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j U. of 0, Library COMP Eugene, Ore, 16) Iq) Ml UJ mm re mm .Mmti OOM TOWN Four prospectors complete their "home" as the tint order of business on their arrival in Fishwheel, Alaska, tent community which is the scene of the territory's biggest gold strike since the Klondike days of 1898. The strike is just a few miles from the Arctic circle in the famed Yukon river country. Left to right are Solomon Flitt, Joe Peters, Earl Hirst and Sam Gamblin. INEA Telephoto). RICHES OR DESPAIR? Seekers Of Alaskan Gold Soon To Know Whether They Face Boom Or Bust By JACK DAUM Fairbanks News-Miner Staff Writer FISHWHEEL, Alaska, Oct. 27.-4.TT The future of Fishwheel oalanced on a knife edge today. On one side is fame, fortune and riches; on the other disillusionment and despair. We should know in a few days whether the pea-sized nuggets of gold found by Clifton Carroll last week touched off a boom or a bust. In the Day's News , By FRANK JENKINS THESE words are written In Portland, where thev have a brand new sheriff. His name Is Schrunk Terry D. Schrunk. He:g low torturous process but the has a nice family; a wife and, only possible method here where two children a boy aged 7 and : a girl aged two. Judging by their pictures In tonight's paper, they are nice, clean American young people. Terry's age is 36. He is a college graduate (University of Oregon). He is ex-navy, and got the Silver Star for heroism In action. Prior to his appointment to the sheriff's office (following the recall of the man Elliott) he was a captain In the Portland fire department. He is a Democrat, naturally. Only Democrats rate politically in meMr uds. nidi is uuitiiiig against him. There are plenty of good Democrats and plenty of not-too-admirable Republicans. ... I IMAGINE, from w hat I read of him In the papers, that he has lived a quiet, pleasant, homey life. I fear that as sheriff of Mult-1 . . ,, . ... u nomah county all that will be changed. He is a public character now. He will be called upon to make decisions, and they can't all be (Continued on Page Four) Truman OKs Funds For Alaska Communications WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 I.P President Truman today signed bill calling for a ex nansinn of the Armv's Alaska communications system, jent stores. Canned meats and fish The program w ill include new I and sugar were short at a few construction of buildings and in-1 stores. Chain operators with their stallations at 28 points in Alaska own warehouses were not af and at Adak in the Aleutians. Ifected. ATOM BOMBS FROM SUBS Ability To Deliver Will Be Demonstrated By Navy In Guided Missile Firing PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 27. -P The navy will show Nov. 7 how atomic bombs can be delivered by submarines. It will be done by launching 15.000-pound guided missiles "loons," which could carry atomic warheads from the standard fleet type submarines disk and Carbonero. Pacific Teet headauarters said j the "Loons." 30-foot-long Improve-; , leIievr atom bombs. The whole ment on the wartime German , buzz bomb, will be fired bv the ld, f usl"K submarines two undersea craft off Hawaii, launch guided missiles Is a long The missiles, electronically guided step toward push button war by the subs, have a range of 100 fare." to 2O0 miles. J Tb(. navy submarines The demonstration will be a prov(l(1 ln tne Hawaiian war ploitation of sea power." said .-i.M.-iyiM - Cmdr. John S. McCain Jr., who has charge of submarine guided missile development. He added: 'The submarine, with guided missiles, has become a siege bom bardment weapon and can be used ' Prospect holes now being sunk have reached coarse sand al about six feet. Sand usualy covers the gravel which lies on top of the all-important bedrock. If gold is here, it will be on the bedrock. The holes are dug by burning a fli-e on top of the ground for about six hours. This thaws the ground about a foot down and the prospector digs out the iioist tne prosector diss out the .uist oai.ll. anA clarta anAlhnp firA Tt' no heavy equipment is to Be had. Meanwhile, dozens of new comers are pouring In each day. Three planes landed on Magoffin field before 