U. Of O. Library . Corny, ,. i Eugene, Oregon WHO DOES WHAT Ml . J - jar-'l - RAEDA REECE gnd PAULINE MILLER piuit bri.fly before taking off on a flying horseback ride at Umpqua academy, Raeda it mounted on Mitii and Pauline on Keno, two animals George Bronaugh, academy owner, it very proud of. , Raeda it entering Oregon State thit (all. Pauline it working ' at Huddletton't Shoe ttore. Both graduated from Roteburg High latt June and both were majorettes in the tchool band Pauline at drum major during her tenior year. BACK-TO-SCHOOL BOOST Free Bus Trips Offered Shoppers By Retailers On Fall Goods Bargain Day A free bus trip to downtown Roseburg will be given city shop pers Aug. 17 by the Roseburg Retail Trade association. This was the announcement made Wednesday at the regular monthly luncheon meeting of the R. T. A. at the Umpqua hotel. Accord Reached On Farm Program WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. (JP) A compromise farm program for next year won unanimous ap proval today, of a bi-partisan sen ate agriculture suocommDittee. The group struck out all re maining provisions for "produc tion payments" proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Brannan as part of his overall new farm program. Brannan suggested this elim ination last weekend after the House previously had killed off a proposed trial run limited to a few farm products. Senator Anderson (D.-N. M.), chairman of the seven-man sub committee, said the compromise bill will be considered Saturday by the full 13-member Agricul tural committee. Approval by that group appears likely because the subcommittee Is a majority of the full group. That would send the measure on to the Senate. Teamsters Awarded Pay Boost, Word Week Cut PORTLAND, Aug. 11.-MJP) A ten-cent hourly pay boost and 44-hour week takes effect Mon day for 450 AFX. teamsters work ing under a state-wide agree ment with creamery concerns. The higher pay and shorter week were recommended' by an arbitration board after negotia tions reached a stalemate. Team sters have bee.n .working a 48 hour week for the creameries. The arbitration board also di rected employes to make "sincere, preparations" for a 40-hour week at the expiration of the new agreement, which also provides for higher overtime pay. The agreement affects cream ery workers' In Portland, Eugene, S.ilm, Pendleton, The Dalles, Medford and Vancouver, Wash. HOOVER VOICES WARNING Govt. Spending Threatens Inheritance Of Posterity, Former President Says PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 11. UP) The nation today had the sober warning of its only living former president that Its spending policies. If unchecked, will rob posterity of its inheritance. Former President Herbert Hoover, in a significant address, as serted last night that the United States "is blissfully driving down the back rud to collectivism at top speed." "We have not had a great so- realization of property," he said, , humanitarian, "but we are on the last mile to Hoover headed a special corn collectivism through g ov e rn mission on government organlza mental collection and spending of tion which recently compieted a the savings of the people." i two-year study with a report me country a president from , 1929 to KM spoke before an esti mated 10.000 persons on the Stan- lord university campus. Ine occasion was his iSth birth day celebration, sponsored by the I the government either takes over, university in tribute to Its most which is socialism, or dictates in fa metis son. a graduate of its ! stitutional and economic life. first class in 1895. President Truman's message of congratulations and good wishes was among the thousands which came from all over the world. Some of them came from foreign lands where Hoover's administra tion of relief established his name ' ah i i I -6, v it. Scheduled as a part of the R. T. A.-sponsored "Baek-to-School" promotion, free bus service will be offered between 9:45-11:45 a. m. next Wednesday as Roseburg merchants go all out to hall the coming school year. According to Association Presi dent Roland West, all cooperat ing merchant will, feature bar gain prices on some merchandise as a part of the annual "Back-to-School" campaign. He said that although the formal fall opening is scheduled for later in the fall, new fall merchandise will be of fered this coming Wednesday to the city shoppers. Also discussed at the noon meeting were plans for the fall opening. A gala celebration feat uring I he treausre hunt, decor ated windows and special displays is tentatively slated to coincide with the switch-over to the city's (Continued on Page Two) Stampede Queen Contest Sunday An attraction at the first an nual county fair this