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COMP mitt Ml mm U1U Party Leader Predicts Urge From Truman The Weather Mostly cloudy with scattered showers today, tonight, and Friday. Sunset today 4:38 p. m. Sunrist tomorrow 7:39 a. m. U. of 0, Library Eugene, Ore, ex TO I WHO DOES WHAT WJ n-...-J,irifr,.r'fr.-.... i WMB."V SHIRLEY BISPHAM, at the left in the picture above; her mother, MRS. HENRY BISPHAM, and JUDY RILEY, daughter of Mr. and Leonard Riley, are caught by the camera as they attend the Christmas Seal stand in the postoffice. Shirley and Judy were helping out there as their bit in a Campfire Girls' project. They both belong to the Massasoit group. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THIS comes from Sofia, capital of Bulgaria (Bulgaria Is run by the Moscow breed of commu nists): "Bulgarian communists today filed In homage before the em balmed' body -of their late premier, Georgi Dimitrov, which was placed on view yesterday in Sofia's Ninth of September Square . . . the body, like that of Nicolai Lenin' in Moscow's Red Square was embalmed by a SE CRET SOVIET PROCESS which the Russians said would preserve It indefinitely." THE dispatch goes on with the grisly details: "The Bulgarian press says the secret embalming process pre serves the body's freshness, color (Continued" on Page Four) Prison Sentence Handed To Three Three persons were handed state penitentiary sentences when they appeared before Judge Carl E. Wimberly in circuit court Wednesday. One was placed on probation. James Thomas Hogan, charg ed with larceny by bailee, was sentenced to two years, then plac ed on probation and released, no had pleaded guilty to auto theft. Lee Russell Forsythe, 20, of Denver, was sentenced to one year on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, while Willard Lawrence Fent, 21, of Canyonville, received a three year sentence on a charge of grand larceny of personal prop erty. Both men will be taken to Sa lem by Deputy Cecil Beaver to day. Beaver will continue to Port land and bring back E. Stone, wanted here for alleged defraud ing of an innkeeper. He is being held on a warrant by Portland City pqlice. ROADS IN GOOD SHAPE SALEM, Dec. 15 W) Road conditions over Oregon were good today except on - the Warm Springs highway, where chains are needed because of packed snow. There was packed snow in oth er passes but it had been sand ed. Icy spots were reported on the pavement at most eastern Oregon points. STEEL PRICES GOING UP Industry Officials, Union Leaders Disagree On Issue; Labor Says It's 'Outraged1 By SAM DAWSON , NEW YORK, Dec. 15. (.-P) Steel prices are going up. Will that mean that the price of autos, bed springs, refrigerators and baby's safety pins are going up, too? Has inflation started on its fourth round? There are going to be a lot of hot words exchanged over the hike in the price of this basic commodity. Steel executives say higher prices of steel are simply the price of security. The fourth round wage-price spiral this year concentrated on pensions. At the end of the steel strike the unions won company financed pensions. Steel companies say the cost of these funds must be added to the price of steel. Union Officials Outraged Union officials say thay are itt-n natt Thai, vntflnH t B A I i outraged. They contend steel company profits are so high that the cost of the pensions could he absorbed by the companies with out hurting them. And they cite IKE AGAIN JABBED Hot Dogs-Beer Remark Hit By Campus Scrawl NEW YORK, Dec. 15. (iW A recent speech that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower made about Der sonal security still is producing some barbed reaction on the Columbia university campus. Scrawled in chalk on the cam pus statue of Alexander Hamil ton yeslerday was this remark: VBeer and frankfurters for all." Beneath were five stars, signi fying the university president's army rank, and the word, "Ike." At the base of the statue were two frankfurters with rolls and ah empty carton which had con tained beer cans. It was more than a week ago that Eisenhower made a speech in which he said two much em phasis is being placed on per sonal security at the expense of personal liberty. He added that perhaps people want champagne when they should have "hot dogs and beer." Later, the campus newspaper, the Spectator, criticized the speech and asked editorial'": "What's wrong with security?" The paper said that "being con tent with beer and hot dogs" isn't part of the American tra dition. Roseburg Area' Included In O-C Timber Sale Plan PORTLAND, Dec. 15. () Oregon-California agency timber tracts