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fo)nn 1 MM KECEBVES LI C" r hi'5 IsThub Ettob"thd 1873 roseburg. orecon Monday, march 5. mi 54-51 ROSEBURG POLICE department has announced three Important personnel changes as a result of the resignation of Al Hughes, former assistant chief of police. The changes were effective March I. Pictured at the left is officer Walter Reich, who joined the force. Lloyd Larsen, center, was promoted to assistant chief of police, replacing Hughes. James Mc Alpine, right, was promoted to sergeant and will assume the duties formerly handled by Larsen.. I Staff photo) American, French Soldiers T Meet Stubborn Resistance From Reds In Central Korea TOKYO (AP) U. S. and French troops launched a new attack today on bitterly resisting Reds in a moun tain stronghold in east-central Korea. American marines continued their drive among pre cipitous peaks toward Hongchon, a key road town be lieved to be Communist central front headquarters. Auto Collisions Kill Two Women EUGENE UP) A woman was killed and five persons were in jured last night in a two-car col lision on slippery highway 99 E, one mile north of Shedd. Mrs. Howard Bever of Albany, was fatally injured in the acci dent, slate police at Albany re ported. Her husband was reported in good condition at Albany Gen eral hospital. Two Bever children, Douglas. 7, and Barbara, 5. were both reported in critical condition at the hospital. A fifth occupant of the Bever car, Virgil Stenberg, also of Al bany, was reported in fairly good condition. Driver of the other auto, Rudy T. Purcella, Portland, was brought to Sacred Heart hospital in Eu gene, where he was reported in good condition this morning. State police said the accident apparently resulted when one of the autos skidded on the icy road. TILLAMOOK UP) A head-on collision between an automobile and a pickup truck a mile north of here claimed the life of Mrs. Hazel S. Ramey, 32, Nchalcm, Fri day night. She was riding in the car driven by her husband, Robert, who was unhurt. Neither were two other passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hanson. Dale Newcomb, truck driver, was booked on a charge of negligent homicide, District Attorney John Hathaway said. The district attor ney said Newcomb was accused of driving on the wrong side of the road and of driving while under the influence of intoxicating' liquor. CZECH DIPLOMAT FLEES BOMBAY, India UP) Purge ridden Communist Czechoslova kia's ambassador to India, Bohu slav G. Kratochvil, was reported today to have fled to England. His embassy condemned his flight as a of the 38th parallel. Yogdu is 15 "betrayal of his country." miles northwest of Hoengsong. Huddle Agenda Must Not Be Confined To Germany, Russia Told By Big Three PARIS (API Russian and western deputies sat down at a conference table here today after Britain, France and the United Matet served notice that there won t be any major Big Four conference unless the Russians are prepared to talk about problems other than Germany. Job of the four-nation deputies is to find out whether an agenda can be arranged for the foreign min 4 istcrs of the four big powers. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was the last of the four to arrive. His automobile, flying the Red flag with hammer and sickle, pulled up after the other o three already were on hand. He wax unsmiling as ne juinea u.a. Ambassador at Large Philip Jes-'to sup, Britain's Ernest Davies and both sides as the first step toward ' France's Alexandre Parodi. i an agreement on armaments. Rus-' Easlier Jessup spoke for the three sia previously has refused all sug-' western countries in saying that ingestions of such a count. ! the Soviets want to limit the topics I The Soviets, in a recent ante to' for a Big Four meeting to Ger-1 Britain, indicated their force? num-1 many, there is little chance tcP ber no more than 2,500.000 men, higher level conference will take i while they put the combined West-1 place. He told a news conference ern strength atmore than 5.00QJ fully in accordin their views. ! 