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U. Of 0. Library Sugene, Oregon Chinese Reds Issue Peace Talk Terms Removal Of Chiang From The Weather Fair and slightly warmer to day, tonight, and Friday. Fog tn valleys during morning. Low tonight 18 to 25 degrees. Sunstt today 5 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:43 a.m. Office Listed , i i. ii mm r mrn . mmmmimmmmmtMm i wi WHO DOES WHAT y t - f U ill .... U WILLIAM D. FORHAN. chief boilerman, it United Mates Navy recruiting officer in charge of the Navy recruiting station in the Armory. He and Mrs. Forhan and Bill, their two-year-old ion, live at Idlevld Park. Chief Forhan hat been stationed here for the past year and a half. He hat been in the Navy 14 years, having tix more to go before retirement, in the South Pacific. Juring In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS EVEN this early In the Truman era of good feeling, there are slorm warnings. A Washington dispatch Bays: "Democrats seeking an answer to high prices assured business to day there will not be 'another wartime OPA.'" That raises an Interesting ques tion: How are you going to control without controls? THE President's Idea is obvi ously a gun behind the door. He doesn't want to USE the gun unless he has to. He hopes that Its mere presence, all loaded and oiled up and ready to shoot, will 'iltiiL enough to deter wicked per sons from raising prices higher than they ought to be raised. But If word goes out that THE GUN ISN'T LOADED, what will happen? SUPPOSE you were planning a raid on somebody. If you knew he had a good straight-shooting shotgun, loaded with buckshot, carefully Inspected and all ready to go, you'd be In clined to hesitate and weigh the consequences. But if you got a straight tip that the gun wasn't loaded you might conclude that the chance was worth taking. You'd probably fig ure that if he didn't load the gun he was just bluffing anyway. A gun behind the door Is use ful ONLY if possible marauders are pretty sure they'll gpt shot at if they get too cagey. . THE Washington dispatch adds: "Democrats appeared far from certain that new price controls would be wise EVEN ON THE (Continued on Page Four) bath, Injury Follow Somb Explosion in Cairo CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 13 UP) One or two persons were killed and at least 16 were Injured by the explosion of a bomb in a Cairo Square today. Police announced at least 10 of the injured were policemen. Officers said the bomb was In a bag taken to the square for official scrutiny after It was drop ped in a corridor leading to the National Court of Appeal. (Egyptian unrest over the struggle in Palestine has been a factor in several recent Incidents in Cairo.) THEY SAVED HIROHITO U. S. Joint Staff Chiefs Ordered Emperor Not To Be Prosecutedi Revealed TOKYO, Jan. 13. UP) Emperor Hirohito escaped prosecution as a war criminal on orders of the United States Joint chiefs of staff. Copies of the order are available here. The order, a part of the directive to Gen. Douglas MacArthur to set up the International Tribunal, which convicted Hideki Tojo and 24 other Japanese war leaders, was issued in January, 1946. At first it was classed as top secret. Later it was graded down to allow defense attorneys for the 25 class AAA Japanese war crim inals to use it in their appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Specifically it prohibited prose cution of the emperor "pending jTeipt of a further directive." Re Tibbie sources said no further di rective ever w as received by Mac Arthur. These sources said the decision the hit service was c hiefly Umpqua Forest Timber Sales In 1948 Increase Timber sales on the Umpqua National Forest exceeded a mil lion dollars during 1948. A report prepared by Super visor M. M. Nelson reveals that timber sales under new contracts signed last year totaled 104,131, 000 board feet valued at $1, 776,480. Timber cutting, under contracts signed both during 1947 and 1948, reached a volume of 150,553,000 board feet, valued at $1,260,930 at an average of $8.38 per thou sand, Nelson said. The amount of timber cut dur ing 1948 was about double that cut in 1947, while the value was three times greater. Although the production of sawlogs has greatly increased in recent years. Nelson points out that production from the Ump qua Forest is at present only about one-half of what Is grown each year. Full production is held back primarily