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1 U, of 0, Library ' Eugene Ore. COMP TMEH WW mi JUXJ iru m . .. . i m EI mm mm WHO DOES WHAT irslip A n n. , iij , i . . I i VEKItc nMKrnMm, aT inn ngnr in me pnoro aDove, contem platively i!pt toda in company with Theo Bond at the two sit at llei's reflecting on the state of the nation. Probably it would be nearer the truth to say they were thinking of the state of the furred, feathered or scaled wildlife members of the nation, inasmuch at both are inordinately fond of hunting and of fishing.. Verne, before his retirement about three years ago, had been supervisor of the Umpqua National Forest for some 16 years. He now maintains an agency for a granite monument company, what time he isn't busy serving on one of several hundred lor thousand) different civic committees ne is addictea to. Theo Bond, a native of Douglas county (as Verne is) owns the O. K. Rubber Welders, a tire firm on West Lane street. I don't believe he belongs to as many committees as Verne does, no one else could and live; but EC A PLANS AT STAKE Britain's Recognition Of Communist China Raises Cry To Curtail Fund Loan WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. UP) Great Britain's diplomatic recog- nitinn nt rnmmnnUt China ruined for drastic cuts in European recovery funds. Senator Taft (R-Ohlo), who has called before for substantial reductions In Economic Recovery administration funds, told re porter! he thinks the British diplomatic move "will provide a lot of ammunition for those who want tt-A lunas cut. Seven Car Derailment Disrupts Rail Schedule PORTLAND, Jan. 7. UP) Southern Pacific train schedules were disrupted today by a seven car freight derailment at Fall Creek, 13 miles south of Eugene, at 1:10 a. m. today. The Southern Pacific office here reported that no one was Injured, but that passenger trains would be hours late. The cars left the rails in a nar row cut when a drawbar between two cars dropped and 1 caught in the track. One of the derailed cars was a gasoline tanker. That slowed repair crews because of the high fire hazard. They had to work slwly a cautiously. The Shasta Daylight, due to leave Portland at 7:45 a. m. southbound, was held for early afternoon departure. The north bound Cascade, due in Portland at 11:30 a. m., was south of tha scene and passengers were trans ferred to buses at Oakridge and were due in Portland between 4 and 5 p. m. Ambassador Hotel Digs v ii, . r I. . ror uwn wraier auppiy NEW YORK, Jan. 7 P) The 19-story Ambassador hotel is dig ging for water in its basement Facing the threat of restric tions on use of water for air con ditioning next summer because of the city's water shortage, the hotel management launched a hunt lor its own water supply. A spokesman said a beer com pany used to have some wells on the site before the hotel was built in 1921. Workers are cutting through basement floors trying to find the old well casements. In the Day's News B" FRANK JENKINS REPRESENTATIVE Homer An gell, of Portland, back in Washington for the opening of congress, squares away and teUs a reporter that "the people in my district feel this congress must grant relief from high taxes." He concludes: "And they want wasteful spend ing by the government stopped and the cost of government re duced." UfELL, Homer is a member of It congress even If he is only a Republican. Congress holds the purse strings. Reckless spending will stop (Continued on Page Four) 7u M iL L ' l . 'I 1 he keeps busy between fishing a fresh congressional cry today He added, however, that he doesn't expect Congress to chop off all economic aid to the Bri tish lust because they have agreed to do business with the Communists. Senator Brewster (R-Me) said the English action "presents a problem of how far we can go in allowine our suDDort to be di verted to the implementation of policies at variance with our own." "The whole theory of the Mar shall plan is to fight Comma nism," he said, "and here they are giving it diplomatic recogni tion.'7 Brewster suggested that the British were interested primarily In what he said was England's $2,000,000,000 investment in Hong Kong. Senator Dworshak (R -Idaho) said he has no doubt that Con gress will insist "not only on a reduction of Marshall plan funds but on more realisitc use of the funds that are appropriated." Senator Byrd (D-va) said he hopes that the over-all foreign (Continued on page Two) Russian Atom Explosion