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oviffraow mm JAILS FIVE TOP mm San CHARLEY AND JACK WHARTON, left to right above, chat with of the Wharton Implement store at Main and Washington streets. tor 43 years, Charley stated, Nook grill is now. Fifty-eight years in business in Roseburg to work as soon as he was old enough!" (Paul Jenkins! Presidential Tenure Limit Of Two Terms Voted Into Constitution By 36 States By DONALD SANDERS WASHINGTON &) From now on, no president of the United States except for Harry Truman may be elected to more than two terms. And under the 22nd amendment to the Constitution, which for al! practical purposes became 1 a w Monday night, no man or woman may serve more than ten years in the White House. The amendment, while limiting future presidents to two elective terms, allows a person who has served two years or less of an unexpired term to be elected twice on his own. As president at the time the amendment was approved by the Republican controlled 80th Con- Natural Rubber Use To Be Pared WASHINGTON UP) The Na tional Production authority an nounced it will reduce or eliminate the use of natural rubber in about 40.000 products on March 1. The agency handed to represent atives of the rubber industry a 32 page printed list specilying Hie percentage of natural rubber which may be used in civilian and some military products. Smaller-size passenger car tires were cut to an average of 15 per cent and larger sizes to 22 percent. This compares with about 25 and 35 percent natural rubber in cur rent tire output. Use of any natural rubber was barred for most toys, passenger tire tubes, retreading materials, most bottle stoppers, washing ma chine wringers, and dust pans. Another casualty was "falsies." NPA said no rubber must be used for "breast pads." The use of natural rubber is limited to 85 percent in golf balls, 10 percent in baseball centers, 81 percent in tennis balls, and 53 per cent in inflatable athletic balls such as footballs and basketballs. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: "Communist forces in Korea are suffering casualties at the rate of 78.000 a month, the army reported today. Estimated total communist casualties since the fighting began: 624,000 up to last Tuesday. In the same period. U. S. total casualties for all .services (army, navy, air force, marines) are 49,132." That, you will note, is a ratio of a little better than 12 to one IN OUR FAVOK. There's a rumor in the news that old Mao is in the hospital w ith a heart condition. If those casualty figures are any where near accurate, I can see how it might have come about. A shock like that would be hard on any body's heart. You understand, of course, that the casualty list is the 'total of killed, wounded and missing. So far. our total of killed is around 7.000. Our list of missing is rather small. Our wounded amount to around 40.000. As I recall the latest (Continutd on page tour) The Weather Generally fair today with light rain expected by Wednesday after. noon. Highest temp, for any Feb. 79 Lowest temp, for any Fib 3 Highest temp, yesterday 4S Lowest temp, last 24 heurs 30 Pr.cip. last 24 hours 0 Precip. from Feb. 1 4.52 Precip. from Sept. I 35.92 Excess from Jan. 1 U Sunset today, e:00 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:51 a. m. "ftnimit In Hii iTrt 1-- .-.I "and for 15 years before that we r gress, Mr. Truman was specific ally exempted. Thus he would be permitted to run for a second full term in 19"2 even though his White House ten ure would then fall within the ban set out in the new amendment. He has not said whether he will run.- Ulah and Nevada legislatures acted in quick succession Monday to approve the amendment. Ne vada became the 36th state to rat ify the amendment. The Constitution reauires that amendments to it be ratified bv three-fourths of the states or 36 at present to become law. A two-thirds maiorily in Congress is required to submit amendments to the states. The new amendment could be re pealed by the same procedure, of course, just as the 18th prohibition amendment was repealed by the 21st. It was ratified on Dec. 5, 19.13. Nevada legislators had stood bv to grab for their state the honor of being the 36th state to ratifv i the new amendment. Minutes af ter learning that Utah had ap proved, Nevada senators voted 16 to 1 for ratification The assembly Oregon's Reapportionment Issue Centers Around Fear Of Multnomah Domination By ESTHER GEDDES SALEM The subject of reapportionment is an ever present one this year, and most members of the lejrisla ture seem to be "agreed that something must, and will, be done about it. The question is "What?" Taps Wife With Hammer Whenever Weather Bad DALLAS, Tex. tm A Dallas man was put under a $50,000 peace bond not to strike his wife any more with a sledge hammer. The man explained in Justice of the Peace W. E. Richburg't court that "my wife is cranky when the weather is bed. So when the weather looked threat ening I hit her with a sledge hammer." The woman is now in a Dallas hospital with head injuries. Richburg levied a iail sentence and the peace bond. "The next time you hit her," the iustice warned, "you'll either pay $50,000 or lay it out In jail." OSC