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BRUCE FERGUSON, chief of the south district of the Douglas
Forest Protective association protective area, is issuing instruc
iions via radio as to the proper handling of a grass fire which
had just been reported to him Wednesday noon. His headquar
ters are at the new Gazley station which the association is com
pleting on the Pacific highway a short distance north of Can
yonville. A dozen years ago I called on Bruce and Mrs. Ferguson at
Diamond Rock lookout, above the headwaters of Cow creek.
The two were acting as lookouts there for the United States
Forest Service and they just had been married. I never saw a
spot where lofty sentiments could more appropriately be enter
. tained than at Diamond Rock,' which towers so high it makes me
dizzy even to .think of it. .
LANDLORDS GET ADVICE
Application Needed For
Rent Hike. Director Says
On Request For Decontrol
' Landlords must apply for higher rents if they feel they are en
titled to them. "There's no way we can grant a raise if we don't
receive an application," said E. G. Clay, Corvallls, area rent director,
in Roseburg Wednesday to meet with a committee of the city council.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
IN the British parliament the
other day Conservative party
speakers "denounced" high taxa
tion to finance social benefits
(such as free medicine and free
false teeth) as largelyresponsible
for Britain's present troubles.
Amrvig other things, they assert
ed that funds from the "free en
terprise" United States should not
be used to make up deficits in
curred by socialist spending.
That got Labor Leader Ernest
Bevin's dander up. He flared back
that a large part of Britain's pres
ent dollar trouble is dut to HIGH
SUPPORT PRICES paid to
American, farmers by tht U. S.
government. (It takes more dol
lars to pay the higher prices for
the American farm products the
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Carpenters Union Votes
Rate Of Overtime Pay
Overtime pay for carpenters
and millwrights under jurisdic
tion of Local 1961 of AFL Car
penters and Joiners union will be
time-and-a-half, effective Aug. 1,
it was announced today by Earl
Ridgeway, financial secretary.
This action was taken by ma
jority vote of members at the
local's meeting Tuesday night in
the Pacific building.
Until now, carpenters and mill
wrights have received double pay
for all overtime work. The double
scale will continue in effect after
Aug. 1 for work on Sundays and
holidays, said Ridgeway.
TRUMAN IN MOCKING MOOD
Decorates Gen. Vaughan,
Military Aide, As Sequel
To Brush With Newsmen
WASHINGTON, July 21.-(.n-President Truman said today
that his army aide, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, has permission
to testify if he is called before the Senate committee inquiring into
n nor a tin no nf "fl, I -
The President declined to com
ment, at a news conference, on
a story that he had decorated
Vaughan in a mock ceremony
after the general's recent brush
with newsmen in Washington on
the five percenters question.
Asked if he had given Vaughan
a medal on that occasion, he
said a simpie "no commpnt."
At the same time, the Presi
dent said he has always favored
Inquiries to see that outsiders are
not used to obtain government
contracts and that that is part
of his continuing policy.
The President said he does not
believe Gen. Vaughan was mixed
up In the operations which
brought about the congressional
inquiry and the suspension of
"I don't know what the rent
situation is in Roseburg, but it
must be pretty rugged from some
of the prices X'ye. seoiC, Jhe .cpm-,
merited. T '" .-
Clay was here to advise local
officials on the steps to be taken
to bring about decontrol of rents
in ' this area, as requested in a
petition to the city council Mon
day night by Eddie Kohlhagen,
Dr. B. R. Shoemaker, and John
Todd.
Their petition pointed out that
housing is no longer critical, that
rentals are now on a competitive
basis, and that there now exists
an unfair rental scale under con
trol. Law's Procedure Cited
Clay pointed out that many
rents can be fairly adjusted if
landlords follow the procedure set
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Driver Cited In
Traffic Accident
One person was treated at
Mercy hospital for a chest injury,
men reieasea, ionowine an acci
dent eight miles south of Rose
burg on Highway 99 Wednesday
morning.
State Police Sgt. Lvle Harrell
reported a car, operated by Ira
O. Jiant of Crane, Tex., accom
panied by his wife. Dulled onto
the highway in front of another
car, Dotn traveling north.
The second car, operated by
Alda Elvira Bergstrom, Rose
burg, struck Jiant's car in the
rear. Mrs. Bergstrom suffered
the chest injury. Her son, riding
wan ner was not nurt but accom
panied her to the hospital.
agi. fiarreu said Jiant was
cited for failure to yield the
right-of-way, and Bergstrom was
ciiea ior navmg no operator s li
cense. The cars were badlv dam-
aged.
two-star generals.