8 a.m. yesterday. The field a quarter mile stretch of river sufficiently frozen to sup port 450 horsepower planes was named after Jim Magoffin, first bush pilot to land on it. Calmness And Dither Residents of this gold-seeking tent village represent a fairly ac curate cross-section of Alaska (Continued on Page Two) Wage Pact Ends . ; rOUIiTy 3TTIKG ,.,pf?RTLAN-P' 0cl' 'JPT Workers at Oregon Egg and Poul try Dealers association plants went back to work today under a wage agreement to be ratified , by ,he Ar"L union membership., .The agreement, announced last night bv George Walker. U. S. lCcjiia,ion commissioner, : ended a week-old strike. Walker did not disclose the terms. The :unlon "Rlna"' had asked a 7i" ccnt an hour boost. Meanwhile, negotiations were resumed today in the week-old strike of AKL office workers at six wholesale grocery warehouses. Federal Conciliator Leo Kotin was hopeful of an early settlement. The grocery dlsputr, supported bv AFL teamsters who haul the foodstuffs to stores, was begin ning today to cause minor short- ages of some items at independ games, conciudea yesterday, tnat they can carrv huge high-speed, long-range guided missiles across j oceans in normal undersea opera tions. . I For more than three years ex-i v (Continued on P.-ge Two) The Weather Clovdy with scattered skew ers loooy. Friday cloudy with rat. Sunset today 5:12 p. m. Sunrita tomorrow 4:42 a. m. Eitabliihed 1873 Outbreak Of Jaundice Hits Glide District Known, Suspected Cases Near 100; Serum Sent Quickly By Red Cross An outbreak of Infectious hep ititis, commonly known as jaun dice, is rearing epidemic propor tions in the Glide district. Under the direction of County Health Officer Dr. E. J. Wain scott. immunization of all students in the Glide school and other persons exposed was in process today. The consent of parents is necessary before the serum may dc administered. Dr. Wainscott said an esti mated 30 cases had been reported Wednesday night, rapidly n creasing the number from the 22 known cases of Tuesday night. An additional 50 to 60 cases have been tentatively diagnosed as jaundice, he said. The Glide school reported an absentee list of about 90, or 28 percent of the 265 children en rolled. However, some are prob- (Continued on Page Two) Salem Ouster Of Negroes Draws Bitter Protest SALEM, Oct. 27 UP) Two Ne gro farm workers were reported to have been ordered out of town because of their race. And their employer, U. S. Alderman, has complained bitterly about the po liceman who is supposed to have I given the order, j Alderman, who has farms 1 north of Salem, said two of his j Negro potato diggers came to Sa lem last Friday afternoon to get I their pay. He said a city police- man told them to get out of town necause Negroes arent tolerat ed In Salem. E. C. Charlton, assistant police chief, promised an immediate In vestigation and corrective meas ures, i Alderman. In a letter to the po lice department, asked "Did this policeman speak with authority for the city of Salem, the capitol of our fair practice state of Ore gon?" This Isn't the first case of a po liceman ordering Negroes out of town. About two years ago, a city officer ordered two Negroes, who were working on a railroad construction gang, to leave the city. This brought the wrath of the city's ministers upon the heads of the Salem police, who apologized and promised not to try to evict any more Negroes. Injunction Violators Convicted Of Contempt MIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.. Oct. 27 .T A jury convicted 20 men and a woman of criminal con tempt of court yesterday In con nection with Bell Aircraft Corp. strike disorders. State Supreme Court Justice William H. Munson will not sen tence the 21 until another group of CIO unionists is tried on a similar charge of violating an In junction limiting picketing at the Bell plant near here. The maximum penalty is 30 days in jail and a $250 fine for each. Egg Prices Go Lower, Coffee Soars Higher PORTLAND. Oct. 27 (.?) The price of eggs skidded again today on the heels ot a similar drop yesterday. A major dealer said the drop of 3 cents and yesterday's de cline of 2 and 4 cents stemme l from a big break in egg prices