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EMERY THRUSH, pictured topping the tree above, it merely
consummeting ono of tho several steps involved in Hi total
removal. The tell fir stendt (or rather stood I in the lawn to the
reer of the K. D. Lytle retidenco on Chapman ttreet.
Almost anyone dislikes to lose an ornamental tree, such as this
one undoubtedly was. But tall firs, when growing too near dwell
ings, constitute a certain haiard which cannot lightly be ignored,
particularly when one thinks of wind velocity. We like to brag
that our wind velocity here is practically lero-minus; but just
the seme it's nothing unusual to tee the ta.ll, slim firt tway
dangerously in the wind we do have, sometimes snepping in two.
Alweys there it danger of large limbs being torn from the big
ones. I think the Lytles are well rid of this one.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
M
ORE newt on the Russian elec
tion: ,
PRIME MINISTER STALIN WAS
UNANIMOUSLY RE-ELECTED (to
what we call Congress) IN HIS
DISTRICT IN THE CITY OF
MOSCOW.
One's first thought is that Uncle
Joe must be Immensely pleased by
this tribute to his personnel
popularity.
e
ERE'S the second thought:
H
Uncle Joe w.s . the ONLY
CANDIDATE.
So, you see, the vote (or him
had to be unanimous.
BUT, you say, still mulling over
the case of Uncle Joe and the
fine vote of confidence he got in
his district, the mere fact that he
was the only candidate must in
dicate that his people love him so
much that nobody wanted to run
against him, doesn't it?
WE-E-E-L-L-L-L, it could be.
But there are other factors.
Here is one of them:
In Russia you don't just take a
notion to run for office and give
a story to the newspaper and when
the time comes pungle up your
filing fee and get your name on
the ballot
It's more complicated than that.
FIRST, you must join the Com
munist party. That, too, in com
parison with our system, U a bit
complicated.
In Russia (and other Communist
(Continued on Page Four)
Chain Store Dynamiting
Posts Detroit Mystery
DETROIT, March 16 tP A
squad of 20 Detroit detectives to
day checked the dynamiting of a
chain store that jarred northwest
Detroit.
The blast, shortly after II o'clock
last night, blew out one of the
plate glass windows of the Big
Bear market, but otherwise caused
little damage to the store itself.
Four business firms across the
street, however, had their plag
glass windows demolished by the
force of the explosion. Police said
the bomb, apparently of dynamite
sticks, had been placed in the ves
tibule of the market.
No one was in the building at
the time of the explosion. Big Bear
officials could give no reason for
the attack. They had had no labor
trouble they said.
Corporation President
Plunges To Death
NEW YORK, March 16 I.W
Henry Eldndge Perry, 60-year-old
president of the Commercial Sol
vents Corp., plunged to his death
Wednesday from his 14th floor of
fice at 17 East 42nd Street.
It was not determined whether
he fell or jumped.
SUOGCSTION OR IRRORT
Mra. Ileiae Scett, well-known
cook et the (teaeburf f Iks Ub,
decided recently that she would
have time for a little reading
Se, she ieined me Book ef the
Month clue end started receiv
ing her regular selections.
Then, the ether day, they sent
her a gift book.
Yea guested H. It was a cook
M. K. Mclverls
Named To State
Highway Board
SALEM, March 16. WPI Mill
K. . Mclver, 53-year-old Portland
mortgage broker, was appointed by
Governor McKay today to the State
Highway commission.
On March 31, Mclver will suc
ceed Harry Banfield, chairman of
the commission who is. resigning
after seven years on the commis
sion. Ben Chandler, Coos Bay, is ex
pected to be the new chairman of
the commission. The third member
of the commission is Charles Rey
nolds of La Grande.
Highway commissioners serve
three-year terms.
Mclver owns the Commerce In
vestment company of Portland,
whose main business is financing
sales of real property. He has
lived in Portland since 1925.
He was president of the Portland
Rose Festival board in 1945-46, and
served as a director of the Port
land school board.
