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U. 01 0 Library COMP WHO DOES WHAT DALE CREEN, the new manager port, posed for this picture at been operating the Green Plying gene for the last two years. students, most of them under the by his brother, Max. ARMY CALLS RESERVISTS Duty Of 21 Months Slated For 62,000 Enlisted Men; Between 19-25 Ages First WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, (API The army announced to day it will call out 62,000 individual reservists during Sept ember and October, with or months of duty. They will come from a pool of about 185,000 enlisted male reservists who are not members of the orgamied .Reserve corps units. They will be used primarily to bring national guard and organized reserve units to full strength. City Puts Clamp On Communists MC KEESPORT, Pa. UP) One man was arrested and an other escorted from this western Pennsylvania community yester day after they protested the pass age of an ordinance requiring Communists to register with po lice. The man arrested was listed by police as Steve Nelson of Pitts burgh, chairman of the Comm unist party in western Pennsyl vania. He was charged with dis orderly conduct and resisting ar rest, spent several hours in jail and then was released on $35 bail for a hearing today. Dave Grant, also of Pittsburgh, was escorted by police to the city limits. He was not arrested. The ordinance provides a pen alty of a $100 fine and-or 30 days in jail. . "We are going to treat Comm unists in McKeesport just as Americans would be treated in Moscow if they violated Russian laws." said Mayor Kincaid. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At the moment of writing this, there is a lull in the Korean fight ing. It is the calm before another storm. We are moving our newly arrived reinforcements from the landing port to the fighting front. The Commies pause to bring up new reinforcements to counter our new reinforcements. This is an interesting point: We've got in some of our Gen. Pershing tanks. They have 90 mil limeter guns big enough to slug it out with the Russian tanks the Commies are using. How many of these more powerful sluggers w e have on the ground is of course a secret. Not as many as we'd like to have, I expect. Gen. MacArthur, in his last night war summary,' says: "The North Koreans have recklessly thrown away thousands of lives." Nearly eight centuries ago, a Chinese writer, describing the tac tics of the Mongols led by Gen ghis Khan, said: "They come on in endless waves, utterly regard less of the losses inflicted on them, (Continued on Page Four) The Weather Partly cloudy today, becoming fair tonight and Saturday. Highest tamp, for any Aug. Lowest temp, for any Aug. . Highest tamp, yesterday Lowest temp, yesterday .... Precipitation from ug. I ... Precipitation last 14 hours . Precipitation from Sept. 1 .... Deficiency from Aug. 1 Sunset today 1:11 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow :0I a. m. 10 39 75 j4 0 34.1s 0 h ' A -"'Kmc of the Roseburg municipal air the air field Friday. Creen has service in Roseburg and cu He has trained more than 200 G. I. bill. He will be assisted without their consent,, for 21 ! The group to be called out con- sists only of enlisted men, not officers. The first 32,000 will be in camp by September 15, the remainder by the middle of October, the armv s announcement said. Those called first will be be tween 19 and 25 years old. Priority will be determined by the number of dependents. Those with no dependents are to b e called first, those with one de pendent, second, and those with more than one dependent later on The quotas for army areas will include: Sixth army (California, Mont ana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington Nevada, Utah and Arizona) 9,449. This was the first time the army has, called up enlisted re serves who are not in units. Later Call For Others About 116,000 reservists who are in units, and whose units have not yet been called out, are ex empt from the September-October call, evidently it is planned to call them out as units. Most of the enlisted reserves are veterans of World War H. The army said that those members serving reserve enlistments for three to six years under the term of the selective service act o f 1948 will be subject to call on the same basis as all other reserves. This group, which is part of the 185,000-man pool, includes men who served on active duty for less than three years after the war and then reverted to reserve sta tus. Reservists first will be selected tentatively and ordered to their nearest medical facility for phys ical examination. Then they will return to their homes and be or dered to active duty from there if their physical condition has been found satisfactory. They will be given 21 days from the date of receipt of their orders to settle personal affairs before reporting to training divisions or reception centers. Lower Klamath Basin Lashed By Heavy Storm KLAMATH FALLS UP) A severe rainstorm lashed the lower Klamath basin late Thursday, con tinuing north into Klamath Falls this morning, and has been fol lowed by reports of damage to standing fields