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C33 O 2 Tha Nwi-Rvlw, RoMburg, Or Sot., Sept. 16, 1950 Cocal News Six Destroyers Drew Fire To Insure Marine Landing In Hepitl Mrs. Lilliin Comn. ton of Poseburg ha been admit ted to Mercy hospital to receive medical treatment. Sell Home - Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Nehring have sold their home at 1428 East Ilousla .street to Mr. and Mrs. Balnridge and will move to 1430 N. Balll street. Spending Several Dayi Here Mra. Jessie Vosbiirsh Wallace ot Idleyld ii spending aeveral days in Roseburg at the home of Mrs. Jessie Vinson, while receiving medical treatment. D of U. V. Te Meet Florence Nightingale tent No. IS. Dw'jhte of Union Veterans o. the Civil War will meet at potluck supper Mon day night a the home of Mrs. Ruth Fltimer, 11B2 Military street A grab-bag will be held. The next regular meeting of the group has been planned for Sept. 22. t 1-30 p m. in the K. of P. hall. Stop Hero Mr. and Mil. Charlie Bartleman of Sacramento and who are on their honyemoon, stopped in Roseburg this week lor a short visit with Mrs. Eugene Lit tle orf Soulh Sleophr-ns street en route to points in Washington. They plan- to return to Sacramento via the coast highway route. Called to Vancouver Mrs. George Dimmick, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Nannie Thomp son, left Tuesda." morning for Van couver, Wash., where they were called by the dejth of Mrs. Dim mick's sister-in-law. Oklahoma Tornado Hurts S Persons; Damagt High SASAKWA, Okla.-'.'D-rive per sons were injured by a tornado three miles north of there late Friday but no one was hurt, or killed, as the twister tore a path through the town. The town, of 1,000 population, is 75 airline miles southeast of Oklahoma City. No estimate of damage has been made. More than a dozen houses, a school bus garage and two bus iness buildings were leveled or damaged. Youth Injured As Cor Runs Off Highway 99 George D. Cox, 18, of Roseburg, suffered head injuries about 1:30 Saturday morning when the car he was driving ran off the highway about two miles south of Rose burg state police reported. He was traveling alone and ap parently fell asleep, police said. The car rolled over and was badly damaged. Cox was taken to Mercy hospital for observation. HELP! . . . us find a house to rent! WILL PAY UP TO $75 MONTH For furnished or partly furnished two or three bed-room house near ROSEBURG References Furnished PHONE 100 Ask for Mrs. Fountain Handmade Gifts For Your Friends, or Yourself , . . 2217 Harvard Oih Monday mn4 Friday 1)0 a m to 4 10 p.m. Wtdnaso'ay 1 00 to S: JO a m. or Ph. 444J-4 for Appointment. OAR Mooting A business meeting of the DArt will be held Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p m. at the home of Mrs. Douglas Waite, 410 W. Douglas St. PTA To Moat Glide PTA will meet at 1:30 o'clock P'onday, Sept. 18, at the Grange l.t I. Loaves for Kontas Miss Pearl Gen has left for her home in New ton. Kas.. following a few weeks in Roseburg visiting her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hand, and with her nephew, Wallace Hand, and fam ily- Hero on Business Mr. snd Mrs. B. A. McPhillips of McMinn ville have been spending the last few days in Roseburg attending to business. Harvest Ball South Deer Creek Grange has invited the public to al'end its annual harvest ball to night, Sept. 18, at 9 o'clock at the hall. Refreshments will be on sale during the evening. Unit To Moot Melrose Home Extension unit has announced a get-acquainted meeting for Thurs- da night, hept. 21, at a o ciock at the Melrose Grange hall, all per sons interested are invited to at tend. Grange to Maot Melrose Grange will meet Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock at the Grange hall. Co to Los Angolas Mrs. Roy Johnson (Jean Geddes) and two daughters, Sandra and Karen Dell, left Thursday for tneir new nome in Los Angeles, following a week here with relatives and friends. Mrs. Johnson is a dsughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Geddes. She and her children were taken to Eugene by her brothel -in-law anrt sister, Mr. and Mrs. Harrie W. Booth. The Johnsons formerly re sided in Seattle. Returns Hero Mrs. Minerva Smith returned to Roseburg Fri day, following a week