U. Of 0. Library Comp - 1 "Eugene,. Oregon jT-l- PairSy Briars ilptesart WHO DOES WHAT btt, Steraf n&& Cancellation Of Bond Asked In Fresh Move Multnomah Group And State Treasurer Alter Their Views Off Officer The Weather fair today, tonight and Sat urdoy. Continued warm. Sunset today :47 a. m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:3 m. JL t fen t CUS LINDBLOOM. veteran Dixonville, kneels in a field of irrigated tomatoes on lorn fertile bottom land of hit Urge farm. They ara just coming into nice production and conititute, ha raporti, tha bait yield he hat aver had considering both quantity and quality. As a young man Cus was a merchant in Colorado. "I came to Oregon," he told me, "on the recommendation of a Roseburg school teacher who formed one of a party touring Yellowstone park one summer. She talked so much and so favorably about Roseburg and Douglas county I decided I had to see it. She was Rosa Parrott, and since I have been here I've thought many times I ought to call her and tell her what a good promotion talk she gave. But I never did I had only merely overheard her talking to members of her party; I never met her." Well, I'm sure Miss Parrott would be charmed to know Gus. She and her family before her have been here long enough to know what Douglas county is like. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THIS sentence leads off a recent dispatch from Belgrade, capi tal ol Yugoslavia: "Spreading ' rumors1 'of Soviet army troop concentrations near Yugoslavia's frontier accented speculation today over the Rus sian denunciation of Premier Marshal Tito." (Moscow this week denounced Tito for the EIGHTH time, send ing him a note in which It called him an "ally of the Western powers" which is about as nasty an insult as Moscow can lay its tongue to.) WATCH it but don't get too excited. When one gangster calls an other gangster a crook EIGHT TIMES IN A ROW It makes good newspaper reading. When the big (Continued on Page Four) Justice Rutledge In "Critical" Condition YORK, Me., Sept. 2. UPl The condition of Supreme Court Jus tice Wilev B. Rutledge was re ported as "grave" today by a York hospital bulletin. The hospital said his name was on the "critical" list. The bulletin was issued by Jus tice Rutledge's physicians. Dr. Fred A. Geier of Washington, D. C, and Dr. Elmer Tower of the hospital staff. The 55-year-old iurist Is suffer ing from a circulatory ailment. Legion Names New National Leader, Urges Atom Secrecy, Communist Party Outlawing PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2. IJP-The American Legions new national commander 40-year-old George N. Craig of Brazil, Ind. stood pledged today to make that organization "an Important voice in the nation's political and social life." The Hoosier lawyer the first World War two veteran ever named to head the Legion was chosen yesterday in a nip-and-tuck race with three other candi dates. The Job pays $15,000 an nuallv and carries with It a $35,000 expense allowance. In November the Legion's na tional executive committee will decide where the 1950 conclave will be. Los Angeles. Boston and New York are bidding for the site. "My generation has already carried the responsibility of na tional security in time of war," Craig said, "and now we join, In unity of purpose, our older com rades ... in promoting and safe guarding those principles neces sary for our continued strength and prosperity as a nation." The legion took these stands: 1. The U. S. should retain atomic energy under civilian con trol and not share the atom se crets with any nation. Including our allies. 2. Aid to China nationalists fighting communism. 3. Curtailment "as far as pos sible" of any further Immigration I (Continued on Page Two) T 7 fruit and" produce grower Boy Slays His Father "To Teach Him Lesson" CHARLESTON, S. C, Sept. 2 (P) A 15-year-old boy who killed his father to teach him "a lesson" was in custody of his mother today. - .Countyi police Chief Julian T. Williams said the youth, Leonard Craven, would be charged with the shotgun slaying after a cor oner's inquest. He quoted the youth as saying he did the shoot ing "to teach my father a lesson." The youth fatally wounded his father, Marion M. Craven, after the Eider Craven had threatened him and two other children yes terday and ordered the mother from the house, the police chief said. Williams added that the father, a 36-year-old truck driver, had been drinking. Missing Madras Girl Found In Cascade Area MADRAS, Sept. 2. (.f) A 15-year-old girl, object of a wide spread search, was found safe yesterday on Olallie butte. "All I want is a bath," said Vir ginia Carpenter, who was sun burnt but apparestly otherwise unhurt from her 24 hours on the peak. Approximately 150 searchers went into the Cascade range to hunt the girl, and a dozen planes flew low as pilots scanned the I