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U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon COi'iF IU1 A MS TO ma lilo LLULivl Robert W. Bashford Chosen County Polio Chapter Head; Franklyn Voyt Treasurer Robert W. "Bob" Bashford is the new" chairman of the Douplas County chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis. Bashford was elected to the position by the county polio board at a meeting Wednesday noon at the Shalimar. The new chairman was named following acceptance of the resignation of A. G. "Al" Henninger, who has served in that capacity since about 1944. ROBERT W. BASHFORD Takes Over Civic Job I I ' FRANKLYN VOYT ,. Custodian Of Fund (Picture, Miller Modern Studio) AL HENNINGER Leaves Fine Record In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: "General Omar N. Bradley (a fine general) tcstilied the Lnited States is not ready for a show down with Russia and should not risk world conflict by adopting General Douglas MarArthur'i Ko rean war proposals." This I think, is the BIG ques tion: Is Russia ready for a showdown with us? If she is, we'll have war no matter what we do. If she isn't, we won't have war UNTIL SHE IS READY. I think we can put that in our pipes and smoke it. So far as I have been able to learn by reading evervthing I can lay my hands on, EVERYBODY agrees that in this ticklish situa tion we call the "cold war" our enemy has all the great advantage (Continued on Page 4) The Weather Partly cloudy today and Friday. Highest temp, for any May ... 102 Lowest temp, for any May .. W Highest temp, yesterday .12 Lowest temp, last 24 houi;t Q SI Precip. lost 24 hours Precip. from May I 1.21 Precip. from St. 1 40 55 Excess from Sept. 1 . 10.20 Sunset today, 0:12 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, S:41 a.m. Mm. V. V. Harphm was re elected ecretary of the chapter, and Franklyn Voyt was elected treasurer, succeeding Maurice Newland who declined to serve for another year. Another position to be filled i i that of Roseburg community chair man for the chapter. Del McKay has submitted his resignation. Bashford, manager of tho Doug las County Flour mills, has been active in the polio work in the ca pacity of chairman of the Kiwanis club committee, which has d i rected the club's participation in the annual campaigns the last two years. Voyt has also been active with the Kiwanis club's participa tion and handled the industrial so licitation this year. Contributions Increase Henninger took over as chairman ol the county chanter while the or ganization was still in Its infancy and a few thousand dollars was considered a big take. Last year the county contributions totaled S26J30. of which one-half went to the national foundation. The b a 1 ance remains here to carry on lo cal activities. Starting the year with S6317, the county chapter now has in its treasury $16,590. which includes deductions for disburse ments for polio cases in the county. The chapter members pointed out, however, that this sum would dwin dle quickly if a polio epidemic should occur here I Special recognition was liven to the efforts of te Tenmile polio committee, which had been over looked in the previous accounting by county committees. Headed by Mrs. L. J. Diedrich, the Tenmile committee turned in a collection of $256 19 during the last drive. Western Union Employes Walk Out In Big Cities By Tht Annelited PrM Some 800 Western Union em ployes have walked off the job in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, crip pling service in eight states. About 800 Western Union em ployes also walked off the job in San Francisco and Oakland early today in what a company spokes man called an "unauthorized walk out." Earl R. Stein, superintendent of the Oakland office, said the union has protested the training of su pervisory personnel in union jobs. The Oakland office of Western Union is a relay point for California and Nevada. Stein said relay serv ice would not be affected but local service would be curtailed by the strike. In Philadelphia, where the com pany's main office was doing a bare five percent of normal busi ness, it was indicated the tieup might be extended to district of fices. Spokesman for the employes as serted "this is s walkout, not a strike." Officers of the Commerical Te legraphers union (AFL) said the immediate cause of the dispute was the company's use of non-union employes on certain union jobs. They termed this a violation of con tract. Actually, union spokesmen said, the issue is much broader one, growing out of the union's national demands to reopen the old con tract for wage negotiations. The national CTU has