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U. of 0. Library ' COMP Eugene, Ore, rvn JV UYJ mm mm ? IV Miss Joan HOMECOMING PRINCESS Miss Joan Flutter Selected As One Of Five Candidates; Shirley Love Reigns At OSC By ROD NEWLAND CORVALLIS, Oregon From out of the fog at Oregon State college comes the announcement of the selection of Joan Rutter as a Homecoming Princess of 1949. She was selected from a group of , 23. .candidates, chosen by ..the women's living organizations to represent them in the queen con test The 23 freshman candidates were Interviewed by student judges several times before the field was cut to 10. Polling Places Named For Vote On Annexation Residents of two suburban ar eas will go to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 1, to vote on whether they shall be annexed to the city of Roseburg. The areas involved are West Roseburg and Millers addition Sleepy Hollow tract. City Recorder William D. Boll man said the polling places will be at the Roseburg Junior acad emy (Seventh-day Ad vent is t school), corner of Military street and Umpqua avenue, for West Roseburg, and at 245 Booth street for Millers addition and Sleepy Hollow. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to S p.m. Election board personnel fol low: West Roseburg: Alice Carter, chairman; Josephine Feldkamp, judge; Gladys H. Coates. Lois Gile, and Helen Cordon (to be absent) clerks. Millers addition-Sleepy Hollow: Archie Currier, chairman; C. W. I Nortin (to be absent), judge; ' Dorothy Purkerson (to be ab sent), Alice Davis and Mabel France, clerks. Bollman said substitutes will be chosen for those who will be (absent, but they cannot be nam ed until they have been sworn in bv their respective election board chairmen. GAS SALES DROP SALEM, Oct. 29 UP) Gasoline sales in Oregon dropped sharply in September, Secretary of State Newbry reported. The September total of 43,421. 220 gallons was 4,000,000 less than in August, and was 3,000, 000 less than in September, 1948. Small Boy Is Rescued From Cistern Death Trap After Three Hours Imprisonment AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 29. UP) Slight scratches on the face and side were the only physical reminders today that Bobby Andrew Gow, a tiny 3-year-old, was imprisoned three hours yesterday deep in an 8-inch cistern pipe. Bobby, whose 26-pound body dropped from view at 2:48 p.m. (CST), Just 50 leet from his tack doorstep, was reported in good sharje at Brackenrldee hospiial. if ,i .A B L Trti, ho. observation in the pediatrics He spent the night there under ward. Maybe he owed his life to quick-thinking 12-year-old John ny Schnpirler. It was Johnny w ho shouted the larm when Bobby slipped feet first into the aban doned pipe. Johnny dashed into the home of Mr. and Mr?. James Gow and told them, what had happened to their little Reddish-golden-haired Portrait bv Richard Gilkey R utter The field of 10 was again inter- viewed by the student judges be fore the court of five was picked and the selection of Queen Shir ley Love was made. The judges were all students, as previously mentioned, until the finals, when a few faculty members were added to select the queen. The queen selection committee was headed by Tom Hartung, a senior majoring in agriculture and a former resident of Rose burg. He moved to Portland with his parents several years ago, where they now live. He is living at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity on the campus. The candidates for Homecoming Queen were judged on the basis of eight points for beauty, five points for figure, and three points for personality. The queen started on her reign with a bang when she was pre sented to the midnight matinee audience In the Memorial Union building Friday night. On Satur day morning, she and her court appeared at the Homecoming breakfast. She was also presented during halftime of the main at- (Continued on Page Two) Portland Soon Will Be Free Of Labor Tieups PORTLAND, Oct. 29 P This city probably will be free of labor disputes by Monday. Six wholesale grocery plants, closed by an office workers strike, will resume full scale op eration then. The office employes voted yesterday to accept a wage increase of two and one-half cents an hour now and two and one-half cents more next March. The Doernbecher Manufactur ing company announced that it would rehire all 550 employes, most of whom were laid off fol lowing a brief strike. Men were registering for work, and the plant plans to start operations again Monday. ; boy, youngest of three children. As the father rushed to the backyard, Johnny stepped to the telephone and dialed 4333. He re- I membered the number of the fire , dnnarlrnm. h.. hp harf k, la fire marshal at his school last ye.ir. Firemen and Polieemen were on the scene in 10 minutes. Civil ian volunteer rolled in. Thcv swung pick axes and i shovels. A steam shovel went in to action less than half an hour after Bobby