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U. Of 0. Licrary t ave Deaths Increased To 132 WHO DOES WHAT y C. R. MUNSON, 1140 Ballf St., Is displaying a B. P. O. E. tmblem which ha has just wrought, calling upon a long disused (kill acquired in early life from his mother, I would strongly suspect. At any rate it came back enough to enable him to do a tine job on the drill team's jackets. ' The work, he said, was a relief to him as all he had to do was sit all day in the shade. You see, he has lost his lower limbs, so doesn't get around as lively as some. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED Gas Station Attendant, , Money And Auto Missing Possibility that a 23-year-old service station operator has been kidnaped by persons who robbed the station of $200 is being investigated by State and City Police. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IT seems a crying shame to talk about money matters right after a two-day holiday, but Washing ton dispatches tell us that in the fiscal year of 1949 our federal government spent $1,811,440,047.68 more than it took in. Maybe we'd better spell that big figure out. Our excess of spending over income in the fiscal year just closed was one billion, " eight hundred and eleven million lour hundred and forty thousand, forty-seven dollars and sixty-eight cents. That means roughly $12.50 to you as an individual. If you have three dependents, it means that your share of the national debt was upped by about $50 in the bookkeeping year just ended. THAT'S not much, you say? Well, maybe not. But every little bit added to what you've got now makes just a little bit (Continued on Page Four) Sentences Suspended For Illegal Veal Sale PORTLAND, July 6. UP) District Judge Frank E. Day has found four meat dealers guilty of selling under-aged veal, but observed that the Legislature had arbitrarily set the age limit at four weeks. His ruling upheld the validity of the act, but noted that authori ties had advised him veal may be mature between five and 21 days. Meat dealers Morris Goldfoot and Warren Oster, Portland, were fined S500 each and given sus pended jail sentences of 180 days. N. W. Andrews, Tigard Meat Company, also was sen tenced and fined $400, but both were suspended. Dealer Carl Ru deen, Portland, was dealt a $500 suspended fine. Veal under four weeks of age is defined in the act as unfit for. human consumption. SUICIDE OR MURDER? Jap Rail Head Found Slain After Ousting 30,000 Men TOKYO, July 6. P Did President Sadanori Shimoyama of the Japan Railway Corporation commit suicide or was he murdered? That question today brought divided opinion. But most occupa tion and Japanese authorities felt Shimoyama was slain. Shimoyama disappeared after ordering the first 30.000 of 90, 000 railway workers to be fired. He was following an order is sued by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to ease the cost of the occupa tion on Americans. Shimoyama's dismembered body was found scattered along a railroad track. Its condition was such that it was difficult to as certain whether he had been slain and placed on the track, left there unconscious or had ended his life beneath the wheels of the train. Occupation authorities said Shimoyama had received sev eral anonymous threats. These warnings told him to stop dis charging railway workers. Japanese who suspect murder pointed out that most Nipponese An all-points alarm has been flashed along the Pacific Coast following the disappearance Tues day morning of Victor Lyle Rob erts from the Richfield station at the corner of Cass and Steph ens streets. Police Chief Calvin H. Baird reports that a driver for the B & B Taxi Co. brought in a report at 4 a.m. Tuesday that the service station was fully light ed but unmanned. Investigating police found that the night's gas and oil receipts, amounting to more than $200, had been taken from the cash register. No trace of Roberts, the attendant, could be found. An automobile belonging to Noel Thompson of Roseburg was missing from the service station parking lot. Thompson is the father-in-law of the missing man. Police said they feared foul (Continued on Page Two) Sun On Inside Heat Shatters Greenhouse LANCASTER, Pa., July 6. (!P Hot? Think nothing of it. After all, you could have been hotter. You could have been in Albert Reitz's greenhouse. Reitz was mopping his brow, looking at the thermometer that registered 101 degrees yesterday when suddenly, wham! A terrific blast shook the greenhouse and 30 panes of heavy glass were blown from the building. Reitz made his way carefully through the glass and entered the greenhouse to find