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i U. of 0, Library COMP ' Eugene, Ore. mm m SUM La UN. K WHO DOES WHAT ,'y' " f ' " ' "V'fl-- kM : CEORGE L. (DOC) NICHOLAS sits at his desk in his new home on tha Garden Valley road opposite Digby'i Market, busy with a check book. "Always something to pay for," he declared be. tween strokes of the pen, "particularly at this time of the month!" Doc, a graduate in 1902 of the University of Pennsylvania, is justly (and widely) known as a veteran veterinarian, having practiced his profession for 40 years, 27 of them' in Douglas county. ... His new home not only contains his office, but embraces in an adjoining structure a small-animal emergency hospital. Sutherlin School Teacher Ousted On Various Charges A Sutherlin grade school teacher, charged with several alleged teaching mispractlces, was dismissed by the school board Thursday following a public hearing Wednesday. The teacher, Clarence E. Ward, did not appear to defend himself at the hearing, although he had been served with the charges, time and date. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE remnants of the Chinese nationalist government aban don mainland China to the reds and retire to the fortified island of Formosa . ; .'In Bulgaria;-' the communist government is trying alleged TRAITORS TO COMUN ISM and the suspects are "con fessing" in the customary and to us mystifying manner ... at Lake Success United Nations is wrest ling with the problem of what to do with China's membership now that the communists have China in their grip. HO, hum. Kinda dull, Isn't it? Let's shift over to the price of coffee, and why. T 'HE National Coffee association is meeting at Boca Raton, in (Continued on Page Four) Four Dead, Two Missing In Shop Blast And Fire BIRMINGHAM, Mich,. Dec. 12. 4- VP) Cranes and bulldozers probed early today in the charted remians of an antique shop where at least four persons perished In a spectacular gas explosion last night. Two other persons are missing and four more were injured in the blast that shook this quiet, fashionable suburb north of De troit at 8:50 p. m. Sunday. The bodies of two men and two women, burned too badly for positive identification, already have been taken from the ruins. Firemen were looking for an other man believed to have died, and there wasa possibility that the man's 12-year-old son also was trapped in the old, three story frame building when It went up In giant flames. "HELLISH" ORDEAL ENDS Consul Gen. Ward, Aides, Freed By Chinese Reds, Board Evacuation Vessel By TOM LAMBERT ABOARD LAKELAND VICTORY, OFF TIENTSIN, Dec. 12. VP) Consul General Angus Ward and his 19-member party boarded this evacuation ship today and declared he had suffered "hellish treatment" at the hands of Chinese Communists. The United States official, who was caught at his consulate by the fall of Mukden to Chinese Reds more than a year ago, declared his final freedom made him feel just as one would "after St. Peter lets you In.' It was the first time In 13 months Ward had been able to pove without an armed escort. And 28 days of that time he was in a Chinese communist Jail, In solitary confinement, in Mukden. On 24 of those days he was kept in unhealed, or underheated quarters in freezing temperatures. He lost 25 pounds. His jail menu was six slices of bread daily . . . and hot water. For all members of the party. Including Mrs. Ward, several women and some children, It was the first time they had not been under red surveillance since Nov. 20, 1948. On that date the reds The case against Ward center ed around the following charges: (1) Not maintaining the proper order in his classroom; (2). ne glecting to maintain himself in such a manner as to gain and keep the respect of his pupils; (3). questionable morality; (4). physically handling female py. puils in his charge. Several sixth grade girls, the girls' parents, another teacher, the principal of the school; arid the superintendent of district 130 C testified against Ward at the hearing. In an official statement, the school board stated that it be lieved the charges brought again st Ward had been proved true. Members were in complete agreement on the findings and (Continued on Page Two) N.Y.City Offers Prayers For Rain NEW YORK, Dee. 12 UP) A "Water Holiday" experiment will start this week In an effort to help save the city's dwindling supply as millions of New York ers Join In prayers for rain. Some rain was forecast for the next 24 hours in the city's Cats kill mountain and Westchester county watersheds. A further drop of 863,000,000 gallons in the city's reserviors was reported yesterday for the preceding 24 hours. The total yesterday was 85,255.