in Eugene visiting her niece, Mrs. Laura Herring. TO ENTER PLEA Charles Bock, Roseburg, ar- rested on a druni driving charge by city police last night will enter a plea in municipal court luesaay morning, -according to Judge I. B. Riddle. His wife, Murial J. Bock, charged with being drunk on a public street, will also enter a plea Tuesday. Jet Fighter Crashes, 2 Others Land Safely WENATCHEE. Wash. UP) An F-88 let fighter plane which had engine failure at 18.000 feet crash-landed and burned here last night, injuring the pilot. Two other jets followed the crip pled ship down. One missed the runway and was badly damaged. The other made an uneventful landing. The pilot of the plane destroyed by fire, Lt. John Greene Jr., was not seriously hurt. l.t. David B. Freeland, at the controls of the damaged fighter, and Lt. Col. Wil iam Edwards, flight leader who brought his ship in safely, were unscathed. Col. Gladwyn E. Pinkston. com manding officer of the 81st fighter interceptor wing at Larson air force base Moses Lske. Wash said the trio was returning from a training flight to Utah when Greene's ship "conked out." By RELMAN MO IN ABOARD THE FLAGSHIP OF JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN, OFF INCHON. Korea IJP) The landing at Inchon in a large part is the story of six brave little ships and a wonderful blunder. The North Koreans made t n e blunder. The tittle ships, the big ones, the planes and finally a ma rine assault force capitalized on it. A chain of events ' started by those six ships led directly to the victory of Inchon. In the entrance to Inchon har bor, and commanding approaches to it, is the island of Wolml. It is a wooded island shaped like a n oyster shell. From the beaches, the ground rises 300 feet to a rounded top. A stone causeway con nects the. island to the Inchon waterfront. Wolmi was the key to the entire operation. Before the main attack on Inchon could begin, Wolmi had to be taken. In an order issued before the battle, Rear-Adm. James H. Doyle, commander 0 1 task force 90, aaid: "This mission (Wolmi) must be successfully completed at any. cost. Failure will seriously jeopardize or even prevent the major amphib ious assault on Inchon Therefore, press the assault with the utmost vigor despite loss or difficulty." A big question loomed what did the North Koreans hsve o n Wolmi to defend it? How many guns? How big? Where? Six brave little ships six de stroyers were -sent to find out. Vire-Adm. Arthur D. Struble. commander of joint task force seven, ordered a "reconnaissance in force." 8 The mission frankly was to draw fire from Wolmi the more fire the better. A destroyer's armor is three eights of an inch thick. Practically anything stronger thsn a slingshot will pierce it. On the morning of Sept. 13, "D day minus two," the six brave lit tle ships, moving in column, and slowly, sailed into the narrowing channel leading past Wolmi to In chon. One anchored off the southern fare of the island. Three passed through the neck of the channel to the other side. Two remained in the channel. None waa more than a mile from the beaches and some were 1,000 yards two-thirds of a mile. They were "sitting ducks." Thai's what they were meant to De juicy targets lor the concealed guns on the shore. From all over the elbow of the channel farther down, thousands of binoculars were trained on them from the American and British cruisers and the oiher shins. The silence wss like a blanket. It was a brilliantly aunny day and you could see even without binoculars. Suddenly there was a sine e sharp white flash. Seconds later the muffled crack of the gun came bark. "The 730 reports she spotted a battery moving on shore." a re port to the bridge of the flagship said. A few more tense, breathless, In- cieoinie seconds of waiting passed. Still silence. Wolmi island looked like a picnickers paradise, green wooded and serene. Then the North Koreans made the fateful and wonderful blunder. Suddenly a necklace of gun flashes sparkled around the waist of the island. The flahses were reddish gold and they came so fast thrat soon the entire slope was sparkling with pinpoints of fire. The destroyers were quick to an swer. Lightning flashes leaped from their guns. They hit bark, shell for shell, firing faster and