Co i: fUl w mm m iru U. Of O. Library t Eugene, .Oregon ; we X Miss Muriel Mitchell New City Librarian, Suceeding Hilda Reizenstein, Retired Miss Muriel Mitchell, recently of Yreka, Calif., will become li brarian of Roseburg's Public library Oct. 1, succeeding Mrs. Hilda Reizenstein, who will retire after 25 year" service. MIm Mitchell, long experienced In library work, this month relinquished her posi tion at Siskiyou county, Calif., librarian, with office headquarters at Yreka. : ' : vis. . MISS MURIEL MITCHELL Htsds City Library Forecaster For Roseburg Slated Status of Roseburs'i U. S. Weather Bureau office is soon to he raised, with the assignment nere or a rorecaster. Morria A. Arkin, Eugene, tem porary observer-Jn-charge, said forecasts for the Pacific North west arc made up in Seattle. A local forecaster will have author ity to modify the weather predic tions to sun local conditions. At the present time, an observ er is in charee of the local office. Arkin has been on temporary auiy nere since me recent depar ture of Thomas A. Hill, former observer-ln-charge, who is now at Tacoma, Wash., where he is attending the College of Puget Sound. Hill is to complete his studies In Tacoma, and at the University of Washington in Seattle, leading to a master's degree In meteorol ogy, said Arkin. He will not be reassigned here. Goodrich Rubber Strike Settlement Agreed On DAYTON, O., Sept. 30 Negotiators announced today they had agreed to settle the 34-day-old Goodrich rubber strike of 16,000 workers. The strike over wages and pensions affected production workers in Goodrich plants m Akron, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Cadil lac, Mich., Clarksvillc, Tenn.; Los Angeles; Oaks, Pa., and Miami, Okla. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS WINSTON Churchill, the old war horse of Britain, asks par liament to throw out the Labor government which rode Into pow er on a landslide in 1945. He says dramatically: "Most of us agree that it is high time for another parliament and that all our difficulties would fhave a much better chance of be ing solved in a new house of com mons." (Obviously, when he speaks of "most of us" he means "most of us Conservatives." It Is a funda I mental of politics that the party in power NEVER thinks It is ' time for it to be thrown out? HfHAT is this big debate all IF about Well, here are the political me chanics of it: In Britain when the govern ment (which Is what we call the administration) fails to get a vote of confidence in parliament a new (Continued on Page Four) "SCIENTIST X" IDENTIFIED Minnesota U. Professor Gave Atomic Secrets To Communist Spy, Charge WASHINGTON, Sept. X.IJP The House Un-American Ac livities committee today named Joseph W. Weinberg, University of Minnesota professor, as the "Scientist X" accused of slipping Wartime atomic secrets to a Communist spy. In Minneapolis, Weinberg got out a statement saying "I am not the person" referred to in previous committee reports as "Scientist X." He also said he had never given secret Infor mation to any unauthorized person. The committee recommended n a report that the Justice de partment prosecute Weinberg on charges he lied under oath in: 1. Denying Communist party membership and attending young Jommunist league meeting?. 2. Knowing communist leader Steve Nelson. 3. Knowing Nelson's sec re'arv, Bernade" Dovle. Nelson, the committee: says. A native of Kansas, Miss Mit chell was graduated in 1933 from the school of lihrarianshlp at Uni versity of California, following a masters degree in modern lan guages received at the Univer sity of Colorado. Her library work spans a pe riod oi lb years, all in cauior nia. These services were succes sively in Eureka, El Centro, Wat sonville, Santa Barbara and last ly at Yreka, where she was em ployed for three and one half years. Her longest service was at W'atsonville. where she was city librarian for seven and one half years. At Yreka. Miss Mitchell was also active in the Business and Professional Woman's club and In the Siskiyou County Historical society. She is of the Presbyter ian failh and admits to a hobby of collecting antiques. She has bought a home In Cio verdale addition, where she will reside with her mother. Mrs. Frances M. Mitchell, who was a librarian for ten years in their former home state of