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U, of 0 Library COMP Eugene, Ore, mm mm mm WHO DOES WHAT if- LINDA LEE FOURNIER cuddUi comfortably in the armi of her nurse, Beatrice Rhula, in th nursery at Mercy hospital. Linda was born ovar thraa months prematurely on last March I, weigh ing only two pounds eight ounces. After an initial minor loss of weight she has gained steadily until she now shakes the scales at three pounds eight and one half ounces. - Linda Leo is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Fournier of Roseburg. Ex-Socialite Wife Of Millionaire, On Old Age Pension Rolls For Last Ten Years, Passes Away At Age Of 80 LOS ANCELES, April 12. (API Genevieve Gray, 80, once the socialite wife of a Philadelphia millionaire, died in her small apartment here yesterday. It was disclosed that she had been on the state old age pension rolls for the last 10 years. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THIS comet from Kansas City: "Today they came to bury Charlea Binaggio, himself a pall bearer IT years ago for another Kansas City northside political boss wiped out by gangland gunfire . . . "Flower, banked the casket of Binaggio, who with his top hench man Charlea Garotta was shot down in their Democratic ward club rooms here last Thursday . . . more than 500 floral pieces were in the little funeral borne chapel where the bodies lay awaiting funeral services." .. SO much for the pretty flowers. Now get this one: "SCORES OF THE POLICE'S PLAIN CLOTH ESMEN MINGLED WITH THE CROWD GATHERED TO BID FAREWELL TO THE TWO MEN, both of whom were pallbearers 17 years ago for John Larzia, WHOSE POLITI CAL THRONE BINAGGIO IN HERITED." THIS whole KC gangster business, which is getting such a play in the news, leaves me cold. It's (Continued on Page Four) UNRULY EDITOR FINED NEW ORLEANS, April 13 William H. Fitzpatrick, editor of the New Orleans States, was found guilty of disturbing the peace in municipal court early today. He was found innocent of charges of being drunk and resisting arrest. Judge Edwin Babylon sen tenced him to pay a $10 fine or to serve 10 days in jail. Fitzpatrick filed a motion for appeal of the sentence to crimiml court. The charges grew out of an incident in a French quarter night club Tuesday night. Fitzpatrick denied that he was drunk. Government Drops Price Supports For Turkeys And Chickens Because Their Production Is Increasing WASHINGTON, April 13. the field of its farm price support operations today by an nouncing that it will no longer maintain a floor under the market for chickens and turkeys. The commitment to support hogs Rr?n!ri.i1iwSemrt Th dPrtment bought about ., .ill L mrf! h .T f 0-000.000 Pounds of turkeya under "de.WhHnn,i,n?i.,,.!lt year"? support program de- ;jOT..r i- .. .-HH,i,n.i ai.WAi.uuv.uw in price auppun iunu. The government already has about $4,000 000.000 invested in surpluses under support programs. expected to be in storage July 1. At the present Ume, eggs at d , Having had Utile success in selt dainr products are the only live-: inn the turkeys at home or abroad atock products being supported. under limits of the law, the de Dropping of supports for chick-1 partment is transferring them to ens and turkeys came at a time: the school lunch program, when farmers are increasing pro- While it was committed to sup duction. The department said its port chickens last year, the depa in action waa made at this time so as t ment bought none because prices to enable producers to make ad-i averaged above a mandatory tup juttmenta In their plans. port level. t m 1 Newspaper files in Philadelphia showed that she inherited an es tate valued at $1,000,000 from her second husband, Charles Theodore Wernwag, when he died in 1914. Soon after Wernwag's death she married Olin Finney, 11 years her junior. She and Finney, former dancing partner of Irene Castle and Joan Sawyer, were divorced in 1923. In her divorce proceedings in Los Angeles she charged that Finney deserted her after spend ing her fortune. As an example of his spending she asserted that he paid $18,000 for some prize grey hounds. Following the divorce she re sumed her maiden name of Gene vieve Gray. A quarter of a cen tury ago she was a well known society figure in Los Angeles and Pasadena. In 1928 she introduced a season of morning musicales here with highly paid musicians. Her papers and clippings showed that her first husband, who died in 1909, was Rupert Calvert, mem ber of a prominent Baltimore, Md., family. Police here said a letter, appar ently written by her. made refer ence to her grandfather, Henry Gray, as an eastern railroad exe cutive and to her grandmoter as the daughter of Thomas Jefferson. She said that of 44 grandchildren she was the only one still living. Her body, pending arrange ments, is at the county morgue. Formal Opening Set By Ireland's Food Market Announcement was made today of the formal opening scheduled for Friday from S to 10 p. m., of Ire land's Food Market at 1505 No. Stephens, near the Garden Valley Road junction. . The business, which is reopening after temporary closure, will be managed by C R. Hamilton, who formerly operated a grocery store in Yoncalla and has been engaged in this line of work for about 10 years. The business is owned by W. M. Ireland. The store building has undergone complete renovation, a butcher shop has been included all new equipment has been provided, and a r.arkine area arranged. Cecil Doty of Roseburg will operate the meat department. (API The government narrowed "SO" to assure growers .an aver. age of 31 cents a pound. It is com- ,, ,,, ,,, .n .rt. i j "i n Vt i.fi i1.'