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o U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon COioF NIFIATION mm in MAT ui C ml IT WHO DOES WHAT ' 1 . ft . ' ! Xx- GORDON SMITH, recently admitted to a partnership with Fred Loekwood, of Loclcwoed Motors, local Ford agency, it pictured above at hit desk there. Hit active connection with the firm in cludes the duties of assistant general manager and tales manager. For many years Mr. Smith was with Balsiger Motors, Klamath Falls Ford agents. In 1937 he bought the Ford agency in Lake view, operating it until last spring, when it burned. Mr. Smith is making arrangements now for removal of his wife and small son, Stephen, from Lakeview to this city. Work Stoppages In 4 Major Industries IdleThousands By The Associated Press Work stoppages made idle nearly 20,000 workers today in automobile, aircraft, rubber and bakery industries. One of the struck plants has government contracts for airplane In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Clicks from the teletype: "Burmese voted today with ar mored cars roaming the city of Rangoon and police carrying tear gas bombs and Sten guns. It was Burma's first general election, and will decide 250 seats for the new chamber of deputies." A bit on the rugged side not? One can't help wondering what kind of chamber of deputies (con gress, parliament) the Burmese will get in their first election held under such conditions. The Rangoon dispatch adds: "Observers doubt whether more than 40 percent of the 17 million eligible voters will go to the polls . . , .Many are disinterested and others fear communist threats of violence against those who do vole." Wait a minute before becoming (Continued on Page 4) Ab Bean Sells Business Interest To His Brother I. J. Bean announces that he has purchased the partnership inter est of his brother, Abe Bean, in the Olympia Supply Co., 801 Winches ter street, Koseburg. Consummated Tuesday, it was a double transaction with I. J. Bean selling his partnership in Abe Bean Liquidators, a business in Eugene which will now be oper ated solely by Abe Rean. The Olvmpia Supply Co., deal ing in milling and logging supplies. was founded five years ago dv the brothers. There will be no changes ! lion and still get federal matching in management of the firm. funds tor assistance payments. Wardens, Lookouts Of State Assemble For 3-Day School In Protection Of Forests A three-day school for fire prevention, sponsored by the Douirlaf Forest Protective association, started today at the D F.P.A. headquarters in Rosebursr and will continue Friday and Saturday with field practice. Wardens and lookouts from all over tre state gathered early to day at the headquarters heard rep resentatives of the State Forestry department discuss various phases of fire fighting including admin istrative details such as public re lations, law, enforcement and form procedure. New personnel spent the after noon receiving instruction on map reading and problems on small fire location. The scene shifts Friday to Baugh man's lookout, whue prical in- struction on fire K;hting will be given. A spectacular phase of the demonstration is planned for noon, when an airplane is scheduled to drop by parachute the entire noon meal for the personnel. Saturday activity will be in the field where wardens will practice until noon with fire fighting equip ment such as power saws and pnrtaole pumps Real Fires Te Be Used Friday will be a busy day at the lookout, with morning instruction set in fire finder nperstion, com-iare pass work, mapping of small fires, iTS-sas ' I 5 . y J parts and radar screens. More than 11,000 automotive workers at Detroit were idle in production rate disputes. Ten thou sand workers were sent home from the Hudson plant because the com pany said there was a lag on the assembly line. Chrysler laid off 1,000 at Iti De Soto plant after a walkout of 13 metal finishers. CIO United Auto Workers spokes men at both plants said produc tion rates were too high lor the workers' capacity. More than 7,000 workers were off the job at the Goodyear Rubber ( o. plants in Akron, 0. Some 8.000 CIO-UAW members quit work at the Goodyear aircraft plant Tues day, protesting against some dis ciplinary suspensions. The union claims they were provoked by a speedup at the plant which has government contracts for airplane parts and radar screens. Members of the CIO United Rub ber Workers staged unauthorized walkouts, forcing the shut down of