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U. of 0, Library COMP ' Eugene, Ore, n n n mm TOO By ! rap 0 if' ) The Weather Mostly cloudy today with o cailonol light rain tonight and Thursday. Sunsot today 4:44 p. m. Sunrlso tomorrow 7:4S a. m. Friday mm Goal Fixed Ism M&mm n u WINS FREEDOM Louis Boy, 50, walks out of Sing Sing prison at Ossining, N. Y., a free man after, serving 18 years of a life term as a convicted murderer. Boy, once condemned to death in the electric chair, won a gubernatorial Christmas pardon for risking his life in an unsuccessful medical experiment to save the life of a little girl doomed by leukemia. Guard Sergeant C. K. Bosenbark holds the gate open for the happy Boy. (AP Wirephoto). Toasimasters Score Government Laxity, Self-Centered Lawmakers; Amateur Wrestling Receives Boost The United States and its congressmen were criticized Tuesday night by two of the three club members to speak before the reg ular weekly meeting of the Roseburg Toastmasters club. Meeting in the Umpqua hotel, Toastmasters heard Jack Myers urge "some sort of monetary aid" from the federal government to help support a strictly American culture, His talk was entitled Colorado Milling Firm Hit By $200,000 Fir " "CORTEZ, Colo., Dec. 28 UP) Blre destroyed the main build ing of the Wark Milling company here early today causing damage estimated at $206,000. Company owners William and T. W. Wark said 60,000 bushels of wheat and 175,000 pounds of flour were lost in the blaze. HUSBAND ACCUSED SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 28 UP) A formal murder charge has been placed against Thomas P. Talle, 37, wealthy retired polo playing ranchman. His pretty wife, Margaret, was found shot to death Saturday at the couple's swank new home at Los Gatos. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE Moscow press goes to town on the big reception held as a part of the OFFICIAL celebra tion of Stalin's 70th birthday anniversary. The big binge took place in the White- Hall of the largest of all the Kremlin chambers. Present were the highest Soviet ministers, members of the Su preme Soviet and those specially honored .persons, who hold the orders of Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero , of , Socialist Labor. ' Present also at the glittering affair were well known figures In Soviet science, art. and litera ture, marshals, generals, journal ists (Russian journalists are the trained seal kind, who bark when (Continued on Page Four) GIRL'S PRAYERS FUTILE Betty Marbury Forced To Part With Right Hand To Check Spread Of Disease MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 28-4JP) Betty Lou Marbury's right hand the one she hoped prayer would save was removed today. A Baptist hospital nurse announced the hand was amputated between the wrist and elbow. Just before entering the hos pital room, Betty's spirits were atill high. - ' Her father, Clay Marbury, broke the news to her gently yesterday soon after she was id mitted to Baptist hospital. He told her she might die if the hand was not removed. "She wasn't a child when she heard that," he said. "She was a grown-up woman." Later Betty laughed and chat ted In her room. The parents wept Betty's doctor announced the decision last night to the Mem phis Commercial appeal, which copyrighted the story. "Starving Men of Letters." Myers declared, "We're in a cultural desert, although ours is one of -the largest and wealthiest nations in the world." He claim ed the U. S. Is one of the very few large countries not giving financial assistance to artists, composers and authors. To prove his point, Myers cited an imposing number of outstand ing recent musical works, all made-possible because of private philanthropy. Phil Harth, speaking on the subject, "My Country or My Party?" declared our national and state legislators too often di vide on important questions, "purely because of party lines and party thinking." He rapped congressmen who return to their home grounds full of criticism-for the adminis tration or party in power. Yet these same congressmen, Harth said, are usually the ones who never make themselves heard while supposedly representing the home iolks at the state or na tional capital. "The thought uppermost In the mind of a legislator is 'how can I get re-elected?' " he said. Amateur Wrestling Boosted - . ' A third talk, given In the form (Continued on Page Two) Margolis To Resign As Federal Conciliator WASHINGTON. Dec. 28 (m William N. Margolis, assistant di rector of the federal, mediation and conciliation service, is re signing March 1, it was learned