- 000,000 gallons about 33.7 per cent of the 253,ooo,uuu,ouo capa city. Citv officials have warned that rationing would be necessary if the supply dropped to 50,000,000- OOO gallons, l.f oi capacity. Pravers for rain were offered in churches of various denomi atlons yesterday. Clergymen urg ed their congregations to Join the water conservation program. The latest report on the water conservation campaign was that consumption had dropped 75,000- 000 gallons daily from the nor mal consumption oi aooui ,uu- 000,000 gallons. closed the consulate and clamped such secrecy on their movements and fate that even the U. S. state department knew virtually noth ing about them. Even their final departure, un der red deportation orders on phoney charges, was delayed by red tape. For some time today, only Ward was permitted to board this ship. Forced To Sign Red Paper Before they would permit the other 19 to come up the gangway, (Continued on ,Page Two) Tlie Wecrtfcer Cloudy with Infeonlttaat rata today and Tuesday. Sunset today 4:37 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:37 a. m. Established 1873 Tornadoes, Midwestern, Rockies Area Receive Blows Storm's Indirect Death Toll Ups Total To 32; Property Damage Heavy (By The Associated Press) Screeching tornadoes, a whist ling blizzard and flashing light ning killed at least 11 persons in various parts of the nation over the weekend. The known deaths from other causes indirectly attributed to the weather had mounted to 34. Property damage from the tor nadoes which lashed north cen tral Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mis souri and Illinois was high. Arkansas alone estimated its damage might reach $100,000. Ail the tornado dead are In Arkansas and Missouri. The twist ers hammered six Arkansas com munities yesterday, killed three persons and injured ten. Many escaped the fury by taking shel ter in storm cellers. The com munities hit were Clinton, Beedee, Velvet Ridge, Cross Roads, Provi dence and Bradford. Two were killed at Cross Roads, one. at Providence. Garland Robbins, 60, of Provi dence, described the twister as "black as midnight and roaring like hell." His store was de stroyed. Near Poplar Bluff, in south eastern Missouri, six persons were killed and 15 injured by a (Continued on Page Two) Kills Family Of Five And Himself FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 12. UP) A man described by neighbors a "a mild little guy who liked to play the guitar" killed his wife, his three small children and himself with six bul lets from a German luger pistol yesterday. Police Chief Roland Kelley said Carl Amarella, 34-year-old inte rior decorator and upholsterer, killed his wife, Millie, 33; their children, Sandra, 6; Larry, 4 and Janet, one year old, while they slept and then took his own life. Amarella put two bullets into little Janet's head. Each of the others was shot only once, accord ing to Roy May, chief investi gator of the Broward county sheriff's office. He left a note written on three different sales slips, telling his attorney, G. H. Martin, how to dispose of everything and where to find his money and papers. The note began: "I am sorry It ended this way," and concluded: "I guess that is all." It asked that as little publicity as possible be given the tragedy. , Amarella had been booked at Hollywood, Fla., on Nov. 12 for drunken driving and disorderly conduct and was fined $150 and costs on those two charges Dec. 2. Four Soldiers Die In Smoke-Fiiled Cabin TACOMA, Dec. 12 UP) A sol dier awaiting the arrival of his wife from Texas died yesterday with three friends in a smoke filled tourist cabin. Army officials said the four suffocated In the smoke from a smoldering couch. A dropped cig aret was believed to have been the cause. Dead were Cpfs. Bill Bond, 31, and James R. Elliott, 28; Sgt. Bill Pendleton, 32, and Pfc. Den nis Phelps,22. They were mem bers of the 11th Anti-Aircraft Di vision, recently shifted from Tex as to Fort Lewis. The army report said the four had been preparing the cabin for the arrival of Bond's wife, who learned of their deaths when she reached here later in the day. Eight Children Perish As Fire Destroys Cabin WILLIAMSPORT. Pa., Dec. 12 UP) An unemployed laborer and his wife remained In too cri tical a condition from burns to day to give full details of a fire that brought death to eight chil dren. Bert Edklns, his wife, and a step-son, Edgar Coxgrove, 14, survived the fire that destroyed a two-story cabin Saturday night Those killed in the blaze all children and step-children of Ed klns were Edward, 13, Henry, 12, Joseph, 11, Raymond, 9 .Rob ert, 7, Phyllis Beverly 5, Bir triss, 3, and Beatrice L CYCLIST KILLED KLAMATH FALLS, Dee. 12 UP) An Oregon Technical Instl' tute student was killed and an other injured last night when their motorcycle plunged off highway 39 near Merrill. Killed when thrown over the handle bars was Robert Lewis Sutton, 24, Washington, Iowa. He was driving. Maurice Aasland, 22. International falls. Minn.. suffered abrasions and