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COMP Firee Home IFir GMleo Aftftoek Red Thrusts From 3 Sides Are Awaited U. of C, Library Eugene, Ore, U.S. r . i"r ; ft . SUPERFORTS STRIKE SEOUL YARDS Great clouds of smoke yards after B-29 Superforts struck in the second major raid pears to be at left where trains shortly after strike, iftr vvirepnoto trom U.S. Air force. I Harry Gold Pleads Guilty To Role In Atomic Spy Ring PHILADELPHIA, July 21 (IP) Harry Gold, 39-year-old chemist who has admitted serving as a cour ier for a Russian atomic spy ring, pleaded guilty Thursday to an in dictment charging him with con spiracy to commit espionage and with giving information to a poten tial enemy. The maximum penalty under the law is death. The 39-year-old Gold, a research chemist at Philadelphia General hospital and son of Russian par ents, was the first of four United States citizens arrested this year on charges of giving U. S. secrets to the Soviet union. . None of the others David Greenglass, 28, New York; Al fred Dean Slack, 44, Syracuse, N. Y.' and Julius Rosenberg, 32, New York has entered a plea to the government's charges. The three are accused of passing atomic secrets to Gold who in turn is charged with turning them over to Dr. Klaus Fuchs. Dr. Fuchs, British atomic scien . tist, has pleaded guilty -to-espion age and has been ordered jauea for 14 years in Great Britain. NEW YORK, July 21 OP) Julius Rosenberg, accused of help ing to hand over atom bomb se crets to Russia, says the charges against him are as fantastic as a children's television program.. The 32-year-old engineer was ar rested by the FBI Monday and charged with conspiracy to com mit espionage, lie is Deing neia in $100,000 bail. Rosenberg's attorney, Emanuel H. Bloch, said hhs client "laugh ed out loud" at the FBI charge and "called it fantastic, something like his kids hear over the tele vision on the Lone Ranger pro gram." The attorney said Rosenberg add ed "there is not one iota of truth in the charges." In the Day's News. By FRANK JENKINS This comes from Tokyo (General Mac Arthur's headquarters): "The Communist invasion -"of South Korea was at a standstill north and west of Taejon today apparently jarred to a halt by the fierce opposition of the vastly-outnumbered American defenders." Why the halt? At the Pentagon building in Wash ington, our friend of yesterday, the "briefing" officer, goes into ac tion. He says there has been a definite stiffening on our fighting front, that there is more tactical fire by our. artillery, more air sup port for our ground forces and, he adds, "our plays are clicking better." You football men will know what that means. The briefing officer, however, cautions against accepting these developments as TOO favorable. Asked by a reporter if a turning point has been reached in the fight ing and maybe the advantage is coming over to our side, he ans wers: "No. I think such a con clusion would he premature. I don't (Continued on Page Four) Probe Puts Brakes On Kansas City Gambling KANSAS CITY. July 21 lP) Did the Binnagio-Gargotta Gang land slaying.i put the brakes on big-time gambling in Kansas City? Sen. Estes Kcfauver (D-Tenn), head of the senate crime investi gating committee, says testimony taken during a twolay hearing here shows gambling operations pretty well closed down now. But before the slayings last April 5. gambling operations were on a larger scale than in St. Louis, he added, Charles Binnagio, northside pol itical leader and gambling figure, and Charles Gargotta, his hench man, were shot to death in their Democratic headquarters. Their slayings have not been solved. are visible. Photo was taken by Doctors Invited To Form Hospital Medical Staff All doctors of the Roseburg vi cinity are invited to attend a meet ing Monday night to form the medical staff of the Douglas Com munity hospital, announced J. W, McAlvin, hospital manager. The meeting will be held at 8 o' clock in the chamber of commerce rooms. The meeting has been called, said McAlvin, to acquaint the doc tors with the progress on the hos pital, so they can select officers and establish their policies before the hospital is ready to operate. School In Church Dispute Refused Aid For Veterans BOSTON, July 21 OP) -St. Benedict's Center school, banned to Catholics for more than a year hecause of a doctrinal dispute, has been denied approval for G.I. bene fits by the Massachusetts Board of Collegiate authority. The Rev. Leonard J. Feeney, bead of the school and central fig ure in the controversy with his ecclesiastical superiors, denounced the action as "religious persecu tion." Authority chairman John J. Des mond, Jr., said yesterday the board "was not concerned" with the dispute which drew widespread at tention in 1949. The decision, he said, was made after a study of the faculty, teaph ing methods, equipment and condi tions at the one-room school ir Cambridge. The authority's decision has no effect on the continuation of the school. Only the rights of veterans to financial aid are involved, an authority spokesman said. Without authority approval, the Veterans'; administration will not provide aid to veterans studying at M. Benedict s. Philip Gammons, schc-jl