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HONORED IY EACLES -William "Dutch" Millt. commander of
American Legion Umpqua post 16, it pictured above at ha ae
eaptt for thi group tha award of tha Roseburg Aaria, Frater-
fcal Ordar of tha Eagles, for tha part tha Legion hat played in
ipviuoring baseball for local youngitort. Paul Travis, left, worthy
pratidant of tha local aaria, praiantt a framed teroll and an.
graved gaval. Schadulad for individual commendation, but un
abla to attend last night's public ceremony, wat Mayor Al Flegel,
chairman of tha American Legion Junior Baseball program and
, active in tha Peewea bataball project (Staff photo).
School Needs. Dist. Finances
Explained By Supt. Elliott As
Roseburg Nears Bond Election
Calling attention to the Roieburg tchool diltrict 4 "permii
tiva" election Monday, April 17, Superintendent Paul Elliott
poke before tha Roseburg Kiwanii club Tuesday noon on tha
tchool enrollment problem.
At tha election, to be held between the hourt of 2 and 8 p.m.,
tha votart will ba asked to grant the board permittion to use
bond money already voted for the construction of a new Fuller
ton tchool, while the present Fullerton building would be con
verted for uta by tha high tchool.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
T
HERE itn't much heavy newt on
the wires at thit it written-for j
which, I think we should be duly
thankful. The heavy newt these
days is apt to be grim newt. We
have enough of that, goodness
knows. A respite every now and
then helps us to keep our balance.
MY 2',4-year-old granddaughter
was climbing the stain recently
for her noonday nap. She had
loaded herself like a packhorsa
with dolls, teddy bean, woolly rab
bits and the other miscellany that
at that age are essential to sleep.
The load wasn't very well bal
anced, and about halfway up a
doll toppled off. She couldn't spare
a hand to pick it up. If she did, the
rest of the cargo would slip.
She met the situation as many of.
us older ones have done. She blew
up. "Oh damn!" she said.
....
WHERE they get it none of us
know. It's funny the first time.
After that, it presents problems.
Life is like that. I
...
PAUL WINTER was telling me the
other day of a sign he'd just
seen in a service station. It read:
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Stolen Truck, Automobile
Art Recovered Here
State police today reported re
covery of two stolen cars The first
was a pcikup truck, owned by Farm
Industrial Equipment Co of Rose
burg. It was stolen in Eugene last
night and aoandoned in Roseburg
on Hamilton street about 1 a.m.
From this location a car owned
by Thelbert W Sutton, 1034 Ham
ilton, was stolen, and the vehicle
was recovered this morning by
officers in the vicinity of Wolf
Creek, Josephine county.
Motorcyclist Injured In
Accident Near Oakland
Stewart Basset of Dexter, Lane
county, was injured when the
motorcycle he was riding went out
of control Monday at 5:30 p.m.
north of Oakland, state police re
ported. He was brought to Mercy hos
pital in Roseburg by ambulance
The officer's report stated that the
motorcycle apparently failed to
negotiate a turn and skidded 20a
feet through brush and trees. His
condition was reported "serious "
Second Death Occurs From
Home Fire At Lakeside
COOS BAY, April 12 CrPl Oscar
Erickson, 54, died Tuesday of burns
suffered Monday in the Lakeside
home of Mn. Hannah Mannila.
Mn. Mannila died in the blaze.
Erickson, his clothes afire, was
found 300 feet from the house.
Elliott explained the present and
the anticipated future achool en
rollment, based upon the birthrate
within the district. The birthrate
began a rapid increase in IMS.
and has climbed from 270 in that
year to 850 in 1949, and indications
are the rate will go even higher.
The superintendent distributed
anniaa tf a flat a a timmaiw
bjrths enrollment, number of
rooms in the respective schools of
the system and the financial pic-
ture of the district.
'We would like very much to be
able to build a new high school
building, but with the funds avail
able, this would be impossible,"
Elliott stated.
Limit Fixed By Law
The district has available from
the bonds voted $290,000 with which
to complete its building program.
The district has a bonded indebt
edness of $922,000, but since the
legal bond limit, based upon 10
percent of the assessed property
value in 1949. is $1,173,299, the dis
trict could vote only an additional
$251,299 for future expansion.
The proposed conversion of the
Fullerton school to high school use,
and the erection of a new Fullerton
grade building, could be accom
plished with the funds on hand,
without an additional bond election,
said Elliott
The senior high school, built to
accommodate 420 students, has an
enrollment of 698. The junior high,
built for 550 students, has T32 en
rolled. Under the proposed change,
the ninth grade would be added to
the senior high, reducing the junior
high to a load of 441, which would
provide for expected increases.
