.0 1 lc.,..f-yr I '1 t CONSTRUCTION PROCRESS The wait, or service, entrance to the new Mercy hospital unit, now under construction is shown above. Construction of the unit has been going, ahead with available funds, awaiting final approval of a federal grant. Assurance that the money will be forthcoming has been received by the hospital management, (Picture by Paul Jenkins.) FREIGHT CAR SHORTAGE Immediate Relief Not In Sight, SP Officials Announce, Telling Why No immediate relief from the current shortage of freight cart is in prospect, reports W. W. Hale, vice-president of the Southern Pacific lines, who, with J. W. Corbett, vice-president in charge of operations, and H. M. Williamson, division engineer of Portland, visited briefly in Roseburg Tuesday. Hale, who has ffices in San Francisco and Houston, is in charge of freight In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There if a cynically interesting crack in the Korean war news. Some American staff officera were standing on a bluff looking down at a stretch of the Han river (Seoul is located on the Han.) Bulk ing large in their field of vision were a couple of railroad bridges that had been wrecked by the South Koreans when they were pulling out of Seoul a couple of jumps ahead of the advancing North Korean army. One of the officera re marked: "All we need to make the pic ture complete is an ECA (Econom ic Cooperation Administration) man with an adding machine totaling up the cost of REBUILDING those bridges." That'i modern war for you. You lirk vnnr pn,mv If vnil lick him in somebody else's country, you i cars at the rate of irom 500 to start replacing the damage he has , 600 per month and still has 8,000 done to somebody else. If you lick 'ordered to be delivered. The com him in his own country, you start ! pany has spent approximately in replacing the damage YOU'VE j sai6.000.000 for new equipment uuAc ju mm. niier wi, start feeding both your enemy and his victims. You come out of it up to your ears in debt and your enemy comes out of it FREE OF DEBT and all ready to start in again- The great need of the world Is KUi.r.KS Willi ca.n n.r.r.1- uij i OF WAR. Modern war just doesn't seem to make sense. So much for modern war. Here's a peek at FUTURE war: Lieutenant General Sir Charles . (Continued on Page Four) Amishmen Jailed For School Law Defiance LANCASTER, Pa. P Six bearded Amish farmers wear ing the flat hats and somber garb of their religious sect went to jail last night rather than pay fines for refusing to send their children to school. The six were sentenced by Al- derman j. Edward Welzel to serve three davs in lieu of a $2 fine each. Thev were accused of vio- i.,,. .v.. n ...i - i. ,.i compulsory school' attendance up, "Three weeks is enough torture to the ace of 16 ! 'or '" politician to inflict on the The Amishmen allegedly refused j people." he said. tn Mrmil their children In attend I school after they had reached the age of 14 on the grounds Amish ! youth of thay age no longer should mingle with non-Amish youngsters. Sixteen other Amish school at tendance cases are awaiting final disposition. Twelve('her members of the sect are to Tie given hear ings tonicht. 0 The Weather Fir tod v irtd Thursday. Cooler ooigrJ w)fog Thur)) morn Highott torn p. for any Sopt. -104 Lowest torn p. for ony SoptQ . 7 Highest ttmp. yosftrday . oO Lowest- temp, last 24 hrs. Q) Precipitation last 24 hrs. .03 .S . 51 Proctpitaton from Sopt. 1 Deficiency from Sept. Sunset today. 4:02 l. -Sunrise tomorrow, e:0ri.m 'K III to , il 7 - traffic tor the S. r. system Many factors are contributing to the car shortage, said Hale, who listed underloading, the five-day work week, strikes, and slow west ward movement as serving to re duce transportation capacity. The equivalent of 19.000 freight cars could be provided by full loading. Hale reported. The aver age weight of loads per car has dropped approximately four tons since 1947, he said. "The five-day work weak ser iously affects car movements' Hale declared. "When the whistle blows Friday afternoon, unloading crews quit and there the car stays until Monday. If we could get cars back into serv ice promptly, we could handle many thousands of tons more freight per day than at present." Much more freight is being moved east than is coming west, thus affecting the supply for west ern shippers. The Southern Pacific company. he reported, is getting additional since V-J day. and only recent y authorized expenditure of $26,000, OHO for more freight cars. Strikes in manufacturing plants have af fected deliveries, Hate said. iFire Destroys Lumber Plant At Klamath Falls KLAMATH FAI.I.S (PI An early - morning fire razed the sprawling Suburban Lumber com pany today and for a time threat ened several nearby residences and ; business houses Damaeebvethe flames was e.T'yw00d Orders Press timated by . firemen to run close tn quarter ot a million dollars and William Billiard, owner, said the plant was only partly insured. Job Not Worth 'Dogfight,' Congressman Declares WASHINGTON (.Pi Rep. Ja cobs (D-Ind) says the job of being a congressman "isn't worth it" if it means "a two-month dogfight '"7 lim in reflection The freshman Hnosier nlans tn relmain working in his office here unui mia-uctooer. ne saia. ltt is a complex train of oper afit which finally gott yoyov story in the newspaper t-' READ o Whot Wendell Webb Soyt about THAT $fY OF YOURS Page 4 Today ryw.: Arrest At Draft Board Leads To County Jail Here REEDSPORT UP) -Alvin Da vis, headed for the armed forces, got as far as the draft board office in Roseburg. His next stop was the county jail. Police Chief H. M. McCabe said Davis, 21, had rifled postoffice boxes here. All but $58.09 of some $65,000 worth of checks found scattered along a highway east of here were recovered. Davis is held on i charge of lar ceny. His handwriting on an en velope returning a government check taken from the post office box of the Umpqua National bank lea to his arrest. The police chief said the young man recently received his drait call, got married and went on a one week honeymoon. Monday he turned up at the Roseburg selec tive service office. Waiting for him were State Po lice Sgt. Holly Holcomb of Rose burg, McCabe and Sheriff's Deputy Cecil Bever. The police chief said Davis had $245 when arrested. This may rep resent funds from a $1,900 check the police chief said Davis ad mitted taking from a post office box and depositing in a Eugene bank. George McCulloch. Postmaster, signed the complaint against Davis. Weyerhaeuser Employes Granted Wage Increase Seattle (Pt A pay raise averaging Vt cents an hour has been negotiated for 5.000 skilled and semi-skilled western Washing-1 ton employes of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., officers of the Inter national Woodworkers of America ! announced. J. K. Fadling of Portland, IWA president, said the increases range from 2'i cents to ft cents an hour. Another 5,000 workers will bene fit by the increases soon, he said. Fadling said the increases will apply to districts 2 and 3 in west ern Washineton and are in addition to increases granted by Weyer haeuser following a strike last spring. Future Production NEW YORK (JP Sharply in creased government orders for ply wood and lumber since the start of the Korean campaign indicate an indeterminate period of inten sive demand for all such products, an industry leader said today. O. R. Cheatham, president of Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lum ber Co.. said the backlog of com mercial orders now equals several months production. Much of the military demand, he said, centers on plastic faced plywoods. These are used in moia ture resistant containers for am munition and other war material, in file cahrOets for army records, and f stoth surfaced tables for folding parachutes in the field. Last Charges Against Eagles' Heads Dropped BOWLING GREEN. 0. JP) The last two criminal charges brought against national officers of the Fraternal Order of Eagles were dismissed in Wood and Henry county common pleas courts Tues day. Lisrrued were charges of aid inai)ahetting blackmail brought ajanst Matthew L. Brown of Springfield. O., A onal adminis trative director. a7id Joseph Gun derman, of St. Mary's. O , deputy grand worthy preidr and Ohio deputy auditor. Tf rrsd pleaded innocent. All of the eharses arose (4j.m an internal dispute in the Eagles organization. Established 1171 Federal Aid Assured Mercy Grant Slated. Public Health Service Says New Unit's Completion Will Expand Equipment, Facilitate Operations Mercy hospital has been assured that it will receive a government grant for completion of its new hos pital unit, Sister Superior Mary Austin announced today. A telegram received by Congress man Harris Ellsworth from Leon ard A. Scheele. surgeon general of the public health service, Wash ington, 1). c, states: "Our San Francisco regional of fice has now given final approval to the Roseburg pioiect effective 8-15-50. The Oregon state agency advises that the reduction in the 1951 allotment will not affect this project. We concur in the stale agency action." Sister Austin said: "With the federal grant of $138,608.66 and with the approximate $40,000 col lected in donations and pledges by the kind benefactors of Mercy solicited by a group of local wo men, the Sisters feel confident that they can complete this unit and give to the community the much needed beds and hospital facil ities." The total estimated cost of the hospital is $415,823. The completion date will be about veb. 1. Improvement Details The project as originally planned will be a 47-bed, three-story fire proof building with buff-brick fac ing. The basement will house the boiler rooms with the two boilers. One of these boilers will care for the present building plus the new unit. The other boiler is a spare for use in case of emergency. Also in the basement will be the trans former room. The second floor will be used for medical and surgical patients. The third I'.oor will bt devoted to an obstetrical department. The first floor will be made up of kitchen, dining rooms, staff cafe- Continued en Page 2) German Reds Defy Eviction Order DUESSEl.DORF, Germany-(.m