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U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon KUWl 0 ML mm 4" - GRAND EXALTED RULER of the national Ellct lodge, Howard R. Davis, It shown above speaking Into the microphone shortly after his arrival in Roseburg Tuesday. Standing at his left is Ira B. Rid dle, last surviving charter member within the jurisdiction of Rose burg lodge, 326. Exalted ruler of the -local chapter, Edwin C. Nolte, stands at right. This was the first visit to the local lodge by a grand exalted ruler since its institution in 1896. Devis was later honored at a banquet In the Elks club ballroom, followed by a special business meeting. This morning, Davis visited the Vet erans hospital. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) Elks Of Southern Oregon Greet Grand Exalted Ruler On His Visit To Roseburg Howard R. Davis, grand exalted ruler of the Elks lodge, ended his stay in Roseburg this morning after visit ing the Veterans hospital. While at the hospital, Davis was presented a myrtle wood gavel, made by the patients, in appreciation of the assistance rendered the hospital by the Elks. Accompanying the grand exalted ruler during the tour of the hospital were Edwin C. Nolte, exalted ruler of the local chapter; Fuller Johnson, state chairman of the veterans service commission; Dr. Alton E. Dalros, leading kinght; Walter Dlrich, chairman for the state Elks association, and Harold Barbor, veterans chairman for lodge 326. jlka Will Be Available tor Nomination Norblad ' WASHINGTON OH The North Atlantic defense program has progressed to the point where, Rep. Norblad (R-Ore) says, Gen eral Dwight D. Eisenhower will be available for a presidential nomi nation. The congressman has just re turned from an inspection of Eu ropean and North African defenses by the house armed services com mittee of which he is a member. He told a reporter that the committee conferred with Eisen hower and his aides for some time, but did not. discuss politics. In the Day's News i By FRANK JENKINS A few days back Col, James Hanley, head of the U. S. Eighth army war crimes section, reported that since the Korean war began about 13,000 United Nations and South Korean soldiers have been SLAUGHTERED by the reds after being taken prisoner. Of these, he added, about 5500 were Americans. Yesterday the reds went into ac tion. Broadcasting from Peiping (China) and Pyongyang (North Ko rea) they accused United Na tions forces of killing or fatally starving 17,000 North Korean and hinese prisoners of war and of (hipping out 1000 more for use in jptomic tests. Why . this weird comeback b y the reds? Are they just children "sassing back" at our side? I don't think so. They are COM MUNISTS. Communists are past masters of the art of propaganda. As such, they now that if they (Continued on Page 4) Price Increase Order Given Hot Dogs, Bologna, Sausage; Beer Next In Line For Hike . WASHINGTON (AP) The prices of "hot dogs," bologn.-i and some pork sausage will go up somewhere around two cents a pound, effective Monday, under new rules issued by the Office of Price Stabilization. OPS said new rules governing! Seinf,.'rr1, 'S?.?'1"' T I mit the Pri f for home con 2 I ,b vL7i.,h 1 logS sumption to advance about a cent revised to pass on to processors nigncr material costs. An announcement said the in- cease will compensate processors for a hike in the permissible price for beef at wholesale which it or dered in mid-September. fork sausage packed in sheep j IT casings also is covered by the order, reflecting what OPS said re Higher costs for the casings. Officials estimated the incease in both cases will average about (wo cents a pound at retail shops. Bttr To Cost Mere Meanwhile, OPS was at work on another order which will per- ..... "w I II "V "VX I x V "xr vxr V "V X I Davis will visit the Eugene lodge this afternoon, and will attend a special Elks meeting in Corvallis tonight.