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Death Toll Feared
Heavy In British
Coal Mine Blast
EASINGTON, England (AP) A violent explosion
entombed 79 miners early today deep in the Easington coal
pit. Hours later rescuers recovered eight bodies and
brought one injured man to the surface.
Teams of rescuers toiled in non-stop shifts to move tons
of rocks and debris shaken loose by the blast 900 feet un
underground in hopes of rescuing alive the 70 men still
trapped
By early ifternoon rescue par-
. ties had driven through more than
300 yards of debris. Mining offi
cials said the coal face, where it
is believed the majority of men
are trapped, was another 700 yards i
away.
Fresh air was being forced i
through neighboring seams in
hopes it would filter through to
the men.
The violent blast blew two men
clear of the tumbling debris. One i
said he was lifted and tossed 60 j
yards down the tunnel. Another
said he was thrown 20 to 30 yards, j
j j cioua oi ran ju Springfield, Ore. He came to Suth
poured down the shaft, said George i '.:' ii,. .
Williams, twin brother of 19-year-; n'h "' ,,,.
old Matthew William, who was! Surviving are the widow. Julia,
the first brought out alive. son- Wl h' oth''.
The explosion caught the miners i Mrs- Minnie Apger Kimmel:
just as the day shift was relieving ,nrOT sisters, Mrs. Ilia Toman,
niaht workers about a mile and i Venela, Mrs. Frances Church,
one-quarter from the bottom of
the pit hoisting shaft.
Cause of the disaster . was not
known.
High Death Toll Feared
One of the rescue workers told
reporters "it is unlikely that any
of the miners still in there are
alive. It was terribly hot and we
got some idea of the force of the
explosion."
Crowds of relatives and friends
waited anxiously at the pithead
in a cold wind blowing off the north
sea. The Bishop of Durham, Dr.
A. T. T. C. Williams, and a num
ber of other clergymen mingled
with the anxious watchers.
The Easington colliery, one of
the largest in the Durham county
coalfield, is 10 miles east of the
city of Durham. Part of its work
ings run under the North sea.
In the Day's News-
By FRANK JENKINS
I've upoken repeatedly in these
rambling chronicles of the Span
iards, who were the first white
men to see California and the
American southwest. They were
horribly disappointed. They were
looking for rich cities to be looted,
as Cortei had looted Mexico, and
all they found was a raw, beauti
ful land whose wealth had to be
developed by the application of
human labor to its natural re
sources. That didn't interest them.
They really worked hard at the
job of finding rich cities to loot.
Coronario. lor example, was ri.s
patched fromMexico with a heav
ily armed expedition to search for
them. He traversed hot deserts
where his men came near dyin of
heat and thirst. He displayed cour
age and determination of the high
est order. But he found no cities.
Eventually, he had to return to
Mexico and confess failure. But
he brought back a rich" store of
fantastic tales that the Indians
had fed to him. Among
others I
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FARES BOOST ASKED
WASHINGTON (P) The
smith's major railroads 27 of
them have asked the Interstate
Commerce commission for a boast
of ten percent in their passenger The two schools involved previ
fares. ously voted in uv'or oi cousumia.
Their joint petition said an in- j lion with Camas Valley and Look
crease is needed to meet higher op- ingglass. but the two latter schools
crating costs. turned the merger down.
fRodeo Parade Plans Readied
By Jaycees; Applebox Derby
Entries Pouring In Rapidly
Hi'irh on the Junior chamber of commerce agenda of
future activity is the mid-June Rodeo parade.
Monday nifrht at the semi-monthly meeting- of the group
at the I'mpqua hotel, Hob Bellows, chairman of the Rodeo
parade committee, reported that plans for the gala event
were ready to be put into action.
He reported that all floats for the j -
parade will be relegated to com- ... lmA , . ,. . ....,
mercial and non - commercial cat- ,ed fnr ,he ccond and third
etnries. Every commercial float P'V', '2?frZ .
will he charged an entrv fee of SIS ! , 'n,ry flanks for the event July
No charge will be made for non-1 'J m,J,Je "'cured at the Hanson
commercial floats. i M'"'"' Co. A youngster entering
li .,,.. .i .t j "? 14 years of age or under.
p - e of JIM wm he e.ven fV .nj I WC"rl n"d thl" b""
Jw h,H2 . . ? a ' om doub' how winning
1 'd,, :';il,:,,.",llI,1' " would affect a bo".
