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COMP lo)flW UI mm m MM JJ U. of 0. Library Eugene, Ore. mm New Polio Outbreak Faced As Record Fund Rapidly Falls NEW YORK. July 7 (API A n.w outbreak of infantile paralysis wai reporttd across the nation today, along with tha announcamant that tha 1950 March of Dimes campaign netted a racord lum to fight tha disaasa. Basil O'Connor, Prasidant of tha National Foundation for infantile paralysis, said Americans gave $30,783,000 more than ever before to tha 1950 drive. He added that the fund is being used at an "unprecedented rate" to combat a threatened new, severe epidemic. The number of polio cases so far this yeer, he said, is slightly above the number in the same period last year, whan the nation had a record all-time high of 42,375 new polio patients. The 30-million- plus total beef" I949's collection of $25,728, 000, then a record. O'Connor said virtually, all of the letter sum, plus $4,000,000 raised in an emergency appeel last September, has been used to care for I949's petients. There are 17,000 of these requiring continuing essistance, he said. O'Connor said 447 of tha foundation's 2,822 local chapters already have exhausted their 1949 residue funds and all of tha funds contributed in this year's campaign, n The Day's News By FRANK As these words are written the Russian tanks are still rolling lines in South Korea. More Rus sians tanks are reported coming up from behind to support those al ready in action . For the day af ter the Fourth of July, the flews isn't particularly encouraging. So far, it's strangely remindful of the Battle of the Bulge. In the battle of the bulge, the krauts struck swiftly and unex pectedly, catching us off our guard. IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE, THE WEATHER WAS UNBELIEVABLY FOUL IN THE OPENING DAYS, heavy fog shield ing the enemy's ground trops and tanks from our planes. I you'll notice, the weather in Korea has stunk ever since the ruckus start ed. . No matter how good your air ser vice is, it can't do much against an enemy hidden in the rain and the fog. Let's keep our shirts on. The news from Korea isn't good, but the battle hasn't much more than got started. Remember, in spite of our bad start, we WON the Battle of the Balge. There's a sad little story on the wires from Florida. It starts off like thin: . . -.. "Charges of three major crimes murder, kidnaping and rape have been tiled against si-year-uiu Charles Rogers, iust two months out of prison for stealing a motor car."- ... I morose this Rogers is just a bad egg, but every time you read of a prisoner who has served his sentence going on the loose again almost before he gets the prison pailor off his face it givea you the uncomtortaDie teeiing mat our pri sons are SCHOOLS FOR CRIME instead of institutions for the re clamation of damaged human ma terial. That isn't a pleasant thought. There are some other interesting slants on this Rogers case. When he got out of the Florida pen after five years, he went back for a visit with some relatives. He seems to have taken a few snorts to buck up his spirits. His rela tives SCOLDED him about it. bo he took some more snorts quite a few more. What followed Too much liquor, at the wrong time, is bad business. But so is TOO MUCH NAGGING at t h e wrong time. Early reports from Oklahoma indicate that Senator Elmer Tho mas may have been defeated by Representative Mike Monroney for 93 Doukhobors Receive; Penitentiary Sentences NELSON, B.C., July 7 -4& Ninety-three members of the Sons of Freedom branch of the Douk- hobor religious sect were sentenc ed yesterday to terms ranging from 18 months of hard labor to 14 years in the penitentiary. The heaviest sentence went to John Sherstobitoff, convicted on six counts of arson. All of the defendants had been convicted in connection with an outbreak of violence in the Koote nay Doukhobor district during May and June. Mayor, Four Councilmen To Be Chosen At Election Nor. 7 The city charter provides that the mayor and four council men be chosen at the Nov. 7 general election. Two councilmen from werd I and two from ward 2 will be up for election; City Manager M. W. Slankerd reminded. The city charter revision, passed Aug. 31, 1946, provides that '.wo councilmen from ward 1 and two from ward 2 be elected for two year terms. After termination of this period Dec. 31, 1950, they will be elected for four-year terms. The charter also provided that councilmen from wards 3 and 4 be elected for four-year terms, expir ing Dec. 31, 1952, so that offices of the councilmen would be stag gerd. The office of mayor terminates Dec. 31. 