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'Blistering' Note Sent By Ridgway Truce Talk Continuation Left Up To Communists TOKYO (AP) Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway today sent a blistering message to top Red commanders in Ko rea and left it up to them whether armistice talks would continue in Kaesong. The supreme allied commander said he was willing to resume negotiations, halted by the Reds. But he rejected as "malicious falsehoods" Communist accusations that United Nations forces violated Kaesong's neutrality. Hubbard Fire Lines Called 'Substantial' Substantial fire lines have been established around the 17,000 acre burn on Hubbard creek, but 450 men are still mopping up, reports the Douglas Forest Protective as V sociation. ft- The area is described as hazard ' ous, but no outbreaks are ex pected unless winds increase. About 50 men left the fire lines Friday. A spokesman for the DFPA said smoke clouds lifted Friday after noon and the entire burn area could be seen for the first time. He said the fire was within the lines at all points. No Big Slop-Oven There have been no major slop overs, but men will be kept on patrol. If the temperature rises and the winds increase, the blaze could soon become uncontrollable, the spokesman said. The Red Cross reports that 18 families have lost their homes as a result of the fire. Mrs. Cora Pirtle, manager of the Lane county chapter of the Red Cross, and Brig, Gen. Curtis T. Beecher, USMC Ret., head of the local Red Cross disaster committee, will in spect the area this afternoon to determine the damages. Most of the fire victims are be ing housed with relatives or friends, and the Red Cross is try ing to secure temporary housing for those yet without a place to stay. Rehabilitation Progresses The rehabilitation program be gan at noon Friday and will con tinue until the families have been quartered. According to the Red Cross, the home of Carl Emil Johnson was. ' k destroyed by the fire. The latest addition to the disaster toll is the Stinnett home, which was also lost. 8-Year-Old Rules As Rodeo Queen At Riddle Today Eight-year-o Id Mary Louise Wildy will rule over the fourth annual Riddle rodeo that began at noon today with a parade through the city streets. She was chosen by a rodeo com mittee and began her reign this afternoon at 2 when the rodeo con tests started at Townsend park. Ike Orr, general chairman of committees, says all contestants have been registered and "they are ready to go." All proceeds from the two-day celebration, which ends Sunday, will be donated to the widows and children of Alvis Hendricks and Harry King, who were drowned at Winchester bay July 5. A special memorial service will be held Sun day evening. More than $500 has been col lected by Riddle merchants and it, plus the entrance fees, will go into the prize fund. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The latest from Kaesong: The commies call off the armis tice talks again. This time they claim we bombed Kaesong. Our side says the charge is pure and adulterated twaddle. The big question: HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE A DEAL WITH AN OUT FIT YOU CAN'T TRUST? In Argentina, President Peron and his blonde bombshell wife Evita are nominated for president and vice-president by the Peron ista party and the government controlled General Confederation of Labor. A Buenos Aires correspondent with his tongue in his check re ports mildly that they "are ex pected to accept." Heh! Ilch! Hen! This Evita ?al is a dinger. The General Confederation Labor ordered its members (Continued on Page 4) The Weather Generally morrow. clear tonight and to- Highest ttmp. for any Aug .. 104 Lowest temp, for any Aug 39 Highost ttmp. ytsttrday . .. 84 Lowest fimp. last 24 hours 48 Prtcip. but 24 hours 0 Prtcip. fijvm Auq. 1 T y Prtcip from Sep). 1 40.48 f txetss from Stpt. 1 7.88 Sunset today 1:00 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, :30 a.m. Reds broke off the talks two days ago. They demanded a "satisfac tory" answer to their charge that a United Nations warplane attacked Kaesong to murder the Red dele gation. Tonight the Chinese Communist radio at Peiping broadcast a story from "a special Chinese corre spondent" saying an American fighter plane flew over Kaesong Aug. 22, the day the Reds say the attack was made. "Obviously the intention was to prepare for the air raid that night," the broad cast continued. "The route taken by the American plane in the night bombing was essentially the same as (that of) the air reconnaissance plane during the day." Charge branded Falsa Ridgway's reply said the charge was "so utterly false, so prepos terous and so obviously manufac tured" that it did not merit a re ply. The next step was up to the Communists. Ridgway's scathing message gave them a hard choice. The harshly - worded reply was sent to Kim II Sung, North Ko rean premier, and Gen. Peng Teh Huai, commander of Chinese Red forces in Korea. It was first broadcast over the armed forces radio, then deliv ered