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U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon COh? Eisenhower Says He's Republican, Witting To Accept GOP Nomination By JACK BELL and MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed himself a Republican Monday and made it clear he would accept that party's presidential nomination if It is offered. But he said he won't actively seek it. In a Paris statement, the 61-year-old general swept away much of the fog of uncertainty that has swirled for the past five years about his place in the picture of presidential possibilities. His statement was prompted by the' week-end move from Sen. Lodge (R.- Mass.) who announced that Eisenhower's name would be entered in the March 11 New Hampshire presidential- primary, and that there would be a "finish light" to win the GOP nomination for the general. Won't Atk To Bt Rtlitvtd Eisenhower, who has been talked as both a Democratic and a Repub lican presidential possibility, made these main points in his statement: He said Lodge was correct in calling him a Republican. He has no intention of asking that he be relieved of his present as He recognizes the right of others to engage m an attempt 'to place before me next July (when the Republican Convention meets) a duty that would transcent my pres ent responsibility." Republicans Cheered Eisenhower's statement tremen dously cheered Republicans who have been working for his nom ination and have felt themselves handicapped by the general'i long silence. Some of them were getting rest ive under the feeling that uncer tainty as to Eisenhower's position bidding for support from conven tion delegates. The "go ahead" which Eisenhow er in effect gave his backers today will let them press their campaign for him with more assurance. Two other candidates 'also are formally in the race Gov. Earl Warren of California and Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania and former gov ernor of Minnesota. Democrats Upset Another practical effect of the statement was to pull the rug from under those Democrats who have been beating the drums for the nomination of Eisenhower by their party. One New Hampshire group had Elanned to enter Ike's name in the lemocratic primary. At the White House, aides said President Truman had no com ment on the general's statement. Eisenhower already has the sup port of Gov. Thomas K. Dewey of New York, the 1948 Republican standard bearer. The general also has the editorial support of sev eral newspapers among them the New York Times, the New York Herald 'Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times and the Providence (R.I.) Journal. Eisenhower's statement was read to reporters at the supreme Allied headquarters by Brig. Gen. Charles T. Lanham, chief of SHAPE'! pub lice information division. Lanham said Eisenhower does not intend to say anything further. He added that Gen. Eisenhower "hopes that this statement will demonstrate his concern, as an American citizen, in problems that the American people must solve. He hopes also that it will con vince our citizens and those of the other NATO countries that he views with the utmost seriousness the responsibilities of the post to which he ia presently assigned." I SALEM I Oregon's Eisen hower for President Committee will meet here Tuesday morning tp decide when to file the peti tions to place the general's name on the Hale's Republican presi dential primary ballot, W. L. Phil lips, Salem, committee chairman, said Monday. Marx Hatfield, dean of students at Willamette University who start ed the move to make General Eisenhower a Republican presi dential candidate in Oregon, said he got more than the 1,000 re quired signatures several weeka ago. General Eisenhower already Is entered as a Democratic candidate in the May 16 Oregon primary. These petitions were sponsored by State Sen. Thomas- R. Mahoney, Portland Democrat. Oregon's election law says a presidential candidate must be a member of the party in which he is a candidate. However, the State Elections Bureau is accepting Eisenhower's candidacy in both parties. In Oregon, the candidate can't prevent his name from being filed. Hatfield said he thinks the peti tions will be filed in about 30 days, as he would like time to get sig natures from each of the 34 counties. He said, however, the final de cision would be made at Tuesday' meeting. signment as leader of the European defense forces. He will not take part in pre I convention