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U. of 0, Library Eugene, Oregon COkP o) 3) IUI dlCT io)nnfo) TOfxn mi otitic .wuu I PIIPSA(L VE):BOS.VSUT:.'r M;Ml .ill - "j GORDON STANLEY is head of th men's wear department at J. C. Penney company, having jutt replaced Wilbur Oiterloh, whs was recently transferred. Mr. Stanley comes to Roseburg from the Toledo, Oregon, Penney itore. He is married and has two children George 3, and John, who soon will, be one year old. He and his wife are looking hopefully for a place to make their home here. Heart- Attack Faker Makes Suckers Of Many Hospitals RHNO, New' (AP) A weather-beaten and bearded old man with a genius for faking heart attacks has made a sucker of hospitals across the breadth of the nation, the Veterans administration here reported. " Argentina Faces Damaging Strike On Its Railways BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JP) The government called in emergency crews today to run Ar gentina's strikebound railways, crippled earlier by a series o f hlasts which President Juan D; Pe. ron's regime blamed on "alien" forces. The anti - Peron Brotherhood of Engineers and Firemen refused for the second day to report for work. Although section gangs, heavily guarded by police, repaired Wednesday's bomb damage to four, main lines, only two of them are operating. The others main lines to the south and west were closed tight by the refusal of en gineer! and firemen to work. The government charged the ex plosions which ripped tracks ana damaged railroad shops were set off 'by criminals inspired . by "forces alien to the country." The government, in its commu nique on the bombing, did not men tion the- strike which the union said was called because the r e gime had refused to let the union elect its own officers. The union, controlling about 8,000 of Argen tina's 160,000 rail workers, said of ficers were hand-picked by the government.. Railroad shops were said to have been damaged by explosions. In the Day's News I By FRANK JENKINS I find myself considerably in trigued with this .dispatch from Moundsville, West Virginia, which has just clicked off the wire: "The two girls and a pair of bachelor companions who intend to float their 'raff all the way to New Orleans may get under way again today. Their 12 by 20 foot craft was swamped and tipped over last Thursday while being towed down the Ohio river. "It was right side up again to day, and the four mariners hoped to get it seaworthy again, despite a banged-up superstructure." The story goes on: "The skipper of this strange ex pedition is a 24 year-old Univer sity of Michigan coed, Mary El lin McGrady, a student of soci ology. Miss McGrady organired the river trip to put some oi ner , classroom learning 10 wors. 'We want to see w fjur per sons manage when they're livint in small quarters," she explained. ' T wouldn't know about four ultra modern sociologists of mixed gen (Continued on Page 4) The Weather Clear and warm today and Fri day. Hlghttt temp, for any Au 10 Lowest temp, for any Aug 3 Hiahttt temo. yesterday M Lowest temp, last 14 hours 5S Precip. last 14 hours : I Preeip.' from Aug. 1 I Precip. from Sept. 1 40 41 Excess from Sept. 1 1.11 Sunrise tomorrow, 4:04 a.m. Sunset tomorrow, 1:14 p.m. if : i Manager Edward F. Reed ot trie Reno V. A. center ordered an in vestigation after an old man who identified himself as Lt. Jonn Boyer, 104, a "veteran of the Civil war," staged a "collapse" in pub' lie hera July 17. The Veterans ad' ministration gave him hospital care. . - " Files sent from V. A. headquar ters in Washington showed, how ever, that Boyer's name was ac tually Walter Engle Urwiler and that -he was 69, not 104. He has used about 40 other aliases too, the report said. v But Boyer, who told doctors he had hitchhiked from an old sol diers' home in San Diego and that he had served with the Pennsyl vania volunteers, had disappeared after receiving expensive treat ment all free of charge. V. A. records attribute Urwiler'a ability to convince doctor! he is dy ing of heart failure to a weird "fluttering diaphragm." They say he can accelerate his heart action to 300 beats a. minute. He's also known to the Ameri can Medical association, whose journals have written of him four times since 1936. Under various aliases, Urwiler has received treatment in private and government hospitals from California to South Carolina. He has described himself as everything from a deep sea diver and Civil war veteran te a Texas deputy sheriff. ; Each time, the journals said, he was hospitalized as an emergency case after suffering heart attacks in public. The V. A. says he's easily iden tified, however: he has distinc tive tattoo marks on each arm and a small acar on each side of his neck. V. A. officials said no action is planned against Urwiler. Band Concert Program For Tonight Announced The program for tonight's mu nicipal band concert at 8 o'clock in the library park has been an nounced by Conductor Lem Bitner as follows: March Belle of Chicago .... Sousa Samba Popular March Tico Tico Absen . That Naughty Walti Stanley ..