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Tito Claims Reds
Infiltrate Spies
In Yugoslav Army
LONDON, Oct. 1-P)-Premier
Marshal Tito accused Russia to
day of trvlng to Infiltrate spies
into the Vugoslav army and gov
ernment In an effort to over
throw him.
The Yugoslav leader, replying
to Thursday's Soviet note scrap
ping the Russian-Yugoslav
friendship treaty, charged that
the Soviet government, "with dip
lomatic notes full of insults and
threats," followed by demonstra
tive troop movements in coun
tries bordering Yugoslav!,
sought to Intimidate the Yugo
slav people.
Hungary and Poland yesterday
followed Russia's lead in de
nouncing their mutual aid trea
ties with Yugoslavia, inner sovi
et satellites in the Cominform
are expected to take the same
sten soon.
Tito's new note Its wording
mixed with pain and anger to
ward Moscow was reported heie
by Tanjug, the official Yugoslav
news agency.
"It Is well known that Soviet
representatives tiled to organi'-e
their agents within the Yugoslav
government and Yugoslav army
with a view of over throwing the
legal Yugoslav government,' the
note said.
Russia's aim, It went on, was
to exert pressure on the Yugoslav
people "In order to realize lis
undemocratic and anti social am
bitions." Russia and the Tito regime
have been quarreling since the
Soviet-backed Cominform tossed
Yugoslavia out of its member
ship in June, 19-18.
Their bickering reached a cli
max with Russian denunciation
of the 20-year assistance part
which was signed during the war,
In 1945. Russia hacked its action
with an accusation that Tito's
government was hostile toward
Russia and was a tool of Imper
ialism. Yugoslavia's answer called It
an attempt at "blackmail."
Denial Of Aid To Single,
Abie-Bodied Men Upheld
PORTLAND, Oct. 1 iP)--The
Multnomah County Welfare
commission's denial of aid to un
married, able-bodied men was
upheld today by the State, Public
Welfare commission.
. J. H. Lulhn. state chairman,
said seasonal employment is still
available and "we must take
care of the families and children
first."
The county commission had
been withholding aid to unmar
ried men able to work on the
grounds that they could find Jobs.
At the same time the state
commission ordered Multnomah
county to pay the bus fare of
welfare clients requiring treat
ment at a health clinic.
State commission payments to
23,105 old age pensioners In Au
gust totaled $1,118,352. Average
payments was $48.40 plus medi
cal expenses.
VALUATION UPPED
SALEM. Oct. 1 UP) The as
sessed value of all property In
Oregon Is $1,539,029,071, the Stale
Tax commission announces.
That Is a new record. Last year
It was $1,401,429,035.
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Representative
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CIO Longshoremen Scon
Coast For New Barges
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their pickets, believing the vic
tory final, and held them In readi
ness for other scenes.
Gunther Krause, company at
torney who was quoted yesterday
as saying the attempt to unload
a The Dalles would be aban
doned, later announced that the
company had not yet given up
hone.
Even he admitted, though, that
there was "no reason to believe
that the port will change Its mind
(to allow unloading)."
The port commission rescinded
the company's permit to unload at
the dock because of the outbreak
of labor violence.
Krause's original statement on
abandoning the attempt at The
Dalles came at Salem after a con
ference of company officials and
CIO leaders with Gov. Douelas
McKay of Oregon.
lie hinted to reporters at the
time that the barge might be
moved across Ihe river to the
Washington shore.
"The Columbia Is not exclusive
ly the property of Oregon," he
said.
"Thanks for the tip," retorted
Robert T. Baker, president of the
Portland Longshoremen's union.
After returning here and con
ferring with company officials,
Krause later Issued a statement
that the company had no plans to
move Ihe barge, "but we hope to
unload some place at The Dalles
or any place that will allow us."