today. Margolis has been the top con ciliator since Cyrus- S. Ching brought him to the central office from New York In 1947. He has handled some of the nation's toughest disputes in maritime, telephone, steel and other major industries. He plans to open an office as & labor relations consultant It was to the newspaper that the pretty fifth grader wrote for prayer when she learned Nov. 30 her hand might be amputated just after Christmas. News serv ices spread the story over the country. The response was Immediate. Churches held special prayers for her. She got thousands of letters and gifts. But she remained sim ple and unaffected. She agreed with statements of manv ministers who said it might be God's will that the hand be saved. "If It must go," she said, "there's a purpose to It." Some ministers found in the (Continued on Page Two) Established 1873 Blizzards, Power Lines Felled, Rivers Begin Rising Six British Columbia Trains Halted By Slides; Travelers Are Marooned (By The AuocUted Prcu) Kin? winter nnened a veritable Pandora's box of weather today marooning travelers with snow and slides, snapping communica tions lines with blizzards and whipping winds, and threatening to bring a half dozen western Washington rivers to flood stage with soaking rains. One death was reported In southwest Washington, but prin cipal storm damage seemed to be centered in tsrmsn coiumoia. The victim was Burnis Mc Henry, 28, a Long Bell Lumber company logging railroad worker. He was struck by a wind-snapped tree near Ryderwood. In British Columbia, highways to the east were closed by snow. Six Canadian Pacific trains four of them crack trans-continental passenger trains were halted east and west of Revelstoke, B. C, by snowslides. Revelstoke Is. 400 miles east of Vancouver. Heavy sleet broke down tele phone lines, necessitating all calls to be rerouted through Seattle. Three feet of snow covered Ke lowna, 375 miles east of Van couver. Twenty-six inches of snow blanketed the Princeton area. In Washington's Cascade moun tain area, a blinding snowstorm all but halted traffic west of the Snoqualmie pass summit. Approxi mately 150 skiers and returning holiday vacationists were rescued yesterday noon after being ma rooned in Stevens pass overnight. Power Lines Felled Tree limbs, broken by heavy winds, crashed through power (Continued on Page Two) Dewey Plans To Quit Public Life, N. Y. Times Says NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-UP) The New York Times today said It is likely that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will retire temporarily from public life at the end of his present term as governor of New York. Warren Moscow, political writer for the Times, said" there are in dications that Dewey will not be a candidate for governor In 1950 or for president In 1952 but may come back into the presidential race In 1956 or 1960. Dewey would be only 54 years old in 1956. Moscow said there were two "tangible developments" tending to confirm the prediction. One was an annonucement from Princeton university that Dewey will deliver four lectures on the "American political system" there in February and April. The other was what the Times called "definite .information" that Dewey would appoint his counsel, Charles D. Breitel, to the suprei e court of the first judicial district The Times said these moves in dicate that Dewey is seeking the role of party "elder statesman" where he can comment on public affairs without the responsibili ties of office, and that he wants to take care of his close associates In public office before he steps down himself on Dec. 31, 1950. Taxi Company Faces $50,000 Damage Suit Melvln A. Roenspie has filed suit In circuit court demanding $50,000 general damages and ad ditional special damages as the result of alleged Injuries suffer ed while he was a passenger in a taxi, which, the complaint stat ed, went out of control and crash ed. I. H. Peters, Earl L. Gay and Glenn Chamberlain, doing busi ness as Reeds port Lower Ump- ?iua ' Taxi, were named as de endants in the suit. The plaintiff alleges careless ness and negligence on the part of the defendants. The accident reportedly took place on the Ore gon Coast highway Sept 4, 1949, the complaint stated. Suspect Arrested In Safe-Tampering Job Leo Craft, 22, address un known, is being held In Sacra mento, Calif., for Douglas county authorities, Chief of Police Cal vin Baird said he was notified Tuesday by telegram. According to the telegram, said Baird, Craft has admitted he was the one who entered Caskey brother's Union garage here Sun day night. The safe