disappeared from (Continued on Page Two) The Weather Fair today, tonight and Sun' day, except for morning, t loud I' nou. Sunset today 5:10 p. m. Sunrlso tomorrow o:45 i Established 1873 District Davis States Stand On Law Enforcement DA Will Hold To Law Regardless Of Local Opinion On Gambling District Attorney Robert G. Davis last night told county law enforcement officers that "there will be consistent and uniform 1 a w enforcement throughout Douglas county," regardless of what certain pressure groups de sire. Speaking before a gathering of chiefs of police, and repre sentatives of the sheriff's office and state police, Davis said the meeting was called o clarify the official stand of the district at torney's office. "Many complaints from private persons- have reached me, Davis said. "The public wants to know why the law is strictly enforced in some parts of the county and ignored in others." . Not Consistent "We know law enforcement isn't consistent now," he - said. "And we also know one reason Is that officials of certain cities even city councils have given tacit approval of illegal practices and have 'warned off their law enforcement officers'." "If local officers, at the risk of losing their jobs, fall to en force tne states statutes, then the state police and sheriff's of- (Continued on Page Two) Tension Growing In Gold Rush; Nugget Is Brass FAIRBANKS," AlRksa, Oct; 29 (P) Weather drew a tight cur lain around the Fishwheei gold camp today, shutting off the re action oi taut-temperea prospec tors to an assay report that one of the original nugget finds was brass. Heavy clouds blanketed the tent town approximately . 165 miles northwest of here, holding more than a dozen planes on the ground. They are the only means of getting out word from the Yu kon river "diggings". The Dlanes flew in yesterday. all carrying copies of the Fair banks Newsminer in which were minted lengthy accounts of Uni versity of Alaska geology pro fessor Kicnara Kagies assay re port. Ragle looked over four nuggets that set off the aerial gold rush a week ago. The professor said one of them was brass, the others were geld. But, he added, some of the gold nuggets were shiny and worn as if they had been carried in a "poke." Dissatisfaction oi tenderteei and veteran prospectors over re sults of their search for gold in the Yukon sands was reported vesterdav turning into an ugly mood. Several men, openly sk- petical over the validity ot first glowing reports from the area, were cald to be near the "fist fight stage." Crosby, Sinatra Hurl Defiance At Communists HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 29 UP) Capitalist Crooners Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra have fired a broadside of gags back at the Czeck communits critic who be littled their style of singing. Croshv. denounced by Pra gue official as "a greedy Ameri can money-seeker who sacrifices his art for gold,' replied yes terday: ' "I'll be glad to play Loew's Prague anytime. And I'll split with that commentator 80-20 he s on the short end, of course. Where can I get a flak suit?" Sinatra, who the Czech spokes man said was a "much better" ngcr, defended his fellow croo ner. "Anybody who says Bines singing makes them sick has got pontics in ine ear. He offered to have the head of his Prague fan club look into the matter. Guest Who Stays Too Long Complained About DETROIT, Oct. 29 JP An Ann Arbor resident .was in print today complaining about "people who drop in after a football game and slay so long they have to be invited to dinner." Detroit Free Press Columnist Mark Beltaire called the com plaint a "pathetic grip that will be echoed In every football town." His correspondent said (he guests "ear., burp and go home, leaving a stack of dirty dishe.i." "And it was our Sunday din ner, too." he wrote plaintively. "Pleare print this before the next game." Ann Arbor Is the home of the University of Michigan. ROSEBURG, Attorney Says PRO-COMMUNISTS TARGET CIO President Murray Issues Warning On Eve Of Annual Convention CLEVELAND, Oct. 29. UP) CIO President Philip Murray In dicated today he was ready to rid his labor union federation of all pro-communist groups. Murray said so In a report prepared for the annual convention opening here Monday. , Railroad Workers Refuse To Handle 'Hot' Pineapple THE DALLES. Ore.. Oct. 29 UP) The Hawaiian pineapple company was forced to turn to trucks today for shipping Its pineapple tidbits to a San Jose. Calif., cannery. The Railroad brotherhoods. who a week ago refused to move Boxcars across a CIO picket line. yesterday refused to move the cars even without the picket line. The company then dispatched 80 .tons of pineapple by truck. But that was a small amount compared to the 250 tons sitting in tne live stymied boxcars. A union notice was posted ad vising railroad workers to spot no more cars to the dock, whore a Hawaiian barge lies with 2,300 tons of pineapple still