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ORE STIRS COLD FEVER Beaming like a cherub, Vernon Melick
. joins hit mother, Mrs. Grace Melick for a magnifying glass view
of ore from their farm near Port Angeles, Wash. An assay
the ore-bearing rock shows it contains $123.60 a ton in gold and
80 cents in silver. News of the discovery has started a gold rush
frenzy in the area and prompted Floyd Melick, former husband
of Mrs. Melick, to stand guard
which is just across the road from
HECKLER, PICKETS
Gen. Clay Urges Germans
To Resist Commie1 Tide,
Voices Warning To Soviet
NEW YORK. May 25. (API Heckled and picketed, Gen,
Lucius D. Clay cast aside a prepared speech at an anti-Corn.
munist "hold Berlin" rally last
to the people ot the German
Russians.
Lane Forest Fire
Still Unchecked
EUGENE, May 25 -UP) Ore
gon's first forest fire of the year
was still out of control today after
, brisk, dry winds stymied fire-fighters'
efforts to establish a line
around the area yesterday.
The fire is on the Rasor Lumber
Co. operation, about 25 miles east
of Eugene, on Little Fall creek.
The blaze now threatens adjacent
Booth-Kelly timber.
Jake Smith, eastern Lane fire
patrol chief, said the fire started
about Tuesday from rigging
sparks. He estimated the damage
in excess of $200,000 in the black
ened 200-acre area..
Huge old growth Douglas fir
trees, burned through at their
bases, were crashing to the ground
on all sides. Firefighters felling
snag; with power saws worked
with one eye on the sky.
About two million feet of felled
timber has been burned over. No
dwellings are threatened. . - i .
Navy Paymaster Accused
Of Stealing $19,000.
LOS ANGELES, May 25 (a)--The
sheriff's office today said they
are holding a navy ship's paymas
ter accused of jumping boat last
Thanksgiving day with S19.0O0 from
the safe of the U.S.S. Navasota,
a navy tanker.
Federal agents identify the pris
oner as Lt. Bascom Bertram Boaz,
38.
Two safes on the Navasota were
found drilled open and the money
missing from one of them. A
search was started for Boaz when
it was learned he jumped ship,
took a taxi from here to Sacra
mento and gave the driver $600 for
the trip.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
PROM Philadelphia,' where the
r American Waterworks associa
tion is holding its annual conven
tion:
The war and politics were blamed
by the experts for the nation's
widespread water shortages . . .
It seems that during the war we
couldn't get the materials for new
waterworks projects . , . After the
war 1IG FEDEPAL SPENDING
PRI-'ECTS captured the publics
imagination and purely practical
things like new city water systems
(that have to be paid for out of
home-town taxes) went out of style.
So, the talk among the experts
a . Philadelphia goes, we're short
on things like new water systems
for our cities and long on things
that sound like they call maybe
be paid for with funny money.
THE Baltimore & Ohio railroad
has installed musicil whistles
on one of its fancy trains and has
put single-chime whistles on eight
of Us switch engines. It is trying
to make the necessary noises of
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with a gun over his property,
his ex-wife s. IAP Wirephoto.l
FAIL
night and issued a rallying call
capital and a warning to th
To the people of Berlin, the for
mer American military governor
in Germany said:
You have within yourselves the
moral strength to stop any at
tempted uprising among the
youths of Germany which would
destroy freedom. Be patient the
tide of freedom is rising."
A lone heckler disrupted the rallv
and caused brief disorder after
police had routed 1.000 chanting
pickets outside town hall.
A loud murmur arose from the
audience as a young man began
heckling Clay because he had cut
the prison sentence of the notorious
Use Koch of Buchenwald.
Many men and women jumped
to their feet, some of them shout
ing. The heckler continued shouting
above the noise until two detec
tives escorted him out of the audi
torium. About 100 persons fol
lowed. Some of those who left
the auditorium with him cried "let
him speak."
Prepared Talk Shelved
After Clay had answered the
heckler, the general told the audi
ence: -
"I came here tonight with a pre
pared speech, but now I am not
going to make that.'
Referring to the noisy, sign-carrying
pickets who had been dis
persed outside the hall, Clay said:
"Having lived through the block
ade of Berlin, I am not dismayed
by a blockade in New York."
The rally was sponsored by Com
mon Cause, Inc., an anti-Communist
organization. The pickets, who
chanted phrases often used by the
Reds, represented the American
Jewish Labor council and other
groups.
