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WILFRIED MAEDING obligingly posei for a publicity picture
' at McDonald's lea Creamery, with Lila Sallee and Carol Sue
Carnei, who had left their respective nearby offices for a custo
mary mid-afternoon milkshake. The affair was conducted with
speed; when the flashbulbs exploded and the radio reporters
present started to leave, Wilfried exclaimed, with proper and
understandable disappointment, "Shucks, is that all?" (Now,
there's a young man I could like. We would seem to have a
community of interest, I'd say. -
The finding out about American manners and customs and
American everyday modes of life is the occasion for Maeding's
visit to Roseburg. One of a group here at the invitation of radio
station KRNR and under its sponsorship, he is living in a Roseburg
home, working at a Roseburg retail, store and being entertained
in his spare time by its mayor, its banker, its baker and its candle
stick maker. '
We hope he likes us; that he finds us friendly and kindly, and
we hope he understands us, although we freely confess that we
do not in the least understand ourselves. For our part we can
feel assured that Wilfried Maeding is a most excellent young
man and that his youth, in view of his experiences, is extremely
deceptive. For years he was a member of the German anti
Communist underground and the Russians have a price upon
his head.
Americanism Amazes
Exchange Student Given
Eyeful Of Real Democracy
During Stay In Roseburg
After his first day at work at Nielsen's market, Wilfried
Maeding of Berlin, Germany, was amaied at the informal rela
tion between management and employees.
''When I was introduced to the employees," said Maeding,
"the manager slapped them on the back and called them by their
first names. It was very collegiate."
Last Chance To Talk
To Santa Claus Tonight
Remember kids! Tonight's your
last chance to talk directly with
Santa Claus at Hie North Pole
and tell him your Christmas wants.
The Junior chamber of com
merce has made arrangements to
place calls directly to Santa Claus
between the hours of 7:30 and 9
p. m. It is necessary only for the
children to pick up the telephone
and tell central they wish t'j speak
to Santa.
Army's Olympic Entry
Killed In Korean War
ATLANTA (&) Capt. Arthur
H. Truxes Jr., 27, selected as the
army's entry in the 1952 Olympic
penthalon, has been killed in Korea.
Capt. Truxes, Atlanta, received
orders last June to return to this
country in August to train for the
laae Olympic game.
Instead he requested a
from Tokyo to Korea.
Pardon Slated
Criminal Who Composed
Cantata In His Prison Cell
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NASHTVILLE, Tenn. (API Frank M. Grandstaff, who
composed the 70-page "Big Spring Cantata" in his prison cell,
soon will be a free man.
It is believed he will be the first ever pardoned as an habi
tual criminal in Tennessee.
fefore an announcement by Governor Gordon Browning
Wednesday, the 49-year-old convict-composer faced the pros
pect of spending the rest of his life behind prison walls.
Browning said, "I am giving himi
a pardon to let hinCget out of the ,, -,. . O ',
state. All the matters for which he ? 'In ?"t 0 Tch my 'SI'1'
was convicted were verv small of- Lknowl.1 ave made errors For
fenscs and I am not satisfied to j s hwh uh."ve s,2dKby me' I"n
leave him there " e W1" nevie a time they
The Governor,' savine he would j" ,e.e' ,!'!h"mwl 'me- For tho,e
sign the pardon papers, added he i d",'l"!l, me' 1 mu5t prove
understood Grandstaff wilaneo to ! them wron-
Indiana or Texas. w
The cantata was the key thatne " uo " 10 'he Catholic ca
unlocked nrienn rinAM for hrnnsCPtherdral here "and droD down on
staftJS) week of freedomin Big I
Spring, Tex., in .October .0(949. It
was inspired by awook written by
druggist Karl PhilipGrandstaff
was guest of honor at the Big
Spring centennial.
Grandstaff's record shows 20 of
fenses, mostly larceny. It was a
Memphis larceny that brought him
m(a the lite sentence 10 years ago.
"I can't believe this wonderful
thing has happened to me." Graml
V staff said when told the pardon
was coming. "I have tried to an-
b-Tjt.
K
Maeding is one or the foreign
students from the University of
Oregon visiting Roseburg and
working in local businesses for a
week as promoted by KRNR.
The tall curly-haired youth is
stocking shelves at Nielsen's and
trying to sandwich in a tour of the
city between working hours.
Wednesday afternoon, Mayor A 1
Flegel took him and five other
students to the Roseburg Lumber
company. The young German
couldn't contain himself when he
saw the size of the operation. "It's
much bigger than any we have in
Germany," he said.
