C. nun. t Eugene , Oregon , I AID in . U. Of 0. Library ATE WU POM TO WHO DOES WHAT Wrns; " ' 1 W:v" ' i is w' ('fan! ARRANGES INSTITUTE County School Superintendent Kenneth Berneburg is pictured here as he appeared at Rose school for the first day of the county elementary teachers workshop. The pro gram for the workshop and the all-county institute scheduled for Friday was arranged by his office, in cooperation with local school authorities. (Picture by Paul Jenkins.) DDT SPRAYING URGED Oregon Board Of Health Gives Roseburg Advice On Disease Control Method The city of Roseburg has been encouraged by the Oregon State Board o Health to adopt a DDT spraying program in an effort to control spread of communicable diseases, according to a letter received by City Recorder William Bollman. Writing In answer to questions I aelMl hu fha p't ns tn thft nrp. ventive value of the spray, Dr. -6. & Osoot, 'director ot the ep idemiology and Y. D. sections, advised use of DDT in addition to a fly control program and a general sanitation program. Bollman had written originally In response to urging by several civic groups concerned over the spread of certain diseases In this area, especially poliomyelitis. According to the State Board of Health's letter, it is known that both house flies and blowflies may carry the virus agents re sponsible for polio. However, neither the Board of Health nor the U.S. Public Health service has accumulated enough data to justify the general adoption of a DDT spraying program as an (Continued on Page Two) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS YOU'VE been reading, of course, the published details of the fuss between the army and the navy, In which the navy is ob viously on the defensive. You must have wondered what it is really all about. I don't know, but here is my guess: The fight the navy has been putting up is compounded partly of pride in the naval service, partly of fear that navy careers (in peace-time as well as In war time) are in danger and partly of GENUINE BELIEF THAT IT IS DANGEROUS TO ENTRUST OUR FUTURE TO BIG BOMB ERS THAT WILL ATTACK ACROSS THE WORLD WITH OUT PROTECTION OF FIGHT ER AIRCRAFT. 0 this latter point, I feel sure. the navy people are sincere. (Continued on Page Four) tj vr a- V r SK I -z ! -1 ' (S-.'A.iVAl:,('t--JU-i, HEAR INSTRUCTIONS First grade teachers of Douglas County listen to instructions from Evelyn Mesten, Southern Oregon College, on the subject of phonics and word analysis during the Wednesday morning session of the two-day workshop program at Rose school. (Picture by Jenkins.) Bloody Battle With Grizzly Won FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 13 (Pi An Alaska Roadhouse own er was recovering today from a mauling by an angry she-grizzly that necessitated 200 stitches iii his face, arms, scalp and legs. Dan Luddlngton, owner of the Summit Lodge roadhouse, IS miles southeast of here, said he met the grizzly and her cub near Summit Lake last week. The animal felled him when his rifle misfired on the first shot. "She was pawing, mauling and raking me with her claws and I was trying to get away and at the same time reload my rifle." Luddington said from his hospi tal bed. "It seemed like my head was in her mouth when I got another shell in the chamber. I managed to get my rifle around while she was dragging me by one leg. "The bullet hit her in the chest and she dropped." Luddington managed to drag himself a mile to a road where he was picked up by an Alaska Freight Lines truck. Rural Fire Protection District Hit By Ruling SALEM, Oct. 13 4JP) The Coos county court has authority to reject the proposed Coquille rural fire protection district on grounds the proposed district isn't compact enough. Attorney General Neuner, wh made this ruling today for Dis trict Attorney James A. Norman ot Loos county, said there are large areas within the proposed nistnct wnicn would be excluded from th? district. He said these areas are mostly bottom lands which are wet the year round. QUADRUPLETS BORN SAl'LT STE. MARIE. Ont., Oct. 13 (P Quadruplets were horn here todav to Mrs. Evelvn Hargreaves. All were girls and exceptionally w e 1 1." Their weights are not disclosed. I The Weather Fair today and Friday. Early morning fog. Temperature to night near freeiing. Sunset today 5:34 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow o:2S a. m. Established 1873 Lewis Gives Demands in Coal Strike Additional Per-Ton Cost Could Bo Absorbed Out Of Profits, He Asserts WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. va uct. 13. w John 1. Lewis disclosed today that his con tract demands on soft coal oper ators would cost JO to 3d cents a ton more than now. He said the industry could absorb it out of profits. Lewis, at a news conference, went into an exhaustive