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V U. of 0, Library COMP Eugene, Ore. WHO WES WHH : '. ?a?ss: mini ae&i J. - - a. fc W" FLORENCE MANLEY, registered nun. at Mercy hospital, ro moves Donny Can Herndon from hit crib .in the nursery and holds him up to look at the birdie and the nice world Santa CI a us left him in. Donny arrived on Christmas day, sol take it Old Saint Nick brought him, not the stork. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Herndon of Oakland, .Oregon. Another Christmas baby arrived . at Mercy James Elmer Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert W. 8utler of Winston; but he had gone home before I arrived with e camera. Donny weighed in at seven pounds, Jim at nine pounds eight ounces. Sound Thrice Outspeeded By Rocket Plane Of Air Force . LOS . ANGELES, Dec.. 29. - r - UPk has flown 1,989 miles per hour That's-the -new record of 'the says the Los Angeles Times' Cordon Expects No CVA Action At Coming Session ' PORTLAND, Dec. 29 UP) Sen. Guy Cordon, here yesterday enroute from Roseburg to Wash ington, said he thought no CVA legislation would be enacted at the coming session of Congress. Th rp'asnn. lie 'said, was that no hearings have been held in the Northwest. Without hearings, It Is unlikely that Congress can act before adjournment which he thinks will , come in August. , Touching on a wide range of topics in an interview, he said he expected partizan politics to be evident in the coming session, especially since Sen. Lucas of Il linois, Democratic leader, and Sen. Taft of Ohio, Republican leader, both are up for re-election. ' ' He looks for little economy and little tax reduction. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AS these words are written, a little. before noon on the day before Christmas, this dispatch Is coming off the wires from the village of Bethlehem: "Rain, mud anfl. grim remind ers of war today marred the tra ditional Christmas Eve pilgrimage to Bethlehem, birthplace of the Prince of Peace ... "There were TWO ROADS this time and TWO processions." HOW come? Well, it's this way: - For a long time the Jews and Arabs had been fighting for pos session of the Holy Land. There came a time when the shooting ceased and a truce was arranged. Peace prospects were looking; up. Then . The general assembly o the United Nations decided to make Jerusalem an INTERNATIONAL city. The Jews balked. The Arabs (Continued on Page Four) r DEATH TOLL APPALLING Six Major Holidays In 1949 Cost 2.717 Lives; Fourth Of July Tops List -.' 1 tBr Tti AiMcMt4 Pn) V ) The nation celebrated the six major holidays in 1949 with a lot of whoopla and gaiety but there was a staggering toll of violent accidental deaths 2,717. And, the National Safety council predicts, 1950 will start with 330 Americans being killed in traffic accidents over the New Year's weekend. It did not estimate the number of deaths in other accidents. Deaths on the highways, in the air, fires, drownings, and a va riety of other causes reached new records over some of the holiday periods this year. In most of them, the traffic toll exceeded the figure estimated by the council. The 1949 holiday violent deaths showed: 1,705 in traffic mishaps; 391 drowned; 66 killed In fires and 555 killed in accidents of mis cellaneous causes including falls, airplane crashes, shootings, asphyxiatlons, etc. The safetv council has termed the violent deaths during the holi - Aa Air Force, plane reportedly three ttmei the speed ol sound. Air Force's . X-l - rocket plane, aviation editor, Marvin Miles. Quoting what he calls "reliable informants," Miles today said the X-l had reached a speed of 1,989 miles an hour in the stratospnere raver Edwards Air force base at Muroc Dry lake; Sonic velocity is btxi miles an hour between the altitudes of 35,000 and 100,000 feet. Miles -story did not say wno was at the controls, but presumed it-was Capt.-Charles Yeager or perhaps MaJ. Pete Everest.' A year and a half ago the Air Force announced that Yeager would try to fly .the X-l up to 1,700 miles an hour,; the- maximum "speed for which it was originally, designed. Everest, Miles said, has been test ing the rocket-powered craft. . The needle-nosed, 31-foot-long X-l is dropped from the belly of a suDerfortress for its flights. It climbs almost vertically to ibout 80,000 feet belore Beginning us speed runs. It four rocket tubes, with a total of 6,000 pounds of thrust, can operate for slightly more than four minutes. At the end of that period, the fuel is ex hausted. Miles said air force officers In Washington refused to confirm or deny the reported figure. in December oi ia Miles re ported