Other sources of astonishment to
him were the extensive Christmas
decorations and the unconcern of
passers-by when the group was
having its picture taken op the
street. "In Germany, when pic
tures are being taken, you get a
big crowd in no time," he said
Saw Berlin Crumble
Wilfried came to this country a
little over four months ago to at
tend the university on a scholar-
transfer j snip from the United States gov
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For Habitual
Grandstaff said the first thing
mY knees in prayer. Then I'll get
in touch with the girl lshouldhave
married 30 years agcVThen I'll go
io see .my motner again
The "girl," he said, is Mrs. Mil
dred Mctonkey of Fort Wayne, Ind.
He said tney plan to marry.
At Fort Wayne. Mrs. McConkey,
47, (SY'swing shift" worker for Gen
eraftlectric, said she couhl hardly
believe the news, she added that
when Grandstaff is freed. "I am
going to marry him." Each has
been married twice before.'
Established 1873
Stabilization
Director Also
Draws Action
Big Industries Announce
Price Rollbacks; G.M.C.
Appeal Turned Down
. WASHINGTON UP) Charles
E. Wilson took office today as di
rector of defense mobilization and
immediately appointed General
Lucius Clay and banker Sidney
Weinberg as his assistants.
Wilson, former president of Gen
eral Electric, told reporters of the
two appointments at the White
House after taking the oath of of
fice in President Truman's pres
ence. Clay, former U. S. commander
at Berlin, is relinquishing his du
ties as chairman of the board of
the Continental Can Co.
Weinberg is senior partner of
Golc'man, Sachs and Company,
New York investment banking
firm. He was a vice-chairman of
the War Production board in
World War II.
Already, in another step toward
cushioning the shock of the de
fense buildup on the nation's econ
omy, the government had asked
2S0 large corporations to give at
least seven days' notice before
raising prices on any major prod
ucts. Economic Stabilization Director
Alan Valentine said this would give
his agency time to study the pro
posals and decide if they were jus
tified. If not, the agency could ask
or order their abandonment.
Valentine telegraphed the com
panies to give such advance
notices on any line in which they
do an annual business of $500,000
or more, - - -
The Economic Stabilization
agency also told General Motors
corporation that its appeal for
modification of an automobile
price roll-back has been rejected.
Compliance Started
Two firms asked lo help hold
the price line International Har
vester company and Socony-Vac-uum
Oil company wired agree
ment to go along. Sinclair Oil
Corp. officials said their company
would comply. And Standard Oil
company (New Jersey) officials
said compliance was up to affili
ated operating firms but added
they would be "surprised if the af
filiates did not go along."
International Harvester an
nounced it is withdrawing price
increases announced Dec. 12 and
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Red Assault
Hurled Back
At Beachhead
TOKYO I API The Hung
nam beachhead lay quiet today
after allied land-sea-air bar
rages mowed down and rolled
back the Reds' most menacing
attack on the perimeter.
Frozen bodies of Chinese and
white-robed Korean Reds lit
tered the snow-crusted easr
flank of the United Nations de
fense ring where the attack was
made.
Communist survivors appar
ently were numbed to a stand
still by the fury of 'round-the-clock
bombardment Wednesday
by allied warships, planes and
land artillery.
Quiet also was reported on
the western Korean front.
General MacArthur's head
quarters reported the Chinese
had suffered heavy losses at a
ratio of 10 to I during the
darkest days of the allied re
treat from molt of North Korea,
Nov. 27 to Dec. 12.
The United Nations corrayan
der reported U.N. casualties I .
the Nov. 27-Dec. 12 period at
I?, 975, not including those suf
fered by Republic of Korea
forces.
The Weathef
Generally fair today, tonight and
Friday.
Highest temp, for any Dtc- 70
Lowest temp, for any Dec. 5
Highest temp, yesterday 54
Lowest temp, last 14 hrs 44
Precip. last 24 hours 0
Precip. frem Dec. 1 4.1 T
Excess from Dec. 1 72
Precip. frem Sept. 1 23.07
Sunset today, 4:40 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:42 a. m.
ROSEBURG,
Draft Dodger Gets
Prison Sentence
ALFRED BERGDOLL
In Father's Footsteps
NEW YORK (JP) Alfred
Bergdoll, son of Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, notorious draft dodger of
World War I, was sentenced today
to five years in prison for dodging
the 1950 draft.
Bergdoll, $23 - a - week clerk,
pleaded guilty last Monday to fail
ure to report for physical exami
nation last August 21 and to repdrt
for induction into the armed forces
November 9.