The revised senior high plans
would accommodate 1164 students.
The planning is broken down as
follows: Remodeled old senior high
plant, 680 students; new library
arts building (for which a con
tract has been let), 150 students:
Fullerton building, 14 rooms and
auditorium, 450 students.
Elliott assured that all grade pu
pils would be transported by bus,
in accordance with a policy set by
the board.
The Kiwanis program also in
cluded numbers by the eighth grade
boys' chorus, directed by Mrs. W.
W. Woodward.
Announcement was made of the
Kiwanis conference in Bend Mon
day, April 17, which will be at
tended by several local members.
Montana Bank Bandit
Suspects Nabbed By FBI
GREAT FALLS. Mont., April
12 UP) The federal bureau of
investigation said today two young
farmers had been arrested in the
robbery of a Valier, Mont., bank.
Both admitted their part and all
but $900 of the $',6,100 was re
covered in a garbage can, the
FBI added.
Agent W. Guy Bannister identi
fied the pair as Mourice Arthur
Holm, 24, and Lewis Andrew Pe
ters, 26. He said they were cao
tured during the night at Conrad,
onlv 20 miles east of Valier.
The arrests were made 12 hours
after two masked men robbed the
farmers and Stockmen's bank at
Valier.
Bank President Nels Swanson
was forced to open the safe for the
robbers, each carrying two guns,
when he opened the bank yester
day moming. After scooping uo
available currency and some sil
ver, the men tied up Swanson and
fled.
Established 187 J
Protest Of
Russia Will
Be Rejected
Soviet Planet lelitved
To Have Fired On U. S.
Craft, Bearing No Arms
IBy Th. AuocUUd Pr
' Washington diplomatic and mili
tary authorities said today tha cold
war isn't going to turn into a
hot one because of any one inci
dent auch as an airplane shooting
scrape reported by the Russians
yesterday.
Nevertheless American officials
took a serious view of the impli
cations of Russia's protest note
which said an American plane
penetrated Latvia, fired on Russian
planes and disappeared over the
sea. A full investigation is under
way. U.'S. officials indicated the Rus
sians may have fired on an un
armed navy "privateer" plane
Such a plane has been missing
since Saturday and may have
flown over Russian-held territory.
The next steps appear to be:
A tartly worded rejection of
the Russian protest. A complaint
of our own that the Soviets evi
dently shot down an unarmed
American plane. A sharpening of
tension and a further deteriora
tion of relations, just as there
were when Russia blockaded Ber
lin. Additional exchanges of angry
notes.
Neither Seeks Fight
Yet officials here say wa cer
tainly don't want to pick a fight
with anyone and they have an
idea the Russians want to avoid
one within the foreseeable future.
They reason that since World
War II the Reds have pushed the
frontiers ot communism forward
here and there without using mil
itary force and probably will want
to see how far they can go with
the process. So they look for con
tinued Russian probing for weaV
spots, continued-pressure short. Trf
the use of arms.
If the Russians did knock down
the missing U. S. patrol plans,
the Moscow protest could be vieweJ
as an application of theory that
a good offense is the best -defense.
Soviet Charge Refuted
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chief
of staff of the U. S. air force,
said the air force had no four
engine bombers in the Baltic area
on Saturday, and none are miss
ing. Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief
of naval operations, said the navy
patrol plane has been missing
since Saturday that had been an
nounced previously that it was un
armed, and "therefore, could rot
have fired on any other aircraft,
or returned the fire of any air
craft. " The plane was a four
engine "privateer."
Sherman said navy patrol plants
in the Baltic region are under
standing orders to "stay well clear
of the territory and territorial
waters of Russia and Russian sat
ellites." Russia regards Latvia at
Russian territory, although this
country hat not recognized it at
such.
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CITY HEADS MEET Pictured abova are some of the officials
and hosts present at tha regional meeting of the League of Ore
gon Citiat held here Tuatday night. Dalegatat from ten Oouglat
county citiat mat with ttata officialt of tha league and experts
on city planning. Roteburg't mayor and city council acted at
ROSIIURG,
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Jack Finden, abova, hat baan
named Boy Scout field execu
tive and will ba ttationsd in
Roseburg to terva the .Douglas
district. Finden assumet tha
former duties of Rollia Quam,
promoted to assistant tcout
executive of tha Oregon Trail
council. Quam will ba in charge
of three southern Oregon coun
ties, Douglas, Coot and Curry.
A recent graduate of tha Uni
versity of Oregon, Finden for
merly lived In Salem. Ha will
leave next weak for Mendham,
N. J., to attend tha Scout Exec
utive Training tchool before re
turning here. His wife will re
Ttain in Roseburg to search for
house J (Staff photo).
