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ir. r.f n. litirjn 1 Eugene, Oregon -law f1 CE IP Nllfi. mi t m i ram 2 More Jail Breakers Back Behind Bars Wilbur, Martin Picked Up On Deer Creek Road; 2 Others Still At Large (Sea Pictures, Pig 2) Two mar escapees from the county jail Quentin Cecil Wil bur, 30, and Leroy Martin, 23 war captured Sunday after noon on the South Deer Creek road, five miles south of Dixon ville, State Police Sgt. Lyl H. Harrell reported. With their capture, only two of th six prisoner who mad a bold getaway from th coun ty jail Friday night ere still at largo. Two others wore captured near Winchester, within an hour after they beat and kicked Jailer Walter Wilson and left him bound and gagged in th jail. The two still at large are Larry Leslie Kerstine, 18, Roseburg, and Chester William Clark, 50, Stock ton, Calif. The pair nabbed on the railroad tracks near Winchester Friday night were Caroll Welton Hughes, 19, and his father, Willie Welton Hughes, 49, both of Pitts burg, Calif. Deputy Sheriff tra Byrd said Wilbur and Burnham were cap tured yesterday alter an aerial and ground search in the South Deer creek area, about five miles east of Roseburg, which lasted a good part of Sunday morning and Into the afternoon. Blood hounds were used to trail the pair. Tips Given On Telephone Bvrd said that Mrs. William Melton, wife of a South Deer creek rancher, telephoned In the first tip, that her husband had ob served two men sleeping near a fire about 11 miles below their barn and near a sawmill opera tion. The men were scared away when workers came to the mill to start operations. The fugitives were next ob served near the Charles Wilson ranch by Perry Wright of Illahee. He telephoned the state police of fice about 12:45 p. m., and was advised to "keep an eye" on the pair. He overtook them In his pick-up truck and offered them a ride along the South Deer creek road. Wright met S. W. Van Voorst, sheriff's reserve officer, who was on patrol in his own truck. He took charge of the prisoners and delivered them to a road block which had been set near the old South Deer creek Grange hall. Byrd was observing the man hunt from the air, while the fugf- (Continued on Page Two) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS UP at Redmond the other day, Louis Popish and Jack Hass ler were riding home from a rab bit hunt Popish was fingering a .22 caliber revolver. Suddenly, ac cording to Hassler, he dumped what apparently he thought was ALL the cartridges out into his hand, spun the cylinder, put the gun to his head and said to his companion : "Didja ever play the game of Russian roulette?" Then he pulled the trigger. The gun went off. Popish died the next day in the hospital. THERE are times when It seems to me that what people will do (especially with guns) passeth all human understanding. OKLAHOMA the other day, for the fifth time, voted to stay dry by state law. A dispatch from Oklahoma City says that as soon as the votes were counted and (Continued on Page Four) "THIS . OR NOTHING" Social Security Expansion Bill Sent To House Under No-Amendment Provision WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. f.P The House rules committee today sent social security expansion legislation to the House under a rule barring any changes. That means the House must accept the bill "as Is" or turn it down. House debate probably will begin tomorrow. Rep. Dough ton (D-N.C), head of the ways and means committee which draft ed the measure, predicted it will be approved overwhelmingly. The rules committee vote to bar amendments was 5 to 4. One member said five Democrats sup ported the rule and four Re publicans opposed. The Republi cans called the "this or nothing" procedures a "gag" rule. Republicans already had - ac cused Democratic leaders of a doublecross for bringing the leg islation up at this time. 