He said he had read suggestions
of that sort in the papers about
Vaughan but did not believe
them.
A reporter said Vaughan was
reported to have said he believed
300 five percenters were operat
ing in Washington.
Mr. Truman said he doesn't
know anything about It If such
operations are going on.
The story of a mock decora
tlon for Vaughan was reported
by Newsweek Magazine.
The brush with reporters oc
curred July 6 when the general
returned with his family from
inree-week vacation trip to
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The Weather
Fair today, tonight and Frl
day.
, Sunset today 7:47 p. m.
Sunriso tomorrow 4:52 a. m.
Established 1873
Atom Bomb At Issue As Treaty Vote Nears
Question On
Sharing Of
Secret Raised
Senators Also Offer
Reservation Against
U. S. Arms Obligation
ROME, July 21 P The
Italian chamber of deputies-ratified
the Atlantic Pact today
over Russian protests.
The vote was 323 to 160.
This was the second time the
chamber voted. The first vote
was nullified early today when
the votes outnumbered the vot
ers. WASHINGTON, July 21. UP)
Senator Wherry, the Republi
can floor leader, told the Senate
today that before approving the
North Atlantic pact it should
"close the door" against giving
the atom bomb to other members.
With a vote only hours away,
the Nebraska senator said he is
concerned that the treaty may ob
ligate this country to let others in
on A-bomb secrets.
At President Truman's news
conference, held shortly before
tne senate mer, a reporter had
mentioned the stand Wherry was
taking.
Mr. Truman brushed it off with
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North Umpqua
Highway Work
Opened To Bids
Bids on a project designed to
open up one of the richest timber
stands in the nation are being
invited by the U.S. Bureau of
Public Roads. At present four
miles of the North Umpqua high
way, about 40 miles east of Rose
burg, are to be graded, with bids
being opened in Portland Aue.
W. H. Lynch, division engineer
of the BPR, was quoted by the
Daily .Journal of Commerce,
Portland, as saying that construc
tion ol tne North Umpqua High
way and adjoining access roads
will extend over several years to
allow cutting of timber on a sus
tained yield basis.
The highway also serves rec
reational traffic, and when it is
fjnally pushed through, will pro
vide a trans-Cascade .route and
also will serve as the most di
rect access between Roseburg
and Crater Lake, said Lynch.
With the contract soon to be
awarded, the highway will have
been constructed for approxi
mately half the distance, with
work starting at the westerly end
in Roseburg. The section for
which bids are now being Invited
is located in the vicinity of
Steamboat creek.
Byron Woodruff To Ope?
Optometry Office Here
Byron E. Woodruff, former
Roseburg resident, has returned
to this city and plans to open an
optometrist office at 137 N. Jack
son. Woodruff is a recent graduate
of Pacific university at Forest
Grove, where he was awarded a
doctor of optometry degree. He
plans to move his wife and two
children to Roseburg as soon as
he is able to find a home here.
Woodruff lived in Roseburg pri
or to going into the army in 1940
and was graduated from Rose
burg Senior High school in 1938.
He is a member of the Roseburg
Elks lodge.
House Kills Aiken Farm
Law Of GOP Congress
WASHINGTON, July 21 P
The House voted today to kill
the Afken Farm Law enacted
by the Republican 80th Con
g rest.
There were only a few scat
tering "nays" on the voice
vote.
The House moved on then to
ward a vote on what should re
place It a continuation of the
present farm law or the ad
ministration's new plan.
Many Republicans joined
Democrats in the vote to de
stroy the law authored by Sen
ator Aiken (R-Vt), The meas
ure provided for a flexible 60
to 90 per cent of parity price
support program for major
crops beginning next year.
Truman Names Board To
Probe S. P. R. R. Dispute
WASHINGTON, July 21 UPy
Presldent Truman yesterday cre
ated an emergency board to In
vestigate a dispute between the
Brotherhoods of Railroad Train
men and the Southern Pacific
company. '
The union has called for a
strike on the Pacific lines of the
Southern Pacific.
Appointment of an emergency
board under the railway labor
art automatically defers a walk
out
ROSEBURG.
Tractor Mishap
Kills D. A. Butts
Near Dixon ville
A logging tractor overturned
yesterday and fatally crushed
David Aubrey Butts, 26, in the
woods near Dixonville. :
The tragedy occurred on the
Melton road, southeast ot Dix
onville, where Butts was em
ployed by A. W. Ford, logger,
as a tracior operator.
