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2 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., Dee. 1, 1952 French-Backed Rule Of Saar Is Victorious SAARBRUECKEN, The Saar I This disputed border state's French-backed government was re turned to office today with a clear majority in parliamentary elections and with only one-fourth of the voters casting blank or invalid bal lots to show a desire to rejoin Ger many Complete official returns from yesterday's balloting gave the Christian People's party CVP of Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann 55 per cent of the valid vote, com pared with 51.4 per cent at the last election in 1947. The party prob ably will hold 29 or the 50 seats in Parliament. The Social Democrats held on to second place with 33 per cent of the legal votes and likely will get 17 seats. Communists, with a 9 per cent vote, rate four seats. Three per cent of the votes went to a new faction, the Democratic People'a party. Hoffmann predicted in a victory statement that France and Ger many soon will resume previous talks seeking a peaceful settlement of the Saar issue. The talks broke down during the campaign preced ing the elections, the holding of which the Germans bitterly oppos ed. Mrs. Bernard Howser Services Set Tuesday Funeral services' for Mrs. Ber nard J. (Margaret Helen) Howser, 43, who died suddenly last Thurs day, will be held in the chapel' of the Long & Orr Mortuary, Tues day, at 10 a.m., with Father Al fred S. Tyson, rector of St. George's Episcopal Church, offi ciating. Following the services here her body will be taken to Eu gene for cremation rites. Mrs. Howser was born Sept. 22, 1909 at Denver, Colo. She was a member of the Episcopal Church. Surviving is the widower, Ber nard J. Howser, Roseburg: s daughter, Patricia Howser, Rose burg; her father Claude Frye, Ban don, Ore.: and a brother, Jeffer son D. Frye, Salem, Ore, Temperance Campbell Funeral Set Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs, Tem perance Campbell, 92, lifelong res ident of this community, who pass ed away Saturday, will be held in the chapel of the Long & Orr Mort uary, 'iuesuay at 2 p.m. with Dr. Morris Roach of the First Pres byterian Church officiating, Con cluding services and vault inter ment will follow in the family plot in the IOOF Cemetery. Mrs. Campbell was born at Rose burg on Jan. 3, 1860, and was pre ceded in death by her husband, the late George S, Campbell. . Surviving are a son, James S. Campbell, Bremerton, Wash.; a daughter, Mis. Willis (Mary) My ers, Roseburg; a sister, Mrs. Mi nerva Smitii. Richmond, Calif.; three grandchildren, Mrs. Victor Bean and Marilyn Myers, Rose burg, and George Campbell, Brem erton, Wash.; and two great grandchildren, Vicki and Christy Bean, both of Roseburg. 14 County Schools Invited To Meeting Invitations have been sent to 14 Douglas County schools to par ticipate in an Ashland Conference for Young Adults March 28, 1953, at which conferees will discuss problems common to high school students. Along the 55 schools from south ern Oregon and northern Cali fornia receiving invitations were Roseburg Camas Valley, Can yonville, Days Creek, Drain, Elk ton, Glendale, Glide, Myrtle Creek, Oakland, Reedsport, Riddle, Sulh erlin and Yoncalla. The conference will be spon sored by. the Ashland branch of the American Association of Univer sity Women and the Ashland Ro tary Club. DIE IN FLAMES WEST SPRING FIELD, Mass. Wl Three small girls died Sunday in an apartment house fire despite the efforts of several tenants to save them. The dead are Virginia Guild, 5. her sister, Janet. 18 months, and Mary Jane Baluknnis, 3. International Affairs Draw Consideration (Continued From Page One) ton Eisenhower, was followed by announcement of appointment of the three as a committee to repre sent the President-elect in a pri vately conducted study of govern mental organization. Rockefeller is a former assistant secretary of state and co-ordinator of inter-American affairs. Flcm- ming, president of Ohio Wesleyan University, is chairman of the Manpower Policy Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization. Milton Eisenhower, the general's brother, is president of Pennsyl vania State College. The naming of Aldrich yester day to succeed Walter S. Gifford, former board chairman of the American Telephone and T e 1 e graph Company, followed by a day the designation of Lodge as head of the American U.N. delegation. Lodge, defeated