an unbroken thermometer registering 142 de grees: Apparently, Reitz said, sunlight beating through the glass kept expanding the air inside until the glass was shattered. Yukon Area Combed For Lost Plane; 3 Occupants FAIRBANKS. Alaska, July 6. (IP) Planes threaded through the Yukon River Valley again today in search of a Louisiana couple and a Wien Airlines pilot missing since late Saturday. Nothing had been heard from Dr. and Mrs. Mel T. Cook and the pilot, Bill Currington, since they left Fort Yukon for Fairbanks in a light Cessna plane. Dr. Cook was identified as professor of plant pathology at Louisiana State University". The Cooks were on a tourist trip. who take thplr own lives leave oxplanatoiy notes. They usually take poison or commit Hari Karl. Shimoyama's widow said he had not given any Indication he was contemplating suicide. Both occupation and Japanese authorities leaning to the mur der theory say he could have been slain by rightist or left ists. . . If rightists committed the mur der they may have wanted to discredit the Communists. The Reds have been loud in their protests against the wholesale firing of railway workers. Red murderers may have want ed to frighten the government into softening Its worker dis charge program. The, Weather Fair and warmer today. Cloudy Thursday. Sunset today 7:54 p. m. Sunrist tomorrow 4:40 a. m. Established 1873 Oregon High Court OKs Peaceful Picketing Decision Of Lower Court Is Reversed Damages Against Union Denied; Tax Ruling Hits Methodist Book Concern SALEM, July 6. UP) The State Supreme Court ruled unani mously today that a court can't stop a labor union from peace ful picketing. ine decision, By Justice lieorge Rossman, reversed Circuit Judge Homer L Watts, sitting in Baker County. The suit was brought by the Baker Community Hotel Com pany to stop the local hotel and restaurant employes union from picketing the hotel. The union was trying to organize the ho tel's 40 employes. Judge Watts Issued an Injunc tion against the picketing, and also gave the hotel $2,500 dam ages against the union. But tne supreme uourt, point ing out that the Federal Norris LaGuardia Act prevents injunc tions to stop picketing, said the picketing was legal, and also de nied the hotel any damages. "Peaceful picketing by a un ion for the purpose of achieving the unionization of a place of employment is lawful and cannot be enjoined by a court of equity," the High Court said. The union also sought to have the Court declare unconstitu tional the 1947 law which pro vides that the labor commission er shall hold secret elections to determine when labor disputes exist. But the supreme court refused to rule on this question, assert ing it didn't have anything to do with the case. Methodists Must Say In another case, the Court ruled that the Methodist Book (Continued on Page Two) H. Umpqua Road : Closing Periods During Work Set The Douglas County Court has granted permission to Miller and Strong, Eugene construction com pany, to limited closure of the North Umpqua Road above Rock Creek, 25 miles east of Roseburg. Except for emergency vehicles, no passenger cars will be allowed over the road, except during the following hours: 8 to 8:30 a.m., 12 noon to 1 p.m., and 6:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. The road will remain open Saturdays, Sundays and all holidays. According to E. J. Trick, agent for the construction firm, grad ers, bulldozers, and other heavy equipment in the road will block passage of other vehicles. Miller and Strong, Inc., was awarded the contract for rebuild ing to regular road specifications 3.5 miles of a six-mile stretch of the narrow North Umpqua Road. The work is being done by the Public Roads Administration, a unit of the Federal Works Agen cy. According to Trick, heavy .con struction equipment is being sent down from Meridian Dam, where the firm is completing work on a railroad relocation. Neil R. Mil ler, construction superintendent in charge of the North Umpqua Road work, plans to start double shifts Thursday. Some local heavy equipment operators will be employed by the Eugene firm. Approximately 50 men will comprise the total crew. Oregon Dairy Products Commission Appointed SALEM, July 6. OP) Gover nor Douglas McKay reappointed four of the five members of the Oregon Dairy Products Commis sion today. To fill tht fifth spot on the Commission, he named Wilbur Reiling to succeed Lee Holliday, both being from Klamath Falls. Holliday could not be reappoint ed because he isn't in the dairy business any more. Those reappointed are George Fullenwldor, Carlton; Omar C. Spencer, Portland: Victor Birds eye, Medford, and