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Newspaper Page TextU. of 0. Library augone, Oregon B8niociratic:l?airty IAf lfe4SSisiiJ j "j-. Ettablithtd 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1952 194-52 , CENTENNIAL STAGE Workmen are nearing completion of the 225-foot long stage on which the Umpqua Cavalcade will be dramatized Labor Day weekend. The two romps to the left lead to a point ot the rear of the stoge on which set tlers will fight off attacking Indians in the stage presenta tion of the Battle Rock incident. (Poul Jenkins picture) Special Registration Dated At Fullerton School Because Of Double Shift Possibility Special registration for all children planning to attend Fullerton School this year will be held at the school building from 10 a.m. to 12 noon DST, Monday, M. C. Deller, District 4 superintendent, announced today. Results of the special sign-up will show whether or not Fullerton will need to install a double shift until work is finished on the building's new east wing. II a double shift la found neces sary to accommodate all pupils, it will be in effect for only about two weeks, De'ler says, as con tractors expect to finish the new classrooms by then. The contractor's original com pletion date was Sept. 7. It is essential that all Fullerton children, grades one through shi. come to the school to register, Lyle Eddy, principal, says. If students can't appear themselves, he asks that they send someone in their places. All parents of first graders are asked to accompany their chil dren and bring birth certificates. Registration workers will col lect $1.25 for insurance and .50 cents for weekly readers from the students when they sign up. Arrangements have been made for school buses to transport the students to the school for registra tion Monday morning. The schedule follows: Mack's Grocery to Fullerton: Leave Foothill Drive, 9:45 a.m.; Asee Lane, 9:47; Collett'i Gro cery, 9:48: Mack's Grocery '(turn around), 9:49: opposite Broccoli Lane, 9:51; arrive Fullerton, 955. Laurelwood Community Hospital Territory: Leave Library Arts building at Senior High, 9:40; Community Hos pital entrance, 9:42; Umpqua Ave- (Continued on Page 2) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Red China note: It is believed in Moscow that Chinese Red Leader Chou En-Lai will see Joseph Stalin before Chou leaves to return to Peiping. If he doesn't, I'd say, il will be because old Joe won't see him, and that WOULD be news. Jitters-in-the-news note: The Russians are building a new air base in the Berlin area only six minutes by jet plane from the former German capital. According to the U.S.-sponsored German paper in Berlin, the Rus sians have about 2,000 East Ger mans on the job building a field live miles long ana iwo ana a nan miles wide. Wouldn't it he WONDERFUL if our foreign policy were such that at every turn in the road WE would be giving the RUSSIANS the jitters instead of (as is now (he case) the Russians giving us the jitters? Listen: The United States is the greatest nation on earth. Its people are the freest on earth. Freedom does something to people. It gives them ideas. It makes them more effi cient. IF PROPERLY LED, there isn't anything our people couldn't do including putting the bee on the Russians instead of- letting the Russians put the bee on us all the time. In New York this morning Jesse Jones, a former chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion (in the da- ' BEFORE tlie mink coats and the deep freezes) and an able and competent Texan, told the reporters that if the two party system is to continue in America there should be a (Continued on Page Two) The Weather Fair today, tonight and Friday with iom high cloudinosi. Cooltr Friday. Highest tomp. for any Aug. 10 Lowtit tomp for any Aug. 39 Highest ttmp. last 24 hours 84 Lowest tomp. last 24 hours 52 Frocip. last 24 hours 0 Frocip. from August 1 Tr. Frocip. from Sopt, 1 v- 31.21 Eicon ...5.1 Suntot today, 1:07 p.m. DST Sunrise tomorrow, 4:1 a.m. DST Road Job Employee Crushed To Death When Truck Upsets An employe of th Gardiner Lumber Co. was killed Wednes day afternoon when a heavy un loaded gravel truck turned over on him. Officer W. T. Tankersley of Reedsport identified him Irl Ira Mays, Jl. The accident occurred on the Wealherly Creek Road off High way 38, some 26 miles east of Reedsport. Driver of the truck, Hcrma V. Kerth, Portland, and a passen ger and owner of the truck, Rich ard A. Harmon, Scottsburg, were uninjured. Police said the vehicle's air tank became depleted and the driver was unable to use his air brakes while descending a hill. The driver then attempted to run the truck into a bank to stuo it. Mays grabbed his coat and lunch bucket and attempted, to jump clear of the truck when it turned over on him. The front corner of the truck bed landed on him, killing him instantly. He is survived by a wife. fh! men were working on a road job for the Gardiner Lumber Co. Two Blazes Blamed On Careless Smokers Fire fighting crews of the Doug las Forest Protective Association were called out Wednesday to bat tle two bla7.es reportedly started by careless cigaret smokers. A fire near the landing for a log ging operation a