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i U. Of 0. Library Comp, 1: eon- I - j i MASSACRED METERS This ii wht city police found of eight perking meters when unknown culprits smashed each of the $62 machines to gain a few nickels and pennies, crwin Short, meter maintenance man, is shown here gazing ruefully at nearly $500 worth ot damage. Police thief Calvin Baird promised all-out warfare egainst the unknown offenders, with the maximum sentence for anyone found guilty of the felonies ranging up to three years in the stete penitentiary. (Picture by Paul Jenkins.) YUGOSLAVIA NOT WORRIED Nation Calm In Face Of Rumors Of War Threat In Dispute With Soviet' BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 29. UP) Outwardly at least, Yugoslavia showed scant signs today ol worry about the possi bility of a shooting war with her Soviet-dominated neighbors. The war of nerves in the Balkans apparently had the rest of the world more Jittery than It did the people of this country even though they are conscious of the possibilities. Two More Liquor Stills Discovered Corn whiskey and hidden stills have returned to Douglas county, according to State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell who reported today the arrest of Em met t Phelps, 39, Drain, charged with Illegal pos session ot alcoholic beverages. Saturday's arrest brings to two the liumtxr at ' offender picked up on this charge within the last several days. Sgt. Har rell had previously reported the arrest of Havden Harley Hoyt, picked up Aug. 12. At the time, he was transporting containers marked "fruit Juice," Harrell said. Authorities Investigating the case found two stills near Gunter, above Drain. Aug. 20. Included In the illegal whiskey-making headquarters were five 50-gallon wooden barrels containing corn mash and three ten-gallon wood en barrels full of alcoholic resi due, Harrell said. When arrested Saturday, Phelps was boarding a passenger bus. In the Day's News By FRANK jENKINS A DISPATCH from Miami says: "A tropical hurricane with winds up to 120 miles per hour passed north of picturesque Nas sau, in the Bahamas, today and headed for south Florida's Gold Coast." That's a sure sign that fall is approaching. YOU may not be familiar with this term "Gold Coast," as ap plied to Florida. It doesn't mean, as It does over at our own Gold Beach, that there is gold in the sands of the sea. What It does mean is that Easterners, when they make a big, quick killing, (Continued on Page Four) POLIO DECLINE INDICATED Rate Of New Cases Slows, But Precautions Continue In Many Parts Of Country 'Br th Aisoci, ld Freest r The nation's 1949 polio cases numbered more than 19,o00 today, but the rate of new Infections appeared to be slackening. Approximately 3.900 new cases from August 18 to 27 reflected more than a 20 percent reduction from the previous nine-day period when 5.000 were reported. However, this was still well above the 3,000 cases reported during the first nine-day period of August. The latest Associated Press sur vey showed actual declines in new cases reported during the past week in six states Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas. Maine and North Dakota. Illinois, with 1.502 cases and 111 deaths this year, is the third state in numeri cal Incidence. Arkansas, too, has been hard hit, with 707 cases and 35 deaths. Further encouragement came from health officials of nine oth er states including the two with heaviest 1949 case totals that there were Indications of level ing off in new reports of the disease. These states were Indiana. Mas Government spokesmen were kept busy denying a flood of rumors about moves and coun termoves in .the Increasingly bit ter word war between Soviet Rus sia and Yugoslavia. But shoeshine boys In Belgrade slapped placidly away at the boots of their customers. House-1 wives carried on their marketing as usual. In the country, farmers were threshing one of their richest grain harvests in years. At. least part of Yugoslavia's calm can be attributed, of course, to the fact that the official press has carried few of the rumors which apparently have disturbed the western world. There has been no mention yet, for example, of the meeting of the Soviet-dominated economic council of mutual assistance in Sofia, Bulgaria. Troops' Alert Not New There have been some official denials of such rumors as "un usual" troops movements in Yugoslavia, that two divisions have been sent Into the Istrian (Trieste) peninsula to prevent sabotage, tnat lire In the Fiume (Continued on Page Two) Dividend Applications For Veterans Now Open WASHINGTON. Aug. 29 (.Pi This is dividend application day for 16.000,000 veterans of World War II. Postoffices and veterans offices throughout the nation and U. S. foreign service offices through out the world start handing out dividend application forms to the ex-GIs today. Actual dividend payments will not start until next January. The forms will signify the vet eran's desire to share in the $2. 