authorized a strike on or after July 1 if de mands for a M-cents-sn-hour pay increase are not met. The average wage now is $1.45 an hour. CoiMfy Conscience Fund Gets Remittance Of $2 Add two dollars to tho con science fund. Tho Doug let county treasur or'i office received a letter from Pacific Garden, Cal. Wednesday with two dollar enclosed. Tho Jertor said merely, "Put this In your conscience fund." Nothing more. County Judge Carl Hill guessed that someone had failed to pay a fine. Thailand Post Slated For Austin Flegel, Rumor PORTLAND JP) Austin Flecel flew to Washington this week, and Portland newspapers re ported he was enrnute to become head of the Marshall plan in Thai land (Siam). Flegel, an industrialist who was deleated as Democratic candidate for governor last year, said before he left that he could not confirm the report. Mrs. Flegel. however, wag quoted as telling an Oregonian reporter that they had leased their home to a lumber buyer, and would fly to Bangks&i CURIOSITY SATISFIED j BALTIMORE - UP) Harry B. ! Jones. 15, explained to the judge he swiped a hearse "to see how the thing rode before I died." He almost got both answers at the same time. Jones wrecked the hearse in a collision at a street in-'. tersection. but escaped unhurt. 1 Judge S. Ralph Wamke gave him , three years in prison to recall tht i experience. Established 1173 W. A City Recorder Vell Trained For Higher Job Council Gets 3 Other Applications; Salary Upped By New Budget ' Winston A. Gilchrist has been advanced from his position as Rose burg city recorder to city man ager, i This action was taken by the city council Wednesday afternoon at a special meeting called by Mayor Albert G. Flegel for the two-fold purpose of canvassing tht- ballots on the city budget election held Tuesday and for the purpose ol ; employing a new citv manager. Gilchrist replaces M. W. Slan kard. who resigned, effective June ' 15. The appointment is on a tern-! porary basis until June 15. in ac-, cordance with provisions of the city j charter. A reappointment must be made on that date. The mayor and council pointed out that the new city manager has made an excellent showing in the position of city recorder, since he assumed the position May 1. 1950, upon ine resignation oi wuuamt Bollman, who went to Springfield io lane over a joini position oi recorder and city judge. Hiring of a new city recorder I will he ud to Gilchrist. He said that ! an effort will probably be made to get along without a recorder until after June 15, but that extra clerical help will be needed during that interim. Well Trained For Position Although he came to Roseburg from Browning, Mont., where he was employed as business manager for a mercantile firm, Gilchrist is no stranger to this county. He was superintendent of schools at Suther lin several years. He later held a similar position with the schools at Estacada, and was business man ager for Lewis & Clark college, Portland. He is a graduate in law from the Detroit, Mich., College of Law. He was also granted a M. S. degree in the school of business administration and finance from the University of Oregon. Three Others Apply Mayor Flegel slated in the meet ing that he had three written ap plications for the position of city manager, but that the persons asked that their names be with held, if the council acted on any other applicant. Appearing in his own behalf, Harry D. Kinnrar made a verbal application for the position in the meeting. Gilchrist as city recorder has been receiving $3780 annually, and under the new budget would have received $4500. The salary of city nunaqer under the higher budget, would be tipped from $6000 to $6600 annually. No men tion as to salary was made by the council in its meeting. A canvass of the votes for Tues day's budget election snowed the official count to be 463 in favor and 411 opposed. A resolution was passed by the council formally adopting the budget. HORSES DIE IN FIRE MONTREAL IIP) Hundreds of race horses stampeded about a I flame-lit enclosure last night and mgnt Because one had been ex several broke loose into a crowded j cused. They were C. A. Brand, street as a fire gutted a $50,000 Clara M. Hess, Ross C. I-ovelace, barn at Blue Bonnets race track. Hilda M. Quine and Charles From 12 to 15 valuable horses died. ' Stark. Restoration Of Access Roads Program Cordon, Ellsworth Plan For Counties' Share Of Receipts Bv FRANK W. VAILI.E ' WASHINGTON (IP) The fu ture of a $1,0110.000 access road firogram for the O t C grant inds of wester Oregon hinges upon the success of me by Sen ator Cordon and Rep. Ellsworth, Oregon Republicans. It depends (I) upon