activities of those i seeking the nomination for him. was letting Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, first to announce as a can didate, get off to a long lead in WHO DOES WHAT EARL BRIDGESS. counter man motive accessory house on North Stephens street, takes an , Russian.buiit Mig.15 jets and dam order for an oil filter over the phone. He has been dealing 8spd 12 in two davs of renewed information ond fillina orders there for nearly four years. Mor-, ried and with three children, East Douglas street. CONGRESS MEETS TUESDAY Legislation May Weigh Heavily On Presidential Election Next November WASHINGTON (AP) The 82nd Congress starts its election-year session Tuesday, with politics likely to weigh heavily in all major actions. The ;iext six months are expected to bring forth de cisions, oie way or the other, on such major matters as universal military training, foreign military and economic niH. economic controls at home, and defense spending. Football Player Dies In Snowslide Trap GARDINER, Mont. ( Don Morris, about 22, of Fort Benton, a member of the Montana State College football team, was killed late Sunday when he was trapped hv a snnwslide near the ton of a mountain about two and one-half i miles southwest 01 corwin noi Springs. . ... The young athlete was hunting in the area with two companions, Tom Parac and Holgrim Hollo. Bolh are members of Bobcat ath letic teams. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Truman announcing a sweeping shakeup in the bureau 1 of internal revenue says: "Some persons in the bureau ot internal revenue have betrayed ae I public trust reposed in them. The revelation of that fact has come as a shock to all decent citizens. 1 have directed that every effort he made lo expose and punish such persons, wherever they may be found." Then he adds: ; "WHOEVER, my administration: was wise to the wrongdoers and ! would have ousted them even if j there had been no congressional 1 investig tion." j i You know, 1 think that's exactly (he answer I'd have been tempted to make in similar circumsiances. Id know it wasn't a competent and strvtly truthful statement, but lif I were a politician) I'd HOPE it would fool a lot of people. President Lincoln covered this business of fooling the people about as effectively as it has ever been (Continued on Page 4) The Weather Moitiv riiu.Hv with idiiimii rain mixed with snow today. Shew-' ers tonight and Tuesday. I Cross postal receipts of the Roseburg Post Office in (he cal Highist temp, for any Jan 77 endar year 1951 were $190,321, re Lowest temp, for any Jan -a ports Postmaster L. L. Wimberly. Highest ttmp. yesterday 40 D Lowest temp, last 24 hours . Prtcip. last 24 hours Precip. from Jan. 1 Excess - Prtcip. from Sept. 1 Sunset today, 4:54 p.m. Sunriia tomorrow, 7:45 a.m " .10 1.10 4.49 21.71 at Specialized Parts, big auto- Eorl and his family live at 408 1 1 Leaders are hopeful the session can wind up in time for the July political conventions so members can go home afterward for the fall campaigns. All House seals will be at stake in the November voting. So will 32 Senate seals, as well as the Presidency and the vice-Presidency. Truman Program Forecast President Truman will blueprint his legislative program in his Slate of the Union message Wednesday. The President is expected lo re new his request for civil rights legislation, compulsory health in surance, and tougher wage, price and rent controls. He may ask for more taxes. Investigations, providing heavy ammunition for political cam paigns, will constitute a major leg islative activity. Committee prob ers will delve into charges of graft in high places, scandals in tax law enforcement, wasle of public money ana and to'LMi.e.rirJd? nave provi(i(K Republicans with campaign slogans dealing with mjnk toals and non)e frc(.zcrs (0 toss at the Democratic administra- tion. Oregon Man Among Killed In Air Crash FAIRBANKS, Alaska I All four men aboard a Transocean Air Lines transport which crashed on Chena Dome were killed in the crash, the Tenth Rescue Squad- ron reported Saturday. An Air Force helicopter sent to J investigate ite pla landed lane wreckage sighted 1 earner on the Dome and 'discovered the bodies, squadron of- hcers said Aboard the transport when it left Point Barrow Dec. 30 to fly to Fairbanks were the pilot, Robert Warren of Fairbai.ks, the co-pilot, Richard Erwin of Oakland. Calif., and two passengers, Joe Weiler of Nyssa, Ore., and Dick Cross of Fairbanks. Roseburg's Postal ReeeiDts Increase The total receipts represents a lfi RJIQ innrfacA m-or the nrovimic year, or a percentage gain of 9.7. In December. 