in his bid for re-election Nov. 4, has been Eisen hower's liaison man with tho out going Truman administration. Vandenberg, announcing Eisen hower's intention to send Aldrich to Great Britain, said the President-elect would respect "with re luctance" a wish expressed by umora to resign. Legal Opinions Give Backing To Firing Of Reds UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. I The United Nations had high legal opinion today to back up firings by Secretary General Trygve Lie to weed out of the U. N. American Communists and those who won't say whether they have been Reds.' Lie's panel of three international jurists said in a 50-pae opinion that under staff regulations and U. S. laws the secretary-general can and should: 1. Fire any U. N. staff employe who is an active member of the American Communist party. 2. Fire any employe accused of espionage, subversion or member ship in an organization declared subversive who refuses to answer questions by a U. S. grand jury or Senate subcommittee on the grounds that his answer might in c,'. initiate him. . Either situation, the jurists said, is incompatible with being an in ternational civil servant in the em ploy of the U.N. The jurists are William de Witt Mitchell, New York lawyer and U. S. attorney general under Pres ident Hoover: Sir Edwin Herbert, leading London attorney prominent in banking and insurance circle., and Paul Veldekens, professor of law at the Catholic University of Louvain. Belgium, and president of the Belgian Supreme Court defense lawyers. Six Convicts At Large After Prison Break (Continued From Page One) Community Concert Anniversary Observed The twenty-fifth anniversary narty of Community Concerts will be broadcast over KRNR from 8 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The party, to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, will feature outstanding concert ar tists, including Rise Stevens, James Aieiton. Neison Eddy, Ilona Mas sey, Alec Templeton and Dimitri Mitropoulos. The Roseburg Community Con cert is a member of this music movement celebrating its silver anniversary. Two Killed, One Missing In Explosion Of Tanker TOKYO-(if) Two men were killed and a third is missing in the explosion and fire that crippled the U. !. Navy tanker Ashtabula at Sasebo Sunday. The newspaper Asalii said Jap anese police in Sasebo reported the death toll reached six but there was no confirmation. The Navy said two men were killed, one was missing, and nine were Injured. Three of the injured were in critical condition. All names were withheld. Several of the injured were from the repair ship Ajnx, tied along side the tanker. The Ajax was slightly damaged. The Ashtabula was rocked by the explosion of a gasoline tank. Fire turned the forward decks into I masses of molten twisted metal. Success Of Mt. Everest Scalers Still Mystery KATMANDU, Nepal -Ml The Swiss Mt. Everest expedition is reported heading back, but its suc cess or failure in scaling the world's highest peak still is a mystery. A message Sunday night from Biiojpur a military post 110 miles southeast of here which has the radio slali in nearest Everest said only that the climbers had reached Namc'ne Bazar 'on the way home." Namche Bazar is six days' march from Bhoinur. The Bhoipur message was the first purporting to locu.. climbers since Nov. 17. The v "1 then was that a final assault team had reached a point 50 yards from the summit of the unconquercd 29,000-foot mountain. , the hand of Virgil Toney, 42-year-old robber from Ingram, Pa. Escape At Breakfast The break came as the men marched back to the north cell block after breakfast. Toney and I'ne others seized the four guards and Howard Brannan, 65-year-old assistant deputy warden, locking them in the cells. Piling boxes on a table, the con victs cut a hole through a corru gated iron ceiling with an electric cutter from the prison machine shop. Then they pulled themselves into the loft, pushed slates from the roof and climbed out. . Nine of the 10 men to gain the roof slid down the sheeMowel rope, climbed over a 10-foot fence and escaped. While six rushed at the coal pile guard, the other three ran. Within 30 minutes guards cap tured Clayton Terhune, 29, of Bloomingdale, N. J. He is serving a life term for beating a traveler to death with a stone in May, 1951, in a tourist camp at Somerset, Pa. Hugh Matticks, 26, of Pittsburgh, the loth man to gain the roof, was trapped as guards surrounded