shock but was not seriously hurt. ELECTION TUESDAY City Will Vote On Annexation ' O. K. Proposal , Registered voters of Roseburg today were urged to vote in to morrow's special election on an nexation of three suburban areas. City officials expressed fear that too many voters would ne glect to cast their ballots for an nexation of West Roseburg, Sleepy Hollow-Miller's addition, and Beulah addition. City Manager M. W. Slankard said today this election "is not a foregone, conclusion. Before these areas may become a part of the city, a major portion of the 3,387 registered city voters must show up at the polls." Polls will remain open from 8 a.m., to 8 p.m. Voters regis tered in ward 1 will vote down stairs in the county court house; ward 2 at the junior high school; ward 3 at the Roseburg hotel; and ward 4 at the city hall. Slankard said a few voters in wards 2 and 3 may not be on the polling lists for the wards in which they believe they should vote. He said this was caused by a recent revision of precinct boun. daries, made by the county clerk, and that precinct and ward boun daries do not coincide in these two wards. "If a person's name is not on the list at one ward polling place, they may find themselves listed at the other," Slankard said. Federal Rent Control Law Is Sustained 1 WASHINGTON, Dec.' 12 UP) The supreme court today upheld the 1949 federal rent control act. The 8-0 ruling overturned a decision by U. S. District court Judge Elwyn R. Shaw in Chicago that the act was invalid. . The decision was announced In a brief order which cited an ear lier supreme court ruling in a rent control case. ' Shaw's ruling was held In abey ance pending todays ruling on an appeal taken directly to the supreme court by the justice de partment. The department esti mated 14,000,000 housing accom modations remain under rent con trol. Since Shaw's ruling six oth er federal district courts have declared the act constiutional. In other actions today, the tri bunal: 1. Split 5 to 3 to uphold in ef fect an Idaho law which bans picketing of a business place not directly involved in a labor dis pute. 2. Agreed to rule later on two other state labor laws a Michi gan act which prohibits a strike unless a majority of. the workers involved vote tnelr approval, and Wisconsin law under wmcn the state's employment relations board claims It can forbid an un fair labor practice which also Is barred by -federal law. 3. Decided 7 to 1 that Insurance companies have the right to sue the United States in their own names when they seek to recover money paid to Insured persons in jured through negligence of gov ernment employes. The ruling was given in lour suits med by as many insurance companies. Slayer Of Wife's Dog Ends His Life In Car ENGLEWOOD, Colo.. Dec. 12 UP) James Rulla, 52, who was sentenced to jail last week for killing his wife's dog, was found dead in an automobile near here yesterday. The engine was still running and a length of rubber hose ran from tne exnaust pipe to tne In side of the trunk compartment Newspaper clipping telling of Rulla's conviction and sentence of a year's Jail term lay on the seat Desioe mm. uoroner lvan Joss said it was a suicide. Testimony at Rulla's trial showed he had gone to a neigh bor's house, where Mrs. Rulla had left a pet Scottle, and had beaten the dog to death. Lumber Union To Demand Contract For Pensions PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 12.-1JP) Contract committeeman for all AFL lumber and sawmill coun cils assembled here today with a demand for a $100 a month old age nension already listed. Officers of four "big fir" coun ells declared Saturday the two-' day policy session was expected to endorse the pension bid as the only benefit the union wants for Its bu.uuu memDera in new con tract talks with emnlovers. Kenneth Davis, secretary of the northwestern council, said indus try would he asked to pay "not ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, DEC. Leave Farm Group's Convention Snubs Brannan .Agriculture Secretary, Though Uninvited, Sends Plea For "Wis. Action" CHICAGO. Dec. 12; VP) The powerful American Farm Bureau leaeration opens us an nual convention today with a cold shoulder for the present secre tary of agriculture. Secretary Brannan Is not on the convention's speaking pro gram. But Senator Clinton P. An derson (D-N. M.) the former secretary, is. Allen B. Kline, president of the federation, has been a oritic of the controversial Brannan plan. He called it a political scheme to get votes of both farmers and consumers. (The plan is designed to assure farmers high returns and con sumers cheaper food. Government cash payments to farmers would be the main device for achieving such a dual goal.) Although it is customary for the federation to Invite the secre tary of agriculture to address the annual convention, relations be tween the farm group