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6 O o GOVT. Sever Diplomatic Tie With Russia, Sen. Bridges Asks End Farce Of Trying To Deal With Stalin, Purge State Dept. Of Termites, Senator Demands WASHINGTON (AP) Asserting that the United States already is fighting communism "in World War 111," Senator Bridges (R-NH) called today for a break in diplo matic relations with Russia. Bridges, top Republican on the senate armed services and appropriations committee, said there must be round-the-clock production and universal military service to build the fighting machine to win "a war far more deadly than any in the recorded history of mankind." The New Hampshire senator sided with Senator McC.tr ran (D-Nev) in a demand for military aid to the Chinese Nationalists through the blockade of Red China and encour agement of guerrilla activities there. All Volunteering Must Be Through Local Draft Units WASHINGTON UP) Presi dent Truman today directed that all youths volunteering for the armed services must do so through their local draft boards. Under his order, the volunteer must file an application with his board for voluntary induction. This is required whether or not the volunteer has been registered. If a registrant is unable to re turn to his local board to volun teer, he may file application with the local board in the area where he may be residing at the time of his decision. Unller the regulations, a man fil ing for voluntary induction will be classified as soon as possible and placed in the class available for military service if he qualifies. A man not required to be regis tered for induction who "oi'ini"-rs will b registered and given a se lective service number hi tne same manner as those required to regis ter. Th White House made public Mr. Truman's order without any immediate explanatory state ments. It was not clear whether it would leave the volunteer free to enter the service of his choice. . At present, the navy and the air force have been- receiving all1 Ihe volunteers they can handle. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Quite apart from the fighting in Korea, there are interesting signs in the sky as this is written. One of them is the UN s bid to communist China for i peace settlement. I imagine you haven't much hope .that it will get anywhere. I know I haven't. But let's put it this way: When industrial disputes reach the point where further negoti ations are impossible, a strike nearly always follows. History tell us that when international disputes reach the point where the diplo mats can no longer find an excuse to get together and talk things over war usually follows. So let's not be utterly cynical about these UN peace moves. Another interesting sign in the sky: In his annual economic message to Congress, President Truman no. tifies the lawmakers that our na tion's security will demand lending and spend in a authority totalling 140 billion dollars for this fiscal year and the next. Then he adds: i "It should be the first principle of policy to MAINTAIN A BAL ANCED BUDGET and to finance (Continued on page four) Sgt. H. H. Stinnett Listed Missing In Korean War Army Sgt. Henry Stinnett .lr.. son of Henry H. Stinnett, Kose burg route 3, is listed as missing in action, in the latest casualty list for the Korean area fighting The Associated Press report states that the report brings lo 6.1 the number of Oregon men missing in action, 55 killed or died of wounds, 98 wounded and 1.". in jured. The totals were adjusted to in clude among the dead those who first were reported wounded o r missing who later ?re added to the list of dead. MODESTY FOR MAIDENS JAKARTA, Indonesia I.VI Tourists will no Inncer he permit ted to photograph the bare-bosomecf. beauties of Ball in the flesn. Governor Susanto Triloprkdjo, head of the lesser Sunda isles, which include Bali, has imposed the ban. It is part of the emanci pation if Balinese women, he ex plained. 0 The Weather Showers today, tonight end Tuesday. Decreasing wind today, increasing giion Tuesday. Highest ttmp. for any Jan. .. 71 Lowttt tamp, for any Jan -4 Highait ttmp. yesterday - 0 Lowttt tamp, last 24 hrs 44 Prtcip. last 24 hours , ?a Pracip. from Jan. I .. 