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1 i 2 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Thurs., June 2, 1949 Exercises Will Mark Promotion Of Ninth Graders Promotional exercise for the Roseburg Junior High School's ninth graders, who will enter Senior High next year, will be held tonight at 8 oclocK in me Junior High auditorium. The program will open with the Processional March, played by a portion ol the senior band, and directed Dy u. A. nicKens The Ninth Grade Bovs1 Chorus, directed by R. Cloyd Rlffe, will sing "Stout Hearted Men," by Romberg, and "You'll Never Walk Alone," by Rogers and Ham merstein II. They will be Joined on the latter song by the girls' triple trio, with Roland Wagner and Bruce voeiier as piamsis. Durward Boyies, Senior High Associated Student Body presi dent, will welcome the students to Senior High, after which the Ninth Grade Girls' Chorus, di rected by Mrs. Helen Parvis, will sine "Dedication." by Robert Franz, and "Just a Memory," by Henderson, The combined cnor uses, directed by Mr. Rilfe, will sing "Alma Mater." Rev. W. A. MacArlhur will elve the orlncinal address, a chalk talk to the class on the subject, "Life Is What You Make It." Principal R. R, Brand will mresent the class to Superin tendent Paul S. Elliott, who in turn will present the promo tion certificates. The recessional march by the Senior Band will conclude tne program. Wall St. Takes Ribbing In Bond Club Burlesque . (Continued from Page One) in "Chicago in a serious disagree' ment over managment policies. The Bawl Street Journal looks exactly like the Wall Street Jour nal, advertisements and all, but the text is different. One headline: "Polls Call For Return To Independence. The weather: "Dewey Mist." Another ad: "Everyone Flies United To Reno United Air Lines." Every Wall Street situation Is ribbed In the advertisements and stories. Brokers are starving to dealh, they would have you believe, with the present low volume of stock market business. So the New York Stock Exchange started a "stop the market" program simi lar to a familiar radio show. The winner, from Nevada, was award ed fifty pair of sandals with heels, 40 Tucker automobiles, and the shirt he lost in the 1929,mar ket crash. Federal Court Holds FBI Agent In Contempt riTTCARO .limp 1 UP f!hU cago's too. G-man was ordered placed in the custody of the U. S. attorney general today for refus ing to surrender his records on Roger (the Terrible) Touhy, pro hibition era gangster. Judge John P. Barnes of the Federal Court imposed this pun ishment on George R, McSwain, chief of the Chicago FBI office, after holding him in contempt of court The court directed that Mc Swain Is to remain in the custody of Attorney General Tom Clark until he produces FBI records as ordered by Judgo Barnes. The records sought concern the FBI investigation of the kidnap ing of John (Jake the Barber) Factor In 1933. Touhy is seeking his release on a writ of habeas corpus from Statevllle Prison where he is serving 39 years for the Factor kidnaping. Fourteen Hurt When Tornadoes Hit Midwest CHICAGO, June 2. (JP) Four teen persons were Injured and several farm homes were destroy, ed yesterday as tornadoes skip ped over areas In lour Midwest states. Tile small twisters hit rural areas of Southwestern Iowa, Northwestern Missouri, North eastern Kansas and Southeastern Nebraska. Eleven persons in the vicinity of Tarklo, Mo., were in jured, while the twister which hit near Essex, Ia7 Injured a family of three. The tornadle winds followed thunderstorms over Midwest slates yesterday. 'Must' For Congress His Whole Program Truman WASHINGTON, June 2. -(.?