000. J Three "Musts" Listed j The West, frankly skeptical of! . The western delegates in two Soviet arithmetic, figures Russian ! preliminary meetings S u n d a y I soldiers and sailors total 4,0O0,oV5) agreed unanimously on a solid : with another 1.000.000 in the SovicTi Tront. Informed sources said they : satellites, not including Communist I would insist that any Big Four 'China. t .", ; . ' 1 ' ''1 Chinese and North Korean Reds fought stubbornly to stem the grinding allied northward drive while they built up on the central and western fronts for a possible 300,000-man counterassault on the allies. On the eastern flank, the U. S. Seventh division and the U. S. Sec ond division and its French ele ments hurletl three spearheads against an estimated 6.000 Reds on a mountain riged plateau. The Reds were in a bowl-shaped redoubt five miles north of Uie east-west road between Pangnim and Hoengsong. . Associated press correspondent Tom Stone reported that the strong hold was "bristling with enemy troops, gun emplacements, tun nels, log bunkers and freshly dug trenches." The smash at the Red redoubt was launched after allied troops beat off localized Red attacks at both ends of the central front. Marines Advance Slowed In the middle sector, the U. S. First marine division pressed northward through a narrow mountain canyon north of Sae mal. vital road junction five miles north of shattered Hoengsong. The marine advance was slow and bitter among steep-sided peaks where Red riflemen ami mortars lurked behind craggv defenses. It was aimed at the important road hub of Hongchon, nine miles north of Saemal, believed to be the main build - up point of Red troops on the central front. Frozen allied bodies littered the area. They were the victims of a Chinese trap in February. An es timatetl 2,000 or more Americans were killed. On the marines right, South Korean Third division elements met determined resistance from well entrenched Communists six miles east of Hoengsong. They failed in a 10 - hour battle Sunday to dis lodge the Reds from cleverly con cealed positions. On the west end of the central front, U. S tanks supported hard ened Greek mountain fighters in their push on Yongdu. vital road junction town controling the last nea east-west supply route south foreign ministers' conference take up: 1. The general question of arma ments both those of the East and of the West. 2. The German problem. 3. An Austrian peace treaty. There have been increasing sisn in Western capitals lately that the ncait-iiu-rs win asK nlrssia 10 agree count of soldiers and euns on High Court To Review OK Of TV Color Plan WASHINGTON UP) The su preme court today agreed to re view government approval of Co lumbia Broadcasting system color television. The approval by the Federal Communications commission was attacked by the Radio Corporation of America. RCA's competing TV color system was rejected by the FCC when it gave a go-ahead 10 the CBS color plan. In its order today accepting the RCA appeal the high tribunal also let stand a temporary court order against the starting of CBS color telecasts while the case is in liti gation. . Rep. Geddes Talks On "Little Hoover" Proposal This P.M. Representative Paul E, Geddes of Roseburg will be heard this eve nine at 5:45 o'c'.'ici; over Radio Station KOAC. He will discuss proposed state reorganization as recommended by the "Little Hoo ver commission," of which he is a member. The recent news item to the ef fect that the recommendations of the commission had been declared unconstitutional by the attorney general's office was, in part, mis leading. Geddes reports. One por tion of the measure apparently is unconstitutional, but the remainder of the bill, which proposes estab lishment of a department of fi nance, appears to be unobjection able from the legal point of view, Geddes says. "The public should know," says the Douglas county representative, "that the legislature is not spend ing all its time on the oleo ques tion, but is actually trying to reach solutions on some weightier prob lems." Boost In Express Charges Blocked WASHINGTON UP) The In tcrstate Commerce commission has temporarily blocked a pro posed 10 percent increase in rail way express charges on produce shipments in five far western states. . The changes were proposed by Railway Express agency to apply to fresh fruits and vegetables, dressed poultry and eggs in less, than-carload quantities shipped be. tween points in California, Ore. gon, Washington, Idaho and Mon tana. These items have long had a special commodity express rate which the agency now seeks to cancel and restore regular press rates which are 10 percent higher. Numerous protests were received from Western shipping groups. The ICC ordered the express company to make no change in these rates until the matter can be considered by the commission in relation to a pending express agency petition for a general in crease in its rates nationally. In itial hearings on the general re visions will open here March 29 and will subsequently move t o other major cities, including han i rancisco. ONE-WAY BLUNDER DETROIT ,?') Police plan ned today to book Virdie Washing. ton, 45-ear-old junk man, on a drunk driving charge. Washington admitted putting away two quarts of Sweet Lucy." That was after a patrolman found the junk man driving his horse and old cart the wrong way on one-way street. The Weather Occasion) now today, tonight and Tuesday. Highest temp, for any March .... 