of grain. Below Tulelake in the vicinity of the old Japanese relocation cen ter rainfall was heaviest and some barley fields were flattened. Lightning struck a transmission line pole south of Malin at the state line and disrupted electrical service at Tulelake and in rural areas for from 15 to 45 minutes. THIEVERY SERIAL SAN RAFAEL. Calif.. UP) , Fred Carstens of San Francisco i. intsira nere luuay cnargea with the theft of a television set. Police said he stole the t re ceiver from the home of Richard E. Shepard while b.iepard d, , jail charged with stealing money 1 from his employer. Established 1873 Truman Plan On Authority On Standby Basis Is Preferred WASHINGTON - UP) The House today junked its mandatory wage and price curb bill and started over on the job of writing an economic control measure. Beginning with the limited con trols President Truman has asked, the House added an anti-hoarding provision as Its first step in try ing to put together a new and broader bill. Approved 112 to 46, this would make hoarders subject to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine. The mandatory wage-price bill automatically if living costs rise 5 percent above the level of June 15 was denounced yesterday b y President Truman. He called i'. an invitation for a five percent rise The House threw it out on a standing vote of 172 to 161 The idea had been tentatively approved yesterday 159 to 128. The action left before the House a controls bill providing only standby allocation and priorities powers for the President. " - - Uy to requisition war-needed ma terials, to grant production lo and to curb credits. This bill, however, was sub ject to amendment to add wage price controls. President Truman made it clear that he preferred to have stand by authority to act if need be. H said he had no objection to stand-by authority to roll back prices to what they were during a period between May 24 and June 24. Money Bill Pared The Senate move toward pass age today of a 134,237,000,000 ap propriation bill carrying money for the armed services and other government agencies. It voted a $525,000,000 cut yesterday by trim ming most non-defense and non foreign items. The senate banking committee arranged another meeting behind closed doors to resume consider ation of a similar version of the plan to tie wage-price-rationing controls to the cost of living in dex.. During the rapid-fire voting of yesterday, the House turned down proposals to put hoarders in pri son, to order a simple wage-price freeze pending further study, to condition wage controls on busi ness profits curbs, to limit real estate credit controls to new con struction or new improvements, and to let Congress decide at a later date when the controls should become effective. There were no major changes in the bill's previsions giving the President standby-allocation and priorities powers, rationing auth ority and power to curb the grant ing of credit. Halt Called On Quitting Oregon National Guard SALEM, UP) -No more of ficers or men of the Oregon na tional guard will be allowed to quit unless their terms of service have expired, Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adjutant general, an nounced. Rilea said that discharges from the guard to enlist in other ser vices have been 10 to 15 percent above normal in recent weeks. Rilea said he had to take the action because the recent rate of transfers would have impaired the efficiency of the guard. Auto Dives Over Bank; Occupants Little Hurt Three Myrtle Creek residents escaped serious injury when their car plummeted over a 70-foot embankment on the South Myrtle road about three miles up from Myrtle Creek about 9:30 last night. State police, who with sheriff i deputies investigated, said the car, a late model pickup, was owned and operated by Woodrow W. Tom as. His passengers were William Russell McBride and Leonard W. Rohbins. They reportedly were traveling west. While rounding a sharp curve, the wheels hit loose gravel on the right, and the car crossed the road, going over the em bankment. The car was heavily damaged. Rut tne occupants suf fered only minor bruises. S. & L. Assn. Robbery Bill Signed By Truman WASHINGTON -AP) Pres ident Truman yesterday signed a bill to make it a federal offense to rob a state-chartered savings and loan association whose accounts are federally insured. NO-DAMAGE FIRE The Roseburg fire department was caueo. to the Roseburg Lunv ber Co. mill at 10:45 a.m. todav when sawdust caught fire in the tuet Din. lhe blaze was extm. guished without any resulting oimage. ROSEBURC, ORECON Opposes Controls Young Boy Is Drowned In The Smith River REEDSPORT, Ore., Raymond Tamlinson, 19 months old, drowned in the Smith riv er near here Thursday. