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Coop 1 V fctfr 4 ATOfifl . j U. Of 0. Library Eugene. Oregon VJ mm mm . Altltt 2.450-MILE WHEEL CHAIR TRIP City Council President Vin cent Impelliterri greets William Lebow, 43-year-old polio victim from Clovit, N. M., at the New York City Hall at Lebow com pletes a 2,450-mile trip from Clovii in his wheel chair. He is helping promote publicity for the $14,500,000 national polio emergency drive. He has been paralyxed since he was eight years of age. IAP Wirephotol. Lions Club Honors R.H.S. Gridder, Hears Talks On Fire Prevention. Building Rules By LEROY INMAN City Editor Ncwi-Revltw George Packard, Roseburg high school football tram's right guard, was named the tackier of the week and was guest of honor at the Roseburg Lions club's Thursday night meeting In the Hotel Umpqua. Packard, Introduced by Lions student rep resentative Gene Henry, will have his name engraved on the special cup to be - awarded upon graduation to the boy having his name appear the most number of times during the season. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS CHINESE Communist Leader Mao Tze-Tung announces In Pciping the establishment of the "People's Republic of China." In making the announcement he says: "Internationally, we must unite with all countries and peoples loving peace and freedom, FIRST OF ALL THE SOVIET UNION nd the new democratic coun tries, so that we will not stand alone in our struggle to safe guard the fruits of victory." IN ORDER to understand what he is driving at, we must re member that In the Communist Jargon a "democratic country" Is a Communist-ruled country and ONLY COMMUNISTS love peace and freedom all others (espe cially the U. S.) are warmongers). UfELL, that's that. If At least, we know what these Chinese Communists are. They are COMMUNISTS in the (Continued on Page Four) NON-SUPPORT CHARGED Fred Wiley Gould. 43, of 1118 Military Street was arrested Thursday by sheriff's deputies on a Multnomah county warrant charging him with non-support, reported Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Car ter. His bail was set in the war rant at $250. A Multnomah county deputy was expected here today to re turn him to Portland. Basic School Support Fund Gives Districts Of Douglas County More Than $328,700 Douglas county school districts have been enriched by a total of $328,747.87 from the basic school support fund. Checks for the individual districts, representing half the allotment to be received, have Just been received by County School Superintend ent Kenneth Barneburg. ; All the checks and amounts I Allotments to the major dis will be inspected in his office for j tricts of the county are as fol accuracy. said Barneburg. They!iows. Oakland. $13,429.46; Can will then be sent out to the dis-' vonville. $9,800.88; Glide, $11,. trict clerks, as soon as the clerks , 306 41 ; Mvrtle Creek. $.'12,487.19; of the respective districts have Drain, $9,719.64; Riddle. $8,694.16; been bonded, and as soon as tac- Reexport elementarv. $15.927.8.i; ulty members have registered Rdsport Union high, $8,624.03; their professional papers in his nillard, $8,392.55: Sutherlin, $24,. offices, both as required by law. 51794; Drain Union high. $6. This policy Is being carried out 015.03; Wilbur. $1,432.56; Yonral xinder the order of the state super- ia grade, $4,739 49; Yoncalla Un Intendent of public instruction, ion high. $3,248.05; Green, $2. said Barneburg. 9"4 64; South Deer Creek. SI.- Roneburg district 4 receives the 939.43; Winchester. $3,442 96; major portion in the amount of Non-High School district. $16,. $68,284.49. 655.11, and Glendale $10,976.98. City Fire Chief William K. "Dutch" Mills and City Inspector C. H. Boniols were guest speak ers. Mills discussed organization of the Roseburg Volunteer Fire de partment and talked on fire pre vention, in connection with the coming National Fire Prevention week starting Oct. 9. The local department, said Mills, consists of 29 volunteers and six paid firemen. Officers are elected, along with the fire chief, assistant chief and captains of the various divisions. He point ed out Lions members Bob Browning as president of the vol unteers, Bill Unrath as first aid captain and Phil Harth, a long time volunteer. Statistics Quoted Tracing the history of fire de partments in this country, Mills said the first department was or ganized In 1659 in the Dutch col ony of New Amsterdam, now New York City, when 250 buckets, along with ladders and honks, were secured to form the first bucket brigade. Every day, said Mills, quoting (Continued on Page Two) Two Teen-Agere Held For Robbing Train Office KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 23 1P California police held at AI turas today two teenagers, ac cused of robbing the Malin. Ore. railroad freight office of about $60. The two identified by police as Leslie Leroy Davis, 10, and Wil liam David Roach, 17, both of Santa