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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."
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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