the building. Walter M. Smylie, 63, Succumbs Here Sunday Walter Martin Smylie, 63, of 831 W. Lane St., passed away at his home Nov. 30 following a prolonged period of ill health. He was born Oct. 21, 1889, and was married to Marge Holder at Clayton, N. M., on Apr. 16, 1916. Smylie was associated for many years with the Game Commission in New Mexico, serving as a dep uty warden. He came to Roseburg about five months ago. Mrs. Smy lie passed away several years ago. Surviving are a son, Jessie E. Smylie, McCarney, Tex ; a daugh ter, Mrs. Niels (Elsie) Hansen, Roseburg; a brother, James Smy lie. Clayton, N.M.: a sister, Mrs. Hilda Cochran, Del Rio. Tex., and our grandchildren. Funeral services will be held In the chapel of the Long & Orr Mor tuary Wednesday, at 2 p.m. under the auspices of the Roseburg church of Jesus Christ. Latter Day Saints. Interment will follow in the Masonic Cemetery. Sutherlin Square Dance Classes Start Dec. 3 The initial meeting of a square dance class in Sutherlin which will meet the first and third Wednes day of each month will be this Wednesday, Doc. 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sutherlin Legion Hall, instructor Ricky Powell a n nounces. Each couole -will be charged $1 to pay for the use of the hall and music, Powell said. Bank Gives Up Immediate Glendale Plan By MRS. GERALD B. FOX Bad news for Glendale residents is the word received here recent-! ly that the bank which was in-1 vestigating possibilities of opening i a Glendale branch has given up immediate plans for such expan sion. Difficulty in acquiring necessary equipment and experienced per sonnel are responsible for the present curtailment of plans, and the information received here does not rule out establishment of such a branch at a later time. ' It is not known whether any at tempt will be made to set up a private bank here. However, it has been emphisized by one local spokesman that it is going to bej necessary ror all the business men and the entire community to get behind any program for commu nity advancement. Has Yellow Jaundice Larry Hagen of Fortune Branch has been in bed for four weeks with intestinal flu and yellow jaun dice. He was allowed "up" Mon day but will not be able to return to school until after the first of the year. Mrs. Elliott Wooldridge returned Monday from nearly a week of visiting in Portland and in Bay Center, Wash. In Bay Center she vis h-rt with the John Wco!dride family, and we understand she brought back some mighty fine fresh oysters. Fmnk Galloway, pharmacist at the Glendale Drug Store, was call, ed to Vancouver, Wash., late last week by the critical illness of his sister there. In his absence, Merle Groshong of Roseburg is helping out in the store. Ralph Woodson of Roseburg and his family visited with the Cap Hanks family near Glendale last weekend. Mrs. Hilda Grafstrom,. front Oc on'n. Wis., is "isitin? in Glendale with her son, Rev. Ed Grafstrom, and his family. . The Odell Millers expect as Thanksgiving guests a sister and SERVICEMEN RETURN Three Douglas County service men were due back from the Far East aboard transports Sunday. Cpl. William D. Parry, Umpqua, and Pfc. John G. McDonald Jr., Glendale, were due at Seattle aboard the Navy transport Marine Lynx. Cpl. Clifford A. Huckins, Drain, was to arrive in San Fran cisco aboard the Gen. Nelson M. Walker. family, the Jason Millers from St Helens; and another sister, Mrs. Robert Elliott and children from Roseburg. Visit From K Falls Hi'. Marv Mitchell from Klam ath Falls has been visiting her son, Lonnie Mitchell, and his fam' ily in Glendale. She left Monday morning. Johnny Dale Johnson, 5-month-old son of Howard Johnson, Jr. of Glendale, was taken to the Med ford Clinic last week for a check up. He recently spent four days in the Sacred Heart Hospital in Eu gene. Formula-trouble, which was responsible for his illness, has been solved now, and he is reported to be getting along fine. , Dr. Howard Ferguson's office and Clinic in Glendale is under going fairly extensive changes in. side and out. Additional maternity facilities are being readied down stairs, and some redecorating is being done. Outside, the entrance to the building is being changed so that visitors to the office will come up on the porch from the side rather than directly from the street. Some old sidewalk sections have been removed and are being replaced by turf. y. fi4 J.I-s. Mehl Larson of Azalea were dinner guests Sunday at