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u. of 0. Library cr)MP fcuene, Ore. - Ma n nun o )U kd M M M us RETAIN OR ABOLISH? City Council Asks Public Opinion For Guidance On Question Of Rent Control li rent control itill essential to th Roseburg area? That question it up to the city council to answer, and the important issue will be on the agenda at next Monday's meet. ing, July 17. . The proposal that the coucil take action to lift controls was in terjected into the last meeting, but a decision was deferred until adequate publicity could be given the matter, ind until the exact wording of the new law affecting the lifting of controls could be de termined. Some of the, councilmen at the lrit meeting expressed themselves , as favorable to lifting the restric i tion. They held the law was a war time measure and no longer should apply. Mayor Albert G. Flegel said he was definitely opposed to lift ing the restriction at this time. He said he believed controls should remain on at least for a while longer. At a meeting last winter when ' the proposal was discussed, a con siderable number of townspeople were present, and voiced objec tions to lifting controls. Several landlords were also present and spoke in favor of ending controls, saying they were being discrim inated against. Next Monday's meeting will be open to the public, and persons for or against the issue are in vited by the council to express their opinions. Another matter coming before the council will be the special street naming committee's report, approved by the planning commis- sion and adopted by the council. ! .)Zw Ttn y h City Attorney Paul -Geddes is to,1uI v r to be saved report on the procedure for put ting the changes into effect, if the council so decides. Brain Test For Recruits Tee Heavy For 51 Pet. NEW YORK, July 13 (IP) The relatively high intelligence now required of an army recruit has eliminated SI percent of those who have tried to enlist in this area since the outbreak of fighting in Korea. Officials at army and air force recruiting headquarters here said yesterday that in the period from July 3 to 10 only 49 percenet of the 591 men given mental examina tions were able to make a passing score of M, ... . The average dgegroup" of Hie applicants was 19-20. The current mental test was des cribed as "difficult" by an army public relations officer. He pre dicted it would become easier if the fighting gets tougher. VAGRANTS JAILED Judge Ira B. Riddle reported the disposition of the following cases in municipal court today, all in volving vagrancy charges: John Louis Lindhurst, S3; Leo Traynor, 53; William Walter Dunn, 45. all transients. Following pleas of guilty the men were committed to the city jail for ten days in lieu of payment of $20 fines. - , In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Our lost battalion finds its way and FIGHTS ITS WAY home. That is good news. One reason it is good news is that it means the Korean woods aren't as full of Commies as the dispatches sometimes sound like. . A battalion is a small military unit maybe 400, 5O0, 600 men (mil itary units vary in size according to conditions.) It was lost "in the midst" of a North Korean division A division is a relatively big mili tary unit. The news dispatches have been guessing the Korean di visions at somewhere from 6,000 men up. Putting two and two together, you can see for yourself that when say 500 men are lost "in the midst" of say 6,000 men and yet make their way home not too badly bat tered up the 6,000 men must have been spread out pretty thin. More good news: Our air force, smacking the Com mies hard around the clock, de stroyed 33 enemy tanks, 69 trucks, one locomotive, nine boxcars, two (Continued on Page Four) Typewriter Muscles Get Workout As News-Review Employes Unload, Store Fresh Supply Of Newsprint News-Review advertising editors have developed many ne wnen me composing room crew walked out of the mechanical de partment June 26, leaving The News-Review without typesetters, makeup men, and ad men, all hands from the "front office" went to work on the job of getting out a newspaper. Some had never before handled i type. Others had learned a few I of the fundamentals at school and knew what to do but had had little practice doing it. A couple of the reporters, with previous experience on weekly papers, knew enough about linecasting machines to set out a few lines of type. But the front office crew, still : busy also with Usks in the me-1 R.T.BlakelyHome Near Glide, Built In Pioneer