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U. Of 0. Library " 1 1 n$Ks '$srA m Of 5 WHO DOES WHAT wiw ii iiiiwwBtaSiiiTTf Hi i 'i i nupitT iaT nmWi ini JONNIE STAFFORD, employee of the Carter Tire company on N. Stephens street, is demonstrating the use of a Coleman tire changer, a tool which enables its operator to either mount or demount a casing in 30 seconds. Even though he is from Missouri, Jonnie didn't need to be shown the advantages accruing from the use of this device they were self-evident. He has been with Carter's for the last year and lives in Shinn's Addition in West Roseburg. High School Boy Bags His Buck By Bulldogging EUGENE, Oct. &-.? Arthur Cofer, Wendling, went out hunt ing this past weekend and ended up by bulldogging his deer. Arthur, a senior in high school, wounded a three-point buck In the Booth-Kelly logged-off area, near Wendling. The injured deer charged and pinned Arthur to a tree. The boy grabbed the buck by the nose with his right hand, seized an antler with his left, and gave a husk twist, rodeo style. Arthur's father, Hubert, and an uncle, who were hunting nearby, heard his yells and helped him kill the struggling deer. REASON ENOUGH CADILLAC, Mich., Oct. 6-4P) The parent-teacher association has asked city officials to en force a 9:15 p.m. curfew for-children under 17. The reason: school teachers complain their pupils are falling asleep In the class- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ON the other side of the world Russia's stooges, obeying or ders from Moscow, are closing In on Tito of Yugoslavia, who has refused to obey the orders he gets from Moscow. So far, they are applying "econ omic sanctions" (refusing to buy what Tito wants to sell or to sell to him what he wants to buy, etc.) and diplomatic pressure. At any moment, Moscow might order them to APPLY MILITARY FORCE. ON the Yugoslav side of the border, Tito reviews his troops. The correspondents say he is (Continued on Page Four) NEW ENDURANCE MARK Fliers Above Yuma Now Aim For Columbus Day; City Stages Celebration YUMA, Ariz., Oct. 6. iP Yuma's refreshed and rejuvenated endurance flyers continued to add more hours to their new world flight record today. They passed the old mark of 1,008 hours at 7:15 p. m. (MST) last night, and immediately announced the emotional lift of reach ing their goal had removed much of the growing fatigue they have felt in the past four days. Their plane, "The Yuma" carried them City of ! past the j record without a major falter during their six weeks in the air. It is a four-place Acronca mono plane powered by an 85-horse-power Continental engine. Shattering of the old record by the twoJiavy veteran pilots Bob Woodhouse and Woody Jonge ward touched off a major cele bration at the Yuma county air port last night. One minute before the goal was reached, all lights in the city and area were turned off, then, at 7:15 p.m. The lights were flashed hack on, the police sirens, fire whistles and automobile horns if 5it ( i Greyhound Bus Ditched; No One Seriously Hurt A Greyhound bus was ditched near the Garden Valiey junc tion on Highway 99 about 11:15 a. m. today, following a col lision with a truck. State po lice were dispatched immediate ly to investigate but had no definite Information at press time. Long and Orr ambulance was called to the scene, but appar ently no passenger was injured seriously enough to require hos pitalization. The local Grey hound depot said the bus was due here at 11:14. Romance Follows Girl's Capture Of Prowlers PORTLAND, Oct. 6 JPl Jackie Finch, the pretty young carhop who chased two car prowlers and arrested them at gunpoint, was engaged today be cause of it all. Cpl. Henry Stenseth, who used to date Jackie during their school days in McMinnville, Ore., called to see her after reading about her bravado. It was their first reunion In six years, "but it happened, Just like that," said Jackie. She and Sten seth, who rs serving at Paine field, Everett, Wash., are going to be married next spring. Three weeks ago Jackie looked out her bedroom window to see two men prowling her car. She I grabbed her roommate and a ois- tol. The two dashed out, arrest ed the men, ma'.ched them back to Waddle's drive-in coffee shop, and called police. CAR BLOW FATAL PORTLAND. Oct. 6 (IP) Mike Christofferson, 70, Wolf Point, Mont., died In a hospital today after he was struck by a car in Portland. The accident occurred a few minutes after he was ordered out of a cafe. Patrons there said he was acting oddly. A railroad ticket he was carry ing indicated he was traveling from Indio. Calif., to Wolf Point. w-ere blown In celebration of the event. While their plane circled the Yuma county airport, an estimat ed 10.000 persons cheered the fly ers on toward their announced goal of continuing one more week until Oct. 12, Columbus Day. The mayor and Junior Cham ber of Commerce officials offer ed them congratulations by radio