Kansas. Assisting Miss Mitchell in op erating the library will be Miss Clementine Armson, a graduate of the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minn. She succeeds Mrs. Ruth Hansen, resigned. Efficiency Praised Mrs. Reizenstein's service, which has won unstinted praise for its efficiency, covers the en tire period in which the public li brary has been city-operated since its inception in 1924. The library was evolved from a modest-scale reading room conduced for three years previously bv vol unteers of the Roseburg Wom an's club, wilh donated material. The free-service phase of the library is confined exclusively to residents within the city boun daries; its ultimate extension to the entire county is contingent upon county contribution of the necessary funds. Under presert regulations, non residents of the city obtain the library's service by payment of a membership fee. Mother Indicted In Delinquency of Son SALEM, Sept. 30-UP)-A moth er who neglects her child can be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. So Mrs. Vera Evelyn Mills, 33, found out here yesterday. She was arrested by deputy sheriffs after the Marion county grand Jury Indicted her. The indictment followed police Investigation into a series of mi nor thefts blamed on eight boys and two eirte. Police said the youths one of them Mrs. Mill's 16-year-old son had confessed prowling autos and houses, gam bling and committing morals of fenses. The bovs range in age from 8 to 16. The girls were 11 and 14. Photographer Killed At Mock Amphibious Assault BOSTON, Sept. 30 UP) Morris Fineberg. 56-year-old veteran Boston Post photographer, was killed and four others, includinz three naval officers, injured yes- teroay in a mocK marine and navy amphibious assault on a Boston bathing beach before thousands of spectators. Fineberg was struck by a frag ment from an exploding mortar while photographing the demon stration staged at Carson beach in South Boston as part of the Marine Corps league national convention. Packages Said Taken From Baby Stroller Candy wasn't taken from a baby, but what might be consid ered the next thing to it was :he taking of packages from a baby stroller. Chief of Police Calvin Baird said that Mrs. Byron Woodruff reported she had left her stroller on the street, while she took the baby upstairs to the office of her husband, Dr. Woodruff, Wednes day. When she returned a few rhin- utes later the packages were mis sing. "was engaged In securing infor mation regarding the develop ment of the atomic bomb Irom Scientist X." That was back in 1943. the com mittee adds, when Weinberg was employed at the radiation labor- (Continued on Page Two) The Weother Portly cloudy today. Fair to night and Saturday. Suntot today 5:57 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:10 a. m. Establishtd 1873 Berserk K:Y.Hopkins Attacks Men In Engine Cab Hammer And Live Fusees Used By Deranged Man Until He's Knocked Out PORTLAND. Sept. 30 (.P) A wild fight in the cab of a speed ing locomotive brought death to a berserk brakeman early today. The engineer and the fireman were attacked by lighted fusees and beaten with a hammer as the Southern Pacific freight train roared north through the night to Portland. The brakeman died at a Salem hospital this morning, apparent ly of injuries suffered In the fight to subdue him. He was identified as Kenneth W. Hopkins, about 35, Portland. Engineer Brent W. Campbell, 58, told this story to Detective Sgt. Dan Mitola after bringing the 70-car train here: Hopkins boarded the train with the rest of the crew at Eugene and remarked he was not feel ing well. Later, while the freight was on a siding for a passenger train, he flagged down the passenger train. Then he boarded the freight locomotive and intro duced himself for a second time to Campbell and Fireman Ben J. Mackowiac. 