Sgt. J. F. Curtis
Starts Special
Course In Japan
NAOOYA AIR FORCE BASE,
NAGOYA, Japan Staff Sergeant
James W. Curtis of Great Falls,
Mont., son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam E. Curtis, Route 1, Rose
burg, has recently been assigned
to the Eta Jlma school on the
Island of Eta Jlma off Hiroshima
bay, to pursue a course of in
struction in food and pastry prep
aration. It was announced here
by the commanding officer of
Nagoya Air Force base, Nagova,
Japan. Upon completion of the
course, Sgt. Curtis will return to
his unit, the 6102nd Supply squad
at Nagoya.
A former employe of Emll's Su
per market, Klamath Falls, Sgt.
Curtis first entered the armed
services Jan. 21, 1937, at Boone,
Iowa. He tolned the Air Force
March 2, 1948, at McChord field.
Wash. From Julv 1, 1944 to April
8. 1945, during World War II he
served In the European theater
of operations and was awarded
the air medal with four clusters.
Arriving in Japan at the second
major port, Yokohama. July 24,
1948, Sgt. Curtis was assigned to
the Fifth air force, the occupa
tional air force for Japan, and
subsequently reassigned to the
6102nd supply squadron at Na
goya, seaport and leading Indus
trial center on the main Japanese
home island of Honshu. .
Civilian Defenses
Declared Pitifully Week
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efforts to get new program be
fore Congress.
The civil defense liaison office
headed by Lt. Col. Barnet W.
Beers in attempting to aid state
and local defense organizations
wherever possible through consul
tations and correspondence.
The NSRB unit is getting or
ganized to expand Its study staff
for the preparation of new plans,
some of which presumably will re
tain features of the Hopley recom
mendations. GOP CLUBS DATED
SALKM. Oct. l-mThe annu
al convention of the Oregon Re-
Rubllcan clubs will be held here
fovember 4 and 5, it was an
nounced todav.
Dr. E. E. Boring. Salem. Is
chairman of the convention com
mittee. J. N. BOOR
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following an accident. After hia
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The driving energy wa gone.
The got i-will of the buwne
died with him. Hi family had
to dipoe of the busine for
eon.
And yet, with Sua life
h iimn em insurance policy, thia
man a buine could have been
transferred to the ecntor em
ployees, at a prire which he,
the owner, would have deter
mined before hit death. If yon
own a one-man buineaa. Id
rtally like to talk things over
with you tome time. It'a impor
tant to your family.
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Plan For Future Growth,
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1 (PV
The ranks of the unemployed
lessened In September lor the se
cond consecutive month, the Cen
sus bureau reported Friday.
But the number of employed
persons also declined from the
1949 peak of last month, the bu
reau said. This simultaneous drop
in both unemployment and em
ployment was attributed in large
part to the return to school of
numerous summer time workers.
Unemployment figures moved
down 3,689,000 In August to 3.351,
000 In September, but remained
Pound Devaluation Cuts
Sal Of American Wool
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. ltP)
Nearly 5.000.000 pounds of wool
remained unsold here today as a
scheduled sale sponsored by the
Western Wool Handlers associa
tion closed.
R. C. Elliott and company.
which offered 2.250.000 pounds of
the wool, reported that 18 buyers
Inspected the product during tr.e
three-day event.
Elliott said outside ol a lew
small transactions, no sales were
made however, as buyers re
mained uneasy because of unset
tled condition which followed de
valuation of the British pound.
The wool offered here repre
sents about 35 percent of the out
put of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah,
and Nevada.
Eugene Football Player
Knocked Into Deschutes
BEND, Oct. 1 (.Pi Robert
Peltola, Eugene high school left
halfback, was knocked Into the
Deschutes river and suffered a
head cut, shortly before the game
with Bend high.
A rock, ell her thrown or dis
lodged from a cliff above, hit a
tree and bounded back to strike
Peltola on the head. He was top-1
pled Into the river, where he suf
fered a severe cut when his fore
head hit a rock. The injury did
not prove serious.
The mishap occurred near a
reslaurant, where the Eugene
team had dinner.
Changes Mad In Rules
For Potato Marketing
WASHINGTON t.Vt The Ag
riculture department has recom
mended some changes In a fed
eral marketing order regulating
handling of Irish potatoes grrown
in Oregon and California.