outline of his theory that powerful finan cial and steel interests were de termined to hold up a coal settle ment until they "battled it out" in steel. The UMW president said that if the government must intervene and take over the coal pits, it should order a "bonafide seizure" by running the mines for the benefit of the people instead of the mine owners. Lewis said that past seizures of the coal miners had been "make believe, papier-mache affairs." He told reporters he was not suggesting seizure and declared: "We are willing to fight this out. The mine workers have whipped these operators and are willing to do it. "We ask no aid. We prefer to be left alone, but, if we are not left alone to defeat them on their own ground, then we ask fair treatment. Fact Finders Belittled Lewis said that he could not at this time disclose a breakdown of the 30 to 35-cent demand. He added that the White Sulphur Springs negotiations with north ern and western operators and those with the southern coal pro ducers association at Charleton, (Continued on Page Two) Air Force Will ' Reply In Defense Of B-36 Bomber WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 JP) The House Armed oervices committee agreed today to hear the Air Force next week in rep ly to the Navy's bitter criticism of its B-36 bomber program. Se cretary oi Deiense jonnson also will testify then. Chairman Vinson (Dual and Secretary Johnson held a long conference this morning. After wards, Vinson announced the schedule for the next phase of the committee's inquiry into mili tary policy. Vinson said that beginning next week the committee will hear Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar Bradley. Secretary of Air Symington and Air Force officers. Then, he added. "Secretary Johnson will give the committee and the country" his views. Johnson, as civilian boss of all the armed services, is caught squarely in the cross fire of the angry controversy over military policy. He also has come In for harsh words from some Congress mem bers because, by executive order, he has cut back appropriations that the lawmakers made for the navy. Vinson publicly accused John son yesterday of making "a grandstand play" by economiz ing on Navy funds. He said the committee "is to have a lot to say about this." Toppling Piano Kills Two Young Children CORTLAND, N. Y.. Oct. 13. l'.T Doug Stebblng, 4, and his brother, Roy. 3, were crushed to death yesterday when an upright piano their mother was moving toppled over. The children had been playing on the living room floor in their home. Their distraught mother, Mrs. Andrew Stebbing, ran a quarter of a mile before she found two neighbors to help her right the piano. The boys were pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. DEATH RIDES HIGHWAY Pictured here are the cars in which two aged persons met their death and a third person was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon near Boswell Springs north of Yoncalla, State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell reported Warren A. Shaw, 80, of Warrenton, Ore., lone occupant of one car, and Mrs. Charles S. (Cora) Wolfsen, 60, of Everett, Wash., were killed outright. Mr. Wolfsen, about 73, driver of the second car, was taken to Mercy hospital, but removed Wednesday to a Eugene hospital. His condition is reported as "serious." 2 Brothers Slain In Oregon Woods TOLEDO, Ore.. Oct. 13 0P The bodies of two brothers were found sprawled beside a brushy trail northeast of here last night after a middle-aged rancher told the sheriff "I hurt them. Dead of bullet wounds were Melvin Longyear, about 25, and his brother, Charles Longyear, about 22. Held in the Lincoln county jail without charge is Norman Homer Ldwards, 50. Sheriff Tim Whelo said Ed wards telephoned him at home yesterday and said he waited to see him. The sheriff drove to his office and there met Mr. and Mrs. Edwards. "Get the coroner and an am bulance and go up the Siletz riv er and get the Longyear boys," Whelp said Edwards told him. "I hurt them about noon. You'll find them if you go up the trail on Brush creek. It was either them or me." The sheriff with Coroner Fran klin Barker and 17 men set out in the dark and late last night came upon the bodies in the Nashville district 40 miles north east of here. Whelp said that Edwards, after making his initial statement, de clined to comment except to say that one of the Longyear men was armed. Although there had been some dispute between the Edwards and Longyear families for a number of years over a property boun dary. Whelp said, there was no known evidence of ma,or friction. Two Injured In Collision Of Cars A two-car collision last night two miles south of Roseburg on Highway 99 resulted in injuries to two persons, passengers in the respective cars, according .o State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell. Susan Volk, Roseburg, suffered shock, lacerations and possible internal injuries, according to th,; officer's report. She was a pas senger in a car driven by Ed ward Joseph Kenney, Roseburg. She was taken to Merry hospital. Also Injured and in the hotpital was Thomas Jackson. 