800.000,000 dividend to be paid next year on about 20.000,000 national service life insurance policies. The policies are those taken out between Oct. 8, 1940, and Jan. 1. 1948, and which were effective for three months or longer Beneficiaries of veteran-policy-holders who have died also will receive dividend checks next year, but they should' not apply. Their payments are being handl ed under a different system. sachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma. Tennessee, Texas and Washington. New York, with 2.429 cases and 141 deaths, topped the list of states. But In New York City, where 1.433 of the state's patients and 114 of the dead were re ported, the health department declared the epidemic is now in a fluctuating period before an Im minent decline. The state health department said New York's peak is expected in September. School Openings Deferred There were onlv three ln- (Continued on Page Two) Truman Pledges Aid In British The Weather Fair and slightly cooler today and Tuesday. Sunset today 4:55 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:34 a. m. Established 1873 Incendiary Fires Raging On Calapooia Old Logged Area East Of Sutherlin Is Swept; Early Control Expected A string of incendiary fires is raging out of control in the Cala pooia district east of Sutherlin, U. F. McLaughlin, dispatcher for the Douelas Forest Protective as sociation, reported this morning-. McLaughlin said a crew of "well over 100 men" are battling the fires, located at Banks creek and Oldham creek, near the Mar tin Box company camp. Although the two main blazes are less than five miles apart, Mc Laughlin said the total acreage Involved could not be estimated because "the fire lines are chang ing so rapidly." The total burned area was estimated Sunday night as approximately 100 acres. The Banks creek fire, reported at 2:34 p. m. Sundav. was evident ly set near the California-Oregon Power company power lines, Mc Laughlin said, and several poles were reported burning. Copco officials said today there was no interruption of service caused by the fire. Although some poles were burned, Copco crews dispatched to the scene kept dam age to a minimum. Early Control Predicted - A crew of 80-100 m.-n are battl ing the Oldham creek fire, ac cordine to the latest reports. The blaze was reported at 3:50 p. m., less than an hour and a half after the initial alarm. McLaughlin expressed the be lief that both fires, burning most ly In old logged area and grass, would be brought under control sometime today. More men and fire fiehtine equipment have been dispatched to aid the crews al ready on the scene. Four Drown In Oregon Accidents (By the Associated Press) Four persons drowned In out ing mishaps in Oregon over the past weekend. A Portland youth drowned while swimming in the Clacka mas river, a Waldport lad was pulled under the Pacific surf and a Portland man and Huntington woman drowned In the Snake river. The Clackamas victim was Fred Betteridge, 17, Portland, who was with a girl companion when he sank In midstream. At Waldport, James Ancel, 13. was pulled from the grasp of two companions when they fought the undertow. Missing in the Snake river boating accident near Home, Ore., were Clyde Boylan, about 50, Portland, and Mrs. George Mor ton, 20, Huntington. Their bodies have not been recovered. Police said they were in a boat handled by Eric West, Weiser. Ida., when it tipped and the two passengers tumbled In. West swam toward shore, dragging Mrs. Morton, but lost consciousness. When he came to he was on the bank but couldn't (Ind the woman. The couple had been picnick ing Friday evening with friends on the Idaho shore. Mrs. Morton is survived by her husband and two small daughters. Two-Car Crash Kills Woman; Husband