Ex-Secy. Of War Patterson
Or Senator O'Mahoney May
Succeed Justice Murphy
WASHINGTON, July 21.-UP)
The death ot Justice Frank Mur
phy opens the way for Presi
dent Truman to name his third
appointee to the Supreme Court
But the choice may not be an
easy one.
By tradition, the post would go
to a Roman Catholic since Mur
phy was the only member ol
that faith on the tribunal.
However, there has been wide
spread speculation for months
that Robert P. Patterson, New
York lawyer and former secre
tary of war, would get the nod
when the next vacancy occurred
on the high court bench.
The religious angle dampened
but did not still this talk. But
It did bring at least one other
name into the speculation that
of Senator Josep C. O'Mahonev
(D.-Wyo.) O'Mahoney is a Ca
tholic and an ardent supporter
of what Mr. Truman has labeled
his "fair deal" administration.
It was taken for granted that
Mr. Truman will make every ef
fort to pick a successor who will
carry on Murphy's general phil
osophy as a champion of the
poor and friendless and of racial
and religious minorities.
Murphy's own description of
his philosophy was this: To try
to make democracy work so well
that it would be safe from at
tacks from either the extreme left
or the extreme right.
Toward that end he was pas
sionate in pronouncements on
the basic human rights of little
men, stern and sharp-tongued in
defense of religious minorities
under attack for the practice of
their beliefs.
The two Truman appointees
now on the high court are Chief
Justice Vinson and Justice Bur
ton. Burton went on Oct. 1, 1945.
The chief justice took over on
June 24, 1946.
Murphy was the third former
Michigan governor to die this
year.
Death came to Chase S. Os
born who served from 1911 to
1913 last April 11. William A.
Comstock, governor from 1933 to
1935, died June 16.
Battle Between Communism And
Religion In Europe Increasing
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
Newspaper headlines about foreign affairs which impress me
most on returning to my desk after a two weeks' vacation are those
emphasizing the swelling of the battle between Communism and
religion.
, Developments strengthen the view ventured In this column just
before I went away: "The world-wide ideological conflict between
communism and democracy, involving a life and death struggle be
tween religion and the red ism, is intensifying. We have reached
a crucial period."
Since then the situation has
grown more critical, especially
in Europe. It has reached a point
where we are justified in saying
that the outcome of the war of
the isms may turn in large de
gree on this question of religion
or no religion of God or no God.
At the moment the fiercest
phase of the Moscow-directed of
fensive is aimed at the Vatican
in Rome and the highly organized
Catholic church of Europe. How
ever, not only Catholicism but all
other forms of faith come under
the Red edict that religion must
be exterminated as the dope of
the masses.
Bitter Struggle Presaged
Only last Sunday the leading
communist newspaper of Soviet
occupied Germany, the Neues
Deutschland, denounced Luther-,
an bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin
as a war monger and an instru
ment of American aggression.
This is taken as presaging a bit
ter struggle in that zone between
communist and church officials.
I have before me a friendly
letter from a Red in the state of
Washington suggesting that I
write a column telling "the truth
about religion." He presumably
doesn't find religion without
faults. Well, from time to time
we shall discuss the subject with
in the limits of our capabilities.
But I'm an old cow-hand and
don't intend to rope anything I
can't handle. And while was
born and reared in. a Methodist
parsonage, I don't claim to be a
theologian.
However, whatever weaknesses
the various religions may pos
sess, it doesn't take a theologian
to understand that since the dawn
of history mankind has believed
in a god, or gods, and a hereaft
er. Most of the peoples of the
earth, civilized or uncivilized,
profess some sort of religion.
Maybe they can't all be right in
their beliefs, but the big point is
that they have 'em, and those be
liefs are the most cherished
things in their lives.
That's why we are entitled to
say that bolshevism may break
itself wide open in its determina
tion to destroy all religions.
Strong evidence of this possibil
ity is to be seen in the terrific
fight being made by Czechoslo
vakian Catholics to defend their
faith.
Pope Plus, viewing this situa
tion from the actual battlefront,
also has declared that no govern
ment which denies God can sur-
If muffin batter does not fill
all the pans put cold water in the
empty ones.
Profanity Charge
Faced By Actress
Joan Blondell
PRINCETON, N. J. July 20.
The producer of the high-brow
Princeton drama festival says he
has asked Actors Equity to sus-.
pend Joan Blondell as a result
of a "violent backstage brawl"
growing out of the actress' alleg
ed use of "vile and abusive" lan
guage. But Joan says all she did was
throw some face tissue at the
producer, Harold J. Kennedy.
