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fUl m ISL LT11 Daring Defi Given Buildup WHO DOES WHAT Wfzr tanks DAS ACroSS mm LOUISE CORNETT pours a cup of coffee for a customer at the Coney Island cafe, where she is employed. One of many, many cups which she passes over the counter In a day's time, for Coney Island, located on the Pacific highway in Riverside, is conveniently located as well to a considerable district of business establish ments a continuously growing number. Raid In Clackamas County On 103 Establishments Nets Machines And 103 Arrests OREGON CITY AP) State police ranged over Clackamas county in a vast, surprise raid late Friday night, confiscating slot machines and punchboards. They put 103 persons under arrest. Only the municipalities of Oregon City and Oswego es caped the raid conducted by 120 state patrolmen, assisted by 23 agents from the state liquor control commission. Taverns and night clubs from the slopes of Mount Hood to the Marion county line north of Salem were raided. , The raid had been weeks In preparation, Police Capt. Vayne Gtirdane said. In every one of the 10S estab- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Fed China rebuffs General Mac Arthur's recent peace bid which Mao's government in Peiping de scribes as "impertinent, insulting and worth onlv a sinele laugh " The communist broadcast an nouncing the rebuff adds: "The entire Chinese people will. . .fight unrclentine.lv until the aggressor is completely driven from Korea." Shucks, nobody believes a poli tician anv more, and the commu nists who have taken over and are running red China are poli ticians of the first water. From Washington: "Announced American casual ties in Korea rose to 57.120 todav. an increase of 1308 since last week The total, representing casualties announced to the next of kin through March 23. included 8.511 killed. 37.918 wounded and 10,691 missing in action." A pretty high price to pay for what we've won in Korea, you say? I don't think 1 can go quite that far. Suppose we had let the com mies take South Korea without a (Continued on Page 4) Spring FlowerShow, Under Woman's Club Sponsorship, Scheduled Here April 5-6 The 1951 spring flower show of the Rosehurg Woman's club will be April 5-6 in the basement of the Methodist church parlors, with Mrs. Frank Ashley and Mrs. J. A. Gibson co-chairmen. The public is invited to exhibit, and any exhibitor may enter in as many classes as desired, but only one entry in each class. For the first time, exhibits wi he judged. Judging will be for per- b(lst ai.while, best bi-color and fection and not regarding one ex- j hest Sectjon 2.3.4 wiil jnciu(e hibit against another. Any mento-1 doube daffodils, jonquils and por rous exhibits, not provided for in tjcus ciaS5 3 wju feature tulips the flower show schedule, will re- 1 pnd cas, 4 wm be of Dutch, ?rape ceive recognition. ! mitscari and hvacinths. A plant sale will be sponsored : rj'her Fta'uret Lis'ad hv the club during the two-day i primroses, flowering shrubs and show. Doors will open at 8 a. m.tre(,, jrj, poticd plants, planters April 5 and will close April 6 j an(t vjoas win be disnlaved. at P. m- . j Special artistic arrangements In the horticulture class exhihi-, will be featured. A special display tors are asked for one bloom in ; bv men gardners will also be en camellias, narcissi, tulips and hyae jove(j junior arrangements will cmths. Single, semi-double and in- be made bv children uo to nine complete double cameras will be j v,ar, of ,e ,nd (rom njne to 15 exnibited in one-bloom displays :n ynn f af,e. In the educational white, pink, red and variegated. f,.limn will be daft disDlavs. con In section 5. a collection of at least 1 scrvalion exhibits, library exhihits three blooms and not exceeding : and corsage demonstrations six blooms, will be exhibited. Assisting Mrs.- Ashlev and Mrs. In the narcissi disolav. exhibi- Gibson will be Mrs. Eugene tors are asked tnfyhow one bloom , in exhibits of trumpet daffodils.1 (Continued from page One) ' " X lishments visited, at least one console type slot machine o r punchbnard was seized. Arrests charged maintainance or posses sion of gambling equipment. Each person arrested was re leased on his own recognizance, to appear next week in district court her. The machines and boards were licensed but only on a play-for-fun basis. The charge is that they paid off in cash. Sgt. Howard Benninghoff of the Milwaukie headquarters, in out lining the raid, said it was dir ected by Capt. Gurdane and Dis trict Attorney Leonard Lindas who had