faster until the whole channel was a tunnel of rumbling thunder. The pace increased. On Wolmi. still more gun positions opened up. The red necklace spread and widened. And they were hitting the destroyers now. They could hardly miss at that range. Then a report came down to the bridge and your blood ran cold. "It looks as though the '33 is dead I in the' water, sir." Admiral Stru ble s answer wss quiet ana me words were taut. "Make sure, and then see whst we have to do to get her out of there." The duel went on for an hour. It was a slugging match, toe to toe, and nobody quit or backed away. Six brave. little ships sat there and shot it out with the dug in enemy gun crews on Wolmi is land. Three of the six were hit and one seriously, but not so seriously she could not come out under her own steam. An officer died. There were other casulaties. The destroyers came out proudly and without haste, atill firing, flat trajectory fire at close range and then at higher arcs aa the distance increased. The mission was accomplished, successfully the navy will say. Gloriously is a better word. If the guns on Wolmi Island had never been discovered, if the North Koreans had not blundered into exposing their armament, it is hard to say what might have hap pened to the transports and the lit tle landing craft when they came in for the assault two days later. At best, the casualties would have been enormous for Wolmi was studded with guns t worst the invasion could have stalled right there at the first ob jective. Six brave little ships exposed themselves to the fire. The bigger guns and hordes of planes knocked it out oefore'the marines ever appeared. 19-Year-Old Given 18-Month Sentence Vtilliam John Tucker, 19. of Rosehura. was sentenced to serve 18 months in the Oregon state penitentiary and placed on pro bation in the ciivuit court Friday. Tucker pleaded guilv to District Attorney Robert Davis' informa tion which charged him with rob bery by force, not being armed with a dangerous weapon. According to the information, I by commercial haulers. Tucker violently robbed Clyde, t.o( haulers, draymen Dixon vicicers oi si .so. a oi noia , rf housemen made the and various articles oi ciotning. , hrarine vesterdav I Thev iold the ctmmittee. headed PLAINTIP PAWAROEO MONEY i by Ralph T. Moore. Coos Ray, that A default iudgment in favor of taxes on commercial haulers have James M. McGintv has been is. I reached a saturation point. The sued hv Circuit Judge Carl E. i gr"P "'led for a cut in public V, imberlv against Rolland t'harle j utility commission plate costs from Dorsrv for $7.V The money is al- 90 to 50 cents a hundredweight. legeuly duo for payment of dam-; Earl While, a draymen and Vital Statistics Marriage Licenses SHIELDS-KENNEDY JOHN Henry Shields Jr. -and Kathryn L'Beth Kennedy, both of Sutherlin. MARCOTT-GIBSON Irvin John Marcnlt and Bernice Irene Gib son, both of Coos Bay. BAINBRIDGE KNYPSTRA Robert Faye Bainbridge and Shir ley Ann Knvpstra. both of Elkton. JOERS DYSERT Jack M. Joers, Roseburg and Carmen L. Dysert, Brockway. BUSHNERjLUNSFORD Paul Holmes Bushner, Tooele, Utah and Doris Arvilla Lunsford. Roseburg. KENNY-PARKER William Gor don Kenny, Idleyld Park and Ruby June Parker, Roseburg. j Div rco Suits Filed BROWN Melvin R., vs Hazel" M. Brown. Cruel and inhuman treatment charged. VESTLAKE Mary, vs Robert A. Westlake. Cruel and inhuman treatment charged. Plaintiff asks custody of one minor child and 33 monthly support money. Divorce Decrees Granted EMMERS Leona Louise from Earl Everett E m m r f. Plaintiff granted restoration of former name. WHAI.EN Dave Victor from Ardie B. W h a 1 e n. Defendant granted former name. N EARING Betty, from Roy Nearing. Plaintiff granted restor ation of former name. SALING Mertnn W., from Lila S. SALING. Decree stipu lated that neither party married for six months. JAEGER Ruth Mathers, from William Orville Jaeger. Custody of three minor children awarded mother of plaintiff. Lila Ridge way. Defendant will pay $M weekly support money. McCLURE Patricia from George McClure. Plaintiff awar ded custody of one minor child and $50 monthly support money. Plaintiff also granted certain per sonal property. PHILLIPS Roberta Louise from Paul Clinton Phillips. Plain ; tiff granted custody