Predicted For Tonight LONDON, Jan. 7 (JP) Tonight is the night the Russian's are ex pected to touch oil their second atomic explosion, according to British Editor Kenneth de Cour cy. De Courcy is the man who pre dicted last January Russia would have the atom bomb in 1949. His magazine, a monthly Intelligence digest, reported on Sept. 1 23 days before President Truman announced it that there had been an atomic explosion In Rus sia. De Courcy, who claims to have contact with highly placed infor mation sources in several east ern European countries, said Russia would set off another atomic explosion at exactly mid night Greenwich mean time (7 p.m. tsr and 2 a.m., Sunday, Moscow time). He said it would be set off in blasting for an Asiatic irrigation project. If there's a technical hitch, DeCourcy said, the Russian general staff plans to postpone the experiment until Jan. 10. Yugoslavia Town To Get Clothes From America WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 UP) The people ol the little Yugoslav town of Perlez won't have to be ashamed of their clothes any longer. They were so Ill-clad when Rep. Harvev (R-Ind) visited them last fall that they begged him not to take their pictures. Harvey reported today that the citizens of his home town. New Castle, Ind.. were so stirred by the story that they have contri buted 700 pounds of good clothing for the ragged Yugoslavs. I The VfefftheT Cloudy with rain and mow mixed today. Tomorrow mostly cloudy with showers of rain snow. Sunsot today 4:54 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:45 a. m. Established 1873 ftoseburg Transportation In City Slowed; Streets Slick Motorists Cautioned To Travel Only When Necessary On Highway Roseburg'i third snowfall with in a week was recorded in the early hours Saturday, with the possibility that snow would con tinue to fall during the remainder of the day, according to the local weather bureau station. Already the season's heaviest snowfall, the 2.4 inch total meas ured at 9 o'clock this morning increased to more than three inches as light, wet snow contin ued to fall. Automobile transportation and the city transit service was slow ed throughout Roseburg to a stand sun in some sections ol the city as motorists became pe destrians, leaving their cars at the top or foot of the steeper hills. The city bus system was re-routed to avoid slippery streets in the hilly districts and schedules were slowed. The Roseburg office of the state police advised against high way travel unless "absolutely necessary." Highway 99, imme diately north and south of Rose burg, is still open for travel with out chains but state police re ported trouDie was being encoun tered on the steep Rice hill, be tween Oakland and Yoncalla. State highway department Sanders and snow plows are at tempting to keep highway 99 open to traffic, but chains are term ed a necessity in the mountainous area below Canyonville, 30 miles soutn ol nere. The Coos Bay highway 42 is reportedly in worse shape than the main Pacific highway, with (Continued on page Two) Rising Weekend Temperatures To Relieve South MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 7. UP) Rising weekend tempera" tures were expected to thaw this frozen city from the sheath of ice which has crippled communi cations and snapped power lines. Three days of sleet and rain, freezing layer on layer, laid un endurable weight on thousands of trees and utility lines. A few roofs collapsed. Large sections of the city were without electricity or telephones. Round-the-clock line crews, many rushed here from other cit ies, labored to repair the damage. More than 7,000 telephones were but and 17 major power lines down. Falling trees and limbs tore them down faster than they could be restored. Electric bus service was cut in half. The storm the worst here in 17 years also swept over middle Dixie. In some sections it topped off flood waters. Eight mam highways were blocked by lc in Arkansas, which was particularly hard hit by the storm. Three deaths and seven injuries were blamed on the weather. Thousands of residents in the northeast and east sections of the slate were reported without power or communications. Action Is Demanded To Eliminate Smog SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 7. UP) The smog in Los Angeles is so bad a doctor from that city said: "I had a patient who came out from the east a man who wore a glass eye and he had to buy a new, bloodshot eye