West German Communists clung irritably to their de luxe five-story headquarters today and chal lenged the British to enforce their eviction order. A "scandalous, arbitrary meas ure," the Reds called the British decision to requisition the $480,000 building, described as the fanciest Communist party headquarters in Europe. The Communist central committee declared "we will never voluntarily obey" the order. Maj. Gen. W. H. A. Bishop. Brit ish commissioner in North Rhine Westphalia state, gave the Com munists 48 hours to move from the requisitioned building. He said it was needed to house British re enforcements to the occupation troops. Thr u.a nn avnlimtinn luhv amonc numerous Do.ible choices this particular site was chosen. ! As the Communists "dug in" at least verbally German po lice guarded the building to en force British order asainst re- moval of a costly printing press 1 and certain other Communist party equipment. Nations Of North Atlantic Approve Plan To Combine Forces Against Red Menace- NEW YORK (API By unanimous end unprecedented peacetime decisions, the North Atlentic council Tuesday ep- froved the creation of a combined force "to preserve the At. antic community end Western Europe especially from Soviet aggression. The council called for the organization of this force es speedily es possible end decdied that all available manpower end productive resources of the 12 pact countries should be used fully. ; LH2a fVh. liif T ci. nrt nJiiuu ? t?ih. ' 0!fJn,r.rf XV.fJn (Wn. h. ?.mfri .",!.r.nJ'l,IT?ih" U" !TmI President Truman, already has interested will make comparable contributions. The council de cisions carried the President's idea a step further and pledged the other members of the North At lantic pact to share in the organ ization of the first such combin ation of forces io peacetime. Oermagk Issue Unsettled The Vouncil left to the defense i ministers of the 12 nations the question of how to use German , manpower a hot issue during nearly two weeks of secret conver-1 sauons ef made it plain mat Germany must be enabled to con- tribute to the build-up of West Europw defenses. HereVin brief, are the net re-! suits of the conferences held by the two groups: The Big Three the United ROSElUKG, ORECOri A. Hogan, Douglas County's Oldest Resident, Dies At 108 St. .Jfc. , s ' r-'rr'fr:' ANDREW Andrew (Tony) E. Hoqan, ty'f oldest resident, is deed. born Aug. I, 1842, in Chicago, short illness. The centenarian came west from Chicago ion years ago, over me plains with his parents in a cov ered wagon. They settled in the wilderness of western Oregon, where there were no farms nor communities. Tony never married, because, he once staled in an interview, he "did not want to be tied down." He worked on the Oregon and California railroad, forerunner of the Southern Pacific, during its construction, when he was a young man. Tony entered the Douglas county home on the Melrose road about 12 years ago, when he be came too old to care for himself. He has no known survivors. He came 19 Roseburg from Glendale. Up to the last, Hogan was in relatively good health and pos sessed a lucid mind, filled with recollections of long ago. It was on the Rogue river that he operated a gold mine for more than 40 years. He also had lived in the Wolf creek area many years. Funeral services, with the Rose burg Kunersl home in charge, will be held Friday, Sept. 29, at 2 p. m., the Wolf Creek Alliance church. Interment will follow in Wo" Creek cemetery. FINED FOR NON-SUPPORT Michael Mattes. 28. of Klklon. has been fined S.V) for non-sup- port, reported Justice of Peace A. J. Geddes. Mattes was arrested by a deputy, in the sheriff's office. States France and itain w i 1 1 end their state of war with Gcr m'ny as soon as constitutional re- QU'rements of the three countries ' Permit. This doe. not mean sepirate peace will be concluded. n peace treaty must oe wxjtten later witlrvhe Russians concuriing. 2. The Big Three authorized the additioa of ,10.O)i fast-moving po lice to the present force of 10.000 in the western tones of Germany. ' riots, meet internal uwnrbancea ana Eeneraiiy preserve orner. 3. The council derided tn create a combined force of men and arms from eleven of its member nations the United Slates, Britain.' r ranee, Canada, Belgium. The ivetneaanns, Denmark. rorway, I'ortu.utJand Italy, and l.iixem - 4 - -r. mo UL r'; vl- bourg. Ireland, the 12th member, has no army. Germany's role in the stepped - j up program at the start will he I increased production, especially of steel WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1950 1 f 3 I. HOCAN who lies lonq been Douglas eoun Tony was 101 yeers eld. He was III. Death ceme lueiday after a Douglas Quits As Envoy To England WASHINGTON iPi The White House announced today President Truman's selection ot Walter S Gifferd as ambessador to London. Giftord, former chairman of the board of the American Tele phone end Telegraph company and a, Republican, will succeed Lewis W. Douglas In the pest. WASHINGTON (Pl Lewis W. Douglas resigned Tuesday as ambassador to England. Doutlas