Ana, Calif. were aivested as they drove from the north towards Alturas. Widespread road blocks had been ordered after two youths robbed the Malin Great Northern freight office and fled in the freight agent's automobile. Police said the car and the money were recovered. The Weather Fair this afternoon, tonight end Saturday. Continued warm. Sunset today t:0 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow i:02 a. m. Established 1873 Senate Party Lines Split As Bill Passes, 55-24 Sum Voted Tops Houst Action; Conferenct To Fix Final Appropriation WASHINGTON, Sept. 23-0P -The administration chalked up an Important victory in foreign pol icy today on the strength of the Senate's 55-to-24 approval of an overseas arms program. The Senate reached Its deci sion late yesterday to reaim friendly nations after beating down two moves to make a $200. 000,000 cut in the $1,314,010,000 arms bill. The measure came through the Senate with only two minor changes. This was in part a per sonal triumph for Senator Con nally (D-Texi and Senator Van denberg (R-Michl, the two party leaders in foreign affairs who led the fight for the aid program. Nineteen Republicans joined 36 Democrats in voting for passage. Ten Democrats and 14 Republi cans voted against it. Connally told reporters: "As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, I am highly gratified at passage of the pro- (Continued on Page Two) Pinson Alive, Says Idaho Robbery Pal GOODING, Idaho, Sept. 23 (IP) A prisoner asserted here today that John O. Pinson, dangerous escaped convict from Oregon, still was alive. The prisoner, Garland S. Spen cer, identified a picture of Pinst.n as "the man I was with." during a robbery here recently. He said the man was going un- cr the name of Joseph Antnony Dorian. Dorian recently eluded police, who fired on him, at Couer d'Alene in northern Idaho. Spencer was arrested in Spo kane and returned here. Sheriff Russell Cecil of Good ing said pictures of Pinson were sent him from Portland for Spencer to attempt to identify. He said spencer did it witnoui hesitation. Pinson, convicted of killing a state policeman at Hood River in 1947, escaped with William Ben son from the Oregon prison Me morial Day. Benson was cap tured recently In Columbus, Ohio. He said Finson was wounaea in the escape and later died in northern Idaho. He said he bur ied Pinson there. Police doubted his story and invited Benson to point out the erave. Benson went over the country with police, but failed to point out a grave. Lots Of Smoke, Little Firt At Polict Department "Where's the fire?" That was the cry of persons entering the city hall Wednesday, when they saw smoke pouring from the doors and windows. But city firemen weren't much concerned. The city police were the ones bearing the brunt of the smoke attack. Red-eyed officers just had to stand around and take it. There wasn't much they could do either. The source of the smoke, which boiled up out of a register in the police department office, seemed to come from the furnace hot air conduit. Dust and debris, which had ap parently accumulated in the con duit, had become ignited, but there proved to be more smoke than fire, as the accumulation smouldered, and finally burned itself out. Benson Insists Pinson Dead; Warden Doubts It SALEM. SeDt. 22 OP) Con vict William P. Benson stuck to his story today that John O. Pin son is dead. But Prison Warden George Alexander, who is conducting the . intensive questioning of Benson, i doesn't believe any of Benson's story. Benson, who escaped from the prison last May 30 in a hail of bullets, still maintains that Pin son was shot by a guard, and that Pinson died and was buried five miles east of Kellogg, Idaho. Benson, who was captured in Columbus. Ohio, couldn't show ! officers where Pinson's grave is. Prisoner Delivered To Answer Eastern Charge Ernest K McCIung, 50, arrest 'ed at Kiddle Sept. 9 ,v In : puthoriti, has been released to .Greenliner county, West Vir ginia, authorities, reported I Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter. Mc- Clung, charged with forgery, I was arrested here on a warrant i from Greenliner county. ROSEBURG, OREGON Approves MORSE OPPOSES Attempted Priority Over Basin Program "Political Blackmail," Senator Says By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. I API Sanator Wayna Mors (R-Ortl said today ha opposai craation of a Columbia Vallay administration in the Pacific Northwait. Morse had not previously mada public his position on Prr.i dent Truman's proposal. Tha senator proposed that instead of tatting up a CVA, tha government go ahead with tha construction of projects in tha $1,000,000,000 coordinated program of tha army anginaars and reclamation bureau for development of tha Columbia River basin. 