U. Of 0. Library . Comp t Eugene, rgou V am WHO DOES WHAT - -.nj S3 t - - ."T - s I 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- (Continued on Page Four) 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. V i slated for Sept 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 (Continued on Page Two) 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. (Continued on Page Two! 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- ( Continued on Page Two) 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 tember 2a - . I 'L. Jar IU I -a un ii in 1 1 an sa iiil VsMrf-! ttt. i ,!ia'wr aV . N 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- (Continued on Page Two) 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. 'rwh t; ,t..- 16, 1949 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. 21-49 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 (Continued on Page Two) 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 timony, in th-trul. - - - 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- (Continued on Page Two) 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.