The governor also announced the
following appointments today:
Glen G. Duncan, Portland, to the
state apprenticeship council, suc
ceeding Ralph Waggoner, Klamath
Falls.
T. J. Fry, Portland, to the state
apprenticeship council, succeeding
Kenneth D. Schomaker, Salem.
Dr. J. H. Rossman, Portland, re
appointed to the Oregon Dental
School Advisory council to the State
Board of Higher Education.
Stork Winner Of Race
To Mercy Hospital
A race with the stork to Mercy
hospital Sunday was won by the
stork.
Mrs. M. L. Davis, who was being
brought by her husband in the
family car from Oakland, gave
birth to a daughter just as they
were entering the city limits of
Roseburg at 10:55 a.m.
The baby was deivered in the
car by her grandmother, Mrs. Fern
Neas.
The Davises proeeded on to the
hospital, and mother and daughter,
the latter named Civonne Lee,
are reported "doing fine."
Job Seekers Advised Not
To Go To Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 16
(jf Stay south, young man;
stay south,'
That waa the admonition today
of a labor union spokesman as
job-seekers continued to arrive in
this far northern city.
Workmen are being lured north
by the reports of big military con
struction projects. But there's
only one catch: work hasn't start
ed and it can't start until the
spring thaw comes. That won't be
for another month or more. Livmg
costs in the. meantime are so
high as to scare an outsider.
French Assembly OKs
Arms Aid From America
(Br Tho AMottalod Front
The French National assembly
today ratified bilateral accords
through which the United Statea
will furnish nearly $500,000,000 in
arms aid to France. The measure
was opposed by the Communists
but passed by a vote of 416 to 181.
It now goes to the upper house
where approval ia certain.
SAL I CANCILED
DAYTONA BEACH. Fla.. March
18 (Pi The clearance sale
William Sussman planned for to
day won't come off.
Sussman. owner of a women't
wear store in the fashionable Sea
breeie section, canceled the aale
after theives took several thousand
dollars worth of hit stock.
Established 1S73
Spring Opening
Record Breaker
Displays Of
Goods Viewed
By Big Throng
Weather Permits Full
Program; Log Chopping
Won ly Stanley Hatfield
By DAN MINDOLOVICH
Roseburg merchants were
blessed by favorable weather last
night favorable weather and ca
pacity downtown crowds, a combi
nation that made this year'a Spring
Opening the most successful affair
of its type the city has held.
In spite of a forecast for rain
and cloudy skies, the third annual
Spring Opening went off exactly as
planned by the Roseburg Retail
Trades Association.
Miller's Mercantile store was
awarded -first prise for its "tarn,
ily portrait" ef spring fashions,
which topped all ether cam
petitors. An auto spotlight was
presented by Western Auto te
Red Nevue, Miller's manager.
A picnic scene in Weber's
Bakery placed second. Third
place honors went te Ott.
Rickettt with me live organ and
piano music by Esther Geddes
and Myrtle Burr. Umpqua Flor
ists' "window In pink" was
awarded honorable mention.
Pictures of the three winners
will be printed in Friday's News
Review. West Coast Builders Supply
and Nelson end Pyle Woodwork-
(Continued on page Two)
New Market To
Open Near Glide
NEW MARKET 18
Announement was made today
of the scheduled opening Friday
of the Lone Rok market, owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Welch.
The new market is located a mile
east of Glide on the North Umpqua
highway near the south approach
to the bridge. It ia housed in a
30 by 75 foot, pumice block build
ing, with knotty pine finish. Mr.
and Mra. Welch have temporary
living quarters in the rear of the
building.
Engaged in the grocery business
the last 25 years, Welch comes
to his new location from Myrtle
Creek, where he operated Jim'a
Food store the last six years. He
closed his store in that community
and moved his stock and equipi?nt
to the new location.
He was in business in Klamath
Falls prior to coming to Myrtle
Creek.
Court-Martial Faced By
Top Officers Of Big Mo
NORFOLK, Va., March 16 IIP
General courts-martial were order
ed today for the commanding of
ficer, the operationa officer and
the navigator of the battleship Mis
souri aa a result of the vessel's
grounding in Chesapeake Bay, Jan
uary 17.