and on a nearby hill a police fire works display was touched off. "The airplane and the pilots are in the same condition," Jon?e ward reported. "Both are tir ed, but could stay up a lot long er." Woodhouse and Jongeward started their flight on August it Tti Wnriwr Cloudy with showors today; partly cloudy wit tcattorod showers Friday. Sunset today 5:44 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:17 a. m. Established 1873 Culprit In Navy Crommelin Also Expects To Face Trial Navy Denies To Congress Charge In Secret Papers That Morale Is Low WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 UP The navy today suspended Capt. John G. Crommelin from duty and denied to Congress that the morale of naval officers and men is in sad shape. These developments piled up quickly In the wake of Cromme lin's admission that he is the man who gave news reporters on Mon day official correspondence about navy morale: 1. The navy suspended Crom melin, 46-year-old aviation vet eran, from duty and ordered him restricted to his home. That Is a preliminary action pending final disposition of his case. There is the possibility of a court-martial. 2. Secretary of the Navy Mat thews went before the House Armed Services commitee and said he believes navy morale gen erally is good. Without calling Crommelin's name, Matthews in effect accused him of disloyalty, faithlessness, and insubordination. 3. President Truman told a news conference he has Instruct ed Matthews to get to the bottom of the controversy swirling about charges that the navy is not being given a fair deal in present mili tary unification policies. Mr. Truman declined to com ment on Crommelin's release of private navy correspondence critical of defense policies. Trial Anticipated Indicating that he anticipated a court-martial trial, Crommelin told reporters that a close friend, Capt. J. L. Kane, chief of naval aviation plans, would be his at torney. Under navy procedure, the of- (Continued on Page Two) - County Welfare Office Has New Staff Workers Three new staff members, two as replacements, have beed add ed to the Douglas County Wel fare commission office, announc ed Lois Baker, administrator. Mrs. Helen Beck, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, who has arrived here from Min nesota, and William Jones, a graduate of Oregon State college, have been employed as case workers. Julian Helleck has been added as a child welfare worker. A graduate of West Liberty college, Va., he took his graduate work at West Virginia university at Morgantown. Douglas county has not had a child welfare worker for more than two years. Mrs. Beck and Mr. Jones re place Miss Barbara Weisz, who has accepted an administrative position at Prineville for Crook and Jefferson counties, amd Mrs. Mae Beaman, who has been as signed to Albany for Linn county. Miss Dorothy Knapp, child wel fare consultant with the State Public Welfare department, was here part of last week assisting Mr. Helleck In reestablishing his office. Miss Marguerite Thomason, field supervisor from the Salem office, will be here Thursday and Friday of this week to confer with Mrs. Baker and members of her staff. Deputy Dist. Attorney For Douglas Appointed The Douglas county court has passed a resolution empowerng District Attorney Robert G. Davis to appoint a deputy district attor ney for the county, to serve with out compensation. i Davis announced today that he had named James G. Richmond, a new partner in the office of Davis and Walton, to the posi tion. Douglas Walton is a state deputy di-strict attorney. In explaining the appointment, Davis stated that since Richmond is a partner, he couldn't take a case against the state, so the re quest has been made to make it possible for him to assist with the district attorney's office w hen needed. Organization To Spur Private Tree Farming PORTLAND, Oct. 6 (Pi A new Pacific Northwest forest conservation organization to pro mote private tree farming and re lated projects was announced to day. Organized as the "forest con servation committee of Pacific Northwest forest industries." it will merge the work of two com mittees which represented tt West Coast Lumbermen's asso ciation and the Pacific Northwest Loggers association. E. P. Stamm, Portland, is chairman and George L. Drake, Shelton, Wash., vice-chairman. 1 i in' - -.tm... - .. -. 