Hurt NEWBERG, Aug. 29. I.P Mrs. Ralph H. Burdick, 60, Sher wood was fatally injured south of here yesterdav in a two-car col lision in which four other persons were hurt. Mrs. Burdlck's husband was In serious condition with internal In juries and rib fractures. State Patrolman Marvin Daz zcl said the Burdick car waa turn ing off the highway into a service station when struck by another driven by Mrs. June Emery, 19. Her husband and a 19-month-old son were also in the car. They were treatea tor cuts and bruises. Youth In Stolen Auto Captured By Police PORTLAND, Oug. 29 (Pi An 18-year-old youth was captured by police last night after a chase marked by a police car upset and living Duuets. The youth was booked as Ron ald E. Emery, and charged with larceny of an automobile. Police started chasing him last night alter noting the license plate of a stolen car. The police car struck a curb on a corner, and was put out of commission. However, one of six shots struck the gas tank of the fleeing auto mobile. The driver had to Jump out and run and was captured by a patrolman two blocks away. Pastor Announces Last Hymn, Collapses, Dies LONDON, Aug. 29. I The Rev. A. Foreman Cox, 60, announced the eiosing hymn of his service "The Day Is Past and Over" at Holy Innocents church last night, then col lapsed and died, V ROSE BURG, NOD TO PROGRESS Town Decides How To Spend Huge Bequest PERRYOPOLIS, Pa., Aug. 29. iJP) The citizens of Perry opolis finally have decided how to spend the $1,320,000 left the town a year ago by Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier, a former resident. At a meeting last night, 200 townspeople voted unanimously to adopt a plan worked out by the Perryopolis Community Planning association. The plan calls for the circula tion of petitions to incorporate the town ot 1500 as a borough and the eventual expenditure of t ,60.000 for improvements. Mrs. frazler stipulated that half the money be used for public improvements and the remainder for maintenance of the public works agreed upon. The improvements decided on include $250,000 for an educa tional center, $50,000 for a muni cipal building, $250,000 for a sew age disposal and water system, $82,000 for streets and highways, $10,000 for street lighting and $18,000 for shade trees and parks. Damage From Hurricane May Reach $50 Million CHARLOTTE, N. C, Aug. 29. (JPt The big hurricane was blow ing ltseii out today. The howling monster which ripped into Florida's Gold Coast on the east side Friday raced across the Carolinas' Piedmont section yesterday bringing heavv rains. But its steel-twisting pow er was reduced to limb-breaking, shingle tearing and the fouling of power and communications lines. It was In Florida that the giant exploded its peak power. West Palm Beach. Lake Worth and Fort Lauderdale were in the di rect path of the hurricane's core as it swung in from the Atlantic Friday evening. One life was lost In Florida and one in Georgia. A preliminary survey brought damage estimates varving from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000. NEW YORK, Aug. 29. IIP) The New York metropolitan area was battered by 70-mlle-an-hour winds todav as the hurricane that hit Florida flicked north. Between 18.000 and 23,000 con sumers in New York were with out electrical service for a time as wires were knocked down in Brooklyn Queens and the Bronx. Neuner Issues Ruling On Milk Trucks, Enclosure SALEM, Aug. 29. UP) At torney General Neuner ruled to day that owners and operators of milk trucks should be held re sponsible under the new milk transportation regulations which become effective next Thursday. The new rules requires enclos ing of milk trucks and protection of milk from dust and sunlight. Neuner ruled that the respon sibility rests only with the truck owner or operator, rather than with the dairy or milk plant which receives the milk. In another opinion, Neuner ruled that state police can serve municipal court warrants upon non-residents of the city in which the warrant Is issued. Drain Youth Arrested On Charge Of Larceny Walter Clarence Wodden, 19, of Drain, was arrested Saturday on a charge, of larceny In a dwelling. State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell said today. Wodden Is accused of taking a purse containing $300 from the home of Mrs. Grace L. Eccclston, Drain, Aug. 23. Wodden was arrested with the cooperation