and the cabinet officer have been so cool that the farmers skipped it this year. Other farm groups have con- (Continued on Page Two) Negro Kills Wife Of Town Marshal, Wounds 2 Officers WARSAW, TWISs.,' Dee.' 12 Police today thought they had cornered a wounded Negro want ed for killing the wife of a town marshal and wounding two offi cers in Luxora, Ark. Trails of blood led a posse to a place called Pigeon Roost bot toms lour miles soutn oi nere. Deputy sheriff Fred Fuqua said the fugitive. Eddie Hall, is be lieved holed up there. The chase started Friday night in Luxora, Ark., across the Mis sissippi river. Luxora City Marshal Joe Mc Daniel, his wife, and Ralph Wil liamson were taking Hall and his wife and another Negro to jail In nearby Osceola, Ark. Williamson said Hall opened fire from the back scat. Mrs. McDanlel was killed, and Mc Daniel and Williamson were wounded. Sheriff L. B. Slavden and an other officer surprised Hall in bed Saturday nignt 14 miles soutn of Byhalia, Miss. Hall was wounded in an exchange of shots but escaped. His wife was ar rested. Col. T. B. Birdsong. head of the Mississippi highway patrol, or dered 30 additional men to join Marshall county officers here. Their arrival was awaited before closing in on the spot Hall was believed hiding. " , I " . - - ' .U- - 'k'jt" -'111 I k r " 4 " n V ,'M.fj ; ( A 1 J 'j L I f ' ' I x I J " ' kv "'V ,'vA'' i 'fx "'N ''s ?,,A W" rVA 7 - ' ; ft v n . i a i b; . . ,. J ' , : ?..'...,',' ' ' ' nun niii I innniimi '"ii"' -... GRAND CHAMPION IN DRESSED DIVISION was the 2l'i oound heavv vouna hen pictured cielt of the Northwestern Turkey Show. Tha champion bird is owned by Wheeler-Pearson hatchery of McMinnville. Pictured at eft it the reserve champion, a 43 V pound adult bronze torn, owned by Loren Johnson, Scappoosa. (Pictures by Photo Lt) 12, 1949 11 Persons Dead MARCH OF DIMES GIRL Wanda Wiley, eighf-year-old" deugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl N. Wilev of Austin, Tex.. Is I950' March of Dlmei poifer girl. Her picture will spearhead the an nual drive of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralyiis. Here she walks with a pet dog, though l8.months ago sha wis completely paralyzed. (AP wirephotol Copco's Toketee Power Unit To Be Dedicated December 15 '. The North Umpqua hydroelectric project of Tha California Oregon Power company will be formally dedicated In Rote burg, Thursday, Dee. 15, when electric power from Toltetee, the firit of eight new generating plants In the project, will be chan neled into the company's traniminion network'. Gov. Douglas McKay, Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville Power administrator, Albert S. Cummini, Copco president, Rep. Harris Ellsworth, and others will address the guests assembled for the ceremony at the Umpqua hotel In Roseburg. Part of the pro gram will be broadcast over eight Tadio stations in the com pany's service area, at which time the dedication of the project and twitching of the new power from the Toketee plant Into the power company's transmission system will be heard. Cum mins will make the dedication address . and Governor McKay will throw the switch which will officially bring the new supply of power to the people of this area, Roseburg Driver In Fatal Crash Near Sjilem SALEM, Deo. 12. (PI Carl M. Hamre, was killed and five other Salem rosldente Injured today In a head-on automobile collision a mile west of M III City. Hamre was a passenger in In a car driven by William Latley, Roseburg, state police said. Driver of the other oar was Eugene Thornley, Mill City. at right, named Friday by off! 191-49 a-, M."N Americans Freed By Korean Reds SEOUL, Dec. '12-i VP) Two omnninted American officials were back from North Korea to day after 81 days coniinement by Communists. They were returned yesterday. The Soviet regime indicated it had given up on its apparent at tempt to get some form of unit ed Slates recognition In exchange for the Economic Cooperation ad ministration aides, who were de livered to them by a mutinous ship's crew. Albert E. Willis, w, oi Broomyn, N, Y., and Alfred T. Metschter, 28, of Klnderhook, in. i shocked Willis' wife with their appearance. ' . Mrs. Beatrice wims eaunmieu her husband lost almost a pound a day and said It would take a lot of home cooKing 10 unao me damage. , Mctscner . said me iwo men were reasonably fit especially compared with the week before when tne i;ommunisis siarieu fnedins them well in preparation for their return. They were not physically mistreated, he. said, Alleged Safe Cracker Released On Bond DALLAS. Texas.. Dec. 12 VP) James Duane Smith, 30, one of three Dallas men charged with safe burglaries in Idaho and Washington, was arrested at a Fort Worth night club last night. He was brought to Dallas and released 30 minuted later on $5, 000 bond. Delota Green of Dallas is free under bond