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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 .
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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
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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. ;
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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,