U. of 0. Library COT? Eugene, Ore, mi A MM wnu miAi VIRGINIA GLOVER operates the elevator in the Pacific build ing. A call having taken me to en upper floor office, I decided to snap her picture as she opened the door, upon my . return, and surprise her. It turned out that I was the surprised one, I reckon; for when I processed the film I discovered I'd over exposed, shot out of focus and just barely got her in the finder. Fortunately she WAS in the elevator. Oh, well; some girls do that to you. . . Virginia has had the elevator for three months now. Off nights she is a student' at business school. ' ' GARBAGEMEN FIND BABY Unwed Mother Reveals She Stuffed Newborn Child Into Can; Infant Survives PASCO, Wash., Nov. 25.-AJP) Startled garbagemen found a baby boy "blue as a bottle, of ink" buried half way down In a- refuse can behind the city police building early yesterday. The Infant let out a yell and the garbagemen rushed their "prob lem" to Police' Sgt. 'Glert Sickles. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS' In Interesting little story of f the Community- Chest Cam paign has just come to my ears. I think it will bear repeating here. A worker in a not too pros perous area wasn't doing too well. In fact, he was slipping be hind. Based on what he saw, he had committed himself to per sonal gifts of three Thanksgiving turkeys and was feeling pretty good about it. At this point, he called on a prospect whose name was on his list She was an aging, lone wo man. Her circumstances, obvious ly, weren't too good. But she re sponded promtly when he told her his mission.' "Why, yes," she said, : "I want to help." She found her purse and dug out a$5 bill. '. . ' ' It set him up immensely, he says, and he went on and finished in his pledges, -and went back to his own place of busi- (Conttnued on Page Four) . . Communist Led Searchers Launch Czech Campaign To Liquidate Larger Farmers PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia,. Nov. 25. UP) Communist-led search committees spread out through the Czech- countryside today in an apparent drive to liquidate larger farmers. ' The committees, backed by self-styled "persuading groups," op erated through a wide section of the country seeking out and rounding up "economic saboteurs," reports In the controlled press revealed. . - - Prison sentences, confiscations and stiff fines were being im posed by District National com mittees (local governing bodies) against the Kulaks (village rich) on charges of sabotaging the nation's five-year plan. The Agrarian campaign ap peared to be a counterpart of the wave of arrests last month in cities which rounded up thou sands of Independent business men and other middle class ele ments. Informed diplomatic quarters Interpreted the new drive as part of the communist class warfare plan and a prelude to collecti vization ot the land along the Soviet pattern. In such a scheme "big" far mers (none of whom can own more than 124 acres of land un der present laws) first would have to be liquidated. By Paul Jenkins I rT ill I f - f I If SI ''a-r--iiii,iiitt, ,,... " : "' Postponing his Thanksgiving dinner. Sickles set to work. He found that two couples from nearby Richland had gone to a movie about a half-block from the station the previous night. One of the women had complain ed of illness, left the theater and subsequently was reported as missing by the other couple be fore showing up at home early Thursday. "I went out there and slowly drew the story from her," Sick les recalled. "I took her to our Lady of Lourdes hospital and the doctor ordered her to bed. "The child already was in the (Continued on Page Two) Car Hurtles to Railroad Track; Two Slightly Hurt One Thanksgiving Holiday au tomobile accident was reported by State .Police Sgt. Holly Hoi comb. He said John Mark El liott, Eugene, is being held in the county jail on a drunk charge after the car he allegedly was driving left the highwasy and hurtled nearly 50 feet to the rail road track. The accident occured one mile south of Drain at 11:10 a. m. Thursday. . Sgt. Holcomb said that Elliott and a woman passenger, Mrs. Alice Burlington, both sustained cuts and bruises, but neither were seriously Injured. They were treated by a Drain physi cian. Officially the government has remained silent on the campaign, but daily reports of its progress appear in the semi-official com munist party organ Rud Pravo. Two months ago the government-controlled press had pro claimed a bountiful harvest with the compulsory deliveries of crops to the state exceeding the target ' Now, however. It is charged that "economic saboteurs" throughout the country failed to deliver their quotas. Some were also accused of refusing to seed arable land as directed by the government Invariably, according to Rude Pravo, the offenders were rich farmers who maliciously with held their stocks from the government The Wtotiitr Cloudy wirii showers today. Partly cloudy tonight an! Sat urday. SitMar today 