getting the program reinstated in the senate versKt) of the Interior department appropriation bill, and (2) keeping it there when the bill goes into : conference with house represen tiiives. j Th house appropriations com mittee rejected the access road program. The committee recom mended against tue itn because it said, Oregon counties receive "an inordinate proportion" of re ceipts from the sale of timber on O tt C lands. Tht House backed the committee. Cordon and Ellsworth would modify existing legislation by pro viding that 25 percent of the re ceipts, toon to go to the coun ties, would be returned to the trea sury. Considerable histosy is involved in any understanding of the O k C problem. It actually started In 186 when Congress donated 1,728.000 acres of forest land to spur construction of R0SEIUR9. Gilchrist tvleu W. A. GILCHRIST Upped Te Bigger Job . . aaf a ROCKeteer CDCT Convicted Like Moran Of Perjury NEW YORK lPl Numbers racketeer Louis Weber was con victed Wednesday of lying to the U. S. senate crime probe committee about his rcl-'nns with .lam"s J. Moran, pal of former Mayor Wil liiim O'Uwyer. Weber. 51-year-old native ot Puerto Rico, will be sentenced on the perjury conviction in federal court Friday. He can get up to five vears in prison and a $2,000 fine the max imum imposed on Moran on the same charge. The two perjury trials were the first prosecutions growing out of the senate committee's sensational televised hearings here. The cases hinged on the number of times Weber visited Moran at his offiee when Moran was first dep uty fire commissioner from 1944 to 1950. Moran swore to the committee that there were no more than six visits. Weber testified he didn't even know Moran. Government wit nesses told of more than 100 visits. Moran is appealing and free in $25,000 bail. Weber, free in $20,000 bail, also plans to appeal. Grand Jury Convenes With Heavy Docket The grand jury opened the May session this morning faced with a heavy docket of 26 criminal list ings. Larceny, non-support and armed assault comprised the bulk o f cases slated. Others listed were embezzlement, contributing to the Jclmquency of a minor, assault. forgery, obtaining money under false pretenses, non - sufficient j funds, larceny by bailee and threat i ering commission of a felony. Only six jurors of the seven-man panel were named Wednesday a railroad from Portland, Ore., to California. Three years later it granted 105,240 acres to the O tt C railroad to subsidize construction of a road from the rail line near Roseburg. Ore., west to Coos Bay. The railroad lost the grant by failure to live up to its terms and in 1916 the government took back 2.984.000 acres at a cost of $.5,671,259. Reimbursement Created Subsequent legislation provided that the government would assume the burden of reimbursing the coun ties for taxes lost by removal of tte land from railroad ownership. Because of low receipts from tim timber sales, the government was never able to meet this obligation ana t onress. n ii3'(. --.--e-, new legislation. Mill in effect, which 1 provides that the counties are lo receive So percent of timber' receipts each year in lieu of current taxes. Because of low eceipts from tim ber sales, the government wat never able to meet this obligation and Congress, in 1937, passed new legislation, still in effect, which! provides that the counties are to receive 50 percent of timber re- ceiptt each year in lieu of current taxes. i Another 25 percent foes to the I ORECON THURSDAY, MAY Move To Make Bradley Talk Faces Defeat Vote Expected To Bock General In Obedience To Truman's Request WASHINGTON (. Sen ate investigators upheld today the refusal ef Gen. Omar N. Bradley to stify about Presi dent Truman's private talks with his advisers on firing Gen. Doug las MacArthur. Senator McMahort (O-Conn) said tho vote was II to I. Tho action sustained a decision by Sonator Russell (D-Ga), chair man of the joint armed services and foreign relations committee, that Bradley had a right to keep ailent on the talks. WASHINGTON t.P Repub licans faced defeat today in efforts to force Gen. Omar Bradley to tell what was said at confidential White House talks which preceded the ouster of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Bradley objected tnat his use fulness as an adviser to President Truman would be ended if he told; Mr. Truman backed up the gen eral's reluctance to talk. But Senator Knowland (R-Calif) served notice .