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I U. of 0 library Eugene, Ore. COW n n on a The Weather Mostly cloddy today wire, rain In afternoon. Little change in temperature. Sunset today 4:44 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:4S a. m. Aiifvr'y W.0 DOES WHAT Leeds Kites With 397 List lip ' Cfci rnnJ ft' .A. .A , . r. .ieViVae J' WHAT'S THIS, GIRLS? Trying to ring up cherries on the cash register? I'm afraid the boss won't like -that. A bit of reflection tells me that he won't mind it, though. I've an idea anything NONA PIPER, who is doing the ringing, and JUNE McGRECOR, with the cherries, care to do is likely to be all right with him; or anyone else, for that matter. - Nona is the bride of Gary Piper and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs; Royd Bruton. June is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. McGregor of Wharton avenue, .home from University of Oregon (she is a freshman there! for the holidays. Both girls are employed at Fairhaven market, Nona as a regular. OHIO STATUTE PREVAILS Court Issues Injunction Ending Strike Against Cleveland Transit Lines CLEVELAND, Dec. 27. UP) ATT. unionists bowed to a court Injunction today and called off the city's six-day transit strike. By a voice vote, members of the AFL-translt union voted over whelmingly to abide by an Injunction ordering them to give up the strike against the city-owned Cleveland transit system. Busses and street cars were expected to start rolling almost Immediately. The Injunction set a 2 p. m. deadline. In the Day's News '.',' By FRANK JENKINS MODERN political note: H. H. Stallard of Portland files his candidacy for the Demo cratic nomination for congress from the Third Oregon district which is. Multnomah county. .'. HE has a PLAN. He calls it Stallard's Commu nity Center Plan. This Is It: 1. Return to wartime price con trol. . 2. Pay each dependent adult $100 a month. 3. Pay each dependent child $25 a month. 4. APPROPRIATE 100 BIL LION DOLLARS FROM THE FEDERAL TREASURY. HIS plan, he says, "would solve the question of living from the cradle to the grave." It certainly would If we could all eat dollar bills. Personally, I don't think I'd like the taste of (Continued on Page Four) Zoning Of Annexed Area City Planners' Task A city recommendation for pro per zoning of three recently an nexed suburban areas will be studied tonight by the City Plan ning commission during its regu lar meeting in the city council chambers at 7:30 p.m. Areas affected are West Rose burg, Miller's addition Sleepy Hollow and Beulah addition. GIs USED AS GUINEA PIGS Prisoners Tested For Germ Warfare, Japs Say At Trial, Soviet Reports LONDON, Dec. 27. UP) Radio Moscow sai dtbday that Japa nese on trial for war crimes In Siberia admitted using American war prisoners as human guinea pigs in germ warfare tests. In a trial of 12 Japanese army officers, the radio broadcast said, some of the defendants asserted these experiments with deadly, plague, cholera and other germs were in preparation for launching germ-bomb attacks on the United States and Britain during World War. Two. ' One defendant, . Gen. Otozoo Yamadaa, former commander of the Japanese Kwantung army in Manchuria, was said to have tes tified tht germ experiments on prisoners were aimed primarily for use on the Soviet Union, the Mongolian people's republic and China in addition to the U. S. and Britain. According to reported testi mony by Tomlo Karasawa, sec ond defendant to appear before the court, lethal germs were used by the Japanese army's top-secret germ warfare branch "to ascer Transit officials, however, said no attempt would be made before tomorrow to maintain normal schedules. ' The injunction was -issued by Common Pleas Judge Joseph-A. Artl. Union officials announced there would be no attempt to re open the issue of paid vacations during the present contract. That was the basis for the walk out in the first place. David Ralph Hertz, CTS umpire, ruled last June that operating employes should receive only 88 hours of paid vacations annually, starting in 1950. Previously, these employes had been receiving 96 hours, they struck in hopes that would be con tinued. No "Anarchy and Chaos" In ruling against the transit strikers, Judge Artl made it plain he felt an Ohio statute which out laws strikes by public employes is entirely justified. He said: "I say that such a strike is one means of destroying government and if you destroy government you have anarchy and chaos. I be lieve that is why the legislature (Continued on Page Two) Rich Cattleman Held In Slaying Of Wife SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 27.