-President Truman repealed todav that any "must" list for Congress should Include his whole uiwnim. Asked if he and partv leaders have added any more ''must" to the legislative agenda, the presi dent replied the must list Includes the recommendations In his three main messages on the slate of union, the budget and economics. When a reporter said Congress Is showing no sign of carrying out most of nls program, tne pie dent admonished that no such conclusion can he reached until Congress has finished its work. Always Tastes Better . . . LOCAL NEWS Circle To Meet Lilac Circle No. 49, Neighbers of Woodcraft, .,,111 mut Mrtnrtnv .Tlin fi At tf o'clock at the I. O. O. F. hall. Re freshments will be served. Rummage Sale The -Catholic ladies rummage sale win oe neia Saturday, June 4, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. in the basement of the rectory on fcast uaK street. Class to Meet The United Workers Class of the First Chris tian Church will meet Friday at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs, Harvey Wells, 519 Fowler Street, Pionlo ot Be Held The Deer Creek Livestock Club. "The Hus tlers," will hold a picnic Friday at the H. W. Crlsler farm on the Buckhorn Road. Parents of the members are also Invited. Suggests Cartoon Idea Miss Jane Peck, stenographer In the Douglas County Welfare Com mission office, received credit for suggesting the Jo Fischer car toon, "From Nine to Five," pub lished In Tuesday's Issue of the News-Review. From Montana Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scofield and son Billy, are here this week from Butte, ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Scofield. Mr. Scofield is physical education director of the Y. M. C. A. at Butte. They plan to leave this weeKeno. Visit Helnllne Home Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yeo and baby daughter Helen, left Wednesday for their home In Los Angeles, following a visit since Monday with Mrs. C. S. Heinline In Lau relwood. Mr. Yeo Is a brother of the late Martha Yeo of Roseburg, who made her home with the Heinlines. Dance to Be Held Pvthlan Sisters have invited the public to attend a benelit dance Satur day night at 8 o'clock at the K. of P. hall to raise funds to help send the Knights of Pythian Girls Drum Corps to Portland to par ticipate in the Rose Festival. The Wheeler family will donate the music for the dance. Refresh ments will be sold. Reoital to Be Given Mrs. Homer Grow has Invited the pub lic to attend the Inst of a series of spring recitals Monday night, June 6, at 8 o'clock at the Meth odist Church. Norma Cox and Janice Plummcr will play organ numbers. Piano numbers will be presented by beginners, Interme diate and advanced students. Doing Nicely Miss Betty Bak er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude . Baker of Koseburg, is reported to be getting along nicely at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, where she underwent a serious bone surgery opera tion last Thursday. Mrs. Baker was In 'Portland with her at the time of the operation and re mained there lor the weekend. Grange to Meet Rlversdale Grange will hold Its quarterly birthdav n o 1 1 u c k sunner at 7 o'clock Friday night at the hall. A 4-H program will be presented at 8 o'clock, after which the reg ular meeting will be held. All children of the community, Grangers and friends are invited to trie program. The Roseburg Grange ladies will have charge of the kitchen committee with Viola Spencer as chairman. Slays Brother-In-Low To Move Him Out PLAINFIELD. N. J., June 2. ?) Joseph Griggs is charged witn tne siioigun staying ot nis brother-in-law today atler going to police to ask how to get rid ot him, Police Capt. Patrick J. Murray said Griggs, 52, came to police headquarters yesterday hoping to learn of some legal power to make Coy Gary, 28, his brother-in-law, move out of Grlgg's home where lie was living. Murray said Griggs was ad vised simply to order Gary out. Shorlly afterwards Griggs was arrested and charged with the (atal shooting of Gary. Police said the victim was found lying in the street with wounds In his shoul der and head and was dead on arrival at a local hospital. Subcommittee O. K.s Race Discrimination Ban WASHINGTON, June 2 (JP) A House Labor Subcommittee ap proved today a bill to forbid dis crimination In employment lie cause of race, color, religion or nationality. It would set up a permanent Fair Employment Practice Com mission. This is the first part of Presi dent Truman's controversial civil rights program to advance in Congress as far as subcommittee approval, It still has a long way to travel through the full com mittee, then the House and Sen ate. And In the Senate, Southerners have the powers of filibuster that have headed off such legislation in the past. Leukemia Claims Child Who Did Not Know Her Malady Was Not Curable TUCSON, Ariz., June 2. UP) A little girl for whom