Adoption of the amendments Is
subject to approval of the grow
ers. They would permit a com
mittee of growers and handlers
to recommend regulations of ship
ments by grade, size, quality and
maturity of varieties.
The committee also could rec
ommend that special considera
tion be given to shipments for
purposes such as export or man
ufacturing outlets, livestock feed
or relief distribution.
BELATED APRIL FOOL
TACOMA, Oct. 1 P-Kennet
Swanson. proprietor of a local
service station hopes the burg
lars who entered his place Thurs
day night use their loot In a nice
crowded room. The loot;
Nine packages of exploding ci
gars: four packages of hitter rl
garet powder for 'nduclng naus
ea, and four packages of stench
loads for cigars and clgarets,
"cuaranteed to emntv rooms."
Swanson dldn t explain what he
had the Items for.
Bonk With
A Douglas County Institution
Home OwneoV Home Operated
Member Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp,
Douglas County State Bank
Oregon Cities Urged
nearly double the 1,899.000 mark
In September of last year.
The number of workers in
civilian Jobs was estimated at
59.411,000 in September against
59.947,000 in August and 60,312,
000 in September of last year.
Community Chest
Committee Meets
Meeting with the campaign
committee of the Roaeburg Com
munity Chest last night, Sam J.
Shoemaker, campaign chairman,
announced his plans for the forth
coming fund drive, Nov. 7
through Nov. 19.
The committees to be set up
will Include the advanced gifts,
prospect, publicity, and special
events. Membership of these
committees will be announced la
ter, he said.
Rollle Quam, Boy Scout exec
utive, and Marlen Yoder, general
secretary of the YMCA, will
serve as co-directors of the Com
munity Chest campaign, Shoe
maker also announced.
Shoemaker said he was "par
ticularly gratified" by the work
of the campaign committee, and
added that if "the same enthus
iasm and optimism" is shown by
other, chest workers, there will
be no doubt of the campaign's
success this year.
Half Million Are Out
In Huge Steel Strike
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sume work whenever the strike
ends. No violence was reported
anywhere.
The strike does not apply to
four steel producing companies.
They are Portsmouth Steel com
pany, Portsmouth, Ohio; Alle-gheny-Ludlum
Steel corporation.
Pittsburgh; Kaiser Company Inc.,
with plants In Utah, t-aiitornia
and Pennsylvania, and Harris-
hurff I Pa). Steel comDanv.
The big Kaiser steel Co. plant
ai romana, uui, aisu is upt-rni-Ing.
A spokesman ".aid negotia
tions are still under way.
Give In To Union
Portsmouth steel, with 4000
workers, gave In to union de
mands for a 10-cent hourly pack
age covering company-paid pen
sions and insurance for employes.
The rest of Industry held out for
social security programs in w hich
workers would kick in part of Ihe
costs. Harrisburg Steel's 1.500
workers are on the Job because
negotiations are continuing un
der a later strike deadline.
Allegheny Ludlum, which has
12.000 employes, and Kaiser, with
about 4.000, are still operating be
cause their contracts run until
October 15. Those firms have not
yet received the union's demands.
The strike closed 53 steel com
panies and 50 iron ore mining
firms In what may prove to be
one of the most quiet steel strikes
in American hostory.
Mills had begun to close down
operations as much as two days
before the strike deadline. Scat
tered wildcat strikes dotted the
nation before the scheduled end of
the truce asked by President Tru
man and accepted by both union
Mr. TVurnan had three time,
Intervened delaying the strike a
total or 7t days. But last night he
refused to butt In again. I
The average steelworker. earn-1
Ing $1.65 hourly, makes about SH6 '
for a 40-hour week. This means
that the strike costs workers about i
ao.vwu.issj in wages weeKiy.
ire steel industry is losing that
i sum and more In weekly profits.
By J. R. Williams
Wife Murderer
Sentenced To Die
EVERETT, Wash. Oct. 1 (JPl
Wayne L. Williams. 32, Tulsa.
