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ROSEIURG, OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1950
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CLARENCE HULL
Three new employes have recently joined the staff of the
News-Review, Two of them, Clarence Hull end Ed Drysdale, ere
salesmen in the advertising department,. Merle Cors, the third
new staffer, will be assistant wire editor in the news department.
Gors replaces Warren Mack, who
left the News-Review Sept. 20, to
become editor of the Sweet Home
New En. Mick, hit wife, Shirley,
and two young sons will move from
their Roseburg home to Sweet
Home this weekend.
Gors is a June journalism grad
uate of the university of Oregon
He received his preparatory edu
cation at Portland's Roosevelt high
school and later he attended Lewis
and Clark and Linfield colleges be
fore entering the university in 1948.
Gors and wife, Joyce, are pres
ently spending their free time look
ing for an adequate apartment in
Roseburg.
Hull is also a University of Ore
gon graduate. He attended high
school in his home town of Pow
ers and entered the army in the
winter of 1943. While in the army,
Hull served in the European com
bat theater. He worked for one
year for the Roseburg Firestone
store, where he was a credit man
ager before joining the News-Review
staff.
Drysdale recently retired from
the Standard Oil company and
moved to Roseburg. He was em
ployed by Standard Oil for 25
years in the Medford sales office.
fn the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
General MacArthur announces
today the liberation of Seoul, capi
tal of South Korea .from the ag
gressor North Koreans who have
held the city in bondage for almost
three months.
Seoul is "liberated." but not yet
mopped up. Thousands of commies
are still fighting in its narrow,
twisting streets and alleys, sniping
from the bushes, from houses, from
every bit of cover. Experience in
dicates that most of them will
probably have to be killed or
dragged bodily from their hiding
places. That seems to be the way
Asiatics filht.
But a glance at the map will
tell you that with Seoul in our
hands the present situation is pret
ty welt under our control. All of
South Korea's communications
(railroads, highways) center there.
No modern army can survive with
out communications. It is a safe
conclusion that the North Korean
adventure in aggression has ended
in failure.
Is Korea worth what it costtis?
Any answer to that question will
have to be a guess. But hindsight
is useful in appraising present prob
lems. So let's go back to the late
1930 s and Hitler.
Hitler moved into the Rhineland
with armed force. We have reason
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JUDGE OBLIGES
DETROIT Adam Howard
Bell stole a bicvcle. intending to
jfyde it home ) Atlanta. Ga.
Ulii court rS was conscience-
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Crime Quiz Opens
In Kansas City
KANSAS CITY (At The sen
ate crime investigating committee
has opened hearings expected to
delve into the political interests of
the underworld.
Among those subpoenaed is for
mer Slate Attorney General Roy
McKittrick, a Missouri candidate
tor governor in 1948.
McKittrick previously had testi
fied that Charles Binaggio, Kansas
City northside Democratic leader,
offered 130,000 if he would with
draw from the gubernatorial race
and run for attorney general.
Binaggio supported the present
governor, Forrest Smith.
Last April 5 Binaggio and his
henchmac, Charles Gargotta, were
shot to death. Their slayers have
never been found.
Other witnesses include several
persons whose names have been
linked with Mafia, secret Sicilian
society.
Kansas City is the committee's
first stop in a series of hearings
on gambling and organised crime
Other scheduled stops include Chi
cago and Philadelphia.
MALE SUPERIORITY
POMONA. Calif. (Jpi The
men won 18 blue ribbons during
ladies' day at the Los Angeles
county fair.
Ralph Borge, San Bernardino,
exhibited the best padded baby
bonnet. John W. Selby. 75, Orange,
had the best knit lady's sweater.
W. E. Haynes, Hollywood, cro
cheted the best doilies.
And orchestra leader Billy Mills
took a cooking first prize with his
corn relish entry.
Umpqua Valley Advantages
Set Forth In Brochure Issued
By Chamber.Of Commerce
The Roseburg chamber of commerce hai published e bro
chure describing . the industries
Umpqua valley. !
The fully illustrated brochure
contains 14 pages and is eight and , r '"" " orocnure. Accord
a half by five and a half inches I '"8 the booklet, there is more
in size. The reid.no matter i timber in Douglas county than in
divide into 12 aectiona. with th
principal section devoted to t h e i
lumber industry. Other sections
deal h agriculture, power, fi
nances, recreation, transportation
and fusing.