1 1 ROSEBURG, OREGON PENSIONS BOOST VOTED Social Security Expansion Bill Passed By House Also Hikes Payroll Tax Rates WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. I API Riding a triumphant 333 to 1 4 House vote, legislation vastly expanding the nation's social security program moved over to the Senate today. It would add 11,000,000 to the 35,000,000 workers now cov ered by old age insuiance. Its sponsors voiced hope it would lessen strikes and strife over labor demands for pension plans financed wholly by em ployers. In the federal program, workers and employers share equally the cost of the benefits the workers later receive. j Senate approval is considered - . virtually certain sometime be- t-nvllf Da9IA I fore the 1950 fall elections. LullY rCuLC III Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Steel Strike Not In Sight PITTSBURGH, Oct. 6 Til CIQ United Steelworkers made peace with Henry J. Kaiser out spread their walkout to two more plants today. And as the nationwide steel shutdown over pensions reached the sixth day, the federal gov ernment still ignoring Philip Murray's battle with big steel announced it would try to sett 1"? the 18-day-old strike of 380,000 soft coal miners. The ranks of 500,000 striking steelworkers were joined last night by 1,500 at the Atlantic Steel company in Atlanta and 2. 800 at the Riverdale plant of the Acme Steel company near Chi cago. Atlantic Is a basic steel plant which also does some manufac turing while Acme's Riverdale plant is primarily a fabricator. Despite these developments there , are r signs of an 'early peace in the double-barreled steel-coal walkout. Sporadic violence marks the coal strike. A few thousand non union miners continue digging with protection of heavily armed guards and police. Kaiser Accepts Demands Kaiser Steel's acceptance of (Continued on Page Two) Voting Slow In West Roseburg By 10 o'clock this morning onlv 18 persons had voted in the Wes"t Roseburg Sanitary district elec tion at the Free Methodist church, election board members reported. The election Is being held on the proposal to create a sanitary district in West Roseburg and to elect three directors to the board of the proposed district. The p) ling place will remain open until 8 p. m. Boundary of the proposed dis trict extends westward, down stream along the cenler line of the South Umpqua river to a point opposite the east boundary of the George M. Brown heirs' property; it continues south along said boundary and intersects the Melrose road; then it follows the west line of the Herschel D. Scott property, and extension of such line, to the old Coos Bay Wagon road, and returns east along this road to the city limit?. Candidates for directors of the proposed district include Albert m. Kowe, chairman of the un official West Roseburg Sanitary committee; Rudolph R. Ritzman, and Richard E. Pargeter. ' - .V- 4 IS' LINDELL CLINIC NEARS COMPLETION This new building at the corner of E. Douglas and N. Kane streets will be occupied after Dec. I by Drs. E. E. Lindell and H, Nels Lindell. That's the date they hope it will be completed. The building hat 2,700 feet of floor space, will provide offices, consultation and anamination rooms for four doctors, or tists. The clinic will include rooms for minor surgery and X-ray tractor. Constructed of pumice block with brick facing half approximately 127,000. Exterior will be ituece above the brick, with composition root. I Pic ture by Paul Jenkins), THURSDAY, OCT. 6. 1949 "Leak" Suspended Senate finance committee said the Senate is bound to vote for higher security benefits, but will not. be able to act before the sec ond session of the 81st congress convenes in Januarv. The new bill would raise the minimum old age benefit from $10 a month to $25 a month. It would Increase the maximum benefit for an elderly couple from $85 to around $126 a month. Benefits are based on a person's average wage and the number of his working years during which he paid payroll taxes into the pro gram. Major Provisions In addition to blanketing new millions under old age and sur vivors Insurance, for a total of 46,000,000 covered workers, the 201-page bill would: 1. Boost benefits by 70 to 80 per cent or moi-e. 2. create new disability Insur ance, to take care of persons who by illness or accident can never work again. J. Increase the payroll taxes on employee and employer. The tax would go up from the present 1 per cent on each, to 11 per cent next year: 2 per cent in 1951; 21 .-(Cit.inued on iPace Two! U. S. Raps Russia For Mistreating American Strays WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (JPl The United States sent a strongly worded note to Russia today pro testing the "shocking" mistreat ment of Americans who stray into the Soviet zone of Germanv. "This treatment the United States government finds to be in shocking contravention to the most elementary standards of in ternational decency," the note said. At the same time the United States, through Ambassador Kirk in Moscow, notified the Russian foreign office that "it expects that those Soviet officials who are responsible for these acts will I punished.' The American note referred specifically to the case of the two American college students who 'inadvertently and innocently" entered the Russian zone while bicycling and who were detained for eight weeks. It also cited the case of Pvt. John J. Sinkowicz, an American soldier, who escaped Sept. 16 from a prison in the Soviet secior of Berlin after 10 months