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Tear Gas Bombs, Stones
Hurled In Battles With
Thousands Of Policemen
TOKYO, Friday. Feb. 22 UB
Thousands of Japanese Commu
nis and sympathizers rioted in
Tokyo Thursday in a demonstra
tion against "colonization" of Ja
I SAW By, Paul Jenkins j
Established 1873
ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 195Z
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ANNE HATTERSCHEID. member of Mrs. Caraway's third
grade at Fullerton, as she applied herself to a little home-work. ;
Not that she particularly needs to do so, you understand, but
just to oblige the photographer. Although just why she should
wish to oblige a gent who persisted in spoiling an otherwise en- j
joyable evening for her, she couldn't imagine, unless it was.
she just felt she ought to be polite. So she studied a bit of
Geography, which is a favorite with her anvhow. and if I am
any judge of her expression, she's starting to spell out "Ohio."
Anne is nine years old and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J.
Hattersheid of 930 Riverside Drive. ,
'WHY ARE WE IN KOREA?'
Ridgway Deplores Query
While America Combats
'Unprovoked Aggression'
TOKYO (AP) Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway said
Thursday night it is deplorable that many Americans
still ask "Why are we in Korea?"
The supreme Allied commander declared the pattern
of Communist intentions is "now spread across the world
where even the blind can see."
2nd Atomic Powered .
Sub Engine Ordered '
WASHINGTON I The Atomic
Energy Commission Thursday or
dered construction of a second
atomic-powered submarine engine.
It said this one will be of a de
sign which may be easier to build
and operate than the one already
under construction.
When the two engines are com
pleted, the AEC and Navy will de
cide which is better for subma
rines. Development of a nuclear engine
or submarines is high on the AEC
milltary priority list. .
With such an engine, a subma
rine theoretically would have much
greater speed than with conven
tional engines and could cruise sub
merged for thousands of miles.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I've been talking to some friends
who have just returned from Eur
opeEngland, Scotland, The Neth
erlands, Belgium, the American
zone of Germany, France, Portu
gal, Spain, Switzerland, part o f
. Austria, They saw quite a lot of
it in the course of three or four
months;, and talked to a lot of
people, j
t The report they bring back dif-
f' fers rather strikingly from what
we read in the papers and from
' the accounts given to us by a lot
of our big shots especially our
governmental big shots.
Perhaps I'd better explain why
they went. They lost a son in the
late unpleasantness. He was a bom
bardier and one day his bomber
didn't come back from a mission.
It, was a little thing in a war as
vast as the last one, but it wasn't
a little thing to them. It was every
thing in the world.
His body had been found, and
had been buried in a little Italian
cemetery. After peace came, it was
removed to this country. These par
ents wanted to see everything there
was to be seen. They wanted to
see w.iere their son's homber had
been shot flaming down out of the
sky. They wanted to see where it
fell. They wanted to see the little
plot, of earth wherein his mortal
bones had lain during their brief
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. For his part, Ridgway said there
can be no question of the "validity
and purpose" of U.S. fighting in
Korea "against that deliberately
planned, unprovoked aggression."
'To have done otherwise," he
said, "would have been a repudia
tion of every principle we had pre
viously professed." '
Ridgway spoke at the annual con
vention of the Far East Depart
ment of the Reserve Officers As
sociation. He made no mention of the Ko
rean armistice talks at Panmun
jom. Ridgway said the same situation
exists tnHay that Washington found
in 1775 when he wrote that one of
his hardest jobs was to induce peo
ple to believe there was "danger
until the bayonet is pushed at their
breasts." .
No Excust For Lethargy
"Our country," Ridgway said,
"still has today many people whose
intelligence level offers no slightest
excuse for a similar mental out
look on this problem.
"With the pattern of Communist
intentions now spread across the
world where even the blind can
see, neither the seeming insula
tion of distance, nor the native
born of a sheltered life, can plead
the slightest excuse, nor abate One
iota of our individual responsibility.