to a Chinese liaison officer at the Red outpost of Panmunjom, six miles east of Kaesong. The last paragraph left the door open just a crack for a resumption of talks. Leaves Door Open Ridgway said, "When you are prepared to terminate the suspen sion of armistice negotiations . . . I will direct my representatives to meet with yours, with a view to seeking a reasonable armistice agreement." The Allied delegation, headed by Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, stood by at the United Nations advance headquarters in Munsan, ready to go to Kaesong if the Reds give the word. Ridgway's reply, in tone and content, came as no surprise to ob servers here. They said he could hardly apol ogize for incidents he had already branded as "manufactured in ad vance:" ' - Nor, the observers added, can the Reds accept the blast as the "satisfactory" answer they de manded. . It is possible, said the observ ers, the Reds will agree to con tinue negotiations, and try to con vince the world they are doing so for the sake of peace. 'Voice' Funds Bill Passed By Senate; Other Money OKd WASHINGTON - UP) The Sen ate last night passed a $1,045,450, 000 money bill carrying $85,000,000 for the State department's "Voice of America" and related activities. Passage came on a voice vote after a successful Republican-led fight to restore a $22,000,000 ap propriations committee slash i n funds for the overseas information agency. Senator Mundt (R-SD) captained the victorious push to match the $85,000,000 the House voted for the "Voice." The vote, by roll call, was 52 to 16. A bitter effort to keep the sum at the $63,000,000 approved by fhc senate committee was led by Sen ator McCarran (D-Nev). He read to the Senate from a magazine, "Reporter," which he said printed and distributed all over the world "scurrilous" articles about him. This raised cries that an attempt was being made to censor pub lications which the State depart ment sent to its foreign missions. As passed by tbe Senate, the bill included $227,877,000 for the State department: $182,137,000 the Justice department; $609, 500.000 for the Commerce depart ment: and $25,936,000 for the Fed eral judiciary. The Senate total was about the same as that of the House but considerably under the $1,258,296, 000 which the administration re quested. The measure now goes to a senate-house conference for a compro mise of differences. 8 Million Cut From Tax Bill WASHINGTON UP) The senate finance committee has lopped about $800,000,000 off the house-passed 9r.200.000.000 tax in crease bill and still has several important phases to consider. The group agreed tentatively yesterday to ' boost personal in come taxes by about $2. 409.000.000 a year, inis is $438,000,000 less than would be raised by the in dividual income hike voted by the House. The committee met again today in an unusual Saturday session to try for more action on the bill. STATEMENT SEEN NEW DELHI, India-WV-Reli-able sources said today Prime Minister Jawaharl.il Nehru will an nounce Monday India's decision not to take part in the Japanese peace conference at San Francisco. Established 1873 Lightning - Touched CHARRED TIMBERS and cement foundation blocks are all that's left of Lander's lookout on Callahan trail after Hubbard creek forest fire had razed It this week. (Staff photo) Fire-Fighters Call Hubbard Creek Blaze 'Coralled' Not Controlled, Figure Damage By KEN METZLER News-Review Staff Writer ,-. "' With the " Htibbard, creek fire "corralled" for the moment at least, sleepless, grimy, bearded fire-fighters were able to sit down and figure the damage. That's just what theyedid Fri day. With map and scratch paper at the Otto Lange fire camp near Baughman lookout, they gath ered together and figured the fire had covered around 17,000 acres, and stretched 12 miles from north ern to southern tip. Douglas Forest Protective asso ciation officials?, however, were not as pessimistic. Their estimate Fri day was 10,000 acres. A reporter, touring the scene with Forester Gordon Fruits, and later with fire-fighler Earl Swift of Glide, learned that trench lines established to the south and east of the fire were holding Friday night. But only by hard-fought bat tles was it prevented from break ing loose in several sectors, fire fighters said. 'Crowning' Feared But one fireman refused to call it controlled. "Not in my language," he said. "It's corralled. It isn't controlled until it s out." For there is always danger of the fire breaking loose. The dread of all firefighters is crowning burning the tops of the trees. Crowning starts quietly, with a burning snag or tree. Suddenly, with almost explosive force, the blaze rises to the tops of the trees and develops into a fiery mass of flame. A shower of embers and burning debris descends on the men. Flaming chunks of wood Four Women PENDLETON BOUND ftt four women above left Sutherlin Friday on horseback for Pendle ton. The trip is expected to take about 19 days. While in Pendleton they will participwe in th rodeo. All members of th Timberlint Trail Riding club, the women art, from left, Mrs. Bill Edwards, Mrs. Dorothy Collins, Mn. Barbara Duncan and Mrs. Edna Bidwall. often are hurled 100 feet or more into the air. The biggest worry for the fire men is whether to clear out of the area or stay and fight. "You've gotta know when to get the hell out," said one veteran fire fighter. Staying on the spot may mean halting the fire's spread. On the other hand, staying might mean encirclement by the fire. Control of the fire is attempted through the establishment of trench lines using caterpillars and tractors. Then fires are deliber ately set which are intended to burn out a wide area between the trench and the main fire. It is hoped this will stop the blaze. 