlsuute over her alleged attentions to other men. She was the mother of five chil dren. FIRE RAZES HOME LEBANON, Ore., Feb. 13. m Fire destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Campbell here yes terday, but they escaped safely ahead of the flames. , Price (Freeze Price Controls Still Needed, Truman Says WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. UP) President Truman still thinks the country needs price controls In spite of the severe break in the grain market. ' The word from Republican leaders In Congress today is that he still has little chance of get ting them. Chairman Wolcott (R.-Mlch.) of the House Banking Commit tee went even further. He said Congress may have to start thinking about ways to keep prices from going too far down. And two GOP senators Young (N.D.) and Bushfield (S.D.) asked Congress to repeal a two-month-old law which they say helped cause the commodity slide. That law specifies there can be no further wheat exports once reserve supplies In this country drop to 150.000,000 bushels. Wolcott took the view that there will be no harm If Con gress waits a couple of weeks to think over the anti-inflation picture before it acts. Rent Control Accepted He listed one exception: Rent control. That should be extend ed for one month beyond Feb ruary 29, the date the present law expires, Wolcott told news men. Meanwhile, he added. Con gress could consider a longer (Continued on Page Six) "Accidental" Shot Wounds Waitress SALEM, Ore., Feb. 13. jhi-s. Hetty voecks, zi, waitress at the Marion Hotel, was In "very poor" condition today after being shot by a .45 calibre pistol last night In a room at the hotel. Assistant Police Chief E. C. Charlton said Bobby Leo Brltz, 24, local construction worker, said he shot Mrs. Voecks when the gun discharged accidentally. Brltz was being held today on a charge of Intoxication, Charlton said. The bullet penetrated her right breast, both lungs and left shoulder. She was too weak to talk to police. Charlton quoted Brltz as sav ing the couple had just finished a sandwich lunch when the shoot ing occurred. Brltz said he was examining the pistol and It went off unexpectedly. Air Markers on Rooftops Project of Boy Scouts WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 WP Boy Scouts are going to paint 10,000 air markers on rooftops to help guide private filers across the counrty. The project was announced to day by the Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration, which will supervise the work of the 1.500.000 scouts. The markers will show the direc tion and distance to the nearest airport: fix the location of the marker In terms of loneltude and latitude; and give the name of the community In which the marker is located. Civic, aircraft owners and pilots' groups are cooperating, CAA said. Scouts In Louslana. Okalhoma, Missouri and Arizona already have started their work. Window Smasher Gets Jail Term, $50 Fine REEDSPORT Robert Charles Sanborn, owner and operator of the Steak House on Highway 101, was arrested Wednesday by city police on a charge of destruction of personal property, after he allegedly had smashed the win dows of the Highway Grocery, adjoining his place of business while reportedly under the Influ ence of liquor. He was arraigned before Jus tice of the Peace Fred M. Wright and upon his plea of guilty, and his request to be given the limit", was fined $50 and cost and sen tenced to 60 davs In the county Jail. He was taken to Roseburg to begin his sentence. Horse Race, Stork Bring Luck on Same Day LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13. f) Jerry King, 20, a teleprinter operator, wagered K on I 12 across-the-board hunch bet on "Bahv Shower" In the eight race at Santa Anita Park. Just about the time the race was being run yesterday, King's wife Rae Jean, 21, gave birth to an elcht pound boy, the couple's first child. "Baby Shower" came home first, paylnu S1740 to win, SH.30 to place and S4.80 to show. King collected S30.50. I' -Ww GRAIN TRADER E. T. May nard, Chicago grain trader, reads priest from ticker tape in hit office on Chicago Board of Trade. Maynard wat named by Secretary of Agriculture An derson at the trader who made $200,000 In four days of trade in the falling grain market. An derson laid that Maynard had no inside information and that no corruption wat Involved. (NEA Telephoto.) Missed Swing at Joe Louis Sends Irishman Down NEW YORK. Feb. 13 () A 50-year-old Irishman made an un- sucessrui bid lor Joe Louis' heavy weight title In an unscheduled, punchless tiff at a Broadway nigm ciud eariy loaay, Thomas Delaney, the Irishman, landed on the floor after taking a wild swing at Louis' jaw. Wit nesses agreed the champson did n't hit his challenger. Before the swing, Delaney told the champion: "so you're Joe Louis. Well I'm going to beat Walcott to the title. I'm going to become the first Irish heavy weight champion of the world." Louis and his party were leav ing The Ebonv Club at 3 a. m when the challenge was Issued. Marshall Miles, the champion's manager commented Delaney fell "apparently from the wind we caused by getting out of there so quickly." Delaney, a six-foot, 200-nounder, refused to give his address to police, who let him go with a warning. As for Louts, he was heard to say as he entered his car, "foolish fellow." Vivien