Era', Burns The R. T. Blakely home, oc cupied by his son, Bob Blakely, and family, near Glide was quick ly destroyed by fire about 7 p.m. last night The Blakelys were at the home of a neighbor for a short time when the fire broke out The falm es spread so quickly all efforts to stop the fire was futile. The house was consumed within about 20 minutes from the time the fire was discovered. The Blakely 's cocker spaniel, Urhifh hnH hun loft nn k kanli- porch, was lost. They were unable to coax the dog through the flames before the framwork collapsed. The home and practically the en tire furnishings clothing and per sonal effects were destroyed. The loss was partially covered by in surance. ( The cause of the fire was not known, but it was thought to have been caused by defective wiring. The forest service fire truck res- poneded but the home burned too Built about 1880. the Blakelv home stood as an old landmark in the area. It was located about three miles west of Glide on the North Umpqua highway. It was a large home, consisting of two stories and about 12 rooms. It was constructed by the pioneer Blakely family. R. T. Blakely lived at Glide, but his son and family had made their home there the last 12 years. It was recalled that the home was an overnight stopping place for North Umpqua residents on their way to and from Roseburg in the early days of horse-drawn vehicles. Last Of 9 Negroes In Scottsboro Case Liberated DETROIT, July 13 (P) The last of the nine Negro defendants in the Scottsboro (Ala.) rape case of two decades ago will be given his freedom today. The government decided to ask dismissal of fugitive charge against Hayward Patterson, 38. A hear ing on the charge was scheduled before U. S. district Juge Arthur F. Lederle. Assistant U. S. District Attor ney James S. Sotesz said Alabama authorities told him they would drop proceedings against Patter son in view of Gov. G. Mennen Williams's refusal to allow extra dition. The FBI had picked up Patter son here on a charge of fleeing Alabama to avoid imprisonment. Gov. Williams, inrefusing extra dition yesterday, said "all of the others involved in the Scottsboro case were released from prison some years ago." he added "I ran see no justifiable reason for re turning Patterson to prison." Patterson and eight other Ne groes were arrested aboard a freight train at Paint Rock, Ala., in 1931 on charges of raping two white women. One woman la ter repudiated her story. The Unit ed States supreme court twice re versed the death sentence given Patterson and affirmed a 75-year term. Detroit River Yields Body Of Bound Woman WINDSOR, Ont, July 13 -UP) A woman's body, bound with wire and weighted with pieces of steel, was taken from the Detroit river yesterday. Police checked missing persons files in an effort to establish her identity. Coroner C. V. Mills said the wo man, about 30, apparently had died after an illegal operation. An autopsy indicated she was dead before she was placed in the water, evidently six or seven days ago. sales personal, reporters, and w skills in recent days. chanical department, added a new job Wednesday night when they unloaded and stored nearly a car load of newsprint. Handling rolls of paper weighing from 750 to 850 pounds was something new for everyone concerned, but the job was accomplished. Aching muscles were plentiful around the plant to day. Office personnel was forced to do the job because organized team sters refused to deliver across the ITU picket line. An independent hauler, however, delivered the rolls to the plant and the front office crew did the unloading. Established 1873 I Ex-Convict G. Macomber Shot In Groin Medford Battle Slightly Wounds Officer; Woman Aide Of Prisoner Held MEDFORD, July 13 -P) A blazing gun battle in a dark alley wounded a state patrolman and put a long-sought ex-convict in a hospital under guard here early today. The patrolman, Dick Korner, had only a superficial wound and was treated and released from the hos pital. The ex-convict, Gerald Macomb er, 27, was reported in non-critical condition with a wound in the groin. Jailed without charge was Mrs. Wilma Nichols, about 40, into whose home Macomber had crawl ed when wounded. The gun battle that brought the hunt to an end was the third in which Macomber had figured since early Saturday. Police fired at him as he leaped from a stolen Palomino horse at Bates park, five miles south of Lebanon, early Saturday morning and fled into the brush. A massed bunt was made for him then. Macomber at that time wanted