prepared plans over a number of weeks. That, he said, was why the raiding party drew no blanks. Oregon City and Oswego were skipped because the manpower could be spread just so far," he said. Sheriff Fred Reasecker said he was not aware of the raid until it had been accomplished. The police were drawn from the Milwaukie and Salem dis tricts. Most were in plain clothes. Scattered throughout the county, they played the slot machines and punchboards. When uniformed police walked in at 10 p.m., the plaincloliismen certified they had received cash payoffs and the machines and boards were taken out. Sgt. Benninghoff said the ma jority of the seized machines were owned by Lonnie Logsden, who appeared at The Fireside, a night spot south of Milwaukie, while the raid was in progress. He matle no comment. Ownership of the machines is not illegal. Established 1873 Contempt Costello Tops Accused List Of 'Big-Shots' Cases Based On Refusal To Answer Questions Of Kefauver's Committee . WASHINGTON tP) The sen ate crime investigation committee, headed by Senator Kefauver, has won unanimous Senate backing for its contempt charges against such big name gambling figures as Frank Costello, FranK bricKson and Joe Adonis. The trio were among an even dozen balky witnesses cited by the Senate tor contempt of Congress because of their refusal to answer some of the committee's questions. Others on the list included Ja cob (Greasy Thur.ib) Guzik, re puted treasurer of Chicago's Ca- pone mob, and Morris Kteinman and Louis Rothkopf, former Cleve land bootleggers linked by the committee with inter-state gam bling operations. Three others, William G. O'Brien and Ralph J. O'llara, both of Chicago, and Stanley Cohen of San Francisco, were involved in the committee s investigation o 1 race wire services. Also cited for comempt were John Croft, linked by the commit tee with plush gambling places in northern Kentucky; George S. Bowers, a Miami gambling figure, and John Coyle of Gary, lnd., who was questioned about slot ma chines and other gambling opera tions there. Grand Jury Probes Next The contempt charges will be turned over to U. S. attorneys for presentation to grand juries in the cities where the witnesses were heard. Conviction carries maxi mum penalties of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine on each count. Costello,. a central figure in the committee's dramatic New York hearings, was named in a recent report of the group as a leader of one of the nation'! two major crime syndicates. He denied it. The contempt action against him was based on his refusal to disclose his net worth a matter over which he wrangled while mil lions of television watchers viewed Uie proceedings. Erickson, one of the nation's big gest bookmakers, was brought from a jail where he is serving two years on gambling charges to (Continued on Page 2) Truck Weight Bill Fought By Loggers SALEM CP) Oregon's log truckers, carrying their battle against the house approved truck weight bill, charge The state high way commission's weight limit recommendations as an "arbi trary, theoretical standard." The statement was made to the senate roads and highways committee by Frank J. Van Dyke, Medford, chief spokesman for the loggers, lie was speaker of the House at the 1949 session. Van Dyke said that all the log truckers want is "a fair solution to the problem." The bill would let loggers haul up to 34,000 pounds on one tan dem axle if they carry only 30,000 on the other. Van Dvke asked that they be allowed to haul 34.000 pounds on each tandem axle. Several speakers said the bill would hurt Oregon's logging in dustry. Frank McColloch, Eugene log truck operator, declared he is "surprised that any group of elected lawmakers would try to jeopardize the major industry of this stale." He said the bill would force many log truckers out of business, and said logging trucks "should take the right of way over a tourist car r this state, any place, any time." All of the speakers contended that the increased weights would not hurt the roads. The highway commission, the American Associ ation of State Highway Officials, i and the Fetleral Bureau of Puh ilic roads recommended 32,000 pounds for tandem axles as the maximum. The Weather Gtnrlly fair today, increasing eloudtnttt tonight. Sunday cloudy with occasional light rain. ' Highost tamp, for any March 1 Lowest temp, for any March j Highest temp, yesterday 1 Lowest temp, last 24 hours Precip. lest 24 hours I Precip. from March 1 ' Pictp. from Sept. 1 .... Excess from Sept. 1 ti n ...... 