62.000 outgoing letters were canceled for a new record. The previous peak was exceeded ny 4.0TO letters. I Ten years ago the gross postal receipts were $51,270. EstoMMwd 1873 Yank Planes 19 Ms in 2 Enemy Arteries Also Heavily Cut U.N. Infantry Hurls Back 2 Red Assaults; No Peace Progress By William C. Barnard L,sli0Hh' JJ"? V furious air fighting high over Northwest Korea. and damaged two on Monday. The day before, U S. planes blasted five of the Red Jets to eartn ana scored hits on 10. U. S. losses, if any, were not reported. Under a new policy the U, S. Air Force will announce any losses only once a week. . . .. Allied ground forces on the West ern front fought fiercely in sub freezing weather toward a prize outpost lost to the Reds Dec. 28. Army Scores Gains United Nations infanlrymen made slight gains against stubborn Chinese resistance early Monday after hurling back two Red thrusts Sunday. The oulpost is west of Korangpo and only about six miles from Panmunjom site of the dead locked armistice talks. At sea. Allied warships main tained their tight blockade of both the East and West Korean coasts. Carrier planes hammered com munist coastal supply routes and cut east-west rail routes in 109 places. Rail Arteries Cut Land-based Fifth Air Force bombers made 96 cuts in main rail ' arteries in Northwestern Korea Monday. They destroyed two locomotives. The U. S. Navy announced Sun day that its ships and planes in 1951 destroyed or damaged 7,028 railway cars or locomotives, 4,519 Communist motor vehicles, 2,379 bridges and cut rail lines 4,674 times. MUNSAN, Korea I The United Nations' chief truce nego tiator said Monday there are grow ing indications that the Commu nists do not want a stable armis tice in Korea. The report from Panmunjom was the now familiar "no pro gress." If the Communists "are acting in good faith and sincerely want .peace, there can be no reason for them to construct military air fields during the period of an armistice," said Vice Adm. C. Tur ner Joy. He flew to Tokyo for conferences with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme allied com mander. "If, on the other hand, the Com munists are acting in bad faith ana are, in tact, preparing tor war, the construction of military airfields becomes, and is, a mat ter of great urgency to them, ' Joy added. Communist delegates again re- i jected a six-point allied plan lor exchanging prisoners of war and civilians Bank Robbery Effort At Union Fizzles UNION. Ore. Ifl The FBI Monday investigated Ihe attempted burglary of a First National Bank branch here. A janitor, discovered the break in early Sunday. The thieves had used an acety lene torch lo cut a hole through Ihe first door of the main vault. They were unable to burn through the second door and apparently left empty-handed, FBI agents in Portland said. Bank officials said llh,r.e ' '' $15,000 in the ! vaul'- I Police speculated the burglars I may nave taieen ine acetylene nearoy names wnere a Saturday night hardware store 1 burjlary waa reported. ROSHURS. ORECON MONDAY, JANUARY 7, R. W. Bellows In Coroner Race Robert W. Bellows has entered the race for county coroner. He is the second man to file for nomination on the Repub lican ticket in the May 16 primar ies. The other is L. L. "Jim" Towers, who filed his nomination Thursday. Bellows has been deputy coro ner in Douglas county for a year and a half. Prior to that, he studied pre-medicine at the Uni versity of Oregon. For the last several years he has been in business with his father. Roy E. Bellows, who oper ates Roy's Men's Store. His campaign platform will be "Conscientious, experience, with out personal gain." Negro Housing At Eugene Stirs Controversy EUGENE 11 ' A formefprtsl dent of the Eugene Realty Board said the group was not responsi ble for moving negroes into inade quate housing in the Eugene area. M. S. Christianson. board presi dent in 1949, said Saturday that the board "sympathizes with the plight ' of the negroes. Christianson s remarks were made in reply to Edwin C. Berry executive secretary of the Port land Urban League. Berry was quoted as telling the Slate Fair employment Practices that Eu gene realtors in 1949 had made a "deal" to move several negro families from the Ferry Street Bridge area into swamplands out' side the city. "If there was a deal, it was not made