aboard. T. J. Carson, chairman of the Brotherhood Grievance commit tee, said the railroaders fear re prisals, and also object to the posting ot armed deputies along the loading dock. The deputies were dispatched Thursday, when the non-union crews resumed unloading pine apple from the barge. CIO Long shoremen, who contend the port is unfair. w"ere restrained bv Y-ouit-order from picketing. Tne Barge nas Been vainly at tempting to disgorge Its cargo since arriving from then strike bound Hawaii last month. The first unloading was halted by a violent rush of the dock that In jured two truckers. Rescue Workers Begin Identifying 48 Victims PONTA DELGADA, SAO MI- GEL, The Azores, Oct. 29 UP) Rescue workers today began identifying the burned and brok en bodies of 48 victims killed in the crash of an air France Con stellation. The plane plunged into a moun tainside yesterday. It was bound from Paris to New York. A French technical mission al so was at work, trying to deter mine the cause of the crash. Box er Marcel Cerdan, violinist Gi nette Neveu and pinter 3ernard Boutet de Monvel were among those killed. There were no sur vivors. Th body of 28-year-old Miss Neveu, one of Frances's greatest women musicians, was one of those so far identified. CADETS FIGHT FIRE PORTLAND, Oct. 29 UP) Hill Military academy cadets beat the firemen to a fire in their barracks last night. Spot ting flames as they were holding a Halloween party, the cadets formed a bucket brigade and ex tinguished the fire before fire men arrived. The blaze started in a bureau and spread to other furnishings in one room. OFFICERS TAKE DEMOLAY DeMolay, took their ttetions for th firtf time at meetinq held in the Masonic lodge build ing Thursdsy night. Officers include (front row, left to right), Tom Taylor, i.e.; Dwight Raines, m.c; William Loftin, scrib. Second row, Dick Nickens, s.s.; Merit Hampton, precept; John Rauschert, sentinel; Sid Smith, treasurer; Bob Laws, s.d. Third row, Arthur McCehey, sr. coun cillor; Keith Stearns, standard bearer, Jim Anderson, ehsslair.; Vernon Thomss, marshal. (Picture by Paul Jenkins). OREGON SATURDAY, OCT. He used the most vigorous lan guage in CIO record to describe his feelings toward communist and pro-communist unions in the CIO. The CIO leader was reported ready to telL the 11th annual con vention there is no room in his organization for pro-communist unions. He also was said to have de scribed the left-wing anti-Murray program as one of destruction. "The CIO wants none of the communist program," Murray aides said the president's report would declare. Persons In position to know said Murray would tell the con vention:. "We chartered the unions, and we can disaffiliate them." , Murray and otner top CIO lead ers have threatened to toss all left-wingers off the powerful executive board. They also have laid plans to (Continued on Page Two', Czech President Frees Catholics PRAGUE, Oct. 29 UP) Czech oslovakia's communist president, Klement Gottwald, todav set free 127 Roman Catholic priests who had been imprisoned for oppos ing the government's new church control law: ,, ", " ' An official announcement said these priests had repented their acts and promised loyalty to the communist-led government. The official version was that these priests had resisted the new legislation only "under pres sure from the church hierarchy." It added: "The priests, how ever, realized the results their conduct would have. They pro claimed they wanted to change their attitude, were jorry for their acts and promised loyalty to the Czechoslovak republic and asked the president for amnes ty." According to the Roman Catho lic bishops, the priests who were imprisoned had voluntarily op posed the church legislation. Church sources also have sa'd that between 200 and 300 priests have been jailed. Justice's Wife's Death Is Being Investigated Stats Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell reported today hit office is Investigating the death of Hen rietta Imogene Jones, 41. Glen dale. Sgt. Harrell laid his office re ceived a call at 11:40 last night from the victim's husband, Rob ert Marlon Jones, Justice of the 'peace t Glendale, that his wife had "Just shot herself in the head" the result of an argu ment. Mrs. Jones lived for an hour and 45 minutes following the hooting but failed to regain consciousness. . STATIONS Twelve officers of 29, 1949 lawlessness Out Effort Is Made To Reach More Glide Children Efforts to reach an additional 50 to 60 children who have been exposed to yellow jaundice were being made today at Glide bv C. A. Slas, teacher at the Glide school. But with rural telephone lines down and school busses not op erating today, health officials did not know how many people could be on hand at the school (or in noculations this afternoon. Dr. E. J. Walnscott, countv health officer, said about 300 vials, each containing 2 cc. of serum, were received hy express from the Red Cross blood center