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TWO NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948 Legion Policies, Plans Topics At District Meeting Plans and policies of the Amer ican Legion were discussed Sun day at a district conference In Roseburg. The meeting was at tended by approximately 35 key officers of the State Department and of District 10 and various areas. The conference centered around plans for stimulating member ship and forwarding Legion ac tivities such as rehabilitation, child welfare, Junior baseball, gifts for 'The Yanks Who Gave," and other matters. Plans also were made for the initiation cer emony to be conducted Tuesday night by Umpqua Post at the Boseburg Armory when a large class of veterans will receive the Legion obligation. Among those In attendance at the dinner meeting, held at Del Bey, were Department Command er Kelly Owens, Salem; Depart ment Vice - Commander Sam Bowe, Grants Pass; Department Adjutant Tom Collins, Portland; Area No. 2 Commander Harry Plnkerton, Medford; Area No. 1 Commander Jess Ostium, Port land; District No. 10 Commander Gene Springer, Roseburg; Dist rict No. 10 Vice-Commander Lyle Marcy, Coos Bay; Past Depart ment Commander Jack Maris, Canyonvllle, and post officers from Drain, Oakland, Sutherlin, Canyonvllle and Roseburg. Most of a horse's pulling power lies in Its hind quarters. West Berlin Swats Reds in City Election (Continued from Page One) denounced the rule of the Soviet sector. The Socialist tide ran strong, apparently attracting some former Communist support ers. Its final percentage was a gain of 13 per cent from the lirst post-war election of 1946. The press of the western sec tors hailed the result as a c I can- lie "nein" (no) to Moscow. The Russian sector press hollered "fraud." In 1946 the Communists had 13.5 per cent of the vote in tne western sectors and about 8 per cent of the electorate stayed home. The fact that 86.2 per cent of all registered voters turned out yesterday was held to be direct evidence of a loss of half the Communist strength in two years. The voters chose representa tives in the city and borough assemblies. Each party receives seats in proportion to its share of the total vote. The assembly men are named by party execu tive committees. Allied Officers Elated Western allied military govern ment officers were openly elated at the election results. Col. Frank L. Howley, Ameri can commandant in Berlin, said: "Through the election the peo ple of Western Berlin have de cided their destiny In a free Dem ocratic way before all the world." MaJ. Gen. E. O. Herbert, British sector commandant, said Berlln ers had given their answer to "the ridiculous claim of the so called 'opera government' to rule the eity.1' The Communist "rump" gov ernment was chosen at a mass meeting last Tuesday In a former musical comedy theater. Despite strongarm tactics and fist fights during the political campaign, the election itself took place with relative calm. No mass invasions by Red gangs were made intp the west ern sectors. Some 10,000 German police maintained almost com plete order. German staffs of the street car and subway systems held up traffic for several hours yes terday morning to give 100,000 western uerllners time to vote before going to "voluntary work in the Russian sector. PARIS, Dec. 6. (W The west ern powers yesterday made a bid for Russia to disown the "rump" Communist government set up by the Soviets in Berlin and resume cooperation in a four-power ad ministration. Otherwise, they said, the chances for an agreement to end the deadlock in the blockaded for mer German capital will be con siderably dimmed. ine western powers saia the existence of a Communist re- f:lme in the Soviet sector of Ber in will end all possibility of a leeal unified adminlstra tlon functioning on a city-wide basis. Turkeys Arriving For Show Openinq Tomorrow (Continued from Page One) 1 will be sent to the National Tur key Show at Des Moines. Ia.. Jan. 6, 7 and 8. The Northwestern Turkev Show will be concluded this week with the turkey banquet at Ken nedy's Dutch Mill Thursday. The public is invited. Mrs. E. A. Paulson Claimed by Death Mrs. Ellen Antonia Paulson. 