Goodyear'a No. 2 tire - making plant. The 1.250 tire makers are involved in a pay rate dispute. The Goodyear Aviation Corp., in asking a court injunction to restrict picketing, charged CIO UAW workers have conspired to close the plant by force and have threat ened certain company officers with bodily harm. A strike by nearly 1,000 AFI, bak era in New Kngland was in its fifth day and bread was re ported "really scarce." The bak ers struck for a five-day, 40-hour week instead of the present 40 hours over a period of six days. ROLLS MAY BE EYED WASHINGTON -P The Sen ate has voted to let states open their relief rolls to public Inspec- distance estimation and fire fight ing methods. In the afternoon, actual fires will be started (if the weather is right) for the purpose of providing realistic conditions for practice of wardens in suppression of small fires without water. Emergency water, ol course, will be available. The wardens will also locate sim- ula'fy fires, using compass bear ing and distdce, turning in a re- port on snags, access, etc., as if a fire had actually occurred. The Protective association has lookout personnVl stationed a t Bland mountain and tchman lookouts at presept jnd We other 10 lookouts- will su) manned a s soon as the three-day session is completed. With the conclusion of the in- ' struction, the organization will be ready to safeguard the forests in the fire season. Fire-fighting per sonnel in crews in Douglas county number about 5S In addition there 13 lookouts and approximately 24 wardens. IS III rvis n iWYirvJ bvmmrtmi Established 117 Formosa Aid Blocking Told At Inquiry WASHINGTON (JP Louis Johnson, former secretary of de fense, testified today he wanted to send a U. S. military mission to Formosa in December, 1949, but President Truman overruled him because of "political" protests from the State department. Testifying at the Senate's Mac Arthur inquiry, Johnson said it was only after the fighting began in Korea that the State department shifted its position and "no longer opposed doing things to keep For mosa from falling into unfriendly hands." Johnson, who left the Truman cabinet last September, said the decision to send the Seventh fleet to guard Formosa after the out break of the Korean war was taken after the President and others listened to a "brilliant" memo on the subject by MacArthur. Johnson told the committees that there bad been a difference of opinion between the State and Defense departments late in 1949 about Formosa. He said the joint chiefs recom mended in December of that year that a military mission be sent to Formosa to aid Chiang Kai shek's troops there but Secretary of State Acheson objected. A military mission was actually sent a few months ago. Johnson also gave the senators their first intimate story of the top-level conferences here at the time the Korean war broke out. He said the decision to inter vene militarily in Korea was made at a White House meeting on motion of Acheson. "He felt we would lose face with other governments in Asia whose friendship and support we needed." Johnson said, "that it might be adversely construed in Japan it self; that he really wanted to have nothing to do with the Na tionalist government." It was at this time that the State department circulated to its representatives abroad a paper an ticipating the fall of Formosa to the Communists and instructing that they were to minimize its strategic importance. Merger Of Rodeo, County Fair Urged By Merchants The Roseburg Retail Trade asso ciation went on record Wednesday as favoring a combination of the annual Sheriff's posse rodeo and the Douglas county fair into a sin gle event so, that "something really worth while" could be promoted. The opinion was expressed that merchant-sponsored displays each year at both events draw too little attention compared to ine etiori involved for the merchants, and a single rodeo-fair was proposed as the solution to the problem. The events this yesr would not be affected but it was suggested that a three-way meeting he ar ranged for directors of the R.T.A., Sheriff's posse and county fair board to discuss the possibility of a combination rodeo-fair. In other action, the association decided to observe Fall opening on Wednesday night, Sept. 12, but without repeating most of the stunts that attended last year's event. John Hardiman officially as sumed the diUies of president of the association when retiring pres ident, Ray Sims, presented him with the