The text of Clay's speech, which
he ignored, denouncing the recent
Soviet blockade of Berlin as "the
most ruthless attempt in modern
history to use starvation as a
means of political coercion."
In his brief extemporaneous re
marks after. the disorder, he urged
Berliners to repel the projected
Communist - youth demonstration
this weekend with "moral cour
age."
. Clay warned "Russians and Com
munists everywhere" against mis
taking American patience for in
difference.
U. O.'s First Registered
Student Passes At 94
EUGENE, May 25. (ft W.
W. Scott, 94, first studtnt tvtr
to register at tht Univtrsity of
Ortgon, en Oct. It, 1876, died
May 22 at tht Masonic home in
Forest Grove.
Ht was born in Scotts Valley
near what is now Yoncalla, on
March 6, 1856. Ht lived most of
his lifo in Lant county.
He was author of "Tht Ortgon
Pioneers," a narrative poem ef
book Itngth,
Medicine Quack Draws
Fine And Jail Stretch
PORTLAND, May 25 UP)
Six months in jail ana a $ouu line
were given Otto Soles, 69 ysiter
day for practicing medicine with'
out a licence.
A doctor had testified in the
district court trial that Soles per
suaded a woman that he could cure
breast cancer with a salve he made
in a laboratory here. The doctor
said the woe an had not sumbitted
to surgery and now lay dying in a
hospital.
Soles' sentence was the max!
mum remitted by law.
Th WtottMf
Fair today, tonight and Fri
day. Slightly . warmer. . .
Sunset today 1:40 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow 5:39 a. m.
Established 1873
Rural District School Budget Wins
Deer Creek
Glide Heavy On
Negative Side
Total Amount Includes
Excess Over 6 Pet. Limit;
Four Units Tit In Vote
By a vote of 701 to 502, residents
of the Douglas county rural school
districts voted to approve a budget
amount of $829,037.44 in excess of
the six percent limitation.
The final vote was announced
by County School Superintendent
Kenneth Barneburg, who serves as
secretary of the board, following
a tabulation of the ballots by the
board members. . .
The total budget is in the amount
of $2,457,218, with es'imated reve
nues of $1,213,320. The amount to
be raised by taxation is $1,243,987.
Severtl of the -ural school dis
tricts v o.t e d overwhelmingly
against the budget. District 6, Deer
Creek, registered 80 votes against
the adoption of the budget and only
two votes for the measure. Dis
trict 12, Glide, also indicated dis
approval o' the new budget with 27
votes cast against it and only five
votes ior aaopuon.
Other areas of the county ap
proved the budget by an aggre
gate large majority. At district 19,
Myrtle Creek, 98 votes were cast
for adoption while only 16 votes op
posed the budget. District 22,
Drain, also signified a stro.'.t, ap
proval of the measure. A totai of
53 votes were cast for the budget
with only four negative votes.
Oakland registered the 'trgest tie
vote on the issue with 31 yes and
31 no votes. Three other districts
posted tie votes.
District 77 at Giendale polled the
largest vote a total of 116 with
74 voting against its adoption.
District Votes In Detail
The.vote by districts was as fol
lows: Oakland, yes 31, no 31; Wilbur,
yes 9; Shoestring, yes 2, no 2;
Green, yes 10: Deer Creek, ves 2.
no 86; Tenmile, yes 30, no 34; Can
yonviile,' yes' 62, no 27; Gardiner,
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Colombian Plane, 25
Aboard, Explodes In Air
BOGOTA, Colombia, May 25 lP)
Lansa airways reported one ot
its DC-3 transports, carrying 71
passengers and thro crewmen,
crashed' last night into the side
of Galeras volcano near Pasto,
?5 milts south of Popayan.
The airline said It had receivad
no word on the fate of the oc
cupants of the transport. A news
paper auoted inhabitants of In
area as saying they saw the
plant txplodt in tht air.
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ONE TO BE SELECTED Pictured above are contestants en
tered in the Douglas County Sheriff's Posse rodeo queen con
test. Selection of queen will take place next Sunday, May 28
at the fairgrounds. Left to right, they are (front row) rtita
Kruse, Yoncalla; Shirley Hart, Fern Osborn end Nife McKinney,
II of Oakland; (back row) Loretta Fery and Doree Ellis, both
of Roseburg; Pat McKinney, Myrtle Creek, end Ardis Giles, Days
Middle-East To
Get Big 3 Arms
To Resist Reds
' WASHINGTON, May 25..B
The United States, . Britain and
France today announced a joint
agreement to supply arms to the
Middle East for defense alone.
