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Gen. M'Arthur
Continued Fighting In
Smouldering City Of
Mopping-Up Character
(By Uu AiwclaUd Fn
W. G. SHUCART. 724 Cobb street, stands beiid. tern staked
tomato planti in his garden which have bean trained to grow over
jix feet in height. These vines have been producing since the
second week in July and will continue, Mr. Shugart hopes, until
late in the fall, barring frost.
Until he suffered a stroke several years ago Mr. Shugart
was employed as an attendant at the U. S. Veterans facility
here. Since recovering he and Mrs. Shugart have spent much
of their time traveling and the rest "just puttering" about their
attractive home. By Paul Jenkins.
Leave Property Tax Levy To
Local Taxing Units, Advice
Of Oregon Legislative Group
SALEM I API The legislature's interim tax committee has
recommended that counties, cities, school districts and other
local taxing units be given the exclusive right to levy property
taxes.
This would be done by voting a constitutional amendment
prohibiting the state from levying a property tax to finance state
government activities. I
Actually, Oregon hasn't had I I tl rt.. Si-
state property tax for 20 years, , nOTTITICIll WUITS
because income tax receipta have g
been big enough to cancel tne state
nrnnertv lew.
But a stale property tax would
be necessary in the 1951-53 budget
period because of a huge deficit
facing the legislature, which meets
next January. This deficit is ex
pected to be at least $34,000,000,
unless the legislature finds new
sources of revenue.
The committee also recom
mended that county, city and other
local taxing districts be given re
lief from the constitutional provis
ion which won't permit spending
to increase more than 6 percent
each year.
This would allow the local .gov
ernmental units to vote a new,
permanent tax base, provided 40
percent of the registered voters
vote at the election held for this
purpose.
For instance, this would make
It possible for school districts to
adopt a new taxing base, and thus
do away with the need to hold spe
cial elections each year to raise
money for schools.
Rep. Giles L. French, Moro,
member of the committee, recom
mended that cooperatives be taxed
under the corporation income tax.
He also made the same recommen
dation regarding churches and edu
cational institutions which have
property or businesses from which
they make money.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A little over a week ago today,
our amphibious landing operation
west of Seoul. We took the com
mies by surprise, and for a little
while it looked like IN A MATTER
OF WEEKS we might have the Ko
rean war all buttoned up and laid
away on the shelf.
A dispatch as this is written
says:
"Civilians fleeing from Seoul say
the communists are building stone
barricades at street intersections
and digging trenches in the street
for stand-or-die defense.
"The sprawling city of more than
a million normal population may
become one of the bloodiest battle
grounds of the Korean war. The
reds are preparing for house-to-house
fighting. This could mean the
destruction of a large part of the
capital."
.tao it could mean long dlay.
Remember when we landed suc
cessfully on the Normandy
beaches?
For a while it looked like we had
had the end in sight. But the Ger-
(Continued an Pap Four)
Cugat Punnet Up To
Pay Alimony Arrearage
LOS ANGf9.ES UP Xavier
Cugat paid his first wife, Carmen
Castillo. $12.3.16 to settle alimony
arrearage to June, 1950 with court
approval Monday. He must resume
payments ta-Jier of $250 a weekr
174 perceiW'of his income unW
a 1946 divorce agreement.
The rhumbs band man is pay
ing his second wife, Lorraine Al
len, $2,000 a month pending trial
oi her senmate maintenance suit.
CVMi JUCbeSSOr -
Is W. C. Foster
WASHINGTON (JP) Paul G.
Hoffman is leaving the multi-bil-lion-dollar
Economic Cooperation
administration which he organized
and headed for two and a hall
years.
President Truman has named
William C. Foster, now deputy ad
ministrator of ECA, to succeed
him.
Hoffman's resignation as admin
istrator of the big agency which
operates the Marshall plan was
accepted by the President yester
day. In his letter of resignation, Hoff
man wrote:
1 "My resignation carries no im
plication that the usefulness of the
ECA is waning; on the contrary,
I believe that the ECA's period
of greatest usefulness . may lie
ahead."