1950. and every two yeart thereafter. The mayor is elected at large by the voters of the city. Councilmen are elected from the ward in which they qualify and by the electors who may vote only in their respective wards. Persons living in wards 3 and 4 will not JENKINS. the 'Democratic nomination for senator from Oklahoma. Thomas, vou will remember, went on a junket to Sweden a while back and while there made a lot of catty remarks about Sweden which made the Swedes just as mad as we would have been in similar circumstances. If we're eoiae to run the world, we can't afford senators like that. I hope Monroney wins out in the counting. I hate to sav it. but the general run of our Congress for several hyears past hasn't been anywhere near as good as it snoum oe. Congress makes our federal laws. If the quality of our Congress isn't too good, the quality of our fed eral laws won't be too good. The Doint to remember is that the only way to improve the qual ity of our Congress is to DEFEAT the members of it whe aren't up to standard and elect in their places men who are up to a high standard. 'Berserk' Woman Uses Gun On Her Son And Daughter VERNON. Conn.. July T UP) What impelled Mrs. Mary tiuz man, 55, to enter her son's home before dawn and pump five pistol bullets into his- body as he lay sleeping? State police, checking for a mo tive for the slaying of Arthur F. Guzman, prominent, 29 - year - old poultrymaji, said today they may have found an exDlanation of why his mother "obviously went ber serk" yesterday morning. In ad dition to shooting her son. Mrs. Guzman is accused of beating her daughter-in-law, Dorothy, 28, on the head with the butt of the empty pistol. The state police ssid that in a day-long investigation they learn ed: That Mrs. Guzman had been in a depressed mood lately, brood ing about the death of her hus band five years ago this month. That she had been disappoint ed when her son married and set tled down to run her poultry farm. She wanted him to go to law school instead. That she had objected to bis spending more than $50,000 last year to build the new house in which the slaying occurred. Mrs. Guzman, injured when she jumped or fell from atop a two story henhouse after the shooting, and her daughter-in-law were re ported in "satisfactory" condition today at a hospital. COSTLY S-T-R-E-T-C-H ELIZABETH, N. J., July 7 UP) The morning sun be:ned brightly into the home ow Waymon Glasco this morning. The 30-year-old man awakened, saw the bright day, and stretched and stretched and stretched. Then he was taken to a hospital, where he was treated for a dis located left shoulder. FIRE DESTROYS MILL LEBANON, July 7 UP) Fire destroyed the Lebannon Hardwood company mill here last night. Own ers estimated the loss at $50,000, but said some equipment might be salvaged. be able to vote for councilmen in wards 1 and 2,- but will vote for mayor All that portion of West Rose burg lying north of Harvard ave nue has been added to wards 2 and the area south of Harvard is in ward 3. Sleepy Hollow and Mil ler's addition have become part of ward 4. The charter provides that peti tions for nomination must be filed with the city recorder not less than 65 days before the election Nov 7, which is on or before Sept 2. No persons shal qualifiy to be elect ed to two offices on the same ballot. Petitions must be endorsed by at least 25 qualified voteri of the city residing within the ward of the candidate for office. Established 1873 Switchmen End Strike On Four Roads Rock Island Line Alone Still Tied Union's Move Follows Threat Of Truman To Take Drastic Action CHICAGO, July 7 OP) AFL switchmen have called off their 12-day strike against four of five big mid-west and western railroads. They acted yesterday alter f re sident Truman called the strike unjustified and threatened drastic action. The strike against the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific continues. The other lines the Chicago Great Western, the Great Northern, the Denver and RIO Grande West ern, and the Western Pacific bent all efforts today to get rolling again. The end of the strike on the four lines came eight hours after the President told a news conference he would take drastic action if nec essary to halt the walkout of 4,- 000 members of the AFL Switch men's Union of North