"To do otheiwise than oppose
aggression in the future,, within
our capabilities, will be to ac
knowledge as sterile every sacri
fice America has made since it
obtained independence.
"We have heard and we still
hear at times, and I regret to say
from Americans referring to Ko
rea, 'Why are we there?' I think
the question discredits him who
asks it."
Morse Soys Toft Foe
Of U.S. Foreign . Policy
By The Associated Press -,
Two Republican senators Thurs
day disagreed over whether Sen.
Taft would carry out U.S. obliga
tions uV the European defense pro
gram if elected President.
Sen. Morse (R.-Ore.,), support
ing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
for the GOP nomination, said Taft
"would defeat the foreign policy
for which General Eisenhower
stands."
Sen. Brewster (R.-Me..), a Taft
backer, promptly challenged the
statement. He said the C.iio sena
tor has "made it perfectly clear"
that as President he would carry
out U.S. commitments under the
North Atlantic Pact.
Morse, however, said with Taft
as President it would be "impos
sible tn carry out our obligations
in Europe."
j Slaying In Robbery
Drnwt Murder Chflro.
OREGON CITY I Elmer Hor
sey Williams, 28 and Bonnie Lee
Kuhnhausen, 36. were indicted by
the grand jury Wednesday on first
degree murder charges.
The indictments stem from the
fail.: beating that Jalmar Tarkei,
63. suffered in the course nf a rnh.
I bery in a suburban area southeast
1 of Portland last month.
Bag Upped To 10
Air Battles
Accompany
Land Clashes
Worships Also Score
In Action; U.N. Labels
Soviet Unfit For Truce
SEOUL. Korea I American
Sabre iet pilots shot down two
more Red jets Thursday bringing
their toll this week to ten.
The two MIG-15s eliminated
were blown out of the air during
a 2A-minute battle in cloudy North
Korean skies between 27 American
Sabre jets and 20 MIGs.
American losses, if any, were
not announced. The Air Force dis
closes U.S. plane losses only once
a week.
On tne ground a Red ambush
pinned down an Allied patrol and
its rescue force for more than an
hour on the frozen Eastern Front.
A second United Nations rescue
group broke the trap and freed
both Allied units in sharp fighting.
The action occuircd northwest of
Kansong, on the east coast.
Warships In Action -
Naval headquarters in Tokyo
said the battleship Wisconsin re
turned to action off East Korea
Wednesday. The flagship of the
U.S. Seventh Fleet fired 5,000
rounds of five-inch shells and re
ported direct hits on two impor
tant Communist bridges. The Wis
consin is commanded by Capt.
Thomas Burrows of Washington,
D. C.
Off the east coast, American and
New Zealand warships destroyed
15 sampans in a 50-minute battle
with a Red "fishing fleet navy."
The sampans are used as blockade
runners to move supplies.
MUNSAN, Korea Wl The UN.
Command told the Communists
Thursday Russia's "record of past
participation in Korea" bars the
Soviet Union as a neutral fit to
help police a Korean truce.
Simultaneously General Head
quarters in Tokyo warned that
every step forward in truce talks
"will be followed by a step back
ward until Moscow is convinced
that the final decision for Korea
must be made without further de
lay." An information bulletin compiled
from "Voice of the U.N. Command
Broadcasts" declared:
"It seems to be their plan to
raise two additional disputes to
take the place of every one that
has been settled.
"Like the hydra-headed monster
of mythology, there will be new
entanglements following every set
tlement just as long as the Krem
lin thinks there is still something
to gain by prolonging the talks."
Dr. C. C. French To Head .
Wash. State College
PULLMAN, Wash, tin Dr.
Charles Clement French, vice pres
ident of Texas A&M, has been se
lected from a list of more than 230
candidates t be president of Wash
ington State College, it was an
nounced Thursday.
