U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon COhP Deer -: Season To Eastern Area WHAT By PmH Opening Rests On Weather r i . I ?i A i JOSEPH H. Dt ROSS, on the ladder at the left above, and his companion, Clyde Bluejacket, are shown busily engaged in paint ing the exterior of the Oregon Supply company at Main and Washington streets. Carl Cornell, their employer, has the con tract for the job. The color, a light turquoise, was chosen by Bill Oerding, owner of the Supply company, over Carl's violent pro test "color is more fit for a parlor than the outside of a busin ess building, etc;" but so many compliments have been, received concerning it that Bill believes even Carl is weakening a bit and pretty soon may come actually to admire it he hopes. Overriding Of Truman Veto Of Vets' Pension Bill Gets Thanks Of American Legion WASHINGTON (AP) The American Legion has sent a thank-vou letter to Congress for overriding President Truman's veto of a bill increasing pensions of certain dis abled veteran's. ' . Signea bv Legion National Commander Erie Cqcke Jr., it vent to the 6Si senators and 818 representatives who voted to override the veto. A spokesman, said a similar letter with "variations" went to those who voted otherwise. The thank-you letter criticized Mr. Truman for what it called his "ill-founded" comments on the bill, and al.so the American press which the Legion said is showing a "strangely belligerent and r e sentful reaction" to veterans' ben efits. The letter said that of all the legislative proposals presented to Congress, only those affecting vet erans are "consistently presented (Continued on Page 2) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS We are living in a time when every day seems to have its cri sis. Today's crisis is Iran. In Iran, powderkegs and matches are ly ing around loose on every hand. If a match gets into a powder keg British technicians at the vast Abadan oil refinery have been given until next Thursday to get nut of Iran. If Iran starts throwing them out, the British might land troops to protect them. Iran's 150,-000-man army has been "alerted" to REPULSE any such attempt. If ..the British and the Iranians start shooting, Russia might move in and take over. That could mean the beginning of World War III. There's your powderkeg. The match is Iran's weird, highly emotional, . probably demagogic little showofi, Premier Mossa degh, who stirred up the trouble with the British in the first place. What his motives are, I don't know. It's hard to judge at this distance whether he is sincere or insincere, (Continued on Page 4) Truman Kills OPS Memo Aimed To Withhold Information To Public WASHINGTON (AP) An office of price stabili zation memo to its stpff to withhold from the public any in formation whirh mipht embarrass it was killed promptly on President Truman's orders. The chief executive moved promptly after word of the directive leaked out, but was not soon enough to head off a storm of protest over the OPS action in the senate. Joseph Short, White Hou.ie press secretary, announced that Mr. Truman had directed that the memo be withdrawn because it "might be misconstrued" to be an outgrowth of Mr. Truman's order setting up new curbs on re lease of material affecting the na tional security. OPS Director Michael V. DiSalle was in Chicago when the memo was disclosed. He termed it "poorly conceived" and said of its withdrawal: "If To? been there (in Washington) we wouldn't have needed a request from the President." The bulletin was Issued over the tration from the American peo name of Richard F. Cook, assist-1 Fe. Senator Bricker (R-Ohio) ant director for management. termed it "an effort by the Pres- In the brief period the memo 1 ident to cover up the crookedness was still in effect. SenVor Fergu-1 and skullduggery that ii goini on son (R-Mich) called it "a blow I in hii administration." a Pari-Mutuel Tax Proposal Beaten In Senate Vote WASHINGTON UP) The Sen ate today, rejected a proposed two percent tax on pari-mutuel race track bets and a 20 percent withholding tax on winnings. Senator Holland (D-Fla) de clared the proposal would destroy pari-mutuel wagering and wipe out an important source of revenue for many states, including his own state of Florida where racing is a big business. The proposal was sponsored by Senator Langer (R-ND). It was defeated on a standing vote with only eight or nine senators sup porting it'" The proposal was the first to be acted on as the Senate again met in aa uncertain effort to finish up work tonight on the $5,500,000,000 tax increase bill. The Senate Thursday approved a 10 percent levy on bets placed with professional gamblers. This excluded pari - mutuels because they are taxed by the states. Langer said his amendment would have added $100,000,000 i n new' tax revenues to the bill. Senator George (D Ga) said it is "crazy" to think the Senate will vote a bigger hike on personal in come taxes after rejecting all other major