!.1 "2 I'J: The Weother Mostiy cloudy with tbowort today. Fair Friday SMmlag with mcreoslng cloudiness In Suasot today 4:53 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:33 a. m. Established 1873 Soviet Paper , Caustic On Baltic Affair Crewmen Of U. S. Plane Branded 'Spies,' Who Got 'Necessary Lesson By EDDY GILMORE MOSC&W. April IS. UP) Pravda declared today that the U. S. naval patrol plane missing in the Baltic since Saturday "violated the Soviet frontier and engaged in a pursuit of knowledge over Soviet territory." (This was the first hint by the Russians that the missing navy plane might be the same one which the Russians charged flew over Latvia Saturday and exchanged shots with Soviet fighter planea.) (American officials have ex pressed the fear that the navy plane, which they said was un armed, was disabled by gunfire and crashed in the Baltic. Search planes resumed their sweep over the Baltic today with U. S. officials still hopeful they may find the 10 crewmen alive.) An editorial in Pravda, official organ of the Soviet communist par ty, charged that by conducting the widespread search American au thorities are "trying to hide their traces." Referring to the statement made by the Americans in Wiesbaden that U. S. planes can fly over the Baltic if they want to, Pravda com mented : Facts reject this stupid brag ging. Facts teach one to respect international law, as in the case which took place April S south of Lepaya (Latvia) concerning an American warplane B-29 (super fortress) shows." Crewman Branded 'Spies' The editorial described crewmen of the plane sighted near Lepaya as "American spies " and repeated the charge made in the Soviet note to the United States that the American plane opened fire on the Russian fighters before being fired at. Declaring that it la an "indisput able thesis ' that no one dare eroaa state boundaries without approval by that state, the editorial said failure to observe this rule is "noth ing more than a malicious viola tion of state sovereignty and inter national law." "This rude conduct by American spies encountered a necessary re pulse," by Soviet planes guarding the frontiers of Russia, Pravda de clared, adding that the "Brazen faced individuals received the necessary lesson and were forced to depart and go home." $200 Million Damages In Texas City Disaster Won HOUSTON, Tex., April 1S-11P) Federal District Judge T. M Ken nedy entered an order today de ciding the $200,000,000 Texas City disaster damage suits in favor of the plaintiffs. Trial of the suits, growing out of the disaster wheh devastated Texas City just three years ago this weekend, started before Judge Ken nedy in Houston last April 25. Much technical testimony marked the litigation, in which the claims of all the plaintiffs for deaths, injuries, and physical dam ages were combined. Albany Completes Major Daylight Saving Lineup ALBANY, Ore., April li-tJPt All the major cities in the Willam ette valley were on the daylight saving time list today. Albany be came the last to join by voting last night to abandon standard time on April 30. IpvW in tn Nj -i A f I II I J Mi :,; . .. -U- J ' FOR HOSPITAL WING Carl P. Tallon company, local con tracting firm, breaks ground far basement excavation for the now hospitel unit at Mercy hospital. The new building will lie ROSEBURG. COUNTRY IN FINE SHAPE Truman Says So. Adding That He Intends To Take Share Of Credit For It By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINCTON. April I J. (API President Truman looked back on five years in the White House today and said the country is in fine shape. He said, too, he thinks he can take some of the credit. It was just five years ago yesterday that he was sworn tn as President. A reporter, recalling that at Mr. Truman's news con ference, asked: "Do you think the first five years are the hardest?" Hungary Rejects American Note On Treaty Violation BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 13 tP) Hungary has rejected a U.S. note accusing her of violat ing American-Hungarian treaties by failing to pay adequate com pensation for nationalized American-owned property. The reply insisted that Hungary is willing to negotiate regarding auch compensation as she is at present with other countries. The Hungarian note said, how ever, that the Budapest govern ment wants to bring up in such negotiations the question of Hun garian property "carried to the west by German Fascists." It aaid American authorities in Germany refused to return the property. The U.S. note demanded nego tiation for a settlement and charged that Hungary'a nationalization de cree last December