-,...,.,.,, K,r., , j
uled for the best float in the com-1
nirii-irti ami non-com mere a rale-
gorr and for the best out-of-town
. ' !
Still in the rodeo vein, the Jav-,
cees voted to sponsor Lou Franco's
iMi-nrMra ror uie ronen aances
FrMay and Saturrlav niits. June
22 and 23. atoth will be held at Ken
nedy'! Dutch Mill on highway 99.
Derby Entries Plentiful
Also on the agenda tor the near
future is. the "Apolebw Derby."
Chairman Bob McCarl reported
entries are coming in thick
o"f!i ' "rt cf !
o.f.Lial snap'aa derby depend
-Uy on the -Trccess of this year s ;
sponsored race. .
m llisnlav at the merlin
ine trophy to he awa
ner and with it came an announce
ment that
irann ori; of S oo I
v.iii go io ine winning entrant. Ad-
ditional tyues of $50 an $:S are
i Tractor Accident
Fatal To Driver
j Donald Frank Apgtr, 22, Suth
' rlin, was killtd at about S:4S
! last night whan a caterpillar ha
waa operating en tha Clark
Branch road naar Myrtla Craak
i rolltd ovtr and crmhod him ae
cording to Robart Bollows, dap-
uty county coroner.
He wai amployad by Sat Log
ging Co. of Sutherlin.
He was born Sept. 10, 19:
Lebanon, and Mrs. Jane Perry
Monroe. His father preceded him
in death.
Funeral services will be held at
the Huston Funeral home in Leb
anon at a date to be announced.
Burial will be at Liberty cemetery
in Sweet Home. The Roseburg Fu
neral home is in charge of local
arrangements.
Gen. Vandenberg
Rapped By Solon
WASHINGTON (PI Gen.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg. testifying in
the senate s MacArthur inquiry, I
came under sharp fire today from !
Senator Hickenlooper R-Iowa )
who declared that Vandenberg has ;
been just as critical of Korean j
policy as Gen, Douglas MacAr-'
thur ever was. Hickenlooper said
it raised the question whether Van
rfnhro .hn,.lH r..i.n .., h. m.
moved as air force chief of staff.
Vandenberg in return denied that
he had disagreed with any United
Nations policy as to Korea.
He acknowledged writing in a
magazine article last March that
U. S. air power was made just
about useless "when the United
Nations in an effort to avoid a
diplomatic rupture with the Chi
nese Communists halted offensive
action at the Valu river."
But he told Hickenlooper:
"I was explaining a result from
military action. I was not advo
cating it
Hickenlooper contended that!
vandenberg s comments, published
In i'Air Force" magazine, together
with other statements he said he
would produce later, were "just at
critical of U. N. policy ... as
anything that General MacArthur
ever said."
School Merger Plan
Protested By Tenmile
Tenmile has joined Dillard in a
remonstrance against consolidation
f h' 'wo districts, reports County
School Superintendent
Keneth
Barneburg.
Tenmile citizens filed the re
monstrance soon after a similar
action had been taken by Dillard.
A vote on the question of the two
school consolidation will be held
June 18.
f .... ,m..,lr ..,.. h,,. k. .
phasized that he has been informed
: .;n .
0.her mapr a,,, wfre
methods of cleaning up Camp Tvee
for the rmn Fire o.H .nil . ni..
for greater blood donations to he'n autopsy will be neceslary.
Mere Bleod Neetjtd
Irv Hujjj poiaied out that
:
the I
list bloon received by
the Red :
I ros m Koseburg was flown to
Portland and from there to Korea
because of a desperate need for
the life-giving fluid. He said t h e
Ke4 Y'rosa iust can't eel kiHk.1,
liluod". He asked every Javcrsv to
ate when the bioodmobile ar-i,Hih "r Mr
rives June 21 (JLeweit temp, far any May .
Prwdinf theregular order ol HUM temp, yesterday
bu,inr , D J., l.w..r temp U.r 24 Mur
inralloH in th-
rded the wirK'wcre: Tunv atinerlv. Io Ra- i
gan. Art ;fllariT. Joe Boatwrighl.