AaaArHintf In nKij.UI, nf I, a
chamber, the new brochure was
published to facilitate speedy
reply to the thousands of requests
'or information renamed each year
at ine local enamour oince. me
publication will also be distributed
tnrougnoui ine u. io promo!.ountv jg ,rjCU
The tenure was published by
Uie Roseourg Printing Co. ;
Appointment
Of Gifford As
Envoy Puzzles
Republican Regarded By
Truman Btst Qualified;
Demo Aldtf Sidetracked
WASHINGTON In polit
ical circles around Washington, i
lot of people were puzzled today
by the way President Truman has
been filling top level government
jobs.
One thing appears true on the
record. The victors have not been
getting all the spoils, and the Presi
dent has denied key jobs to some
of his most effective money rais
ers in the 1948 campaign.
The newest appointment to oc
casion such surprise is that 6f
Walter S. Gifford. former head of
American Telephone and Tele
graph company, aa ambassador to
London .
Far from being a good Democrat
Gifford was found to be down in
administration political reference
books as a good Republican. And
he was not given just any diplo
matic post; in terms o prestige,
he got the best. Traditionally the
assignment to the court of St.
James had often been a prize
Dolitical Dlum. '
Gifford said in a statement from
New York that he was "very happy
for the opportunity which the ap
pointment . . . gives me to be of
service in these critical times.'
Aides Sidetracked
His selection fit a pattern noted
in other recent personnel changes.
Louis Johnson, whom Mr. Tru
man let out two weeks ago as
secretary of Defense, was one of
the President's most industrious
backers in the 1948 election cam
paign. Many insiders credit him
with raisin? the funds to fuel the
drive which produced the Truman
victory.-
Now Johnson is completely out
of the administration replaced
by Gen. George C. Marshall, who
hai said he spent so many years
as a soldier that he never devel
oped any personal, politics. When
he served formerly as secretary
of state. Marshall ran a strictly bi
partisan shop and kept rigidly
clear of political involvements.
In order to name Gifford to Lon
don Mr. Truman had to refuse
the assignment to former Ambas
sador James Bruce, who had pre
viously served as envoy to Argen
tina and as director of the Eu
ropean rearmament program in
the State department.
Like Johnson, Bruce is reported
to have contributed generously to
the 1948 political warchest and to
have raised additional funds.
Months ago newsmen heard that
the President had told him he
would go to London when Ambas
sador Lewis Douglas quit.
Gifford Best Qualified
Persons familiar with the Presi-
dent's views say he picked Gif
ford for the London post because
he considered him the best quali
fied man for the job. He wanted
some one with a knowledge of gov
ernment operation, sound judg
ment, administrative ability and
personal wealth.
Gifford had done government
work during both world wars and
in the early days of the depres
sion. He could afford the extra ex
penses of being envoy to London.
These may amount to as much as
$25,000 a year above the $5,000
salary and about $15,000 in allow
ances which the job carries.
Also the fact that he is a Repub
lican is regarded at the White
House as strengthening bi-partisan
foreign policy.
STRICKLIN REAPPOINTED
SALEM (Pi Charles E.
Stricklin. state engineer since 1930.
was appointed by Governor McKay I
Wednesday to another four-year
term.
and living conditions of the
; -
htmber industry in Douglas county
nv ""i " U un'0D "cept
. stales oi nasningion. uregon
California and Idaho. Seven-eighths
of the county has standing timber
representing 27 percent of Oregon's
timber resource. The booklet also I
states the sustained yield program
initiated in Douglas county assures
a maximum cut each year for
many hears to ccait.
Next to the luimier industry,
says the booklet, agriculture la the
most importut source of income
for Douglas Ounty residents. The
nrocnure states one-fifth M tat
iLlaAdv two-
thirds of which arcrv iM T.r
ms
operaieo. oy tneir owners, jmigias
county, the chamber luajis the
stale's chief source of Afrp, with
operated by their ofiera. JJouglas
Ezzard Charles
Whips Joe Louis
Joe Louis' attempt to regain
the world's heavyweight box
ing championship he 'loaned"
to Eizerd Cherlei failed miser
ably in New York lest night,
when he wet decisively whipped
in 15 rounds on i unanimous de
cision of the three ring officials.