month will be the annual Trail Dust Saddle club "Stampede," to be held three days Aug. 25, 26 and 27. Competition for queen of the stampede will be held Sunday at the fairgrounds. The contest is open to any single girl, aged 12 to 21. Candidates for queen must pro vide their own horses and will be judged on ine basis of their horsemanship, appearance, and popular applause from the grand stands. Sunday's program will start at 2 p. m.. A 10-day horse race meet at the fairgrounds will open Aug. 17. Last three days of the meet will coincide with the fair. Horse racing will be at night, the ama teur rodlo in the afternoon. Stock for the stampede will be provided by Hugh Shepard of Ollala. recommenaing economies oi lour billion dollars a year. In his talk, he assailed the costs of government. " Along this road of spending, which is fascism." he said Hoover said "Mr. Average citi zen " now must work 61 days a year to support local, state and federal government. Proposed ad ditional government spending would take another 20 days' work, he said. House Votes Minimum The Weather Cloudy and slightly cooler today and tonight, becoming fair Friday. Sims today 7:22 p. m. Sanrlta tomorrow 1:12 a. m. Established 1873 Portland Ex-Convict Blurts Out Confession Killer, Explaining Deed Weighed On Mind, Leads Officers To Hidden Body PORTLAND, Ore., Aug.' 11. (.T A sallow-faced young man led police today to the oofly oi a 15-year-old girl who had been beaten, stabbed and hidden under a log pile near a Portland bridge. Detectives Noel Eck and Sgt. Dan Mitola said the man, picked up on another charge, voluntarily blurted out the story of a brutal slaying that police had never sus pected. They said a 22-year-old man with a long criminal record ad mitted killing the girl after she refused his advances, because "she was a good girl and would make trouble with the police." "It Is the most coldblooded case I've ever had," said Chief of Detectives William Browne. The girl Thelma Taylor, Port land, a young farm worker had been reported missing by, her parents last Saturday, but there had been no previous hint she had met with foul play. Sgt. Vern Nicholson arrested Morris Leland, 22, Portland, this morning on suspicion of driving a stolen car. On the way to the police sta tion, Leland said he wanted to talk to homicide detectives, be cause he knew about a murder. Detectives Eck and Mitola said the 22-vear-old Leland told them he had'killed a girl last Saturday, and led them to a log pile In the brush In north Portland. Preyed On His Mind There police found the girl's body, fully clothed in the bobby sox, plaid shirt, and levis she had been wearing when she left her home last Friday morning to pick beans at Hillshoro. In her" billfold was" an'Tnvlta- (Continued on Page Two) Total Of Polio Cases In Nation Boosted To 11,000 (By th Awoclat'-d Prwwl More than 3,000 new polio cases this month have boosted the nation's total for this year to over 11.000. An Associated Press survey through August 9 showed that the number of cases in 1949 was running roughly 4.000 ahead of that for the same date in 1948. Last year, with a total of 27, 680 cases reported, was the sec ond highest on record for polio Incidence. The worst year was 1916 when more than 30,000 cases were counted. Judged solely by case figures, the polio situation looks more alarming than it really is, health authorities pointed out. They said a greater percentage of polio cases are reported each year, and that many of the added propor tion are so mild they would have been diagnosed as a cold in the head a few years ago. Actually, the 11,000 cases re ported to date represents a ratio of about one victim to every 15, 000 persons in the United States. There was no accurate check on the number of deaths from the disease to date this year, but they were expected to run between six and nine per cent of reported cases. This would mean about one fatality to more than 150,000 per- Housing Needed For Roseburg Teachers City School Superintendent Paul S. Elliott issued a plea to day for housing for the city's new school teachers. Housing for 20 teachers Is vitally needed, he said, with ap plicants ranging from single men and women to male teachers with families. One of the teachers, Percy W. Buss, is in Roseburg today, look ing for a house to rent, prefer ably two-bedroom unfurnished. Buss is married and has a two-month-old baby. He will teech sixth grade at Fullerton school and be in charge of physical education and school sports. Belgian Chosen Head Of Europe's New Council " Ev JOSEPH E. DYNAN STRASBOURG, France. Aug. 11. (JP) Paul-Henri Spaak, Bel gian Socialist leader, was unani mously elected today as the first president of the European con sultative assembly. Spaak resigned yesterday as Belgium's acting premier and foreign minister so he could take over the top lob in the newly, created council of Europe. Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime prime minister, nominat ed Spaak for the assembly presi dency. The 101 delegates from a dozen countries quickly endorsed the selection without opposition. ROSEBURG, Girl, 15, MOM. POP ERRED Boy, 5, Sues To Annul Divorce, Asks Damages NEW YORK. Aue. 11. Mom and pop made a mistake, claims five-year-old Ronald Hen ry Farah. The boy, just out of kindergart en, filed suit in State Supreme court yesterday for annulment of his parents divorce. His petition claims a 1945 Reno divorce obtained by his mother and guardian, Mrs. Frances Far ah, is not valid because she was not a bona fide resident of Ne vada. Named as defennant in the suit is the boy's father, Henry Farah, a fabrics manufacturer. The boy also askes $30,000 dam ages, claiming his father mis represented his financial posi tion in an agreement, incorporat ed in the divorce decree, which provided that he pav $35 weekly to support the mother and boy. The action was brought through the mother. Her attorney, Ber nard Kaufman, said the mother could not sue to have the divorce set aside because sne was a party to it, but that Ronald, as an outside interested party, could and did. "Subversive II Label Upheld By High Court WASHINGTON. Aug. U-(JF The U. S. Court of Appeals to day upheld the governments right to label certain groups "subversive." The 2-to-l decision was handed down in the case of the joint ant 1-Fascist Refugee committee which had appealed to the court i aitea-.U. was included -on Ak- torney General Clark s "subver sive list" two years ago. The Appeals court affirmed the U. S. District court here in dis missing the refugee committee's suit on a motion by the govern ment. A list of alleged subversive or ganizations was published by the attorney general in connection with the loyalty check on fed eral employes. Justices Bennett Champ Clark and James M. Proctor said the Justice department had acted for the President of the United States and that "had the President per formed the task himself, his acts could not have been challenged legally." On Justice Dissents Justice H. W. Edgerton filed a sharp dissent. He said that since the chal- (Continued on Page Two) Baby's Life At Stake At Actress Goes To Hospital HOLLYWOOD, An. 1L (P Loretta Young rested quietly early today in Queen of Angels hospital after earlier fears that she might lose a baby she is carrying. The 36-year-old m ivle star fain ted yesterday on a mr.vie set and was carried to her dressing room by co-star Clark Gable. Tom Lewis, her advertising executive husband, said Miss Young had been in pain late last night and early this morning but that doctors hoped to save the baby. He said that she is In her third month of pregnancy. They have three children. Blind Man Who Nominated Gen. M' Arthur Loses Leg MILWAUKEE. Aug. 11.-4-The blind attorney who nominat ed General MacArthur for the presidency lost a leg yesterday. Harlan W. Kelley, who suffers from diabetes. undrwent an ap eration in which his right leg was amputated above the knee. But he plans to con'inue his law practice and run for congress in 1930, he told friends. Kelley gets around with a guide dog. . Kelley, 46, long a leading re publican, suffered complete ios of vision more than a year ago. His speech at the 1948 national republican convention placing the name of MacArthur in nomina tion won him an ovation. Boys Plus Firecracker Cause Loss At Ashland ASHLAND, Aug. 11. (.) Jackson County Juvenile Officer John Richard planned a hearing today for two bovs, aged 12 and 13, Involved in the fire that de stroyed a woodyard and lumber warehouse. Assistant Police Chief Herb Hayes said the boys had admitted tossing a firecracker into a tar barrel that exploded into flame. The blaze quickly spread througn the Whittle Transfer and Fuel company yard and caused heavy damage to the Copeland Lumber company warehouse. .OREGON THURSDAY, AUG. Victim 5 More Firms Taken Over In Hawaii Strike Harry Bridges Voices Defiance; Union Stand Backed On Mainland HONOLULU, Aug. ll. UPt Ha all extended government seiz ure to all seven of the islands' struck stevedoring companies to day. CIO longshoreman leader Harry Bridges said the territory's effort to reopen its strike-plugged ports will fail. Gov. Ingram M. Stainback sign ed orders late yesterday to bring five firms in the outer islands under territorial control. He had done the same Tuesday for Hono lulu's two companies. Actual take over of all seven was expected to be completed today. oiniuiiK sieveaores