Boh Rel!m rinn c.tt.v Willi!
,iirkson. Dan Mindnlovich,
"Wille y and Martin McClay.
Jack
Established 1873
Conferees Reach
Committee's
Draft Awaits
Congress Vote
Induction Age Reduced
To I8V2 But 19.25 Group
Would Be Called First
WASHINGTON (-P) Advo
cates of universal military training
were confident today the nation
eventually will get a UMT pro
gram out of a compromise bill
agreed upon by a senate-house
committee.
The group Monday worked out a
draft-UMT measure under which
Congress has to vote again on some
aspects of UMT before the six
month training program could be
set in motion.
The bill also would extend the
draft hw for four vears and lmver
the induction age from 19 to 18'S,
The present act expires July 9. The
new bill sets up a 5,000.000 man
power ceiling on the armed forces,
exclusive of the coast guard.
Chairman Russell (D-Ga) of the
senate armed services committee
said he was confident Congress
will approve the three matters
which it must pass on before UMT
can begin to operate.
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
house armed services committee
said the machinery for UMT
should be all ready by the end of
this year.
However, none of the lawmakers
expect the President or Defense
t department 10 iry 10 pill ine train
I !" Powam into effect until after
the Korean war. which broucht on
the present emergency call up,
eprs.
The I'MT issue was the nrinc1-"!
point in dispute left for the confer
ees Monrijiy. Yney Kid hr?n strug
gling with some 20 noiMs of dis
agreement since Anril IT.
What Compromise Provides
The compromise requires later
congressional approval, not on the
training program itself, hut on
three points connected with the op
eration of UMT. No youth could
be taken for training until Con-
re "PProves proposals on:
1. A code of conduct. This In
volves a system of military justice
applying to trainees: it would be
milder than in the regular armed
services.
2. Death and disability benefits
3. Recommendations dealing
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Tahkenitch Bears
Escape, Killed
Someone eoirm to have bear
steaks according to Deputy Sheriff
! Cecil Bever, stationed at Reeds
i port.
I Hcver was called this morning to
j Lake Tahkenitch resort to shoot
two "tame" bears, which had es
I caped Irom their cages, clawed
j up the resort keeper and refused
to return to the cages.
The bears first escaped Monday
nij;ht. but the resort keeper, Kred
I B. Judges managed to get them
locked up again.
T h i morning, however, the
bears again got out. They attacked
Judges when he attempted to coax
them back.
The man was not badly hurt, but
he had had enoueh. Fearing the
animals might attack someone
along the highway, ne called never
to the scene. The deputy chased
the animals into the brush and shot
them.
The bears, both females, were
seven years old. They had been
captured when cubs, and were a
familiar sight at the resort.
Drowned Man's Body
Found At Reedsport
The body of a man identified as
Fred Arendt, a Los Angeles mail
carrier, was found in a slough near
the E. K. Woods mill at Reed'port
today, reported Deputy Sheriff Ce
cil Bever.
The body apparently had been In
the water about two weeks, said
Bever. ft was discovered by work
men akthe mill.
The body is at the Unger Funeral
home at Reedsport. and District
Attorney Robert G. Davis is on his
way there to determine. whether
Arendt is reported from Los An-
geles to be a week overdue from a
vacation trip. An effort la being
made to locate relatives.
The Weather
and Wednesday.
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Precis', last 24 Murs
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PreciB). from May 1
Precip. frem Spt. 1
Eacets frem Sept. 1
Sum feday, 1:44 p.m.
Sunrise temorrew, S:37 a.m.
ROSUURS.
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SOUNDS OFF G.I. Joe hat
it too, too good, thinks Marine
Briq.'-Gen. Lewis B, ("Chesty"!
Puller, who wants to "throw out
the YMCA. Throw out all these
girls from the camps, bet rid ot
the ice cream and candy" be
cause the American serviceman
"has to get down to fighting,"
Tough General Puller, former
assistant commander of the 1st
marine division in Korea.
sounded'otf on his return to the
U.S. to train the Third marine
brigade
at C
amp
b ni
r"no,"Ton'
Cel.
