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Arsenal Tower Civen State Board's .Approval SALEM W) Construction of an arsenal tower outside the state penitentiary walls was approved by the State Board of Control Tuesday to relievo what Warden Clarence T. Gladden calls an "ex plosive situation." The present arsenal, which con tains the guns and ammunition needed to quell prison disturbanc es, is located in the hall of the administration building. Gladden said he fears that trus, ties or visitors could seize control of it, and thus control the whole prison and prison officials. The new arsenal tower will cost $20,000, and will command a view of the whole prison area. tia&io goes' wherever you go WW o mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Tonight at 7:30 CBS Radio Dial 1490 PM KRNR WW Willi IHI J III! WWWKI HM III !), wn ,MiiirwwwTW"'rwl ;i,frlr, Z e-'jrt''- S: - H . V, " ' " 1 NEW OLDS BOWS IN Now on display at Smith Motor Co. in Roseburg is the 1954 Oldsmoble "98" above. Brand new features of the car include sweep-cut front fenders and two-tone paint effect. Vital statistics reveal the car is 60.5 inches high, 1,104 square inches of ponormamic windshield, 126 inch wheelbase and 214 inches in length. The "98" is driven by a 185 horse-power "Rocket" engine. Firebird Will Compete With New Dream Cars By DAVID J. WILKIE AP Automotive Editor NEW YORK W) As an average motorist you may be smitten with today's "dream" cars, but you might not like all the features of General Motors' gas turbine auto. The car looks like a jet fighter cn four wheels. It has a needle nose and swept back wings. It seats only the driver. Once he's seated a plastic bubble batch closes over him. Besides all this, the car, called the XP-21 Firebird, is propelled at an undisclosed sneed by its 370 horsepower gasofine turbine en gine. One of the most drastic projects yet produced by GM's research di vision, the Firebird will be a major feature of the Motorama of 1954 that opens Thursday at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The showing will continue through next Tues day. Competing for spectator interest with the Firebird will be U new "dream'' cars. They have such names as "El Camino," "Wildcat H," "Cutlass," "Strato Streak" and "Bonneville Special." You get into the latter by open ing the hinged, canopy top, wbioh is a DUDo'e ot satety glass. Feasibility of a eas turbine now. er plant for a conventional type passenger car has been debated in engineering circles for years. The Firebird, of course, is far from "conventional" in any respect. But it is a vehicle that could be modified into a conventional car if all other problems were solved. The power plant still operates at terrific speed; it consumes a large quantity of fuel. Some of the speed reduction problems involved can be appreciated when it is noted the Firebird's engine develops 370 horsepower when the power turbine revolves 13,000 revolutions a min ute. Chrysler's 235 horsepower car One Of 10 Most Wanted Men Finally Captured CHICAGO ( Franklin James Wi)son. 52-ycar-old former convict and one of the FBI's 10 most want ed fugitives, was seized by federal agents Tuesday. He offered no resistance as four agents arrested him in a South Side hotel. Kline E. Weatherford, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Chicago, said Wilson was wanted for jumping a $30,000 bond in Chicago in August 1951. He was named as'one of four bandits who attempted to rob the home of Mrs. Violet Bidwell Wolfnei own er of the Chicago Cardinals foot ball team, on Aug. 4, 1951. 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Night Session May Be Called For Congress WASHINGTON I The first night session of this Congress was a possibility Wednesday as the Sen ate readied its sixth debate on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Majority Leader Know and (It Calif) blocked Tuesday by Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) from limiting de bate at this point, announced he was considering a night session to bring the debate to a head. The Senate is arguing, on a bill to allow American participation with Canada in building the 27-foot-deep waterway up the St. Law rence from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes.- Suit Against Forest Service Is Dismissed 2isatti.e w A one and a half million dollar damage suit brought by Rayonier, Inc., against the government as an outgrowth of toe f orks orcst fire in Sept 1951, was dismissed by Federal Judge George H. Boldt Monday, Rayonier contended the U. S. Forest Service was negligent in fighting the fire, which destroyed Hundreds ot acres of Umber owned by Rayonier. Asst. U.S. Atty. Frank Cushman told the court: , "'f the government can be found liable in this situation for ordinary mistakes of judgment in fighting a fire, few situations of a similar nature will be found where some act of aa official will not be ques tioned. "The result will be either a fail ure by officials generally to take prompt decisive action or the placing of the government in a position: where it must insure all private property damaged in a public disaster. Maroh 1 was set by Judge Boldt as the date to