by the realty board Christianson said. "We urged help and some kind of citizens' com mittee was formed but action was not decisive." Berry said the shacks where the negroes now are living have no sanitary facilities and water must be carried half a mile. Pleven Cabinet Of France Down PARIS I Premier Rene Plev en's five month old Cabinet col lapsed Monday niht. The French National Assembly ousted the Coalition government after hearing a final plea from Pleven for a freer hand to deal with the economic situation in this hard-pinched country. The defeat came on his demand for power to cut the 140 billion franc (400 million dollar) deficit of the nationalized railway sys tem. The Socialists, which have sup ported the Cabinet on most issues, broke away on this one. Many of the railway workers are Socialists and the party leadership fears economies on the roads would result in large scale firings. Sen. Kefauver's Name To Go In Ohio Primary WASHINGTON I Rep. Hays (D.-Ohio) announced Monday a complete slate of delegates will be entered in- the Ohio Democratic primaries for Sen. Esles Kefauver (D-Tenn.) for the Presidential nomination. The announcement was (he first open move to get the ball rolling for the Tennessee senator, who : achieved nation-wide prominence ! during hearings of the Senate crime investigating committee. Kefauver was chairman of the committee. Christmas Celebrated In Russian Churches MOSCOW lifl Christmas was celebrated simple village churches and gwMJ . "L throughout Russia Monday, 13 days ; after Western observances of i 1 Christ's birth. The time la? was due to differences between the old Julian Calendar used here and the I Gregorian Calendar of the West. Smash lays Ex-Marshal Says He Slew Three Men Story Of Ex-Mental Patient, Now Arson Suspect, Stirs Check EVERETT W A former small town marshall'i strange story of having killed three men was being nh.in .mi Hhi.J.h.i,.j day by Snohomish County author ltics in a search for inconsist encies. Sheriff Tom Warnock said Har old G. Chase, 22-year-old ex-mar-shall of Darrington, had told the story three times without any im portant variations. One of the deaths involved a patient at the Northern State Hos pital at Sedro Woollcy while Chase was an inmate in-that mental in stitution in 1949. Chase said he strangled the pat ient and made it look like a sui cide. He also said he strangled Dr. Russel R. Bradley, 50-year old Everett optometrist, Dec. 12, 1950. It was listed as a heart clot death. Chase said he killed the third man, named only as "Joe," at San Francisco last fall and threw the body over a bluff into the ocean. San Francisco authorities said their records fail to reveal any cases of missing persons or recovered bodies which tally with the story. Anon Charge Faced Chase's bizarre story came after ha failed in an escape attempt at the Snohomish County jail. He is in jail on an arson charge. He was convicted of arson in 194S and was given a 10-year suspend ed sentence. He was committed later to the Stale Hospital for ob servation and treatment. He be came town marshal at Darrington later, but was arrested in Califor nia late in 1951 in connection wiln $40,000 fire at Darrington. War nock said he had confessed to set ting the fire, after which he turned in the alarm and helped fight the blaze. Snohomish County authorities prepared to exhume the body of Dr. Bradley, the Everett optome trist, to perform an autopsy. Warnock quoted Chase as saying he took $538 from Dr. Bradley aft er they had driven together from 1 Lverett bar. The hospital patient named by Chase was Leonard M. Lewis, 50. Chase said he strangled Lewis, then hanged him with a sheet from . bed to make the case appear to be a suicide. The death, in Jnnuary 1949, was listed as a suicide by strangulation. Churchill Talks With Truman On Vital Affairs WASHINGTON 11 President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill opened 1 'detailed survey of world affairs Monday. Inform- anls said the talks began with an inquiry into Western defense problems. Churchill appeared for his first While House visit of his current trip accompanied by Foreign Min ister Anthony Eden and Sir Oliver Franks, British ambassador to the U.S. Some informants said an agenda for the two days of While House conference was agreed upon at a private talk among the two lead ers and their foreign ministers aboard the yacht "Williamsburg" Saturday night. This was described as listing for discussion first a number