The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williams, a Madras high scnooi senior, in a cit-tnin she had stepped to wave a hand kerchief at the planes. The girl was lost Wednesday when she became separated from others in a girls' organization out to pick huckleberries. GEORGE N. CRAIG American LeQion Choice m-JLjJk i k f ate of i ' ' V 1 LW:LI Established 1873 Airport Issue To Be Given Voters Feeder Line Service Aim Of Proposal Requirements Finally Listed After Two Years Of CAA Investgiation The question of whether Rose burg is to have an airport, cer tified as available lor feeder line service, soon will be ready to place before voters. After investigations covering a period of more than two years, a definite minimum runway length has been fixed and cen ter line established. Engineering estimates as to the cost of run way extension, grading, draining, surfacing, lighting, etc., now can be prepared and submitted at an election. For more than two years rep resentatives of the Civil Aero nautics administration, State Ae ronautics board, National Pilots association, City of Roseburg and chamber of commerce have been endeavoring to prepare an air port plan meeting minimum CAA safety requirements. Final inspection of a proposed layout was made Thursday by E. L. Yuravich, chief of plan ning and evaluation division of the CAA; Fred Wild, CAA plan ning engineer, and J. V. Fry berger, CAA assistant district en gineer. Must Move Runway The CAA will approve the Rose burg airport in its present loca tion providing the north end of the existing runway Is moved a short distance to t re ,wes end extended 800 feet to the north, Yuravich told George West, chair man of the Roseburg city coun cil's aviation committee; City Manager Matt Slankard, B. B. Irving, engineer, and Harold J. (Continued on Page Two) Damages Asked In Fatal Collision Involving S. P. Co. Damages of $15,000 are asked by the administrator of the es tate of Clark F. Bartholomy, who was killed, along with his wife, June, in a pickup truck-train col lision May 19 at Drain R. L. Whipple as administrator, has named as defendants the Southern Pacific Co., W. E. Ir win, the engineer, and Charles Swearingen. operator of the pick up In which the Bartholomy were passengers. Negligence on the part of the Southern Pacific is charged on the alleged grounds of failing to maintain gates, flagman or prop er warning device at the cross ing on B street in Drain, that the engineer failed to blow the whistle or ring a bell, and that the train was traveling at an "unreasonable" rate of speed un der the conditions and circum stances are also alleged. The defendant Swearingen is charged with negligence in that he allegedly failed to keep a proper lookout and to keep the truck under control so as avoid the collision. A daughter. Marlene Fsye. and son, David Lesler, survive the Bartholomys. City Jail Overcrowded, Eugene Frees Prisoners EUGENE, Sept. 2 (JPi All the prisoners arrested by city police on minor charges were at large today. Sheriff c A. swans iet tnem all out ol jail yesterday, declar ing that his county Jail no long-r had enough room for city prison ers. The Sheriff said the county jail was designed for eiglit prisoners; now nas s; ana with city prisoners thrown in. too - has been jammed with an average 35 to 45 dur-ng the past weeks. City police chief Keith Jones, who hasn't got any ceils of his own, appealed for quick con struction of a city jail "to pro tect the public". Women Paint Crosswalks When Crew Quits Job OCEANLAKE, Sept. 2 (JPi The crew painting cross walks across the highway In this coast al town quit the other day. So the town's women, who thought cart were passing en tirely too fast for the safety of school pupils, went down to the city supply house and picked up the paint. They went out to the highway and painted six cross walks. "We want It done before school opens Tuesday," they ex plained. ; STOMACH INVIOLATE Internal Hunt For Narcotics Illegal, Ruling LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2m IV illegal to search a man's stomach for evidence, a federal judge has ruled. After giving the opinion that such a procedure is "trial by or deal," Judge Jacob Weinberger yesterday dismissed narcotics charges brought against Andrew Willis, whose stomach was searched. Willis, 42-vear-old laborer, was arrested June 26 by federal nar cotics agents. He was taken to a hospital, strapped 1o a bed and a stomach pump was applied, officers said they recovered two capsules of heroin by this method. Judge Weinberger commented that this was the most unusual procedure" he had ever heard of tor obtaining evidence. However Willis was immediate ly re-arrested by Los Angeles police on a state narcotics charge. County Engages Architect For Indigent Home The Douglas County court has signed an agreement securing the services of William Lalng, Medfofd, as architect for the new county home. The