was damag ed, but unopened, and a .32 cali bre automatic pistol taken, Sher iff O. T. Carter was advised. Craft, according to the tele gram, was picked up by Califor nia Highway patrolmen. ROSEBURG, Wind, NOSE THEIR GUIDE Salmon Smell Their Way Back ; Home, Revealed NEW YORK, Dec. 28 -4P Discovery that migrating salmon probably smell their way back home from the sea was reported to the American Association for the advancement of science to day. The discovery was made at the university of Wisconsin by train ing salmon minnows. These little things learned to discriminate be tween the waters from different lakes by the differences in the smell. The experiments were done by Prof. Arthur D. Hasler and by Warren Wisby. Blind minnows were used. They were trained by receiving food when they swam in water from one lake, but, by being given a mild electric shock, if they chose the water from an other lake. Finally they chose the lake that gave them food in preference to all others and regardless of what happened. How salmon find their way back to the same river and same creek from thousands of miles at sea has been one of the great fish mysteries. Roseburg Youth, Four Others Flee Training School WOODBURN, Dec. 28 EV Flve boys escaped from the state training school this morning after hitting a supervisor on the head with a broom and taking his keys. James Lamb, superintendent of the school, said the boys are se rious offenders. They escaped from a detention cottage contain ing 30 boys. Lamb said the other 25 -could have escaped, but they didn't try. ? He said the escape occurred at 6:45 a.m. The supervisor, Vern Ncal, received a cut on his head, but wasn't seriously hurt. The boys were dressed in over alls but had no shoes. Ten cars from the school were patrolling the highways In an effort to re capture the boys. The boys.are: Walter Leroy Forbes, 14, Rose burg; Richard Henderson, 17, Omaha, Neb.; Robert Hughes, 15, Portland; Richard William Zlrkel, 16, Vallejo, Calif.; and John Simon, 16, Portland. Family Of Four Found ' In Yule Eve Tragedy NEW YORK, Dec. 28 VP) A father and mother and their two young children all apparent ly dead since Christmas eve were found today In their holiday- aecoratea east side apartment Police said they believed the family was wiped out by carbon dioxide poisoning. Tne maKlngs oi a Christmas dinner were in the refrigerator. Beside the children's bed was a decorated tree with packages un der it On a dresser was a pack age marked: "To our daddy from your angels." The dead were Andrew Gazak, 33; his wife Veronica, 32; and their children veronica, five, and Andrew Jr., three. All were found dead In bed. Infant's Fingers, Thumbs Gnawed Off By Rats ABILENE, Tex.,. Dec. 2&-(JP Rats gnawed all 10 fingers and thumbs from the hands of a three-months-old Abilene child, It was reported here today. The incident occurred last Sat urday when Mrs. Rlto Martinez left her daughter, Carmen Mar tinez, in her small apartment while she visited another apart ment. When she returned she found the little girl's hands were bleed ing profusely and a small mon- f;rel dog, the family's pet, was icking the wounds. Mrs. Marti nez said she believes the dog frightened the rats away. The father of the child later found two large rats in the house. Woman Accused In Death Of Adopted Daughter KITTANNING, Pa., Dec. 28 UP) A young woman charged with murder In the death of her 15-month-old adopted daughter has signed a statement that she pushed the baby's head against the floor the day before Christ mas. Coroner C. M. Woodward said yesterdty Mrs. Susan Loretta Becker, 26, of Leechburg, Pa., admitted in the statement she caused the death of Loretta Ber nadette Woodward Becker be cause of jealousy. "I don't know why I did It." she was quoted as saying, "but I disliked the child because my husband gave the child more af fection than he did me." The Beckers have been mar ried six years. They have an other adopted child, Ralph, three. OREGON WEDNESDAY, DEC. Rain Sweep Northwest Jacobson Set Free After 2nd Seizure Russians Liberate Aid Worker Following His Eviction By Hungary VIENNA, Dec. 28 UP Israel G. Jacobson, American Jewish relief official expelled from Hun gary on spy charges, was re leased by Soviet troops today and returned to the American sectoi of Vienna. Jacobson had been held by the Russians at the Austro-Hunga-rian border after his expulsion by Hungary. Brig. Gen. James Fry, deputy U. S. High commissioner, was assigned to make arrangements for Jacobson'8 release, probably dealing with his Russian coun terpart, Col. Gen, Zheltoz. . They wei-e