71, of Myr tle Creek, who sustained cuts, bruises and an ankle injury. He was a passenger in another car driven by Roy Edwin Allen, 50, of Myrtle Creek. According to the officer's re port, Kenney, who was uninjur ed, was over the yellow line, forcing the Allen car into the ditch as a result of the collision. Kenney was cited for operating in the left lane of traffic. Oregon Polio Cases In Week Increased By 23 PORTLAND, Oct. 13.(.B There were 23 new poliomyelitis cases in uregon last week, one ending In a fatality, the state board of health reported todav. The year's tallv to date is 201 cases and 15 deaths. Portland had five of the new cases reported. Marion county had three. The others were scattered throughout the state. Portland Red Cross Dates Gen. Marshall PORTLAND, Oct. 13 (Pi Gen. George C. Marshall, new chief of the American Red Crons, will be a dinner speaker here Oct. 26 at a Portland Multnomah chapter meeting. LAUGH'S ON THIEF ONEONTA, N. Y., O. t. 13. P Shoe salesman M. L. Holt of Scotia wondered today what the thief who stole three cases of samples from his car would do with the loot. It included 48 shoe, all for the right foot, and $40 worth .if woolen socks, none of whicn j match. ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 1949 5 T Discharged Woman Accused Of "Witchcraft" ELDRIDGE, Calif.. Oct. 13 (T A woman employee dismiss ed for "witchcraft" gets a hear ing today at the Sonoma State home for the feeWe minded. She is Mrs. Lorena Blackwell, dismissed Sept. 8 and accused of: 1. Scaring patients by grab bing them in the dark. 2. Threatening to put a "curse" on patients and em ployes. 3. Terrifying patients by the "practice of witchcraft." Canton Awaits Red Army As Nationalists Flee HONG KONG, Oct. 13 UP) Telephoned reports from Canton said Nationalist forces tonight abandoned the South China city Plans for all organized resistance ended wiahin the provisional cap ital. i.ntry or communist troops is now awaited. Livestock Ban Applies Only To Bulls, Ruling SALEM, Oct. 13 P- It's O.K. for cows, heifers and steers to run at large In Benton county. But the bulls can't do it. Attorney General Neuner, who today that the law against live stock running at large in Benton county applies only to the male bovines. Bomber Crashes, Explodes; 12 Die ISLEHAM, Eng., Oct. 13. (API . A U. S. air force B-50 bomber with a load of live bombs dived into a wheat field today and exploded with a roar heard 12 miles away. All 12 crew members were killed. The plane, designed as the atom-bomb carrying version of the B-29, was on a 180-mile practice mission to the North Sea island of Helgoland with twelve 500-pound bombs. CHRISTMAS GARB PLANNED Retail Trades Assn., City To Unite In Decorations. Starting On November 25 The Roseburg Retail Trades association yesterday approved Nov. 25 at the day the city is to begin decorating for the coming Christmas holiday season. luncheon at the Umpqua hotel, retail merchants will cooperate with city officials and civic and service organizations in planning and financing the decoration". Decorating will begin the day aft er Thanksgiving, wilh the entire business section slated to be garbed In holiday at tire by the following Monday. Merchants voted to use the'r entire decorating fund fur pur chase of several brightly colored Santa Claus statuettes. Costing about $20 each, the Santa Clausr.-: are constructed of hard rubber, framed by silver tiniel material and colored lights all on a heavy iron wire frame. The group ap proved a sample of the decora tion displayed by RTA President Roland West. A report was also heard from Jack Josse, who was recently contacted by a lxs Angeles firm which manufactures decorations lor holiday events. City Buys Material City Manager Matt Slankanl told the group the city has al ready purchased over $700 woith of decorating material, consist ing mainly of strings of colored lights, cord and switch boxes. A proposal to have city stores 1 ' Wsfis?l 4 Shirley Temple Seeking Diyorce HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 13. (.) Shirley Temple's marriage is on tne rocks, ner attorney announced today. The 21-year-old actress and her John Agar have separated, Attor-1 ney oeorge Mamman said, and he is drawing up divorce papers. He said the grounds have not been determined. A close friend, however, said she probably will charge mental cruelty. "There Is no career trouble," the friend said. The blonde one time child star, who