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Comp m U. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon si mm rmm . mm IB M I WHO DOES WHAT nnr, mil M 4 j 0m w "ml . DWAYNE BUELL it explaining to BILL STOCK en intricate idea "which," he laid, "needs a lot of explaining I'm not io sure I understand it myself!" Owayne is general sales manager at SI Dillard Motor com pany and Bill is its office manager. Both have been with the firm since 1936 Dwayne came in June and Bill in August. Both are known to a host of people in Douglas county. Douglas County Shippers Of Lumber Donate To Fund To Battle Freight Car Shortage Rail shippers of lumber in Douglas county have contributed about $2,000 toward a fund to carry Southern Paelfic'i freight car shortage problem to the Interstate Commerce commission. Earl Plummer, Roseburg Lumber company, who heads the local committee for the fund, today pledges from lumber shippers In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS RUSSIA (at UN headquarters in New York) renews her de mand for a world-wide census of all weapons, from atom bombs to airplanes and artillery, from battleships to bayonets. Under the Russian proposal, EACH NATION WOULD RE-1 Goal of the fund committee is PORT ON ITS OWN WEAPONS, t0 raise S10.000 from among with i:n provision FOR VVcsVrn Oregon rail shippers, to WITH NO PROVISION OR k h freight car shortage CHECKING ON THE TRUTH problem on Southern Pacific OF THE STATEMENTS. j lines to the Interstate Commerce i commission. JHAT i, Russia", idea of arma- K"jl Hh"0 Sn Icc order ment control. It is Russia smav be obtained, directing con- idea of INTERNATIONAL CON TROL OF ATOMIC WARFARE. ! LET'S put It bluntly: Under such a system, we sus- j pect that Russia would lie about her preparations for war. Every body else would tell the truth. Then Presumably When Russia was all set, when she knew from the reports that she was incomparably better pre pared for war than anybody else. she would wade in to conquer the ; (Continued on Page Four) Selection Of Present Airport Over Garden Valley Site For Development Is Explained The long, sweeping valley In which the present Roseburg airport Is now located, making instrument landing much more practical, was one of the principal reasons for selection of this site over that in Garden Valley. This Information was brought out at a meeting of the Rose burg Lions club Thursday night, when City Councilman George West, Engineer Ben Irving and Airport Manager George Felt were present as guest speakers. A survey was made of 18 differ-1 ent possible sites in the Rose burg vicinity. The present site and that in Garden Valley were the most logical, but selection of the former wn hatpH nn the in. I strument landing advantages to-! a-" gether with the following facts: Planes could break through the ill The proximity to the citv, 1 500 foot elevation for instrument w hich was declared a distinct ad- i landing. This may possibly be vantage: (2i the city owns the . lowered to 1.000 feet, if tests prov site, and I3i the present facili-1 cd it to be safe, ties could be used as a basis fori Originally Roseburg was con new construction, whereas every-1 sldered for'davlight service onlv, thing would have to be built from j but surveys have proved the poit "scratch" in any other site. I usahle 24" hours a day. and only Altitude Comparisons (during four days last year was it The Garden Vailev site has ! log bound, high hills at either end. which councilman West reviewed ef require an altitude of l.oOO fe-t , forts bv ,he chamber of Com to clear. They are no obstacle to mprc(1 and otnPr cjvjc minded In daylight flying, but at night and nividuals jn the airport promo especially for instrument Lying, ,jon ln ,946 whPn , av!l they would present a defimie j Aer0nautics authority appropria problem the speakers brought . tjon for $12i.0O0 was obtained. 0U1:L ,. , , ' Irving Presents Details The runway alignment lor the , img gave a detailed account proposed new airport, for v hlch I the citv council has proposed a I (Continued on Page Two) expressed hope that delinquent may be fulfilled soon. The fund was Initiated by the Western Forest Industries asso ciation of Portland, but otherwise has no connection - with that group. Purposes of the lund were explained here Sept. 23, in a meeting arranged by the associa tion with the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce. Besides Plummer, others on the local committee include Fred L. Thompson. Yonralla, represent ing Drain-Yoncalla area: Sid Lei kin, Sutherlin. Oakand-Sutherlin ; area, and H. M. Watterson, south end f the countv. 