Hoffman has been reported as
planning to become director of the
Ford foundation, a research edu
cational and philanthropic organ
ization set up by grants from the
Ford automobile family. Before
coming to ECA, Hoffman was head
of a Ford competitor, the Stude
baker Corp. '
At a farewell news conference,
Hoffman urged that the United
States spend $8,000,000,000 to $14,
000,000,000 during the next three
years to "tell the story of democ
racy" abroad.
He said this sum should be set
aside as part of $125,000,000,000
to $150,000,000.00 which he celared
the United States should spend
over the same period to build its
own military strength and that of
its allies.
"We have to see that the Rus
sian armies don't march," he
added.
Former Official's Body
Found In His Auto
JOSEPH. Ore. (JP) Aerial
and ground search Monday for
Chris Bue, 54, former city official,
ended with finding of his body in
his automobile south of here.
A hose connected the motor ex
haust to the inside of the car.
Relatives reported Bue had been
ill.
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Justice Jackson Continues
Liberty Of Commie Meads
Martyrdom
Possibility
Seen In Case
Jailing Convicted Men
Pending Appeal Would
Violate Rights, Ruling
WASHINGON UP -Justice
Jackson of the supreme court has
ruled that 10 U.S. Communist party
leadera must remain free for the
present because jailing them would
violate American rights and might
permit them to claim martyrdom.
He reasoned thev could claim
they were mar'yrs if they were
lailed now and -he supreme court
later upset their conviction for con
spiracy to overthrow the govern
ment.
Jackson Monday signed an order
which continued their freedom on
bail. It will remain in effect until
the high court disposes finally of
any appeal which the 10 men are
expected to file shortly. '
Jackson said in effect that the
harm they could do free is less
than the damage to American free
doms that would result from jail-
mi tnem now.
The government, contending that
the men "should not be at large in
this hour of national crisis," had
urged denial of their application
for continued bail.
Eleven Communist leaders were
convicted in New York last October
of conspiring to advocate violent
overthrow of this government. But
only 10 applied for continued bail.
The 11th, party Secretary Eugene
Dennis, is already in jail. He is
serving a year for contempt of
Congress.
Justice Jackson'i order paral
leled recent decision by the
U.S. circuit court in San Francisco
that Harry Bridges is entitled to
freedom on bail pending an appeal.
Bridges, the CIO longshoremen's
leader, was convicted of perjury
in denying Communist affiliation
when he applied for citizenship in
1945.
In both the Bridges and the Com
munist officials' cases, the Gov
ernment opposed the granting of
bail. In the case of the 10 party
officials the Justice department
said they remained loyal to Russia
in spite of the Korean war.
The bail order continues freedom
for Robert G. Thompson, John B.
Williamson. Jacob Stachel, Benja
min J. Davis Jr.. Henry Winston.
John Gates, Irving Potash, Gil
bert Green, Carl Winter and Gus
Hall. Their aggregate bail is 1260.-
000.
Thompson was sentenced to
three years in prison; each of the
others including Dennis ?ot five
years. And each of the 11 was
fined $10,000.
Except for Dennis, they have
been free. The U.S. circuit court
at New York on Aug. 28 ordered
them jailed wtthui 30 days unless
they obtained' a stay from a su
preme court justice. Jackson's or
der came two days before the
deadline.
REX AL0N, movie star"1 cowboy,
r Pki cinnnniP
as well ds a horse, es he posed for . picture with News-Review
carrier-salesmen Moryjjy. Allan visited Roseburg en . tour of
the Northwest, and made . pntr.t appearance at the Indian
English Mine Fire
Claims 80 Lives
CRESWELL, England (JP)
A raging underground fire trapped
and killed at least 80 men today at
the Creswell coal mine.
Caught behind a wall of flame
from burning rubber and timber
roof supports, they were choked to
death by gaa and fumes.
Another 120 men crept to safety
on their hands and kneea.
Check Theft From
P.O. Box Charged
Alvin Davis, 21, Reedsport, was
arrested in Roseburg Monday on
a charge of larceny of a post office,
State Police Sgt. Holly Holcomb
reported.
