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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
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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.
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Pieck denounced "American war & .? '-. ' fSLa i T'i4
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bases throughout the world since tXZ. ."j,' vVrTji" " 1
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float up from Seoul marshalling
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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. '
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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
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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.