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i U. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon r 4 WHO DOES WHAT PJ k int TUUNO LAUT pictured the mouth et the tunnel which leads the waters ot Kogue river under that area in its upper course known as The Natural Bridge. A large and attractive sign on the Rogue River highway calls attention to this natural marvel and another at the site lends its dignity. At the time of my visit there, however, a small placard at a corner of the sign, tacked there by the forest service, called attention to the fact that part of the bridge is now covered by water. (This happens when the river runs more water than is normal for the summer season) and the tunnel can't accommodate all of it. Some visitor with an aching sense of humor had printed on this sign: "Please fix this. This is the second summer it's bean like this and I have come all the way from Arkansas to see it." Legion Favors Self-Help Plan For Jobs, Kills Opposition To Bonus For World War 2 Vets PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1. VP) Legionnaires, warming up to the election ol a new National American Legion commander, gave unanimous approval today to the Legion's self-help plan to bring new jobs and Industries to America's cities. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IN the U. S. Senate the other day there was a curious and typical piece of business. The Senate of the United States was considering an amendment heir resource's on a comrnu , ., ., . nity plan. It is a key part of the to one 01 me Dig money diiis (Lp-,. 1950 domes,,i program. which would have REQUIRED The election of a new com PRESIDENT TRUMAN to cut mander was the main item of government expenses five to ten business on the last day of the percent. The amendment lost out in the voting. L ET'S take that one apart to see what makes It tick. i Under our system, as devised 1 by the wise founding fathers, Congress holds the purse strings. That Is to say, the admlnlstra- (Continued on Page Four) Bartenders Lose Jobs In Ban On Punchboards PORTLAND. Sept. 1 .B -The city's ban on punchboards drew protest from tavern own ers and bartenders today. The bartenders said they were losing their jobs. The tavern owners said the punchboard exo dus was costing them business. T. E. Fenolio, secretary of the AFL Bartenders union, estimated that 140 to 130 tavern employes have been dismissed because of the drop In trade. He said his office was crowded with laid-off workers hunting new Jobs. Fenolio said the punchboard ban hit hardest at the small taverns. J. A. McGinnis, president of the Tavern Owners association, said some taverns do not make enough on beer sales to show a profit, and rely heavily on punchboards. Temporary City Boundaries For Registration Of Grade School Pupils Established Temporary boundaries for the city's grade schools were an nounced today by Paul S. Elliott, city school superintendent, who said the boundaries will apply only during registration Sept. 6. Permanent assignments will be made Tuesday so that grade school students will know the school to which they are to report and the time following registration day. For the first time In the city's I scS lnVMrMrK .'So "doubie shift" system, because o, , o'ortr'1 increased enrollment. First, third norIn f Qak street west of the and fifth grade students at botn railroad. Riverside and Fullerton schools J Pupils' enrolling at Rose school w ill report at 8 a. m. Tuesday. I win report at 9 a. m. Tuesday. Second, fourth and sixth graders i Ro boundaries Include all ter will report at 1 p. m. Buses will rj,orv south of Cass street east make regular trips to pick up j o( lnf, river. Benson school dis these children, according to .he trlrt includes all territory north schedule printed elsewhere in to-, f Cass street east of the railroad, day s paper. f up to the Snack Shack. The Riverside boundaries in- Assignments to Sylman valley elude the area north of the SnacK and Edenhower schools will be Shack on N. Stephens street. made at Fullerton and Riverside both east and west of the high- schools. way. Fullerton school shall in- (See bus schedule en page 12.) I' W irV.S sSE.S.kMU- above it having a gander at The Legion's 31st annual con vention approved a resolution backing a self-help plan "based on the Initiative of the people In their own communities without reliance of the federal govern ment in solving unemployment problems." Under the proposal, town and city councils would confer with industrial and civic leaders and Other major resolutions ap proved by the convention today included: 1? Calling on the secretary of laknp In aett (n ra.fnra tha flalrf of the veterang fmpioy. ment service to the former corn- plement of 350, 2. Urged that the government give special citations to firms (Continued on Page Two) Arraignment Of Two Scheduled George Plchettl. 