the Herbert Reed home in Glen dale, Returns From Hospttal Carol Maior. who has hppn tn the hospital in Grants Pass suffer-! ing with a kidney infect.on, re turned home a little ahead of time after she broke out with chicken pox. The other Major chil-1 (iron also broke out at about .the same time. Mrs. Nelle Ricker and her two grandchildren, Terry and Jerry Coleman, are driving to Klamath Falls Wednesday to be with her daughter and family there. Thanks giving dinner will be postponed until Saturday when Jerry Ricker will be arriving by train. Five new part-collie pups came to the G. B. Fox household Sun day. Now, if you're thinking of a Christmas present for the "kids," they should be just about the right age then. And we just aren't dis posed to following Dagwood's ex. ample and keep them. Mrs. John Church is convales cing at her home near Quines Creek following major surgery in a San Francisco .hospital. iiaroia bneppara, co-owner of i the Quines Creek Store, returned ! Wednesday from an elk hunt in1 Grant County. Harqld brought home a six-point bull and Cliff Byrd bagged a spike. To Visit Battleground Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Marriott expect to spend the Thanksgiving week at Mrs. Marriott's grand father's home at Battleground, Wash. Orlo and Floyd Worley got their elks in Baker County. Mr. and Mrs. John Nise and family from Stockton, Calif., are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Marriott. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dobyns had dinner with the Floyd Ames fam ily last Wednesday night. Jack Church is ,up again after several days of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Smith have as their guest for the Thanksgiv ing holidays Mrs. Smith's moth er, Mrs. R. E. Brown. LOCAL NEWS PRUDENTIAL LIFE Insurance HORACE C. BERG Special Agent Special Agent 123 S. Male St. With Umoquo Ins Agency) OHiee 3-791 Ret. 3-7193 Serving Paul Bur,n's Mother's Club To Meet The Green Mother's Club will meet Tuesdiy, Dec. 2. at noon for a pot luck luncheon and meeting. The meeting will be held at the home of Marion Doyle in Happy Valley. ! Job's Daughters Te Have Meet ing Mrs. Mamie Wilson, grand guardian of Job's Daughters will be a guest of the Roseburg Chap ter and will conduct regular in spection of Bethel No. 8 Tuesday evening. A dessert-supper is plan ned for 6:15 to which candidates and their parents are invited. For 'mal initiation will take place at 7:30 o.m. All parents of Job's Daughters and Masons may at tend. Schedules Meeting ' The Lazy Daisy Club will meet Thursday, Dec. 4, at the home of Mrs. Hagan. All members are urged to attend for election of officers, and final plans for the Christmas party will be made. ' Carnival Postponed The El garose Comfort Club carnival scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6, has been postponed indefinitely. The carnival was to have been held at the clubhouse in Elgarose. To Meet Tuesday The Twelve and Won Club will meet Tuesday noon at the home of Mrs. Glenn Murdock, 355 Leland Avenue. Sewing Meeting The Ameri can Legion Auxiliary sewing meet ing will be ueld tonight at the home of Mrs. Mary Eakins, 2048 Brown Avenue. flp Fly To y II Portland- I 1 Vancouver if il F'y'n9 Time) p 1 hr. 32 mln. If H65 ' WW' K (plus fed. tax) i ;iyr ' X For information or reservations call: Lewit Travel Agency Bote Hotel 3-5077 or west loasr Airunei . Rojebura Municipal Airport 3-3231 lid iMRUntS ,i.H, Mrny m WW Cm Mr m4 l. i. Alilnilfc HEARING TO OPEN SEATTLE Ifl A hearing on United Air Lines' application for Pacific Northwest-Chicago non -slop service will open here Wednesday before a Civil Aero nautics Board examiner. The bid is being opposed by Northwest . Airlines, which says us own non stop service meets the region's needs. KOREA CASUALTIES WASHINGTON 11 The De fense Department Monday identi fied 66 more Korean war casualties' (list No. 703).. Of the total, six are dead, 54 wrtunded, four missing in action and two injured in battle zone accidents. FRACTURES RIBS Charles Dias, Box 286, Roseburg. is in Community Hospital with fraeturpd ribs and jaw lacerations suffered Friday while working as a core sawyer at the Roseburg Lumber Co. sawmill. DID YOU EXPECT A WARM HOME WHEN YOU BOUGHT YOUR HEATER? Are you confined to one room? Are your floors icy cold? Are your ceilings overheated? Are your fuel bills too high? SWITCH TO 0UTHEATS 'EM ALL! 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