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KEN UNDER and I were taking a picture of a big Richfield
truck on the circus grounds adjacent to the Garden Valley road
in Riverside when his five-year-old daughter, Christine, spied her
dad from her home not far away and came racing down to see
what manner of fun we were having. So we stood her on the
bumper of the truck and I "shot" her then and there, alongside
of her father, That's the kind of bumper crop I like to see.
Ken is agent for the Richfield company, having charge of all
its operations here, coming to Roseburg in that capacity in 1945.
He and Mrs. Under have two other children, Robert, nine, and
Susan, three.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
RACE troubles have been filling
the news lately. It started with
riots that ensued when swimming
pools in the Middlt West were
opened to both whlWand colored
people. . Then came the disturb
ances at Groveland, Florida,
where National Guard troops, lin
gering the triggers of rifles and
50-callber machine guns, have ta
ken over. ,
More or less contemporaneous
have been the prowlings of the
hooded night riders in Alabama,
with their Dark-Ages floggings
and intimidations. As in Florida,
the better sense of the community
is beginning to assert itself and
in Birmingham a grand jury has
been ordered into special session
to search into this nasty business
of cowardly men who ride at night
to flog and frighten and some
times kill.
RACE troubles are generally sup
posed to be a cross which
America must bear alone in retri
bution for its deadly sin of Im
porting human slavery into tht
New'World.
That doesn't seem to be wholly
true. Note, for example, this dis
patch from London the other day:
"Fists, iron bars, chairs, bottles,
crockery and even live coals flew
in London's East End last night
in what- long-time residents de
scribed as the city's worst race
riot In many years. . . . Two Ne
groes suffered severe injuries and
three 'bobbies' (London police-
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POPE NOT TO BROADCAST
VATICAN CITY, July 23. UP)
The scheduled address of Pope
Pius XII at an audience tomor
row for members of the Congress
of Women's Catholic action will
not be broadcast as originally
announced. No reason for 'he
change of plans was given. How
ever, Vatican sources said the
text of the speech would be mads
public Immediately after his holi
ness speaks (9:30 a. m. PDT).
Sen. Toft In Opposition
To Earmarking ECA Funds
To Buy American Surplus
WASHINGTON, July 23. UP) Senator Taft (R.-Ohlo) came
out today against a proposal to earmark about $1,500,000,000 In Euro
pean recovery funds to buy American farm surpluses.
Taft, who heads the Senate Republican policy committee, told
a reporter he is opposed to the committee-approved amendment to
the $3,778,000,000 economic cooperation administration money bill.
The amendment, sponsored by
Senator McClellan (D-Ark) also
would require the army to buy
about $500,000,000 in surplus farm
products, freezing these and the
ECA funds against being used
for any other purposes.
ECA Administrator Paul Hoff
man has contended the rigid sur
plus buying requirement on his
agency would hamstring opera
tions and force foreign countries
to take cotton and other com
Crippled Ship
Limping Into
Canadian Port
SEATTLE, July 23 UP) The
5,000-ton Norwegian motor vessel
Skaubo apparently won its battle
with shifting cargo today and be
gan limping-intopott with a 20
degree list from 445' miles out in
the Pacific.
Inbound from Manila heavily
laden with copper and chrome
concentrates, copra and mahog
any logs, the Skaubo flashed an
SOS at 3:42 a.m. (PDT) that its
engines had slopped and it was
listing heavily.
Four hours later the coast
guard picked up another mes
sage from the freighter that man
ning of all pumps had partially
corrected the list, which at one
time was more than 25 degrees.
The Skaubo's engines also were
started and it was able to pro
ceed slowly to New Westminster,
B. C, from its position due west
of the strait of Juan De Fuca.
The U.S. army transport
James O'Hara, inbound, from
Yokohama, veered off course in
answer to the SOS and headed to
the assistance of the Skaubo, 38
miles away. The O'Hara's aid
was not needed, however.
Tank Explosion
Arouses Town
Reedsport residents, especially
those near the water-front, were
shocked Thursday forenoon to
hear a loud explosion. Many
claimed they could feel the ef
fects of it. The fire siren sound
ed immediately afterwards, and
the two trucks roared to the
city's oil-storage tank near the
port dock.