gavel. A committee of three George West, Ray Sims and Charles Rick ells was appointed to contact the local banks and urge, on be half of the R.T.A , that the banks remain open on Saturdays until 1 p. m. (lhey now close at noon.) It was argued such a concession would be of service to fhe public and to the merchants. Jo Louis, Lee Savold Fight Postponed Again NfcW YORK 1,41 The Joe I-oius-I.ee Savold 15-round fight has been postponed another 24 hours and now will be fought m Madi son Square Garden tomorrow night, the International Boxing club announced today. The bout originally was sched uled for last night but was set back because of rain and now has been postponed a second time. This nullifies the story on the sports page stating that the fight Wd be held in the Polo Grounds tonight. The Weather Warm and sunny today and Fri d.y. Highest temp, fer eny June 1M Lowest temp, for any June .... 34 Highest temp, yesterday 13 Lowest temp, last 24 hours M Precie. last 24 heurs Precip. from June 1 P'ecie. trem Sept. 1 40. Ivcess from Sept. 1 i.tl Sunset today, I 54 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, S:J2 a.m. DeValera Again Chosen Ireland's Prime Minister i VxA JP EAMON DE VALERA In Comeback By 5 Votes DUBLIN, Ireland (JP Eamon De Valera 68 but as full of fight as ever has begun his second term as prime minister of Ireland today after three years on the sidelines. The Brooklyn-born firebrand who has devoted most of his life ' to a crusane lor insn inciepend- ence from Britain, won his come back battle Wednesday by a slim margin of five votes 74 to 69. Irish political experts are pre dicting a short life for his new government. The Dail (lower house of parlia ment) elected De Valera after first ousting John A. Costello, leader of the coalition hloc that had ruled Ireland since 1948. With the Dail almost evenly split and troubled by a score of domestic problems. De Valera will face a running fight to stay in power. - "Dev" needed the votes of five independent Dail members, added to the 69 of his own Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) party to un seat the Costello coalition. His nominations for cabinet mem bers were approved 7. to 66. De Valera tilled the cabinet posts mostly with men who served him during his previous term from 1932 to 1948. He has never shown mucb liking for seeking support of part ies outside his own, and observers say this may spell a quick death for his regime. Tollett Expires Of Bullet Wound SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Htnry Clay Tollett, the federal fugitive shot by a state highway patrolman near Redding June 4, died today in Alcatrai prison hospital. The criminal, listed as a "public enemy," died of a perforated stomach, on of the wounds Inflicted by pa trolman Jim Lano when Tol lett, stopped en the highway for investigation, shot at the officer and fled. Tollett, one of the nation's most wanted fugitives, es caped from McNeill island prison on Nov. 22, 1949. He was brought to Alcatrai for safe keeping last Monday. He was convicted of bank rob beries at Oakland and Sweet Home, Oregon. SEED WAREHOUSE BURNS LAPWAI, Idaho (.'Pi A spec tacular fire destroyed the Lilly seed company warehouse here and the loss was estimated at $270,000. MIGHTIEST OF ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSIONS DESCRIBED Even Steel Tower On Eniwetok Island Disappeared In Vapor, Only Tree Stumps Left, Says Congressman NEW ORLEANS W The! mightiest atomic explosion yet seen by congressional observers I vaporized the steel tower on which the bomb was mounted and blasted i everything except a few charred palm tree stumps from an r.niwe tok atoll tslsnd. The picture of the power of a new series of A-bombs wss pre- j sented by Rep. F. Edward Hebert (pronounceo "A-Bear) (D l.il, re-1 cently returned from the Eniwetok I experiments. He attended as an official observer for the house armed servires committee. Of it Herbert said: I "I had a feeling I was standing I at the gates of hell looking into j eternity." I He gave a graphic account of the test in the first of a series of articles he wrote for the New ')r leans States snd which that pa'per made available to the Associated Press. The congress member wrote guardedly that the bomb he saw detonated was "several times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima." (There was some question ROSEIURG, OREGON THURSDAY, Storm Sewer Job Attracts Four Proposals Four bids submitted to the Rose burg city