President Truman hailed it as a
move to stimulate "increased con
fidence in future security" in that
area.
Under the agreement, arms can
be sent to both the Arab nations
and Israel if they give assurances
they will not use the military
equipment "to undertake any act
of aggression against another
state." .
The agreement marked an end
to long-standing differences among
the western powers over the ques
tion of providing weapons to the
forces recently engaged in bitter
fighting over the partition of Pal
estine. A British foreign office spokes
man said the program is designed
to help protect the Middle East
countries against Communist pen
etration. Britain already supplies arms to
Egypt. Iran. Jordan and Saudi
Arabia, under treaties with those
countries. The spokesman said all
four had furnished assurances un
der terms of the new three-power
agreement mat tney would re
quest arms only for internal se
curity. Ignoring Of Parking
Tickets Draws Warning
Chief of Police Calvin Baird an
nounced that rieid enforcement
will be made of the parking meter
ordinance.
Many persons have ignored their
parking tickets, or have wailed
until they had several before com
ing in to pay their fines. He said
the city council has authorized the
ponce to take the necessary steps
to bring such oeoDle into court.
Warrants for their arrest will be
issued if necessary, he said.
A fine of $50 was assessed An
drew Laurance Danford of Dillard
inursaay, when he appeared in
oourt. He had been issued 33
tickets, .... -
Ten Convicts Perform
Self-Mutilation Acts
HOUSTON, Tex., May 25.-)
Nine convicts slashed their "heel
strings" (tendons) last night and
another slit a gash in his arm in
the worst outbreak of self-mutilation
in the prison system in the
past two years, a prison warden
reported today.
All are inmates at Darrington
farm.
The convict who cut his arm,
apparently in a suicide attempt,
is Olive Mann. 22, serving 12 years
for robbery. The others are serving
time for thefts, burglaries and rob-
Denes.
ROSE8URG, OREGON THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1950
Standby Draft
Law Annroved
In House Vote
Reaistrations Continue
But Actual Inductions
Rest On congress Action
WASHINGTON. May 25 UP) ,
The life expectancy of the nation's
draft machinery became the Sen. 5
ate's problem today, following J,
overwhelming House approval of f
a two-year standby selective ser- 1
vice law. I.
The measure which the House t.'
passed late yesterday by a 216-to- j V;
11 vote would do little but keep 1 r
the draft in readiness, so that the
nation's youth would be registered t
and available if needed. 1
With an eye to the tense inter- r
national situation, House members -
put up little resistance to the mo- 3.
dified draft extension. At the same
time, they placed the National Se
curity Resources board on notice
that they would like to see a total
war mobilization plan as a com
panion to peacetime military re
gistration. The present draft law expires
June 24. The bill passed yester
day would continue the registra
tion and classification of 18-year-olds
until 1952. But actual induc
tions would be prohibited until
Congress declared the existence of
a national emergency.
The so-called "draftless draft
law" was entitled the manpower
registration act of 1950 in keep
ing with elimination of compul
sory induction requirements. Tech
nically, it is an extension of the
1948 selective service act.
Repeated references to Russian
military power studded rebate on
the bill. Extension of the draft law
was urged to "buy time" in case
of war.
Until that happens, this would
be the situation under the House
bill: ,
1. Conscription remains on the
shelf.
2... The President is prevented
from mobilizing industry or taking
over plants for defence purposes.
3. Voluntary enlistments under
two years are banned, and 18-year-olds
are barrel altogether from
volunteering.
The bill also permits the Presi
dent, when Congress finds an
emergency exists, to call all re
serves to 21 months active duty
immediately. Reserves under 19
would be excused from this ser
vice at their own request.
OLD STUFF FOR ACTOR
SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 25.
UP) Actor Lawrence Tierney paid
a $50 fine and was given two years
probation after he pleaded guilty
to a drunk and disorderly con
duct charge yesterday. His arrest
May 8 was the 11th in four years.
Creek. Queen contest chairman
not closed. He said that any Douglas county girl who desires
to compete may do so by being at the fairgrounds Sunday at
2 p.m. with her horse. She must be between the ages of 14 end
21 years. Judging will be on
ment. The rodeo this year will
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DONN D. DeBERNARDI, son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. DeBernardi
Sr. of Roseburg, was recently
elected president of the As
sociated Men Students at South
ern Oregon college in Ashland,
Donn is a sophomore G.I. stu
dent majoring in the field of ed
ucation. The Associated Mon
Students, comprised of all the
male students of S.O.C. is the
second largest organization on
the campus.