secre tary, said there are 14 veterans among the enrollment of "about 75." Informed of the authorty's de cision, father Feeney declared: "A Catholic priest is no longer free to teach the truth about our faith. I have kept quiet too long. They are going to be very, very sorry." The public controversy last year resulted in Father Feeney los ing his right to perform his priest ly duties and also of his ouster from the Society of Jesus, a schol arly order of priests. At issue in the bitter public dis pute was the question of whether non-Catholics could go to heaven. It was Father Feeney's contention that it was heresy to teach that they could. East Germany Commies Vow War Aid To Soviet BERLIN, July 21 (IP) East Germany's Communist presiddit tola a mass rally attended by boss es of the Kremlin-directed Comin form yesterday that his people would fight beside Russia in any new world war. A portrait of North Korea's pre mier Kim ir hen along with those of Premier Stalin and China's Red Chief Mao Tie-Tung hung over the rostrum as President Wilhelm Pieck made his pledge to 4,000 communist faithful. Seated on the platform were del egates from Soviet satellites and Communist China. Highest ttmp. yesterday If U Lsweit temp, last 24 hours .. Precipitation last 24 hours . Precipitation from July 1 Precipitation from Sept. 1 . Deficiency from July 1 Sunset today 1:47 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:51 a.m. I trace 14.15 ... Jl Pieck denounced "American war & .? '-. ' fSLa i T'i4 adventuring" in Korea and accused fefT3, 'JK?i:i ',4 t" A the U.S. of building 500 military fTJr -J'' S bases throughout the world since tXZ. ."j,' vVrTji" " 1 The Weather Highest temp, for any Juy. 10? 1 - .; i-r V ytw v : '-WZiZZ ,Tr4v,ii XS:;" vfc1 Lewest temp, for any July.... 40 -'IJ ,J -sV- -Fir ' -PPl float up from Seoul marshalling (July 141. Center of hits ap RF-80 jet reconnaissance plane Former Douglas Convict Breaks Jail At Dallas DALLAS, Ore., July 21 UP) Harry William Detillion. 26. being held for alleged auto theft, escaped irom me roiK county jail last night, state police reported. He removed the nuts from the bars of his cell, then moved the Dars and made his break. His ab sence was not known for several hours. Detillion served two terms In the state penitentiary. He first entered the prison In 1940 from Douglas county to serve 18 months for burning with intent to defraud an Insurance com pany. He again entered the prison Feb. 14, 1944, from Marion county to serve three years for burglary and larceny. He was paroled Dec. 17, 1945, but was returned towo months later as a parole violator. He escaped from the peninentiary May 20, 1947, but was recaptured the following day. He got his final release Dec. 22, 1947 O. & C. Timber In Oregon, Washington, Idaho Sold PORTLAND, July. 21-0P-Sale of 14 million board feet of fir and pine timber on Oregon & Califor nia grant tanas and public domain was announced Thursday by the Bureau of Land Management. The timber is in Clatsop, Crook, Deschutes, Jackson, Klamath and Lake counties in Oregon, three counties in Washington and one in luano. it Drought $145,224. 7 Million Skilled Men Needed, Draft Head Says CINCINNATI, July 21 P The director of selective service says the United States has got to find "7,000,000 men of critical skill and the capacity to fight." Gen. Lewis B. Hershey warned here against urging draft boards to defer men because of their skills, claiming "if we don't find them (the 7,000,000 men), you won't nave any industry anyway. ' r CI HIGHWAY WIDENING BEGUN Additional space is being provided on the east side of the highway north of the eity limits to eliminate th traffic jam neer the Cardan Valley junction. The Oregon State Highway deportment said the new lane will be used for through, northbound traffic and the inside or existing lane wille be used for motorists intending to turn left on the Garden Valley road. When the project is completed, traffic liqhts will requlato the flow of traffic (Staff photo.) v k 1 Established 1873 Military Committees Lengthen All Enlistments Restriction On Siie Of Armed Forces Removed; Calls To Duty Issued WASHINGTON, July 21 -P-The Senate Armed Services com mittee voted unanimously today to take all restrictions off the size of the armed forces and lengthen all enlistments one year. The House Armed Services com mittee also voted, 18 to 1, to keep all enlisted personnel in service for a year after their enlistments expire. It still was considering the request of President Truman to lift ceilings on size of the armed forces. The committee action would sus pend indefinitely present limita tions which fix the top strength of the armed forces at 2,005,882 men. The quick action came after navy, army and air force officers said they probably would lose 193, 000 trained fighting men during the next year through expiration of voluntary enlistments. The Senate committee amended the legislation to make it apply also to national guardsmen and re serves when called to active duty. As approved by the senate group, President Truman could extend for one year the terms of volunteers now in the army, air force, navy and marines until next July 9. That is when the present draft or selective service act expires, under which men from 19 through 25 can be called for 21 months' duty. Calls Already Issued The marine corps has called up all the ground forces in its organiz ed reserve amounting to some 47,000 officers and men. " I The navy said several of its air' reserve units, numbering about . 