of mat ters such as organisation of an European army and the structure 1 " . ,, '.: 1 01 the INorth Allanlic Ireaty or- 1 ,he defense of Western Europe. ine groundwork lor the full-dress meetings was laid in a series of get-acquainled-again talks which the President and Prime Minister held Saturday, after Churchill's ar rival here. 1952 Douglas County, Beginning Its 100th Year, Plans Celebration Today marks the bceinninsr of Douglas county's cen tennial year. By act of the Territorial Legislature, Douglas county was created Jan. 7, 1852. . Umpqua county lay to the north, south of Benton and Lane courtics, embracing what is now the northern half of Dougla? county. Umpqua was incorporated into Doug las county in 1863. The area south of Douglas county was organized as Jackson county on the date of Jan. 12, 1852. Douglas county was named for Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, one of the prominent political figures of that day. Elaborate plans are being made for the celebration of the county's centennial during the Labor Day weekend. A local oommittee has been incorporated. Material is be ing gathered for a pageant which will depict the county's history. The News-Review plans to print historical material during the months preceding the celebration and is ap- iii-Hiing id us readers lor cooperation in supplying Infor mation from existing records, together with previously ; - K ZT. 1 u ' ,, A "-' pictures will be used as space unpuuiisp.pci episodes and incidents. A limited number of 1- in uin- uuiaiis appear on fcews-Review. POTATO GROWERS IRKED Price Rollback Branded OPS "Doublecrossing," Act Of ''Discrimination1' By The Associated Press The base price of potatoes in three Pacific Coast states under the new rollback order would be $3.65 for a 100 lb, bait of U.S. No. 1 grade, the District Office of Price Stabili zation in Portland has reported. The price of Idaho pota toes would be $3.85, officials said Saturday. LlJZ b. FACES TRIAL Charged with accepting bribes to influence tax coses, Denis W. Deloney, 55, (above), former collector of internal revenue for Massa chusetts, as he appeared in Boston at start of his trial. In dictments accuse Delaney of accepting $12,500 and with falsely certifying tax liens of $180,000. He is the first tax official of his rank to stand trial in a nation-wide investi nnt'mn nf inlprnnl rpvenue He. I arfmen, (AP Wirephoto) y r Apartment Fire Kills 7 Persons WESTFIEI.D, Mass. Ifl At least seven persons perished in a $1,000,000 five story apartment business block fire Sunday night. Firemen slill poured water into Ihe smouldering ruins more than 12 hours after the blaze, punc tuated by three distinct explosions, remained after Ihe enlire five floors collapsed Into the basement of the building in a tangled mass wreckage, EXAMINER SCHEDULED A drivers license examiner will he in Roseburg Thursday and Friday, Jan. 10 and 11, at M3 N. Main St. between 9 a.m. and S p m. Persons wishing licenses are asked to contact Ihe examiner early lo insure completion of their 1 port. He is being held in the applications with a minimum of 1 Douglas county jail pending ar delay, , raignment. 5-52 ' permits. pages 3 and 4 of today s Ben Davidson. Redmond, rhnir. man of the Oregon Potato Com mission, branded the new order "discriminatory". He said that under the order a grower would get Just about parity for his product after he bought bags and paid shipping and loading costs. Parity, he said, now is $3.20 for 100 pounds. "It is a gross oversight to pick ou poiaiocs aneaa 01 omer agri cultural commodities," he said. Other potato men also were critical of the new order. Walt Jendrzejewski, Klamath County agent, said the rollback would cut the price of his county1, top quality russets 31 per cent. He said that was unfair. George C. Burger, a Klamath potato shipper, said "the OPS doublecrossed everyone." He said shippers should declare a holiday "until this mess is straightened out." Randall Pone, president of the Klamath Potato Growers Associa tion, said the OPS should establish "realistic ceilings, well above par ity prices." He said the agency had acted against the advice of its own potato advisory committee and over the protests of the entire potato industry. Further Snow, Rain Forecast In Oregon Areas Br The Atiocltttd Prist A new storm front moved into Oregon Monday, bringing more isnow to Portland and Eastern Oregon and rain to most of the rest of Ihe state. The Weather Bureau said