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o U. of 0. Library Eugene, Ore. O COMP Flood Off O Cheers For M'Kay, Chills For Flegel In Verbal Duel (By lb AMOcUUd PrMt Governor Douglas McKsy nd hit Democratic opponent, Austin Flegel, pounded away at each other today ai the (all political campaign neared its climax in Oregon. The two tangled in an unprece dented session before the Portland chamber of commerce here Mon day. It was the first time the rivals had appeared on the same plat form It was a cool occasionally hos tile audience for Flegel, but his aplomb was unshaken. He had sharp words for McKay's record and McKay's aims. McKay, warmed by cheers from businessmen present, responded in kind. Flegel's principal criticism was that the McKay administration had done little to get more cheap elec tricity for Oregon and more fav orable freight rates. He asserted the two were needed for Oregon's industial growth. McKay hotly replied he had done everything possible short of sup porting a CVA, which be said he abhors to gain the additional power and to lower freight rates. Flegel chilled the crowd at the start by characterizing the cham ber of commerce as "one of the most partisan organizations in Ore gon." He accused its members of a "belief that the larger propriet ors should be the chief beneficiaries of state government." By the time he finished the au dience was openly hostile. When McKay stepped forward I long, cheering ovation forced him to wait for minutes. - Flegel nonchalantly accepted the hostility to him. "I didn't know there were this many Republicans left," he taunted. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ,h. teletype, trying to think of rvr an nuur e urru irauiug something to write that would be worth reading . . . About all 1 can think of to say is "Ho-hum." .i-i - . i..: h....; ness that when the news gets to - .k. h.i,m .nrf i.v. ,h.r. ' for several days all hell is due to break loose soon.) Rumors that red Chinese are fichtinc alongside the red Koreans in what is left of North Korea areiDfn. Per ' "rlt venue growing in number and plausibility P""1', relations firm. ?? i wouldn't H,d Nervous Breakdown know '. . ! But' I have the feeling Thomas Swansoij the . firm's that the Kremlin boys don't relish ! president, said Boettiger had suf the licking they've liken in Korea , ' nervow Wakdown a week .ml ivAtiii l.k. t A .m.,h,no ago. He had since been under the -h-ni it i In Boston, discovery of an Inex pensive drug that seems to act like ACIH, the wonder hormone, is an- nounced to e Ame can Col e of Surgons ... The new drug fires ; tym sedative. Later on, Boet up our adrenal glands to produce I awakened said he wanted more cortisone . . . Both ACTH j air, and asked that a window and cortisone bring dramatic relief , be opened. from rheumatoid arthritis, knock (Continued on papa four) Flood, Then Fire Erase Asst. Fire Chiefs Home It was double trouble for Ray Norton Jr.. assistant fire chief at Myrtle Creek, according te re ports received here. Norton, who lived near the bridge at the south end of town, evacuated his -family. He re turned to get some possessions, but found his home in flames. The fir department could not get in to put out the fire. What was left of the home re portedly was washed away by the flood. Sutherlin Seaman Killed In Korean Naval Action According to an Associated Press report from Washington today, Sea man 1-C Harry C. Hudson Jr., hus band of Mrs. Ida Kay Hudson of Sutherlin (previously reported wounded), was killed in action while serving with the USN in the Korean area. This report orginated from the U.S. Defense department. 'DEATH SIGN' DEFIED Youth Names Nine Cops As Bookie Ring Grafters NEW YORK I API A youth braved the dread "death sign" in court Monday and named nine policemen as grafters in a Brooklyn book! ring. If was the latest turn in tne Kings county grand jury gam bling probe that has shaken New York with on revelation of police corruption after another. , The names of th accused police war not mad public, but war int on to th new reform police commissioner, Thomt p. Murphy. rne witness, zz-year-old Charles Tomack, gangling and pasty-faced, told how he was lured into the racket at the age of IS and then P h.if J .h.m Shin. arrests half of them phony dope addiction, and finally burg- - .. ..j7.l l,of . drugstore to ge, more k " Tomack started to talk when he I Tomack, who said