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'( Hunt On For Quarter-Ounce Of Uranium Low Or Theft From Atom Laboratory Poses Threat To U. S. Security WASHINGTON, May 19 OB The Atomic Energy Commission was looking for a missing quarter-ounce ol uranium-235 today alter reporting recovery of a larg er amount from waste material at one of its laboratories. It said that all told about 1.05 ounces of the stuff 32 grams could not be accounted for last February after a routine inven tory at the Argonne National Lab oratory in Chicago. The FBI was notified and an analysis of all laboratory waste was started. "To date," the announcement said, "25 grams of the 32 have been accounted for at Oak Ridge (Tenn.) through analysis of con tents of containers of salvage material, machine turnings, chem ical solutions and so forth sent there from Argonne- Laboratory for recovery treatment. "The remaining seven grams less than one quarter ounce is not believed to have been stolen or lost as analysis of the waste Is still continuing. hreat to Security , In New York, the Daily News said in a copyrighted Washing ton story that three-quarters of a pound of uranium 235 com pound, explosive heart of the atomic bomb, had vanished from the Chicago Laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission. "The loss or more probable theft is considered the greatest threat to national security ever to be discovered in peace time," the Daily News said. "There is a sufficient amount of the lost or stolen material to permit any competent nuclear scientist to perform the experi ments on a large scale leading to the perfection of a detonating mechanism, details of which even now are known only to a handful of men." The loss was discovered at the Argonne National Laboratories in Chicago Feb. 14, but was not re ported to the Federal Bureau of investigation until March 28, "when the trial of the suspected arch-espionage agent was as cold as the polar ice pack," the Daily News said. x is Y Woodmen Circle Convention To Be Held In Eugene Delegates of the Supreme For est Woodman Circle, including members from Roseburg, will meet Friday, May 20, at the Os borne Hotel and the First Meth odist Church In Eugene to open a two-day convention.- Eugene and Springfield Groves will be hostesses. In addition to state officers. Mrs. Florence Holden Jensen, second national vice-president from headquarters in Omaha, Nebr., will be a distinguished guest. She will be honored at a reception Thursday, May 19, when members of the Spring field chapter of Tau Phi Lambda, national sorority affiliated with the Woodmen Circle, will present the anniversary ceremony. Mrs. Sofia Frans, state presl- dent, will preside over business " and ritualistic sessions. On the agenda is initiation of a large class of candidates, recognition to Legion of Honor members and presentation of proficiency cer tificates, junior graduation, elec tion of officers, demonstration of the junior ritual and a memorial service. Plans are being made to rein stitute the Roseburg lodge, Nebo Grove 35, and Junior Grove 8 while the national vice-president ' is in Oregon. Ivan Hatfield Member Of OSC Tennis Team Ivan Hatfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Hatfield of Rose burg, is a member of the Oregon State College tennis team, which defeated the University of Ore gon team May 11 by a score 6-1. He was winner of the single matches and was also winner in the doubles. He was graduated from Roseburg High School and was for merly employed by the Roseburg Branch of the U. S. National Bank. He will be graduated from Oregon State College June 5 in aeronautical engineering. Established 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949 SECTION TWO 118-49 Thrice-Wedded Educator Faces Perjury Charge CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May ' 18 UP) Bert Mac Leech, 40, graduate student at the Harvard School of Education, was taken into custody today on a warrant charging he is a fugitive from Ttcoma, Wash. Police Capt. Joseph Crescio said Mac Leech is accused of first degree perjury in the western state. He said Mac Leech as serted he would fight extradition. Arraigned in district court, Mac Leech pleaded innocent. His case was continued to June 2U in $5,000 bail by Judge Louis L. Green after State. Police Lieu tenant James F. Coniff told the court he wished Mac Leech held pending arrival of Tacoma au thorities. - In lieu of immediate security, Mac Leech was committed to jail. TACOMA, May 18 UP) Pierce County Prosecutor Pat rick M. Steele said today that Bert Mac Leech, arrested earlier in Cambridge, Mass., on a war rant charging he is a fugitive from Washington state, is wanted here to answer a perjury charge. Steele said the cnarge grew out of Mac Leech's testimony at a divorce action at a time when he was married to three women. Steele said that Mac Leech, also known as Burt S. Leech, married Jordana Popova in Bul garia in 1936; Lili Solomon in Tucson, Ariz., in 1940, and Ruth Ellis in South Carolina in 1943. While still married to all three, Steele said, Mac Leech started separate actions against Jordana in King County superior court, Seattle, and against Lili in Pierce county superior court. It was in connection with his testimony