America. He did not say what he would do if his demand were ignored. He did not, for example, say whether he would ask government seizure of the lines. The switchmen said they would continue their strike against the Rock Island "to learn wnetner tree men in a free country can still bargain with their employers . . . without fear that big government will team up with obstinate em ployers." Exception Explained '' The Rock Island is paralleled by other rail lines, a union spokes man commented, and therefore there is no strike emergency on the line. The 8.000-mile Rock Island sys tem runs from Chicago and con nects with West Coast lines in New Mexico and Colorado. The. switchmen went off the job June 25 in protest to a Presi dential fact-finding board's report. The unionists wanted a 40-hour week at 48 hours pay. The board approved the 40-hou.- demand, but suggested an 18-cent an hour pay boost instead of the 48-hours pay- about half of what the switchmen sought. Mr. Truman said the walkout had tied uo rail facilities which are needed to move the wheat crop to market and cattle to pasture lands. Other Strikes Threatened The President also temporarily sidetracked another threatened strike. He set up an emergency board to look into a quarrel be tween the Pullman division of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Pullman company. The Pull man conductors have threatened to strike July 11. They want a re vision of working hours and pay changes, betting up the board de lays strike action for at least 60 days. Also staring the carriers in the face is their dispute with the Brotherhood of Railraod Tainmen and the Order of Railway Conduc tors. They are legally free to go out July 15, but have not announc ed a strike date. .The two groups are affected by the same fact-finding recommendation handed down in the switchmen s case. Yoncolla BPW Has City Clean-Up Project Members of the Yoncalla Bus iness and Professional Women's club report excellent results in their BPW "Clean Up Spruce UP campaign. The club made plans early in the year for a city-wide beauty contest, witn eacn nome in Yon calla considered as a potential winner. Residents of each block are attempting to make their block the best looking in the city. Dead line for the contest is July 15. The Yoncalla BPW announced it plans to make the contest an an nual affair. J. G. Gilpatric, Author, Kills Wife And Himself SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 7. UP) John Guy Gilpatric 54, noted writer and author of the well-known Glencannon stories, and his wife. Maude Louise Gilpatric 52, were found shot to death in their home here today. Deputy Coroner James W. Web ster listed the case as murder and suicide, committed by the author, The tragedg followed by a few hours the visit of Mrs. Gilpatric to a physician, who told her she had a breast cancer. The Weather Fair today, tonight and Saturday, little change in temperature. Highest temp, far any July . 10 Lewest temp, for any July 40 Highest temp, yesterday se Lewest temp, last 24 hours SO Precipitation last 24 hours ... I Precipitation from July 1 t Precipitetien from Sept. 1 M.1S Deficiency from July 1 14 Sunset today 1:55 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:41 a.m. ROSEIURC, ORECON r . " y 123 JUMPS Sgt. John W. Swetich (above) of Dillon, Mont., qrins as he packs up some of the seven parachutes he used to set a world's record of 123 jumps, in one day, at Fayetteville, N. C. He bogan umping at two in the morning and finished shortly after eleven that night., (AP Wirephoto.l Drain Man's Gun Death Is Suicide, Coroner Reports Archie J. Woolfold, 37, was found dead in his home at Drain Thurs day evening. Coroner Harry C Stearns pronounced the death a suicide. Deputy Sheriff Ira Byrd, who in vestigated with Stearns, said Wool- folk, a saw- filer,- had been dend since about June 30. The time was fixed approximately, since news papers were left on the porch. along with a note from the paper delivery boy, aner July l. Woolfolk was killed by a .32 calibre rule, wnicn nao been plac ed in his mouth, according to Bryd His body was found by Bill Griswold, Drain mill owner, and Roger Harris, who called at the place Thursday to get Woolfolk to do some saw filing. Woolfolk had been living alone at Drain, since his estranged wife and four-year-old son had beei re siding with her sister in Port land the last three weeks. Dillard-Winston Water District Sells Bonds First Natiohal bank of Portalnd