of one minor I child and $40 monthly support money. Property agreement ap I proved. MEREDITH Clare A., from Betty G. Meredith. Defendant a warded custody of one minor ! child. Plain, iff will pay $30 monthly support money. Plain tiff granted sole ownership of cer tain personal property. Valuable Gas, Tritium, Found In Plain Water PHLADELPHIA tF) -Two scientists have discovered in or dinarv water the colorless gas known as tritium key explosive for hydrogen bombs. A little tritium already has been made in American atomic reac tors and more i to be produced for H-bombs in reactors atill to be built. - ' The new water extraction method of making tritium shows promise of two very practical uses but is not expected to replace the reactor system of tritium manufacture. The principal reason for thii Is that although reactor Tritium today is said to cost a half bil lion dollars a pound th water ex traction appears to be both less productive and more expensive The first anticipated use of the new water tritium is to discover the secret manufacture; of H bombs. In such work a very1 small amount of tritium spilled in water will spread widely and as re sult of the newly-announced dis covery may be detected easily. A single gram one 27th of an ounce dropped into the mighty Amazon river could be traced anywhere downstream and even far out in the Atlantic ocean. The second practical use of the detection method would come in tracing ocean currents right down to the bottom of the sea. Surface watera are known to contain more tritium than very deep water. The tritium discoveries an nounced . Thursday at the Temple university research institute were the work of W. T. Libby of the institute of nuclear atudies, Uni versity of Chicago, and A. V. Grosse, of the Temple institute. Tritium has been suspected in ordinary water for more than 20 years and has been partly identi fied by means of the spectros cope The Libby-Grosse discovery was made by using a radioactive counter. Tritium presently costs nearly half a billion $500,000,000 per pound as it is made with atomic eactors. CLUE PLANNED A meeting was 'Jd it the home of Mrs. Walter Kruse of Melrose Wednesday eenin to form a club of high school girls to be known as the Horizon club. Those atlending were Mrs. Betty Strikling, Dorothy Finn, Donna Dillon, Jeanine Conn and Darlene Kruse. Community Mulls Problem Of House For Hurt Pastor Residents of Csmss Valley who are trying to get a parsonage for their pastor the Rev. Westley Dur land, who was seriously hurt in a logging truck accident two months ago, are in need of a circulating ne.ier ana cnairs or a divan. The Rev. Mr. Durland, who had been pastor of the Camaa Valley Community church for only three weeks before the accident, will be released from a Portland hospital in about two more months, his wife said. It had been the hope of the Camas Valley people to have a new parsonage built in time for Rev. Durland's return Rut thv now feel it will be spring before fought 22 Firemen Hurt In Portland Fire PORTLAND M Twenty two firemen were hospitalized last night as they fought for six hours to quell flames in a downtown building. An elderly watchman was res cued from the root of the six siory Msnrhester building at 311 S. W. Fifth avenue. Fire Investigator Ralph Curtis said loss was $80,000 to $100,000. The cause waa undetermined. The hospitalized firemen, moat of them overcome by smoke: were reported not in serious condition. Only five were held overnight. Photographic supplies sent up dense clouds of acrid smoke from the quarter-block structure. Fire men waded waist deep in water, flooded into the basement through holes rut in the first floor. The E. J. Chapman & Co. sta tionery and office supply firm and Shannon & Co. engineering and art supply store on the ground floor were burned out. Smoke and water damaged thousands of ready-to-wear garments in three wholesale fashion shops on the upper floors. Thirty pieces of equipment tne blaze, borne 150 on it can be completed. In the mean time they are preparing two rooms in the Community church for living quarters for the Durland family, which includes a three-month-old baby. ( Through "thrift sales," held un der the auspices of the Ladies Aid. money is being raised to furnish the temporary