'neetlng rail lines at Portland and ! in California, where there Is a "surplus" of cars, to route those cars to Southern Pacific tracks. it was explained at the Sept. 23 meeting by R. T. Titus, executive secretary or tne wha. One factor preventing turnover of "surplus" cars at Portland now, Titus said, is that the north ern lines terminating In Wash ington slate cannot he guaranteed the return of loaded cars for the ;"long haul" east. i Southern Pacific does not have a surplus of cars In Oregon, he- I cause it cannot compete with the nnrthpi-n linos in .AnriinD fact daily merchandise trains from (Continued on Page Two) 'S200.000 bond election to raise Its 1 share of government matching ! funds, would adequately clear j Mount Nebo to the west of the Tht Weather . Fair today. Increatina eloudi. "est tonight with few light showers Saturday. Sunset today 5:33 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:26 a. m. Established 1873 North Roseburg Sanitary Unit Projected At $225,000 Cost Liquidation Will Span 20 Years; Bids On Work Planned In February Bid of the Pacific Northwest company and associates, of Port land, in the sale of a $225,000 bond issue was accepted by director of the North Roseburg Sanitary district last night. The company's bid was the only one submitted. It offered the district an over-all 4 1-4 percent Interest rate. Clarence Landis, chairman of the North Roseburg Sanitary dis trict board, said the entire bond issue will have been paid off in a 20-year period. Certain blocks of the issue, varying in amount from $10,000 to $12,000, will ma ture throughout this time. Money from sale of the bonds will be come available not later than Jan. 15, said Landis. It is expected, he explained, that bids for construction of a sewerage system and sewage treatment plant will be called for Feb. 15. Engineering for the proj ect, now in progress, t being done by Cornell, Hayes, Howiand, and Merryficld of Corvallis. This firm made the preliminary sur veys for the district. Plant Approval Awaited The North Roseburg Sanitary district has a tentative agree ment with the Roseburg Veterans hospital to locate the proposed sewage treatment plant on the hospital grounds. Approval is be ing awaited from the Veterans administration central office at Washington, D. C. The hospital would use the sew- (Continued on Page Two) Roseburg Deer Hunter Jailed On Deer Theft Count CHEHALIS. Wash., Oct. 14. An Oregon hunter was being held in the Lewis county Jail today. Sheriff Frank Thayer said lie tried to get a deer the easy way. Glen Reed, 35, of Roseburg, fileaded guilty before Justice Wil iam Bartz Tuesday to charges of grand larceny, and was bound over to superior court under $500 bail. He was arrested by Thayer on V iliayer On complaint signed by Julius Schoonover of Onalaska. Schoon over told the sheriff's office he had gone hunting In the region near Ryderwood, got his deer and returned to Onalaska. While he was in a tavern there, Reed, who also was in the tavern, went outside, loaded Schoon over'i deer into his own car. and drove away, Schoonover told po lice. But Reed lost control of the vehicle about a quarter of a mile i from the place and, according to ! 1 nayer, drove into a ditch, hid the deer in the underbrush and went to get a wrecker. The sher iff was waiting when he returned. Secret School Societies Face Portland Action PORTLAND, Oct. 14. f.W School officials called today for a crackdown on secret high school societies here. Just one day after Salem high school suspended 19 students there. .fnhn c; r:riffith Balclant school superintendent, said the I MEDFORD, Oct. H.