4:41 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:20 a. m. Established 1873 m m. . Invesi inaiion Robe T. Green Is Found Dead; Witness Held Official Death Caust Not Yet Determined; Autopsy Ordered Today An elderly Southern Pacific railroad pensioner was found dead in his home late Thanks giving afternoon, under circum stances wnicn ponce say indicat ed foul play. The Roseburg office of the state police identified the dead man as Robe Thomas Green, 77, Dillard. Although official cause ot aeatn nas not yet been deter mined, investigating officials said the elderly man had suffer ed a severe blow on the back of his head and there was a large abrasion on the forehead. Held in connection with the case Is 20 -year -old Wallace Green, grandson of the deceas ed. He was booked at the county jail early today as a material witness. Young Green told State police he found his grandfather's body sometime between 5 and 6 D.m. Thursday as it lay m the kitchen. Me notified neighbors, who in turn contacted Roseburg offi cials. Green, who came here about two months ago from Bremerton. Wash., denied any knowledge of the death. . The scholarly-looking youth said, "I did not participate in my granoiatners demise. An autoDsv will be oerformed this morning by Dr. Howard L. (Continued on Page To) Frenchmen Defy Generql Strike; - v Walk To Work PARIS, Nov. 25 (JP) Despite a 24-hour general strike, hun dreds of thousands of French men got up early today and walk ed or rode bicycles in a deter mined effort to get to work. France's two biggest labor un ions one Anti-Communist, the other Red dominated got toget her to call the one-day demon stration strike. They want to pressure the government to give pay bonuses and end wage freez es. But the response to the strike call, effective at midnight last night, was anything but unani mous throughout France. Practically all domestic trains halted, as did the Paris subways and most bus lines. Mines were deserted, manv norts were idle and thousands of factories were empty. Garbage cans stayed. full. But thousands of pretty gins and distinguished looking busi nessmen put aside their dignity, got out their bicycles and pedall ed doggedly to their jobs. Other thousands took their cars out of the garage and used rationed gasoline, hoarded for vacations, to get to work. Paris firms hired buses wholesale to haul their employes. Traffic was even more snarled than usual. Search Continues For Missing C-54 PORTLAND. Nov. 25 UP) Ground searchers today were In vestigating the last unexplored clue to the possible fate of a missing C-54 Air Force transport plane but clearing weather buoyed hopes ot searcn from the air. The plane, with six aboard, dis aDDeared Tuesday morning while approaching Portland on a rou tine instrument trainng ngnt from McChord Air Force base. Tacoma. It made Its last radio report , when over Woodland, Wash., north of here. Capt. H. E. Lannng said a ground partv today would comb the Soda Peak area some 30 miles east of Woodland. An un identified man said he heard an explosion there Tuesday some 15 minutes- alter seeing a large plane turn into the clouds. mat, ianning said, is tne only report not yet checked. All oth ers have been Investigated with out result. Four radio-equipped groups have been working out of Kelso and one out of Portland. Two Roseburg Guardsmen Assigned to Schools SALEM, Nov. 25 P) Na tional guard headquarters an nounced today the assignment of the following men to service schools: PFC. Erlck B. Olson and Pvt. Harold L. Nissen, both or Rose burg, to auto mechanics course, Fort Ord, Calif. PFC. Richard A. Greer, Myr tle Creek, to radio operators school. Fort Monmouth, N. J. All men receive lull pay while attending the schools. Courses last from two to five months. Eight Nominated For Election To Chamber Board Eight businessmen .have ben nominated to fill four positions on the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce board of directors. The election will be Dec. 30, with ballots being mailed to members prior to. that date. Those nominated include Jack Wharton, Wharotn Bros.; Charles V. Stanton, editor of the News Reivew;, Dr. B. R. Showmaker, physician and surgeon; J. F. r'Si" Dillard,' Dodge and Ply mouth dealer; Al Henninger, Henninger's Mart; Lester Niel sen, Nlelseii's market; Carl Felk er, Lawyer, of Geddes and Felk er; Fred Lockwood, Lockwood motors. -. Additional nominations may be made if 25 or more members of the Chamber of Commerce file nominating petitions at the otiice ol the secretary-manager, Deadline for filing- such additio- al nominations is Dec 16, ac cording to tne chamber oi com merce Bulletin, in the mails to day. The nominating committee in cluded Dr. C. K. Allen, Roland West, Harry O. Pargeter, H. C. Church, and E. C. Nolte. The four new directors to be elected at the Dec. 30 election will fill three-year terms. Holiday Violent Death Toll Is Reported At 161 By The Associated Press The nation's death toll In vio