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1 U. of 0, Library : SEE2 Eugene, Ore, ' ... rtin In N rui WHO DOES WHAT HERMAN . ALTHAUS. West Cais sireet plumber, reaches for n Optimo and relaxes at h!i desk. "I take it easier alf the time," ha confided to Charley Wharton, who had dropped into see about a bath fixture, ana to me. "I told Ted Althausi he could do all the work I've done my share!" Herman came to Roieburg in 1907 and knowt nearly everyone here by hit Christian or un-Christian name. I suppose he likes everyone he knowt; it's a cinch everyone likes Herman; TEACHER BAN GIVEN K. O. Acf Against Employment In N. Y. Public Schools Ruled Unconstitutional ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 29. M The state today planned a swift appeal of a New York supreme court decision declaring unconsti tutional the Feinberg law, which bans communists from employ, ment In public schools. . , - Justice Harry E. Schrick of State Supreme court held that the statute conflicted with provisions of both the U. S. and State constitutions, - . .- In the Day's Hews BY FRANK JENKINS AS these words are written, I've responded at least 11 times to this casual greeting: "Good morn ing. How are you on the day after Thanksgiving?" Having had the good sense to eat no more Thanksgiving than I wanted ' and , needed, I'm all right, thank you. ' AT this moment, an odd thought occurs: THE UNITED STATES IS ALMOST THE ONLY COUNTRY ON EARTH WERE EATING TOO MUCH IS A MATTER OF CHOICE ON THE PART OF THE INDIVIDUAL. Elsewhere, average people eat what they can get and are thank ful if they can get enough to keep them going. RUSSIA is a communist country. Communism it widely adver tised, as something everybody ought to have for the good of the common people. From all I can hear, the big shots at the top of the Russian communist system don't have to worry about getting enough to eat. One of the minor worries of (Continued on Page Four) Britain To Recognize Chinese Red Regime LONDON, Nov. 29- m The foreign office made it plain today that Britain will recognize the Chinese Communist govern ment, possibly in January. The spokesman declines to say just when the move is likely to take place or whether the British government has yet officially de cided to recognize the Peiping regime. ....... Federal Money Awaited To Launch Oregon's, Washington's Greatest Reforestation Jobs By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. UP The greatest reforestation pro gram in the history of Washing ton and Oregon will be carried out as fast as Congress makes the necessary money available. Ira J. Mason, chief of the divi sion of timber management of the Forest service, said today Congress authorized the work in approving the Anderson-Mansfield act for re seeding some 4,000,000 acres of potential tim berland in national forests of the United States. As drafted, the program calls for the rep! nting or reseeding to trees of 530,000 acres in Oregon and 205,000 acres in Washington. This would be carried out over 15 years under the authorized pro gram, but all actual work must await the voting of money by Con gress. Mason said that for the most ' 'i In an opinion yesterday, Schi rick wrote that the law was a "dragnet whichmas; e,.nm.e.s,u. anyone who agitates for a change of government." He said that it provided punishment without ju dicial trial and amounted to "a denial of due process" of law. Schirick signed an order, ask ed in separate actions by the Communist party of New York and by .four New York City teachers, restraining the state board of regents from enforcing provisions of the law. The statute, enacted by the 19 49 legislature, directed the re gents to compile a list of organ izations they considered suber sive and to ban from school em ployment members -of such groups. The Tegents, governing body of the state's educational system, previously had been re strained by a temporary order. Frowns on Witch Hunting In holding the law unconstitu tional, Schirick said: "The court is not,- of course, oblivious to the practices of in ternational Communism, which have met with such universal and well merited contempt among free men.