boosts in its tax increase bill. Senator Humphrey (D Minn), leading a group of administration senators trying for a greater tax boost, agreed with the veteran fi nance committee chairman. at liberty." Senator Aiken (R-Vt) said "I am not able to produce words to describe my feelings at this." There were also protests against civilian agencies the same sys tem of curbs on security inform tion which applied previously to the State and Defense depart ments. Rep. Morano (R-Conn), in a statement, called it "a violent and utterly un-American form of press censorship." Rep. Halleck (R-Ind) told the House Mr. Truman's real niirnnco 1 "trt nrntArt iim iHminii. EiraUrikd 1173 Airline Operation Service Begins After Oct. 15, Council Told Completion Of Airport Preparation This Week Likely, Gilchrist Says West Coast airlines will start commercial flights in and out of Koseburg airport shortly after Oct. 15, Norman Hunt, station manager, told the city council at an informal meeting Thursday night at the city hall. The council met with officials of the Civil Aeronautics authority, the West Coast manager and a rep resentative of the Umpqua Flying club to discuss matters pertain ing to the future operation of the airport. The meeting was strictly informal and no actions were taken. The exact time for starting flights has not been set, and is dependent on several factors, said Hunt. First is completion of the airport, which City Manager W. A. Gilchrist said would probably be this week. Next will be the setting up of a temporary building to serve a t headquarters until the administra tion building has been completed. The small building used by the airport construction engineer is to be moved the first of next week to the west side of the airport ad jacent to the site of the proposed administration building. Power Line Job Begun California Oregon Power Co. has started digging holes for instal lation of poles and power lines. This work must be completed be fore radio installations can b e made. Also, telephone circuits must be installed, both for com munication purposes and also to operaie ine airline s leieiype serv ice. After the airport is ready to op erate, the CAA letter carrier serv ice must certify the airport for airline service. West Coast airlines pilots and crews must familiarize themselves with the airport and must make radio checks, accord ing to Hunt. Daylight flights only will be made until the field can be lighted. There will be two flights in from the north and two from the south, making four flights daily. Two more will probably be added when field lights are in. The council also discussed with Walter Bergen, representative of the Umpqua Flying club, the pos sibilities of the club continuing with the management of the air port on a year's contract. No ac tion was taken, but the matter will probably be continued at the regu lar council meeting next Monday night. Present at the meeting were Richard T. Puckey, chief of the CAA airports division, Seattle; Jake Fryberger, district engineer, Salem, and Ed Dickinson, of the Salem CAA office. E. B. Code, operations manager of West Coast Airlines from the Seattle office, will be in Roseburg Monday. He will speak before the Roseburg chamber of commerce and will also probably confer with the city council relative to a con tract for use of the airport and administration building. Phases of a contract were discussed with Hunt at the meeting. bmpqua Area Siared In Film Location Hunt EUGENE UP) Representa tives of 20th Century Fox were in the Eugene area Thursday, look ing for a river location for a motion picture. Sam Wurtzel, a production man ager for 20th Century, said the movie will require about two weeks' shooting, around the end of October. The group looked over the Mc Kenzie river and said they planned to view the Umpqua and other Oregon rivers. The proposed movie and cast were not identified. Youth Waives Hearing On Car Theft Charge Gordon Burton Hibbard, 18, 844 Ave. A. Thursday waived prelim inary hearing on a stolen car charge and is being held on $1,500 bail, according to District Judge A. J. Geddes. He was accused of being In possession of a car registered to Robert Roy Buie, Wilbur. The ar rest was made by state police. A 15-year-old Roseburg youth, who accompanied Hibbard, was also apprehended and later re manded to juvenile authorities. The Weather Mostly cloudy with occasional rain today end Saturday. Highest temp, for any Stpt 104 Lowest temp, for any Sept W Hlghes temp, yesterday IS Lowest temp, last 24 hours 53 Precip. last 24 hours ...04 Precip. from Sept. 1 ... .05 Defic. from Sept. 1 10 Sunset today, 7 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:01 a. m. Olalla Logging Operator Killed The owner of an Olalla log ging operation was killed instan tly at work Thursday afternoon when struck by a tree which had been pushed ever by e cat erpillar. Dead is Frank Moff.tt, 65, of Breckway. Deputy . Coroner Robert Bel lows said the accident