- He .will be accompanied by John Lonigan, past grand ex alted ruler, and Frank Hise, a member of the grand lodge, while on tour of Oregon. He arrived in Roseburg at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon and was greeted by a delegation from the local chapter. Davis was escorted to the Umpqua hotel before being honored at a banquet in the Elks club ballroom Tuesday night. This was the first visitation by a grand exalted ruler since insti tution of the local lodge in 1896. Delegations from Klamath Falls, Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass and Coos Bay attended the cere monies in the Elks temple. Following a banquet in the Terrace ballroom, where the grand exalted ruler underwent initiation ceremonies by Roseburg's Paul Bunyans and the Grants Pass Cavemen, a special session of the Roseburg lodge was convened. Visiting representatives of the grand lodge were introduced, to gether with officers of the state association and officers and mem bers of visiting lodges at Eugene, Coos Bay and Grants Pass. The grand exalted ruler was in troduced by Past Grand Exalted Ruler Frank Lonergan, Portland. Mr. Davis reported on the growth of the order, the current program and activities, stressing the continuing fight against com munism and expressing confidence in success of the Elks blood bank for the armed forces. Pltdgts Eye Clinic Aid He was presented by the Rose burg lodge with a $100 gift cer tificate, which he pledged to the Oregon Eye clinic, supported by the state association. Among the distinguished visitors present, in addition to Davis and Lonergan were Douglas Mullar key, Burns, deputy grand exalted ruler for Oregon south; Kirby S. (Continued on Page 2) a bottle. Officials are aiming for a target date of Dec. 1, but the order may be delayed somewhat beyond that date. Increased labor and packaging costs were said by officials to be the reason for the forthcoming or der, which will affect the nation's 350 breweries. 8.000 wholesalers and more than 250,000 beer retail ers. The actual price increase mav be less than one cent. But counted with the recent tax boost of three- tenths on a standard bottle or can, it will permit retailers to charge a full penny more. htoMitswd 1173 Truman Accuses Foes Of Losses Of U.S: In Korean Y jr Pass 100,000 Casualties Of Enemy Put At Nearly 1,500,000 In 16 Months Of Combat WASHINGTON I An nounced U. S. battle casualties in Korea reached 100,176 today. The Defense department's weekly summary, reporting an in crease of 950 since last week, sent the total over the 100,000 mark. By comparison. U. S. combat cas ualties in the first year of this country's participation in World War II were 59.000. Of the 950 new battle casualties reported today, 150 were killed out right in action; 762 were wounded, and 38 are missing. On Nov. 9 the army estimated total enemy casualties in Korea through Oct. 3. at 1,442,844. The summary aaid the latest to tal of United Nations casualties was 313.711. American families have been told of some 22,000 casualties among their men since Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway first offered to talk about an armistice on June 30. ' About seven out of every ten American battle losses have been suffered since the Chinese Reds poured across the Manchurian bor der into the then virtually-won Ko rean battlefield a little more than one year ago. What Comparisons Show ' For the army and the navy, the Korean conflict has been the fourth costliest in U.S. history, ranking in human casualties after World War II, the Civil War and the First World War. Current Korean marine corps losses of over 18,000 make this un declared war more costly in killed and wounded than all the wars. campaigns and expeditions which the Leathernecks fought from the Revolution until the start of World War II. . The records show that propor tionately fewer Americans have been reported missing in Korea than during World War II. The ratio of those killed and dead of wounds likewise is lower than it was during the last war. About 12.5 percent of the total U. S. cas ualties in Korea fall in the missing column. In World War II, the per centage was 18.5. About 17 out of every 100 Amer icans who have appeared on Ko rean casualty lists were killed in action or died of their wounds. In World War II, which lasted nearly four years, the ratio was 21 out of every 100. In 16 months of fighting in Ko rea, American combat losses have exceeded the 59,000 suffered from Pearl Harbor day through the end of 1942 in the last conflict. It was not until well into 1943 that U. S. casualty totals in World War II reached the 100,000 mark. The total for that year, which saw bitter fighting in the south west Pacific, in North Africa and at other spots around the world, was 91,000. Broadcast Set Toniaht In Civil Defense Series The seventh broadcast in the weeti'y Civil Defense series on sta tion KRXL tonight at 7:45 features State Civil Defense Director Jack Hayes. Transcribing, Hayes calls Doug las county one of the best organ ized in the state. He goes on to explain the designation of teams for medical, welfare and rescue purposes which has been set up by the state organization