architect will be charge! with Jrafting of plans and speci fications and. engineering of tlus pruji-ci, wnne jl is uiiut-r - cuii structlon. Members of the court contact ed Laing recently, when they in spected a similar county home project now nearing completion for Jackson countv at Medford, said Judge D. N. Busenbark. The Jackson county project Is almost identical, although allght- ly smaller than that planned for this unty. The local home is scheduled to have 60 beds, com pared with 55 at Medford. Ten tative plans In a rough draft have been submitted by Lalng. The Douglas county home will probably be located on the Douglas Community hospital site, although formal agreement has not yet been completed. Doomed Ex-Oregon Man Appeals To High Court DENVER, Sent. 2. iJB Paul J. Srhnelder, former Hub bard, Ore., resident, is appealing his death sentence to 1he supreme court of the United States. Schneider was convicted of the slaying of Frank J. Ford, Denver filling station operator. Schneider's attorney, J. Cardr Smith of Fort Morgan, based the appeal on the ground tha Scnei. ders constitutional rights were violated wis oriel contends Schneider was deprived of legal counsel more than two weeks, during which he was questioned ami L, nossesslon of four slot ma gave officers an oral confession chines, reported District Attor- oi me siaying. .-cnnemer was ar- rested in Pikeville, Ky., and re turned to Denver before he got ; legal counsel. After several stays of execu tion, Schneider now is In the penitentiary, pending a decision on whether the supreme court Truman Signs VA Bill, Less Than He Requested WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.tm President Truman has signed a bill appropriating S7.617.739.3K1 for the veterans administration, the atomic energy commission and a score of so-called independ ent federal agencies. The money is to finance the agencies for the fiscal year end- ing next Junp 30, Its total is $433,604,469 less than the President requested. In addi tion to the cash, the biii per mits the agpneies to Incur con tract obligations up to $452,189, 628. Approximately $5,000,000,000 of the total is for the veterans ad ministration and $1,000,000,000 for the atomic energy commission. Lottery Priie Won, Day After Death Hits SYDNEY, Australia, Sept 2. t William Westren, 72-year-old pensioner, bought an other ticket in the New Scuth Wales state lottery recently. The ticket won first priie of 6.000 (S19.3BO) today. But Westren was not hand. Ha died last nigM of a heart attack. His daughter, Nita Westren, told newsmen; "He watted all his Mt t win tha big prite." t ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, SEPT. Ex-ton Jailed Here For Use Of Firearm Accused Of Shooting At Yoncalla Marshal, Who Retaliates In Car Chase Chester William Clark, 50, Port land, is being held in the Douglas county jaii, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, after he allegedly fired a shot from a .45 calibre pistol at City Marshal Vincent A. McEimurry, Yoncalla, reported State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell. Clark, an ex-convlct from Fol som prison and the Oreeon State penilentiary, according to Har- reu, will oe charged further as an ex-convlct carrying a fire arm. Aliases for Clark are listed as Don Lester Rae, Charles Con ley and Leo Hartman. McEimurry gave chase as Clark, In an alleged Intoxicated condition, drove through Yon calla about 11:30 p.m.. Thurs day, according to the officer's report, the chase continued to Rice hill, where 'Clark oartiallv wrecked his car, but managed to get back on the highway. Cop Use Gun As McEimurry got out of his ear and started toward Clark, the latter pulled his .45 and fired a round, said Harrell. He then got hack In his car and con tinued on, later completely wreck ing the vehicle further south on Rice hill. The marshal didn't take any (Continued on Page Two) Paul Robeson Vows He'll Sing At Site Of Riot PEEKSSKILL. N. Y.. Scot. X W) Paul.. Robeson says -he will hold a concert Sunday a mile from where a riot broke up a scheduled appearance last week and veterans groups say they'll stage a parade to protest it, as they did before. The Negro sinRer, declaring "There'll be no more Peekskill -. not like that," announced his ac ceptance last night of an invita tion to sing Sunday afternoon in nearby Cortlandt, where the riot raged last Saturday. Fourteen veterans groups Im mediately countered at a meeting near here with plans ta hold a parade past the new concert scene that would be what they termed "a conclusive demonstration against communism." A scheduled concert by the Ne gro singer who has been active ly Identified with leftist move mentsbroke up into a fierce riot Saturday after veterans groups staged a counter-demonstration. At least eight persons were in jured, two seriously. Robeson wiil sing Sunday un der auspices of the "Westchesier