that Capt. Yeager in the X-l had surpassed the speed of sound. The air force did not admit this until six months later. ; ; Sentences On Japs For Wartime Cruelty Upheld YOKOHAMA, Dec. 29 'UP) Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, U.S. Eighth Army commander, has approved prison sentences of 14 Japanese civilians and two army sergeants. They were convicted Sept. 6 of mistreating American and British war prisoners at forc ed work in iron and steel works from 1943 to 1945.. . t NO IMMUNITY i NEW YORK, Dec. 29 UP) The state department told Feder al Judge Sylvester J. Ryan today that accused - spy Valentin A. Gubitchev has no immunity, from arrest or trial. - . . Gubitchev, a Russian engineer facing trial with Judith Coplon, is claiming Immunity because of his United Nations pest, from which he was suspended follow ing his arrest. day celebrations "shameful," "ap palling," and "disgraceful.'' After last weekend's Christmas holiday,-when 580 persons lost their lives in accidents, Council President Ned H. Dearborn said - "The actual death toll for our three-day celebration was more than that for the Texas City disas ter ot two years ago wmcn Horri fied the nation. "Our holidays have become a series of Texas Cities.' In a week (New Year's) we may expect an- .(Continued on Page Two) Tho Weather Mostly cloudy with showers today. Partly cloudy with few showers Friday. Cooler tonight end Friday. Sunset today 4:45 p. m. . Sunrise tomorrow 7:45 a. m. Established 1873. Horse Backs Truman Stand On Coal Slash Senator -Says President Without Power To Halt 3-Day-Week Mine Limit WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-ff) Senator Morse (R-Ore) contend ed today that the three-day mine week which has so cut coal pro duction that a slash in rail serv ice threatens cannot be halted by President Truman. Morse stated that view on the heels of a report that the Inter state Commerce commission, meeting today, might order a 25 per cent cut in passenger service on coal burning railroads. The roads report they are low on coal due to the short work week ordered by United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis. Southern coal operators, accus ing Lewis of unfair labor prac tices, yesterday asked the Na tional Labor Relations board to take court action to force a re turn to full production. Earlier, some operators had urged Mr. Truman to use his separate .emergency Taft-Hartley act powers including a provision (Continued on Page Two) - Earthquake On Island Of Luzon Deals Big Damage MANILA. Dec. 29 UP) A heavy earthquake shook Luzon, main island oi tne rniuippines, for two and one-half minutes to day. Isabela Province, on the north east coast, was reported hardest hit, with sea waves and landslid es. -. A woman was drowned by the seismic sea waves at the town of Mercedes. A boat with eight pas sengers capsized n-ar the Man alan ferry, but all'were-report ed saved. - ..-.. . In the town of Naguiiian, about 250 miles northeast of Manila,, a jeep was reported to have been swallowed up by a fissure in the earth. Several nearby towns were isolated by landslides. The national Ked cross re ported several fissures spewed black water In the town of Ilagan, Isabela province capital 275 mil es northeast of Manila. The Cath olic church there was badly dam aged. , In Cabanatuan, "70 miles north of Manila, several women and children were reported injured in a stampede in a movie theater. Throughout the 500-mile length of Luzon, almost every able-bodied person fled into the open for safety. - Damage to many ouiicungs was reported. Large cracks appeared in some oi Manna s tauest struc tures. Telephone poles whipped back and forth, at the zenith of the temblor. t Standing without support be came difficult in the fourth floor office of the Associated Press In the Manila times building. Light fixtures rocked back and forth. A steel file cabinet danced around the floor. Almost every large city on the island reported damage to build ings. Umpqua Plywood Has Superintendent Change 1 Wilson S. "Bill" Henson has resigned as superintendent of Umpqua Plywood to take over a similar position at a plywood plant at Uklah, Calif. He plans to leave Roseburg Tuesday of next week. The plant at Ukiah is called Coast Plywood. Henson came to Roseburg in 1945 at the time construction of the Umpqua Plywood plant was started. The mill commenced op erating in 194b. Weldon Zemlicka, who has also been with Umpqua Plywood since it was first started, will be ad vanced to take Henson's place as superintendent. U. Of Oregon Student Dies Of Bullet Wound ' EUGENE, Dec. 29. OP) Lvle Dale Snider. 