for sale during 1950 were listed today to permit buyers to plan the year's logging opera tions. Daniel L. Goldy, regional ad ministrator of the Bureau of Land Management, said the tracts hold 467,000.000 board feet for harvesting. The advance listings were recommended by the O & C advisory board. The largest block is 107,000,000 board feet in the Coos Bay dis trict. The others: Roseburg 92, 000,000; Medford 100,000,000; Salem 80,000,000; Eugene 88, 000,000. SHOPLIFTER FINED Lucille Dow, Winston, pleaded guilty to a charge of shoplifting in justice court Wednesday, and was fined $25, Justice A. J. Ged des reported. She was arrested by city police and accused of taking a necktie from the Montgomery Ward store, according to Chief of Po lice Calvin Baird. Baird warned that there has been considerable shoplifting in the city, and a sharp lokout is being kept for offenders. the President's f a c t-f 1 nd I n g board's report on the steel labor controversy, which they interpret as backing them up in this. Earnings of 21 leading steel companies In the third quarter of this year totalled more than $108.6 million, compared with S120 million in the same three months the vear before. In the second quartpr 0f this year earn- . n . . . . ings were $123.4. Fourth quarter earnings will be hit by the steel strike. But U.S. Steel corp. re- (Contlnued on Page Two) Established 1873 Toketee Power Plant's Dedication Set Toniaht State Notables Will Be Heard On Program Gov. McKay, Executives Of Copco, Congressman Ellsworth Will Speak A full evening program and radio broadcast are planned for the Toketee North Umpqua dedi cation ceremony tonight. The affair will be held in the Hotel Umpqua, starting with a social hour at 4:30, and continuing through the evening with a din ner and program. While some of the Interest has been stilled with the announce ment that the flow of power from Copco's big Toketee project has been delayed several days, be cause of mechanical trouble in the turbine, the dedication cere mony will go ahead as scheduled. The complete program was an nounced to include the social hour at 4:30; dinner at 5:45, and broad cast, starting at 7 o'clock, over an eight-station network covering Southern Oregon and Northern California, through KRNR's re mote control facilities. Detail Of Program A. S. Cummins. Dresident of the California-Oregon Power com pany, will dedicate the ToKetee plant and North Umpqua project. Following this, Governor Doug las McKay will receive the dedl- (Continued on Page Two) Helicopter Joins Lost Girl Search KELSO, Dec. 15 UP) An Army helicopter was assigned to day to the five-day old search for girl scout Ruth Aberle. She vanished into the moun tain woods northeast of here Sun day from a group of teen-age companions during a Christmas tree-cutting expetition. Gov. Arthur Langlie's office re quested the helicopter be sent here from ort L,ewis alter ground parties of up to 500 men had failed to locate any clue to the girl's fate. Searchers repeatedly nave fol lowed sets of tracks in the mud and snow that could have been made by a small person. But none has led to the 16-year-old Kelso high school student. Bloodhounds in tne seven square mile zone have been baf fled, presumably because vir tually every yard of the sector has been tramped by dozens of men since Sunday. At the base camp northeast ol here the men under chief Cowlitz county Deputy Sheriff Marie Be vins seemed deteremined to con tinue the hunt until the girl is found dead or alive. Three Accused In Raid On Alleged Gambling Den McMINNVILLE, Dec. 15 OP) A gambling raid by city, coun ty and state police netted three Portlanders and 12 players at an elaborately equipped room north of the city. State Police Sgt. William Roach said two men and the wife of one were free on $500 bail each. Ten of the 12 players were later released. Charged with operating a gam bling game were George Henry Carr, 50, and his wife, Louise, 35. Charged with operating a gambling establishment was Frank Caldwell, 40, whose ad dress was listed as Milwaukie. Bail was set by Justice of the Peace Frank Holmes, No hearing date on the charges was set im mediately. Moro Outlaws Battled By Philippine Constabulary MANILA. Dec. 15 UP) Con stabulary headquarters tonight reported 15 men were killed and 64 are missing and presumed dead In an encounter today be tween government forces and Moro outlaws on Jolo island in the southern Philippines. A force of 1,000 outlaws were reported defying government forces at the foot of ML Luck on Jolo Island. Fighting in the southern Philip pines has been frequent since the Nov. 8 