Committee for Law and Order," which describes Itself as a non poiitital group formed after last weekend's disturbance. Possession Of Slot Machines Draws Fine Oscar Larson, operator of the Diamond Lake lodge, has paid . ,, o .ion ,he ilMice coun I a i nHH imnn ohnroo v pQO.rt n. Davis. Larson was arrested at Dia mond lake by Constable Levi White. He pleaded guilty to the charge. The slot machines alleged to have been In his possession, how. Lvcr mm not bc brougn,'in at the time of the arrest and they reportedly were removed into Jackson county, according to Davis. Officers in that county are searching for the machines, he said. Heresy Dispute Not Settled Despite Ruling From Vatican I l I I !! n UpnOiUinq DOSTOn HfCnSIbngP BOSTON, Sept. 2.- V-A Boston hierarchy and a Roman Catholic group over whether there j is salvation outside the Catholic church still appear, unsettled today ; despite a Vatican ruling upholding Archbishop Richard J. Owning.) The decision was announced Polit," official publication of the Boston Catholic archdiocese. The announcement said the ruling was made by the supreme sacred congregation of the holy office, over which the Pope presides. The controversial group, led tty j the Rev. Leonard 1, Feeney, S. J., has persisted In the contention non catnoncs couio not oe savea. The church holds otherwise. Th manrfA mnffiwuBlInn rtillna ended with a solemn warning to j Fr. Feeney's adherents to aban- 5 don their position fmmediatciy a ttfte peril ol tne r souls." stand pat pending an ex-cathedra announcement from the Pope mHl . Hon in face of a stern Interdict' J Jlf JTJ MUM tw liriU It JI9 WW 2, 1949 Steamboat Bridge Progress Promises Opening To Traffic On N. Umpqua Road This Fall I -";(' ,-- "r case dew'ope it might later be f - ii - v , ' ' I necessary to ask a grand jury to I if- 'w took into ft. I i'.-af .m-Ctt hf--t De Close's attorney. ThoniM NEW BRIDCE AT STEAMBOAT Recant view of concrete-and". steal bridge ever Steamboat ereelc, on tha North Umpqua hiohway, show, coffar dam in mid.rr.am wh.r. c.nt.r pi.r h.. unca baan constructed. This viaw was taken on upstream tide of f. i I I I f I , ateamooar crass, wnicn tiows to tha left of this picture. On the guard station. (Picture by Forest service. I Traffic Is expected to move over the new Steamboat creek bridge this fall. The concrete-a-nd-steel span costing total of about $123,000, is a link on the North Umpqua highway. M. M. Nelson, supervisor of the Umpqua National forest, said the contractors have started to place steel girders on the bridge and expect to complete the project In the fall. The bridge is 303 feet long, built on b slight curv. It include three concrete piers and concrete abutments at either end. Work on the center pier necessitated eonstrtictton of coffer dam in Steamboat creek, in order to place the foundation on bed rock. Lockyear and White of Seattie are the contractors, while the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads is supervising the work. The con tract includes construction of three-tenths of a mile of road at either end of the bridge. Other Work Listed Nelson said other road Im provement work on the forest Inciudrs: Replacement of bridge over Lake creek, at north end of Di culverts. The bridge was broken amond iake, with two itrctwi down by a tractor about a year ago. Replacement of bridge with a culvert on the Elephant moun tain road. V.' . i . t.u over Pmhei S near Laws n i. r, iL. " 1 A ILL I five months dispute between the by Archbishop Cashing in 'The LoiT,.4 ,r m!mTafir, ?t Kam!,t thrir wn - " lencing of tr. teeney. Rnfnrrlnir In th ffrniin's stand. the letter from the sacred con - gregatlon declared: ... . i, i, clear lnat n,e aoc- (trine printed fey the group) lnB , far from being such, and d0 no,nin, but grSve harm to Unose who are in the church and t m 11 (Continued oq Page Two) 207-49 , , " ('.. i 1 .1 kl--iL II - !...! inio ina nunn umpqua rir far side is (it of old Steamboat hernia district. Surfacing of five miles of the North Umpqua highway east of Diamond lake with pumice gravel. Surfacing of eight miies of the South Umpqua road east of Til ler with crushed rock. Rock crush ing equipment la being set up for the project. Ail road work on the Umpqua lorext Js under the supervision of David Judklns, forest en gineer, said Nelson. Two Tote Found Dead In Ice Box ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2. iP A citywide search for two small St. Paul children ended last night when their smothered bodies were found in an ice box, stored in s neighbor's garage. The tiny victims were Franklin Sherer, five, and two and one half year old Sandra, a tot for whom Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Sherer, the boy's parents, were caring pending her adoption by the famiiy. Mrs. Sherer missed the chil dren shortly before dinner time and called police. Squad cars were alerted. But if wasn't until four hours later that one of the officers found Franklin's tricycle in the earaee of John Llnnerooth. next rioor neichbor of the Sherers. The Llnnerooth family had beep flhunnt tnrp noon vosieraav. ai- ater to find the tots curled up in separate compartment, behind tightly closed doors. Fire depart- I. resrue .mrari members Wd "'. '"- i . i .f. fori to revive tnem. Police said they would ques- ton playmates tolcarn if the 10 pulled X doors ctesed al4ent- '"V r " poult not be opened from the inside. 