mile up Deer Creek from the Grange Hall burn ed over nearly an acre before be ing controlled. It was. traced to a cigaret. Another fire along Highway 42 on Camas Mountain was believed started by a cigaret tossed away by a moiorist. The blaze covered about a tenth of an acre of grass Valley Fire Department crews had extinguished the fire before DFPA crews arrived at the scene, on the edge of slash lands. Camas Woman's Rifle Scares Off Hammer Attacker DALLAS, Ore. IflPolice Thurs day hunted a man who appeared at a farm house near here and at tacked a woman with a hammer. The victim. Mrs. Margaret Ben son. 34, frightened th man off with a rifle, quickly brought to her by a daughter, Connie, i2. Mrs. Benson told police Connie answered the door and the man asked for her mother. When Mrs. Benson put in an appearance, the man began hitting her with the hammer. She screamed to Connie to bring the gun. The man dropped the hammer hut snatched it up again as he fled. Police said there was no ap parent motive for .the attack. Mrs. Benson said she had never seen the man before. Louisiana Demos O.K. Stevenson, Nor Platform BATONROUGE, La '.P Louis tana Democrats have pledged the state's 10 electors to presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson but have withheld endorsement of the party's ticket. The victory for Stevenson came on a 77 to 9 vote by the Demo cratic State Central Committee Wednesday and assured the Stevenson Sparkman ticket full billing under the traditional and familiar rooster emblem on the November ballot. Even so. members of the 100 man committee said they were not necessarily endorsing the Illinois governor and his vice presidential running mate. Sen. John Spark man of Alabama, and that they certainly were not ratifying tht party's platform. School Budget Must Be Altered A special - school meeting of L, line msiriei iz win bo nein ai i p.m. (standard time) for a sup plementary budget election au thorizing the following expendi tures: 1. Teacher for Toketee Falls to take care of increased enrollment, $3,800. 2. Seating for Toketee, $900. 3. Removal of high voltage lines from the school site, $1,200. 4. To authorize payment of 1951 52 District transportation charg es, $3,600. 5. Purchase of three lots adjoin ing the new high school site, $3,375. Supt. Byron Evans reports that the proposed expenditures repre sent no additional tax levy, as monies for such payments are al ready available. Authorization for the expenditures, however, must be voted by the people of the dis. trict, as the funds were originally raised for other purposes. The board may not divert funds for purposes other than those origin ally intended without approval of the voters. Recall Election Request Refused County Clerk Roy Agee Wednes day informed sponsors of the re-1 call-Justice Clarence Leonard pe tition, that he must again refuse to call a special election on a re call proposal. "It is not my purpose or de sire to hinder the right of recall of public officials granted by our Constitution." the county clerk said, "but 1 feel it would be a use less waste of money to call such election and then have the whofe proceedings invalidated because of defects in the petition." Agee was acting on the opinion of District Attornay Robert M. Stults, who said the petitions were invalid because of failure to sub mit a statement of campaign ex penditures and failure to attach a statement to each petition as to why the justice should be recalled. "If the sponsors wish to invoke mandamus proceedings, the valid ity of the petitions may then be determined by the court bcfoie election," Agee said. Improvements Being Made At Park In Drain Extensive improvement work is being conducted on the Anna Drain Park, adjacent to the Drain swim ming pool, County Parks Supervis or Charles S. Collins announced. Included in the project is a $12, 000 paving program for roads in the area. The cost is to be shared by the Parks Department, the Bonneville Power Administration which uses roads in- the park for access to its sub station, and sev eral citizens of Drain. Officials also .tentatively expect that the City of Drain and the Drain School District will bear a por tion of the expense. Other , improvements include a 200-foot tile drain to replace an open drainage ditch, and a plan ned construction of a cooking shelt er. Thirty GIs Drown When Hit By Wall Of Water SEOUL, Korea t Thirty U S. soldiers on a training exercise Thursday were feared drowned by a wall of water which engulfed them suddenly as they crossed a South Korean river. Bodies of only 12 of the 45th infantry division men lost in last Monday s tragedy have heen re recovered, a division spokesman said. Names were withheld until next of kin are notified. Rain from a typhoon which lashed Okinawa and Korea this week unleashed the crushing nine font wall of water in the norm ally knee-deep river. Myrtle Creek Man Fined $150 For Tipsy Driving Municipal Judge Ira B. Riddle today fined Eugene Arthur Hall of Myrtle Creek $150 on a charge of drunken driving, suspended a 30-day jail sentence and ordered his driver's license suspended for 90 days according '.n Municipal Court records. CRASS FIRE DOUSED Rural Fire District