It was reported the 50 year old
French has already submitted his
resignation at Texas A&M and will
come here in May. I
French would succeed Dr. Wilson
Compton who resigned last spring
after disagreements with the Board
of Regents.
TRUMAN DEFENDS 'MISSOURI GANG'
Bitter Criticism Of Past Presidents
Also Cited In Address To Masonic Group
WASHINGTON W! President
Truman told a Masonic gathering
Thursday that he works all day
and nearly all night as President,
"but just between you and me and
the gatepost, I like it."
The President confided this at
titude in an off-the-cuff talk to
Grand Masters of Masons attend
ing a nationwide conference.
Cabinet members and White
House staff representatives also
attended the hotel breakfast .at
which Truman defended his aides
against the description of "Mis
souri Gang." which he said has
been given them by his opponents.
He noted that Lincoln, Jefferson,
Cleveland and other Presidents
underwent a lot of criticism and
that it was some years after Cleve
land left office that it was said
of him "they loved him for the
enemies he made."
"I hope you love me for that
same reason," the President said.
Truman did not identify the
GREETING CARDS
Car Strews 'Em
When It Upsets
In Private Yard
A Roseburg man escaped se
rious injury Wednesday night when
his car bolted off the North Ump
qua. Highway and flipped over,
smashing the top into the seat
cushions. . ' ,
State police identified the man
as Leslie E. Rockman, 620 W.
Lane St.
He apparently was thrown clear
of the vehicle about 10 last night
as it shot off the highway about
seven miles east of Roseburg.
It sped through the front yard
of a private home, smashed into
a row of fence posts uprooting 19
of them, and upended itself, land
ing upside down, the police re
ported. The vehicle, its radio still play
ing and one headlight burning, was
abandoned when police arrived.
Officers traced Rockman through
registration material in the car.
The hood of Rockman's car Was
thrown some 60 feet from the path
of the car and the entire area
was strewn with greeting cards
which were carried in the vehicle.
As he was thrown clear, Rock
man's shoes were ripped off his
feet, officers said, but apparently
he suffered only minor injuries.
Ike's Name Filed
For Oregon Vote
SALEM, Ore. I Gen. Dwight
Eisenhower was entered Thursday
in Oregon's May 16 presidential
primary with the filing of petitions
bearing 1,068 names.
The petitions, brought ' to the
state elections division by State
Rep. Mark Hatfield, Salem, sec
retary of the Oregon for Eisen
hower Committee, contained 08
more names than the 1,000 that are
required. Hatfield said the signers
come from 16 of the 36 counties.
So far, Eisenhower and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur are the only
names on the Republican presi
dential ballot, the filing period clos
ing March 7.
No Democrats have been entered
yet.
Hatfield said in a prepared state
ment that the state Eisenhower
committee will bring the general's
record clearly to the voters of Ore
gon. "He does not need even a week
to campaign in Oregon because
what he is and what he stands for
have already been defined."
Drain C. Of C. Schedules
Its Annual Meeting
The Drain Chamber of Com
merce will hold its annual meeting
and banquet Saturday, starting at
7 p.m., in the Methodist Church
dining room in Drain. Dr. Victor
P. Morris, dean of the school of
business administration at the Uni
versity of Oregon, will be the
speaker.
Mrs. W. R. Murray Dies
At Her Roseburg Home
Mrs. W. R. (Sarah) Murray died
early this morning, Feb. 21, at her
home on E. Douglas St. after a
lingering illness. She is survived
by her daughter, Mrs. Story lles
of Roseburg.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by the Roseburg
Funeral Home. '
"they" in the remark about Cleve
land. He went on to say that if he
thinks he's right in what he does,
"I don't care if anyone likes it
or not."
Citts Attacks On Ns. 1
At one point, the President said
with a grin "this year is leap
year, a most important year in the
history of the government of the
United States."
He called attention to attacks
made on George Washington by
"a leading Philadelphia paper" and
said this was "one reason why he
retired instead of running for a
third term."