The officers to be tried are Capt.
William D. Brown, of Frostproof,
Fla., the Big Mo's skipper: Com
dr. John R. Millett, operations offi
cer, and Lt. Comdr. Frank G.
Morris, of New York, navigator.
The Big Mo, the nation's only
active battleship, ran aground
while trying to run a secret elec
tronic range. She remained stuck
on her sand shoal for 15 da
and was finally refloated on
fourth attempt.
Rotebura Visit Dated -
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By Highways Committee
The legislative interim commit,
tee on highways ia going on tour to
tell the public what the committee
has done toward solving highway,
road and street problems.
The schedule calls for an appear
ance in Roseburg April 15.
Committee Chairman Ralph T.
Moore of Coos Bay aaid the com
mittee would hold a series of public
forum discussions at various cities
over the state. Moore said the com- i
mittee has done about all it can by ;
studying the problems, and now
the public needs to make up its
mind what it wanta done to im
prove he road and street system.
Representatives of the secretary
of state, highway commission and
public utilities commissioner will
go along to aupply technical infor
mation. Douglas Gets $328,748
In Basic School Funds
Douglas county will receive $328,
748 as its share of the state'a $8.
5)2.442 in basic school funds, dis
tributed to 1.347 Oregon school dis
tricts, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from Salem.
The apportionment is the second
half of the allotment for the 1949-50
school year. The money comes
from income tax receipts.
ROSEBURG.
Judith Coplon
Freed On Bail
NEW YORK, March 16 -iJPt
Judith Coplon waa free in $40,000
bail today pending appeal of her
spy conspiracy conviction.
But the way was not yet clear
for her to go to her family's borne
in Brooklyn.
The court order fixing bail, un
der which she waa released late
yesterday, forbade her to leave
the federal southern district uf
New York, which does not include
Brooklyn.
' Her lawyer was to apply today
for permission for her to go to
Brooklyn.
Miss Coplon, 28-year-old former
department of justice employee,
had been in the women's house of
detention since March 7.
That was the day she and Valen
tin A. Gubitchev, 33-year-old Rus
sian engineer, were convicted vf
espionage. Each drew a 15-year
prison term.
Gubitchev, still in jail, is sched
uled to receive a suspended sen
tence next Monday and to be put
on a boat en route home to Russia.
Miss Coplon's brother, Bertram,
posted her $40,000 bail. '
It consisted of $20,000 in bills
and a government check for
$20,000, representing return of the
bail in which Miss Coplon had been
held prior to her conviction.
Members of the family and
friends were reported to have put
up the cash.
The former government girl now
is under a total of $60,000 bail. She
posted $20,000 in appealing a con
viction in a Washington, D. C,
federal court last year. Tried alone
there, she was convicted of steal
ing government secrets for the
Russiana and was sentenced to
from 40 months to ten years in
prison. The appeal atiil ia pending
along with the appeal here
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Ashland Council Votes
Water Rates' Increase
ASHLAND, March lB-JPt-Ash-land
is going to have a 25 percent
increase in water rates.
The council voted for the in
crease to place the water depart
ment on a paying basis. Acreage
rates for farmers were also in
creased, from $10 to $12 per acre
a year.
The new rates will bring in about
$92,000 a year, officials estimated.
The council also approved leas
ing the idle Ashland golf course
to Merle M. Russell and Elbert C.
Williams, Los Angeles, who would
put it back in shape for play.
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CHAMPION WOOD CHOPPER Stanley Hatfield, above, topped a field of tlx log choppers,
ncludina ax-ehamoion Babe Fenlon, in a contest to determine the ao-wieldinq prowett of
Douglet county manhood and the durebility of e femout-meke wrist wetch, which was strapped
to the handles of the contestants' axes. Hatfield broke the record by hacking through a log in
1:34 or 20 seconds fetter then Fenton't mark. For this, Hatfield received a watch. Lawion't
Jewelers, sponsors of the contest, had to produce two extra watches to contestants, when
watches stropped to the axe handles stopped running. Stanley's brother, Leslie, and another ase
man copped the extra awards. All six contettantt received two tickett each to the St. Patrick's
day dance. I Phot Lab phots I.
