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Primary Election Ballot
Offers GOP Voters 110
Candidates, Democrats 54
Republican voters who go to the polls in Douglas County
for Friday's Primary election will have 110 candidates to
choose from in mark.insr their ballots.
The Democrats will have an easier time of it. They
have only 54 public office aspirants and convention delegate
candidates.
The list of delegates to the na
tional convention for the choosing
of the respective party presidential
candidates make up the bulk of
both ballots. The Republicans have
50 delegates at large, plus 12 from
the Fourth Congressional District.
The Democrats have only 16, plus
eight from this district.
While interest in general centers
on the presidential nominee race on
both ballots, there is also consider
able interest in local positions.
The principal local contest is for
sheriff, a position sought by four
Republicans and four Democrats.
The Republicans offer incumbent
0. T. Carter, serving his second
term, opposed by A. A. "Red" Eck
hardt, Billy Mohr and C. H. "Cal"
Baird. The Democrats offer Ver
non Pouncy, Alfred Byron Smith,
Cecil Bever and Alvin E. "Al"
Hughes.
While the sheriff's office provides
the only competition on the Demo
cratic ballot, the Republican slate
offers rivalry in most of its posi
tions. .
Other Aspirants Lilted
Paul E. Geddes is the only Re
publican candidate for state sen
ator, while three persons, John P.
Amacher, Thomas C. Hartfiel and
Dudley C. Walton are in the run
ning for representative to the state
legislature. Two are to be elected.
Elmer R. Metzger, present com
missioner by appointment, and
Herbert A. Lindner are vying for
the post of county commissioner.
Victor J. Micelli and Charles Doer
ner are running for clerk. Oliver L.
Johnson for treasurer and Ben B.
Irving for surveyor are lone can
didates, but three persons are seek
ing the office of coroner. Robert
W. Bellows, John J. Grabow, M. D.
and L. L. "Jim" Powers.
The Democrats list William 0.
Kelsay for senator; Incumbent V. T
Jackson and Christina Micelli for
the two representative positions;
Frank Ashley for comissioner, J.
W. Williams for clerk, Richard D.
Williams for treasurer, and Robert
A. Ganz for coroner.
The other race for especial inter
est locally is for representative in
congress, the position now held by
Harris Ellsworth. Ellsworth is a
candidate along with Barbara S.
Draper ot Albany on the Republi
can ballot, and Louis A. Wood and
Walter A. Swaitson, both of Lane
County, on the Democrat ticket.
Complete sample ballots are
printed in today's News-Review,
pages 6 and 7.
New Mayor And Council
Take Office At Elkton
A new Elkton city council has
been organized following the re
cent mass resignation of the form
er council.
Members of the new group in
clude Mayor Mac Heddcn and
Councilmen Willard McCollum,
John Levenhagen, Donald Han
cock and Sheron Colly.
The former council resigned en
masse May 8.
Members of the former council
were C. W. Hcnderer, mayor; Don
ald L. Mode, Gilbert Binder, J. W.
McCollum and James V. Adamo.
24 Hopyard Workers'
Cabins Razed By Fire
INDEPENDENCE 11 A fire
leveled 24 hopyard workers' cabins
near here Monday night at a loss
estimated at $15,000.
Eight families were made home
less by the blaze at the Sunset
Farms hopyards.
Cause of the fire was not deter
mined. In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Today's political note:
General Eisenhower said a few
days ago that any cut deeper than
a billion dollars in the proposed
seven billion, nine hundred mil
lion dollar foreign aid fund would
imperil the nation's security.
Senator Taft promptly and flat
ly disagreed with this statement,
asserting that reduction TWICE
that much would not hurt.
These directly opposing views
on the part of the two leading con
tenders for the Republican nom
ination for President brought
statements from two Democrats
from the Deep South Senator
Ellcnder of Louisiana and Senator
George of Georgia.
Senator George says:
"I propose to support the bil
lion dollar cut. I don't think, how
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The Weather
Cloudy with showers today and
ton ght. Partly cloudy Wednesday.
