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U. of 0, Library ' COMP Eugene, Ore it 1 V ; ' J HOLD THAT TIOII Not reel tiqers. but clot to it ar thai two cougar kittens, two-tnirds of a littar which Sutherlin huntar Ami Popiot, abova, found aftar ha and John "Couqar Bill" Brat ton killed the mother cougar about a week ago. Whan found on tha North Umpque, tha kittens wara thought to ba about a month old. All three kittant hava baan told, Popiot laid, with ana of them dated ai a houi pet for a Portland man. Including tha kittens, the hunten hava collected bountiot on 10 cougars and 10 bobcatt tinea Jan. I at $1 for each bobcat and $60 for the cougart. (Staff photo.) 2-Month-Old Chrysler Strike Appears To Be Nearing Close DITROIT, March 15. im The way seemed open t peace today m th tw-monrh-eld ChrysUr strlk. A campiny alter, t put $M,M0,0N Int a pension trust fund and the union's acceptance of th lda If nt the emeunt eve prmis t breaking th dsdlck. With both sides compromising, a basis far settlement appeared at hand far tha return at 140,000 aura workers t th eb. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AT Chicago: Donsld Valsonis, who has Just been selected as th outstanding boy of th year in the nine-state central region of the Boys' Club of America, says that to him the most important thing in the world is to be liked. He adds: "When I grow up, I don't want to be President of the United States. Nobody would 1 '.I 'mkea dU Nobody would like ." ' - a llfHAT he means, I think. Is this: TV Nobody would LIKE HIM FOR HIMSELF ALONE. Everybody would flatter him. Everybody would kow-tow to him. In every gathering of two or more, be would be the big shot BUT EVERYBODY WOULD JUST BS BUTTERING HIM UP BECAUSE EVERYBODY WOULD BE WANTING SOMETHING FROM HIM. That would go, not only for the United States, but in these days for everybody in the world. Throughout the world, at this moment in history, Uncle Sam (Continued on Page Four) 'Pure Luck' Led To Drug's Finding BALTIMORE, March 25 -OPi Sir Alexander Fleming last night ascribed the discovery of penicillin which brought him the 1S4S Nobel peace prise to "pure luck." The grey-haired Scotsman told an audience at the Johns Hopkins uni versity school of hygiene and public health the only important part he had played in discovering the pow erful, germ-killing drug was that "I noted something." "It was pure luck that a culture piste of staphylococci got contam inated with some mold spores, and it did something to the staphylo cocci which was very unusual," Fleming continued. "There are thousands of molds, but this happened to be the right one. There are thousands of bac teria, but this happened to be the right one. "I might have been in a bad temper and missed it." Fleming is in this country as a lecturer at Gill Memorial hospital in Roanoke, Va. 'Bring 'Em Bock Alive' Hunter Dies HOUSTON, Tex., March 25.-f,f Frank (Bring 'Em Back Alive) PRANK RUCK " ( 6 Joint peac talks were in recess until Sunday afternoon. Mediators arranged it that way, hoping that company and CIO United Auto workers negotiators would come up with still more fresh ideas after a day to "think it over." The 89.000 strikers meanwhile went through their 60th day of idle ness. Another 50,000 persons hsve been idled indirectly by the walk out. A union statement that Chrysler's lateat offer was only half good enough failed to dim hopes for an early settlement. Fast-moving de velopments in the past 24 hours left peace prospects bright for the first time. Chrysler's lump sum offer of a 130,000,000 pension fund was re jected a short time after it was put oa th' bargaining table yes terday. But it provided the basis for the union's counter proposal later in tha day. Tha company said H would set aside the money in a trust fund. It claimed this was more than sufficient to guarantee 1100-a-month pensions, including federal social security, to workers at age 65 after 25 years service. Chrysler offered it as a five-year contract. I Air Safety Courses -Set At Two Airports PORTLAND, March 25 -im New pilot training, intended to cut down the number of cross-country crashes, will begin soon at two Oregon flight schools. The Civil Aeronautics adminis tration said the schools selected were Western Skyways service at