In recent years has made a comeback as an adult, married Agar, also an actor, Sept. 19, 1945. Their dughler, Linda, was born Jan. 30, 1918. The curly-haired Shirley was an actress at four, a star at five, the No. 1 boxoffice attraction at six and for four straight years received academy awards for the best performance by a child. Shirley's romance and subse quent marriage was followed by millions who had watched "Little Miss Marker" grow up. She was only 17 when she and Agar, then 24, were wed. He was a sergeant in the air forces, hut shortly was released and he quickly got film assignments. His wife once said he was "a natural" and would go farther In pictures than she, but so far his roles have not been outstand ing. Burglar Loots Home Of Donald K. Mulder Donald K. Mulder, Melrose route, box 317, reported a burg lary at his home sometime be tween 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wed nesday, State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell said. Entry was made by prying the lock of the front door. Numerous household articles were taken, to gether with rings, fishing equip ment, electric razor and other articles. Also taken were 12 travelers' cheques, bearing Mulder's name, and a certificate of title with his name to a 1941 Buick sedan. remain open one night a week during the fall and winter seasons was overwhelmingly defeated by a vote of the group. Owners of local concerns Included in their arguments against night openings the trend toward shorter working hours, the hardship the proposal would work on both employes and employers, and expressed doubt that possible Income from sales would outweigh extra cosu of operation. Independent merchants weie united in their opposition to fol lowing the lead of large national chain stores toward a general one night opening. However, the group approved a motion that stores remain open until 9 p.m. Monday through Fri day preceding Christmas. In ap proving the move, the group in dicated there would be no special Christmas season opening date. Although most merchants will have special Christmas window displays by Nov. 30, no general window unveiling is planned. John Hardiman, member of tl merchants' fall opening commit tee, expressed gratitude to Rose, burg residents, city officials and cooperating merchants for mak ing tne recent tan opening an i overwhelming success. k '- Sty.. 1 241-49 Workshop Of Teachers Ends This Afternoon Institute Will Follow Tomorrow; Speakers On Pertinent Topics Listed With the two-day county ele mentary teacher reading work shop drawing to a close this after noon following a panel discussion held in the Rose school audito rium, preparations are being com- fileted for the all-county teacher nstitute Friday. The institute, to Include high school teachers, as well as ele mentary, will open at 9 a.m. in the Roseburg junior high build ing. Jack Plug, Reedsport princi pal and president of the Douglas County chapter of the Oregon Education association, will pre side during the morning session. The Roseburg band, directed by Charles A. Ricketts. will enter tain from 9 o'clock until 9:20, after which an hour's session will be given over to the O. E. A. business session. Eollowing business trans actions, a report will he given on the National Education asso ciation convention at Boston by Mrs. Margaret McGee, Douglas county delegate. Martha Shull, president of the O. E. A., will then speak on "What Are We For?" and Howard Bill ings, director of research, O. E. A., will speak on "Action In the Teaching Profession." At 10:20, Junior High Principal R. R. Brand will speak briefly on the "Teachers' Credit Union." This will be followed by an nouncements and intermission. At 10:30 Dr. E. W. Warrington, head of the religious and philos ophy department, Oregon State collrge, will deliver the address of the morning. His topic will be teaching Knrlched by Adven tures." Dismissal for lunch will be at 11:30. Luncheons will be served in the school cafeteria. Paul Elliott, Roseburg superin tendent of schools, will preside at the afternoon session, opening at 1 p.m. with selections by the Roseburg school choruses. These will Include the sophomore girls chorus directed by Wendell John- (Continued on Page Two) Photographer Takes Position At Clark's Studio Don Edwards, recently of Phil adelphia, Pa., has assumed a po sition as photographer with Clark's studio. Roseburg. Edwards, his wife, and their twoandahalfyearold son are living temporarily on Pitzer street, until they secure a per manent home. Edwards was employed for nine years hv the Eastman Kodas company at Rochester, N. Y. For the past three years he has been a free lance photographer in Phil adelphia, doing assignments for Country Gentleman and other publications. In coming to Roseburg, the Ed