because of lack of roads to remove timber from the "back country." Because the cut is not up to what is actually grown, Nelson estimates, the government Is "losing" nearly a million dollars each year in revenue. The coun ty is also the loser he said, since the counties receive 25 per cent of national forest take for tim ber. For example, the counties will receive more than $300,000 as their share of the 1948 Umpqua National Forest timber receipts. Cannery Warehouse Near Freewater Razed by Fire MILTONFREEWATER, Ore., Jan. 13 UP) Firemen from one Washington and two Oregon communities battled In vain for eight hours last night and early todav In an effort to save the block-long warehouse of the Utah canning company, near free- water. Police chief George E. Hayes estimated damage at over $1,000, 000. The building was reported to contain the cannery's entire 1948 pack and a portion of the 1947 pack awaiting shipment. Gun Slaying of Boy Under Investigation CANYON CITY, Ore., Jan. 13 !P) Giant County Coroner J. Carl Driskill has started an inves tigation Into the gun slaying of a boy found stumbling homeward Monday. He died Tuesday night. Driskill reported a sister saw Tillman Flynn. 16, of Long Creek, stumbling toward the house. His feet and hands were frozen and his head was covered with blood The boy had gone hunting Sun day and failed to return. He had a bullet wound in the temple. not to prosecute Hirohito, who was commander In chief of Jap an's armed forces, came from a U. S. "governmental level," which was not further identified. The chiefs of staffs then issued the or der. At that time the Far Eastern Commission had not been formed as an advisory body on policy for the occupation. At Washington, records showed (Continued on Page Two) Established 1873 Legislators Aim to Avoid Long Session Business Being Rushed; New Bills Concern Vets, Schools, Game, Pensions By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM, Ore., Jan. 13. m The Oregon Legislature Is acting very scared scared because it's afraid it might have to spend an other 84 days here like it did two years ago. So, the result is that it is get ting down to business faster than it has in many years. Committees already are down to business something which us ually doesn't happen until the ses sion Is about three weeks old. This has caused some of the skeptics to revise their estimates as to the length of the session. Some are beginning to talk about a 60-day session, and the veteran Blaine McCord, chief clerk of the House rules committee, cut his guess from 90 to 75 days. Bills For Veterans Two Democratic World War II veterans, Reps. Phil Dreyer and Howard Morgan, ootn oi port land, introduced bills to increase veterans benefits. One measure would give veter ans $70 a month for educational aid, or twice what they get now. There are 303 veterans now get. ting this help. They also want to let the state issue $56,000,000 worth of bonds for farm and home loans to vet erans. The limit now is $42,000, 000. The Senate elections committee said It would hold a hearing next Wednesday night on the propos als for the state to have a lieuten ant governor. Two such meas ures have been introduced, and six more are on the way. Theater Tax Proposed Rep. Joseph E. Harvey, Port land, said he is sponsoring a bill lor a lu per cent tax on ineaiers and all other entertainments. The money would be used for pen- (Continued on Page Two) Postal Official Slain Over Peeve Against PO Dept. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 13 UP) One of Oklahoma City's twin slayings appeared solved beyond question today, but tile other an almost mirror image was a deeper mystery man ever. Joseph Donnelly, 69, a small meek man who killed with a pistol, freely admitted shooting down Postal Inspector E. M. Harkins, 51, in the downtown post office yesterday. Police learned Donnelly's rea sons such as they were when they read the letter he carried in his pocket. It was written last July to President Truman, but never mailed. "I love you Mr. President. . ." I love you Mr. President. . ." it started, and went on for pages. It was a confiding recital of an eight-year grudge against the Post Office Department that fed an apparent ignorance, mis understanding and a brooding fear of persecution. But the letter threw no light on the similar killing of Attorney Earl Pruet, 16 hours before and three blocks away in the 32 story First National Building. No