Speaker Chosen
For Roseburg High
Commencement
Dr. Alhurey Castell. author, lec
turer and chairman of the depart
ment of philosophy at the Univer
sity of Oregon, will give an ad
dress on "Darkness at Noon"
Thursday evening at Finlay field
for the commencement exercises
of Roseburg Senior high school'!
class of 1951.
Starting at S p.m.. the exercises
win seeine seconn largesi class in
RnCAhnra Can inf hmh stnhnnl hit.
tnry 179 students receive di
plomas for the completion of the
high school course.
George Erickson. principal of
Senior high school, will present the
class and Vernon Ilarpham, chair
man of thedistrict 4 school board,
will present the diplomas.
Miss Hone Stubhs, who won ton
scholastic honors m the c'i, will SALEM 7P The Pacific Tel
deliver the valedictory and Gordon ' e phone and Telegraph company
uimu win Bnr u.r iiinaiu. v.
The processional and recessional
will be handled bv Wendell John
son and (Tovd Riffe. "Prelude"
from "Cycle of Life" will be pre
sented by the advanced girls
chorus. Father Hyland will give
the invocation and the Rev. Clark
Robh. the benediction. A trumpet
quartet will play "a Mighty Fort
ress Is Our Cod."
Weds His Grandfather's
Widow; Own Grandpa
HAGUE, Sask., & Cornel
ius Fnesen. 36, married9 his grand
father's widow Monday, thus be
coming his own grandpa.
A crowd ot more than 700
jammeu nif reiimuaiai i iiurvn hi
nearhv Grunthal to witness the 1
ceremony.
The bride was Mrs. Sirah Frie-,
sen. 42. whose husband died a '
year ago, aged 85.
Mrs Krippn was married tn her
late husband her new husband a
grandfather for 14 years and had
one son. now 12. who was I ornel
uis Fnesen's step-uncle and now
becomes his step-son, too.
Florida House Refuses
To Impeach Governor
TALLAIIASSF., Fla. (.Vi The
Florida House of Representatives
has refused by an overwhelming
vole of 76 to 6 to vote articles of
impeachment against Gov. Fuller
Warren.
The action of the House came
less than nine hours after Rep.
(;eore S Okell of Dade county
'Miami) had introduced a r'u.
tion preferring 11 articles of im
peachment against Warren "f o r
the commission of misdemeanors
in office."
Drunken Driver Loses
License, Fined $150
Willie Lee Stafford. 4). Rose
burg carpenter, Monday was fined
SI50 and his driver's iicense was
suspended tor one year on a
charge of driving white intoxicated,
reports Municipal Judge Ira R.
Riddle. Jesse Vernon Rodgers, 36,
Sutherlin. forfeited S50 bail on a
drunk and disorderly cnndifct
charge, according to Judge Riddle.
ORECON TUESDAY, MAY
Accord On UMT
VA Insurance
Chief Resigns
With Big Gripe
Public Apathy Over Huge
Task Impels Breining
To Quit After 31 Years
WASHINGTON tP) Harold
W. Breining, long-time head of the
world's largest insurance opera
tion, quit today with a blast at
apathy over "a damn big job."
Breining. director of the multi
billion dollar veterans' insurance
program, said he is retiring as a
Veterans administration's $11,200-a-year-assistant
administrator be
cause he is tired.
He said in an interview he has
not had a vacation in 12 years,
has been under constant pressure
and believes "I've done my part
and I need a rest,"
Breining was 55 last Thursday.
He has been directing government
life insurance operations lor 31
I years, all but three of the 34 years
that the government has been pro-
viding life insurance benefits for curve 14 miles up the Little River
servicemen and veterans. road from the Glide junction.
He organized tj,e national serv-t The logs on the truck came for
ice life insurance program at the 1 ward, acting like a vise, and
end of World War II, as well as crushed the truck's cab and Km
the veterans' loan program. i caid's chest. The truck was com-
Breinine said VA has done a 1 pletely demolished, according to
"damn big job which nobody ap -
predates there is no proper
appreciation of its volume and
1 what it means."
I Public Attitude Resented
Asked if the lark of appreciation
was i
was on the part of the public, the
fCongress, the veterans or the
press, Breining replied:
"1 think it's shameful that the
general public and everyone else
is lacking in appreciation for the
hard work put in by the people
here.