for Douglas county. He directs his most emphatic re marks to the results achieved in a combined city, county and state meeting held at the courthouse Tuesday afternoon. West's Turkey Marketing Far Ahead Of Schedule PORTLAND (IP Marketing of this year's turkey crop in four western stales is far ahead of schedule, the Pacific Dairy and Poultry association reported. Estimates from Oregon, Wash ington. Utah and California turkey growers groups indicate that 60 to 75 percent of the trop will be mar figure at 65 percent. C. W. Norton, president of the Northwest Poultry and Dairy Prod ucts company, Portland, placed the fgirue at 65 percent. The Weather Partly cloudy with morning fog today and Thursday. Highest temp, for any Nov. 74 Lowest temp, for any Nov 14 Highest temp, yesterday 55 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 41 Precip. last 24 hours ..01 Prarifl Ir.m U.- t j Precip. from Sept. 1 L Li e.24 " .... 2.31 I Sunset today, 4:44 p. m. I Sunrise tomorrow, 7:1$ a. m. ROSEIURC. Kiwanians Name Staff Of Officers For Coming Year N. O. JOHNSON N. D. "Nat" Johnson Tuesday was elected president of the Rose burg Kiwanis club for the coming year. Johnson, who has served as first vice-president during the current year, will succeed J. E. Slattery. Other new officers, who will take their respective posts after Jan. 1., include George Neuner, first vice - president; George Luoma, second vice - president; Gordon Stewart, treasurer, and Bob Bash ford, Ray Sims, Dr. Byron Wood ruff, Robert G. Davis, Ray Puckett, Earl Plummer, George Erickson and Harold Schmeer, di rectors. There was a tie vote for one of the director positions. Horace Berg, who will take of fice as lieutenant governor for the southern Oregon district after the first of the year, reported on . district governors' conference he attended in Portland last week. The program for the day con sisted of a motion picture, "Trout," filmed by the Oregon State Game commission. The film, shown by Calvin Baird, portrayed the activities of the commission's hatchery program in fish propa gation and planting of streams. U.S. Plane Target Of Balkan Guards BELGRADE, Yugoslavia MW Hungary and Romania complained officially today that a United States army cargo plane still missing after being fired on by the satel lite border guards Monday crossed over their territories il legally. Notes were presented to the American missions in Budapest and Bucharest, even as U. S. planes prepared to search over Yu goslavia for the missing C-47 trans port, whieh disappeared Monday with four crewmen and diploma tic cargo aboard. The two cominform countries maintain a tight control all along their borders with Yugoslavia. The notes were presented after American inquiries were made con cerning the whereabouts of the plane, whose pilot had radioed his base at Munich Monday afternoon that he had been fired upon by the border patrols of the two countries and had turned back westward. The pilot's reports, as dis closed by the U. S. embassy in Belgrade, did not mention any damage from the shooting. PLANE CRASH KILLS It NEW DELHI, India (IV) Six teen persons died today in t h e crash of an Indian airliner at Cal cutta's airport. The 17th person aboard was reported in a serious condition. OIL QUEST WILL 0l Douglas Developers Plan To Obtain Fresh Leases For Orderly Exploration Oil Developers, Inc., a Douglas county organization which has undertaken exploration for oil in Douglas county, will continue leasing and development, it was announced today by H. V. Sullivan, president.. The announcement fol lows a policy meeting with the board of directors. Oil Developers will endeavor to . procure leases on all lands which might justify exploration and will serve- in effect- as a planning com mission with the purpose of as suring orderly eexploration, protec tion from unscrupulous promo tions, and assuring production in the event of oil discovery, Sullivan reports. The corporation is composed al most exclusively of Douglas county investor who financed drilling at Coles Valley. The test well has been sold to Union Oil company under a contract protect- I ing the interests of land owners, I OREGON WEDN ESD AY, NOV. Civil Defense Differences Smoothed Out Charge Of County Laxity Draws Vow Of Better Cooperation From State ' Verbal sparks flew at a com bined civil defense meeting in the courthouse Tuesday afternoon, but as a result of the friction state, county and local problems were placed on a more amicable foot ing. The meeting was called at the behest of state Civil Defense