he hm cured was railed up for sentencing on the , his drug habit in jail awaiting sen burglary charge. The minute he ; said his boss was Mile Hack opened up, County JudteSamuel meyer. a Brooklyn bookie with a Leibowitz, who has been Spervis- 50-arrest record who lAJfre under ing the rackets grand jurv, brushed : t-r0.0oo bail as a material witness aside the schedule and told To- , " " probe, mark to keep talking. i When he was 16. Tomack said. SuddiCy Leibowiti ordered his j Hackmeyer a;0iached him and cnurtrooin cleared, saving unknown asked him to unders a phoney spectators had madPthe temfyirij) arrest ije takin; rls at $2 a "death sign" v3onnck. day. He Wisented. and in the next This is a ge-.M-e imported from ! four years worked his way up t Europe a finger knuckle bitten j a Sino-a-week street corner bookie and pointed toward th witness. I for Hackmeyer, getting arrested It It has frozen nT mfn r' "omen I times in all. ' l- Established 1173 Former Son -In -Lav Of F.D.R. Kills John Boettiger Dies In Leap Of 7 Stories Mentally III Man Gains Open Window In Room After Dodging Nurse NEW YORK l.V John Boet tiger, former son-in-law of Presi dent Roosevelt, leaped to his death early today from his seventh-floor hotel suite. The 50-year-old newspaperman, who married the late President's only daughter, Anna, in IMS after a White House romance, dodged past a male nurse and jumped through an open window. Associates said Boettieer had been mentally depressed recently, and tour days ago took an overdose of sleeping pills. After his divorce in August, 1949, from the President's daughter, he was remarried. He left two notes, one of them illegible, the other addressed to his present wife. It said: "Good ni'ht, darling, we love you." Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. now living in California, charged , ... -r , .. , n . " ? team in publishing newspapers In Seattle and in Phoenix, Aris. Custody of their only child, John "rt Jr- " ;5dJ?h"; She has two other children, Eleanoi a nor "Sistie" and Curtis "Buiiie" Dall by a former marriage to New York ! investment banker Curtis Dall. . tne last year, ooeuiger n.s care of a male nurse, Joseph Payne, at his suite in Manhattan's Hotel Weylin at 40 east 54th street. Payne said that about 3:30 a.m. restlessness, and the nurse gave m.tiic smu lie uut-u uic wm- idow, then seated himself on a chair. I srairu iiiiunni uu a man, I with his feet on another chair and his body blocking the window. Boet- tiger got out of bed. Payne said. then wheeled suddenly and jerked the chair from beneath the nurse's feet. Using the chair to fend off the nurse. Boetti'er maneuvered , himself to the window and dived .i i. . ti.. iM.uuK.. ii wi - - pajama-clac. oooy lanaea on tne sidewalk below. ; Daly Phoenix. Aril., was reported en route, having been told of the sleep- "f ing pill episode, "hey were married new peak during the past year. Nov. 1, 1949 at The Hague, the I JJ " 'r8e number of World Netherlands. Her former husband w" 11 veterans drawing disabil was Richard Lunn. step-son of for-! 1,v compensation has greatly in mer Senator Wallace White of j creased the work of the local chap Main(. ter. Lynes asked everyone to sup MURDER CHARGE DENIED OREGON CITY Wayne Le- Roy Long peaded innocent Mon day to a murder indictment in the gun slaying of Portland carpen ter Walter Rucker. His trial was set for January. Long is also charged with armed robbery of a Portland branch of the First National b ank and wound ing an FBI agent in a gun battle. into complete silence in the middle of their testimony. But TomaPk kept on, naming nine out of 13 policemen who were Paded before him in private as . . ,,-l h,m ...... ROSEIURG, Pacific Highway Open In Entirety; Other Roads Shut SALEM i.Pv-The Pacific high way was open over its entire route through Oregon today as flood wat ers receded rapidly in southern Oregon. But the Oregon coast, Redwood, Willamette and Albany - Corvallis highways were still closed. The highway commission said the section of the Pacific highway be tween Myrtle Creek and Canyon ville is restricted to one-way light traffic. The coast highway was closed between Coquille and Bandon by high water. A slide near Lowell still blocked the Willamette highway. While the Redwood highway was reopened in Oregon, a big washout south of the state line closed this route between Grants Pass and Crescent City Both routes between