Investigation that followed re
vealed that road oil, stored in an
old locomotive oil-tank, had got
ten lower than was realized and
the crew using the oil had the
heater working to warm it for
handling. It is believed that
steam formed within until the
pressure blew the dome off the
tank.
No one was hurt, and no dam
age was done, except to car fend
ers, etc. Some people in the busi
ness section thought one of the
large gasoline storage tanks at
a bulk plant had exploded, and
others thought the explosion was
at the Bridge mill. Actually, the
accident was about half way be
ween these latter two places.
modities they may not want.
Taft said he thought the
amendment is "unwise."
"I don't think we ought to be
enacting a farm relief program
In this bill," Taft said.
The Ohio senator added, how
ever, that he is likely to support
in next week's Senate debate on
the measure's two other amend-
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Churchill Hurls Charges
Hit Wtather
' Ovtreast and ceeltr today
and Sunday.
Sunset today 7:45 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow 4:54 a. m.
Established 1873
Striking CIO
Longshoremen
Make Appeal
President Truman Is
Asked To Intervene;
Morse Assails Shippers
HONOLULU, July 23. UP)
Striking CIO longshoremen ap
pealed to President Truman to
day to end Hawaii's 84-day dock
tieup "on its merits."
Their appeal echoed a Wash
ington request by Senator Morse
(R-Ore), who told the Senate
yesterday the strike may spread
to the world's major ports. He
assailed Hawaii employers for
rejecting arbitration.
Morse added Harry Eridges'
testimony before the Senate la
bor committee satisfied me he
was following the line of the
fellow traveler." But he contin
ued, "the way to handle left
wingers is to give them an op
portunity to prove their case.
The International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's un
ion, which Bridges heads, asked
Mr. Truman to name a board
of inquiry with authority to set
tle the paralyzing deadlock. Sim
ilar requests for a presidential
board of arbitration were made
bv the union and Morse June
27.
May Spread Strike
Morse said he expects the Ha
waiian legislature will pass strike
ending measures that will threat
en to spread the tieup "to all
ports of America" and possibly
the "ports ot tne world.
This could happen, the former
West Coast Maritime arbitrator
said, if the legislature's action
causes longshoremen and water
front workers on the Pacltlc
coast to refuse to handle ship
ments from Hawaii.
The union's radioed appeal to
Mr. Truman yesterday said its
"considered judgment" is that
the territorial legislature cannot
end the strike "because of its
composition."
... The - RepubUcan-contrnllaJ-.sJ
semmy meets in special session
Tuesday to consider a program
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Logging Trucks
Involved In Two
Highway Crashes
Two highway accidents, both
involving logging trucks, occur
red Thursday, sending one person
to the hospital and causing con
siderable damage co the vehicles
involved, State Police Sgt. Har
rell said today.
A broken trailer reech caused
a logging truck driven by Harry
Brown, Dillard, to throw Its load
to the highway and into another
truck parked near the Garden
Valley junction at about 3:50
p.m.
Brown said the spring cap gave
away and the trailer reech snap
ped, throwing the load on top of
another logging truck parked In
front of the Barcus sales and
service area north of Roseburg.
Traffic was slowed for nearly
two hours through the busy in
tersection as state police officers
rerouted cars.
The driver of the crushed
truck, C. E. Legg of Roseburg,
was not in his parked vehicle
when the accident occurred.
A jammed steering apparatus
was believed to be the cause of
the second accident which sent a
truck and a passenger car into
the ditch near Oakland, Sgt. Har
rell said.
Harry Abraham Winston, Cam
as Valley, was treated for cuts
and bruises at Mercy hospital
and later released, following an
accident Involving his passenger
car and a truck driven by Her
man Fred Smith, Eugene.
Bicycle Thefts Cleared
By Boys Gang's Breakup
Four Roseburg youngsters,
aged 14 and 15 years, were re
leased to their parents by state
police Thursday following a
breakup of a bicycle theft ring,
State Police Sgt Harrell report
ed today.