Highest temp, for eny May 102
Lowest temp, for any May .. ... 30
Highest temp, last 21 hours 72
Lowest temp, las) 24 hours 4?
Highest temp, last 24 hours .. 74
Lowest temp, last 24 hours 47
Precip. last 24 hours 03
Precip. from May 1 57
Precip. from Sipt. 1 34.7S
Excess 4.44
Sunset today, 8:28 p.m. DST
Sunrise tomorrow, 5:50 a.m. DST
Negro Kills Cop,
3 Passengers
On Crowded Bus
CLEVELAND I A 20-year-old
Negro told police Tuesday he
didn't mean to shoot three bus
passengers and a policeman to
death on a crowded bus.
"I was just shooting to scare,"
police quoted Lawrence Goldsby as
saying. "Then I couldn't stop shoot
ing." Earlier in the afternoon, he said,
he drank a quart of wine and
two cans of beer in a tavern.
Goldsby, unemployed, grabbed a
gun from Patroman Eugene D.
Stinchcomb's holster Monday dur
ing the evening rush hour.
Stinchcomb. 55, had boarded the
bus after the bus driver complained
that Goldsby was singeing the hair
of a woman passenger.
Then Goldsby shot Stinchcomb
and two women passengers, one of
them the woman whose hair he
had singed. A stray bullet killed
a man passenger. All of the dead
were white.
Screams For Mercy
Charged with first degree mur
der Tuesday and hurried into court,
Goldsby screamed: "Mercy mer
cy have mercy on me!"
The extreme penalty for murder
is death in Ohio's electric chair.
As Goldsby finished shooting
among the 60 passengers jammed
into the Euclid Avenue bus, his
weapon clicked empty. Then three
men overpowered him and beat
him savagely.
Dead were;
Patrolman Eugene D. Stinch
comb, 55.
Miss Annabelle Frankie, 24,
whose yell "My hair is burning."
halted the bus.
Mrs. Helen Garrison, 50, friend
and co factory worker of Miss
Frankie.
William J. Powers, about 60, for
mer Chicago and Washington law
yer, who headed the Federal Con
stitutional Law Association of De
troit. Contested Fund
Found In Clothes
And Pillow Case
CHICAGO Wl A fortune In
cash and securities, all tied up in
pink bloomers, stockings and a pil
low case, was found Monday in a
safe deposit box owned by an 85
year old widow who died five
months ago.
Officials representing various
public agencies found currency
in $1 to $500 bills totaling $12,
712 in the bloomers and stockings.
The money in the pillow case will
be counted Thursday.
The safe deposit box was rent
ed to the late Mrs. Cora Drapier
in 1915.
Before she died last Dec. 9 she
executed a will, leaving virtually
all her estate, estimated at $300,
000. to her attorney, Pierre J. Pel
oquin. The will is being contested
by Mrs. Pearl Golab, who was left
$1,000. Sh? said she was promised
$200,000. The will was admitted to
probate last week over Mrs. Go
lab's protests.
The source of Mrs. Drapler's for
tune was not definitely known.
Willamette IWA Unit,
Employers Still Apart
PORTLAND I Another seg
ment of the lumber industry met
with CIO Woodworkers here Tues
day in an effort to settle a two-
week strike that idled upward of
40,000 men in the mills and woods
of five Pacific Northwest States.
The union and Willamette Valley
lumber operators met Monday with
Federal Mediation Service offi
cials. Appanntly no agreement
was reached.
Standard Time Given
Nod In Salem's Vote
SALEM il Salem probably
will stay on standard time this
summer because the Oregon
Statesman's poll showed standard
lime favored, 10.406 to 4,946.
Members of the city council said
they probably would be guided by
the poll.
Dale Busenbark Files
For School Director
Dale Busenbark of Melrose dis
trict filed Mondav as a candidate
for the post of director of Rose
bur? School district No. 4.