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tomlinson of Bell view, Wash. The boy's aunts, Roberta and Donna Dougherty, missed him while swimming at a nearby dock. They found his body in river, caught en a snag half a mile away. N Two Boys Die In "Wild West' Play EAST LIVERPOOL, O,' - The body of a missing 13-year-old boy was found late last night in a shallow grave near his home. Police captain Chester C. Smith said the victim, David Brant, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. David Brant, may have been killed accidentally in a "wild west" game. Several playmates will appear at police headquarters today for question ing. Police, aided by parents and neighbors, started a search after the boy failed to appear for the evening meal. The father found the boy's body a length of clothes line pulled tight around his neck in a narrow cave neighboring youngsters had dug on a wooded hillside near the home. PUEBLO, Colo. UP) Nathan Andrew Thomason. 9. and his 13- year old playmate, Robert Law- son, decided to play, rodeo yes terday. They used a river bottom al falfa field near here as an arena. Robert held a real horse and a rope for the game. He lasooed the younger boy and climbed down off the horse to release him. The horse bolted and dragged Nathan three quarters of a mile before the rope attached to the boy wore thin and broke. Nathan was dead when his playmate fin ally reacnea mm. Savings Bonds Sales Lag 1st Month Of Korean War WASHINGTON, UP) -Sales of series E savings bonds the "war" bonds in time of conflict- sagged in the first month of the Korean fighting. Purchases during July totaled $317,590,000 compared with $377 813,000 in peaceful July, 1949, otuciai ligures snowed. Cash-ins rose to $367,890,000 last month from $283,435,000 in the same month last year. Cash-ins exceeded ' purchases last month by a $50,300,000 mar gin. In July, 1949, people bought $94,378,000 more in bonds than they cashed. WRECK HAS 32 DEAD ALGIERS. Algeria. Aue. 4 UP) A rescue column reports it has found 32 bodies near the wreckage of a French airliner which crashed in the Sahara last Saturday. pr JT-, , tZZmr lMir i -i ' 1 i iiii V JjaMMMyT'' ' ' i ' ' ' ' uSj;'y if 0Ui " "'I' Wr i imm at- MiMMMMiM;.fai TO BENEFIT LIONS WELFARE FUND The Roseburg Lions club Thursday signed a contract with F. E. Erickson Co., for exclusive franchise in Douglas county to place in restaurants "fortune tell ing" napkin dispensers. The club has arranged to put out 100 of these devices in the Roseburg vicinity, and plan to expand the program as timo permits. The napkin dispenser contains a slot, in which a penny may be inserted, and the machine will answer questions put to it. Revenue from the machines will be used by the club in its welfare program, which includes purchase of glasses for the needy, loan of wheel chairs and crutches, 4-H work, Bay Scout activities, annual children's Christmas party and numerous other projects which the club sponsors, together with added projects which additional funds may make possible. Shown above in the picture receiv ing tho machines and learning "how they work" are, left to right, Lions E. R. Buckingham, Roy He bard, Allen Clute and John Bates. (Picture by Photo Lab) FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950 'Chuck' Friday To Serve Scouts As Commissioner Charles "Chuck" Friday, above, has been named Douglas district uuy HiiUuu.,n, ing Jerry Willis, it was announced this week. Friday, a resident of Roseburg the last two years and an em ployee of Smith Motors, has long been active in scout work. A boy scout, himself, in h i s home state of Iowa, Friday served as a scoutmaster and was on the scout committee in Ontario, Ore., and was a cub master at Ilermis ton. Since coming to Roseburg he has been on the scout commis sioner's staff. He is a Mason and served seven years as a lieuten ant in the Oregon state guard. "Time and effort one puts into, scouting are well spent for a worthy cause," said Friday. He is expecting a very good year in scouting and increased activities. But, he said, this is going to need a lot of help. The scout enrollment in Douglas dist rict is far ahead of leadership. More leaders are needed to carry on the work. Friday announced the next dist inct commissioners meeting will be held Aug. 10 at Riversdale school, followed by a roundtable the third Monday. 7 Newspapers In Arizona Struck PRESCOTT. Ariz. UP) A strike by AFL printers against two daily newspapers and five weeklies in northern Arizona con tinued without change today. Pickets appeared in front of the Prescott Evening Courier, which has not published since the strike began Wednesday. The other papers ' said they would continue to publish as sched uled, these were tne Arizona Daily Sun at Flagstaff, and week lies at Prescott, Winslow, Hol- brook, Kingman and Cottonwood About 40. printers are involved. They walked out in support of their request for a 15-cenl hourly increase. That would put a jour' ncyman's wage at $2.25 an hour. 181-50 Truman Yill Keep Acheson And Johnson 'President Upsets Rumors To Contrary; Opposition To Spanish Loan Loses WASHINGTON Aug A UP) - President Truman's insistence that he will keep Secretary of State Acheson and Secretary of Defense Johnson in his cabinet indefinitely provoked new Republican blasts at Acheson today. Mr. Truman announced yester day his solid backing for the two administration officials. Both have been under hot political fire i n connection with charges of Amer ican unpreparedness for the Ko rean war. The President also: 1. Demanded that the Senate reconsider a 65-to-15 vote earlier in the week directing a $100,000 000 loan to Spain. He was rebuffed within three hours by an identical vote reaffirming the decision. 