'There was a definite under standing." Rep. Clarence Brown R-Ohio) told a reporter, "that this legislation would not be brought up until next January." Rep. Mason (R-Ill) also said there was such an agreement In the House Ways and Means committee, which handled the so cial security hill Speaker ftavburn savs the Dem-iOOO ocratic leadership never made any agreement to delay action1 The Weather Fair today. Increasing clonal mm tonight. Partly cloudy Tuo$ day. Sunset today 5:51 a. m. Sunrise) tomorrow 4:13 a. m. Established 1873 Se venteen Persons Die As Passenger Train Rams Bus 11 Of Victims Personnel Of March Field Remaining Six Hostess Club Members; Tragedy Follows Beach Party ONTARIO, Calif., Oct. 3. UP) A racing passenger train ripped into a U. S. air force bus at a crossing last night, killing 17 of the 22 occupants. Eleven of the dead were mili tary or civilian personnel from March air base; five were mem bers of the Ontario Hostess' club a service organization the other was the chaperone, Mrs. 'Ruby McLaughlin, 45, mother of one of the dead girls, Juanita Mc Laughlin, IS. j Chief Deputy Coroner Edward P Dnvli said nnlv five, inrludinff twin sisters sitting in different parts of the bus, escaped. Acetylene torches cut away the mangled wreckage from the bat tered locomotive, and the train headed east more than four hours late. The bus came from March air (Continued on Page Two) Deaths Of Oregon Deer Hunters Now At Total Of Five By The Associated Press The toll of human life In the third day of Oregon's deer hunt ing season stood today at five: three deaths from bullets and two from over exertion. Two hunters were slain Sunday in southern Oregon when com panions fired at deer. They were Frank Lee Balcomb, 32, of Eu gene, and Howard Thomas Breen 27. of Talent. The third gun victim will El mer W. Webb, 25, Brownsville. He was fatally wounded Saturday in Wasco county near Wamic. Balcomb was shot in the head with a 30-30 caliber bullet while hunting with a party of eight oth er men on the Frank Obenchain ranch north of Bly. Klamalh county Deputy Sheriff Murray Brltton said the shot was fired by rancher Harry Obenchain from about 50 yards in dense un derbrush. Breen died near Gold Hill from a shot fired by Robert Fisher, 22. Gold Hill. Jackson county Coro ner Carlos Morris said Fisher told of the two men separating and working along a mountain ridge. He had fired across a meadow at a deer, Fisher said. Balcomb is survived by his wid ow and a slxweek-old daughter. He was a lumber inspector. Breen is survived by his widow and two children, ages two and five years. Webb is also survived by a widow and two children. Heart attacks claimed Walter Cobb, 74, Roseburg, Friday night while preparing to camp in Lal.e county highlands, and Benjamin H. Rider. 49. Salem, who was found dead Sunday in his car. Rider, a postal clerk, had return ed to the car after complaining of fatigue. until next year. Regardless of who Is right, the bill is on the House work sched ule for this week. It is supposed to come up tomorrow lor its first taste of debate. The social security bill would Increase old age and survivors' insurance benefits materially. For instance. It would boost from $41 to $79 a month the pension for a man over 65, with a wife over 65, who has been in the program for 10 vears at an av erage wage of $i00 a month. If the monthly pay averaged $250, the pension would go up from $66 to $102. In addition, the bill would add 11.000,000 persons to the 35.000,. now covered bv the Derision svstem and gradually boost the taxes financing the program. GENIUS PLUS CRIME Lifer Weeps" As He Hears Own Composition BIG SPRING, Tex., Oct. 3 .P A life term convict stood in the wings of a stage yesterday and cried. He was hearing for the first time his musical his tory of Big Spring. Frank Grandstaff, on a six-day furlough from the Tennessee state prison, then slipped quietly into a front row seat. But min utes later he waa pushed to the stage the center this time to receive the applause of hundreds. The one-time piano salesman In west Texas, a man described as having unusual talents, was given a warm, heart felt ovation, for a work composed in a prison cell. Grandstafrs cantata, "Big Spring," was sung by a male chorus, as part of this west Tex as town's 100th birthday celebra tion. "I'm happy, I'm very happy," was all Grandstaff could say. "Yes, it sounded just as I thought It would." "Happiness is .a town named Big Spring." he told a crowd es timated at 2.000 persons just be fore the program in the munic ipal auditorium began. "Everyone here has gone out of his way to make my stay here one to be remembered." "You need not worry about me while I am here," he said in low, emotion-choked voice. Grandstaff was sentenced to life in prison when convicted as an habitual criminal, mostly for petty larcenies, small thefts and forgeries. Crooner Clark Is Killed In Crash LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3. (.P) The civil aeronautics board was investigating today whether the plane which crashed in a busy midtown boulevard, killing Crooner Buddy Clark, 38, may have been overloaded. Five others, including Sam Fayes, top West coast NBC news caster, were injured in the crash Saturday night. The plane was returning from the Stanford Michigan football game at Palo Alto when its gas supply ran out. James N. Peyton, regional CAB chief, said: "Two-engine Cessnas of that type usually carry a pilot and four passengers. This plane was carrying five passengers." Hayes. 