24, Portland. After the train started, Hop kins began lighting fusees warn ing flares waving them in the air and discarding them. The engineer ordered him to a seat in the cab and told him to "take it easy." As the train began to pick up speed after leaving Salem, Hop kins suddenly reached over the engineer's shoulder, Campbell ex plained, and yanked the throttle wide open. At the same time he Jabbed a lighted fusee into Camp bell's side. Campbell set the emergency brake and whirled around. As (Continued on Page Two) Steel Industry Braces For Strike PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30. (.P Big Steel and the CIO got to gether with federal mediators to day In a last ditch try to stave off a nationwide steel strike at midnight. But even as they met. the news was not good. l-rom coast to coast, and from the gulf to the border, the gi gantic steel industry banked its nres in readiness tor tne strike. And thousands of Philip Murray's United Steelworkers Jumped the gun in wildcat walkouts. The issue is a pension-insurance program. The union wants steel firms to adopt the formula set down by President Truman's fact finding board. This Is a 10-cent-an-hour contribution paid entire ly by Industry. The union says it is the minimum they'll take. Big Steel rejected the proposal. Instead it offered a pension-insurance plan toward which em ployes would contribute. Murray and his 500.000 steel workers wouldn't take that. They say: "We've given up demands for a pay increase as ordered by the fact-finding board. Now Industry must yield." Wife Of Governor Of Illinois To Ask Divorce SPRINGFIELD, III., Sept. 30 P Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson said today he and his wife have separated and that he will not contest a divorce. In a statement issued by his office here, the governor said: "1 am deeply distressed that due to the incompatibility of our lives Mrs. Stevenson feels a separation is necessary. "Although I do not believe in divorce, I will not contest it. We have separated with the highest mutual regard." Stevenson, 48-year-old Demo crat, is serving his first four year term, which ends in 1952. The Stevensons were married In Chicago on Dec. 1, 1928. Mrs. Stevenson Is 40. They have three sons. $7 Billion Foreign Aid Bill Sent To President WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 ." Congress sent to President Tru man today the second of two hills designed to pump S7.124.000.000 Into foreign recovery and mill !ary aid. The president's signature was the only thing needed to start the dollars working In the giant ef fort to defeat Russia in the cold war. The Senate completed action last night on a S5.809 990.000 pio gram to holster the economies of western Europe and other friend ly nations. S. P. Co. W ' m.. ; M, ij , i i . n . . - ' , ' ' I i y 1 ; i: MtM f 4." 1 1 ;AttU i;Am BANNED Dr. Glenn Short liffa, a professor at Queen's university, Kingston, Ont., has been denied entry to the Unit ed States to accept a post as associate, professor of romance languages at Washington uni versity at St. Louis. The United States Immigration servic ad- ised him he had been tem porarily excluded "as a person whosa entry is deemed to b prejudicial to the public in terest of the United States. (AP Wirephotol. Canyon Mi. Road Job Bid Is Accepted PORTLAND, Sept. 30 P) Kuckenberg Construction Co., Portland, submitted tht low bid of 11,182,634 for work en tht Canyonvllla project en Highway 99. Tha Bureau of Public Roads hera recommended that tha bid be accepted. Tha work. In which tha stats is cooperating. Includes grad ing and paving 6.2 miles of highway south of Canyonvllla between Roseburg and Grants Pass. It will require about on year to complete. Thirteen bids, opened hers yesterday, were submitted. The work, when completed will be another link In the de velopment of Pacific Highway 99. The section, extending south from Canyonville, will connect with the new, wide highway which already has made such traffic hazards as Sexton moun tain a thing of the past. The Canyon mountain section has been one of the worst re maining strips. Information re ceived is that the new highway will follow much the same route as the present road, but it will be straightened by means of cuts and fills. The roadway will con sist of two wide lanes, with four lanes provided for passing of slow moving traffic on the steep er Inclines up the mountain. Kuckenberg has the present contract for construction work now underway on the North Umpqua road on the Roseburg side of the Forest Service boundary. The Canyon Mountain strip runs through federal lands, and as such has been handled as a federal project, through the Bur eau of Public Roads. Seven Persons Die In Fire; Four Hurt KANSAS CITY. Sept. 30-P) A fast. moving fire roared through the interior of a two-story frame house in northeast Kansas City early today, killing seven persons and Injuring four. Approximately 20 persons lived In the house, many of them aged. Many of those who escaped fled from the flames In their night clothes. The Red Cross identified the dead as: Mrs. Florence Richards, 85. Mrs. Cora Andrews. 