-VP) Thomas. F. Talle, 37, wealthy retired New Mexico cattleman held in the slaying of his wife, re mained untalkative in his jail cell today while officers consider ed what action to take. : Talle was booked on suspicion of murdering pretty Margaret Lee Edwards Talle, 29, former Denver hotel cashier whom he married four years ago. Her bullet-pierced body was found Saturday at the couple's new $75,000 home in ex clusive Montecito heights. A friend of the Talles said the two "fought like cats and dogs." Mrs. Talle once sued for divorce but had dropped the action. tain the degree of vulnerability of the American army to differ ent combat infections." Not Verified By Records (In Tokyo, General MacArthur's headquarters said there ire no records of the Japanese having experimented with germs on American prisoners. As far as headquarters knew the Japanese had never been accused by any of the Americans held at Mukden, scene of the alleged expriment, of (Continued on Page Two) Established 1873 Holland's Rule In East Indies Ends After Republic Of Indonesia Is Proclaimed Colonial Rule Succeeded By 2-Nation Experiment -In International Union AMSTERDAM, The Nether lands, Dec. 27.. UP) Queen Juliana gave up most of Holland's rich colonial empire today by pro claiming independence for , 77, C 00,000 Indonesians. ' The simple. 30-minute cere mony in the royal palace climaxed four years of guerrilla fighting in the tropical East Indies islands and weeks of touga bargaining in conferences between Dutch and Independence - seeking Indone sians. With Juliana's signature.' the United States of Indonesia (U. S. I.) became the world's newest Independent nation. It also began an experiment in international' partnership the Dutch-Indonesian union under which the Dutch kingdom and the Indonesian re public are loosely linked by the symbol of The Netherlands crown. On the other side of the world, dark-skinned natives celebrated the independence for which they fought four years of sporadic guerrilla warfare. U. S. I. leaders took over control of the Indone- (Continued on Page Two) London In Grip , Of Train Strike LONDON, Dec. 27-UP) The second day of a wildcat train stoppage stranded thousands of. holiday travelers in London and the south of England today. Less than a score of 268 motor men slated for duty reported for work on the south region electric lines of the state-owned British railway system. The strike began yesterday because of dissatisfac tion with the holiday duty ros ter. . Soldiers and sailors due back at their stations after holiday leave piled up at Waterloo sta tion, main terminus of the lines. Other travelers waited for trains in vain at stations strung out between London, Portsmouth and Southampton. A big crush on the bus lines was expected tonight when the bulk of the holl dayers tried to reach London. Today is a banking holiday, the last of a long workless weekend which began Christmas day. The motormen are expected to go back on the job tomorrow. Their union has denounced the strike as unofficial. Restaurateur Is Santa, Gives 400 Free Dinners j INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 27. UP) Restaurant-owner James R. Hightower doesn't have a family with which to spend the holidays, so yesterday he decided to play host to his customers. He put a sign in the window of his Rose City cafe in the down town district offering free chick en dinners to the first 400 per sons to come in betweeen 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. It didn't take him long to drum up trade. In a short time his small cafe was filled and there was a long line oq the sidewalk outside. By 2 p.m. the 400 winners were gone and Hightower and his weary employes closed the doors. Then they had to go home to get something to eat all the food in the cafe was gone. It wouldn't have seemed like Christmas without giving some thing," Hightower said. Burr, Oregon Fugitive, Caught At San Diego ' SAN DIEGO, Dec. 27 IJP) Robert Melvin Burr, 22, one of the