Port- land, where some 5 inches of snow already has fallen, might have some rain mixed with the snow Monday, but the forecast of a 30 degree temperature Mondav night will turn any rain to snow and again coat city streets with ice. Klamath Falls in Southern Ore gon had an inch of new snow in the 24 hours ending Monday morn ing and it was snowing in Baker and other eastern Oregon points. The storm brought rain to the coast and the Willamette Valley, where temperatures Monday morn ing were in the low and middle 30s. East of the Cascades tem peratures were generally below freezing. Redmond and Burns reported low of 11 degrees, the lowest in the state. DRUNK DRIVING CHARGED Fred Theodore lxing, Roseburg, was arrested Sunday on a drunk driving charge, slate police re- Bridges' ILU Loses Appeal On Damages Supreme Court Upholds $750,000 Award Under T-H In Alaska Cast WASHINGTON UWThe Supreme Court Monday unanimously upheld a $750,000 Taft-Hartley Act dam age award against Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen'a Un ion. The judgment won by the Jun eau (Alaska) Spruce Corp. was the largest to date and the first to reach the high court. It grew out of a suit charging that Bridges' union damaged the company's business by setting up picket lines and making "coercive" statements during a jurisdictional row between two rival labor or- . ganizations more than two years ago. The firm had a contract with the CIO Woodworkers of America but the longshoremen tried to force the company to give barge loading work to the Bridges men. Bridges' union has been expelled from the CIO on the grounds that its leadership followed the Com munist party line. Bridget' Appeal Pndlng - Bridges himself ia free on hall after his conviction on charges that he lied in denying membership in the Communist party when he ob tained American citizenship. Tha Australian-born labor leader has appealed the conviction, but it has not yet reached the supreme court. in ine Juneau case, Bridges' un ion appealed on the srounds that the Federal District Court in Alas ka should not have accepted the corporation's damaee suit until the National Labor Relations Board de cided ine jurisdictional dispute. Rejecting this argument. Justice Douglas, who wrote the high tri bunal's decision, said there is noth ing in the- Taft-Hartley Law to support, such a claim; !.T "V : V College Students Admits Series Of Burglaries PORTLAND m A 20-year-old former Linfield College student, object of a week-long search last month, has admitted stealing $3450 in night burglaries of Portland homes, police said. The youth, Harold Lawrence, walked into the police station with his pastor Saturday night and turn ed over $2350 which he said was left from the burglaries. Lawrence disappeared three weeks ago. His wrecked car was found on a road near Tigard. When he returned heme his parents said he had run away because he had wrecked the family car. Police said Lawrence told them he had stolen the money in a series of burglaries in the Grunt High district of Portland. He bought a car with $1100 of the money and then hid the rest under the floor of his room at Linfield College, McMinnville, police said he told them. Lawrence said the thefts had preyed on his mind and he had fallen behind in his studies, police reported, He withdrew from school just before Christmas. He was charged with burglary ' and bail was set at $3000. Convicted Oregon Slayer Will Appeal PORTLAND I The first de gree murder conviction of Morris Lcland will be appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court the week of Jan. 23. Leland was accused of holdine teen-ager Thelma Taylor in this St. John Distict overnight and then slaying her. He was convicted in November, 1949, after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. His court-appointed attorney aaid he would appeal the constitutional ily of Oregon's insanity plea law. The attorney, Thomas If. Ryan said that Oregon law requires that a person, pleading insanity, prove he does not know the difference between right and wrong. ROTARY CONCLAVE SET BENI), Ore. Ufi Rotary clubs of Southwestern Washington and Oregon will hold their 1952 conven tion here April 27-29, district of ficials said Saturday. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Relzensteln Our major hope for the new year: That economic develop ments verify the flowery fore casts of "experti" better than the home gordner's crops re semble the pictures in the seed catalogue. , '4