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MRS. HENRY BAILEY Sr., who lives on the Forestry road in
Riverside, it shown admiring an ornamental gourd which sha
has grown from stock obtained from California.
This gourd now is 48 inches long and still is growing. "During
the last of August," Mrs. Bailey informed me, "it grew 7 J
inches in just two days. We measured it!"
RETAIL MERCHANTS MEET
Large Attendance Present
To Hear Final Plans For
Big Fall Opening Program
The largest group to attend a Roseburg Retail Trade association
meeting this year met at the.Umpqua hotel Wednesday noon to
hear final plans for the Fall Opening and street light Inauguration
In the Day's News
' By FRANK JENKINS
THIS atory comes from Wash
ington: "A self-styled member of the
U. S. communist party say Rus
sia has sent a secret 'trouble
shooting unit' to this country. He
explained that communists think
the party is in danger of being
driven underground and that the
purpose of the trouble shooting
unit is to keep that from happen
ing." The communist In question is
named Malkin, and he made his
statement in the course of testi
mony given before the senate
judiciary committee.
HE made anoher interesting
statement.
The total number of card
carrying communist party mem-
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TWO TRAFFIC DEATHS
PORTLAND, Sept. 16 P
Death of a pedestrian minister
and a motor-scooter rider Wed
nesday raised the city's traffic
toll for the year to 14 deaths,
half the total for the same period
last year.
The Rev. Charles R. Rodman,
72, an Apostolic Faith pastor, was
struck by a motorcycle. Michael
Pistoresi, 34, died of injuries suf
fered last month.
American Soldier Relates
Tale Of Harsh Treatment
After Soviet Prison Escape
BERLIN, Sept. 16. .P) An American soldier burrowed out of
a Soviet Jail in east Berlin and related a story today of beat
ings and mistreatment during his 10 months confinement by
the Russians.
The American, Private John J. Sienkiewicz, 26, of Baltimore,
told U. S. officers Soviet officials thought, because of his name,
that he was a Polish displaced person being used to spy on
the Russians.
He said he and three British
companions used a blunt knife
to bore through a thick Jail wall
until they could reach through
and open their cell door. Then
thev made their way to the west
ern' sectors of Berlin.
Sienkiewicz was taken to an
army hospital and reported So be
In a "generally weakened physi
cal condition but not unduly un
dernourished." Held Since November
He had been held by the Rus
sians since last Nov. 5. when he
rode a streetcar Into the Soviet
sector of the city by error. He
aid he was questioned 16 days
and nights and "beaten when
they said I was lying." He said
A.
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21.
City Manager M. W. Slarikard
told rhe group of the city's co
operation with the Retail Trade
association to make this Fall
Opening a "huge success." Al
though Roseburg's streets will be
lit as they never have before,
Slankard said the city would be
able to provide only two of the
intended four circuits of lights
for Fall Opening time.
"We have only enough trans
formers on hand to furnish two
circuits," Slankard said, explain
ing that shipment of the remain
ing transformers from the East
has been held up.
As a result, Jackson street, the
main business street, will be
lighted its entire length, with
side streets from Mosher to East
2nd Ave. South also lighted.
Stephens street will still have the
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Court Test May End
Indian Fishing Dispute
THE DALLES. Sept. 16. (.'PI
A court test may end tribal bick
ering over fishing rights at Ce
lio falls on the Columbia river
near here.
A delegation from the Nez
Perce tribe in Idaho served notice
yesterday It would not relinquish
anv rights to the big three in
fishing the Warm Srpings, Uma
tilla and Yakima reservation In
dians. So did other Indians from as
far away as southern California.
The Celilo fish committee, a
controlling group set up by the
big three, heard the complaints
from the Nez Perces and others,
but took no action.
the Russians mistreated and tor
tured him In other ways, too.
British headquarteri said the
three British soldiers were ar
rested March 3. 1948. and had
been imprisoned ever since a
period of 18 months.
Brutally Treated
Officers quoted the three as
saying: "We were brutally treat
ed throughout our captivity and
were subjected to Immersions In
cold water and kickings and beat
ings by Russian officers and sol
diers. We were fed on the scantiest-rations."
The American'! mother la Mrs.
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The Weather
Partly cloudy end cooler to
day with widely scattered show,
en; becoming fair and warmer
Saturday.