41, arrested at Pendleton Aug. 26 by stale police ion a grand larceny charge, and tana Mae ueneoeiu, u, arresiea at Portland Aug. 24 on charges of forgery and larceny, have been booked at the Douglas county Jail, reported Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter. j Both are scheduled for arrlgn iment In Justice court probably 1 today, according to District At torney Robert G. Davis, who said the two have been arrested as ths result of Investigation into the recent burning of Ruth's El Rancho near Wilbur. Also admitted to the county jail was Phillip Eugene Halstead, 1 21. arrested In Roseburg by i Deputy Ira Byrd. on a complaint filed by Ed Slack. Sutherlin. Hal I stead is held on an N. S. F. check 'charge, said Carter. Tke Wtatlwr Sunny afternoons today and Friday. Continued warm. Sunset today 4:41 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow S:3I a. m. Established 1173 Anniversary of World War 2 Russia Won It Single-Handed, Moscow Says Another War Not Wanted, Germans Say Japan's Reconstruction Progresses, With Threat Of Communism Banished (By the Associated Press) Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of World War 11 in burope and the fourth an niversary of the Japanese sur render ceremony. The Moscow weekly New Times seized the occasion to de clare the Soviet Union won the European war singled handed. "The Soviet people bore the entire burden of the war against the German fascist invaders," it stld. In Tokyo (where It was Fri day, Japanese time), Gen. Doug las MacArthur reviewed Japan's four years under allied occupa tion and declared communism is no longer a major threat ' to Japan. "The Japanese people," said MacArthur "have fully and faith fully observed their surrender commitments and advanced steadily along the road to spirit Lai regeneration and physical re construction." In four years Japan's popula tion has grown by 9,500.000, Mac Arthur reported, "yet there has been no mass unemployment, no social unrest and no large-scale dole." West German newspapers not ed the 10th anniversary of Hit ler's march Into Poland with a chorus of "we don't want anoth er war." Soviet-licensed news papers In Berlin said the Ameri can army' is preparing for an other war on German soil. The Hussians are just conclud- (Continued on Page Two) ABC Sues To Upset Ban On Give-Away Programs NEW YORK, Sept. 1. UP) The American Broadcasting com pany has started court action to upset a federal ban on radio give away shows. The suit is the first of several expected to be filed in the broad casters' battle against a Federal Communications order against the prize programs. The ban becomes effective the first of next month. It would knock off the air most of the jackpot shows which award some $5,000,000 a year In mer chandise and cash to lucky listen ers and contestants. The Columbia Broadcasting sys tem, and the National Broadcast ing company have announced they also will bring court actions challenging the ban. ABC, in its suit filed yesterday in federal district court, asked that the commission's order be set aside. Baby Sitting Offer Lures Girl To Assault PORTLAND. Sept. 1.-IJP) Po lice were hunting today for a young man, about 20 years of age who lured a girl to an isolated southeast area Tuesday night with a baby sitting job offer and raped her. Detectives said the girl had advertised for the work. She said she was called and told to meet the prospective employer at an Oaks park trolley depot. When she arrived, the young man said he lived in a houseboat. En route toward the river, he drew a knife and forced her into the brush off the road. Albany Shingle Plant Destroyed By Fire ALBANY. Ore., Sept. 1 VP)--The Albany Shingle company plant was destroyed by fire early today with loss estimated at $16,000. Insurance of $3500 was reported. Fire Chief Don Hayne said he was Investigating cause of the blaze which was not Immediate ly apparent. Although the main plant, near the city's south limits, burned, the shingle storage shed was saved. Carl E. Ulrieh, Modesto, Calif., is president of the company. Toft To Seek Another Term In U. S. Senate WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. VP) Republican Senator Taft says he's not a candidate for the 19."2 presidential nomination and the only thing he's got his eye on Is the 13.XJ senate race in unto. He said last night In a radio In terview that he expects to spend the next three or four months touring his home state to "tell them why I voted for this and that . . r He la running for re-election In Ohio next year. ROSEBURG, PASTOR'S PEEVE Same Name As Bootlegger Is Worry Builder OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 1. (.7) Baptist minister Thomas R. By ford is a patient man, even when he is continually mistaken for a bootlegger. It seems that customers of Har old Byford, convicted Oklahoma City bootlegger, mistakingly call the minister when they get low of spirits in this constitutionally dry state. Night and day, for months, the slightly tipsy have been phoning lor delivery service. The minister thought It was amusing at first, but then it be came more than annoying. One fellow even called me long distance from Detroit and said he had a