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o U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon COf IBSlnL rEOTTDMS Ismailia Like Armed Camp As Riot Sequel British Won't Be Forced Out Or Knocked Out.Says Commander Of Garrison CAIRO VP) Ismailia in the WHO DOES WHAT Wn I II i 1 Established 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1951 245-51 jj UmMi Tiw iiiimi i'iii'lfimiinnn iiin mm m mwl?l BILL JONES, co-owner of the Umpqua Gun store on South Steph ens street, holds a Remington .22 calibre model 37 rifle mounted on a custom built target stock. Note the hole for the thumb showing in the picture just in front of the cheek plate. It's a swell piece and undoubtedly would shoot the eyes out of a chip munk at any number of paces, but I'd want a caddy to carry it for me if it were mine; it weighs more than Sus Peret's double-barreled elephant gun. But that's what the .22 target sharks want, I guess. Bill's partner in the gun store is R. L. Hill, owner and opera tor of Dick's Outdoor store in Coos Bay. The store here was open ed for business last July. Douglas Fir Shipments At New High Despite Decline In National Lumber Production, Assn. Executive Reports Despite a decline in the national production of lumber, the Douglas fir industry is shipping more lumber materials than ever before. . '. This was brought out Tuesday night in a speech in Roseburg by H. V. Simpson, executive vice-president of the , West Coast Lumberman's association. . .-, - - ----- County Tax Bills Expected Soon County tax rolls have been com pleted and some 35,000 tax state ments are expected to be sent out the latter part of this week, the tax collector's office reported. A new innovation in this year's statements is the figuring by the collector's office of the three per cent rebate awarded the taxpayer for payment before Nov. 15. Officials requestd that pay ments be made with the specific amount of cash on hand in order to void congestion in making change by tax clerks. Automatic billing machinery in stalled last year was responsible for getting the statements out this year the earliest in several years. Last year it was Oct. 28 before the statements were ready for mail ing. Total taxes to be collected amount to $3,434,970.95. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ' As these words are written, public-spirited people all over the country are assembling in meet ings, including luncheon gather t ings, to report progress of the annual community chest fund. Out of many years' experience, I'd like to say a word or two about these people. They aren't publicity seekers. They aren't do ing what they're doing because it is good for their business. They are just doing a job that has to be done. In general, they are the busiest . people in the community. It is an axiom of community building that if you want something done go after the busiest person you know. Why is that? Well, busy people usually know how to BUDGET THEIR TIME, so as to et a lot of things done. People who know how to get things done are effec tive workers. Let's add a word here about these luncheon meetings. I sup pose there are narrow-minded persons who have the idea that those who gather at community chest luncheons EAT HEAVY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FUND. Nothing could be farther from the truth. These people pay for (Continued on Page 4) The Weather Partly cloudy with occasional rain tonight and Thursday. Highest tamp, for any Oct. . M Lowest timp. tor any Oct. 22 Highest temp, yesterday il iLowtst temp, last 24 hrs. 39 "Prtcip. last 24 hours T Pracip. from Oct. 1 2.3 Praalp. from Sspt. 1 3.M Excess U4 Sunset today, $:2I p.m. The meeting at which Simpson spoke was the last of a series of 13 regional sessions called by the WCLA to discuss lumber prob lems. "I can't be pessimistic about the fir market this year," Simp son said. He listed three factors account ing for the expanse o the fir industry at the expense of other species of timber (1) extension into the south at the expense of southern pine, (2) a withdrawal of a certain amount of competition by Canadian mills, and (3) Doug las fir promotional programs. Federal Controls Felt Speaking on government credit controls, Simpson commented: "The things that we used to think we could gauge our business by are no longer in effect. More and more we are being affected by the political controls in Wash ington." Simpson, however, saw some easing of the controls in the fu ture particularly