26-year-old Junior at the University of Ore gon, died oi a ouuet wound in nis head this morning. Eugene police and the coroner's office listed the death as suicide. Snider died in his flny rented room from a bullet fired by a German rifle. The coroner re ported that Snider had recently received a letter from his ex-wife in England telling of the death last month of a five-year-old daughter and that apparently he had been despondent. Snider's parents live on a Myrtle Creek star route. LEAVES 118 DESCENDANTS KODAK, Tenn. .Dec. 29 UP) Henry Snyder, retired farmer, died yesterday, leaving 118 di rect descendants. He was 95. Surviving are four daughters, six sons, 42 grandchildren, 63 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. ROSEBURG, Hearing On Local Milk Prices Due . . PORTLAND, IMC. 29 B A State Milk Control Board hearing on the Roseburg area's milk price situation will be held In Roseburg the week of Jan. 10. The hearing reiulted from dairymen's diversion of milk to a Grants Pass cheese plant for two days and an agreement between the herd owners and distributors which boosted milk prices In Roseburg. State Milk Administrator Thomas L. Ohlsen said the ex act date of the hearing will be set later. He said the purpose would be to learn why milk Is priced higher at Roseburg than elsewhere In the state. Ohlsen said it Is selling for 20 1-2 to 22 cents a quart there. The state minimum Is 19 1-2. ' j VEEP LENDS HAND Cabby-Stranger Uses Him To Aid Greasy Oil Check NORFOLK, Va., Dec, 29 (IP) -When the stout, worried gentle man in the sporty convertible asked cab driver Oscar Osmund the way from Little Creek to Nor folk yesterday, he got his an swer. Not, however, before Osmund had pressed him into service as an assistant in the greasy job of checking the oil in his cab. That " job accomplished, Os mund led the gentleman and his lady driver to a Norfolk ferry dock. He got a five-dollar, bill for his pains. : Then he found out just who the assistant oil-checker was. It was Vice-President Alben Barkley. The lady driver was Mrs. Barkley. En route to Wash lngtont they'd lost their way near Little Creek amphibious base. Osmund wasn't Impressed. "Who's Vice-President Bark ley?" he asked. ; Medford Vets Facility Unable To Meet Demands PORTLAND, Dec. 29 UP) The Veterans administration domiciliary center at Medford has more patients than authoriz ed beds and 200 veterans seek ing care are on the waiting list. Paul A. Hatton, manager of the facility that was opened last February, told the Multonomah county veterans service commit tee yesterday that the bulk of the patients were of the first World war. He said when the facility was opened it was promptly fill ed with 525 to 540 patients. Hatton reported 10 to 12 per cent are from World War II and about 8 percent are Spanish-American war veterans. :Wf ' AlVf'li V '--V (( S VjV-p w' EXCAVATION KG UN Erection of the first unit of tho First Comervative Baptist church will commence with excavation of tho basement, being started, as shown in tho above picture. Location of tho church building program !s at tho north end of West 2nd Ave., overlooking the city. According to Dr. Ed gar B. Luther, pastor, tho building will be 80x40 feet, and will include a full cement basement, housing tho clasiroomi, end an auditorium upstairs, in which the services will be held. Anticipated cost will neighbor between $25-$50 thousand, Dr. Luther laid. OREGON THURSDAY, DEC. U.S. Of Germ Warfare Plan Charge ! Made During : Trial Of Japanese For ' Using Similar Method . MOSCOW, Dec. 29 IIP) The Russians, trying 12 Japanese on war crimes charges of waging germ warfare, today accused the United States of preparing to use disease as a war weapon. The Communist party organ Pravda said the U. S. is main taining a bacteriological warfare experimental station near Wash ington, D. C. It said the station's existence had been reported by the Washington Post In Febru ary, 1948. The paper also made these ac cusations against the United 1. The U. S. is "deliberately protecting Japanese war crimi nals" such as General Ishii, whom the Russians charge head ed Japan's germ warfare. The Russians also claim Ishii now is in Japan. 