Okla., laborer, will die on the
gallows at the State penitentiary
at Walla Walla November 18 for
the murder of his wife, Hallie
Lucille, and the savage attack
on his daughter, Mary Bernice,
near Mukilteo June 17, 1948.
The death warrant was signed
and the date of execution set
Friday by Superlon Court Judge
Ralph C. Bell, who presided over
the trial here last September.
Williams was found guilty be a
Jury and has been held in the
county Jail since pending final
action of appeals taken to the
Supreme court.
Williams, ashen faced but ap
parently composed, displayed no
outward emotion as the date was
set when he must die. He was
convicted of having beaten his
wife to death with rocks follow
ing an argument over money and
over a decision to return to Ok
lahoma. He crushed the head of
small daughter with rocks when
she cried out In protest upon
awaking in the back seat of the
car and seeing her mother being
beaten.
Willimas tossed both bodies
over a high cliff and left them
for dead. He was arrested less
than two-hours later when his
sister reported to Seattle police
he was covered with blood and
had stated that Hallie Lucille and
Mary Bernice "weren't coming
back."
He refused to lead officers to
the scene of the crime that day
and it was not until the following
morning that he took a sheriff's
party to the lonely, almost in
accessible spot where the body
of the dead woman and the in
jured child were recovered. The
girl subsequently recovered and
returned to relatives in Cali
fornia. Thirteen Air Force
Fliers Killed In Crashes
(Continued from Page One)
airliner at Milwaukee managed
to keep the left wing up until
the plane's roll had slowed down
after the landing. When the wing
touched the ground, the plane
swerved off the runway but came
to a stop without injury to those
aboard.
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a Catalina
Flying Boat crashed at the mouth
of the Iguape river, killing two
passengers and a crew member.
Seventeen persons were injured.
The plane was owned by Brazil
ian Taba airways.
The Aurora Boreal Is Is a dis
play of light In the high levels
of the earth's atmosphere.assoe
iated with high sunspot activity
and world-wide magnetic elec
tric storms.
Europe has seven midget prin
cipalities: Trieste. Andorra. Lie
chtenstein, San Marino, Monaco,
Vatican City and Luxembourg,
the largest (999 square miles.)
The Armv Air Forces were
' started in 1907 as the Aeronaut-
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Machinery book built buildings crates
cot goldfish china glan tires cement
canaries drugs
lumber thaei
neckties
lam pi .
nuts
boots tools
paper oil
plants tanks at ring
plaster cart- jewelry
tractor violins furnaces
f u ma bolts record e fu n
wiring dishes sofes eggs-
trees coops rocks but
tons dentures cabi
nets pei
Detained Ship
Appeals To U.S.;
British Stand By
Bv FRED HAMPSON
SHANGHAI. Oct. 1 WV One
of three American ships held at
the mouth of the Yangtze river
by a Chinese nationalist destroy
er today made a new appeal for
United States assistance.
Capt. Henry Scurr of the Is
brandsten line's Flying Independ
ent said the Chinese warship had
refused his request to move to saf
er water in the face of worsen
ing weather. ,
Scurr radioed the line's Shang
hai agents that he feared for the
Flying Independents safety In he,
present position. The ship was
forced to anchor in the Yangtze
entrance buoy area which ship
ping men consider unsafe in
rough weather at low tide.
The British frigate St. Bride's
Bay steamed into the viciniiv
where the nationalists are hold
ing the Flying Independent and
two other Isbrandtsen ships, the
Flying Clipper and the Flying
Trader.
Scurr messaged Nationalist
threats to his ship ceased after
the British warship arrived. Yes
terday he radioed the Chinese de
stroyer was "threatening to fire
on my crew and passengers."
Previously, the Shanghai
agents had protested the inter
ception of the three American
ships by the Nationalists to the
U. S. State department in Wash
ington and asked for naval inter
vention. The navy declined to act.
(In Canton, ,he Chinese Na
tionalist foreign office said the
Flying Independent and Flying
Clipper would be released once
the matter of cargo and passen
gers taken aboard at Shanghci
had been disposed of.
