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C01iP U. oi" 0. Library Euone, ere. mm w Ik to -J EVERYBODY GIVES Roy Catching, Community Chest worker, tt shown above receiving i chest donation from Paul Cross, machanic amployad at tha J. M. Bartlay machine shop. Tha city is being solicited this weak by numerous workers, and tha drive is reported progressing. However, the campaign is still far short of its goal of $34,000. (Picture by Paul Jenkins. I BUILDING BOOM TOTTERS 1 Ban On Construction Of Amusement Spots Now Planned By Government By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON I API Despite forceful objections from the building industry, the government today considered an em ergency ban on the construction of race tracks, dance halls, bowling alleys end other amusement spots. New moving picture theaters and night clubs might elso be included, but officials of the National Production authority said the scope of the proposed order remains to be worked out. Its aim is to save materials for munitions. Auction Spells Tucker Corp. End CHICAGO UP) Auctioneers are chanting the last of the Tucker corporation, the unsuccessful $28, 000,000 atutomobile venture that never reached mass production The' last remnants of the defunct corporation went on the block Thursday. Included among the rales were 26 of the rear engine Tucker cars IS in running order and 11 with no transmission. Three others not fully assembled also were sold. One of the complete cars brought a top price of J2.400. The average price was $2,000. The Tucker cars never got into more than a hand lul of dealer showrooms but there were ready buyers among the crowd of 1,000 at the auction here. Some 4.000 lota of machinery and equipment also are on the auc tion block. The huge Tucker factory will be taken over on Nov. 1 by the Kord Motor company for manufacture of aircraft enginea for the air force. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This comes from Washington which, in our country in this pres ent generation, is the center of all things political: "General Dwight D. Eisenhower once again has become a Presi dential possibility for 1952 and the BIG THREAT to all other would be candidates, Republican or Dem- nrratic That is true aespue the General's statement that he has not changed his mind about , -t-.,.nn Mut Af nnlttift ' 1 staying out of politics.' Why is Ike a "threat" to all others who SEEK the office of Pr,esLdJ"hL i. ,. w... have confidence in him. When he speaks, they BfcLlbvr, mm, iney think he is sincere. For that reason, I hope he sticks to his statement that he has not changed his mind about ataying out of POLITICS. ("Politics," as pro fessionallv practiced, is the process of GETTING OFFICE.) If he stands simply and squarely and plainly on that statement, our con fidence in him will GROW. We (Continued on Page 4) SABU NOT DADDY Lira AMjfcLrs '.n a su-i collect Uie fines and turn them penor court jury has decided that lover to the clerk. The council Sabu. elephant boy of the movies, plans to discuss this apparent devi ls not the father of a British ballet ation from the normal next Mon dancer's two-year-old baby. I day. The jury of six women ancfc six I men eturned a to s verdict Sentencing Of Harry Gold, Thurstisy favoring Sabu in the . r p-.--j paterH'ty suit brought against him Atomic Spy, Postponed by Mrs. Brenda Julier Ernst. The Weather Mostly cloud with a few show ers today and Friday. Highest temp, tor any Oct. - Lowest temp, for any Oct. Highest tamp, yesterday Lowest ramp. Iat.24 Jjoure Precipitation lAerfftrs Precipitation tram Oct. ) . iicess pres. trom Oct. I PrecipitatMrytrem Sept. 1 Sunset tedf. S:1S p. m. Sunrise hMrm, e.Jl a. 11 The move would be a stiff blow to the already tottering building boom. Severe limitations on pri vate real estate credit and federal home financing were imposed Thursday, and a limitation on com mercial construction credit af fecting stores and office buildings is expected to follow. Still another slap at credit ex pansion, in the form of a Federal Federal Reserve board order tight ening bank reserve requirements, became more likely. The board reported that bank loana to busi ness houses hit another record high last week. Au order requiring banks to set aside more funds in reserve would limit the bank funds available for lending. Business loans last week, the board said, increased by $227, 000,000 to a total of $16,142,000,000. Industries Protest The proposed building ban was unfolded to a score of leaders in the building, real estate, materials, and related industries. They fought Die idea vigorously, and urged in stead that the industry be allowed to undertake its own conservation campaign. The industry group argued that the real estate credit move will freeze huge quantities of materials. Some of them estimated that resi dential construction will slump from this year's record of 1,300. 