According to Sgt. Holcomb,
Davis took a $1,900 check from
a post office box at Reedsport. He
told the police that the box was o
pen when he allegedly stole the
check.
Shortly after taking the check
from the post office, Sgt. Holcomb
said. Davis was married and spent
all but $350 of the money on a wed
ding trip.
Davis was arrested when he ap
peared at the draft board in Rose
burg. Reedsport Chief of Police
Harry McCabe and county sheriff's
officers assisted the state police
in making the arrest.
Monday light Davis was re
turned' by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Bc
ver to Reedsport, where he will be
arraigned in justice court this
afternoon.
Juveniles Get Probation
On Liquor Penalty
Three juveniles, charged with
possessing alcoholic liquor, re
ceived 60-day suspended jail sen
tences and were placed on pro
bation until Jan. 1, Justice of the
Peace A. J. Geddei reported Mon
day. The three youths were Glen
Arnold. 20, Jimmy Lee Mitchell,
20, and a 17-year-old companion,
all of Roseburg.
The youths were arrested Friday
night by the Roseburg city police
at Finlay field during the Coquille
Roseburg football game.
Crash Through Trick
Chair Leads To Suit'
PASADENA, Calif. (JP) When
she crashed through the seat of
a trick chair, everybody laughed
but Mrs. Kay Anthony, 33. She
sued the jokesters for $7,102 dam
ages. The action, filed yesterday,
named a beauty parlor as defend
ant. That's where th incident took
place, Mrs. Anthony said, and all
she wanted was a shampoo and a
finger wave.
Anyway, when she sat down she
went right through to the floor, all
doubled up as if she'd sat in a
barrel, she said, and what's more,
she suffered shock, contusions and
strain.
proves he cen ride a bicycle
Vienna Reds
In Riot Oyer
Price Boosts
50.000 Workers Strike
In Protest To Action
Countering Pay Hikes
VIENNA (JP) Commun
ist demonstrators rioted in the
heart of Vienna today and thous
ands of workers in Russian-controlled
industrial plants were re
ported to have struck in protest
against government plans to raise
prices along with wages.
The hard core of some 500 Com
munists gathered with it a mob of
nearly 8,000 in an attempt to oreaK
through a police cordon thrown
around the Austrian chancellory.
While workers from Russian-
operated planta outside Vienna
poured into tne city, soviet autn-or-ities
barred the entry of police re
inforcements summoned by the
ministry of interior.
A government spokesman said
Red army soldiers threw up road
blocks and refused to permit any
policeman to leave the district to
which he was assigned.
The protest was against the gov
ernment proposal to raise the price
of some foods along with a planned
minimum wage boost of 100 schil
lings (1)3.84). Although some
prices are to be frozen, an Aus
trian trade union federation
spokesman said the new prices
would mean an increase in the cost
of living of S4.73 schillings per
month for a married couple with
no children.
Gl's Aute Overturned
The demonstrators failed to
break through the police line, but
the riot tied up traffic in the
center of the city the inter
national tone controlled by all four
occupying powers jointly for
more than an hour. Two police'
men were injured in the melee.
Part of the mob turned over
the automobile of American Sgt.
William Henley, Asbury, N. J., and
one of the demonstrators struck
him in the chin. His car was badly
smashed, but Henley was unhurt.
A Communist speaker told the
cheering mob that all workers in
the Russian-administrated plants
throughout the Soviet rone had
marched out on strike' There are
an estimated 50.000 workers . i n
these plants which have been taken
over by the Russians as former
German external assets and oper
ated outside Austrian jurisdiction.
Walks On Hands To Upset
Drunken Driving Charge
PONTIAC, Mich. - (JPU- Ab
Ben Brahim was arrested in
nearby Bloomfield Hills. He w a I
charged with drunk driving.