-c vi- Uin it tempts to lower what he called a similar "iron curtain" around Sec retary of State Acheson. It was a foregone conclusion a Democratic majority with the aid of Senator Morse (H-Ore) and pos sibly Senator Lodge (R-Mass) would uphold Bradley's refusal to recount actual conversations. In advance of the vote. Demo crats suggested Republicans might be getting ready to cry "white wash" on grounds, as Senator Ful bright (D-Ark) put it, "the evi dence now being presented does not support General MacArthur." Knowland indignantly d n i e d this, and Senator ilickenlooper ( K lowa) told reporters he thinks MacArthur's proposals for carrying the Korean war to Red China "have neither been shaken nor disproved." Decision Slated Today The senate armed services and foreign relations committees agreed to vote today on a move to force Bradley to tell what mil itary and diplomatic leaders in cluding Acheson said when they discussed MacArtnur'a dismissal with the President April 6. Mac Arthur was fired April 11. The vote in the senate com mittees will come on an appeal by Senator Morse of a ruling by Sen ator Russell (D-Ga). head of the combined committees. Russell up held Bradley's refusal. Morse, who sides with Russell, made t h e move to force a showdown alter GOP colleagues had urged delay in deciding the issue. Senator Kerr (D-Okla) declared, meanwhile, that MacArthur is los ing ground in the senate invest! (Continued on Page 2) Attorney General Neuner Able To Leave Hospital SALEM iJP) Attorney General George Neuner was discharged Wednesday from Salem General hospital. He was taken there Monday after collapsing from overwork in his office. Sought In Congress Objective By Limiting From O. & C. Land Sales O It C fund to pav off what In ! 19.17 was a $10,472,891 deficit repre-j senting delinquent taxes and the ' land acquisition costs. When the deficit is erased, this' 25 percent also goes to the counties. I The latter looked like a safe provision in 1937 when O & C tim ber sales were low. In 19.18, wiih depression prices, total tales amounted to but $220,582. But with World War II and the current lumber crisis, values shot up until in 1950 O A C timber tales were valued at $3,624,913. I Deficit End In Sight I A spokesman for the bureau of I land management, under whose jurisdiction the land falls, testified that tht deficit would be wiped out i this year. (Walter Horning, head rf the Interior department's fores try division, told a reporter it def initely would be erased "some-! time between May 1 and June l." With that extra 25 percent! to the counties, it was only natural that Corress would obiect. Corn-1 mittee members pointed out that Oregon counties ould be getting 75 percent of the timber receipts it compared with but 25 percent given other counties for sale of timber lying on forest service landi within their borders. i Tht appropriation! conjxjirte rtv ! 17. 1951 City Manages' Convention Plans For State BPW Clubs Announced Mrs. Florence Barton, above, of Coquille, slate president of the Oregon Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs, will E reside at the state convention to e held in Roseburg May 10, 19 and 20. Convention activities will begin with a state board luncheon Fri day noon in the civic room of the Hotel V.mpqua. Registration will open it t a.m. Friday, May 18, in the lobby ol the hotel and will continue until 7 p.m. Mrs. Priscella Clarenbach is chairman of the registration committee. Miss V, Vivian Logs den is chairman of the creden tials committee, and Mrs. Marietta Powers is chairman of housing. Reservations are pouring in from all over Oregon and about 400 women art expected for the three day meet, it is reported. Convention chairmen art) ai fol lows: credentials committee, Miss Logsden, Roseburg, registration committee, Mrs. Clarenbach, Roseburg; resolutions committee, Mrs. Natalie Buran, Toledo; rules committee, Mri. Ivan Cowan, Yon ralla, and chairman of elections, Mrs. Vera Hansen, Springfield. Britons Facing More Austerity LONDON OP) Britont today were promised 10 more years of austerity over the meat counter. Not until 1961. Food Minister Maurice Webb said, can British ers expect as much meat, even, as they got before World War II. Webb explained: The nation's normal meat sources mainly in South America could not send all that was needed and "there is no magic wand to pro vide a sudden increase." That promise of longtime auster ity was coupled with new doses of restrictions for the British house wife. She was told: Milk might have to be rationed agnin. Eggs mi-lht not come off the ra tion at expected thia summer. Coffee and clothing prices were going up. There was one slightly bright item in all this gloomy news. The bacon ration will he Increased next Sunday from four lo five ounces a week. port said it would "he