Troutdal and Salem Air service at Salem. Students, instead of starting out on plana controls, will be taken on cross-country flights, learning first to resd maps, recognize land marks, and finally bow to fly and land th plane. "The new course la designed to teach a pilot to use an airplane, not merely maneuver it," E. S. Leach, senior safety agent for the district CAA, said. NO-FUND RfPUNO MONROE, Mich., March Th check the government sent Cairl F. Meier yesterday hardly seemed worth the trouble or the postage. It wss a refund on his income tax, good for exactly one cent. THRU WITHDRAWN WASHINGTON. March 25 -IIP) Acting in accord with a request from Hungary's Communist gov ernment, the Stat department has withdrawn three military men from the U, S. legation in Buda pest. Buck, famed wild animal hunter, died peacefully in bed today at Her mann hospital here. He wss 66. Attendants ssid a lung ailment caused his death. Shortly before en tering Hermann hospital a month sgo, Buck was examined at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson hospital for cancer research here. Services will be held at a funeral home tomorrow afternoon. The body will be cremated. Death in bed overtook th man who had lived a life of hair breadth escapes in many parts of uie worm. From tha time ha was II. Buck roamed the earth. In 1911 he made his first Jungle expedition to South America the first of a series m search of rare animals and rep tiles that built his "bring 'em bsck alive" reputation. Buck was born March IT. IS84. at Gainesville, Texas, where his fath er operated a wagon yard. In his school days, he showed an interest chiefly in animals and geography, and he left school after th seventh grade to make thoa imeersU his Ufa. TW Partly daWy today with e sesieaai Beat rota teaisnt; shew, org Seealey. , Sua today 4:11 p. at. . ittarbe ten-strew 4:01 a. as. Establiskad 1173 Secrecy Shrouds Mass Flight Of Czechs To West Germany ' IRDINS, Germany, March IS. Ttgsst military secrecy redey surrounded marly M Ciech refugees wtt landed at this U. S. air tare base yesterday In thr planes kidnapped tram their Cemmu- Child Actress' Mother Freed In Cruelty Cose BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.,' March 251) Lore Lea Michel's foater mother was free today of a charge of unjustifiable punishment of tha nine-year-old child actress. A justice court Jury of eight wom en and four men returned a verdict of innocent last night after more than seven hours deliberation. Mrs. Lorraine Michel shed a few tears of relief whea she heard tha foreman announce tha verdict. About 30 persons who had awaited tha jury's decision cheered. They almost smothered Mrs. Michel and her husbsnd. Otto, 71-year-old cot ton buyer, witn congratulations. Mrs. Michel, 55, said they might take Lora Lee to Europe for a three months' vacation trip. As to her future acting career, that will have to be decided later," she told reporters. "We hava made no decision on that." The jury foreman disclosed that IT ballots were taken. He said the first one stood seven to five for acquittal.' Most of tha prolonged discussion was about the suffi ciency of Lora Lee's diet and whether she was brutally beaten, he said. The prosecutor charged that the child actress was beaten and starved and her health was Jeop ardized by an insufficient diet to keep her from, outgrowing juvenile rolls. Mrs. Ona Wargin. tha child's drama coach, testified Mrs. Michel admitted she spsnked Lora Lee with a hair brush last Dee. 15 because the child hsd stolen food. Other prosecution witnesses said they saw bruises on the child's body. Mrs. Michel dented she used a hair brush and aaid she spanked Lora Leo only with her hand for telling falsehoods. She testified th child was neither hungry nor half starved but that she had been put on a diet that banned sweets, fats and starches. Her physician testi fied she was overweight and re quired such a diet. Spring Weather Hits Wide Areas ' my The AaaoeLtled PraMI Spring was mora like a fact than a fantasy today. Temperatures over most or th nsSon were up to normal levels at least, and were even higher over the gulf states and as far north as Tennessee, Arksnsas and Kansas. A heevy rain has ended the threat of another drought in tha rich San Joaquin valley of