resigned on the ground of "personal considerations, includ. ing those of health.". President Truman said he a c cepted the resignation with "most genuine regret." Douglas has been ambassador for three and a half years. The President praised Douglas for "the loyal service you have rendered your country during these diffi cult and critical years in such a vital spot." Mr. Truman said few Ameri cans "can realize the great cour age and devotion you have shown in sticking on in your post in the face of such conpelling reasons of health." Douglas, 56. has had some dif ficulties with his health, especially since the time more than a year ao. when he caught a fish hook in his eye and had to undergo long and painful treatment. In the past year he has spent consider able time at his home in Arizona. Douglas has held the London as signment since March, 1947. He has played a highly important part in the development of the Eu ropean recovery program, the At lantic treaty, and mutual defense assistance plans under which the united States is helping Western Europe to rearm. Bandits Face Murder Charge As Chase Sequel MEMPHIS. Tenn. IIP) Two accusea oanaus capiurea atter a running guntettle last Friday, have been charged with murdering a Negro woman bystander killed by a police bullet. Police Chief Claude Armour said the men attempted to cnacmit roh- oery ana "set in motion a chain of events which was the direct and proximate cause of the woman's death." The prisoners were jailed after a desperate two-hour 15-mile fight with a -rovey of police cars ' . m . a . "erense Appropriation Bill OKd By Truman WASHINGTON I .V) President Trumin today signed the SIT j wiz.ziuj bill to strengthen Wnses !of the I nited States and lis allies S'ii . . . i . - m I The bill carries 14.000.000.000 for military aid to friendly nations and j tirludes a mild ban on economic j help tn nations which send military materials to Russia or Soviet aat- I ellites. 226-50 Hospital Road Project Bids Slated For Opening Roseburg-Garden Valley Junction Link Included In Improvement Plans The Oregon State Highway com mission will meet in Portland Thursday and Friday, Sept. 28-29, to receive bids on 16 projects in 12 difterent counties of the state. Among the bids to be opened, will be three projects foi improve ment of Douglas-county highways. The largest project to be con sidered in Douglas county is the improvement of the highway at the North entrance of Roseburg. It is planned to extend the pres ent improved Pacific Highway route through the city northward half a mile to the Garden Valley road junction. The project calls for widening the present 16-f o o t concrete pavement to a width of 68 feet betwien new concrete curba, using five-inch thick asphal tic concrete on a 20-inch thick gravel base for the widening and a two-and-a-half-inch minimum thickness of asohaltic concrete for resurfacing the old pavement. Junction Safety Included At the Garden Valley road junc tions, channelization is to be oro. vided to give refuges for traffic making lett hand turns off the main highway without slowing down through traffic. The project transversea a heavily built up sub urban area and is planned to al leviate local traffic congestion in addition to expediting and making safer the travel of through traf fic. A bid will also be received at the commission's Portland meet ing for the improvement of B street between Second and Fifth streets In Yoncalla. This is part oi uie annual program oi improv ing city streets by grsding, sur facing and oiling, with funds appor tioned from state highway reve nues. Another bid will be considered for the installation of 16,000 feet of high standard metal guard rail to be placed on dni erous spots between Reedsport and Scottsburg on the Umpqua Highway. Rowdyism Taboo At Legion's Rally LOS ANGELES tP) Rowdy ism is out for the American Le gion national convention here Oct. 8-12, its officisls promise. Staff members arriving to pre pare for the invasion of perhaps 150,000 Legionnaires, families and guests said Los Angeles residents who recall the rough-and-tumble antics of the last national conven tion here in 1938 won't recognize the boys this time. "Today's Legionnaries have a lot more on their minds than horse play and have proved it since World War II," said Ed McGin nis, the Legion's nationsl public relations director. "The spread of Communism throughout the world and the current crisis in Korea just aren't funny." Six hundred members of the I.os Angeles police department and other law enforcement agencies are members of the Legion serv ice committee. McGmnis said they and Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Po lice Chief William Parker and Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz are coop erating to wipe out any sporadic hoodlumism at the convention. "Policemen and Legion MP's hsve instructions to put any Le gionnaire in jail." he added, "it he attempts to make 'fun' with any electrical shock device, fire crscker, siren, water pistol or live or imitation reptiles." World War One Bullet Found In Man's Kidney LONDON (,'P) When 59-year-old James Barrow a la borer and one-time boxer died last week, a bullet was found in one of his kidneys. The coroner yesterday ruled that death was caused by the bullet a German rifle shell which wounded Barrow during World War I. LIQUOR PERMIT TO VETS PORTLAND .