Albany and rnrvallis were closed bv hiuh wa- j er. The CoosBay-Roseburg route was reopened today. The Tiller-Trail route was closed by a slide three miles above Tiller. The Siuslaw and Umpqua high ways were open today after being closed yesterday. Forget-Me-Not Sale Scheduled By Disabled Vets Roseburg Dean-Perrine chapter of the Disabled American Veterans wall conduct its annual Forget-Me-Not drive on Nov. 3 and 4, Com mander Ray C, Lynea announced today. All funds collected In Roseburg during the Forget-Me-Not drive will help disabled veterans in need. ComMunder Lynea pointed out that no part of the money will be ex pended for purposes other than welfare and every cent will re main in this community. President Trumsn purchased tne ""S -"" i' the Disabled American Veterans in its national sale this year. The President has endorsed the annual campaign and stated, "this is a welcome opportunity to extend In a small measure our gratitute to , , , , , . , " n Dec,"n" "" u" lem. our. n,l,on- n v. .m The Forget-Me-Nots will be sold b.v member, of the Veterans hospi- tal, Camp Fire Girls, members of f.V. auxiliary and I the , local D.A.V chap er. Roseburg a Mayor Albert G. Hegel has endorsed the drive and encouraged all citizens h,, . pr..M..M, .rf ,. - -"- - i' "j"-'; -J" " ""'ce ano renaoiiiua.ion port me rorgei-me-moi orive so me D.A.V. can continue to expand its welfare. mm . f i THI SOUTH APPROACH to th vill en th South Umpqua river flood Sunday. Th underpinnings o ORECON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1950 North Korean Resistance To Allies Grows Native Reds, Reinforced By Chinese, Trying To Extend War Into Winter IBr Tha AuocUUd Prawt North Koreans aided by an undetermined number of Chinese Communist troops stepped up their resistance today against United Nations forces on a 250 mile northern peninsula front be- , !ow , ,h Communist Manchurian ooroer. The mountainous front, easily penetrated by allied spearheads, has now become a blazing check erboard. The Communist aim ap parently is to stall United Nations forces until wintry blasts freeze the campaign into another year. A U. S. army spokesman in Wash ington said the belated appearance of Chinese troops shows Red Chi na's determination to protect the huge Suiho-Supong power dam on the Yalu river which supplies elec tricty for Manchurian points as dis tant as Harbin and the Russian naval base at Port Arthur. Field dispatches indicated the Reds have thrown scores of tanks and heavy guns into the fighting in all sectors. Against this mounting resistance, the only impressive gain of the day was made by an armored col umn of the U. S. 24th division. It skirted the British Common wealth 27th brigade and reached within 33 miles of the border. Proof of Chines Aid An intelligence officer at Gen. MacArthur'fi Tokyo headquarters confirmed that ten Chinese Reds werfcapinred in North Korea. He" added that there is no conclusive evidence that organized Chinese units hsve entered the fighting. However there was this indica tion of Chinese Communist partici pation: Chinese prisoners were captured in four widely separated areas. Re sistance has stiffened tremendously and there is evidence the North Koreans have received powerful reinforcements and additional arm ament. The reinforcements that have come into the fighting are well trained, the intelligence spokesman said. The sudden flurry of coun terattacks indicates that the North Koreans are again being directed from a general headquarters, that they have restored their communi canons . cations and have a definite plan i0f defense. toer NewS-KeviCW lOOOy Th News-Review is making special arrangements today t serve carrier routes into Riddle and CanyonviM. Motor carriers war unabl t get through to ither community Monday. A separat delivery was being r ganized today to supply th tw towns and intervening area. A4 U "sjnrr v.;fr.itv;':7!42?..'i.. fX bridge near Ford's at Canyon- was seriously damaged by th f th approach war ruined Washout Closes N. Umpqua Road Above Steamboat The North Umpqua road is closet! indefinitely by a washout tour miles above Steamboat. Reports of widespread flood dam age are coming in from the Ump qua national forest, but only a few sections have been contacted and no appraisal of loss is possible at present, Bob Aufderheide, super visor, reports. The washout is known to be ex tensive and will force road closure