Again Removes Art Exhibit Of Nudes CORVALLIS - WP) For the second time in two weeks, an art exhibit of nudes by Oregon State college students was removed from the Memorial Union building On the campus. "In my judgment a specific dis play of nudes has no place in. the Memorial union," Ed Allworth, .............. li.. ...1.1 I u- iiiana-i num. lit- diiuru nidi Willi some people such an exhibit be- - comes a matter of sex. i lint art instructor James G. J Jameson declared there is nothing I immoral about the undraoetl hu man body. "People who would find these objectionable must be people with dirty minds," he said. Pine Motor Theater To Reopen Thursday The Pine Motor theater will re open Thursday night after being closed during the winter months. Manager Bob Elliott said. The first 1951 motor theater per- . ...ill f, ,.11.. Dunn McGuire and F.dmond Gwenn. in addition to "It Happens Every Spring," with Ray Milland. Bill Oerding, recent purchaser "We've been in this location were located where the Silver at least I have been: Jack came had approved earlier. 29 to 12. At least two other states were ; also near ratification votes Min nesota and Maryland. The Minne sota legislature had suspended the rules to schedule a vote this af ternoon in the hope of becoming the 36th and deciding state to act. The amendment when proposed was generally regarded as a re buke to the late President Frank lin Roosevelt, who won four terms in the White House. He thus broke a two term precedent set by Geroge Washington, who declined to run for a third term. The 36 slates which ratified the amendment, by years, were: 1947: Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, New Hampshire, Oregon, Illinois, Delaware. Vermont, Cali fornia, New Jersev. Wisconsin, Ohio. Colorado. Pennsylvania, Ne braska, Missouri. Connecticut. 1948: New York. Virginia, Mis sissippi. 1949: North Dakota. South Da kota. 1950: Louisiana. 1951: Indiana. Montana. Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee. Texa. North Carolina, Utah. Nevada. The Oregon Constitution framed in 1857 provided for 16 senators and 34 representatives, which num ber could be increased in the same general ratio after 1860. However, it provided that there should never be more than 30 members in the senate and 60 in the House. The constitution further provides that at the next session following an "enumeration of the inhabitants" the number of senators and rep resentatives shall be fixed by law and apportioned among the several countries according to the number of white population in each. As it happens it has been at least twenty years since any major re apportionment has been carried out and it is certainly time some thing was done. However, it would seem that a constitutional amend ment would be necessary to jus tify any reapportionment not based directly on population. Eastern Oregon Dissents Why is there such a furor over such population basis? The main objection lies in the fact that Mul tnomah county would virtually con trol both houses because approxi mately one third of the legislators would be from that county. Many of the legislators from eastern Ore gon maintain quite rationally that u -i '" , "nsideraUpns as resources nrrwli lM inn tflrnlnru a fa mnti hi production, territory, etc. must be considered for fair representation. For example, the logging industry, which is the backbone of Oregon's industry and financial health, is largely found in counties without dense populations. It would be con ceivable that the metropolitan leg- islators could do great barm to such industry by their lack of immediate contact and familiarity with it.. The same for farming, etc. The federal plan of reapportion ment would put the House on a straight population basis with ap proximately nineteen from Mult tonomah county, and would put the Senate on the basis of one senator "'l',,' w K . LiJl m,n deadlocks " which are (Continued On Plfse Two) Established 1873 W. Oregon Lumber Strike AFL's Wage Demand Met By Employers CIO Prepares To Open Negotiations; Walkout In Washington Continues PORTLAND UP) A strike of AFL Lumber and Sawmill workers in western Oregon faded today, but a walkout of 14.000 members in western Washington continued. Kenneth Davis, secretary of the northwest district council of the union, said chances of averting a strike in western Oregon appeared favorable. His optimistic statement came after a third group of Pacific Northwest employers agreed to the union's demand for a 7'a-cont hourly pay increase, subject to approval by the Federal Wage Sta bilization board. The union's Portland-coast-Columbia district council came to terms with eight Columbia river mills after they were released by the Lumbermen's Industrial Re lations committee to sign as in dividuals. Walter Durham Jr., manager of the L1RC, said the eight plus four other mills not represented at Monday's meeting with the union, were released because the com mittee did not want to "join thj union in requesting the govern ment to approve something we are almost certain will be disap proved." James Whallon. secretary of the union's Portland - coast - Columbia district, said the other four mills would be asked to sign today. Durham declared that