unwilling to provide for capital expenditures of this (access road) nature unless and until substantial adjustments are made regarding the distribution of receipts of timber sales." Situation Anticipated Actually the objection had been anticipated. Cordon told a reporter the pro posal made by himself and Ells worth had been readied for some time "waiting for the deficit to be overcome." Their proposal it simple. Instead of the 25 percent going to tht coun ties it would revert to the trea sury along with the remaining 25 percent out of which the govern ment now meeta O li C adminis trative costs. "That will put more than a mil lion dollars into the treasury free ann clear. Cordon told a reporter. Actually, neither the Cordon nor Ellsworth proposal identical bills introduced in their repective rhsmhers will be approved before the Interior department appropria tion bill comes to a final vote. The hope is, however, that the fact the bills have been introduced with the blessing otlhe Oregon delegation may smons the way (or reidstement of the iccest road Item in the tppropnition. i - h , ..'! i ' 117-51 Truman Raps Plan To Slash Military Goal Penny-Pinching, Playing Politics Invitinq War, Assertion Of President By ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON (. Presl dent Truman today hung an "invitation-to-war" tag on a proposal by Senator Taft (R-Ohio) to reduce the manpower goal of the armed forces by 500,000 men. If Congress should permit the de fense program to "get snarled up, or delayed, or slashed, we would be courting disaster," Mr. Tru man said in a speech prepared tor the national conference on citiien ship meeting here. The President denounced "penny-pinching" on foreign aid, and accused some of hit opponents of "playing politics" at a time of "very real" danger of war with Russia. He also called on tht people to counter "special interest" lobbies by urging their congressmen to support higher taxes, and stronger price, rent and wage controls. Living Casta May Zoom Declaring that unless existing controls, due to expire June 30, are extended and strengthened "the cost of living will go through the roof," Mr. Truman said: "The special interests and the lobbies will wreck thia stabilisation program, as sure at you're born, unlest the main body of the cit izens of (hit country get busy and do something about it." Mr. Truman did not mention Sen ato. Taft by name but he left no doubt he had tht Ohioan in mind when he told the conference: "A auggestion was made by one senator the other day that we ought to cut down the goal of our armed forces by half a million men. At a time like this, such a cut would be very foolish. "Slashing the size of our armed forces would not be ,in economy, it would be an Invitation to war." Tail told a U. S. Chamber of commerce meeting here April 10 that the administration's goal of a 1.500.000-member armed force should be cut by 500,000 since he said it would be too big for the economy to support indefinitely. United Stand Urged Mr. Truman today referred only obliquely to the controversy over Gen. DoukIm MacArthur's dis missal, and subsequent senate committee hearings on far eastern poliry. "There is a lot of discussion now adays about militarv strategy," the President said. "Military ttrat (Continued on Page 2) Grain For India On Basis Of Loan Okayed By Senate WASHINGTON f.P Shin ment of 2,000.000 tons of U.S. grain to India on a long-time loan oasis was approved Wednesday by the Senate. The House will take up a similar bill next Tuesday. It is opposed by a coalition of some Republicans and aouthern Democrats. The senate hill nrovides that the Economic Cooperation administra tion chief should try to get some vital defense materials including mangonese in repayment for the food. Manganese, used in harden ing steel, is in short supply here. Repayment of the $190,000,000 food loan would be over t period of 31 to 15 years with interest of two tnd one-half percent. There would be no paymenti on the principal fpr the first six or eight years. The bill also provides that the interest paid hy India on the loan in the fimt five years would be used to finance a program of tech nical assistance for India and an exchange of students, teachers and experts between that country and the II. S. Although the grain totals only a two-weeks' simply for India, spon sor! of the bill estimated that it would fill the gap which India has no other way of meeting this year because of short 1950 crops. Butter Shortage Last Of This Year Looms WASHINGTON VP) Sign! of i possible butter shortage next fall and winter shows up in a govern ment report. The Agriculture