lent accidents over the Thanks giving day holiday was one if the highest In several years. There were at least 161 vio lent deaths from 6 p.m. Wednes day to midnight Thursday. These included 1U3 traffic fatalities. lt-ty-eigbt persons-died .in. miscel laneous accidents. Including fir es, plane crashes, shootings, falls and hunting. Also included wee 14 persons killed In Alabama tor nadoes. This year's Thanksgiving vio lent deaths compared to 114 over the same period last year; 128 in 1947, and 83 in 1946. The to tals on Thanksgiving day holi days during the war. years also were below this year's mark. This year's Thanksgiving day traffic detahs far exceeded last year's toll of 86. The National Safety Council's records show an average of 82 persons killed every 24 hours in traffic acci dents during the first nine mon ths of 1949. However, the figures for the nine months cover deaths occurring as long as months after the accident in which the victims were injured. Among the violent deaths were a 19 year old mother and her tnree young cniidren wno perish ed in a lire that destroyed their loe cabin near Rockvilie. Ind. In Elizabeth, N. J., a father died in attempting to aid his eight children when fire broke out in their home. California, Illinois and Ohio each reported 10 traffice deaths. t --..'?':: Ih A f 1 i .A AWARDED HONORS For having won five divisional certificates of merit, each representing complete year s operation without an injury sufficiently serious to warrant report io the Interstate Commerce Commission, W. C. Herman, roundhouse foreman at Southern Pacific, nd his crew were presented Wednesday with the Central Manager's award, a 'very much coveted honor in railroading circles. Presentation was made on behalf of R. E. Hallowell, general manager, San Francisco, by W. O. Brown, master mechanic, of Portland. Appear ing in the picture above are, from the left: Front row, Roy Knigge, machinist's helper, and John Simpson, laborer; middle Herman, roundhouse foremen, Gladys Hawk, laborer aad W. O. Brown, master mechanic, Port land; back row, Lester Miller, machinist, Carl Stubbs, stationery fireman, Art Bohmo, fire lighter, Ed Bjorgen, machinist, Ben Doss, boilermaker and Art Knigge,. boilermaker's helper. 7 ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY. NOV. Allied-German Pact To Relax Control Signed BONN." Germany. Nov. 25. UP) West Germany's Parliament today approved tne new Allied German agreement relaxing oc cupation controls. .; But opposition during the tu multuous, all night session -was so bitter that Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher was barred from the assembly's next 20 ses seions for insulting . Chancellor (Premier) Konrad Adenauer. "Chancellor of the Allies" was the taunt hurled by Schumacher at Adenauer that brought the opposition leaders suspension, it came after the socialist bitterly objected to West Germany's prom ise to participate In the Interna tional control authority for Ger many's rich . industrial Ruhr, which the Germans previously have boycotted. In the agreement signed by Adenauer and the high commis sioners of the United States, Bri tain and France, West Germany agreed also to maintain demili tarization, to continue to eradi cate Nazism, and to support con trols against German cartels and monopolies. In return the Allies ended dis mantling In at least 18 German steel, rubber and chemical plants. They also agreed to German con sular and commercial relations abroad, rebuilding of a limited German merchant marine for foreign trade and Allied spon- (Continued on Page Two) Only The Best For Lillienthal's Post Is Urged WaMiNCTOnTNov? "25W President Truman, reportedly still seeking a successor to David E. Lllienthal as the nation's atomic chief, was urged by law makers today to chooRe no one but a top-notch executive. A high official of the-Atomic Energy commission said he un derstood that Mr. Truman had not picked a new AEC chairman to replace Lllienthal, whose res ignation was announced Wednes day. Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D Colo) and Rep. Kilday (D-Tex) Doth members of the Senate House Atomic Energy commit tee called on the President to exercise careful judgment in making the choice for one of the most important jobs In the world. Johnson has been highly criti cal of many of Liilenthal's poli cies In the past; Kilday has been a strong defender of the contro versial atomic official. In accenting LIMp"'--"- ignation with "reluctance and the utmost regret, ivir, ..u.. .. expressed confidence that his atomic lieutenant would stay on if really needed beyond the Dec. 31 date on which he now plans to quit. row, F. R. Olds, Assistant Master mechanic, Eugene, W. C. - v 25, 1949 Jury List Drawn For Court Term; Kiel Case Monday - The list of Jurors drawn for the circuit court term, beginning Nov. 14, has been announced by County Clerk Roy Agee. . The court term will open at 9:30 a.m. Monday 'with the trial of Joseph Louis