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CCMP Ml mi A U. of 0, Library Eugene, Ore WHO DOES WHAT "O-O-OH. HORRORS," wails two-year-old Linda MolUtt. turning fearfully away from Bozo tho Clown, "what a tarriblt, big rod not!" You can that's what she's laying, although har wordt kind of dwindled away to nothing. But (he felt better after being cuddled in the ermi of her uncle, Chuck Cappi, who, with Boxo, had been trying to be nice to her, instead of frightening her nearly to death. Chuck is in the commercial department at KRNR and ha, Boio and Kenneth Bushy of the House of Harmony spent Monday touring the schools In the interest of certain phonograph records for children. Linda is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orvall Mollett of Short street. ' Admiral Denfeld's Ouster Hit In House Committee Report Called Reprisal For Criticism Of National Defense Planning WASHINGTON. March I. (API The House armed serv Ices committee today branded the removal of Admiral Louis Deneld as chief of naval operations last fall as a "reprisal" for his "frank and honest" criticism of unification and national defense olannina. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS PONDER tMS-screwbsffWldbul-letin: The hydrogen bomb could be .riggeu u. i.e.. - . death killing all humans in-the world ... the cloud would be I radioactive dust ... the dust would it,, kirmim materials of naval operations Admiral or come from the harmless materials et p Snm,n to cle ta d. enclosing the bomb . . . these ma terials would be made radioactive by the explosion, scattered in the air and carried by the winds. The dust would poison the air we breathe ... it would settle to earth, contaminating every plant and everything that humans use in living ... a dust cloud could be made that would be active in kill ing power for a few days, a few weeks, a few months or for THOU SANDS OF YEARS. THIS statement is made by Dr. Lee Szilard, biophysicist of the University of Chicago, one of the nation's foremost atomic scientists. Its plausibility is concurred in by Dr. Hans Bethe, physicist of Cor nell university; Dr. Harrison Owen, (Continued on Page Four) HORSE OBEYS RULE PHILADELPHIA, March l- A milk wagon horse took a walk without its driver in the center of Philadelphia. But it wasn't hard to catch, be cause it was a big dray horse. Police found the animal waiting for a red light to change yesterday. Leopard Dies After Return To Cage In Oklahoma City's Zoo Lung Collapse Due To Heavy Exertion Ascribed As Cause OKLAHOMA CITY, March I. (API The excitement ef the hunt proved too much for the leopard who escaped from Lin coln park zoo, was gone 61 hours, crawled back to his dan end then died. That was the autopiy report today of veterinarian W. O. Bowerman on the beast which kept xoo officials and hunters on edge for neerly three days. Bowerman said the Leopard died of a collapsed lung brought on by extreme exertion and depression following the excitement of the chise. The veterinarian said a drug used in bait which the animal ate when it returned to the too early yes terday did not cause the death. Bowerman also added that his examination disclosed that the ani mal had pneumonia a year or two ago while in the India jungle. He discovered scar tissue. And he added that the Leopard would have required much han dling because of his ailment and being a mean beast might have hurt someone working on him. it is better that he died now,"' Bowerman said. The crafty creature escaped from ine committee reieasea ns formal report on investigations into the interservice row today, the same day that Denfeld after near ly 38 yeara active duty, retired rather than accept another job. Denfeld was one of a number of high militarywitoessestelle be fore the House committee last October after letters released by Cant. John Commelin. Navy flier, disclosed opposition to phases of . unification nroiram. crommelin. transferred to the west coast, revealed yesterday he had been ordered by the new chief vance any public speeches he makes. The report considered a number of controversial matters on unifi cation and strategy, only on Den feld was there a difference of opinion in the committee. A majority of 23 members en dorsed the findings, with' ten of these objecting, however, that the report was too weak. A minority of eight members (all (Continued on page Two) Lionel Burfc Acquitted Of Assault Charge It took the jury only one hour after coming back from lunch Tues day, to find Roy Lionel Burk inno cent of the charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, for which he was tried. Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly, who is back on the bench follow ing a short illness, charged the jury just before noon. The jury went out to eat, returned and de liberated until almost 3 p.m. Burk, . a former Roseburg resi dent, who now lives in Springfield; was charged with having assaulted Ustel Smith, now of Roseburg with a .25 calibre revolver during an argument last August. The assault allegedly took place on a county road in the Uialla district. his prison pit at the Lincoln park zoo Saturday. His leap from the 18-foot deep pit, as a group of children looked on, set off a wave of excitement which had a nation grasping for news on the hunt which followed for the jungle-killer. The lT.Vpound cat, fresh from In dia's jungles, came sneaking home after midnight yesterday like a runaway boy hungry. Drue-Laden Meat Eaten Two solid helpings of horsemeat the usual diet placed strategical ly on a fence surrounding the pit came as a tempting lure to the crafty creature. He gobbled greedily, slipped back (Continued on page Two) TIm WeetW Mostly cloudy Thursday with ft skewers Thursday. Sunset today 4:02 p. Suarlta remocrew 4:41 Established 1173 Bids Solicited On Library-Arts Unit High School Project Plans Made Public Old Building Slated For Revamping; Status Of Campus Ultimate Goal The call for bida on the proposed Roseburg high school library-arts building was announced today bv City School Superintendent Paul S. tinott. Elliott said the new buildings will provide facilities which will give Roseburg one of the finest educa tional plants in the state. The build ing will be located on the present parking space approximately half way between the present high school and Fullerton grade school Plans call for a T-shaped struc-' ture housing a library in the cross arm or east wing and containing a conference room, mezzanine, cook ing laboratory, home-making room, sewing room, classroom and art facilities. Elliott said the art department will be moved from its present lo cation where it has been housed in a room with neither outside light nor proper ventilation. Termed one of the most modern art depart ments in the state, many of the plans incorporated by architects Freeman, Hayslip and Tuft of Portland, were worked out by Rose burg art instructor Leonard Kim- brell, using the facilities of the University of Oregon school of art and architecture while studying for his master's degree. The school s library and home economics facilities will be up to standard for the first time in a "number of years," Elliott said. An alternate wing on the west end of the main structure will providt a standard classroom, in addition to the high school's 'irst choral music room. Elliott said the old high school building will be revamped during (Continued on page Two) Fugitive Killed At Myrtle Point MYRTLE POINT. March 1. CP) Police yesterday shot and fatally wounded a man identified by Police Chief Jack Plater as a 1945 escapee from the Arizona State prison. Three policemen were at a serv ice station when the man, Clyde Sutton, started getting into a car. Flater said he told him he was under arrest and Sutton pulled out a pistol. Patrolman Kenneth Diets lunged for him and Patrolman V. Stillwell fired a shot. Sutton waa taken to a hospital were he later died. Flater said Sutton also went un der the name J. J. Hatfield. Flater said he had recognized Sutton from a police circilar The man escaped August 31, 1945, from the Arizona state prison, where he was serving a 12 to 18-year sen tence for theft, the police chief said. He bad been living here with a wife and five children. Five Persons Killed In Collision Of Autos ARROWSMITH, 111., March 1 Wv Five persons a farm couple and three teen-agers were killed near here last night in a head-on collision of two automobiles. One young girl was seriously injured. The farm couple's car and a car in which two young couples were driving crashed on a country road, two and a half miles northeast of this small Central Illinois commu nity. Chalmers Craig. 31, and his wife, Bernadine, 26, were within 500 yards of their farm home when the accident occurred. Ralph Bell, 18, and Norma Reis er. 17, were killed instantly in the crash of Criag's car and the ma chine in which the two boys and two girls were riding. Gale Kirk- Eatrick. 18. died in a hospital a few ours after the accident. Irene Rich Weds No. 4, . Gives Up Movie Career NEW YORK, March . m Irene Rich, 38, married her fourth husband yesterday, and said good bye to her 30-year acting career. She and utilities E xe c u t i v e George Henry Clifford, 68, were married in the Sherry-Netherland hotel ahere they will make their borne. ' "I tried to mix my career and marriage once before and it didn't work," Miss Rich told reporters. "I'm giving it all up this time. I have a real job to do now, just taking care of Mr. Clifford." The marriage was the second for Clifford, whose first wife died in 1935. Miss Rich's three previ ous marriages ended in divorce. . Miss Rich has been a leading lady in numerous stage productions and nort than 200 turns. w Mortared IV, I - If 1 II If 1 k . T wkrJ n J A N V 1 1 I k II ROSEBURG, Yoncalla Pair Arrested In Cafe Robbery State Police Sat. Holly Hoi- comb today reported the arrest of two men within four hours after they had allegedly robbed the Rice