only for questioning in connection with a series of ourglaries and safe-crackings in the Albany area made good his escape in the tim bered Cascade foothills. Escapes First Valley At 1:40 a.m. today Medford ciy patrolmen Jack Hunton and Milo Gust noticed a car parked near the west city limits. They radioed headquarters for information on it, then drove up and talked to a man standing near it. As they talked, the - radio reported the car was stolen and was driven by Macomb er. Macomber, hearing the report, shoved a pistol in Gust's ribs. Hun ton jumped out of the car and Macomber moved off, the two re ported. The three exchanged shots in the darkness but none took ef fect and Macomber headed for some vacant lots. A radio call brought out all avail able city, county and state police. Acting on a tip. four policemen went to Mrs. Nichols' home. Her son, Ted, is in the Linn county jail at Albany, charged with the burglaries on which Macomber was wanted for questioning. Korner, soon to be wounded, and sheriff's deputy Kenneth King stood at the rear of the house and short ly spotted Macomber coming up the alley. Korner and Macomber exchanged shots and each was hit. Woman's Lie Fails Macomber crawled into the house and state police Lieut. Paul Morgan arrived to take charge. He went to the front door, armed with a sub-machine gun as city patrol man Howard Phillips held a light on the door. ' In answer to Morgan's demand, Mrs. Nichols opened the door. Mor gan said she told him Macomber was not there. He went in anyway and found Macomber standing near the kitchen. A .32 caliber automatic pistol was found in the bathroom. Macomber's 12 - year criminal record includes two sentences to the Oregon penitentiary, one sen tence in the Nevada penitentiary, and a term in the Oregon State training school at Woodburn. He first was arrested in Tilla mook in 1938 for possession of sto len property, and was paroled to his father, Glenn T. Macomber, who now is serving 40 years in the Oregon State prison on a con viction of being an habitual crim inal. Scores Killed Or Hurt In Saxony Train Wreck BERLIN, July 13 (IP) Twenty persosns were killed and more than 50 injured in a train wreck in the uranium mining section of Russian-occupied Saxony last night, the Soviet licensed ADN news agency reported. The victims were described as workers. The agency said the crash occur red when a passenger train lung ed into a parked freight, between the towns of Zwickau and Ane. ADN said that many of the in jured were in serious condition and that the operator of a signal tower had been arrested and charge with negligence. The Weather Continued fair and warm today. Partly cloudy and cooler Friday. Highest temp, for any July 109 Lowest temp, for any July 40 Highest tern, yesterday ... M Lowest tamp, last 24 hours SI Precipitin last 24 hours t Precipitation from July 1 trace Precipitetien from Sept. 1 ... 34.15 Deficiency from July 1 21 Sunset today 1:53 p.m. Sunrise temerrew 5:45 a.ai. ROSEBURG. OREGON ATHE MA O-C REGULATIONS TOLD D. L. Goldy, At Advisory Board Meet, Says County Timber Cut Balance Best Members of the advisory board for the Roseburg district of the Bureau of Land Management meeting in the post office building Wednesday heard an explanation of the new O & C right-of-way regulations, given by Daniel L. Goldy, regional ad ministerator for the bureau. Fall Opening Set For September 14 Members of the Roseburg Re tail Trade association voted Wed nesday to hold this year's fall open- ing Thursday, Sept. 14, with Bill Graye, manager of Joe Richards Mens store, named as general chairman. The group adopted a suggestion made by Lowell Rhoden of Low ell's Dress shop to give "phony money to persons entering the various stores, such money to be used in auctions held during the opening. Speaking on public par ticipation functions to stimulate in terest in the affair were Jim Turk of the News-Review and Bruce fclliott, manager of the J. C. Pen ney store. Elliott was named chairman of a committee to sponsor a square dance contest to be held in con junction with the opening. President Ray Sims anounced that only RTA members will par ticipate in this year's activities and issued an invitation to all re tail firms to subscribe to member ship. Automobile dealers were rep resented at the meeting and in vited to participate again this year. Also attsnding was Deputy Dlsr trict Attohicy James Richmond, who advised the group on the var ious contests and publicizing cam paigns discussed at the meeting. Nebraska