He was th first candidate to file
in the school election to be held
June 16.
Busenbark was active in school
work in the Melrose area before the
recent merger with the Roseburg
district.
THOUSAND HOMELESS
MANILA im Fire destroyed
most of the business section of
Tuguegarao. capital of Cagayan
province, Monday night. The Phil
ippines News Service reported
damage was $1,500,000. About 1,000
'persons were left homeless.
Established 1873
Gen. Colson Remo ved As
Deal With
Reds Draws
Sharp Order
Pentagon Tells Colson
To Explain Promises
Given To Release Dodd
By JOHN RANDOLPH
SEOUL, Korea OB Brig. Gen.
Charles F. Colson was removed
Tuesday as commandant of Koje
Island three days after he made
a sharply criticized deal with Red
prisoners of war for the release of
his predecessor.
The new shakeup in the Koje
Command came less than 12 hours
after it became known the Joint
Chiefs of Staff demanded immediate
and full clarification of circum
stances leading to:
1. Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd's
capture by his Koje prisoners, and
2. Colson's promised concessons
to Communist POW leaders which
won Dodd's release Saturday night
Gen. Mark Clark, whe became
Far Eastern Commander Monday,
was instructed to send his report
to the Pentagon "by the fastest
means possible."
Gen. James A. Van Fleet named
Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner,
veteran front line infantry com-
mander from New Orleans, to take
over the turbulent 80,000-man pris-
oner camp
Boatner, third general to bold the
post within a week, arrived at Koje
a few hours after his appointment.
ne peuK i,nmte ana is an expen
on Chinese affairs.
Colson Takes Former Job
Colson was reassigned to his for
mer job as chief of staff ot the
First Corps in Korea.
Dodd, commandant of the Island
when Red prisoners captured him
Wednesday, was reassigned to U. S.
Eighth Army headquarters. H l s
job was not announced.
On Koje flame-throwing Ameri
can tanks and combat infantrymen
stood guard outside barbed wire
compounds, over some of which
captured Chinese and North Ko
reans flew the Red flag.
U. S. defense officials in Wash
ington took exception to the word
ing of Colson's agreement with the
Red POWS.
The defense Department issued a
statement Monday night saying the
wording gave several wrong im
pressions. It singles out these phrases:
'Many prisoners of war have been
killed and wounded by U. N. forces;
prisoners will receive humane
treatment in the future." and there
will be "no more forcible screening
or any rearming of prisoners of
war." '
The Reds had demanded these
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Jail Terms, Fines Meted
Three Drunken Drivers
Three persons were fined $500
and given 30-day jail sentences
each Monday in district court after
pleading guilty to drunk driving
charges.
They are Samuel Roland Kirkpat
rick, 51, Tenmile; Clifford Theodore
Brown, 39, Oakland; nd James
Dillworth, 46, Dillard.
All were arrested by state police.
Passing Of Bad Check
Charged To Glide Man
Complaint charging Donald Glen
Somcrs, 25, Glide, with obtaining
money by false pretenses was
filed in district court Monday.
Somers had also been held on a
charge of no automobile registra
tion and Navy AWOL.
He is accused in the complaint
of passing a $145 bad check at
Johnny's Tavern at Glide. District
Judge A. J. Geddes set bail on the
check charge at $1,000.
Trusty Walks Away
From County Jail
Lloyd Huston Ward, a trusty at
the county jail, walked away Satur
day after working at a Courthouse
furnace just two days before a re
lease was to come from Reedsport
Justice of Peace Fred Wright, ac
cording to Sheriff O. T. Carter.
Ward. 36, of Reedsport, was serv
ing a 60-day sentence on a drunk
driving conviction.
Two Douglas County
Corporations File
SALEM if. Articles of Incor
poration Monday:
Rose Investment Co., Roseburg,
$10,000. O. J. Feldkamn, H. V. Sul
livan and T. L. Goodwin.