Sunset today e:22 P. m.
Sunrise tomorrow 5:54 a. m.
Established 1873
Giant B36 Bomber Crashes Into Texas Lake
Three Killed;
Others Sought
In Wreckage
Eight Of Crew Saved;
Mystery Of Crash Is
Reported Unexplained '
FORT WORTH. Texas, Sept.
16. iJP) A Giant B36. world's
largest bomber, crashed Into a
lake last night, taking three or
more lives.
Air force officers said thev
were mystified by the 326,006
pound giant's plunge Into Lake
Worth. An unexplained power
failure was blamed.
One member of the crew of 13
was killed in the crash. Bodies
of two other crewmen, caught
in the submerged wreckage of
the huge craft, were recovered
today.
Two airmen still were missing.
Eight of the crew survived.
The six-engined giant roared
down Carswell Air Force base's
long runway just after dusk last
night, rose onlv a few feet and
fell into the lake at 100 miles
an hour.
Still Mystery
Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey, eight
air force commander, said:
"After questioning all of the
men in the B-36 involved in last
night's accident, we are more in
the dark than ever as to its
cause."
Ramey said that when the pilot
called for emergency power "the
emergency power was Indicated
on the instruments, but the plane
was not developing it."
Technical Sgt. William G. Sey-
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Hungary's Former
No. 2 Communist
Guilty of Plot
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. 16
tPl Aiaszlo Rajk, once Hun
gary's No. 2 communist, told a
people's court today he dotted
with Americans and other west
erners to overthrow the com
munist government and make
Hungary a "colony of Yugo
slavia."
Rajk, former interior minister
and foreign minister in the com
munist government, went on
trial for his life with seven others
against a background of a seeth
ing war ot nerves between com
munist Yugoslavia and the Soviet
led nations of the Cominform.
The former boss of Hungary's
police pleaded guilty to all
charges In the Indictment. One
of these was that he plotted with
Marshal Tito's Yugoslav govern
ment to assassinate leading Hun
garian officials.
Rajk quickly named two Amer
icans as accomplices. Heaping
guilt upon his own head in a long
recital to the court, he freely
almost eagerly testified to con
tacts with British, French, Amer
ican and Yugoslav Intelligence
agents.
(The trial was following a
familiar pattern. As in the case
of the convicted Roman Catholic
prime'e, Josef Cardinal Minds
zenty, the defendants went on
trial with the presumption that
they were guilty until proved
innocent. This is the opposite of
most western procedure.
(The Yugoslav government
charged last night that the trial
was a trumped up device of the
Soviet Union for an "unbridled
witchhunt" against Yugoslavia,
and that It was based on lies and
forgeries.)
The Americans named by Rajk
were Lt. Col. George Kovacks,
formerly stationed in Budapest,
and a man named Martin Him
mler. Rajk said both Instructed
him about spying and plotting
against the government. The state
contends the defendants had
marked deputy Premier Matyas
Rakosi. Hungary's . communist
boss, for assassination.
Ex-Con's Bullet Ridden
Body Found By Police
VALLEY STREAM. N. Y..
Sept. 16 iJPi The bullet-riddled
body of a one time associate of
Gangland Boss Louis (Lepke)
Buchalter was found late last
night, the eighth anniversary of
the start of the trial that sent
Buchalter to the electric chair.
The still-warm body of Phil
Little Farvel) Cohen, 43-year-old
ex-mobster, was found dump
ed near Southern State Parkway
on Long Island. Three slugs had
ripped through his head and three
others through his back.
Buchalter. overlord of the no
torious "Murder, Inc.", gang,
and two of his henchmen died in
Sing Sing's electric chair in 1944
for the slaying of Joseph Rosen,
a Brooklyn candy store operator.
Cohen, whom officials describ
ed as a "favorite" of the gang
leader, was indicted In the same
slaying but was never brought to
trial. Instead he was sent to fed
eral prison on a narcotics charge.
He was paroled six months ago
on the narcotics sentence.
ROSEBURG,
TITO SUPPORT ASSURED
Secretary Acheson Reports
U.S.-British-French Plan
To Deal In Soviet Cold War
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-P Secretary of State Acheson re
ported to President Truman and the cabinet today on new U. S.British-French
measures to deal with Russia In -the cold war.