Frank Hett wer, Mt. Angel. The Commission promotes the dairy industry, and is financed by a tax on butterfat. Plane Crash Kills Pilot And His Girl Companion COLVILLE, Wash., July 6. UP) A light plane carried its pilot and his high school girl compan ion to death In a crash near here last night. Warren Houck, 22, pilot, and Patricia Waters, 16, both of Col vllle, were the victims. The plane struck a telephone pole near the home of D. C. Heber ling, then sheared off a porch of the residence. Heberllng Is ft relativt of the dead girl. ROSEBURG, Victoria Sanders Pleads Innocent To Murder Charge Victoria Sanders, 21, charged In a Grand Jury indictment with the murder of Ralph Mojonnler on Oct. 28, 1947, Tuesday aft ernoon entered a plea of Inno cent, when sha appeared before Judge Carl E. Wimberly. The date for her trial was set for Tuesday, Sept. 6. Miss Sanders was represent ed by the firm of Geddes and Felker, Roseburg, and by Ralph W. Purvis, Reedsport, attorneys. Judge Wimberly granted per mission for Miss Sanders to re main in the Douglas County Jail today and if necessary Thurs day so that sha could be inter viewed by her attorneys. She will then ba taken back to Salem, where she is currently serving a three-year sentence on bad check charges. Communist Must Lie For Party, Ex-Member Says SEATTLE, July 6 (IP) A Communist must lie for his party, even when under oath, if so di rected by his superiors, said John L. Leach, an admitted former Communist, at a deportation hear ing here yesterday. This testimony was brought out in the government's case against James Cryan, alias James Crain, part owner of a Seattle book store. Leach, as government witness, said he left the Communist party in 1937. "If you were directed by your superior to swear falsely would you consider it your duty to do so?" he was asked. "Yes, sir; all Communists of necessity must," he replied. Gov. Langlie Ousts State Adjt. General , OLYMPIA,. July fW-W Dis missal oi 'Bi-tg; Gen. Ensley M. Llewellyn as slate adjutant gen eral was announced by Gover nor Langlie today. He made the announcement after reading findings and recom mendations of a three-man board of inquiry he appointed earlier to investigate charges against Llewellyn. The board or inquiry sustain ed all but one of the 12 charges Langlie leveled against Llewel lyn. West Coast Building Supply Co. Purchased Bill Neighbors and Jay Clark have announced the purchase of the West Coast Building Supply Co., locaWd at Mosher and Mill Streets. Purchase was made from R. O. "Bob" Carroll. The business will be managed by Neighbors, who has lived in Roseburg the last year. He has been employed by Todd Building Co. Neighbors served during the War in the Air Force. The new owners reported that all sorts of building supplies will be handled. Lynching Outlawed By Legislature Of Texas AUSTIN. Tex.. July 6. UP) The Texas Senate yesterday sent to Gov. Beauford Jester a bill making lynching punishable by prison or death. me senate passea tne Mouse measure without debate. It de fines a mob as any collection of persons assembled without au thority for the purpose of com mitting an assault. Any act of violence commit ted by such mob and resulting in death shall constitute lynching. Any person constituting a mob would be subject to prosecution. Stolen Freight Truck Halted Near County Line State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell reported today that a Pierce Auto Freight truck and trailer, stolen from Grants Pass at. s a.m. today. was apprehended by state officers near the Douglas-Josepnine coun ty line. The truck was loaded with paint, sgt. Harreii said ne nad not learned the name of the al leged truck thief, but that he had been returned to Grants Pass, along wtth the truck. Swim Pool Will Close For Meet Preparations The Municipal Swimming Pool will be closed to the public Sat urday and Sunday, according to Ray Brown, Pool managpr. Final preparations will be made at that time for the first Southern Ore gon Invitational Swimming Meet to be held In the Pool July 9 and 10. MEETINQ CANCELED There will be no meeting of the Roseburg Active Club this Thursday. The next meeting will be July 14 In the Shallmar Room, with breakfast at 7 a.m. New of ficers will take over at that time. OREGON WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1949 City Garage Bids Eyed At Council Meet Proposals Referred To Committee; Vacation Of Alley Is Refused Several bids for erection of a corporation garage for the City of Roseburg were opened by the City Council at its meeting last night. All bids were referred to the Street Committee for study and report. They