Camas Valley Grange No. 521,
Camas Valley Douglas County.
i Ernest S. Booth, Milo M. Claugh
1 ton and Hayden S. Taylor.
ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, MAY
Locust Swarms
Threaten Africa,
Asia Food Areas
By STAN SWINTON
ROME W Giant locust swarms
are threatening the entire food
supply of agricultural countries
from Africa to Asia In the worst
plague in a century.
This was reported today by the
V. N. Food and Agricultural Or
ganization (FAO), which gave this
picture:
Tens of millions of desert locusts
have swept from their East Afri
can breeding place with dramatic
rapidity since the start of the year
Vast areas of French Somali
land, Eritrea, The Sudan, Aden,
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Ku
wait, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Syria,
Iraq, Iran and Pakistan are in
fested. Present swarms are now breed
and "a new generation of young
locusts soon will be on hand
threatening the cotton and grain
of the Nile delta on one side and
the rice fields of India on the
other."
So far the Iranian government
has been able to clean uo only
one-tenth of -this area. Both the
United States and the TJ.S.S.R
have sent in aircraft and experts
to help fight the 'menace a rare
example of postwar cooperation
between the two rival powers
India is helping out, too. Five
Planeloads of insecticides were
Isent from Bombay and Jodhpur to
Iran.
Petroleum Committee
c . . ft
rOfmed At Country UUD
The Oregon Petroleum Informa
tion Committee was organized at
a meeting Monday night at the
Roseburg Country Club. These
committees are being formed
throughout the Pacific, coast by
major petroleum companies.
Alt petroleum distributors and
agents in the local area attended
the meeting. C. M. McDermott
was elected chairman; Jim Myers,
vice chairman; P. M. Lee, prsss
and radio chairman, and A. J. El
lison, speaker chairman.
A meeting has been planned for
Tuesday, May 27, at 8:30 p.m., at
Turn-Around Inn, at which time
H. W. Bragg, state chairman for
Oregon, will talk on activities of
the committee and what is to be
expected from the local units
The purpose of organizing these
committees is to inform the public
and the schools in the development
of petroleum.
Two Oregon Convicts
Flee In Stolen Truck
SALEM im Police Monday
hunted two convicts who escaped
from the state prison farm here by
stealing a truck.
The pair, Jesse A. Caddell, 32,
and Robert E. LaChapelle, 24,
abandoned the truck at Dayton. It
was found by state police who
speculated the pair might have
hitch-hiked on to Portland.
Caddell was serving a 10 year
sentence for forgery from Clacka
mas County, and LaChapelle a
five year sentence from Umatilla
County. They both were to be re
leased next year.
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BUNYANS INITIATE The Roseburg Paul Bunyons seized the opportunity to initiate
presidential aspirant California's Governor Earl Warren into their organization during his
stopover here Monday. Warren became one o f the many prominent honorary members
of Roseburg's booster organization. The ceremony took place on the Courthouse steps.
(Picture by Photo Lab)
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SCENE OF SLAYING The body of o Comas Valley logger, John Henry Jenkins, 37, lies
under the pickup, parked on the Daniel Smith place on Upper Camas Road. Smith is
being held on o murder charge end is expected to be arraigned this ofternoon in district
court. The body was discovered by a group of neighbor youngsters, not identified by police,
about 8:30 p.m. Monday. (Staff Picture) i '
Budget Exceeding Six Perct.
Limit Awaits Rural School
Districts' Decision May 19
Voters in school districts comprising the Douglas County
Sural School District will vote May 19 on the question of au
thorizing a 1952-53 budget exceeding the six percent limita
tion. Voters will cast their ballots in the grade school build
ing of each elementary district in the Rural District.
The estimated amount to be lev
ied by taxes for elementary schools
for the coming year is s:i7,ai.iu,
according to County School Supt.
Kenneth F. Barneburg, who is sec
retary of the Rural School Board.
For high schools, the estimated
tax levy is $395,117.
Based on this year's property val
uation, ths combined high schooi-
erade school levy next year would
be about 18.9 mills, Barneburg said.