motive, and few clues, are known to police in the case. In his long letter to the Presl dent, Donnelly told of two $20 money orders sent to him by relatives that were stolen and forged in 1940. He was asked to sign affi davits on the loss, but apparently thought they were documents that would make him a suspect In the case. Soviet Science Academy Expels 3 Alien Critics MOSCOW. Jan. 13. UP) The Soviet Academy of Sciences has expelled three foreign critics, at least two of wnom already had resigned. Moscow newspapers said Am erican biologist Hermann J. Mul- ler, of Bloomington, Ind., was deprived of his corresponding membership and British biologist Sir Henry Dale of his honorary membership, uiat lirocn, Nor wegian philologist, also was de prived of his corresponding mem bership. All were accused of "activity directed against the U. S. S. R." Both Dale and Muller, who re signed, had written letters to the Academy which received con siderable publicity. They had ac cused the Academy of subordinat ing science to politics. Ex-Senator Hatch Named For Federal Judgeship WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. P) Former Senator Carl Hatch was nominated by President Truman today to be a federal district Judge in New Mexico. The nomination of the former Democratic senator, a close per sonal friend of the president, was sent to the senate along with ROSEBURG, Zeke Walton Now Asst. Manager Of Hotel Umpqua Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harding and Ernest Butler, operators of the Hotel Umpqua, have announced the appointment of Ed R. "Zeke" Walton, above, as assistant mana ger. Zeke came t6 the Umpqua in June 1927, relieving Bill Van Buren as night clerk until 1928, when he went on the day shift, relieving John Hendgren. He worked the day shift until No vember 1942, when he was em ployed by the War Department at Camp Adair, Ore., and later at the Presidio of San Francisco as a photographer. Walton's successor as clerk will be Fredrick Krebs McMullen, Roseburg High School graduate and a life-long Oregon resident. McMullen is well experienced in hotel work, having been employ ed at many leading hotels in Ore gon and Washington. He was for merly connected with the Daven port Hotel in Spokane, Wash. Harry Pntzkau, also an experi enced hotel man, will be employ ed opposite on the desk. He was formerly employed at the Salem Hotel in Saiem and at the Benton Hotel in Corvallis. Pritzkau came to Oregon in 1937 from the Mid west, where he was employed In leading hotels. Herschell Morrison has been ap pointed night, manager of the Umpqua. He has been connected with the hotel the past five years. Charges 'False Brougher Asserts GLENDALE, Calif., Jan. 13. UP) "Completely false," a Bap tist minister and father of four children brands court charges that he had affairs with 40 wo men parishioners. Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher Jr., 46, pastor of Glendale First Bap tist church for 21 years and son of a minister, yesterday blamed "disgruntled" members of his parish for accusations made in a suit filed in Los Angeles superior court. The action was brought by Mrs. Sadie Williams and Fletcher Edgar Maxwell, who said they were suing for other members of the church. They demanded a church hearing and membership election on the charges or a court trial by jury. The suit alleged that "in con demnation and rejection of church views and Christianity, J. Whitcomb Brougher Jr., has de bauched many of the women members of the congregation. He has caused disruption in the mari tal relations of numerous famil ies. He has openly boasted of having meretricious (vulgar) re lations with over 40 women." No Military Draft In Oregon for 2 Months PORTLAND, Jan. 13 UP) No men will be Inducted into military service from Oregon during Feb ruary or ftiarcn. Mai. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, state director of selective service, said physical examinations would ae discontinued until tne araii re sumes. JUNIOR CHAMBER OFFICERS to V V it Bill A I .. Commerce pote for this picture. junior first citlien's bnqut, way 99 South. The banquet, zen for 1948, will start at 7:30. Dancing will follow the program. Left to right, the officers are Leo Sevy, treasurer: Gordon Carlson, secretary; Clenn Scott, president: Charles Hart, external vice president; Jack Murphy, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 1 3, 1 949 Public Health Bill Awaits Truman 0. K. Plan Ties President's Program With 6 Other Related Proposals WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 UP) Senator Pepper (D-Fla) said to day that he and two colleagues are seeking president Truman's go ahead on a vast new public health program. The Flordla lawmaker told a re Dorter the group is urging the ad ministration to back a single piece of legislation which would wraD ud Mr. Truman's national health Insurance plan with a half dozen other related proposals. PeDDer and Senators Murray (D-Mont) and Himphrey (D-Minn) already have discussed the Idea with Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing, it was learned. Ewing reportedly promised to study the matter and decide wether to take It up with the president. Provisions Listed. insurance, such an omnibus bill would provide for: 1. Increased Federal aid for hos pital construction. i. Meaica researcn. 3. Federal aid to medical schools and students. 4. A nurses recruiting program 5. Expansion of the U. S. Public Health Service. 6. A dental program. In his stale of the union mes sage. Mr. Truman renewed his re quest for universal health insur ance. The program would be fi nanced generally by payroll taxes. An administration bill to carry it out already has been introduced. However, it again faces stiff op position, both Ithln congress and from the American Medical Ass ociation. Mother, New Husband Accused Of Child Theft HARRISBURG. Pa.. Jan. 13, (.PM-The Dauphin .County Grand Jury yesterday indicted Mrs. Jeanne Morgan Braget, 21, and her Tacoma, Wash., businessman husband, John M. Braget, on a charge of kidnaping three-year-old Vickie Jeanne Snyder. The two are accused of taking the child, Mrs. Braget's daughter by a previous marriage, from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Snyder, of Harrisburg, Vlck le's paternal grandparents who adopted her nearly three years ago. The Bragets now are ilgm lne extradition to Pennsylvania The Bragets surrendered the girl to Pomona, Calif., police on Dec. 28. Dogs Being Tattooed In Plan for Identification NEW YORK, Jan. 13 UP) A dog's life now may include being tattooed. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals inaugurates the dog-tattooing here today as a new nation wide method of dog identification. The system. patterned alter one used by the Army K-9 corps during the war, calls for tat tooing a serial number on the inside of the dog's right thigh. Records of the tattooed ani ma Is in all 48 states will be kept by the National Dog Record Bu reau, whlcn nas neaoquarters in Los Angeles. Primary purpose of the plan Is to permit speedy trac ing of lost dogs. DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED Donald Lawrence Berens, 31, was sentenced to 30 days In the city Jail by Municipal Judge Ira B. Riddle Monday, following his plea of guilty to a charge of driv ing while intoxicated. The Jail sentence was suspended on pay ment of a $100 fine. Berens' dri ver's llcenese was revoked one year. Recently elected officers of m . . ' X.:..- '; &j -J . A i Installation will be an Important part of next Monday niqht'i winch the Jaycees are sponsoring with the big event the announcement of Roseburg s junior first citi sergeant - t - rms, and Jack Newby, Internal vice president. Odom Hops From Honolulu in Try For New Record ''iSXS! BILL ODOM New Air Mark Sought HONOLULU, Jan. 13. UP) William P. (Bill) Odom, Jocular and confident at the outset, flew his single-engine "Waiklkl Beach" eastward today In quest of a 5,285-mlie flight record for small planes. Powered by a 185-horsepower engine, the 1500-pound Beech- craft Bonanza lifted smoothly from the Honolulu airport last night at 6:32 p.m. (8:32 p.m., Pst) into the Hawaiian moon light. "My destination is Teterboro airport just outside New York," Odom said. T should take 32 hours to New York," Odom said before the takeoff. "I should make Seattle in 18 hours and eight minutes. If he makes New York he will more than double the nonstop distance record for small planes. lhe record Is 2,0bl miles, set Sept. 23, 1937, by two Russians. Negro Trio Held For Murder Of ' Ex-WaconGuam GUAM. Jan. 13. UP) Three Negro U. S. air force men were charged today with raping pretty Ruth Farnsworth, former WAC, and leaving her unconscious In the jungle to die. The American governor of Guam Identified the accused as: Pvt. Calvin Dennis, 26, Fred erick, Md. Pvt. Herman Dennis, 20, Del ton, Tex. Staff Sgt. Robert