to match the jood one. The doctor was Dr. Elmer Belt, a member of the California State Board of Health. He was protest ing to the board a proposal to spend $170,000 a year on a survey to discover what lasting bad ef fects the smog may have. Dr. Belt maintained the smog already is malting people miser able "and that's sufficient evi dence to do something about smog rigni now. Eugene Water Board Engineer Passes Away PORTLAND, Jan. 7. UP) Joseph W. McArthur, long the guiding lorce oi cugene s muni cipal water and Dower utilities. died In a Portland hospital yester day after a long illness. He was 62. McArthur had been associated with the municipal system since 1908 when he bacame a part-time survey engineer. He became a wa ter board member In 1913, chief engineer of the water and power systems In 1923 and superintend ent in 1932. Ill health forced his retirement In 1946. Funeral arrangements will be announced later in Eugene. - ROSEBURG, Has Third Snowfall Within Week Chamber Forum Luncheons Will Resume Monday Roseburg Chamber of Com merce forum luncheons will re? sume Monday, Jan. 9, at Hotel Umpqua with an address by Har old E. Schmeer, manager of the local branch of the U.S. National bank. Schmeer, recently elected president of the chamber of com merce, will disucss present busi ness conditions- and the outlook for the future, with special refer ence to the Roseburg situation. The public is Invited. Marshall N. Dana, editor of the Oregon Journal editorial page, will be guest speaker at the chamber annual dinner, accord ing to retiring President John Todd. The annual affair will be held 6:30 p.m., Jan. 25, in the Metho dist church dining room. Tickets for the dinner will go on sale Wednesday, Jan. 11, and must be purchased by Jan. 20. Only 200 tickets will be sold because of limited dining room space. Topic of Dana's talk will be "Their World and Ours," borrow ed from the title of the book he wrote after making a comprehen sive tour of Europe in the com pany of a group of American newspaper editors. According to banquet planners, a feature of this year's affair will be its brevity. Aside from Dana's main address, other talks will be limited to a brief state ment by the retiring president, John Todd, and a short response from Harold E. Schmeer, recent ly chosen to succeed Todd as president for the coming year. Bomber Refueling Tests Scheduled WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 -WB The air force is going to stage bomber refueling tests In the sky above the north polar ice cap. within wartime striking range of aurope ana Asia. it announced last night that three refueling squadrons will go to Goose Bay, Labrador, to spend a weeK eacn on a training mis sion designed to increase the ef. iiciency or air-to-air refueling. The squadrons will leave their bases at 10-dav intervals, from Jan. 9 to Feb. 5. In Fort Worth. Tex.. Mai. Gen. Robert M. Raney, commander of the 8th air force, said the squad rons will be from.the 509th bom bardment wing at Walker Air f orce base, Koswell, N.M. The group is known as the atomic bomb group because it took Dart in me BiKini Tests. Raney said the refueling tech nique will be the same as that employed by the B-50 Lucky Lady on its non-stop global flight last year. The Labrador tests will mark the first time such refuel ing has been done on a squadron oasis, he said. OBSERVE CHRISTMAS MOSCOW. Jan. 7 UP) The Soviet capital observed the Christmas of the Russian church today with well-attended relig ious services and weather slight ly warmer than It has been for the past two days. The thermo meter rose a few degrees to 22 below zero. The cold had little effect on life in Moscow, where oldsters called It the "Christmas frost just like old times." Business went along as usual and church es were well-attended from mid night on. LOW BID SUBMITTED PORTLAND, Jan. 7 UP) The Oregon Land Improvement company submitted tne nign ma of $525,000 yesterday for 330 acres at the site of the wartime Oregon shiDbuilding corporation. The government is disposing of the land, except for 53 acres now used by Vanport college. Skipper Of Flying Arrow Unafraid Of Mined Seas On Approach To Shanghai ABOARD AMERICAN FREIGHTER FLYING ARROW, Jan. 7. tin If any mines have been laid in the Yangtze river by the Chinese Nationalists, the belief aboard the Flying 'Arrow today was that the Communists will sweep them out to provide a safe passage Into Shanghai for this Capt. David