men who escaped the Oregon State hospital Dec. 3, was cap tured here yesterday by the FBI. The FBI reported Burr was seized without a struggle at an armed services YMCA after they received a tip from Portland rel atives on Burr's whereabouts. He had sent word to Portland for the relatives to forward him some money. It was the second time Burr had been arrested in Southern California after escaping Oregon. In the previous flight, he 'was with Marion Watson, 21. who is still at Liberty after the escape witn uurr uec. a. The FBI said Burr has given them no clue to the whereabouts of Watson. ROSEBURG, 300 M Bottle-Tossing Boys Deal $1,500 Ruin To Windows BAKER, Deo. 27. A milk bottle throwing spree has ruined S150O worth of plate glass windows here and landed three Juveniles in Jail, accord ing to Police Chief Guy Church. The youths, Jimmy Ward Holden, 19, Don Williams, 17, and Winifred Braokin, 16, told police that after they had thrown milk bottles through one window they deolded to toss some more. Damaged were a grocery store in South Baker, a service station, a bakery, the C. C. Anderson store and Palmer Brothers Jewelry store on Main street, and a motor company near Main street. The escap ade took place between 1 and 2 a. m. last night. Yule Tree Fire Levels 3 Blocks, Takes One Life HYNDMAN, Pa., Dec. 27 UP) The fire which leveled this mounain community's business section has forged a new spirit of civic pride in Hyndman. mat Decame apparent toaay as merchants, town officials and businessmen started to lay plans for a new and better town. The Christmas eve fire burned out three blocks of the center of town; The bank, 12 other business buildings, about 20 homes and tc -postoffice : were reduced to twisted, charred wreckage. An unofficial estimate of dam age compiled by businessmen placed it at around $1,000,000 a staggering amount for a town of about 1,500 population. But Hyndman has not bowed to late. "We are going to build a bet ter town than we ever had be fore," Charles O Burns, cashier of the burned-out bank declared. "The fire has bound the com munity together," George Keller, principal of the local high school said. It is really amazing. Ev eryone is helping." ' The high school was not dam aged by the fire. Emergency re lief headquarters were set up there. Food, clothing, furniture and other items to help the town back on its feet are being distributed by Red Cross workers. The fire started when a Christ mas tree in the home of Som mers Fisher blazed up. Fisher's wife, Corrine, 60, was trapped and died in the fire. Fisher was burned badly and is in serious condition at Memorial hospital in nearby Cumberland, Md. Couple Greet 2nd Pair ; Of Twins In 10 Months LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 UP)- Mr. and Mrs. Jesse- Kohal are the proud parents of their second set of twins within 10 months. Yesterday, the day after their third wedding nnnlversary, Jeff rey and Michael were born. Each weighed a little more than five and a half pounds. Mother and babies are reported to be "doing fine." Last Feb. 9 Mrs. Kohal, 27, gave birth to twin girls. Following the latest additions to the family, Kuhai, 31, a gro cery manager, commented: I'm a little weak. But very pleased." HUNT FOR LOST Embryo Robin Hoods, 11 And 5, Found Unhurt After All-Night Trek In Woods Christmas - festivities in the Glendale-Azalpa areas went by the board - Christmas eve and most of Sunday, while residents of the area, augmented by state and county officers, national guardsmen and forest rangers combed the rugged mountain areas In search of two lost boys. Duane White, 11, and Jack Rae Louderdale, 5, were the objects of the searching party. The two boys, with a collie dog and a pup, had strayed from their homes shortly after noon Satur day. With their new hows and arrows they had received for Christmas, they had started out on a hunting expedition. When they failed to return by 6 p. m,' their fathers, Olin White and Alton Louderdale, finally ap pealed for help, and a searching party was organized under State Police Officer Virgil Simpson. Bv 9 o'clock that night Officer Simp- k OREGON TUESDAY, DEC. $60,000 More To Be Sought For Hospital Drive For Community Project Completion To Be Planned Tonight Douglas Community hospital trustees and a group of local busi ness men