71 . j KOSeuurg f "" ' Alternate Acoointtnefit Mliernai (jpimnm Congressman tlarris Ellsworth today announced the nominattan of IJorald w. Anaerson, wjj a. Stephens St., Koseourg, as secono - i alternate for appointment to the I j Stephens St., Roseburg, as second i . Point, N. Y. Nominations are OSSCd On i grades earned In the Civil Serv- lice uolifying examination taken Anderson and all other com - slept is fbfcW '"n(1 ,lrs al ernate to qualify, An-;ftrtii to mottn tM ttetfls Tron.hliLZr1 11 1rwpTy wimrs wfcM nW t? !?. .ffi tht wv tkwr t t " - - , - -, 'mental requirements. PORTLAND, Sept. 2.UP) Sheriff Mike Elliott was con fronted -with possible Jos of hi bond today while hia friend -and advisor, Mike de Clccl, won a legal skirmish on a harboring-a-fugitive charge. Late yesterday De CJooa wt charged with harboring a fugi tive from Los Angeles. The man. Waiter H. Bergen, was arrested In Vancouver, Wash., today -and a short time later the charge against De Cicco was dropped. Deputy District Attorney Charles E .Raymond aaid, after De Cicco appeared in his office: "The information will be with drawn and the warrant wili be recalled." He added that as the Mahonev, said the whole thine was due to De Cicco'a support of Elliott, who is under attack In s recall move. De Ctaeo is stat Democratic party treasurer, El liott also is a Democrat. Elliott's latest difficulty came when Walter Pearson, state treasurer, called for cancellation of the bond that keeps the sheriff in office. Pearacn, a Democrat whj pre vlotisly ' had supported Elliott, said he had changed his mind about the sheriff, and Implied that c majority of Democratic party leaders had done likewise. The action came several hours after the charge was tiled against De Cicco, friend and sdviser of Elliott. Both Pearson and De Cicco were instrumental In getting the J11O.O0O bond for EHfott in the first place. Elliott, now the tar get of a recall movement, had trouble In raising the bond. Finally De Cicco contributes! mors ey. Pearson, then an Insurance" agent, arranged for the bond. Family Tangla Involved The charse aeainst De Clcen resulted from a Los Angeles do- mesne tangle in which Walter n. Bergen, 3t, ex-Los Angeles county auxiliary deputy sheriff, is accused by his ex-wife ol maV (Continued on Page Two) -Sr- Scbool Opening ' Plans Prepared B C.iX 7 TOI 3TOTT APif -U,, M Jui,' ,rt . 7 . '" i izu persons, met yesterday in the library of the iunior hleh school for the first general session, In preparation lor sctroci openinf Sept. 6. Main topics of discussion were the study curriculum for the corn ins year and t explanation of the double shift system, Elliott said. Because of the greatly increas ed grade school enrollment, Rose burg will Join other crowded Ore gon cities forced to divide each school day In half. Riverside and Fullcrton grade schools will be the schools affected, Elliott ssid. At each school, .first, third and fifth graders will attend classes in the morning; second, fourth and sixth graders wiii report for the afternoon session. Following a luncheon, the teach ers reported to their respective school buildings to familiarize themselves with the teaching fa cilities offered, Supt. Elliott issued another plea for housing for city teachers. He said the great demand now is for furnished apartments or .houses, to be rented at reasonable rates to women teachers. Eiiiott expressed appreciation to the many Roseburg citizens who have phoned his office offer ing housing to teachers. As a re sult ol these offers, he said ail the city's men teachers have Ijeett provided Jor. .However, several women teachers are still without satisfactory places to stay during the school year. Persons with apartments or houses to rent are asked to can tiuoti s ouice ax me junior high school, phone 434. Crek fft WW A lire which was confined Thursday to a area of approxl- maleiy 25 aotm Beais a-eeit reported today by V. F. Mc Lauehlln. dlspatener lor tne Douglas Forest Protective asso- elation. The blaze started in the tog slash area scene i ol : the Harbor wh tte fim'rWhtn, McLaughlin's headquarters at & 9- ft Md , ck i0. t)on j,y tne 29 loggers and fire patrolmen kept the blaze from spreading rapidly through tha rf.na.rous area. Two numD trucks .r- .h i artriltlnn to three j rals " Livity Ft Ron By L, T. Relnenstehi 1 Th new toiot on th tOttrl- i10lTTitSti.