Flood Eases; Disaster Area Declared OMAHA, Nebr., July 12 (JP) Flood conditions in Nebraska ap peared easing today, with sunny skies forecast after five days of heavy rainfall. However, eastern central Nebraska was declared a disaster area and the Reconstruc tion Finance corporation in Wash ington announced the Omaha office would accept loan application for flood damage repairs in that sec tion. The floods have caused ex tensive crop and property damage and forced hundreds from their homes. D. J. Gawler, Long-Time Roseburg Resident, Dies DELMONT J. Gawler, 733 Micelli street, resident of Roseburg for many years, died this morning at the Roseburg Sanitarium, following a short illness. Surviving are a son, William J. Gawler, of this city, and a daugh ter, Mrs. Joy O'Neil, of Anchorage, Alaska. Funeral services will be announc ed upon arrival of relatives. Long and Orr Mortuary will be in charge of arrangements. ! It . i " "i i mi i "i"iirtr:!y. miwmv if-.gui m 1 1 1 j j ALL HANDS AND THE COOK turned out at Th Nwi-Rviw plant Wadnaiday night to unload rolls of nawtprint. Organized teamsters refused to deliver across th picket line of striking composing room workers. An independent trucker hauled the 800 pound rolls which were "muscled" into th pressroom by personnel from th advertising sales department and news room while on of th striking workers, armed with eamtra, photographed th action. -THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1950 ss mmm Goldy told the group there are regulations and procedures to fol low in dealing with recreational uses of access roads, "despite ru mors to the contrary." According to the new regulations, "adequate measures ' must be taKen to pro- vitle assurance against fire, theft and otner conditions. These roads may then be used for recreational purposes, but not until the logging operator effected has given his approval. The regulations further stipulate the operator may not ex hibit any "unreasonable withhold ing ' of this approval, suDject lo the Bureau's ruling. Referring to possible disputes which may arise from the newly revised regulations, Goldy said the Bureau reserves the right to de termine the amount of allowable cut on any given piece of O it C land. Reciprocal Swap Offered He also referred to the problem known to Bureau workers as the "other area problem." He said this has reference to operators who re fuse to grant rights-of-way in one area and at the same time attempt to gain rights-of-way in another. "We intend to give the opera tors what they need from us if they'll give us what we need from them," Goldy said. j The proposed Umpqua drainage basin economic survey instituted by the Roseburg Chamber of Com merce also came in tor consider able discussion when the Bureau spokesman said his agency was one of several planning to aid in studying the possibility of provid ing economic stability by full uti lization of existing resources. Cutting Balance Rated Tops Referring to the survey primar ily is terms of lumber and forest products. Goldy said, "Douglas county now has the best balance of any area in the United States between the cut and raw material not a perfect balance, but the best balance." Goldy said the proposed sur vey will be a pilot study of com munity opportunities for industrial expansion, utilization of existing raw materials and the possibility of secondary manufacture. "Such refinements as providing more byproducts of primary for' est products processing will pro vide a better margin to each op erator involved," he declared. "These refinements also offer more man-years of labor and a more stable, year-round payroll, t h u i cushioning the area against dras tic boom and bust periods." County Judge D. N. Busenbark was re-elcted chairman of the ad visory board and Harold Woolley of Woolley Logging company, Drain was retained as vice-chairman. - . . 