to select a site somewhere in the Russian occupation zone where the release would take place. Jacobson was taken into cus tody by Soviet border guards last night shortly after he was freed from a Hungarian jail and ex pelled from the country yester day. He had been held for 12 days. When, he reached the bor der, a Soviet patrol told him his papers were not in order. U. S. officials In Vienna promptly asked the Russians to release Ja cobson to American custody. Spy Sueplclan Claimed The 37 -year -old Jacobson, director in Hungary of the Amer ican joint distribution committee, had been held incommunicado in a Hungarian jail since Dec. 15 on what Hungarian officials then called "suspicion of espionage against the Hungarian state." He was released without .. previous (Continued on Page Two) AFL Blacklist Merely Smoke Screen Cordon PORTLAND. Dec. 28. UB Only two Oregon congressmen are on the AFL's blacklist, but the state AFL here opposes two others, too. James T, Marr, secretary of the state federation of labor, said the AFL supports Sen. Wayne L. Morse and Rep. Homer Angell but not other Oregonlans. Sen. Guy Cordon, commenting on the blacklist, said he consider ed It "just another smoke screen." He said the list was based on the vote on a few minor pieces of legislation. Train Kills Former Mile Run Champion NEW YORK. Dec. 28 P Dr. John E. (Jack) Lovelock, 39, me new eaiana-Dorn uiympic runner who once set a world rec ord in the mile run, was killed today by a subway train In Brooklyn. Police said Lovelock apparento iy suuerea an auacK oi aizziness and fell from the station plat form in front of the Coney Is- lana-oouna tram at tne Church avenue station. The Oxford-educated physician ran his world record mile at Princeton, N. J., in July, 1933, beating Bll Bonthron In 4:07.6. FIRE RAZES NURSERY CHERRYVILLE, Dec. 28 ) A small Mount Hood residence, used as a nursery for skiers' chil dren, burned down late yester day. No children were there at the time. Firemen from Sandy said a de fective oil furnace apparently set off the flames fed by oil in base ment storage tanks. CITY SERVICE RIGHT NOW! Two-Way Radio System For Police. Fire Depts. Spells Flash Responses From now on residents who call tha local city polica station asking for an officer to ba tent to their home shouldn't ba surprised if tha man in uniform knocks at their front door by tha time thay hava hung up tha telephone racaivar. Chief of Polica Calvin Baird announced that Installation of tha city's naw two-way polica and fira department radio lyitsm is now being made by tha Link Radio company. The main transmission station Is being Installed today and may be ready for use by Thursday night. A two-way car radio has already been installed In one of the police patrol cars. Seven installations are planned. Two-way sets will be installed in each of the city's two patrol cars, the two patrol motorcycles and In three pieces of fire equip ment. An aerial has been Installed atop the city hall. . The system is a 75-watt sta tion, operating on a 155 M. C band. John Ballnt of Eugene if 28, 1949 ZONING HEARING SET Planning Commission To Learn Views Of Residents Of Newly Annexed Areas Zoning of West Roseburg, Miller's addition-Sleepy Hollow and a portion of Baulah's addition will be considered at a public hearing let' by the City Planning commission for Monday, Jan, 9, at 7:30 p. m., in the city council chambers. The action was taken by the commission at ih monthly masting last night at tha request of tha city council. Paul Davis and R. O. Ounsdon ware present and spoka regarding Wait Heat Is Posting N. Y. City Records NEW YORK, Dec. 28 UP New York City coasted to Its third heat record In a week today when the first reading at 12:01 a.m. showed the mercury at 59.6. The old mark was 58.1 set In 1936. Af the same time, warm rains eased temporarily the chronic water shortage. The city shared a "false spring" with New England and states to the south which the weather bureau said was caused by warm gulf breezes moving north between high pressure ar eas. New York also set a heat rec ord last evening of 62.1, and- an other of 62.2 on Dec. 22. It was lilac time in Massachu setts. MIddlebury, Vt., reported hay ing. Maple sap was running In Vermont, and hornets usually asleep at this stage of the win ter were on the wing at Blddo ford, Me. ... Gardeners were worried lest plants and trees start to bud In the unseasonable warmth, only to be killed by a sudden freeze. This condition is extremely dan gerous for fruit trees. MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 28 UP) Yesterday was