wards' are answering a desi.'e they have always had to "come to the West Coast." he said. Mrs. Edwards, writing under her name Charlotte Edwards, is a free lance writer. Her short stories have appeared in Wom an's Home Companion, Ladies Home Journal, Collier's, and Sat urday Evening Post. At Clark's studio, Edwards will do general studio photographic work and commercial and wed ding photography. Bonding Company Sues Utility's Ex-Cashier The Fidelity & Casualty com pany, a bonding company, of New York, has filed suit in circuit court against Carlysle E. Park er, asking Judgment for $3, 306. .').. The complaint alleges that the company, under which Mountain States Power company was bond ed, suffered total loss of $3,772.77. This sum, the complaint charges, was "embezzled'' by the defend ant while he was employed as a cashier for the power company between Jan. 1, 1914, and Jan. I 22. 1045. The complaint states that' Mountain States has been reim- j hursed for its alleged losses, but that the bonding company has received In return only $1W.42. Oregon Bankers Assn.'s Former President Dies GLEN DALE. Calif., Oct. 13 (.It- William G. Tait, 78, one time president of the Oregon Bankers association, died Monday. He had made his home In the Los Angeles area since 1022. Dur ing his active career he had been president of the First National bank In Tillamook and in Med lord. TWO SCHOOLS ROBBED EST AC A DA, Oct. l.WnThe robbery of two schools here was reported today. Burglars broke Into the grade school and the high school, blow Ing the dials off the school safes. They got $125 In cash and a $350 movie projector. Rebuff Dealt President By Vote Of 53-1 5 Power Commissioner Branded "Pink," Aide Of Commies In Years Past WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. UP A smarting 53-to-15 defeat on the reappointment of Federal Power Commissioner Leland Old today handed President Truman his third and sharpest Senate rebuff this year on an important nomination. Despite the pressure of party discipline which Mr. Truman mar shalled behind the nominee, the Senate refused overwhelmingly to return Olds to the commission lor a third term. The vote came shortly after midnight. It followed weeks 3f debate which steadily mounted In heat and bitterness. Opponents shouted that Olds Is a foe of capitalism, that 20 years ago he wrote articles that helped promote communism. Senator Edwin C. Johnsonf D Colo) called him "A warped, ty raroical, mischievous, egotistical chameleon whose predominant color is pink." Senators supporting the nomi nation countered with charges that private gas and oil Interests were backing the fight against Olds. They pictured him as a devoted REJECTED Lel.nd Olds. above, member of the Federal Power commission, lost reappoint ment when the Senate last nlgnt refused to confirm his nomina tion, despite a personal appeal by President Truman. public servant trying to protect consumers by effective utility regulation. Democratic leader Lucas, of Il linois, refused to say, after tha vote, what effect Mr. Truman's directions for the party to tak the Olds fight back to the peopla had on the outcome. President Silent . i Olds said he had nothing to say about the Senate's action be yond this: "I think everybody knows where I stand and what I stand for." He told a reporte rthat he had made no plans about another Jub "I Just haven't gotten around to that yet." The White House was silent on the Senate rebuff to the presi dent. Charles G. Ross, the presi dent's press secretary, withheld comment. Asked the president's reaction, he replied tersely: "I have no expression from him." Reporters wanted to know If (Continued on Page Two) Communists' Case Is Nearing Jury NEW YORK. Oct. -(m The government's case against 11 high U. S. communists neared the Jury today when the government com pleted its summation. Federal Judge Harold R. Me dina's charge was expected to take about two and one half hours, so the Jurors mav pet the case about 12:30 or 1 p.m. (PST). The 11 communists, who form the communist party's American polltburo, are charged with con spiring to reorganize the party in 1945 to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the United St.-itcs government. U. S. Attorney John F. J. Mo Gohcy, completing his summa tion, referred to the Intimation of Eugene Dennis, one of the de fendants, that the party might go underground if the defendants are convicted. "I assure you," McGohey said, "that if the party goes completely underground, the F. B. I. will go along wilh them, performing with customary efficiency the task as signed to them in the detection of crime." Ltvity Ft Rant By L. F. KtMt4a One suspects that an accu rate count of the world's atomic bombs right now would list Russia's total on the right-hand side of the decimal. j i ir-j