discriminated in that it did not include joint Hungarian-Soviet oil, shipping and aviation enterprises. Hungary replied that as a sov ereign state she "haa the indis putable right to decide the ques tion of nationalization and to de termine the waya and means of the compensation to be paid." Officer, Maniac . Die In Gun Battle LANSING, Mich., April 13-lP) Blazing guns at a rural cabin yesterday took the lives of a Mich igan state' policeman and the man who killed him. In the brief Interval between the two deaths a cordon of 50 officers had laid siege to the cabin near here with tear gaa and gunfire. Inside was an evidently crazed man. The slain trooper was George R. Branny, 26, a bridegroom of four months. Branny waa shot as he knocked at the cabin door in answer to a trouble call. Also shot and killed either by himself or a police volley was Clarence Her, 44, one-armed truck driver. Troopers Branny and John R. Plants went to the' cabin after getting a complaint from a neigh bor woman that Her was creating a disturbance. Police said that later investiga tion disclosed that Her, married and father of a 20-year-old son, had been drinking heavily. Corvallis Votes $988,000 For School Purposes CORVALLIS. April J3 (JP Corvallis school district voters overwhelmingly approved two school financial measures at a special election here yesterday. Issuance of $400,000 in bonds to finance new school construction carried by a 766-10-165 margin and the vote on the 1950-51 budget wji 780 to 161. The budget calls (or $588,723, including $198,771 in ex cess of the six percent limitation. OREGON THURSDAY, APRIL The President chuckled and aaid that is easy to say. But the first five yeara have been rather diffi cult, he said. In philosophical vein, he went on to say: The country still la on its feet. More people are working than at any time in any country in the course of history. If the Wall street signs are right, business is prosper ing. And the farmer, la in better condition that at any other time except the peak point in 1948. bo, Mr. Truman said, he can t see anything aeriously wrong with the country as a whole. Pronounc ing It in fine shape, he said that the aftermath of World war two has been easier on America than that of anv war in its history. And he wound up by saying that he thinks the President can take credit and that's what he intends to do. But hov about farm surpluases? a reporter asked. We have had a solution in Con gress since the first of the year the Brannan farm plan Mr. Tru man replied. The Brannan plan, he said, is for the benefit of all farmers. He added there are a lot of Republican farmers but he doesn't think they would be Republican if they had been properly educated. The basic idea of the plan ad vanced by secretary of Agriculture Brannan is to let prices of perish able commodities drop to whatever the market will pay, rather than holding them up through govern ment purchases and other price supports. In place of present, price supports, "the government would make direct payments to farmer producers. Rent Controls' Retention May Re Left To Cities WASHINGTON, April 13 -UP The administration was reported ready today to back a compromise continuing rent controls only where cities vote positively before Jan uary 1 to retain such ceilings. Confirming the general terms of me propose! dui, inairman nay bank (DSC) refused to predict whether the Senate Banking com mittee win approve It or any other rent control measure. The idea behind the compromise: Congress would vote a aix months' extension to next January 1. Those cities that wanted to continue them past that date would have to vote to do so; those that didn't could end them when they wished. 4 Persons Burn To Death In Collision Of Trucks KOUNTZE, Ter., April 13--Four persons burned to death Wed nesday in a collision of three trucks two and one-half miles south of this southeast Texas town. Three men and a woman were burned alive, Sheriff A. D. Lindey of Hardin county said. The sole survivor of the accident, driver of a logging truck, aaid an oil field truck and a dairy van truck from Muskogee, Okla., crashed head-on. The two occupants of the oil truck and two in the dairy truck all burned to death in a fire that "blazed" up just after the impact, T. J. Reynolds, 45, of Kountze, driver of the logging truck, said. between the present hospital, above, and the nurses quarters, of the former. I Picture by Paul 13, 1950 Truman Fires New Blast At Sen. M'Carthy Questions If Possible To Libel Solon; Probers To Hear 'Mystery' Witness WASHINGTON. April 13-l-In a new blast at Senator McCarthy. President Truman today questioned whether it is possible to libel the Wisconsin Republican. Mr. Truman's remarks came at a newa conference when he waa asked about a recent statement by Senator Taft (R-Ohio). Taft had aaid the President li beled McCarthy by "cracking" at Key West. Fla.. recently that Mc Carthy waa the Kremlin'a biggeat asset in ine united states. "Do you think that'a possible?" Mr. Truman fired back at his ques tioner. And he said It waa all right to use direct quotations. Mr. Truman went on to aay he hadn't read