At his news conference Wednes
day, the President declined com
ment once again on his political
intentions. He has said he faces a
difficult decision and hasn't marie
up his mind yet whether he will run
again.
The President told the breakfast
meeting he spends most of his time
THE DRIVER SURVIVED this wreck In which the top is caved in clear down to the seat cush
ions. Car sped off North Urrpqua Highway through a front yard, smashed into a fence uproot
ing 19 posts and flipped over. (Staff Picture)
Fluoridation Of City
Water Considered
Fluoridation of the city's water
supply is under discussion in Rose
burg, City Manager W. A. Gil
christ said Wednesday.
Although nothing definite has
been planned, the proposal to in
ject the chemical that deters tooth
decay has the endorsement of the
Umpqua District Dental Society,
a spokesman said.
Representatives of the Oregon
Water Corp., which owns the city's
water supply, have indicated they
would seriously consider installa
tion at fluoridation equipment if
there's enough public support for
the proposal, Gilchrist said. .
The dental, spokesman said -tf.e
American; Dental Association and
the American Medical Association
have approved the fluoridation
idea. The state dental group has
also approved it
Gilchrist said the leadership on
such a proposal should come from
the medical and dental professions
in Roseburg. "I'm all for it if we
can get the support of the public
for such a program," he said, .
Nunan Quits Law Firm
In Tax Case Criticism ,
NEW YORK (fl Joseph D.
Nunan, Jr., former Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, has resigned
from his Washington, D. C, law
firm because of the criticism di
rected at him in tax case probes.
Nunan's New York counsel, Rich
ard J. Burke, announced the resig
nation Wednesday.
The action was attributed to fear
that Nunan's partners might "suf
fer unjustifiable harm temporarily
through his continued association
with them."
Burke said Nunan "has been sub
jected to the most vicious Charac
ter assassination and unfounded
villification, rumor and Innuendo.'
Sales Tax For Pensions
Oregon Initiative Aim
SALEM ( ' A "preliminary
initiative petition for a 2 per cent
sales tax to be used for old age
pensions was filed with the Ore
gon State Department Thursday.
The measure would provide for
minimum monthly pensions of $75.
Itwas filed by Elmer E. Rowton,
Otis, and Verna L. Schorn. Toledo.
If the sponsors get 26,286 signa
tures, the measure would be on the
November election ballot.
being "kind" to people and that young men who have professed
his job is primarily a "public re- religious objection to military serv
lations one," in which he seeks to ice and up until now have not
get people to do things for the
government.
Such gatherings wC the break
fast, he said, give him rare oppor
tunities "to be myself."
Others Were Targets
Turning to the criticism of past
Presidents, Truman said:
1. It has taken 150 years tn de
termine the greatness of Washing
ton. 2. Thomas Jefferson was once
described as a "Jacobin" which
Truman said is about the same
3. Two papers the New York
as being called a Communist today.
Tribune and Chicago Tribune in
reference to Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address said ' the President also
spoke apd made the usual ass
of himself."
This, of course, was not true;
Truman said.
Leader Of Young
GOP Of Oregon
Will Speak Here
H. Clay Myers Jr.i above. Port
land, state chairman of the Young
Republican Federation of Oregon,
will be the speaker at the Kepub-
flican Party meeting Friday at 6:30
p.m.,' in the Hotel Umpqua.
Myers was treasurer of' the
Young Republicans last year. He
was formerly state chairman of
the YR College League and chair
man of Oregon's 16-member dele
gation to the national YR conven
tion in Boston .last summer, .
A precinct committeeman, and
for the past two years a member
of the Multnomah County Repub
lican Central Committee, Myers is
24 and a 1849 graduate of the Uni
versity .of Oregon. :
He will speak on the general
"subject, of Young Republican acti
vities and their role within the
senior party.