1.11 Praeip. from Sept. 1 25.94 Dtfic. from Jan. I .41 Sunsat today, 4:57 p.m. Sunriso tomorrow, 7:42 a.m. fo) 9 The two lawmakers spoke out in speeches prepared for the resump tion of a bitter senate debate over foreign policy. McCarran said that unless a sec ond front is opened in China Afri can troon.s will go on "taking one licking Jer another" in Korea. He said making it possible 'or Chinese Nationalists on Formosa to invade the mainland "offers the best chance of retrieving victory in Asia." MCarran already has of fered a bill to provide $1,000,000,000 m military aid to the Nationalists. Congress O. K. Advised Bridges and McCarran were only two of several senators who plan ned to continue the senate dirbite over international policies, center ing primarily around the iss'le of sending additional American ti'Oups to help bolster Western Europe's defenses against communism. That issue took a new turn over the weekend when Senator Geo -ge (D-Ga), oldest member of the sen ate foreign relations committee in point of service, said in a state ment that President Truman must (let Congress" approval for such a move if he expects to attain na tional unity. The two Illinois senators, mem bers of different parties, agroed lhat Mr. Truman has the authority to send Iroops but that he should not use it without Congress' ap proval. Mr. Truman has said he wi'l con sult Congress but won't be bound by it on the question of dispatch ing groun forces to Europe End Farce, Bridges Demands Scnatoi Bridges said there in't any use trying to negotiate futtoer with Stalin, adding that "we had as well try to treat with Saian.' "Let us have an end to the diplo matic farce," he said. "We slu.ild immediately outlaw international (Continued on page Two) Dr. Paul Magnuson, Medical Director Of Y.A., Ousted WASHINGTON (VP) Dr. Paul B. Magnuson, medical director of the Veterans administration, says he has been ousted from his job. He accused administrator Carl R. Gray Jr. of endorsing policies which he said "are certain to wreck the whole VA medical set up." Gray, who announced he had "accepted" Magnuson's resigna tion, effective today, told a re porter that there were "differ ences of opinion which apparently could not be reconciled." But Magnuson told newsmen he had refused to offer a requested resignation. He said the resigna tion Gray mentioned had been of fered more than two years ago. The two officials have been at loggerheads ever since Magnuson became chief medical director in 1948. He had been assistant direc tor since 1945. Magnuson said the main issue was who should operate VA hospi tals doctors or non-medical men. Magnuson said he had fought to keep doctors in control while Gray wanted non medical officials to do the administrative work. . Magnuson's successor will be Vice Admiral Joel T. Boone. Boone was removed last Feb. 28 as chief of the Defense department's med ical services after sharp difference with then Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson over cutbacks i n military hospitals. Meeting Slated Tuesday For New Sewer Proposal The Douglas county he'alth rii H partment is sponsoring a meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in me cir cuit court room of the county court house for people interested in hav ing sewers installed west ot the city limits along Melrose road as far as the home of Albert Micelli and west of the present North ! Roseburg sanitary district to Hu I crest, including Keasey and Cal kins roads lo the river, according to county Sanitarian I.aveme Miller. Four Men Lose Lives I In Bomber's Fiery Crash CHICAGO i.P At least rtur men died in the flaming wrecKage I of a B-25 bomber which crashed early today shortly after asking O Hara field for landing instruc tion?. The O'Hara field control tower said the plane had a crew of five and that they were members of me nai onat guaru misi mmn . .k. ,,,B i it. field after a training mi'sion. GET INCREASED r - M Established 1873 ROSEBURG, ORECON MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1951 U-S Allies Recapture Three Towns Sudden Blow Turns Retreat Into Victory U.S. Forces Will Stay In Korea; Replacements Due, Gen. Collins Says TOKYO m Allied forces struck out today in a sudden of fensive on the western front. Tank- infantry teams by nightfall had re captured three towns Osan, Kum yangjang and Chon. The atlack by an army that had been in retreat since late Novem ber came only a few hours after Gen. J. Lawton Collins said Amer ican forces "will certainly stay and fight" in Korea. Collins made his fighting state ment during a visit to Korea. A blazing morning strike by Fifth air force fighters and bomb ers paved the way for the atlack. The U. S. army chief of staff said troop replacements will begin to flow into Korea in two or three months. He added at a news con ference during his fourth visit to the Korean theater: One new regular army division will be organized. National guard units will be called into