If the valuation increases nbxt yea
however, ths millage rate would
be somewhat less, he added.
Voters will be. askcd in the elec
tion to approve levies exceeding the
six percent limitation by $298,991.09
for elementary schools and by $266,
592.73 for high schools.
Two ballots will be provided each
vot?r at Monday's polling one for
high school purposes and the other
for elementary school purposes.
Changes Offered
Among major changes in the
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13, 1952
P0 W Camp Head
Atty. Gen. Neuner Rules
On Use Of Union Label
SALEM (fl Counties and cities
can't require the union label on
their printing when purchased
r M .1 Atl....,i
eral George Neuner ruled Tues
day. '
Neuner also ruled that - while
their is no law forbidding the use
of the union label on county and
city supplies, they cannot require
contractors to use the label, and
they can't condition the letting of
contracts upon the use of the union
label.
The opinion was for State Rep.
Gust Anderson, . , Portland labor I
leader.
In another opinion. Neuner dc
r-larrf inv.liH o romilatinn Arinnted
by the State Board of Pharmacy.
The regulation would have denied
drug store licenses to corporations
owned outside the state.
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Adams, Rally
Due rWednesday,"
Kefauver Next
Governor Sherman . Adams of
New Hampshire is scheduled to ar
rive in Roseburg at 5 p.m. Wednes
day to lead an enthusiastic Elsen-hower-for-prcsident
rally that eve
ning, according to Jack Buchanan
of Suthcrlin, who is arranging the
affair. -
Adams, accompanied by his wife
and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cake will
arrive here from Grants Pass
after speaking at a luncheon meet
ing there.
An informal reception for the
governor and his parly will do
held at the Woman's club building
i ,
iro
m 6:15 to 6:30, just prior to the
dinner honoring the visitors. Buch
anan said i a few reservations are
still available and may be secured
by calling Robert Stults, chairman
of the Roseburg Eisenhowcr-for-Prcsldent
committee. .
The main rally Is scheduled al
7:45. While the crowd is assem
bling, Mrs. Paul Geddes will play
on the Hammond organ. The gov
ernor's talk will start at 8 p.m..
and will be broadcast by remote
control over KRXL, -After
the Roseburg visit, Gov-
' ernor ana Mrs. Aiiams will leave
for Missoula. Mont.; for a lunch
eon and his address Thursday
noon,
Wednesday's rally will mark
the second of three political cam
paigns, scheduled in Roseburg.
Gov. Earl warren was ncre Mon
day. On Thursday, Senator Estes
Kefauver, Democratic presidential
aspirant from Tennessee, will ar
rive by plane at 5 p.m. 'A wel
coming rally on the steps of the
courthouse will follow at 5:30, after
he has been escorted into the city.
Kefauver will be Introduced by
Mayor Albert G. Flegel. The lat
ter will he Introduced by Mrs.
Christina Micelli, Democratic Cen
tral Committee chairman, for Doug
las County.
Work Of Industrial Art
Students To Be Shown
Under Klwanis Club sponsorship,
students of the industrial arts de
partment of Roseburg Senior High
School will exhibit their wares
this weekend, announced Roland
Edie, in charge of the department.
Open house is scheduled Thurs
day afternoon and evening at the
shop rooms at the high school. Par
cnts, especially, but all others in
terested, are urged to visit.
On Friday, the display will be
moved up town to be placed in the
windows of several of the stores
on Jackson Street.
More than 300 boys will enter
exhibits, and awards of more than
200 ribbons, in addition to cash
awards, will be provided by the
Kiwanis club. Harry Hill Is the
club's chairman In charge.
The work of Edie's woodworking
and wood turning classes. Chuck
Allen's general shop, wood work
ing, plastics and leather working,
and Frank France's drafting class
es will be displayed.