a special edition of a newspaper was pub lished died Wednesday of leu kemia. Barbara Willis, 13, was one of the few people In Tucson who didn't know she was dying weeks ago.. Late In April Barbara developed a craving for watermelon, then out of season. The child's predicament ap peared in the local papers. The stories said she would die In a short time. Barbara had read of other chil dren developing a great desire for watermelon shortly before they died of the blood disease. When the Arizona Dally Star, in which an appeal was made for water melon, was kept from her she told her mother, "I'm going to die. I've got the bad kind of leukemia." Chinook Salmon Migration Ahead Migration of spring Chinook salmon continues ahead of last year but behind the 1947 run. Ross Newcomb, field biologist for the State Game Department and in charge of the Umpqua Riv er study, reports that the count at the Winchester station shows the Chinook run to be critically depleted, although the count through May 31 is ahead of the same period for the years 1946 and l4s. A larger run was count ed in 1947. As the spring Chinook salmon has a five-year life cycle, another year s migration must De countea to obtain a full record, after which the study will be devoted to a comparison of return migra tions. The first comparative count will not be available until the spring of 1951 when it will be possible to ascertain whether mere is a gain or joss irom ine small run of 1946. Counters at the Winchester sta tion have tallied 1,568 adult Chi nooks ud to June 1, and have counted 383 Chinook lack salmon. The winter steelhead count stands at 9,225. Several spring steelhead have been seen at the counting station, Newcomb reports. Angling season for Chinook sal mon ended May 31. Salmon fish ing, except in tidewater, will now be prohibited until September 1. Fishing for salmon in tidewater, below the highway bridge at Reedsport, remains open. Comnarative finures on salmon and steelhead migration for the period through May 31 are report ed by Newenmb as follows: 1946 1047 IP-IS 1049 Salmon 134S 2335 H00 XM S?dmon 109 5DJ 13 383 Percent of Jack. H.3 JOJ 10.0 l.o Steelhead 0.9S3 ll.JaO 9,700 9.225 Workers Oppose Ending Berlin Railway Strike BERLIN, June 2 (JP) A strong "no" trend was evident today in voting by 12,000 anti Communist workers on whether to end the paralyzing Berlin rail way strike. Some officials of the Allied- sponsored UGO Railway Union predicted nt least su percent oi Its mcmliershlp would favor con tinuing the 13-day walkout. By midday, half of the strikers had cast ballots in the referen dum and the atmosphere at poll ing stations was almost solidly against accepting the Soviet-controlled Relchsbahn's terms. The Relchsbahn has offered to pay West Berlin workers 60 per cent of their wages in highly valued West marks, Instead of the 100 percent they demanded. Counter-Picket Sues Meatcutters For $5,000 PORTLAND. June 2. UP) Leigh A. Hughes, 16, has sued the AFL Meatcutters here lor so.uuu damages for injuries he said were received when KlcKca wnite picketing a picket. The bov is one of five children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Hughes, whose market has been picketed by the union for months. The family's boys got up banners and started marching around the union plckels. Hughes contends the store Is managed and worked by the family and they do not wish to loin the union and should not be compelled to. The boy claims he was kicked by one of the pickets and had to have an operation be fore lie could walk again. Union Secretary-Treasurer J. D. McDonald denies anyone kicked (lie lad. Instead, McDonald as serts, the Hughes boys had been Kicking the pickets. IIP SU&F - NtTKf!n5ortMOT ' buiv rr KTK IN THtB4ND I, The little girl refused to eat until she could see a copy of the newspaper. Mrs. Willis went to the paper's editorial rooms. "Cant you print a story that will make Barbara happy?" she asked. The paper thought it could. The main edition of the Star for April 25 told that the child had only a few days to live, but that she would feast on watermelon as long as she liked. The paper was made over and a story substituted which said Barbara was getting better. She would be all right before long, it reported, and the watermelon