department said stocks of butter in cold sforste on April 30 totaled only 32.189.000 pounds. Thst was less tnan a tniri of the storks of 109,020,000 pounds a year earlier. A mir reason for the apparent butler elicit is the fact that a lurger portion of the millf Vpply is being consumed in the flultf form than a year ago. Enemy Slain By Thousands. Battle Report Attackers Drive Wedge Into South Korean Unit But Allies Close Gap By OLIN CLEMENTS TOKYO UP) Waves of at tacking Chinese Reds failed today to break through the main United Nations defense line. The Chinese smashed a hole in South Korean ranks and streamed through, but allied troops rushed up and plugged the gap by night fall. Waves of Chinese stormed U. S. positions. But every time the Amer icans were pushed off a hill they counter-attacked to recapture it. The actions were along the east central front, hottest sector of the 75 mile-wide battleground. Kield dispatches said 96,000 Chi nese were attacking in the 25-mile length of the east central lector in the opening atages of an lU-cut Communist offensive. Another 25.000 Reds were re ported gathering strength on the Pukhan valley invasion route of the west central sector. Slithering Chinese had crept close to Amer ican lines at the junction ot th Han and, Pukhan rivers despite ceaselrss aerial and artillery pun- isnment. Far to the west erupting attacks and mounting pressure threatened that a maior advance toward Seoul might be tried later. All along Ine line Red reserves were packed deep behind the bugl blowing assault units. Front line officers laid Red strat egy appeared to be to bit the center of the line regardless of losses. Heavy Slaughter Inflicted Communists attacked relent lessly. U. N. planes, artillery and mine fields took a heavy toll. "We are killing them by the thousands," a U. N. air officer laid. Artillery batleriet fired at a rec ord pace. "We are not firing except at group! ot I ixi or more, an artil leryman said. The U. S . Eighth army estimated Communist casualties Wednesday at 3.582. The Fifth air force aaid it added 850 Thursday in 617 com bat strikes before 6 p.m. The Redi used some 150 mm. artillery, anti-tank guns and re coilless rifles. But mostly they uaed automatic weapons and mortari. AP photographer Ed Johnson on the east central front renorted a reinforced Chines regiment about 2,000 men was cu,t to piecei . in the high mountain! by allied troops defending trails crisscross ing the country. Johnson said one American com panyabout 200 men tore up tht regiment from hilltop positions. Two Chinese regiments ran into a mine field Wednesday night try ing to slip through allied lines east of Chunchon. They set off the mine! so fast it sounded like the roar of artillery. An American colonel reported only 40 Chinese got through the' minefield and barbed wire entan glements at the foot of a hill held by U. S. forces. 60-Unit Homes Project Here Awaiting Bids Bids are being advertised today for opening on June 19, on construc tion of a 60-unit Rosewood Hornet project in Roseburg, according to the Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland. A total of $594,170 hat been allocated for the project. The Housing authority of Doug las county, room 205, Douglas County State Bank building, will receive bids until 2 p. m.. June 19. on the project. Included in the project are demo lition, site grading, roads, walks. streets, sewer, water, gas and elec trical distribution systems, in ad dition to 30 duplexes and a small administration and maintenanca building. The duplexes will be of frame construction with concrete floors. asphalt tile, warm air, oil-fired fur naces and space heaters, and com position roofs. There will be both one and two-story buildings R.H.S. Baccalaureate, Commencement Dated Baccaulaiireale service for the Roseburg Senior high school 1951 graduating class of 179 senior! is scheduled for Sunday, May 27, in the Junior high school auditorium, it has been announced. Commencement exercises will be May 31 at Finlay field. Senior high school, if weather permit!. Threot To Kill Sister Charged To Jailed Man For allegedly threatening to kill his sister, Helen G. Willson, Fred Wiley Gould, 41, a Roseburg log ger, Is being held in the Dnuglaa county jail on $1,500 bail, reports District Judge A. J. Gentles. Gould was arrested by the state police. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein The U.S. Senate hat voted) a loan to hunqer-rldden India to buy wheat. Profligate prince of India, like playboy Aly Khan, prefer to spend their millions in amatory pursuits, to financing food purchases for starving folks at homo.