11.48 ' Sunrise tomorrow, m" ROSEBURG. Charges SAVES MONEY Eight-year-old Gregg Buckalew, of Mobile, Ala., appears much impressed with a lettee of thanks he re ceived from Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson for a money-saving idea the govern ment is adopting. Young Buck alew suggested that the "via" be dropped from the phrase "via air mail" which post offices rubber-stamp on items for plane delivery. He figured this would save almost a third of the rub ber which is a critical war ma terial. Donaldson advised Gregg that his suggestion is good and it being adopted promptly. IAP Wirephotol Reuther Demands Increase In Dues Of His Auto Union CLEVELAND IIP) Walter Reuther, wnose power in the (10 United Auld Workers goes unchal lenged on most matters, will undergo next week what in union affairs is the supreme test o f strength. That became apparent after the fiery UAW president announced he will ask the union's convention to approve a 6fi percent increase in union dues from $1.50 to $2.50 a month. And what's more, he told report ers here, he 11 accept no such a compromise as a 50-cent boost. Reuther predicted delegates will approve the increase. Reuther lambasted opposition to his dues proposal as "strictly po litical" and said John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers are kicking in funds to help defeat it. He said the higher dues would enable the union to build up a $15,000,000 strike fund largest in history and to set aside ten cents a month for each of the UAW's 1,250,000 members in a "citizenship fund." The latter would be spent on registering voters, taking them to the polls and other such pur poses. He pointed out that inflation has hit the operation of a union and said the dues hike definitely would eliminate any more assessments on members for strike funds and the '.ike. lie noted that most of the union's members paid $18 in dues and $12 in assessments dur ing 1950 the equivalent of $2.40 a month. :iyimi r'.;li;5i iF; SIM S0B tPOBTCMEM MOLD FIRT ANNUA! RAMOIirT TU. . I l . o,i,,ua, banquet sponsored by the Roseburg Rod and Gun club Friday n.nni, ii.i.a m. iviTiriaxi grange nan aimosr io capacuy tor an interesting program. Members of the ttete game commission ORECON SATURDAY, MARCH 31. 1951 Hit 12 Floods Still On Rampage In Dixie Area Heavy Storms Also Deal Damage To New York And New Jersey Sections Br Th. AMOcl.led PrMi Drenching rains of the past two days sent swollen rivers in the deep south over their banks today, with others approaching the flood stage. Heavy rains and melting snows also inundated parts of New York anil New Jersey in the east, and North Dakota and Illinois in the Midwest. Some 1,200 persons already have been driven from their homes in Mississippi, with two deaths re ported due to high waters. Scores of families were lleeing their Ala bama homes, with one man re ported missing. At Childersburg, Ala., the Coosa river passed 30 feet early today, and was inching up to its highest flood stage in more than a half century. With a large section of the city under water, national guardsmen and Red Cross workers averted a possible tragic toll of lives. Simple flood stage there is 20 feet. Childersburg's main water sup ply failed, but cooperation by resi dents gave promise of the auxili ary supply holding out. Residents were asked to use water only 15 minutes every two hours. Mississippi Facet Danger The floodwater menace was growing in eastern Mississippi, where the rampaging Tombigee river was expected to reach a crest of 40 feet at Columbus, Miss., to morrow. The eastern part of the city already is under water. A 40 foot crest would be 11 feet above flood stage. At Selma, Ala., a dangerously (Continued on Page 2) 2-WorId Unity Urged By Auriol WASHINGTON (P Presi dent Vincent Auriol of France pleaded today for unity between the old and new worlds to beat down the "dangers that threaten civilization." He told the Inter-American for eign ministers' conference that close ties of religion, language, his tory and love of liberty already unite the hemispheres and that now geographical limitations must be forgotten. "In these davs of trouble and anxiety, only the solidarity of our democracies can save the common heritage placed in their trust," Auriol said. The world is growing smaller, he continued "A tremor in one part of the globe shakes the whole universe," and "if our ideals were not pushing up toward solid arity of action, necessity would impose it on us." Twenty-o n e American nations are holding the conference. Repre sentatives of all of them have ap proved