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MRS. J. F. STRADER brightens the day (which wii dreary and
stormy outside tha house where iha sits) by reading a book on
gardening and flowers, while visiting at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Dale Hatfield, at Dixonville. .
Before her marriage to the late Mr. Strader, Mrs. Strader
was Lillie Ann Ward. Her grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Hoy
Fluornoy, residents of the valley west of Roseburg which bears
their name. After her marriage' she and Mr. Strader made their
home on the bid Strader donation land claim northeast of Dixon
ville, where she still lives. All of Mrs. Strader's 80 years have
been lived in Douglas county. Her eight children and eight grand
children all live in Oregon. '
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THIS-changing-world-note: -. .'.,- -'
Out in the Wilshire district in
Lot Angelei the other day, a coyote
trolled leisurely down the street.
It wis doing nobody any harm. So
far as could be determined, it was
merely seeing the sights even as
you and I when we go to L A.
But all of a sudden everybody In
sight began to yell and whoop at
the poor little beast. Eventually it
was hazed into a garage and the
door was slammed and now it is is
solitary confinement at the city
pound.
The story Is that it will be given
to the zoo.
T
HIS is the point:
The coyote wa
stealing no
chickens. It was biting nobody in
the leg. Its sole offense seems to be
that it wasn't acting in orthodox,
accepted coyote ways.
Do you reckon the time may
come when we HUMANS from the
back districts will be trapped in
garages and sent out to the zoo
as an exhibit for the children to
gaze at if we go to Los Angeles
and fail to act as humans from out
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FINED FOR CONTEMPT
William Doyle Mayberry. 54.
Roseburg, charged with contempt
of court, following his failure to
comply with a court order enjoin
ing him from interfering with his
wife, pending a suit for divorce,
was fined $100 when he appeared
before Judge Carl E. Wimberly.
The fine was suspended and he
was ordered released from the
cnuntv jail on provision that he
complies with the court order.
INDUSTRIAL CHANCES EYED
C.Of C. Group Asked For
Information Anent Milk
Quotas. Customs Canning
Custom canning, packaging of agricultural products or
market and milk quotas were subjects considered by the Rose
burg Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee at a break
fast meeting today at tha Rose hotel.
in the committee s files are four
requests for information aa to the
need for and possibilities of a
custom cannery in Roseburg. Two
inquiries have been received from
Salem, one from Portland and one
from Olympia, Wash.
The committee agreed to fur
nish information in each instance.
A conference will be held with one
inquirer Saturday at 10 a. m. in
the Chamber ot Commerce office.
The committee learned that milk
cannot be produced by dairy farms
which do not have assigned quota
under the state law. Some study
will be made of the allocation to
determine whether quotas are as
signed on an equitable geographi
cal basis. It is because of present
quota allocations that a great
" Ok 1
NINE LIVES SAVED
Cat Survives
36-Hour Trap .....
In Fiery Kiln,
MINERVA, O., March 9. MP)
An ordinary calico cat which
emerged singed, thirsty but alive
after 36 hours in a fiery kiln was
an object of scientific interest
today.
Dr. William Orr, the veterinarian
in this village, exclaimed, "It's a
strange case that wouldn't happen
again in 100 years. The animal's
(foot) pads were burned off, the
top of us skull was scorched, the
end of iU nose was charred and its
body was burned as dry as a
cracker when it was brought '
me."
Dr. Orr pumped food into the
baked puss's veins after putting tie
cat under sedatives. Today it was
jumping into his lap to be fed.
The cat was sealed accidentally'
in a kiln at the Metropolitan Brick
Co. plant here Friday night. Tem
perature in the oven reached up to
900 degrees fahrenheit. When the
kiln was opened Sunday, the dur
able feline tottered out before the
astonished eyes of workers.
The veterinarian said he investi
gated the cue carefully yesterday
with Plant Superintendent Joe
Bucola and both agreed that any
other explanation was out of the
question the animal had stood the
heat for a day and a half ,nd had
survived. - -
Bucola said no part of the kiln
could have had a temperature of
less than 400 degrees. Workmen
doubted if the cat could have found
a place cooler than 600 degrees.