-f.TV-An-secret society situation In Port-' other diphtheria case -the eighth land was the worst on the coast. I was reported here Thursday hy Griffith reported on a Wash-1 Dr- A- Er'n Merkel, county health ington high school street brawl in which a girl, recently from Europe, was knocked down, call ed names, and partly disrobed. He blamed a secret fraternity. He said the boys were grab bing girls as they emerged from school and kissing them. When the refugee girl resisted, some one shouted. "Knock her down." and the brawl was on, Griffith said. He added he will ask for ex pulsion of at least two of the boys. Hollywood's Criminal Element Faces Attack HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 14. (.P The motion picture indstry has declared war on criminal ele ments in the film capital. And it it is planning to steer newcomers to the movies on a straight moral course. The recently-formed Motion Picture Industry council, com prising nine major Hollywood guild, labor and management groups representing some 35.000 individuals, announced the new program today. The council adopted a resolu tion asserting "the Hollywood ar ea long has been made a special target of extortionists, shakedown artists and other criminal ele ments who seek to entrap, and prey upon, the unwary and the unwise." 1 cvyy cz fir Vffin ' . : -..W...-L.2 - - CTrV-t-f " jJCi CONVICTED IN COMMUNIST convicted today in New York ture in the Federal building after their trial opened (Jan. 17). William Z. roster, national communist chairman, was absent because of his health, his attorneys explained. (L to R-seatedl Robert G. Thompson, Henry Winston, Eugene Dennis, Cus Hall Jack Stachel, Irving Potash, Lewis Proposes Union Combine To Win Steel Strike WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., Oct. 14. (D United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis today asked AFL President William Green to throw In $2,500, 000 a week to assist CIO President Philip Murray in his steel strike and promised the miners would help. Lewis, in an amazing bid for labor union cooperation in the two major strikes now on, called upon Green to create a fund in which 10 AFL unions would put up a quarter million dollars every week to help the steel workers "win beyond peradventure." Lewis said he would match the $250,000,000 every week from the treasury of the United Mine Work ers. His 400,000 miners have been on strike since Sept. 19. In a letter to Green, Lewis ,,ranA . At-i. nrcsident In "siih.1. ordinate every other consldera- tion and rise to meet in this fash ion the giant adversaries which would decimate the major units of organized labor." In this way, Lewis who has fought both Green and Murray .arms and. $92,000,000 for the mili- In the AKL and CIO, appeared to tary projects, ' his authority be making a tremendous bid tolamounts, in effect, to telling the bring all of the major labor or-j officials administering the pro - nui.aijuiia inivs a unvc iif Jini what he called yesterday "a com- omation oi powerful sieci ana financial interests to break down unions. $1,0)8.506,3X0. Along with the big I-wis and his 600.000 member '"" or foreign aid and military unions were in the AFL until construction there are smaller 1936. when he led the movement amounts for shipbuilding, hospi to organize mass production in- ul construction, veterans' lacili dustries. Lewis and his vice ores!-' ' '". unemployment compensation, dent. Philip. Murray, were instru- mental in nroaniina trol antna rubber, electrical manufacturing. and other large-scale employing Industries. But he was tossed out of the AFL for his efforts. DIPHTHERIA CASE NO. S officer. Two children have died of the aisease. ine latest person stricken i Marlon counly towns in the ("as is a 17-year-old aunt of a girl who , cades, was rejected 206 tn 99 at died. la special election yesterday. Records Of Convicted Communists Sketched Here are thumbnail biographical : sketches jif the 11 top communivt leaders in the conspiracy trial: HENRY WINSTON, 35 Negfi i and organizational secretary of , the Communist party. Born In I Hattiesburg. Miss. Went to Wash ington on hunger march In 19.12, , then went to New Yolk and be came active in party affairs. Studied ln Russia in 1922. 1934 and 1935. Returned to ('. S. and held several high young commu nist league posts In Ohio and New York. Served In army from 1942 to 1945 with 18 months in Ihe Eu ropean theater. Sentenced to jail for duration of communist trial on contempt charge. CARL WINTER, 3 Micnigan aitle. Joined Communist parly i.i State Communist party chair- j 1922 and has held many party man. Lives in Detroit. Born in I posts. Arrested on deportation Pittsburgh, Pa., son of parents j chatges In 1918. This case is still born in Russia. His father was , tending. charter member of U. S. Com-I BENJAMIN J. DAVIS JR., 46 munist party. In early 1930s helo- I Negro. New York City council ed organize hunger marches to j man. Born in Dawson Ga , son wasnington. Active in commu- nist affairs in Europe from 1933 to 1935. Worked as party organ - ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, OCT. District Accepts Bond Bid CONSPIRACY TRIAL Eleven City for conspiracy are shown Carl Winter, Benjamin J. Davis Jr., Kettell Launches Housing Project Near Gladstone OREGON CITY. Oct. 14.