162-50 Ouster Power Voted Eleven U.S. Agencies House-Passed Bill, Now In Senate, Provides For Firing 'Risky' Employes WASHINGTON, July 13 OP) A bill giving 11 government agency heads the power to fire outright any employes they consider risky to U. S. security was handed over to the Senate today following top heavy approval in the House. By a vote of 327 to 14, the House late yesterday enthusiastically en dorsed the proposal. It means that employes deemed to be bad security risks could be booted out without appeal. About 800,000 federal employes in the agencies are affected. While some House members rais ed the cry of "dictatorship," an overwhelming majority shouted approval of giving most government chiefs "absolute discretion to fire civilian employees they consider dangerous to the national security, The authority would apply to heads of the State. Treasury, Com merce, Justice and Defense de partments; the army, navy, air force, Atomic Energy commission, the National security nesources board and the National Advisory committee for aeronautics. Their determination of a bad se curity risk would be "conclusive and final," and the only review oi a case would be by the agency head himself or someone desig nated by him. The door was left open for ex tension of the powers to other agency heads by empowering the President to designate such ad ditional agencies he deems nec essary. The House beat down three at tempts to provide appeals proce dure to protect employes from unjust or arbitrary firing. A roll call vote of 193 to 144 turned down a move to provide for employee appeal to the civil service com mission. Rep. Jensen (R-Iowa) termed the bill a move "to clean a bunch of nogoods out of the government," while Rep. Chelf (D-Ky) declared the security powers should be granted or "we're going to find a lot of so-called pansies giving away our information." Opponents contended that in ad dition to creating a series of de partment dictatorships throughout the government and violating the principle of permitting appeals, the proposal also would destroy the civil service commission. Second Special Tax Vote Slated In Multnomah PORTLAND, July 13 UP) -Multnomah county voters will bal lot tomorrow on a five-year con tinuing 4V4 mills special tax need ed for multiple services. It was proposed by the com missioners after voters rejected in May a special levy that was re newal ot a tax over the 6 per cent limit. i ili'n in i if Rail Center Of North Koreans Shattered By Rain Of Bombs; M'Arthur Lauds GIs' Heroism (By Th. AuocUUd Prat.) Nearly 50 B-2? Superfortresses smashed at North Korean targets today, opening mass precision bombing against th Com munists. At the same time toon. MacArthur announced that daily tha Americans "reduce tha enemy's relative superiority in numbers and weapons." The B-29s plastered a North Korean rail center with 500 tons of bombs in tha mightiest single air blow of tha war. Th mission opened mass bombing by two groups of Superforts rushed from th west coast and manned by crews hardened in world War II. Tha bonpbers flew through rain and mist, but all returned safely. r BACK ON JOB Maj. Cen. Emmett O'Donnell, Jr., (above), who led the first B-29 attack on Tokyo, arrived in Tokyo (July 81 to direct operations of three B-29 groups in the Korean war. Head of the U.S. based 15th Air Force, Gen. O'Donnell will be designated commanding gen eral of tha Far East bomber command. (AP Wirephoto.l Douglas Quota Of Draft Seven Men Douglas county will have a quota of seven draftees to be chosen under th tirst call by th selective service board, ac cording to an announcement from Maj. Cen. Thomas E. Rilea, adjutant geenral. Th list- is given as "tentative." Th Associatad Press an nouncement from Portland stated that Oregon's first draft allotment will be 181 men, with Multnomah county's five boards providing 50 of the total. There are 31 draft boards listed for Oregon. Lake county has one with a quota of one man. Gilliam, Morrow and Wheeler have on together with an allotment of on man. Lane county has 15 and Marion coun ty II, Clackamas 9 and Wash ington 7. Th other county quotas are smaller than that of Douglas. WASHINGTON, July 13 -OF) The army said today there "is no present plan" to issue a second draft call. It asked last Mon day for 20,000 draftees. A spokesman denied there were plans for a second call when told there were published reports the army would ask for 80,000 more draftees. Bludgeoned Girl Names Uncle As Attacker SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 -IIP) Still speechless five weeks after a brutal bludgeoning, Mary Mcln trye scribbled on a temperature chart the name of her uncle as her attacker. Police arrested the uncle, Doug las Carapata, 45-year-old egg sales man. Homicide Chief Frank Ahern said he would be charged today with assault with intent to commit murder. Yesterday was the first time po lice had been alowed to question Miss Mclntyre, 24, formerly of Vancouver, B.C. She was near death more than two weeks after she was beaten over the head in her basement apartment June 3. It was Carapata who called po lice then. He said he found his niece unconscious after receiving