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Comp, M U. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon Mass Slavery Charge Hurled At Russians Briton, At U. N. Council Mttt, Draws Hot Rttort From Soviet Delegate By LYNN HEINZERL1NG GENEVA. Switzerland, Aug. 3. (PI Britain formally accused Russia today of maintaining 10, 000,000 slave laborers In "a new slavery organized on a mass pro duction basis." Russia retorted In the United Nation economic and social coun cil here that the British charge simply was a smokescreen to rover up Britain'! own labor troubles. The United States proposed ap pointment of a U. N. commission of 11 to inquire into "the nature and extent of forced labor" throughout the world. The U. S. resolution suggested emphasis in such an inquiry be placed on "situations involving large num bers of persons or widespread practices of forced labor." The British charges were made by Corley Smith, British dele gate, who presented what he de scribed aa a copy of a "corrective labor code of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist republic" on rules for labor camps in the Soviet union. The R. S. F. S. R. is Russia's largest republic, with Moscow as Its capital. Russia retorted that the codes presented by Britain actually represented a humane system with "re-education of the people" as one of its aims. The Soviet delegate said the code's object was to place persons sentenced to penal servitude "in condition? which make it impossible for them to do anything hostile to Soviet society." Smith had demanded that the Russian delegate give a straight answer, yes or no, whether the Soviet union would permit an In vestigation. Russian Fires Back Soviet Delegate Arutinnian aid the corrective labor codex quoted by Smith was published in Eng land In an English translation in 1936 and declared: "In trying to make us believe It has unearthed a sensation the L'niteo. Kingdom does nothing but follow the usual campaign based on cheap blackmail and trickery and a crude beguiling of public opinion. "Why do we have this cam paign stirred up against us? Be cause it is the practice of the dominating classes of British im- fierialism, whenever they feel n straightened circumstances, to raise an inimical campaign (Continued on Page Two In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS UP In Seattle the other day a man died leaving an estate estimated at $50,000. For 20 years he had lived the life of a pauper. His home was a dilapidated shack. His only food was stale bread and potatoes. He collected driftwood from along the shores of the ship canal near his shack and sold It to his neighbors. His Investment BROKER (a broker is a merchant who will buy stocks, bonds, etc., for you on commission if you authorize him to) says of him: "He APPAR ENTLY WAS JUST SAVING UP FOR SECURITY." H HE WAS WILLING TO. WORK FOR IT HIMSELF. Also ! he was willing to SAVE UP for It. He HAD security. He knew that he alw ays had money enough to pay the rent on his shack and to buy the stale bread and pota- (Continued on Page Four) JAPAN RID OF MONOPOLIES MacArthur Finishes Task Of Dissolving Holdings Of Huge Industrial Concerns TOKYO, Aug. 3. P General MacArthur's controversial pro gram for breaking up Japan's economic giants ended today. The allied occupation commander said it was "accomplished effectively." Eleven big corporations were tagged for deconcentratlon by a five-man review board which came here from Washington 15 months ago to make recommendations on 325 firms listed as "excessive concentrations." The board recommended divestment of certain holdngs of nine others. I The .125 companies were se - 'tpd "rdE,1'?n ut .f about 1,200 which had been af- filiated with the nbatsu hold- ing companies. Through this powerful s e t u p. headquarters said, a small number of fami- lies exercised all-pervasive con-1 trol over the industry .commerce and finance of Japan. From its beginning, the deeon- centration program was a mat- ter of hot international and mestic riehale In the i n,l States as well srs Japan some called it "socialization " Others criticized It as "fragmentation of Industry. No Adverse Effect A press statement tailed try flav by McArthur s headquarters . no excessive concentration of said: economic power. I know of no "The elimination of monooolis-1 Job where a monopoly has been tic economic power which domi