in Eastern markets. Coffee prices went up, how ever, as much as six cents a pound on some brands. Standard canned brands that had been sell ing at about 55 cents jumped to 61 plus. The average increase of lower priced coffee was 5 cents. Roseburg Communists Total 12, Report Says VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 27. (,T A Portland city police cap tain told an army reserve train ing group last night that Oregon has 403 Communists and Port land has 232 of these. Capt. William D. Browne is a veteran investigator of subver sive activities for the Portland police. He said Salem has 33 of the known Communists. Eugene 15, Roseburg 12. Astoria 21. Coos Bay 35 and Oregon City 13. Truman To Broadcast On Religious Subject WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. P President Truman will address the nation by radio next Sunday night at approximately 8:25 o'clock PST) on "Religion in American Life." The President will sneak three to five minutes on a program sponsored by the Federal Council of Church's of Christ In America. ROSEBURG, STATUE LURES Fence Built To Bar Peepers At Lady Godiva COVENTRY, Eng., Oct. 72. .P They've had to put a fence around Lady Godiva's statue. It's to keep the peeping Toms .way. A statue showing the lady clad only in her tresses ard Kitting side saddle on a horse, was un veiled last Saturday by Mrs. Lewis Douglas, wife of the U. S. ambassador, Almost at once crowds wanting a closer look began trampling ;Over the surrounding turf. Ci'v officials put up a three-foot high barricade yesterday to save the grass. i Godiva rode forth in the nude, ' legend says, some 900 years ago I to shame her husband, the lord I of the town, into giving tax re I lief to the people. The towns 1 people -vent indoors to let the llady pass unseen. But one man looked and was struck blind. His I errant ways gave birth to the term "peeping Tom." I "The statue Is proving an un j expected attraction," said one city uiuciai. Intimidated Jap Women Keep U. S. Citizenship WASHINGTON. Oct. 27 (.Pi Three American-born women of Japanese ancestry are still American even though they re nounced their citizenship during the war, the Justice department agreed yesterday. It said it will not ask the Su preme court to review a decis ion to this effect handed down August 26 by the United States court of appeals for the Ninlh circuit. Both appeals court and the dis trict court at Los Angeles held that the women were loyal Amer ican citizens who had been inti midated Into renouncing their citizenship by pro-Japanese groups at the Tule Lake. Calif , war relocation center, following evacuation from their west coast homes. The department said it would apply the appeals court deslckm ln all future cases of thid kind. End Of Strike Reopens Local Poultry Houses Local poultry houses resumed operations today, with settlement of a strike at Portland against the Columbia Produce company, it was announced by Ed Davis, manager of the Northwest Poul try and Dairy Products com pany. During the strike at Portland, local houses did not receive poul try to avoid having live birds on hand while facing the "possibili ty" of a strike here, it was ex-"-'"in-t last week. Officials jf the two companies, Northwest iuiuj anu t.,e uiegon turkey Growers, said it w as not a "lock out" against the workers. v PAPAL DELEGATE ROBBED MANILA Lh Burglars urone into the home of the papal dele gate while he was attending the funeral of the late archbishop of Manila. Monsignor Eqidio Vagnozzl re ported loss of gold religious ac cessories one a gold chain set with diamonds, pearls, rubies and emeralds as well as some cash. Roseburq High Grads Complete Basic m. IWsMsMMMMHIIHIIIIMslMHMHMMMHsMMMW "- CK- Q kit stLi I - f . : J H At . ' i t- X ..Ml i Air Force men Inn L inH A ip f-nrrm ho Tk.. k ton of Mr. end Mrs. H. C. Bellowi, 840 Military St.; Ffc. Clen Tigner, 19, ion of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Tigner, route I, box 289-F. and Pfe. Laey Hinther, 18, ion ef Mr. and Mn. Carl Hintker, route I, be 316. After hit 10-day leave, Bellows will report to Mountain Home Air Force bate, Idaho. He recently completed a courie of map reproduction at Fort