- .Parade of the Republic Chenette March Washington Post Star Spangled Banner Speciality Roll Them Bones Parks Schneider, old-time vaudeville and character man Overture Lustspiel Keler-Bela Spanish WalU Santiago Corbin March .... Washington Post Sousa Star Spangled Banner Crawford's Transfer To Germany Draws Jeers BERLIN UP) Anti-Communist and Communist newspaperi here have jibed at the U. S. army for transferring to Germany a gen eral who had been relieved of his post in America for accepting fa vors from contractors. He is Brig. Gen. David J. Craw foro. who was removed from com mand of the Detroit tank arsenal and has been ordered to duty at U. S. headquarters hi Heidelberg, West Berlin's anti - Communist Kurier headlined its . dispatch "punishment . transfer to Ger many." Typical Communist jab was the Berliner Zeitungs headline: ' Crawford permitted to continue profiteering. talitbal 1173 Pressure Started To liberate Oatis From Czech Prison Congress Joins New Efforts Of State Dept. Breaking Of Diplomatic Relations, If Necessary, Urged By Republicans WASHINGTON (If) Congress and the State department are mak ing new efforts to obtain the re lease of AP correspondent William Oatis from a Czech prison. The house foreign aifairs com mittee Wednesday adopted a re soultion vigorously condemning Czechoslovakia's action ana urg ing the U. S. government to "take all possible action" to bring about Oatis' release. The resolution is due for house action next week after which it will go to the Senate. If adopted by both houses, the resolution will be sent to the Czech government and to the United Nations. Secretary of State Acheson told a news conference that the U.S. government is taking definite steps to obtain Oatis' freedom. He declined te reveal what is being done because he said a prema ture revelation might not be in Oatis' best interests. Acheson said the Oatia case is one of great importance to the government and people of the United States. Czechoslovakia turned down an earlier State' de partment protest and appeal for Oatis' release. The 37-year-old Oatis, a native of Marion, Ind., was convicted by a Prague court last monm on charges of espionage and sen tenced to ten years imprisonment. The arrest and conviction has been widely denounced as a sham and a violation ot basic human rights. Relatione Break Urged There were these other develop ment! Wednesday. The National Press club board of governors adopted a resolution calling for Dans' , immediate re lease and charging that the Czech regime had distorted all honest reporting "through perverted pro cesses of justice." The Ohio Republican house del egation urged the government to break off immediately all com mercial relations with Czechoslo vakia and restore those relations only if and when Oatis is freed. President Truman Wednesday ordered the suspension of tariff concessions to Russia and her sat ellites, including Czechoslovakia. It was a second major blow at Czechoslovakia since Oatis' im prisonment. Earlier, the govern ment banned the travel of U. S. citizens to Czechoslovakia. The-Ohio Republicans also de manded that the state department take steps to evacuate all U. S. nationals from Czechoslovakia if Oatis is not freed "within a reason able time." The move would be preliminary to "severing diplo matic relations with that govern ment." The house foreign affairs com mittee resolution said that t he American people condemn and de plore "the persecution by the gov- (Coalinued on Page 2) A o P AO JAIL TFRMS FOR COMMUNIST Courts end probing questions piled additional trouble on this quartet, seen leaving New York City's federal court. Left to right are: W. Alphaeui Hunton, Daihiel Hammett, Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Abner Green all trustees of the Civil Rights congress bail fund, i source courts have refected tt bail for accused Communists. Field and Green were sentenced to six months eachQfor contempt of a U.S. grand jury. Both now are serving contempt terms. Hunton and Hammett were questioned by the state banking depart ment to determine if the bail fund violated banking laws. They also are serving jail terms, (AP Wirephetel ., V ' W Nlllll NEW 4-H AGENT Miss Lome L. Owens' arrived in Roseburg Wednesday to handle the home economics detail of the 4-H club work. A June rraduate of Oregon State colleje, she has been studying 4-h extension service work in various counties throughout the state the last month. (Dan Mindolovich photo) ' ' V Report