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U. of 0. Library COiJ? Eugene, vreguu iui ini FACTORY , urn i ) WHAT Witt MARION DAVIS, who operates the car washing and finishing unit at Adair's Associated station en Main straat, is pictured as he sprays a liquid on tha surfaco of a car which ha says really does the business. He ought to know, for he has been specializing in this type of work since he was 14 years eld. Mr. Davis and his family own and make their home at the eld Goff ranch at Deady. They came to Douglas county from Van couver, Washington. Georgia's University Faces Closure Threat In Negro's Test Of Racial Barrier Law ATLANTA (AP) A younjr Negro. Horace Ward, was in line today to test Georgia's threat to close its uni versity before admitting him to the law school. Under present Ceorgia law, Ward's fight conceivably could lead to a complete shutdown of the state's entire uni versity system embracing 16 colleges and 20,059 students. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Athens: "Premier Venizelos , announced that the Greek embassy in Wash ington has been ordered to sell immediately the yacht recently bought tor King Paul o( Greece in Miami, Florida." "This is in accord with a letter from the palace, in which King Paul refused to accept the vessel." This ia the point: - When the yacht deal leaked out, it was promptly recognized that the American people might not feel too happy over buying a $220. 000 American yacht for the king of a country that ii living rather ex tensively on American relief. The Greek king himself sees the point and backs away from the yacht. Over on this tide, we face ( somewhat similar dilemma. In Washington, what is called the labor-federal security appro priation! bill for next year is run (Continued oa Page 4) Fish Catch At Hatchery Leads To Fin Of $100 Catching fish with their bare hands proved to be a costly sport for Jim Gassen and Bill Wright. Ordinarily it would be termed a feat of some note, but District Judge A. J. Geddes wasn't im pressed Tuesday as he fined each man $100 and suspended a 30 day j.nl sentence on payment of the f.ne. The two pleaded guilty to "steal ing and attempting to steal" fish from the Rock Creek Fish hatch ery. The men were arrested Tues day by State Policeman J. M. P.urkhart on information from Henry Reed, the hatchery super intendent. Rurkhart stated that the men had apparently caught a big rain bow trout in mid air as it was leaping out of the pond where the water flows in. Following their spawning habits, the trout try to j.ot out through the spillway that ferHs the pond as they would up a u ill stream. Wedemeyer Backs Mac Arthur Victory Plan Either That Or Quit Korea, General Says; Ultimatum To Russian "Enemy" Advised WASHINGTON UP) Testi fying Tuesday for thejecond day before the committee investiga ting the. Far Eastern policy end the dismissal of General MarOr thur as Pacific commander. Lieut. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer declaiejrl: "Either me "ttould fight in Korea with a view to a decisive victory and victorious cttfajnination, or we ahotild get out." He made it plain he felt Mae- Arthur's prograatis the onlvfaav to that kind of J victory. Earlierfi) however, he had testified he saw i at this time no prospect for a de eisive victory in the Far Pacific fighting. Wedemeyer also declared he would acceot a truce with the Chinese Reds in Korea if it would I bar trickery "or a return to bos-1 tilitirs." 1 But the three-star general added he is "not confident" of the7om munist'a sinceTike in naj otaating agreements. Heisid heCfteWies. though, that "if they offer us a truce arOihis time I would under take negotiations with them and By Petri JoenVfftej In any case, this is the final day for a "yea or no" answer to Ward's eight-month old application. It is the last registration day for the summer term at the university in Athens. There was little doubt that the regents' decision would be nega tive. There was also little doubt that a "no" answer, or no answer at all, would result in a federal court suit by Ward designed to force acquiescence by the university. Chancellor Harman Caldwell said Monday he would recommerl rejection of Ward'a application as the "only decision that can be made ungr Georgia's constitution and law." In such event. Ward's suit prob ably will be filed later in federal court. State Law Is Barrier Georgia's constitution makes ra cial segregation mandatory in state supported schools, but even if the answer were "yes" the university system atill would be in hot water The appropriations act by the 1951 legislature provides that if a Negro is admitted' to a white school, even at the behest of the federal courts, then all state funds for that school automatically cease. 