INVENTOR DIES .
PORTLAND, March 8. lP
Charles A. Peters, 70, inventor of
the Peters choker hook widely
used in northwest logging opera
tions, died here yesterday.
He once operated a machine shop
and automobile agency in Kelso,
Wash.
amount of milk is now being ship
ped into Douglas county, the com
mittee has been informed.
Special consideration will be
given the feasibility of securing
technical advice on the proper
packaging of Douglas county farm
produce for the market.
Projects now being considered
by this committee will call for
frequent meetings and considerable
activity on the part of individual
committee members.
On the committee are L. A.
Rhoden, chairman; Paul Helweg,
vice-chairman: Homer Grow, H. V.
Sullivan, R. F. Franks. Andy J.
Townsend. Bob Bashford and J.
Roland Parker.
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Judith Copon Draws
15 Years; Russian Pal
Ordered To Quit US
Spy Plotters
Denounced By
Trial Judge
Gubitchev Declares He's
Innocent; Girl's Lawyer
To File Appeal Notice
NEW YORK. March .(
Judith Coplon was sentenced to 15
years in jail today for plotting
to spy tor soviet Russia. Valentin
A. Gubitchev, her partner, received
a 15-year suspended sentence and
was ordered deported to Russia
within two weeks.
Miss Coplon was sentenced to
five years on a conspiracy charge
and IS years on the count of at
tempted espionage, the sentences
to run concurrently.
Gubitchev received a suspended
sentence and was ordered denort-
ed by Federal Judge Sylvester i.
Kyan at tne recommendation of
the government.
Before the judge snoke. Gubitchev
declared in a courtroom state
ment that the case had been "arti
ficially manufactured" against
mm.
The dour-faced ex-pal of Miss
Coplon read his statement in fed
eral court before he and she were
sentenced. As he had at tha begin
ning of the trial, Gubitchev de
clared:
"The mere fact of bringing me
to trial constitutes an unprecedent
ed violation of rules of international
law and of the national law of the
U.S.A. itself . . .
n "I am a Soviet diplomat of the
rank of third secretary of the
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Snow First In
March In 12 Years
The "unusual'
snow In March!
Local folks who witched the
huso anew flakes as larae ae
dollars fleatlna to earth around
II a.m.. were keainnina to won
der whether merchants talking
of spring openings are lumping
the gun on the weather man.
The weather man in Roseburg
M. L. Caldwell, to be exact
assures that the anew will not
last, as charts indicated a tern-
perature rise from the J4 degrees
at that hour.
While March snow la. unusual
in Roseburg.. Caldwell said rec
ords show five inches fell in the
city March 21 and It, ltM.
There were measurable traces m
142 and 143. Prior re that anew
la recorded on an average of
about ence every four years In
traceable amounts.
Portiander Routs Two
Gunmen At His Home
PORTLAND. March S-WPV-Two
gunmen attempted a holdup of
Douglas R. Gerow. finance com
pany, president, at his home last
night but drove off after he grap
led with them.
Gerow said the men rang hit
doorbell and when he opened the
door, showed a gun and aaid, "This
is a holdup."
"The hell it is," Gerow aaid,
and grabbed at the gun.
The gun went off twice, both bul
lets hitting the wall. A cut was
opened in Gerow'a left temple, ap
parently from a blow from a gun
butt.
The men fled.
Gerow ia president of the United
Finance company and of the Eaet
Side Commercial club.
Burglary Reported At
Pacific Co-Op Assn.
Police Chief Calvin Baird report
ed today a break and entry into
the Pacific Co-operative Producera
association building on Short
street, which occurred sometime
late Wednesday or early Thurs
day morning.
Discovery of the burglary came
this morning when a small cash
drawer waa found to have been
forced open. Baird said only a
small amount of cash waa miss
ing. THIIR NOSIS.KNOW
LOS ANGELES, March 9 (Jt
Harold Martin smells too doggone
good.