dealt with sr. successfully without rated prewar Japanese life has 1 adverse effect on finance or in been accomplished effectively 1 dustrv." Western Europe Defense Tlit Weather Fair ens) warmer today ana" Thursday. Sunset today 7:33 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:07 a. m. Established 1873 Tito Forecasts Alliance To Dislodge Russian Clutch Yugoslavs Not To Be Cowed, Leader Vows Bulgaria, Albania Will Join In Resistance To Kremlin, People Told BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. Aug. 3. t.P) Premier Marshal Tito forecast yesterday that Bulgaria and Albania would quit the Moscow-led Cominform and offered them a helping hand in shaking off Russian domination. Tito has been tilting with the Cominform (Communist Interna tional Information bureau) since June of last year, when Yugo slavia's communists were ex pelled for nationalism and other deviations from the Moscow brand of Marxism-Leninism. Both Bulgaria and Albania have had recent purges among high communist leaders ho were charged with heresies similar to the accusations levelled against Tito. The Yugoslav leader spoke yes terday at Skoplje before an audi ence estimated at 350.000 by Yugoslav officials. It was the first time In recent months he ap peared in Macedonia, which has been subjected to propaganda from anti-Tito factions urging an independent state made up of Yugoslav, Bulgaria and Greek Macedonia. Bulgaria Expected To Join Tito declared the Bulgarian people ultimately would ignore "slanders against Yugoslavia and extend their fraternal hand to us and we will help them remove whatever individuals have so far put obstacles In the path of the creation and preservation of (Continued on Page Two) Budget Meeting For Chest Dated Budget meeting for participat ing agencies of the Roseburg Community Chest has been set for Aug. 19 in the chamoer of commerce rooms. It was an nounced today by Arthur W. Lamka, secretary. Agencies which plan to ask the chest for financial support this year should submit copies of their proposed budgets to Lamka in advance 'of the meeting, he said. Any new agencies which plan to come into the chest this year are requested to contact Lamka at Leo Young's accounting office in the Pacific building, phone 873. Participating agencies In the chest last year Included the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Young Men's Christian Association. Sal vation Army and the Oregon Chest. " As GrOCCr Counts It PORTLAND, Aug. 3. (.P A young bandit walked Into a gro cery store today just as proprie tor Henry A. Hays was counting up his cash for banking. "I'll take that," said the bandit, flourishing an automatic pistol. He grabbed the money and drove off down the street. 1 without adverse effect upon, and no 'mentation' of. finance or industry on the contrary, competent observers point to the 50 per cent increase In production along with considerable progress toward stabilization during the past year , evidence of the growing health i of the Japanese economy." . . . . om'.eb!,fn"', ln Japan h,v do-l'! m , "uicin navr wutiito u wiiure. Board chairman Joseph Robin son held a news conference after MacArthur announced the hoard's task was completed and its final report submitted. Robinson de clared: "I feel there is in Japan todav MONKEY IS GEM Washes Dishes, Clucks At Girls When They Pass NEW YORK. Aug. 3W Vis itors have been flocking to the John Taral home In Queens to see a monkey that washes dishes and has a way with the women. Mrs. Taral says the monkey also is a good alarm clock. Mr. Taral says the monkey likes ci gars and screwdrivers, though he doesn't know why. "You could put a million dol lars on the table for my mon key." Mrs. Taral said yesterday, "and I wouldn't take It." She said she has owned the monkey, whose name is Mickey, for nine years, since he was three. "Every time when young pret ty girls come by, he knocks on the window," Mrs. Taral said. "When older women come by, he doesn't give them a second look." In the morning when she sleeps too late, she said, the monkey wakens her by knocking on his cage. Mrs. Taral brought the monkey and placed him beside a sink fil led with dishes and soapy water. The monkey ate some soap suds and then went to work washing dishes. "If you let him, he'll slay there and wash dishes for two hours," said Mrs. Taral. She placed the monkey In the window. Several older women passed. The monkey turned his head. Three pretty, girls came along, and the monkey stared and made clucking noises. Two Killed, Three Hurt In Auto-Truck Collision PORTLAND, Aug. 3 -Z.'P)- A men car carrying live young skidded Into ' truck and then smashed Into a hank today, kill ing two young men and Injuring three others. The dead: Robert L. Sanders, about 21, who carried an army registra tion card with the address 875 12 Via Wanda. Long Beach. Calif., and a fishing license issued in Spokane. Robert L. Pierce. 