crews were called out at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when a grass fire w-as touch?d off near the new Green School south of Roseburg by a cigarette tossed away by a motorist. The small fire had heen extinguished when the fire truck arrived. Meeds Mew llood- Ike Offers Middle U.S. Veering To Tyranny, General Says Present Government Declared Complacent From Too Long Rule By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH KANSAS CITY, Kan. 1 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower says the paths to the extreme left and the far right both lead to tyranny and that the Truman administra tion has been traveling left. The Republican presidential nom inee set forth those views in a speech last night in Boise, Idaho, 1 and then fle.v here for a confer ence today with GOP leaders from seven Midwestern states. At Boise. Eisenhower told a police-estimated crowd of about ' 20.000 persons: We have had for a long time government in power that ap plies the philosophy of the left to government." And he said centralization of power in Washington has become so great that the government "does everything but come in and wash the dishes for the housewives." He got a rousing ovation at the outset and was interrupted by ap plause several times. He disregarded his prepared text, but in his off-the-cuff remarks h stressed much the same theme 1 he has outlined in the prepared version. "The great problem of America today," he said, "is to take that irsu.M ,,H rinwn ih mlrMIe ih. straight road down the middle, the path of progress that will never allow tvranny to become the fea ture of the American government." No Complacency, His Pltdg The general promised that as President he would devote all his efforts to providing a government "that does not grow complacent, that does not grow away from the people and become indifferent to them, that does not become arro gant in the exercise of its power, but strives to be the partner and servant of the people and not their master." When one party has been too long in power, Eisenhower said, it becomes so sure of itself it does not have lo uproot the first sign of dishonesty in government. Instead, he added, it "goes along (Continued on Page 2) Strike Hits Harvester Plants In Three States CHICAGO im The independent Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers Union called a strike last midnight at 10 International Har vester Co. plants in three states after contract negotiations broke off on a bitter note. The union called 25,000 workers off the job, declaring, "The com pany has asked for a fight and is going to get a hell of a licking." The company in turn accused the union of "irresponsible leader ship." The union's demands included a flat 13-cent hourly pay hike, FRACTURES FOOT Ernest Deeds, 57, 110 Chestnut St., was in Community Hospital today for treatment of a fractured foot suffered Wednesday in an ac cident while working at St. Hel ens Wood Products at Dillard. Necessity Demands Replacement Of Aged Damage caused by a barrel of sulphuric acid, which was acci dentally lipped over 30 years ago, was being repaired today by Ore gon Water Co. construction crews on N. Main St. New six-inch water mains were being installed on N. Main from E. Douglas to E. Oak streets and from Cass to Lane streets. The three-block project is expected lo be completed within a month, said A. R. Andrews, manager of the firm. Earl Hcr.bcst. water foreman for the company, said "(hat barrel of acid has been eating at our pipes for years" and made part of the job a necessity. More than 30 years ago, he said, a barrel of sulphuric acid was stored in the rear end of the old Marstcrs Drug Store, almost di rectly across the street from the water company olfice at 219 N. Main St. The barrel lipped over and the action of the acid over a long pe riod of years has damaged the pipes. Othar Pipe Tracts Found Henbest said that in other re cent pipe projects in the down town area crews have discovered traces of the old four-inch jiveted pipes used in the 1890s when Iwo (Continued on .Page Two) Yanks, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans Linked In Charge Of Feeding, Money To Reds TOKYO V. S. military authorities and Japanese police said today they have arrested some American service men and 73 Japanese, Chinese and Korean nationals in con nection with what they called a three million dollar a year black market ring that feeds dollars to Communists. i ism ROBERTO. TRIPODI, above, is the new personnel manager at I Roseburg Lumber Co., having taken over the pdlitton in July. Tripodi, a native of Tacoma, w-i- a.!. . J. ' wain., wos reuenuy cniuycu , k (, c..,,i. nffir of Cnn. rVrr, n( ''ner -OrP- " America dt 1 Chicogo. He received his A3 degree ot the Qjllege of Puget Sound. Tacoma. and Master's d in business administra- e9ree m Business aaminisiro . . , . , . . , ,-ifi t r '"'""""'""'" '"'"-'"''"' "' Harvard Graduate School of Business. He wos visiting lec turer in personnel and indus trial relations at the University of Washington last year. He is married and has two sons. Major Official Of justice Dept. Will Be Probed WASHINGTON W A top Jus tice Department offical was re ported Thursday to be a prime target of House investigators in hearings starting next Tuesday. Rep. Chelf (D-Ky), chairman of the special Judiciary Subcommit tee investigating the department, declined to identify the official be yond saying he is still in the de partment. Most of the top assistants lo for mer Atty. Gen. J. Howard Mc Grath have resisnd or have been given new duties in a department shakeup instituted by McGrath's successor, James P. McGranc.