44, suffered minor Injur ies. Hayes' wife Sally, 28, suffered leg injuries Frank Berend, 56, National Broadcasting sales executive, sustained head Injuries, and Jennings Pierce, 59, also a NBC executive, suffered a brain concussion. All were reported in "satisfactory" condition. It was little short of a miracle that the plane crashed on Bever ly boulevard at the height of Sat urday night travel without hit ting motorists. Pilot James Hayter, 27, suffered chest injuries and shock. Train-Car Crash Kills 2 Men; Wives Hospitalized MOUNT VERNON. Oct. 3. (.P) Two prominent Skagit county men were killed instantly yesterday evening and their wives critically Injured when their car collided with a Seattle City Light company train p. mile west of Marblemount. The dead are Fred H. Snyder, Anacortes druggist, and Wendell R. Whitney, pioneer La Conner business man. Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Snyder are both in the Sedro Woollcy Memorial hospital. Striking the left side of the 1T46 sedan driven bv Snvder. the gasoline-powered train carried the car nearly 60 feet beyond the grade crossing. Husband Slays Wife, Man Friend In Bedroom BREMERTYW fVt t im A 27-year old father of three children told Dnlir that ha kill. ed his wife and another man in a shower of bullets here Satur day. Det. Lt. John Plnnf uM thai Willie Joe Dunn surrendered to police shortly after the shooting with the words "I shot mv wife and a man." The bodies of Mm. Rtihv Dunn 26, and James KIckens, 22 were found in the hH Dickens' .Weatpark home. Dunn was booked in the city Jail for investigation of murder. INSULT AND INJURY WASHINGTON. Oct. 3 (W Rookie Park Policeman Michael J. Fiore reluctantly reported yes terday that a thief broke into'his parked car and stole his blue uni form and new police badge. ROSEBURG, OREGON 102,000 Coal Miners Go Back To Their Jobs 400,000 Still Idle As Are 513,000 Steelworkers; Hawaii Outlook Brighter IBy The AuorUtcj Prcwi One hundred two thousand of John L. Lewis' coal miners went back to work today, but 400.000 remained on strike as did 513, 000 ClO-Steelworkers. Optimism was voiced that set tlement of the 156-day strike of 2,000 CIO longshoremen at Ha waii may come soon. Tension re laxed in Detroit's auto industry as CIO auto workers planned to apply the Ford settlement pat tern to Chrysler and other manu facturers. Meanwhile, as the AFL con vention began at St. Paul, Minn., the federation's officers recom mended shortening of industry's work day and work week as an immediate economic goal. The United Mine Workers sent (Continued on Page Two) Argentina Peso Valuation Cut BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 3. iff) Argentina today devalued her money 46 percent in relation to the dollar. The effect was to make the U. S. dollar bring 84.6 percent more pesos than Ft did before for travelers and for cer tain services. The ratna for fiorts and imports were realigned ess drastically. The rate was fixed at nine pesos to the dollar, compared with the old rate of 4.875. The peso was devalued to 25.20 to the British Dound Instead of thf old rate of 19.37. This South American nation also suspended all imports . at least temporarily. To date, 25 nations have de valued since Britain started the ball rolling by cutting the value of the pound from $4.03 to $2.80 on Sept. 18. Most of devaluations In Brit ain and the other countries have been by about 30 percent in re lation of the dollar. Families Routed By Acid Fumes From Tank Car LaFAYETTE, Ind., Oct 3. (Pi Sulphuric acid fumes pouring from a wrecked railroad tank car routed 100 families from their homes near the Purdue univer sity campus in West LaFayette early yesterday. No serious injuries were re ported. Church bells