That's why he and Carl Lan
caster, a friend, were acquitted
yesterday of stealing a Great Dane
and a collie dog, each valued at
tl 0.000.
Martin told a Jury that the dogs
forced themselves into the defend
ants' car last Dec. 1 and wouldn't
leave.
The reason: Martin ia a salesman
and hit clothes smell of the prod
uct he sella dog food.
ROSEBURG.
C. W. Manning
Of Oakland Out
For County Judge
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Flctum by Clark'l Otudio
C. W. (Turk) Manning, above,
of Oakland announced today he will
be a candidate for the office of
county judge on the Republican
ticket.
Manning, born in California, has
lived most of his life in Douglas
county. Ha has had many years'
experience in construction and
maintenance of roads,, bridges and
other similar work. -
He spent more than 10 yeara aa
supervisor of maintenance and con
struction for the Oregon State High
way department. During the war
he resigned from the state to re
engage in farming. Also during the
war he spent considerable time in
logging operations and served as
secretary of the union.
He has since sold his farm and
has again taken on contracting and
construction work. The last two
years he has spent with J. C. El
don, rebuilding part of the Suth-erlin-Elkton
highway, which was
finished last fall.
Manning haa held office in the
Oakland city council and school
board, but this is his first venture
into county politics. He said he
filed his nomination at the requeat
of many of hia friends.
Pickets Fire Six Mines
To Protest Royalty Hike
POTTSVILLE, Pa., March 9
(.ft Pennsylvania State police
were alerted today to prevent any
further disorders at free-lance hard
coal mines six of which have
been aet afire in the last three
days.
Mate police road patrols were put
in operation in the trouble area
20 miles west of Pottaville yester
day after Sheriff Bruce Fellows
of Schuylkill county appealed for
neip .
Hoisting rigs at two independent
mines were set ablaze by maraud
ing pickets Tuesday night. Four
other fires were reported the day
Detore.
The pickets all free-lance min
ers are protesting demands by
land owners for an increase in
royalty payments on coal mined
from their properties. H. Wilsoo
Lark, Shamokin, haa demanded
that the miners psy a royalty of
60 cents a ton for coal mined on
his land. The royalty previously
was 37 v cents a ton. -
National Guardsman's
Jailing Poses Question
LONG BEACH, Calif.. March 9
jPV Can a auperior officer Jail
a national guardsman for missing
drills?
Superior Judge Fred Miller today
will review the nine-day sentence
of Pvt. Glenn M. Roberts. 10, who
has been in Jill since Monday. The
sentence was imposed by Lt. Col.
Willis T. Lyman, executive officer
of the National Guard 234th Air
craft group, who aat aa trial judge
advocate at Roberts' court mar
tial. Roberta was freed yesterday
without bail on a writ of habeas
corpus. His attorney contended the
commitment was not legal.
FREED BY RANSOM
MANILA, March I (& Vi
cente Araneta, JS, wealthy Ma
nila business mart, waa released
by outlsws today after the pay
ment of 150,000 ransom.
Araneta, sckrn of one of the Pi
lippines' wealthiest families, waa
kidnaped Sunday in Cavite pro
vince by a band of SO outlaws.
He was injured slightly by flying
glass when the leader fired a shot
through Arsnetas automobile
windshield. a
OREGON THURSDAY, MAR. 9, 1950
Federal Oleo
Tax Repeal Up
To President
ContjressApproved Bill
Represents Compromise
To Satisfy Dairy States
WASHINGTON Mirrh tat-
Only President Truman's approval
ia needed now to repeal all federal
taxea on oleomaraarine. effective
July 1.
Lawmakera generally predicted
that Mr. Truman will lion the re.
I peal bill which Congresa aent to
j the White House late yesterday.
I The Senate approved the meas
ure then by a 59 to 20 vote. It
passed the House Tuesday, 262 to
106.
Provisions put into the bill bv
Dairy State lawmakers who want
to prevent oleomargarine from be
ing passed off as butter call for:
1. The serving of oleomargarine
in triangular pattiea in public eat
ing places or, aigns identifying Uie
product aa margarine.