85 Lowest temp, for any March .... 18 Hightst ttmp. yostarday 5? Lowest tamp, last 24 hourt 30 Procip. last 24 hour,-) 86 Prtcip. from March"'! ..... 1.40 Prtcip. from Sept. 1 ..... 36. M Excess from Sept. 1 12.41 Sunset today, 6:07 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow,' 6:41 a.m. Established 1873 Storm Deals Damage Over Power Lines Suffer From Trees, Snow Wind Sets New March Record For Roseburg With 35 MPH Velocity A combination of high winds ind snow dealt havoc with power lines, telephone lines and buildings in the Roseburg area Sunday and early Monday. the California Oregon Power company reported several power outages Sunday as a result of transmission line failures. How ever, Copco officials said there was no serious storm damage and the outages were only temporary, Monday morning they said the damage had been repaired, but there were still some power gaps in ine utile river. Kock creek hatchery and Days Creek areas. copco said some of the damage was caused bv snow loads o n power lines, but most of the out ages resulted from the high winds toppling limbs of trees on power lines Sunday. New Sewer Affected The storm indirectly affected the new West Roseburg sewer, City Manager M. W. Slankard reported. He said the sewer backed up Sun day afternoon because of a power failure and the sewer bv-pass con nections which would have pre vented the back-up have not been installed. He said no damage from the back-up had been reported. Numerous trees in the Hoseburg area were toppled over by the high wind. A tin canopy at the California- Nevada Oregon freight terminal near Neilsen's market was blown away by high winds late Sunday afternoon. A freight line official said there was no damage to freight stored in the terminal. The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company said no unus ual storm damage was reported. Tliey said a few lines were tem porarily put out of order by fallen limbs from trees. Wind Sets New Record The Roseburg weather bureau said a new wind velocity record was established for the month of March when a wind of 35 milts per hour lashed at the area. The wind came from the southwest, the bureau said, and reached the 35-mile per hour velocity at 2:05 p.m. Sunday. A 34-mile per hour wind in 1904 was the old record. Between noon Sunday and 6 p.m., the bureau said, the wind averaged 20 miles per hour. Starting early Sunday evening, continuous snow fell on the area which blanketed Roseburg with a five-inch depth, bringing the March total to six inches. It was the most snow to fall in Roseburg during March since 1906. The weather bureau said the storm came from a cold front that moved into the area from the Gulf of Alaska. The bureau pre dicted continued snow today and tomorrow. Senate Rejects Morse's Plan To Cut Draft Age WASHINGTON - (PI -Tht Senate today rejected a proposal to lower the draft age to 18Vi years. The action cleared the way for a senate vote later on the ad ministration's bill to set the min imum age at 18 years. The 18Vi-year limit was pro posed by Senator Morse (R'Ore) as an amendment to the adminis tration measure. At present men from 1? to 26 are subject to induc tion. The vote rejecting Morse's proposal was 55 to 31. 