truckload ready to leave," Bylord explained. I tried to tell him he had the wrong number but I couldn't make him understand. Finally I told him I could give him a number to phone. I gave him the number of the sheriff." Compromise On Farm Bill Reached WASHINGTON. Sent. 1. VP) Senators of both parties plugged today for Dassage of a compromise farm program, ap parently with president Tru man's backing. The measure, written bv Sen ator Anderson ID-NMI, was sent to the Senate for action yesterday soon after democratic farm lead ers returned from a visit to the White House. I It probably will he two weeks or longer before the Senate can m:i mi me uiii ocuause oi oiner pending business. Then the measure must go back to the House, which has passed a far different bill. It voted an ex tension through next year of the high-level wartime price props now in effect. Actually the price support levels for basic crops the first year of the Anderson bill would Be near those voted by the House but would apply to far fewer com modities. Anderson would assure price props near present levels for wheat, cotton, corn, peanuts, to bacco, butterfat, milk, Irish po tatoes, soybeans, wool and mo hair. His bill would give Secretary of Agriculture Brannan, who sat In the White House parley, wide authority to support other farm products at varying price levels. The amount of funds Congress provides later also would be a major factor. AUTO WRECK FATAL WLLA WALLA, Sept. 1. VP Thrown from a car as It left the highway and overturned sev eral times. Doug Sowell, about 25, of Weston. Ore., was fatally injured last night. The accident occurred north of Freewater near the Oregon-Washington border. A t 1 IOXES FOR MOTOR ROUTES News-Review Circulation Manager Fuller Johnson, left, and Harold Mobley, right unload a shipment of 500 new red boiei with yellow News-Review lettering, which have just arrived from Cobb Manufacturing Co. at Jefferson. Oregon. These boxes are to be used for a third auto delivery route, which was started today. The 50-mile route rovers the Garden Valley road to Umpqua, back through Melrose and the Lookingglass areas. H. J. Davis is the carrier. Persons living along the route not elready taking the paper may have it started by contacting Davis at Lookingglass or the News-Review office. Two other routes are already established, one serving the territory north to and including' Oakland, operated by Oscar Hubbard, and the other serving the territory south to Myrtle Creek, Riddle and Canyon villa, operated by Mrs. Earl McCoy. The carriers leave Roseburg I p. m, and are usually through with their deliveries by 4:30, thus providing the same service as thst available la the city of Roseburg. (Staff photo.) OREGON THURSDAY, SEPT. Area Of Tokyo Scene Of Vast Devastation Typhoon, Flood Leave Many Casualties, Wrecks And 66,000 Homeless TOKYO, Sept. 1. VP) Dead and Injured piled up today in Tokyo's typhoon-flood ravished area with 68 known dead. 223 In jured and 50 missing in the cen tral Honshu storm area. Some 100.000 men work ed feverishly to sandbag river levees against a repetition of floods which in 1947 drowned 2,000. Reports of property damage from wind and water mounted steadily after the blow which lashed the Tokvo bay metropoli tan area last night, left 66.000 homeless, verified figures from the national rural police showed. Victims still were being pulled from shattered buildings when the flood toll started trickling in over partly patched communica tions. Thirty-one drowned in a levee break that let the Waterosl river sweep through Aiol In the mountains northwest of Tokyo. But the big danger was to come when the Tone river and other streams swollen by 13 inches of rain In the mountains raged (Continued on Page Two) Forgery Charges Faced By Couple Within less than halt an hour after Information -wast received here that two California persons were wanted on forgery enarges, they were taken Into custody by Ihe sheriff's office and within another 24 hours they were lodged In the Glenn county Jail at Willows. Calif. Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter named them as Josenh M. Peters, 42. and Frances J Peters. 35, his alleged wife, both of California. Thev are alleged to have cash ed $8,000 In forged checks in California, said Carter. Their bail was set at $5,000 each o each of two warrants, or a total of $10,000 apiece. The sheriff's office received a wire at 12:35 p.m. Tuesday from Willows In regard to the two. Carter and Deputy Red Eckhardt b" 1 o'clock had taken them Into custody at Umpqua park. Wednes day morning, Glenn county depu ties flew to Roseburg and re turned their prisoners. World War Two Veteran Heads American Legion - PHILADELPHIA, Sept. t. Ths American Legion to day elected George N. Craig, 40-year-old Braxil, Ind. attorney as national commander. He it the first veteran of World War II ever named to the post. v J ,,7vf ... .!