-(,Ts A plan to build a $500,000 hous ing project and a $100,000 subur ban shopping center just outside the community of Gladstone was announced today. Herbert R. Ketell, Los Angeles builder, is promoting the devel opment. KetHI was thd promoternf the Clovetdale Addition project on the Pacific highway, three fourths of a mile north of Rose burg. Arms Aid Money OK Meets Full Urge Of Truman WASHINGTON. Oct. U.-iPt Spurred by a State department assertion that Russia no longer can be trusted, the. House Appro priations committee today voted S1.314.010.OOO for foreign arms laid and $187,000,000 for new mili- ...i hi'ii a,-rini tsumnnnn In an(1 $95,000,000 for military oroj- i eel in Alaska and Okinawa. ; n addition, there is $500,000,000 , of contract authority for foreign mm ini-ji inn iuii up inuin to that amount and that Congress win pay mem. I Actual cash In the bill totals schools, and public works plan ning, 1 Leaders scheduled the bill for House action today. The cash and contract authority for the arms-aid program Is what President Truman wanted. Of the total. $1,000,000,000 is to be used for North Atlantic pact 1 (;ov. C. A. Robins, a repubH nations and the rest for Greece, ran. announced the appointment Turkey, Iran, Korea, the Philip-1 of the 55-year-old former Burlev pines and the China area. CITIES SPUR N MERGER DETROIT, Oct. 14 (.It-Merger of Detroit and Idanha, two ler and official from 1915 to 1918 In Ohio. Minnesota. Wisconsin. Michigan and California. Jailed for 30 days on contempt charg'! In communist trial. JOHN WILLIAMSON, 46 -Ijihor secietary of Communist patty. ; Claims he was born in San Fran cisco, where birth records were c destroyed In fire and earthquake of 1906, but government says he iWas born ln Scotland. Govern ! ment asserts he came to this country with molher when he wa-i . ' 10 and went tn live In Seattle, Wash. Worked In west -oast ship- : yards. Member of S. .alist labor party from 1918 to 1922 and look art In 1919 general strike in Se oi a newspaper publisher and Kf- i publican National committeeman , from Georgia. Some of his ances - 14, 1949 of the 12 Com-nunist Laden at they posed for a group pie-'l and John Williamson; standing- John Gates and Gilbert Green. Russ, Germans Can Keep Peace, Stalin Declares BERLIN, Oct. 14 (.4 Joseph Stalin today told east Germany's new communist republic that the Germans and Russians together could keep Europe peaceful by fighting as hard for peace as llipy fought in war. Slalln's message of congratula tions to east Germany's commu nist leaders brought predictions from pro-Soviet sources here that the Soviet bloc would sign peace treaties with the new Red satel lite by January. These sources claimed tenta tive drafts of such treaties already have been prepared. Stalin's congratulatory message last night to east Germany's Presi dent Wilhelm Pieck and Chancel lor Otto Grolewohl called estab lishment of the satellite regime a "turning point In the history of Europe." He declared that the Russian and German peoples made the greatest sacrifices in World War Two. "If both peoples," Stalin con tinued, "will show the same de termination to fight wllh tne same Intensity of effort for peace ;uiih which ihev u-imd war then 'peace In Europe can be regarded as S(?cure'' jp sources who reported the ' impending peace treaties said the pacts would bind the new east German republic to renounce for ever any claim on the former German territory now held hy the Soviet union, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Dworshak Appointed To His Former Senate Seat BOISE. Idaho, Oct. 1 -(.TV-Former Sen. Henry C. Dworshak, a republican, was appointed U nited States Senator today, suc ceeding the late Sen. Bert II. Mil- Inr (IMdahol. publisher who was defeated for reelection by Miller last Novem ber. The appointee Is an ardent foe or a Columbia Valley admlnlstia j tion and championed economy of i government during his previous 1 