The -report was made at a 45-minute meeting In the White
House. Acheson, however, declined afterwards to discuss it with
reporters. It was the regular Friday .cabinet meeting.
Crisis Looming
In Soft Cocl
Pension Dispute
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. (P)
A crisis loomed today in the soft
coal Industry over refusal of
some operators to pay the 20-
cent royalty for miners' pen
sions.
John L. Lewis headed back to
Washington from White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va., for a possible
showdown with at least the
southern coal operators who have
been holding back the welfare
payments due Aug. 20. Some op
erators feared a strike call was
imminent.
Lewis also was reported to be
calling a meeting of the welfare
fund trustees, amid rumors tnat
Senators Styles Bridges (R-NH),
the neutral member was about
to resign.
Bridges has been criticized for
remaining as a member after It
was disclosed that he and oper
ator Ezra Van Hor, the employer
representative, were receiving
$35,000 a year each lor their
services.
Bridges .accepted the post 17
months ago and helped break
Lewis' deadlock over pension pay
ments at that time. Lewis is chair
man of the trustees, but accepts
no pay.
He gets $.Y),000 a year and ex
penses as head of the united
Mine workers union.
The UMW boss concentrated
his welfare attacks on southern
operators he said were causing
the 510u,00u,u)u a year pension
fund to be "bled white." But
there were Indications also that
he was anxious about whether
mine owners In the north and
west would hold back when their
pensions payments came due Sep
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ROSEBURG STUDENT IODT MEETS COACHES IN RALLY Hundedt of Roieburo. high school
students turned out last night in the rain to cheer their coaches and football team in a rally that
started at junior high school. The students formed a serpentine, marched to the Umpque hotel,
where coaches and members of the team were introduced. The rally continued to the new
Douglas community hospital grounds, where a roaring bonfire climaxed the affair. Top picture,
head football Coach Cece Sherwood is interviewed by Del McKay, KRNR radio announcer,
while Coach Norm West listens and Coach Ray Brown thinks of something to lay over the
"mike." Barry Kenny, Indians halfback and fullback, behind McKay, smiles for the camera.
Estreme right is Jackie Daniels and Pat Mean, members of the yell squad. Lower picture, Yell
princess Willa Wilshire helps lead the students in school yells. (Staff fotol.
OREGON FRIDAY, SEPT.
Topping the list was believed to
be agreement to give Yugo
slavia's Marshal Tito all essential
support in his economic and poli
tical struggle with Moscow. All
the various matters have been
intensively reviewed here this
week by Achson and Foreign
Ministers Bevin and Schuman.
Climaxes Meeting
The American, British, and
French foreign policy chiefs
climaxed their round of meetings
yesterday. They held then a three
hour and forty-five minute ses
sion devoted to discussing Yugo
slavia and the general Balkan
situation as well as Germany and
Austria.
Officials said they did not get
around to talking about the de-
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Six Men Rescued
After Tug Grounds
CORDOVA, Alaska. Sept. 16
OP) Six men from the grounded
tugboat Afognak were rescued
vesterday by the fishing boat
Mary B, the coast guard report
ed. The Mary B's skipper, Ira
Rothwell, gave no details of the
rescue, but said one of the sea
men, Arthur Johnson, suffered
a rib Injury. The fishing vessel
was awaiting high tide to return
to Cordova.
The Afognak ran aground ear
ly yesterday some 75 miles south
east of here after sending dis
tress calls that she was shipping
water near Kayak Island in the
storm-tossed Gulf of Alaska.
Rothwell said It appeared the
lug was a total. loss. The Mary B
was dispatched to the area by
U. S. Marshal M. E. Edmunds.
It arrived yesterday morning.
Earlier, Merle K. Smith of the
Cordova air service and two ob
servers who had been circling the
area reported the crew was fran
tically attempting to launch a
dory and make a run for It to the
beach near Palm point.
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Roseburg Lions
To Honor Best
Football Player
Win. lose or draw, the Rose
burg Lions club will be behind the
local high school football team.
This announcement came from
Norman Siefarth, committee
chairman, who stated that the
club is beginning early to show
Its support.
The outstanding Roseburg
player of each game will be feted
at the following Thursday's club
dinner meeting, and his name
will be engraved on a cup, to
be presented at the meeting.