Kiel of Myrtle Creek, charged by the grand jury with the murder Oct. 30 of Stan ley . James Tucker, who had re cently moved from Myrtle Creek to Springfield. , Judge William G. East of Eu gene will preside. Kiel has pleaded innocent, and his attorney has filed written no tice that he will show in evidence that Kiel was "insane or mental ly defective" at the time of the alleged murder. The list of jurors Includes the following; Paul Applegate, Elk ton; Gerald Bacon, Umpqua; F. A. Becker, Melrose route; T. M. Benedict, Tenmile; Ruth G. Bridges, Oakland; Chrystal Conn, Katie M. Conn and Lenora Cooper, all of Melrose route, Emily Ferguson, Days Creek. . Andrew D. Fisher, 410 So. Pine street, Roseburg; C. L. Fuller ton, Brockway; Mrs. W. B. Gar rett, Glendale; Leslie Hancock, Dillard; Bessie Ingram, route 1; A. A. Jacoby, Lookingglass route; May C. Lawrence, route 1; Virginia' Lawrence, uiuaro; William H. McLain, 643 So. Mill, Roseburg; W. H. Machcn, 918 Harvard Ave., Roseburg; 4 Earl Ollivant, Brockway;- J. v. O'Mara, route 1; Llovd D. Pinkston and Ervln Rice, 'Oakland; Osmond Schacf fer, route 1; Frank A. Smith and Scott Stldhasn, Melrose route; Kathleen Weber, route 1; Ger trude Whipple, Drain; Nettie Woodruff, Melrose route, and Bernard Young, 1020 Council St., Roseburg. : i ', Chinese Troops;, Rushed To Front CHUNGKING, Nov. 25 UP) Nationalists reinforcements were rushed to the front today to try to halt a three prong drive on Chungking by an estimated 130, 000 Communists. Nlnetv-f ive thousand Reds were centered at Fowling, 55 miles northeast on the Yangtze river, and Nanchuan. highway town 50 miles southeast. Thirty, five thousand were moving up from Kweichow province. The Red troops were identified I as belonging to Gen. ' Lin Piao, considered the Chinese Commu nists best general, and Gen. Liu Po Cheng, who moved in from Kweichow. , . . Private reports were ' van guards of the Kweichow force had taken Tungtzu, a highway town 95 miles south of Chung king, i The long feared Red drive on Szechwan province from Shentd province had been halted by deep snows in the Chinling mountains. The defense ministry announc ed that Szechwan had been di vided into four defense zones un der the overall command of Gen. Sun Yuanling. 177-49 Chest Drive Objectives Emphasized Community Is Urged To Give Full Support At Meeting Wednesday Two nolnts were emphasized at a special luncheon meeting arranged by the Roseburg com munity Chest at the Hotel Ump qua Wednesday .noon. They were: ' -(1) The Community Chest Is designed to give the city a "one package" fund campaign, elimi nating six duplicating drives by individual agencies. . (2) Basically, the Community Chest aids the youth of America and of Roseburg,-the money go ing to such character building agencies as the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, Y.M.C.A., Salvation Army, and the Oregon Chest Sam J. Shoemaker, director of this year's campaign, said there Is about 33 percent of the $25, 550 goal to be collected. He prais ed the efforts of his co-directors, Marlen Yoder and Rollle Quam. Praise for the efforts of volun teer campaign workers repre senting Roseburg service clubs (Continued on: Page Two) Myrtle Creek To Advertise School Bonds For Sale Myrtle Creek school district will advertise for bids next week on a 195.000 bond Issue, to be used for the construction of a 13- room "elementary" school and a four-room addition to the high school. The bond Issue was passed by a decisive 246-to-70 vote in a spe cial election last Tuesday, re ported M. (J. Deller, superinten dent oi-scnoois at Myrtle creeK. The turn-out at tne election this week was greater than that for the special election last spring, wnen Myrtle creek voters pass ed a $180,000 school bond issue. Deller said cost of the proposed elementary school will be $177,- uuu; ox tne additional lour rooms to the high school, $50,000; need ed to complete the gymnasium, $3,000, and to blacktop the play grounds, $4,000. Present enrollment of the Myr tle Creek schools is 999, Deller said. This represents a 330 per cent gain in enrollment in eight years. Deller said that by building the new elementary school, the dis trict will meet-state standards and In so doing will qualify for $75,000 in state funds. He predicted that the Myrtle Creek schools will gain 300 more elementary pupils by 1959 and the high school enrollment will be doubled. ' Roadman, Baker Witness Highway Link Dedication H. B. Roadman, president of Highway 99 association, and County Commissioner - R. G. Baker, , representing the county court, attended,, the dedication Monday afternoon - of the new eight-mile highway strip just completed Immediately south of the Oregon boundary In Califor nia. The dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony was sponsored by the . association and the Yreka, Calif., chamber of commerce. State and county dlgnataries ef Northern California and Oregon were present . The Oregon delegation was met at the state line at 4 p. m. and escorted to the dedication site. The new highway Urp com pletion Is another link In the final building to modern standards of Highway 99 In Oregon and Cali fornia. Small Girl Is Found Beside Her Dead Sister PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 25.