4 v T -fat ),)- y. y vv H latjr.jt-a"mk.Jn, , it A it i ii i ii si , i mmmsiI tff-Vr,tiitfrWAAwf rt I (SUDDENLY IT'S SPRING Whether or not the weather man or calendar confirms it, it's spring in Roseburg. The evidence is everywhere. Merchants and emoloves of local business establish. mentj blossomed today with the inscribed the words, Suddenly Its spring. The Koteburg Junior chamber of commerce is back of it ell, in an endeavor to mate local citizens aware of the nern of the EasVSr season. Spring faihions will be featured in local stores this week. Pictured above are, left o right, Walt Brit tell, Jackie Golden, Sid Moon, John Hardiman, Lowell r! Wo den and Sid Fredrickion. (Staff (Gbo) ROSEBURG, ORECON Bosh On Weather, Spring Is Here! The Roseburg Junior chamber of commerce and the weather man were at odds today. In spite of four inches of snow, which blanketed the city this morning, merchants, store end office employes optimistically blossomed with ties for the men and scarfs for the qirls. on which was inscribed, "Suddenly It's Spring." The Jaycee-sponsored project was designed to inaugurate the spring opening for local business houses today, and to herald the coming of the early Easter sea son. 4 Autos, 2 Trucks On Accident List Over Weekend Two men were injured Saturday night in an automobile accident on East Douglas street, state police report. The men were Identified by the police as Charles Ray N e a v 0 11 and William Townsend, both of Roseburg. State police said Neavoll was driving an automobile that ap parently failed to negotiate a curve and piled into a telephone pole. Neavoll was taken to the Doug las Community hospital with head and hip injuries. He was released Monday morning. Townsend was treated for a shoulder injury at the hospital and later released. The state police reported a three car accident south of Roseburg Saturday evening. Drivers involved in the accident were Jacque Hoi den Ziert, Cecil Ray Luellcn, both of Roseburg, and Thomaa Charles Murdock, North BenU. The three cars collided at an intersection, state police said. No citations were issued. Early Saturday evening the state police said a bakery truck owned by LangenUorf bakery of Portland failed to negotiate a curve near the Evergreen Grange on highway 99 and turned over on its side. The state police "said they were unable to locate the driver. The truck was damaged severely, A West Coast freight truck, oper ated by Clifford Paul Coon, Port land, overturned early Sunday morning on a curve five miles north of Roseburg on highway 99, state police said. They reported the truck and cargo were badly damaged but the driver was un hurt. Soviet Losing One Phase Of Western Europe Grab WASHINGTON UP) Citing figures, a State department offi cial said Moscow is losing its fight to take over western Europe by "boring from within." Homer M. Byington Jr., direc tor of the department's office of western Eurpocan affairs, said the last several years have brought a reduction in Communist parly membership ranging from 30 per cent in France to 84 percent in Luxembourg. I Vets To Get $16 Million In Insurance Dividend WASHINGTON UP) A $16, 000.000 insurance dividend will be paid to holders of about 440.000 World War One policies, the Vet erans administration announced. The dividend, representing sur plus over death payments and re serves, will boost to about $255,000, 000 the total insurance dividend paid to veterans of the First World war. proof. The men wore ties and MONDAY, MARCH S. 1951 Jailbreakers Abduct Trio, Steal 3 Autos Gun-Toting, Teen-Aged Brother Of One Of Pair Frees Them From Cell OMAHA P) A midwest manhunt is on for two jailbreakers and an armed confederate, who kidnaped and later released four hostages in a brazen break for freedom Sunday. Nine harrowing hours for the hostages a deputy sheriff, an attorney, a farmer and an Omaha business man ended shortly be fore midnight on a farm near Au burn. There the fugitives stole an other auto, their third, and contin ued their flight after tieing up the hostages. The escaped prisoners described as "tough cookies," are Dewey Battershaw, 21, of Omaha, and Victor Sweet, 24, of Hartington, Neb .They were being held on $10 000 bonds on charges of holding up an Omaha filling station Jan. 17. Douglas county Sheriff Richard Collins identified their liberator as Clifford Battershaw, about 16, brother of Dewey. Posing as a Sunday visitor, the gunman invaded the sixth floor jail, got the jail keys at gunpoint, locked two deputy sherilfs in a cell and released the prisoners. Taken as hostages were deputy sheriff Clifford Hansen, 51. and Omaha attorney John N. Baldwin, 62, who had called at the court house to visit a client and got in the way of the jailbrcak party. Three Autos Stolen Leaving the building, the group boarded a bus. Later leaving the bus, the fugitives accosted Nate Dislcfano of Omaha, abducted him and took his car. About two hours later on the Gretna, Neb., farm of Otto Timm, about 20 miles southwest of Omaha, the car ran out of gas. The three hostages still in two, the fugitives forced Timm Into Timm's car and drove away. About 