Belvoir, Va. Tigner will report He recently completed a courie of map reproduction at Fort Belvoir, Va. Tigner will report to Sheppard Air Farce bete at Witchita Falls. Tesat, where he will enter the airplane and en gine mechanic school. Hinther will report to Chanute Air Force bate at Rantoul, III., where he gine mec will pertue school. e csune OREGON THURSDAY, OCT. Tax Bills To Be Sent About December 1st Delay Will Not Affect Privilege Of Discount For Early Payment Douglas county property hold ers needn't worry. Tliey 11 get their tax statements In time, and also their cash rebate for prompt payment. ThM assurance was given hv Sheriff and Tax Collector O. T. "Bud" Carter todav, who stated that the mailing out of tax state ments will be delayed. The delay, brought about by several reasons, may be as late as Dec. 1, hut provision will be made to allow sufficient time, probably until Dec. 15, in which to make full payment and take (Continued on Page Two) Govt. May Tap Vets' Insurance Pay For Debts WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. yPl The Veterans administration said today it may dip Into the forth coming Ex-G.I. life Insurance div idend to collect up to $30,000 O0 that veterans owe the govern ment. "Somewhere between $20,000, 000 and $30,000,000 of such debts may be collected from national service life insurance dividends," it said in a news release. "All of the Individuals con cerned are aware of their idebt edness to the government and know that it is deductible from other VA payments to which they may be entitled." The agency said around 600.000 veterans owe It about S70.000.00d. The Individual dividend navments will be sufficient to wipe out less :han half of the total. Most of the indebtedness con sists of overpayments of sub sistence allowance for veterans in colleges or training under the GI bill. Other types of debt Include defaults on loans guaranteed by the government, overpayments of pensions, compensation or unem ployment allowances. The $2,800,000 dividend Is to be paid during the first half of 1950 to an estimated 16,000,000 veterans. VA officials emphasized that deductions will be made only from the dividends of veterans who owe the government money. Dividends of other veterans will not be affected. Third Rubber Firm Ups Prices For Tires, Tubes NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-.P1 U. S. Rubber Company today boosted prices of i's passenj;rr car, truck, farm and Industrial tires and tubes 34 per cent. An exception was the company's ex tra quality Royal Master tire, which remained unchanged. The advances follow similar action by Goodyear Tire and Rubber company and Firestone Tire A Rubber company. pictured above are home on leave i at ban Antonio. irai. Lett ta airplane maintenance. All rnree were 27, 1949 "1: 'N' v. FOUND GUILTY Phil Devil, wealthy euto dealer of Oak lend, Cslif., wet found guilty of negligently operating the tpeedboat which severed the leas ef 14-vear-old Imoaene Wittsche at Lake Tehoe last summer. The federal court jury took exactly one hour to reach the verdict in Sacramento. Calif. He facet a maximum sen- ence of a year in jail and a $2000 fine. A civil suit for $327,000 damaaes has been filed against him by the maimed girl t parents. INtA lelephotol. Woman Gravely Hurt When Truck And Auto Collide A Corvallls housewife is in the Myrtle Creek hospital today, fol lowing a near-head on collision 26 miles south of here, involving the car her husband was driving and a loaded logging truck. State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell Identified the accident victim as Mrs. Edajoe Young, wife of Wil liam Haskell Young of Corvallis. Airs. Young was treated at the scene of the accident by a Canyon- ville physician who ordered her taken to Myrtle Creek. Her doc tor at the Myrtle Creek hospital said the woman was treated for a skull fracture and severe facial lacerations. Her husband and two young sons were all treated for minor cuts and scratches. Max B. Mor ton, Canyonvllle truck driver, was not Injured. Slate police said the accident orcurred shortly before 2:30 Wednesday afternoon when Young swerved to the left of a car park ed on the high. ay at the bridge