or tne uiu International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union announced mainland support In their avow- ea attempt to dery government dock operation. Bridges, president of the ILWU, told a meeting of high territorial officials: "I'm here to tell you the territory is not going to break this strike. It has gone on for 103 days. Showdown Inpends Both the government and the union prepared for the show down. Stainback warned: Anybody In terfering with the territory's dock operation "will be dealt with swiftly with all the force of the government." ine dock seizure law, passed by a special session of the Ha waiian legislature, prohibits any "concerted activity Interfering with government operation. Penal ties are .xiu lines and three months In jail. -In a special appearance before (Continued on Page Missing Plane With Four ' Occupants Still Sought (By Th AuocUted Preul A three-state search for a miss ing plane and Its four occupants continued today. Rescue flights had little to guide them except the meager information that the plane was enroute from Brem erton, Wash., to Santa Fe, N. M. The pilot, C G. Walsh of Santa Fe, filed no flight plan prior to his Sunday takeoffs. His prov able route was unknown. With him on the flight were Mrs. Charles Gay of Los Alamos, N. M., her son, Charles, about 15, and Miss Edna Taliaferro, 21, an employee at the Puget Sound naval shipyard. Miss Taliaferro s fiance, Rich ard Ness, 22, arrived yesterday In Bremerton to aid in the search. He took leave from his summer job with the soil con servation service near Ferndale. Grain Processing House Of General Mills Burns TACOMA. Aug. 11. P)-The 100-foot high head house of the General Mills Co., farm store in South Tacoma was destroyed this morning bv fire which did an estimated $55,000 damage. Capt. William Schlegel, 46, was painfully but not seriously burn ed when he fell through the fire- weakened first floor Into the basement. Fellow firemen pulled him to safety. The head house Is used lor processing of grain. Building loss was estimated by the fire chief at $30,000. The remainder con sisted of fixtures and machinery. VOTE 7-1, FAVORS Ford Motor Workers In Michigan Ask Wage Hikes, Health Benefit, Pensions DETROIT, Aug. 11. VP) overwhelmingly to strike If necessary to get pensions, health benefits and a wage Increase. The state labor mediation board reported that 65,001 voted for a strike and 9,549 against. This was a 7-1 majority. The three-day election, requir ed by state law, cleared away the laxt legal obstacle to a strike of Ford Motor Co.'s 106.000 hour ly rated production employes. 80. 000 of whom work in Michigan. The election was asked by the CIO United Auto Workers. UAW President Walter Reuth er said there would be no im mediate walkout. The vote totally corresponded almost exactly with results of a nationwide union - conducted strike election In Ford plants. That elpction. held in July, re sulted in a 7-1 maturity for the UAW. Union leaders were Jubilant over the result. It did not min, however, Ford workers would strike Im mediately. In a statement. Union 11, 1949 Of Brutal I tjr . J HELD IN SLAYING John Ed ward Summers, 34 (above), ar rested in San Francisco by the FBI. is baina held there for Tacoma, Wash., authorities. Ha has bean charged in Tacoma with the rifle-slaying on July 16 of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Easlay, an elderly couple, whose bodies were discovered on July 20 by berry pickers, buried near Chi nook pass. Summers has admit ted the double salying, which occurred in the Easlay home, but maintains it was an "acci dent." (Ap wirephoto.l Dynamite Attack Hits Newspaper SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Aug. 11. (P) Three plate glass windows In the prefs room or tne striKe bound Springfield Newspapers, Inc., plant were smashed by dyna mite early today. The -ehanrev which j nnllcflieli' , mated at between a half-stick and a full stick of explosive, appar ently was thrown against one of the windows from the street. The concussion ripped out three large panes of glass and sent slivers toward a new 112 page press recently Installed at the newspaper plant. No one was in the press room at the time. Members of the Springfield Typographical union No. 158 have been on strike at the news paper plant since July 11. The newspaers have continuea to publish despite the strike. The dynamiting followed by two days the beating of a 32-year old non-union printer, Kenneth Weaver. The company publishes the afternoon Leader and Press and the morning Dally Springfield News and the Sunday News and Leader. Ginger Rogers Wants To Shed Husband No. 3 LOS ANGELES. Aug. U.