W. Burns, 32, of Spokane, Wash. Calvin and Herman are broth ers. Miss Farnsworth, 27, of San Francisco, was seizezd last Dec. 11 in a Jade shop where she was working part. time so she could buy a trousseau for her wedding next April to a marine. She was knocked unconscious, carried out to a Jungle and raped. A search ing parly of soldiers and marines found her there 12 hours later. She died Dec. 13 without recover ing consciousness. Lt. Cmdr. James T. Hackett, assistant chief of Guam police, said the brothers confessed their part in the crime after a He de tector trapped Herman. Officials said Burns had at tended Columbia university, New York City, for three years. CHILD DROWNS EUGENE, ORE., Jan. 13 UP) Four-year-old Cari R. Champ Jr. drowned In Lcnburg Dam Lake yesterday despite a six-year-old playmate's rescue attempt. Deputy coroner Howard Ram sey reported Joyce Ann Curtis ran for her falher, who pulled the boy's body from the lake, after she fell Into the water while vainly trying to push a stick with in the boy's reach. Plctur by Photo Lab the Rotebura Junior Chamber of at Kennedy's Dutch Mill on High 4 10-49 Rain Easing Winter's Grip On California Other States Given No Relief; New England Has Near-Zero Blast (By the Auoctated Prisl Storm warnings were lowered over most of the nation's map to day as temperatures moderated and generally fair conditions pre vailed. There were only a few preclol tation belts. Some rain fell in the valleys and along the coast in Southern California. There was more snow In the mountains. The rain and rising temperatures in dicated a melting of most of the snow which had nit tne normal ly snow-less area the past four davs. The now familiar white flakes added to the snowpack at Palm- dale and Daggett on the Mojave desert during the night. Mt. Wil son, near Pasadena, was snowed in and reported a blizzard with 60-mlle-an-hour winds. Winds 40 to 50 miles an hour buffeted the coastline between Oceanside and San Diego. Storm warnings were up In that area and small craft warnings were hoisted from Oceanside north to Point Conception. Diminishing snowers were forecast for today, with generally moderating temperatures, Indicat ing Southern California's white winter holiday was about over. Snow falls were reported by the U. S. Weather Bureau In Northern Michigan, scattered sec tions of northern New England and in New York state. Relief Via Air Continues But the storm-harrassed areas of some southwest and south cen tral states still felt the effects of (Continued on Page Two) Truck Driver Aid At Baby's Birth Denied Richard Knight, of Yoncalla, father of a baby girl-born on the Pacific Highway early Mon day morning while he and nis wife were enroute to Mercy Ho pltal, today stated that he had delivered the baby without aid from other persons. A story carried by the News Review Tuesday said that a truck driver, Luke Harrison of Woodburn, had delivered the child when (he Knight's auto mobile had stopped at an acci dent scene because the highway was blocked. Knight said that "the truck driver didn't even get out of the truck," and did not give any aid when the baby was born. Harrison did not "wrap the moth er and the baby in blankets," Knight stated, because "he does n't know what kind of biankels we have." Knight also stated, "M.v wife said she would rather deliver the baby herself than have a truck driver do It. The only help she got was from me." Douglas County G. O. P. Committee Organizes The Douglas County Republi can Central Committee, at tne organization meeting held at a dinner at the Umpqua Hotel last night, elected the loiiowing oni- cers for the ensuing year: H. O. Pargetcr, county chair man; Lena (Peggy) Young, vice chairman; R. R. Clark, congres sional committeeman; Juanlta Halladay, Reedsport. cong. com- mltteewoman; Flossie Vlrden, sec retary; R .O. Young, treasurer; F. L. Thompson, Sutherlln, alter nate, and Miss Frances lorrey, Sutherlln, alternate. Plans for the coming year were outlined. Reports of the officers showed that Douglas County was "outstand ne In the last elec tion and was one of the "bright spots In the nation' in carrying its various candidates. Liquor License Ban For Intemperate Users Asked DENVER, Jan. 13. UP) Llauor would he limited to licensed llns In Colorado If State Representative uakley wauc nas his way. The Las Animas Republican yesterday Introduced a bill In the House oi ucpreseniauves provia inu for: "Licensing of