Dirty Tales Not
True; Pigs Really
Detest Dirt
By SAM SUMMEKLIN
AP Newsfeatures
RALEIGH, N. C Mr. Farmer,
don't believe those dirty stories
about your pigs.
Mud-slinging rumors to the con
trary, your pigs are by nature
the cleanest and the smartest
animals on your farm.
Our four-footed friends In cer
tain intelligence tests have out
smarted even chimpanzees,
brightest members of the ape
family.
Pigs can be easily househroK
en, and can be trained to hunt
as well as dogs.
What's more, scientists test
baby foods on baby pigs! The
latter have a digestive system
more nearly like that of humans
than any other common animal.
This is just a sampling of the
many true facts about pigs, a
breed of patient creatures that
has been relegated by man to a
life of mud and ignorance.
The dirty, stories about pigs
have been authored by the hog
raisers themselves. Uninformed
and misguided, they have maoe
the picture of a clean and gen
tlemanly pig a rare sight indeed.
Let an expert explain Dr. H.
A. Stewart, head of animal breed
ing and swine research at North
Carolina State College here In
Raleigh.
"Pigs have become associated
with filth only because we don't
jive them a chance to get away
from it," explained Dr. Stewart.
"With the temperature hovering
around 95 degrees on hot um
mer days, pigs just naturally
scoot for the nearest waterhole.
Since these oftentimes aren't pro
vided, the normally clean -conscious
pigs swallow their vanity
and collapse into the closest mud
wallow."
Pigs don't have sweat glands
like humans, he said. Instead,
they have a layer of fat under
the skin. For this reason, pigs
can cool their bodies only by ra
diation and evaporation of mois
ture. Because of the fat layer,
hogs like the temperature in the
low 50s. Humans, of course, pre
fer the hich 60s or low 70s.
Emily Post would be needed
to teach some pigs real table
manners, but . any farmer can
make respectable eaters out of
his pigs.
Pigs, contrary to world-wide
belief, don't have gluttonous ap
petites. Too many farmers fail
to feed their pigs enough, not
realizing that these animals re
quire plenty of food because they
grow proportionately faster than
any other common animal. A sort
of psychological fear Is created
In pigs bv this action, giving
them the Impression that there
isn't going tr. be enough food to
go around. That is why they dive
for the feed trough when the slop
comes around.
When self-feeders are provided
and less competition is present,
pigs never show any indication
of a ravenous appetite.
gum underwear bottles
fruit pianos stores
pigs bote toys
cows washers bricks
bedding dogs matches
vegetables pipe cigarettes
mud seeds rape
wool diamonds
i i i . ' .
S. clack hides
hats hair
horses
par-
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The Weatner
U. S. Wcathsr Burtau Offict
Rossburg, Orsgon
Fair and slightly warmer to
day. Partly cloudy Sunday.
Migh.st temp, for any Spt 104
Lowest temp, for any Sept 29
Highest temp, yesterday 70
Lowest temp, last 24 hrs. ... 43
Precipitation last 24 hrs 00
Precipitation since Sept. 1 .. 1-96
Excel, since Sept. 1 - -M
Six Prisoners Escape
In Daring Jail Break
(Continued from Page One)
came to the sheriff's office, on
the second floor of the courthouse,
about that time. Ten minutes la
ter he took the elevator to the
jail, two floors above. He found
the Jail door open.
Out To Dinner
Deputy Sheriff William Kis
singer, head jailer, said he had
been working In the Jail office un
til 10 minutes to eight, when he
and his wife had gone to dinner at
a restaurant on N. Jackson street,
one block away from the court
house. when thev came out of the res
taurant, Kissinger said, he heard
shouts and cries of "Help, police!"
coming from the courthouse, but
he dismissed tne noise as riu
makinir a eommotion" in the
women's quarters of the Jail.
When Byrd discovered ine jau
break, he released Mrs. Wilson
and together with trustees they
moved the Injured Jailer into the
Wilsons' apartment in the jail.