20, Portland. Injured were Jack Houx, 15, Oregon City; Edmond Stern. 17. Oregon City: and Jack L. Grun den, 22, Portland. Grunden. be lieved driver of the car, was crit ically hurt. The accident occurred east of here, near the town of Troutdale. The truck driver escaped Injury. Grunden, an ex-soldier, was the center of an American-Soviet in cident In March, 1948, when he was shot and wounded by a Rus sian sentry in Vienna. He had been living recently in Roseburg, Ore. Boy Saved After Gulping 23 Sleeping Pills OMAHA, Aug. 3. UP A seven-year-old boy, unconscious and near death some 36 hours after swallowing 334 grains of seda tive, awakened today. Jubilant nurses reported he cried out in his first real sign of consciousness when a hypo dermic needle was being Insert ed in his arm. Bit by bit con sciousness returned. Soon he was complaining of being hungry. The boy, Trevls Wissenburg, had been near death in a drug ged sieep since Monday when he gulped down 23 sleeping pills. The pills had previously been used by Trevls's father who was killed in a truck accident five weeks ago. Rain Forecast Spells Relief For Forests Overhead cloudiness and a pre diction of rain over the mountains spelled relief today for Douglas county's forest lookouts. This favorable weather, lessening the danger of forest fires, will con tinue through Thursday. C. K. Rand, administrative of ficer of the Umpqua National for est, reported a small, lightning-set fire Monday in the Diamond Lake district. There were five known light ning strikes on Kelsay mountain, he said, but only one fire occur ring. It was a spot fire put out immediately by a suppression crew. Wanton Destruction, Larceny Charges Faced H. H. Harper of Roseburg was committed to the county jail Monday following his appearance in Justice court to face charges of malicious and wanton destruc tion of property and larcenv, ac cording to Justice of the Peace A. J. Geddes. Bail was set at $100 on the lar ceny charge and S-tOO on the see ond charge. Harper was arrested by sheriffs deputies. i ROSEtURG, OREGON Byrd-Backed Ticket Yins In Virginia Battle Nominated For Governor In Triumph Of Demo Organization RICHMOND. Vs.. Aug. 3-.P) Conservative John Stewart Bat tle, a state senator with 20 years of legislative experience, captur ed yesterday's lour-way Demo cratic primary election for gov ernor and proved again the po tency of the Virginia political or ganization headed by Senator Harry Byrd. The 59-year-old Charlottesville lawyer won the party nomination that means election in November with 23.000 votes to spare on the basis of near-complete returns from the state's 1768 precincts. He swept the field capturing seven of the state's nine congres sional districts. And in so doing h beat back his nearest com' petitor. Francis Pickens Miller, the anti organization candidate and former army colonel, who posed the first serious threat to the organization's supremacy In the last 25 years. Miller, second ln the record pri mary that ran around 300.000 votes, captured the two remain ing districts. Horace H. Edwards, former Richmond mayor and ex chairman of the state Democrat ic party, ran far behind in third place. Remmie L. Arnold, Pe tersburg manufacturer, was last far down the line. Organization backed candi dates also swept to victory in the two other offices cn the short ballot. Attorney General J. Lind say Almond Jr. ran away a bet ter than, two-to-ao- from- Mm riunkett. Roanoke lawyer. Lieu tenant Governor L. Preston Col Una had similar success against (Continued on Page Two) Condemned Man Happy At Quiet In Death Row CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-04?) James Morelli, who is scheduled to die In the electric chair Aug. 12, is occupying a cell in death row at the Cook county jail at his own request so his final nights of sleep will not he dis turbed. The 