Mississippi Law
BansTrumanites
From Party Name
JACKSON, Miss., April 12 iW
Mississippi supporters of President
Truman are officially banned from
using -the Democratic party name.
Acting Attorney General George
Ethridge advised Secretary of State
Ladner yesterday that only one
party is entitled to use the word
"Democrat" in its title, and be
cause the Slates' Rights Democrats
registered first, he said, pro-Truman
Democrats cannot use the title
of Democrat.
The controversy began when the
legislature enacted a law requir
ing all political parties in the state
to register with the secretary of
state.
The law bant use of the same
name or any part of the same
name by more than one party.
The , possibility arose that the
same situation may face Missis
sippi Republicans, who are split
into two factions. One faction
known locally as the "Black and
Tan" and headed by Perry How
ard, Negro attorney, it recognized
by the national party.
The other group, known as the
"Lily Whites" and not accredited
by the national party, it led by
George Sheldon, former governor
of Nebraska. Ladner has accepted
registration of the "Lily Whites."
The "Black and Tans" so far have
made no move to register.
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OREGON WEDNESDAY, APRIL
Dirksen Wins
G.O.P.Hodln
Illinois Vote
Ex-Congressman NrViU
Race Lucas For Senate;
Death Invades Primary
CHICAGO, April 12. (JP) For
mer Rep. Everett M. Dirksen, who
retired last year after serving 16
yean, won the Republican nomi
nation for U.S. senator in yester
day's Illinois primary election.
Dirksen, who piled up a big lead
over two Chicago candidates, will
oppose Scott W. Lucas, President
Truman's majority leader in the
Senate, in the November general
election. Lucas, now serving his
second term, was renominated
without opposition.
Seven of the 23 incumbent con
gressmen who had opposition in the
primary were renominated, aa was
expected.
There was a light turnout of
voters in the election, the first
in a series of state primaries this
spring that will nominate candi
dates for next fall's decisive con
gressional contests. The total vote
was estimated at about 1.500,000 out
of a total of about 5,000,000 regis
tered voters.
Among the seven congressmen
winning renomination was Rep.
Adolph J. Sabath, 84-year-old dean
of the house. Sabath, a Democrat,
now is serving his 44th year and
22nd consecutive term in Congress
from Chicago s seventh congres
sional district. He defeated Mar
shall Mendel, whom he also beat
two years ago.
The late Rep. Ralph E. Church,
Evanston Republican, who died last
March 21, polled the most votes in
the 13th district. Write-in cam
paigns for various candidates
failed, throwing the district nomi
nation into the hands of the Re
publican district congressional com
mittee. In Havana, the Republican nom
ination for Macon county treasurer
was voted to Lloyd M. Kramer,
who died two weeks ago. His name
had not been taken off the ballot J
in mfc-ago, state nep. Da via i.
Swanson, 61, dropped dead of a
heart attack last night while he
wat being congratulated on leading
his district Republican ticket for
renomination. He had served in the
state assembly for 12 years
Fires Buildings Because He
'Was Mad At Everybody'
LANCASTER, Pa., April 12-tP
Police said today a 23-year-old
hospital attendant admitted setting
two fires because he "was mad
at everybody and disgusted with
the world."
The fires, which swept a ware
house and service station, caused
damage estimated at $15,000 Eas
ter Sunday morning.
Cpl. James J. Haggerty of state
police identified the man held on
arson charges as Willoughly Lit
zenberger of nearby Manheim. Lit
zenberger was an attendant at Lan
caster general hospital.
' The young man now is a patient
at the hospital. He suffered back
injuries when he plunged 40 feet
from the hospital balcony, Hag
gerty said, in an attempt to escape
police.
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hosts for tha event. Pictured abova, from right, Deana Saeger,
laaqua consultant; Mrt. Flagel and Mayor Albert G. Flegel;
Hollit Smith, mayor of Dallas
ris Milbank, mayor of Grants Past and vice-president; and Her
man Kehrli, executive director from Eugana. (Staff photo).
12, 1950
Former Cabinet
Member Passes
BAINBRIDGI COLBY
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v Bainbridge Colby, last secre
tary of state under president wood
row Wilson, died last night. He
was 80.
While secretary of ttate. Colby
wrote an historical note refusing
recognition to the Soviet .govern
ment of Russia.
The recognition was granted 13
years later, but Colby contended
there had been nothing to justuy
a change.