Included: Todd Building Co., $11,969 (pumice block construction); H. J. Settergren, $13,700; Poirot and Watkins, $13,100. Todd company submitted an alternate bid of $6,296 for an aluminum building, with additional amounts for two different type doors, and $200 less for a galvanized building. Des Biens & Schafer submitted a bid for a concrete floor and grease pit only, for $3,525. St peck Elec tric Co., submitted a bid of $249 for wiring only. The Council passed a resolution declaring lis intent to improve South Hamilton Street from Rice to Main by installing curbs and gutters, and giving a "one shot" application of oil. In order to ap ply the oil, a, certain amount of grading and surfacing will be required. The original petition of the property owners, who must bear the expense, was for curbs and gutters only. The citv manager was Instruct ed to draft plans and specification lor improvement ol Ford street with concrete paving and install ing of curbs and gutters. Recom mendation that the work be done was made by the Planning Com mission. Considerable discussion was (Continued on Page Two) Holiday Death Toll Up To 711 ,.,...t-v- ,;(-w.:..w.), ' tBy tht Asfat Utd Preul The nation's accidental dealh toll over the Fourth of July holi day a record breaking 711 was "shameful and disgraceful," says the National Safety Council. The 711 killed in violent acci dents over the three-day period was the highest ever reported for a Fourth of July holiday and near the record for any holi- aay period. The final count In the state-by-state survey showed 315 traf fic fatalities, 25 more than the 290 estimated by the Council; 256 drownings, and 140 killed from miscellaneous causes. The tabulations covered a period from 6 p.m. last Friday to midnight Monday. The nation's heaviest acciden tal death toll for a holiday peri od was 761 for four days In Christmas week of 1936. Of the total, 555 were killed in traffic mishaps. The previous high for the Independence Day holiday was 628 In 1941. Madras Planing Mill Destroyed By Fire MADRAS, July 6. (IP) The Elanlng mill of the Warm Springs umber Company was destroyed last night in a four-hour blaze that firemen prevented from dam aging the main sawmill. Damage estimates varied from $100,000 to $200,000, but a com pany official said the planer op eration would be rebuilt. The cause of the fire was not certain, but mlllmen said a con struction crew had been using welding torches at the mill over the holiday when a new planer addition was being Installed. It was believed a spark from the torch might have smouldered un til late yesterday. Z2 X' A v s . ,-;f X: I s-AJy LJ HOTELMAN HONORED BY MEDFORD POSSE Ray W. Clark, new operator of Hotsl Medford, is pieturad abova receiving the kay to tha hotel from Captain Howall Murphy of tha Jackson County Sheriff's Possa. Clark will ba a non-riding member of tha posse at the Jackson County Rodao in Medford July 15, 16, 17. Formerly manager of tha dining room at Hotal Umpqua in Rosa burg from 1920 to 1922, Clark has tinea managed hotels in Se attle, Taeoma, Wenatehee and Portland. Ha took ovar manage ment of Hotel Mtdford this weak following purchase by A. I. Arnsbarg, Portland. SLAYER OF 2 CONFESSES Summons Reporter. Bares Guilt. Blames 'Stupor"; Denies 'Forcible' Rape EUREKA, Calif., July 6. (API A husky, 34-year-old mer chant mariner and ex-convict surrendered last night and in a signed statement admitted the Fourth of July bludgeon slayings of two man in a cabin overlooking tha Valley of the Moon. The man, Henry Brun Culbrandsan, gave himself up to Ed Neumeir, a cub reporter, and Elmer Hodgkinson, editor of tha Humboldt Times. Senator Fights Bill For Military Chief Of Staff WASHINGTON, July 6 UP) Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) of the House Armed Services Com mittee tried again today to clip the power of President Truman to reorganize the armed forces. Defeated In an effort to keep the power In Congress' hands un der the new reorganization law, Vinson made his second move in a series of proposed amendments to the military unification bill be fore his Committee. Vinson recommended that the military departments be slipped out from under the reorganiza tion law, which gives the Presi dent wide authority to shuffle government departments around. He said he wants to prevent the establishment of a single mili tary chief of staff and a general staff over all the armed forces. "We want to make It so no man ever can become a military dicta tor In this country," he added. The measure, passed by the Senate over a month ago, would give the secretary more direct power to control policies and operations