was tht successful bidder for Win ston Dillard Water district's $78, 000 bond issue, at the opening of bids last night. District Board Chairman Mar shall Haughn said the interest rate was three and three-quarters per cent for the first five years, and four percent thereafter for a total period of 17 years. Haughn said the board will issue a call for bids on construction of the water system as soon as the bond sale transaction can be com pleted. The board expressed the hope the district can be supplied with water sometime in October. Water will be secured from the abutting Roberts Creek Water dis trict supply. til jf J U.S. TROOPS IN KOREA U.S. foot soldiers tent to the aid of south Koreen army forces leave tha railroad station at Teejon, en route to the front. (AP Wirephste.l FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1950 Budworm Spraying Rules To Be Tightened As Result Of Fatal Crashes Of 7 Airmen (By Th AuocUtad PrM! With six pilots known to have been killed end a seventh missing end presumed dead, a Civil Aeronautics administration spokesman said in Seattle yesterday that the CAA will tighten down its cheek on flight operators conducting spraying oper ations. . Nine Proposals Assured Places On Oregon Ballot SALEM, July 7 UP) Com pleted petitions placing an initia tive measure on the ballot which would ban liquor advertising were filed at the statehouse Thursday afternoon, bringing to nine the number of proposals assured ballot spots in November. The deadline for filing of initia tive petitions expired Thursday. The last petitions filed favor a prohibition on the sale of bever ages contanng more than one- half on onepercent alcohol which are advertised through posters. circulars, newspapers, periodicals or radio broadcasts originating in Oregon. - Petition sponsors include the Wo men's Christian Temperance Un ion, Oregon Council of Churches and the Temperance league of Ore gen. Other initiative measures assur ed ballot positions include a legis lature reapportionment plan and a veterans bonus proposal. Three constitutional amend ments, two referendums and one bill were passed along to the vot ers by the last legislature and will also appear on the ballot. ' The amendments provide for a $600 annual salary for members of the legislature, plus additional ly for the Senate president and speaker of the House; buildings at the state colleges and universities; and an increase in the veterans home and farm loan fund. The referendums would author ize the governor to establish day light saving time and provide a $50 a month minimum pension for needy persons 65 years of age or older. The bill would increase the basic school support fund. Freight Drivers' Strike Averted PORTLAND, July 7 UP) A two year agreement today gave some 2,000 Oregan truck drivers, mem bers of the AFL Teamsters, a pay boost and other benefits. The agreement, reached after a misunderstanding had been ironed out, was reported by Jack Schlaht, executive secretary of the union. There is a general 5-cent hourly increase, Schlacht said, with road drivers' pay going from 11.70 to 31.75 an hour. TRUMAN PLAN SLAIN ASHINGTON, July 7 UP) The Senate Thursday killed Pres ident Truman's plan to place the Reconstruction Finance corpora tion in the Commerce department under the supervision of Secretary Sawyer. 158-50 All of the heavv toll has resulted from a spraying operation against the spruce budworm in the Blue Mountain area adjacent to Walla Waila. . The latest vicim was Boh Mat. lock of Vancouver, Wash., whose plane crashed yesterday forenoon in the Kooskooskia section of the Blue Mountain range on the Wash ington side of the Oregon-Washington border. Search officials said at Walla Walla that Bob Feller, missing since June 28, also was presumed dead. A ground party set out yes terday to investigate wreckage found near Union Ore., by a group of picnickers in the area where Feller is believed to have gone down. Two other flyers have crashed but escaped injury during the spraying campaign. k. ii. uedinger, regional CAA Administrator in Seattle, said Ore gon forestry officials have guessed that pilots, used to the flat area of Wyoming and Nevada, ran into trouble in the downdrafts of the Blue Mountains. Two of the companies hardest hit by the operation are the Harris and Ryun Flying service of Lov ell, Wyo., and the Roberts Flying service of Lovelock, Nev. The former concern withdrew from the contract after losing three men and two planes. The