parsonage. How. ever, no way has yet been found to provide . a circulating heater, and it is hoped one will be of fered before long. Luxembourg celebrate the birthday of its grand duchess with fireworks. duty firemen were called. VETERAN 104 College Professor Helps . DA Get Gaming Evidence Media, Pa. A 40-year college professor fashioned his own course in organized gambling and came up with results which enabled Delaware county to pass out 15 warrants. . District Attorney C. William Kratt jr., said Thursday hia un dercover man in the county's five month investigation of horse race book-makers, number men and gamblers was Harry W. Allison who teaches at the Penn Stat extension college in Swarthmore. Kraft said Allison took the job during the summer vacation and his work resulted in the issuance of 15 warrants and the holding of eight men for grand jury action. Those arrested were held in bail ranging up to $5,000 on charges of gambling. The district attorney aaid Alli son answered an advertisement in Philadelphia papers for a part time criminal investigator, ha was hired because gamblers in the county too easily recognized police officers, Kraft said. County Defense Director To Speak At Noon Forum BUFFALO, N. Y. -(."Pi James A. Willis, who danced a little jig a year ago, stayed in bed today his 106th birthday. , Willis, a Civil war veteran and a native of Paisley Scotland, has been recuperating from the effect of a fall last May. His birthday wish, he said Su ?Lh.r",h I lie a. wHi 'a, 'toTember. VTE Speaker at the Roseburg Cham ber of Commerce's second fall noon forum luncheon Monday will be Brig. Gen. J. T. Pierce, USMC (Ret.). Brig. Gen. Pierce, Douglas county civilisn defense director, will explain the workings of the recently-inaugurated program. The luncheon will be held in the Hotel Umpq.ua Civic room and will begin at 12 noon. It is open to the pub- and keep my faith in God." Fireworks are displayed In Hol land on the Queen's birthday night.. chamber of commerce. Vhe pincipal export of Tibet ia wool. $1 Million Suit Faced By ITU LAS VEGAS. Nev. The AFL International Typographical union is a defendant in f $1,000 000 suit by the former general manager of its newspaper here. Reid Jorgensen alleged in his suit filed yesterday that the ITU violated n agreement with him by selling the paper, the Las Vegas Free - Press, to Herman Greenspun. The latter has since changed the paper's name to the Morning Sun. Jorgensen named Woodruff Ran dolph. Indianapolis, international president, as co-defendant, and said Randolph had hired him to tike over the union paper so the ITU could get out of the publish ing business. The ITU had started the venture after its printers left the Keview-.iournat on strike Sep tember, 1949. Toketee School Expects Increase In Registration A throng of ap oximately 60 children are ex-cted to register at the Toketee school on opening dav. Sept. 18. This is according to calcula tions furnished Superintendent John Orr hv a PTA committee ! from the Tokeye area. The ex ! pec-d registration for the two ! teacher school ould he 50 per ' cent more than last year. NejHations are now under way with the California-Oregon Power company to construct an addi tional room on the structure, which is now one-room. It is scheduled for completion in Octo ber. At present, the Stsle De partment of Education has ap proved the school's operation on two shifts. Committee Sends Report On Haulinq Stolen Myrtle Creek r 1 Car Found By Patrol rum land t.m a legisla tive interim highway committee prepared today to send its renort to the printer after hearing a final request for a reduction of fees paid and request An automobile belonging to Win I nie Chancy. 300 Laurel St., Myrtle ! i Creek, stolen Thursday, was re-1 1 covered by the California Highway j j patrol at Gaselle, Calif., accord- j ; ing lo wora reccivca oy siaie po , lice here. The car was found abandoned i and with a damaged engine about midnight last night. The car was spotted early yes terday afternoon at a Giants Pass service station. There the driver had gasoline put into the tank and then drove off without paying for it, police report. FINED FOR SPEEDING Claren B. Hooper. 