Jones, who is tak ing the 6,214 ton Isbrandtsen line ship through the Nationalist blockade despite warnings from the Nationalists and the U. S. State department, regarded the trip calmlv, II said: "It would be best without min es bullets In preference to min es but most preferably neither one." Chief engineer Martin L. Gross of Clearfield, Pa., said they are satisfied with the voy age. Eleven members of the ori ginal crew signed off at Hong Kong before the lhip sailed ear- t OREGON SATURDAY, JAN. Nationalists Lay Mines On Sea Approach American Ship Enroute; Attack On Hainan Said Smashed By Nationals TAIPEI. Formosa. Jan. 7 UP) Nationalist China today an nounced mineiaying nas been completed on the sea approach to Shanghai destination of the American freighter Flying Arrow. . The Nationalists also stepped up air action against the Chinese Communists on the mainland. Completion of the minefield near the Yangtze river estuary was announced formally by Adm. Kwei Yung-Ching. He is the Na tionalist navy commander in chief and guiding spirit behind the blockade of Red ports. Kwel conferred this afternoon with Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek. They were believed to have discussed the Flying Arrow, which steamed out of Hong Kong early this morning lor snangnai. The shin is earrvine a 10.000.. 000 cargo to the Red port in de- nance ot warnings oy tne Na tionalists and the U. S. State department. She is due at Shang hai Monday barring mishap. HONG KONG. Jan. 7. UP) China's Nationalists today claim ed they had smashed a second Red attempt to invade Hainan is land, sinking about hall ol a fleet of 1,000 junks. Pro Nationalist reports said government warplanes caught the junks inching down Luichow pen insula toward the big island off China's South Coast. The penln- aula is st-uaiaicu iium iioiiiau uj i 4 U.ln.H 1.1, a strait 1U miles WfQe, .-- , Tho accounts asserted that the warplanes dived upon the fleet and sank approximately 500 junks. The others lied bacK to tne coast of the peninsula. Other Nationalist warplanes struck at Pakhol, an assembly port for Communist invasion craft 100 miles north of Hainan. The Nationalists reports said damage was extensive at Pakhol and that Communist plans for the Invasion of Hainan were greatly slowed. Seattle Filipino Ambushed, Killed SEATTLE ( Jan. 7. -UlP) A prominent Seattle Filipino, who fatally wounded a man last May in what was termed self defense, was ambushed by gunmen and killed early today in front of his Lake Washington, home. A short time later the brother of the man shot last spring was picked up by police in a cab near the scene and booked on an open charge for questioning. He de nied any connection with the kill ing. Detectives also held for ques tioning a McChord air base sol dier and a Filipino laborer. Victim of today's gangland style slaying was FidaT Molina, 42, president of the Filipino So cial and Improvement club. His expensive car was riddled as he was driving home alone. Molina's wife, hearing the shots ran to the wrecked car and found her husband slumped In the front seat. dead. Neighbors told police they saw three men flee from the scene on foot. All available squad cars and officers were ordered to the area and road blockades were established. In a cab stooped at one of the road blocks was Albert Gonzales, 41, another Filipino and brother of Max A. Gonzales, 42, who was slain by Molina eight months ago. ' American ship, ly this morning. They were re placed ny Britisn ana omcr ra elen sailors. Jones said the Flying Arrow has a number of men who served in the merchant Marine before and during the war. "Take Gross, for Instance," the skipper said. "He was tor pedoed off northern Russia on a freighter, l ve goi a ioi oi oiners like him who refused to sign off the Hong Kong." Optimism prevailed among the (Continued on pare Two) 7, 1950 I If Til.: -i r x"' .. .irfyT.iS-. .. I Jl f V AM1 ft -a COMMON SICHT Rowing down the street in Kokomo, Ind., was e sight common to many areas of the Hoosier State after a four day rain caused many rivers to overflow. Winter floods drove scores of families from their homes in Illinois and Indiana Truman Weighing Appeal To End Coal WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. OP) President Truman today weighed an appeal from his top Senate aide for swift action to restore full coal production. " Senate democratic leader Lucas of Illinois carried that plea to to the White House