Nevada com pany has lost four planes and two pnois. Meanwhile, the Johnson Flying service of Misoula, Mont., com pleted spraying one section of the Umatilla national forest with out either accident or forced land ing. Bob jJohnson, chief pilot for the company, scoffed at reports that the operation was excessively hazardous. "Pilots here are sent up only under ideal flying conditions. Wind is less than six miles per hour and temperatures below 68 degrees prevent excessive updrafts," he asserted. Directors Retained For Community Hospital Buckley Bell, Henry Jacobson and William Oerding were retained as directors of the Douglas Com munity hospital, in balloting by mail during June. The official tabulation was announced today following last night's directors' meeting. Bell polled 394 votes, Jacobson 353 and Oerding 300. The other candidates received votes as fol lows, E. R. Buckingham 164, Wil liam DeVaney 141, and W. D. Love 98. The directors at their meeting al so retainer thler former officers, re-lecting Kenneth Ford as presi dent, Frank Ashley treasurer, and Daniel Dimick secretary. SWEET MUSIC Somewhere in Korea, July 7 (n The steady drone of Ameri can war-planes brought smiles to the country folk of South Korea today. One farmer looked up and said: "Myong Kok, Myong Kok." That's Korean for "sweet music." Reds Reinforcing At Rapid Rate In Evident Plan For Full Sweep Before Yanks Can Up Strength (By Th AuoclsUd Piw) Communists poured reinforcements at a terrific ret Into invaded South Korea today, with signs pointing to a major battle soon against greatly outnumbered Americen and South Korean troops. The U.S. commander in Korea estimated the Northern invaders have thrown between 75,000 end 90,000 troops Into the battle zones. A South Korean Colonel reporttd that combined Americana and South Koreans recaptured two important highway towns south of Suwon. The report was not confirmed by American wvnmiynnn, ng ssuea me Towns, ryongteek and Chungju, yesterday, had routed a small force of hard-fighting Americer.s for their drive down the center of the Korean penin. Congress Asked ' For $260 Million For Bomb Plans WASHINGTON, July 7 (API President Trumen today asked congress for $260,000,000 to speed development of atom ic bombs and push experiments on the hydrogen bomb. Mr. Truman said the money would be used to enable the atomic energy commission "to build aditional and more effici ent plants" to carry "out his di rective of Jan. 3 1 ordering work on the H-bomb. The president seid the funda mental ebectlve is to use Atomie ic energy for peace, but he added: "Until this o b i e c ti v e is achieved, however, we must strengthen our own defense by providing the necessary atomic energy capacity." . He pointed out in a state ment that his January directive celled on the AEC "to continue its .work on all forms of atomic weapons, inclding tha hydrogen or fusion bomb." Atomic Worker Indicted In Sale Of U.S. Secrets SANTA FE, N. M: July 1 -OP) Davia ureengiass, za, nas been indicted for selling U.S. . atomic secrets to a go-between for kus sian agents for $500. Greenglass, an army tech ser geant who helped assemble atom bombs during the last months of World War II. waa indicted by a federal grand jury here yesterday on charges of conspiracy. The grand jury - charged that Greenglass delivered the atomic secrets to Harry Gold at Al buquerque, N. M. June 3, 1945 when America was at war and received 1500 in currency from Gold. Gold is the Philadelphia chemist who has admitted delivering to Russian agents the U.S. atomic se crets stolen by D. Klaus Fuchs, British scientist. Both Fuchs, now serving a pris on sentence in England,. and Green glass, now being held in jail in New York, gained access to the atomic secrets while working at the Los Almos, N.M., atomic cent er. Fuchs was a scientist in the Los Almos scientific laboratory; Green glass, with an army engineering detachment at an a-bomb assembly plant. After receiving the indictment against Greenglass, U. S. District Judge Carl A Hatch, Albuquerque, fixed bail at $100,000 the same amount set in New York after his arrest there. Greenglass is being held In New York in default of that $100,000 bail. 900 Bean Pickers Needed; Registration Now Open Registration for bean picking is being taken at the Oregon State Employment office, announced Manager George Foster. Approximately 900 pickers will be needed for the season which will open the last week in July and continue