Kids' Christmas Party
Set At Local Theaters
The annual children's Christmas
party, sponsored by the local Elks
lodge, will he held at the three
local movie theaters Saturday aft
ernoon. The Christmas program will in
clude free moving pictures, and
Santa Claus will be on hand to dis
tribute candy treats to the chil
dren in each of the three theaters.
The Elks hand the city of Hose
burg over to the children each
year on the Saturday before Christ
mas. The Christmas program is
financed by the profits from the
organization's annual minstrel
shows.
The program will get underway
at the theaters at about 1 p.m.
Saturday.'
Truman Sends Holiday
Message To Armed Units
WASHINGTON -J.V) President
Truman's holiday message to
members of the armed forces says
their mission "is lo strengthen
and to give hope to all who seek
peace on earth.
The brief message concludes:
"May the real spirit of Christ
mas abide with you, and may all
ol us, in concert with all free peo
ples, come nearer in the New Year
to realizing man's ultimate dream
ot liberty, justice and freedom
O Pi ' Qr. Pis' ' ' 4 0 r-. H T '
& w w v if '-4 1
LEGION SCOUT TROOP Members of the troop attended the Americen Legion Christmas party
at the armory Wednesday night. Santa Claus was on hand and treats were distributed to the
scouts and many other children. The program consisted of Christmas movies and several musical
acts. From left to right, top row, they ere Steven Reed, Mike Overton, Eddie Lindell, Art Man
villa, Jeff Schultze (Explorer and junior assistant scoutmaster), Scoutmaster Ray Lorance, Mike
Vasey, Jim Sehulze, David Otterman, Frank Benson, Loren Anderson and Leonerd Chamberlain.
Members of the troop not appearing in the picture are Laurence Lawson, Maurice Schultz, John
Jolion and Darryl Major, (Picture by Paul Jenkins).
ORECON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950
Tax On Excess
Profits Given
Senate's O.K.
Difference With House
Version Sends Measure
To Joint Conference
WASHINGTON UP) Con
gresj drove today for a hurry-up
agreement on terms of an excess
profits tax to skim billions from
corporation earnings.
The Senate gave the measure
hasty approval Wednesday, after
a sketch-thc highlights report from
its tax-writing finance committee
on what the bill would do.
Designed to tax away an addi
tional $3,200,000,000 of this year's
corporation profits, and far bigger
sums as defense spending mounts,
the bill differes radically from the
form in which the House had
passed it earlier.
Today a committee of Senate
and House members took over,
seeking a compromise.
Senator George (D-Ga), head
ing the conferees, said the bill un
doubtedly contains errors that the
next Congress will have to cor
rect. But on the whole, he told the
Senate, it is the best that could
be devised in his short session ol
Congress.
As passed by the Senate the
measure would beost the corpora
tion surtax from 20 percent to 22
percent, to go along with the ex
cess profits levy. The House had
proposed no surtax change, but its
version of the excess profits levy
was far less mild.
Both House and Senate already
are agreed, however, on a 75 per
cent tax on assumed "excess prof
its" defined as1 earnings that 'ex
ceed 85 percent of the average for
the three best years from 196
through 1949. And both agree the
tax should ba retroactive to last
Julv 1.
The senate bill declares that the
combined corporation income tax
surtax and excess profits levy
may not take more than 60 per-
cent of any firm's net income. The
House had proposed a 67 percent
ceiling.
The senate measure provides at
ternative methods, for firms to
compute the excess profits tax
The main option allows them to
claim exemption credits equal to
8 to 12 percent or tneir assets.
Firms earning less than $25,000
a year would be exempt from
both tax boosts.
The pending bill would fall well
short of the $4,000,000,000 goal Mr.
Truman set for it to raise this cat
endar year, but George and his
senate finance committee esti
mated it would bring in $4,000,.
000.000 to $5,000,000,000 next year,
The Senate and House disagree as
to which branch's versions would
bring in more revenue.
BONUS DEADLINE CITED
SALEM (.IP) The deadline
for applying for soldiers' bonuses
in Delaware, Indiana. Iowa, Min
nesota and Louisiana is December
31, the State. Veterans department
said.
$mm job
Hoover Urges U.S.
To 'Arm To Teeth
Defend
Stop Sending Troops, Money
Overseas Until Nations Arm
Selves, Ex-President Advises
NEW YORK (API Former President Herbert Hoover
urged the nation last night to concentrate on fortifying the
Western heminphere as a "Gibraltar."