yesterday and would review the situation today. ' . , D11-.fi1, ,'BiJ ZClm I lU5-.un ; RCU JTr Criticises- 'State Of Union' Speech MOSCOW, Jan. 7 UP) The Soviet armed forces newspaper Red Star today described Presi dent Truman's state of the union message as a "mixture of de magogic promises and improb able statements." In the flrat extended Soviet comment to appear on the Pre sident's speech, the newspaper said the "declarations of Truman cannot confuse anyone. "The fine oratory of the Amer ican President is denied by the facts, the editorial said. Answering Mr. Truman's state ment that the United States had liquidated Its first postwar eco nomic drop, the article declared that an economic crisis is "im placably moving on the United States.'' The editorial said "dry statis tics of official government ac counts deny ... in Toto" the President's assertions that the welfare of the broad masses of Americans are Improved. "In defiance of the truth," Red Star continued, "Truman slated that a good beginning had been made in securing housing lor low income groups." "Senator Paul Douglas (D- 111)," the paper added, "whom even the committee on un-Amer ican activity cannot suspect of reprenenslDie opinions, nag a af ferent opinion about American housing. He recently wrote In Colliers (magazine) that millions of Americans live In repulsive conditions In dirty, smelly slums. the number ot which grows con tinually." The newspaper accused Mr. Truman of ignoring the facts in his references to American fore ign policy. Mummers March Heralds 1950 Is Officially Here PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7 UP) The Mummers marched In Phila delphia today making It official that 1950 Is here. Their annual New Year's pa rade twice postponed, the Mum mers struck up the familiar rhythms of "On, Dem Golden Slippers" at 8:30 a.m., and be gan the five-mile, six-hour march up wind swept Broad street. It was chilly along the parade route, but hundreds of thousands of persons, from Philadelphia, the East Coast and some from nil over the United States, lined the street to watch the prancing, dancing Mummers strut. A $40,000 pot of gold In prizes will be split up at the end of the parade In which 7,000 "sub jects' of King Momus paid trib ute to that monarch of fun and mimicry. Costumes glittered in the sun light, the bright reds, the gaudy yellows, the spangled multicolor garb of the 36 Mummers clubs including 26 of the world-famed string bands. An estimated 500.000 persons were exoected to watch the DA- raae. 5-50 1 1 1 NUA Tlphoto Curtailment got a promise that Mr. Truman Earlier, a number of Republi can lawmakers had assailed the administration for ' not doing something to force an enti io tne present three-day work week in the mines ordered by union lead er John L, Lewis. They said too little coal is be ing produced to fill demands with the weather turning colder. Mr. Truman's position has been that the partial strike has not created a national emergency which would warrant use of his emergency powers under the Taft-Hartley law. The president, a critic of that law, again asked Congress this week to repeal it. The act permits the President to proclaim an emergency and seek an 80-day court order to halt work stoppages if he finds they are endangering tha nation's health or welfare. ' Several Republican Congress members contended the public is (Continued on page Two) Divorce Is Sough) By Ingrid Bergman NEW YORK, Jan. 7 UP) A day-to-day conference is In progress here to try to smooth out legal aspects of Ingrid Berg man's problems-ofthe-heart. Her attorney, Gregson Gaut zer, is meeting with her hus band's attorney, Laurence E. Brlnn. The movie actress, now In Italy, has said she wants a divor ce from her husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, so that she can marry Italian turn director Kobeno Rosseliini. The conference here was aim ed at some kind of settlement. John Vernon, a friend of Dr. Lindstrom and a former busi ness representative of the act ress, said yesterday that "a sin cere effort Is being made by all E art les concerned to settle the indstrom marital problems." He said a divorce Is probable. Lindstrom, a Swedish brain surgeon, previously has been op posed to such action. He and the actress have a 12 -year -old daughter, Pta, Harrowing Testimony Given In Stroble Trial LOS ANGELES. Jan. 7 UP) The prosecution Is Hearing the end of Its case in Fred Stroble's murder trial, which has been so harrowing at times that jurors and tne defendant nave cried. Stroble, a 68-year-old grandfa ther, Is charged with the sex slaying of six-year-old Linda Joyce uiucoit, nis granddaugh ter's playmate. Emotional tension reached a high point yesterday when Stro ble's statement to the district attorney was read to the jury of 10 women ana i men. Stroble trembled and wept and several Jurors were in tears when questions and answers regarding the killing were read. The pro secution claims that he strangled and harked Linda to death with a necktie, axe. Icepick and butch er knife when she resisted hit advances last Nov. 14. 