Sig . Unander, state Republican
chairman, will also be in Rose-
burg later in the evening Friday
and expects to slay over to Sat
urday morning.
H. O. Parge'er, Douglas County
Republican . Central Committee
chairman, is in charge of general
arrangements. , .
'Conchies' Ordered
Into Civilian Work
WASHINGTON UH Draft-eligible
conscientious objectors have
been ordered hy President Truman
to work 24 consecutive months in
civilian jobs approved by their
draft boards.
The executive order issued
Wednesday affects about 8,200
been ordered into any kind of scrv-
Not affected are objectors willing
to perform non-combatant duties
and subject to limited service in
the Armed Forces.
The first of the 8,200 may get
their orders in March.
The President's order said they
may take jobs approved by their
draft boards with federal, state or
local governments, or with a non
profit organization engaged in
charitable or public service activ
ity. '
CHECK COUNT FACED
Frank Warren Jordan, 27, Rose
burg logger, was arrested here
Wednesday on a Clackamas County
warrant charging him with passing
a worthless check, the sheriff's of
fice reported.
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Household Appliances
Face Another Cutback
WASHINGTON OB Production
of most important household ap
pliances faced a new cutback
Thursday as the result of a 14 per
cent reduction in their topper and
aluminum supplies beginning April
l.
But the National Production Au
thority, in announcing Kie second'
quarter quotas, said if the cut
threatens to cause serious short
ages in refrigerators, ranges.
washers, vacuum cleaners and oth
er such appliances, the NPA will
provide relief. .'
. At the same time it cut supplies
of metals lor Household appliances
the ' NPA ' boosted the quotas to
maxcrs or less-essential items 3Uch
as costume jewelry, cigarette light
ers, Venetian blinds, luggage, hard
ware and novelties.
; Administrator Henry H. Fowler
said this was being done to keep a
number of firms from being forced
to shut down.
Traffic Crash Kills
1 Woman, Injures 2nd
JUNCTION CITY Ore. ( Mrs.
Ata L. Toedltemcir, about 24, Rt.
3, Edmonds, Wash., was killed ear
ly Thursday when a car crashed
into the rear of a truck and trailer
a mile and half south of here.
A companion. Mrs. Mayme
wisenmann, 3U, also of Kt 3. Ed
monds, was injured, hut her 3
month old daughter. Sharon, was
unhurt.
Mrs. Wlschmann was in fairly
good condition at the Sacred Heart
Hospital, Eugene, with a broken
leg and cuts.
Deputy Coroner -Ken Murphy,
Junction City, said the truck, driv
en by D. E. Kocnig, Crescent City,
Calif., was turning off Highway 89
when the car crashed into the rear
of his trailer.
i Murphy said Mrs. Tocdtcmcir
and Mrs. Wischmann were return
ing from a visit to San Diego
where their husbands are stationed
with the Navy. .
Oakland Liberal Giver
To March Of Dimes
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The Oakland community re
ported a total of $1,675 collected
in the March of Dimes campaign,
which represents one of the largest
per capita collections in me coun
ty.
The largest contribution came
through the kangaroo court, which
netted $697.14. A dinner put on by
the American Legion Auxiliary
and Development Club netted
$302.44 individual contributions
$200. and Martin Box Co. $100.
Other contributions are broken
down as follows: Martin Box em
ployes, $86.25 dance sponsored by
the Lemon ana veterans ot r o r
elgn Wars. $40: grade school
$59.06; seventh and eighth
erades. $10.95 Mariners Club, $5
Calapooia Club, $38 Umpqua
School. $26: Oakland City Police
$22.72; Neighbors of Woodcraft
$10; Parish Society, $21.15; High
School, $1.18; March of Dimes con
tainers, $3.8i ana Douglas nr
Printing, 40 percent of subscrip
tions, $14.80.
Ex-Pug Put On FBI's
'Most Wanted' List
WASHINGTON I An ex-prize
fighter who allegedly used his wife
as an accomplice in a scries, of
robberies, car thefts and jail
breaks Thursday was put on the
FBI's list of "10 most wanted
men."