The tractor was reported to
have overturned on the road
and Butts to have fallen under
neath. The accident was invest
igated by Deputy Coroner M.
B. Emmett.
Butts lived at 830 W. Mosher
street. His widow survives.
Funeral services will be an
nounced from Long and Orr
mortuary upon recept of word
from relatives.
Gangster War In
Los Angeles Stirs
Official Action
LOS ANGELES, July 21. UP)
The state, county and city merg
ed iorces today to light an up
surge of gang warfare which
climaxed with the shotgun bias's
that felled gambling boss Mick
ey Cohen and three other per
ms.
The victims, ineludine Harrv
Cooper, special agent assigned
by the attorney general's office
to protect the dapper, little Co
hen, are recovering from their
wounds. .
An emergency meeting of top
state, countv and city law en
forcement officers was called
here yesterday after the early
morning blaze of gunfire on the
swank sunset atrio shocked .tyus
city os ine angeis. .
Attorney General Fred How-
ser, who flew from San Fran
cisco to attend the meeting, said
last night that Cohen's lawyer,
Sam Rummel. has named the
persons who he believes fired
the shots.
"But I am In no position at
this time," Howser said, "to dis
close the names of these per
sons. That would be aiding the
suspects." i
Shot down with Cohen, who
fronts as a haberdasher and
Cooper were Edward (Neddie)
Herbert, a confederate of the
gambler, and actress Dee David.
AH but Cohen were critically
injured. They were fired upon
as they emerged early yesterday
from Sherry's restaurant by two
men concealed across the street.
Cohen, from his hospital bed,
scoffed at reports that a gang
war is brewing. He called his
unsuccessful assailants "punks."
"They must have been some
body I stopped from doing some
thing." A switchboard operator at
Queen of Angels hospital, where
Cohen is a patient, said a man's
voice said over the phone last
night:
"Be on guard we're going to
get Mickey tonight."
BLAND MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT wei visited Wednesday by a group of 24 foresters and director! of the Douglas Vtas, For
est association on t tour of fire fighting facilities. This loolcour, accessible by ro.d over look. Days creek and the South Umpqui
watershed. From it can be seen the top of lofty Mount Thielsen. George Walker is the lookout for a second ye.r. Th. station it
equipped with radie, for quick reporting f fires, inste.d of a telephone. (Picture by Paul Jenkins)
OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1949
War On Hooded
Mobs Spurred
In Alabama
Two More Floggings
Swell Chaos; Member
Of Klan One Of Victims
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 21.
UP) High handed lawlessness by
night prowling mobs has spurred
Alabama crime fighters to in
crease the tempo of their war
on hooded gangsters.
A grand jury was ordered into
special session tomorrow to
search further into flogging,
cross burnings and threats by
mobs.
And state attorney general Al
bert Carmichael singled out the
Federated Ku Klux Klans, Inc.,
for a legal attack in court.
The new anti-mob campaigns
by law agencies came simul
taneously with reports of two
more mob floggings and dis
agreements between two top-level
Klan owcers.
A white man revealed yester
day he and a Negro were taken
out Tuesday night by an armed
mob, tied to a tree and lashed
with a sawmill belt.
Dolph Bailey, 25, said none of
the attackers wore masks. He
also said they .were not Klan3
men, adding: "I'm a member of
the Klan myself." The attack
occurred near Goodwater, about
70 miles southeast of Birming
ham.
Two white men, booked as Bob
by Buckner and Buck Burkhalt
er, both of Alexander City, have
been arrested in the case. Bom
are in Jail under $5,000 bond.
Klan Leaders Disagree
In Birmingham disagreement
over leadership arose in hign
ranks, of the Klan.
' Dr. E. P. Prultt, 72-year-old
Birmingham physician, said he
still is president- and 'Chairman
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Congress Plans To
Adjourn Sept. 1
WASHINGTON, July 21 UP)
Congressional leaders have set
September 1 as the target date
for adjourning this session of
Congress.
They aren't too optimistic
about it and figure that It may
be Labor day or later belore an
the odds and ends of legislation
are cleaned up.
House Democratic Leader Mc
Cormack of Massachusetts told
newsmen he is scheduling the
House business docket to clear
up all "must" bills by the end of
August.
In this category are bills to In
crease the minimum wage pay
able In Interstate industry, to ex
tend social security coverage, and
poslbly'to provide federal aid to
education.