and police sirens sounded an alarm as po lice and firemen in gas masks' aided by volunteers, aroused sleeping residents and led them to safety. Families evacuated included 70 living in a trailer camp for mar ried war veteran students at Pur due. The tank car, carrying 7,1000 gallons of acid, was derailed and its safety valve ripped off about about 500 feet from the trailer camp. Crash Into Divider Traps Truck Driver ALBANY, Oct. 3 P A trutk driver was trapped inside his ve hicle for an hour today after he crashed into a divider on the Pa cific highway overpass here. Robert Richardson, of Port land, was pinned inside the truck cab so tightly that rescuers had to cut the cab's top off with cut. ting torches before he could he removed. Richardson was still conscious though suffering a broken leg and other undetermined injuries -r-when rescuers reached him and took him to a hospital. His asphalt-laden Northern lines truck and trailer smashed Into the steel post and high min ing of the divider. The Impact demolished the cab. Program Here To Mark U. S. Newspaper Week In recognition of American Newspaper Week, Oct. 2-8, a 15 minute program will be broad cast from the Roseburg Elks lodge at 8:30 Thursday evening. The program will be open to the public. Short talks will be given by Leroy Inman, city editor of th? News-Review, and Leroy Illatt, new manager of KRNR. Also on the program will be Del McKay, KRNR announcer; E. L. Knapp, business manager of the News Review, and Mayor Albert G. FlegeL MONDAY, OCT. 3, 1949 t - ' - i 0 r -. . .... :i)-. i s. PLANE WRECKAGE FOUND Umoaua National forest near Lower picture shows numbers of plane, which has bean idantified as craft flown by David L. Locke, 22, of Arcadia, Calif., who disappeared in February, 1947, on flight from Los Angeles to Seattle. Turnbull Justice Douglas Gravely Hurt In Trek On Horseback YAKIMA.. Oct. 3 OP) Justice William O. Douglas, one of the leading Liberals of the U. S. Su preme Court, was injured gravely yesterday in the Cascade moun tains he loved as a boy. He suf fered 13 rib fractures and a punc tured lung when his frightened horse fell and rolled on him. His chances of full recovery, however, appeared excellent to day. Doctors attending him at a Yakima hospital said his condi tion was not critical. The stam ina gained from an active, out door life away from his Judicial duties stood him in good stead. The 50-year-old Jurist res()ond ed well to blood transfusions and emergency treatment given on his arrival from the accident scene, 77 miles away. But for several days, his doc tors said, the dangpr of pneumon ia will he acute. As soon as his Improvement permits, further ex aminations are planned to check against the possibility of other internal injuries. Douglas, mentioned frequently as a possible Democratic presi dential candidate In 1952, was hurt on the eve of the Supreme court's new term and two weeks to the day from his 51st birth day. He had flown here from Seat tle for a brief visit In this city where he spent his boyhood and helped work his way ,hrou?h grade and high school as a news paper carrier. He had planned to return to Washington, D. C, last night by plane. The several -hour horseback trip to the Chinook pass area of the high Cascades had been plan ned in connection with Douglas' book, soon to be published. Police Break Up Wild Party On Teen-Agers OREGON CITY, Oct. 3 (JPi Officers were investigating to day a teen age party which end - ed abruptly Saturday night In a state police raid. Police broke up a party at the Jennings Lodge community club after nearby residents complain ed. Police said some .V) high school students from Portland were drinking beer and breaking things. The Communltv club said three tables and two chairs were brok en. Three boys were arrested. Committee Approves Minton For High Court WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -P-The Senate judiciary committee of Federal Judge Sherman Min ton of Indiana to be an asso-1 ennt In ga ArrMant elate Justice of the supreme court. MOt ln toUB Accident The committee voted nine to BAKER. Oct.3 - (IP) Elmer two to send the nomination t:i K. Greener of Halfway was Bak the senate for confirmation wlth'er county's first hunting season a favorable recommendation. j casualty. He accidentally shot Approval came after the com- Imittee revered a previous deri - sion to call Minton