But Brahim, a Turkish night club
stunt man, proved his sobriety by
walking on his'hands through the
police station. The charge was re
duced to reckless driving, Brahim
pleaded guilty and was released
after paying a $45 fine.
theatre Monday night. News-Review carriers war special guests
of Allen et the theatre. Th. movi. cowboy, discovered by cow
boy Roy Rogers, is now making nam. for himself. (Paul Jenkins
Picture. I
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COMMUNITY CHEST ROOSTERS Star Scout. Art Mandville,
left, and Joe Levine are shown as they prepare to distribute
Community Chest campaign costers throughout the city of Rose
burg. The chest kickoff is dated
merit badges, end Joe, who has 24, ere members of tne Ameri
can Legion scout troop, with Sgt. Irvin Best as scoutmaster. (Pic
ture by Paul Jenkins.)
N.Y. POLICE SCANDAL
Commissioner Resigns,
Civilian Appointed To
Purge Dept. Rottenness
NEW YORK IAPI Thomas F. Murphy, a giant of a man
who prosecuted Alger Hiss for the federal government, takes
over today es the new commissioner of New York's graft-shaken
police department. '
His first job in the face of growing clamor may be to
turn the 18,000-man department upside down and shake loose
its "rotten apples." He apparently has a free hand to do so.
' n ! 11, till. B
Draft Of Men Over 25
Unlikely, Horsey Says
WASHINGTON (JP) MaJ. Gen.
Lewis B, Hershey says he believes
President Truman's goal of 3,000,
000 men in the armed services can
be reached without drafting men
over 25 years old.
The selective service director
expressed this view in a copy
righted interview (U. S. Newa and
World Report) in which he also:
1. Said the' manpower pool of
1,400.000 classified as 1-A "ought
tn give us 500,000 before next
June 1."
2. Predicted that draft hoards
will be calling on 19-year-olds be
fore the end of this year.
3. Forecast that the program to
re-arm America "will last a
gen-
eration."
for Oct. 9. Art, who holds 13
commissioner n I i I i in r.
O'Brien quit last nitht in the mid
dle of a police-bookie scandal un
earthed by a rackets - probing
Brooklyn grand jury.
"I find my position as police
commissioner untenable," said the
59-year-old O'Brien, aon of a po
liceman and a veteran of nearly
35 years on the force. He was not
accused of any dishonesty, him
self. Acting Mayor Vincent R. Impel
litteri also said O'Brien's position
was untenable, and that they both
agreed a resignation was in order.
The acting mayor revealed he
had decided definitely on the
O'Brien-Murphy switch yesterday
after receiving a communication
from the Brooklyn grand jury.
The grand jury, backed by
Brooklyn District Attorney Miles
F. McDonald and County Judge
Samuel S. Leihowitz curtly de
manded a civilian commissioner
yesterday to clean up "an awful
mess."
The six-foot-four Murphy won a
national reputation in two trials
lhat ended with Hiss' conviction
for perjury. Hiss, formerly a high
ranking atate department official,
was convicted of lying when he
denied before a federal grand jury
that he had passed out department
secrets-for a Soviet spy ring be
fore World War II. Hiss now is
appealing a five-year prison sen
tence. O'Brien, who came up from the
ranks, was named police commis
sioner in 1949 by former Mayor
William O'Dwyer.
For months, the Brooklyn grand
jury plodded along in its inquiry
into cop-gambler tieups. O'Dwyer
in a moment of hot anger
! once called it a "witch hunt" and
said it was pillorying honest cops.
But on Sept. 15, McDonald's raid
ers smashed a $20,000,000 gambling
ring and arrested its leader, Harry
Gross. Gross told of police pay
offs up to ! 1.000.000 a year but
would not name names.
Last Friday, however, one of
Gross payoff men, Artie Karp,
went before the grand jury and
McDonald said he "named names
pnlM !a nes."
The big break followed other rev
elations of graft.
The Weather
Mostly cloudy with thowort to
dy and partly cloudy with occa
sional thowors tomorrow. .
Highttt tomp. for any Sapt. ,
Lowoit tomp. for any Sapt. .
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L.w..t tamp.'lasf 24 hrs. .1". 5S
Precipitation last 24 hrs. .
Precipitation from Sopt. 1
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Sunset today, i:AS p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow. 4:111 a.m.