8 p.m., five hours after tho break, the escape car got stuck in mud near Auburn, about SO miles south of Omaha. For four hours the men and hostages waited at Uie farm until farmer Werner East man and his family returned. Eastman and the hostages were bound up before the men drove away in Eastman's car. The released men said they had not been harmed but that the fugitives "talked tough." The host ages were kept in the back seat and young Battershaw, whom they described as "trigger happy," kept a German Luger pistol trained on them throughout. After being left tied up at the farmhouse, the hostages worked themselves free of their bonds. Boat Operator Dies In Saving 6 Teen-Agers SEGUIN, Tex. UP) Walter T. Steves captained only a motor boat on an inland Texas lake but he died in the best tradition of the sea. The 52-year - old boat-rhle con cession operator passed out life preservers to six teen-age passen gers from Gonzalc and went down with his tiny craft after its struck an underwater stump. Steves handed out the life-preservers to the teen-agers with the comment "I can swin and won't need one." Rescuers found the youngsters clinging to the life-preservers. the g'rls scarfs, on whMi were County George Trapalis Will Visit Greece After 40 Years George Trapalis, above, man ager of the Roseburg Liquor store, leaves tonight on a trip back to his homeland and to the mother and sister he has not seen in more than 40 years. George came first to the United States when he was 14 years of age. He was atajhat time denied admittance because of his youth. Undeterred by rejection, he re turned the following year. This time his entry had been arranged by a brother, Andrew, employed in a sawmill at Prcscolt, Oregon. George attended school at Pres cott, then came to Roseburg in 1914 and started a bootblack stand, which he operated until 1917, when he joined the U. S. armed forces in World Wsr I. After the war he came back to Roseburg. ob tained citizenship, andiresumed his business. When the state liquor agency was opened In Roseburg In lust, he was given a clerk's job. In 1942 he was promoted to manager. Active in civic affairs, Trapalis also has served as past comman der of Umpqua post of the Ameri can Legion and in the highest of fices of the 40 et 8. Ho is junior warden of Laurel lodge No. 13, A. F. lc A. M., and also a mem ber of the Elks and Eagles lodges. Will Pause at U. S. Capital Leaving Roseburg tonight, he will join Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kre kos in San Francisco. They will drive to New York, by way of the southern route, stopping in Wash ington, D. C, to visit U. S. Sen ator Guy Cordon and Representa tive Harris Ellsworth. They will embark on the Nea Hellas (New Greece) March 26. George will visit In his home town, Pyrgos, in Elcas county, Greece, where his mother and a sister, together -ith the brother, Andrew, who returned to Greece few years ago, all reside, fie also has a number of nieces and nephews with whom ho will also visit. At the meeting of Laurel lodte last week, he was presented with two leather traveling bags. He will return to Roseburg about the middle of May. Fulbright Hits Lying In RFC Probe Hearing WASHINGTON UP) "I have never heard so much lying in my life." That was Senator Fulbright s assessment toHny of some of the tetimony in a senate probe of RFC lending policies. The Arkansas Democrat who heads the investigating subcom mittee declined to specify which statements he considered false among the welter of charge and denials by a score of witnesses. But he said scrutiny of the rec ord might reveal the need for a "general investigation of the moral level of our government." The committee has charged that political influence and personal pressure tipped the scales in the Reconstruction Finance corpora tion of several multi-million dol lar loans. Stolen "Wonder Drugs" Object Of FBI Search BOSTON UP) Th FBI and Boston detectives today hunted a fortune in "wonder drugs" which they feared were headed by un derworld channels for the black markets of Europe. More than $80.0(10 worth of au rcomycin, penicillin and perihe min were stoler about two weeks ago from the I.ederle laboratory of Brighton, a branch of the Ameri can Cyanamid company. Plant manager Elmer E. Sea man said the drugs would bring nearly $500,000 in European black markets. TRUCK DRIVER HELD UP PORTLAND T RicharU E. Turnage, Portland traction com- gany bus riivcr, told police a lone us passenger