mysterious telephone call that she had been hurt. Control Of Industry To Aid Arms Program Urged WASHINGTON, July 13 UP) iWell-placed officials today report ed growing Dressure on the ad ministration to seek at least limit ed control powers over industry to help arm the country for the fighting in Korea. They said no specific plan yet has reached President Truman to their knowledge, nor has there been any decision on the seeking of emergency powers from Congress. They said they expected the whole question of home-front mo bilization to be placed before to morrow's cabinet meeting. One of ficial said ther would b a "top to bottom" aurvey. Other Allied planes continued lashing blows at Communist con centrations and at targets behind enemy lines. Yesterday alone Al lied airmen reported they destroyed riea lanits ana 82 trucks, as well as much other equipment, in ia combat missions against only token opposition in the air. On the ground American troops were deployed 13 miles north of Taejon. emergency caoital of the battered. United Nations - created South Korean republic. This may De tneir ao-or-die line to prevent an Asiatic Dunkerque. A railroad bridge and other span across the river, which Korean rains at any moment could swell into a raging torrent, have been destroyed. MacArthur said the heroic hold ing action of American forces down the Korean peninsula had provid ed time for the swift movement of reinforcements. Exhausted Ameri ans are spread out in a thin line along the Kum river, last major barrier bc'ore Taejo, facing mass ed Communists on the north bank, and ominous lull settled over the main battlefront area. MacArthur's headquarters an nounced that American casualties to date have been 488, including 42 dead, 190 wounded and 256 miss- ing. The annoucement then added: "American ground units in Ko rea are fighting one of the most skillful and heroic holding and rear guard actions in history. Their ex cellent peacetime training is re flected in the combat record they are now compiling. They have been -overwhelmingly outnumbered, in some instaces more than 20 to l, and the casualties inflicted on- th enemy have been immeasurably greater than those they have sus tained. "They have filled a breach with out which the North Korean force would have, long ere this, com pletely overrun and destroyed South Korea. This has provided time for the rapid movement of reinforcements forward in exploi tation to the fullest extent of the logistical capabilities at hand. Each day we reduce the enemy's rela tive superiority in numbers ana weapons." Gen. MacArthur announced th appointment of Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, veteran tank fighter of World War II in Europe, as com mander of ground forces in Korea. He commanded the famous armor- ogjoog -uag jo ,,sdjOD soug p S. ration's swift Third army in Europe. Excise Tax Slash Bill Sidetracked WASHINGTON, July 13 -UP) The Korean war, with its growing costs, has ditched the $1,010,000,000 excise tax slashing bill. On the advice from the Whit House that "it would not be pru dent in the light of development in Korea" to cut any taxes now, the senate finance committee put the bill aside, postponing action indefinitely. Many in Congress expect that the treasury department will ask for higher taxes, rather than low er, if the Korean situation does not improve. However, it was said at the Treasury that no decisions on such a request have been made. Technically, if the situation im proves swiftly, the tax cut bill can be taken up later. Few, if any, lawmakers now hold any hope for action this year, however. It looks as though the excises, many of them imposed in world war II, will stay at least until the Korean war is over. Second Vote Slated On School District Budget Residents of W 1 n s t o n-Dillard school District 116 will vote Tues day, July 18, upon a substitute budget, drafted by the board to re place the special budget voted down recently. The only change in the budget which is over and above the amount allowed by the county r u ral school board and outside the six percent limitation, is the elin ination of a $9,000 building fund item, and placing of this amount in the general fund for operation expenses. If the revised budget carries, the district will be able to conduct a cafeteria, and music and manual training programs. Levity Fact Rant By L F Retzenstem Drat that wathf prediction For Thursday It promised rain; But Instead of precipitation W havt copious perspiration. Old Sol's in the 90s once again.