at Portland today. Yesterday, he and county health nurses innoculated 62 persons with the serum. A total of 497 persons in the Glide community nave receiveo. me innocuiations. Efforts are being made to reach all who have been exoosed to jaundice, known medically as In- lecuous nepititis. Dr. Wainscott said a total of 78 cases have been renorted. with 35 definitely diagnosed as jaun- aice. Symptoms of the disease, he said, include nausea, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, headaches, and other stomach upsets. On the third or fifth day, the skin may become jaundiced. Mayor Al Flegel Gives Testimony In Hospital Probe PORTLAND, Oct. 29 UP) The government's anti-trust suit went Into Weekend recess today, after another physician and an Oregon mayor testified that the State Medical society had frown ed on prepaid medical plans. . Dr. Wilford H. Belknap, Port land, was the second physician to testify that he was forced to resign from the Multnomah County Medical society because of his association with a prepaid medical group. : , The government accuses the State Medical society of attempt ing to monopolize prepaid medi cine with its own organization, Oregon Physicians Service. Belknap said the County Med ical society threatened him with expulsion unless he gave up his contract practice with National Hospital association patients. He resigned in 1910. Later, he told the court, he ap plied for reinstatement, and was asked by a society official If "I had learned my lesson." Belknap replied, "I had no les son to learn, He was not re ad mitted, he said. Mayor Albert Flegel of Rose burg testified that the 13 em ployes of his transfer and storage company subscribed to the In dustrial Hospital association, but could not get doctors to take the association s tickets. Fleeel said he consequently paid the doctors out of his own pocket, and was reimDursea Dy the hospital association. Paul Youngman, McMlnnville, testified that he had tried to form a prepaid health plan In Yamhill county, only to encounter loo mucn opposition irom tne L-oumy Medical society. Youngman said Dr. E. R. Huckleberry offered to sell an In terest In the McMlnnville hospital to the prepaid group, but with drew the offer later. th Roseburg chapter, Order of 255-49 Sec. Matthews Is Silent On Navy Situation No Successor In View To Replace Denfield; Ignores His Critics WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. UP) Secretary of the Navy Matthews. calmly Ignoring lawmakers' de mands that he quit, combed through a list of admirals to day seeking a successor to Louis Denfeld as chief of naval opera tions. Matthews gave not the slight est indication that he intended to heed angry cries for his res ignation from at least two mem bers of Congress. But he declined any comment on that or other statements from congressional quarters. When reporters asked him if there was any chance he might change his mind about removing Adm. Denfeld and - giving him some other job, Matthews said firmly: "I asked the President for authority to make the transfer. I do not ask for things just to ask for them. Of course I intend to go through with It." Denfeld's special assistant, Capt. Walter Karig, told reporters he expects the admiral to retire from the navy rather than take a lesser post. venement assertions tnat Mat thews should leave the defense department came from Senator Knowland lK-caili) and itep. Bates (R-Mass.) Bates is a member of the House Armed Services committee which heard Denfeld and most of the other high command of the three armed lorces testily in tne Bluer military wrangle over , unification.- ..... ' ' - He said Matthews, who was named to his job last spring, "is absolutely unfit to hold the oi t ice; tils naval experience is tin and he can't even row a boat." Matthews said Denfeld would continue as chief of naval opera tions "until his future duties aie determined and a successor is named." Climber Plunges 1500 Feet Down Mt. Hood Slope PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 29 UP) A mountain climber plunged 1500 feet down a precipitous slope on Mount Hood early today and a companion said he was unconscious or dead on a fla cler. A party of three Portland climbers was within 300 feet of the summit ridge on the 11,245 foot peak when Don Welk lost footing in an Icy chute and fell. Bob Buscho, who was with Welk and his sister, Miss Alice Welk, reported the accident at TImberline lodge this morning. Lodge Manager Jim Caswell said he gave this account: The three started up the moun tain from the lodge at 12:30 a.m., climbing the south side which is the most popular route and fre quently used at this time of year. While ncaring the top of a rocky, ice-covered chute a nar row, deep "V" Welk slipped. He slid swiftly down the chute and out onto the head of a glacier an estimated 1,500 feet below. Caswell dispatched lodge em ployes up the mountain. He said it would be afternoon before they returned. Wealthy Oil Man Withdraws Huge College Endowment Because Of Race Dispute NATCHEZ, Miss., Oct. 29.