47, well-known resident of Roseburg, died Sunday at the Roseburg Sani tarium following a prolonged period of illness. She was born at Wissfjorda, Sweden, Dec. 8, 1900, and came to this country In ll!a. She was mar ried to Frank Paulson in Rose burg on Aug. 15, 1925, and made her home here for about 12 years, before moving to Grants Pass. where she resided until 1943. Fol lowing the death of her husband in 1943 she returned to Roseburg, residing here until her death. Mrs. Paulson was a member of the Assembly of God Church. Surviving are her daughter, Rose Sella Paulson, Roseburg; four sisters, Mrs. J. A. Joelson and Mrs. C. H. Joelson, both of Roseburg; Mrs. H. W. Burlow, Salt Lake Citv, and Mrs. Hugo Sandgren, Sweden, and a brother, O. A. Johnson, Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. Funeral services will be held In the chapel of the Long & Orr Mortuary Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. Vernon Klemin of the Assembly of God Church officiating. Concluding services and interment will fol low in the Coles Valley cemetery. White Found Guilty Of Murder, Gets Life Term (Continued on Page Two) In the county Jail later in the morning. Jury Out Eight Hours 1 he verdict in the case was re turned at 8:30 Saturday night. latter eight hours' deliberation. As the Jurors Hied bacK into the Jury box, Judge Wimberly asked A. H. Doerner, the foreman, If a verdict had been reached. He then read from the paper that Doerner handed him: "We, the Jury . . . find the de fendant guilty as charged and recommend that he be imprisoned in the state penitentiary for the remainder of his natural life." When the verdict was read, the defense attorneys, Robert C. Davis and Edward M. Murphy, asked to have the jury polled. Each juror replied "yes" to the guilty verdict. The attorneys In dicated that no appeal would be made. At the penitentiary, White will join his alleged accomplice, El mer Jesse Moser. who pleaded guilty in the second degree to his part in fatal beating and robbery of 80-year-old Willis Moffitt last Aug, 13. The aged pensioner, reputedly Roseburg's oldest native-born resident, died in a Eugene hos pital Aug. 15. White was taken in custody shortly after Moffitt had been found unconscious in a Rose burg alley and Moser was ar rested the day of Moffltt's death. Although Moser confessed his part in the alleged crime, White mainiainea nis innocence 10 ine end. Both were indicted for first degree murder, but before the scheduled opening of his trial last month, Moser pleaded guilty to second degree murder. He was sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary. White Is goings to the peniten tiary where he served a previous term on a non-support cnarge in 1941. Then he was sentenced In the Douglas County Circuit Court to serve one year, but later was released on parole. Mrs. Mary E. Parr Dies in Roseburg Mary E. Parr, 79, of Ballf St, Roseburg, died this morning aft er a short illness. She was born in Unionvllle, Mo., July, 12, 1869, and came to Roseburg 12 years ago to make her home. She was a member of the Daughters of Union Veterans of Roseburg. Surviving are three sons and two daughters Elmer Parr, Seat tle; Russell and Trafton Parr, Roseburg; Mrs. Winnie Lamb, Lemon, S. D.; Mrs. Radia Ward, Sunny Mead, Calif. Also surviving are three sis ters: Mrs. Lola Weed and Mrs. Maude Critton, both of Iowa, and Mrs. Dissie Sexton, Mo.; one brother, Claude Coppock, la., and 25 grandchildren, and 16 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be an nounced later by the Roseburg Funeral Home. The Weather Reds Find Teacher Role in U. S. Easy (Continued from Page One) II E APPLIANCE V 1 1 vcs I 55L 4 GIFT FRIGIPAIRB This year surprise; the) wbolt family with a gift that brings lasting happiness for all ... a Frigidaire. Any Frigidaire appliance you buy for Christmas will bring its own largo measure of enjoyment, every day in the year, for many Christmases to come. 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The committee lists 13 but It says only these four are open now: School of Jewish studies and Jefferson School of Social Sci ence, New York; California La bor School, San Francisco; and Seattle Pacific Northwest Labor School, Seattle. 4. Wallace Youth groups are "tools of the Communist party." 5. Communism gained recruits through Henry A. Wallace's cam paign for president. It made new contacts and tapped fresh money. The "largest vote ever cast for communism" In America was reg istered when Wallace polled more than 1,000,000 votes Nov. 2. Communists, the committee says, intend to wreck the Ameri can school system If they can; they want to train children rath er than teach them train them to "obey, to love, and to hate." SEATTLE, Dec. 6 UP) John Oashbach, extension director of the Pacific Northwest Labor School, has declined to confirm or deny charges that It is a Communist school. The House Un-American Activ ities Committee issued a oamDhlet Saturday listing the school as one run by Communists. 