000 homes started to a total of only 600.000 or even 400,000 in 1951. This also will produce great sav ings of materials now being used up in the equipping and furnishing of new dwellings, the industry spokesmen argues. Finally, they asserted, the government should "sharply curtail" its own non-defense building as well as that of states and cities. The latter Droposal would apply not only to public works and build ings, but presumably to the big pum'ic housing program under .....:. .1. - . which the government proposes to finance 810,000 units ot subsidized housing for low-income families. 173 Motorists Fined. But Money Is Missing CRYSTAL BEACH, Ont. (JPl Crystal Beach police have been fining a lot of motorists for over paying, but the village council says it hasn't seen any of the money. The discrepancies were discov ered when the village clerk sent letters to 173 violators demanding payment of their fines. They pro duced receipts showing they'd al ready paid up. v i : .v.- . . .hreVman Dolice force to PmM'OT.PHIA .p Sen tencing of Harry Gold, 39-year-old K..t-.iiiM wno confessed delivering atomic secrets to Kussian agents, was delayed today at the govern ment's request until Dec. 7. FBI agents arrested Gold May 23. On July 20, te plet)i-d guilty 4' to all counts agaTfist him and faces 54 a maximum penalty of death. trac9 He waa accused of relaying to A" Russian agents atomic weapons a?S1 1 secrets gathered by Dr. Klaus . 4.5$ Fuchs. top ricking British .phys icist now in pnion after conviction i. at a Russian agent. C3 II 1 ll Four Children Die In Log House Fire COLVILLE, Wash. (. Four small children burned to death in a flaming log house 15 miles east of Colville last night. Two others scrambled to safety by themselves. A 14-year-old baby sitter saved two mora but was burned badly attempting to get the others out. County Prosecutor Delbert Scoles said fire broke out in the two story log borne while parenta were attending a movie in a nearby community. The dead were identified by tha sheriff's office as: David Burns, 5; Martha Burns, 314; Robert Burns 2, and Elizabeth White, 14 months. , . In the home were four children from the Donald Burna family, and four from the Vernon White fam ily. Both families lived tn tha house. Margaret Fry, tha baby sitlef, was burned seiiously about tha legs and waist. Slayer-Rapist Sought By Posse CALERA. Ala. UP) A huge posse estimated t ona time at more than 1,000 men searched through the night for a Negro who shot a amall white boy to death after raping the child's mother. Tha child, four-year-old Dale Hot ley, was shot through the bead as his mother clasped him in her arms. Tha mother, Mrs. Kathleen Hol ley, was shot twice and beaten on the head with a large rock. Sha was seriously wounded but was re ported improving today at a Birm ingham hospital. The 37-year-old farm woman told officers of three hoars of ter ror during which tha Negro forced her at gunpoint to submit to him, then left her for dead in dense I woods near ber isolated home about two miles north of Calera in central Alabama. Despite her wounds and losa of blood, she staggered and crawled through the woods almost two miles to a country store and pleaded with rescuers to "go get my baby." Burglaries Follow When Town's Only Cop Resigns EL PASO, 111. (JP) When El Paso's only policeman handed in his star earlier this week, Mayor George Graack did not name a successor. Instead, the mayor and alder man Ted Woolenschlager took over the patrol duties. Thursday they discovered bur glars had broken into two garages and a tavern in this central Illi nois town of 1.600. The robbers carted out a 750-pound safe con taining about $1,000 from the tav ern. Mayor