Valley cafe north of here of about $35 in cesh. According to state police, El mer Adrien Davis, 32, and Cerl Jeck Carlton Keeling, 29, both of Yoncalla, were errested in bed after a four-hour search. Police said the two men left the cefe et ebout S p. m. with the loot, fired a warning shot and sped off in a car. A woman bystander gave state police e portion of the license number and the cer was traced to the lodging of the pair. They were arrested without a struggle shortly before midnight. The sheriff s office assisted the state police. Mother Sought To Tell Her She Hasn't Cancer RENSSELAER, N. Y., March 1. P) Police in 14 states were looking for a 30-year-old mother to day to tell her she doesn't have cancer. The three young children of Mrs. Helen B. Overlander prayed for t r.turl. The metier kused lht child see- good bye last Friday and disap peared She told them they would never see her aga.n Mrs. Overlanler had the mis taken belief she was suffering from cancer. Her husband Sherrell, said that her physician told him yes terday there was nothing seriously wrong with her. For the last year, Mrs. Over lander had been under treatment for an internal disorder. Overlander, a 33-year-old truce driver, said his wife had told him her grandfather d'ed of cancer four years ago and she feared the di sease was hereditary. "She often toid me," he said, 'that she would disappear if she ever learned she hail cancer." Mrs. Overlander had X rays ta ken last Wednesday and Thurs day. She called Albany hospital Thursday night for the milts and was told they were not available. She was asked to call back Fr day. Her husband said she did not do so. Mrs. Overlander was employed as a machinist in a Rensselaer woolen mill. H. E. Crocroft Files For County Judge Nomination Howard E. Cracroft, Oakland, fil ed his petition for nomination to the office of county judge, Tuesday in the county clerk's office. Cracroft's name will appear on the Democratic primary ballot, for the elections scheduled on May It. Eva H. Marks, Roseburg, filed for nomination to the office of-precinct committeewoman. She is a Republican. .1 L CHANGERS KIWANIS' CUESTS Masters end reprotentetivos of neerby granges were guests of the Rosebura Kiwenis club Tuesdey noon et the Hotel Umpque in a program aimed et cementing farmer-business reletionthips. Pictured, left to right, ere Mrs. Margaret Burt, Evergreen Grange; Maurice Newlend, Kiwenis president; Irvin Brunn, program chairman; Mrs. Rubie Bloom, Evergreen Grange master; R. A. Findlay, South Deer OREGON WEDNESDAY, MAR. Russians On Buying Spree In Ruble Slash Currency Juggling Seen As Scheme To loott Red System's "Superiority" MOSCOW, March 1 Ht- Wide price cuts resulting from revalua tion of the ruble sent crowds of Russians on an enthusiastic buying spree today in Moscow stores and markets. The Soviet government last night raised the value of the ruble to 25 cents (in terms of U. S. curren cy) from the old rate of a little less than It cents. Price cuts on 234 varieties of goods ranging from bread to radioa were announced simultaneously. Prices at peasants markets lo cated in many sections of Moscow fell in line with the cuts ordered in state stores reductions ranging from 10 percent for milk to as much as 30 percent for bread and beef. Soviet newspapers and radio broadcasts hailed the revaluation as improving the people's living standard and boosting the prestige of the Russian ruble in internation al trade dealings. '"Every Soviet family realizes from personal experience how life is getting better and how material welfare is expanding," proclaimed Izvestia, the government newspa per. Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, declared that prices are going down in the Soviet Union while asserting that in capitalist countries such as Britain, France and the United States the cost of living is rising. Propaganda Foreign View Diplomats in Washington and London aaw a double motive in the (Continued on page Two) Narcotics Ring Informer Slain FRESNO, Calif., March 1 -.TV- Abraham Davidian, narcotics ring informer, was "wiped out" here yesterday as he slept on a sofa in his mother's home. Davidson, 29, was shot through the head. The body was found by Mrs. Rose Davidson, hia mother, when she returned from work at a packing house late yesterday. State and federal authorities im mediately began a roundup of 13 indicted members of a purported state-wide ring against whom Dav idian was to have testified next month. Abraham Davidian and IS others were indicted by the federal grand jury in Los Angeles last January It. They were charged with op erating a heroin supply ring that covered California and had con nections from Mexico to Canada Davidian supplied much of the in formation on which the indictments were based. His killing, officials Indicated, just about wiped out the govern ment case. Thirteen of those indicted plead ed innocent Monday before Judge Harry C. Westover in Los Angeles. Trial was