council for construction of storm sewers in West Roseburg at a special meeting last night were turned over to the council committees on finance and police and sanitation for study. There was a range of $12,500 in the bids submitted, The low bid was entered by Bill Nichols Con struction Co., Springfield, for $32, 647. Sept. 1 was specified as the completion date. Other bids were submitted by H. C. Werner. Inc.. Eugene, for $35,421, with Aug. IS as the com pletion date; Ramsey Construction Co., Corvallis, which is doing the Lane street sewer job, bid of $44, 995, with August 31 completion date, and Atlas Construction Co., Portland, $45,110. Atlas Construction, the original low bidder on the project, had been awarded a contract for $19, 853. However, complete revision of the plans and specifications re versing the storm water flow was found necessary after the contract had been let, so it was decided by the council to resubmit the proj- ect to bids and terminate the orig- mat contract. New Phases Arise Several angles to the project must be taken Into consideration by the council committees before a new contract can be awarded, said City Manager W. A. Gilchrist. The revised proiect, while more costly to the city, will drain a larger area, and take the storm water directly to the river down Ball! street, whereas the original plan would have emptied the water into a natural drain ditch angling from west to the new Fullerton school to the river. Proper ease ments, however, had not been ac quired, resulting in the need for altering the project. The council also had the third and final reading of an ordinance formally adopting the city budget and levying a tax. SHOWS GUN; JAILED Police Chief, FSI Agent See Man's Act In Cafe Here A man walked Into a local cafe yesterday, placed a loaded re volver on the counter in plain sight of a police chief and an FBI agent who were eating lunch there and is now serving ten days in the city jail after pleading guilty to a drunkenness charge. A complaint charging Earl Jacob Howard, 39, of 326 W. Cass street, with having a concealed weapon is being filed in district court. Police Chief L. J. Larsen re ported that he and an FBI agent were eating lunch in a cafe at 1 p. m. Wednesday when Howard came in and plated a loaded .38 caliber revolver on the counter, the muzzle pointing at the officers. Before Larsen was able to ques tion him about the weapon. How ard put it in the front of his shirt and walked away. Larsen caught him at the exit. He was booked on a charge of be ing drunk in a public place pend ing disposition of the concealed weapons charge. Howard told police he came to Roseburg a few weeks ago and was working at a local firm. Ha said he had been a patient at vet erans hospitals at Oakland, Calif., and Camp White, Medford. He Is wanted by Portland police for escaping from a trusty fang, according to Chief Larsen. whether Hebert saw the last and possibly hugest test blast set off at Kniwetok. He ' and other con gressionsl observers returned to the United States about May 12. (Ten days later there were un official reports in Wssington that still another explosion was to oc cur, and it waa not until May 25 that the government announced the conclusion of the mid Pacific ex periments. That announcement in cluded a hint that some type of hydrogen bomb perhaps on a small scale for an H-bomb but on a mammoth scale for a conven tional A-bomb was tested. (There has been speculation that the magnitude of the final ex plosion was perhaps ten or more times that of the first atomic bombs. These have been described roughly as having energy equiva lent to 20.000 tons of TNT. Hebert in Washington declined to go be yond what he had written. That material was clesred by the Atomic Lnergy commission.) Hebert said that on some of the "shot" islands where testa are con ducted actual buildings, shelters, "fsctories" and other structures had been built for measurinf the JUNE 14, 1951 BHsi apHHHHweai'svsBiBew oa aw-- RODEO PROGRAMS Programs for the Douglas county Sheriff's poise rodeo will be sold June 23 and 24 during the rodeo by Mrs. Byron Woodruff, left, and Mrs. Charles Williamson, representing Alpha Beta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority. Proceeds will go to the crippled children s tuna in cugene. ine wnung visum pictured is George Luoma, president of the chamber of com merce. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) M' Arthur Raps "Appeasement" U. S. Peace Talks Show Moral Weakness, Invite War, General Tells Texans ... 