J. H Jenkins'
Body Found
Under Truck
Daniel Webster Smith
Says He Shot Jenkins
Because Of His Abuse
Daniel Wtbstar Smith of Cam
as Valhty today admitted th
fatal shooting Monday afternoon
of a 37-ytar-old Camas Valley
logger. District Attorney Robert
G. Devit reported.
The dead man was Identified
by police as John Henry Jenkins,
also of Camas Valley.
Davis said he was filing mur
der chargei against Smith, who
-is about 65, today end that he It
expected to bo arraigned before
District Judge A. J. Ceddei late
this afternoon.
According to the confession
given the district attorney and oth
er officers, Smith claimed he and
Jenkins had been riding about and
drinking during the day. After they
arrived at the Smith residence,
Jenkins became abusive and ha
ordered the younger man to leave,
he said. When Jenkins refused to
go he said he got his shotgun and
killed him. Smith failed to show
authorities what he had done with
the weapon.
Body Found Under Truck
According to Davis, Jenkins'
body was discovered beneath a
pickup truck In front of Smith's
residence on the upper Camaj
road, about 8:30 Monday night by
a group of neighbor boys.
The shooting was Investigated by
state police and the sheriff's of
fice, as well as ay the district at
torney and deputy coroner.
Davis said the evidence indicat
ed the victim apparently was shot
while hs was sitting in the pickup.
Shotgun pellets struck Smith in
the right shoulder and chest. Be
side the body underneath the truck,
logger s tin helmet was found.
There was no report on how the
victim came to be under the ve
hicle. Deputy Coroner Robert Bellows'
said Jenkins apparently died of
the gunshot wound early Monday
afternoon.,
Police took Smith Into custod.r
at his residence late Monday night
and questioned h'm at lengtn early
this morning.
The body was removed to Long 1
and Orr Mortuary, where an au
topsy was performed.
Four Juveniles Held '
For Vandalism, Theft
Four boys, ages 13 and 14, were
cited to. juvenile court after ad
milting they spread chocolate syrup
over floors, rugs and beds of a Win
chester cabin.
. Sheriff O. T. Carter said the boys
are to appear in juvenile court
Wednesday.
They also admitted theft of sev
eral utensils front the cabin, Car
ter said. The cabin belonged to
Chester Morgan.
One of the boys and another boy,
age 12, of Winchester, also admit
ted breaking Into Tommy Hartficl'a
house at Winchester and taking a
piggy bank, a bag of peanuts and
a quart of ice cream.
Conyonville Man Hurt
In Collision Of Autoi
James Dumont, 21, of Canyon- '
is in Sacred Heart Hospital In Eu
gene, suffering from serious injur
ies received in a collision of auto
mobiles in Canyonvllle.
Deputy Sheriff W. I. Worrall said
the accident occurred on Canyon
ville's major street about 6:30 Sun
day evening.
Dumont s vehicle, traveling soutn
collided head-on 'with another car
operated by Robert Calvin, 37, Rose
burg. Worrall said Calvin was at
tempting to pass another car.
Dumont, sintering irom undeter
mined internal Injuries, was taken
to Forest Glen Hospital in Canyon
ville and later transferred to Eu
gene. Sutherlin Woman's Son
Drowns In Auto Plunge
The body of Leslie Merritt, son
of Mrs. Frank Dcsonia, Sutherlin,
has been found in the water near
Bridal Veil Falls, the sheriff's of
fice learned.
Norman Fields, sheriff of Sher
man County, told local officers that
Merritt drowned when his car ap
parently left the highway and
plunged into the river.
Aerial Forest Photo
Contract Let By County
The County Court has accepted
the bid of Kendall B. Wood, Port
land, for an aerial photo contract
covering about 484.000 acres in the
northwest part of the county.
Wood was lowest of five bidders
with a bid of $5,075.18. The area,
to be photographed for the Douglas
County Forest Appraisal Depart
ent. extends from Elkton to Reeds
port. Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstcin
Political differences are
cast aside in the amenities of
neighborly welcome, as when
our Democratic mayor greets
visiting Republican leaders.
I Just ene orator to another.