'That's none of J. Parnell Thomas' business," Dashbach de- ciaren Saturday when asked to comment on the charge. Thomas, U. 8. Weather Bureau Office Boseburg, Oregon Forecast for Roseburg and vicinity: Partly cloudy with oc casional rain showers today. Cloudy Tuesday with rain. Highest temp, and Oec 70 Lowest temp, for any Dec .. 5 Highest temp, yesterday S Lowest temp, last night 38 Precipitation yetterflay 1-24 Precipitation from Dec. 1 2-64 Precipitation from Sept 1 965 Excess from Dec. 1 -I-75 New Jersey Republican, is chair man of the committee. However, Dashbach made the following comment: "Any statements of Thomas should be placed under the head ing, 'Red-Baiting'." 'The Pacific Northwest Labor School intends to do its modest share in defeating threats against the welfare of our people. "We feel sure Thomas' dream of an America in which all schools conform to his bigoted thought will not come to ,pass." Red Spy Ring Bared In Discovery of Microfilm (Continued from Page One) time, Chambers had them cached In a hollow pumpkin on his Mary land farm. Chambers has said these par ticular documents never reached the Russians because he got them while he was in the process of splitting with the Reds. Inside Aide to be Exposed Robert E. Stripling, chief in vestigator for the House com mittee, has said the hearings starting tomorrow will establish who fed the papers to Chambers Irom tne fatale Department. The committee regards those hearings as so Important that it enlisted the help of the Coast Guard and the Navy to bring one of its members, Rep. Nixon, back irom a snip at sea. . Immediately after his arrival last night Nixon went into a hud dle with Stripling to go over the documents. His first reaction was that they are "so damnably im portant" it may not be possible to make them public. Stripling already had shown the papers to Sumner Welles, for mer undersecretary of state, to determine which might be "too hot ' to bring into tne open. Nixon promised that tomor row's hearing "will prove to the American people once and for all that where you have a Com munist, you have an espionage agent." The New York Grand Jury so far has Indicted 12 Communist party leaders on charges of con spiring to overthrow the U. S. government. tyrants Pass Grid Team In Bus Crash; Two Di (Continued from Page One) hospital and waited outside for .....! hnura whilp th champions were brought In and -treated. Others worked with fire men at the scene. The Greyhound Bui Company identified the driver as A. f Coale of Portland. 1 All of the team members lost their personal belongings and. most of the team equipment went up In flames. But the state championship sil ver trophy, awarded to the cham pions at the Multnomah Stadium' turf Saturday after defeating Jet. ferson of Portland, 6 to 0, was saved. Coach Loffer said one of the players grabbed the tro phy or was holding It at the time of the wreck and took it along when he squeezed out a window. uiner uieiuuci b ui me aijuan, aboard the bus were Bob Roark, Keith Bertrand, Don Hedgepeth, Walter Johnson, Gerald Hudson, Ed Zottola, Sid Frank, Bob Davis, Ed Malone, Ed Greenwood, Jon Walker, Bill Wilcox, Les Jordan Bob Flock, Dale Ferguson, Don Donovan, Clint Reese. The other two coaches aboard were Russ Warner and Keith Woodward. The bus had stopped at Rose burg for dinner about 4:30 p. m. J and started the last peg home- ward. It had left Portland Sun- 1 day morning at 9 o'clock. Heater's. Death Heroio Sterling Heater's death In the crash was attributed by one of the injured players to Heater's re fusal to escape while he could help his teammates. Ray Alpeter, whose leg was fractured in the crash, said Hea ter could have clambered from the window, but remained to help Alpeter get out of the wreckage. : Apparently after that the flames trapped Heater Inside. The other young victim, Al Newman, had won his high school goal a football letter in the title game Saturday after four years of turning out for every practice. A substitute play er, he was sent into the cham pionship game in the closing ' minutes so he could complete the letter requirements. Loffer's Work Praised Head Coach Mel Ingram said the survivors were unanimous in their praise of athletic director Jess Loffer's work In getting the boys out of the bus. "I am too stunned yet to get my wlls together," Ingram said. "But this I can say, from all reports, my boys kept their heads. That team work they displayed on the football field throughout the season was still In evidence. They were helping each other and following the instructions of thpir coaches. 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