Graack said the city coun cil is expected to hire a new policeman soon. I Two State Patrolmen Hunted In Plane Crash EVERETT ) The hunt for two state patrolmen, missing two days in the rocky, storm-swept Cascade mountains, stepped up in pace early today after searchera reported hearing shouts in answer to their calls. The patrolmen, AI Kuest and J. J. Harvey, have been unreported since two hunters left them early Tuesday at the side of a wrecked plane on Green mountain, approx imately 50 air miles northeast of here. Triplets Enlist For Training In Air Force SPOKANE '.PI The triplet sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kays of Davenport, Wash., were en route i today to San Antonio, Tex., and basic air force training. The U-year-old boya Mervin, Marvin and Melvin were sworn ! in Thursday. They enlisted earlier i this month for four-year httek. Established 1S73 Deal Made For New City Fire Truck Delivery In February Set In Contract Rental Basis Provided To Avoid Debt Load On Incoming Council Jan. 1 Roseburg will have a new, mod ern fire truck within 125 daya. The city council, at a apecial meeting Wednesday afternoon, voted 5-1 to rent, with option to buy a Ken worth fire truck from the Howard-Cooper Corp. The bid price of the new truck, which is identical with that now in use in Oregon City, is $23,600. Under terms of the lease, as approved by the council, the city will not pay more than $4,500 an nually for use of the truck. The city is granted an option to buy the truck, using the rentals aa payments. The council also re served the right to terminate the lease arrangement if it so desires. The lease will extend over an ap proximate five-year period, unless the city chooses to pay off the balance owed at an earlier date. The council's action followed re consideration of ita vote Monday night to reject all bids submitted for fire truck equipment. Bids on trucks ranged from $22,000 to $27,000. An outright purchase on thia basis was not possible, sirlce the city has available funds total ing only $13,500 for fire equipment purchase. Legal Barrier Circumvented Since the incumbent city council could not legally obligate a new city council, which will take office Jan. 1, on a purchase agreement, the lease arrangement was decided upon as the best alternative. City Manager M. W. Slankard explained tha council's action ia esentially the same as buying the equipment on an installment basis, but does not bind a future council to carry out the plan. Delivery of the new truck waa guaranteed by the company within 125 days. Slankard said he believes actual delivery will be made in less time. The Kenworth truck, which has a 1000-gallon pumper, haa all the latest fire truck improvements, in cluding a moderator nozzle aet, aluminum ladders and two-way ra dio. The truck will come equipped with 1400 feet of 2U-inch hose and 600 feet of one-inch hose. Cough Ejects Bullet After Thirteen Years POTTSVII.LE, Pa. Pl Claude A. Klasner awoke in a fit of coughing and found a bullet in his mouth. Consulting his physician, the 50 year-old assistant controller of the Philadelphia tc Reading Coal and Iron Co. was told it was the pellet that lodged near the base of his brain in a hunting accident 13 years ago. Since then the soft -nosed copper jacketed .32 caliber slug had worked its way slowly through Klasner's neck, emerging through an old scar from a tonsil operation, the doctor said. Freight Car Shortage Eases In Medford Area MEDFORD UP) The boxcar shortage for rail shipment of lum ber is easing here. Mill operators reported they were getting some 50 percent of the number of cars requested, from Southern Pacific, a higher figure than earlier in the fall. Although more ,cirs now are available, many mills with big in ventories still are far behind on shipments. ? - ! ,-- --r' . .-- . . ' . .... , ' .'.-;. ,." .' i-t" .,'-..'. :... ..- I ....;! . , t , - , , ... . .