7 States Obey Courts Federal courta to date have said consistently that Negroes must be admitted to graduate schools in white universities where separate but equal facilities do not exist. As a result state after state has admitted, or agreed to admit grad uate Negro students Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkan sas. The 24-year-old Negro has a mas ter's degree from Atlanta univer- j sity with an "A" average. He gained his bachelor of science de gree from Morehouse college with a "B plus" average. Best Bid For Copco's Bond Issue Announced NEW YORK () Smith, Bar ney & Co., and associates have ap parently aubmitted the best bid for $6,000,000 California Oregon Power Co. bonds. The bid named 101.31 for a 3 percent coupon. Subject to award, the bonds will be reoffered at 102.31 to yield 3.50 percent. do everything I possibly could to slop hostilities." 0 Wedemeyer had told the com mittee earlier that in his opinion an armistice at the 38th parallel in Korea would amount to a psy chological defeat for United Na tions forces. Wedemeyer else aaid the time la coming when this country "will just have to draw a line" and say te Russia: "ne mere, this is it. ne oeciareo the line draw- Ing should be done in the United Nations, and ahit it should be backed by naVa and predomi- nant air power. He called the Korean war a "bot tomless pit" for American man hood and said he sees no end to the struggle theta) Would Arm Germane Wedemeyer also told the sena- tors the I'niled States should akrow a ring of air bases arounsvthe Russian "heartland'' so that Ameri can planes could pound the So viet Union if war comes. He added, however, that this country never should attempt to Israfcllskad 1173 KOSEBURS. ORECOM WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13. 151 13t-51 Economy Budget From President Cut In Senate Vote Further Slashes Planned; Chauffeur Jobs Erased, New Automobiles Denied WASHINGTON (JPI A sen ate economy bloc, triumphant in its initial efforts, plans to hack awav further todar at a battered $2,528,338,000 Labor department federal security agency money bill. The biggest proposed cuts in the measure still are pending. The economy group secured adoption Tuesday by a decisive 58 to 24 vote of its chief objective a ten percent cut in the two agen cies' payrolls in the fiscal year starting July 1. The ten percent reduction in all personnel items was written into the Labor-federal security mea sure in an amendment sponsored by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich). It cut the President's budget for the items by $11,700,000. Ferguson plans to offer the same cut to all of the 11 remaining fiscal 195C regular funds bills with the possible exception of the Defense department bill. The Labor-federal security measure is the first one to come before the Senate this year. If applied across the board to all agencies, the amendment would affect about 240,000 federal jobs. There now are more than 2,400.000 TJ. S. ciivilian employes. Ferguson estimated the money savings of a ! ten percent cut in all agencies would run between KiOO.ooo.ooo and $800,000,000. Federal hospital em ployes were not included in the cut in the fede.-al-Labor-federal se curity bill. Chauffeurs Also Feal Axe Senator Douglas, (D-I1I) an other leader in the drive, has pro posed three amendments to knock $32,000,000 more out of the bill. The reductions would include $20,000, 000 in grants to states for hospital construction, $9,000,000 in grants to needy school districts in -defense areas, and $3,000,000 in grants to states for maternal and child wel fare. Douglas also seeks to whittle down the 24 days of annual vaca tion leave granted federal em ployes to 20 days and the 15-day annual sick leave privilege to 12. The lawmakers also adopted an amendment by Ferguson to elimi nate all funds for chauffeurs in the Labor-federal security bill and an other by Douglas to eliminate au thorizations for 79 new automo biles Ferguson said be would try to abolish the jobs of all the 7,000 chauffeurs in non-defense agen cies. Council To Open Storm Sewer Bids Tonight A special meeting of the city council has been called for tonight at 7:30 for the opening of bids on the West Roseburg storm sewer project. Also scheduled at the meeting will be the final reading of an ordinance adopting the city budget. After contract for the West Rose burg