presidential election. However, the outlaws on Jolo ap parently are not political dissi dents. NEW AUTO PLATES O.K. SALEM, Dec. 15 ffl) Todav Is the first day It Is legal for automobile owners to use their new license plates. The plates must be bought by January 1. Some motorists already have their new plates on their cars, but they were not penalized. ROSEBURG, MORE POWER FROM COPCO Three Turbines At Toketee Plant Will Heavily Boost Umpqua Area Consumption Three turbines at Copco's Toketee plant will generate a total of 40,000 kilowatts of power when all are put into pro duction, H. C. Wells, district manager, said today. By way of comparison, present consumption in the Umpqua district totals 24,000 kilowatts. One of the three turbines, generating 13,500 kilowatts, will be in operation within a week, according to present' plans. The second unit will soon follow, and a third will .be added at a later date. LEGS AND BOSOM She's Got Right Types, Angler For Mate Says GETTYSBURG. S. D.. Dec. 15. UP) Use Derinlowska of Hamburg, Germany, can have her pick from some 50 prospective hnbands in the midwest. The 28-year-old German woman wrole a letter recently to Mayor Walter Sundergard of Gettys burg saying she was lonely and we. -ted "a good American hus band." She described herself as "endowed with a bosom like Jane Russell and legs like Bettv Grable." The mayor showed the letter to some newsmen. The answering epistles came in from North Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. They are still arriving daily al- tnougn tne mayor nas long since disclaimed running a "lonely hearts ' agency. One 36-year-old Iowa' farmer drove 400 miles to get first hand Information about Use from the mayor. The man said his mother prompted the trip by suggesting he should "pick out a good Ger man girl for a wife." Lacking a stengropher, Sunder gard said he was bundling up the letters as thev arrived and for warding them to Use for her per sonal attention. With a touch of local pride he reported no men in this central South Dakota com munity of 1,000 population have applied yet for Use's hand. ICE CREAM RATED SALEM, Dec. 15 (IP) The State Agriculture department said today that 29.5 percent of ice cream in the state has too many bacteria. The department announced the results of the first tests under the 1949 Ice cream law. The department made T47 tests, and 43 of them had too many bacteria. Eighteen of the 147 samples had too little butter-fat. , r ' ''i. Sr' t Aii M .tf ' '4Si'tiir'''(l SHERIFF'S POSSE OFFICERS FOR 1950 New officers of the Douglas county sheriff's pone took over their potts at a meet ing of the volunteer law enforcement and horsemanship group Tueiday night t the county court houie. Above left te fight tre Bruce Carter, secretary; Marry Marrlt, drill master; George OREGON THURSDAY, DEC. Supplementing the new power source and transmission line, will be greatly augmented trans former capacity at various sub slat ions. Transformer equipment recently received will boost ca pacity by 30,000 kilowatts. Transformers with 7,500 kilo watla capacity have been install ed at the Ramp substation, east of Roseburg, replacing three transformers with a total of 5. 000 kw. capacity, borrowed from the Bonneville system. Another 7,500 kw. unit Is being installed at Sulherlin, replacing a 3,000 kw. unit. Threee transformers are being installed at Days Creek to supply the 66.000-volt line and will serve substations at Days Creek, Rid- (Continued on Page Two) Sioux City Blast Dead Placed At 16 SIOUX CITY, Ia Dec. 15-fiT) Amid a scene of ruin "just like the place had been bombed," workmen and machines ' today dug through rubble where at least 16 persons perished in a violent explosion yesterday. As sorrowing families of the 16 identified dead went about fun eral preparations, the search at the Swlfe & Co. packing plant continued for three persons still missing. Nine of some 90 other per sons injured remained in critical conditions at hospitals. Leaking gas which had ham pered search operations was stopped last night. The blast rocked the building shortly before the noon hour yesterday. There were about 1, 000 persons in Hie building. The front end of the building was hit hardest. The first and second floors which housed the office staff and company restau rant got the brunt of the blast. Windows were shattered. Part of the second floor ceiling caved in. A reinforced concrete loading dock at the southwest corner of the building fell into the basement. 