here that the perjury charge was filed. Bail was set at $iu,uuu. Mac Leech for a time was di rector of the Pacific Northwest labor school here, an organiza tion designated as "subversive" by Atty. Gen. Tom Clark. In testimony before the Wash ington legislature's Un-American Activities Committee, Louis P. Budenz, former Communist lead er, included Mac Leech among a list of persons he described as being "under communist party influence." -MacLeech is a native of San Diego and a graduate of Occi dental college, cam. inuring nis Army service he was stationed for a time at the Harvard gradu ate school of education. He was teaching at an Ameri can university in Bulgaria at the time he married his first wife. Rice Valley Mr. and Mrs. George Crawford and W A. LaMar of Los Angeles, Calif., are visiting at the Kenneth LaMar home. Mr. and Mrs. William Castor called at the home of Mrs. Louisa Kruse In Eugene Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dunbar spent Sunday picnicing at the Coast Guard reservation near Winchester Bay. Billy LaMar, Cecil . Hartford, Arlene Fast, and Charles Wales, all from Rice Valley, accompanied other members of their sopho more class on their 'regular an nual class day' trip to different points on the coast over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Fast and their children took dinner Moth ers Day at the Art Adams home In Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Shepherd, Frances Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Shepherd and their daugh ter, Marjorie, and son, Claude, took dinner Sunday at the Keith Leonard home near Umpqua. Mothers Day dinner guests at the Cecil Hartford home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. James Shep herd and their sons, LeRoy and Terry, of Rice Hill, Maurice urass, Mr. and Mrs. blton urass and their children, Donald, Nancy and Nadine, Mrs. Clara Hartford, Billy LaMar, the host and hos tess and their children, Cecil Jr., victor, Berneta and David. I".' 'iiiiiM ""S J 1 .us' :' 1 J" ' k -in v n r innii Lv!1 ' rj U Ll Li LJ n-J .CITY . MARKET vj I&MMihSSih aat - , Picture by Paul Jenklna NEW SUPERMARKET OPENS This it the ntw City Drivt-ln Market, for which a grand opening has been set for 9 o'clock Saturday morning. The market is located on Pacific Highway North, near Alameda St., north of the Garden Valley Raad Junction. The market will ba operated by C. W. and H. O. Tidwell of Sutherlin, and Henry Crowdis and Harold Davidson, now of Roseburg. SERVES LARGE AREA Shown above is tha main unit of the Glide school, which consists of both the eight elementary grades and tha four of tha high school.' Two hundred seventy four pupils are in attendance, 60 of whom are in high school. ' The school has 12 instructors, with John Orr as tha principal of tha high school and super intendent of the combined grades. The district operates five buses and draws students from a radius of from 12 to 46 miles along tha North Umpqua river, tha Buckhorn road and up Little River. . ' , A new building housing four elementary grades was constructed last year just back of the structure pictured, while a gym is situated at tha left. Athletic activities consist of six-man football, basketball, baseball and track. Tha school year is scheduled it and June 2nd. (Pic ture by Paul Jenkins). Syndicate Of Press Features Struck By Guild NEW YORK, May 18 UP) Employes of four affiliates of North American Newspaper Al liance, Inc., serving an estimated 1,400 newspapers, struck are on strike in a dispute over wages and other demands. Affiliates of the parent com pany are Bell Syndicate, Inc.. As sociated Newspapers, Inc., Con solidated News Features, Inc., and NANA, Inc. The agencies dis tribute cartoons and features, in cluding columns by Drew Pear son, Dorothy Thompson, Dor othy Dix and Billy Rose. Local 3 of the CIO American Newspaper Guild said contract negotiations have made no pro gress since January when the Guild was certified as bargaining agent for 49 Syndicate employes. The Guild had no previous con tract with the Syndicate. The Guild said It was demand ing a union shop contract, sever ance pay, job classification, and a $110 minimum weekly wage for desk men with other mini mums for other types of em ployes. Present wages average $65 weekly for deskmen, the Guild said. Thomas A. Brennan, attorney for the Syndicate,-said the walk out came after the Syndicate "re fused to yield on the Guild de mand on the union shop and checkoff, and the Guild limitation on the management right to de termine the number of the force." He said management was ready to negotiate further. The Guild said the strike has affected copyreaders, clerical em ployes, mail room personnel and librarians. A spokesman said Guild units In Washington, D. C, San Francisco and Chicago would picket the Syndicate's of fices in those cities sometime to day. The out of town offices are unorganized and not on strike, both sides said. Brennan said the strike has re sulted in "no Interruption of service and we anticipate no in terruption." A bright pink rattle Is perched atop a blue powder can so that baby will have sound effects with his powdering. y ; r " V II p' I . I A FISHERWOMAN'S PROOF Who says thara aran't fish in tha North