- l NEW KENWORTH TRUCK Pictured truck similar to tha truck tha . t t i j r- ti Trent nOwiraUOgptr orp. I n $4,500 annually lor rental en the - ROSEIURG. OREGON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1950 DEWEY DEFENDS Debts Of F. D. Roosevelt Underwritten By Raskob In 1928, Governor States (By th AMorUUd PrMtl Bringing up the name of Franklin D. Roosavalt, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey sought Wednesday night to play down tha importance of tha famous Hanlay letter which kept tha New York political campaign boiling. Dewey said there was nothing wrong in Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanlay's admission that before ha had agreed to run for tha Senate ha had definite assurances ha could ' clean up his financial Roseburg Planes' Search For Lost Airmen Futile Three planes from the Roseburg area took advantage of the first clear weather Tuesday afternoon, to search for the plane believed missing between Roseburg and Eugene with two men aboard. The planea from the sheriff's Aero club, spent the entire after noon combing the area east of Roseburg in a wide swath between Cottage Grove and Tiller, but no sign of the missing plane was found. Piloting the search planes were E. H. Coult of Sutherlin and R. V. Hatfield and Ira Byrd, both of Roseburg. Planea from Salem, Corvallis and other Oregon citiea were also called to join in the aearch. If weather permits tomorrow morn ing, these groups will continue the bunt. EUGENE UP) Search for two missing fliers and their plane, believed downed in the Eugene area, waa stymied today by heavy clouds, rain and fofl. About 15 planes, under the State Board of Aeronautics, weanesaay carried an intensive search over an area of 30 milea radius from Eugene. Missing are Rudi Michel and Bill Thompson, of Stockton, Calif., who lost contact with the Eugene CCA office about 2 p.m. Saturday. They were on a flight to Portland. City's Anti-Red Law Ruled Unconstitutional BIRMINGHAM, Ala. P Fed eral Judge Seybourn H. Lynne Wednesday ruled Birmingham'a anti-Communist law unconstitu tional. The judge gave thia decision on the plea of Sam J. Hall, Ala bama's No. 1 Communist, who attacked validity of an ordinance prohibiting Communists from re maining in the city. Judge Lynne ruled that the ordi nance violated the Nth amend ment. An attorney for Hall had ar gued that it was contrary to the due process of law clause in that amendment, in that it de - prived Hall of the right to live in his Birmingham home. The judge enjoined Birmingham authoritiea from enforcing the anti-Red bah. Tha legislation provided a maxi mum sentence of 180 daya in jail and $100 fine for each day a known Communist remained in Birming ham. Hall is secretary of the Commu nist party in Alabama. 'HOT RODS' FOR COPS DETROIT (JPt It takes a "hot rod" to catch a "hot rod" police here decided. So they ordered more than 100 "hot rod" scout cara for pursuit of speeders. Police have received the first batch of the new speed jobs. They are souped -up to do 110 miles an hour and can jump from xero to 83 miles an hour in 30 aeconds. bov ft ) Kenworth fire I Roiaburq city council will laate VI . .i . II --l - il ciry win py noi mwt men truck. The rental payments will HANLEY obligations within 90 days. The Democrats made the same sort of deal in 1928, Dewey de clared in a speech at Newburgh, N. Y. He aaid the late John J. Raskob underwrote $200,000 in debts for Franklin D. Roosevelt so the late President could run for governor of New York. . Dewey, fighting Democratic charges of a GOP nomination "pay off" in the current New York cam paign, based his statement on quo taliuna from books written by two former national chairmen of the Democratic party. The books are "You're the Boss" by Edward J. Flynn and "Jim Farley'a Story" by Jamea A. Farley. Citing the books, Dewey said Roosevelt "owed money at thai time 11828) to the Warm Springs foundation, which he had intended to run aa a resort," and Waa ra luctant to run for governor. That was the year the late Alfred E. Smith ran for President, and Democratic leadera wanted Mr. Roosevelt on the ticket to lend strength. Dewey asserted the fact that Hanley waa burdened with $100, 000 in private debts after 24 yeara in public office waa evidence that hanley waa "an honest politician." Hanley, 74, stepped aside aa the leading candidate for governor to make way for Dewey, who already had declared he would not run for a third term. Hanley then waa given the nomination for U. S. sen ator instead of hia long-cherished chance to run for governor. Rep. Walter A. Lynch, Dewey's Democratic opponent for reelec tion, kept hammering at the two times GOP Republican president ial candidate. Dewey, Lynch aaid, was responsible for what Hanley did but ia making Hanley "take tha rap." "He haa been caught 'and h can't take it," Lynch said in a cam paign apeech. ' Lynch declared that the Hanley letter, made public this week, shows that Dewey "waa willing to sell the (Senate) nomination to Hanley in order that he, himself, might take tha nomination for gov ernor with eyes only on tha pree idency of the United Statea in 1952.' : y e i.