if the Korean fuss were ended and the possi bility o( World War III loomed less likely. Harris E. Smith, secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation, briefed the lumbermen on past activities of the associa tion. The meeting was presided over by Henry Jacobson, general manager of Youngs Bay lumber company. Copco Cancels Request For Increase In Rates SAN FrTANCISCO VP) The California Public Utilities commis sion today dismissed without pre judice an application of the Cali fornia. Oregon Power company for electric rate increases in a num ber of northern California and southern Oregon communities. The PUC noted that the com pany, in a letter dated Sept. 28, asked permission to withdraw its application, which was the first request for a general rate increase by the company in 30 years. In its original application the company had sought authority to increase rates so that aggregate yearly income would be boosted by $1,043,000. Some 72.000 custom ers would have been affected. The company's head office is at Medford. Fleischmann, Former Yeast Tycoon. Kills Self SANTA BARBARA. Calif. OP) Max C. Fleischmann. 74, one time head of a yeast and gin. em pire, killed himself with a pistol Tuesday. Doctors had told him he had an incurables malignant disease. Fleischmann came to Santa Bar bara in 1930, a year after selling his yeast factories lo the J. P. Morgan banking house for about $20 million worth of stock in Stand ard Brands. Fleisehntann was known as "major." a military title dating ! irom World war 1, In which he TAX mm House Rejects Compromise Of Conferees Both Sides Astounded At Result; Deadlock To Be Tackled Again WASHINGTON -P) Two sen ators said today the senate finance committee has agreed to try again to break the deadlock over the multi-billion dollar tax in crease bill. Both senators, who asked that their names not be used, attended a brief closed-door session of the tax-writing senate committee this forenoon. The House Tuesday unexpectedly turned down the compromise $5,732,000,000 tax measure, agreed on by senate-house conferees after lengthy hearings. Chairman George (D-Ga) of the committee told reporters that as yet the Senate had not agreed to a new conference or appointed con ferees. , Two other senators said there was a brief discussion at the closed committee session of the unex pected house action that threw a roadblock into plans for congres sional adjournment this week. If the Senate fails to agree to another conference with the House, the tax compromise would be dead, unless house leaders re versed Tuesday's 203 to 157 rejec tion. The House already has named its representatives for a new compromise attempt. Both Sides Astounded The bill under preparation nearly nine months was tossed aside summarily by the House in a half-hour rollcall, with administra tion leaders hardly more astounded by the outcome than the group which put across the. 203:to-157 coup. On the winning side were 139 Re publicans and 64 Democrats. The minority which supported the bill included 122 Democrats, 34 Repub licans and one independent. This was not the usual coalition of Republicans and southern Dem ocrats which has become familiar in recent years. The Democrats who opposed the bill are, in the main, representatives of northern and big-city districts. Most south erners went along with the ad ministration. Leading Democrats trying to an alyze the vote speculated that a great many members simply op pose any tax increase at this time, and that others belive the boosts called for by the compromise bill (Continued on Page 2) Slaying Points lo Adopted Son MINNEAPOLIS VP) Police of four midwest states today hunted a 16-year-old adopted high school boy, wanted for questioning in connection with the slaying of his foster mother here. Object of the search is Robert Farrington Pett, a 190 - pound youth. Sheriff Lester Melchert said Robert had been missing since the body of his mother, Mrs. Mary R. Pett, 51, was found on a bed in the Petts' suburban Christmas lake home. She had been stabbed, shot and beaten. The sheriff said young Pett may be accompanied by Reginald Frost, 16, a neighbor of the family. Harris G. Pett, husband of the victim, told police he believed his adopted son took a Dodge car owned by the family, gray in color and bearing Minnesota license plates 300-455. Pelt, regional man ager for the railroad retirement board, was absent when his wife was slain. Mrs. Petl's body was discovered by a housekeeper. The