on a fugitive charge In connection with the burglary charges. The third man charged, Tommy Garner, has not been ap prehended. Myrtle Creek Meeting To Discuss Utility Act There will be a public meeting j lor tne purnrse of discussing the provisions of the new Public Utilities commission act, at the Myrtle Creek city hall Wednes day, Dec. 14, at 8 p. m., W. T. Coats, field auditor of the PUC, announced today. The new PUC act will go into effect January 1. Similar meetings will be held later at Roseburg and Drain. Time of these discussions will be announced in the near future. i Private Craft Carrying Four Persons Lost Southern Oregon, North California Areas lelng Combed By Air Pilots Roseburg airplane pilots again iolned searchers today in a hunt for a silver Cessna monoplane reported lost while .enroute from Eugene to Los Angeles. ; George reit, manager oi tne Roseburg airport, left by plana today with Roy Hatfield, ob server! for headquarters of the search In Eugene. Both Felt and Ira Byrd Sunday flew over th route believed followed by the missing plane,' but reported na clues. ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Aboard the private light plana which left Eugene Friday were pilot Ray Hyiand, Eugene mm owner and motorcycle and air plane enthusiast; his wife; Dr. H. Ellett Scoles of Cottage Grove I and L. Virgil Fish, Eugene. The search area widened to n- . elude Whitehall, Calif., follow, ing a report from children that they had seen an airplane, smok ing and apparently in trouble, pass low over the mountains. However, preliminary search for wreckage revealed nothing. ' Air force search and rescue crews, from McCord base were prepared to launch flights over southern Oregon mountains thii morning and two planes from Hamilton field, near San Fran cisco, were dispatched, to tha Whitehall area today. The Eugene office of the Civil Aeronautics administration -aid the missing persons had not filed a flight plan before leaving Eu gene. However, CAA officials were told the group planned to visit relatives in Sacramento be fore continuing south. The CAA ' (Continued on Page Two) Pleads For His Goats After Gun Fight (With Law SEATTLE, Dec. 12. VP) A crazed and wounded goat rancher crawled from his tear-gas-filled house yesterday and begged sheriff's deputies, with whom ha naa lougnt a losing gun Dame, ,u "be sure and milk my goats." ..DeDUty Khenu sumo tiuageni said the man, Allen C. Finley, 39. hori threntonpH his estraneed wife with a shotgun and wounded a neighbor who tried to pacify him. Robert E. Bundy. 49. the nelgn- bor, was hit in the arm and at tendants at a hospital said hit condition was "only fair." Mrs. Bundy summened sheriff officers, who fought Finley for lour and a nan hours, ine sur rounded man fired wildly througlt doors and windows, spraying the surrounding area with shotgun pellets. When he refused to sur render, even with the house full of tear gas, Mudgens poked a gun through a window and shot him In the arm and leg. Mrs. Finley told officers sha had gone to the house to prepare supper for Finley, from wnom she had been separated for sev eral montns. suddenly ne tnreat ened her with the shotgun, sha said. After two hours of pleading; she managed to escape and run to Bundy's house for help. Bundy was wounded as he approached the Finley house, at a . i, uereor ur Australian -Labor Is Landslide ' SYDNEY. Australia. Dec. 12 W) The Labor government's de feat in Saturday s election near- ed landslide proportions today. As vote counting continued, ma victorious LlberanCountry party coalition appeared likely to win a majority of 23 seats in the House of Commons, a big edga in the 121-member lower cham ber of Parliament. The Liberal party has promis ed to outlaw the Communist par ty, which has a strong hold in some Australian labor unions, and bar its members from publio service or industrial organiza tions. Communist Secretary-General R. Dixon yesterday said even it outlawed, his party would con tinue to function, legally or illegally- Young GOP Defers Stand On Legislative Shakeup WEST LINN, Dee. 12 -4.1P) The Young Republican federation of uregon nas sioetracKea us pol icy on legislative reapportion ment for further study and per haps a change. Delegates voted, 64-38, to study the whole problem of legislative apportionment, and draft an ini tiative measure. The study will determine Just which apportion ment plan will be followed. James Collins, Salem, execu tive secretary of the state Re publican Central committee, was elected president by acclamation. Levity fact Jant By L. T. Reizensteln A high military authority de clares the United States foeei tha threat of total annihilation. Such an eventuality would, of course, Include axterrnlnatrsa) af those veracious upper North, Umpqua mosqultoaik less than 3D corns per man nour toward the retirement program. ( ( r.-UH-j'jsrs :y