of armed forces. It also would establish a single civilian business manager as the boss of military money matters. Crippled Woman Victim Of Oregsn Attacker' SEATTLE, July 8. A 23-year-old Gaston, Ore., man, cap tured as he fled from the home of a 40-year-old Ballard house wife Monday night confessed Tuesday he beat her with his fists and assaulted her, police detective William E. La Cha pelle reported. La Chapelle said the man was Francis E. Lane, a Coast Guard firemen first class, and that he had signed a confession. He was held on an open charge. The woman had been crippled several months by an automobile accident, police reported. Two neighbors who heard her shouts last night chased and caught her assailant. London Troops Unload Strike-Bound Vessels LONDON, July 6. (IP) The Labor Government ordered troops into the London water front tonight to unload food ships paralyzed by a strike of steve dores. The two weeks' strike con tinued to spread today despite a threat by United States dock workers to boycott British ships there unless it stops. Most of the more than 100 car go ships harbor-locked by the Thames River strike carry food for rationed Londoners. Labor Minister Isaacs told Parliament the government had decided to use troops as a means of "safe guarding food supplies." BAND CONCERT DATED The Roseburg Municipal Band will present another concert in Library Park Thursday cvenlr' at. 8 o clock. Rose Sfrcct will be blocked off to allow Inthecar listening by the audience. 157-49 In a long, wandering statement, he for the most part corroborated the hysterical tale told by Mrs. Eva Paget, 27-year-old mother of two. Her story of rape and mur der set off one of the most inten sive manhunts in recent Northern California history. But Gulbrandsen denied he had forcibly raped Mrs. Paget, a Berkeley woman who had been vacationing in Jack London's old territory 200 miles south of here in the Sonoma Valley. Gulbrand sen said she had submitted to him to "soothe" him, after he had bludgeoned her. In the Sonoma hospital, where she is in critical condition from the attack and beating, Mrs. Paget reiterated she had been raped. And hospital attaches commented on Gulbrandsen's assertion: 'Thats' ridiculous!" Confessions Signed Gulbrandsen signed a state ment, first for the newspaper and later for the sheriff's office, ad mitting slaying his friend, Lt. Peter J. Flint, 31, of the Merchant Marine, and Flint's longtime friend, Peter J. Jensen, 55, land scape gardener for the Sonoma State Hospital. I he nude bodies or Flint and Jensen, covered by sheets, were found in beds in separate rooms in Jensen's curio-laden home in the Trlnitl Mountains, northwest of Sonoma. Officers went there yesterday after Mrs. Paget, bleeding, hy sterical, and wearing only a T- shirt, stumbled down a canyon road and tqld.a party of picnickers (Continued on Page Two) Commitment Of Lawrence Sharp Asked By Parents TACOMA, July 6. UP) The parents of Lawrence Jean Sharp petitioned In Federal Court here yesterday to have the 20-year-old youth committed to an institu tion for the Insane. Federal Judge Charles H. Lea vy deferred a decision on the request until a sanity board has reviewed the case of this former University of Washington stu dent who Is charged with dyna miting tne Vancouver noma of his parents on April 1. The petition was presented In behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Lacy G. Sharp, the parents, by attorneys Hugo Mctzler and Marshall Mc Cormlck, recently named us counsel for young Sharp. The action was expected as the youth and his family have Indlcaled continually that they felt he suffered from a mental breakdown. Supporting affidavits by Drs. George A. Rlckles and Myron Hass, psychiatrists who had In terviewed Sharp, declared they believed he was an "incipient schizophrenic and not account able for his behavior." A schizo phrenic has a split or dual per sonality as a result of a break down of the mental faculties. The father, still showing signs of serious Injuries he received In the April 1 blast, took the stand yesterday and described growing signs of Irrationality he has ob served in Lawrence since last Christmas. Judge Leavy offered to release the youth to the custody of his father but was Interrupted by the emphatic statement: "I don't want him out. T don't want him out at any time." The judge then continued tha hearing on the federal charges until a sanity board can act. If the board finds the youth sane, the federal charges will ba re vived. The sanity hearing will be held at the Pierce County hos pital tomorrow. Flames Threatening Orcas Island Community ORCAS, Wash., July 