2. Disputed the statement of his Senate leader. Senator Lucas of ill!l. ,umt .h.r won't ho time ;""",, " ,hn in this session for action on the Hawaii and Alaska statehood bills. 3. Set Senator Tvdings (D-MD) down abruptly with the assertion that the armed services chairman was mistaken when he said tne White House suggested that Ed win W. Pauley, former reparations commissioner, testify on Korea. He announced he wouldn't with draw two controversial nomina tions the senate seems almost cer tain to reject. 5. Said the question of sending a permanent diplomatic represen tative to the Vatican is under con sideration. In the past, a number of Protestant churchmen have expressed opposition to any such move. 6. Affirrned that he will support the Democratic nominee fw the Senate in Missouri whether he is Emerv Allison, whom he publicly backed in the primary, or Thomas C. Hennings Jr., the probable vic tor in a couni inai is yei iu uu completed. One administration senator, who asked not to be quoted by name, told a reporter he will be sur prised if Acheson is not replaced before January. He said that ob viously Mr. Truman could make no important changes before the November congressional elections. Runaway Locomotive Is Cause Of Three Deaths CHEYENNE, Wyo., (AP) Three trainmen were killed and another injured last night when an unmanned locomotive careened eight miles down Sherman hill and smashed into a deisel switch-engine on the west side of town. The dead, all from Cheyenne and all crew members aboard the switch engine, are: Albert Chamb ers, engineer; Thomas t. Harris, fireman; and C. R. Crago, switch man. Union Pacific officials said the locomotive's brakes failed while the engineer was out of the cab receiving orders; and while the fireman was standing behind the locomotive acting as flagman. Red Army Prevented From Advancing, Suffers Bloody Repulse In Sector Of Masan By Th Associated Preu Heavy tank and infantry fighting exploded on the Pusan front in Southern Korea today. A communique issued by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo said the battle erupted Friday morning and there was no let up. The enemy was described as still unable to advance against Amer lean defenders who got in some telling counterblows. Heavy troop movements in North Korea suggested that tho Communists were drawing reinforcements from battle-trained Koreans in Manchuria, but 45 enemy tanks reported advancing into the battle area turned out to be old wrecks. The battle raged on an are from 20 miles southeast of Chin ju to II miles east and 15 miles northeast of Chinju. This would be from 35 to 45 miles west of Pusan, last-ditch alliod base port. Maker Of Bomb Convicted Of Try To Slay Family SANTA MONICA; Calif.-.")- For placing a gasoline bomb a board an air transport on which his wife and two children were among the 13 passengers, air craft engineer John Henry Grant has been convicted of six counts of attempted murder. A jury of ten women and two men took 40 minutes yesterday to convict him of trying to kill three crew members of a United Air Lines plane, his 29-year-old wife, Betty, and their two child ren, Marie, 6, and Bobby, S. The infernal machine, placed in Mrs. Grant's luggage, went off prematurely beforo the transport left for San Diego, April 17. No one was injured. Grant sat impassively as the jury's verdict was read. The max imum penalty is 20 years on each of the six counts. Superior Judge Orlando Rhodes set Sept. 5 for sentencing and said he would hear Grant's plea for probation the same day. The 32-vear-old Grant testified that he made the bomb, which consisted of an automobile inner tube filled with five gallons of casol ne. a battery. - clock and 70-odd books of paper matches, He told the jury that he was heavily in debt and that he and his wife had argued for months over finances and home manage ment. He denied that love for Miss Betty Suomela, 31, former chief stewardess for American Airlines here, had anything to do with his decision to put his wife and children on the plane wan the bomb. He said he and Miss Suomela were merely friends. Mrs. Grant purchased $25,000 in air flight insurance, naming her husband as beneficiary. Mrs. Grant sued for divorce May 29, charging adultery and ex treme cruelty. Reece Victor In Tennessee Yote NASHVILLE, Tenn. ) Waging a comeback fight, Carroll Reece held the lead today in his bid for his old job as represen tative in Congress from Tennes see's first district. With the count in from all ex cept 27 of the district's 205 pre cincts, Reece had 29,498 votes to 27,000 for incumbent Dayton ftm lios in yesterday's GOP primary Reece, an east Tennessee hunker - industrialist - publisher. represented the first district for 24 vears before stepping down in 1946 to take over his party's chair manship. In the second district w h I c n like the first is heavily KepuDii. ran inrumhent John Jennings Jr., trailed far behind Howard H. Ba ker, a Reece-favored candidate. In the