15, 1949 Fall Fatal To Local Trucker Max Eugene Huskey, 20, of route 4, Roseburg, died Wednes day night from injuries sus tained at 3:30 that afternoon In a fall from a truck. According to the report, Hus key, employed by the Oregon Turkey Growers, had Just as sisted unloading a truck onto a railroad car. He was riding on the truck returning to the turkey growers' plant, when he fell from the truck as it round ed a corner at Parrot and Lane streets. He reportedly sus tained head and other in juries. Huskcy came to Roseburg two months ago. He was born Oct. 27, 1929, at Haskell, Okla. He en listed in the U. S. Army in 1948 and was discharged in 1949. He was married to Derilda Gregg, Sept. 18, 1949, at Iola, Kan. Surviving are his widow of Roseburg; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos E. Huskey, Iola, Kan.; three brothers, Amos E. Huskey Jr., Roseburg; Bobby Earl and Curtis Eugene Huskey, both of Iola, Kan.; four sisters, Mrs. John Baker and Mrs. June Wolford, both of Iola, Kan.; Mrs. Harold Mulkey, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Charles M. Harclerode, Rose burg. The body was removed to Long and Orr mortuary, and will be forwarded to Iola, Kan., for serv ices and interment. Mother Of Child Slayer Denounced By Trial Judge CHICAGO, Dec. 15 UP) A young mother was convicted by a criminal court jury last night of murdering her six-day o 1 d daughter and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The presiding Judge at the trial of Mrs. Dorothy Skeoch, 22, blamed her parents for their daughter's act. Mrs. Skeoch had admitted fatally choking her baby daughter, Susan Elizabeth, with a plastic diaper last Aug. 19. Defense attorneys attempted to prove she was temporarily in sane at the time of the slaying. After the jury retired to dell berate, Judge Julius Miner call ed her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Lamont of Astoria, Ore., to stand before him. "What I am going to say is ad dressed primarily to you, Mrs. Lamont," Judge Miner told the couple. "I have been shocked by the testimony about your treat ment of your daughter. No one is more responsible than you for the fact that she is on trial for murder. "If I had treated a child of mine as you treated yours, I would not forgive myself for the rest of my life." "You're cruel. You're unkind. Your're miserable." Mrs. Skeoch had testified her mother had opposed her marri age lo Thomas Skeoch, 21; had refused to answer her letters, and on the day of the baby's birth, refused to talk to her on the telephone. A hearing on a motion for a new trial was set for Jan. 12. Miller, captain, ell of Roieburg, and Henry Cook, Sutherlin, aisittant drill master. Captain Miller, appointed by Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter, in turn appointed the other officers. Photo Lab. photo). 194-49 Excise Taxes May Be Killed, Indication Experts Eye Possibility, Truman Says; President Silent On Fresh Levies KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 15 UP) President Truman said today that treasury and congresslontl staff experts are making studies to determine whether war-time excise taxes can be repealed. In a surprise vacation news conference, the president declin ed to say whether he will ask new taxes of congress. However, he said it was always his aim to balance the budget. Reminded that he had told a news conference in Washington recently that he knew of no way to wipe out a deficit other than by raising taxes, he was asked If he still felt that way. He said the whole matter was under consideration by a Treas ury committee of experts and by staff experts for the House Ways and Means committee. He said they were working harmonious ly. A recent statement by Secre tary of Commerce Sawyer sug gesting elimination ot war-time excise taxes to aid business was called to his attention. Asked if he agreed with Sawyer's propos als, he said the question was un der consideration by the experts. The matter will he covered in the budget message, he said. Budget Director Frank Pace said last week he saw no way to balance the 1951 fiscal year bud get without new taxes. Did the president plan to ask (Continued on Page Two) Gas Blast Rips 5 Detroit Stores DETROIT, Dec. 15. UP) Wild gas exploding In flaming furv wrecked five stores and m lured six nersons here Inst night. ..