California. The moisture which measured well over an inch at most places were de scribed by Agricultural Commis sioner John Dixton at Fresno as worth a million dollars. The- rainfall was widespread. It extended from San Diego north ward into the ranchlanda of Idaho and Wyoming where it was mixed with snow at higher elevations. Light rsm also was reported at some points in Pennslyvania and western New York. . . . TRAD! MIITINO SIT SEATTLE. March 25 UP The Pacific Northwest Trade associa tion will hold its 23rd general con ference at Vancouver, B. C, April 17-18, Dick Knapp, executive secre tary, announced today. - MISSINC KIMS Missing on a flight from Lekeview to Port-land ar these (our persons, who wore returning from the Oregon good-will tour to Cuba. Loft to right., they are: Mrs. W. B.tund.trom, II; Lao BleHolb, 47; Mrs. Leo Blekltolb, J; W. I. Lundifrom. It. All are PortUndors. Tky left Lekeview Tuesday in the plana beside which thay stand. Tha picture was taken aa tha flight ta Cuba. IAP Photo.) - . nltt-ruled homeland. ' It was the biggest mssa escape so far from behind the iron curtain. American intelligence officers at tha base near Munich quisled the Ciechs. U. S. authorities remained tight-lipped about details of the flight until they could complete their Investigation. As a result, there was no con firmation of a series of speculative reports, such as one that a high Ciech government official was aboard one of the planes. Nor was it known whether the planes had been stolen from Czech airports by the plotters or if their pilots had been forced to turn toward western Germany after the aircraft were aloft, as hss been the case in soma individual aerial es capes in the past. An sir force source, however, in dicated that some of the passen gers on the planes left their home land unwillingly and wanted to return. This could indicate that at least one of the planes may have been seised in midair. An official announcement, which identified the group simply as refu gee persons, said: "Three unauthorized, unsched uled Ciech airplanes of the DC-3 type lsnded at Krding air base. The airplanes, lsnding st different intervals during the morning, car ried approximately 8S refugee per sons from Czechoslovakia. "The refugees are being held for investigation by U. S. authorities., Results will be announced at the earliest possible hour." The successive landing of the three planes coincided with a flood of rumors in Prague, the Czech capital, of asssssinations, palace revolutions and major developments in tha Red-led government there. (See Story Page 2) Deer Creek School Plans Expansion Sealed bids will be received by Dear Creek school district No. up to g p. m. Friday, April 14, at the school house for the construc tion of sdditions to the present school, an official notice submitted by Marybelle Beckley, district clerk, states. The pioposed improvements call for two new class rooms, separate heating plants, a storage room for janitor supplies and a lounge room for students who msy become ill or need first aid. The additions will be constructed of tha same type of fireproof ma terial, including concrete blocks and fireproof shingles, as the re mainder of the building, which was completed a year ago. The school enrollment up to March 10 was 117. The construction shall be in ac cordance with plans and specifica tions prepared by L. W. Tyler. Copies of the plsns may be obtain ed from Charles E. Smith, princi pal, at the school in Dixonville, up on tha usual $10 deposit. MINISTERS MfET PARIS. Msrch 25W Minis ters from eleven Marshall plan rountriea met here today to streamline the Organization for European Economic Recovery (OEEC). They are members of tha con sultative group of the OEEC, which is made up of the 18 areas getting Marshall plan money. . Dirk U. Stikker, named six weeks ago as "political concilia tor" for the OEEC, is to report on his first series of visits to member nations and to the United States. " imj wyWge'SaMWyTaBjeywiBS iiifjaffiiwg . ! J ROSEBURG. OREGON SATURDAY, MAR. 25, 1950 ' " "" "- ""i"' ' ' HAROLD J. LASKI Leber Party Leader Dead Pneumonia Kills Famous British Socialist Author LONDON, March 25 Harold J. Laski, a chief spokes man for British socialism and a founder of his country's Labor party, died last