occurred , at 1:15 Thursday. At the time Moffett was sharpening an exe beside a road. Bellows said. A caterpillar, driven by an employee, Archi bald Montgomery, Roseburg, slipped sideways down a hill hitting a sapling which crashed, hitting Moffett en the head. The body was taken to Lang and Orr mortuary, Roseburg. Moffett is survived by his wife, Helen Elizabeth; three sons, Frank Lewis, Inchon, Korea, U. S. army; Victor Hal and Nathan Russell, b o t h of Brockway; daughters Morna Joanne Turner, Roseburg; Allen Delores, Althia Lorna and Shirley Anne, all of Brockway. The body has been removed to Long and Orr mortuary and fu neral arrangements will be a n nounced later. Allied Air Force Takes Fresh Toll Of Red Traffic U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea -P Com munist forces launched a series of sharp attacks last night at widely scattered points'across 50 miles of the Korean battle front. Thev took advantage of a moon less night. But Allied, planes con verged on the main arteries and the U. S. Fifth air force said its pilots destroyed 508 Communist t- hides and damaged 813 a rec ord. The old mark was 964, set Wednesday. The : roving' airmen attacked more than 1.700 trucks from dusk Thursday to dawn Friday, the Fifth air force said. The tempo of Communist troop and transport activitiy sharpened as efforts to revive the stalled truce talks reached a virtual standstill. Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff, has arrived in Tokyo. The Defense de partment in Washington said he would survey "all aspects of the situation" with Gen. Matthew B Ridgway, United Nations 'com mander. Bradley possibly was coming to the war theater to map strategy if attempts to revive the truce talks fail completely and full scale fight ing erupts. The Chinese and North Koreans have not answered Ridgway's sug gestion Thursday for getting the bogged down parley going again. He wanted the conference site switched from Kaesong, behind Red lines, to the Songhyon area in no-man's-land. The village is i i x miles southeast of Kaesong. Observers said this could be Ridgway's last compromise pro posal. DEBT SLASH DATED SALEM (IP) State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson said today he would pay off next week $1,356,671 of the state's bonded debt. The payments are for highway, veterans and higher education bonds. J' a " BLASTING was necessary to make way (or installations end repairs on the game commission's fish tedder and counting station ar partially drained to make possible this work, es well as redeclting PoMsrCa. (Picture by PaulJenkinsI ROSEIURG. OREGON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1951 For Roseburg Discussed Bookie Gross Given 12-Year Prison Term Gambler Faces Further Contempt Sentences; Involved Cops Face Probe NEW YORK UP) Bookie Harry Gross, sentenced to 12 years in prison for operating a $20,000,- 000 a year gambling ring, still faces an additional 10-year jail term for contempt stemming from the police graft trial. The 35-year-old bookie sat glum and silent Thursday as he heard himself sentenced in special ses sions court to serve one year each, running consecutively, on 12 counts of a 66-count indictment charging gambling and conspiracy. Sentence was suspended on the other 54 counts, and there was no fine. Maximum sentence would have been 68 years in jail and $34,000 in fines. The bookie still faces other prison terms. At the collapse of the recent police trial. Judge Lei- bowitz sentenced Gross to five years and a $15,000 fine for con tempt. On Wednesday, the grand jury indicted Gross on charges of crim inal contempt, which carry a 10- year maximum jail term and a $10,000 fine on conviction. The jury's indictment supersedes Judge i-eiDowuz' penally. Gross" attorney. Michael Kern. said he would appeal Thursday's senicnce immediately. Judge Scores Scofflaw Justice William B. Northrup, neaaing a mree-man court, pro nounced sentence. Before doiniz so. the bench made it clear to Gross that he was being penalized for wrecking the police eraft trial of 1R cops by refusing to testify against .them.. - - Gross talked freely about opera tions of his bookie empire, and how he paid police protection amount ing to $1,000,000 a year. But when it came to naming police names, Gross balked and shattered the case against the defendants. Justice Northrup told Gross: "You gloried in the fact that you bribed corrupt members of the po lice force and you seem proud to be looked upon as a fountain of corruption. You are a cesspool of corruption which, the people are sick of. "Had you chosen to aid the peo ple, this court would have looked upon you in a different light. But you made your choice and now you must answer for it. Let word go out to the community that he who trifles with justice will get nothing but justice." Co4s Still Face Probe Prior to sentencing Gross, the legal stage had been set for a spec tacular expose of the bookie's tes timony before the Brooklyn