the hottest Dec. 27 on record In Mobile. The tem perature climbed to 76 degrees. The old mark, 73 degrees, was set in 1942 and tied in 1946. Rita Hayworth Presents Aly Khan With Princess LAUSANNE. Switzerland, Dec. 28 (P) A baby princess was born today to. Rita Hayworth, the flamorous red-headed movie star who married Moslem Prince Aly Khan last spring. The new princess' name will be Yasmin, the Arabic spelling for the fragrant jasmine flower used in southern France for mak ing perfume. Prince Aly said the birth was a natural one, delivered under gas. Rita's first daughter by a pre vious marriage was delivered in 1944 by Caesarian section. Princess Yasmin, with the mix ture of four bloods In her veins Spanish-American from her moth er and Iranian-Italian from her father is the granddaughter of Aga Khan, spiritual leader of mil lions of Moslems of the Islamic sect and reputedly one of the world's richest men. Salem Taxicab Firms To Retain Licenses SALEM, Dec. 28 UP) The Sa lem city council decided last night against revoking the li censes of three taxicab compa nies. The companies employed the 14 drivers who were charged with rape and contributing to the de linquency of a 14-year-old girl. The licenses of the drivers have been revoked. , here making the installation. Chief Baird said the efficiency of the local police department can be greatly Improved with the new system, it win mane possinie keeping a close check on all city vehicles, which may be directed to a scene in a very few min utes. This will eliminate the ne cessity of sending someone out to locate the patrol car when an emergency arises. Also In cases of accidents, he said, an ambulance can be called over the system In a matter of seconds. t 204-49 Koseburg zoning. Based upon recommendation of the West Roseburg Improvement committee, proposed zoning of that area would be as follows: Harvard avenue on either side would be zoned for business. This would exclude new factories or warehouses. The area lying north of Har vard Ave. would be residential No. 2, except for the property lying north of Umpqua Avenue East, commonly referred to as Princeton Ave., and the area lying east of Umpqua Ave. This ex cepted property would be resi dential No. 1. -Both sides of Princeton Ave. would be included In the excluded property. The area lying south of Har vard from the old city limits to Wharton Ave. would be residen tial No. 2. The area south of Harvard from Wharton Ave. west to the new city limits would be residen tial NO. 1. While no maps have been pre pared It Is probable that the por tion oi ueuian s addition annexed (Continued on Page Two) Safe World For Women To Haye Babies Her Plea PARIS, Dec. 28. UP) A pretty 26-year-old American girl cabled five world figures today and asked them to get togethe and make the world safe, so she can have babies. Mrs. Patricia (Reynolds) Capella, a French classical dan cer, said she used to live In New York. She distributed to the Dress copies of the cables she sent Presi dent Truman, Pope Pius XII, Premier Stalin, King George and Vincent Auriol, French president l am an American woman like millions of other married women who would like to have babies, her wire said. "But we are afraid of a forthcoming war and that our children will be used as cannon-fodder." She termed all the leaders ex cept Stalin "architects of peace." Her wire to Stalin said "we un derstand that you are far from being a great architect of peace, but rather a risk of war. Prove to the world that It is wrong and that you are also a sincere friend of peace . . ." i am doing an mis on my own, she said, "to get some sort of guaranty that' I will be able to live in peace.' Miss America Of 1949 Weds Art Student. 20 LITCHFIELD PARK. Ariz.. Dec. 28 UP) A high school ro mance has blossomed Into mar riage for Miss America of 1949. Jacque Mercer, the national beauty queen, exchanged vows with Douglas Cook at the non- dcnomlnatlonal community church here yesterday afternoon. They nave gone steady lor tne past five years. The new Mrs. Cook Is a resi dent of Litchfield Park. She will be 19 next month. Cook, 20, lives in Phoenix, but has been studying art at the University of Chicago. They lett on a honeymoon last night, traveling In the 1949 car ?lven Jacque as part of her gifts or winning the Miss America ti tle. It has been estimated that the holder of the Miss America title makes In the vicinity of $50,000 tor personal appearances, en dorsements of goods, etc., over the course of a year. Public Utilities Act To Be Explained At Meet Here A meeting for the purpose of explaining and discussing