-- aj World's IT"-' " "fly " ; First Point Four Pact TEHRAN, Iran UP) Premier Razmara and U. S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady today aigned the world's first point four pact, allo cating $500,01)0 for technicians and equipment to develop Iran's back ward farms. Iran will thus become the first testing ground of President Tru man'a program to help underdevel oped countriea help themselves. About 20 American farm and public health experta will be brought here by next spring to set up some 10 village training cen tera to teach peasants more mod ern farming methods and sanita tion practicea. The U. S. export-import bank last week loaned Iran $25,000,000 to bol ster her economy and try to keep her out of tha Soviet sphere. DD iid toward th Durchat unit of tha Oregon City fire department. The Kenworth hat all aL l i a' .- lt a-'t J--A .J- iL in? ieeii mt true impiBTtminTi i aluminum ladder, and tpeeieJ Renlti. s laietT Tire rrucx improvemenri ineiuoing Two-way raaio, 244-30 Florida Dealt Heavy Losses By Hurricane Property, Crop Damage Estimated SI 2,000.000; Georgia Coast Suffers JACKSONVILLE. Fla. UP) Florida's estimater of damage climbed to about $12,000,000 today from the hurricane which took a few last licks at beachea while in ita death threes in western Georgia. All storm warnings were ordered down a a the storm's center thrashed uneasily to the west of Columbus. Ga. 'That is a dead one. but another center ia developing in the Gulf of Mexico about 300 milea south of the Louisiana coast," storm fore casters, at Miami reported. Property damage in Miami alone waa assessed at about $8,000,000. Elsewhere property damage was estimated at $2,000,000, and crop damage at another $2,000,000 for a total of $12.000.0or High tidea tore at Florida'a beaches and seawalls as the dying storm lashed up through tha cen ter of the state and into Georgia. Three Floridana died in a blow. Today's battle acene waa along the milea of east coast resort beaches. Navy men and civilian volunteers worked through the night to sandbag seawalla and oceanfront houses. City Decks Tern Away Angry aea waters already had torn away city docks and two fish houses on Indian river at Titusville. One section of seawall at Cocoa col lapsed. Many roads and bridgee were washed out or were under water. In three south Florida counties Dade, Broward and Palm Beach storm damage was tentatively estimated at $5,000,000 by chief storm forecaster Grady Norton. He said It would rise as more com plete reports came in. Winds at Orlando wrecked a $500,000 hangar at the air base. Daytona, Beach and Deland in Volusia county were among the citiea reporting their worst damage in many years. Most of it waa par tial damage to buildings, fallen power linea and trees. High water added to the damage and slowed repair work. The totai will run high because the damage was so general. Draft Board Quits Over Deferment Of Collegians ST. MATTHEWS, S. C. UP) The selective service office here is still open but there isn't any draft board. The entire board, plua the board's appeal agent, resigned in protest of a selective service rule that allows deferment of college students. The rule allows deferment of col lege students for one school ses sion, and indefinite deferment if the student ia a member ot an ROTC unit. Dr. E. B. Knight, one of the three board members, said the rule "ia not fair to poorer boys who can't go to school," Douglas County Receives Share Of School Fund Douglas county will receive $71, 810 as its share of $1,842,475 from the 1950-51 state and county school fund distributed to Oregon counties today. The amount ia half of the fund with the other half to be dis ributed next April 15. The money is used to reduce property taxes. 