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Newspaper Page Text4 . V The Nowi-Rviw, Roseburg, Pukllthfd Dally Iup( Sunday by th News-Review Company, Inc. Kotorod it aaoaaa cltM mallar May I. lo at tao pail offloo 01 Kaaaaarg. Ora.aa. .adar acl of March t, 1171 CHARLES STANTON EDWIN L KNAPP Editor M.a.gor Mombar ot ih. Au.clat.4 Pr.il, Orefo" Nawipaaar Publlihorl AiMclati.rt, tho Audit Surtaii .1 Circulation! Bapraioatrt y WHT-HOl.LIDAI CO INC., ffltia la Naw Tara. Calaoia. aa rraaolaaa. Laa Aafalaa, Saallla, f-aillaad. L Laala IUBICIIPTION BAT'S la Oiaiaa Br Mall rat Ttar, IIMtl ala manlaa. M M: Inroa aiaalai, 11.1a. Br Nawa-alaw Corilor Far Taar, ' yaaoal, laaa than ana raar, par maaln, tl 29 Oulilda Orolon Br KaU Par Taar. S1I.M, all rnaaiaa, : laraa aaaalai, 11.10. GOOD BASEBALL SEASON By Charles Roseburg has shown itself a real baseball town during this season. Fans have turned out well in support of the semi-Dro eames by the Umpqua Legion contests, etc. The Pee drew a large audience. Softball also has had a liberal lor lowing from fans. The tough luck experienced by the Chiefs may hurt at tendance. If efforts by Manager Earl Sargeant to bolster the draft-ridden team succeed, however, fans will see plenty of good baseball during the remainder of the season, despite the fact that the Roseburg team is eliminated from a chance at top place. The Chiefs were the surprise team of the League when the season started. The Southwest Oregon League is, with out question, the best Hemi-pro league In the state. Bitter rivalry between communities resulted in contributions of large sums of money from "angels" sponsoring their re spective teams. Financial offers attracted the best players from- semi-pro ranks, together with several outstanding vet erans from the Coast league. While contributions to the Roseburg team were liberal, Manager Sargeant was unable to meet the high prices being paid by some of the communities with virtually unlimited bank accounts. He exhibited uncanny skill, however, in pick ing out a few college and semi-pro athletes to augment his nucleus of local players. The Chiefs furnished unexpected competition. Tha Penalty Of Success , But success carries penalties. Performances turned in by brilliant prospects Sargeant gleaned from the "bushes" brought immediate attention and interest from pro leagues. While other teams, with one exception, despite all their high priced talent, are going through the season with their original rosters, "Sarge" has lost four of his best players. Medford has lost one, a bonus player belonging to Boston. From the Chiefs, Dave Mann went to the Oakland team of the Pacific Coast Leaftie; Ernie Velasquez is playing with Wenatchee of Western International ; Dwane Helbig, signed by the Portland Beavers of the Coast League, is doing farm duty with Vancouver, B.C., of WIL, and Bob Boncbrake. belonging to the Dodgers, is with that club's farm team at Great Falls, Mont. The manner in which the Roseburg team has been rid dled by the drafting of its players gives conclusive evidence that "Sarge" had a keen eye in picking his talent, but it has been a heartbreaking soason for the Roseburg manager and this area's red-hot fans, who had built up high hopes as a result of early' season play. Still In Competition . Sargeant is still "pitching." While his patched-up team has been floundering against the League's top contenders, Roseburg is not yet to be counted out of competition. The manager has been scouring the country for replacements and has come up with several likely prospects for the re mainder of the season. If his judgment is as good on the newcomers as on those oiiginally brought into Roseburg uni form, the Chiefs' still may be counted on for strong competi tion, although first plave is out of reach. Win, lose, or draw, ihe Chiefs are deserving of the great est possible support during the remaining games of the base ball year. And while we're trs.'ing a bouquet in Sarge's direction, we'd like to pass out orchids as well to all those responsible for the Pee-Wee program which, in our opinion, is one of the finest projects any community can sponsor. When one sees the turnout of youngsters learning the fundamentals of baseball, and observes the enthusiasm, earnestness and sport manship they display in their contests, he can be grateful to those who sponsor this activity and to