No action Is planned this ses
sion on other major bills still
pending, Including revision or re
peal ot me iait-Maruey moor re
lations law. They will lay over
until the second session of the
81st Congress, meeting In the
congressional election year 1950.
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Party Of 24 Tours Areas
Watched Over By Douglas
Forest Protective Assn.
By LEROY INMAN . ;
City Editor, News-Review '
With timber values at an all time high, the importance of pro
tecting Douglas county's 70,000,000,000 board feet of standing timber
largest in the world is becoming more and more Important.
Especially is this true during the current dry summer season, where
a single fire may result in a million dollars damage.
Veterans'. Bonus
Proposal Slated
For Oregon Meet
PORTLAND, July 21. UP)
A state veterans' bonus will be
Eroposed to the Oregon American
egion convention in Salem next
month.
Portland's federal post No, 97
has approved a bonus resolution
for introduction at the state con
vention. It favors a maximum
payment of $600 on a basis of $10
for each month of domestic serv
ice and $15 for each month of
overseas duty between Sept. 16,
1940 and Dec. 31, 1946.
Veterans who lived in Oregpn
at least a year prior to their en
try into military service and were
hnnorablv discharged would be
eligible under the legion post plan.
The post also caned ior ine con
vention to work for refund of sur
plus payments on national service
life insurance. It said a faulty ac
tuarial table, on which premiums
are based, had resulted in $2,000,
000,000 surplus accumulating. The
supreme court has ruled it may
be paid as dividends to policy hold
ers, the post resolution said. It
charged the Veterans administra
tion has delayed tne oivmenn pay
ments for "political reasons."
Movie Technicians Set
Strike To Back Demands
NEW YORK, July 21. UP)
An AFL union whose 1,800 mem
bers process most motion picture
films, shown-In this country has
set July 1 for a strike.
The union, local 702 of the Mo
tion Picture Laboratory Techni
cians, says a stoppage would halt
production of most newsreels and
leature movies.
A federal mediator is seeking
to settle the dispute between the
union and 16 processing laborator
ies. The union Is demanding various
contract improvements, Including
a welfare fund, and a reduction
In the work week from 40 to 30
hours with no cut In current pay
of $1.10 to $1.20 an hour.
Portland Auto Firms
Fight New Business Tax
PORTLAND. July 21. UP)
This city's new business tax and
licensing ordinance are unocr lire
in the courts.
Six automobile firms have filed
a suit arguing the gross sales tax
is confiscatory and unconstitu
tional. Their complaint says that
their taxes under the ordinance
would wipe out prollts.
The 23 new ordinances passed
(his year were aimed at raising
up to $d,uuu,uuu annuauy.
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These facts were pointed out in
a tour Wednesday and today of
the Douglas Forest Protective as
sociation's fire control area, and
an inspection ot its forest fight
ing lacllltles.
Led by District Warden Fred
Southwlck and Secretary-Treas
urer H. O. Pargeter, the party
oi 24 consisted ol association di
rectors, timber company repre
sentatives, state and local forest
ers, county officials and others.
A large percentage of the
standing timber is privately own
ed or is tne property ot tne state
and county, and lies outside the
national forest service protective
area. As the latter body's work
is confined to the federally owned
limber, it is up to the association
to protect the remaining county
holdings, it was pointed out.
Established In 1912, when many
local -residents and timber auth
orities predicted that Douglas
county timber would never be
cut, the association has grown to
Include every major timber hold
er in the county, and the forest
fighting crews now numoer iou
men during the current summer,
with a peak of 175.
System Modernized
The tour began with an inspec
tion of the headquarters station
near the almort north ot Kose-
burir. then moceeded south to the
newlv constructed south Douglas
association branch at Gazley.
This station, managed by Bruce
Ferguson, has a crew of 20 men,
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Infantile Paralysis
Shows New Increase
WASHINGTON, July 21 (JP)
Another Increase in Infantile
paralysis cases was reported by
the U. S. Public Health service
today.
For the week ended July 16,
there were 1,013 new cases re
ported for the nation, compared
with 684 the previous week. This
is a 49 per cent increase com
pared with the 43 per cent in
crease reported last week over
the' week preceding.