"They have worked hard and
under pressure. I doubt if you
could get people outside VA to riu
it. They are trying to do and are
doing a good job."
Breining said a lack of public
appreciation is harmtul to the vet.
eran because "it keeps people
from coming in and taking a Job
with us."
He said the VA -insurance di
vision hired a number of good
young men out of the armed furces
in 1945 and 1946 but has lost 1
, good rnXitit ol ,htm.
'
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Another Boost
In Rates Sought
By Telephone Co.
now wan s from ts customer! ah
additional S3.ooo.000 a year
The request for rate increases
submitied to George H. Flagg, pub
lic utilities commissioner brings
the total amount of requested in
creases lo $5,980,000.
The company asked a S2.920.0O0
increase last year. It was denied.
The company took the matter to
court where action still is pending.
In addition to the overall in
crease, the company asked that
rates be hiked in 13 exchanges
which have more phones than when
rates last were assigned.
Local calls at pay stations
throughout the state would increase
from i lo 10 cents.
There would be no change in the
drfy station intra - state long dis
-... ... i.v,,,pij ,.a,u,
cept that on present 10 cent routes
tance rale, the company said, ex-
'he allowed time would be cut from
five to three minutes. There would
be changes in mileage steps from
5 ' 2S cents for night and Sunday
station calls as well as on person-
1 to-person long distance calls.
i A- Dressier, vice president I
snd general manager, cited rising j
taxes and operating costs as the j
reason for the rate increase re-!
quest.
The company reported last week
that requests for increases would (
be necessary when it offered t o ,
raise workers' pay from 84 to M
weekly. I
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m
29. 1951
SENATOR TAFT
If Americans Can Bomb
In Korea, Why Not Also
In Manchuria? He Asks
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON (AP) Senator Taft (R-Ohio) today
criticized Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg-'s contention that Man
churian bombing attacks would require the doubling- of U.S.
strategic air power in the Far East.
Vandenberg told senators Monday Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur's plan to blast Chinese Ked bases and troop centers
north of the Yalu river would draw into the Korean fighting
planes needed elsewhere and leave the nation "naked"
Death Of Truck
Driver Explained
State police report that the ae-
eident in which Howard F Kin.
caid of Roseburg was killed Mon -
day, occurred when the Roseburg
Lumber company logging truck he
. was operating apparently traveled
straight into a tree bordering a
1 state police. Kincaid was traveling
south on a slignt upgrade.
Mark Angel, who passed Kincaid
traveling in tne opposite direction
shortly before the mishap, reported
lo P0'.'" "!"' d.',ec,lv "fter '"'J'
, Pss, ne neara a crasn.
Kincaid was born is Indepen
dence, Ore., Dec. a, 190i, aiid
had lived in the state most of
his life. He worked for the for
est service at Steamboat and op
erated a cattle ranch in Davis
Creek. Calif., for a short time, re
turning to Roseburg in 1950.
He attended both public and hieh
schools in Roseburg. In 1924 he
married Idcila Forward in Kla
math Falls.
Surviving are his widow. Idella:
four sisters. Mrs. .1 Freemen,
Medford; Mrs. March Brown,
Lebanon: Mrs. Annah Kerby, Eu
gene, and Mrs. Kay Greame, Leb
anon. There are no children as re
ported yesterday tn the News-Review.
Funeral services will be held in
the Chapel of Roses, Roseburg
Funeral home, Thursday, May 31,
at 2 p.m. The Rev. W. A. Mac-
Arthur of the First Methodist
church will officiate. Interment
will follow in the Burt cemetery.
Reward Offered By SP
For Train Wrecker
KLAMATH FALLS & The
Southern Pacific railroad is offer
ing a SIOOO cash reward in its at
tempt to turn up the person who
I tampered with a switch lo wreck
an SP freight at Malone siding
soutn ot nere May o
A few minutes past midnight
May 8 a freight bound fnr Alturas,
Calif., from Klamath Falls waa
shunted onto Malone siding and
wrecked. A big mallet engine and
17 cars piled up.
Investigators determined the
switch had been rigged, signals set
to show the main track open while
the switch was set to divert the
train on the siding.