When discovered, the boys
were altering and changing parts
on seven bicycles at the home of
one of the youthful gang mem
bers. Sgt. Harrell said all of the
bikes had been taken during the
past month when owners had left
them parked in front of theaters.
One of the bicycles recovered
was owned by Bob Harrell, the
state police officer's son.
Small Fires On Umpqua
Forest Quickly Subdued ,
Two one-acre fires were report
ed Friday morning in the Umpqua
national forest by Forest Super
visor M. M. Nelson.
Nelson said the man-caused
fires on Elk creek and Steelhead
creek were limited to an area of
one acre by prompt fire crew
action.
Forest service personnel were
aided on the Steelhead creek
blaze by a California-Oregon
Power company transmission line
crew, Nelson said.
ROSEBURG,
Convict Killer
Is Last Traced
To Portland Area
TACOMA, Wash., July 23.
UP) The search for an ex-convict
charged with the murder of
an elderly Tacoma couple
branched out today from Port
land, Ore., where 32-year-old John
L. Summers was last seen Thurs
day night.
Summers is accused of the rifle
slaying of Howard Easley, 62, re
tired millworker, and his 67year
old wife in their suburban home
a week ago. Their bodies were
found by berry pickers two days
ago in the Cascade mountain foot
hills. The Washington State prison
parolee was traced to Portland
late yesterday when police recov
ered the Easleys' 12-year-old light
coupe.
Driving the ear was Richard
Aust Jr., 24, of Portland, who said
he bought it Thursday night from
a man giving the name of Howard
Easley. Aust identified him as
Summers from polioe pictures.
After the transaction, Aust said,
he drove Summers to the Trail-
ways bus depot where he let him
out at an alley entrance.
The dark-haired, poised, sus
pected killer has made no particu
lar effort to cover his trail since
the Easleys were shot with their
own rule, apparently while enter
ing ineir nome late last Saturday.
Garbo In Paris
Is Little Girl
Who Isn't There'
PARIS. July 23. UP) Greta
Garbo has told the management
of the Hotel Lancaster that she
the little girl that isn't there.
An assistant manager who re
fused to give his name either
assured an Associated Press re
porter: bo far as were concerned.
she isn't even In the hotel." .
That is what the telephone
operators tell callers too. '
lhe assistant manager went
on:
"We have instructions not to
sav anvthine about her. We
dont -Know- when - she - arrived.
even approximately who Is with
ner or now long sne is staying.
Greta arrived Wednesday night
protected against photographers
and very hot mid-July weather in
a heavy woolen jacket, slacks, a
beret, dark glasses and footwear
strongly resembling bedroom
slippers. She has not been seen
about tov.-n.
The Lancaster Is a small hotel
near the Arch of Triumph.
The reticent one-time star Is
reported scheduled to discuss
with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pro
ducer waiter Wanger the mak
ing of a picture In France.
Inquiry Board Named In
S. P. R. R. Labor Dispute
WASHINGTON. Julv 23-OP)
President Truman Friday ap
pointed a three-member emer
gency board to investigate a la
bor dispute between the Southern
Pacific railroad and employes
represented by the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen.
He named Robert G. Simmons.
a member of the Supreme Court
of Nebraska; Frank M. Swaek-
er, New York attorney, and Lev
ered Edwards, a member of the
State Industrial commission of
Oklahoma.
The dispute involves the proper
make-up of train crews.
The union called a strike to
begin Friday, but a walkout was
averted when Mr. Truman inter
vened earlier this veek under the
railway labor act and announc
ed he was creating the emer
gency board.
Under the law, there can be
no walkout until 30 days after
the beard reports.
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STABLES FOR RACING HORSES Some of the itabl being built it 'he county fairground! for ccommodation of hori
t the race mtet Aug. 17-27 are shown above. In the foreground it the new liveitoclc barn for S county fiir Aug. 25, 26 and
27. Portion of the race track is seen at left, end grove of trees la the city's Umpqua park are located at right.
(Picture bv Phata Lab. I '
OREGON SATURDAY, JULY
Reports Say
Manchurians
Stage Revolt
NANKING, July 23. UP) Re
liable reports reaching this Communist-held
city say rebellious
peasants in Manchuria heart
land of Red China are commit
ting sabotage and carrying on
guerrilla warfare.