would be of great help. Staff members delivered the special edition to the Willis home. Barbara read It in the morning, clipped the story about herself and gleefully showed the piece to friends. She died yesterday wt'hout ever knowing she was fatally ill. Certificates Of Merit Given Boys For Patrol Work Sixty boys, members of the Junior Safety Division of the Roseburg Police Department, were presented merit certificates and emblem badges Wednesday night. The presentations were made at the annual skating party sponsored by the Roseburg Lions Club at the Rolletta Skating Rink. The certificates were presented by Police Chief Calvin Balrd, who spoke briefly to the students. He expressed his appreciation for their faithful cooperation in serv ing as school patrols during the past year. Fullerton, Rose, Junior HI5h and St. Joseph are the schools participating in the junior patrol work, because of their locations near to traffic-congested areas. The certificates are signed by the mayor, chief of police, super- tonaent ot scnoois and principals of the respective schools. Helmets and raincoats are provided the children taking part. The Lions Club sponsors the party annually as a reward tor tne students work. Meatclitters, Grocery Clerks Here Walk Out (Continued from Page One) vent spoilage, he added. Conferences Held Barker and H. E. Smith, assist ant representative of the union, met with a local committee of the meatcutters In the Roseburg Central Labor Council rooms In the Pacific Building last night and again this morning. Carlson met with local em ployers at the Umpqua Hotel. In joint statement with Al John son, Portland, representative of the faaleway fatores, ne said that employers feel, in view of present business conditions, thev cannot offer more than the $2.50 wage Increase. He said members of the local Association are in complete accord with this stand. Carlson viewed the possibility of a walkout of the Retail Clerks Union in a sympathy strike with the meatcutters. Barker stated that a number of markets not members of the Roseburg Independent Meat Deal ers Association had met the un ion's terms and are not affected by the strike. Southern Oregon Masons' Reunion Scheduled Here Vnt fhn sppnnri vpar Laurel Chapter No. 31, Royal Arch Masons, will again be host to various chapters of Southern Oregon at a reunion to be held in Roseburg Saturday, June 4. At this time the most excellent master degree will be conferred on a class of 45 candidates by the Roseburg Chapter. The meeting will be highlight ed by an official visit from Robert E. Dodge of Ashland, grand high priest of Royal Arch Masons of Oregon. He will be accompanied by several other of ficers of the Grand Chapter. The evening's program will start at 6 o'clock, with a dinner In the social hall of the First Methodist Church. The chapter will convene at 7:30 p. m., with the degree work starting at 8 o'clock. VAGRANTS JAILED Wayne Fredric Allen, a tran sient, and Ray Norman, Spring field, each charged with va grancy were committed to the city jail for 10 days In lieu of $20 fines, when arraigned in Mu nicipal Court todav. reported Judge Ira B. Riddle. Robert Cur tis Carlisle, Redding, Calif., was committed for 10 days on a drunk charge. Contrary to many beliefs . . . Good Taste and comfortable living are never a matter of price. Be a little mora particu lar In the choice of materials to go Into that "dream home" of yours. Let the PRE-MIX CONCRETE COMPANY get you a free estimate on our con crete works that meet top specifications. Roseburg Tennis Players Fail In State Finals Roseburg tennis players, who placed high in district play, failed in the Oregon High School boys' tennis finals in the state meet at Portland Wednesday. ' Dick Jacobson, Roseburg, was defeated, 6-0, by Jerry Doyle of Central Catholic, Portland, in the boys' singles, while Gordon Conley and Norman Queen, Roseburg, lost out, 6-2, 6-2, to Bob Kindlev and Ron Carlson of Grant High, Portland. Portland players took most of the contests yesterday, but up staters still are in the running in two other divisions. In yesterday's opening play, the Held was narrowed to as sure the boys singles title to Bill Rose of Portland's Jeffer son, Pete Carter of Grant or Jerry Doyle of Central Catholic. In