service. Some replacements for American troops already are going to t h e front. Planes Deal Heavy Blows Allied warplanes lashed at Su won Monday with a blazing one two punch. B-26 light bombers roared down on the airport city 20 miles south of Seoul shortly after daybreak, bombing and strafing enemy troops and buildings. Then the fighter-bombers F-80 Shooting Star jels, K-84 Thunderjets and piston-engined F-51 Mustangs swooped low, rocketing and ma chinegunning the fleeing Reds. The Fifth air force said nearly 1,000 Communist troops were cut down as they fled northwards. While Collins was taking a close look at the Korean war situation, allied troops withdrew under heavy fire from Yongwol, on the east central front. They had recaptured the fire-blackened town only Sun day. Second Division In Peril The withdrawal highlighted the mounting pressure against the U.S. Second division, which has been holding off powerful Red forces near Wonju, 30 miles northwest of Yongwol. Also a grave threat to the Sec ond division's defense of roads fan ning out into the heart of South Korea was a Communist force of possibly 30,000 far behind the front. This Communist force was re ported operating in the rugged mountain area 25 to 55 miles south of Wonju. It threatened to choke off the Second division s (Continued on page Two) Reedsport Man Killed As Automobiles Crash McMINVILLE iP) Clar ence Oren Tanner, el, Rtdipirt, was killed Sunday when cata pulted to the pavement after the car in which he was riling crashed with another southwest of here. Tanner was riding with Thomas A. Richmond, Win chaster Bay, when their car skidded on snow-covered High way 18, a mile west of its junc tion with highway W W, into the path of an oncoming car, driven by Dee Mtllema, Ball ston. Ore. The impact sprung a rear door open and Tanner was hurled to the pavement. No one else was injured. i , j pwaaapat,aseiis f P' v 'ill til ' 'Is? i ' : DRIVE LAUNCHED Employes at Greyhound bus depot Saturday received March of Dimes containers from Active clubbers in , ... . , . preparation for official opening j paign continues through January. Aetivt clubberi, left fo rigt. Hurricane Inflicts Damage In Columbia River Region; Copco Power Lines Toppled PORTLAND - (AP) Winds that rose to hurricane force spread damage throughout the Columbia river area today. . ' Power lines were broken, telephone service disrupted and roads were blocked by falling trees. Two radio tow ers went down at Astoria, and he Washington state patrol radio at Vancouver was silenced. At 7 a. m., gusts roaring over the mouth of the Colum bia at 80 miles an hour were reported. Rain ranging from light to heavy accompanied the blow. ' Ten schools were closed" in Port New Construction Placed Under Ban WASHINGTON (AP) The government today ban ned the construction of now stores, restaurants, office and Other commercial buildings until Fob. 15 Thereafter, each private new commercial structure must be specifically author ized by the National Produc tion authority. NPA issued the order to save materials for the mobili zation program. Commercial building will be authorized, in general, only if it (1) furthers the de fense effort, (2) is essential public health, welfare or safety; or (3) alleviates or prevents a hardship in a community. Showdown With Russia Starts On Debt To U.S. WASHINGTON UP) Fed up with four years of futile talk American officials readied a show down demand today for final settle ment of Russia's $11,000,000,000 lend-lease account. Russian and American nego tiators were scheduled to resume conferences at the State depart ment. The first such session was held April 30, 1947. So far the only progress toward settlement of U. S. claims is the return by Russia ot 28 small naval craft and one ice breaker. Nothing has been done about winding up the financial ac count. Officials preparing for the meet ing said they had decided to dis card diplomatic soft talk in favor of blunt, plain speaking tell tne Russians that the time has come to quit stalling and agree on terms. If the Soviets will not do this, the American government may de nounce the Russian government for bad faith in negotiations. In addilion to the main settle ment the Uniled States wants Rus sia to return immediately 186 small naval ships, and to compensate half a dozen American companies for 'ise in patented processes in con neclion with a lend-lease oil refin ery. Stairs Crash Under Rush Of Girls For Stenog. Job ROME (Pi The stairs of a Rome building crashed today under the weight of several hundred girls who answered an