2. general MacArtiuir nas de fended the 12 Japanese the So- (Continued on Page Two) Soviet Ships Nose In Caribbean Area By The Associated Press Three mysterious Russian ships have been reported in the Caribbean area, wnere tne big gest U.S. peacetime maneuvers in history soon wnl be held. Am erican authorities are keeping a wary but diplomatically correct eye on the vessels. The three shins are reportedly enroute from the Baltic to Vladi vostok by way of St. Thomas in the Virein islands. Authorities said this brings to 15 the number of similar type Soviet-vessels-tha have:rossed the Caribbean on their way to Russia's important Siberian sea port in the. past two and a-half years. , One informant expressed doubt that the Russian ships' primary aim is military information. He suggested that Russia may be planning to take over fishing grounds that the Japanese used before the war. But .naval men recalled that last year three Russian vessels arrived at St. Thomas just a few weeks before spring maneuvers were held. Naval authorities say Soviet ships have a right to put in at St. Thomas, but point out that he Caribbean route is the long way around for a vessel on the Eu rope Vladivostok run. The Russians themselves have volunteered no explanation. 29, 1949 PACIFIC COAST Dig Population Growth Will . Provide Solution. Commerce Chief States WASHINGTON, Dee.' 29.-IAPj Secretary of Commerce Chariot Sawyer beliavas that' the cause of problems on the Pacific coast alio will provide the answer to those, difficulties. Summarizing his September conferences in west coast cities in report to presidential assistant John R. Steelmen yesterday, Sawyer said that soma of the areas current difficulty stems from tho "tremendous population growth." But that same growth, ho added, provides "much of its rich economic opportunity." JUDO PAYS OFF Woman Routs Male Attacker In Quick Time DETROIT. Dec. 29 UP) Miss Lorraine Rickey, 23, was about to get into her car in front of her home here last night. Along came a young man. "Going downtown, baby?"' he asked. ' ' When she gave him an empha tic "no," he grabbed her by the throat. Seconds later the thug was flat on his back on the sidewalk. With an anguished groan, he picked himself up and fled into the dark ness. , Miss Rickey, five-foot-five and weighing 120 pounds, phoned po lice a brief report before climb ing into her car. Police were intrigued. She had estimated the thug's weight at 170 pounds. They learned on fur ther inquire: Miss Rickey's brother, Ed ward, had trained her in judo. He was a Judo instructor with an airborne division during the war. Young v Democrats Ask Jas. Roosevelt's Ouster LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29-m The Young Democrats of Cali fornia have asked the resignation oi james ttoosevoit as Democra tic national committeeman. The entry of .the eldest son of the late president into the gov ernor's race is the reason for the action, announced William J. Tlernan and Henry James, south ern and northern chairmen, re spectively, of the group. i They stated yesterday that Roosevelt should resign in favor of someone who, "unfettered by ambitions for personal aggran dizement," may devote time to unifying the party. A spokesman for ; Roosevelt said, "Since the group no longer Is accredited by the party, no comment is necessary. Preient membership of the the Roseburg armory, , numbers will be added to the proposed Dr. Luther comes her from in church building projects. committee shown above (lett Ben Irvina. engineer: Grover superintendent of building: Other members of the building committee are John Pattea and Noah Hstfield. IPeul 205-49 PROBLEMS Here, Sawyer explained, are hundreds of thousands of new workers to process the products of the forests and farms and mines, together with the re sources of water and power with which to do it. And, here, too, is a vast new market for their out put." a pin-point review or sawyer s report-, based on meetines In San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran cisco, Portland and Seattle, in cluded these items: ' Washington and Oregon are having much less difficulty than California in absorbing the In- nux oi new worKers. . Devaluation Feared ' Dollar shortages In the Orient and Latin America have caused a lag in fruit and lumber exports to those countries which foreign aid programs have not offset. Representatives of lumber building material, . pulp-paper, iruit growing, wool and meat (Continued on Page Two) Dewey Evasive On Governor Race ALBANY. N. Y.. Dec. 29 UP) Thomas E. Dewey flatly renounc ed future presidential ambitions put Kept politicians guessing to day whether he would seek a third term as governor. Dewey last night appointed his counsel. . Charles D. Breitel. to the State supreme court and .thereby fanned the JUame of.apec ulation.that he would retire to private life at the end of his term, Dec. 31, 1950. The appointment to the bench of a close aide lent some cre dence to reports that Dewey would not make himself avail able for renomlnation for gover nor next year, despite increas ing pressure by influential Re