near roras restaurant, wnen Young's car entrsed the left lane of traffic, It collided with the log ging truck and was carried back ward over 160 feet. Both Morton and Young told state police the parked passenger car sped away when the driver saw that an accident had oc curred. No description of the car was avallanie. Although damage to Mortons truck was slight, state police said he was nearly pinned In tne can, as the logs shifted forward fol lowing the impact. Young's car was described by state police as "completely demolished.' Air Force Training after comoletina bsiic train- riant, ric. Aivin bsiiowi. iu. griauatea tram Koieourg nign 253-49 Ford Pension Plan Approved By Auto Union Firm, Social Security Joint Payment Provides $100 Monthly Maximum DETROIT. Oct. 27. T The automobile industry marked an other milestone In its labor re lations history today. Ford's $100-amonth pension plan, first In the Industry, was approved. Applying to Ford's 115,000 pro duction workers, the plan was ac cepted in a vote by the Ford rank and file membership of the CIO United Auto Workers. Unofficially estimated to cost $30,000,000 a' year, the plan will be paid for entirely by the com pany. Under the new UAW contract Ford workers can retire at age 65 on a maximum of $100 month ly. This Includes the worker's federal social security, for which he foots part of the bill. Remainder of the retirement benefit will be paid for entirely bv the company, which estimates It's cost at $20,000,000 annually. Pension benefits constitute the major part of a 10 cents an-hour package and in general follows the recommendations of Presi dent Truman's fact-finding com mission ln the steel dispute. For the time being at least its approval assured peace In the auto Industry. Pensions have been the UAW ClO's No. 1 objective in Its 1949 (Continued on Page Two) Welfare Grants Cut Blocked By Court Decision OLYMP1A. Oct. 27. UV-The rvmr nt-Hnr lemnorarilv restrain- I rr the, Clol- Hnnartmctlt Of ItnriAl security irom puning imu cui its planned cuts in weuare grHiiia raised anew today the possibility that Governor Lanfj'ie might have to call a special icgisiaiive w.-iuii to raise taxes. The prpposed slish would have saved the state approximately 5X51,000 a month or roughly $14,000,000 If carried out accord ingly over the remainder of the biennlum. Whether the order, Issued yes terday by Superior Judge Charles Wright, will be made permanent is to be decided later. Opposing counsel and Judge Wright will confer Nov. 4 on a date to hear the case on Its merits. The proposed cuts would have ranged from 4.7 percent on old age pensions to more than 35 percent on certain grants in the nnnafai oaeistnnro nrnfrrnlTI. Roderic Olzendam, director of the social security department, said the slash was mandatory If the department was to stay within the amount of money appropri ated by the legislature. . Six In Family Injured As Blast Wrecks Home GRANDVIEW, Wash., Oct. 27 tpu-Officials studied four pos sible causes today of the flaming blast that ripped the Frank Rus sell home apart yesterday Six In the family were Injured ser iously, Including a month -old baby, whose face and tongue were burned. State Fire Marshall's agents and firemen of this Yakima val ley town were checking for the presence ot sewer gas, a leany commercial gas main, combus tible material In the home Itself and hydrogen sulphide gas. The latter Is known to exist in the town's water supply. Those hospitalized, all with burns, were: Frank Russell, 64; Ruth Russell. 17: Lyle Russell. 10: David Russell, month -old erandson of Frank Russell: Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Russell. Frank Russell also had chest Injuries. Central Point Votes Bond Issue For Utilities CENTRAL POINT, Oct. 27. (Pl Approval of a $100,000 bonJ issue for a pumping station and trunk sewer was voted 122 to 45 here Tuesday. The trunk sewer will connect with the Medford system. It re places an earlier plan for a local disposal plant. Sewage now goes Into Bear creek, a tributary of the Rogue. Officials hope for completion of the project by the first of the year. Divorce Given Wife Of State Treasurer Pearson OREGON CITY, Oct. 27.