'Spotting' Another Danger ' However, if a wind rises, em bers are sometimes swept ahead across the trench into new areas of timber. This reportedly was what happened when the fire whipped into the Elgarose district destroy ing 19 homes. Throughout the burned over area fires were smoldering eat ing out the heart of once-majestic Douglas firs, some six to eight feet in diameter. Entire areas of blackened snags, devoid of foilage, could be seen in an area near Baughman lookout. The timber burned, mainly pri vately owned, was described as about 70 percent virgin timber. POWER EXAGGERATED HONG KONG WP - Tseng Chung-Jen was shot by a Com munist purge squad in Likchang, south China, Aug. 7, charged with "exaggerating the power of t h e atom bomb." On 488-Mile U. of 0. Library -pugene.rtDregon ROSEIURG, ORECON SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 19S1 , - n ' I B-29s Blast Port Which MacArthur Wanted To Bomb V. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea -iff) U. S. B-29s today for the second time in the Korean war bombed Ra- shin,Red supply .port. 20 miles from Russian territory which Gen eral MacArthur wanted to knock out early In the war. . , Thirty - five superforts hurled more man juu tons oi Domus on Rashin (Najin) in clear weather. The Far East air forces in Tokyo gave no report of damage. But it said 100-pound and 500-pound bombs were dropped on the port's marshalling yards and railroad fa cilities. The superforts met no anti-aircraft fire or enemy planes. All re turned safely to their bases in Ja pan and Okinawa. Almost 50 B-2fls hit Rashin In the first attack Aug. . 12, 1950. They struck by radar in heavy over cast and dumped some 500 tons of bombs on their targets. Ont Of But Ports Rashin, one of the best ports on the east coast of Korea, is 110 miles southwest of Vladivostok. MacArthur testified before sen ate committees last May after his removal as ' supreme allied com mander that he repeatedly asked Washington in February or March for permission to continue bomb ing Rashin, but was denied it. Defense Secretary Marshall told the senators permission was de nied because the port was so close to the Soviet border. "It was a question of the risk involved in an operation so close to the Soviet frontier," Marshall said, "and as to the question of ships in the harbor and other mis haps that might occur." Horseback Ride To Rodeo (Blast 9 Injured By Dynamite Explosion At Dam Site WONDERVU. Colo. (AP) Lightning set off a dy namite charge at a dam construction site yesterday, killing nine men and injuring nine others. Rescue workers finished today removing tons of rock and dirt that cascaded down on the working men when the dynamite exploded prematurely. Officials said there were no other casualties. The death toll was raised to nine today when Roger W. Burrows. 27, of Boulder. Colo., died of head and internal, 'njuries at St. Anthony's hospital in Denver. The explosion sent a rain of boulders and debris smashing down on me sitf ot a $12,000,000 dam project of the city of Denver in South Boulder creek canyon, a gash in the front range of the Rocky mountains. The damsite Is about 35 miles northwest of Denver and is south west of Boulder, the sita of the University of Colorado. Between 50 and 60 men were working in the area when the lightning touched off the dynamite which was to have been fired when the day shift went off duty at 5 p. m. The blast was at 1:40 p.m. "Both sides of the canyon caved In," said Nobel L. Benson, 29, of Nampa, Idaho, operator of a heavy earth . moving machine. "A big rock hit my Euc (earth mover) and just about pushed the motor into the ground." Canyon Bank Crumbles "I heard a blast like thunder and the south bank of the canyon caved in," reported Gerald (Bud) Worthing of Boulder, a line boss for the public service company of Colorado. He was working with a crew on the north edge of the canyon. , "Then, I think, after lightning hit the wiring leading to the dyna mite, rock or lightning jumped to the north side of the canyon. It had been drilled and loaded and i, rr . t : Vernon Busch, 21, driver of an eann moving machine, said he saw a rock half the size of a car crush a man. Rock driller John Zeren, 30, of Boulder, said when he regained consciousness "I was dangling on the end of my leather safety belt. It was tied to a