Di rector Jack Hayes for the purpose of determining the practicability of tentative assignments for organi zation of defense teams. He was accompanied by Dr. Robert Hul man and Frank Wetherell, medical representatives, and Tom Brubeck, public information director. It was determined that Douglas county's assignments of teams not only could be fulfilled, but in most cases were already in working or der. General J. T. Pierce, county director, and Sheriff O. T. Carter, deputy county director, both agreed most of the present assign ments could be fulfilled by pres ent personnel. This same idea was reflected by Colonel M. Crawford for assignments on the local Rose burg level. Enthusiasm Said Lost However, Gen. Pierce questioned the practicability of organizing the huge 820-person mobile teams on other than the key personnel level. He said in this comparatively un stable population, personnel lists cannot be kept current on the lower echelons. Continuing, Pierce reported that because of lack of leadership on the state and national level in the civil defense setup, "We have lost our enthusiasm. There is no stimulus." j ' He criticized the stale organiza tion for not heeding what he called "first things first." Enumerations'! included the lack of Information on emergency routes to a possible disaster, on the necessity of ration ing and on assembly points after disasters. Alluding to the numerical nature of the assignments, Pierce said these immediate facts are more important than finding out "how many knives, forks and spoons we have." Going further on the matter of assignments, Pierce . said placing numerical values on teams and per sonnel has tended to cause people to limit their civil "defense activ ities rather than increase them. In stead of making the state-tendered assignment goals a minimum. Pierce said, communities have tended to make them a maximum. More Cooperation Offered Recognizing the causes of these problems, Hayes stated his case and offered more complete and direct cooperation in the future. He said the state was in a similar po sition of being ahead of the na tion in the formulation of a plan and attention to training. The state is unquestionably behind many of the counties, but "we are gradually catching up," he said. "We are very soon going to be in a position (Continued on Page 2) Increased Taxes Paid By Telephone Company The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company this week paid its 1951-52 real and personal property operating taxes in Douglas county totaling $146,385.43. The company's total operating property tax payments this year in the 31 of Oregon's 36 counties in which it operates was approx imately $2,780,000, after discount, an increase of better than $171,000 over last year's total payment. EXPAND the inveeslors and the commu nity, said Sullivan. Union Oil has promised thorough exploration. Te Guard Against Fleecing "Should the Coles Valley well prove productive, or should fa vorable indications be found, much excitement will be created." said Sullivan. "Various legitimate con cerns will enter the field but we also will have many unscrupulous promoters intent on fleeclne the i public. " ' "it purpose of Oil Develop- (Continued on Page 2) 21, H51 lies And Record Fund Will Back GOP Ticket In '52, President Says; Senator Taft Volleys In Reply By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) President Trtiman, in a speech reminiscent of his 1948 "give 'em hell" style, de clared here that the Democrats won't take lyinfr down the "lies and smears" he said he anticipates from Republicans and "special interests" in the 1952 presidential campaign. Mr. Truman told an audience of party members here he thinks more money will be spent "in trying to defeat the Democratic party next year than has ever before been spent in any election in the history of the country." This brought from Republicans "corruption" charges. Mr. Tru man did not mention in his speech any of the charges of wrongdoing which have been alleged against his administration. His declaration that "the truth and the facts are on our side" brought a retort from Senator Rob ert A. Taft (R-Ohio) that "Presi dent Truman should certainly get the prise for political effrontery" for his speech. Guy G. Gabrielson, chairman of the Republican national commit tee, said Mr. Truman had "a flash of realism" when he said "a mis take in a presidential election can cause the country untold harm." "The reminder isn't necessary for millions of Americans," Gab rielson said. "They are disgusted and alarmed