He called on his fellow-countrymen to arm to the teeth
to hold the Atlantic and Pacific
of Britain, Japan, Formosa and
Mr. Hoover, speaking on radio and television, said it would
be "sheer folly" to engage in
in Asia or the continent of Europe.
Regional Safety
Group Organized
For County Duty
The Governor's Roseburg Re
gional Safety committee held an
organizational meeting in the city
hall here Tuesday night, ana oi
ficers were elected.
The Rev. Willis F. Erickson, 242
South Rose, was elected chair
man; E. R. Titcomb of Rock Island
Lumber Co., Sutherlin, vice
chairman; Henry Wilcox of Pat
terson's Bakery, secretary, and J.
P. Motschenbacher, publicity.
Attending the meeting from
Salem were Charles F. Bollinger,
assistant director, accident preven
tion division of the Slate industrial
Accident commission; II. M. Ste
vens and George Smith, local rep
resentatives for the commission.
The organization's purpose is to
cooperate with employers and em
ployees in accident prevention as
well as promote safety in the home,
school, on the highway and in other
activities.
Bollinger stated four cities have
organized Governor's Regional
Safety committeei and other com
mittees and other committees are
being organized. He also reported
on the accomplishment of the other
committees and the favorable co
operation given by their respective
communities. In promoting safe
working . conditions, training pro
grams and the encouragement of
employee interest and participation
in such programs or in promoting
safety on the highway or in the
schools, if one fatal accident has
been averted, the program is con
sidered a success, he said.
Particularly unsafe conditions in
Ihe vicinity of Roseburg were dis
cussed at the meeting. Rev. Mr.
Erickson appointed the committee
to investigate such situations.
Those atending were Rev, Mrs.
Erickson. Titcomb,- Wilcox, Mot
schenbacher. Gene Miller, Ted
Pursia, .Howard Cracroft, A. W.
Kenney. William Green, Smith and
Stevens.
The next meeting will be Jan. 26.
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oceans, with the island outposts
the Philippines.
land war with Communist hordes
He urged the united States to
"arm our air and naval forces to
the teeth" to defend the frontiers
he laid out.
Mr. Hoover said the communists
could never break through Ameri
can sea and air power to invade
the Western Hemisphere. "They
can no more reach Washington in
force than we can reach Moscow,"
he declared.
At another point, he expressed
the opinion that the atomic uamb
is "a far lesa dominant weapon
that it was once thought to be."
The only living ex-president,
making one of the most imnm-iant
addresses of his long public ca
reer, saia "11 is clear that the
United Nations are defeated in Ko
rea.
It would be "inviting auothor Ko
rea, ne declared, to send more
troops, or money to Western Eu
ropean nations before they had
armed themselves as a "uie dam
against the Red flood."
Defense of Western continental
Europe rests primarily on the Eu
ropean nations themselves, the 7a.
year-old former President aaid.
we nave little need for large
armies unless we are going to
Europe or China," he said. "Land
war with the communist masses in
Western Europe "would be the
graveyard of millions of American
boys and would end in the exhaus
tion of this Gibralter of western
civilization."
Mr. Hoover said Western Eu.
ropean nations should arm them
selves with combat divisions of
"huge numbers" before the United
States lands "another man or an
other dollar on their shores "
His demand for a new foreign
arms policy came one day after
President Truman named Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower as su
preme commander of Western Eu
ropean forces and said additional
U. S. troops would be sent there
as soon as possible.
He urged that the United States
free Japan and help her rearm;
stiffen the defenses of Formosa
and the Philippines; reduce non
military expenses, balance the
budget and roll back inflation; aid
other nations that show "spirit and
strength" in defending them
selves against communism; and
engage in no appeasement any
where "no more Teherans and
Yallas." '
Mr. Hoover proposed that the
United Nations lake these actions
against communist China: declare
it an aggressor, refuse it member
ship, demand that U. N. members
cease supplying it with militarily
useful goods; and adopt a resolu
tion condemning the "infamous
lies" about the United States.
The ex president criticized the
British for "flirting with ap
peasement of communi.it China.'
Mrs. Caraway,
Ex-Senator, Dies
WASHINGTON - (IP) Mrs,
Hattie W. Caraway', 72, of Arkan
sas, first woman ever elected to
the United States Senate, died to
day at White Hall sanitarium at
Falls Church, Va.
She had been ill since Jan. 11.
Her condition took a turn lor the
worse Jan. 18 v4n she hnd i
stroke jlJiich left her partly para
IvreH. v
lyzed.