Miss Blondell's husband, Broad
way producer Mike Todd, also
got into the act, Kennedy charg
ed, and was ejected by Prince
ton police from McCarter theater
here after an altercation.
Kennedy said the whole thing
happened last Wednesday, but
he kept quiet about it until Miss
Blondell's show, "Happy Birth
day," closed over the weekend.
Now he says he wants Actors
Equity to suspend the Hollywood
star. ,
Kennedy described events lead
ing up to the free-for-all this
way in a statement issued
through his attorney, Hugh D.
Wise:
"Miss Blondell was vicious and
so constant in her use of pro
fanity and so brutally insulting
to the rest of the cast that she
was jeopardizing our production."
Society Item Leads To
Alleged Forger's Arrest
ASTORIA, Ore., July 21. UP)
A bridegroom was held in jail
here today on a charge of forg
ery all because an Astoria po
liceman decided to read the so
ciety page.
The Astorlan Budget's society
Item mentioned that Robert
Bruck MoCready and his bride
were honeymooning in Kelso,
Wash.
McCready was promptly ar
rested in Kelso, and returned
here on a charge of passing $100
in forged checks.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 21. 1949
170-49
Doolittle Raid
Recalled In Trial
Of Tokyo Rose
SAN FRANCISCO. July 19.
UP) - - Memories of the famed Doo
little air raid in '1942 on Japan
were recalled yesterday in the
Tokyo Rose treason trial.
Mrs. Iva Toeurl u Aquino, dd.
Los Angeles-born, is charged with
eight acts of treason in broad
casting from Tokyo during the
war.
Another American-born Jap
anese, Kenkichi Okl, 36, was on
the stand as a prosecution wit
ness.
In his relentless determination
to show that Mrs. Aquino broad
cast under compulsion, Defense
Attorney Wayne Collins ham
mered hard at Oki's .estimony.
Collins asked if It wasn't true
that after the Doolittle raid on
April 18, 1942, Japanese news
papers declared that if another
bomb dropped on the Japanese
mainland, every prisoner of war
would je executed. Judge Michael
J. Roche sustained a prosecution
objection.
Later uki tesunea mat mere
was an official Japanese an
nouncement that Doolittle fliers
had strafed schoolhouses and chil
dren; that if there was a repeti
tion, all Americans snot aown
would be executed.
Okl had testified that he heard
Mrs. D' Aquino broadcast to allied
troops "This is Orphan Ann, your
favorite enemy.
Collins asked "did she say this
laughingly, or sorrowfully?" Oki
replied, "I think in her usual con
versational style." After Collins
repeated the question Oki said "I
think it was more or less gayful."
Okl was born in Sacramento,
played football for Ncvv York
university in 1938, went to Japan
the next year, and in 1940 signed
a Japanese police registration ask
ing to be considered a Japanese
national.
J. D. Wright Of
Days Creek Dies
Joseph David Wright, 75, well
known resident of Days Creek,
died at his home July 20. Born
in Tennessee May 26. 1874, he
was married to Gertrude Hig
gins at Pawnee, Neb., on April
21, lays. Me came to uougias
county in 1901, making his home
near Days Creek, where he en
gaged in ranching. Mr. and Mrs.
Wright celebrated their golden
wadding anniversary April 21,
1949. He was a. member. of the
Baptist church. .
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Gertrude Wright, and two sons,
Ray Wright and Fred Wright,
all of Days Creek. He was pre
ceded in death by two daugh
ters, Jessie and Edna. He is also
survived by two brothers, J. W.
Wright, Milo, and J. L. Wright,
Darby, Mont.; a sister, Mrs. An
gellne Smith, Scio; eight grand
children and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements In
charge of the Long & Orr Mortu
ary will be announced later upon
receipt of word from relatives.
SUITS DISMISSED
Circuit Judge Carl E. Wlm
berly has issued orders, based
upon the motion of the plaintiff's,
dismissing the following suits:
Merle P. Hargis and Alvlna T.
Hargis vs. J. L. Hawes; and J.
M. Weber vs. Delmer Carpenter
and Virgil G. Carpenter.
Roseburg Boys Win Trophies
At Model Airplane Contest
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MODEL PLANE WINNERS These two winners represented Rose
burg at the Plymouth-sponsored state model plane contest at
Eugene last weekend. On the left, Gene E. Foley, 16, displays
trophies won in speed and stunt events to Bill W, Moats, 15, who
was a winner in junior cabin competitibn.