advertisement for stenographers. More than 40 of them, some gravely injured, were taken to hos pitals. , , . . tl. - of thg drive today. Tht earn land because furnaces were cold. Trees blown down throughout the city disrupted bus service. Bonne ville Power administration r e ported line disruptions throughout the territory it serves in Oregon and Washington. One of two towers at radio KAST, Astoria, toppled, but the station resumed broadcasting from its remaining tower. Radio KVAS' only tower collapsed and it went off the air. At Warrenton two huge smoke stacks of the Prouty Lumber com pany went down, closing the plant. About 200 employes were out of work. First reports said a boiler was damaged. As far south as Klamath Falls gusts reaching 75 miles an hour uprooted trees, flattened fences and smashed a large store window. Residence windows were smashed throughout the area. Power disruptions affected Lane county, Drain, Cottage Grove, Sa- iem, Forest Grove, Albany, Rain ier and Troutdale in Oregon, and Raymond, Cosmopolis and Van couver in Washington, according to first reports. Hurricane Deals Damage In Oregon Localities A southwest ' windstorm lashed at the Roseburg area last night, toppling power lines and uprooting trees. The Roseburg weather bureau reported the windstorm reached a peak at about 1:20 a. m. with an average velocity of 23 miles per hour. The bureau estimated storm gusts were as high as 40 miles per hour. The California Oregon Power company reported three transmis sion lines were put out of order by the storm. - A transmission line from the Toketee Falls plant, the Ridtlle-Days Creek line and a transmission line to Coos Bay suf fered power outages as a result of the storm. Copco also reported distribution lines at Happy Valley, Canyon ville, Riddle. Sutherlin and Oak land were blown down by the storm. City Manager M. W. Slankard reported that there was no storm damage in Roseburg itself al though several trees in the city limits were damaged by the high winds. Slankard said the storm also aggravated the bad mud situ ation in West Roseburg streets. Truck-Auto Crash Near Albany Hurts 3 Persons EUGENE (."PI Three per sons were hurt Sunday night when their southbound car sideswiped an oil truck and trailer after skidding on wet pavement eight miles south of Albany. Injured were Berlha Halladay, 43, Springfield, broken shoulder, and possible rib and collarbone fractures; Mrs. Cathryn Robert son, 48, Eugene, and Edmund Rice, 50, Springfield, severe bruises. They were taken to a hospital. Merton Harrison, Woodburn, truck driver, was uninjured. Barney Root, Don Wright and Charles Clark, distribute the con tainers to cafe employes, left to right, Esther Chriitonien, Glennyi Powers, Mildred RendU, Alme Mariai Casper and Edith English. $71.5 Stewardess Dies Heroine in Air Crash Loses Own Life Saving 10 Passengers; 4 Other Women, 2 Babies Perish PHILADELPHIA - UP) -An attractive 24-year-old stewardess only five months in flying service died on duty Sunday after res cuing 10 passengers from Ihe flam ing wreckage of a National Air lines plane in which seven perished. Mary Frances Huusley, who went t" work for NAL only last A.igjst, died a heroine in the fire jvept DC-4. The big four-engined plane skidded over a runway, crashed in to a ditch and burned in landing at International airport. Four other women and two babies lost their lives. To the last, Miss Housley de scribed by fellow employes as "the most pleasant person you ever want to meet," held one of the victims a four months-old baby in her arms. She was credited with lead ing to safety at least 10 of the 19 passengers who escaped with minor. injuries. Survivors of the crash told how the hostess from Jacksonville, Fla., opened Ihe cabin door and cau tioned them to "take it easy. then she made repeated rescue trips into the plane until she was swallowed up by the flames. It was alternately snowing and raining as the big plane came in for its only landing on a flight from Newark. N. J., to Norfolk. Va. The plane overran Ihe runway, rammed through a cyclone fence and bumped across the ditch, grind ing to a stop with the after section of the fuselage bridging the 10-foot cut. Flames Swetp Wreckage As soon as Ihe plane (lopped, flames shot up from the severed left wing, and fed by hundreds of gallons of high octane gasoline, flashed to the cabin. Airport emer gency squads were unable to ex tinguish the fire before the plane was all but destroyed. None of the 21 passengers and crewmen surviving were seriously injured. Most of them suffered bruises in the 10-foot