The 29-year-old Charles, out
weighed 34 pounds by hit 36-yeer-old
opponent, had the
once invincible Brown Bomber
bettered into elmost utter help
lesness in the last two rounds.
See description of the fight on
page 6.
Hope Given That
Maj. Gen. Dean
May Not Be Dead
WITH U. S. FIRST CAVALRY
DIVISION, Korea Reports
to U. S. Counter-Intelligence corps
officers held out a glimmer of
hope today that Maj. Gen. William
F. Dean may be alive.
He has been officially listed as
missing since July 20 when his
doughboys last saw him fighting
Red tanks with a GI bazooka team
in Taejon.
The C1C said three South Koreans
who had escaped from the prison
stockade at Chongju before it was
dynamited by fleeing Reds re
ported they overheard Communist
officers making plana last Satur
day to move the former 24th di
vision commander from Chongju
to Seoul. '
Seoul is about 70 miles north
of Chongju.
The CIC report! came aa the
24th division, now under command
of Maj. Gen. John H. Church, re
took Taejon, scene of its most
shattering defeat and the loss of
its general.
Taejon is 9$ milea south of Seoul,
the Korean capital.
Two wounded U. S. soldiers re
ported that 40-odd American nn
soners were tied up and shot at
Taejon recently.
The wounded men said they es
taped the massacre by playing
dead.
CIC officers said they did not
know whether the three South
Korean informants actually saw
General Dean before they escaped.
A division spokesman said Com
munist prisoners reported the Reds
killed and burned 18 Americans
and slew 787 South Korean soldiers
and civilians before pulling out of
Chongju.
S And S Motor Co. Will
Move To New Quarters
The S and S Motor company of
Roseburg will move this week from
their present location on South
Stephens street to new and larger
facilities across from Neilsen s
Market on Highway 99 south.
Clifford Howard, well-known res
ident of Roseburg and owner of
S. and S Motors, will maintain
sales and service facilities for English-made
cars at the new location.
The opening date will be announced
later.
Alleged Check Stealer
Put Under $5,000 Bail
Robert Alvin Davis. 21. of Reeds-
port was arraigned in justice court
m that town on a charge of larceny
not in a dwelling, reported Justice
of Peace Fred M. Wright, who set
bail at, $5,000.
Davis was arrested in Roseburg
by state and county officers as
he showed up at the draft board
He is being held in the county
jail in connection with a $1,90
check missing from a Reedsport
post office box.
The
Pair today, tonight and Friday
Warmer this efterneen. Possible
patches ef lighft frest tonight,
Highest temolor eny Sept
Lowest temp, nr eny Sept.
Highest temp, yesterday . . a
Lowest temp, last 74 hrs. V
Precipitation last 24 hrs.
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STREET FIGHTING IN SEOUL U.S. marines standing end kneeling in Seoul es they fire from the
shelter of buildings end send bag berricedei left behind by North Koreans. Liberation of the
city has been announced by Cenerel MacArthur. This picture by Associated Press steff pho
tographer Max Deifor. IAP Wirephoto vie radio from Tokyo.)
3 Children Slain
By Their Mother
FOSSIL, Ore. (iPI A 23-year-old
mother had admitted the slay
ing of her three children, Dist.
Ally, George Dukek said Wednes
day. He identified the mother as Mrs.
Jaunita Louise Carr, wife of
George Carr, a sawmill worker
at Mitchell, some 45 miles south
of here.
Dukek said Mrs. Carr was taken
into custody at her Mitchell home
by officers who had investigated
the death Sept. 15 of Patricia, 3V
monlh-old daughter of the Carra.
Dukek said Mrs. Carr admitted
under questioning Hint the bad
smothered the child in her crib.
The district attorney said that
the mother told him ahe
smothered a son, Gary, 2-months
old, last Jan. 27, and that she had
dropped another son, Donald, about
S months old, on his head Jan. 15,
1949.
The mother could give no reason
for her action, Dukek said.
The father was shocked at his
wife's story, Dukek said.
The two were married at Hinea,
Ore., in 1(146.
Mrs. Carr is being held pending
filing of charges.
Firemen Assist Stork
In Mountain Summons
CHARLESTON, W. Va. OP
Mrs. James Edward Young, who
lives atop as steep a mountain
as there is in this mountain atate
was about to give birth to her
fourth baby.