000 officers and 30.000 men, afe going on active duty. ' The army alerted combat troops in each of the six continental are as for movement to the Far Eeast. The air force indicated it might order some reservists into uniform after a week or so. Senator Gurney (R-SD) called meanwhile for action to restore the family allotments granted to ser vicemen in World War II. The al lotments were ordered eliminated by Congress on a gradual basis in 1948. Under the World War II system, the serviceman and the govern ment both contributed to the sup port of dependents. Servicemen who wanted to make allotments signed over from $22 to $27 -a month; the U.S. Treasury then sent $50 to a wife without children, $30 additional for the first dependent child, and $20 each for any other children. At the time Congress ordered an end to the allotments the annual bill was running around $350,000, 000 a year. ROSEIURC. ORECON Power Expansion STRIKE ORDER IGNORED Printers Stick To Job In One City, Quit In Others; Device Control At Issue TEXARKANA, Tex., July 21 (API One ITU local lost its charter when it refused to go on strike as union printers quit work at two other affiliated papers, the Texarkana Gazette and Daily News and the Eldorado (Ark.) Daily News and Times. C. E. Palmer, publisher, said the union had planned sim ultaneous strikes at the Texarkana and Eldorado papers and also at the Hot Springs (Ark. I Sentinel-Record, "believing that the newspapers would not dare refuse to accede to all their de Douglas Electric Cooperative Now In New Quarters Complete with everything, in cluding the kitchen sink, is the way Harold Backen Jr., manager of the Douglas Electric coopera tive, describes the Co-op s new home on Highway 99 north. Members, employes and the gen eral public have been invited to view the new structure today, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. It is located next to the City Drive-in market, north' of the Garden Valley junc tion. For the first time in the Co-op's 11-year history, all offices; record rooms and warehouse facilities are housed in one building a structure built at an approximate cost of $64,000 which rivals in modernistic architecture any building in the umpqua valley. Included in the new building are all general offices, bookkeeping and accounting offices, a large record vault, a spacious ware house and the aforementioned kitchen sink, a part of the model display kitchen housed in a well decorated room near tee front en trance.. In addition to the ware house and storage facilities, a large lenced-m area omina the build ing will provide space' for heavy equipment. Organized in September, 1939, the Douglas Electric cooperative originally served about 250 mem bers. In 11 years it has increased its membership to 2,500 persons served by about 625 miles of the line. The first offices were located in the Medical Arts building; later they were moved to the Pacific building, where they remained un til the new building was completed. Backen says the Co-op has had warehouse facilities "all over the town" before the new home was built. Landscaping begins this fall to provide a better grounds appear ance. Cleo Jenkins of Corvallis was the architect for the structure and the H. J. Settergren company of Portland was general contractor. RAILROADER KILLED LA GRANDE, July 21 lP) Charles Bayles, 54, La Grande a union Pacific employee, was kill ed in a switchyard accident at Rieth, Ore., yesterday. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1950 mands. "However, printers in Hot Springs voted against striking and the International Typographical un ion canceled their local charter," Palmer said. , Palmer branded the work stop pages as strikes and said the prin cipal issue was union claim to jur isdiction over teletypesetters, de vices which perforate tape and au tomatically set type. Use of Guards Denied John Duvall, president of Local 313 here of the ITU, said "It's a lockout, not a strike," that armed guards were stationed at the news paper doors, and that jurisdiction over teletypesetters had not enter ed into contract talks. The newspaper denied that arm ed guards are present. Duvall said all 51 ITU members were out here and "around 25" out at Eldorado. He said picket iag was underway here and pre sumably at Eldorado. Palmer said "normal publication in both struck 'cities will continue with no editions being missed." Palmer said employes who op erate teletypesetters are typists an "we cannot conceive how typists can reasonably be classified as printers." CINCINNATI, July 21 (IP) The American Newspaper Publish ers association has charged the AFL International Typographical union with unfair labor practices. The charges were filed in the regional office of the National La bor Relations board yesterday by Cranston Williams, general mana ger of the ANPA. Besides the ITU, its international