-WP) A twelve-year-old girl In a state of near exhaustion was found Thanksgiving day beside the dead body oi her younger sister un der a 100-foot high trestle. ine gins apparently had fal len from the railroad bridge. In a moment of consciousness the injured girl said her sister fell through tne trestle, I heard her scream and ran to help her and I tell through too." tneir discovery by five boys playing on the brink of the ra vine the trestle. bridges ended an au-nigr:t searcn for the girls. They were last seen Wednesday after noon after they were dismissed irom scnooi. The dead girl was 11-year-old Elsie Jeanne Henry. Her sister Is named Jannie Betty. They were third and fourth grade pupils, daughters of James F. Henry of nearby Rutledge, y 44 Are Injured ; As Big Storm 7 Sweeps Area f Entire Family Of 10 Negroes Is Wiped Out; . , Damage Said Widespread BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 25. UP) Thanksgiving day tornadoes roared down at four points in east Alabama yesterday and kill ed 14 persons.' Forty-four per sons were Injured. The vicious, out of season storms left several other per sons missing and destroyed moie than a score of buildings as they leap-frogged in three counties about dusk. An entire family of 10 Negroes was wiped out near Hackney vllle in Tallapoosa county, 60 miles southeast of Birmingham. The mammoth wind picked up their weatherbeaten little home and hurled it 300 yards across the road into another house. The second house was occu- Ried by another large family of tegroes, but none was reported hurt. Both houses were demolish edwitnesses said they appeared to explode after the smashing impact. . Damage Heavy Near Oneonta, in Blount coun ty, two members of a white fam ily were killed at the Easley community. The same twister hopped a small mountain and struck on the northern outskirts of Oneonta, where 34 persons (Continued on Page Two) Arias Becomes Panama's Head; Third In 6 Days PANAMA, Panama, Nov. 25 UP) Arnulfo Arias, a fiery 49-year-old surgeon, earlv today be came Panama's third president in six days by proclamation of congress. me congressonal approval ap irently put the stamp of legal t on-the latest coup by Pana a's president-makine d o lie e chief, Col. Jose Remon. Remon, who forced the ouster on Sunday, late last nigh defied a ruling or the supreme court and announced that Arias was the new president. A few min utes before, the court had ruled Chants was still the constitution al president-of this. Central Aim eHcan country. i The congressional endorsement of Arias at 2:08 - a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) this morning ended a week of turmoil over the presidency which Droduced riots and tangled political situa tions unusual even for Lam Am- erca where revolutons are not uncommon. Strangely enough, It was Remon who ousted Arias in 1941 after he had served as the Republic's president for a year. Until yes terday they were bitter political enemies. . Laborer Admits Whipping Child Prior To Death ABERDEEN. 'Nov. 25.-4P Alfred Leohner, 29-year-old la borer, still was held for investi gation today after telling police he had spanked ar 18-month-old infant with a belt shortly before dropping it and accidentally step ping on the child's neck. Leohner was acting as "baby sitter" while the child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hunter, went to a show. The tot died Wednes day morning. Prosecutor Stanley Krause said Leohner told him of the "spank ing" Incident yesterday. He said he would continue to hold Leohner without charge pending comple tion of an autopsy on the infant's body. The child's death. was attrib uted to a cerebral hemorrhage after his neck was broken. Dr. Charles Larson, Tacoma patholo gist, reported. Meanwhile, M, and Mrs. Hunt er told authorities they were "keeping faith" with Leohner. They said he had been good to the dead child and to his five brothers and sisters. Barkley's Celebrate . 'VeepY 72nd Birthday SEA ISLAND. Ga.. Nov. 25 (Pi Mr. and Mrs. Veec the Al. ben Barkleys continued their quiet honeymoon here today in the wake of yesterday's double celebration. The vice president observed his 72nd birthday and he . and his bride of a week, the former Mrs. Carlton Hadlev of St. Louis enjoyed a traditional Thanksgiv ing dinner in tnoir apartment by the sea. Mrs. Barklev set the candles on the cake aflame and the Veep oiew tnem out. men ne served the few guests Invited for the cake cutting. "Happy birthday Veep" was Inscribed on the cake. Levfty Fact Rant syur, lukwutssi Turkey and trlmmin's, In the family purse, Have cut a tiieabie gash; Now to economise l frugal and wise, Consume every bit ol the bash.