2. In the case of retail aales,
distinct labeling of the outer carton
and inner wrapper as containing
oleomargarine.
Senator Wiley (R-Wis) waged a
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Implement, Car
Dealers To Have
Festival Display
Roseburg'a downtown business
section next week will look like
an outdoor display of convening
auto and imnlemnt manufactur
er, if plans of the Retail Trades
asaociauon are realized.
Slated aa a big feature of this
year'a Spring Opening festival ia
a street display of new model cars,
farm imnlpm.nl, anA a, ulnn.-l
building supplies and logging equipl
Ram'nnlnff ! n m u-hU if
all streets from Lane 'to Douglas
and Main tn Rm. will k. V.I L. j
off, with the exception of Cass
nurri wnr.-n win do ciosea from
Stephens to Main. On Cass street,
frnm Jnrlrcnn fA Whmi l..t-
Stephens, the latest in farm im
plements win De displayed. Build
ing supply houses will occupy the
rest of Cmmm urll Mi KIM1-
from Lane to Cass on Jackson.
iew irucxs win be displayed on
Oak street from Rose tn Main
Mobile displays of logging equip
ment Will h chAUM An -U . .
. ........ via " -llllliuil
street from Rose to Main. Such
itemi mm rhin ..J .u
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portable equipment will demon
strate now a aaw ana planing mill
is operated.
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displayed on Jackson street from
waa iu iuuKias.
the evening's festivities will be
gin at 7 p.m.
THOSE SAUCERS ASAINI
VAN NUYS, Calif.. March 9
'-"Pi Here comes those flying sau-
cers again.
Police here early today reported
that they had received numerous
calls from citizens who said they
saw a flying saucer skip through
the foggy San Fernando Valley
sky.
COMRADES. LEND
Voice Of America Gives
Advice On How To Yote
For One Party In Soviet
NEW YORK, March 9. (API The Voice of America has
stuck its tongue in its cheek and started to have a little fun
with the Communist party.
The Sate department hopes it has a few Russians laughing
even if they're not laughing vary loud.
It's election time in tha Soviet and next Sunday the followers
of Joseph Stalin will vote.
So here's what the "voice" has I
been pumping into Russia this
week along with the regular radio
news in almost every language
snd dialect of the sprswling Soviet
empire ...
Announcer: Gentlemen, we give
you tne elections to tne supreme
Soviet!
Music: Flourish of trumpets.
Commissar: Comrades! Today ia
March S! There are only aeven
days left in which to make up
your minds as to which randidate
you wish to vote for. Thia year,
as tn other years, we nave simpli
fied the task for you. There will
he only one slate, one party, and
in all probability only to help you
TALKS ABOUT SPIES Victor Kravchanko, Russian author who
broke with the Soviet regime in 1944, tails Houia Un-American
Activities committee in Washington that spying is on of the
principal duties of all Soviet diplomats. "Every Sopiet repre
sentative ... is a potential spy," he told the congressmen.
Kravchanko, author of "I Chose Freedom," used to be a rep
resentative of Soviet purchasing commission. (AP Wirephotol
RODEO PROGRAM OUTLINED
Prize Money Of $3,000 Up
For Six Major Contests;
Features. Parade Listed
The Douglas County Sheriff's poise's fifth annual rodeo will
be held at Roseburg tha evening of Saturday, June 24, and
afternoon of Sunday. June 25,
announced.
While tha tame general progrjsm will ba followed as that
In previous years, a few minor .changes have been announced.
Hospital Boosts
Building Permits
Permit for construction of the
Douglas Community hospital in the
amount of $329,000, caused Feb
ruary building permits to soar.
The monthly report of City In
spector C. H. Boniols strnws the
permiU totalled $446,718. This in
cludes one other large permit for
$30,000 for construction of the Car
penters and Joiners hsll at Cobb
and Roberta streets.
Included also are three new
dwellings for a total of $14,845;
15 dwelling repairs, $8,373, and one
commercial repair, $500.