-. . . . . '.. ," si . ! ....,..,, 1, 1949 TO HEAD AUXILIARY The only candidate nominated for the office, Mrs. Norman I. Sheehe, above, 52-year-old grandmother, is slated to be the new president of the American Legion auxiliary, now in conven tion in Philadelphia. She is the present national vice-president and former president of the Illi nois department. Five-Day Week Begun By Million Rail Workers WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. The five-day week most other American wage earners have en Joyed for years went into effect today for nearly a million rail road workers. Under terms of an agreement worked out between the rail un ions and carriers based on rec ommendations made by a presi dential board, last December these workers will get the same pay for the shorter week than they got for working six days. The trains are expected to keep their present schedules. The sev eral hundred thousand operating workers, such as engineers and firemen, are not affected by the change. They are paid on a mile age basis. The railroads, given an eight month notice of the new work week, began In advance to cut corners to save money For in stance, they closed many freight stations and offices on Saturdays. And many Jobs are being mech anized. The carriers at one time esti mated thev would have to hire between 200,000 and 300,000 extra men. Now the unions estimate the number will be 100,000 or less. As to costs', the presidential board estimated the shorter week would mean an Initial $380.000,. 000 annual payroll cost. William F. Farley, president of the As sociation of American railroads, figured it at $450,000,000. The railroads get a four per cent freight rate boost, worth $293,000,000 in added revenue, effective today to help defray costs of the change. Farley said recently the' carriers will "try to get along" without asking for a further increase. It ,4 , , -e ,- y4..-i I sf I 206-49 Testimony Of Drew Pearson Hits Yaughan Justice Dept. Asked To Intervene In Tax Case, Columnist Tells Probe WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. VP) Drew Pearson testified today that Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan telephoned the Justice depart ment In 1946 "asking some Inter vention" in the income tax case of a New Orleans oil man. The columnist took the witness' chair In the Senate's "five per center" Investigation shortly after a White House news confer ence at which President Truman said Vaughan would stay on as his army aide. Pearson Identified the case as that of I. T. Burton, New Orleans oil man." and a "very good friend of William Hells." The columnist said Burton had been tried twice on Income tax fraud charges, and on both occa sions the Jury failed to agree. He went on to testify that Bur ton was subsequently indicted and convicted of a charge of Jury bribing. There, was a lot or maneuver ing to prevent his conviction," Pearson said. He said he learned of Vaughan's purported Interest in the case from James P. McGran ery, now U. S. Judge for the east ern district Pennsylvania. At the time, 1946, McGranery was the assistant to the then atoorney .general, Tom Clark. I'earson said ne was in mc Granery's office, and that while he was tnere vaugnan teiepnoneo McGranery "asking some inter vention in the Burton case." McGranery, Pearson continued, told him about it. Pearson added; "McGranery made the state- (Continued on Page Two) Refugee Russian Labels Ex-Buddy As "Scoundrel" NEW YORK, Sept. l.-4Ph-Unlike his buddy who went back to Russia, Peter Plrogov, refugee Soviet flier, says he is determined to stay in America. In Plrogov's -words, Anatole Barsnv, with whom he fled from the Soviet, is a "swine and a scoundrel" for going home. Plrogov said yesterday that the Soviet embassy In Washington had used threats and offered bribes to try to get him to go bark, too. But he said he has "not been disillusioned" here and Intends to stay. Plrogov, who with Barsov de serted the Soviet air force last Oct. 9 In the U. S. zone of Austria Is now living In New York and writing a book. Barsov was returned to the Russians in Austria by American authorities at his own request yesterday. Plrogov told a news conference he had done his best to persuade his companion to remain here. He said he told Barsov he would "die In six months like a dog in Russia" if he went back. He said that while here Bar sov "got Into a net of Soviet spies whose purpose was to con fuse him to such an extent he would be willing to go back." "Perhaps he was lonesome for his family," Plrogov said. "I am certain he never was a Soviet agent because our flight from the Soviet Union was all on my Initiative and on my prepara. tlon "If Soviet authorities had 'planted' a man," he said, "they would have chosen some one a little less stupid." . Car Wrecked In Upset; Occupants Little Hurt A car operated by Wllford Palmer, accompanied by his son, Jim, of Albany, went off the high- ,.,,, ... . n.K,iro l8y.Urv"JLPr"liRhrhw:; nn the North Umnoua highway about 4:30 a.m. today, reported Deputy Sheriff Dallas Bennett, who Investigated. Bennett said they were on their way to Glide, where they have been working. The car hit a soft shoulder, rolled over the hank, turned completely over and land ed upright on Its wheels. The occupants were not hurt, except for minor cuts and bruises, but the car was reported as an almost complete loss. Springfield Planning Its Own Power System I SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 1. i-P -I City council members have okay ed a campaign to sign up pros I peetlve customers for a munici- Eal power system. Mayor B. P. arson said the city may be in Ithe power business In opposition to the Mountain States Power company by Jan. 15. I An agreement with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany would split the cost of the pole Installation to carry phone I line as well as any potential I municipal power lines. 