of Drain city police, Harrell said. MOOSE INITIATE BIG CLASS This memmoth Urge class, over 100 strong, wet taken into Roieburg's new Moose club in special ceremonies held at Junior high school Sunday. The initiation class wet installed by a degree team from Klamath Falls. Representatives and Moose dignitaries from Corvallii, Eugene, Cottage Grove end Klamath Falls participated in the ceremonies, preceded Saturday by the official opening of the Roseburg Moose headquarters on S. Stephens street. The Rote burq qroup will loin other members of the Oregon Moose etsociation in preparetion for the annual stete convention to be held at Corvallis Segt. 3-5. OREGON MONDAY, AUG. Fair Closes With Awards To Fxhibitors Ribbons Given Scores Of 4-H, FFA: Riversdale Tops In Granges' Display Almost a hundred boys and girls of Douglas county are treasuring blue, red. or white ribbons as their mementoes of the first coun ty fair in more than 35 years. They entered their livestock, cook ing and sewing exhibits and craft work in the three-day exhibition last week. The fair closed Saturday, with contests and demonstrations in cooking, sewing, showmanship of livestock, and the award of rib bons in many classes. Exhibitors and contestants represented the 4-H clubs and the Future Farm ers of America. Displays entered by granges al so were judged Saturday. Rivers dale grange won the blue ribbon. A red ribbon was awarded the Myrtle Creek grange, and a white ribbon the Evergreen grange. The displays featured local products of the area represented by each grange. This year's fair was limited t. junior competition. It Is expectpfi that adults will be allowed to com. pete in next year's fair, with the main pavilion probably to be en larged and additional livestock barns erected. Although limited to junior entries, the fair was crowd ed this year. Although It has been stated tnat Douglas county's last fair was 37 years ago. some old residents re call it as being more recent than that about 33 or 34 years ago. The old fairgrounds were located a half-mile east of Koscburg. The fair this year coincided with the last three days of the 10 day horse race meet, which Intro duced pari-mutuel wagering to Roseburg. Other features of the county fair days were the Trail Dust Saddle club's annual "Stam pede" and the carnival of the Pa cific Blue Diamond -shows of Portland. ' In addition to displays In the (Continued on Page Two) Bigger Year For Horse Racing Is Forecast For '50 Horse racing In Roseburg will be back bigger and better next year. That's according to W. E. Mar rlon, longtime Roseburg busi nessman and president of the Umpqua Jockey club, which sponsored this year's inaugural meeting. "We've profited a great deal by the things learned this year,' Marrlon said, "and a number of Improvements will be made by next season, to make the race meeting even more successful." Over 40,000 people attended the 10 nights of racing at the fair grounds this year, many more than were expected by the spon soring club when they laid their original plans. "This meeting was arranged In a very short time," Marrion con tinued, "so that many horsemen who would have entered did not get an opportunity to hear about it. That will ail be remedied next summer, and we all xpect ed a much greater number ol line horses." About 280 horses were on the fairgrounds for this meeting. The president went on to com mend the citizens of Douglas county for their invaluable assist ance In" staging the meeting. Business men all over the county loaned or rented their valuable equipment to the club for th meeting period, when much of it was needed elsewhere. "This was a community pro ject this year, and we Intend to keep It that way," Marrlon said in closing. (Picture by Master Photo Studio.) 