Indochina Will
Get American Aid
SAIGON, Indochina, May 25.
(IP) The United Slates announced
today a program of economic aid
for Indochina, but warned that the
main responsibility for restoring
stability to the war-torn country
rests with France and the associ
ated Indochina states. ' '
' The general expectation here is
that the program will begin with
an. initial allocation of about $23,
500,000, reported to have 'been rec
ommended by the American mis
sion to southeast Asia under Allen
Griffin. I
An American Economic Cooper
ation administration mission will
begin functioning here within a
few dajs to administer the aid
program to the Indochinese stales,
now threatened by internal Com
munist rebellion and the presence
of Chinese Communists on the
border. French troops have been
fighting guerrillas for years.
Del McKay said the entry list is
beauty, horsemanship and equip
be June 24 and 25.
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Multnomah
Seeks Aid In
Fiscal Crisis
All Oregon Counties Will
Be Polled On 'Relief
Session Of Legislature
PORTLAND. May 25. !P)
Multnomah county commissioners
have decided to poll all Oregon
counties to sound out state-wide
sentiment for a "financial relief
session of the legislature.
They want to learn how badly
other counties have been hit by
the state law which makes in
flexible demands on the counties
to pay welfare costs. If other coun
ties have been hard hit Mult
nomah is behind a two and a half
million dollar eightball the com
missioners want to know what
their officials think of a concerted
appeal to Gov. Douglas McKay to
call a special session.
Earlier McKay said he saw no
reason for doing so.
The statewide poll to be made
by telephone was suggested to the
commissioners by E. c. Sammons,
president of the United States Na
tional bank and board member
ot the Library Association of Port
land. If sentiment is against a special
session, then the commissioners
should call another election to ask
county voters to approve a special
$2,442,244 property tax. The voters
turned that down Friday.
Only Temporary Relict
A special tax levy would solve
Multnomah's problem for one vear
only,, would have to be repeated
next year, ana would not help
other counties. A special legislative
session, by putting the welfare
burden against the state, would
be a semi-permanent change. That
is tne viewpoint of the commiS'
sioners. , ,
The poll-of-counties talk cams up
when members of the library board
met with the commissioners to
talk over a proposed 77. percent
emergency slash in liDrary tunas.
Library officials said the cut
would mean closing the library
ana its nrancnes.
Moe Tonkin, board member, said
the numerous budget cuts proposed
by the commissioners so tne coun
ty could pay a - mandatory four
million dollars for welfare, would
be a blow from which the county's
services could not recover for 10
years.
Damages Demanded For
Alleged Auto Blow
William L. Scholtens has filed
suit in circuit court to recover
damages totaling $55,407.70 .alleg
edly resulting from an automobile
accident. Defendant is Clifton E.
Jones.
Scholtens charges in his com
plaint that Jones was driving a
pickup trucK in a negligent man
ner on the night of December 9,
1949, and hit the plaintiff while he
was walking near the Umpqua riv
er bridge at Reedsport.
The plaintiff further states that
as a result of this accident he has
been disabled and no longer cap
able of earning his living at his
trade of longshoring.
Scholtens asks sso.oon as general
damages and $5,407.70 special dam
ages to cover his hospital care and
other expenses arising from his
convalescence.
Human Chain Saves Girl
From Horrible Death
NEW YORK. May 25 UP) A
four-year-old girl screamed as she
hurtled into tne deep, cnoppy wa
ter.
She might drown or be crushed
between pier pilings and the sway
ing hulk of a 10,000-ton ship moored
at a Brooklyn dock.
But it took only three minutes
for 150 husky longshoremen to
nudge the freighter back while a
trio of fellow workers formed
human chain and pulled her to
safety.
The little girl. Diana Svet. slip
ped while boarding the freighter
with her mother yesterday ana
plunged through the ten-inch space
between the ship and the pier.
Two Douglas Students
Receive Scholarships
Ann Roth of Roseburg and John
West of Sutherlin, Douglas county
Seniors, have been awarded two
of 108 scholarships to Oregon State
college, according to Dallas Nor
ton, chairman of the ObC schot
arship committee.
The scholarships have been up
proved by the high school college
relations committee of the state
system of higher education. The
scholarships were divided equally
between men and women.