of Im prisonment. The note said he was held under "brutal and unciviliz ed conditions." The note said bluntly: "There can be no justification for this kind of treatment of citi zens of a friendly nation, personj whose only violation of law Is purely technical at most and whose innocence of criminal charges can easily be establish ed." A J. V V T j T, ,. I " -4 S V 1 ' ' ' -,. ,- - I ' toJ 235-49 AFL Claims Political Tie With Farmers Fund Will Be Raised lb Defeat Their "Enemies" In Elections Next Year ST. PAUL, Oct. 6-OFi Ameri can Federation of Labor leaders today claimed success in cement ing labor-farmer political alli ances for a Joint drive in the 1950 congressional elections. They said they have worked out deals with farm groups in various sections of the country to cooper ate "in electing our friends and defeating our enemies" in next year's important campaigns. Joseph D. Keenan, director of the AKL's Labor League for Po litical Education, in winning con vention endorsement of a mult million dollar political war chest, said: "There is one thing we have learned In our experience in tli political arena. The enemies oi labor are also the enemies of the farmer. Since our enemies are in common, the individual farmer and the city worker have every thing to gain through mutual, pn- liliciil action as voters." Keenan told newsmen the AFI. political league has worked out cooperative political ar rangements with groups belong ing to the National Farmer un ion, National Grange and Ameri can Farm bureau. Fund Will be Raised The convention unanimously approved a resolution authorizing a political fund raising drive. It contemplates collecting a $3 con tribution from each of the AFLs claimed 8,000,000 members. Kee nan said he hoped this would net several million dollars. Speakers stressed that it would be voluntary with members. Keenan singled out nine Repub lican senators for defeat In 1950. Heading the list was Senator Taft iROhio). Another was Senator Dulles, who is engaged in the (Continued on Page) Two) Vets Plan For Armistice Day Preliminary plans for the erec tion of a new building and Ar mistice day observance were dis cussed at the meeting of Ump qua Post, American Legion. Tues day night at the Legion hall at 118 So. Kane street A dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Hotel Umpqua was planned for a thorough discussion upon the building program. Commander William E. "Dutch" Mills appointed William Allen general chairman of the Ar mistice day program. A full day's observance will be held. A morning program at the In dian theater will be followed by a parade of all veterans organi zations. Luncheon will be served at noon in the armory, and the program will continue in the aft ernoon. The day will be topped off with a dance that night In the armory, said Mills. I kl D A7 -1. nvwipopvr vy nvvn Cited By Gov .McKay SALEM, Oct. 6. (Jf Next Saturday will be newspaperboy day in Orpgon by order of Gover nor Douglas McKay, The governor, who used to get up at 4:30 a. m. to deliver papers in Portland, urged all citizens to got to know their newspaperboya better and to give them encour agement. combination of doctors and den work. John Todd is general con - way up, the building will cost First Day Heroes as. St- V 'Si Major credit for tna N. V. Yankees' 1 to 0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers In the opening game of the world series yester day goes to the two players pic tured above. At the top Is Tommy Henrlch, whese ninth Inning homer deoided the game, and Allia Reynolds, lower photo, whose pitching held the Dodgers to two hits. Study Of State School Economy Committee Aim County School Superintendent Kenneth Barneburg, a member of the school economy committee, set up by the Oregon Education association, attended a recent committee meeting held in Port land. . ... , -'The committee of six has been delegated to study the obtaining of wise economy In the state school system. The areas of study Include: Ad ministrative, teachers, test books, fuel and light conserva tion, maintenance of bulldinij and equipment, transportation, insur ance, cafeteria scnooi luncnes, purchase of new equipment, and comparative costs of building con struction to meet state building requirements. Since the field Is large, the study will be continued over a E'riod of several months, said arneburg. Experts on various phases will he called in so that their experience may be used in ferrettlng out economics that may be effected and still main tain 'the necessary school stan dards. It Is hoped, he said, to find places where definite savings may be made by better proce dure and methods. In some cases it may be necessary to increase costs, with the overall result to bring about an economy proce dure. The committee will guard against false economies, he em phasized. Following the commit tee's study, the OEA will make recommendations to the state school officials