OREGON THURSDAY, MAR.
Federal Tax
On Oleo Ends
Next July 1
Truman Signs Measure
Closing Long Struggle;
State Laws Unaffected
KEY WEST. Fla.. March 16
(.TV President Truman today
signed the bill to repeal the federal
tax on oleomargarine.
It was Mr. Truman's first action
after his arrival here for a vaca
tion after a sea voyage from Wash
ington. All federal taxea on oleomargine
will end next July 1.
After that date, housewives can
expect noticeably lower prices for
colored oleomargarine. The tax on
it now is 10 cenls a pound. On un-
colored, the tax is one-quarter cent
a pound.
At the same time, certain re
strictions will go into effect de
signed to assure that oleomarga
rine is not passed off as butter. For
one thing, a cafe owner who serves
it must have it prepared in triangu
lar patties.
congress passed the repealer
after a 'running scrap extending
over several years. Most legislators
from dairy states fought it bitterly.
Some of the taxes have been in ef
fect 64 years.
In addition to the taxes on oleo
margarine itself, there are now li
cense taxes on makers of and deal-1
ers in oleomargarine. These also
are wiped out by the repealer. They
are:
On manufacturers of either col
ored or unrolored oleo, $600 a year;
on wholesalers of colored, $480 a
year: on whoiesalera of uncolored,
$200 a year.
On retailers of the colored prod
uct. $48 a year; on retailers of un
colored oleo, $6 a year.
Repeal of the federal taxes has
no effect on the laws of 21 states
which prohibit the manufacture or
sale of colored oleomargarine. Nor
does it have any effect on any
taxea placed on the commodity by
the stales.
The.repeal law provides that:
I - W. i. sold at retail in park-
rages, oleomargarine must weignt
no more than one pound.
2. The outer carton of retail
packages must be labeled "oleo
margarine" or "margarine" in
type at least as' large as any other
on the carton.
3. The ingredients must be listed
on the carton.
4. The inner wrappings must
bear the words "oleomargine" or
"margarine" in at least 20 point
type about one-quarter inch nigh.
A check with the treasury depart
ment indicates one effect of the
hullabaloo in Congress last year
over the issue was to zoom oleo
margarine sales.
Its records show the taxes pro
duced $13,927,191 in 1949 compared
with $14,128,616 in 1948.
CHOPPING
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In Primary Race
HENRY L. COODMANSON,
above, Drain garage owner, has
filed his petition for nomination
in the May primaries to the of
fice of Douglas county represen
tative to the stale legislature on
the Republican ticket. Two leg
islative positions are to be
filled.
Crommelin Punished by
Indefinite Furlough
WASHINGTON, March 16 -i.V
The navy has decided to punish
Capt. John G. Crommelin, persist
ent critic of Pentagon policies
by furloughing him indefinitely at
half-pay instead of trying him in
a court-martial.
The action amounts to his in
voluntary retirement at the age of
47, and Crommelin blamed it on
the army and air force general
staffs. He has been blaming them
all along for what he called a
serious weakening of the navy in
the army-air force-navy unifica
tion setuD.
Secretary of the Navy Matthews
announced the punishment last
night, effective April 1. A navy
sDokesman said it was for "con
tinued actiona prejudicial to the
service.
Alleged Slayer Of
Texas Sheriff Nabbed
PRESIDIO. Tex., March 16-UP!
Jose Villalobes, 24 - year old
Mexican national, was arrested to
day in the slaying of Sheriff O.
W. (Blackie) Morrow of Presidio.
Deputy Sheriff Mack Tarwater
quoted the man as saying he shot
at the sheriff four times when the
two had a fight, using the offi
cer's own gun.
The slaying occurred early Sun
day morning on a lonely moun
tain road north of here.