Denounces Federal Property Lease Swindler WASHINGTON UP) A sen ate subcommittee today denounced pudgy Sam Mason as "a com plete fraud" who worked a con fidence racket "to swindle . ap proximately a quarter million dol lars from his victims," on prom ises to obtain cheap leases oi gov ernment property. Chairman Hoey of the senate's subcommittee on: investigations announced a federal grand jury is starting an inquiry into Mason's activities. Witnesses told the sub committee Mason said the govern ment, in fear of atomic attack, was planning a vast underground construction program ana many buildings would become "surplus." Hoey said he was filing a for mal report covering the "fantas tic machinations" of Mason, a New Yorker who has said his real name is Samuel D. Mussman. He lost a leg in World War I and draws $19S monthly in. government com pensation. Testifying ' before the Hoey group. Mason said he has paid no income tax since 1929. He said he had a scheme to bribe public of ficials, and asked the senators: "What's wrong with that?" Ma son' acknowledged collecting around $100,000 from five witnes ses against him, but said he turned it all over to a mysterious Vince Eungart, in Washington. He said Eungart was to use the money to obtain leases, but has gone to Australia. ROSEIURG. OREGON THURSDAY, Ail Douglas Forest Fires Under Control AU Douglas county forest fires are under control with mop-ping-up operations being carried on in three areas. Fire-fighters are falling snags around the fire line of the burn area 10 miles east of Yoncalla, where about 600 acres has, been blackened by a blaze which started earlv in the Week and flared up Tuesday, according to the Douglas Forest Protective as sociation. A crew of about 70 men held the blaze Wednesday and estab lished confining fire lines. The fire near Myrtle Creek on Letitia creek is also under control with a crew patrolling the area. The U. S. forest service reports that the Dumont creek burn area about 50 miles southeast of Rose burg in the Umpqua national for est is in "good shape." Most of the crew on the fire line will be removed this evening with the exception of a patrol, said the spokesman. About 90 men were fighting the blaze which burned an area of ap proximately 150 acres. KLAMATH FALLS (IP) A two-section fire on the Modoc na tional forest near Hackamore, Calif., 60 miles south of here, has blazed uncontrolled through some 4,000 acres of mature pine since It started yesterday afternoon. The forest service station in Al turas, Calif., said early this morn ing, forest service men from as far away as Los Anseles were being flown in by chartered planes. Two fires, about a mile apart, started near the Southern Pacific railway tracks. The fires slowly merged during the night, leaving a gap of only a few hundred yards. During the night, 159 men with 10 bulldozers tried unsuccessfully to trail the fire area, Cordon's Fiinds Swap Plan For Roads Rejected EUGENE (&) Oregon's 18 An limhap i-minties would re ceive a 25 percent boost in forest sales shares plus $700,000 for ac cess roads under provisions of a U. S. Interior department appro bations hill amended Tuesday by house-senate conferees. Th. hill still h to win house and senate approval. Tinitan n r lormc the counties were to start receiving 75 percent of timber sales this year instead of 50 percent, sen. uuy i,oraon in h, nrnnntMi swannin? the additional 25 percent of the funds forever in return lor a one-ycai accesi roads apropriation of $995,000. r n. Pnnnlv Judoe Dav T. Bayly protested tne coraon proposal, which was submitted as an amendment to the appropriations bil1' . .. lUIIICI Cll.fl rejected the amendment but at the same time agreed to allow funds for the forest access roads, the Eugene Register-Guard learned. Fire Fighter Injured When Struck By Rock A memher of the Dumont creek fire suppression crew suffered an injured back Tuesday when a rock tumbled down a hill and struck bim. - ' The forest service said the man Robert Cole, Glide, was taken to Mercy hospital where his injuries are reported not critical. The rock, about 12 by 6 inches, rolled down the hill and hit Cole in the small of the back. AUGUST 2, 1951 Adm. W. As Chief WASHINGTON (AP) Succeeds Sherman who steered clear of the "admirals revolt" against admin istration policy, is President navy command. The President sent to the ation of fechteler, now commander of the Atlantic fleet, to be chief of naval operations, succeeeding the late Adm, For rest i?. Sherman. Fechteler, 55 years old and with 35 years of navy service, has had wide experience In virtually every type of warship except subma rines and aircraft carriers. That appeared to be one of the reasons why Mr. Truman chose him, because he was not an air man and thus not touched by the zeal with which