22-year-old "mad dog" killer was removed to one of the four cells adjoining the death chamber after he had complained of too much noise by other prisoners. "The guys In the cells around me snore like rusty buzz saws with the teeth missing." Morelli told Warden Chester Fordney. "How about giving me some quiet for the time I've got left?" Fordney suggested the death cell, where doomed men custom arily are held for only about eight hours before their death. "Fine, fine," Morelli said. "I'm not the scary kind, and I'll bet It'll be quiet down there ln the basement." Fordney agreed It is quiet as Morelli is the only prisoner wait ing to be executed. Taken to his death cell within 10 steps of the electric chair Morelli said: "This is great. Nice and clean, a soft mattress, fresh sheets, a feather bed and everything. Morelli was sentenced to death for the slaying of Emil Schmei chel, 30. one of three men killed in a bloodv gangland ride on Dec. 12, 1947. Forest Fire Fighters To Demonstrate Speed How fast the fire crews of the Umpqua National forest can go Into action will be demonstrated for two forest service Inspectors who are visiting all districts of the forest this week. They are Fred Miller, of the Washington, D. C, office, and Ray Lindberg. Portland, regional training officer. They are being accompanied by M. M. Nelson, supervisor, and Ray B. Hampton lire control omcer. Main purpose O. the Inspection trip will be to see how well fire suppression crews know their duties and how quickly they can get to the scene of a fire. Body Of Missing Newsie Found In Willamette PORTLAND. Aug. 3. (, - The bodv of 12-year-old Sammy Fong. missing since last Thurs day when he went to pick up hi newspapers for street sale, was recovered last night from the Willamette river. The coroner's office reported an autopsy would he made to de termine cause of death. ,4 WEDNESDAY, AUG 3, 1949 ' n U x'u J -Jn $ 0 Cr U K . Ul in-SI I .. II III' I NEW MINISTER HONORED church in Roseburg,, and Mrs. They aro bainq greeted htro sarvativo Baptist atiociation, 8. I Picture by Rod Newland.) District Freed Of Sound Truck Din No longer will the raucous noise of sound trucks be heard in the downtown district during business hours .. j , Councilman Frank Ashley, chairman of the police commit tee, reported to the city council Monday that the operator or the sound truck had been contacted regarding a recent petition against use of the truck during business hours in the business area. The operator, not named In the report, has assured the commit tee he will not travel the strees of the downtown district between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m., said Ashley. lne restriction applies to tne following streets: MHin. Jackson. Rose and Stephens, from Lane to Douglas; Cass, Oak and Washing ton, from Main to Stephens. Motorist Hurt, Deer Killed In Collision YAKIMA. Aug. 3-4JP -An au tomobile struck a deer and plung ed from the Naches highway 25 miles northwest of here yester- dav. ' The driver. Richard M. Dun- din of Astoria. Ore., received a broken back. Mrs. Dundin was Injured slightlv. hut their two children were unharmed. The deer was killed. Tacoma Brothers Die When Boat Capsiies SEATTLE, Aug. 3 -HP) A small outboard - powered boat capsized !n Clallam bay yester day, pitching two Tacoma broth ers to their death. The victims. Bernard and Ray Maljala. were fishing. EAST-WEST STALEMATE Three Factions Of GOP Still Divided On Choice Of New Party Chairman By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (Jp) A three-way split In the Republi can national committee cast doubt today on lis choice for a new chairman. The election Is set for tomorrow. Backers of Guy George Gabrlelson, New Jersey member, were claiming a majority of the 103 votes that might be cast. (There are two vacancies on the 105-member group.) Critics of the old guard contln-, gent supporting Gabrielson dis puted this claim. Thev added that nv chairman wno cholM.n by W,r ,, 80 votes win race tne same kind or eomminee dissension mat eveni "ally forced ou chairman Hugh Scott after he won a confidence test last January by a M to-!jO marffin. Scott has said he will turn In his resignation tomorrow, As a compromise candidate. some western oeiegaies were booming A. T. Bert Howard. Nebraska state chairman. whoi,rn committee members hadn't has the support of Senators Wher ry and Butler and oiher Nebras ka Republicans In Congress. Howard also had the harking of some members who have been critical of Scott's administration. Will Be Organised Dr. E. B. Luthtr, now mirmtor of Luthar, left, wore honored at a recaption last night at the armory, by th Rev. Ksnnath A. Tobias, cantor, field director of the Con. and Warran Cloak of th local Gl Wants Wife In Hurry, Ad Lands One, Also Jams Telephone System ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Aug. 3.