the new Public Utilities commission act, as it affects transportation locally, will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. in the city council cham bers. Field Auditor Tom Coates of the Roseburg office, In announc ing the meeting, said the session will be open to the public. Any persons interested, especially truck owners or operators, are urged to attend. ESTATE IN PROBATE Judge D. N. Busenhark signed an order admitting the estate of Martha Z. Good, deceased, to probate, and the appointment of C V. Ferber ss administrator. if Business Loss Two Ways To City ly Lack Of FuS Facilities Pointed Out A large group of local business- men last night pledged themselvea to raise $60,000 bv Frldav noon the additional amount needed for construction of the new Douglas Community hospital. In a packed room in the base ment ot the Hotel Umpqua, con tributors and other Interested per sons heard hospital board presi dent nennetn rora icu now tne board had underestimated, some what, the cost of the proposed str icture, and how increased costs of construction work made - it necessary to increase the amounts advanced by bidders in submitting figures to the board. Ford said that although tha board and its architect haa under estimated the cost the figure was no greater man tne amerence between the low and high con struction bids. "It is impossible to estimate the project's cost to the exact dollar," Ford explained. . Items Ara Explained In discussing the various costs that will go into the hospital, Ford pointed out that onlv two items could be termed as possibly "un necessary." These include the standby boiler room and the stand- Dy electrical plant, both items re quired by the U.-S. government, if funds from that source are to b- made available. Ford Indicated that, although some other features In the pro posed new hospital may be con sidered as "luxury, gingerbread, or unnecessary," it was felt these features are necessary to make the hospital more "enjoyable or liveable" to the patient. The elimination of these so- called "extras" would not materi ally reduce the cost of the hospi tal construction, it was pointed (Continued on Page Two) McKay Appoints i Board To Deal With Jobs Need V SALEM, Dec. 28 (ff) Gover nor Douglas McKay appointed to day a 10-member state advisory committee to - deal with unem ployment. - , He said the committee which will meet next month, would ad vise committees being set up In every county and town to deal with unemployment at the local levels. i . Oregon now has 55,000 persona out of work. Dr. Calvin Crumbaker, head of the University of Oregon Depart ment of Economics, is chairman of the new committee. . Other members are: Jack Jennings, Portland, chair man of the Portland Labor-Man agement committee; David Blakeman, Portland, American Legion official; Milan Smith, Pendleton Civic leader; M. E. Steele, Portland, member of the American Federation of Labor state executive board; George Brown, Portland, state CIO sec retary; Alice A. Bissell, Eugene, Cannery Workers Union secre tary; J. C. Compton, McMInn- ville, past president of the Asso ciated General Contractors of Or egon; Andrew Collier, Klamath Falls, Ice company president; and Elmer R. Goudy, Portland, a lumber company official. "Because of the strictly season al nature of Oregon's three major Industries, the state is afflicted with decreasing employment ev ery winter," the governor said. A logical partial answer is to be found in greater diversifica tion of our industries, the further processing of agricultural and forest crops and the generation of more electric power," Gov. McKay Reappoints ; Two To State Boards SALEM. Dec. 28. UP) Carl W. Ho??. Salem electrical aDDliance dealer, was reappointed by Gov ernor McKay today to the State Liquor commission. The new term will run for six years. May Darling, retired Portland school teacher, was reappointed oy McKay to a second tour-year term on the State Board of Edu cation, i Robbed Taxi Driver Upi . His Loss Via Complaint MONTREAL. Dec. 28 UPy- Taxi driver William Frankford chalked up a net loss of $9 last nlgnt oecuase ne u-ieo to laemuy trom police picture lues tne gun man who stole $6 from him re cently. He didn't Identify the robber. But the files showed he owed $3 for a two-months old traffic vio lation. He paid up. CREDITORS TO MEET-" The Douglas County Retail Credit association will meet at the Hotel Umpqua civic room for dinner tonight at 6:30 o'clock. President Robert Rennle urges all members to be present. levity fact J ant By L. F. Reizensteln Wasn't the winter hi Rosebucf otm sjrudl " V