will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight to complete plans for the raising of an additional $60,000 needed for construction of the new hospital in Roseburg. Those to attend will be notified of the meeting place. ' President Kenneth Ford, In an nouncing the meeting. emDhasiz- ed the importance of shaping up ana completing arrangements lor an intensified campaign to raise the needed deficit, in order to start the hospital construction at the earliest possible time. The low bid of $379,700 as sub mitted by Todd Building Co., must be accepted within 30 days. Since it will take about three weeks to clear the contract through the state and federal agencies, there remains only this week in which to raise the money. The overall hospital expendi ture, according to present plans, said Ford, is $510,000. Of this amount $155,000 in federal funds is assured, if the community can carry through with its program. Local Labor to Benefit ' Construction of the hospital, proper, including the low bid of Todd at $379,700, a low bid of $18, 846 submitted by Kalberer Hotel Supply, Portland, and Installation of laundry facilities would repre sent an expenditure of nearly (Continued on Page Two) Oregon Holiday Death Toll Nine By The, Associated Press Oregon's holiday fatalities stood at nine today. Six died in traffic accidents and three suc cumbed in fires, two of these youngster' who suffocated Christmas-Eve. Christmas day victims were Si mon Head, 44, Linnton, whose automobile smashed Into -a bridge between , Prineville and Redmond: and L. R. Pickett, 70, Bend, fatally burned when an oil stove at his house exploeded. , The fatalities: TRAFFIC Daniel Aaron Lake, 67, Port land. , . John Roger Smith, 65, Gresh- am. ! , Nancy J. Werner, 26, Portland. John T. Huff, 65, Bonneville. Mrs. Bernlce Hansen, 24, Port land. . Simon Head, 44, Linnton. ,'. BX r 1K Beverly Ogden, 6, : and brother, 2, of Portland.. L. R. Pickett, 70, Bend. ; her Lou Franco Acquitted Of Charge Of Speeding Lou Franco, local western band leader, today was acquitted by a five-man Jury of a charge of speeding within the city limits. The Jury chose to believe Franco's statements and those of his two witnesses during Tues day's re-trial in which Franco acted as his own defense attorney. A previous trial, held Dec. 12, resulted in a hung jury. The new jury deliberated only about 20 minutes before returning the verdict favoring the defendant, The city's case, represented by City Attorney Paul Geddes, charged Franco with violating the basic rule (speeding) on the eany morning of uec. t. HEAT RECORD SET NEW YORK, Dec. 27. An all-time heat record for the date was set today when the ther mometer registered 60 degrees at 1 p. m. The previous record was sv.i on uec, it, lajb. BOYS IS AZALEA'S YULE son alerted the state police and sheriff's office In Roseburg. ' An all night and morning hunt was finally rewarded, when the youngsters were found shortly after 2 p. m. Sunday. Good Judgment Shown Cold, tired, hungry and with sore feet, the boys were otherwise in good condlilon. They had tramped about 7i miles up Cow Creek. They were lorated near the head of White canyon and Dead Horse canyon, close to the headwaters of Starveout creek. The boys had used good judg ment, officers reported. They used the shelter of a log, covering themselves with fir bows and lying close to their dogs, whose warmth helped protect them from the cold mountain air. After thev were found, the boys were taken to a Grants Pass hnanlfat fn. l...ln..nt ThftV haH been wearing only levis and leath-1 27, 1949 V OUTSTANDING CARRIER Johnny Duval, right,' is considered by News-Review Circulation Manager Fuller Johnson, left, his outstanding carrier-salesman. But Johnny Is only one of 36 carrier-salesmen who were guests, along with' motor route, car riers, their fathers end office personnel, at the third annual Christmas banquet held for the boys last Friday night at Carl's Haven. Johnny has been with the News-Review ever since John son took over as manaaer in January 1946. In all, 76 attended the dinner. The' boys were treated to all the fried chicken they could eat. (Picture by Paul Jenkins I V N.Y. Gets Heavy Rain; More Slated NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-WP)---The first heavy rain since last spring fell on New York and its