sheriff said she had been slabbed 17 times with two butcher knives, both of which protruded from her body, beaten with a lenglh of bamboo fishpole which was broken by the attack, and shot with a .22 cali ber rifle. House Also Votes Boost In R. R. Retirement Pay WASHINGTON VP) The House Tuesday pasted a bill lo boost railroad retirements an es timated 15 percent. The Senate has passed a simi lar measure. The bill now goes back to the Senate. Railroad workers' old age se curity is provided for separately from the social security act in which railroaders do not partici pate. The house legislation includes: 1. An across-the-board increase of IS percent in railroad pensions. 2. A one-third increase in bene fits to survivors of pensioned rail roaders. 3. Pensions for wives of retired railroad men, not to exceed $40 Soldier Injured In Auto Accident Near Dillard A 21-year-old soldier was crit ically injured last night at 7:45 when thrown 40 feet from an over turning car near the south Dillard bridge. His condition described as "ex tremely critical," Jerry L. Schu macher, Ft. Lewis, Wash., is be ing confined to Mercy hospital with a fractured skull. Two other soldiers in the auto mobile with him escaped injury. They are Jack L. Stilt and Es porlas Crispin, both of Ft. Lewis. Apparently blinded by the head lights of an oncoming car, the driver, Schumacher, veered too far to the right, state police said. In an attempt to get back on the road he swerved to the left and lost control. The car overturned at least twice and Schumacher was thrown 40 feet onto the pavement where he was lying when police ar rived. The car received extensive dam age, police said. Scene Of Other Accidents The trio was headed for Ft. Ord, Calif., for reassignment. The accident occurred in the same curving section of highway 99 where state police investigated three other serious accidents within the past five weeks. Most serious of these was . on Sept. 30, in which an 18-year-old Suthcrlin youth was killed and five other teen-agers injured. In that accident, Norman L. Bratton was killed when his car failed to ne gotiate the turn, skidded 207 feet and overturned several times. A week previous to that, another car spun out of control on the same curve and put a man in the Myrtle Creek hospital, where he is still confined, police said. And the week previous to that. .Tack Bratton, 16, a brother of Norman Bratton, escaped serious injury in a similar accident. Chinese Continue Retreat In Korea U. S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR TERS, Korea VP) Allied in fantrymen drove to wilhin rifle range of Kumsong on the central front today. Chinese defenders retreated slowly before the advancing U. S. 24th division and the South Korean Sixth division. - The Allies gained 1.500 to 2,000 yards in the fifth day of their drive toward the Reds' central Korean bastion. The Reds were described offi cially as "slowly withdrawing." Whether this was general along the entire 22-mile central sector re mained to be seen. It was still pos sible for the Reds to make a stand south of Kumsong. More than 40 hills have been cap tured in the five-day advance on Kumsong. Three United Nations divisions have advanced seven miles along a 22-mile front. Al lied artillery moved up to strategic peaks where it could blast Kum song, the main Communist bastion on the central front. The Allies declared today the Communists "are up to their old tricks of delaying" renewal of Ko rean truce talks. ROSEBURG MAN HURT EUGENE (P) Gilhart J Shankey, 35, of Rosaburg, was reported in good condition today at a Eugene hospital, following a Tuesday night auto accident. Police said he was alone in a car which failed to complete a turn south of Eugene. s 1 ill '. vsVrN. it it i t 1 1 4 ya r ' ; , i b i ' i rXIWANIS SPEAKER Tom Edwards, assistant to the division office, Tuesday detailed plans for major highvJay construction l left to right, arc Kiwanis President James E. Slattery, Edwards, MEASUil Cold, Hunger End Mutiny Of Convicts West Virginia Prison Revolt Lasts 1 8 Hours, Draws State Troopers MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va. OP) An 18-hour revolt of 1,300 pris oners at the West Virginia state penitentiary ended without casual ties hi : a.m. luuay. State police Maj. R. W. Boyles suddenly appeared on the steps of I the administration building lead- where the prisoners had milled ''Get$ NeW TreeS UlglU. He yelled: "I have a message for you." "Get on the loud-speaker," called