29, 1949 I -A MiSSINC Mrs. Miml Boom- hower, 48 (above), widow ofjof the biggest In lesion hlstorv, Frank Boomhower, inventor and African big gam hunter, has been missing sine Aug. 18, from her suburban Lot Angeles home. She frequently woro ew- els worth small fortune and police fear she may have met with foul play. Ar wirepnoroi Americans Climb Ararat For Ark; Reds Cry "Spies" DOGU BAYAZIT, Turkey, Au. 29 (.T Five Americans are toil Ing up three.mlle.hlgh Mount Ararat today to see if oM, ark lies on the summit. Thev left this isolated village yesterday and no word Is expect ed from the group making the perilous ascent until tomorrow at the earliest. The Russians have protested strenuously that the search for the ark is merely a blind for a spying expedition Ml. Ararat is on the Turko-P.usslan bordr. The searchers, whom the Rus sians called spies, include Dr. Aa-nn I Rmtlh fit . Oreensboro. N. C: Walter Wood, 36. Sea Cliff, Long Island, N. Y.; Wendell ugg, 24, of Knoxville, Tenn.; E. J. Newton, 46, Colfax, N. C: and Associated Press Correspondent Edwin Greenwald. Five Turks are accompanying them. Interest In the area has Intensi fied since last year, when im:'h ants reported they had seen an object resembling a boat. The object had been uncovered by an unusually heavy thaw. As long ago as 1916, a Russian aviator said he aw on Ararat a ship that seemed identical to the biblical description of Noah's ark. Student's Plane Crashes His Teacher's Home SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 29. (jp) Ernest Galindo, a student pilot, missed school by a city block and went calling, Instead, on a teacher. He knocked her front door In with his airplane. Gall: do, Z'l, was soloing over San Jose yesterday when his mo. tor went dead, lie picked the Roosevelt Junior high school yard for a forced landing but overshot. His light monoplane went through Miss Thel Boyd's front door. The teacher was in the rear of the house and escaped Injury. O'Connor has head wounds. Former GOP National Chairman Hilles Dies NEW YORK, Aug. 29. UP) Charles D. Hilles, 82, one-time as sistant secretary of the treasury and republican national chair man died Saturday. Hilles, who came from an Ohio farm and rose to prominence in the administration of President William Howard Taft, died at his summer home at Speonk, N. Y. L I1 if 203-49 Communism Top Issue At Legion Rally Convention Expected To Take Action; Belgrano's Charges Stir Up Fuss PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. .V) The American Legion opened its 31st annual convention today with the fight against commu nismin China, particularly shaping up as the No. 1 issue. YVhat to do about communism and where and when to do it are questions that several legion com mittees have been wrestling with in pre-convention sessions most ly behind closed doors. The four-day meeting Is one The 6.500 delegates and alter nates represent more than 3,000. 000 legionnaires in some 17,000 posts. They'll discuss the pros and cons of some 1,000 resolu tions. Communism has been a main issue at the past three legion con ventions. And It won't take a back seat at this Important veterans gathering. The Issue reportedly has touched off heated argu ments before the foreign rela tions and security (armed forces) committees. Bickering Breaks Out Internal bickering among top legion officials, past and pres ent, broke out at the national executive committee session. Na tional Commander Perry Brown , ii . . .. . t .. , . ..i i ".""T1' . - ..... Past National Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr., of Portland, Ore., that the Legion is inf!v enced by "king-makers and poli ticians" and is bankrupt. Uelgrano stuck to his accusa tions. He said further that pres ent legion leadership "discrlm- (Continued on Page Two) Plane Crash Lands; Occupants Safe An airplane carrying two per sons crashed while attempting to land on the Roseburg airport at 8:30 last night. Deputy Sheriff Ira Byrd, inves tigating officer, said the pilot un dershot the field while approach ing the runway from the south and struck the mill pond at the south end of the field. The plane bounced on the, logs, over the fence, onto the air field. The passengers were cut and bruised, but were not otherwise Injured. The plane's undercar riage was ripped off and its en gine was torn loose, Byrd said. Byrd named the pilot as Vigfus Jakobsson, 27, of Sutherlin. His passenger waa Don Lumberg, 21, also of Sutherlin. The plane was a Falrchild 24, owned by the Western Skyways of Portland. The men were returned to Suth erlin by George Felt, manager of the airport, in a small plane at the field. Wallgren Still Hopes For Federal Position SEATTLE, Aug. 29 UP) Ex Governor Mon C. Wallgren told a King county democratic picnic gathering yesterday he plans to return to Washington. D. C, within a month "possibly to take a federal position." He did not elaborate, but friends said he may yet head the National Security Resources board. They said