jump from the cabin to the ground. Others were burned about the hands and face. Mrs. Manucla Smith, wife of a sailor stationed at Norfolk, Va., es caped with her three - year-old daughter, Betty Jane, but lost her infant daughter, Brenda Joyce. It was Brenda Joyce who died in Miss Housley's arms. Mrs. H. Marchiano and her in fant son of Mt. Kisco, N. Y., also were among the dead. Other victims were identified as Mrs. N. B. Joynes, 58, and Marion Carden, 28, bolh of Norfolk, Va., and a passenger listed on the mani fest as Mrs. Lewis Hubian of New York City. Bail-Out Demonstration Kills Air Force Officer ORLANDO, Fla. - UP) - A par achute jump maUe to give civil air patrol personnel training in rescue operations resulted in Ihe death of a MacDill air base officer. Lt. James C. Hubble of Ana huac, Texas, was swept into Lake Sellers, about 10 miles north of Umatilla, by a high wind after he leaped from- a plane here Sunday. NISEI FIRST CITIZEN ONTATtIO, Ore. UP) A N'sel who earned the wartime raik of lieutenant is junior first citizen of this community. .loe Sailo, 32, who received the award, has been aclive in veteran i and community affairs. ma President Requests Congress To Match Outgo With Revenue By Tax Boost Of S161 2 Billion By Charles Molonv WASHINGTON (AP) President Truman today sent Congress a $71,594,000,000 spending- budget for the govern ment next year and said a tax boost of $!6.456,000,000 is needed to balance it. The President told reporters at a budget preview ses sion that he will ask a tax hike of at least that amount and perhaps as much as $20,000,000,000 in a special message to Congress he hopes to have ready in about three weeks. He said he would like Congress to make all tax in creases retroactive to last January 1. But he showed no con fidence that would really happen. In his message to the new Congress today, the Presi dent said: "This is a budget for our national security in a period of grave danger." , The unprecedented "peacetime" spending program Mr. Truman proposed for the fiscal year starting July 1 nearly three-fifths of it for military services figures out to about $41 for every one of the some 152,000,000 men, women and children in the U. S. And if the President had his way on taxes, just about that same average amount will be collected from citizens although some of it, of course, will be in the form of hidden How U.S. Will Spend Tax Dollar WASHINGTON - UP) Here's how Uncle Sam will spend your tax dollar in fiscal 1952: Military services 58 cent Foreign programs 10 cents Interest on U. S. debt cents Veterans benefits 7 cents All other expenses 17 cents Total $1.00 Where dollar is to come from: Individual taxes 35 cents Corporation taxes 27 cents Excise (sales) taxes 11 cents Customs and other levies .. 4 cents X proposed new taxes .. 23 cents Total $1.00 X will add to preceding tax amounts. Plywood Plants Slated At Elkton, Cottage Grove EUGENE UP) Construction plans aggregating $550,000 for two large plywood plants one at Elk- ton and one at cottage Grove hnva been announced here by an officer of the newly-formed Central Oregon Plywood Co. Gerald Egan, assistant manager. said construction will start at once on an all-steel peeler plywood pant about one-hat mile west of button. He estimated that the structure. including equipment, will cost about $200,000. When completed it will employ approximately 45 men. Egan said the Titan Metal Prod ucts Co. of Portland will start construction this week. It will pro duce 80,000 feet of veneer daily. Completion of the plant is set for mid-April. When the peeler operation goes into production, Egan said, a ply wood finishing plant will be con structed on a 15-acre site about three miles south of Cottage Grove. This plant will cost approximately $350,000 am": will employ between 75 and 100 men. Egan said monihy production of the Cottage Grove plant will be between 3,500,000 and 4,000,000 board feet. The Central Oregon Plywood Co. is owned by a group of Umber oper ators and business men from Eu gene, Cottage Grova and Elkton. Willis E. Smith, formerly with a California lumber firm, is general manager. Egan said part of the logs for the plants will come from company-owned timbers near Elkton. Bandit Holds Up Safeway Store Clerk, Loots Safe PORTLAND UP) Police to day sought a gunman who escaped with an undisclosed sum of money after forcing a Safeway store clerk to open a safe here Sunday. George W. Worthen, 35, the clerk who was locked in the vegetable cooler while the gunman made a gelaway, said he opened the store at 8:30 a. m. As soon as he