Responsible Chinese sources
report the peasants have blown
up bridges, destroyed railway
roadbeds and committed indus
trial sabotage.
Isolated patrols of Communist
soldiers are said to have been
attacked.
The scale of the peasant unrest
cannot be determined, but high
Communist officials are quoted
as terming it "serious." They
attribute it to bandits and Nation
alist agents.
The Communists have ' held
much of Manchuria since 1945
and all of it since last December.
They regard it as the key base
for their program of modernizing
all China.
First intimation of trouble with
the peasants who have largely
been the main Red supporters
came last month from the of
ficial Communist New China
News agency. It reported Com
munist troops had suppressed
scattered peasant revolts led by
Nationalist agents, landlords and
bandits in Kiangsu and Anhwei
provinces.
Fuller details of peasant unrest
in north China now have reached
here. Travelers say revolts also
have occurred in Shensi and Ho
nan provinces.
Henry Palmer, 51
Roseburg Barber,
Passes Suddenly
Henry (Hank) Day Palmer,
51, well-known barber of Rose
burg, died early this morning
after a short illness.
He was born April 12, 1898, tn
Marvsville. Mo. He -eame'to-Ore-
gon in 1934, moving a year later
to KOseDurg io mane nis nome on
the Garden Valley road. He was
a barber In the Roy Rose barber
shop on N. Jackson street.
Palmer was a member of the
Lions club, Laurel Masonic lodge
No. 13, Elks lodge No. 326, Eagles
lodge No. 1497 and of the Barbers
Union local No. 902.
Surviving are the widow, Cor
nelia, Roseburg; his father, Eg
bert Palmer, Minneapolis, Kan.;
four sisters, Mrs. A. M. Olson,
Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs. R. B.
Cooper, Roseburg; Mrs. Lee Mad
sen and Mrs. Hubert Banks, both
of Sallna, Kan.; six brothers, J.
W. Palmer, Corvallis; O. E. Palm
er, Brooklyn, N. Y.; A. L. Palmer,
Minneapolis, Kan.; C. R. Palmer,
Sallna, Kan.; D. E. Palmer, Great
Bend, Kan., and E. N. Palmer,
Oakland, Ore.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced by the Roseburg fu
neral home upon arrival of rel
atives. One Punch Fight Ends
In Death; Arrest Made
TACOMA, July 23. VP) A one
punch fight outside a Puyallup
tavern brought death last night
to Reuben E. Breed, 36, of Ken
nydale. A 230-pound truck driver, who
told sheriff's Investigators that
he swung the blow, was booked
at the Pierce county Jail on in
vestigation of assault.
Sheriff H. P. (Lee) Croft said
the husky navy veteran Calvin
L. Hammar, 25, of Puyallup re
lated: " I hit him (Breed) once
with my right. He went down."
23, 1949
CREDIT GROUP
Association's Aim Explained
At Meeting Friday Night;
Board Of Directors Named
The names of 37 businessmen and merchants, representative
of Douglas county, went on the charter membership roll of the
new Douglas County Retail Credit association Friday night lh an
organizational meeting held at the Hotel Umpqua.'
Preliminary planning by a temporary committee helped speed
the formation of the new association, and those attending the meet
ing were presented a constitution and by-laws ' approved by the
National Retail Credit association.
The local group was formed primarily to protect local credit
granters from losses inflicted by poor credit risks.
Wood Utilization
Expert To Speak
At Chamber Meet
George M. Hunt, director of
the U.S. Forest Production lab
oratory of Madison, Wise, will
be the featured speaker at the
weekly Roseburg chamber of
commerce meeting July 27.
Hunt, a nationally recognized
expert on the utilization of wood
wastes, will speak at a noon
luncheon at the Umpqua hotel on
new wood waste utilization proc
ess practical to Douglas county.