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Russia Asked
For Evidence
Of Peace Aims
Seven-Point Challenge
Of Acheson Designed To
Banish TeuiooU, Fears
BERKELEY. Calif.. March 16.-
(.Vi Secretary of State Acheson
challenged Russia today to demon
strate her desire for peace by ac
cepting a new seven-point program
to free the world from "destructive
tensions and anxieties."
Boiled down, the seven steps
Acheson proposed call for an end
to Russia's aggressive diplomacy,
both in her dealinga with satellites
and with the western world, and
for new movea to conclude peace
treatiea and to find some solution
to the problem of atomic controls.
Bluntly, he predicted Russian re
fusal of any attempt to settle these
points of "greatest difference" be
tween the east and the west.
But he insisted that they "must
be identified and sooner or later
reconciled if the wo systems are
to live together, if not with mutual
respect, at least in mutual secur
ity
Otherwise, he said, the United
Statea can only continue to resist
aggression where it tinds it. and to
"press ahead with the building of
a tree world.
"We are alwaya ready to dis
cuss, to negotiate, to agree,
Acheson declared, "but we are
understandably loath to play the
role of international sucker.
Demands On Russia
Acheson'a address was oreoared
for delivery at the University of
California, in connection with the
conference on international coop
eration for world economic develop
ment.
Declaring that "we want peace,
but not at any price," Acheson
said Russia must do several thinga
"which, while leaving much yet
to do, would give the world new
confidence in the possibility of
peaceful change." Among things
he asked of Russia were:
Quit badgering American diplo
matic representativea, who are
now being "treated as criminals,"
and branded aa "sinister people"
with whom all contact is "pregnant
with danger."
Stop "systematically distorting
to their own peoples the picture
of the world outside their borders,
and of our country in particular."
He assailed Soviet propaganda
which he said hammers at the idea
of "a capitalist encirclement, of a
unitea Mates cranny and sys
tematically plotting another world
war."
U. S. Military Display
Greets Anti-Red Vietnam
IB? Tho Awoelatod FroMi
In a display of American
strength and at a token of support
for the new French-sponsored state
of Vietnam, U.S. navy carrier
planea flew over the Indochinese
coast.
The French forces are fighting
insurgents under Moscow - trained
Ho Chi Minh, whose regime has
been recognized by the Soviet Un
ion. The planes were launched from
the aircraft carrier Boxer while
two U.S. destroyers with a French
escort sped 50 miles up river to
Saigon to show the flag.
Husband Dies In Sight
Of Bed-Ridden Wife
PHILADELPHIA, March 16-(P)
A 70-year-old woman, bedridden
and unable to summon aid, lay
helpless for 24 hours with her 74-year-old
husband stretched out
dead across the doorway to her
room.
Mrs. Adelaide Jacoby screamed
for help repeatedly, not knowing
for certain whether her husband
was dead.
It wasn't until a neighbor called
by chance yesterdsy that the tra
gedy waa finally discovered. Doc
tors said Jacoby had been dead
for more than 24 hours.
Prisoner Tips Off Jail
Break Plot, Then Escapes
EATON, O., March 18 (P)
John Emerson Ballinger, 32, of
Miamisburg, a prisoner, gave Pre
ble county officials a "hot tip" yes
terday that there waa going to be
a break at the county jail. Then
he nrrM-ooHMi In -can- m,1,:Ia f
ficials were investigating hia "in-
lormuiton. '
Ballinger was scheduled to leave
for the Ohio penitentiary today to
start serving a sentence for issuing
fraudulent checks.
Storms Take Big Toll Of
Alaskan Fur-Seal Pups
WASHINGTON, March 16 -l!P-Violent
storms off the Pacific
Northwest killed hundreds of Alas
kan fur-seal pups and cast them
ashore on the Washington and Ore
gon roasts in January, the Fish
and Wildlife service said today..
Of the dead animals, 16 bora tags
that had been applied last summer
at the Prihilof islands in the Ber
ing sea. The year-old pups are a
part of the Island crop which will
be ready for the Sealskin harvest
In 1953.