General MacArthur toddy a n
nounced United N.itions forcea
have captured Seoul. Communist
forcea fled northward in disorder
from the capital of South Korea,
the U. N. commander announced.
Front dispatches told of bitter
fighting still going on within the
smouldering city, but allied action
was described aa a mopping up operation-
The capital had been in
Communist hands almost exactly
three months. It fell two daya after
the Reda launched their invasion
June 35.
The Communists appeared to be
disorganized and beaten aa a uni
fied fighting force. A MacArthur
spokesman aaid there were indi
cations the northward fleeing Reda
might make a stand somewhere
near parallel 38 from which they
launched their attack on the South
Korean republic. There were no
signs the Communists would stop
south of that boundary line for a
major stand, this spokesman said.
Breaking out of the old U. N.
southeast beachhead at lightning
pace, allied forces hammered out
lharp new gains throughout the
wnoie oaine zone. Allied generals
were optimistic victory was within
U. N. grasp and the push north
westward to the Seoul-Inchon
beachhead might be the war's final
offensive.
Planes Strafe Fugitives
Allied warplanes pounded at the
retreating Reds. Planea made a
mass drop of 2,160,000 leaflets tell
ing Communists of the fall of
Seoul, and calling on them to
surrender. The leaflets said: "The
loss of Seoul cuts the supply routes
from the war material factories
and arsenals of North Korea to
the Communist troops in the
south. It shuts off the flow of re
inforcements to these forces and
severs their paths of retreat. Fur
ther resistance is futile."
Three American doughboys, all
wounded, were released from jail
when the U. S. 24th division lib
erated Yondong. These were the
first American war prisoners to
be rescued from the Communists.
Msc Arthur's communique aaid:
"The liberation of the city was
conducted in auch a manner aa to
cause the least possible damage to
civil installations" in the 500-year-old
capital which normally haa
population of 1,000.000.
MacArthur aaid the Reds
cracked and began to flee after a
three-pronged drive virtually
ringed the city and captured main
Red defense positions including the
700-foot peak of dominating South
mountain.
22 Missing In
Plane Disaster
TOKYO -tm A Korea-bound
C-54 transport plane plunged Int.
the sea with SI persons today.
Twenty-eight ware rescued, 12
are missing and ene body waa
recovered.
The big plane crashed en take
off from a southern Japan air.
bas. about a half-mile from the
end ef the runway. A list ef those
aboard was withheld.
Traffic In Babies
Under State Probe
MEMPHIS, Tenn. UP) The
state of Tennessee has called on
its legal arm in its probe of adop
tions through an agency it accuses
of making big profits from or
phaned and abandoned babies.
The agency the Memphis
branch of the Tennessee Children's
Home society is charged with
piling up "around $1,000,000" in
placing infanta with foster parents
in New York and California.
A temporary injunction granted
the state yesterday by Chancellor
Larry Creson halted further opera
tions of the home, which now has
20 infants in its care.
It also enjoined employes Iium
removing, destroying or in any
manner disposing of the home's
records "and all other assets."
The ordec was granted in a suit
filed by special state investigator
Roher L. Taylor of Memphis. It
climaxed a two-weeks probe.
The suit asked that the semi
private non-profit welfare agen
cy's state charter be forfeited-
It asked that a receiver be ap
pointed to prosecute claims against
the estate of the late Miss Georgia
Tann, who headed the home more
than 20 years.
She died of csncer in the midst
of the investigation without know,
ing of the charges against the
agency.
EDUCATION WEEK CITED
SALEM UP) This week is
religious education week, Gover
nor Douglas McKay said, in ask
ing Orcgonians "to seek in their
private lives a strengthing of
spiritual power which can enable
America to meet her challenges."
Levity Fact Rant
By L. T. Reuenstein
Ctn. MacArthur has qivtn
rha nod to an extra can of boar
'o'ly ,of hi force in Korea.
i Net os itreng os the beverage
i drunk by Lincoln t n.ntrali in
the civil war, but that was
five-year shindig, calling for
mmln