rackets-probing grand jury. Kings county District Attorney Miles F. McDonald, fighting mad after Gross ruined his two-year buildup toward the police graft trial, had said he would read a di gest of that testimony, listing po lice names which would implicate some 100 cops as bribe takers. High police brass is said to be among them. McDonald read from the grand jury records, but the names of the policemen were not disclosed. (Continued on Page 2) X,'-'. Winchester dam . ine water Beef Prices To Rise, Changes Effective Oct. 1, Announcement Of OPS; No Halt In Enforcement WASHINGTON (AP) Housewives will begin piying an average of 11 to 2 cents a pound for beef next Monday. The office of Price Stabilization announced Thursday new ceilings which boosted the prices of some cuts and low ered other!., but on the average resulted in a slight over-all increase. OPS ordared that the new prices be posted so customers R. C. Gile To Head Motor Division . . ,. ROBERT C. GILE SALEM UP) Former State Rep. Robert C. Gile, 44, Roseburg fruit packer, was appointed today to head the motor vehicle division of the Secretary of state's office. Gile succeeds the late-Carl Ga brielson. The appointment was made by Secretary of State New bry. Newbry said that Gilo's' first job will be to reorganize the entire mo tor vehicle department, whose chief function is Issuing motor ve hicle license plates. Gile was a member of the legis lature from 1941 through 1949. He served one session as chairman of the house tax committee. Gile will take over the new job next Monday. Missing Boy Found Slain; Sex Fiend Suspected OROFINO, Idaho A 12-year-old boy, missing since Sun day, was found dead in the woods near here Thursday, his throat cut from ear to ear. A lumber worker stumbled across the body of young Lonnie Jones Thursday morning to end an extensive search in which airplanes took part. Sheriff V. L. Holloway said the seventh grader from Wieppe, Idaho, was last seen alive at a county fair Saturday night. He in dicated he has few clues to go on. But he said he was convinced a sex field was responsible. 4 ." , 4 'VS . El from the lane above the gam was of the dam by California Oregon w 229-51 Drop can see them easily. This is what will happen to the better-known beef products: HAMBURGER The cheaper ?rade containing up to 25 percent at will go up about a penny a pound. The better grade, lean ground containing up to 12 percent tat, wiu increase 2 to a cents a pound. ROUND STEAK AND CHUCK ROASTS These most popular selling cuts will go up 2 to 8 cents a pound, depending on grade. PORTERHOUSE STEAK PRIME SIRLOIN These and other higher-priced cuts which have not been selling as well will drop from 4 to 8 cents a pound. RIB CUTS Up 15 cents a pound. BRISKET OR STEWING BEEF Down as much as 20 cents a pound on choice cuts. Utility Grades Upped Most OPS said the choice grades which account for 35 percent of all beef sold to consumers prob ably will not average more than a penny a pound increase. Sharp est increases apply to utility grade cuts, used in processing sausage. smoked and cured meat, which account for 10 percent of sales, Ura said. Actual prices over the country will vary in the 25 zones into which the country has been split for pricing purposes as they do now because of differences i n transportation and other costs. However, the changes are the same in all zones and will range from an increase of 29 cents a pound on some cuts to a drop of 20 cents on others. For the first time, dollar and cents ceilings are set on prime (Continued on Page 2) Elks Will Observe Newspaper Week The Roseburg ' Elks Lodge will observe National Newspaper week with an appropriate pro gram scheduled for next Tuesday night. A banquet honoring publishers, editors, business managers or rep resentatives from Douglas county daily and weekly newspapaers is scheduled for 6:30 in the Elks temple. ' A program, with Mayor Albert G. Flegel as master of ceremon ies, will follow the banquet. Speaker for the occasion will be Charles T. Duncan, associate pro fessor of the University of Ore gon school of journalism. His sub ject will be "The Odds Against Freedom, 7 to 1." The Elks annually observe Na tional Newspaper week, Oct 1 to 8, as part of their public service work, in which they emphasize the Importance of freedom o f speech and freedom of the press, Centennial Directorate Organization Planned Final arrangements for the or ganization of a 1952 Douglas county centennial board of direc tors is scheduled for tonight at 7:30 o clock in the city council chambers. All aspects of the coming cele bration will be explained to rep resentatives of various civic and service organizations of Douglas county and a complete nrospectus given to each for presentation to nis or her ciud. The event is considered for Labor day weekend of 1952. The sponsoring Junior chamber of commerce has requested the com plete cooperation of other organ izations in order to assure suc cess of the large