night. He was 56. Pneumonia, following attacks of bronchitis and influenza, was list ed as the cause of his death. A member of the Labor party's executive committee since 1936, he wss the psrty's chairman in 1945-46 when it won control of the British government by a large ma jority. Laski was widely known in the United States, where he had taught and lectured at leading colleges and universities. A prolific writer, his espousal of socialism and his advocacy of "Anglo-Russian solid arity" had made him a constant target from conservstivea on both sides of the Atlantic. In a statement last night Prime Minister Attlee spoke o( his "deep regret" at the death of Laski, whom he described as "a man of outstnading gifts, who has done great work for the Labor and Soc ialist movement." "HIS brilliant intellect illuminat ed many of the social and politi cal problems of our time, the Prime Minister said. Though a pioneer in the Labor party, Laski never held a govern ment post. But many Of the gov ernment's officials had studied un der him at the London school of economics of London university, where for many years he had been a lecturer. Laski was a member of a Jewish family which had come to England several generations before from Russia. Born in industrial Man chester, he was educated at Ox ford university. He began his ca reer as a university lecturer at Canada, after he was rejected by th British Army in World War I because of a weak heart. His widow and a daughter sur vive him. Largest Mill Closed TOLEDO. Ore.. March 2S.- Oregon's biggest sawmill, the C. D.' Johnson Lumber compsny mill here, remained closed todsy with employer-union negotistions in weekend suspension. It was learned employers propos ed terms for settling the week-long shutdown yesterday, and that the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union rejected the terms. Details were not disclosed. The shutdown began a week ago yesterday with the union walking out in protest to dischsrge of three workers. The mill employes 700. Negotiations are scheduled to re sume Tuesdsy afternon. Dynamite Digs Huge Crater; 2 Killed In Blast NASHYJJ.E; Tenn., March 25 (P A truck loaded with 10 tons 'Of dynamite caught fire and blew up a highway 20 miles north west of here last night. Two per sons were killed and the country side was rocked or 50 miles around. The spectacular blast dug a 15 foot deep crater through the pave ment of U.S. Highway 41-A, tore down power lines, and threw most of the sparsely-settled mid-Tennes see area into darkness. The explosion occurred only a few minutes after the truck, oper ated by the Hercules Powder com. pany of Bessemer, Ala., caught fire as it labored up a hill en route to Clarksville, 45 miles from Nashville. One of 4he two dead, both of whom had left a car to look at the burning truck, was identified as John L. O'Guin, 63, a Nashville in surance man. Efforts to identify the other msn were not immed iately successful. . Trucker Signaled The tmck driver, listed as Lloyd L. Brsntley, 39. of McCalla. Ala., brought the big vehicle loaded with 400 caaes of explosive to stop on a ligh signal from E. E. Minis, 27, of Nashville, driver of a two and one-half ton truck pull ing up behind. "I saw his truck smoking and flashed him a signal," Minis told newsmen. "The driver stopped his tr rk and when he got out it started flaming up. "He (Brantley) shouted out, 'This thing is loaded with dyna mite. Let's get out of here." ' "He went north on the road and I went south, stopping cars and telling them to turn around. "I was about a fourth of a mile down the road when it exploded with a big white and red light. I was in the service overseas and saw plenty of bombs go off but l never saw antning like that." Other Truck Deetreyed . "- m uvn. m auv: inviiffii- die vehicle heavily loaded with (Continued on page Two! 'Full Amount" Vott Urged By President KIY WIST, "la., March 25 President Truman today celled upon Cenaress r vr the "full amount" of administration fereian aid requests and strike a "maer blew" far peace. He pitched tnt th Have ket tle ever hew much should b spent rh next fiscal yar tar ft repeen and ether aid with a tele gram to Chairman Kee (D.