job had been let to Atlas Construction Co.. it wss found nec essary to alter the plan to change the flow of storm water. The proj ect will be somewhat larger so had to be resubmitted for bids. The water from Nebo, Myrtle, Union and Brown streets will he taken to the river by wsy of Ballf street. Provision will he made to add ad ditional lines at a future date. conquer or occupy Russia in the way the Allies occupied the Axil nations after World War II. Wedemeyer also told the com mittee: 1. He is against admitting the Chinese Communists to the United Nations and letting Chinese Na tionalist Formosa fall to the Reds. 2. He would not declare war against Russia, although he still feels this country should sever dip lomatic relations with the Soviet Union and its satellites. 1. Cutting off relations with Rus sia would make clear to the So viets "our realization that they were the real enemy." 4. He favors rearming the Ger mans because "in my judgment, i(V don't rearm them, the So viets will." CJ Senator Kefauver said of Wede meyer'a pull-out proposal: "I just don't think it would be sound policy. If we pulled out, we might just as well mark off Ko rea. We would be telling the Com munist aggressors to come in and take over." Axe Hits Federal Beaten Commies Continue Northward Retreat In Korea; Rear Guard Slows Pursuit TOKYO (AP) Thousands of beaten Reds streamed northward in Korea today as Allied task forces roamed un opposed over their abandoned "Iron Triangle." Allied tanks and men spilled out over the flat lands north of Chorwon and Kumhwa. They made good advances toward Pyonggang, northernmost point of the triangle. Jeffries Cited In Mishap That Killed L H. Queen Otis E. Jeffries of Medford was cited for operating a motor vehicle without an operator'a license, fol lowing an accident near Toketee late Monday night, which took the life of Lionel H. Queen of Visalia, Calif., reported Deputy Sheriff Ira Byrd. Jeffries, badly injured in the ac cident, has been taken to a Rose burg hospital. Byrd, who with Deputy Coroner Robert Bellows investigated the ac cident and death of Queen, said the two men had left Medford about 3 p.m. Monday, enroute to Toketee by way of Diamond lake. The ac cident occurred around 11 p. m., within one-fourth mile of Toketee, where the two men were em ployed on the California Oregon Power company project. The car rolled over a 300-foot embankment and lodged in trees. Queen's body was thrown out of the vehicle and over a 150 foot sheer rock wall to the river bank below. Jeffries was also thrown out of the car and laid in an unconsc ious state for some time, according to Byrd. He finally recovered and made his way down the road to the Toketee camp, arriving about 1 a.m. The car was almost a to tal loss. Jeffries waa brought to the hospital by Billy Mohr a am bulance. His wife. Vera, lives at Medford. Queen was bom Aug. 14, 1900, at Mecca, Ga. He had been employed by California Oregon Power Co. at Toketee since April. His widow, Mary, survives. The body will be shipped by Long Orr mortuary tonight to Visalia. Calif., for serv ices and interment. Production Rote Dispute Idles 13,000 Auto Toilers DETROIT (P Production rate disputes on car assembly lines idled a total of 13,000 auto workers Tuesday. A continuing dispute kept 10.000 idle at Hudson into a aecond day. Three thousand at two Chrysler De Soto plants also became idle. Hudson aaid it was forced to lay off its men because of a lag on the assembly line. A walkout of 13 metal finishers led to a Chrys ler layoff. Spokesmen for CiO United Auto Workers locals at both Hudson and Chrysler said production rates ex ceeded the capacity of the working force. Morals Charge Guilt Admitted By Ex-Pastor MERCED. Calif. iJP) The Rev. S. L. Tidwell. former Turlock and Klamath Falls, Ore., minister, pleaded guilty in superior court here on charges of statutory rape involving a teen-age Merced coun try girl The minister was accused ofdied at Boulder, Colo., where he spending a night with the girl in a Merced motel in 1949. He also has pleaded guilty to a similar charge involving the same girl in Stani slaus county and is currently ap pealing a San Quentin prison sen tence handed down there. The court set July 2 for sentenc- spent hslf a century in the minis ing. I try. 0L'r ! w T (i Or SCOUT FUND DRIVE workers check up on progress of the camoaion at the conclusion of tended for a one-day eoncentreted campaign, the drive will eon- tmue until all prospective contributors heve been contacted. Smaller Red forces covered the retreat. They slowed advancing