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U. of 0, Library CONP liugene, Ore. mum mi cm WW Jas. Roosevelt's Candidacy For Governor Of California Given Top Rank In Politics WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. VPh-James Roosevelt's bid lor the California governorship gave the west coast state top ranking with New York and Pennsylvania today in major party specu lation over the 1950 and 1952 elections. These are the three most pop ulous states, on the basis of census bureau estimates. They cast a total of 107 of the na tion's 531 electoral votes In a presidential election. Each of them will elect a governor and U. S. Senator next year. The governors' chairs are now held by Republicans (Dewey, N. Y.; Warren, Calif., and Duff, Pa.). The Senate seats are now Democratic (Lehman, N. Y.; Dowaey, Calif., and Myers, Pa ). The results conceivably could furnish or eliminate a poten tial candidate or two in the form ulation of presidential tickets for 1952. Add to that the fact that the three states will elect 101 representatives now divided 50 50 between the two parties (plus one American Laborite from New York) and the outcome will go far in determining the makeup of the next Congress. Ohio, farther down In popu lation estimates, also rates high in the figuring. There, a lead ing Republican Senator, Robert A. Taft, and a Democratic Gov ernor, Frank L. Lausche, will be up for re-election. Hands-Off Policy Likely The announcement by the 41-year-old Roosevelt (he'll be 42 next month) last night in Los Angeles that he will run for the (Continued on Page Two) Treason Verdict Hits Ex-Clerk In Berlin Embassy WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (IP) Herbert J. Burgman, 53, long a clerk In the American embassy in Berlin, was convicted yester day of treason to his country. Instead of coming home with other diplomatic personnel when the United States and Germany went to war, Burgman remained behind and became a radio prop agandist. He is a native of Ho kah, Minn. Burgman faces a maximum sentence of death, a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Federal Judge Alexander Holt zoff, who received the Jury's ver dict, did not indicate when he will pass sentence. ,If Burgman heard and under stood the verdict branding him as a traitor he gave no indica tion. Suffering from a heart ailment, he sat slumped in a wheel chair when Jury Foreman Homer R. Baker, a physicist employed at the Naval Research laboratory, announced the jury had found Burgman "guilty as charged." Burgman's German wife and his German-born son. Thomas, 26, likewise showed no reaction. Both had testified in his behalf. The defense contended (1) that Burgman was mentally incom petent when he made the propa ganda broadcasts and (2) that he acted under duress. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AT a prison forum held in a Salem church the other night,' Tom Humphrey, associate editor of the Oregon Journal, asserted that Oregon's state penitentiary has a completely wrong philosophy. Our prison system, he said, Is based on the idea of revenge and punishment. It should be based, he added, on the concept of RE HABILITATION, so that prison ers can become useful to society after they are released. I'M strongly Inclined to agree with him. It has seemed to me for a long time that our prisons (as a general rule, not merely Oregon's) serve as crime schools out of which too many people come as graduates prepared for bigger and better things in the way of law-breaking. I know that sounds like a cyni- (Continued on Page Four) West Oregon Shippers Unite To Battle Boxcar Shortages PORTLAND, Nov. 16. (API A campaign to end future boxcar shortages along Southern Pacific tracks was announced last night by a newly formed western Oregon shippers car sup ply committee. R. E. Titus, executive vice president of Western Forest In dustries association, said committeemen are being elected in five districts. He said cannery, fresh fruit and grain shippers had been asked to join the lumbermen. Titus said this year's situation should be eased soon, but the committee was looking to the future years. "We feel we need e permanent solution to the shortage that seems to recur in western Oregon every fall," he said. Elections of committeemen were underway in Grants Pass, Roseburg, Eugene, Corvallis end northern Oregon districts, he said. A meeting is planned for .tomorrow night at Coos Bay by the chamber of commerce. Titus said the committee would carry its case to the Inter state Commerce commission. Rep. Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg, had said earlier this fell he would eslc the ICC to check into boxcar allotments for Oregon. Lumber mills and some grain and fiuit shippers have been complaining of the shortage of cars. ;v ; "" V A in JAMES ROOSEVELT In Hit Dad's Footsteps Officers Chosen By West Roseburg Civic Workers Sam McGauhey was elected chairman of the West Roseburi? Civic Improvement committee a a meeting of 18 representatives from that area in the city council chambers Tuesday night. Paul Davis was elected vice chairman, and William Bollman secretary-treasurer. Six directors chosen include W. H. "Doc" Car ter, R. . Dunsdon, O. J. Feld- kamp, E. M. Murphy, D. R. Dim ick and Walter Mallory. A meeting of the officers and directors will be held Tuesday night of next week to work out a program, which will be submit ted to the group at large for fi nal approval. The general consensus was that conditions affecting living conditions should come first in the area. These would include zoning and sewers. Street lighting and representa tion on the city council were dis cussed, but It was determined nothing definite could be worked out until the city has voted upon acceptance of the area Dec. 13. U. S. Protests Chinese Ship Firing On Vessel WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 UP) The United States is protesting to the Chinese Nationalist gov ernment against a Chinese war ship's firing on an American merchant vessel. Secretary of State Acheson said today that an immediate protest is being made against this endangering of American lives. Acheson also declared that Chi nese Communist treatment of American Consul General Angus Ward at Mukden presently re moves any possibility of consid ering recognition of the Chinese Communist Government. He said some progress is be ing made in efforts to obtain the release of two ECA officials held by the Communist regime- in northern Korea. Russia In response to an Amer ican request is taking up the mat ter with the Korean Communist authorities, Acheson said. Business Executive Dies In Eight-Story Plunge SEATTLE, Nov. 16 P) A San Francisco Bay area busi ness executive fell to his death from his eighth floor hotel room window at 2 a. m. today. The coroner's office identified him as Kenneth Edwin Larsen, 35, Pacific coast manager of Lakeside Laboratories, Inc. His home address was listed as Palo Alto, Calif. Officers were mystified as to the cause of the fall. He landed on a roof at the second floor level. He was clad only in un derwear and socks. He had plane reservations for a flight to Portland today for a business conference. The Weather ' Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Thursday. Sunttt today 4:48 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:0? a. m. Eitablithed 1873 Public Housing Loans Receive Truman O.K. 810,000 Low-Rent Units In Next Six Years Goci Of Government Program WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 UP) President Truman launched the public housing program to day by approving loans totaling $20,375,400 to 108 cities for the planning of low-rent homes for a half-million persons. The loans will finance th sur very and planning for 134,000 dwellings in 27 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D. C. Mr. Truman's action was an nounced by John Taylor Egan, commissioner of the public hous ing administration. Egan said loan contracts will be signed as rapidly as possible with the local housing authori ties. The loans, the first to be made under the long-range hous ing act approved this summer, are preliminary to later financ?- lng arrangements which will per mit the start of construction. The housing developments launched today are to be under taken within the next two years. 810,000 Units Planned Funds have been reserved for another 100 local authorities which intend to take part In the first two years of the program. The legislation provides for about 810,000 units over the next six years. Chicago led the list of cities (Continued on Page Two) Maritime Strike Averted By Truce By HAROLD W. WARD WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 UP) A strike of 2,000 AFL Deck offi cers on 500 vessels plying the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico sea lanes was narrowly averted late last night by government inter vention. ?. A truce for at least one week--but more probably for 30 days was agreed upon an hour before the AFL Masters, Mates and Pi lots were to walk off passenger and dry cargo vessels of the 38 companies represented by he American Merchant Marine in stitute. Federal mediators who step ped into the dispute on Monday, weary from tussles with coal and steel strikes, proposed the truce. It was accepted to allow more time for the parses to settle their differences over hiring arrange ments demanded by the union, and 16 other contract issues. The union wanted a rotation system of hiring, by which avail able work would be shared in turn by qualified men listed In hiring halls. These are a sort of union employment bureau, sup plying men for ship jobs. Windmill Store Opens Under New Managers T:.e Windmill store, 1645 Har vard Ave., opened Tuesday under new management, reported Mrs. R. Van Dyne, former owner. . Mr. and Mrs. S. D. "Cap" Jor dan, Roseburg, have leased the build.ng and win continue tne business. The store offers grocer ies, light drugs and a complete fountain. The store has also been granted an onsale, off-sale beer license. Jordan who has lived in Rose burg most of his life, is a graduate of Roseburg Senior high school. Following his discharge from the armed forces, he worked at the local Firestone store as credit manager for two years. His wife, Marlorie, formerly worked at J. C. Penney's here. Charges Confront Two Men Returned Here Frank B. Elf, 21, has been re turned to Roseburg from Grand Island, Neb., to face burglary charges, reported Sheriff O. i. tsuo t,arier. Me was returned by Deputy W. I. Worrall. He will probably be arraigned In justice court today. Dale Bud Wilson has also been returned to Roseburg by Sheriff Carter and Deputy Ira Byrd, who went by private plane to Medford luesday. Wilson was arraigned before Justice A. J. Geddes on a family "desertion" charge, and nis nail was set at $750, according to Carter. He was further fined $22.50 and $30 on two separate truck overload charges. Seven Men Arrested In Salem Morals Case SALEM, Nov. 16.