publicans to get him to' run again. , However, Dewey himself warn ence. But . he made - it crys tal clear that he would not take another crack at the Repub lican presidential nomination at least in the foreseeable future. He said specifically he would not seek the nomination in 1SS2, 1956 or 1960. Asked about the years beyond 1960, he laughingly remarked at a news conference that he would be "lucky to be alive" 10 years hence. He it 47. organization, which meets 1 00. Eventually, a personage structure now under construction Albeny, with 10 yeeri' experience Members of the church building to right) are tlenry Wilcox Jr.; Bleke, chairman; John Atterbury, Dr. Luther, and C. N. Gillmore. Jenxmi picture I. Connelly In Accord With Vandenbarg U. S. Military Budget May Also Be Trimmed, View Of Democratic Leader . WASHINGTON. Dee. 19 -J in Sen. Connally (D-Texas) called toaay lor cuts In foreign spend ing next year and continuation of a "non-partisan" foreign policy. The veteran chairman of tli Senate ' Foreign Relations com- miuee torn a news conference that W. S. recovery and military assistance programs "have at reaay installed new confidence In a Jittery world." ' "The United States can:hav but one foreign policy," he in sisted. Moving Into a developing Sen ate fight over the bi-partisan foreign policy, Connally thus gen erally aligned himself with Sen. Vandenberg of Michigan, Repub lican spokesman on manv for eign issues and co-author of the oi-partlsan effort Before he met with newsmen, Connally's position had been ex- pected to furnish some clue to ' the administration's attitude on soothing ruffled Republican tem pers. connally told newsmen there would be no recognition of a Communist government in China without prior consultation by Sec retary oi aiaie ; Acneson wun (Continued on Page Two) Seal Sales Good; Mobile TB Unit Due In January Response to the Christmas Seal sales campaign has been good, announced Mrs. Ralph Church, county chairman. A considerable number of letters are still out which have not yet been answer ed, sne said. A visit of the tuberculosis mo bile unit will be made to Douglas county some time In January, Mrs. Church said. Representa tives from the Portland office will be here Jan. 6 to make ar rangements for the unit to oper ate not only In Roseburg but in the other centers of the county. Reedsport has already been 'Vis ited by the X-ray service. Receints of the Christmas seal booth pperated by the Lady Elka in the poatoff ice lobby during the three weeks prior to Christmas exceeded the $100 mark, Mrs. Church reported. These Iwere oaicB Tvmii nuiuu p.vucu. iiuv have been made otherwise. Mrs. W. D. Fritts was chairman in charge. Camp Fire girls who helped afternoons and Saturdays Includ ed Shirley Bispham, Judy Riley, La Velle Gladwlll, Patricia Nl day, Mary Ellse Unrath, Paulina Baird, Debby Corkrum, Evange line Chapman, Marilyn Freeman, Diane Myers, Sandra Howlett, Mary Lynn Holm, Bernlce Lounj- nury, sue Brown, Mary lm uen- try, Karen Arkell, Juanlta Jur gens, Mary Lee Baughman, Su zanne Williams, Linda Backen, Mary Anne Backen, Ruth West and Sylvia Sweem. , Roseburg Boy Only Fugitive , Not Caught SALEM, Deo. 29 m One of the five boys who broke out of the state training aehool at Woodburn yesterday morning was still missing today. He Is Walter Lefts Forbes, 14, Roseburg. State police said they believed he Is headed south. The other four boys were re captured near Woodburn yes terday. The five beys overpowered a supervisor, took his keys, and unlooked the door. . Canadian Pacific Trains Collide; 25 Persons Hurt, MEDICINE HAT. Alberta. Dec. 29. (CP) Twenty-five persona were injured, some seriously, when two Canadian Pacific rail way trains collided today at Southesk, on the main line 80 miles west of here. The wreck Involved a passe n- ger train and a train carrying aggage and express. Two steel coaches were smashed when the eastbound baggage train side- swiped the westbound passenger as it entered a siding. KILLED BY CAVE-IN PORTLAND, Dec. 29 -Xm A city sewer pit cave-in was fa tal last night to Guy Lloyd, 48, Portland. He died two hours after Kriumimi rin, him .,,f frnm ,n der three feet of clay and stone tnat leu irom tne side oi a 40-foot-deep excavation. Levity fact Q ant By L. T. Reizensteln Oregon's - unemployed totals mart than 55,000, of which, of court, Douglas county has sltoblo portion. And tho pro. jeered Douglas Community not pltal and now county homo, as wall at Mercy hospital enlarge moot, roprotont In tho aggroaeto an outlay of around $1,300,000 tor materials and labor. Civ rhlt thought If yoa are pro to erltlcho hoavy spdlna for ROKES3.