Chamber Secretary Harold
Hickerson said Roseburg will be
one of the very few smaller cities
in which Hunt will speak. George
Luoma, chamber of commerce
forum committee chairman, is
sued a personal Invitation to Hunt
recently while visiting the labor
atory headquarters in Madison.
Tentative plans call for a local
airplane to meet Hunt at the Eu
gene airport to fly the visiting
expert over Douglas county
timber stands before arriving in
Roseburg. He would be accom
panied by Umpqua National For
est Supervisor M. M. Nelson and
Charles V. Stanton, News-Review
editor.
The meeting will not be limited
to chamber of commerce mem
bers. Anyone interested in new
fuses' for wood wastes is invited
to attend.
Crites Is Given Release
After Posting $750 Bail
Mllburn Merle Crites, 21, Cot
tage Grove, charged with assault
with a dangerous weapon, In con
nection with an alleged knifing
at Hayhurst dance hall east ot
Yoncafla Saturday night, was re
leased from the county jail Fri
day upon posting of $750 ball, re
ported Justice of Peace A. J.
Geddes.
The arrest of Crites, an or
chestra guitar player, grew out
of an alleged altercation, which
sent Frank Henry, Cottage
Grove, to the hospital witn Kniie
wounds, according to a report
earlier this week by State Police
Sgt. Lyle Harrell. crites report
edly objected to Henry's atten
tions to his wife.
City Officials, Police
Named In Damage Suit
PORTLAND. July 23. UP)
Gresham city officials and police
have been named defendants in
a $260,000 damage suit filed In
behalf of an 80-year-old man held
over night In the jail there.
Yamhill county f armer u.
Powell charges that his aged
father-in-law, Andrew Holland,
was falsely "Imprisoned, beaten,
kicked and tortured" In the Jail
the night of June 30. He said the
elderly man was seized and plac
ed in the jail alter walking away
from a Wlldwooa rest nome ior
the aged.
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ORGANIZES
Cooperaion among credit
granters in supplying news of
credit applicants was the theme
stressed by all of the guest speak
ers. Walter A. Jensen, executive
secretary of the Northwest Cred
it council, told the assembly that
merchants who operate on par
tial Information "will put a dam
per on their sales." Professional
men and merchants must cooper
ate, he said, both for their own
good and for the good of all the
consumers in the community.
Gerretsen Presides
W. H. Gerretsen of Roseburg,
who acted as temporary chair
man and presiding officer of the
meeting, explained the formation
of a community credit associa
tion in terms of mutual protec
tion. "An association guarding
against ; credit incurred losses
will protect the merchants and
professional men who, for the
most part, support the communi
ty," Gerretsen said. "In this way,
the community and all its mem
bers will be protected as well."
Donald Farr, president of the
Retail Credit association of
Southwestern Oregon, said the
association with its regional and
national tie-ups would receive
training and assistance in educat
ing the public in the value of
proper credit use. The audiqnee
was reminded that half the re
tail sales in this area were sales
made on credit.
Caooeratlon NeoessarV
Cooperation m on tf" credit
granters also was stressed by J,
H. Fisher, president of the Pa
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All-County Lions
Club Picnic Set
Plans for an all-county Lions
club picnic to be held Sunday,
July 24, at the Rod and Gun
Club grounds were completed at
the weekly Roseburg Lions club
meeting Thursday night at the
Hotel umpqua.
Delegations were present from
Sutherlln and Riddle, and they
met following the session with
the local committee to make final
preparations.
The picnic will be an all-day
affair. Club members, their fam
ilies and invited guests are asked
to come as early as they wish.
Potluck will be served at noon.
A full program of sports and en
tertainment has been arranged,
reported Bill Llvermorc, Rose
burg chairman.
Matt Slankard, who, with Ross
Newcomb and Frank von Borstcl
Is also on the Roseburg commit
tee, said he and others from Rose
burg visited six other clubs In
the county during the past week,
and all signified interest In at
tending. The visitors from Sutherlln In
cluded Earl Thatcher, Bill Crow
ell, Ralph Thrift and Al Stanley.