terms In Congress. tors were born in slavery. Grad uated in 1915 from Amherst cn. lege where he won prizes, was a member of the debate team. Graduated in 1928 from Harvaid law school. Testified he becam- interested in Marxism after he had witnessed mistreatment of .Negroes in south. Joined Daily Woiker In New York City as re porter In 1935. Now Is president of company which publishes Dai ly Woiker. Has been a council man six years. JOHN GATES, 36 Editor of Dai'iy Worker, communist news patter, liorn in New York City. Joined Young Communist league while attending college In New York. Testified he turned to com munism after his faiher lost his candv s'ore and all his savinCT in the 1929 33 depression. Went to Spain In 1937 and toined In ternational brigade of Spanish Republican army In rlvli war. advancing to rank of brigade no- itir-l commissar. Served four 1 (Continued tin Pag Two) pi. 1 1.. - i 242-49 Standards Of Teaching Is Institute Talk Grasp Of International Attitudes Needed, Says President Of OEA "What are we for?" was asked an estimated 500 county ele mentary and high school teach ers this morning in an address given by Martha Shull, Port land, president of the Oregon Educational association, teachers' professional organization. Highlighting the opening of the county institute at the Rose burg junior high school, M-ss Shull told teachers that they have "lots of work to do both in dividually' and as an organized group." "We, as teachers, should decide standards," Miss Shull said. "Teachers should have a hand In Improving the educational procedures designed for class room teachers, with great stress laid on training offered grade school instructors, the most im portant of all." "However, in order to have a voice In any sort of activity re lating to teachers, the group must study such items as school fi nance, they must be informed on various aspects of state and na tional legislation pertaining to schools and the teaching pro fession, and they must have a greater grasp of international un derstanding. As teachers. Miss Shull said, "we must determine to what ex tent we work for democracy we must he tolerant without be ing Indifferent," Muslo and Business .. Presiding over the morning ses sion was jacK fiug, president ci the countv OKA group and prin cipal of Reedsport high school. A concert by the Roseburg Junior high school band, directed by Clyde Moore, preceded the meet ing. Minutes of previous meeting were read and adopted, the Doug- (Continued on Page Two) Death Sentences On "Plotters" In Hungary Upheld BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 14. tP) Hungary's court of appeal today ruled that Laszlo Rajk, for mer communist foreign minister, and two fellow plotters must die fr treason. They confessed con spiring to make their country a satellite of Marshal Tito's Yugo slavia. The court confirmed the three death sentences and also upheld prison terms decreed for three others who admitted conspiring with Rajk to overthrow Hun gary's Moscow-barked regime. Two were given lite Imprison ment, the other a nine-year Jail term. The sentences were imMsed Sept. 24 by a Budapest people's court after a week's trial during which the defendants confessed at length to the government's charges. Scheduled to die with Rak are Dr. Tibor Szocnyi, 46, a former member of parliament who direct ed the Hungarian communist I party's cadre system supervising the rank and file members, and his deputy, Andras Szalai, 32. The six convicted men, with two others being held for a court ; martial, conlcsscd to charges that ! thev plotted with American and i Yugoslav agenls to overthrow I Hungary s communist regime and nut the country under the dom - Inalion of Yugoslavia's Marshal llto. Both Tilo and the V. S. gov ernment have denied any con nection with the plot. In confirming the six sentences, the people's court council de clarer!: "The sentences passed upon ItalK and his accomplices express- "a n will 01 tne working people. , nanes acourea KUSS Atomic Plants, Report PARIS. Oct. 1 -(.Ti - Samcli Soir. Paris tabloid weekly news paper, said today "Siiersoiilc American airplanes have flown over soviet atom Installation!:." Quoting a Major Silov, identi fied as chief of staff of a Russian artillery division during the war, Samedi Soir said Ihe planes were probably carrying Gieger count ers. Silov was quoted last July in