3 Oregon Convicts Escape; 1 Caught SALEM. Sept. 23. .Pl Two escaped convicts were hunted south and east of here today while a third man, their com panion in a break through bars guarding a dry flume, was back in his cell. The men pried back bars over the flume, which stems from Mill creek and is dry at this time of year, and fled along It in late afternoon yesterday to get outside the prison walls. The creek runs through the prison grounds. Hunted are Will am John Per kins, Silverton, serving 40 years for rape and sodomy, and Leo Gilbert Williams, Union county, serving a term for burglary. caugnt at hour corners, a mile east of the prison, was Earl KausoacK ), serving a burglary term. He did not resist as state police took him into custody. The men still sought are not re garded as dangerous. Warden George Alexander said. The three had been working on a construction Job ithin the walls and turned un mhisin when the 6:0 p. m. count was made. Boy's Eyesight Saved By Community's Generosity FAIRBANKS. Alaska. Sept. 23. P A 13-year-old boy, who doc tors say owes his lite and re maining eyesight to the gener osity of Fairbanks' residents, was enroute today to Ogden, Utah, to attend school. The boy, Nordell Carrol, was operated upon for a brain tumor last year alter local residents dug up more than $4,000 to oav costs of the surgery. The opera tion saved nis Hie and a small portion of his eye-sight. Remaining money was set aside in a fund for the boy's use. Members of the Lions' club, who spearheaded the original drive, voted to allot $1500 from the the fund for a year's schooling. While in Ogden. the bov will live with relatives Mrs. James Beverly and Mrs. Eugene Cook. Three Of Family Die In Fire, Fourth Hospitalized FAIRBANKS. Alaska. Sept. 23. (.'Pi Three natives burned to death at Bettles, 300 miles north east of here, yesterday when fire destroyed their log cabin home. U. S. Commissioner Clinton Stewart identified the dead as Johnny Edwards and his two sons. Mrs. Edwards, critically burned was flown to a Fairbanks hos pital for treatment. " : -1 i V-.-:- . .; - K ; A 1$S$ (I ' I ' Wi ':' t v- i s j -! ' Vfr i' i ill WATCH WINNER Pictured above canter is 13-yeer-old Myron Phillips, grinning happily over the watch he exchanged for the one thrown from KRNR's radio tower, 250 feat above the street. Scheduled as a part of the Fall Opening ceremonies, the wateh-throwing stunt was staged by Lawson's Jewelry store to damonttrate that their unbreakable watches are really unbreakable. On the second ettempt, the watch landed on the pavement at the feet of young Phillips, still in good running order. Dan McLean, telephone company highelimbar, was real, ly In the clouds es he stood stop the radio tower. The night before, he had become the fether of six-pound 10-ounee baby girl, (Picture by Photo Labi. I FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1949 Foreign CYA The Administration s action In flushing the CVA bill and oppos ng the authorization of the proj ects contained in the coordinated program is "political blackmail," Morse told a reporter. He said approval of a CVA as proposed would place the Pacific Northwest in a "strait Jacket." Morse said he believed the Re publicans should Insist that the recommendations of the Hoover commission for creation of a de partment of public works, to com bine the work of the army engi neers and reclamation bureau, be carried out. Power Concantratlen Opposed He said he favored a program which would check "the serious political tendency in this country to place more and more power in the hands of fewer and fewer men in the executive branch of the government." "We see that illustrated in a very dramatic way by the admin istration's proposal to have three men selected by the president to take complete administrative control of the river resources of the Pacific . Northwest," Morse added. "I believe we must coordinate aeencies,. federal and. slate," he (Continued on Page Two) Home Damaged By Paraffin Fire Mrs. J. F. Ruchaber, A gee lane, suffered burned hands and slight damage was Inflicted to her kitchen Thursday afternoon when she placed it under a drip ping faucet, according to Fire Chief William Mills. Two rural fire trucks were called to the Ruchaber home when the blazing paratln Ignited the kitchen curtains and ceiling. Chief Mills said the fire was out on arrival, after Mrs. Ruchaber doused the flames with water. Mrs. Ruchaber suffered pain ful, though not serious burns, on both hands. She was given emer gency treatment by a neighbor. Although a part of the ceiling was demolished by the flames, firemen called total damage "slight." The Ruchabers had lived In their newly-completed home less than a month. Objections To Water Diversion To Be Aired Obiectlons to a request for a change in place of water diver sion on Cow Creek will be heard at a public hearing scheduled lov. l in KoseDurg. Charles E. Strlcklin, state engi neer, gave notice that the hear ing will be held at 10 a. m., in the county courthouse, to act on the application of Norman McKeel for a change in point of water diversion. 