at high taxes, high prices, corruption, crises and war of his incompetent administration. They won't make the mistake again." Without naming the senator, Mr. Truman singled out Taft with the assertion that "special interests" had poured money into Ohio last year to reelect the Republican. Taft Volleys Back Taft, an avowed candidate for his party's presidential nomlna tion. said in a statement in Cm- cinnatl that "it is the Truman party which is the beneficiary of the money of special interests ana of millions of dollars of the tax payers' money used for political propaganda, . ." "The head nf an administration which has condoned communism immorality and corruption and does not even bother to deny the proven charges, talks of the great moral position of his administra tion in the world," Taft continued. "He talks of a bipartisan foreign policy, although he was the man who plunged the country into the Korean war without consulting either the Republicans or Con gress." Taft said the CIO and AFL had undertaken to raise $30,000,000 from union members "to purge all Republicans from Congress." He said Republicans legitimately spent money to meet this attack, adding: "If Mr. Truman can ever receive 70,000 completely voluntary and un solicited contributions of $1 each, as I did in 1950, his talk about special interests would not ring so false." Truman Outlines Campaign Mr. Truman, who planned to re turn to Key West, Kla., to resume his interrupted vacation, outlined for his party at a banquet of the National Women's Democratic club Tuesday night the kind of a campaign he said it must make next year. He pictured it as a slugging bat tle against well-heeled Republicans who could be expected to put on a "dirty smear campaign." The President forecast a Repub lican attempt to buy the presidency with excessive campaign spend in?, asserted that "misrepresenta tion can be expected to reach new heights" and said that if the GOP chooses to make foreign policy an issue it will be "overwhelmingly repudiated by the people." The President left up In the air the question whether he will run again. But he seemed to in dicate that if he dnein't, he fully expects to have the determining voice in naming the Democratic nominee. JETS COLLIDE: PILOT DIES HAYWARD, Calif. (IP) h Gresham, Ore., man only recently returned from Korean duty, was the surviving pilot of one of two jet planes that collided Tuesday over the east bay here. He is I,t. (jg) Duane A. Tarpen ning. Pilot of the other plane. Gene O. Sanford, 22, San Jose, Calif., was Killed. LtM vftjpe: Nov. 22 , KiMaaaiHMHpai 245 51 Smears' Union Service Of Thanksgiving Dated Thursday REV. WILLIS ERICKSON ' The 'annual union Thanksgiving service, sponsored by the Roseburg Ministerial association, will be held in the First Baptist church, corner of Rose and Lane streets Thursday, Nov. 22, at 10 a.m. The Rev. Willis Erickson of the Faith Lutheran church will deliver the message, "The Brimming Cup." Dr. Edgar Luther of the Conser vative Baptist church will lead the congregation in the responsive reading and Rev. Clarence An derson will offer the prayer of Thanksgiving. The order of service is as fol lows: Organ prelude; congrega tional hymn, "For The Beauty of the Earth"; responsive reading by Dr. Edgar Luhcr; prayer by the Rev. Clarence Anderson; anthem "Now Thank We All Our God" sung the choir of the First Bap list church. . Announcements will follow; of fering; offertory hymns, "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" and "We Gather Together"; solo by Mrs. Maurice Bidwell, "Thanks Be To God"; scripture; Thanksgiv ing message, "The Brimming Cup", The Rev. Willis Erickson; prayer; response; doxolngy; bene diction and organ postludc. The services are open to the public. Luoma Will Talk On Needs Of City George Luoma, president of the Roseburg chamber of commerce, will go on the air tonight at 9:30 over radio station KRXL in a talk on community welfare. Luoma will speak in respect to what the future holds for this com munity and problems that must be solved at once to assure community-wide stabilization and pros perity in the future. This is one of a series of such broadcasts being held over local radio stations to acquaint the pub lic with the chamber and its aims and activities. The current week is being given over to a compre hensive membership drive. Past presidents spoke Monday night over KRNR. They discussed what the chamber nf commerce means to them and also the needs of the community, stressing es pecially the urgency of forest ac cess 'roads. v:; i,r 