Umpqua River? Tha lady at the right in tha picture above has just proved that ona just had been, at any rata. "Is it legal length?" she was asked. "Sure is now," was tha confident answer; "luckily it had a rubber neck!" , These feminine fishers were trying their luck in tha big pool'just below Idleyld store, while camped in a trailer nearby. Local fishing experts said fishing was poor; so much snow in the water and tha river's height fluctuating frequently and rapidly. (Picture by Paul Jenkins). Good News For Brides-To-Be During, the month of May LAWSON'S will give away a 4-piece Tea Service FREE to every bride or groom who purchases a diamond ring or wedding set valued ot $100 or more. FINE J JEWEL RY Tea Service Includes: t-Cup Collet Pol with liuulfttvd Handlet Gold Lined Sugar Ik Creamer It-Inch Oval Scrrlnf Trar WELCOME-NEIGHBOR! . Congratulations to the New CITY DRIVE IN MARKET Heating and Hot Water When Needed -Because City Market's Another Customer of PROFLAME lttt COMPANY Myrtle Creek Hiwey 99 South Phtwe 451 GAS Rotekurf Hiwey 99 North Phone 1411-J Boyhood Friendship Leads To Partnership Business In Roseburg Suburban District Partners managing Roseburg's new City Drive-In Market have had a friendship dating from the time they lived in Colorado as boys, many years ago. Now they are Joining in ownership of a supermarket in which they have "spared no expense in making the finest in Southern Oregon. Grand opening of the new City Drive-In Market has been set for 9 o'clock Saturday morning. The store is located, on Pacific High way North, near Alameda Sts., north of the Garden Valley Road junction. The new Roseburg stoi will be' operated in conjunction with the City Drive-In Market at Sutherlin. Owners of the new store are C. W. and H. O. Tidwell, who have operated the store at Sutherlin the past three years; Henry Crowdis, who will man age the grocery department, and Harold Davidson, the meat de partment of the new Roseburg store. As boys, the Tidwells and Crowdis all lived in the same small Colorado town of Grand Valley. The late Mr. Tidwell was sales manager fcr a wholesale grocery ffrm, and later owned two grocery stores of his own. The Tidwell sons were in the grocery business in Colorado be fore moving to Sutherlin three years ago. Crowdis has had 47 years ex perience in the production end of the food business. He has been associated with the Bercut-Rlch-ards Co., packers, of Sacramento, Calif., and for the past 3i years was district manager in the sales department for the southern half of the United States. Davidson has had 20 years' ex perience in the meat business as a butcher and salesman. Crowdis commented that he and the Tidwells had been plan ning for sometime to join In opening a supermarket, which would provide the people of the Roseburg area with groceries at "the lowest possible cost." The new pumice block build ing is 50x100 feet in size, with a concrete parking area of the same dimensions. There will be space available for close to 100 cars. Latest-model basket buggies will be used to transport grocer ies right to the customers' cars. University Of Oregon Chorus Of 40 Voices Will Be Heard At Roseburg High On May 24 UNIVERSITY : OR OREGON, Eugene, May 18 (Special) Forty select singers will present a our-oart program in Roseburg High School on May 24. They are the University Singers un der the direction of Donald W. Allton, assistant professor of or gan apd theory. The singers will' go on concert tour from May 18 to May 26. Twelve concerts are scheduled. Vocalists in the group are se lected from the larger choral union in the university. They are non-music majors as well as ma jors. The mixed chorus Includes many solo voices that will be used In the program. These In clude a vocal trio of seniors in tne music school. Music In the modern manner will be offered by the trio, which includes Miss Claire Lewis, Camas, Wash.; James McMullen, Junction City; and Wayne Sher wood, Portland. The trio has made Its own ar rangements and has a unique style. Last year, Sherwood won the Portland Symphony audi tions. McMullen received the same honor this year. Miss Lewis has had major roles In all recent music school operatic produc tions. Music from the old masters through the contemporary Idiom will be sung by the 40-voice chorus. The students sing music particularly suited to a smaller group. Two chorales from Bach's 'The Ode of Mourning" open the Singers' program. It is followed by several works from the 16th century and a sacred anthem. Rlmsky - Korsakoff, Thomas Morley, Orlando dl Lasso, and Alexander Nikolsky are some of the composers represented on the program. Folk songs from Russia, Hun gary, Transylvania, and the Ne gro spiritual of America will be sung. The program also includes several contemporary numbers. Accompanists for the Singers are Miss Mary Nash, Dash Point, Wash., and Miss Ann Hopper, Portland. Incidental soloists are Miss Virginia Walker, Portland, and Miss Dorothy Gangnath, Yakima, Wash. t Room Air Conditioner Guarantee yourself cool, clean comfort this summer at home or in your office at a sensationally new low price! This new model Frigidaire Room Air Conditioner is the ideal "Package" unit. 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