navy airmen plunged into the controversy with the Defense department and the air force three years ago. There have been strong indications in re cent weeks that the feud between the air force and navy long-range land based bombers vs. carrier borne air power might boil to the surface again. To fill the vacancies which will be created by the expected sen ate confirmation of Fechteler'i nomination, Mr. Truman nomi nated Adm. Lynde D. McCormick, now the acting chief of naval op erations, to be commander of the Atlantic fleet. McCormick was a submariner before he became vice chief of naval operations. Vice Adm. Donald P. Duncan, deputy chief of operations, was proposed by the President for promotion to vice chief. British Peeve Remains If the nominations settled the navy question at home, it left un settled an international naval per nlexity. Fechteler had been nicked as the American admiral who wiuld be named supreme commander of Al lied forces in the North Atlantic ocean region under the NATO setup. That choice reportedly was made early last winter when it (Continued on Page 2) Senator Denies Alleged 'Welsh' On $5500 Wager COLUMBUS, O. OB Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) has denied testimony at a bankruptcy hearing here that he dropped JMDU to a Columbus man in a crap game two yean ago, and failed to pay up. "I don't recall when I have ever played crap, and 1 wouldn't have had that much money anyway," McCarthy said, when reached by telephone at his Washington resi dence. Bob Byers Sr., an Ohio real es tate operator and builder, testi fied at his $500,000 bankruptcy hearing that the Wisconsin sena tor lost $5,500 to his son, Bob Byers Jr., at a game during a party in a Columbus hotel (Se neca). "He (McCarthy) never paid It," the elder Byers testified. "I think my son is still waiting for his money." Bob Byers Jr. was not available for comment. McCarthy was engaged as a speaker for a party staged for business representatives at the By ers Real Estate and Building En terprises, the elder Byers testi fied. He said he paid the senator a "standard fee" of $500 on two oc casions. Then Byers Sr. added: "But my son took $5500 away from him in a crap game, and that nut if ahead." McCarthy said there was "ab solutely nothing at all" to Byers testimony. . "Bob, Jr. and I have never played craps," McCarthy declared The nature of the service Mc Carthy performed to earn him two $500 fees was not made clear at the hearing. Roseburg Firemen Take Part In Defense Test PORTLAND (IP) The heart of Portland went up in theoretical flames last night from a mock A-bomb attack. Firemen from seven nearby counties came to the rescure It was a test of the state's fire defenses. Emergency calls went to 61 fire departments. Theoretically they rushed here in fire trucks. Actually, a representative from each came here in passenger cars. Once here, they attended a critique. Firemen as far away as Stay ton, 69, miles, and Clatskanie, 65 miles, participated. As these tire companies came in, others moved up to ,ake their place. For example, Roseburg fire men theoretically moved in to pro tect Salem. That also brought the Rnseburg firemen closer to Port land in case they were needed there. S V 4-181-51 Fechteler Of Navy Adm. William Fechteler. Truman s choice for the top senate Wednesday the nomin ADM. WM. FECHTELER Non-wrangler Promoted adm. l. Mccormick Fleet's New Commander County Planning Park At Winston Members of the county narks board are scheduled to meet with the Winston community club to night to make arrangements for the purchase of a 5Wacre tract about three miles east of Winston. The community club has offered the plot for sale for $3,000 accord ing to Charlea Collins, parks super visor. Contractural arrangements whereby the club will maintain and supervise the park will also be discussed, Collins said. Improvements are being made on Ziolkouski beach park near Win chester Bay. About 600 yards of dirt have been hauled in to make larger parking area. Latrines will be constructed there within the next two weeks. Work ia under way on the prospective Baker park on the North Umpqua about three miles above Rock creek. The new park, of about 10 acres, will be named the Baker park, in memory of the late County commissioner R. (i. Baker. A memorial monument will be constructed at the park through funda donated by Douglas county employes. Nature of the monument has not been decided yet, Collins said. N. Umpqua Views Shewn In Exhibit Of Paintings Continuing on display this after noon and evening in the Methodist cburch are the water color paint ings of Col. William A. Raborg, of Laredo, Tex., who, with hia wife, is vacationing on the North Ump qua. Included in the display are five paintings which the colonel has inpleted of the North Umpqu region. One ia of the Douglas County Lumber company sawmill up Rock creek. Two others are paintings of Rock creek scenes, one of the North Umpqua river and another of a general woods scene and cabin. 