Three trophies were won by
two Roseburg boys Saturday and
Sunday In the third annual Ply
mouth model plane contest for
Oregon, held in Eugene, accord
ing to word received here by Bert
S. Corkrum and Ben Wallace,
Roseburg Plymouth dealers.
Bill W. Moats, -15, 314 North
Jackson, won third place in the
junior cabin-free flight event Sun
day, and Gene E. Foley, 16, 927
Garden Valley road, won fourth
place, class B, junior speed event
and fifth place in the junior stunt
event, both control-line, Satur
day. The boys competed against 149
entries for scholarships of $750,
$500 and $250 and four expense
paid trips to Detroit next month
to compete In the third interna
tional Plymouth model plane con
test with $8750 in U.S. savings
bonds awards and numerous tro
phies. Plymouth dealers of Oregon
sponsored the Oregon contest.
Teacher's Neatness
Instruction Pays Off
BILLINGS, Montana UP Dur
ing her 32-year teaching career,
Miss Cora McCormick always
stressed neatness to her pupils.
That was one reason It distressed
her so much when the weeds in
her back yard took over and she
was unable to cope with them.
A neighbor and former pupil
noticed Miss McCormick's plight.
She called other former pupils
of the now retired teacher.
. Sunday morning at 9 o'clock
sharp, former McCormick stu
dents began a-riving at their one
time teacher's home. The men
folk cleared off the weeds, spaded
up the grounds, sowed grass seed
and had the new lawn all water
ed down by noon.
The women cooked food for
"lawn party" guests at the house
next door.
And all sorts of gifts arrived
from other former pupils. There
were flowers, a lawn chair, a
cancelled bill from a tree surgeon
and a guest book signed by three
generations of Miss McCormick's
former pupils.
Society Burglar Draws
18 Years In Prison
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July
21. UP) Handsome society burg
lar Gerard Dennis was sentenced
Tuesday to 18 years to life in
prison.
The 29-year-old, Canadian-born
Dennis, accused of a $600,000
chain of burglaries reaching from
New York to Hollywood, had
pleaded guilty to seven counts.
Westchester county judge El
bert T. Gallagher gave him 18
years to life on each count but
specified that the sentences run
concurrently.
Bayonet-Packed
Peace Succeeds
Mob Terrorism
GROVELAND. Fla., July 21.
UP) An uneasy, bayonet-backed
peace settled yesterday over tnis
community racked by mob terror-
Ism oi Negroes.
Last night passed comparative
ly quietly. Warning shots were
fired at two men one a white
robed Klansman and several
cars approaching the town were
halted.
The night was in marked con
trast, though, to Monday night.
when armed mobsters shot and
burned their way through Negro
areas. Then-three Negro houses
were set afire, and a heavily
armed mob of white men was
scattered by a tear gas bomb.
Capt. Stanley Gaylord said a
National Guard sentry fired two
warning shots over the head of a
white robed man near Groveland.
Gaylord said the man escaped, de
spite efforts of highway patrol
men and a reconnaisance plane to
spot him.
Several cars, with lights out,
approached the community, but
fled when challenged.
Another two shots were fired
by another guardsman. He said
he used them to emphasize a
warning to an unconvinced citi
zen that troops would tolerate no
more violence.
Violence erupted in this cen
tral Florida town Saturday after
Sheriff W. V. McCall reported a
K-year-om oride, Mrs. Willie
Padgett, had been raped bv four
Negroes, her husband beaten and
robbed.
Shortly thereafter news leaked
out that sheriff's deputies had ar
rested two of the Negroes. Satur
day night a mob of 100 men, heav
ily armed, gathered at the Jail de
manding the prisoners.
Quakers Offer Plan For
Cold War's Settlement
PHILADELPHIA. July 20 UP)
The American Friends Service
committee has urged that this
country take the lead In promot
ing world disarmament by put
ting Us stock of atomic weapons
under United Nations seal and
halt its concentration of fission
able material.
Inva "state of the world" re
port, the Quaker organization
winner of the Nobel peace prize
In 1947 also recommended a re
sumption of normal exports to
Russia and her satellites as a
step toward solution of the East
west conflict.
The report, based on a six-month
study of global conflict, waas
drafted by lb persons wno coir
ferred regularly with specialists
on Russian-American relations,
The core of the cold war, the
report stated, Is economic and
"ecconomic warfare is a two
e'dged sword."
tan Wyman Granted .
Final Divorce Papers
LOS ANGELES, July 20 UP)
Jane Wyman, academy award
winner, has her final divorce pa
pers from actor Ronald Reagan.