a "declaration of Washing ton" pledging the western world to fraternal defense against communism. In Crime State Game Commission Members Talk On Policies At Rod-Gun Club Banquet Nearly 170 persons gave hearty approval to the first annual Rod and Gun club banquet and "funfest" at Rivers dale Grange hall Friday night. Besides dinner, dancing and entertainment by the Tim- those present heard glowing nuseuurg cum nuiii live Game department. STORK BREAKS TIE Lady Senator Goes To Hospital To Have Baby PROVIDENCE, R. I. (P) A baby today broke the 22-22 Democratic-Republican tie in the Rhode Island State Senate and nobody knows what the historical conse quences will be. With the Rhode Island legisla ture straining hard toward a n April 17 adjournment and with many important measures pend ing, Senator Florence K'. Murray ID-Newport) told her colleagues late yesterday: "I'm going to the lying-in "hos pital." And this morning, the lady sen ator had a fine baby boy her first child. And the Democrats for the time being had lost control of the Senate. For with the Senate deadlocked, the Senate's presiding officer, l.t. Gov. John S. McKiernan, a Demo crat, has been able to cast the deciding vote. Baby Murray today took away Lt, Gov. McKicrnan'i vote. In the meantime, researchers on such matters were furiously thumbing dog-enrcd record books and saying, "nothing like this has ever happened before in American legislative history." William J. Thompson, chairman of the Republican state central committee, said: "No Republican gentleman would take advantage of this situation." After some quick calculating Democratic leaders said: "s h e won't miss more than four legis lative days." Firm Ordered To Remove Steel From City Lot Industrial Supply company o n Stephens street has been given 10 days to remove illegally stored steel supplies from a lot on Giles street, City Manager M. W. Slank ard reports. Slankard said the steel is stored on a lot in a residential zone in violation of the city's zoning ordi nance 116S. He sail) the city granted the firm permission to "temporarily" store steel s u p plics on the lot several months ago. The city has repeatedly written let. tcrs to the firm, asking them to remove the steel. Recently, Slank ard said, the firm started to build permanent storage racks for the metal. The city manager said the firm will have to remove the steel ot face legal proceedings. ' .... i. -I iL. ci.. - . r j w w tjuiMi ui ini tiuD. cnierTainmenT was Turnisnea oy lou ; Franco and hit Hapiy Valley Cowboys, students of the Sally Hilt STuaio ot uance, and the Koseburg limber Four. (Picture by I Paul Jenkins. I 77-51 Inquiry praise for the activities of the nmiiucir ui wie ureguu oiiue , Heading the list was Game mission Chairman Delbert Gilder-i wara M against stiffening resis sleeve of Baker. Gildersleeve said!ta"ce: he appreciated the backing given' Under the terms laid down by the commission by the local Rod Pefe"?e Secretary Marshall earl and Gun club. He pointed out that ." week. th tank thrust into the problems facing the commis sion were many and support was necessary from such groups. Commissioner Don Mitchell o f Taft added a strong second to Gil dersleeve's statement by saying "If we had more groups as broad minded and as informed as yours, the commission would have a lot easier going. Meat Hunter's Day Gone Continuing the series of brief statements by the state game men, Commissioner Ken Dcnman of Medford noted that "the time has come for Oregonians to fish and hunt for the fun fiey get out of it." Jle daid the day of the meat hunter is gone. He said that with depleated fish and game sources for the increased population, the problem is great, but the commis sion is doing its best to brin? the supply back to its former abun dance. In another vein, Commissioner J. H. Van Winkle of Oregon City pointed out need for passage of Senate bill 123, which would take fish and game enforcmcnt out of the hands of the state police and give it to the game commission. To this end he asked for the con tinued support of the Roseburg Rod and Gun club. He said the lo cal group has "always been our friends." It Is "one of the out standing clubs in the state and has always supported the commis sion." Completing the contingent of (Continued on Page 2) Soviet Planes Go Into Albania Chaos LONDON P) Yugoslavia contended today armed rebels are being parachuted into Albania to fight against the Kremlin-controlled regime of Premier Enver Hoxha. To combat the apparently grow ing unrest in the small Balkan So viet satellite