-y. The subcommittee is known lo have been working on one official "in particular" for some time, and investigators reported they now think they have Ihe "missing link" of evidence they needed. Cliclf gave no indication of the nature of the committee's case, hut said there would be some 'sur prising revelations." One of the latest to go was .lames A. Mullally, 52, long-time lawyer in the department's crim- inal division, who was suspended late Wednesday pending an invesli- gation of his "outside activities." OLD PIPE REPLACED Oregon Woter Co. construction crews ore shown obove on N. Main St. installing new six-inch woter pipes to replace one of the first stondord water pipe lines used in Roseburg. This view shows the project underway looking south between WoshinQton and Oak Streets. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) ) -Of -Road Policy Maj. Jack Elliott, judge advo cate for the Far East Air Forces, said the ring operates in this man ner: Military payment certificates, used in lieu ot money by U. S. forces in Japan, are spent Illegally by seiwiccmen in bars, hotels, restaurants and for taxi fares. The certificates are not supposed to be used in dealings with Japanese. The certificates reach money deal ers who then pay other servicemen to exchange them for dollar drafts or money orders. The money orders and drafts are turning up in Hong Kong, off the Red China mainland, Elliott said, and "it's a conclusion anybody can make that the dollars are going to the Communists" lo give th Reds "dollars they need lo support their operations in dollar areas over the world." , ! Whisker Contest UCCUTS Saturday Whiskered men from through out Ihe countv will converge in ,,,, R,..,r c-.limlv eim. ninl. fo. tne ontennial whisker contest, to be held in conjunction with the street dance. Activity will begin about 8 p.m. lk n . ...i Saturday at the Courthouse when those participating in the dance will march through downtown Roseburg to the site of the dance, on Rose Street near the Library. Participating in the march will be Queen Barbara and her court and members of Ihe Whiskilantcs, Chairman Bob Elliott said. The beard contest will begin about 8:30 and awards are bcin" offered for Ihe longest, the bush iest, most unique, most colorful and the scrawniest beards, con test Chairman Stewart Stevens said. Contestants may sign up for (he contest between 8 and 9 p.m. at the Library park. Only those who have Whiskilanle cards may compete, and the beard must have been started after March 10. Seth Sirrine, local barber, will replace Roy Rose as a judge of the beard contest. Rose was un able to attend the festivities. The Oklahoma Moonshiners will play for the dance which is expect ed to get under way about 9 p.m. The dance, interspersed with sev eral acts of special entertainment, will continue until 1 a.m. West Germon Opponent Of Allies Passes On BONN, Germany The strong est foe of West German rearma ment and alignment with Ihe West, Socialist chief Dr. Kurt Schuma cher, died here last night. He was 56. The fervent leader second only lo Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a political force in postwar Ger many succumbed to a blood cir- 1 culatinn ailment. A cripple with only one arm and one leg, he had hren failing ever since his health was ruined in Nazi concentration camps. Destruction Toll Boosted By Air Fleet Two New Raids Reduce Korean Reds' Factories To Flaming Debris SEOUL. Korea I U.N. B-29 Supcrforls, B-26s and fighterbomb rrs left Communist factories, stock piles and troop installations in flames in two massive raids over northwest Korea Thursday. Thirty-eight Okinawa-based B29s hurled 350 tons of bombs on Pyong yang, the North Korean capital, after civilians were warned lo get out. The Air Force said the big bomb nr. mtkiiil ACtA nnM , t - . sunolv and industrial areas and left huge fires burning at opposite ends of Uie city in the four-hour strike. , All 38 planes returned safely, de spite Red anti-aircraft fire and fiehter nnnnsitinn. More than 100 B-26s and fighter I involving uaugnur Margaret, sec bombers followed with a daylight ret Service and Swedish newspa bombing of a giant cement plant I Pe"- . at Osu, about 50 miles south of ln response to a question, Tru Pyongyang. Returning pilots csti- man said he hadn't made any per- mated they destroyed 63 buildings and damaged 28 others. i Third Major Smash The Osu raid was the third big : Allied bombing of Communist tar- Bcts two d''s- The Air Force I saia 59 buildings were destroyed Wednesday in a 200-plane -Navy and A r Force smash at Ihe Hed build-up area near Namyang, 25 miles northwest of Pyongyang. Great clouds of cement du-t arose at Osu as the planes bombed structures used for making the concrete of Red military installa tions. Ifi smaller raids, the U.S. Ma rines said their f.