1 HOUSTON. Tex. (AP) Gen. Doug-las llacArthur brotifrht his inti-adminintration stand to the South' largest city after drawing: a record crowd at a Houston welcome parade His speech tonight (8 p. m. CST) will give the deposed Far Eastern commander an opportunity to develop these arguments he voiced on arriving in Texas Wednesday: 1. U. S. policy makers are guilty of appeasement in Korea ap peasement that could lead, to war with Russia. 2. The administration is guilty of "moral weakness" in talking of a peace settlement. The biggest crowd ever seen in Houston turned out but cheered only with marked restraint to see MacArthur's arrival parade. MacArthur made his appease ment accusation from the steps of the slate capitol in Austin. About 20.000 Texans listened as the 71-year-old general declared Ameri ca's first line of defense is on the Yalu river at the Manrhurian bor der and not the Elbe river in Eu rope. Moral Weakness Blamed "The policies of appeasement on which we are now embarked carry within themselves the very incita tinn to a war against us," he said. "If the Soviet does strike, it will be because of the weakness we now display rather than the strength we of right should display." He blamed "the moral weakness of the free world" not Soviet military strength for Russian advances. "It is a weakness which has caused many free nations to suc cumb to and embrace the false tenets of Communist propaganda. It is a weakness which has caused our own policy makers. effect of atomic weapons on such construction. The results of these tests will be made available by the Atomic F.nergy commission and the military to American building en gineers. Only Stumps Remain Hebert did not say whether the bomb he saw explode was tested against these replicas of "bomb proofs," houses and factories. How. ever, he mrntioned elsewhere of seeing on some of the "shot" is lands "the effects of previous ex periments." But whatever had been standing on the island chosen for the test Hebert witnessed, the picture was this, as described by the congress man ener a suicm over ine Kene: I nere was noining on tne is land left standing except the char red remains of a few palm tree stumps. "The huge steel tower, equal in height to a multi-stoned modern office building, from which the bomb had been detonated, was no where to be seen. The thousands of tons of steel had been vaporized by the terrific heat of the explo sion " Hebert states that on one Island I 140-51 after committing America's sons to battle, to leave them to the con tinuous slaughter of an in decisive campaign by imposing ar bitrary restraints upon the support we might otherwise provide them threugh maximum employment of our scientific superiority, which alone offers hopes of an early vic tory. "It is s weakness which now causes those in authority to stronglv hint at a settlement of the Korean conflict under condi tions short of the objectives our soldiers were led to believe were theirs to attain and for which so msny yielded their lives." Addition To Roseburej Armory Plan In Bid Call Bids fer construction ef an aodilien te the Roseburf armory will be receivee1 by the, Oreeen State Beard ef Control until 2 p.m. June K. reports the Daily Journal ef Commerce (Portland). Roy H. Mills, seeretary e the beard, made the enneuncement. The addition will be 24 X feet ef concrete black. . Plans were prepared by architect Lyle P. Bartholomew, 444 Center St., Salem. Sets will be Issued by Bartholomew er the state upon a deposit ef SS. is a bio medical station where about 25.000 mice and other ant mals are kept for use in studying effects of radiological activity of the bomb burst. He made a point which other congress members who attended Kniwetok experi ments have made; "The fatal effect of radioactivity on humans has been too much emphasized as compared to the effect of other destrucUon when result from the atomic explosion and not related to radioactivity. . . . Radioactivity definitely Is not a deterrent to rescue workers if properly understood There is no i such thing as a 'dnth ray' bomb which would destroy an entire city without the implementation of other accepted military devices both in manpower and equipment. "lO erroneous to believe that the lethal effects of an atom bomb will remain effective in a pre scribed area over an indetermi nate period of time." Hebert said that within two and a half hours a party of radiologi cal erientists