Since AAU rules prohibit a high
school player from keeping the
cup permanently until after grad
uation, the trophy will remain in
the player's possession one week
only. Provision is made that the
player who has ills name engrav
ed the most number of times dur
ing season shall, upon gradua
tion, be entitled to keep the cup.
The entire team will be honor
ed at the end of the season with
a Lions club banquet.
Italian Aviators Take
Longest Way To Return
LAGENS, The Azores, Sept. 16
Italian Aviators John M.
Brondello and Camllllo Bar log Ho
are taking the long way home.
The weather from here to Lis
bon (780 miles) Is bad so the men
decided to fly Instead to New
York (2000 miles) and return to
Lisbon (2780 miles) by boat.
iney iook on mis morning at
10:13 a.m.
The two flyers abandoned an
attempt to make a non-stop
single-engine Atlantic flight last
week when a fuel pipe clogged.
The flyers' New York represen
tative reported that three hours
and 32 minutes after the take-off
they radioed that they had flown
J4U mues.
Nighthawks Are Treated
To Street Light Display
Nighthawks were pleasantly
surprised about 3 o'clock this
morning, when the city street de
partment turned on the new light
ing system to test Its operation.
Jackson street blazed with a
noontime brightness as the new
tvpe street lights blinked on. The
lights on Main street appeared
not to be nearly as brilliant as
those on Jackson.
The new street lights will be
turned on officially Wednesday,
Sept. 21. the night of the annual
Fall Opening and treasure hunt.
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CIO Appeals
To Big Steel
To Avert Strike
Murray Asks Industry
To Accept Fact Finding
Board's Recommendation
PITTSBURGH. Sept. 16. (.P
The CIO United Steelworkers to
day appealed to the steel Indus.
try to accept the presidential
board's peace recommendations
to avert a strike Sept. 25 and
at the same time summoned Its
top strategists to plot the union's
next move.
Union President Philip Murray
sent this telegram to the 57 steel
producing companies which ap
peared before rresldent Tru
man's fact finding board.
A strike can be averted if
your cooperation will agree with
the union and public opinion to
accept the recommendations of
the steel Industry board as a
basis for negotiating a prompt
settlement of the existing labor
dispute."
Orders Meeting
Murray ordered the big union's
wage policy committee to meet
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Raped Housewife
Dies In Hospital
TACOMA, Sept. 16-.P)- 21-year-old
housewife, around w.iom
rape case involving 10 men cen
tered, died yesterday In Western
State hospital.
County Coroner Paul Melllnger
said Mrs. Marie Charlton's death
was due to bronchial pneumonia.
Hospital authorities said she had
been undergoing , shock therapy
treat mcnis.
The young woman was recom
milted to the Steilacoom hospital
following the shock ot an assert
ed all-night attack May 27.
The 10 Tacoma men were ac
cused of the attacks on Mrs.
Charlton three months ago but
were not charged until recently.
The prosecutor's office had held
It would be Impossible to get a
conviction because the woman
would be considered Incompetent
to testify.
Authorities said she was thrown
nude out of an automobile after
10 hours of assault.
Prosecutor Patrick Steele indi
cated yesterday the woman's
death would mean an end to the
rape case. He said he would con
fer with State Attorney General
Smith Troy today on .egal as
pects. Seattle's Save Boeing
Move Upheld By McKay
OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept. 16 .P
Seattle's save-Boelng move has
the full support of Gov. Douglas
McKay and people of Oregon,
Gov. Langlle says.
Langlie was In Portland yester
day for a meeting of Columbia
Basin Inter -agency committee.
He said Oregon and Washington
officials would Join the federal
government In a survey of power
and flood control management of
the river.
Turning to other matters, Lang
lle said Governor Luther Young
dahl of Minnesota had promised
him two tickets for the University
of Washington contest with the
Gophers a week from Saturday at
Minneapolis.
Langlie said Youngdahl told
him Minnesota was going to the
Rose Bowl this year, "so they
must have a real team."
Marshall Plan Administrator
Sees Self-supporting Europe
By 1952, Upon Return Here
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Sept. 16. f) Marshall Plan Ad
minlstrator Paul G. Hoffman foresees a self-supporting western
Europe as a "definite possibility" by June 30. 1952.
In his first major speech since returning two weeks ago from
a tour of seven European countries, Hoffman disclosed that tht
plan Is now ahead of schedule.