1 Col. Raborg is also exhibiting pictures he has painted of t h e southwest, including old Mexico. He has about 50 water colors in all. The exhibit attracted a consid erable number of townspeople Wednesday. The display will con blue until I o'clock tonight. Neither Hints At Probable Compromise Red Group Evidences Stalling Until Kremlin Can Send Instructions XT.' N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR- ' TERS, Korea (JP) United Na- 1 lions and Communist spokesmen reported that opposing cease-fire teama at Kaesong today rejected the armistice buffer zones pro- posed by each other. Vic Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief; U. N. delegate, told the Reds the) Allies must hold a defensible line across Korea, such as the Allies propose, during a truce heciusa of the possibility "of an armistice violation by the other side." The Red Peioine radio renni-tst the chief Communist delegate, Lt uen. nam u, "repudiated the buf fer tone" proposed by Joy "deep , acrosa the 38th parallel" There was no indication of what the next move would be in th face of apparent flat rejection! by '. both sides. Neither baa hinted at compromise. It was the seventh successive session in which negotiators re mained deadlocked on whera In draw the armistice line. iney win try again tomorrow despite unswerving nositionn a x. pressed in Washington and Pyong yang, the North Korean capital. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, U. N. spokesman, quoted Admiral Joy as telling Red negotiators at Kaesong: "The United Nations command has no intention of violating the military armistice agreed upon but neither will the U. N. com mand place itself in an indefensible position in the event of an ar mistice violation by the other side," Nuckols said Joy read thii pre pared statement in response to "a final question" by North Ko rean Lt. Gen. Nam II, head of the fiea delegation. Reds Evade Direct Reply Nuckols did not disclose the na ture of this final question. But it was presumed here that the North Korean had asked something like the following question: . If you sincerely desire peace, and intend to observe the armis tice, why are you talking about defensible positions? Nuckols said the question had been anticipated, and the answer prepared in advance. After making his statement Joy aBked: "Do you or do you not agree that the security of his forces ia a responsibility ' of - each com mander during a military armis tice?" , - , Nam II evaded 'a direct answer. Joy repeated his question a second and then a third time. Each time General Nam avoided a direct an swer. When Joy put the question for the third time, Nuckols said, it caused a flurry on the Communist side. The two Chinese in the iiva (Contlnued on Page 2) 'Passion' Slayer Convicted By Jury NEW YORK (IP) Roland Scioli, 43-year-old opera fan con victed of first degree manslaugh ter for the knife slaying of a girl friend, told the jury which could have condemned him to the elec tric chair: 'Mine was a crime of love and passion." The all - male Jury deliberated three hours before reaching ita verdict in the slaying last January of 24-year-old Virginia Wilson, an airlinea employee. She formerly lived in Rumson, N. J. The jury had been empowered to return a death penalty convic tion. Ita lesser verdict can bring a 10 to 20 year prison term. Both lovers of music, Scioli and Miss Wilson became acquainted while watting In line to buy tickets to the Metropolitan opera. Scioli said he fell in love with the young woman, that she waa friendly but repeatedly refused to marry him. A quarrel in a Brooklyn fac tory, where Scioli was employed aa a radio mechanic, led to the kitchen-knife slaying. Liquor Charge Jails Two Roseburg Youths Tumi Pntahura vai,1, mmi1-iI by city police Tuesday, ware each sentenced to 30 days in the county jail and fined $50 Wednesday on an illegal possession ot liquor charge. District Judge A. J. Geddei Iden tified them aa Leslie Leverne Mas kill. IS, of 1077 S. Mill street, and Lyle Vernon Davla, 20 ot rout 4. JUDGMENT AWARDIS A circuit court judgment by de fault Wednesday, awarded A. L. McAdams repossession of a house trailer and $150 attorney's feet in an action brought against Frank W. Jordan. Frank and Agnes J. Johnson filed action Wednesday against Wy lie D. and Edyth P. Roberta to re cover $3,250 ami interest allegedly owed the plaintiffs on the aal of real property. Levity Fact Rant Sy L. F. Reizenstein Havinq sent President Truman an elephant, th King of Cam bodia should balance th Incon gruity by tending the GOP tyitlMal chairman a inula.