-UPi Virginia Catherine McMath Cul pepper Ayres Brlggs-G I n g e r Kogers, lor snort wants a Di vorce. She's been doing some "griev ous mental suffering" lately, the 37-year-old actress said In a com plaint yesterday, all on account of her 29-year-old third husband. Jack Briggs. When they were married i n 1943, she exulted: "He's every-, thing I've ever dreamed of." A property settlement was reached out (if court. They have no children. She asks no alimony. Ginger divorced Lew Ayres In 1940 and vaudevillian & J. Cul pepper !n 1931. STRIKE Ford workers in Michigan voted President Walter Reuther said: "The UAWCIO -s prepared to continue negotiations with Ford Motor company in a sincere and genuine effort to rejeh a fair and equitable settli-ment of the issues Involved through down to earth collective bargaining across the conference table.' The company in a tatement de clared Its position to bargaining with the union wis unchanged bv the election. It v.'arned em- ! -: t - v' ' V- filoyes tnat it a siriKe is canca t mav be a long one. Contract talks have been un der wav since June 2. The com pany has rejected union demands for SlOO-a mnnth pensions and other benefits hut offered to frw.74 wages at their present lev el for 12 months. V Wage 188 49 Slaying Senator's Ire Is Aroused In 5 Pet. Inquiry Letter To Key Figure, Hunt, Branded By Mundt As Bribery Invitation WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. (IP) Senator Mundt (R-SD) heated ly charged today that a letter written by a War Assets admin istration employee to James V. Hunt, in August, 1947, was a "blatant Invitation for bribery or connivance of some kind." Mundt, a member of the senate investigations subcommit tee, spoke out after a committee investigator had read the con tents of a letter which he said was written by Clarence H. Oehler to Hunt. Another letter told of Oehler obtaining for Hunt match covers with "White House" "H. H. V." and "H. S. T." printed on them. Hunt, now a Washington bus iness counselor, has been a prime figure in the committees in quiry into activities of "five per centers" The committee Investigation Previously has developed that hint ordered books of match folders bearing the Imprint -swiped trom Harry S. Truman. Hunt said then that he was act ing at the request of the White House. "H .H. V." are the initials of Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman's military aide, whose name has figured in the inquiry. Francis D. Flanagan, commit tee investigator, said that Oehler was a warehou.'e specialist tor the WAA in the western area at the time he wrote letters to Hunt, formerly a $50-aday consultant for WAA in Washington. Oehler, now with the American Industrial De yelopment. .conjora tion 6f Rr Louis, wai In the room during Flanagan s testimony. He was to take the stand later. The committee also planned to take the lid off evidence that led to suspension of the army's chemical corps chief, Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waltt, last July 16. Flanagan said the correspond ence which he read to the com mittee was taken from Hunts files. LetUr Arouses Ira Mundt's Ire was aroused when the investigator read a letter dated Aug. 15, 1947, which re- (Continued on Page Two) Alaska Governor Scores Denial Of Defense Money ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Aug. 11. (IP) Action of the U. S. House of Representatives in shelving the military appropriation bill continuing Alaskan defense prot ects was described by Governor Ernest Gruening last night as "nothing short of unbelievable." "While congress ha lust ap proved a $5,797,000,000 Appropria tion for Europe to check the ad vance of communist totalitarian ism across the Atlantic, three or four thousand ' miles away," he charged, "it denies less than two and one-half per cent oi tnat sum for the long overdue defense con struction of our own American territory Just 54 miles away from our police-state neighbor." He accused congress of per petuating Alaska "as America's Achilles heel." "It was the only part of America invaded by the enemy during world war II," he as serted, adding that it could be taken tomorrow by a minor-scale airborne Invasion. He said the congressional ac tion would mean the loss of at least a year and a half in mili tary construction "that should have been completed by now." "Postponement is moreover the height of wastefulness," Gruen ing continued. "It will mean all work will have to be stopped, construction crews shipped back to the slates and recruited all over again If and when Congress decides to act probably not un til June, 1950, If then." The bill carried appropriations of $137,738,712 for Alaska defense construction. Non-Support Of Children Brings Sentences To