set forApril 25. State Employes To Meet At K. P. Had Tomorrow The Oregon Slate Employes as sociation will hold its regular meet ing Thursday, March 2, at S p.m. at the Knights of Pythias hall, Roseburg. J. W. Vaughn, district director, will give a report on the directors' meeting held at Salem Feb. 24-25. All state employes are invited to attend. r -Xsaasf 1, 1950 Senator Flegel Out For Governor SEN. AUSTIN FUCII. PORTLAND, March 1. UPi Austin Flegel, Portland, by per sonal announcement, became the third Democratic candidate for governor. He will oppose Lew Wallace, vet eran Portland campaigner, and State Treasurer Walter J. Pear son for the party's nomination in the May It primary election. Flegel haa been a state aenator from Multnomah county. He is one of the leading spokesman for the Columbia Valley administration, and has advocated CVA throughout Oregon as a benefit to agriculture, labor and business. Senator Flegel is now engaged in several business enterprises in cluding a partnership at Roseburg with his brother, Mayor Albert G. Flegel. Attlee Keeps His Top Cabinet Aides LONDON, March 1 (V -Britain's newly elected parliament opened today, and Conservatives, in a cocky mood, shouted to their Labor party opponents to "cheer up." The Labor party haa a shaky majority of only seven votes in the new House of "Commons. Prime Minister Attlee, however, told re porters before parliament opened that his Labor party is determined ta carry on. The prime minister reshuffled the Labor cabinet along stronger political lines to meet a threaten ed challenge from the Conserva tives, greatly strengthened by the election and ready for a fight on further socialization programs. Attlee haa kept three top cabinet aides: Deputy Prime Minister Her bert Morrison, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Chancellor of the exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, but he made some IS changes, chiefly in the lower stratum, aimed at strengthening the party against the possibility of the government'! fall ard new elections, -' The first order of business be fore parliament was the reelection of Col. Douglas Clifton Brown, a non-party member, as the speaker. He has been speaker for the past seven years. Train Hits Small toy Chasing His Pet Dog EUGENE. March 1 m A puppy chase along the Southern Pacific tracks put Jimmie John gard, 2, in a hospital here with serious injuries yesterday. He ran into the side of a fast S-P freight engine. Railroad agent I. O. Underbill reported the toddler, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Johngard, who live north of here near the tracks, was chasing his pet dog. The freight train was moving about 40 miles an hour when it struck the young ster a glancing blow. 0 .. , ...... m... - i - : i . ...p., i i ii ! m i I o If , I rm Creek; John D. Hett, Riversdale; W. 0. Love, Riversdale; H. I. Collison Jr., South Deer Creek; Dale Butenbark, Melrose; S. W. Ven Voorst, mester, South Deer Creek; Letter Spencer, matter, Riversdele; Ray E. Doerner, South Deer Creek; Charles Cring, mester, Melrose Grange, and M. H. McCord, Slide. I Picture by Peul Jenkins.) so-so Charges Of Contempt In Strike Hold Court Denies Motion In Cool Miners' Trial; Cos Of Government Finished WASHINGTON. March 1 The government today completed its case in the contrmpt-of-court trial of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. The UMW moved for a dismissal of all the contempt charges brought because the coal miners have flout ed a Feb. 11 court order that they return to work. Judge Richmond B. Keech de nied the motion and told UMW attorneys to go ahead with their defense. Welly K. Hopkins, the miners' chief counsel, contended the gov ernment irsumony was insuiiicieni to prove the charges of contempt. He saia it oia not snow any actual participation by the union in the continued strike. Hopkina has re peatedly argued since the trial be gan that the miners have quit work by individual decisions and that the union ia in no way re sponsible for the work stoppage. iteecn saia only: i ll oeny your motion." Keech is hearing the case with out a jury. While the contempt case was moving to a close, new labor-man agement contract negotiations were getting under way. Out of them could come an agreement ending the strike. The coal shortage itself was oil ing up increasing difficulties around the country. The number (Continued on page Two) Chiang Calls For Ouster Of Reds TAIPEI, Formosa, March 1. (IPI Chiang Kai-shek became president of Nationalist China again today, 13 montlia after he retired from thejohv - - Co-incident with Chiang's an nouncement that he was again president, Nationalist bombers raided power installations in Red Nanking, lending emphasis to Chiang'a promise to drive the Com munists out of China "The gravest catastrophe has be fallen the Chinese race for the first time in the 5000 years of its history," he declared. Chiang blamed himself for the state of affairs lit called