U. N. Infantrymen in "bouncing battles" over the ridges stretching north of the Hwachon reservoir eastward toward the Sea of Japan. The Fifth air force sent nearly a third of the 535 flights mounted Wednesday skimming over these ndes. The pilots burned the Reds out with fire bombs and blasted them with explosives. Largest engagement reported Wednesday was fought by South Koreans moving up the east coast north of Kansong against an esti mated 1.000 Reds. On the west flank patrols slabbed across the lmjin river, probing Chinese strength. u. N. officers said the only sig nificant action was the Red flight behind the cover of mountain-top defenses. The Chinese Communists hope to stop surrender of their Red troops in Korea, a Formosa dispatch said. (The Chinese Nationalist defense ministry said the Communists, at a meeting in Manchuria, decided to punish all officers of any division in which surrenders occur.) General Van Fleet, U. N. ground commander, said he thought the United Nations now has the mili tary might to win in Korea. The Chinese and North Korean Reds, he said, no longer have the serce to threaten Seoul, South Ko rean capital. Girls' Drum Corps 2nd At Festival The Knights of Pythias Girls' Drum and Bugle corps bowed to the slate drum corps champions Friday in the Rose Festival pa radebut they bowed gracefully, according to Director Bill Black. "I am very proud of my girls for their fine performance and I'm sure that if the people of Douglas county and Roseburg could have seen them perform, they would have been just as proud," Black said. The talented Roseburg march ing group waa in cumpetuiun wun the Hillsboro American Legion men's drum corps and the Port land Policemen's drum corps. The crack Hillsboro outfit won the com petition by a skimpy three points. The Roseburg girls .and the Port land group were tied for second. Black aaid the Knights o f Pythias drum corps received great ovations on the parade route and, in addition, had the honor of being the fifth musical organization in the line of 39 marching units. "Although we didn't place," Black saiJ, "we would like the people of Roseburg to know that tie girls did a grand job." Former Presbyterian Moderator Passes Away DETROIT m Dr. Joseph A. Vance, M, one Detroit's best known churchmen, died Tuesday Dr. Vance, pastor emeritus of the First Presbyterian church here. waa filling an Interim pastorate. In 19.15 Dr. Vance was named moderator of (tie general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the U. S. A , highest post of the de nomination. Dr. Vance. Tennessee - born, it.'' VS the first dev's efforts. While i- i Payrolls First Batch Of Levy Hikes Put Into Bill Committee Now Plans To List Taxes On Gas, Autos, Gambling Types WASHINGTON UP) The house ways and means committee drove toward tta final decisions today on a bill to increase taxea by 17.500.000,000 a year. Proposed increases in the excise taxea on gasoline, automobilea and some household appliances re mained to be ratified, along with a proposal to broaden the base for the excess profits tax on cor porations. All have been approved in previoua tentative votes. The bill still must pass the House and Senate. A proposed new ten percent tax on gambling and aeveral hundred million dollars in additional excise taxes were clinched into the com mittee bill Tuesday. These included: Cigarets, rate of seven cents a pack raised to eight. Whiskey and other hard liquor, from $9 a 100-proof gallon to $10.50. Beer, from 18 a barrel to $9. Wine, up an average of 12'.i per cent. Diesel fuel to be taxed two cents a gallon when used in highway vehicles. Cigaret lighters 20 percent at re tail. Fountain pena and mechini cal pencils, 20 percent of manu facturer's price. Oemblera Must Part The wagering tax would be ten percent on the gross receipts 'of professional bookmakers and of the operators of lotteries, policy wheels ("numbers ') anq pools on sport ing events. The tax would be col lecuble monthly and would apply throughout the United atatea, whether gambling was legal lo cally or not. The big gambling operators and all their agenta aa well would have to pay an occupational tax ot ssu a year. PenalUea for wilful eva sion of the wagering tax would run up to five year s impriaonment and 110.000 fine. Arbitrarily, in the absence of any guiding experience in collect ing such taxes, the committee es timated the new lwvy would bring in $400,000,000 a year. Mining Claim Holders Sue Over O-C Lands MEDFORD UP) A dispute over timber on O 4s C lands in Jackson county has led to a 150, 000 district court suit