parched watershed today and the weather bureau saw another 24 hours of it coming. Water-shy New Yorkers were as happy as dustbowl farmers at the end of a drought, but the city water department kept its fin gers crossed. Any water that runs Into the big reservoirs now two-thirds empty must not only handle the present demand but store up a surplus for summer. The rain a measured .61 of an inch during the night fell while engineers from three states doggedly planned an enormous 600,000,000,000 gallon 1 reservoir system that ' would serve New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl vania cities for the next hundred years. But .this , wouldn't help In the present shortage, and is planned only as a long-range remedy; ' New .York City's present reser voir capacity is 253,000,000,000 gallons but there are only 87, 445,000,000 left in the storage lakes. ' : The reservoir level dropped an other 103,000,000 gallons yester day in spite of the holiday and the shutdown of Industrial plants.' Seting-Eye Dog, Like .. , Master, Goes Blind LOS ANGELES, Dec. ''27. UP) It was a real tragedy for John T. Donahue, 78, when his eight-year-old dog, King, went blind. Donahue, who lives alone with the pet, also Is blind and King Is a sceing-cye dog. - Now they both help each other in their land of darkness. And the philosophic old man is cheerful about his new loss. "Could be a lot worse," he says. "Suppose I had lost my legs or my hands?" er jackets, without hats, and had spent nearly 26 hours in tne mountains, in' mingled rain and snow. The boys were found by forest rangers Andy Biltz of Quines Creek, Carl Wlsenburg, George Mollers and Casper Honn, all 01 Glendale. Intensive Search Conduoted They had been In the search almost from the start. By the time the boys were located the searching party had multiplied to nearly 300 persons, it was re ported, 'i In addition to anxious residents of the areas, forest rangers from Tiller and Glide stations, national guardsmen from Roseburg, Trl City and Grants Pass, representa tives from the state police and sheriffs office were on the Job. Deputy A. A. "Red" Eckhardt (Continued on Page Two) 203-49 AFL Lists "Opponents" Of Labor's Interests ; WASHINGTON, Dec. .27 '(- A list of 107 Congress members, published yesterday by the Amer ican Federation of labor and des cribed as having opposed the best interests of workers, far. mers and small businessmen," contained the names of three northwest officeholders. Those mentioned included Sen-' ators Guy Cordon of Oregon and Harry Cain of Washington, and Rep. Harris Ellsworth of Oregon. All are Republicans. :' Negro Murder Suspect Is Slain - CRAWFORDSVTLLE. Ark.. Dec. 27. UP) A Negro accused of kill ing a white woman taxi driver and wounding two peace officers was snot to aeatn yesteraay wnne resisting arrest. Sheriff ' Cecil Vi Goodwin said his deputies Gladstone Williams and C.-M. Rieves were forced to shoot when the Negro Minus Wilson resisted them in a cafe, i Shortly before he. was killed, the sheriff said, the Negro fired one shot at Williams' wife when she surprised him in her home. Mrs. Williams was not injured. ' ' Police had been searching for Wilson since Dec. 9 when Mrs. Joe McDanlel, 37, wife of the Luxora, Ark., town marshal, was shot to death. McDanlel and night marshal Ralph Williamson were wounded. . The Luxora officers were trans porting Wilson: to Jail In a taxi cab operated by Mrs. McDanlel. They said they had arrested him and a Negro woman,, on minor charges! Marshal Tito, Britain ; " Sign 5-Year Trade Pact BELGRADE," Yugohlavla,' Dec. 27. UP) Marshal Tito has a new five-year trade pact with Britain and a tidy budget surplus to bol ster Yugoslavia against economic pressure by the Russian-led Corn inform. - ' Russia and her eastern Europe satellites have boycotted Yugo- I slav trade since Tito's break with the Kremlin and the new trade agreement tightens Yugoslavia's ties witn tne west.-- " The deal was made public last night at a meeting of parliament in which the govrenment an nounced that the national budget not only balanced its budget this vear but bad a surplus oi .