68. Owen Richards, 45, who was blind. Lorraine Ellis. 1". Mrs. Myrtle M. Hershey, 25, and her two children. Myrtle Ma rie. 9 months, and Cletus M. Her shey Jr.. 26 months. Mrs. Ed Bayse. 69. the owner, rented part of the house to old- I age pensioners and to the Her- sney lamuy. one was injurea. ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, SEPT. Brakeman Killed Congress Gets Fresh Threat From Truman President Insists It Must Stay On Job Till It OKs Full Program KANSAS CITY, Sept. 30-.l President Truman confronted Capitol hill opponents today with a new threat to keep Congress In session until it enacts his entire "Fair Deal" program. And, if that course fails, he said the Democrats "will win with that program" in 1950 ajid again in 1952. In fighting words, he sounded the keynote for Democratic ora tors in next year's congressional campaigns at a testimonial din ner for the party's national chair man, Willim M. Boyle Jr. Boyle, like the president, is a Jackson county Missourian. The president, speaking last night at the end of a program In which a long list of talkers. In cluding vice-president Barkley, preceded him, also: 1. Promised to battle for measures to raise the country's income to $300,000,000,000 annual ly and establish "an income level in the country of $4,000 per family per year" which he said "is not a pipe dream." 2. Hinted that Barkley, a fre- ( Continued on Page Two) Trio Feared Dead In Plane Crash OLYMPIA, Sept. 30 OP)A-A C R2 "flying boxcar" crashed and burned in a heavily forested area five miles northeast of McCleary last, nighty - . - Search parties combed the tim bered area throughout the night In hopes the plane's three occu pants might have parachuted, hul an officer at McChord Air Force base expressed belief the bodies were In the wreckage. Capt. William Pratt, public In formation officer at the McChord Air Force base, said the plane took off from that field on a rou tine night training flight. The crash scene was located a quarter mile up a logging road, about two and one-half miles off the secondary state highway be tween McCleary and Shclton. State Patrol Sgt. Stacey Matt son said the wreckage was strewn over from two to five acres of wooded terrain. Fire started by the crashing plane subsided after a forestry service fire wagon from Shelton and the fire department from nearby El ma responded. It continued to burn, however, early today. Motorist Dies In Crash In Crater Lake Park KLAMATH FALLS, Setp. 30 l.V) James Partick Bowles, 22 of Renicia, Calif., was killed out right early this morning when his car missed a curve Inside Crater Lake national park and smashed into a pine tree. A companion, Bart E. Estrada, 25 of Caiipatria, Calif., was un conscious and suffering from a broken leg, shock and exposure. He was brought to a hospital here. Papers belonging to Bowles In dicated he had recently worked at Enterprise, Ore. STRIKE PARTLY EASED Coal Diggers West Of Mississippi Ordered Back To Pits By John L. Lewis WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. W. Va., Sept. 30. iff) John L. Lewis today ordered Pennsylvania's 80,000 hard coal miners and 22,000 soft coal diggers west of the Mississippi to go back to work Monday. As far as these men are concerned it ends a walkout started Sept. 19. The move was announced In a tana, telegram from Iewis to presi- Soft coal production in these denls of the affected United Mine Workers' districts. The telegram said: "The suspension of mining In the western and anthracite ar eas is not now vital to the pend ing wage negotiations." It said the action was take l "to minimi loss to all parties. The teleeram was released here hy L'MW Vice President Thorn - as Kennedy. In the absence of Lewis, Ken- nedy heads the union bargaining team in contract negotiations with northern and western soft coal operators. The order affects the three UMW anthracite districts In east ern Pennsylvania and seven bitu minous districts covering Wash ington. Iowa. Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico. Oklahoma. Mis souri, Wyoming, Utah, and Mon- 30, 1949 Reluctant Federal Jury Finds Tokyo Rose Guilty Of Treason On Only One Of Eight Counts i V A n r 9 y TOKYO ROSE, real' name Mn. Iva Toguri O'Aquins, shown leaving federal court in San just after the treason caie was turned ever t the jury, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30. f.-P) Stony faced, Iva Toguri d' Aquino heard herself convicted of treason last night for telling American troops their ships had been sunk In Leyte gulf and they were "orphans of the Pacific. Arson and Check Charges Jail Two Lee T. Clayborn, 49, Sutherlin, has been committed to the Doug las county Jail to await grand jury action on a charge of arson, reported Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter. Clayborn was arraigned Thurs day In the court of Justice of Peace Ward C. Watson at Suther lin, and his ball was fixed at $2,000. Clayborn was arrested by Sutherlin police. Manuel Thrush, 51. charged with drawing bank checks with Insufficient funds, has also been committed to the county Jail, re ported Sherill Carter, inrusn was arrested at Myrtle Creek Thursday, and upon arraignment before Justice of peace A. J. Geddcs, he asked for a prelimin ary hearing on the charge. Charles E. Cooper, wanted by Lane county authorities on a check charge, was arrested Thursday at Myrtle Creek, and is being held In the county Jail, said Carter. slates is estimated at less than 10 percent of the national total. The hard coal districts produce some 57.000,000 tons of hard coal each year. Kennedy said the western pro duction goes largely to domestic markets. Mines west of the Mis sissippi, he explained, do not , romnete with the big eastein 1 fields and the action was taken to meet special problems in the west. Reports of an end to the an- Ihrarlte strike were heard yester day but union officials declined comment at the time. More than 400.000 soft coal min ers in the ntrth, west and south still will be idle. Contract nego tiations at White Sulphur Springs and at Bluefield. 90 miles away, have been thoroughly bogged down. i 230-49 In fight rranence with U, S. marihal A somewhat reluctant federal court Jury of six men and six women brought In the verdict aft er tour nays deiinrratlon. A sur prised "Oh! ... of apparent dis appointment, swept the court room. 'Iva Los Angeles-born and ed ucated remained as stole as she had during the 12-week trial. Head bowed, she said nothing. No tears. Later she told her attor ney "I can't understand It." An appeal Is planned. October 6 was set for sentenc ing. The minimum sentence would be five vears imprison ment and a $10,000 fine; the max imumdeath. But the govern ment did not ask the death pen ally. Foreman John Mann said the Jurors would have liked to acouit the 33-year-old woman known to ois as lokyo Rose, but "we did the only thing we thoueht pos sible under the Judec's instruc tions." Actually, she was convicted on only one of the eight counts in the Indictment. That one related to her broadcast from Radio To kyo in Ortober, 1944, about the Levte Gulf baltle. Kenklchl Okl. an official of Ra- (Continued on Page Two) Hunting Season Opened For All Of Oregon SALEM, Sept. 30-UP) Oregon hunters could enter the woods to dayeven in the northwest part of the state to make camp lor the start of the hunting season tomorrow. Gov. Douglas McKav lifted late yesterday the ben that would have kept hunters from the north west section of Oregon. He said rains had wiped out the last dan ger of new forest fires. The U. S. forest servire at Portland announced that camp fire permits will not be required on any national forests in Ore gon except the f remont forest. Some logging slash areas on the ! national forests will remain closed for a while longer, how ever. Law Easy on Driver Who Tried To Run Over Wife EDMONTON. Alta., Sept. 30 (JP Because a U. S. Air Forre lieutenant tried to run over his wife with an automobile 10 days ago, he was given a six months suspended Jail sentence yest r day and fined on three other charges. Jark Lewis of Denver, Colo., admitted to police that he at tempted to run down his wife as they returned home after a par ty. They have since reconciled. Lewis was fined $50 and cots on a charge of daneerous driv- i Ing. J20 for Illegal (loisessinn l S liquor and $20 