-1 Elizabeth C. Pearson was grant ed a divorce in circuit court here yesterday from State Treasurer Walter j. Pearson. The decree was Issued by Judie E. C. Latourette. Property settle ment calls for sale uf property In Portland with the first $10,000 being "warded to Mrs. Pearson. She will also receive SiiXO a month alimony until January, 1953, Three Guards Overpowered In Getaway Shots From Gun Of Fourth Guard Miss; Break Ltd By 20-Year-Old "Lifer" WILMINGTON. Del.. Oct 27 A widespread manhunt was) or. toaay ior eight convicts who escaped from the New Castle county prison with guns and am munition taken from the Jail arsenal. The eight led by a 20-year-old life term prisoner made a dar ing break through the prison'! front gate last night after lock ing up guard Captain Harry Har rington and using another guard as a shield. A burst of machine gun fire f.om a prison towr failed to stop them. Hve of the escapees were re ported to have boarded a Penn sylvania railroad freight train bound for Reading, Pa. Two others forced J. L. Elliott a sta tionery store clerk, to drive two blocks In his own car and then shoved him out before driving off. The car was recovered several hours later, abandoned in Ken nett Square, Pa. State police established road blocks throughout the Wilmine- ton area and alerted authoritiea of adjoining states to be on tha (Continued on Page Two) Congressman Again Afoul Of City Traffic Law SPOKANE. Oct. 27. (,P Rep resentative Compton I. White (D-Idaho) had his second brush, in a year with the Spokane police ast nignt ana again It cost mm money. The 71-year-old Idaho Demo crat was cited yesterday for a parKtng violation and paid a $5 fine. 'I guess the only wav I can stay out of trouble with the Spo- Kane ponce aepartment is to stay out of Spokane," While told Po lice Chief Clyde Phelps last night. White paid a $100 fine on a disorderly conduct charge ln April after an argument with an officer over a parking ticket placed on his car. The congressman said he was mistreated during the night he spent In the city Jail and later filed a $200,000 (in mage claim against the city. Officers denied the accusation of mistreatment. Phelps said he was point to void the ticket yesterday but White objected. "I'm not asking any favors from the Spokane police depart ment." White said. Action on the concressman's claim against the city has not been pressed and he said last night that it Is still ln the hands of his attorney. Three Held In Jail On Different Charges Robert Lawrence Macklin. 26. and Leona Marie Macklin, 3L both of Roseburg, are being held in the Douglas County jail under charges of obtaining money by false pretenses, reported Justice of Peace A. J. Geddes, who fix ed their bail at $730 each. They were arresiea oy uaKiana city police Tuesday. Robert Stephen Gordon. 37. Sulherlln. was arrested Wednes day by sheriff's deputies and is being held for Klamath county on a forgery charge, according to snerut u. 1. "Bud - carter. His bail, set In the warrant for arrest, is $2,500. A 14-year-old Roseburg youth is also being held at the countv jail on a bicycle theft charge. His case will be handled by ju venile authorities. Burglar, 19, Receives Five-Year Prison Term OREGON CITY, Oct. 27 UP) Lelie Allen Jacobson, 19, Chicago was sentenced yesterday to five years ln prison for burglary of an ice cream parlor near her Sept. 12. He was caught In the act and arrested with Dean A. Culver, 18, also of Chicago. Culver had drawn a similar sentence but was paroled to his father. Court aides said the Chicago youth was wanted in Florida but Gov. McKay had refused to grant extradition. Schoolboy, 12, Accused Of Murdering Boy Of 4 LONDON. Oct. 27 l.T) A 12-year-old schoolboy was charged today with murdering a boy of four. The accused. George Click, ap peared In Juvenile court with his father while police search the Brent river shores for the body of Stanley Graves. Police officials gave no hint ot the motive and did not say how thev knew the child was dead. Ltvlty Fact Ront By L. r. KehwMtein It it probable that Hie qeld rush to Fithwheel, Alaska, has been qiven added impetus by predictions in New York mar kets that coffee next year wilt I oar ta $1 a pound retail.