and where neces sary formulate legislation to be presented the next legislature. The next committee meeting will be Oct. 22 in Portland. Trucker Clips Off 20 Rural Mail Boxes PUEBLO, Colo., Oct. 6 1P) -Uncle Sam has frowned on farm er Howard Willhite's alleged "harvesting" of 20 rural mail boxes with a grain binder on his truck. Willhlte, 36, was arraigned be fore a U. S. Commissioner yes terday on charges of destroying mall boxes. He was released on $500 bond. U.S. Attorney Max Bulkley said Willhite's binder clipped off all but three of 23 mail boxes along a 20-mile stretch of road from a Holly, Colo., tavern to his home. Ex-Postmaster General Robt. E. Hannegan Dies ST. LOUIS, Oct. S-Wi-Rob-ert E. Hannegan, former post master general and one-time owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, died today at his home here. His wife was at his bedside. Hannegan, who was only 43, gave his health as the reason for selling his interest In the Card inals last winter. Hannegan retired as postmast er general In November, 1947, to head a syndicate buying the St. Louis baseball club. He also had served as chairman of the Nation al Democratic committee and di rected the party's 1944 presiden tial campaign. Crater Lake Entrances Closed For Winter SALEM, Oct. 6 (IP) The east and north entrances to Crater lake were closed by snow Wed nesday for the winter, the state highway commission announced , : k 54 rwwssssse nu mmm Two Hits In Second Frame Bring Tally Jackie Robinson Swats Two-Bagger, Races Horn On Single By Hodges By The Auociated Prewl The Brooklyn Dodgers of the National league had a l-to-0 lead over the Naw York Yan. kaes of the American league in the second game of the world series on the Yankees' field this afternoon. The Dodgers' run was tallied in the second inning when Jackie Robinson, Negro second base man and National league bat ting chamion, blasted a double, was sacrificed to third base and raced home on Hodges' single. The opposing pitchers, Reich! of the Yenkees and Roe of the Dodgers, are staging a duel that may rival the sensational performance of Reynolds and Newcombe in yeiterday's game. By JACK HAND YANKEE STADIUM, New York, Oct. 6. (Pi The sun shone dully on the Yankees' ' Bronx home today and the band tootled wildly as the early birds of a 65,000 plus crowd arrived for the second game of the New York-Brooklyn world series. The weatherman threatened a moist late afternoon but pre dicted the game would be over and done before the rain started to fall. Overnight the field had dried out in fine style and there were no muddy spots In front of the dugouts or along the foul lines as there were at vesterdava thrillin? opener, won by the Yankees 1-0 on Tommy Henrich's ninth-Inning , homer. After today's battle the scene shifts to Brooklyn. Preacher Roe, a 15-6 winner In the regular season with 13 com plete games and three shutouts in 27 starts, was listed as Brooklyn pitcher. With a one-uo bulge, Casey Stengel of the Yanks had his top winning ace, Vic Raschl, (21-10), primed lor duty. Stengel Changes Catchers Stengel made one important shift In his lineup for today's con test, inserting Charlie Silvera as catcher instead of Yogi Berra. Berra, still troubled by the broken thumb on his left hand (Continued on Page Two) 5 Pupils Die. 15 Injured In Bus Crash MIDDLESEX, N. C, Oct. 4. (API A school bus packed with children and an ice truck crashed today on a narrow wooden bridge, killing at least five pupils and injuring IS. Two of the injured were net expected to live. D. H. Bunn Jr., of Middlesex. said brambles and weeds over hung the dirt road at the site of the crash, obscuring vision. Bunn, a member of a coroner's jury, said "about 70" pupils were aboard the bus, which had seats for 42. Screaming children, books and lunch baskets littered the swamp-bordered roadside. The highway patrol listed the dead as: Judy tvlassey and Jo anne Debnam, Carolyn Debnam, all of Zebulon, and Robert Car ter and Julian Bryant, both of Middlesex. Most of the pupils were en route to Ferrelli grammar school one mile from here. Pineapple Co. Asks NLRB Ban On Pickets PORTLAND, Oct. 6 The Hawaiian Pineapple com pany has formally asked the Na tional Labor Relations board to ban picketing of its pineapple barge at The Dalles. Gunther Krause, company at torney, said it might be several weeks "or longer" before the NLRB acted on the request to invoke the Taft-Hartley law's ban on secondary boycotts. The com- fiany contends Its efforts to un oad pineapple has no connection with the Hawaiian Longshore strike. CIO Longshoremen from Port land halted the unloading last week w hen they raided the water front terminal at The Dallesi Livity Fact Rant By L. F. Itehwnetetai Request of the Chinese com munist government for world recognition was unnecessary. It has already been "recognized" for what it really Is a Rus sian satellite. A "gimme" will doubtless foHow In due time.