224-49 Arms Aid 3 Crewmen Die Yhen Freight Trains Crash Both Engines Dive Down Deschutes River Bank; . 600 Feet Of Tracks Torn MAUPIN, Ore.. Sept. 23.-t.fy Two freight engines plunged down a 100-foot embankment in north central Oregon last night after a head-on collision, killing three crewmen. Two others were hurt. The trains, a southbound dlesel and a northbound steam train, met on a gentle curve as the Oregon Trunk line tracks par allel the swift-running Deschutes river five miles north of fahear ar's bridge some 30 miles south ot the Columbia river. The dead were Herbert Bolt, Vancouver. Wash., engineer, and G. E. Paton, Wishram, Wash., brakeman, both on the steam train, and Homer J. Slawter, Spokane, Wash., fireman on the dlesel. They were pinned in the wreckage which lay beside but not in the river. Robert Frink, Vancouver, Wash., the dlesel engineer, escaped with an arm fracture and head cuts. He was taken to a hospital at The Dalles. W. E. Hugltt, fireman on the steam train, suffered hurts believed minor. He remain ed at the scene. Other crewmen were uninjured. Twenty-one freight cars were smashed or derailed and scat tered along the tracks and down the embankment. One car con tained work horses. State Po- (Continued on Page Two) Portland Hit By Two More Major Blazes ' PORTLAND, Sept. 23. (JPi Some 250 men fled the eight story downtown YMCA building early today as fire broke out on the fifth floor. Robert B a d d o n, Wenatchee, Wash., was critically burned and another resident, Gerald P. Vedder, Oswego, suffered a back injury in climbing through a window to a fire escape. The blaze Itself was confined to a small area in the fifth floor hallway. It started in a pile of mattresses about 5 a. m. R. D. Wilder, executive secre tary, said he thought damage would be "over $1,000." Another morning fire caused an estimated $16,000 damage to Border's Ice cream parlor on N. E. Broadway. It wiped out the interior of the one-story concrete block building. They brought to four the num ber of major fires in the city this week. Teamster Strike Threat In Portland Ended PORTLAND, Sept. 23 (PI The threat of an AFL teamster strike ended here yesterday with the union winning a 5-centhourly wage increase. By a 2-1 margin, the teamsters voted to accept the contract with wholesale grocers and produce firms, which makes the increase retroactive to Aug. 1. It also calls for another 2i-cent hourly In crease next Feb. 1. That is the same settlement reached earlier by AFL ware housemen, affiliated with the teamsters. Evidence Of Atomic Explosion In Russia Received In America; President Truman Announces Development, Expected, Stresses Need For International Control Of Lethal Energy, Nation Is Told By ERNEST I. VACCARO WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. (API The United States ha 4 vidanca of recant atomic explotioa In Russia itaw, indi cating tha Communists at long last hava learned to mada an A-bomb. Praiidant Truman disclosed this in a ttatament today. Ha than held a session with his cabinet about it. Mr. Truman said tha davalopmant amphaiiias tha necessity for "truly affactiva, anforcabla International control of atomic energy." Tha United States has sought that through tha United Na lions, but has baan unabla to gat together with Russia en hew it should ba carried out. With a' note of reassurance to tha American people, the President said the probability that some ether nation might develop an atomic bomb "has always been token into ac count by us." Quickly after the White House announcement came word from the British government in London that it also hei evi dance of an explosion in Russie. The announcement from Prime Minister Atlee's office con tinued: "Ever since atomic energy wei first released by men the eventuel development of this new force by other nations has been expected. This probability has always been taken into account by us. "In the three nations declaration of the President of the United States and the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom end Canada dated Nov. 15, 1945, it was emphesixed that no single nation could in fact have a monopoly of atomic weapons." Soviet Hints Recalled On Atom Bomb (By TtM AMoelatad Fruit The Russians and their commu nist allies in Europe have thrown out repeated hints that the U.S. S.R. has broken the secret of atomic bomb production. Ayear ago Andrei Vlshlnsky, Soviet foreicn minister, pro claimed in Paris that the United States no longer had a monopoly on tne deadliest weapon in the History or war rare. Vlshlnsky, then deputy foreign minister, made this remark Oct. 1. 