Democratic primary, Gov. Gordon Browning won the Democratic nomination, over his chief opponent, State Senator Clif ford Allen. More Funds Voted For 'Voice Of America' WASHINGTON -ilP) A house group has approved a proposal to give the "voice of America" mo ney enough to try blasting 1 1 s way through the iron curtain. Members of an appropriations subcommittee said today they had taken such action after hearing Secretary of State Acheson e ra- phasize that the truth is the best ammunition this country has to counter Russia's major propa ganda weapon: "the lie repeated again and again." Acheson's testimony in support of President Truman's request for $82,000,000 more for the state de partment's "sell America abroad" program was made public today by the subcommittee. The new money would include $41,288,000 to build six powerful new radio stations and cash to buy radio sets for receptive Com munists. Gun Tragedy Occurs At Portland Labor Temple PORTLAND. UP) An unem ployed iron worker was fatally wounded in a Labor temple snoot ing here Thursday. His ex-wife's husband is charged with murder. Joseph Taylor, 42, died in a hospital of bullet wounds in the a Women and left groin two hours after he was shot, following a quarrel with William G. Jordan, 55. Detective Set. John Nolan said Jordan admitted shooting Taylor in the offices of the Iron Workers Union. Taylor had formerly been mar ried to Jordan'i wife, Marguerite. At one point a. North Korean force of about 850 stabbed to with in 35 miles of Pusan and only eight miles from Masan. The 27th regimental combat team, which had just made a 22-mile recon naissance in force into enemy terri tory, counted 600 North Korean dead including the commanding colonel, after the four-hour bottle. Big 155s fired point blank into the enemy, and dead were left scattered over ridges, rice Dadies. and in a ruined village. Even the American bakers and mechanics helped turn back the attack. The American team lost IS killed and 44 wounded. Elsewhere along the winding 125 mile front, the Reds punched and probed at the new allied defense Hne along the Baktong river, some of their patrols slipped across the river but were wiped out or dis persed. Artillery duelled acrois the Naktong which at one point bends eastward within seven miles of Taegu, 55 miles northwest of Pusan. Six U.S. jet planes, the first as signed to help defend Farmosa, arrived at airfields on the Nation alist Chinese island. Air sweeps knocked out 12 enemy locomotives and damaged seven docks and rail yards at the south coast ports of Makpo, Yosu and Sunchon, starting points for Com munist supplies and troops moving to the front. Naval guns rocked three towns north of Yongdok on the east coast. B-29 Hying trom Okinawa claim ed they had definately knocked out of production for some time the North Korean chemical and cxplossive center of Hungnam. Ex-Rep.' May n . Line For Parole WASHINGTON, (P) For mer Rep. Andrew J. May's plea for release from federal prison goes before the U.S. parole board today. ' The long-time Democratic repre sentative from Kentucky became eligible for parole today after completing eight months, his min imum time, in the Ashland, Ky., federal correctional Institution. May. 75 years old. was con victed In July 1947 ,on a bribery-conspiracy charge. It involved the placing of World War II con tracts with munitions makers at a time when May was chairman of the house military affairs com mittee. Sentenced to eight to 24 months, he started serving the time last December after a series of un successful appeals. Henry M., and Murray W. Gars son, wealthy munitions manufact urers who were convicted of pay ing $53,000 to May for his in fluence in the war contract field, were given identical terms. They became eligible for par ole on July 31 after serving eight months at the Danbury, Conn., correctional institution, but their parole applications, considered in advance, were denied two weeks ago. 3,000,000 Children Are Refugees In Korean War TAEGU, Korea (AP) Korean women fleeing from the war fronts are abandoning children by the scores with hopes that they will be cared for, South Korean police reported today. Authorities estimated there are about 3,000,000 helpless refugees in South Korea ranging from one to seven years old. Lee Yoon Yung, minister of social affairs, said his ministry oper ator 301 refugee centers trying to feed and care for tens of thousands of refugees crowding inside the allied pcrmitcr. Boy Escapee Passes Out Stolen One Dollar Bills PORTLAND, UP) A 13 year old boy found in a city park here yesterday passing out dollar bills turned out to be an escapee from the Fairview home at Salem. Police reported the boy told them he broke into the United Air Lines office at Salem and stole the money he was giving away to newspaper carrier boys. Eighty-seven dollars was stolen Tuesday night from the Salem Air Line office, police were advised. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein The heavy boost voted In tht fund for the 'Voice of America' was probably needed to outdo In volumt tho earth-shaking fulminatlons of Comradt Jakob Malik at the U. N. Security council.