through August. Registration blanks are available at the employment office. Trans portation to and from the bean yard will be provided. The bean acreage has been in creased in this part of the county over that of last year. The larg est yards are in Garden Valey, with others in the Winston, Dil alrd, Camas Valey, Winchester and Glide areas. Traffic Accident Near Glendale Fatal To Girl GRANTS PASS, July 7 UP) Lolita Routh, 16, of Gold Hill, is a belated edition to the Fourth of July traffic death toll in Oregon. She died at Josephine General hos- fiital here last night from a skull racutre suffered when she was hurled from a motorcycle on which she was a passenger north of Glendale on the Pacific highway late July 4. LINEMAN KILLED NEHALEM, July 7 UP) Ter ril J. Payne, 30, Tillamook, ac cidentally touched a 2300-volt pow er line yesterday and was killed, A lineman for a power company, he was working seven mllee north of this coastal community. Pyongtaek is 23 miles south of Suwon and Chungju is a highway junction 50 miles southeast of Su won. The South Korean officer said Chungju was retaken in i "big fight." . A cnmmuntmin tmm r.u Arthur's headquarters tonight said the Reds were pressing their en velooinff movtmpnt with tu, sions possibly more than 20, 000 men in the Pyongtaek area. The red radio of Pyongyang claim ed capture of Ansong, a road vil lage 10 miles east of Yogtaek. The commiinimiA nloinraj front line m- niohina point north of Chonan northwest ui magung, wnicn is 25 miles west of Pyongtaek. From there it ex tends to Cliunciu and on In lh f coast. . Guerrillas Aiding Reds The Reds also hnva hAaKi.-j points on thA , VUIU- munique reported Guerilla activity oiuiug me neas near the east coast town of Yongdok, which lies 100 miles south of the 38th parallel. Coupled with the attack from the north a drive from the beachhead nnintc mm, 4v. .u.-.l of envelopment for the South Kor- cau mim American torces. The American commanHAr in Korea estimated the invaders had thrown aome 15 divisions, some of u ai Brigade strength, and 150 tanks into South Korea in a power ful bid tn KWAAn hum -II u- counJr? before the Americana coum Duna up sufficient strength to crack them. A tank-led RpH rnliimn j i " o pic tured in unconfirmed reports aa sweeping southward along the east coast to a point about 40 miles from Pusan, most important South muea ucep water port, where U. S. troops have been debarked To the west, Jet flghten and light American bombers knifed through heavy clouds and knocked out possibly 16 Communist tanks on ine ironr. soutn oi Seoul. - Bulletins LAKES SUCCbSS, July 7 -OP) Red China has served notice en the United Nations that It la de termined te aeiie Formosa deaplte eny military moesures America may take. HAMBURG, Germany, July 7 Three British officers were killed whan two I I P (r.lnln planes collided over the British lone of Germany yesterday, en R. A, F. spokesman announced today. MOSCOW, July 7 Rus sia today accused the United States of committing a "New Act of Ag gression" In blockading Koree end warned she would hold the U. S. responsible for eny damage te So viet interests. MANILA, July 7 B -S.v.n-teen prisoners In the prevlnciel iail at San Fernende Le Union, en the northwest coast ef Luion, killed one guard and wounded en ether In e bold daylight break yes terday. None has been raeaptur ed. They seised tommy guns from the lilt arsenal. PORTLAND, July 7 () The Portland housing authority moved again today te oust ell but low-Income families from pub. lie housing units here. It said net- ices to move would be sent 454 families whose income Is higher than $4001 yearly. Estranged Husband Kills Wife, Attempts Suicide ALBANY, Ore., July 7 UP) A woman raced screaming out of an apartment here last night, closely pursued by a knife-wielding man who finally caught and stab bed her fatally. Shocked witnesses said it all hap pened too fast for them to go to the aid of the woman, Mrs. Irene Hoskins, 37, mother of eight. The man, identified as her es tranged husband, Walter Hoskins, about 45, then began slashing his own wrists. He was hospitalized with serious cuts, but was expect ed to recover. Also hospitalized was a son, Roy, 19, who ran to help his mother, and suffered minor wounds in tak ing the knife away from the man. Levity Fact Rant By L P. Reiienstem What a pity our Infallible rainmakers can't achieve tha De posit result. All tha American ahr fW needs In Korea te stop the Redt It dry weather.