- "It is no answer to say that this measure is needed to com bat the menace of Communism. Small service, indeed,to our De mocracy, is afforded by emulat ing the tactics of Communism (Continued on Page Two) Yearling Deer Prowls On Rosebura, Street Sergeant Lloyd tarjen of the ftoteburs police tares and a camera armed News - Review - reporter went hunting for deer . last night and of ail places, In the streets of Roieburg. But the nlmrods hold every, thing was In order- and legal. After a mad chase through the lower end of town, in an at tempt to get within firing range, the reporter triggered twice got the yearling each time. v ; . He retired to the darkroom to await development. . part the areas to be reforested were denuded of trees by clear cutting or dlastrous fires prior to acquisition by the national forests. Since denuded or burned over forests in the Pacific Northwest are replanted at the rate of 600 seedlings per acre, he figured about one-half billion seedlings will be needed to replant areas there. Nurseries Selected The forest service nurseries at Bend, in the Deschutes National forest, and Wind river, in the Gilford Pinchot National forest in Washington, will produce the needed seedlings. Mason said. The Bend nursery produces ponderosa pine and the Wind fiver nursery produces Douglas fir seedlings. Mason said that to date 47,654 acres have been reforested in na tional forests in Oregon Snd 62,. 950 acres in those in Washington. TV We -';-!-MosHy cloudy tedey wd Wednesday, with occatioaai rain tonight and Wednesday. Sunset today 4:3f p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:24 . m. Established 1873 Rosfburg To Yinchester Link Involved Traffic Routing Over Pine St. included; Funds Needed Not Available Tentative plans for the reloca tion of the Pacific highway 99 between Winchester and Rose burg, and for routing southbound highway traffic over Pine street, were presented to the City Plan ning commission last night. K. D. Lytle, division engineer for the state highway depart ment, said the Highway commls ion has not passed on the pro posed routing, although favor able to it. No money has yet been appropriated for the work. Lytfe explained it has not been decided whether to use the pre sent highway bridge at Winches ter and construct a new bridge beside it, or to place a new bridge at another location. Between Winchester and Rose burg, the relocated highway would lie east of the present route. The old and new highways would coincide for a distance of about 3,600 feet in the vicinity of the highway department's truck scale house, about two miles (Continued on Page Two) Unified Defense Mapped in North Atlantic Treaty PARIS, Nov. 29-yP Chiefs of Staffs of the Armies of 12 North Atlantic treaty nations met here today and were-reported to have reached agreement on, uni fied defense against any future foe. The military experts, a reli able source said, have now only to put "the technical experts to work" to coniplete North Atlan tic defenses. Most of this work, he said, would be done here in the next two days, before Atlantic pact nations defense i ministers meet Thursday to approve the plan. Their meeting followed yester day's conference of the big-three chiefs of staff here. It aiso coin cides with talks U. S. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson is hav ing in London with British gov ernment and Military officials. The Military chiefs main task is to outline a main 3,000-mile defense barrier from the Norwe gian Arctic to the Aegean sea, past which no attacker from the east could march without a fight with the combined forces pf all 12 member nations. The Immediate known result of these top-level talks will be to empower President Trumen to release nearly a biliion dollars worth of arms aid funds recent ly approved by the U, S. Con gress. Game Law Violation Charged To Congressman MOBILE, Ala., Nov. 29 W- An Alabama congressman who has been hunting mountain lions In Mexico came home yesterday to face the bare facts. Rep. Boykin (D-Ala.) was arrested for possessing bear meat out of season. Warden A. E. Nail- found the 300-pound bear in Boykin' deep freeze locker about two weeks ago. It had been salted away in readiness for one of the congress man's ritzy Washington dinners. Boykin posted $100 and his trial was set for Dec. 9. The bear was kiiied by A. L Webb, Jr., of Mcintosh, Ala, who turned it over to Boykin. The animal was raiding his bee hives, said Webb', who was charged with killing a bear out of season. The most critical areas in each state will be treated first, he added. If the replanting were con tinued at the relative low pre-war rate. Mason said, it would take more than 100 years to reforest the most critical areas of the country. Timber Oefleit Growing He said the drain on forest re sources continues at an alarming rate. "Loggers cut 54 billion board feet of saw timber each war on private and public lands. Mason told a reporter, "but the saw timber growth ia only 35 biliion board feet a year. "Our population It increasing, and this timber deficit will grow steadily worse, unless vast areas are reforested." He said the national forests of (Continued on Page Two) ftOSUURG, OREGON SOVIET STRIKES World Communists Asked To Help In Overthrow Of Yugoslav Premier's Rule MOSCOW, Nov. 29. CK The Cominform called upon all Com munists in the world today to help Yugoslav peasants and workers overthrow Premier Marshall Tito's regime, . . , ; , The Cominform (Communist International Information