He is Thomas Edward Young, 34,
with many aliases. His wife, Mar-'
garet Rita (Margie) Young, 32, is
also a widely sought fugitive.
Both are charged with the bur
glary of the State Bank ot Santanta,
Kas., on thft night of Dec. 30, 1951.
pan by the United States.
At least 14 Japanese policemen
were injured in stone-throwing and '
tear gas melees before order was
restored.
An estimated 11,300 police pa
trolled the city to prevent further
trouble.
Other demonstrations were re
ported in Yokohama, the big in
dustrial city of Osaka, Nagoya and
elsewhere.
The Japanese Communists, in
their most open postwar demon
stration of violence, had set Thurs
day as "Anti-Colonization-of-Japan
Day."
(Even betore the demonstrations
subsided, the Peipine Radio was
reporting that Chinese Communist
routh had sent "messages of sol
darity" to the "Japanese Youth
Federation" for - its "struggle
against colonialism.") ,
, There were no reports of injury
to Americans and other foreigners.
Train Station Stormad
One mob stormed a railway sta
tion demanding free rides, threw
tear , gas bombs and forced their
way onto a train.
Another which included universi
ty students battled into a police
station demanding release of a
schoolmate arrested last month for
an anti-rearirament demonstra
tion. Twenty-two of the students
were arrested but later released.
The injured . policemen were
stoned by 400 demonstrators in the
Omorl District, Kyodo said.
Three hundred students and
workers clashed with 300 police in .
a northwestern suburb.
Kyodo said 300 demonstrators at
tacked two do icemen in a Tokvo
University auditorium and shouted
"There's a dog in nere-; ana.
"Throw him out." s
The agency reported seven dem
onstrators arrested in Tokyo and
18 Koreans picked up In Osaka.
Construction Nod Given
For 645 Buildings
WASHlNli IUM vn me muow
at Production Authority Thursday
approveu a mart on cunairucuuv -
on B45 churches,--fir' stations, or
phanages and community buildings
with materials to be made avail
able in the nine months follow
ing July 1. - -
The go-ahead, It was understood,
applies to virtually the entire list
of pending applications for public
welfare and safety projects in all
parts of the country. The total
estimated cost is more than 200
million dollars.
Details as to the specific proj
ects approved and their location
will not be announced until after
all the building authorizations and
the allotments have been issued.
Oregon's Cattle Now
At Record Number
PORTLAND I There are
more cattle in Oregon than ever
before: 1,228,000 of tuem M in
latest count.
Thov are worth a record $227,-
180,000, the Federal Crop reporting
Service estimated Wednesday, add
ing that it represented an increase
previous year. .Most of the increase
of '50 million dollars above the
came in beef cattle.
Wayne Coy, FCC Head, ;
Quits Over 'Low' Salary
WASHINGTON LB Wavne Coy
resigned Thursday as chairman of
the Federal Communications Com
mission.
Coy told reporters he was quit- .
tine because he could not afford
the personal sacrifice of continuing
the $15,000 a year job.
The FCC suoervises operations
of the radio and television indus
try among othe? duties.
Oakland Man Penalized
For Drunken Driving
' Charles Quinton Ward, 42, Rt.
1, Oakland, was committed to the
county jail in lieu of $400 bail
after pleading innocent in Drain
justice court to a drunk driving
charge. He was arrested at Drain
by state police.
MEET AGAIN DEFERRED
The City Council Wednesday
night again lacked a quorum
and the meeting was postponed
until the next regular meeting
date, March 3.
Last Monday the meeting was
postponed until Wednesday be
cause a quorum was not avail
, able,
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein
Proclaimed for years in song
and verse
Ai 'land of the free, home
of the brave';
It'i now more fitting to change
it thus:
'Land of the spree and home
of the knave.'