officers, in eluding international President Woodruff Randolph, were named. The publishers association, alleg ed the union refused to bargain, has used restraint and coercion and had demanded certain em ployes not previously covered by contract be so covered, said Jack Evans, regional NLRB director. One count claimed the union tried to force employes to accept the un ion as tneir Dargaimng agent and coerced locals into csrrying out the mandates of the ITU's executive council. Jehovahites Detained For 'Pacifism' Inquiry NEW YORK, July 21 (m Five Jehovah's Witnesses from Great Britain were detained yes terday at Ellis island to determine if they advocated "extreme paci fism." The five, three men and two women, were among 305 delegates who arrived bv boat to attend a world conference of the sect to be held here July 30 through Aug 6. Edward J. Shaughnessy, district director of the immigration ser vice, said "extreme pacifists" may be kept out of the country under a 1918 law banning aliens whose visits would be "contrary to the public safety.' W. Roseburg Home Has Slight Fire Damage The Roseburg fire department was called to the W. P. McFar land home just east of Rainbow lane in the West Roseburg area beyond the city limits Thursday at 3:55. Curtains in the home had caught fire, but the blaze was extinguish ed with a minimum of damage. A general alarm was sounded when the house fire was reported and two trucks responded to the call. Former Oregon Head Of American Legion Dies PORTLAND, July 21 - (JP) -The former state commander of the American legion died here yes terday. He was John Albert Beckwith, 65, attorney and retired captain in the naval reserve. A former president of the Multno- man Bar associaton, he was ex ecutive oficer of the cruiser Mar- blehead in World War I. Hit wifp thru rlnnohlAi-t ,nH I son survive. INFLATED BANK CHECK KANSAS CITY, Kan., July 21- rat nanion, 31, received a check for $900,650 in payment for a S6J0 note he sold a bank. He called the bank and said he would return the check today. An officials said the $900,000 mistake was due In failure of a check writ ing machine. . 1M-50 Voted National Guard Non-Divisional Units Called Reserves Also Included In Army Duty Summons; Oregon Program Ready WASHINGTON, July 21 (P) The army announced today It Is calling "non-divisional" units of bo9h the national guard and re serves to active duty. The announcement said that the army does not contemplate at this time celling units the size ef e division. The brief announcement said:.' "The department of the army is in the process of progressively call ing non-divisional elements of both national guard and reserves to ac tive duty as the need arises and facilities for their reception and The total number of national guardsmen as of March 31 was 332,000. The number of reserves was 60000. The liational guard is organized into 27 divisions. Of these, 25 are miantry and two are armored. training can be provided. For the immediate present it is not contemplated that units the size of a division will be called. Units will be alerted approximately 30 days prior to movement so as to give members thereof time to ar range their personal affairs. In the meantime the army is asking for immediate voluntary ac tive service of individual officers and men in certain grades and skills. "These individuals will be given up to 30 days to report." The army declined to disclose the number of men involved. PORTLAND, July 21 UPA program to bring the Oregon Na tional Guard to increased strength and step up drills was outlined Thursday by Maj. Gen. Thomas b. Kllea, state adjutant general. Rilea said he was told in a tele phone conversation With National Guard headquarters in Washing ton, D. C, that the .guard will be authorized to increase its person nel if President Truman's military budget is approved by Congress, as expected. mis would mean bringing officer personnel to 100 percent of war time strength and enlisted person nel to 50 percent. He said units would drill twice instead of once a week and probab ly would hold summer maneuvers at their home stations, similar to those held in 1939. Cleaning Woman Finds $40,000 of Bank's Money SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 21 in Mrs. Mary saKowski, an J18-a-week cleaning woman, called the First Trust and Deposit Co. Thursday and asked officers to come get their $40,000. Mrs. Sakowskl explained that she found the money on the bank floor while sweeping last night and took it home for safe keeping. New at the job, Mra. Sakowski said she was scared and did not know what to do with such a sum of money when she found it. "So when I finished work, I simply put it in a paper bag with my shoes and took it home with me.' "I was sure glad to get rid of the money," Mrs. Sakowski said when a bank officer came to her home to get it." 1 couldn't sleep all night.' The money was in four bundus of $10 and 20 bills. A bank spokesman said Mrs. Sakowski would get a reward, but that the amount had not been de termined. Joe Dunne Dates Entry In Race For Governor PORTLAND, July 21 (IP) Joe E. Dunne, the old-age pension lead er, officially will enter the cam paign for governor here July 31. The 68-year-old