ONE HOOK: 14 SHARKS
BRIELLE, N. J., May 2S.-IJP)-Hcre's
the biggest fish story of the
season: 14 sharks with one hook.
Sigmund Scharf of New Bruns
wick hauled in a six-footer off
Bridle. Aboard the boat, it gave
birth to 13 more, each about a
I foot long.
400 Workers
Out In Yage
Boost Demand
AF Of L Union Wants
SI. 55V2 An Hour Pay;
Woods Crtw Unaffected
Martin Brothers Box company
at Oakland was closed today by a
strike of AF of L employes, who
have demanded a 10ft cents-per-hour
wage increase. Picket lines
have been established.
The strike went into effect at
6:30 a.m. today. Approximately 300
union workers, and 0 additional
100 plant employes are affected
by the walkout. Both men and
women are employed in the plant.
M .E. Taylor, business agent
of Local 2814, AF of L Lumber
and Sawmill Workers, said the
strike was called to support ne
gotiations for the wage increase.
tic said the vote to strike was
taksn Sunday.
Taylor stated that other em-
ployers under this union's jurisdic
tion have agreed to go along with
this lOVj-cent wage increase dur
ing the last two weeks.
The present minimum wage paid
by the company under terms of a
contract still in effect is $1.45 an
hour. The demand, if granted,
would be for $1.55Vt an hour. The
demand is retroactive to May 1.
Martin Box had been operating
three shifts on a 24-hour basis.
It is one of the largest operations
in this vicinity.
The woods operation, which is a
CIO affiliate, is not affected by the
walkout.
Ben Martin, one of the owners
and company manager, was not
available today for 1 statement.
Ex-Army' Officer,
Wife In Hospital
With Gun Wounds
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla..
May 25 IIP) A Pennsylvania coal
mine operator and his wife were
in Broward general hospital to
day, both shot twice in the abdo
men with the same weapon.
Police Lt. J. Lester Holt identi
fied them as Pearson B. Brown,
57-year-old retired army colonel,
and his wife, Bla.ime, 51. Tne
Browns are part owners of a coal
mine at Somerset, Pa.
The hosDital 1 sted Brown's con
dition as satisfactory early today.
Mrs. Brown's condition waa de
scribed as fair. 1 1
Holt said notes in Mrs. Brown's
handwriting Indicated she planned
the shooting.
He said Brown , was shot twice ".
fn the abdomen but dragged him
self to the telephone and dialed
police. As he did so, Holt contin
ued, Mrs. Brown went into the
kitchen and shot herself twice with
the .32 caliber pistol. .
The notes gave instructions for
disposal of their house and fur
nishings and care of the pet dog.
They also asked that realtives be
notified.
Holt said both were shot at point
blank range and the slugs passed
through their bodies. ,
Brown, a native of Pittsburgh,
is an expert accountant and in re
cent years had worked for the Re
construction Finance corporation
and the Bureau of Internal Rev
enue.
He was a colonel In the Z8ta
division in World War I.
Oak Ridge Atomic . Plant
Paralyzed By Strike
OAK' RIDGE, Tenn., May 2S
. tP) A Mammoth atomic nlant
construction project was shut down
completely today by a wildcat walk
out of ACL, workers..
The strike, which members 0! the
Laborers and Hodcarriers union
began yesterday without warning.
spread to all other crafts working
on the project, the atomic energy
commission reportea.
The strike came a day after an
arbitration board had ended a hear
ing on a wage dispute involving
the Laborers and Hodcarriers un
ion, i
The union, reportedly asking a
wage hike from 95 cents an hour
to $1.25, and the company were
pledged to abide by the decision
of the presidentially appointed
panel. Workers ended a seven-
day strike April 21 when the body
agreea to take tne case.
Missing Skier Sought
In Changed Locality
LONGV1EW. May 25
UP)
The focal point in the search for
Joe Carter, 32-year-old Seattle Boe
ing worker missing since Sunday,
last night was moved from the
Spirit lake area to the Lewis river
ranger station near Cougar;
The Longview ski patrol today
said searchers and the coast guard
communications truck traveled
through the night to the ranger
station, following the report that
Carter's tracks had been picked
up on the muddy river.
Fear for Carter's safety has
been increased by the fact he has
a diabetic condition and was with
out insulin when he disappeared.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reiienitein
President Truman's plan to
'aid' small business via Fed
eral loans recalls the ancient
admonition to 'beware ef tha
Crooks who com b r I 4
gifts.'