Bureau) has held its first meeting, the official press and radio said, since it expelled the Tito regime from Its membership in June, 1948. The meeting was secret and ws held the latter part of this month in Hungary. . -. ; A resolution passed by the Cominform said the "fight against Tito's clique the hired spies and murderers is the in ternational duty of all Commu nist and workers parties." (Communist leaders in the past have urged the overthrow of Ti to's regime. The new blast touch ed off speculation by Western diplomatic observers on whether the Cominform had secretly drafted concrete plans for action to oust the Yugoslav ruler. (Foreign diplomatic quarters in New York last week said they had heard reports an anti-Tito coup was planned for sometime between Christmas and Easter. According to the necessarily un confirmed reports, the coup would start with a staged revolt in Belgrade with plot leaders calling in immediate help from Hungary and Romania.) The duty of all Communists, the Cominform resolution said, "Is to give their utmost help to the Yugoslav workers class and working peasantry In their fight for the return oi Jugoslavia into the camp of Democracy and So cialism." The resolution added that the (Continued on Page Two) Commies Closing In On Chungking CHUNGKING, Nov. 29 Oft The Communists closed in on Chungking tonight amid the noise oi same. Cannon and machine gun fire was audible in this Yangtze riv er city of 1,000,000. , Soldiers guarded the streets. Traffic which jammed thorough fares yesterday was absent to day. Only a few trucks were seen leaving the city. Some 600 other waited to cross the river at setc hang, halfway to Chengtu, 170 miles. Chenatu will be the next and fourth capital of Nationalist China in a year. One report said there were stili two divisions of Nationalist troops to be withdrawn tonight After- that is done, the report said, the Communists would be invited by telephone to move in to the city. A oeaceim turnover it expect ed. . Old Age Pension Boost Predicted By Lawmaker WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 m Rep. Wickersham (D-Okla). pre dicted today that Congress next year will provide an increased Old Age pension. In Oklahoma, the congressman said, 100,737 persons received old age pensions during September, averaging $52.14. A total of S3, 252,498 was available from feder al and state funds, he added. With prices continuing high, this amount is not sufficient to pay rent, utility bills, food, medi cine and clothing, Wickersham told a reporter. . ' During the last few weeks be fore Congress adjourned, 179 House members had signed a pe tition to require the Ways and Means committee to report legis lation to the House to increase Old Age pensions. Wickersham predicted that the required 218 names, or a major ity of the House, wii! be obtained early in January. North Umpqtta Highway Slide Being Cleared A slide on the North Umpqua road in the vicinity of Sua an creek was being cleared today, according to information receiv ed here. Report were vague, but it is understood the siide, created by heavy weekend rains, had com pletely covered the road about seven mlies beyond the Rock creek bridge. It is believed the road is open sufficiently for tra vel today. CAMS OERAILEQ EUGENE,, Nov. 29 JP Two freight cars, derailed on the Southern Pacific main Jin south of here yesterday, delayed the south-bound Shasta Daylight passenger train. The two freight can were number 18-19 in string of 83 cars of a northbound freight. The railroad did not explain what caused the derailment saying they were tipped over. This oc curred about 9:30 a.m. TUESDAY, NOV, 29, 1949 AT TITO SHOT IY RUSSIAN Staff Ser geant John , i. Staff- i above! of Ramsay, 'i)L -was fired" on and kiiied by a Russian sentry et.e Ruiii shack point near Ba'rlin, aeeordinij ip ,.lnfR- tian- received by -Mat. van. Maxwell 0, ?yicr Sen. Taylor filed a strongly . worded pro- ttt:with tn Russians caarg nej tha :. sentry with s nseleM brutafity. ,fAP, wjraphofoj. New Building To Rise On Main St. j ... .... .- 1 ' Excavation begaii today on a $42,000, nine-suite office building to be constructed on Main street, between the News-Review build ing and -Umpqua cleaners. The two-story structure, to be built "of masonry, will' house three ground floor offices or stores and has six upstairs office suites.