for 'several days, the supervisor said. No report has been received concerning road conditions between the washout and Toketee Falls Copco camp. Copco crews are working toward Steamboat. They are expected to report conditions later today. A slide blocking the North Ump qua road two miles west of Steam boat was cleared Monday. The Associated Plywood com pany's bridge across Little river to the Red Butte road was washed out. As telephone lines to the Tiller ranger station are down, no report has been received from the South Umpqua district, but damage to the South Umpqua river road above Tiller is expected to be extensive, Aufderheide says. New Pavement Cutting Machine Almost Silent FRANKLIN, Pa. UP) One of the big city's street noises may be partially stilled thanka to a new machine. Th Joy Manufacturing company announced it has developed a pavement cutrtM machine which maker relatively little din as it slices through concrete and bricks. Joy officials said the machine will be a boon to city dwellers who have trouble sleeping because of the rat-a-tat-tat of pneumatic ham mers used by street repair crews. The new machine, the company said, also will triple the speed and halve the cost of pavement re moval operations. The machine, mounted on rubber tired wheals, includes two 48-inch wheel cutting elements. Tungsten carbide tipped bita cut dual slots two inches wide in concrete and brick pavements up to 15 inches thick. When the machines are being turned out on a regular basis, (he company said, the price will be about (35,000 each. Truck-Switch Engine Collision Kills Driver KUGENE tP A train-truck collision near Oakridge killed Earl A. Cottengen, 55, of that town, branch manager of the Lane County Cooperative association today. State police said Cottengen was driving a co-op pickup truck when the collision occurred with a South ern Pacific switch engine. i sTTJ.verr' . by debris carried' by th flood watari. Th bridge was reitored to temporary uie today. (Rietur by Paul Jenkins.) 255-50 Himself New Storm Batters Part Of Flood Area Rest Of Northwest Gets Warning Of Possibility Of Further Heavy Rains PORTLAND A new storm struck the battered, flooded southern Oregon and northern Cal ifornia coasts today, and the weather bureau warned the rest of the Pacific Northwest to expect the diow anortiy. The area, struck by winds that claimed four lives, then floods that claimed five more, still has not recovered from successive storms of the past week. High water re ceded in most places, but still cov ered some roads today. Winds up to 40 miles an hour were expected in the new storm from the Pacific ocean. These were not expected to be particularly damaging, but the fear waa that heavy rains might also sweep in. with the ground already soaked, flooding again could result. Headwater streams that had driven 2.000 people from homes over the weekend were receding al most as fast as they had swirled out of their banks. Soma commu nities were still isolated behind flooded roads and broken or un safe bridgea. Many families in ru ral southern Oregon were ma rooned a third day. Father and Son Drown The evacuation of a Coquille val ley farm family led Monday to the drowning of a Leo A. Landive, 35, and son Dan, age 8. Landive s wite, another son and nieghbors Joe Howanirk and Tom lverson strug gled ashore when a rowboat cap sized in the churning river. Two of the other victims per ished in the same wild Oregon coastal range river earlier. The Willamette's crest rolled northward today through t h heavily populated and fertile farm land valley that stretches 100 miles from Eugene to Portland. Willamette's Crest Ralls The Willamette river crest rolled past Albany today, flooding some lowlands and reaching up to 26 feet on the high banks there. That was six feet above official flood level, but the water did not get into the city. The crest soon reached the Sa lem area. It was not expected to go above 23 feet at Salem, three feet above flood level, but too low to cause much damage. Only low-lying pastures and rural roads were affected. At Myrtle Point, Mayor J. M. Meyers said 40 buildings in town and about 250 homes outside the city limits were flooded. He said all residents were safe and he aaid there was enough food at hand until roads were opened. In addition to the evacuations at Glenwood and Springfield, a Red Cross official said there were per haps 600 motorists