back some of the prisoners. Warden Orel J. Skeen's voice came on the prison public-address system. "If you men care to go in your cells," he said, "the doors are open. And when you get in, we'll arrange to feed you. We can't feed you where you are." There was a surge for the door. When the big break came in the tense revolt, some of the pris oners were picking up and eating nuis wmcii iiau ueen ratu ui the yard for squairrels, Repulsed By Gun Fire Only a short time earlier the prisoners had shouted defiance from the cold, foggy exercise yard. During the night, gunfire had driven back their lushes on the grocery storeroom ,and the power Dlant. Fifty heavily armed state troop ers marched into their midst soon after dawn. The 1;300 rioters fell back, shouting profane abuse at the policemen. The troopers stood in ranks and took it for 15 minutes then moved in small groups to guard posts around the edge of the exercise yard. They had been called in from all bver the state to augment the 90 guards. Moundsville is on the Ohio river 12 miles below Wheel ing. All hut 400 of the prison's 1,700 inmates joined the mutiny. They protested a prison cook was filthy. They said they had too little cloth ing. They refused to come in from the exercise yard last night for the evening meal. They haven't eaten since yester day noon. The temperature got down to 47 last night. Prison Now Too Small The 90 guards on the- 40-foot walls fired over their heads so no one was hurt when about 200 of the prisoners rushed the boiler room and commissary with knives and broken scissors. A few marched in front of the administration building all night. Most of them stretched out on the cold, damp pavement. A few hud dled in blankets. Warden Skeen acknowledged that the prison did handcuff bad actors to the bars of their cells chest high. He did not say how long they were kept that way, but ex plained it was punishment for those "who figure they can sleep a dav and stav un yelling all night. the old prison, surrounded by 40-foot walls, was erected in 186S for a capacity of 900. For many vears the prison population has av ernged about 1,800. There are now 1,760 convicts on the roles. LOGGER KILLED EUGENE P) A rolling log fatally crushed a logger near loti Tuesday. He was Amos Martin Mucke, route z, bpringtield. JOB MAY TAKE 10 Alignment Of Highway By Pass Project Topic Of Engineer T. Edwards Finding a highway route that would make possible limiting of access finally resulted in the highway depart ment's selection of the proposed new highway realignment that would extend from Chenoweth park on the north to the Happy Valley road junction on the south, said Tom Ed wards, assistant to the division engineer for the state high - I -I LOQQCCl-Ott 0110 , J j . (J LOKC KeQiOIl Planting of several hundred acres of trees in logged-off areas in the Diamond lake district was begun this week by the forest serv ice. Robert Aufderhcide, Umpqua National forest supervisor, said the forest service hopes to exceed the 830 acres replanted last year. At the same time Lloyd Hayes, research forester, is conducting ex perimental work in direct seeding of Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir seeds. The planting, Aufderheide said, involves some 500 plants of two- vpar-olH nursprv stork npr ncrp. It i5 expected mat naiurai reproduce lion of trees will account for the additional number needed to bring the count up to the necessary 1,000 per acre. In the experimental seeding op erations, Hayes said the main trou ble encountered is rodents which eat the seeds. These are being handled hy poi soning at present. The poison is colored green so the birds won't get it. But the rodents smell It out. - Among innovations being tried out in the seeding, work is a cy lindrical wire mesh device into which seeds and varying amounts and lypes of soil and fertilizer can be loaded before it is sot in the ground. British Election Wagers Favor Winston Churchill LONDON VP) Heavy bet ling on Winston Churchill and his Conservalive party to win the Oct. 25 British election drove the odds still longer against the Labor gov ernment today. In the books of Douglas Stuart, one of the nation's biggest bet takers, backers of Prime Minister Attlee's Labor party can put up two pounds to win seven pounds. Conservalive supporters must bet nine pounds to win 2 pounds. In the last general election, in February, 1950, betting odds proved an accurate indicator of the' outcome. The handbooks then made