the coaches' and helpers who have turned ;n such an excellent job. The same goes for the sponsors of Legion Junior baseball, provided for an older group of boys. The softball leagues also are contributing their part to the community's sports program, furnishing participation op portunity for scores ol older boys and young adults and some not so young while providing entertainment for hun dreds of fans. Altogether, the Roseburg community can bo very proud of its baseball programs of the season and the achievements of its teams. It is to be hoped that fans will continue their support during the few weeks remaining in the season and have their enthusiasm geared for even higher endeavors next year. . Fromnrt i f jj There's nothing like having a nice quiet weekend at home plan ned, with oodles of timo in which to write a column etc., and then just like that find your self throwing things Into a suit case, jotting down a shopping list for a 'few things' so we can stop in a shady spot and enjoy scen ery and ' a snack bv the road. Along with It, the "visiting" with my mother that never gets caught up. And on top of everything, wondering frantically what on earth I'll write about for the Mend ing Basket before I leave. All be cause friends have asked us for the loth, which made us switch our coast plans to this week. Well, Instead of the leisurely log up coast NEXT weekend we'll be there any minute now. Soou as EJ can clean up his desk and get loose from the olfice. "First of the month" and all that. Moth er and I both love tha ocean so we hope to be sleeping tonight where we can hear what the wild waves are saying, and see them, t r Or. Tuei., Aug. 5, 1952 V. Stanton Chiefs, as well as exhibitions, - Wee games Saturday night Lending basket too, In the moonlight If any. (The other evening it was hot onoiich to fry eggs outside this unsnarled house, so wo went down to tip coast for a fish dinner, and found fog and COLD. I felt silly and looked it in a thin dress!) Speaking of driving up the coast makes mo think of a letter that came from Scappoose on the Col umbia. Mrs. P.J.S. (who was "raised in Yoncalla,") said nice things about the Mending Basket and then asked about the Centen nial souvenir plates mentioned here recently. . . .There Is much Interest In the Centennial. There should be a gathering of the clans then all right! At the Old Timers Picnic In Drain recently (R.K.P. was tell ing me) "three l.ano sisters were here who hadn't been back since 1902." And there was an elderly man who hadn't been here In al most that long. Incidentally soma one happened to ask RFT a ques tion, direction as to how to get there to the picnic grounds, and An Explanation of Tri, ' S J urflmro li 'ii --yv 7' -'I ''f'i:4f'.''4i,J'5!''' . "v. Fulton Lewis Jr. Wt L-J itrTstiUMtTH.Tmnvrr..- WASHINGTON The propaganda campaign to relieve Aleer Hiss of the burden of 10 Soviet Russia has reached an At the cost of $7,500 and after a year s work by mechanical ex perts a typewriter was consiruciea purporting to prove Whittaker Chambers could have built one him self, typed the incriminating Hiss documents and planted the ma chine where hiss couia una u in time for the sensational trial that ended in conviction and prison for the former State Department of ficial. Federal Judge Henry Coddard tossed the mechanical contraption back into the laps of the Hiss lawy ers in denying a motion for a new trial. U.S. District Attorney Myles J. Lane described the bid for a new trial as "frivolous." There Is much more to the new Hiss bid for freedom than this, however. At the close of the second Hiss trial the government produced a witness, a colored maid named Ed ith Murray, who testified sue nad worked for Chambers when he liv ed with his wife at 903 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland, in 19.14. She said she saw the Hiss and Chambers families together there. Hiss, In the motion for retrial attempted to impeach Miss Mur ray's testimony with witnesses who stated the Chambers family never had a maid, that a colored maid was never seen on the premises and that the maid was primed by the FBI to make an identification of the Hiss family. His lawyers al so said they had no time for proper cross-examination of her and were surprised by the prosecution when her testimony was presented. Judge Goddard, in denying the motion, pointed out that Edith