From Riddle were Hank Town
send, Bill Markham, Don Clark,
Charles Land and Art Brown.
Pat Manning, Myrtle Point,
now a resident of Roseburg, was
introduced as a transfer from
Myrtle Point.
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Claims Nation
Is Headed For
Bankruptcy
Party Leader Lashes
Opponents In First
Election Campaign
WOLVERHAMPTON, E n g . ,
July 23. ilPl Winston Churchill
asserted today that the British la.
bor government has led Britain
into imminent peril of commun
ism and national bankruptcy.
The Conservative party leader
said an economic collapse is loom
ing which would "carry many
other nations with us into chaoa
and communism."
In a major, policy speech pre
pared for a party rally at the
Wolverhampton football stadium,
Churchill declared the socialists
have failed to put forth any ef
fective plan to meet the danger.
The wartime prime minister's
address came on the heels of the
Conservative party's 20,000-word
statement of policy entitled the
"Right road for britalns" which
was published last night. , :
Squander Reserves
"They have squandered the re
serves and resources which had
been gathered In the past," said
the 74-year old wartime prime
minister, "and have darkened and
harrowed the future of every
man, woman and child In this fa
mous island."
He said every other country
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County Welfare
Expects To Show
Budget Refund
Total expenditures of the Doug
las County Public Welfare com
mission for the month of Jun
was in the amount of $47,507.22.
Since June was the last month of
the fiscal year, part of the ex
penditures for general assistanca
was for clearance of long out
standing medical bills.
Although final audit for the fis
cal year, July 1948 to June 30,
1949, has not as yet been com
pleted, it is estimated by the ad
ministrator, Mrs. Lois Baker,
that there will be a refund of
several thousand dollars to the
Douglas county treasury.
Request for August funds was
made in the total amount of $46,
028. Aid to dependent children
grants will necessarily be lower
in August than for the month ot '
July. This reduced budget was
necessitated by the amount of
the total state aid to dependent
children budget.
During the month of July Doug
las county Public Welfare com
mission agency has been visited
bv Miss Margeurite Thomason,
field supervisor, and Miss Dor
othy Knapp, child welfare con
sultant from, tfce State Public
Welfare commission.
Charles Brown, rehabilitation
counsellor with the Oregon Blind
commission and Clifton B.
Mudd, State of Oregon property
comptroller, also visited the
agency during the month.'
Administrator Mrs. iois Bauer,
has returned from her vacation.
which was spent In Eastern Ore
gon and Washington. Mrs. ueKer .
plans to leave Saturday to take
a course in social work at the
University of Washington.
Seaplane Base
For Reedsport
Listed In Report
Seaplane base for Reedsport is
included in a $794,323 airport con
struction program for Oregon, an
nounced In Washington today by
the Civil Aeronautics authority.
The seaplane base would cost
$5,000 In federal funds to be
matched by $4,814 by local spon
sors. The federal money became
available for the fiscal year which
began July 1.
Largest expenditure Is in Port
land where federal funds will to
tal $414,381 and the local con
tribution $32b,tsa.
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IVJlllUiy Ill-Ill, U1C1II, win gel,
$25,000 in federal funds with a
local contribution of $19,543.
For the entire nation, the air
ort construction program totals
167.273.519 on 314 protects. Of
this amount $29,840,767 is. In fed
eral funds.
Carl C.Hill Elected
Game Commission Head
PORTLAND. July 23.-UP)
The new state game commission
met here today,, witn can
Hill of Days Creek as chairman.
Hill was elected chairman by
the commissioners yesterday, aft
er they were sworn into office
In Salem.
Gov. Douglas McKav. who sel
ected an entire new commission
earlier this week, asked the five
men to "do a good Job In the
protection, conservation, and pro
duction of wild life."
Referring to the importance
of the tourist trade to Oregon's
economy, the governor remark
ed tnat "tnese tourists aoni an
come here to see the scenery.
Quite a few of them like to catch
an occrmonnl fish.
Lvity Fact Rant
By L. F. Relcensteln
A black skin that covers
genuine, outspoken American
Is preferable to a whit skin
that camouflages a Communist