Portlander, who earlier announced he might be come an Independent candidate for the office, yesterday called a nom inating meeting in Portland for that day. Dunne first announced his inten tions before last May's primary election. Disliking the pension views of Governor McKay and Aus tin Flegcl, he said he would run if they were nominated for the office. McKay got the Republican and Flcgel the Democratic nomination in the primary. Dunne will have until Aug. 14 to file his nomination papers. He said he would have 312,000 persons sup porting his campaign. BOY SCOUT KILLED PORT ANGELES, July l(JP) A Seattle boy scout was reported early today to have been killed in a (all down a rock slide area on Mount Carrie in the Olympics. He was identified by Olympic National park officials as Pairr Gulmont, about IS. ' Warships Crush Foe's Communications Center; Gen. Dean Stiii Missing (Br Th AMOdaUd PreM) Harassed by a hail of sniper and enemy artillery fire, American troops dug into new South Korean defense positions today and brac ed for expected new Communist thrusts from at lease three direc tions. The battered 24th division, its commanding major general among the missing, took up hill positions several miles east of flaming Tae jon, captured by the Communists in a heavy tank and infantry drive The GIs hoped to hold these new positions until American strength builds up behind them for a coun teroffensive. The Communists stopped at Tae jon, failing to follow through with an expected renewed attack again- , st the new American positions, but U. S. forces warily watched for new tianKing ana envelopment move ments. Enemy snipers lined the road of the American retreat and kept up harassing fire while enemy tank guns opened up and machinegun fire sprayed over the withdrawing defenders. American artillery was trained on the hills where bands of Red guerrillas were reported trying to infiltrate. Communist tanks and troops had stormed into the flaming key rail junction at Taejon after a bitter two-day battle which cost the Reds dearly. One front report, not con firmed, said four American-made tanks, possibly lend-lease material given Russia in World War II, had been used by the Communists in the Taejon drive. On the east coast American and British cruisers shelled and knock ed out the Communist communica tions center at Yongdok, 25 miles north of the beachhead held by Americans of the mechanized first cavalry division. Headquar ters has not reported on the pro gress of the first cavalry of the U. S. 25th, which landed this week, but Yongdok may be a first cav alry objective. Taejon's Loss Minimised Gen. Mac Arthur aaid the loss of Taejon would be a psychological blow to the South Korean people. whose govetnment fled the city several days ago, but the with drawal has "no special signi ficance, from the military view-, point. The higher country to the southeast is much better suited to a delaying action. On the central front. South Kor ean troops battled their way back into Yechon, 40 miles north of the main U. S. supply line from Pu- san. Other South Korean units push ed to the outskirts of Punggi, IS miles northeast of Yechon. The whereabouts of Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, 50, commander of the" 24th infantry division, still was not- known at the U.S. com mand post. Dean, last seen in the thick of battle Thursday night pass ing ammunition to a oazooKa team, personally led attacks against Communist tanks columns. Bad weather hampered allied air action, but more than 100 indivi dual flights were flown and tio Russian-built Yak fighters were downed yesterday. B-29s roared over North Korea again, dropping 160 tons of bombs on five major airfields and bridges. Yak fighters were driven off. Car Shortage Is Studied In Survey Roger Li Hawley, rate analyst with the Public Utilities commis sioner of Oregon, and Robert Clark also of the commissioner's staff, comprise a team which is mak ing a survey of southern Oregon to study the railroad car shortage. Recently Hawley and two other men from the commissioner's of fice made a quick general survey to study the railroad car shortage, of the area to determine the need for a concentrated study of the problem. Two other teams are working in Oregon. It is contemplated that the survey will continue until Sept. 1 and possibly to Nov. 1. Every Southern Pacific railroad agent in Oregon will be contacted for in formation from their offices, and 50 percent of the mills in Oregon will also be contacted. The facts obtained will be used by the office of commissioner James T. Flagg in determining steps necessary to relieve the short age of lumber-shipping cars in those areas where the problem is greatest, according to Hawley. Polio Hits Daughter Of National Foundation Head RICHMOND, Va., July 2(P) The daughter of Basil O'Connor, president of the national infantile paralysis foundation, is in a hos pital here undergoing treatment ment for the disease her father has fought. She is Mrs. Sidney Culver, 30, and mother of five. Levity Fact R ant By L F. Reizenstem The ge-ose that laid the gold en egg was a piker compared with the modern hen chicken that lays egijs now selling around $5 cent a doien.