-icrs demolished 10 maintenance buildings at a ve hicle park 20 miles north of Yonan and 17 barracks-type structures near Namchonjom both in North west Korea. Bank At Glendale Assured Project It was announced in Glendale today that preliminary surveys, indicating an approximate total of $1,000,000 per year in bank de posits from this area, have assur ed the establishment of a bank in Glendale, possibly by the first of Ihe year. Al Mohr, local merchant and Glendale justice of peace, who has been active in the drive, states that the survey is far from com plete, but that Ihe banking firm interested has, in vicsv of com mitments already made, announced itself as satisfied and ready to go ahead with its plans. Many of the persons surveyed, in the city, the outlying areas and neighbor ing communities, made definite pledges of banking business; oth ers promised to make use of a bank if one were established here. It was also .revealed by those who have been working on the project locally that enough mon ey had previously been pledged, so that if Ihe banking firm presently interested should change its plans, an indenendent bank will be es tablished. Water Main No Backward Stride From 20-Yr.Record President Denies'Mtss Asserts His Political Opponents All Wrong WASHINGTON I President Truman said Thursday there ought to be some new blood in the Dem ocratic party but he knows of no mess in Washington. At a news conference with the accent on politics, Truman said he had no comment on the way the Democratic candidates. Gov. Adlai Stevenson and Sen. John Spark man, have started their campaign. He said too that: He doesn't have to read what Ihe opposition says he knows -ahead of time what it is going to say and it's all wrong. lie thinks he knows more about Ihe government than anvone in the United Slates. Certainly Stevenson can have the advantage of the good research which fortified his own campaign speeches in 1948. Stevenson can have all the information he wants and so can Gen. Dwight D. Ei senhower, the Republican presi dential nominee. Truman said he will give them Ihe truth and if they want to use it, it's up to them. While the Democratic party can stand some new blood, that doesn't mean we are going back on what the Democratic party has done in ,he Past 20 'Pars Mul" On Sparkman's Job There was no comment on Spark- man's statement that the recent steel strike had been mishandled. Nor did the President wish to go into any detail on the incidents ports regarding charges in the Swedish press that Secret Service men accompanying his daughter had used roughouse tactics. He said no new instructions are planned for the Secret Service guards because they are always right and don't need any. At one point, he took a swipe at the Saturday Evening Post, say ing it is always wrong. That was in response to an in quiry whether he intends to ans wer an article in the magazine that said he gave the country false information about a grain short age. ----- - Truman said he hadn't read the article and didn't intend to. He said he almost never reads the Post because it always is wrong. Asked how he knows, whether he got a briefing on such things, the President said all he needs to do is look at the table of contents and he knows. Knows of No "Mail" Another line of questioning cen tered on an exchange of corres pondence between Governor Stev enson and a Portland newspaper editor which referred to "the mess in Washington." Truman said he had no comment because he knew nothing of any mess. Academy Reunion Plans Arranged Mrs. Inez Miller, for many years principal of Wilbur School, will speak at the Umpqua Academy Homecoming Sunday, giving the history of the old school. The academy was at one time the only college between Sacra mento and Salem and was a pre paratory school for Willamette University at Salem. It continued for nearly half a century, closing in 1900. Alumni from throughout the state and Northwest have been invited, and the celebration is op en to the public. Alumni are also invited to bring a basket lunch for 1 p.m. Qkfore the homecoming activity begins. Starting at 2:30 the program ' will include an address of wel come by County Judge Carl C. Hill. Mrs. Harold D. McKay Is chair man of the reunion, Mrs. Flossie Virden is program chairman. Nine candidates for Dowager Queen of the Douglas County Cen tennial celebration will be present, and one of them will be announced as queen. Selection is bring made by nn anonymous out-of-county commit tee. No Special School Levy In Galesville District No snecial tax will be levied in I alnsuilU School District 127 this year, as it was unanimously de cided by voters at a special dis trict meeting recently. Reason is that the District failed to tell the assessor's office of its decision in time for a special levy In be included nn the tax rolls, Ken neth Barneburg, County school su perintendent, explains. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reitenstein With the prices of automo biles, accessories, labor and in luronce rates going higher, about the only cheap thing left in connection with motor ve- j hide operation it human life.