Supporters Now Hop
For Reversal In Next '
Move, Slated In House
WASHINGTON. March 18. (m
A bitter Senate defeat left the
iate ot president Truman's middle
income housing program squarely
in the hands of the House today.
The Senate chopped the entire
program out of a catch-all housing
bill late yesterday on a right 44-to-38
vote. Its Senate backera prompt
ly Degan rooting lor a House vic
tory which might give them an
other chance.
"If that happens," aaid Senator
Sparkman (D-Ala), "we will fight it
out in the Senate again. We need
only change three votes or get
some more Democrats on the floor
to win."
A combination of 30 Republican1
and 13 Democrats, mostly from the
south, administered the death blow
in the Senate.
Frantic last-minute efforts by
Senator Maybank (D-SC) to peg in
terest ratea at 4 per cent, instead
of a lower figure, failed to pick up
enougn votes lor victory. .
The rest of the bill, carrying
more than $3,000,000,000 In govern
ment loans and mortgagee insur
ance for various other program!
was approved. ' '
What Bill Prevldea
As the bill went to the House It
included:
SI .750,000.000 to continue the
regular system of government in
surance of Housing mortgagee, in
cluding an unspecified amount for
housing cooperatives.
8500,000,000 of insurance on mort
gages for low-cost homes ranging
up to 85.000 a unit. On these tho
Federal Housing administration in
surance could cover 95 per cent ot
the value with 25 to 30 years for
repayment.
4300,000.000 of direct loans to col
leges and universities, at 2Vi per
cent interest and repayment up to
40 years, to provide student and
faculty housing.
$150,000,000 of direct loans to vet
erans unable to find housing credit
elsewhere.
$400,000,000 additional funda ta
cover large-scale rental apartment
projects first started during tho
war. Applications for this insur
ance more than exhausted available
funds early thia year although tho
law did not expire until March 1.
Man Drowns In Ten MHe
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COOS BAY, March 16. m
Wayne Stonelake. 23. drowned In
Ten Mile lake last night after hia
outboard motorboat capsized 300
eet irom snore.
A companion. Douslaa Port. Port
land, clung to the overturned boat
and was picked up by Dr. Earl
Drumm, North Bend.
Stonelake, however, tried to
swim ashore, and sank after cover
ing two-thirds of the distance.
The victim had returned to hit
home north of North Bend lust two
weeks ago,, after five years in tho
army.
Vote Ups Penalties Far
Breaking Security Laws
WASHINGTON. March 16 -IIP
The House voted Wednesday to in
crease penalties for violations of
the nation a internal security laws.
A vote of 368-2 with only Reps.
Marcantonio (Alp-NY) and Pow
ell (D-NY) voting no sent to the
Senate a measure which would:
Kaise from $5,000 and five years
in jail to $10,000 and 10 veara tho
penalty for disclosing secret infor
mation.
Permit prosecution for un to IA
years after the violation instead ef
the present three. Under the pres
ent statute of limitationa, there can
be no prosecution if a violation
goes undetected for three yesrs.
Leopold Soys Return
Rests On Parliament
GENEVA, March 16 (.?) Leo
pold III, exiled king of the Bel
gians, has decided to leave the de
cision on his future to Belgium's
parliament, he announced today.
Leopold, exiled from his home
land since the war, won 57.7 per
cent of the vote in an advisory
referendum last Sunday on wheth
er he should return to his throne.
Msny political leaders in Belgium
feel this percentage is far too email
for a king, who is supposed to rep
resent unity for his people. Other
political factions feel he should be
returned.
Tires, Tubes Devoured In
Costly Kansas City Fire
KANSAS CITY, March 16. IJPt
A fire, fed by thousands of new
automobile tires, gutted a four
story warehouse in north Kansas
City yesterday.
Damage was estimated at $2,800,
ono. The flames destroyed an esti
mated 80.000 tires and 70,000 tubes.
Lvity fact J ant
By UF. Ratntieteta '
With e view te future cham
pion ship honors, oil local oratory-minded
person ore urged
to kit tho Homey ttono seg
ment during Its current visit.
Top spot In forensic! hot been
hold lone) enough by our silver-
-