Byrd immediately returned to the
sheriff's office to notify the state
police, and to issue a call over
KRNR for the sheriff's reserves.
Enter Tank
Mrs. Wilson said her husband
had gone into the "tank," the
heavily-barred section of the jail
where dangerous prisoners are
kept in response to request from
one of them for "a suitcase to put
my clothes in." As Wilson un
locked the cell door, he was
grabbed and beaten and kicked.
Dr. Roy E. Han ford, w ho was
called to examine Wilson, said he
suffered severe contusions of the
abdomen, In the region of the kid
ney, and lacerations of his face
and ears. Wilson was removed to
Mercy hospital last night.
Mrs. Wilson said the six prison
ers were in the same cell. When
they had beaten up the Jailer,
they bound and gagged him with
towels torn into strips.
Called Ring Leader
Mrs. Wilson said when she
heard the commotion, she came
to the door of the apartment,
opening into the Jail lobby. She
was grabbed by Kerstine and led
into a cell. She described the 18-year-old
Kerstine as "the ring
leader" of the Jail break.
Wilson was not armed, nor
were there any weapons In the
jail office. But the prisoners found
the keys to the jail and escaped
in the elevator, going down to the
ground floor.
Their escape from the court
house was not witnessed, but po
lice believe they separated. Two
of the prisoners abandoned a ear,
identified as stolen, at Winchester.
State police said the car was re
ported stolen shortly after 8:30.
Calls For Help
Mrs. Wilson said as soon as she
was locked in the cell, she started
to scream. She also directed four
women prisoners in nearby cell
to scream and shout also.
Trustees at the Jail said they
witnessed the assault on Wilson
through a glass window between
the "tank" and the section of the
jail in which they are imprisoned.
They were powerless to do any
thing, however.
As the escapees were leaving,
they unlocked the trustees' section
and invited them to come along.
But these men about half a dozen
in number, declined.
Kissinger said he was told by
Byrd, that a few minutes after
the latter had arrived in the
sheriff's office, he heard the ele
vator descending from the Jail,
around 8:30. He went up shortly
and discovered the jail break.
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Roseburg Airport . Phen 122Sg Roseburg, Ore!
Berlin Airlift
Officially Ends
BERLIN, Oct. 1. G5 It was
taps for the Berlin airlift last
night.
The last plane of the lift, a
U. S. Air force C-54. carried new
correspondents and coal from
Frankfurt to Berlin. A band
played and the Templehof com
mander. MaJ. Gen. John K. Barr.
hauled out the last sack of coal
in the plane.
That was the last act In the
15-month life of the airlift. Dur
ing those 15 months the Ameri
cans and the British made mora
than 275.000 flights over the Rus
sian blockade Into Berlin, carry,
ing more than 2,300,000 tons Into
Ihe beleaguered city. The air lift'
success forced the Russians fin
ally to back down and lift their
blockade.
To the end the operation was
a record breaker. It had been
planned to end Oct. 31, but air.
men kept flying in the food and
supplies at such a rate that 'he
last plane arrived yesterday, a
month ahead of schedule.
In closing down the air lift,
both the Americans and the Brit
ish said they would maln'airt
training squadrons in Germany,
Representatives of both nation
said they could start the aerial
supply again rapidly should it
become necessary.
Senate Yote Uds
Postal Salaries
WASHINGTON. Oct. l-UPi-The
Senate Friday passed by voice
vote a bill calling for a 5100 a
year pay increase for almost all
of the 500.000 postal employes.
The measure estimated to
cost $61,000,000 a year goe now
to the House. Earlier this week.
the House approved a bill author
izing a postal pay hike of $180,
000.000 a year.
The Senate bill would give al
most all regular employes a flat
$100 a year in addition to their
annual salaries. Hourly wage
workers would receive a two and
one-half cent an hour increase.
Fourth class postmasters would
rpeeive a two and nne-half ner
I cent increase In their basic pay.
The Senate bill would also wipe
out the two lower grades of postal
employes and set most starting
salaries at $2,800 a year. The
starting salaries under the House
bill would be $2,900.
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