pin driven in the rocks. It saved my life." Dead Identified The dead were identified as: Robert Maddox, 37, Arvada, Colo., a foreman; Maxwell B. Ricketts, 36, Boulder; B. J. Mar tinez, 48, Louisville, Colo.; Gilbert Chaussart, 28, Boulder; Lisle M. Harris, 58, Boulder; Frank M. Mitchell, 50, Boulder,; G. J. Kim, 37, Golden, Colo., Warner Victory, 39, Lincoln, Ark. Superintendent T. L. McDonald of the Macco-I'uget Sound com pany, project contractor, said "10 or 12" cases of dynamite were dis charged. The canyon walls rise 365 feet above the creek at the point of the blast. Blansett Of Myrtle Creek Arraigned On Rape Count Buel Norman Blansett, 23, Myr tle Creek was arraigned in district court Friday on a statutory rape charge, Judge A. J. Geddcs said. Blansett was given time to con sult an attorney before entering a plea. He was arrested in Myrtle Creek by Police Chief O. H. Cor nett. The charge involves a 13-year-old girl. Bail was set by Judge Gcddes at $2,000. Sutherlin Riding Club Members Slate Arrival For Pendleton Roundup Horseback riding may become a sore subject with four women rid ers of the Sutherlin Timber line Trail Riding club who saddled their mounts Friday morning and headed for Pendleton. The four, who describe the 488 mile trip as a vacation, are Mrs. Bill Edwards, Mrs. Dorothy Col lins, Mrs. Barbara Duncan and Mrs. Edna Bidwell, secretary-treasurer of the Trail Riders. Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Collins took a 200-mile trip along the Tim berllne trail two years ago, but this is the longest ride any of the four have taken. They expect to make bf.tween 25 and 30 miles a day. If they aver age 25 miles Bit day, they will ride into Pendleton sometime Tues day, Sept. 11, which will allow them time to register for the Pen dleton rodeo. Truck Carries Supplies When they left, they planned to arrive in time to enter the grand parade Thursday, Sept. 13. They were invited to ride over and par ticipate in the celebration. During the trip, three men will ride horse' and the fnurih will drive the trucCioaded with supplies and camping equipment. Each day (Continued on Page 2) 201-51 Kills 9 Sardine Area Blaze Forces Evacuation By The Associated Preie Oregon's Sardine creek forest fire roared over 6,500 acres today in a sudden onslaught that caused women and children to leave their homes for safety. The men stayed to fight the blaze sweeping uirough Marion and Linn county timberlands near Detroit dam on the North Santiam river. The fire blew up late yesterday. The Red Cross set up aid stations at bisters and sweet Home to handle evacuees. The evacuation was recommended by foresters Dut was voluntary. Yesterday morning the fire had been estimated at only some 2.700 acres. At about 9 a.m. today, Ed Morrison of the Detroit ranger station reported that a survey by helicopter placed this morning's total at 6,500. Could Btcomo Largo The fire was threatening to reach the size of. two other big Oregon blazes the Hubbard creek fire northwest of Roseburg and the still-raging Vincont creek fire which is listed at perhaps 25,000. These were the big fires. Wash ington state's 2,600-acre Deer creek fire in Skagit county, con trolled Thursday night, was being mopped up. The 700-acre Wilkeson fire south of hnumclaw was con trolled last night. Seven new fires yesterday were controlled quickly. Washington s forester Bernard Orell cautioned that despila the eased situation there the danger remained acute. The forecast for western and south-central Oregon says the fire danger will continue extremely high over the week-end with low est humidities 20 to 30 percent in interior valleys of the northwest part and 12 to 25 percent else where. There is some prospect of east wind by late tomorrow over the northern cascades and north ern coast range. Probe Into Liner Disaster Opened OAKLAND, Calif. WP) FBI and Civil Aeronautics officials opened investigations today into the crash of United's newest type airliner, as searchers went over a hillside 20 miles south of here for the last cf 50 broken bodies. Object of the FBI probe is to determine whether sabotage caused the DC-8-B to plow into the fog-shrouded hill a few mo ments from the end of its trans continental flight early yesterday. The FBI, in announcing the in vestigation, would not elaborate or comment whether It was rou tine. United Air Lines said last night searchers quit after bringing down perhaps 41 bodies, most of them on horseback. They were to re turn today for the other nine or whatever can be found of them. The 50 victims included the six man crew and all 44 passengers eight children, nine women and 33 men. Foreign Aid Bill Ready For Debate WASHINGTON CP) A $7,535,000,000 foreign aid bill is ready for senate debate next week. The senate foreign relations and armed services commutes to talling 28 of the 96 senate mem bers unanimously approved the measure last night after rejecting, 11 to 4, a proposal to attach to it authority for construction of the St. Lawrence seaway. As finally approved by the two cnmittees, the bill carried $if,oi3.noo,ooo in military and l,522,X),0O0 in economic aid. The tntal . was almost $1,000. 