landed on the "shot" island and aafely approached to with S.V) yards of the zero point where the tower bad stood. Truman Yill Put Argument On Air Tonight Business, Ltd By Cattlt Industry. Demands Cut In Federal Restrictions WASHINGTON (Pi Presi dent Truman carries his fight for stricter Inflation control powers to the nation tonight amid growing demands from business that curbs be scrapped or lightened. Administration officials said Mr. Truman's address from the White House (D:30 p.m., EST) will call for a consumers' crusade on Congress. The defense production act con taining most control powers ex pires June so ana the administra tion is asking for a two-year ex tension with broader control a u thority. But business, led by the beef packers, stuck to their guns for lesser federal limitations. Major in dustry organisations, like the Na tional Association of Manufactur ers and U. S. chamber of com merce, contend that removal of price-wage curbs would- increase production. Ihe rord Motor Co., while ask ing Congress to extend controls. suggested a number of changes, such as guaranteeing higher price ceilings as labor and materials costs increase. But Economic Sta bilizer Eric Johnston claimed the Ford ideas would "destroy" stabili zation. Beef Industry Irks Selena A number of senators became impatient with beef industry Spokesmen at a hearing of a sen ate house defense production "watchdog" committee. The meat packers contended recent live stock rollbacks would cirtail beef production and lead to black mar keting and rationing. Chairman Maybank (D SO, along with Senatora Robertson (D- Va), Ives (K NY) and Moody (U Mich), said that as a practical mat ter Congress could not exempt the meat industry without "opening the doers" for other broad exemptions from controls. "That would mean we'd wind up without any controls at all," Ives said. "The question therefore is, would you rather hsve no controls (Continued on Psge 2) Six Are Injured In Three-Vehicle Mishap At DiHar d Six persons received minor In juries Wednesday noon in i traf fic accident near Dillard involv ing' two automobiles and a logging truck. Four other persons involved escaped injury but the two auto mobiles were nearly total wrecks, according to state police. All of the injured were taken ta Douglas Community hospital in Roseburg but only one, eight-year-old Carron Roberts, remained un der treatment today. She auffered a broken arm and severe shock. Police say the. accident occurred In this manner: A 1947 Pontiac op erated by Lorraine E. Smith, 26, of Dillard slowed down to make a left turn, stopping traffic. A 1950 Cadillac in the opposite lane, op erated by John Swaney. SO, Boston, Mass., slowed down to let the Pon tiac across. A logging truck operated by Mel vln E. Brittain, 31, of Dillard came around the corner, skidded onto the shoulder as brakes were ap plied and hit the Pontiac in the rear end. pitching it across the road into the Cadillac, which was turned over. The logging truck ended up in one ditch, the Cadillac in the op posite ditch and the Pontiac In the center of the road. Brittain. driver of the logginf truck which belonged to Nyberf Lumber Co. of Roseburg, was un injured. Mr. Swaney, driver of the Cadillac, received an injured knee and chest while Mrs. Swaney re ceived broken ribs and knee Inju ries. Of the seven persons in the Pon tiac, Mra. Theda Roberts, 25; her brother-in-law, John Roberts, 26; and Richard D. Smith, seven, were uninjured. Lorrsine Smith received knee injuries; Merle Smith, six, suffered hesd lacerations and shock and Robert Smith, five, suf fered mild concussion. Carron Rob erts was also in the Pontisc. All sre from Dillard. Fines, Jail Terms Meted Two Drunken Drivers Two men pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of drunk driving and were sentenced to serve terms in the Douglas county jail. L'lmer Leon Mills, 37, a Canyon ville sswmill worker, was sen tenced to serve 30 days and fined K.'iO after his arrest Tuesday by a state policeman, reports District Juikse A. J. Oeddes. The same fine and sentence was meted out to Harold Richard I hillips, 38, of Centralis, Wash., reports Reedspnrt Justice of t h e Peace Fred M. Wright. Phillips waa arrested by a deputy sheriff. l,evity Fact Rant o By L. F. Reiienstein That neckties were emitted from the price war is reqret table. With Father's Day ap proochinq, e new collar deco ration could have bee bouqht at a bargain ta replace Hse eae Dad got far Cktstmos.