brandished a gun and robbed him early today. Turnage said the gunman took his wallet containing $16 a coin rack with an undetermined amount of money and a book of passes. He said he befttved the manrtcap.A in a car that was following ti bus. i if Proposal Gets Nod With Only Seven "Noes" Restaurants Must Tell Patrons When Serving; Special Tax Sought , By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM UP) Sale of colored oleomargarine, with penalties against restaurants which serve it without telling their custonfbrs, won 21 to 7 approval in the Oregon Senate today. The bill goes to the House, which also is considering the "color spec trum" bill, which would restrict butter to certain shades of yellow and let oleo use other shades. The big senate vote for today's bill was in contrast to the close 16-14 margin by which the senate voted a month ago for the first bill to allow colored oleo. That bill, defeated 30 28 by the House, was the same as today's bill, except that the first one didn't have any restrictions against restaurants. Special Tax Proposed Another development on the oleo front today was a proposal by Sen. Giles L. French, Moro, who has opposed colored oleo, to tax dis tributors S cents a pound on all the oleo they sell. French said he doubted that the tax would actually cost the house wife more than 2 or 3 cents a pound, with the distributor absorb ing the rest. French said the tax would raise $1,000,000 a year, and that the state badly needs some money to bal ance its budget. The proposed oleo tax, he said, wouldn't be unfair. He pointed- out that dairy products are taxed to support state milk control. fsen. Thomas R. Mahoncy, Port land Democrat who introduced to day's bill, said that house leaders prefer his bill to the "color spec trum" measure, because the lat ter bill is unfair to butter by re stricting it to certain shades of yellow. Federal Law Copied The bill passed today contains the same restrictions as contained in federal law. These are that colored oleo must be served in restaurants in trangular-shaped patties; that restaurants serving it must have signs saying "butter substitute served here" with letters three inches high and two inches wide; and the menus must contain the same information. Sen. Richard L. Neubcrger, Port land Democrat who was a spon sor of the original defeated oleo bill, drew a lot of protests-from " fellow senators by saying that they had yielded to pressure from house wives, and that they changed their votes when the butter industry gave up the battle against colored oleo. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This (at least as these words are written) is another of those ho-hum days in the news. They always scare me. After two or three of them in a row, all hades seems to break loose. Here's a sidelight on the war In Korea, where South Koreans are helping us fight North Koreans and red Chinese: The other night 60 North Koreans WEARING SOUTH KOREAN UNI FORMS marched through our lines and when they got in o u r rear turned around and started shooting our boys in their foxholes. Problem: How are you going to tell a North Korean from a South Korean ex cept by his uniform? War is full of problems. Let's finish the story: Our boys wheeled in their fox holes and returned the fire. Com rades in adjoining foxholes tackled (Continued on page four) F.D.R. Dying When Named Fourth Time, Farley Says NEW YORK UP) James A. Farley, former Democratic na tional chairman, said it was widely known among political leaders that President Roosevelt was a dying man when ho was nominated in 1944 for a fourth term. Farley's statement, in a letter to the editor of the New York Times, was prompted by adoption of the 22nd amendment setting a limit of two terms in the presi dential office. CITY COURT CASES Municipal Judge Ira B. Riddle reported the disposition of three cases in court Monday. Robert Salo, 61, Roseburg la borer, was committed for 10 days in the city jail in lieu of a $20 fine on a drunk charge. Wilbur Stanley Courson, 24, transient welder, was committed for 10 days in the city jail in licunof a $20 fine on a va grancy charge. Ray Preston Mc Farland, 22, 2515 Harvard street, was committed for 20 days in the city Jpil in lieu of a $40 fine on a druffk charge. Levity Fact Rant By L. P. Rclacnstcin Suggestion for a taxpayers' pQynr: that the annual March rTl J- I. U.l.. L. ttwa.mil. WT F, VtZ . .- . Id. on-hoin loelty o that ye eld town hall will not be toppled.