Colby never did change his opin
ion about Russia. Until recently,
he gave lectures against Commu
nism. New Mill Will
Be Constructed
South Of Roseburg
Construction will start within the
next 10 days on the Sun Stud Co.,
Inc., mill to be located about two
miles south of Roseburg, Immedi
ately adjoining the Douglas Manu
facturing Co. plant, it was an
nounced today by Fred Sohn,
owner. Mr. Sohn, who recently
moved to Roseburg from New
York and who resides with , his
family on Terrace Ave., nas pur
chased a large supply of timber
from which he will draw in addi
tion to purchasing logs on the
market.
The mill, 40 by 80 feet, will be
of concrete, steel and wood con
struction, two stories in height.
It has been designed by St. Onge
Mill Design, 217 Pacific building,
Roseburg, and will be constructed
by A. A. St. Onge.
A twin circular saw headrig will
be equipped with two electric mo
tors, 75 h.p. on the top arbor and
150 h p. on the bottom arbor. A
10 x 32-foot sash gang is designed
to save approximately 10 percent
in saw kerf over equipment com
monly used: The mill will have a
6 x 54-foot edger. Electric and air
power will be used throughout.
The mill is expected to produce
from 50,000 to 60,000 board feet
of 2 by 4 daily. It will employ
about 17 persons.
A 26 by 56-foot planer shed will
be erected adjoining the mill.
A 16-acre log pond now is being
excavated by Gates snd Co., Rose
burg. The plant ft expected to be in
operation within 60 to 90 days,
Sohn reports.
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Civic Project
Procedure Is
League Topic
Give Full Facts, Figures
On Proposals To Public,
Advice Of Pres. Smith
Tfe importance ot going to tha
puonc wiin tacts ana figures on
contemplated vital civic improve
ments was stressed by Mayor Hoi
lis Smith of Dallas, president of
the League of Oregon Cities, in a
talk before the regional league
meeting at the Hotel Umpqua in
Roseburg Tuesday night.
The meeting was attended by
league representatives and city of
ficials from Drain, Oakland, Suth
erlin, Myrtle Creek, Clendale and
Roseburg. Following the princi
pal talk by Mayor Smith, problems
confronting the various towns was
discussed at length.
There are three approaches
which mayors snd city council
men may take: 1, calculate the
best political course then act ac
cordingly; 2, do what you think
is right, for the best interests of
the people and let the chips fall
where they may, and I, get all the
advance information and make a
full study of the problems, then
go to the service clubs snd the
people with tha issues and solicit
their support.
Third Plan Favored
He urged following the third
plan, with adequate planning in
advance to assure sound propos
als, supported by facts. He said it
is important for the mayor and
council to be in unity on such pro
posals, ana then the support of
service organizations and the gen-
(Contlnueo on page Two)
Fall Into Bonfire
Takes Boy's Life
A one-year-old Oakland boy,
Darwin La Yarn Oberman Jr.,
died Tuesday at Mercy hospi
tal In Roseburg from burnt re
ceived whan ha fall into a bon
fire.
Hit parents, Mr. and Mn.
Darwin La Yarn Oberman, ware
burning rubbish in tha yard of
their home in Oakland whan tha
accident happened, Tha child
wat rushed to tha hospital but
died toon after arrival,
Tha boy wat born April 1 9,
1 949.
Betides hit parents, a broth
er Cary turvivat.
Funeral tarvicat will, ba held
Sunday, April 1 6, at two p.m.
at tha Chrittian church in Oak
land, Reverend Bristol offi
ciating. Interment will ba in tha
Oakland IO.O.F. cemetery. Ar
rangements ara in ears of
Staarnt mortuary, Oakland.
Highway Group's
Objective Stated
The public meeting of the Legis
lative Highway Interim committee,
which will be held at 10 a.m.
Saturday, April 15, in the circuit
court room of the Douglas county
courthouse, has been scheduled pri
marily to give the committee an
opportunity to outline street and
highway problems with some pos
sible suggestions for remedy, ac
cording to committee Chairman
Ralph T. Moore.
ihe meeting is one or 13 such
sessions the committee has sche
duled in its tour throughout the
state to learn public opinion con
cerning basic policies to be re-
commended to the legislature, and
to enlist the active support of the
public for such future procedures
at the public approves.
Moore stated that it would be
unncccessary for local organize
tions to prepare oral or written
presentations as had been re
quested by the previous committee
for its tour two years sgo. How
ever, the committee expects and
invites a vigorous discussion from
the floor on the highway pro-
glemt.
Other Legislative Highway In
terim committee meetings sched
uled for southwestern Oregon ara
Coquille, Apr'l 12; Gold Beach,
April 13; and Grants Pass, April
14.