stranded there when highways were covered. This situation was repeated elsewhere over th weekend. -in mi i ai era 'ssk MCasaii laiirj sse I Safety Instructions Issued By Health Office; Additional Details Of Havoc Are Received Tha water supplies of Sutherlin, Myrtla Creek, Riddla and Canyonvill hav been damaged by tha weekend flood. Th Doug las County Health department today Issued an order that all water in that cities should b boild befor drinking. Ih health department alio rqusts all parsons having springs and wells as a sourc of water which war flooded should rci( special car In protecting their health. All drink ing water should be boiled, or treated with chlorine, until th sourc of supply has been thoroughly purified. Information for cleaning and sanitixing springs and Red Cross Field Heads Arrive To Aid Flood Victims Red Cross Field Supervisor Larry Woods and Miss Edith Ol son, assistant director, nursing ser vice, from the San Francisco of fice, arrived today to assist the local chapter with disaster rehabil itation plans. Mrs. R. E. Herman, local execu tive secretary, haa been conduct ing the work in Roseburg. and will continue to do so, with the assist ance of the field office advisors. Also Keith McCoy from the San Francisco office was scheduled to arrive. He will work in the Myr tle Creek section with Mrs. Madge Gazley. . The work of rehabilitation will be a long one, said Mrs. Herman. It will consist first of spot checking damaged homes and coordinating information from other agencies. A detailed check will be made later, and final awards to disaster vic tims will be determined by a lo cal committee. Red Cross work consists of two phases, said Woods. First is emer gency, during the disaster period, ami the second is rehabilitation. Disaster osses are met by the Red Cross on a basis of need, plus the fact certain losses must be re placed. Renlacemei.ts can be made of food, clothing, repair of homes, and replacement of furniture, nut each case Is determined on an in dividual basis, he said. The aid of other civic and vet erans organizations was highly commended by Mrs. Herman. Many persons, she said, worked without rest during the emergency period. The Eagles lodge has been feeding large numbers of evacuees. Most of the food has been donated by groups and individuals. Freezing Weather Hits Much Of Eastern Oregon (Br tha AMoclated Pnul Freezing weather struck wide sections of eastern Oregon early today, sending the thermometer as low as 22 degrees. It touched. that low reading at Baker and Prineville, worrying po tato growers in the region around Prineville. Skim ice covered the ground to day, but growers hsd hopes the unharvested potato crop escaped damage, since the mercury soon rose above freezing. Some of the crop has been dug up, but digging was suspended last week, when heavy storms struck. The growers were to resume today, speeding the process in an attempt to save the rest of the crop. La Grande and Bend reported lows of 27 degrees, Klamath Falls 26, Burns 28 and Lakeview 32. Plotters Against Tito Receive Prison Terms BELGRADE, Yugoslavia WP A former army major and 12 com rades accused of plotting the over throw of Marshal Tito were given prison terms of from five to 15 years by a district court Monde?. Vilihald Tomasic, 40-year-old for mer officer in the Yugoslav army, was the leader of the group of peasants, merchants and intellec tuals alleged to have distributed leaflets uming farmers to stay out of government-sponsored collective farms and to sabotage government grain collections. He also waa ac cused of seeking aid from Ameri can and other foreign embassies. Tomasic was sentenced to 15 yesrs. Shoots His Son-ln-Low In Mistake For Squirrel PEORIA, III. m A Peoria man was in serious condition to day from a bullet wound in the head because he was mistaken for a squirrel h.v his father-in-law. The hunting mishap occurred Sunday on a farm near Carthage, III. R. F. Bracken, 35. of Peoria, his father-in-law, Archie Stuart of La Hupe. 111., and two other men were atalking squirrels. The story related by Bracken's wife, Mary, is that Bracken spied several squirrels in a tall tree. Afle w aiting some time for a shot with out glimpsing them again, he climbed the tree hoping to flush them. As red haired Bracken worked his way among upper branches of the tree, Stuart caught the glint of sunlightlon what he thought was a red squirrel. He