undertaking. This meeting, it is pointed out. is not for the purpose of obtaining funds to back the centennial, and no request for funds or under writing will be made. Two U. S. Planes Crash In Japan; Deaths Result MATSUDA, Japan UP) Ja panese police reported that 14 bodies were found in and near the wreckage of a U. S. air'Serce C-J19 flying boxcar which crashed near here Thursday nighU The plane was assigned to the 314th troop carrier group. A C-46 Commando which also was enroute to Tokyo crashed and nuriw early today in footnilis , , 1 . - - ., . ni-ar riiuiune, uven mi ps wesi Atsu.i.lt worrying a crew Closure There Will End If Adequate Rain Falls, Word From Foresters PORTLAND OP) Oregon' buck deer season opens west of the Cascade mountain summit to morrow. It likely will not open in eastern Oregon forests but prom' ised rains make that a question. The State Game commission set a telephone conference for 12:30 p.m. today to decide whether to close the season in eastern Ore gon's dry forests. If the commis sion does not do so, then acting; Gov. Paul Patterson will have the state forester's recommenda tion that he close the over-dry forests by proclamation. Federal forests east of the Cas cade summit are closed, as of noon today, to recreational use. But Kermit Linstedt, regional fire control chief, said he and the state forester's office would be in close touch throughout this afternoon in study of rain reports. He said the closure would not last any longer than fire safety required. The confused situation, with the possibility of rain and unexpected legal problems joining to delay definite decisions, gave the state'! 175,000 licensed hunter) only this definite information: They can hunt west of the Cas cade summit: They can hunt in non-forested lands east of the Cascade summit. Good Hunting East Offered 'iood hunting areas of eastern Oregon are thus opened up. The non-forested Stcens mountain re gions have been popular as have a number of other areas. The Game commission office here re ported that a number of non-for- " ested areas of Wasco and Jef ferson counties always attract some hunters although the hunt ing there is reportedly not good. Linstedt said it was not likely that the federal closure would be lifted forest - by - forest if raini should come. He said that to les sen confusion, if the general situa tion should allow, the entire clos ure order would be withdrawn. "There would be varying de grees of chance-taking," he said, "and, we would have to rely on the 'hunters to be careful." The present federal forest clos ure applies to these: that part of the Umatilla forest lying in Oregon: the Wallowa. Whitman. Malheur, Ochoco, Deschutes and Fremont forests; those portions of the Rogue river and Mount "' (Continued on Page 2) ' Drain Protests Proposed Change In Highway 99 Residents of Drain are strongly opposed to any change in High way 99, which would isolate their community. This information was definitely brought out at meetings this week in the north Douglas town. Rep resentatives were dispatched to Salem Thursday in order to tell the state highway commission their stand, in advance of a public hearing scheduled Oct. 10 in Drain. The Drain hearing is one of scv- eral which will be held Oct. 9 in Gold Hill, Sutherlin and Oakland, and Oct. 10 in Yoncalla, Drain, Cottage Grove and Creswell. Fro posed new highway location will bypass each of these towns. But Drain will be the most af fected, because site of the new highway from Anlauf to Rice Hill would leave a mountain range be tween Drain and the new route. And that is what the residents don't like. Henry L. Goodmanson, chair man of Highway 38 (Drain to Recdsport) association, said h i s association as well as the Drain chamber of commerce and other organizations were opposed to the new highway plan. In addition to isolating Drain, as well as Yoncalla, the highway de partment would have to maintain two highways, the present route, which could not be abandoned, and the new highway to be constructed, the opponents of the change have stressed. Churchill Urges Britain To Cast Off Socialism LONDON UP) Winston Churchill called upon Britain to day to free itself of socialism in order to rebuild its life at borne and its prestige abroad. In a 2, 500-word conservative party manifesto, the 76-year-old wartime prime minister asserted the Oct. 25 general election "may well be the turning point in the fortunes and even life of Britain." "There must be no Illusions! about our difficulties and dan gers," he said. Churchill demanded an end of class warfare and a growth In national unity. He blamed the "frantic extravagances" of the labor government for devaluation of the pound from $4.02 to 12.80 on Sept .18,' 1949. I. evity F act R ant By L. T. Relzenstein This rain h lust the thinq for good deer-hunting, but It took a ( I HI VUI W I Hlina bihiviiiwiiui r-ain oifTA . , m . 0tlAiktn r, "rouw Jtiplrtf PluvlllS from hi lerhorgy. six and. five passengers.