'W,JWijVulJ 'wJKk ,.19 Bn.it). Tha truck above It a Communists Surrender By Thousands Red Premier And Aids Flee Northward; Future Guerrilla War Expected Uw AjmcUU PimsI Most of Pvonnane. rnnmi,.;.! capital of North Korea, waa in tha hands of United Nationa forces to day. Red Premier Kim II Sung and members of his government have fled to tha north. Tank-led unita oi. the U S. First cavalry division and the South Ko rean republic'a First division joined up near the heart of the city. Communists aurrenriered hw th thousands. The capital appeared deserted by its 700,000 inhabitants. Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead aaid it waa an easy contest. Only a few anipera and die - hard Communists were at tempting to stop the inexorable advance of the allies. The Communists had not planned it this way. Bannera strung acroaa the streets called on the people to "defend thia city to the last." out were waa no real defense. Pyongyang civilians told a South Korean army spokesman that Premier Kim and hia Communist government had flown the coop. They were aaid to have fled ts Huichon, 80 milea to the north. Escape roads northward were jammed. But in Tokyo, Intelligence officera aaid there ia no indication the Korean Reds are planning an organized defense line north of Pyongyang. Allies Win Race Two allied columns, in a hell- lor-leather race to be the firat in side the city, blasted their way from two aides. The U.S. First cavalry, which had been first in side Manila and Tokyo in World War II and linked the two beach heads in South Korea, coming in from the aouth, ' won the roaring race. It waa credited witb being ahead of the South Korean First division, which approached Pyong yang from tha east, by three hours. An eighth army spokesman aaid (he cavalry troopers and the South Koreans ran into heavy enemy ar tillery and mortar fire on the out skirts of the city which stopped them for a time. Behind the cavalry were four United Nationa divisions and a British - commonwealth Brigade ready to fan ant around tha city and aecura it. But there aeemed little chance of further large-scale enemy resis tance. So apeedy waa the allied advance that the Reds' overall de fense plan seemed to have been shattered. Allied commanders said the comparative ease with which the capital waa captured might in dicate a change in the war that started June 25 when the North Koreans invaded South Korea in force. The war from now on, they aaid, might be of guerrilla pattern. G.O.P. Caravan To Tour Douglas A Republican party caravan will tour Douglas county next Tuesday. Sponsored by the Young Repub Icians, the caravan will assemble in front of the Hotel Umpqua at about 8 a. m., according to Gordon Carlson, chairman of the commit tee in charge. The party, made up of candi dates, party workers and friends, will travel north to Drain, then head south, with stops at Yoncalla and Oakland and a luncheon meeting at Sutherlin. Proceeding aouth to Roseburg in the afternoon, the caravan will stop at Winston. Myrtle Creek, Rid dle and Canyonville, and go on to Glendale for an evening dinner meeting. In each of the towns, other than Sutherlin and Glendale, the cara van members will merely circu late about town and introduce the candidates to the voters. Talks by the candidatea will be given at both the Sutherlin noon meeting and in Glendale. The party will make the trip in a chartered bus and in private cars. An invitation is extended to all who wish to go along, aaid Carl son. A definite itinerary will he worked out at a meeting of the committee Friday night. Boy Scout Council's Annual Meeting Dated Douglae district of tha Oregon Trail Boy Scout council will hold ita annual meeting Monday, Oct. 30, at Carl's Haven. Main purpose of tha aession ia the election of of ficera for 1951, so it is very im portant that all institutions spon soring the Boy Scout organization in this area attend. It will be a dinner meeting stsrt- , ing at 7 p. m. ncketa at $1 5V must be purchased in advance, be cause of ha limited number avail able, from the commissioner in your area. Ladies are urged to at tend with their husbands. Levity Fact R .ant By L. F. Rettensteln Would-be U.S. Senator Jo Hanky of N. Y. might have sat isfied kit debt easily by oin Inq tha N.Y. police fore, to wham the annual pay-off for graft protection was $1,000,000 year, according to the hn peitaaM aoofcia chlaf.