The new dwellings are being
built by Roy Brown on Eddy St.,
Don Keed at ZU7 w. nrsi m., ana
Merle Dunlap. Second Ave. No.
The commercial repair is for re
modeling the front of the building
at 120 No. Jackson street, housing
the Joe Richard Men's Store, Lu
verne's Dress shop and Dr. R. L.
Clinton'a office.
Twenty-four electrical primus
were listed for a total value of
$2,825, and nine plumbing permits
aggregating $2,935.
Sir Thomas Beecham
Collapses At Concert
LONDON March 9 (IP) '
Sir Thomas Beecham, 70, who
collapsed last night while conduct
ing the Royal Philharmonic orch
estra, is feeling "a little better"
today, a spokesman said.
Beecham was found to be run
ning a temperature from influen
za when he collapsed at tne con
cert in Ctieam, Surrey.
EAR!;
t COUrse onlr one candidate.
Grasp your pencils firmly! Enter
the election booths with heads held
high! Mark your ballot without
fMri With one slate and that all
p,rty members it will be difficult
: fot vou 0 g0 wrong!
Man (very timid): But, com
rade, wouldn't it be simpler to just
declare the official slste elected
and aave ua the trouble?
Commissar: Ahhhh, comrade, I
am glad that there' is one so bold
as to ask that question. (Aside:
Pssssst! Officer! Get thst man's
name!) Comrades, if you think
(Continued on par Two)
)
57-30
Bruea Carter, possa secretary,
Rodeo stork has been secured
by bid, and Christiansen Bros.,
Eugene, which has furnished stork
for the former rodeos, was the
successful bidder.
Instead of securing nationally
known trick riders, the posse haa
arranged for a local rider, Jackie
Carstens, to team with Barbara
Huntington, Eugene, a feature rider
er of last year's Pendleton round
up, for specialty acta.
Cy Taillon, whose growing re
pertiore will include Pendleton and
Cheyenne roundups this year, haa
again been ecured as announcer.
A different method, to be an
nounced later by Chairman Del
McKay, will be used in the selec
tion of a rodeo queen.
Purse money of $3,000 will re
main the ' same for. six major
events, which will include saddle
bronc riding, bareback riding, bull
dogging, bull riding, calf roping
and Daly team tying. . The show
(Continued on page Two)
Drive-Inn Opening For
Summer Season Dated
The "Drive-Inn." one mile south
of Roseburg on highway 99, will re
open for the summer season Fri
day, March 10, Max C. Swall,
owner and proprietor, announced
today.
Barbecue sandwiches will still
be featured along with complete
fountain service.
The Drive-Inn restaurant, closed
for the past three months ,has
been redecorated and rearranged
inside.
Regular hours will be from 11:80
a.m. to midnight with five em
ployes to serve. The Drive-In will
be closed Thursdays. "We are anx
ious to see all our old friends and
to meet new ones," Swall aaid.
Airliner With 54 Aboard
Lands Safely On Belly
NEWARK, N. J March 9-M
A twin-engine C-46 transport
plane with 54 persons aboard slid
300 feet in a safe belly landing
last night in rsin and darkness at
Newark airport.
Airport authorities said the land
ing gear of the ship, bound from
Miami, Fla., to Newark, collapsed
as the plane touched the runway.
Most of the 50 passengers thought
it was merely a rough landing.
Streams of gasoline from punc
tured tanks apewed onto the rain
swept runway as the passengers
tee that was true, and that the
safety. No one waa injured,: but
a pregnant woman was taken to
a hospital for a routine checkup.
Churches Oppose New
U. S. Envoy To Vatican
NEW YORK. March 9 - (Ml -
The bulletin of the Federal Coun
cil of the Churches of Christ in
America has urged President Tru
man not to send an envoy to the
Vatican to replace Myron C. Tay
lor, who recently resigned the post.
The President's maintenance of
"diplomatic relations" with tha
Vatican has caused "needless ten
sion" among rhurchea, tha bulle
tin said in ill March km faster
day. t
Horror Scene
Homes Of Oil Heater
Deal Quick Death Eight
Overcome In Fire Fight
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., March
(AV Oil-fed flames, leaping
lightning faat through a Sandia
base guardhouse, snuffed out tha
liva of 14 military prisoners last
nignt.