girls' singles, Mary Lou Ratcliff and Patsy Heard of Grant and Shirley Kahler of Dallas are the remaining con tenders. Miss Heard suffered a shoulder injury and may not be able to continue. Upstaters who got on the court In girls' doubles yesterday failed to survive tne two opening rounds, but In boys' doubles the Dallas team of Darrell Reed and Myrl Thieses came through with two wins. Pension For Vets Finds No Favor With Senators (Continued from Page One) 000,000 over the next 50 years. Senate Democratic Leader Lu cas of Illinois told a reporter the pension measure is not on the Senate's legislative schedule now. At best the additional pension costs appeared to collide with any Overall economy drive aim ed at avoiding higher federal taxes or government deficits. The pension bill would assume that any veteran is totally and permanently disabled at 65 years. That would remove a present standard which denies a pension to the 65-year-old veteran who can work half a day, or earn half a normal day's pay. The veterans administration now requires a medical test show ing at least 10 percent disability before the old veteran gets the $72 monthly pension. North Umpqua Road Job To Be Extended (Continued from Page One) from Marks Ranch, where the present paving ends, east of Roseburg, to Lone Rock, a dis tance of 5.5 miles. This section' would include the Glide area and terminate at the bridge across the North Umpqua River at Lone Rock. A new bridge was built at Glide across Little River last summer. When this portion ' Is com pleted there would remain the section from Lone Rock to Rock Creek, a distance of 4.5 miles, for final construction. Nisei Priest Will Be Missioner In Japan NEW YORK, June 2. (JP) The Rev. James S. Tokuhisa of Los Angeles, described as the first American-born Japanese to be ordained a priest In the United States, has been assigned to work as a missioner in Japan. The Nisei, a native of Port Blakely, Wash., will be one of 27 young men to be ordained priests of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America at Maryknoll, N. Y., June 11. BOYSEN l i J New low prices now in effect. Buy now and save on this well-known, quality paint. Out-side Paint, was 6.12 gal. Enamel Undercoater, was 4.59 gal. . Quick Dry Enamel, was 7.77 gat. (Formerly Nu-Lux), was 2.17 Qt. Tru-Lire Enamel, was 5.77 gal. Was 1.64 Qt Tru-Kote Flat Wall, was 4.26 Was 1.26 Qt Laxity In Guarding Atom Secrets Charged At Quii (Continued from Page One) past for grand larceny, didn't re veal this to the AEC, was put in charge of a vault containing uranium, and then something dis appeared from the safe. "You are referring to a situa tion at the Argonne National Laboratory," Wilson broke in. "We are submitting a whole re port to the committee this after noon." Espionage Phase Denied About an ounce of uranIum-235 disappeared last February from the Argonne Laboratory - at Chi cago. Commission officials say that most of it has been recov ered or accounted for. They in sist no espionage was involved. With reference to the guard, Elston asked: "But he's still working for the Commission ." "I'm informed that he has been given a job of less responsibil ity." Wilson replied. Elston demanded to know why the employee had not been prose cuted for falsification of federal records. Wilson said the OEC question naire asked concerning convic tions, not arrests, "and we do nor yet know whether a federal of fense has been committed." Argument Rages On the emergency clearances, the areument between Hicken looper and Lilienthal largely came down to this: Hickenlooper contended the Commission had violated the law with "brazen effrontery by let ting so many people have access to secrets without prior FBI checks. Lilienthal hotly denied. The AEC contended that na tional security was increased be cause the whole atomic project was speeded up. Lilienthal said the Atomic En- ergy Commission could not have produced the number of atomic oomDs tnat tne country now nas if it had not cleared workers without a full FBI check. At that Hickenlooper shouted: "I completely disagree with that statement." When the hearing recessed for the day, Lilienthal promised to supply figures later on the num ber ot persons given emergency clearances who were later re jected by