6 UP) Fire destroyed a ferry slip and general store here early today, and residents fought to prevent It spreading to other buildings In this smalt Orcas Island community- The blaze started on the ferry slip, shortly after departure of a Puget Sound Navigation Com pany ferry. Mrs. Richard Exton, watching the fire from a home nearby, said a south wind threatened to spread the blaze Inland toward the Orcas Hotel and scattered collages. The Coast Guard dispatched two patrol boats to glva assistance. No Break In Sight For East.' Middlewest Thunderehowers Givt Only Brief Respite; Crop Losses Enormous tBy the AuoeUted Preu) A toll of at least 132 deaths was counted today in the longest heat wave so far this summer. No immediate break In the tor rid temperatures was in sight, although thundershowers cooled scattered sections of the hot belt temporarily yesterday and last night. In addition to deaths induced by the heat, seven were known dead and five were missing from a sudden, violent squall that raked the New York metropolitan area yesterday. The storm knifed across Long Island sound and cap- sizea nunareas oi oonts. The estimated dead due to the heat included heat prostrations and heart attacks attributed to the heat. The deaths of this nature by states included: Illinois 54 (in cluding 50 Chicago area, coroner's office estimate of deaths from heat and heart attacks aggravated by neat); Indiana, i lowa, t; Maryland. 3: Michigan, 8: Min nesota, 14: Missouri, 10; Ne braska, 3; New York, 6; Ohio, 10; Pennsylvania, 12; Virginia, 3; Wisconsin, 2. Crop Losses Heavy . Most of the Midwest was weary from a week of hot. sticky weather. The Eastern States also sizzled in the searing heat. And in the Northeastern area there was no sign of rain to break tha long drought. The new heat wave only added to further' damage farm crops already badly wilted by seven weeks of rainless weather. Crop losses in the re gion have been estimated at more than $50,000,000. The U. S. Weather Bureau sam (Continued on Page Two) Slot Machines Succeed Club As Trial Defendants Sixteen slot machines, formerly the property of the Elks Club, were emptied of their monetary contents and the process oi tneir destruction was begun Tues day afternoon under the super vision of District Attorney Robert G. Davis. The order to dispose of tha machines was given following ac tion-taken in . justice couru . Tn original complaint against the Elks Club was dismissed, and a new one was filed, reading, "State of Oregon vs. 16 Ma chines," according to Davis. The substitution of the new com plaint was made with the con sent of Elks Club representatives and their attorney, Spencer W. Yates. Following the court action, emptying of the machines was begun by Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter and his deputies In the presence of Elks' representatives. All money contained will be turned over to-the County Gen eral fund. The exact amount will not be known until a complete count can be made. The machines are part of the haul obtained when the Elks and three other clubs' The Vets Eagles and Country Clubs were raided May 4 and a total of 35 slot machines were removed from the premises. The raids were conducted by District Attorney Davis with the assistance of the Sheriff's office. No action has been taken on the complaint against the other clubs. Hiring Halls Branded Illegal By U. S. Court NEW YORK, July 6. UP) The operations of hiring halls for job-hunting seamen a long time, jealously-guarded tradition of the CIO National Maritime Un ionhas been declared illegal at Great Lakes Ports. The U. S. Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a finding of the National Labor Relations Board that the halls discrimin ate against non union seamen in violation of the Taft-Hartley Law. Under union hiring hall pro cedure, Job hunters must regis ter with the union. They are then assigned to ship Jobs by rotation. The Court did not rule on whether all hiring halls are il legal under the Taft-Hartley law. However, the NLRB was expect, ed to seek to apply the ruling to hiring halls at all ports for both longshoremen and seamen. Firecracker Blamed For Oswego Fire Loss OSWEGO, July 6. (IP) Fire Chief William Asplund reported today .hat a firecracker appar ently set off the blaze that de stroyed a quarter block of the business district last Friday. He said the explosive was be lieved thrown into the open doorway of a lumber yard. Livity Fact Rant By L. F. Reltmutetn If the Communist Party In the U. S. goes underground, accord ing to its reported plan, It still won't be able to dodge Undo Sam he's way in the Kelt him-self.