stepped inside the man pushed a gun in his rihs and qrdered him to open the safe. The intruder, his face covered with a white handkerchief, snatched two money bags and en velopes containing currency, then shoved Worthen into Ihe vegetable cooler and locked the door, the clerk reported. The man smashed a skylight and dropped 10 feet to a rafter, the detectives said. Anne llermanson, proprietor of the Richelieu hotel, told police a man wearing a Halloween mask robbed her of $105 at gunpoint. Life Sentence Given "Witch Of Buchenwald" AUGSBURG, Germany P) Use Koch was sentenced to life imprisonment today for causing the murder of Buchenwald con centration camp prisoners. The "Red Witch of Buchenwald," 44 years old, was convicted of crimes against Austrian and Ger man prisoners of the Nazis. The widow of Ihe camp's wartime Nar.i commander was not in court to hear the verdict. It was the second life imprison ment sentence for Mrs. Koch. The first, imposed by an American war crimes court after the war, had been commuted to four years. She wai convicted by the U. S. court for Ttm against allied personnel Ml taxes or indirect costs. The new Congress will have full say-so on whether taxes should be raised and by what amount. But it can block or control part of his spending program, unless it re peals past laws on a big scale. The President told newsmen that actions bv past Congresses author ize $30,462,000,000 of the funds to carry out his plans. He needs to look to the new Congress only for the remaining $41,132,000,000. ' Mr. Truman's bulky budget measure was a more controver sial document in some respecti than his "state of the union" ad dress last Monday. He called in it for many of hii pet "fair deal" measures such at the civil rithts program, federal medical insurance and a major part of the Brannan farm plan. That seemed certain to arouse ire in some Concessional quarter!. Fierce outcries from "economy" advocates also appeared so sum that Mr. Truman anticipated them by laying down a defense of his spending program in advance. Observing to reporters that opin ions differ on what are "defense" and "non-defense" outlays, h dropped the heading of "defense" direct military costs and stra tegic stockpiling which has been used in past budgets. He put a "national security" tag on the new listing. Then he budgeted "major na tional security programs" at $52, 510,000,000 for the next year, an increase of $25,468,000,000 over this fiscal year, now half gone. The "remainder of his program was price-tagged for 518,084, 000.000. He described that as a saving of $1,082,000,000 from this year s costs, even though it con tains operation! "influenced by tht present emergency;" for example, coast guard, port security work, and FBI loyalty checks on govern ment workers. Unless Congress hikes taxes, Mr. Truman said there will be a $16, 456,000,000 deficit next fiscal year on top of a $2,695,000,000 red ink entry this year. And the federal debt will rise to $276,300,000,000 by mid-1952. (OTHER BUDGET STORIES ON PAGE 2 Gun Accidentally Shoots Umpqua Youth In Arm Phillip McKinney, 17, Umpqua, was taken to Mercy hospital Sun day for treatment of an accidental gunshot wound, atate police re ported. According to the police, McKin ney leaned his rifle against a tree. The rifle fell over and the jar discharged the gun, wounding Mc Kinney in his left arm. The youth was discharged from the hospital following treatment of the wound. Struck Motor Stages Resumes Partial Run PORTLAND UP) Oregon Votor stages, tied up since Thurs day by a strike of central bus ter minal workers, resumed service to Willamette valley and coast points today. Portland-Vancouver bus service s.ill was tied up and Greyhound lino busses were not operating through the city. Trailwayi busses, which operate cut of their own terminal, are noi adectcd. LIONS CLUB MAGNET HARRODSBURG, Ky. UP) Attendance at the Mackville Lions club has jumped from 76 to 97 per cent lately, and small wonder. The Lions recently bought a pig, with the understanding that the first member who was absent had to take care of the porker until another absentee was forced to take his turn as the pig'! nursemaid. - THEIR CHILD NO. II TJLIKFWOOn BEACH, N. J. UP) Mrs. Clara Carey, 34-year-old wife of a $fiO-a-week boiler en gineer, gave birth to a 10-pound bov Sunday Ihe couple's 18th child in 18 years of marriage. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reir.enstein The City Boxing commission Saturday night ruled against Saldat Gorky, the Sibtrian sadist. Frovda and Tan era still to be heard from.