-Va.) f th House foreifn afefir com mltto asserting: "Pasaao Mils set will strengthen all nations threatened with intimidation, subversion er aggression." He said It would be an attack en th poverty, misery end insecurity" en which Cam . munism thrives." . Cuban. Millionaire Die HAVANA, Cuba. March 25 -J.1P) Senator Jose Manuel Aleman, minister of education, died today followina a lone illness. Alemsn was president of the pro vincial assembly of the Cuba Re volutionary party ( Autenticos). He waa a member of former Presi dent Ramona Graa San Martina cabinet. Although of the same political party as President Carlos Prio So carras, Aleman was critical of the Prio administrstion. He retired from politics last November be cause ot in nesitn. 7I-S0 1 ... .. '- v x JAMES R. OARFIILD Former Cabinet Member Dead Son Of President James Garfield Dies At Age 84 CLEVELAND, March 25 fP) James Kudolph uarfield, 84. son of former President James A. Gar field, will be buried Monday at nearby Mentor, his home for more than 50 years. The onetime secretary of the in terior died yesterday of pneumon ia, following a year of failing health. He was born at Hiram, unio uci. 17, lass. . Funeral services will be held here at 2 p.m. (EST) Monday in Trinity Episcopal cathedral, where Garfield was an executive committeeman. The burial service in Mentor will be attended by the family only. With Gariefld at his death was his son, Newell, of Concord, Mass., another son, James A. of Glen Cove, tang Island, N.Y., also sur. vives. There are 12 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. During the last three years of his life, Garfield lived with his broth er Abram, an architect, in subur ban Bratenahl. Abram and Irvln McDowell Garfield, a Boston at torney, are the last surviving chil dren of the assassinateed Treni- dent.--. . With legal career which start ed nera in 1IW3 and lasted more then M years, James R. Garfield coupled a briefer political career in which ha rose to secretary of the interior in President Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet. Ha held tha post from 1907 to 1900. 18 Salem Students Again Suspended SALRM, March 21 (Eigh teen Salem high school boys again found themselves suspended from school todsy because of member ship in a secret society. A ruling by Circuit Judge Dal M. King of Coquille upheld tha school board's suspension of tha youths, including a few athletes,- although no key team players. The boys originally were expelled Oct. IS, but stsyed in school under a temporary restrsining order is sued while parents appealed to the court. An attorney indicated aa appeal also would be taken from Judge King's ruling. King's decision dissolved the re straining order. He found that the secret society Alpha Beta Chi was "an organization banned under the laws of Oregon." He held it wss "patterned sfter a Portland club." He further ssid the school board's action was not 'arbitrary, officious, oppressive and discriminatory." as charged, and that the parents have been given "sufficient notice of the lew" in advance. In previous suspensions from the school here, students hsd to trans fer to school in another town in or der to complete high school educa tion. Cloudless Sky Aids Air Search KLAMATH FALLS, Or., March 25. (iP The search for a missing airplane with four persons aboard centered today in a large triangu lar area in South-Central Oregon. The area is bounded by Lekeview on the south, Bend on the north west, and Bums on the northeast point of the triangle. Report Indicate that the missing plane, which left Lekeview for Portland on Tuesdsy, got almost as far north as Bend, then turnd east trying to fly around a snowstorm. Reports from Millican, Brothers snd Hampton indicate it followed highway 20 toward Burns as the snowstorm chased it. Those towns lie along highway 20. Search planes began taking off Into almost cloudless skies todsy to scan assigned areas. Aboard the plane were Mr, and Mrs. Lee Blakkolb and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lundstrom. all of Port land. They were returning in their yellow biplane from Cuba, where they flew in the good-will air tour of 250 Pacific Northwest business men three weeks ago. Ona report came from the one house town of Fremont, where a yellow biplane was seen flying at tree-top level in heavy snowfall at 1 p. m., Tuesdsy. Fremont is an the course between Lekeview and Band. J FBI Records OnOnsCese UnderStudy Senate Investiaators Con J. Edgar Hoover For Monday Meeting WASHINGTON, March XS.