on all Chinese to join him to defeat Com munist armies, drive out the Red "bogus government," and restore the Republic of China. "I do not have any doubt," Chiang said, "thai litis reconquest of China will be successful. Chiang begins the attempted re conquest at the lowest ebb of Na tionalist China. It a territory is smaller than any single Commu nist province. It's population is only 10.000,000, about one-fortieth of Red China., Daddy Didn't Recognize Voice Of Stork's Gift ANNAHIIM, Calif., March 1. -t& Policeman Alvin I. Roe era hustled his wife off te the hospital In a race with the sterk. He also took his four-year-eld sen, Jimmy, along in the patrol car In the early morning hours yesterday, "Step crying, Jimmy," Hie of ficer chlded his son as they sped toward the hospital. "Yeur mether Is ah right." Came the reply from Mrs. Rogers: "That's not Jimmy crying. That's your new sen." - rrSB Plea Of Guilty Entered In London Court Secrets Of Atom tomb letroyed To Russians, Prisoner Confesses LONDON. March 1 ( Dr. Klaus Fuchs, the Jekyll-Hyde mastermind of British atomic re search, waa sentenced to 14 yean in prison today on hia plea ef guilty to betraying the topmost ' atom bomb secrete to Communist Russia. At the close of a swift triaL the lord chief justice. Baron GodV dard, flayed the 38-year-old Ger man-born scientist aa as ingrate refugee who had bitten the hand that fed him and had done "irrak parable harm both to this land and the United States of America." The trial lasted only an hour and a half and only one witness was called British security offi cer William J. Skardon, who told the court how Fuchs confessed to giving top atomic secrets to Rus sian agents over a period of seven yeara. The witness was ealUd by the defense. He said Fuchs had co operated fully with authorities and that without the confession, could not have been charged. The bespectacled genius was given the maximum sentence for violation of Britain's official secrete act. At no time were any de tails of the secrets he betrayed dis closed publicly. He was charged on four counts. Despite Fucb's apparent attitude of contrition, his lawyer, Derek Curtis-Bennett, told reporters "aa appeal ia being considered." Vital Secrets Given Reds Fuchs, the man who confessed to deliberately splitting his per (Continued on page Two) Accused Educator Takes Overdose Of Sleeping Pills WASHINGTON, March 1. Harry M. Crain, SI, former pro fessor accused of embezzlement from the Colorado School of Mines, waa in critical condition today in nospuai. He waa found apra'wled on the floor of a local hotel last night D.l... . -: J v. k-j : j i an assumed name. Dr. William NisseU of the (M piral staff told'reporters Crain had taken an overdose of sleeping pill. Crain was dismissed from a new foreign service job with the Stat department yesterday after he failed to appear in municipal court to answer charges he was a fugi tive from Golden, Col. He waa arrested Monday at an other hotel where he had been stay ing with hia wife, and posted (1,000 bond for hia court appear ance yesterday. A slate department official laid Crain was to have ben sent to Korea as an instructor in English at a $7,710 salary. The official aaid he understood Crain was charged with embeizi ing about $2,400 from the Colorado School of Mines where he waa an associate professor for two yea 'a before coming to Washington last month. He has two children. Spokane Hotel Swept By Million-Dollar Fire SPOKANE, March 1. UP) A million-dollar hotel fire waa con trolled in the early hours today after a aix-hour fight by 230 tire men. More than 250 guests and perma nent residents of the 200-roora Rid path hotel in the center of the city business district fled from the building or were carried to the streets. The adjoining Halliday hotel a six-story structure with 85 rooms was evacuated when Dames threatened it. Fire Chief James Blarney de- ilium n i c ,,uuii awuuu ui uiv "L"-shaped hotel as "almost total loss." The fire apparently started In the basement of the Ridpath and then shot up an elevator abaft Freedom For Accused Widow Will Be Asked LURAY. Va March 1 Page county authorities plan to rec ommend dismissal of a murder charge against Mrs. Barbara Parks, accused of killing her war veteran husbsnd. Commonwealth' Attorney I. R. Dovel said last night he will enter the recommendation because aa in vestigstion has disclosed the fatal shooting waa accidental. The victim, Robert Franklin Parks, 38-year-old retired army captain and survivor of four year In a Japanese prison camp, waa found shot to death Feb. 18 at hi home eight miles south of here. SIIKS CONGRESS SIAT ' SALEM, March R. J. Jenaen, Portland Republican, filed hia candidacy yesterday for U. S. representative in Congress. This Third district seat now is held by Rep. Homer Angell of Portland. Lvity fact ont : By L. F. Itetzensteh Reversing tradition, March cam In Ilk e lamb, doubrhm boosting Hie tat ef tardea seed and) faking; town niewers