Kellems Defies Withholding Tax Law 1X)S ANGEI.ES. Feb. 13 UP) Miss Vlvi"n Kellems, Westport conn., manufacturer, said toda her firm will stop wlthholdlne federal Income taxes from em ployes. She offered to fight the Issue out with the government In the courts. "If hleh tax Harry wants me to get that money for him," she said In an address to a Los Ang eles Rotary club meeting, "then he must appoint me an agent for the Internal Revenue depart ment, he must pav me a salary for my work, and he must re imburse me for my expenses In curred In collecting that tax." Miss Kellems is a dynamic woman who lost out In a con gressional Republican primary race in Conneclcut to Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce In 1942. She Is the only woman electrical engineer ing manufacturer In the nation. Her Conneclcut office said her firm, which manufactures cable grips, now employs about 30 persons. Price Reductions Boon To Indian Community ANADARKO, Okla., Feb. 13 OP) This largely -Indian com munity may not be paradise, but at lea-it It's a happy hunting ground for housewives. With a little shopping effort Anadarko women can turn up these prices today: Sliced bacon, 49 cents a pound. Margarine. 31 cents a pound. Flour J. 1.95 for 25 pounds. Other cuts slashed six cents from a lOpound bag of sugar, six cents a pound from round- stnk prires, six cents from three pounds of lard, and four cents from a pound of coffee. Hut even Paradise has flaws: Potatoes went up 25 centt per hundred. UP) The Chinese Communist ra dio today announced one of five U. S. marines captured by thtf Reds In North China died of wounds. It charged the United States with active participation In China's civil war. The broadcast confirmed ru mors that one of the. marines, PFC Charles J. Brayton, Jr, Fort Jay, Governors Island, N. Y, was wounded fatally. "The unlicensed acts of the United States armed forces and military personnel In various parts of China and their aid to Chiang Kai-Shek in wanting civil war are facts known to every one," said the broadcast. "This Is utterly Imperialist, ag gressive activity and the great Chinese nation will absolutely not endure this aggression. Since October. 1945, U. S. armed forces and military personnel have con tinuously carried out aggression and military reconnaissance against the liberated areas, as well as making unreasonable do irtands." The broadcast said the five , marines had "advanced ag-jnst a position" of the Communists near a village north of Tsingtao Christmas Day. It said the U. S. Navy bad been asked to "apolo gize.'' On previous occasions, U. 8. military personnel taken Into custody In Communist territory were released unharmed after a few days. This time, said the broadcast, the four surviving ma rines would be treated with "clemency" on condition the U. S, guarantees "no recurrence." Adm. Charles M. Cooke. Jr.. commander of U. S. Navy farces in the Far East, said In Shang hai Monday he could not confirm a rumor that one marine had been killed. He said he had had no news of the five since they were captured Christmas Day. The Communist broadcast, from a secret station in North China, was recorded here by the Associated Press. It said In part! "Five American marines In Jeep advanced against a position of the Peoples Liberation (Com munist) Army at Wanglintao (north of Tsingtao on the Shan tung Peninsula) on the 25th of December .as fierce fighting raged in this area between the Peoples Liberation Armv and eight Kuomintang (Government) origaaes. "In a defensive action, the Peoples Liberation Army cap- (Continued on Page Six) Probation May End For Accused Man Arrested In connection wtth the theft of a government check i mm a rural rnatl box here this week, Charles Llles, 30, of Co burg, Ore., has been returned to Grants Pass for revocation of a five-year probationary sentence Imposed for a similar offense committed In Josephine County, Chief of Police Calvin Balrd said. He would be ordered to serve his term In the state penitentiary by the Josephine County Circuit Court, the chief stated. Harlan Myers, 21 of 1634 Cedar St., and Raymond E. Myers, 24, brothers are both held here. Chief t LBnlrd said. VT Raymond was arraigned In the juKuce ourc on a cnarge oi re ceiving and having possession of and concealing stolen property. He waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand Jury by Justice of the Peace Hart lei with ball set at $500. Harlan has seven months re maining on a parole from the penitentiary, where he served time for obtaining money by false pretenses, Balrd said. His parole Is expected to be termin ated by the State Board of Parole. Jorgenson Lodge Opens At Coos Junction Opening of Jorgenson's Lodge. on the Pacific Highway at Coos Junction, was announced today by John Jorgenson, owner. Twelve cabins at the lodge are ready for occupancy by tourists, while more are being constructed, he said. The cabins are of frame and stucco construction, mortemly equipped by the Modern Furnt ture Co. of Roseburg, he added. Jorsenson Is an Industrial de signer by profession, having de signed a number of lumber mills In Douglas County In recent months. The voice that radioed de mands of Chinese Communists to the United States today may have been that of a Chinaman, but the wording has a suspicious resemblance to Russian-type dictation.