-UP) Charles Donaldson said today he has found the "hurry-up wife" for whom he had advertised. But the JJVyearold former soldier. .dnrlinart tofveat her name. He said she is 18 and that they met last night in a drug store lor the first time. Althoueh he declined to dis-' d:u.. en close the elrl's name "because her parents might object," there were indications her first name is "Irene.".- Severat times while talking with a reporter today the tele phone rang. He told a friend: "I don't want tu talk to anyone except Irene." A flood of telephone calls had overloaded the dial system ever since Donaldson advertised that he wanted a girl under 21 to get married by next Saturday. The response overwhelmed him and also the telephone com pany. A flood of phone calls caitsed an overload on the dial system, permitting hundreds of persons to listen in as Charles chatted with prospective brides last night. Charles says his search lor a bride Is no gag. "I want to marrv someone," he told a reporler. "But all my old girl friends are married. I figure you could get a good washing (Continued on Page Two! Grants Pass Trucker Found Dead In Vehicle EUREKA, Calif., Aug. 3. (.Pt .lames Arron O'Connors of Grants Pass, Ore., was found dead In a parked truck here yes terday. A physician reported the trucker apparently had died of a heart attack. His Identification cards gave 23 East B street, Grants Pass, as his residence. Harlan Pevton. Washington na tional committeeman, was back- i c- n t..u , ''J,' V o .'.(Me V VVrt, foul Cain's campaign seemed - ! Grounded j The Nebraska state chairman i w an MI V iUpport,r f r;ov. ; Thomas E. Dewey of New York l : - th. lua Hn.fl.u- k..t f j depleted him now as unpledged to nv p,ble 1952 Presidential i candidate. However, the majority of west- leadership positions that are settled on any candidate. Their chief concern seemed to he to prvent Gabrielson, an eastern- (Continued onPag Two) U1-49 the First Cont.rv.livo Baptist congregation. Sao story on page ""-"'" -r" At The Dalles Planned PORTLAND, Aug. 3-AJPh-The Oregon Highway commission has authorized Wasco county to pro ceed with construction plans for a toll bridge across the Columbia river at The Dalles. The project will cost an esti mated S2.600.000. Of the total, the county expects to pay operators of the existing river ferry $300,000 to eliminate competition. The span has long been advo cated as a means of speeding motor traffic between the Wash ington Inland Emnire nolnts and Oregon. It will also link the Ore gon and Washington sections or U.S. Highway 97- the north and south trunk highway east of the Cascades. W. E. Ott Sells Business To Son And C. A. Ricketts Ellsworth (Sonny) Ott and Charles A. Ricketts, music super visor and director of the Rose burg school hand, today an nounced the purchase of Ott's Music store from the former's father. W. E. Ott, who is retiring from active business. The store Is located at Cass and Jackson streets. Ricketts will continue his work In the citv's schools and will de vote his time to the store after school hours, on holidays and dur ing vacation season. Ott has previously been asso ciated with his father In the bus iness. Corvallis Jail Break Leads To 5-Year Terms ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Aug. 3.