000,000 Vss than the $8,500,000,00 asked by President Truman and but little more than the $7,499,,. mmo the House voted, he major share of help would go to western European nations within the Norlh Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO), with Tur key, Greeca and other friendly ns t i o n s assigned unspecified amounts. q Board Warns Of Bankruptcy Facing Nation Safeway Stores Move Toward Ceiling Raise; Escalator Set-Up Hit WASHINGTON (m Jockey ing among economic groups to keep abreast of each other is lead ing toward "national bankruptcy" In the opinion of industry mem bers of the Wage Stabilization Board. Their grim warning on skyrock eting inflation came yesterday as the governments living-cost index hit a new all-time high and a na tionwide food chain, Safeway Stores, Inc.,' moved to get higher price ceilings on key grocery items. The wage board s Industry mem bers went along with the board's labor and public members in ap proving a regulation allowing em ployers to give automatic pay raises when living costs climb. The industry members said the ruling was necessary because farmers, manufacturers, distribu tors and retailers now generally all get upward revisions in prices as the economy changes, by var ious "escalation" techniques such as the operation of parity for tha farmer. Escalator Stt-up Rapped (Parity is a pricing formula de signed to give larmers a fair price for their products. It shifts every month with the cost of the things farmers have to buy.) "However," the industry mem bers warned, "it must be pointed out that escalator arrangements are not based on sound, economic principles and can quickly lead to grave dangers," They added: "Putting all workers, manu facturers, farmers and merchants on escalation may easily prove the first step to national bankruptcy. ' it resemuies me Kind ot sell generating and rapidly-compounding inflation that at first adjusts the value of the wage dollar ev ery six months, then every three months, then every month, then weekly, then daily as we have seen happen in other countries. . . "Inevitably the (economic) boiler is going to explode if every group Keeps trying to get anead ot every other and we will enter into a mad and ruinous race to our national economic downfall." Reuthar Hits Inflation In Detroit, President Walter P. Rcuther of the CIO United Auto Workers also sounded a note ot warning. He said his union did not view continued price-wage in creases . with satisfaction, and added in a statement: "It simply reflects continued in-, flation. which Cnneress i. still un willing to check. The UAW-CIO has said many times that our work ers would be far better off with a real rollback in price, with a corresponding roll-back in the cost-of-living factor in wage rates." Safeway Stores accused the Of fice of Price Stabilization of stall ing in carrying out new profit margin and cost allowance pro visions of the Defense Production act. Safeway said it wanted price boosts of from a penny to six cents an item for well-known brands of flour, breakfast , cec als, canned fruit and vegetables, vinegar, mayonnaise and spa ghetti. The chain applied for the boosts for 40 Seattle, Wash., area stores but It said it was following up next week with similar price boost applications for its 2,000 stores all over the country. Safeway's President Llngan A. Warren said the chain couldn't wait until OPS completes a sur vey of grocery price markups but wanted the price boosts before the end of this month. "Government bur eau crats," Warren's statement said, . "must observe this (new controls) law just the same as private citi zens do." Mobilization officials ha v warned that the law may spur living costs up five to eight per cent within a year and President Truman has asked repeal of a number of the provisions voted by Congress. The living cost Index rose .2 percent between June 15 and July 15, reaching 185.5 percent of uia 1935-39 average. Food items av eraged 12.1 percent higher than in June 1950. Nearly a million auto and farm equipment workers will receive a penny-an-hour pay in crease because of the increases. Two Persons Arrested On Stolen Car Counts State police reported the recov ery of two stolen cars and the ar rest of two persons allegedly in possession Friday. Leo Spencer, 39 of Alturas, Calif., was arrested just south of Rose burg on a grand larceny warrant from Alturas charging car theft. He was in possession of a 1950 Hudson sedan from that city, ac cording to Sgt. Holly Ilolcomb. James Oliver Atwood, 29, Suther lin was also arrested in possession of a 1941 Chevrolet owned by El mer u. ileatn of Myrtle Creek. Atwood was arrested on a Dnuz- las county warrant from the Can yonville justice court. Levity Fact Rant y L. F. Reizenstein The convention of tht AFL Teachers union, In a resolution, has denounctd th loyalty oath requirement. Why not go fur ther and demand abolishment ot the pledge ef allegiance to th flog 7