oeior it lor questioning. aT - VnlliiM Harry Turnbull, who discovered summit of Red Butte Sunday, ti brought thes pictures into Th California U. President Signs Non-Red Oath BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 3. (Jp,The president of the Uni versity of California Academic Senate (faculty) has signed the non-communist oath, "now there is no pistol at the head." Dr. Joel Hildebrand, who had been critical of "Imputations of disloyalty" In the expansion of the oath of allegiance formerly required of instructors, said he expected all faculty members now would sign the new oath "or its equivalent." The university Board of Reg ents this year demanded all em ployes sign a new oath. Hildebrand said the "pistol at the head" had been removed by Saturday's action of the board of regents In allowing faculty mem bers to reword the pledge. Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, uni versity president, said 60 per cent of the teaching force had signed. Boy Drowns When Pinned Underneath Upset Tractor PORTLAND, Oct. 3 (PI A teenage boy drowned in a few feet of water In a slough yestei day when pinned underneath an overturned tractor. Police said Angelo Fazio was operating the tractor near his northeast Portland home. A younger cousin was thrown clear of the machine. The father, Tony Fazio, a Sauvies Island truck farm orralor, witnessed Jhe mis- boy from under the tractor. Mother, Baby Plunge To Death From Bridge SPOKANE, Oct. 3. OP) A young mother and her baby son, victims of a death plunge from the Monroe street bridge Satur day, have been identified as Mrs. Marie Klee, about 30, and Charles, four months. A police search for a second son, age 2, was unsuccessful. A , frje'nd wn(; mad(. tne 0Pn,ifca. tlon said Mrs. Klee left her home with the two children shortly be fore she was seen to Jump off the bridge with the Infant in her arms. Wilson, Beaten Jailer, Able To Quit Hospital Walter Wilson, county Jailer who was beaten and kicked, bound and gagged Friday night, when six priaoners eacapad from the county jail, waa re leased from Mercy hospital to day. His condition is "lm. proved," the hospital reported. i Oregon Hunter LOSeS himself In the foot Friday night lwhlle getting his gear ready to i go nunung. ms irn iooi w m I putated in the Baker hospital. 232-49 r3 if Ira 4 ;r, wrackage of Navion plan on shown naar wraclcaqa of plan. Nws-Kviw Sunday Hurricane Heads For Texas Gulf CORPUS CHR1STI, Tex., Oct. 3. (IP) A lOU mlle-an hour hurri cane moved slowly toward the Industrial-studded Texas Gull coast today. All along the coastline from Corpus Cnristi to Galveston, about 250 miles, preparations were made for a big blow late today. Tides already were running high and torrential rains drenc)' ed the whole area. Nearly four inches of rain had fallen at Gal veston. Corpus Chrlstl, site of the hig naval air training center, order ed schools closed. Thirty-five four-engine bombers took off in a rain squall for a safe haven at Good fellow field at San Angelo, In west Texas. Meremints were busy boarding up plate glass windows. Low land dwellers were ordered away from the coast line. . Fugitive Oregon Convict Nabbed At Canyon City CANYON CITY. Ore., Oct. 3. (IP) Convict Leo Gilbert Wil liams, who escaped the state pri son Sept: 22 with two other men, was held In the Grant county Jail here today. He waa capured In this area Saturday night after an alert log ging camp superintendent no ticed a truck was In the wrong place. Emory Moore, superintendent of the Heppncr Logging Co., spotted a company truck nor mally used only on logging camp property at the town of Monu ment. He called slat police, saying the truck must have been stolen. Police arrested Williams. Williams broke out of the Jail through a dry flume with William John Perkins, who Is still free, and Young Earl Railsbark, wno was captured shortly after the break. Unpaid Debt Leads To R. R. Bunkhouse Shooting CORVALL1S. Oct. 3 OP) A railroad bunkhouse shooting sent one man to a hospital and anoth er to jail here yesterday. State police said Cederic K. El lison. 40, was wounded twice ln the chest and once in the head by 22 caliber bullets. Held In the Jail for Lincoln county authori ties Is Cecil P. Young. 