.-Mrs. Caraway was a senator for
slightly more than 13 years dur
ing the administration of the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A Democrat, Mrs. Caraway went
to the Senate Nov. 13. 19.11. by ap
pointment to succeed her late hus
band. Thaddcus Caraway. Later
she won one special and two regu
lar elections.
While not the first woman to
hold a senate seat Rebecca Lat
imer Feltnn of Georgia was dp
pointed in 1922 lo till out a vacancy
Mrs. faraway was Ihe first
member of her sex to win a sena
torial election.
Until she entered the Senate,
Mrs. Caraway was known as a
homebody.
Brandy Bar
Quarry Scene
Of Tragedy
Workers Buried Under
Tons Of Rock; 5th Man
Injured, Not Seriously
Four men are dead three of
them buried under thousands of
tons of rock and another waa
injured as the result of a prema
ture explosion at the Kern, Kibby
and Mc Kinnon rock quarry near
Reedsport Wednesday.
The dead:
' Ceerge Kleut, Reedsport.
John Doyle, Reedsport.
Norman Aspley, 4534 NE Lom
bard St. Portland.
Charles Whitney, Rt, 4, Box
118, Tacoma, Wash.
The injured:
John M. Peterson, I2S Em
pire St., Bujto, Mont.
Whitney died last night at Keizer
hospital. North Bend, where he and
Peterson were taken following the
blast. Peterson was expected to
live. His injuries were listed cs not
serious.
Two men managed to cling to a
small ledge high on the 200-foot
wall when the premature blast
dropped an estimated 10.000 to 15,
000 tons of boulders to the quarry
floor. Witnesses saw three of the
victims fall amid the massive rock
pile.
Whitney and Peterson were
struck by rocks showering among
some 40 men working on the job,
which supplied material for an
Umpqua river mouth jetty project.
Tragedy Described
Deputy Sheriff Cecil Bcver, re
porting on the investigation made
by himself. Officer James Joy of
the state police and Deputy Cor
oner John Unger, said a crew of
seven men were working on a ledge
about 150 feet above the floor of
the Brandy Bar quarry Wednesday.
One hole had been loaded with
eight boxes of powder and waa
being prepared for shooting by
Kleut, a powderman employed
with the company for 17 years.
The other hole had been loaded
with seven boxes of powder, Bever
reported.
The officers were, told that the
fipcl Bhnt iy.nl nit nMi,.nh.J.i
blowing off the face of the ciiff
and carrying five of the seven men
with the rock.
The two men who saved them
selves by clinging to a ledge were
Sam Knight, Lakeside, and Gui
seppe . Broneonisio, Reedsport. By
the time ropes were dropped to
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Accord Reached
In Rail Dispute
WASHINGTON (Pi The
White House today announced a
threeyear peace pact between
the major railroads and four
operating rail unions.
The agreement provides:
For 120,000 railroad yardmen
an Immediate increase of 23
cents an hour, with another two
cents on Jan. 1 and cost of liv
ing adjustments every three
months beginning next April 1.
The adjustments are to be made
at the rate of one cent an hour
for every rise or fall of one
point in the government', con
sumer's price index.
The 23-cent pay boost Is rttro
active to Oct. 1.
For about 180,000 road service
workers an immediate In
crease of five cents an hour,
alio retroactive to Oct. I, and
another fjve cants effective Jan.
1, plus the same cost of living
arrangement.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As these words are written, we
have a commander for our forces
in Europe. General Ike has just
been named to fill that post. Ha
is the best man in the world lor
the job. Not only is he an able
military leader. Our European al
lies have complete confidence in his
fairness. ,
AM, THAT REMAINS IS 'IO
FIND (and train and equip) AN
ARMY FOR GENERAL IKE TO
COMMAND.
V'here will such an army come
from?
(.wouldn't know. So far as I can
gainer from what I read,, NO
BODY knows.
e
Britain?
The present strength of Britain's
armed forces is 708,200. Or these,
375,200 are in he British army;
198, mx) are in the Royal air force;
1 .14 900 Wt-t? in Ihe Ttnvnl navv.
. SEVEN EIGHTHS OF BRIT
AIN'S liKUUiNIJk IKUUI'S A K t,
SERVING "OVERSEAS,,
all over the world. Wherever they
arc, they're in hot water as in Ma
laya where guerrilla lighting ap.
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Levity Fact Rant
By L F Relzonstcin
On Christmas rush you
won't set: Industries and re
tailers complying with the ad
ministration's "request" (not
ardor) to roll back prices.