the same papers as saying the Russians had exploded an atomic bomb. The naner salrl the nlanes flew over the region at Tashkent In i Russian Turkistan. Silov said the planes were be lieved to have come from tl't Iranian border and possibly from the American hsses nn Barhein ' Island In the Persian Gulf, All 11 Guilty Of Overthrow Plot. Jury Says Sentences Slated Friday; Jail Terms Give Defense Attorneys For Contempt NEW YORK, Oct. 14. im A federal Jury convicted 11 top ranking American communist leaders today of conspiring to teach overthrew of the U. . government by force, Tht 11 defendants, all mem bers of the communist national board, were remanded to Jail to await sentencing next Fri day. They face sentences up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 fine each. Eight of the defendants had been free on $5,000 bail. Immediately afterward. Fed eral Judge Harold R. Medina found five of their lawyers guilty of criminal contempt during the nine-month trial and sent them to jail for terms varying from 30 days to six months. Eugene Dennis, a defendant who acted as his own lawyer, also drew a six-month contempt sentence. Thus ended, after seven hours of jury deliberation that began yesterday afternoon, a strife-ridden trial unprecedented in Amer ican history. It was hinted during the trial that conviction of the leaders, who are certain to appeal to the U. S. supreme court, might drive the Communist party under ground In this country. vviiiiam e.. foster, national chairman of the party, faces trial later on the same charge. Ha was Indicted with the 11 others but was granted a postponement (Continued on Page Two) New Premier Of France Gets Off To Shaky Start PARIS. Oct. 1 (7P Socialist Jules Moch got off to a shaky start as France's new premier to day by narrowly winning a con firmation vote from the National assembly. In a tumultuous session the as sembly gave him its approval by a 311 to 223 vote. Thus he had only one vote to spare since he needed a minimum backing of 310 deputies. Moch, the retiring Interior min tster, gained a reputation as a. "strong man" last winter when he crushed a communist-led wave of strikes. Now he faces the task of naming a cabinet which can cope with the nation's mounting wage-price crisis. It appears that his cabinet will have only a slim chance of sur viving for any length of time. He received the lowest postwar total for any premier on a vote of Investiture. Usually a govern ment in France commands pro gressively smaller voles in each important test. If Moch Is to re main in office he must reverse that trend. The 56-year-old Moch succeeds Henri Queuille, leader of the moderate radical socialist party. Queuille resigned as premier eight days ago, climaxing a grow ing cabinet crisis tracing back to the British devaluation of the pound Sept. 18. During the 12-hour debate yes terday, the communists, whose haired of Moch stems from his service as a strike-breaking in terior minister, called him a "forger" and a "swindler." Com munist spokesman Jacques Du clos provoked a huhub by refer ring to Moch as an "assassin." Egg, Poultry Workers Defer Planned Strike PORTLAND, Oct. 14. There will be no strike of AFL egg and poultry workers In Port land at least until Monday. A previous strike deadline was postKned yesterday, for the third time. In order to conduct a vote on a new contract offer by the Paci f ic Co-Operat ive Poultry Producers and the Brentwood Egg company. Terms were not disclosed. Conferences also were schra). uled with two other organizations 1 the Oregon Egg and Poultry Dealers association, and the Ore. Dealers association, and the Ore gon Turkey Growers association. Nationalists Desert Canton; Red Entry Nears CANTON, Oct. 14 (.!) Na tionalist troops deserted Canton today and this sleepless South China city expected the conque- Ing comminists to march in at anv time. Municipal officials already were reported to have opened pego iations for surrender of the deposed government capital. Reports to Hong Kong said the Canton Garrison had been evacuated, leaving behind a lew provincial troops to maintain or der during the transition period.) LiYity Fact Rant By U F. ReiMiMtetii Se the city wants bond is sues totaling $415,000 for an airport and a municipal build ing. Shucks! Why not establish a punchboard and slot machine monopoly and rait the entire turn In about week?