50. Young was reported as saying the shooting stemmed from an argument and fight over money owed him. The affair occurred along the Southern Pacific tracks west of here at Nashville. HEADS CITIES LEAGUE PORTLAND, Oct. 3 t.V) The Mayor of Dallas, Hollis S. Smith, was elected president of the league of Oregon cities Sa turday succeeding George W. Peavy of Corvallif. 1 Hunter Metes Discovery In Red Butte Area Craft Identified As Lest In 1947; Skeleton Likely That Of Pilot D. L Lock Discovery of wreckage of a plane, with at least one skeleton In it, was reported to state polic here Sunday by a Portlander re turning from a hunting trip oil the Umpqua National forest. It was apparently the single englnea Navion which vanished in February of 1947 as Douglas U Locke, 22, Arcadia, Calif., was fly ing it from Los Angeles to Seattle. Harry Turnbull. Portland, aald he came across an aluminum colored Navion, bearing the 1W cense number NC8609H, near th summit of Red Butte, on the Ump qua National forest about 40 mile east of Roseburg. That was the license number ot the craft in which Locke disap peared two and a-l alf years ago. the Associated Press at Portland reported this morning. Locke, fer rying the North American Avia tion company plane to a dealer in Seattle, was last heard from when h radioed the Eugene control tower that he was lost after tak ing off from Red Bluff. Calif. A long search was unavailing. Balievcd Alone In Craft The hunter who found the v reckage said the bones appeared to be from either one or two skele tons, he told newsDaoera at Port. land, where he went after report- in" nis aiscovery to state police here. Locke, however, had been alone In the craft. Stale Police Sgt. Lyle H. Har rell started this morning with a party of officers to Inspect the sc-ne or wreckage ana it possible make definite identification of the bones. Sgt. Harrell and his party did not expect to return from th plane wreckage scene until late this afternoon, when further de tails were to be announced. Animals Throng Church For Saints HEREFORD, England. Oct. 3 (IP) Forty horses went to church here yesterday. So did hundreds of dogs and cars, guinea pigs, rabbits, gold fish, along with a goose, a cock, a grass snake, a canary, a goat and tortoise. Once year the very Rev. Hed ley Burrows, dean of Hereford, hat a service for pets and their owners, dedicated to St. Francis of Assissl, patron saint of ani mals. "I think the service was a mar velous success," said the vicar of Holy Trinity, the Rev, Leonard Snell. "It will help people to re alize their responsibilities toward dumb animals." The animals got the spirit of the ceremony. No dogs chased cats. 'No cats ate mice. The cata left the goldfish unmolested. Only a goose named Egbert disgrac ed his owner. Egbert waddled out Just as the service began. Schoolboy Anglers Die In Cowlitz River CHEHALIS. Wash.. Oct 3. . (IP) Two 15-year-old eastern Lewis county boys perished in th cold, swirlln? waters of th r. li'z river Saturday evening. Lewis County Sheriff Frank Thayer said here the victims wer Mcnny George and Harold Work man, both of Rlffe. The boys, both Mossyrock high school freshmen, had been fishing in the Cowlitz west of Kosmos. Young George, Sheriff Thayer said, attempted to swim the river and was stricken with cramps. His companion went to his aid and both disappeared. The sheriff said the tragedy wai witnessed by Albert George, fa- iner or one oi tne victims. Work man was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Workman. Both bodies were recovered. Mrs. Charles W. Robinson, Education Leader, Dies PORTLAND, Oct. 3 (IP) Mrs. Charles W. Roblson, 00. Portland civic leader who had served on the State board of ed ucation for 12 years, died today. Her husband, an attorney, two sons, and two daughters survive. Street Project Bids Up To Council Tonight Bids for a number of street Improvement projects will be opened by the city council at its regular meeting at 7:30 tonight In the citv hall. Other routine matters will also be taken up. SOVIET HONORS ROBESON NOSCOW, Oct 3. UP) A mountain peak in Russia has been named after Negro singer Paul Robeson, th Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, re ported. Livity Feet Rant By L. r. Reiimatata Only en day mor before all Americans con quit worry ing about politics, high prices, tax and th cold war. Th World Series opens October 5 and not even the explosion of an atomic bomb in Russia or elsewhere -cea distract our at tention from th nation's an nual sports classic