for wilful damage I the latter to a mailbox and win 1 dow struck by the car. Union Winner Of Battle To Ban Unloading The Dalles Port Cancels Contract; Orphan Barge Now Seeks New Haven THE DALLES, Ore., Sept. 30 (.D An orphan pineapple bars from Hawaii was looking again today for a port, loser In another bout with CIO longshoremen. The Dalles Port commission or dered the barge and Its S800 000 load of pineapple to shove off to prevent any further outbreak of labor violence. Jubilant longshoremen assert ed they were making good their boast or six weeks ago when the pineapple left strikebound Hawaii that they would make the barge another "Flying Dutch man," destined to sail years without finding port. Earlier the longeshoremen'i roving picket platoons balked the barge's attempts to find a Puget Sound port where It could unload. Then the barge slipped up tha Columbia river, arriving here last Saturday before pickets could catch up. But the unload ing was delayed and Longshore men apparently won their battle Wednesday by swarming 200 strong onto the dock. They rough ed up ten carge workers and truck drivers, wrecked unloading equipment, and tossed 100 cases of pineapple into the river. inis led tne port commission to cancel Its agreement last night with the Hawaiian Pine apple company for unloading on the commission dock. A clause permitted cancellation In case of labor violence. The action came before' the company had moved any pineapple from the water front. Taamatsrs Look Elstwhera A com pan v spokesman. A. K. Tobln, protested that the Long- snoremen nad been permitted to Intimidate an American com munity through a display of vio lence and brutality." Another as serted The Dalles had been sub jected to a "reign of terror." Still another, R. M.Botley, was reported in Seattle today to con fer with Dave Beck, vice-president of the AFL Teamsters, on the possibility of attempting to unload elsewhere. The elsewhere may be at soma (Continued on Page Two) Collision Sends Two To Hospital Two persons are In Mercy hos pital today as the result of a heau on collision on the North Ump qua Highway about six miles east of Roseburg Thursday afternoon. State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell reported that Mack E. Brown and his daughter, Barbara Jean of Glide both sustained injuries as the result of a collision of their car and truck and trailer, operat ed by Frank Joseph Bistak, Rose burg. Their condition was listed at the hospital today as good. According to the investigating officer's report, Bistak was fol lowing a string of four cars. The first one slowed to make a turn off the highway, but Bistak, In ap plying his brakes was thrown tnt9 the left lane of traffic, where his vehicle struck that of Brown, who was traveling east. Bistak was cited for operating In the left lane of traflic U. S. Navy Refuses Aid To Ships Held At Shanghai WASHINGTON, Sept 30 OP) Adm. Louis Denfeld, chief of naval operations, declined today to provide American naval in tervention for release of three United States merchant ships held at Shanghai by Nationalists gunboats. Denfeld, replying to a request from the owners, wired that you will appreciate that the employ ment of United States navel for ces under the present circum stances Is not In accord with United States government po licy." Officials noted that while the United States and Britain haven't recognized the nationalists' right to keep ships out of Shanghai unless they can maintain a tight blockade, neither Western na tion has thus far shown any in clination to use force. Hungary Apes Soviet In Cutting Yuogslavia Tie BUDAPEST, Sept. 30 (JPt The Hungarian government renounc ed todav its pact of friendship and mutual aid with Yugoslavia. i The Communist press In Ro mania indicated that other So viet satellites soon would follow suit. It seemed likely that all the satellite nations would take the cue from Moscow, which scrap Tied her treaty of friendship with V'ugoslavla yesterday.) Like Moscow, Hungary said Ti to's government had violated and "defamed" the Dact and made it woi thless. Livity Fact Rant By L. T. Retotnitel Perhaps, at Gov. McKay de clares, Harry Bridget isn't run ! nmq the state of Oreqoa, but the longshoremen's victory at I The Dalles demonstrates, that Ifheir leader rates about 100 I ct. lit remote control.