An ambulance was summoned to
take her to the hospital. But the
road stops a nan mile from ner
house. So the ambulance driver
called on firemen to help bring
her down the steep slope on a cot.
They got half way to the road,
when ths) young mother told them
to atop. With two firemen assist
ing she delivered a baby girl.
Then, at her direction, they
trundled her back to the house on
the cot. Both mother and child
were reported doing well.
UMPQUA FLYING CLUl Pictured ebove ere the four airplanes owned end operated1 by Umpqua
Flyinpvclub members. From left to right the planes ere: 1948 (our. place Navion; 1948 tour-place
StintH Voveaer: 1946 two-olece Aeronice treiner: 1948 two-place, ell metal Luicomb. The fly-
ling, club was chartered as a corporation in l945-4o It hat been a highly successful operetion,
' without any accidents, and serves at a model for other eooperetive '159 clubs throughout the
I state. (Picture by Paul Jen. int. I q
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Hubbard Creek Road
Job Authority Given
The county court has given the
Martin Box Co. authority to con
struct a one-and-a-half mile exten
sion to Hubbard creek road No. 8.
The court has agreed to furnish
materials for construction and the
Martin Box Co., which has tim
ber holdings in the area will make
the extension and also any neces
sary changes in the existing road
way. The court has also agreed to
maintain the road after construc
tion. ExSuperintendent Of
Roseburg Schools Dies
Max S. Ilamm. Roseburg city
school superintendent in the early
1920 s, died Sept. 22, at Berkeley,
Calif.
Born in Weston, Mo., Hamm was
a member of Laurel Lodge, A.
F, and A. M. of Roseburg. He
was also a member of Phi Delta
Kappa educalional fraternity.
After serving as Roseburg sckoot
superintendent for a number of
years, Hamm moved to Coos
Bay and later to California.
He Is aurvived by his wife, Deb
orah B.. Ilamm, and a daughter,
June Hamm Queen, both of Ber
keley, and a sister, Mrs', W, M.
Case of Paio Alto, Calif.
AUTO THEFT CHARGED
Adolph Nieto Valenzurla, 25, is
being held in the county jail on
$2,500 bail charged with larceny
of an auto, reported Justice of
Peace A. J. Geddes. According to
District Attorney Robert G. Davis,
the car, stolen in downtown Rose
burg, was found wrecked. Valen
ruela was arrested by the state
police.
DIGGER KILLEO
HOUSTON, Tex. lP) Rescue
workers yesterday lost a frantic
race to save Johnny Francois,
buried by a cavern as he operated
an air hammer in a 10-foot hole.
The 35-year-old construction
worker was working on an expan
sion project for the Shamrock Ho-
(!' f'nrlr i-lnh tttc phMl w a
I crushed and neck broken.
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Passion Play Wins
Bout With Reds
ROME (JP The passion play
of Sezie, a amall town south of
Rome, was credited with winning
a bout with Communism.
The play, a traditional Good Fri
day ritual in Sezte for centuries,
waa revived last Easter for the
first time since the war. An esti
mated 65.000 tourists and Romans
joined the town's population o I
21,000 tor the occasion.
Now the play is being brought
to Rome for a holy year presen
tation in the ruins of the Colosseum
Saturday night under the sponsor
ship of the Italian tourist office.
The teat with the Comumnisls
who control Srzte's city govern
mentcame during a dress re
hearsal last Sunday, according to
II Popolo, organ of Premier Lie
Gasperi'l Christian Democrat
party.
Under the headline, "A Setback
for PCI" (Italian Commun
ist party), II Popolo said t h e
people of Sczze ignored Commun
ist leaders' order to attend a fes
tival staged by L'Unita, party
newspaper, and went instead to
the passion play rehearsal.
II Popolo said the people of
Seize voted for the Communists
in the 1948 election, "but now
much water has passed under the
bridge and the people dared to dis
obey the Communists."
Robert Lovett Named
As Marshall's Aide
WASHINGTON (VP) Former
Undersecretary of State Robert A.
Ixivett was picked by President
Truman today to be deputy aecre
tary of defense.
He succeeds Stephen T. Early,
who is leaving the defense post
Saturday to return to private busi
ness. Ixivett is a close friend of Secre
tary of Defense Marshall, under
whom he served as undersecretary
of state. He is now in the invest
ment banking business in New
York.