all that Taft had said: that he doesn t read all the political columns of all the DeoDle running for re-election. Mr. Truman's .original blast at McCarthy was in defending the State Department from the sena tor a charges that It harbors Com munists and their sympathizers. Mystery Witness Hinted A Senate Foreign Relations sub committee is investigating the chargea and next week is to hear testimony from Louis Budenz, for mer Communist leader who re nounced his affiliation with the par- There are reports that another witness, also described as a former Communist, may be called. . The name of the mystery witness, possibly along with one or two others, may be given to the com mittee by McCarthy in response to a demand that he furnish the group by Monday all of the evi dence he has to support his Com munist charges against the State department. When reoortera noted that the President haa contended that to open the filea to the committee might disclose FBI sources of in formation, Senator Taft said that might be true in aome cases. Hut he added: "What good are the files if no body can use them?" Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of the full foreign relatione commit tee predicted that the Senate itaelf will have to decide in the end what if anything to do abut the President's refusal to open the rec ords. Douglas Allotted Share Of State Highway Fund Douglas county will receive $73, 424.55 aa its share of a total of $1,892,554.38 from the aiate high way fund apportioned to the coun ties of Oregon, according to an an nouncement from the secretary of state'a office. This distribution represents IS percent of the revenues to the state highway fund for the first quarter of 1950 from motor vehicle licenses, fuel taxes, motor carrier fees, and tines imposed for violation of the motor vehicle law. Multnomah county will receive the largest share from the fund by colecting $567,613.61, with Douglas county receiving the tenth largest amount among Oregon'a 35 coun ties. DRUNK DRIVING CHARGED State police today reported the arrest of Waiter Emmett Boggs. 64, of Yoncalla on a charge of drunk driving. I he arrest was made, ac cording to the investigating offi cer, after Boggs' car ran into the ditch a mile south of Oakland. He was scheduled for arraignment in the court of Justice of . Peace-Ward C. Watson at Sutherlin today. shown at the left in the picture and will form aa Integral part Jenkins. I 1 M ... 7-50 JJM ERNiE KOOP enounced today that he hat purchased the Mil- ler-Moderne studio at Miller s Department store from W. E, Klosterman of Lot Angeles, Koop hes been manager of the studio here for the lest two years. Prior to that time he managed the Bishop Photo stu dio in Dallas. Miiler-Moderne studio has been an affiliate of the.. Bishop- studios,- located throughout the state, but will now be locally owned. Koop said he planned to continue the same photo service with tome new innovations to be added later. French Reds Fail To Bar Unloading Of American Arms CHERBOURG, France. April 13 IT) A Communist protest de monstration fizzled today as French workers began unloading the first American guna aent un der the Atlantic defense pact, Strong police and military detach ments guarded the docks. In spite of a furious press and leaflet campaign by the Commu nists to get Frenchmen to refuse to unload the arms and to demon strate in protest against their ar rival, a feeble attempt early this morning by some 50 demonstra tora ended In 10 minutes without a tussle. ' The shipment first tn come to continental France under the Atlantic defense pact agreement arrived today aboard an Amer ican freighter. Dock workers, aome of them suf fering from long unemployment. defied Communist-led union pleas to refuse to take the guna from the holds. Instead SO of them swarmed over the ship and began lowering heavy artillery onto the docks with cranes. It waa the second time in two daya that American arma ship ments to Western Europe were un loaded peacefully despite Commu nist threats. A similar cargo arrived in Nap- lea, Italy, yesterday and was low ered ashore under heavy police and troop guard without incident. Youth Kills His Parents, Sister, Attempts Suicide HUNTINGTON. W. Va., April 13. UP) A couple and their ten- year-old daughter were alain with hammer and knife early today and their home set afire. Police cornered an 18-year-old son in the garage at the rear of the house. They heard moans and two shots. Surgeons performed an emergency brain operation but held little hope for the boy's recovery. Detective Azel Bryant aaid Wil liam (Billy) Blanks Jr., a high school student, had murdered his parents and sister, then attempted suicide. ' Bryant said he could find no mo tive immediately. The boy twice had been in trouble for stealing cars. He was released on probation last October after a mental ex amination at a reformatory. Blanks, 46, had been a clerical worker for the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for 28 years. CIO-IWA Wins In Three Bargaining Elections The CIO International Woodwork ers of America was successful in three National Labor Relatione