drinkers of alco holic beverages and the denial, suspension or revocation of such licenses of intemperate persons Licenses could be taken away for alcoholism, conviction of drunken driving or other evi dences of inability to "hold liauor. Licenses would cost i nominal sum and be good for life. PROPER IDENTIFICATION Ralph Smith, KRNR tech nician, told of the listener who phoned In a request that Bill Henry (and the news) be asked to report the high and low in the day's stock market reports. Smith explained Bill Henry was a network release from New York. The lady asked, "Don't you have a Henry work ing for you?" "Yet," said Smith, "but our man's first name is Hank." U. S., Britain, France Consider Nationalists' Request for Mediation PEIPING, Jan. 13 UP) Chi nese Communists have laid down specific conditions for the begin ning of national peace talks, a source here said today. he listed them as: 1. Removal of Chiang Kai-shek and Vice President Li Tsung-Jen from office. 2. Scrapping of the Chinese constitution. 3. A mutual cease fire order with both sides holding their pres ent positions. 4. examination and punisn ment of "war criminals." Chiang heads the Communists' list. 5. Establishment of a coalition government with a five-three, four ratio five Communist mem bers, three Kuomlntang and four representing all other Chinese political parties. Meanwhile fighting continues here and at Tientsin, 50 miles to the southeast. Pro-government reports from Tientsin said that the Reds en circling that industrial city were standing pat on their demand for unconditional surrender of the city. (Earlier Betty Chang, 25, an Americun nurse from Eugene, Ore., who married a Chinese bus iness man, said in a dispatch from Tientsin that heavy artillery and machine gun fire marked the fighting there.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 CP) The United States was reported today consulting with Britain and France on a Chinese Government move aimed at opening the way (Continued on Page Two) Service Station, Rice Hill, Again Scene of Holdup For the second time In ap proximately tix months, Andy's Union Oil Service Station, located at the foot of Rica Hill, on the north tide, wat held up by armed bandits, Stat . Police reported today. Investigating officers report I A lL... J tl I iq two yBiimi, aescrmea apparently between 17 and 20 years came into the service sta tion about 8 p.m., assaulted the owner and operator, Arthur Anderson, with the butt of a gun. railing to knock him out, they attempted to tie Anderson, but while they were looking about tor something with which to bind him, Anderson managed to escape through a hola in tha rear of the station. Reported at missing were miscellaneous coins and cur rency, estimated at about $80, and other articles. This station, located about three miles south of Yoncalla was held up by two armed rob bers last August, the officers reported. Operation Leaves Votes Of Singer Undamaged NEW YORK. Jan. 13. UP) Singer Marian Anderson under went a delicate throat operation last June and for a while won dered if she ever would sing again. She now knows her voice was undamaged. I he story was revealed In the New York Herald Tribune today. lhe Negro contralto told Helen Worden of the Herald Tribune that the operation involved re moval of a cyst from the esopha gus. Motorist Injured In Upset at Camas Valley Harold Elmer Pratt. Lakeview. sustained injuries and his car was badly damaged Wednesday when It left the road a mile west of the Camas Valley store on Highway 42, State Police reported today. No other car was Involved. Pratt, the officers reported, sus. tained broken ribs, bruises and fa cial cuts, but the injuries did not reaulre immediate hospitalization. He was en route to Myrtle Point to visit relatives. State Highway Shops At Ft. Klamath Razed by Fire KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Jan. 12. UP) Fire this morning de stroyed the building equipment of the stato highway shops and garage at Fort Klamath, 40 miles north of here. Lost were a small truck, a large truck, two snow plows and several oil pots along with all minor equipment used in high way maintenance operation In the Fort Klamath neighborhood. evity fact fiant By L. T. Relxenatela Hirohito will probably be content to go down in history at a 'stooge' and a 'boob,' In stead of a genuine ruler, to long at hit effeminate neck was spared from the noose. dozens of otherappointments. n