fired, hitting Braiken near the base of the skull. Filipino Bandits Loot Train, Kill 3 Employes MANILA (.It Twenty -five armed bandits netted more than 0.000 pesos IS40.000) today in day light raids on a pay car and a passenger train near Manila. Three railroad employes were killeil and three wounded. There was no estimste of th money and valuables lifted front passengers. walls may be had at tha health department offic in Roseburg. Sutherlin. which hall water a foot and a hall deep in its main streets and three inches deep in many stores, reports a broken water main and flooded pumps. Myrtl Creek has a broken main line. A log jam broke loose the main Una of the Canyonville system, and tha RWdle water intake was blocked. Crews are at work repairling broke lines and chlorinaters. The stat board of health is sending a chlor inator from Salem. Red Crass Faces Long Job Flood waters in the county hav receded and major highways ara open, but the long rehabilitation job of the Red Cross, at well as that of private individuals and damaged industries, has just be gun. Reports of damage anil loss of livestock, automobilea and property continue to trickle in, but it will still be a long time before th full extent of damage from th week end's flash flood which swept Doug las county can be assessed. Tragedy, Rescues Told A man in a taxi was swept away by the water at a bridge near Riddle, but he was rescued. Stories of heroism anil the terror of racing, surging water has com out of towns which caught the blunt of th fooding. At Myrtle Creek, C. L. Lindquist told of realizing his plight when he saw a neigh bor's chickens float by his nous along the Umpqua river. "We ran out of the door and juat barely had time to get our car out onto the highway. W stopped by tne bridge over th south umpqua just in time to see our cowl going by," he related. Ike Orr, Ritldle cowboy and oper ator of th Riddle Billiards, used his lariat experience to advantage. He tossed a rope over an overhead wire to lift a woman from a taxi roof, where ahe clung as th water awirled upward. She was swung free juat as the cab started roll ing downstream, aqt pauodal uauispjena isuoriiN rescue of a crippled war veteran, Robert Newton, anil his wife as the river poured into their car. - Reports of herosim in the rescu efforts are too numeous to men tion. Men in boats braved danger- (Continued On Pag Two) Neewolloh Parade Will Start At 6:30 Tonight Tonight the fifth annual Neewol- lah parade will be held in Rose burg. The parade will start at th corner of Douglas and Jackson streets. Anyone not knowing where they are to report to assemble are asked to come to the above named corner, lrv Pugh will announce on a public address system telling th youngsters where to go. Marlen Yodcr, general cnairman, asks that all Jaycees be ther at 6.00 tonight, to help out. The pa rade will start at 6:30. The Knights of Pythias Drum and Bugle corps and the Koseourg nign scnoot prep hand will provide th music for th occasion. Five Hunters Blast At 17-Deer Herd; All Miss GRAND JUNCTION, Col. Five Grand Junctio hunters lumped a hard of 17 dear approx imately 15 yards away n Pinen Mesa, and started firing. When the firing was aver, all the deer ran away without a scratch. Three of th five earned expert riflemen badges in the armed forces. Puerto In Throes Of Its Worst Rebellion SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (.W National guard planea and infantry launched a combined strafing and ground attack today on two towns held by U. S.-hating Nationalists who yesterday launched a revolt in 10 Puerto Rican centers. Late reports raised the toll of th rebellion worst in the island's his tory to 28 dead and 22 wounded. Marin, the apparent target of on attack on the governor'a palace in San Juan, declared the rebellion a "conspiracy against democracy helped by the Communists." The Weather Cloudy with dceaiional rtin Hilt tvning and Wtdndy. Highttt Ump, for any Oct. .... H Low it ttmp. for any Oct - 71 High it ttmp. yottarday . $1 Lowait tamp, ait 24 hours 35 Precipitation last 34 hours .04 Procipitation from Oct. I 1171 f icats procip. from Oct. 1 10.07 Procipitation from Sopt. 1 .. 13.34 Sunsat today, 5:07 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:47 Levity Fact Rant By L T Retinstein Don't forgot to rmid Junior that offer tonight ho muiiOb e good littl boy' until (ond In- ciMiiMji curiittmn or i