-tfV., Senate investigators appeared to dsy to be nearing a showdown . with Senator McCarthy on th "spy for Russia" case which ha calls a test of his communum-in-the-State department charges. Thst impression developed at tha capitol after a justice department announcement late yesterday. It said confidential FBI data on "ona principal case" had been given ta tha Senate foreign relations sub committee which is looking into the Wisconsin Republican's charges. It was learned that th Informa tion provided waa about tha man McCarthy contends is Russia's top espionage agent in this country. McCarthy has aaid tha individual is connected with the State de partment. Th department denies it. The Senator haa declared ha la . willing to let the credibility of hia general charges hang on tha out come of the "Russian agent" case. Last Tuesday McCarthy gsv tha name of the man in tha casa to the committee in secret session. Tha committee immediately as signed the case top priority. The individual's name haa not been made public by the commit tee, but his identity is widely known in Washington. There was speculation that there may be information available Mon day on whether the FBI data on the case hacks up McCarthy' charge. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover Is scheduled to go before th com mittee at a public hearing then He will be accompanied ty At torney General J. Howard Me Grath. Sea stery page Z Local Workers Not Affected In Strike Vote Roseburg welding and machine shops will not be affected by tha threatened strike ot Oregon's 1.50 AFL Metal Tradea workers whose working contract expires in a week. Spokesmen for the five local eon-, cerns contacted this morning aaid there would be no walkout ot workers- Iff thi area. Thay- said soma Roseburg shops are "open shops" with the question of union affilia -tion left up to individual worker. None of the local firms hava union contracts to fulfill, according to their spokesmen, and in soma . esses, these shops are now paying; well abova tha union minimum scale. , According to a Portland ' Asso-' elated Press dispatch, a federal , conciliator will join negotiation! -in that city Monday in an attempt ' to head off tha possible strike in Oregon foundries, boiler works and machine shops. No strike data has been set but the present working contract ex pires in a week and a strike haa been authorised. Tha metal trade workers are asking a 15 percent pay increase, eight paid holidays, a health and welfare program and vacation schedule changes. A un ion spokesman told the AP that negotiations had been of littles avail so fsr. Roseburg shop owners aaid ef fect of such a strike would ba felt her in a short-go of soma key msterials manufactured by the state's larger shops and found ries. Something Hoc Happened To Stalin, Station Says ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 2S iJXH U.rnM ST U, .U:l- that "something serious" has hap. prnea io josepn Stalin. In a talk to Young Republicans here last night Stassen comment ed on a recent report of a "faked" picture of Stalin used in Soviet Russia's last election. Stassen said he saw Stalin on ,' his visit to Russia within tha last year and that he knew the elec tion picture put out by the Krem lin wai "at least ten yesrs old. . "I know Stalin would hava vot ed if he could," Stassen said, "and if he did vote there seems to ba no reason for putting out that picture." Se BILLION SAVCD ' WASHINGTON, March 25 -OfA-Americans saved more than st!,. ooo.ooo.ooo last year, the Home : Loan bank board ssiu todsv. The sgency said total 194k sav ings deposted in "leading type ot financial institutions" and in vested in government bonds amounted to 1169,000,000,000, a ra. cord. TRIAL SITTHURSOAY NORFOLK, Vs., March 15 Capt. William D. Brown, former skipper of the bsnleship Missouri, will go before ageneral court msr lial Thursday instead of Monday. The delay wss requested by his counsel. Levity fact H ant ByL.r lUlseaMMta Ne known oq wlH prevent the erayinq of haer ef human balnqt, American Maateef as sociation ceniurrcmtt say. At aay rata not ourlaej the ax 1st aaca ef the peasant tax str