18 Winston was fined $30 Saturday in mun icipal court after pleading guilty to driving SO mil's pv hour in a 25 mile zone, w porled Judge I. B. Riddle. He was arrested at 2:30 a m. Saturday morning on South Stev ens street. ages in.-urred in an auto accident, i warehousemen representative, said , Leaves For College Donald Parr, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Parr of Roseburg. left this morn- i ing for Eugene ti, enter University Flamlm was court costs. also granted $16 35 , commercial haulers in 1948 paid ' all the cost of maintenance on the I'ortland-Medford highway." SCOUTS TO MEET Plans to increase the trained A log hauler representative. E. T. Clark, asked for clarification of statute that he aaiil originally of Oregon as a freshmen. leadership will be discussed Mon- i was inlonded to permit tolerance day at the Riverside school when in log truck weights, the Douglas district Boy Scouts ! An increase in the gas tax allo ol the Oregon Trail rounril holds i cation to counties was asked by a its xirst district meeting The ' grange representative who also meeting starts at 7 30. . opposed a move to discontinue -e- funds for gasoline purchased for Male birds of paradise perform non-highway use. a "courtship dance In mating season. Looking i for Ahead I 1AROI OR SMALL ship m pmce IMNDAItl DAILY SERVICE Overnight from Portland end Southern Oregon nd Meriting from San Francisco Soy Arao. OREGON'S NO. ) CARRIER POJ . "IB 1)1 TTK I I II III J I t I I S J . I I UTO, I aaaea i in For Information, Tail Strt ict- Phone 1178 'ovrweM iONOvie w I fxxmuio J Ult i ma WAhlTED o Experienced Laundry Help Phone Mr. Ovens for Interview Contact ROSEBURG LAUNDRY O PHONE 1833 DON FORBES Mont of tin Ar rehirtAnt to fc unpftlfttab.? truths. That MiMtive spot on our molar la probably Just a temporary irri tation; 'that twins of pain In th region of the heart will no doubt (to away If w ftva lt time. Too many of ui put off aeeinjr our denturt or consulting our - physician for a periodic cneck-up. Similarly possibility of early death ia an untAant fact that we try hard not to think about. et only two cate Itones of 'popl cant afford to disregard such a contingency thoaa who hava no dependent and thoae who hsve made, through life assurance, sufficient provision for their loved onea against the chance of untimely death. If you cannot conscien tiously claim to be in either of theae caterortea drop ma a Una -or -'"phone. Don Forbes REPRESENTATIVI SUN LIFE OF CANADA Douglas County State Bank Bldg. Phona 1737 Has. f.R an Important noli ice concernma NORTHWEST GAS and APPLIANCE COMPANY ' It has coma to our attention that certain unin formed er misinformed individuals in the Roseburg area have baan tailing you directly, or at least insinuating, that the Northwest Cas t Appliance Company is in solvent, does not have a supply ot Propane gas, and is not going to continue business, and other variations of the same story. In the interests of the now stockholders of tha Northwest Cas i Appliance Company, as wall as your self, wa can now tall you tha facts as they exiit today. It was true that Northwest Gas was under-financed to soma degree and also that its prior management was forced to dispose of tha company to soma organisation, capable ef contributing tha large amount of capital necessary for such an operation. That tha former man agement was unable to secure this financial backing is no discredit to them since they are high type people who understand the Propane business and conducted themselves in your bast interests. THE UNITED PETROLEUM CO. NOW OWNS NORTHWEST GAS and APPLIANCE COMPANY The ownership of th company is now in th hands of tha United Petroleum Corporation, a company with which you in tha Roseburg area have long been familiar. United Petroleum assures th future ef Northwest Gas & Appliance Company in two vital ways. Funds are being supplied, which enable tha com pany to maintain for your benefit large stocks of both gas and appliances, and secondly, can give you tha assurance of a definite supply throughout tha year dua to its large purchasing power and refinery commitments not enjoyed by many firms engaged locally in tha Pro pane distribution business. WE ASSURE YOU NORTHWEST GAS and APPLIANCE CO. WILL RE HERE A LONG TIME .... 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