-P)-Police Chief Clyde A. Warren revealed last night that six taxi cab driv ers and a soldier were held in Jail on charges Involving ran? of a 14-year-old girl. 1 he girl, mature aoDear nc. later identified the cab drivers. The police chief said most of the cabbies had admitted having naa sexual relations with the girl. She was arrested after a meeting with the soldier. All seven are held under S3, 500 ball each. ROSEBURG, METERS' BENEFIT Parking Monopoly Ended. Police Chief Baird Says; Grid Traffic Is Favored Traffic meters serve a two-fold purpose, Police Chief Calvin H, Baird told members of Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night's radio forum of the air. "Parking meters and traffic problems" comprised the topic selected for the second in a series of Jaycee sponsored forum broadcasts. Chest Donations' Pace Slackening Unless Roseburg makes its Community Chest quota this week, the six member agencies will be forced to make separate appeals for money next year. That was the warning of di rectors of the campaign today, as they reported the unaudited total of gifts of pledges to be $14,500, an increase of only $300 over yesterday's figure. At a meeting Monday of cap tains representing service clubs participating in the fund solid- Gift Thermometer tation, Sam J. Shoemaker, cam paign director, declared " the whole town must he covered." The Community Chest is at tempting to reach citizens at their places of business. The cen tral district and outlying areas have been zoned, with each club being assigned an area for can vassing. The Community Chest drive Is scheduled to close Saturday. Clubs taking active part in the canvassing include the Kiwanis, Rotary, Active, and Lions clubs, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Junior Woman's and Business and Professional Women'i clubs. Four Culprits Taken To Oregon Penitentiary Four men were taken to the Oregon State penitentiary Tues day by Deputies Ira Byfd, Dal las Bennett and O. A. Kenner ly. The four were Arden Enoch Burris, sentenced to serve six months on a bad check charge; Kenneth Lewis McFarland, sen tenced to one year on a "con tributing" charge; Gerald Eugene Martin, six months on a check charge, and Kenneth K. Chris man, also sentenced to serve six months on a similar count. f G0AL ! $25,550 j $20,000 J ' j $15,000 ! $10,000 $5,000; TO . ' l is " if NEW GYMNASIUM NEARLY COMPLETED Above is the new Benson school gymnasium which will soon be filled with scream ing kids playing basketball, volleyball and other indoor sports. The building will also be used for physical education classes end as an auditorium for various school functions. The asphalt tiled floor is 70x90 feet. Two games of basketball can be played simultaneously, with action taking place "across court." The gym is equipped with boys' end girls' showers and ttege. OREGON WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16, 1949 TOLD Chief Baird related that today more persons coming to town for business or shopping purposes may find a place to park since the meters have been Installed, adding that formerly a person could monopolize a parking area for an entire day, making it dif ficult for others to find conven ient parking. In addition, revenue derived from meters all goes toward traf fic Improvements, such as street lights, signal lights and other things pertinent to the city's streets. Revenue derived from meters in the past fiscal year amounted to $42,000 dollars, Baird said. The Chief explained the oper ation of the meters, and warned the citizenry against putting in dimes as they do not work. Bau d said the meters cost the city $65 dollars apiece and are now paid for. Cost of maintaining each me ter amounts to about seven cents a year, Baird said. He indicated the cost would be increased slightly this year as eight me- (Continued on Page Two) Anti-Red Purge ' In Poland Spreads WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 16 UP) President Bierut has dis closed the arrest of spies, sab oteurs and terrorists in a drive to wipe out an "entire under ground army" in Communist-led Poland. The report on widespread op position to the Red government was maae in a speecn last weeK to the Central committee of the ruling CVmmunist party and pub lished in detail yesterday in the nation's press. Observers believed the unpre cedented revelations indicate a big series of treason trials soon. Bierut told the committee the number of persons engaged In es pionage, sabotage, conspiracy, terror and all similar activities is greater in Poland than in any other country. He described the underground army as specialists in subversive