the Labor government 4 to 6 favorite and offered 6 to 5 against Ihe Conservalives. The odds were close and so was the election. Atllee scraped home wilh a thin overall majority of six seals in the 625 seat House of Commons. Cash Register Stolen From Hotel Discovered A cash register slolen from Ihe Douglas hotel, North Jackson St., Tuesday night was found under a car parked near the hotel at Main and Douglas streets reports Chief of rolire T. a. Mazac. The botlom of the register had been pried off and $9.80 in cur rency was reported missing. Har old Cassidy, employed b y New Method cleaners, made the discov ery. Chief Mazac lays officers are continuing the investigation. i i engineer of the Roseburg hiqhway through Douglas county. P i arjur d, Tommy Webb, Kiwanjan from Van- YEARS way department in Roseburg, Edwards, sneaking before the Roseburg Kiwanis club, outlined the proposed highway route, which would by-pass Oakland, Sutherlin and Roseburg. lhe route would have accesses only at Chenoweth park, north of Oakland, one west of Sutherlin, at Winchester, Garden Valley road, Military avenue, Portland street at (he Fairgrounds, and with the present highway at the Happy Valley road junction. May Take Ten Years This is a project which may take 10 years to complete. It is possible, nowever, said Edwards, that the work may be completed sooner if steel is available for bridge construction. The bridge across the South Umpqua north of the Community hospital is a vital link lo Ihe southern part of the new route, and the government has clamped down on the use of steel. Because of this, work will be gin on the north, end of the pro ject, probably next spring, accord ing lo Edwards. It would proceed south as fast as funds and ma terials were available. Rights-of-way are already being purchased for the route. Alignment Described The alignment would follow the present highway from Chenoweth park, south of Rice hill, to -Oak land; proceed to the west of Oak land and Sutherlin to Deady and follow along side the present route. It would then swing slightly west lo miss Wilbur, to avoid purchas ing Ihe entire town; cross over the railroad track, then cross the Norlh Umpqua river and again over the railroad at Winchester; proceed soulh along the west side of the airport, then swing across the Veterans hospital grounds to ML Nebo, and thence to a cross ing of the river again at Shady point. All county roads, other than at Ihe accesses named, would be cared for either by over or under passes. It would be necessary, however, to discontinue the county road lo the fairgrounds, because of Ihe cost of shaving off more of Mt. Nebo and filling in part of the river. The fill would create a flood hazard on the east side, according to Edwards. Mountain Poses Big Task Surveys call also for continuing the highway soulh over Roberts mountain by means of a 300-foot cut, or tunneling 1400 feet through (Continued on Page 2) Dr. G. H. Buck Convicted Of Fatal Abortion PORTLAND P) After only five minutes deliberation a cir cuit court jury Tuesday convicted Dr. George H. Buck of manslaugh ter by abortion. Buck, a Portland physician, was charged with performing an abor tion on Mrs. Viola Cole Friday, a, of Salem. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $15,000 line, lie win De scniencea rnuay. Dr. Buck was indicted following raids on his office and the offices of five chiropractors and a na- luropath last spring. All lace sim ilar charges. A woman who held no medical license also was arresled in (he raids. She is Mrs. Pat Fluno, who will go on trial Monday. Human Skull, Rings, Watch Found In Klamath Area KLAMATH FALLS VP) A human skull, probably that of a woman, was found Tuesday in Ihe woods off the Willamette pass highway a mile norlh of Crcsdei lodge, and officers believe death occurred about two years ago, Found with the skull were two rings, a wrist watch, rimless glasses, a full set of false Iceth. portions of a colored blouse and I Wirt nni. rnltnn ftlnrkinff. several! religious pamphlets and a few other small human bones. Officers said (here was no sign of; safely, is the new director of acci violence on the skull and n o dent prevention for the slate in means of a quick identification. dustrial accident commission. PHONY PRIEST IS PLOP I.OSqANGKLES i The "priest" made Ihe rounds of the bars, hearing confessions and ac cepting drinks in return. His clerical robes didn't fool of ficers, however. Al Newman Mc Carthy, 49, a furniture worker, wdS