MocArthur Said Given
Fermit To Pursue Foe
Across 38th Parallel
atr The AMoclatae fni
An allied commander said today
the North Korean army is in com
plete rout and no longer exists
aa an organised force.
The appraisal waa made by Lt,
Gen. Walton H. Walker, com
mander of the U.S. Eighth army,
as remnants of the once-powerful
150,000-man Communist army re
treated toward the 38th parallel
whence the North Korean
launched their attack June 25.
Aa U.S. marines mopped np des
troyed Seoul, South Korean capital,
fast-moving armored allied units
further carved up Communist
forces in South Korea. .
Walker aaid all Red forces south
of the Pusan-Taejon-Seoul highway
winding diagonally from southeast
Korea In the northwest will be
annihilated. Any possibility of or
ganized Communist retreat from
the ""jth was removed Tuesday
by the joining of armored columns
pushing up from Puaan and down
from Inchon. Thia line joining the
old beachhead with the allied sec
ond front ia now secure, Walker
said, and the Reda are firmly
trapped.
The allied commander warned,
however, that the fanatical enemy
had fighting atrength in local areas
and there would be considerable
pocket combat before the Commua
uts are wiped out completely.
United nationa forcea took fresh
victories in their stride. One Red
city after another fell to the fast
moving allied columns in the man
euver of envelopment
May Cresa Parallel
As North Koreans broke and fled
towards the 38th parallel, allied
commanders awaited instructions
lo pursue them across the frontier
to insure their destruction aa an
invading force and prepare for the
unification of torn Korea under
U. N. auspices.
Walker aaid he had not vet been
instructed whether to proceed
across the parallel but expected
word from the high command Boon.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur report
edly haa been given authority to
aend troopa acroai the 38th parallel
into iNortn Korea it mat action ia
necessary to destroy the Commun
ist army.
Hut responsible quarter! 1
Washington who reported this said
no final decision haa been made
thus far as to whether the United
Nations shall occupy North Korea
after the fighting stops.
These Informants aaid the rea
soning back of the decision is that
It would not be possible to restore
"international peace and securitr
In the area" unless the North Ko
rean Red army is totally defeated.
Top diplomats at the U. N. and
in several capitals continued today
to deny any knowledge of rumored
peace feelera by the North Ko
reans. Russia's delegate Jacob A.
Malik, when ahown the dispatches
sent oy two newa agencies which
had attributed the report to auth
oritative sources in the U, N..
merely shrugged his shoulders and
said he knew nothing about the
report.
New Explosive Offsets
Reds' Tank Superiority
LANCASTER, Pa. i!P Dr.
Vannevar Buah. World War II head
of the office of acientifc research
and development, says the
"shaped" explosive charge is one
of the new weapons the U. S. needs
to help prevent a third major con
flirt. The "shaped" charge firat
used in the Korean war utilized
a new method of packing an explo
sive into a bomb or artillery shell.
It ia designed to concentrate the
force of the explosion for greater
penetration of armor plating.
Because oi the eftecuvenesa o t
'shaped" explosives. Dr. Bush
said, "heavy tanka may become a
liability instead of an asset."
"it is si id. ne aaoea, "tnat Rus
sia has 40,000 tanka and her whole
land tactics are focused on their
employment. The race between
guns and armor has taken a def
inite turn in favor of defense be
cause of this sound and successful
research."
Woman Killed, 2 Hurt
When Bus Runs Wild
DETROIT VP A city bus
ran wild in Wednesday's downtown
rush hour trsffic and killed a
woman.
Mrs. Ora Mae Grant, 54, a hotel
housekeeper, was struck and Ik
tally injured aa the bus plowed into
a crowd of pedestrians. Two other
women were seriously hurt
Police said faulty brakes on the
bus were to blame. The driver was
not held.
It waa the second such fatality
within less than 48 hours. On Tues
day Ernest G. John, 50. waa killed
when struck by a falling utility
pole which had been sheared off
by a bua. Police aaid bad brakes
were the cause. e
Levity Fct Rant
By L. F. Reiienstein
Pretldyyit Truman says he h
'concerned' about the rifinej
costs ef food, whicV In ejuality
at consolation should be raneotJ
olonasioo tk remark ef on ef
the 'Two fcitk Crow': 'Alnt I
torry?'
i Some interesting facts on the 1 over 100,000 head raised each year.
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