-4JP George W. Armstrong Sr., with drew his offer of a $50,000,000 endowment for Jefferson Military college last night. Today the trustees were to meet to determine If the 147-year-old school with an enrollment of 47 students must close for lack of funds. The 84-year-old Mississippi and Texas oil man said he withdrew his offer because a statement by three trustees of the school "re pudiates" a condition of the en dowment. That condition called for changes In the charter to bar all persons of African or Asiatic de scent and to operate the college primarily for Christians. After Armstrong withdrew his offer, Stanley N. Murphy, chair man of the trustees' executive committee, told newsmen: "It is obvious why we couldn't accept Judge Armstrong's offer under nls terms. We don't need money that badly. We could close the school first." Murphy said that Armstrong made his offer last Feb. 14 ask ing only that persons ot African and Asiatic descent . be barred rrom tne scnooi ana tnat tne num-1 i-jtuij.,-!- ul. ....i j -. ... - -her of trustees be cut from 12 to I WM five, of which the Judge Arm- right than president. - from the school and that the num- Bill Largest In Peacetime US. History More Than SI 5 Billion Is Included For Defense; Air Force Funds Held WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. UPt President Truinan signed the largest military appropriation In peacetime history today but Im pounded $615,000,000 It carries to build the air force up to 58 groups. The measure carries a total of $15,585,863,438 for operation by the army, navy, air corps and marines. In a statement the president said that congress's action In in creasing funds for the air forc above his budget recommenda tions "could have a serious effect on our ability to maintain bal anced military forces In subse quent years." Declaring that' the larger air force insisted upon by the House would be "inconsistent with a realistic and balanced security program which we can support in peace time," the president added: Put In Reserve "I am therefore directing the secretary of defense to place in reserve the amounts provided by the Congress in H. ft. 4146 for increasing the structure of the air . force." The president said also: "Although these increased au thorizations would have compara-. tlvely little effect upon military expenditures in the current fiscal year, the fact that they are large--ly for the procurement of aircraft would have a serious effect on ex penditures In the future. "As additional aircraft authoiv ized bv the act were delivered, we should have to make correspond ing provision for additional per (Continued on Page Two) Sen. Austin Flegel To Address Forum Luncheon Monday Speaking In favor of the propos ed Columbia Valley authority. State Senator Austin F. Flegel of Multnomah county will be a guest at the regular Roseburg Chamber of Commerc? luncheon Monday. The luncheon will be at noon In the Hotel Umpqua Civic room. The public is invited, said George) Luoma, chairman of the cham ber's forum committee. The brother of Roseburg'a mayor, Albert G. Flegel, Sen. Flegel has been a practicing at torney in Oregon since 1912. Dur ing the recent war he temporari ly left the legal profession to head a large shipbuilding firm at Portland. As president of the Willamette Iron and Steel corporatien, he was the onlv industrialist of eith er party to serve In the Oregon Senate this year. As a senator. he sponsored a memorial to con gress urging the creation ot a CVA, and he has since become one of Oregon's most active ad vocates of the valley authority. As a voune lawyer Flegel serv ed as assistant United States at torney for Oregon and later be came attorney for the Oregon liquor commission during the ad ministration of Governor Charles H. Martin. While In Roseburg, Sen. Flegel will ai-so address a Democratic party rally to be held at the Rlv ersdale Grange hall Monday Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. Salem Million Dollar Apartments Will Rise PORTLAND. Oct. 29 UP). A SI.000.000 building housing 101 apartments will start going up In Salem Nov. 7. Victor N. Jones. Seattle archi tect and part owner of the pro posed development, said the last step arranging with the FHA to imure a loan is now Deing com pleted. The reinforced concrete build ing, seven stories high, will be built on a 125 by 160 foot lot at the corner of Winter and Union streets. The work will take about 15 months. strong foundation would name three. He said nothing appeared ob jectionable In that request. But later, Murphy added, Allen Jack Armstrong, son of the oil Contlnupd on Page Two) Ltvfty Fact Rant By L. r. Reimutel Admiral Denfeld's major mil fortunes are that he is net personal crony of the Presi dent or a skilled negotiator on a S percent commission basis. He's probably ont of those rare)