40-Ct Hourly Floor Raised To 75 Cents Action locks House Rate But Minor Differences N Still To Be Ironed Out WASHINGTON, Sept. I. VP) An increase in the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour was virtually assured today. The Senate voted for It yester day, the House did so earlier. All that remains now is for the two branches to compromise other points In the bills each passed to revise the 1938 wage-hour law. The DrinclDal Issue In he ret. tied concerns employes covered by the law. The House bill would remove about 1,000,000 workers from coverage. The Senate pro vlded exemptions for an esti mated 250,000 or so, mainly in re tail stores. With the Senate taking a week's rest and the House on -a-cation until Sept. 21, efforts to iron out the differences will be delaved. But when the Senate late yes terday passed by voice vote a bill lifting the wage floor to 75 cents. the administration chalked up a major victory for a part of Presi dent Truman's program. The measure wasn't just what democratic leaders wanted. They would have preferred a bill broad ening the coverage ot the wage hour law. But they gave up hopes of that in a drive to win the 75-' cent minimum. Some 22,600,000 workers are covered by the law, but Senator Pepper (D-Fla, floor manager of the hill, said that only about 1, 500.000 of them now are being paid less than 75 cents an hour. He figured the higher mini mum would cost employers $365. 000,000 annually in wage pay - ments. Amendments Rejected Senator Ellender (D-La) led I ' move to hold the minimum dowi to 63 cents until the end of 1951 and then to let it vary betweei 55 and 75 cents with changes il the cost of living. The Senate rejected that on f roll call vote, 51 to 26, and thel defeated various compromise pro posals which Ellender offered. El lender argued that a sudden boost to 75 cents might plunge the na tion into a depression. By a vote of 54 to 20, the Senate also turned down an amendment ot Senator Ful bright (D-Ark) providing' for a fiscal increase to a 75-cent mini mum wage for companies with less than 50 employes but not af fecting the proposed increase for' larger companies. Senator Taft of Ohio, the re- , publican policy leader, Joined Pepper and other administration ' spokesmen in fighting efforts to ' set the minimum below 75 cents. He called it a "very reasonable" ' figure. Umpqua River Dredging Bid Far Above Estimate PORTLAND, Sept. 1. VP) The army engineers were considering- today the $189,123 low bid of two Seattle firms for dredging the main ship channel in the Umpqua river from Reedsport to a point 4.4 miles above the river mouth. The bid, lowest of four, was above the government estimate of $149,666. It was submitted by Manson Construction and En gineering company and Osburg Construction company. The project would include dredging the river to a depth of 22 feet and width of 200 feet, and dredging a 600 by 1000 font turning basin to the same depth. Paroled. Convict Sought For Slaying In Tavern - TACOMA. Sept. .liP) A war rant was issued today charging Charles A. Greene, 23-year-old convict and ex-soldier, with the fatal shooting of Robert Lee Aut ry in a downtown tavern here last night. ' The warrant was Issued upon request of Det. Capt. Larry Am undson and Chief Criminal Dep uty Prosecutor Martin Potter. The motive for the attack is believed to be woman trouble, Amundson said. The 34-year-old welder was hit three times In the fatal fusillade In the downtown tavern. The gunman used a pistol In the, attack and threatened to shoot pursuers. Police said he i mav have been wounded in tn Shoulder or upper arm by shot. fired bv Patrolman Ross Mnwre who Joined in the back-lots chase. Drunk Driving, Firearm In Auto Are Charged Maurice Martin, Roseburg, has been released upon posting of $100 bail on a drunk driving charge, reported Chief of Police Calvin H. Baird. He has not yet appeared to enter a plea. A fur ther charge of possession of a firearm In a motor vehicle ts also placed against him. said Baird. litis charge, of a more serious nature, will be handled In justice court. Baird said. Livity Fact Rant lyUF. ItetMnsteln If the squelching of commu nist firebrands lit the U. S. call for quick and efficient action, we recommend detail of Douglas county fire fighters, M sW' V