Seven Doomed Negroes
Lose Their First Appeal
MARTINSVILLE, Va., April 11
t&i Barring U.S. Supreme court
intervention, seven Martinsville ne
groes will die in Virginia's state
penitentiary in May and June for
the rape ot a white woman.
The executions officially were set
for last summer but stays were
granted while the aeven appealed
their convictions to the Virginia
supreme court of appeals.
The state's high tribunal last
month upheld the convictions. Yes
terday, Circuit Judge Kennon C.
Whittle set new execution dates
while counsel for the seven men
planned an appeal to tha U.S. high
court.
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Believed To
Have Perished
Fire Follows Pluntje,
Occurring After Croft
Leaves Base At Sandia
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., April
12. P A B-29 bomber carried
all airmen aboard believed to ba
IS to fiery deaths in a crash last
night into tha Sandia secret wea
pons base.
Thirteen crew members were)
listed on the loading report An
air force official warned however
the death toll cannot be determined
with absolute accuracy until an
actual count of bodies is made.
Tha air force drew a tight
secrecy curtain on the tragedy
in a remote area of tha atomic
Domrj assembly Installation.
Newsmen were barred from
entering tha area, a spot 7,000
feet high In tha Mania no moun
tains. The Irene is soma five
miles east of Sandia headquarters
and 17 miles east of downtown
Albuquerque.
A road block was thrown across
the only trail leading into the area,
just off transcontinental U. S. higo
way 66.
Secrecy Air Tight
The likelihood any escaped
seemed remote. Tha giant stra
tegic air command plane from
Walker base at Roswell, N. M..
plunged to the ground and burned
three minutes after it took off
from nearby Kirtland field.
Emphasising secrecy cloaking
the locale, one officer observed:
"Not even tha President of tha
United States could get into tha
place."
Except for describing the big
craft's flight as one for training,
military authorities declined to dis
close its mission.
Kirtland base is part of tha air
force special weapons project, and
new weapons are developed at ad
joining &anaia oase. Man ara
trained at Kirtland for air force
use of these weapons. .
Names of crewmen were not
made public. Tha strategic air
command aaid no one abova a
junior officer waa aboard. Identi
fication was proceeding body Of
body. Nearly naif remained to im
found early today. Next ot kin
were being notified.
it was the second tragedy at
Sandia in slightly leaa than
month. Fifteen military prisoners
died In a flash fire at tha baa
prison March S.
Board Will Probe
Rail Labor Dispute
WASHINGTON, April 12 -W
President Truman set up an emer
gency board Tuesday to Investi
gate a dispute between tha rail
roads and the railroad yardmas
ten. His action automatically post
poned for 60 days a strike which
the yardmasten had aet for to
day. The ardmastert, who conduct
twitching operationa in the big rail
centers have been demanding a
40-hour week with no reduction in
pay. They now work 48 hours.
The dispute is between the Rail
road Yardmasten of America
(RYA) union and tha Eastern.
Western, and Southeastern Carriers
conference committee.
The emergency board, whose
members are yet to be named, hat
30 days to report. For 30 daya
thereafter there can be no change
in present working conditions.
The union is seeking the same
five-day work week which the bulk
of railroad employes were awarded
by an emergency board last Sep
tember 1.
About 2,200 Pullman conductors,
members of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, also ara sche
duled to strike at ( p.m. next
Monday. They could tie up Pull
man and sleeping car service on
American and Canadian railroads.
Woman Jailed With Hugo
Sum Faces U. S. Tax Lien
ATLANTA, April 12. fPV-The
federal government teased a $50,587
tax lien at a 50-year-old woman
who went to jail carrying $65,000
in a flour sack after she waa ar
rested on a liquor charge.
The tax lien was filed sgainst
Mrt. Elizabeth Spears yesterday
just before she waived a bearing
on a charge of possessing non-tax
paid whiskey.
"A person works hard all their
life and then when ou get old they
try to take it away from you," com
mented Mrs. Spears, who also faces
a state charge of selling liquor
without a license.
She had come by the money
honestly, she said "mostly through
pinhall and juke box machines."
She kept the money with her be
cause she didn't trust banks, sha
added.
'SMACKED' FOR SMACK
PORTLAND, April 12. OPI
Lewis H. Shorill, 21, suffered a
$50 fine in municipal court here
yesterday.
His fault: When he opened his
door, and discovered the census
taker was a woman, ha kissed
her.
Levity fact J ant
By L. F. Retzenstein
If there's anything in noma,
the third World war atiqht to
be shorter. In th lint twe we
fought the Germans; in ttw east
one (according to military sci
entist!) wel fight germs.