This orougnt to q,o me Toiai
for the whole year through July
16, compared wllh 3,601 during
the same period last year an in
crease , of, approximately 1,200
cases. ' ,
Durlne the past week,. In
creases were noted In all major
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Jail Term, Fine Meted
Drunken Woman Driver
Mrs. Blanche Duley, 34, Copalis
Beach, Wash., arrested on
charge of drunk driving, was
sentenced to the county jail for
30 days and fined $250 upon a
plea of guilty in the justice court
at Reedsport, reported Justice of
Peace Fred M. wrignt.
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Spies
Others Being
Tracked Down;
Probers State
Committee Labels Two
Atom Savants As Aides
Of Communist Ring
WASHINGTON. Julv 2W.TA
House sov Probers named two
atomic scientists today as mem
bers of a wartime Communist
cell at a west coast' laboratory.
They said they still are tracking
uuwn omers.
The House Un-American Activ.
ities committee Dut the finser on
Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz and
David Bohm as members of a cell
at the radiation laboratory at the
University of California at Berke
ley. It did so in an official docu-
ment that reproduced, with a
foreword, last month's hearings
on Communist Steve Nelson,
communist rarty organizer in
the San Francisco bay area In
the early 1940s and now operat
ing in western Pennsylvania. . i
Lomanitz until recently was a
professor at Flsk university at
Nashville. Bohm Is a physics pro
fessor at Princeton university.
The committee said that 'he
Soviet government first tried to
use Nelson's acquaintance with
"one of the leading physicists
engaged In the development of
the atomic bomb" for infiltrating
the Berkeley laboratory. This
physicist was not named and the
committee said an Investigation
cleared the scientist and his wife
of any subversive activities and
said their loyalty never has been
questioned by the government.
But under Nelson's guidance,
the committee said, a cell of five
or six young physicists was devel
oped In the laboratory.
' "According to a sworn state
ment by a witness," the commit
tee 'said, "Giovanni Rossi Loman
itz was the' principal Communist
Party organizer. The records of
this committee also reflect that
David Bohn . . , was also a 'mem
ber of this cell."
Both men on two occasions re
fused to answer questions about
membership In the cell on
grounds they might incriminate
themselves, the committee noted.
"Other alleged members of 'his
cell at the radiation laboratory,"
it said, "are under investigation
by this commit!""
Truman Reassuring
President Trunin said mean
while today there Is nothing for
the American people to be
alarmed about In current hush-,
hush talks about atomic foreign
policy." :
Mr. Truman was sharply crltl
cal at a news conference, how
ever, of the man he said leaked
information to the press in ad
vance of an atomic policy meet-
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Defective, Negro
Gunman Slain In
Seattle Battle
SEATTLE. Juiy 21. UP) A
city homicide detective, who vol
untarily returned in his off-duty
hours to help capture a cornered
gunman, was killed early today.
Moments later his slayer died
in a volley of police fire. -
Dead were Detective Harry W.
Vosper, about 35, and the gun
man, James jacKson, aoout ou, a
Negro. Two others Johnny Taylor.
33, also a Negro, and Donald M.
Reed, 27, a truck driver were
hospitalized with gunshot
wounds. Taylor's condition was
critical, that of Reed as fair.
Vosper was killed as he met
Jackson face-to-face at the base- .
ment entrance of a two-story
house where the gunman was
surrounded by more than 20 po
licemen.
The slavlnes. climax to a series
of shootings that continued over
a three-hour period, came as po
lice moved Into the house after
filling It with tear-gas bombs.
Police said the fatal battle fol
lowed an earlier shooting at Tay
lor's home where Jackson had
gone to see his estranged wile.
When Mrs. Jackson told him to
lpave or she would call police.-
Jackson suridenlv fired six shots
from a .45 caliber automatic
Three of the bullets struck Tay
lor. Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Tay
lor were not hit.
Police traced Jackson's car to
the lower Seattle home and as
signed Detective Kenny Thomas
to watch it. wnen no one ap?
peared after a considerable time,
Reed was called to tow the ma
chine away.
He was snot as ne stanea to
hitch up the car.
Vosper, who had Investigated
the earlier shooting at Taylor's
home, was at headquarters talk
ing to friends when the report of
Reed's shooting was received.
Before Jackson died he had ex
changed several heavy volleys
with police through basement
windows. Five boxes of rifle
shells were lying on his bed In
the basement and a second rifle
was leaning against Hie wall.
Lvity Fact Rant
By L. f. Relienstein
A British lawmaker declares
that tht only solution tor the
current economic problems of
Britain and tht U. S. It for
Amtrica to merge Its govern
ment with that of England.
What would become of our
Fourth of July ctltbretlons?