31 Injured In Midwest Catastrophe Barred Windows Of Iowa Institution Block Way Of Screaming Patient DAVENPORT. Iowa. Jan. 7. ' UP) Twenty-nine women were known to have died and 11 otheri were presumed dead in a lira which swept a mental hospital early today. Nine hours after the blaze started Coroner C. H. Wildman said the bodies of 26 women had been recovered and 11 other pa tients were missing and almost certain to be dead in the ruins. ' The sister superior of the hos- Sital said 31 other patients had een treated for burning or injuN les, accounting for the 63 women and three men known to have been In the building. The path to safety for many ot the patients was blocked by barred windows. , Except for a nurse's aide, ail the dead and missing were pa- uems. They were asleep In the three- story St. Elizabeth's ward build Ing of Mercy hospital when the flames broke out at 2 a. m. Fir FougHt 4 Hours The fire was brought under control in a four-hour battle. The flames spread rapidly through the 60-year-old brick structure, one of four buildings comprising this eastern Iowa city's largest hospital. Screams of the trapped women spread the alarm. Aid was sent at enc from the nearby five-story main Maroy hospital building and 14 fire . companies cam Immediately. As the flames swept upward (Continued on page Two) Manslaughter Is Jury's Verdict In Father Slaying NEW YORK, Jan. t-AlP) Tm witt Combs, 23-year-old ex-Marine, will not go to the electrl chair for killing his sweetheart'! tatner in a blazing duel in tne dark, An all-male jury (pared him the extreme penalty last night by-.finding him guilty of man slaughter. He was charged with first degree murder. - Combs blamed his 58-year-old victim, Francis S. Fay, for smashing his romance with Rita. Fay, 20, and pleaded innocent by reason of temporary Insanity. The high - strung, red haired youth paled at the verdict He will not hear his sentence until Jan. 20. It could be up to 20 yean in prison, or less, as the judge sees fit. . Last April 16 carrying a load ed shotgun Combe broke Into Fay's basement and doused th houseilghts by pulling the master switch. He said he hoped to find Rita upstairs and talk over a reconciliation. But instead he was challenged by her father, and the two men shot It out In the dark Fay'a pistol against Combs' shotgun. Fay's bullets went wide and he dropped from the shotgun blast Then-Comba forced His slender, brunette girl friend into her bed room and talked to her for halt an hour until police forced their way into the house with tear gas. He said sne patted nis cneeK ana called him a sweet guy during the tense interlude. She testified her arm may nave been" around the young killer. Pension Plan Would Include AH Workers EUGENE, Jan. 7 UP) Jon Titcomb, resident manager of the big Springfield Weyerhaeua er operation, emphasized Friday that any pension play put forth by the firm would apply to all employees of the company, whether or not they belonged to a union. "We are not going to discrimi nate against one of our people just becasue they do not belong to a union," Titcomb said. An other high company official said In Eugene that the company wished to maintain the strictest neutrialty In the day before next Mondav'i election to determine whether workers want to be re presented by the AFL, CIO or no union. The election affecti Lane and Douglas county Wey erhaeuser workers. SIGNS WITH BULLETS t BALTIMORE. Jan. 7 UP) John Mandlc, 6 foot 4 Inch pro- from Oregon State college, sign ed with the Baltimore bullets yesterday as expected. Mand'a was made a free agent by the Washington Capitols the day pre vious. He played with the In dianapolis Jets last year. L evity fact jjent By L. T. Relzenstein Deep snow unexpected? Too amazed for words? Well, don't bo vexed. And don't neglect To feed tie konfry bfcd