Wallgren be lieves President Truman may be able to appoint him without Senate conllrmation under the new reorganization act recently approved bv Congress. Wallgren's appointment to the post earlier this year was stymied bv a relusal of a Senate commit tee to report the matter out to the Senale floor. Crisis Peace Based On Prosperity; President Says Cooperation And Mutual Concessions Art Needed, Legion Convention Told By ERNEST B. VACCARO Philadelphia. Aug. 29. UP) - President Truman today pledged tutl American cooperation to cri sis-ridden Britain as part of a greaa effort by the world's free nations to achieve lasting pros perity and peace. in a sober summary of the in ternational economic situation, Mr. Truman declared that a world trade "seriously out of bal ance" has posed problems "which, allect all of us, and in the solu tion of which we all have a com mon interest." He promised this country's "friendliness and helpfulness" in keeping Britain on its feet in a world suffering from "the ter rible after-effects of the war" and from Russia's hostility to Euro pean recovery. And he held out an offer of "mutual concession and coopera tion to tne uritisn caoinei oui clals who arrive in Wah'ngton next week for negotiations on Iheir country's financial crisis. "We are not looking for trick solutions to deep-seated prob lems," he added. The president sharply dis avowed criticism in this country of Britain's socialist government. "We recognize, he declared, "that each nation has its own po litical problems and that it usee different political labels and dif ferent slogans from those we use at home. "In the same ay, nations have different business practices and different governmental devices for achieving the same economic ends." As for this country's Interna tional economic policy, Mr. Tru man commented that there is considerable "misunderstand ing and misinformation, some of it due to the complexity of the problems Involved. But, he added acidly: "Some of this Is deliberately stirred up by certain newspapers and politicians lor political reasons." The president spoke before the national convention of the Ameri can Legion, which earlier had pre sented him a medal for "outstand ing service to the nation." i Prosperity Needed For Peso , - tne keynote ot his address was that "World prosperity is neces sary to world peace." Because of that, he said, and (Continued on Page Two) Pat Ronk Chosen Queen Of Rodeo Before crowded grandstands In Myrtle Creek Sunday, Pat Ronk, pretty Myrtle Creek girl, was chosen queen of the Saddle Pals Rodeo, to be held there Sunday and Monday, Sept. 4 and 5. The princesses in her court will include Valerie Sparks of Roseburg, sister of Nadene, thla year's Sheriff's! Posse rodeo queen, and Gwen Pitts of Myrtle) Creek. Blackle Smith, stock contrac tor, had a number of bucklnsr horses and steers in the arena Sunday. Cowboys who wanted to try bucked the horses and roped the steers. Keith Throp was winner of a saddle horse race in a field of live entries. Donna Hanna out raced Queen Pat Ronk in another event on the program. V-J Day Observance With Prayer Asked By McKay SALEM. Aug. 29. UP) Gov ernor Douglas McKay asked Ore gon residents to observe V-J day next Friday with "prayer, simple ceremony and appreciative mem ory." He said 4.UUU uregonians iosi their lives in world war II. About 140.000 residents of the state served In the armed forces. "On this V-J day. 1949, let ua b especially mindful of the price we paid to forestall the axia threat to our freedom. Let us keep that thought In an accessible place not only on v-v day, out m the weeks, months and years to come, to the end that prudent guidance along the dangerously twisted road of the future will re suit," the govenor wrote. It's Here At Last! That Noiseless Popcorn Bag NEW YORK. Aug. 29 WP . Moviegoers are going to love this one. It's a new noiseless, rustle proof popcorn hag. Production of the bag was announced yester day by the Grand Bag and Paper Co. And It doesn't stop with Just being quiet. The soft, cloth-like paper bafc Is also porous, so it can't be blown up and popped or filled with water for balcony bombing raids. Ltvity Ft Rant By L F. Reizensteln Banish that pessimism over luvenile delinquency. Give a thought instead to the splendid Industrial spirit shown by the 4-H members and Future Farm en of America at the Douglas County fair.