the ac tion of the committee would have no affect on the situation in west ern Washington, where some 200 struck mills also are represented by the LIRC. Meetings are scheduled by the union with Portland sawmills and with - Oregon coast operators, in cluding those in the Coos bay area, Davis said. He said prospects that both groups would sign were favorable, since they were not affiliated with the LIRC. Boost Tops Federal Formula The eight mills to sign Monday, employing about 1400 workers, in cluded four at Vancouver, Wash., two at St. Helens, and one each at Rainier and Warrenton. The Willamette Valley Lumber Operators association, employing about 5500 Oregon workers, and Oregon and Washington plywood producers, with about 9500 work ers, agreed to the increase Satur day. The 7W-cent boost exceeds the tentative 10 percent wage increase formula announced by the federal government, but employers agreed to join in petitioning for approval of the boost. The CIO International wood workers of America, which repre sents some 45,000 northwest mill and woods workers, meantime pre pared to open a second round of negotiations with employers here today. The IWA earlier asked for an in crease of 35 cents an hour, about the same figure originally sought by the AFL union for its 65.000 members in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Highway Board Refuses To Lift Pole Restrictions The Oregon Slate Highway com mission Monday denied a request of the Umpqua Valley Farm bu reau and the Umpqua Valley Grange to lift restrictions on pole line construction and to improve the Elkton-Sutherlin highway. V'. It RED CROSS DRIVE OPENS Pictured above ara six volunteer worker, who will direct tha annual t Red Crot fund drive in Douglas county, Tha drive will open March I and continue through March 31. The division captains, from left to right are; Mitt HeltfCasay, special groups; Don Read, chairman of tha board; J. Rotand Parker, outlying districts; cob Kidder, fund campaign; i Verne Harpham, outlying districts; Mrs. Zeke Walton, residential. (Picture by PauloJenltlns ) ROSEBURG, OREGON "Charges Ridiculous' Liquor Commissioners Say Portland's Bennett Merely Publicity Hound SALEM (AP) The bitter hearings on Portland City Commissioner J. E. Bennett's charges against the State Liquor commission have ended, with three of the five mem bers of the senate alcoholic traffic committee accusing Ben ndtt of "demagoguery and publicity seeking." GRATEFUL BOY Sends Hospital Saved-Up Dollar, Promises More IOWA CITY, Iowa - UP) An eight year-old Iowa boy grateful for "making me able to walk again," last week addressed a let ter to "all good Drs. and Nurses" at the University hospital here, en closing a dollar bill. With the dollar was a letter, printed in a neat child-like slant across duck adorned stationery from Chuckie Van Fossen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Van rossen of Davenport, Iowa. The letter read: "Dear Drs. and Nurses: I'm Chuckie Van Fossen and two years ago you made me able to walk again and now I have a paper route. Saved up this dollar and want you "to have it to help other boys walk. When I save more I will send more to you. Thanks for being so good to me." Doctor and nurses remembered: r-i..,..L, . i.h ,.hlwould consider Bennett s sugges- wanted nothing more than to walk and run like other boys. Chuckie came to the hospital two years a'lo a victim of oslcmomye 1 it is . Hospital officials said his dol lar will go to buy a small hand weaving frame to use in the hos pital's occupational therapy depart ment. Murder Charged To Boy Who Slew Both Parents OAKLAND. Calif. UP) Two murder charges were to be filed Ujday against Donald Arceo, 14 who told police he killed his par ents because "father was too strict." California law forbids the death penally for anyone under 18, but Donald could he sentenced to life imprisonment if convicted. Police inspector Merle Long necker said Donald confessed: "I knew what I was doing. Father was trying to bring me up the way his father brought him up. I thought I was living in a different age." Donald said his father, John Ar ceo, 37, objected to his friends and to his seeing movies. Arceo, an auxiliary policeman, and his wife, were slain while watching tele vision Sunday. Longnecker said Arceo had bought the TV set in hope Donald would prefer it to movies and as sociating with rowdies. He said Donald had been in ju venile court twice as a runaway both times because of friction with his father. CITY MANAGER NAMED MILTONFREEWATER lP) Robert L. Brunton. assistant city manager of Minot. N. D., will be the new city manager of Milton Freewater. The position was vacated when G. S. Vergecr went to Baker as city manager. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1951 Sen. Frank II. Hilton, Portland, chairman of the committee, said "we got something out of the two hearings we held, but no further hearings are needed." But three committee members Sam Coon, Keating; Ben Musa, The Dalles; and Philip S. Hitch cock, Klamath Falls said they got nothing whatever from Ben nett's statements, in which he accused the commission of allow ing criminals to operate beer tav (ins, of being in a partnership with the tavern operators, and of licensing too many taverns. Monday's hearing ended up in a fist fight between Carl W. Hogg, Salem, chairman of the Liquor commission, and Bennett. Senator Coon made I statement in which he deplored the use of committee hearing to permit "a notorious publicity hound such as Mr. Bennett to make and publish unfounded, false and ridiculous charges." Musa and Hitchcock agreed with Coon's statement. They also criticized Hilton for holding the hearings without con sulting the other members of the committee. Hilton said mat tne committee I 'ion 'hat the commission be pre- vented from issuing any tavern li' censes without consent of the lo cal city government. He said he likes this idea, him self. However, the Liquor commis sion said it has alwayi had I policy of never granting a license without approval of the city in which the tavern is located. Coon, Musa and Hitchcock said that Bennett made many charges, but failed to submit any evidence to back them up. Coon's statement added that the charges made by Bennett "were wholly false, untrue and unsup- rjorled bv anv competent evidence. ' or in fact, by any evidence at all." Auto Price Freeze Will Be Extended WASIUNGTON UP) Officials of the Office of Trice Stabilization said they plan to extend the auto price freeze, which otherwise would expire March 1. The manufacturers' prices of new cars now are frozen at the levels of last Dec, 1. Officials said the order may be extended to April 1 to give them time to work out new regulations for manufacturers of all kinds. For the last two months the OPS has been working on a revision of the auto price Ireeze that would permit the manufacturers in some cases at least to raise prices to help compensate for higher costs of production. The agency has decided not to issue this revision separately, but to accomplish the same purpose through an order applying lo manu facturcrs in general. Tnis sweep ing order will tell manufacturers how much they can charge over and above their actual costs. But this order won't be ready by March 1. It should be ready sometime in March. That's why, according to the OPS officials, the auto freeze will be extended. S-JiSEi. Ik. Vjj,4iaJ 4?-51 Averted Five Attacks Of Reds Hurled Back' By Allies Marines Spearhead Upset Of Foe's Counter Blows; River Lin Halts U.N. By OLEN CLEMENTS TOKYO UP) American troops smashed five savage coun-! ter-attacks today on the windswept central Korean warfront. The al lied battleline moved ahead stead ily but cautiously. The Red attacks were hurled back by the U. S. Second division in pre-dawn darkness IS miles southeast of Hoengsong. The fight ing lasted more than three hours. A howling wind added to the din of 1 battle. Field dispatches reported it was one of the .jjjarpest actions in the week-old renewal of the United Na tions drive to kill, maim or cap ture Chinese and Korean Reds south of parallel 38. The drive spearheaded by the U. S. First Marine division ap parently has thwarted or delayed a Chinese counter-offensive by four to six armies, A U. S. army spokesman said 100,000 Chinese had been shifted into defense positions. He added that it would require several weeks for the Reds to regroup for any drive against the allies. A. P. correspondent Nate Polow etzky reported "all evidence along the central front continued to point to a planned withdrawal" behind stubborn rearguard actions. A 24th division patrol tangled Monday with I Red force twice its size 13 miles southwest of Yongdu. Infantrymen, using thoir rifles for clubs after their ammunition ran out, took a hill from the Reds. Allies Repulsed At River In the Seoul area, U. S. Third division units exchanged artillery and mortar fire with the Commu nists. The Reds drove back a t tempts by Allied patrols to cross the Han river east of Seoul. An estimated 100,000 Chinese were dug in above the central front battleline in an area between and north of Yangpyong and Hoeng song. Air spotters reported an intri cate network of trenches. Torrential rains have mired roads throughout the battlefront, making necessary the air-dropping of supplies to combat troops, U. S. Fifth air force planes were joined by carrier fgihters in close support missions. Ten enemy tanks were knocked out by rocket-firing planes Monday. And Tuesday the fighters plastered an enemy troop concentration north of Saemal, six miles southeast of Hoengsong. Allied warships kept up their daily bombardments of Red instal lations and troop assembly centers on both coasts. New Farm Store To Open Thursday The Douglas County Farm store, an addition to the Roseburg plant of the Douglas County Flour mill, will open Thursday. The grand opening and open house inspection is scheduled for 10 a. m. The farm store is located in the flour mill building at Cass and Pine streets. Designed as a one stop store, the new business wjll handle a complete line of na tionally advertised products, it is announced. The store is announcing free cof fee and doughnuts for those attend ing the grand opening. Also, guided tours of the entire establishment will be conducted during the day. This will include an inspection of all the mill operations. Yoncalla Water Bond Proposal Again Beaten Yoncalla voters