Mur ray was cross-examined at length by the defense. In fact, there are 29 pages of cross-examination ques tions and answers in the printed record on appeal. No ob ection was noted ny inc defense at the time the maid testi fied. The defense for Hiss also nas produced a janitor, Louis Leisman, who swears that he "knows from mv own observations that Cham bers nevec employed a colored aid. " He says he spent most m his time, summer and winter, in the basement of the apartment building where he could observe whoever arrived or departed. Sev er once did he see a maid go into the building he asserts. Leisman a testimony is not creq- Itable. U.S. Attorney Lane, in his successful rebuttal of the retrial motion, points out why: "To date, the government has discovered records of two criminal convictions against this person ; (Leisman). but because of positive I evidence of the use of aliases by j him I hesitate to state that this is the sum total of his prior relations with police authorities." On January 7, 1923. Leisman, then using the name of Louis J. Smith, was convicted in Buffalo, New York, of criminally discharg ing a firearm On November 7. 1931, Leisman was convicted in RFP recognized him as an old school friend he hadn't seen since 1916. Imagine that! Name was Harold Otis. There is a fascination about such gatherings. Down in Lonj Beach (Calif.) as you proba1 ly know, they have stale picnics each year in Bixby Park, with boards on trees for each state where people sign, and also see who else is here. Some rare stor ies come out of those picnics Bye now! Those Washington years in prison for spying for all - time high in inanity. Baltimore, Maryland, of violating the national prohibition law and was given a jail sentence and a fine of $2,500. He was'opcrating a "speakeasy," according to court records. In May of 1950 Leisman was charged in Maryland with criminal assault but was acquitted after trial. Between the years 1942 and 1951, Leisman held 26 different jobs, "most of which he lost because of being continuously intoxicated," ac cording to U.S. Attorney Lane. Between tho years 1919 and 1951 Leisman is now known to have had at least 47 different residences. Records in possession of the Fed eral Court reveal that he has had "two wives and one mistress, the last named being frequently beat en by Leisman and once hospital ized." In summary, the U.S. Attorney stated that this Hiss witness, who is being used to dispute a family maid as to her employment, is "totally irresponsible and an ex cessive drinker, if not a confirmed alcoholic." Lcisnmn said he stared out of a basement window of the apart ment for months on end, drawing a glazed bead on whoever entered. There was then, and there is now. a hack door to the apart ment building which maid Murray ,ind countless otiicrs used frequent ly. Thus another Hiss defense wit- ness crumbles under the scrutiny of the Federal Bureau of Investi gation. There are others less easy to refute and I'll go into one of them tomorrow. Hear Fulton Leivis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. 400 Youngsters Needed For Scene En Pageant Dance A group of as many as 400 school-age youngsters for a Cen tennial Pageant dance scene is being sought by Ralph Patterson, director of the pageant's dance routines. The youngsters, ranging in age from 4 to 14, will participate in Episode 2 of the pageant the "Indian Episode.'1 They will rep resent the various Indian furies hnlh unnii inH evil fnrpp which bcsct mankind, according to an Tndinn lecend nortraved in the Tne vounesters will also be used other smaller dance scenes, Patterson said. Rehearsals are being held In the Junior High School Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 9 o'clock. Patterson said ex perience is not necessary. The dance director is also look ing for about 30 high school-age or older girls to participate in bal let dances to be used throughout the pageant. The next rehearsal of this group is planned for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Patteisoi School of Dance, 120 N. Kane St. Previous dancing experience is not necessary for this group ci ther, Patterson said. MONEY SUIT FILED Howard Cooper Corp., has filed nit in Circuit Court asainst . T. ! McFarland, for $576.56 allcjedly 1 due the plaintiff. Saucers In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) it occurred