Miss Wyman, 33, obtained the
decree Monday. When granted an
Interlocutory decree last year,
she testified that Reagan, 37, was
too absorbed in politics as presi
dent of the Screen Actors guild.
A settlement gave her custody
of their two children, $500 month
ly for their support and an equal
division of $75,000 worth of com
munity property.
Atomic Energy Project
Official Discharged
SANTA FE. N. M.. July 20 UP)
The Los Alamos atomic energy
project disclosed Tuesday that H.
Tracy Snelllng, missing director
of public relations, has been sus
pended.
Rodney Southwick. who was
sent from AEC Washington head
quarters to take over Snelling3
post on a temporary basis, said
the suspension was effective as of
Monday morning.
Southwick said there is noth
ing new in the search for Snelllng
who left the atomic project north
west of here Wednesday.
He has been traced as far as
El Paso, Tex. His, disappearance
touched off a widespread search
covering the entire southwest.
He was to have led a group of
newsmen to the central New
Mexico desert Saturday, to in
spect the site of the first atom
bomb explosion.
Heppner Fire Diverts
Wheat To Lexington
HEPPNER. July 21. UP)
Wheat ranchers will truck their
grain to Lexington from where it
will be shipped to Portland under
emergency arrangements report
ed today following Monday
mgnis disastrous grain elevator
fire here.
Directors of the Morrow Coun
ty Grain Growers co-operative
nave begun to discuss rebuilding
plans. Their destroyed structure
was the largest elevator in Mor
row county.
At Portland, Balfour Guthrie
Co., owner of an elevator and
warehouse, reported that rebuild
ing plans had not yet been made.
An official of the company is to
inspect the ruins tomorrow.
Federal Budget Deficit
Starts Fresh Increase
WASHINGTON, July 21.-UP)
The government's budget deficit
rose above the billion dollar mark
in just 15 days after this fiscal
year started July 1, Treasury
data showed yesterday.
By July 15, the government had
overspent its income exactly $1.-
019,848,248.70. It took In $956,127,
729.90 in the 15 days, and spent
&1,97S,975,978.6U.
This was a better standing than
the $1,214,178,371.58 deficit at the
same point In the previous fiscal
year, mat perioa enaea last June
30 in a deficit of $1,811,000,000.
Most observers are now gues
sing on a deficit ot $2,000,000,
000 to $5,000,000,000 for the cur
rent fiscal year as a whole.
Peewee Baseball
Support Urged
By Mayor Flegel
A dollar Invested now may
save $100 later In combatting
juvenile delinquency, said Mayor
Albert G. Flegel speaking before
the Roseburg Kiwanis club on
the subject of peewee baseball
Tuesday noon.
"I can think of no better way
to teach Americanism and com
bat the other Isms than to pro
mote the opportunity to learn
sportsmanship by such a pro
gram as this, he said.
Mayor Flegel discussed briefly
the athletic program being car
ried out on Finlay field under
the direction of Barney Koch.
Last year, he said, 75 boys were
registered to take part in base
ball and other activities. This
year there are 125, and next year
he predicts 175 will be out.
The program, he explained, it
backed by the city, which pro
vided a budget of $500, by the
American Legion which has put
up $450, and by personal contri
butions which he said he "beat"
out of several public spirited in
dividuals of Roseburg.
Last year the boys were guar
anteed .the bats and balls they
needed. This year they have all
been provided caps, and the boys
who nave stayed with the pro
gram have been provided with
suits. The program is an expand
ing one and next yean may re
quire a budget of $2,000.
He urged that members of the
club "skip coffee" some morn
ing and go out and "watch those
little kids play. It will do you a
lot of good," he said.
Pacific Union Heats
Politics In Philippines
MANILA, July 21. UP)-The
anti communist Pacific union
gave signs today of becoming a
major issue in the Philippines'
presidential campaign.
President Quirino, who co-authored
the plan with China's Gener
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, won't
have an easy time getting the
pact through the Philippines sen
ate. It will require a two-thirds
vote.
Presidential candidate J o s
Avelino blasted the union as "im
practicable and futile" without
active U. S. aid. The United States
has cold-shouldered the alliance.
Quirino's second major campaign
foe Jose P. Laurel, also thinks
the Philippines could not be an
effective force in the movement
at this time.
There Is some talk here that
Quirino's alignment with Chiang
Kai-Shek was - a blunder. The
Philippines are now in the final
four months of a tight presiden
tial race.
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