here. Owners of a group of patented mining claims filed the suit for damages, and aeek an Injunction to slop a logging company from re moving timber from the claims. The bureau of land management, whirh administers the O 4 C lands, insists the logging firm has the right to the timber. Roscoe K. Bell, regional administrator, said the timber sale was made before the mining patent was issued but that anyway congressional acts of 1916 and I94S provide that mining claims do not carry with them the right to tmber on O C lands. Drouth Deals South Heavy Crop Damage By Th AaMVtatatf PrtM Southern farmers sre hopefully watching a crop-saving rain mov ing steadily in from the northwest. Already the south has counted crop losses running Into hundreds of millions of dollars. Crop and pasture damage in Ala bama alone is expected to exceed 1150,000.000. A similar situation ex ists In Louisiana and Mississippi. Tobacco, peanuts, watermelons and truck crops are continuing to aulfer in south Georgia. v Picture) left to right, front row, Vuem, Walter Smith; back .iraorga Sinclair end Carl kMer. ' w "V 't- l I mm Beef Price Tags Postponed; Rail Wages Increased WASHINGTON UP) The gov ernment today extended for one week until June 25 the date for retailers of regular beef to post ceiling price charts in their stores. The lists were due to be put up next Monday. The Office of Price Stabilization said the delay in posting prices for regular beef is allowed to be cer tain all stores have ample time to obtain the price lists furnished by OPS. In another order, OPS said that, effective Thursday, cannera may figure new ceilings on new potatoes snd rhubarb produced in all atates for canning; broccoli and brussels sprouts produced in California, Washington and Oregon; and fresh field peas produced in the south ern states. These canned vegetables have been under the general price freeze since January. The new order permits canners to add certain increased costs to prices they were charging between Jan. 1 and June 30, 1950. Mere Pay For Trainmen The Wage Stabilization ' board approved an above ceiling wage boost negotiated by the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen with the nation's ailroads. Under the agreement, yard workers get 33 cents sn hour more, and road" workers get 1814 cents. There are about 150.000 of the trainmen. Board Chairman George W. Tay lor said the increases averaged out at 1H percent more than the ten percent wage increase ceiling the board operates under. He said they were approved neverthelesa be cause it took the trainmen two years to negotiate their increase. W. Berlin Exports Blocked By Soviet BERLIN tP) Ignoring Al lied protests, the Russians turned back hundreds of West Berlin ex port shipments today in a move which threatened to become an economic blockade of this Soviet- surrounded city. Western Allied officials talked ot shutting off vital supplies to East Germany in retaliation, if the. Russians refused to yield. "But we are still hopeful," one high American official said. "We are just sitting tight waiting for a Russian reply to our protest." The protest was against the new Russian regulation requiring West Berlin manufacturers to show the origin ot their atratcgic raw ma terials before they can ahip their finished producta througti tne Kus aian zone to the Weat. The United States, Britain and France declared two days sgo that the Russians had no right to de mand such information and told the West German city government to refuse it. Soviet authorities promptly re jected all export permits lacking the information they demanded and have so far Ignored an Allied request for cancellation of the reg ulation. Cannon Will Boom Here In Salute To Flag Day If you are awakened from your slumbers about daybreak Thurs day by the roar of cannons, don't 'be slarmed. The Korean war hasn't spread to Roseburg. Tha cannon blasts a 21-gun salute will be fired from atop Mt. Nebo by a group from the Roseburg Elks lodge heralding na tional Flag day. This will be part of the Elks Flag day observance which will be concluded Thursday at 7:30 p m with a ceremony from the bal cony of the Elks temple, officers of the Elks, headed by Exalted Ruler Ed Nolle, will conduct a flag ceremony. George Neuner will speak, and musk will be provided. The public is invited to witness the program. The Elks fire gun salutes on Flag day and the Fourth of July. The Weather Mostly sunny and warmer today and Thursday. Highest temp, for any June ... 