off the Russian Siber ian coast, it was an international incident. Watch it: If it was an International Inci dent (as it would be if Russian pilots flew the attacking Russian, built MIGs it would mean that Russia doesn't want a truce that would take the pressure off us in Korea and will probably go on provoking international incidents, truce or no truce. Speaking of truces, the modern Olympic games have just ended with American athletes finally vic torious. For a while, we were scared pink lest the Russians win. That would have been bad (for us) for the Russians obviously en tered with the idea of using a victory (if they won) for propa ganda purposes. So far, the cold war Is largely a propaganda war in which the Russians have proved quite adept. An Olympic victory would have provided them with a lot of new (and pretty good) material. Let's give thanks to our able athletes for delivering us from that WHEN did the Olympic games start? It was a long time ago. In 776 B.C., the Greeks began reckoning time by them. They were held every four years. This four-year period was known as an Olympiad. The beginning of the first year of the Olympiad was determined by the first full moon of the summer solstice (the longest day of the year.) The first year of Christ was the first year of the 195th Olympiad. So we know they were at least 780 years old then. But they had been going on a long time when the first historical record was made of them. Why were they held? There v were MANY reasons. Among other things, the ancient Greeks were sports-minded. If they had had newspapers then, the sports page would have been hot stuff as it is now. But ONE reason was the belief that clean sport would STOP (or at least greatly reduce) war among the city-states of the Greek world. With that idea in mind, a GEN ERAL TRUCE was called and en forced during the time when the games were being held. There Is room here only to re port that the idea DIDN'T work. In spite of the Olympic games and their truly TREMENDOUS significance in the Greek world, WARS WENT ON. The quarrel some city states quit fighting while the Olympic truce was on, but resumed their fighting when the truce ended. In the end, sad to relate, these constant quarrels and the wars that resulted from them DESTROYED the Greek civiliza tion. Anyway, they taught us that truces don't end wars. Oddly enought, in these days, the Rus sians, who are at the moment the chief promoters of war, seized upon the modern Olympic games as a device to promote nationalis tic propaganda, which in its turn is a great PROMOTER of war. RECRUITING AIDE M Sgt. Wallace Louis Baljo will arrive in Roseburg Thursday to assist in recruit duties at the lo cal Marine recruiting office. Re cruiter James A. Larrieu announc ed today. Sgt. Baljo was in charge of the Kelso, Wash. Marine recruiting of fice until it closed last week. EDITOR BREAKS HIP PORTLAND I Phillip H. Par rish, Oregonian editorial page edi tor, Tuesday was reported improv ing from a hip fracture. He was hospitalized Wednesday after a fall at his home. Starr Tightening Up On Those Coins, Cost Of Living Has Reached New High By WADE JONES . In the unlikely eenl that you hadn't already noticed it, the cost of living has hit a new all-time high. As reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of living index for average-income folks in towns and cities had risen on June 15 to. 139.6 of the 1935-1939 base on which living costs are figured. Jif'uHLIi and Jms, hi8h.Iy costly items lumped under mis ceuan?ous goods and services were largely responsible for the new costof living record. The index for food rose to 231.5. That was 2 per cent higher than a year ago and 14 per cent above the figure two years ago. Meat, fish, poultry and eggs were pri marily responsible for pushing up the food index. Under miscellaneous (roods and services, which also showed a big jump, were listed doctors' fees, hospital rates, street car fares. movie tickets and laundry service. At about (he same time the I.a. bor Department made its cost-of-living announcement, the Com merce Department came forth with the news that national pro duction all goods and services turned out hit $329 billion last year. That was a 16-per-cent gain over the year before. Only about half of this gain, though, was real in the sense of more goods and services produc ed. The other half was due simplv