Friday turned down a $115,000 bond proposal for the second time in a hotly contested election that saw nine ballots tip the balance against the measure. The final tally showed 93 against, compared to 84 favor ing the Issue. The defeat dump the water problem back into the Up of the city council. iiwinuii nans (iHwn I For Red Cross Drive WASHINGTON UP) Presi dent Truman appealed Monday niRhl for public support of the Red Cross which he said is "mobilizing us resources to !ive aid to our fighting men abroad and to in crease our preparedness at home." Addressing the country by radio and television, Mr. Truman said the last few months have greatly increased the responsibilities of the Red Cross. Mr. Truman's address was part of a program in con nection with the opening of the 1951 campaign for funds. The goal is $85,000,000. Assassination Of President Said One Aim Ex-Foreign Minister Clementis Heads Group Of Red Purge Victims PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia UP) Former Foreign Minister Vlado Clementis and four other top Com munist leaders are under arrest in an alleged plot to assassinate Czechoslovakia's Communist President and turn the country to the west "like Yugoslavia." This disclosure bv the Czecho slovak Communist central commit tee coincided with its announce ment that since September it has thrown almost 170.000 members out of the parly in the biggest housecleaning since the Commu nists took the power three years ago. The housecleaning is contin uing. "We shall prove," said one of the reports to the committee on the arrests, "that there is a place in the party only for those who in the most holy manner love the Soviet Union, the Communist party of Bolsheviks and comrade Stalin." Five lesser alleged conspirators also are reported in prison. Tha former leaders now facing trial, besides Clementis, are: Dr. Gustav Husak. former chair man of the corps of commission ers (cabinet) of Slovakia. Laco Novomesky, former Slo vak commissioner for education. Mrs. Marie Svermova. widow of the Communist resistance hero Jan Sverma and a former party deputy secretary-general. Otto Sling, former party political secretary for the Brno region. Sling and Mrs. Svermova are ac cused of being illicit lovers. These persons are accused of plotting to assassinate President Klement Gottwald. to replace party Secretary - General Rudolf Slansky and Prime Minister An tonin Zapotocky, and to seize bom the party and the government. All five have been ousted from the party central committee and from parliament. Clementis. who van ished from sight Jan. 27, has been a Communist party member since 1921. The Prague press published charges by President Gottwald that Clementis and others had plot ted for five years to bring Czech oslovakia under capitalist control. Heavy Damage Suits Faced By 2 Lumber Concerns Two large general damage suits were filed in circuit court Monday, one for $60,000, the other for $25, 0O0. Both were for physical inju ries, allegedly received when plain tiffs were run down by lumber car riers. William Hoeft filed the larger suit, against the Roseburg Lumber Co. He charges in the complaint that a lumber carrier ran him down Oct. 9 1950, while he was working at the Dillard mill. As a result, he said, he suffered major cuts and bruises, a broken ankle and permanent loss of function of his right arm. In addition to the $(i0,000 general damages, he asks $1,424 for loss of wages. Virgil Gilbert filed the second suit, against Youn"s Bay Lumber Co., for injuries allegedly received in a similar accident on Oct. 27, 1050. The plaintiff charges that his left foot was fractured and he suf fered hip, back and shoulder inju ries when a lumber carrier struck him. A filing was made by Wayne C. Conger against Bruce L. Thorn ton and others fur $3,850. Plaintiff asks foreclosure of a mortgage on a Railroad addition lot in Heeds port, which was used as security for a promissory note in the above amount. William E. and John H. Mark ham Jr. filed suit to quiet title to property located on, the Nichols do nation land claim near Riddle. I Named as defendants are Ruby Hawkins, Ernest F. Brown and oth ers. The court issued judgment for $70.23 in favor of the Sun Credit Service Inc. against Mr. and Mrs. Merland Foss. Ranaer's Lone Bullet i Scores Twice On Quarry I AUSTIN, Tex. UP) Texas ranger Doyle Carrington got his man with one shot in two places. Several hijackings have taken place recently on lonely Burleson road near here. Carrington set a trap. After long, lonely hours of wait ing a man with a handkerchief over his face and a drawn pistol approached the ranger's parked car and announced: "This is a holdup." The ranger's bullet hit the barrel of the holdupman's gun and split. Nineteen-year-old Charles V. Davis of Austin was hit in the abdomen and chest. Hosoital attendants said his condition was satisfactory. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Rcizcnstein Consenting to a bill to legal I lie the sale of colored oleo in 1 Oregon, the dairy industry in sists, however, that the butter ' substitute be barred from using i g yellow color. In view of the money saving involved, may wo i suggest that the oleo be deco i rated with a Scotch plaid.