board elections held in Douglas county this week. The James A. Welch Logging operation on Old Mist, logging for Youngs Bay Lumber Co., Tuesday voted 19 to 1 in favor of the CIO. No other union waa involved in the voting. On Wednesday the Green Valley Lumber Co., near Camas Valley, voted 8 to 2 In favor of the CIO. The woods operation of the Doug las Timber Corp, at Drain voted 17 to 3 in favor of the CIO. There were two additional challenged votes. The election at Welch Logging and Green Valley were conducted by Kenneth S. North, NLRB rep resentative from the Portland tub regional office. J. D. Newburn Promoted In National Guard Rank National Guard headquarters in Salem announced today the pro motion of John D. Newburn, Com pany D, lMth infantry, Roseburk', from second lieutenant to tint lieutenant. Newburn, a teacher at Roseburg high school last year. Is now attending the University of i Oregon. r Ho Tims For Rocking Boot; Governor Soys Republicans, Democrats Told To Pull Together To Meet Grave Situation PRINCETON. N. J., April 13. UP Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as sumed the role of political con ciliator today in an attempt to get Democrats and Republicana pull ing together for a "genuine bi partisan" foreign policy. He called last night on Presi dent Truman to give the GOP a real chance to help guide the current cold war, and then chided hia fellow Republicana for trying to rock the boat Dewey listed strengthened bi partisan planning aa the nation'! number-one need in the prosecu tion of the cold war. He aaid it required "a radical improvement in the attitude of both the Demo cratic national administration and sections of the Republican party." The New York governor aaid that bi-partisanship in foreign pol icy had been converted by the Democrats into "a shadow instead of a reality." But he aaid he taw aome im provement in the recent appoint- mem or ine nepuoucan John ros ter Dullea to serve aa consultant to Secretary of State Acheson. tie cautioned fellow GOP leaden that, "to any. sincere offer of bi partisanship at a time like this, the Republican party must of course respond." Ana mis, he said, waa no time for rocking the boat even if it was run mainly by Democrats. "Before any Republican rejoice at the possible shipwreck of the foreign policy of the Democratic administration," Dewey said, "he should remember that we are all in tne same boat." He said he waa "profoundly con vinced that American initiative can save our freedom and that of much of the world. But the hour it very late." He described the situation aa " grave aa to require ua to con centrate our whole effort aa a na tion toward its solution. The situ ation requires a supreme and uni fied effort commanding the beat experience and brains in the country." Oivee Own Prenram , ueweya Bi-partisan planning pro posal dominated a 10-point pro gram he euggeated as the beat way to win the cold war against the Communists. In the nine other points be aaked that the nation: 1. End a trend back to isola tionism. . i ' ' 2. Not expect miracle curea ty telephone calls to Stalin. . 3. Reject the notion that war is inevitable. 4. Strengthen 1 1 a Intelliaenca service. 5. Expand American propaganda abroad. . Decide what It wants. 7. Promote European federation. 8. Agree on a far eaat policy. 9. Develop the world's backward areas. But the major danger, Dewey said, ia do-nothingness. Ha aaid the nation'a capital now "conveys the impression of fiddling while freedom burns." The U. S., he aaid, should stop waching continuoua Communist successes "with the calm of Buddha contemplating hia navel." New Wintry Blast Hits ' Eastern, Southeast Areas WASHINGTON. April 13 -UP) April, already acting more like January, today packaged a new blast of winter weather to strike (reeling temperatures at blossom ing spring flowers throughout the east and southeast. The U. S. weather bureau fore cast sub-freezing temperatures as tar soutn aa the carolinaa and Tennessee, threatening early bud ding fruit trees in parts of Dixie. f or the eaat there waa faluns snow and temperatures ranging aa tow aa 15 to 20 degrees in the lower great lakea region. The cause, a special weather bulletin aaid, is a new movement of extreme cold air from central Canada into the north eastern United Statea. Burned Boy, 5, Wins Long Struggle For Life WASHINGTON. April IS t.VU Little Mike Rector, S, who entered the hospital 17 months ago with severe bums covering an estimated 70 percent of his body, is back home at last. He's practically cured. Doctors dispaired of Mike's life when they first saw him. He said playmates had set fire to his his clothes with matches. Ha wss scorched from ankles to arm pits. Now, scores of skin grafts later, he's fit except for aome muscles which tightened up while he waa undergoing treatment. Minor sur gery will fix that, doctors aaid. Levity fact ant By L. T. Rdzenetetn Louis ludenx, ex-Commuaisr and star witness for Sun. Joseph McCarthy In tfco attack on the Stat Dept., soys there or 400 'conceded' Communists la tke U. S. la sure to look mdorlie bod and In dark closets bofare i at k lita. those sjlojhfia