-uu, 000,000 in the treasury as well. Heavy Snow Follows Deadly Quake In Japan TOKYO, Dec. 27 -J.m Heavy snow today spread a new blanket of misery over central Japan, where elBht persons were killed and hundreds left homeless by 20-odd earth temblors between Sunday night and this morning. National rural police said eight were killed and one person was missing. Many were Injured but only one seriously. Eighty -six homes and buildings collapsed and 283 others were badly dam aged. Safety Council's Head Expects Won Record ' in New Year's Whoopee (By The AuocUUd finl At least 568 violent deaths were a grim payment today for the nation's three-day Christmas noli- day with another long weekend looming aneaa. , One person was killed In traf fic, fire or one of a variety of other., accidents aDoroximatelv every 13 minutes during the holi day period irom six p. m. Friday until midnight Monday. The biggest killer, as usual was the automobile with 397. A large portion of them were pedestrians. Fires killed 65 persons, many of them children. And children were notable among victims of 1)4 mis cellaneous accidents. The traffic toll was less than the 435 predicted by the National saiety council, out Ned H. Dear born, president of the council, pointed out that the cost in Uvea paid for the holiday in all types of accidents was higher than the 550 claimed in the Texas City, Tex., disaster o! two years ago. May Be Worse New Year's . "Our holidays have become a series of Texas Cities,'," Dear born said. "In a week, we may expect another one a Joyous weekend of mass murder over New Year's unless the people have sickened of making horror days out of holidays." One of the most horrifying traffic accidents occurred in Tex as Friday night when an auto bile and a gasoline truck collid ed. Gas splashed from the truck's ruptured tank and Ignited, turn lng the vehicles into pyres. A fam ily of five in the automobile and the truck driver perished. A mother and her six children died in a fire which swept their (Continued on Page Two) Shoots Ex-Spouss, And Lady Friend ATHENS, Ga., Dee. 27 UPV Miss Mirian Thurmond, shot twice by the divorced wife of a college professor,' was reported improving toaay. i The , 28-yearold woman had been In serious condition for the past two days. 1 Miss Thurmond and University of Georgia journalism dean. John -E. Drewry, were wounded Friday night in th e Thurmond home. ' Mrs. Kathleen Drewry, the dean's ex-wife, Is in jail. Formal charges have not been filed pend ing outcome of Mies Thurmond's condition. . Dean Drewry condition Is good and he was up and about in his hospital room yesterday. He Is a widely known teacher and author. . Mrs. Drewry told Clarke coun ty officers she shot her ex-husband and Miss Thurmond in a fit of rage. She and Drewry din ed together the night of the shoot ing, Mrs. Drewry said, ana naa discussed a reconciliation. The Drewrys were divorced 1st July after 23 years of marriage. Safe At Union Garage : Resists "Crack" Effort . Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter to day reported a safe at Caskey Bros. Union garage had been damaged and a .32 caliber auto matic stolen sometime sun day night - According' to the report, en trance to. the building was made through a -window, ine tmei or thieves were unsuccessful in at tempting to open the safe, but did drill several holes In It before -giving up. Tools and other valu ables were not taken, Sheriff Carter said. . A reported second case of break and entry, the Camp View cafe, is being Investigated by state police. State Police Sgt. Holly Holcomb said his office believes this rob bery attempt also occurred Sun day night Underground Temperature Read By Radar On Moon I NEW YORK, Dec. 27 UP) Radar can now read the temper ature down under the surface of the ground on the moon. ' This was reported to the Amer ican Association for the Advance ment of Science today by the Collins Radio company. ' They did it during the last eclipse of the moon. The cold spell on tne moon aunng tne hour when the earth blotted out the sunlight was so terrific that half a foot below the surface the moon was several degrees under freezing. The report said that radar wav es penetrate under the surface and show that the moon's face Is probably made of dust The radar used was a wartime product made at the Massachu setts institute of technology.. Post-CKsistmas ads. Make buyers cjlad With welcome twe-werd bowl They refer te slice Is quoted price, Artel here they artl "" Levity fact J ant By L. T. Retzenstela