10 Lowest temp, for eny June .... M Highest temp, yesterday 75 Lowest tamp, last 24 hours 54 Prtcip. last 24 hours - 0 Pracip. tram June 1 0 Preclp. from Sept. 1 40.41 Escess from Sept. 1 f .01 Sunset today, 1:54 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:32 a.m. V John Betes, Rod Nevue, Rolke Charles Thomas, Calvin BaisW (Picture by Paul Jenkins I L . Vic . ' -: Retail Cuts May Follow DiSalle Says Price Cxar "Very Happy" About Increased How Of Cattle To Markets WASHINGTON UP) The go- ernment is getting set to order a rollback in the factory prices of some clothing. Price Director Michael DiSalle said in Denver the new pricing formula for all lines of clothing makers will be issued in "a day or so."" It will mean, he said, that many manufacturers will have to trim their prices. This may bring cuts eventually at retail clothing stores, whose price ceilings are based on a percentsge markup basis. DiSalle said the rollback will pro vide a base pricing period of three months in the pre-Korean period. "Manufacturers will be allowed to select the three consecutive months on that basis and will be granted markups for rises in ma terials and labor costs," the price boss said. Cattle Shipmenta Upped Before leaving for Denver, Di Salle aaid he was "very happy" about another development on the controls front: an increase in the shipments of csttle to major live stock markets. But both DiSalle and meat indus try spokesmen cautioned that this does not necessarily mean a break in the meat situation. Cattle feed ers have been holding back on ship-, ments to stockyards since a price rollback went into effect June 4. In any event, this week's mar keting of cattle would not be re flected in neighborhood butcher shops until next week. Meat in dustry representatives said beef might become even more scare in retail stores this weekend. With a congressional inquiry al ready ordered, meat Industry and government pricing officials planned to discuss the beef situ ation tomorrow in Chicago. DiSalle was invited to attend. Industry Strike Suspected Senate majority leader McFar land ot Arizona said after a con ference with President Truman that in a radio address Thursday night (9:30 p. m., EST) the Presi dcnt'will "lay it on the line" for firm economic controls. Mc- Farland did not elaborate. Reports from 12 cattle markets showed 36,800 animals shipped to stockyards compared to 28,512 a week before. Even as this became known, Senator Maybank (D-SC) announced an investigation to see if "this (beef) shortage is nothing more than a strike on the part of the meat industry." Sen. Morse Hits ' Wedemeyer Plan BALTIMORE (IP) Senator Morse (R-Ore) warns that persons who would lead us into sn sll-out war with Russia now must be stopped dead in their tracks by facta. "The United States could make no graver mistake," he aaid in a speech, "than to follow the pro posals made to tne senst com mittees by Lieut Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer. "We are in no nosltion now to fight an all-out war with Russia without suffering hundreds of thousands of casualtiea which need not be suffered." Wedemeyer recommended this country bresk off diplomatic re lations with Russia and her eatel lites. And like Genersl MscArthur, Wedemeyer called for extended sir and sea attarka against Red China, and "going it alone" against the Communists if other U. N. powers won't bark us up. Morse ssid that bombing bases in Manchuria would force Russia into an all-out war, if only to preserve her prestige. Morse is a member of the joint senste committee investigating tha dismissal of MacArlhur as Fsr Esstera commander. Lifeguard Swims Off With Loot From Autos MIAMI BEACH, Fls. Po lice hsve arrested a hotel lifeguard for breaking into automobiles and then swimming off with the loot. Jerry Kedrierski, head of tha Miami Beach auto theft bureau, identified him as Jsmes Bunch, 22. of Miami. Kedrierski ssid Bunch would swim from the hotel where he wss employed to one of the streets ending st the waterfront, break into a parked car, and then swim back to his own post with tha loot. Ex-Prime Minister Of Australia Dies CANBERRA, Australia UP) Former Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley collapsed and died tonight. The former railroad engineer, a longtime leader of Australia's la bor party, waa prime minister from April, 1945, until December, 1949, when the labor government was succeeded by a liberal-coun-try.-larty aoilition. He was M. Levity Fact Rant By L. T. Reiiensteia Impatient because there's m rain? (o) Well, don't develop tjrlpo; Twill probably pour dowa AN the country around At toon as the cherrhts aro irtpt. feu