Trapped with them in the tinder
dry wood structure, the prison'!
other two inmates were injured
critically. It was the first major
disaster in the history of the war
built installation now a aeml-ae-eret
assembly point for the atomkt
bomb.
Two guards, alerted by prison
ers' criea, vainly tried to rescue
them from behind bare and mesh
ed wire windows. They were over
come along with nx others fight
ing the blaze. Twenty additional
officers and men also were treated
for smoke effects.
Investigators said there wai aa
doubt the fire started from one of
two big oil stoves used to heat the
prison. They still sought to deter
mine how and why today.
It was all over 25 minutes after
the first alarm waa sounded at
7:35 p.m. Thirteen of tha priaonera
apparently died in tha first few
seconds; tha other succumbed twa
hours later at a hospital.
Most of the victims ware be
lieved to have inhaled tha intense,
almost instantaneous heat and euf
focated, Sandia authorities said.
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Open House Set .
For Saturday Cy
Mortensen, Inc.
Formal opening of Lee Morten
sen, Inc., at 200 So. Pine St at
Lane ia announced for Saturday.
Open house will ba held from 19
a.m. to ( p.m.
Mortensen has just taken over
the Ferguson tractors and equip
ment agency, formerly handled ia
this location, and will offer in ad
dition Diamond T. trucks, Kelly
Springfield tires, Pierce trailere
and a tractor and truck repair
department.
The building waa erected by
Mortensen ana first occupied in
! April ot last year. It ia a 50-80
foot oumice block structure with
radiant heating. Ttia front ' half
houses the display room and offi
ces and the rear ia given over tat
repair work.
Mortensen, who came to Rosa
brug from Klamath Falls in 194J,
said he plans to continue hia log
ging and contracting business, in
which he haa engaged for many
years. He haa maintained an office '
In his new building here since ita
completion. Tha laat six montha
he has been away on a clearing
contract job at Meridian dam on
the Willamette river. Thia job, un
der a $130,000 contract, included
the clearing of 22S acres for tha
main dam site and required up
wards of SO men.
Recent contract work which ha
haa handled included togging road
construction for Mist Logging Co. "
and Harbor Plywood. Ha haa alas
done considerable excavating work
in a no around Koseourg.
H. K. Hopkins will continue work
ing with Mortensen aa secretary.
About aeven persona will be em
ployed in the sales and repair de
partment of the new business. -
U. S. Lawyer, In Kremlin,
Urges Atomic Control
By The Associated Press
An American attorney spoke fa
the Kremlin last night on atomie
control. Former Assistant Attorney
General O. John Rogge, a top poli
cy maker in Henry Wallace's pro
gressive party called for a multi
nation body with powers of "un
limited inspection not control but
inspection of all atomie energy in
stallations everywhere in tha
world."
Rogge spoke in St. George's hall
of Prime Minister Stalin's citadel.
He is in Moscow as a member of
the World Congress of Partisans of
Peace. Hia audience was compos
ed of members of the supreme So
viet (parliament) and the Soviet
committee for the defense of peace.
The World Congress presented a
petition urging that atomic weap
ons be outlawed and all armementa
reduced.
Oakland Man Questioned
In Fatal Holdup Effort
PORTLAND, March S-MV-Two
men are under arreat in the gro
cery store hold-up thst brought
sudden gun deaths to two robbers
Sundsy night.
Sheriff's Capt. Howard Kelly aaid
Donald Yarbrough, 23, Portland,
admitted being the driver of a get
away car that sped off after tha
shooting. John R. Anderson, 23,
Oaklsnd, Ore., wss held for ques
tioning. Capt. Kelly said Anderson
denied participating in hold-upa
with Yarbrough, but knew they
were planned.
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la Let Angola ltreat wary
hove been looking for kit twa-
legged gongload pals wfc beve
haVa figuring romiaaatty af
laae hi wfanlaiajl SSjceaeagos,