- Quick warnings before the bar rage-like blasts let go, police said, saved many lives. Four firemen and a policeman, along with a store employee, were hurt. The exDloslons shook northwest "Detroit for three miles around a business neighborhood at Wyom ing and Schoolcraf t avenue, t ire men battled gas-fed flames for more than an hour before bring ing them under control. The first explosion occurred at the Greater Wyoming market shortly after 8 p.m. Witnesses said it sent smoke and flame mushrooming from the one-story brick building. Then other explosions ripped through four other stores In the same block. They were Tom's gnu, tne KJonn camera snop, Ridley cleaners and the Bright er Homes paint ship. The Michigan Consolidated Gas Co., said gas from a nigh pres sure main got out of control as a crew of four company employ es were installing a regulator on a line leading Into the greater Wyoming market. "Exhorbitant" Boosts In Decontrolled Areas Given As Reason For Decision WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. JP A key lawmaker predicted to day that President Truman will ask, and Congress will approve, a continuation of rent controls beyond the June 30, 1950 expira tion date. ' . The spokesman was Rep. Bar- ratt O'Hara (D-Ill.), a member of the House Banking committee who is close to the administra tion. " , 'The final answer that rent controls must be continued," he told newsmen, "was given by the reimposition of rent ceilings at Harrodsburg, Ky., where even a landlord and a banker asked that controls be restored after there had been exorbitant rent increases running from 10 . to 300 percent." U Hara said "the situation in Chicago and other large cities would be terrible if controls were dropped." He made a flat prediction that congress will continue the rent law, although some other law makers close to the white House have voiced doubt that congress will permit any federal rent con trols after June 30. If there is a continuation the law's effect may be confined In new legislation to rent ceilings only for large cities. under the revised rent law enacted earlier this year, a legis lature may decontrol a wnoie slate and a city government can lift controls in its jurisdiction. The federal rent administrator, Tighe E. Woods, has authority too to take off rent ceilings on his own initiative and with recom mendations from local rent boards. About 2,000.000 dwelling unite have been decontrolled, leaving about 12,000,000 of the approxi mately 4u,uuu,uuu dwellings in, the country still under control. Only 4 States Kill Control Four states Nebraska, Texas, Wisconsin and Alabama have voted out federal rent controls by action of their legislatures. But Wisconsin wrote a state con trol law, and Alabama's decon trol is not effective until May, 1950. , Asked how the decontrolled (Continued on Page Two) Albania Ordered To Pay For Death Of British Tars THE HAGUE, Dec. 15 UP- The international court of justice today ordered Communist Alban ia to pay Britain 843,957 pounds ($2,363,101.60) for the mining of two British destroyers on Corfu channel three years ago which cost the lives of 44 British sailors. Britain had asked that amount to compensate the families of the sailors and pay for damages to the warships in the Adriatic sea incident of October, 1946. The Soviet union and Communist-governed Czechoslovakia cast their votes against the Judg ment. The other 12 Judges voted to support the British claim In full. , One possibility for British col lection of the damage claims lies in the existence of frozen Italian funds which had been earmarked as war reparations for Albania, Maurice Reed, attorney in the case for the United Kingdom, told reporters. These funds are held by the bank of England. A British right to draw on these funds could be established bv agreement with other countries claiming the right to draw on them. Petitions Started For Reapportionment Vote PORTLAND, Dec. 15 UP Petitions for. an Initiative vote on reapportioning the Legislature on a population basis were cir culating her today. The slate AFL and CIO organ izations, the Young Democrats and some of the Young Republi cans have endorsed the cam paign. Another reapportioning mea sure is exnected to be out soon. The plan of Rep Giles French, Moro, wnich nas tne support oi the Farm Bureau federation, would change the legislative sys tem to the Federal plan. It would give each county one senator and put the House on a popula tion basis. Two Families Of Farm Workers Perish In Fire ROTAN, Tex.,' Dec. 15-OP) Twelve or thirteen people burn ed to death today in a four-room rental house on a farm eight miles northeast of here. All were Latin-American tran sient farm workers, employed on the C. A. Douthit farm. Two families made up the vic tims. It was believed four adults the two sets of parents and eight or nine children perished. Levity fact J ant By L. F. Reizenstein Another year nears its end without human Ingenuity having produced a fire-proof bed for eigoret smokers.