- tJP) The Amer ican Legion post at Corvallis was granted a class A club license yes terday by the state liquor control commission. It was u of six new permits snd three Waster lorker licenses awarded applicants. The commis sion handed out nenaltiea on 26 Knox law violations. BUSINESS POOR MINOOKA, III. UP) Persis tent burglsrs entered 10 business I establishments including a hank in Minooka last night. Their total loot: a amall radio and J7 S5. Nothing was tsken from the hank, the only one in this small northern Illinois eammtratty. Fanatical Red Units Malting Fight To Death Much Of City In Ruins; Fate Of Enemy Trapped In South Korea 'Sealed' r u AMociaud Ptshi The mop-up fight for burning Seoul, South Korea's capital, ap peared nearing its end today, and Gen. MacArthur's headquartera announced the fate of North Ko rean forces trspped in the south "is sealed." U. S. marines captured the capi tol building and the Russian and French consulates near the heart of the city and raised the Ameri can flag over them. Seoul shuddered and rocked un der the impact of heavy fighting but only a relatively small sec tion waa still in Red bands. United Nations forces seized the U. S. ambassador's residence. The Reds were making a fight to the death atano in sections of the busi ness district, using steel and con crete buildings in their defense. Already much of the capital la in ruins. Further destruction seemed inevitable because of the fanatical resistance of the die-hard Commu nist fighters. Other United Nations units solid ified an allied line now running 21S milea diagonally across the peninsula from Pusan in 'tie e x treme southeast of Seoul, and tight ened their vise on thousands of trapped Communists. Communist troops melted away before the advancing American ar mor. Pincers Closing While the First cavalry and Sev enth division cut the Communist line in one direction, other U. N. divisions breaking out from the old perimeter carved many miles into Communist-held territory to the norm ana west. Along the northern wall of the old Pusan beachhead, South Ko rean forces drove as much aa iS miles north against virtually no Red resistance. On the southern front a U. S 25th division task force pushed out from captured Chinju in a two- pronged drive. Their objective was to smash another pocket of Red Koreans in the southwest corner of the peninsula. In the center, the U. S. 24th di vison sped northwestward toward Taejon where in midsummer the allies met one of their worst de feats in the war. MacArthur's headquarters said the North Koreans generally were showing little will to fight once they realized the allied tide had set in. Aerial observers said there were no signs the Reds were at tempting to regroup their forces for a stand anywhere south of the 38th parallel dividing South and North Korea. In New York, a strong move ment led by Britain waa underway in the U. N. general assembly to frame a peace and relief plan for Korea. The plan calls for North and South Korea to be joined in a free and independent state with a government elected under U. N. supervision. 12 More Yankees Atrocity Victims TOKYO lP) General Mac- Arthur's headquarters said today the bodies of 12 American soldiers with arms bound were discovered in Chinju Tuesday by the U. S. 25th division. Two other men, wounded but still alive, said 14 of them had been prisoners. Headquarters reported they said when the North Koreans realized Chiniu, on the extreme South Ko rean front, waa about to fall they tied the Americans together. marched them into a ravine and turned machine guns on them. The two survivors were wounded seriously but escaped by sham ming death. Headquarters ssid the body of a North Korean was found among those of the murdered Americans. The dead Red was reported to have refused to help kill the Amer icans. General MacArthur's headquar ters release said the wounded Americans had no food or water for five daya. His summary said one survivor was able to give an eye-witness account of the mass murder even though he had been shot five times and was suffering from pneu monia. Both wounded Americans were flown to a hospital in Japan. State Employes Assn. Appeals For Salary Hikes SALEM .P The Oregon State Employes association appealed for an immediate wage increase to day for all slate employes. The association, directing its appeal to the state emergency board and Gov. McKay, said hund reds of stste employes are quitting their jobs because they can't live on their salaries. It said that about 659 employes quit in August, compared with only 354 who quit last June- Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reuwnstein To wham It may concern: The plait announced by us several weeks aqo to drive Hit Ameri ca forces In Korea into the so has been Indefinitely oasraanod. J. Stalin & Co,