Non-Stop Solo Flight
Over North Pole Begun
OSLO, Norway Air
liner Capt. Charles Blair started
a non-stop solo flight ever the
North Pole today in the converted
P-Sl Mustang fighter In which
he set the nen-ttep New York-te-London
record last January 31.
Fairbanks, Alaska, it hit des
tination. Lettert he carried will be auc
tioned In New York far the bene
fit ef me Damon Runyen cancer
fund.
He said he espected to make
the hep te Fairbanks in 10
heurt.
127-51
Program
CRITICAL
against air attacks.
Taft said in an interview he was
told recently by Vandenberg him -
self that as many as 1,000 U. S.
planes had been used in attacks on
the Chinese Reds in Korea.
"If they can bomb in Korea. I
! don t see why they can't fly a lit-
i lle further and bomb in Manchuria
or why there have to be so many
mnre " "c" " ao ine joo, tan
sa'd
The Ohioan said he fears the
military men who have opposed of Chinese Communists so battered
MacArthur's proposal to blockade by the passing vehicles that they
China, bomb Manchuria and u s e could hardly be recognized as hu
Chinese Nationalist troops are "fol- j man beings."
lowing the administration line": Bradshaw reported the task
rather than expressing independent i force had rumbled across the bod-
military thinking in the senatorial
inquiry.
i 0n tha other hand, Senator
.Sparkman (D-Ala) said he doesn't
,mnk there j, iny nucstion but that
president Truman's dismissal of
MacArthur was justified.
i ..j brieve the testimony amply
shows that MacArthur could not
abide by the decisions of the joint
chiefs of staff, who after all were
his superiors," Sparkman told re
porter. "Marshall. Bradlev. Collins and
Vandenberg have made a good case;
in pointing nut that theirs is
global resH)nsihility in contrast to
MacArthur's responsibility for one
theater. They have showed that
they worked as a unit were in
agreement on the decisions
reached."
Secretary of Defense Marshall,
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman
of the joint chiefs of staff, and
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army chief
of ataff, all have opposed MacAr
thur's program. MacArthur hat
said it was his understanding that,
from a military standpoint, the
joint chiefs had in the past agreed
with him.
Supposed Corpse sks
Officers For Cigaret
WHITTIER, Calif. (Pi Ever
have a dead man ask you for a
cigaret?
Reaching an automobile wreck.
Patrolmen Joe Wilton and Ben
Gomes found William Fryer, 35,
lying ttill betide hit overturned
car.
They could detect no heartbeat,
ne pulse. Totting a blanket over
Fryer, they called far an ambu
lance. Then the blanket ttirred.
Fryer tat up and atked: "Any
body got a cigaret?"
He only had a bump en hit
head.
United Presbyterians
Will Meet In Oregon
DKS MOINES (Pi The
United Presbyterian church will
hold its general assembly in Ore
gon next year for the first time in
57 years.
Delegates voted at the closing
session of this year's assembly lo t will deliver the welcome and the
hold the 1952 meeting at either! Rev. Raymond Srhacfer will give
Portland or Albany, Ore. ! the invocation. The Rev. Father
The 1952 assembly city will be ; Edmund Hyland will give the ben
designated at a July meeting of ediclion.
the Columbia eynod. Oregon dele-:
gates to the assembly here argued
that holding the general assembly
in Oregon will do much to counter
act the synod's isolation.
General Loses Command
For Unsatisfactory Job
TOKYO lP) The V. S. Far
East air force says Brig. Gen.
Luther W. Sweetaer has been re
lieved as commanding general of
me s.i-ik. iiKm nuiiiiigiiinieiii wuijt
because he "was unable to achieve
the maximum combat potential''
from his wing.
Eddie Cantor Hospital
Patient; Has Rupture
NEW YORK (P Eddie Can
tor haa entered Doctors hospi
tal for treatmeat of a ruptured
blond vessel in a vocal cord.
Officials said the 58 year old
Comedian woij remain in the hos
p.tal abouiten days.