1 I lint" '1 11Y -""lai 111 1 ii al Merger With Roseburg Aim Of Proposal Petitions From Twelve Involved Districts Ask Eoch Unit For Decision Dec. 14 has been set an the data for election in the proposed con solidation of Roseburg district 4 with 11 nearby school districts. The last consolidation petition -having been received, the district boundary boards met Tuesday to set the time and places for voting, Kenneth F. Barneburg, county school superintendent, announced. The Roseburg district has been divided into three precincta. Vot- . ing will be held from 2 to g p.m. at the Junior high school, the Sen ior high school and the Riverside, elementary school. In the remain- . ing 11 districts, polling will be held at 8 p.m. at the elementary school in each district. Districts from which eonsolida. tion petitions have been received besides Roseburg are Wilbur, Green, Tenmile, Lookingglass, Roberts Creek, Garden Valley, Umpqua, Melrose, Winchester, Dil lard and Riversdale. Camas Val ley is definitely excluded, Barne burg aaid. The filing of the petitions does not necessarily connote aDDroval of the merger, the school official commented. It means the districts have considered the proposal im portant enough to be put up for election. Iffy" Phases Explained Each district will vote as an individual unit. If all districts vote for the proposed merger, they will automatically oe consolidated, Bar neburg said. Any districts that turn down the firoposal will not be part of the arger district. In that event, those voting affirmatively will bo given a chance to file remonstrances, which permit reconsideration in the light of the tinal outcome. i& uiq luiiauiiuatiuii la iijiiivicu, the present Roseburg school board would become the governing body of the larger district However, boards of outlying districts would Serve in an advisory capacity, Bar neburg said. In the spring school elections, a member-at-large would be selected from any of the areai that will have been consolidated. To vote In the election, a person must be a registered voter within a precinct within the school dis trict in which he resides for at least 30 days prior to the election. In addition, he must have been a resident of the school; district for a six-month continiioul period." Polling Places Designated Owing to the increased number of voters at school elections the board of directors of school dis trict No. 4, Roseburg, has estab (Continued on Page 2) Old Toys Being Gathered, Fixed For Needy Kids Three years ago, 175 old and broken toys were collected in Rose burg and repaired to make Christ mas gifts for underprivileged and crippled children. Today around 5,000 toys are being repaired and handled through Ted Travis, spon sored by the Eagles and the Eagles auxiliary, for the same purpose. . The expansion of this project has become too much for the few who have accepted tho responsibility and outside help Is now needed. Travis, who recently was chosen "All-American Neighbor" on the Rex Allen radio program in Holly wood, has made an appeal to the nation for toys. He stressed the point that regardless how useless the toy may look or how old it is, parts can be salvaged if only to repair other toys. The outside help that Travis re ferred to is that of sororities, wom en's clubs and other organizations that would be willing to give time to help. Dolls need to be clothed and Travis would like for each or ganization to be responsible for attiring at least one doll. Th se intertstcd may dial 3-8087 for fur ther information. The toys collected will be sent to Oakland, Sutherlin, Roseburg Riddle, Myrtle Creek, Camas Val ley and all other areas between. They will go to hospitals and to the homes of underprivileged chil dren as well as those who are crippled. A quota of 2,000 children has been set to receive gifts. Toys are still needed and Travla will accept them at any time. They may be taken to the Donut Bar, 311 West Cass street. Explosion Of Oil Stove Causes Damage To Home An oil stove exploded in a house owned by Mrs. R. R. Wood, 820 Houck St., Tuesday morning and caused damages estimated at $150, reports Fire Chief William E. Mills. The blaze had been extinguished when firemen arrived, but a small portion of the floor had been burned and the stove was de stroyed. There was also consider able smoke damage, Mills said. L evity F act R ant By L. F. Relzenstein Be thankfui today that ye old town hall, Oregon's grand old architectural antique), still standi majestically despite all eondemnatlon-"sllqhHy dis figured but still in the rise,."