- Plans cail for the front of the building to be of white stucco and glass brick, with out side night lighting to be furnish ed by hidden light illuminating tnree recesses on tne building front. The building will measure 68 feet in depth and will have a frontage of 41 1-2 feet. . According to owners Dr. E.W, Carter and Arthur Rietmann, ap proximately 50 percent of the building space has already been leased. However, some office space is still available. Construction is beng handled by Todd Building company ef Roseburg. Architect is L. w. Ty ler, aiso of Roseburg. it I ttirfi-iilaafaV 1 'V"'":' - t-p--ssia '. .1' i L i ' Ml Mi AT KOIIT SHOW Mrs. Thai Wiiton of Myrtia Craait Jispiay earamies made 5n r hcnia tludio at tt Hofhutq Wsmao's eiab's fwo-da hobby show, wnlcn opanad at (0 a. m. today Is fha Mathedi'if ehureh pstioft, Th show wiii rsmem pn ihh avasin? and th hours Wdn. if will b from 10 a. m. lo 4 p. m. Tha pubiis Js swttasi. No admission I eharf i t tihtt artarmj. it tacan t aatray 188-49 Jury Chosen To Try Kiel For Murder light Men, Four Women Will Hear Evident; Crime Scene Visited ; ' Four women and eight raetj compose the jury chosen Mon day to try Joseph Louis Kiel sf Myrtle creek lor murder, l ite jurors were selected after day long questioning by both the state ana the neiense. - - This morning the' jury ' was taken by chartered bus to the Pruner bridge near Riddle, to view the scene where the body of Stanley James Tucker of Springfield was found the morn ing -of uet. aa. Kiel is accused on two counts In a recent grand jury indict ment oi ssrangung rucKer, ana of strangling him while engaged in a robbery, Kiel is charged with first decree murder, with the state asking the death penal-' Opening statements Jo the jury fey District Attorney Robert G. Davis and Defense Attorney James McGinty of Murtie Creek (Continued op Page Two, N.Y. Council Ousts Convicted Red NEW YORK Nov. 29.-WPS Benjamin J. Davis 3v one of the eleven convicted . Communist leaders, has been, ousted from his seat In the New York City council as unfit to hold office. The 46-year-old Negro, the only asrmtted ComsnuWst Homing a major- public office : 1st tna 1 na tion, was unseated yesterday by nis leiiow counciimen. The council ruled that Davis Is unfit to sit because of his re cent conviction in Federal court. He and ten other top American Reds were found guiity of con spiracy to advocate violent over throw of the government. corporation counsel John F. MeGrath told' the council State Law provide that conviction of felony automatically end the term of an elected official. Davis, who had only until Dee. 31 to serve In his $5(Q00-a-year nost called the ouster "a noilce state procedure and legislature lynching." He told a news con ference that he considers the ouster iliegal, and that he wiii consult a lawyer about a possi ble court contest. Davis and his ten convicted co- defendants are free in sail while appealing prison terms and fines : imposed for conspiracy. Ex-Oregon Leoisiater, ' i, J. Eeckmon, Posset PORTLAND, Nov. 29 m John J, Beckman, 63, a former State Representative from Mult- noroafl county, ffiea sere yester day after a month's illness. An attorney, he was elected as a Democratic member of She Jow- er House in 1932. --- t He had long been active in Democratic party affairs and was Multnomah county Democratic chairman from 1S34 io 1348. : xpantas tor ipsnjsrsn tr mow, tiui.tnu Man At Airport Hear Dalles, 1mm 1 4 Nssengers, 3 Of Crew SmA DALLAS, Tax,, Nov. 2$, I Af J As Amarieas Atdtnat plait crashed into feyiidingt en ih border ef Lav ii!d aarSy 1edy and ournsd, Twafy-lgh ol fh 4 fcefii wr kmad. Fourteen parsons war itt heipiith tsi on was sdtstsg. Tfera hr ift hsspHais. . ' ' ' t. Th big DC-4 wet as t Masks Cify itom Haw York ase! Washington. , " ' - f ' Sf struck hangar and plowed breadtide into a thamlcai pfajst affar swooping evar tha, fiaSrf lit a attaaipr ia Jand, A crew ' ; member, whs staggered dated and bleeding fit a naar&y feoes, said one of the anginas was afire and ha h4 stopped th efhsr three. -. "."''.: ' !- '''': Three ef the crew members nd it passengers turvtftd. Quicksilver Price Decline Closes I Bonanza Mine Flooding of the market with: foreign quicksilver 1 given as: the reason for forcing ih closure ; o the Bonanza mine, eight mile ; east of Sutherlin, . Wednesday, ; Nov. 30. t According to Bert Avery, lore-: man, the mine wiU be laying off : about 20 men, now employed. Ai drop in the market price to $72 i far a flask of quicksilver, brought i about by the increased impost,: has made the closing necessary.: The demand for quicksilver in : the United States far exceeded : the local supply, thus requiring j asportations. Bonanza mine ii one oi the old- j est Douglas county industries : which has been in almost con- j tinuoua operation since 1887, The : operations were oiosed duriiig I the early IS38 depression years, ! but the mine reopened in 1S3S.: Peak production was reached: during the war, when ap to 150: men were employed,, and from : 508 to 00 flasks of quicksilver were, produced dally, Tne cur rent production has dropped to aooui ikj tiasks, Avery jsas seen with the company as foreman since 1936. - - '-. Other quicksilver mines in the United States include the Mt, Diablo and New Idira, both in California. Their