Two Edwin B. Moore, 36, LaGrande, and Leroy M. Cadwalader, 37, Reedsport, received Identical sen tences when they pleaded guilty yesterday In circuit court of charges of non-support of a minor child. Judge Carl wimoeriy reported. Both men were given one-year sentences to the' state peniten tiary and were placed on parole. Wayne Elder Palm, 29, Camp View ( Roseburg), was given a maximum sentence of three years In the state penitentiary when he pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Judge Wlmberljr aald. Boost Hourly Low OHO Cents Upped To 75 Measure Sent To Senatt Represents Victory For Truman And Labor Unions WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. UP) The House passed today a bill to raise the national minimum wage from 40 cents an hour to 75, as asked by President Tru man. The roll call vote was 361 to 35. The measure went to the Senate, where a similar minimum wage bill is pending. The Senate has set the measure aside re peatedly for other legislation, however, and It Is uncertain when the bill may be called up for de bate there. The House action was, In a sense, a victory for the adminis tration. The bill carried the 75 cent minimum advocated by the president. Secretary of Labor Tobin, and representatives of ma jor labor organizations. However, it also carried sub. stantially the revision of cover-' age pushed by a coalition of re publicans and southern demo crats. The bill was introduced by Rep. Lucas (D-Tex). Earlier the House had refused to wash out three days of heated debate on minimum wage legis lation by sending the whole thing back to Its labor committee for more study. A motion to do that lost, 242 to 41, on a standing vote. While boosting the minimum, the bill also stands to take per haps one million workers out from -under its protection. Lucas' bill differed from the administration's bill in two ma jor respects. First, It would not give the wage-hour administrator any authority to fix rules and regulations for administration of the law. Second, it would apply to workers engaged In production for Interstate commerce only if they are "indispensable" to such production. Labor committee staff mem bers estimated the latter provi sion would exempt slightly over 1,000,000 workers now covered by the law. The law, passed in 19.38, protects approximately 20.000.000 employes involved in Interstate commerce. Cash For Quake Victims Sought f er :' Cash contributions for the Jd of earthquake victims In Ecuador will be accepted by the Douglas county chapter of the- American Red Cross, announced Douglas Sims, executive secretary, today. blms said he had received in structions from Pacific area head quarters at San Francisco that Red Cross chapters throughout the country are authorized to ac cept contributions from Indivii. uals or organizations for the re lief of disaster victims. In addition to relief which has already been sent, President Basil O'Connor of the Red Cross has allocated $50,000 for emergency medical supplies and other neces sities for the relief of earthquake victims. Red Cross chapters may accept cash contributions, but, because of the time element involved, clothing, food, and other supplies cannot be sent except from the army depot in Panama. Fishing Boat Destroyed By Fire In Columbia River LONGVIEW. Wah.. Aug. 11. (JP) The 81-foot fishing boat Fearless, owned by H. L. Castner of Portland and I. E. Tate of Timber, Ore., burned last night n the Columbia river at Oak Grove. The fire broke out In the engine room with one man. Bill Fields, aboard. Fields had to jump overboard to escape the flames. The gas tanks exploded soon thereafter. Tate estimates the loss as being between $40,000 and $15,000. . Seeing-Eye Dog .Victim Of Newberg Poisoner NEWBERG, Aug. 11. (JP) The dog-lovers of Newberg were on the warpath today. Someone who has poisonea a number of dogs In the town pols. oned the seeing-eye dog of John Pettlngill, a retired restaurant owner who is blind. Recently one dog was beaten and cltoked to death in the city. Police have been unable to dis cover who Is responsible. Umpqua River Dredging Job Opened To Bids PORTLAND. Aug. ll.-f.Pt Bids will be invited by the army engineers about Aug. 15 on dredging the main ship channel In the Umpqua river from Reeds port to a point about 4.4 miles from the river mouth. It will be the first time In sev eral years that the channel has been completely dredged. Ltvity Ft Rant By L. F. fleiseiisteia The United States has turned over 4 worplanes to the Greek government and assiqned fliers to iestruet hi their operation. At last the U. S. hat done torn thing practical in the way of combattlaq. communism Instead of throwloej eway the money of Its taxpesers.