the full investigation. "They were very, very few extraordinarily few," he said. Chairman McMahon (D-conn) asked him to supply figures also on the number who quit before the investigation was complete. Hickenlooper said the commis sion granted "emergency clear ance" (without full Investigation) to restricted data or restricted areas in 1947 to 818 persons, in 1948 to H,1U3 and has granted aoa thus far in 1949. He said that in 1947 there were 419 others given emergency clear ance but not restricted data. He did not give any similar figure for the otner years. Chiefs Cancel Plan For Game Here Tonight Lack of an available op ponent has made It necessary for the Roseburg Umpqua Chiefs to cancel previous plans for a baseball game tonight. , Manager Earl Sargent said Just about every club" in South ern Oregon and north to Salem has been contacted and none are available for a gama to night. The Chief's manager tried to arrange a game with Trl City, but that team oouldn't come, so the entire plan was called off. PAINTS Ill ..Haw 5.20 gel. Now 4.17 gal. .Now 6.85 gal. Now 1.91 qt. .Now 5.26 gal. Now 1.51 q. gal. .Now 3.92 gal. Now 1.17 qt. The Weather U. (. Weather Bureau Office Roseburg, Oregon Fair and partly cloudy today and Friday. Warmer Friday. Highest temp, for any June.. 106 Lowest temp, for any June. .. 3b Highest temp, yesterday - i Lowest temp, last 24 hrs...... 39 Precipitation last 24 hrs .05 Precipitation since June 1 05 Precipitation since Sept. 1...76.82 Excess since June 01; Russian Yielding On Berlin Issue Hinted PARIS. June 2 UP) The Western Powers and Russia still were at odds today over reviving the four-power Kommandatura for Berlin, though agreed in prin ciple that the divided city should be united under a single gov erning body. Yesterday they split on a West ern proposal to limit exercise of the veto power in the four-power body. Today the Western min isters weighed a vague Soviet hint that the Russians might agree to trim the Kommanda tura's area of authority. 3 More Oregon Towns Go On Daylight Saving (By the Associated Press) More Oregon communities were on the fast-time bandwagon today. Hood River became the far thest town eastward in the Colum bia Gorge to shift, making the change yesterday along with Mo lalla and Canby. Last week, Stay ton and Sublimity adopted day light saving hours. (Seattle and a score of neigh- THE ftEW GENERAL ELECTRIC SPACE MAKER REFRIGERATOR mm a is i-iuLie BP" Gives ye more refrigerstetl food storage apaoe than previous models occupying the same kitchen floor spscel And gives you dependability based on an unsurpassed record of year-in, year-out perform ance I More than 1,700,000 G-E refrigerators bare been in use 10 years or longer. 6 CU-FT MODEL AS LOW AS Your Own Terms Agnes M. Rand Taken By Death Agnes Margaret Rand. 70, rl- dent of Roseburg since 1918, died suddenly at her home on Hamil ton Street last night from a heart attack. She was born March 24, 1879, in Garner, Hancock Co., Iowa. She was married to Orville J. Rand Aug. 25, 1897, In Montana and they came to Oregon in 1907. Thev would have celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary this ) coming August. ne was a mem Jber of the First Methodist Church of Koseourg. Surviving are the widower and seven sons: Waiter, Portland; Evan, Creswell; Homer, Grants Pass; Edwin O., Clarence K.. Harold and Lawrence, all or Roseburg; also by three daugh. ters, Mrs. Flora Harvey, Mrs. Lucille Foree and Mrs. Maxine Burt, all of Roseburg; five broth ers, Orin and Wesley Van Koten, both of Great Falls, Mont.; George and Vernon Van Koteri, of Klamath Falls; and John Van Koten, Tacoma; 28 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held In Chapel of the Roses, Roseburg Funeral Home, Saturday, June 4, at 11 a. m., with the Rev. W. A. MacArthur officiating. Vault in terment will follow, in the Ma sonic Cemetery. boring Washington cities changed over vesterdav to join the line-up started by Portland in April.) Major cities in Oregon remain standard time are Eugene. Roseburg, Corvallis, Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland, Klamath Falls, Pendleton, The Dalles, Prineville, Bend and La Grande. ""T!4. 18975 Within Reason BUDGET PRICED FURNISHINGS 0 Y tW 1 COMPflNV - 117 W. Cast Phone 10