dosing is also likely very soon, ii was pointed "Weak" Earthuok . Felt in Sei Areo SEATTLE, Nov, 29 m An earthquake jolt awakened many Bremerton ana Seattle residents shortly after 5 s-m. today. : The tremor, fait lor several seconds, rattled dishes cut no damage was reported. . - The University of Washlngots seismograph recorded the trem or from 5:03 ,m. until 5:37 a.m., centered at a distance of about 3D miles sway. i-roiessor ii, a. wooflspeea, head of the university geotoev department, classified it as "weak," He said that the shock was a suslden jolt instead af & sawing motion. Last April, the most severe earthquake in recorded Badfic Northwest history, caused sever al deaths, . . - Jeoioiit Yestft AdmlH Ctfttiftg Sid Threat . NEWPORT NEWS, Vs., Nov, 29 ij? Police say Jesse Wfiroer Woriey has admitted slashing the throat of his attraetivSe- a-reyl old neighbor. Miiiie M. Summs, in a fit of jealousy. The 20-year-oid Worlev admit ted the attack last night in statement ie officers, police Chief LeRoy Woody said. , - Miss Summs , ahieh school sen ior, is 'improving in hospital. Her throat was silt from tar to ear, her windpipe severed but doctors say she wiii iiv barring complication. ' ' Aq mm trraurt oy raw jn-mn CM tnnmtmmm . tiuiiij uuiiUEft'jj idenliSEalion of me mm w difficult because the bodies were badly stfraed. Survivor sot bad ly injured scattered is hotels, adding to the task of rescue workers ia determining casual ties. . Lt. Col. A. F, S, Fane, Bri tish king's messenger, was among those presumed dead. The British embassy said he was ea rossi to Mexico City and Guatemala on an official mission.. Two prominent Mexicans, Dr. Luis de li Boss and lots de Is Mora and his family, aiso were aboard. Je la Rosa was president of the Mexican National Cham ber sf Broadcasting, De Is Mors is director in the Msxkan Avi ation company. Dr. de ia Boss was among the survivors. - Other prominent passenger in. eluded Mrs. Ernest G, Wsdei, Dallas, national chairman sf the women's division of the United. Jewish Appeal; David N, .Lewis, employee oi tne war tJigims com mission, recently of Albuquerque, N, M and Major W. 3. SrotuL assigned to the department rtt national defense, Washington, D. C. Justice of the Peace Pierce Me Bride said he had viewed 2S iCoaUnued on Page Two! Fire Rczes Grads School At Msm.l JSEH83LL, Ore, Nov. JS.UFl Use Merrill elementary school -building, 38 years old, burned in a spectacular fire this morning but happily without loss of iiie or injury. ,.-- . ' Atxmt 2su youngsters nao. on day free oi school feat wsB get basic fe their books tomorrow Hans are being made to put soma of ifeess ih the MsrrSS Sigh hufid- ing and others ia tfe dty c T3 blaze apparently . started in a furnace room in the jscrih end af the basement . , Hot air" ducts leading from ihe faraaee room ; to various classrooms is the two-story isrick fiuauinx siiowea tne - iiames to spread. MiiOi equipment oi m icnoat cafeteria and some books &r:tt tables were removed, but jsrao. tieally ail the desks sad ether sctioGSroom equtptnent was lest. a winters supply oi eoss se ilvered yesterday added to the blaze,- - IroskaUv. the Merrill school. oldest is ih county siSH in use. was slated lor replacement is 1351. ' , , Kills Gombier's Wife DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 23-45- Mrs. Mildred Nobis, wife of widely known Dallas gambler, was Silled today when an auto- raomse tne startes mess up. Dallas soiice sam tnere appar ently were explosives in the car. i ne explosion occurred m a Olff , s Balias residential district, at 8;1S ,m. - - Mm, Noble was the wife of Herbert Noble, 43, who was wounded in a runninz eua bs.it.te with unidentified men Sept. S, On two previous occasions Nobi was wsssnded in gun fights. Two Itfievtd Deod is Atfteftteblle Plunge VANCOUVER, B. C Nov. 23 Sffi An automobile, believed to carry si least two persons, b'.utsk- i off ihe Princeton highway ist tne tioooea simiatameen river late yesterday near Hediey, S.C The resort was mane By pro- vincial poiic who did not lient lly ihe car's occupants nor Indi cate whether ihe machine -had been recovered. The siuncs followed a irasic weekend in which IS other per sons lost their lives is British Columbia as ihe result oi tb weekend siorm. Extradition Waived . On ftsr$e Of Fernery Waiving extradition proceed ings, jame Wolfenbarger, 3U of SuiherSn will be returned io Kan sas io face a forgery charge. He was arrested Saturday even ing at his home east of Sutherlin on a warrant Issued from Hugh ion, Kansas, said Sherili 0. T. drier. He signed ihe waiver of extradition Mends? and will be held here for Kansas authorities, the sheriff added. Lwify Ff Rent r t, T Saiaaastai ia hit ataMnrsfe$ t sav hit foe, H eoa'f dmir iftej fHa sf Jo it U Lawts, baoa kit kaattin? ay krewt wouid ot Mteirify iteVe re b iKiwWV,