activities "directed against the Peoples' regime." With these declarations and the ousting of three former impor tant members of the Communist party's Central committee it ap peared Poland was in the throes of an all-out purge. Bierut said "substantial numbers" had been arrested. Trial Of Civil Case On In Circuit Court The trial of Darlene M. Bringle, administratrix of the estate of Carl S. Bringle, vs. Thco. G. Meyers & Sons, doing business as Tyee Lumber company, and Robert Fox, was being continued In circuit court today. It was expected the arguments of the attorneys would be pre sented by noon, so lhat the case could go to the jury this after noon. This will be the last case until the trial of Joseph Louis Kiel opens Nov. 28. However, consid erable number of civil cases aie on the docket. Child Slayer Hunt Extended Into Mexico Suspected Murderer Of Linda , Glucoft Flees On Bus Across Border LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16. (JP) An international manhunt was o:i today for a 66-year-old retired baker wanted for questioning in the brutal slaying of six-year-old Linda .Joyce Glucoft. An autopsy, meanwhile, dis closed details of the vicious bru tality of the attack. The mutilated DianKet-wrapoe.1 body of the little girl was found early yesterday buried under rub bush in the backyard of a neigh bor's house where she was last l en alive. In that house lived Fred Stroblc, 66, retired baker, at large in another child molestation case. Stroble, a police broadcast said, "is believed to have mur dered" Linda joyce. A bus driver told police he drove a man resembling Stroble .loss the Mexican border. Police there launched a search for him. Officers at San Bernardino, 60 miles east of here, hunted for a man a bartender Identified as Stroble from ncwsplctures and a mutilated finger. The man was reported to have left a bus upon its arrival from Los Angeles. Fiends work Evidenced The child had been strangled by a man's tie and her body hacked with an axe and stabbed bv a ice pick or similar instru ment. Dr. Frederick D. Nowbarr, county autopsy surgeon, said death was caused by asphyxia from strangulation. He found three stab wounds, two of which lenetrated the lungs. Dr. New arr believes they were Inflicted while the girl was dying. twelve slaslies In her head presumably were made by a bloody axe found at the scene. One severed her spinal cord. Dr. Newbarr said all were delivered after the girl was dead. The surgeon found evidence thh'f she had fought back. Strands of hair were in ner Jagged iingernails. While Dot. Sgt. BUI Brennan said that all evidence pointed to rape, Dr. Newbarr said he found (Continued on Page Two) Probation Granted To Felony Culprit Robert Orvllle Barton, 27, charged with being an accessory to a leiony, was sentenced to a year in the county jail, but plac ed on probation, upon a plea of guilty netore circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly Tuesday. Barton was Indicted by the grand Jury on a larceny charge, but the Indictment was dismissed and the lesser charge was filed, according to District Attorney Robert G. Davis. Barton had pre viously pleaded Innocent 'to the larceny indictment upon arraign ment in Circuit court. He was arrested with Harry Hilton Green, who has pleaded guilty to the theft of a rifle and other articles from a cabin own ed by Adolnh Schuttpelz near Recdsport. Green indicted by the Grand Jury, admitted taking the articles when he appeared in court. Barton admitted only that he drove a car In which the two were riding, let Green out at the cabin and later returned to pick him up. Green, who reportedly has a firevious conviction against him, s awaiting sentencing by the Judge. . The building is constructed of concrete block and reinforced with e concrete base. Arch trusses support the roof. A separate heating unit will provide warmth and hot water for the show ers. Class brick will provide daylight illumination, augmented by lights set flush in the ceiling. Work has been going on at the Benson gymnasium since August I. Principal Roy Crain said the building will be reedy for occupancy shortly after Thanks giving. (Picture by Paul Jenkins). 170 49 L 1 Lj 1 BUS DRIVING MAYOR Bus driver Joseph L. Willeft, mayor elect of Havervill, Mass., plans to keep his job as a bus driver despite his two-to-one election to the highest office in the city. Willett claims that his job keeps him close to the public and be sides he can't live on the may or's annual $2500 salary. (NEA Telephotol. Abducted Child Saved By Police; Suspect Caught DETROIT, Nov. 16 OP) A fleet of nolice scoui cars roared through Detroit's east side streets last night to rescue an ab ducted child. After an hour s tense hunt and chase, little Karen Kuechenmels- ter, 7, stolen from her home, was returned safely to the arms of her frantic motner. Karen had been snatched vir tually from the bosom of her family. There followed a oerllous dash by 18 police scout cars and the tot, little the worse for her ex perience, was brought Borne un harmed. A 35-year-old father of a baby girl was seized as a suspect. Chief Assistant Prosecutor Ralph Garber said sex was the motive of the abductor, who stole Karen from the living room of her home on fashionable Alter road. Karen Is one of three children of Karl Kuechenmeister, hard ware salesman. - Officers arrested William B. Mabrey two miles from the spot where the abductor abandoned his car and fled afoot amid po lice gunfire. He had left Karen In the car. She clambered out and scamper ed off to the refuge of a nearby house. . Mabrey, manager of a small hotel and pool room on East Jef ferson avenue, was held on a technical charge of kidnaping and taking Indecent liberties with a minor . , . , .