- t.V Two men Involved In the Benton county Jail break at Cor vallis, Ore., last June were under live-year sentences today. Robert H. Brown lalias Marsh all Huff), who was "sprung" from the Jail, and William Wood man (alias Billy Haynes), who helped do the "springing," were sentenced In federal court here. They both pleaded guilty to vio lation of the federal auto theft art. saying they stole a car at Murray. Utah, after the jail break and drove it into the moun tains near here. - : Control Of Irailer Space Still Awaited PORTLAND, Aug 3 --(.ft Port land area rent director E. Daryl Manee said Tuesday that con trols have been off motor 'ourts : 'n Oregon for some time. j ln" comment was made on an announcement by Sen. fain that rent control on motor courts and trailer parka In Washington and Oregon will be removed by the end of the week. Mabee slid, however, he has received no announcement from the nation's capital on decontrol of frailer space. Might Be Set Up This Year Denfield Says U. S. Military Loader, On Oversea Tour, Moot Encouraging Response LONDON. Aug. 3. (.Pl-A de fense organization under the Atlantic treaty "might be set up lufnM V. . J tk. ...... - Adm. Louis E. Denfield said to day. That brief statement from the naval member of the American joint chiefs of staff was the first direct Indication of their progress In meetings with the military leaders of the pact natlona. Denfield spoke after he, army Chief of Staff Gen. Amar N. Bradley and air force Chief of Staff Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg met lor more than tnree hours with the British chiefs of staff. Askef how soon a defense mechanism for the Atlantic oact could be established, Denfield re plied. "I should think it will not be too long. It might be before the end of the year." Responsible officials said the If. S. joint chiefs of staff want Britain and other pact partners to promise money, large seal military unity ln common de fense program. Admiral Denfield told newsmen the British and Americans wer considering how the 12 nation At lantic alliance would absorb the military staff already set up by the five-nation western European union. Britain, France, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg last year established a joint military committee headed by Field Mar shal Viscount Montgomery. Denfield today told reporters: "We made good progress In a (Continued on Pag Two) Earl Latourette Receives Nod For U. S. Judgeship PORTLAND, Aug. 3.4n The chairman of the democratic state central committee today recom mended Circuit Judge Earl C. latourette, Oregon City, for h third federal judgeship In Ore- gun. William u Jossitn sent Tne recommendation to President Truman and other governmental officials In Washington, o. u His recorftpvendAtion wa- at. variance wlrat of democratic national cortnnitteeman Monroe Sweetland and national commiu tee woman Mrs. Nancy H. Robin son, both of whom recommend ed Gus J. Solomon, Portland at torney. Solomon also won straw poll of democratic offi cials. - Josslln said, however, that h did not consider the poll conclu sive, since no one obtained a full majority. "A careful check of Democrats ln all parts or tne state." Josslln added, "has con vinced me that the appointment of Judge Latourette would be hiehlv pleasing to the great mast of Oregon Democrats." Josslln suecested. as a second choice In case 60-year-old Latou- rette, should be barred by nis age, Hugh L. Biggs, 45, Port land attorney. Latourette ran first In the Oregon state bar's poll. Robert F. Magulre. Portland, was sec ond, and Biggs, third. Crop-Dusting Piano Strikes Copco't Lino GRANTS PASS. Aug. 3. -P) A low-flying plane engaged in crop, dusting this morning snagged a California Oregon Power company line near Murphy, halting power service throughout the entire Grants Pass and Illinois valley areas and Including Crescent City, Calif. . W. J. Moyer, local Copco man ager, quoted Harold Farrel at the controls of the Western Air serv Ice plane from Meuloru. as say ing his dusting operations ob scured his vision and the plane's undercarriage hit the highest cen ter power line. I.ocal service was out only a few . minutes and Crescent and Crescent City service was re stored in a little over an hour. Unemployment, Jobs Both Increase In July WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 '. Unemployment rose above 4.000. 000 in July for the first time since January, 1942, the Census bureau reported today. But the number of employed also increased, registering In July the highest figure 59.720, 000 -for 1949. Explanation for the simultane ous increase In employment and unemployment was an Increase of 417,000 In the civilian labor force the number having Jobs or seeking them. Only one of each four of the new Job seekers managed to find a Job. Livity Ft 9y L T Rlww4t 4fA Londoners heve far eieeeded th arno't capacity le their demand (or Saveld-Waodceck fight tickets, ranqlne In price up re $42. Just another antpi ef Irttain's "eettere" IWinq.