sentenced to 175 dayi In the coiiBty iil afler plaadinl guilty to r drunk charge. Suez canal area was an armed camp bristling with machlneguns and tanks today, as twin British, and Egyptians rushed reinforce ments there and Britain faced new trouble in the Anglo-Egyptian Su dan. One leader of the powerful pro Egyptian Sudanese Ashigga party called upon the people of Sudan for a campaign of disobedience to British authorities there in the ef fort to drive the Britons out of the land over which Egypt now has proclaimed King Farouk the sola monarch. In the Suez canal area, the Brit ish reported that the Lancashire fusiliers, military and RAF forces and the Egyptian police were in control of the situation after the city of 50,000 was rocked by vio lent rioting Tuesday. A release distributed in Cairo by the RAF said "almost all the shops and buildings (in Ismailia) are closed and the town resembles an armed camp." Air Troops Enroute British parachute troops, 3,500 strong, were taking off from Cy prus, only 300 miles away, to re- " inforce the British in the canal zone, wheVe at least seven and pos sibly 12 persons were killed in Tuesday's violence. Ismailia was divided into two sections, the western part held by British troops grimly alert behind barbed wire, with Bren guns nos ing through. The section was com pletely blacked out Tuesday night The Egyptian sector was pa trolled by Egyptian police on a 24-hour emergency alert. Egyptian officials said six British army trucks were burned or oth erwise destroyed by mobs in the vi olence Tuesday. Other sources said at least 17 trucks were burned. The British commander of the Suez garrison, Lt. Gen. George Er skine, told his men in a broad cast "we are not going to be turned out, forced out or knocked out" of the canal area. "We are not looking for trouble," he said, "but we shall deal with it quite firmly if we meet it. Britain's garrison' along the ca nal at present is estimated at 40,- 000 men, with 400 planes. Armed British troops stood guard behind barbed wire barri cades in the western half .of Is-, lia, where the town's British and European colony lives. Control of Port Said reportedly was divided also between the British and Egypli.-is. , Polici, also stood guard over western embassies in Cairo, Alex andria and other cities where there was wild demonstrating. The ral lies held despite a government ban were in approval of parlia ment's action Monday abrogating the 1936 alliance under which Brit ain garrisons the canal and the 1899 pact providing for joint Brit ish and Egyptian rule ot the cotton-growing Sudan. Britain has declared she will stand on her rights under both treaties and will not recognize a one-sided cancellation. Force, Not Talk, Needed In Korea, MacArthur Says MIAMI, Fla. VP) General Douglas MacArthur declared to day "you cannot profitably ne goliale wilh Communists" and ha called for the use of greater mili firy power In the Korean' war. In a ringing attack? on the ad ministration's military policy, the ousted five-star general told the American Legion convention: "We negotiate and negotiate and negotiate, never seeming to learn that you cannot profitably nego tiate with Communists any more than you can with any other type of malefactor in civilized society. "The only persuasion that will move them is the resistance to their abusive pressure by ade quate counter-pressure." The general did not call for a break-off in the Kaesong truce talks, but he left it clear he puts no faith in them and would open all-out war against the Reds in lhe Far East as the best way to get an agreement. Other highlights of the MacAr thur address included: 1. A charge that he (Mac Arthur) had "unquestionably wrecked" a secret plan to let Formosa fall to the Communists and nermit Red China to enter the United Nations. 2. A charge that there has been i a "startling and dangerous shift" in basic U. S. military policy ' whii h forces the armed forces to I "soften our blows and send men into battle with neither promise ; nor hope of victory.'1 NEW SAFETY AIDE SALEM VP) Harold Snm- i erfeld, formerly employed by Cal- i ifornia's division of industrial L evity F net R ant By L. P. Reizenstein Jitters over Russia's incrtas inej miliStry strenqth change th initialed designation tjj America to U.VA-Urt. i commanded the (Americai expe I ditionary force'i balloon corps. .-. v Sunrise tomvt-ow, 4:30 a.m. monthly. J (Jouver, B.C., and Maurice Newland. (Paul Jenkins pcture.) tii '..) (j& 1 ?