- . . John L. Lewis Given Time To Accept U. S. Terms WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 ' (IP) The White House appeared willing today to give John- L. Lewis the rest of this week to accept a fact finding board In the coal dispute like the one which helped settle the steel strike. President Truman was report ed ready to Invoke the Taft-Hartley act which Lewis and Mr.. Truman both dislike if the United Mine Worker's leader doesn't agree to the other pro cedure by Monday. "No Retreat- Pledge Given Negro Women All Citizens Will Have Equal Rights, Chances, Assertion Of President WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. P) President Truman's civil rights proposals were pushed to the forefront of administration "must" measures today behind his ngnting slogan oi no re treat and no retirement." The President served notice last night in his second civil rights speech In five days that he Is enlisted In a finish fight against "racial and religious dis crimination. With southern Democrats up In arms against his call for anti lyching, anti-poll tax and other anti-discrimination measures which cost him four Dixie states In last November's presidential election, Mr. Truman threw out his blunt challenge: "We are going to continue to advance in our program of bring ing equal rights and equal oppor tunities to all citizens. In that great cause there is no retreat and no retirement." Mr. Truman spoke at the 14th annual meeting of the National Council of Negro Women and lavished praise on the record of Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune,. 74-year-old Negro educator and re tiring president of that organi zation. A crowd of several hundred Ne groes and whites in the labor department auditorium applauded as the president declared his in terest In "the extension of free dom and opportunity to all our citizens without racial or re ligious discrimination." "I know Mrs. Bethune Is going to stand by me as she has from the beginning," Mr. Truman said. Will Stump Country The president renewed his civil rights campaign Friday at a luncheon of the national confer ence of Christians and Jews. The Negro vote is expected to play an Important part in next year's 1950 congressional elections. Mr. Truman plans to stump the coun- ( Continued on Page Two) Jury At Klamath Falls Frees Alleged Bootlegger KLAMATH FALLS, Nov. 16 (IP) A 15-mlnute discussion by jurors hearing , the bootlegging trial of Russell Frost, 24, result, ed In a not guilty verdict In cir cuit court last night. The Jury vote was unanimous on one ballot. Frost, a white man living on the Klamath Indian re servation, was accused of sell ing a bottle of whiskey to an 18- year-old Indian boy. He denied making the sale. Prosecution evidence, records of the Klamath Falls State llauor store, showed Frost bought 133 bottles of a cheap brand of whiskey during a two-month per iod' prior to the date of the al leged sale May 30. The trial was the first in Cir cuit court directly involving al legation's of bootlegging since prohibition nays. One County Official Veterinarian Dropped The Douglas county court has Issued an order rescinding a pre vious order, which provided two veterinarians for Douglas coun ty- A new order designates Dr. Dallen H. Jones as the county veterinarian for the testing of cattle for Bang's disease and tu berculosis. About a year ago the county was divided, giving half to Dr. Jones and the other half to Dr. George L. Nicholas. That order was replaced recently and both veterinarians were given concur rent Jurisdiction over the entire county. It was later learned it was not within the authority of the coun ty court to provide concurrent Jurisdiction, so the final order was signed, giving the jurisdic tion to Dr. Jones. Ex U. Of O. Grid Player Dies On Basketball Court INGLEWOOD, Calif., -Nov. 16 MP) John Barry, 29, described bv a policeman friend as a for mer pre-war University of Ore gon varsity lootoall DacK, died last night while practicing bas ketball. Barry, of Downey, was prac ticing shooting baskets at the In glewood high school gym when he suffered a heart attack. Police said he leaves a widow. Lost U. S. Bomber About To Land Off Bermuda NEW YORK, Nov. 16. (PI Maokay radio said today It had Intercepted a radio message Indicating a United States Air Force B 29 was believed lost and about to land In the ocean off Bermuda. No other information was available here. A B 29 normally carries a crew of 11 or 12. Ltvity Fact Rant By L. I". Relsenstein If the noted magician dated In Roseburg can perform pain less extraction of funds, It might prove profitable to hove b'm accompany the solicitors for the Community Chest.