However, he cautioned that ful
filling the target date "Is going
to take a lot of doing on the part
of both Europeans and Ameri
cans." He spoke last night at a meet
ing of the Michigan Municipal
league.
As a further means of advanc
ing world prosperity, Hoffman
advised the United Slates to take
a "slightly higher percentage" of
European Import. He said this
would be balanced by "our own
high volume of American ex
ports. World trade Is essential to Am
erican prosperity, he said, and it
requires "a two-way street."
Hoffman also called upon this
I country to "give full evidence
I that we Intend to rTy the four
1 year Marshall Plan tnrough to
Jury Returns
Verdict After
Long Session
Judge Wimberly To Pass
Sentence Monday To End
Case Of Long Standing
Victoria Sanders was found
guilty of manslaughters last
night, by a Jury of five men and
seven women. The Jurors return
ed to the court room shortly
after midnight, after deliberating
more than seven hours.
When Victoria heard the ver
dict, read bv Circuit Judge Carl
E. Wimberly, her eyes closed
and her smile left her face. While
the Judge polled the Jurors, Vic
toria's hands were grasped by
John W. Purvis, Reed j port, one
of her three lawyers. The verdict
was unanimous.
Judge Wimberly set Mondav,
at 9:30 a.m., as the time for
sentencing.
Returns to Cell
When Victoria left the court
room to return to her cell In the
county Jail, she looked straight
ahead, her eyes narowed to hold
back a glimmering of tears. She
was followed by her attorneys,
Carl Felker and Purvis. Paul E.
Geddes, who earlier in the day
had made a plea for her free
dom, was not present.
Others in the court room last
night included District Attorney
Robert G. Davis and his assistant.
Dudley Walton; State Police Sgt.
Lyle H. Harrell, and a group ot
witnesses who testified during
the nine-day trial. All were sol
emn. When Victoria returns to the
state penitentiary next week, she
will be completing her three-year
term on a previous charge of
writing fictitious checks, as well
as starting a new sentence on
the manslaughter conviction.
Closes Old Case
The jury's verdict last night
closes a case which police have
been Investigating since Oct. 29,
1947, when tnev discovered tne
body of Ralph Mojonnier dead on
the bed in the home he shared
with Victoria, two miles west ot
Drain.
Although Mojonnier had been
killed by gunshot, as a wound
in hia forehead indicated, and a
.22 caliber rifle lay beside his
body, he could not have killed
himself because the bullet follow
ed a downward course through
his head, according to expert tes
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Police searched for Miss San
ders, who left the scene with
her child Oct. 28. She was found
in Portland and returned to the
Drain Justice court to face charg
es of writing fictitious checks.
Her child was left In a Port-
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Study Of Higher
Prices For Gold
Voted By Fund
WASHINGTON. Sept. 16 .P
Governors of the International
Monetary fund voted unanimous
ly today to start a study of a pro
posed higher price for gold. The
United States assented reluctant
ly. The fund and the $8,000,000,000
World bank held closed sessions
this morning. Both governing
boards approved without dissent
ery report from their commit
tees and from the managements
of the global lending agencies.
The bank In Its closed session,
approved the application of the
Republic of Haiti for membership
and fixed $2,000,000 as its share
to 'je subscribed In the bank's
capital. March 31, 1950, was set
as the deadline for posting the
funds and accepting membership.
Since Haiti also would Join the
fund, its acceptance would raise
the membership in both organi
zations to 49 countries.
The date for Liberia's accept
ance of membership was post
poned until next March 31.
Camllle Gutt, managing direc
tor of the fund, who reported the
actions within the closed fund
meeting, said the consensus
among the members Is to make
a start, however small, on the
removal of world-wide currency
restrictions.
its completion."
The amount of aid "must be on
a decreasing scale," he said,
"but if Europe meets her obliga
tions under that plan we should
meet ours."
For Europe, he advised
schievement of "an economic
unification which will create a
single market of 275.000.000 con
sumers, for wham European in
dustry and agriculture can pro
duce economically and to whom
European manufacturers and
faimera can sell freely."
"Only within such a framework
can Europe begin to become tru
ly self-supporting," he said.
Europe's second urgent task Is
that of "earning more dollars,"
the Marshall Plan administrator
said.