ICE WORSE
HOLLYWOOD -i-A-li Fanny
Brice, 59-year-old comedienne who
suffered a cerebral hemorrhage
last Thursday, has taken a turn!
for the worse, and physicans indi-1
rated that death might be only a I
matter of hours. I
Small Scale
Bitter Fights
Now Raging
Previous 4-Day Battle
Cost Chinese 18,000
Men In Two Divisions
By OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO .Pi Communist troops
fighting stubbornly from their own
hills today slowed the United Na
tions advance into Red Korea.
Two Chinese divisions w e r
wiped out in a four-day battle
on the central front, south of the
38th parallel. The U. S. Eighth
army said the Chinese lost 18,000
men killed, wounded or cap
tured in the single battle.
Smaller, but equally stubborn
fights raged across Korea north
of 38. Allied troops were held to
limited gains. Stiffest action was
in the center of the peninsula
where U. N. troops tried to seal
off all Hwachon reservoir.
South Korean troops were strung
along the south bank of the res
ervoir about four miles east of
the damsite. U. S. marines were
on the western end. American in
fantrymen fighting through strong
opposition gained one mile Tues
day in their drive to reach its
eastern end.
Inje Scene Of Horror
A delayed and heavily censored
dispatch from AP correspondent
Tom Bradshaw said a powerful
U. N. task force bogged down
1 Monday northeast of Inje.
'Allied casualties in Inie itself
were heavy." Bradshaw reported.
Reds poured sporadic fire from
the surrounding hills into the town
"A leveled area of mud huti
interspersed with dead Chines
and horses."
"The ungodly smell of dead
flesh," hung oven Inje. "and along
the streets of the town lay bodies
: ies in the night "with dull crunch
ing of human hones.
Reds lining the hills northeast
of the town slowed the tanks to a
crawl with a series of road blocks
and heavy mortar and automatic
weapon fire, and finally halted it.
Other armored units ran into
the same trouble as they headed
northwest toward Yanggu, 10 miles
away on the end of Hwachon res
ervoir. The Allied counterattack hid
pushed the Reds back 30 to 40
inilca. U virtually wiped out gain
the Communists made in two
cosily spring oflcnsives. The Reds,
by Eighth army estimates, paid
ne."ly 150,000 casualties lor those
temporary gains.
The navy announced that block
ading warships have killed or
wounded more than 9.200 Reds in
their siege of Wonsan, now in its
fourth month. Naval guns also
were credited with knocking out
79 ammunition and supply dumps.
615 buildings, 345 vehicles and 115
1 railroad cars.
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Memorial Day
Program Readied
Memorial day will he observed
in Roseburg Wednesday with a
memorial service at the Veterans
hospital grounds. After the serv
ice, a parade will be conducted
as far as the bridge on the grounds
with the various veterans' organ
izations represented among the
marchers. The Rev. W. A. Mac
Arthur will be the principal
speaker in the service which starts
at :30 a.m.
Navy mothers and Spanish
American war veterans will drop
wreaths onto the water in mem
ory nf navy dead and the group
will then march to the cemetery,
where Gold Star mothers will
place wreaths at the tomb of tha
unknown aoldier.
Ray Lynes of the Disabled Amer
ican Veterans is general chairman
of the program which is being
sponsored by a joint committee of
veterans' organizations of Rose
burg. "Frosty" Holmes is parade
marshal and Mayor Albert G. Fle
gel will be master of ceremonies
for the program.
In the formal service, Dr. John
Hnskins of the Veterans hospital
CYCLIST INJURED
Samuel J. Robeson, 24. motor
cycle operator from Coos Bav, was
injured Sunday on highway 42 near
lamas Valley when he drove into
the ditch to avoid hitting a car.
Robeson was traveling with I
group of cyclists going to Medford.
lle sustained a broken leg and was
taken to Douglas Community hos
pital, where his condition is re-
; poi ted tn be fairly good.
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; LARCENY CHARGE FACED
An armed couple, wanted by
slate police at Roseburg in connec
tion with a grand larceny easy, was
aiWsted Saturday nicht by Lane
county Sheriff C. A. Swarts at Eu
gene. He slopped David Lee Avis,
2.1. and his wife. Kathleen. 22, as
,' j they drove into Eugene Irom the
south.
Levity Fact Rtfnt
By L. F. Reizensteln
The Iron Curtain may ulti
mately havt a companion In an
kjm Clftul... done In ell.