194S, in a United Nations ad dress. It is a mistake to think that there Is Juxt one state which has a monopoly over atomic ener gy and the atomic bomb. It is useless to think of such a tiing. It is useless to hope for that. because this is fraught with dire and dangerous consequences and miscalculations." Almost a year before that. VI- shinsky's predecessor aa foreign minister, v. M. Molotov, dropped a suggestion only a bit less broad. Ihe secret of the atomic bomb, he said, "has ceased to exist." Samedl Solr, a Paris weekly newspaper, said July 26: ine rai ls newspaper sa d that on July 10, United States detect ing devices had "revealed with out possible doubt that the Rus sians had atom bombs exploded in tneir iar away Asian terri tories." This, Samedl Soir said, over turned "the whole strategy of the cold war." Americans had reason to sus pect as early as last March or April that an explosion had oc curred in Russia's Asiatic terri tories, the newspaper said. It (Continued on Page Two) Three Jailed On Car Theft Charge State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell today reported the arrest of three persons, charged with larceny of an automomie. He named them as Clinton Ce cil Wilbur. 30. his wife. Velcena Avis Wilbur, 19. both of Gardi ner, Me., and LeRoy Martin Burn ham, 23, of Llvermore Falls, Me. All are in Jail. The three, said Harrell, were arrested at 8:30 p. m. Thursday on Highway 99 south of Drain, after they had attempted to out race the arresting officer's car. They were In possesion of a 19-t6 Buirk convertible, the prop erty of Gerard J. Bendele, Reeds port, he said. The car had been reported stolen at 4 p. m. that afternoon. The car reportedly went into a skid on a curve and the driver lost control. The auto mobile was not damaged. Harrell said they admitted hav ing taken another car, a 1941 Hudson sedan, at Florence, and had abandoned It Thursday be tween Reedsport and Scottsburg. Lions Join Umpqua Council In Recreational Program Douglas county Lions clubs ere Joining with the Umpqua Basin Conservation council In Its rec reational land acquisition pro gram. Kach club Is organizing a committee and naming a dele gale to work with the council committee. The Lions have announced that they propose to sponsor improve ments to grounds obtained for public recreational use and will build tables, benches and make other Installations for better use of the land. in Washington, the word swept swiftly around government de partments and through Congress. At the Pentagon headquarter of the military services there were signs of some excitement, but no officials would discuss the matter. At the Capitol, Senator McMa- hon (D-Conn), chairman of the joint congressional committee on atomic energy, called a meeting of the committee behind closed doors. In a Senate speech only yes terday, McMahon said that if Rus- sula had the atomic bomb she could send the bombs to Ameri. can ports on tramp steamers and diow up jj.uuu.ouu people. There was no official hint as t how the United States obtained its evidence of the atomic explo sion in Russia. But It is known that Ameri can scientists have been ready with delicate instruments for months to record an atomic ex- explosion means the Russians have At Los Alamos Stage" On the point of whether the eplosion means the Russians have the atomic bomb, one military man, unwilling to be quoted by name, said: "If you had an ex plosion, you had to have some thing that exploded call it a bomb, a test or whatever you want." A somewhat similar view was expressed in Chicago by Eugene Rabinowitch,. editor of the Bul letin of the Atomic Scientists. A military man in Washington said that the Russians probably are at the Los Alamos stage. He was referring to the date (Continued on Page Two) Threat To Peace Now Real, View In Washington WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 UPt There was one point of fairly general agreement today in early congressional reaction to newi that Russia apparently has the atom bomb the threat to peace Is real. On what to do about It there were about as many opinions as there are shades of thinking at the capitol on world affairs. Sample comment: Senator Wherry (R.-Neh.): "It the president knew yesterday that Russia had the atomic bomb, why has the emphasis been plac ed on the ground war strategy of the military assistance hill passed by Ihe Senate last night? He said this country should direct Its defense efforts to de veloping air bases In the United States, North Africa and the Pacific, and concluded a state ment: "A forthright, honorable for eign policy, with fairness to Rus sia and all other countries. Is the best guarantee tor keeping the pea?e. Rep. Cox (D.-Ga.): "What the president disclosed today empha sizes to me that It would be suicidal for the United States to falter In its program of recon structing and rearming western Europe. Unless we can save western Europe from Russian domination we might Just aa well prepare to wear the yoke that Russia will Impose." Rep. Cunningham (R.-Iowa: "If this is true, it means World War three is that much closer." Livity Fact Rant By L. T. Reizenstetn The U. S. army, it It an nounced, will supply allied oc cupation forces with fish bought In Japan. This will offer o alternate diet for canned beef bought In Argentina.