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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
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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
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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
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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
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ment." One committee member
told a reporter there isn't any
real "army," that that was just a
descriptive way of putting It.
Four Schools Still Open
3. Communists run some
schools of their own In this coun
try. 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
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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
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hospital and waited outside for
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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. Terrible as the
tragedy was, I am thankful If
was not worse, as It might well
have been."
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