nation, Russia re portedly has Bent about a dozen MIG Jet fighter planes to Albania. Yugoslavia also declared that the Albanian rebel campaign ap parently Is being directed by "re actionary" Albanians now living in Italy. There was no immediate comment from Albanian exiles in Italy. ROME (!F An Italian In formant closely connected with the "free Albania" movement in Italy said today 5,000 persons have been executed for political reasons since Communist r.nver Hoxha became Albania's premier five years ago. Another 10,000 have been jailed, he said. Of Chinese U.S., Soviet-Made Jets Clash In War's Biggest Air Battle Thus Far TOKYO OR Two American tank columns stabbed across the Red Korean border today in a daring challenge to a Chinese offensive buildup. One column struck across the 38th parallel north of Uijongbu on the western front and then pulled back before dusk. The other thrust into the Red lands north of the Chungpyong reservoir on the central fronts. Both ran into fire fights. The armored force north of Uijongbu fought off a Red anti tank gun, mortar and hand gre nade attack. It stayed three and one-half hours in Red territory. The initial thrust carried a half mile inside the Communist north on the main road out of captured uijongDu, norm oi Seoul. frog gain alied orces ad, , wecK ago with a drop of para chute forces who oilicklv envel- Com-!00"1. Uijongbu and pushed on to- Red Korea must be a tactical effort and not the opening wedge oi a iuii-iieagea ouensive. Air Battle Biggest Yet The Reds showed more muscle in the air and on the ground aa portents of a spring drive they are reported mounting in unprec edented force. In the air Friday 80 American Jets and Russian-made MIG-1S Jets tangled in what was de scribed as history'a biggest jet battle. It was just south of tha Yalu river border of Manchuria. One MIG was reported shot down and four were damaged aa 40 of them attacked B29 Super forts during a bombing of Ko r e a n-Manchurian bridges and were jumped in turn by the Sabres. No damage was reported to the American planes. The bombers reported knocking out spans of four bridges used for transport of materiel from Manchuria to the Red battle- fronts. Night attack and observation planes reported the Red buildup just north of 38 continued. Fighter bombprs claimed they destroyed nearly 100 of 1,800 Red vehicles seen moving with supplies Fri day night. They had spotted 2,100 moving Thursday night and 2,000 Wednesday night. Auto Driver Cited After Collision With Auto An oil truck and a passenger car were extensively damaged in a three-car collision at the Boomer Hill road junction on highway 99 Friday, state police report. Cited as a result of the accident was Robert R. Butler. Bremerton, Wash., for failure to keep his ve hiclo under control on a state high way, police said. According to state police, Rob ert Frances Crockett, operating a truck, slowed to turn on the Boomer Hill road. Butler at tempted to pass Crockett's truck when he collided with the oil truck coming from the opposite direc tion. State police said there were no injuries in the collision. Home At Winston Burns; Family Taken To Hospital The Gene D. Austin family of Winston was rushed to the Doug las Community hospital early Fri day evening suffering from burns received when their trailer house was totally destroyed by fire. Mrs. Gene D. Austin, two chil dren, nine-month okl Sandra L., and two-year-old Rocklyn G. were reported to be receiving treatment for burns at the hospital. Her hus band, Gene D. Austin, was also being examined for a possible skull fracture, it was reported. The state police and sheriff's of fice said no investigation of the fire was being made. The Rural Fire department said it did not an swer the call to the Austin trailer home, on the Suksdorf place. Oregon House Slows Up In Legislation Work SALEM (F The House hit a new low tollay in its batting average. It had four bills on Its calen dar. Two were sent back to com mittee, one was postponed until next Tuesday, and the other one was passed. The postponed bill, which would give cities 5 percent of state liquor funds, was put over because so many representatives were ab sent. CHECK CHARGE FACED Richard J. Higglns, 39, a Suth crlin logger, has been arrested by the state police on a Lane county warrant charging him with pass ing checks with non-sufficient bank funds, reports Douglas County Sheriff O. T. Carter. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Rcizcnstcin 1 1 Tha annual spring hunting I season is approaching. The I game: dandelion.