to higher prices last year over the year before. In its analysis of the situation, the Commerce Department sa'd the biggest factor in the 16-percent increase was government buying, mostly for the expanding national defense program. Government expenditures were $62.5 billion last year as compared wun 4z.i Diuion in 1949. Corporations boosted their prof its, before taxes, to $42.9 billion last year as compared with 27.1 billion in 1949. But taxes took a big chunk. After taxes, corporate ororils last year were S18.7 bil lion. They were $16.3 billion in 1949. Personal income last year was 12 per cent more than in 1950, and personal savings were $17 bil lion last year, as compared with $11.2 billion in 1950 and $6.7 billion in 1949. Income and savings were large- mm J . ijji w F ' ' aft 1 f- 'vr h I ---' fun: C " A food not a drug! You don't count calories! You don't feel starvedl COMPLETE PACKAGE only $6.95 L What 'ou gef Ann la A 116-pag book giving you Ann D.laAeld'i new, easy Reducing Plan. 2a A 30-day supply of Ann Delafleld Appetite Reducer. , a A 30-day supply of Ann Delafleld Vitamin Capsules. HERE IS JUST ONE TYPICAL tXAMPLlt NORA LACEY LOST 65 mm f Nai. lauy'l doctor oxamlnod har aflor nor lot! of 63 poundi and found hor to bo In oxtillanl phyilcol condition. Hor loltor to Ann DalaSold tolll a typical itory of tho groat hap pinoll echlovod by fheio who nevo followod tho Ann Dolaflold Inducing Hon. Anti Oeiafield has helped mote pWp.d reduce then cny otbor wftmait Itvthe'' WoVWif IN ROSEBURG, SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY FULLERTON'S REXALL DRUGS 127 NORTH JACKSON Jiy the result of Increased wages and salaries. They totaled $169.9 billion last year. In 1949 they were $133.4 billion. All of which is not much help to the poor gent a husband and father who made public plaint recently that although he is an executive of some sort, living in a city and making $10,000 a year, he and his family didn't have enough to get along on and were actually having to do with out certain necessities. Some of our sympathy for the man diminished when he revealed he was living in a house much beyond his means because he had to keep up with the Joneses and put on a big front for business reasons. But still, $10,000 is a pretty fair chunk of money, and when it won't see a man and his family through a year, even if he has gotten a little over his head as far as housing is concerned. things are getting sort of tough. 'COPTERS FINISH HOP WIESBADEN. Germany tfl Two United States helicopters the first aircraft of their type ever to fly from America to Europe landed here Monday night at the end of a record breaking 4,000 mile "grasshopper" mission. Va your J 4aws-Ryiaw m aot Wall f dallvarad by M o:IS pjn., ptione S 2-2631 bafwaaa (K(aiid7M AT:TJBil93EEram Hurt WW with the Dehfield Reducing . . . and gained a richer, fuller BEFORE AND AFTER MEASUREMENTS Before After Loss Butt 45" 35" 10" Waitl .... 37" t 27" 10" Thigh 26" 20" S'A" Calf 15" 14" iy4 Arm 13" 10':" 2Vi" Weight' .... 198 lb. 133 lbs. o5lbs. "Dear Miii Delafleld: Now at last I am able to do the thingi that I have wanted to do for years. After losing 65 poundi, I am not ashamed to go skating and to have all the fun that I missed before. It's like being born all over again al th age of twenty-five!" Sincerely, Nora lacey, Brooklyn, New Yorn Aajfan aa raqoait frM l.ialt. lat A.j.Im Rods Plan Five-Yor Manchuria Migration HONG KONG 11 Communist China is considering a mass move ment of population to meet itats needs in Manclfui'ia. Ko Kang, ruler of Manchuria fop the Peipicg government, in a prospectus for Manchuria Indus trialization calhd for "a five year plan of immigration." Kao said it will be necessary to move part of the people from South Manchuria and China proper to North Manchuria for reclamation, building up new villages and es tablishing state and collective farms. Delicate Weighing Device Developed NEW YORK I The BM1 tel ephone laboratories have added ts their testing equipment a micro, balance so sensitive that it can de termine the weight of a fragment of lint caught floating in the air. It is an intricate device, and can show changes as minute as 250 millionths of a gram. CHECK UTNE BROS. Kaiser-Frazer Dealers For Budget-Priced USED CARS 659 N. Jackson Ph. 3-535S W Vtmumtu mum V-T it 1 V,1 Plan' POUNDS life! ' DIAL 3-7415 Ha J S',?J. .