sign Cushman's motion to dismiss the suit or to hear any new arguments ad vanced by Rayonier attorneys. SAW BILL SLAIN DFJNISON. Tex. un James R. Watts, 98, pioneer of the Old West who saw Billy the Kid slain, will buried here Wednesday. Watts, who said tie once cleaned out the Kid in a poker game and -uvea to ten pout it," was a member of Pat Garrett's posse when the youthful bad man was alain. WHAT IS GOING ON AT 114 N. ROSE ST.? Two Men Claim Illegal Holding In Institution PORTLAND I Suits for more titan five million dollars in dam ages have been filed in federal court here by two Portland men who claim they were illegally con fined in the Eastern Oregon men tal hospital at Pendleton. . The suits are against several doctors and former and present state and county officials. They were filed by George Ham ilton Gibson, 44, and Adolph G. Hoffman, 52. Gibson asks $2,501, 000 and Hoffman $2,531,200. Defendants in Gibson's suit in clude former Gov. Douglas Mc- Aay; Dr. DonaKl WPir, superin tendent of the hospital; Secretary of State Earl Newbry; Walter Pearson, former state treasurer; two Bend physicians and C. L. Allen, Deschutes county judge. Defendants in 'Hoffman's com plaint include Circuit Judge Ashby C. Dickson of Portland and Dr. Wair. Gibson said he was confined to the hospital from Bend in August, 1852, without a hearing or exam ination before a judge and impris oned there 90 days. Honman said ne was sent to the hospital from Portland in January. 1952, and kept there illegally for o days arter ne nad ignored threat of confinement unless he dropped a suit against a man for alienation ot his wile s affections. IN NEW JOB Sen. Thomas A. Burke, Democrat, is Ohio's newest member of Congress. A former mayor ot Cleveland, Burke was appointed to take the Senate seat formerly held by the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. The Inventor Of Carrier Passes In Scotland DRYMF.N, Scotland OB sixth Duke of Montrose, who claimed to have invented and de signed HMS Argus, the world's first aircraft carrier, died Wednes day after a week's illness. He was 75. He served with the army in the Boer War and with the navy in World Wi.r I. Concerning the Argus', he told the House of Lords many years later: 'It was a seagoing ship and car ried 20 to 30 planes. I completed my plans and laid them before the admiralty in 1912. two years before the war was de clared. But the war had been go ing on 2V4 years before my firm was instructed to carry on and build aircraft carriers. HMS Argus was finished too late to take part in that war. but sne periormed just on to 30 years service in the navy." Thur. Jon 21, 1954 The Newi-Rcviw, Rowburg, Ore. 9 Undertaker Loses Appeal To Avoid Death Penalty WASHINGTON of) The Su preme Court has announced the following decisions: 1. Refused to erant a new miir. der trial to a Florida undertaker who claimed the jury which con victed him might have been swayed by an evangelist's pray ers. The undertaker, A. Elwood North, is under death sentence for the bludeeon-slavintf of a S7-vai old widow whose will left all her property to him. 2. Granted a hearing to the United Mine Workers and two other labor unions in a case in which they were ordered to nav $129,326 damages to the Laburnum Construction Corp., of Richmond. Va. The firm charged that inter ference with its workmen on a con struction job in Breathitt County, iy., in jn'y i!H caused a wo damage to property and reputa tion. 1 - 3. Reiterated by reversing an Alabama Supreme Court action that state courts may not issue in junctions to half activities banned by the Taft-Hartley law. But the tribunal left for possible later de cision whether slate courts might be able to step in If the National Labor Relations Board refused to act. 4. Set down for argument early next month the requests by Ala bama and Rhode Island for per mission to me suits challenging validity of the 1953 submerge larxis aci. 5. Decided 7-2 the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad could not appeal to federal courts after being dissatisfied with values out on Iowa farm lands in state con demnation proceedings. ACTOR DIES HOLLYWOOD Wi Sydney Grcenstreet. rotund. English-born character actor, died Tuesday. He was 14. Sierra ' Madre Flood ; ' " ' Thraat . Are Diminished LOS ANGELES Wl Flood dan gers in the threatened foothill community of Sierra Madre. where 2,000 persons were urged, to leave their homes Tuesday, ap peared to be lessening early Wednesday. County disaster crews remained on a standby basis but the Weath. er Bureau early Wednesday pre dicted gradually clearing condt. tions with a few scattered show ers. Sierra Madre city officials estimated that only a few of the 2,000 urged to - evacuate their homes 'actually moved out. . The warnings were made ' by "Oil ' So smooth it leaves you breathless l -i mimoff: r.r the anatttt name VODKA o .... 80 proof Mid from 1 00 tiin ticuml iplria.. So. PilSmiinofI Fll. Inc.Hittford.Cona. ACTRESS RECOVERS HOLLYWOOD l Actress Suz. an Ball has recovered so rapidly from a leg amputation that she has been moved from the hospital to a santitanum. Her studio re ports The amputation was necess. ary because of a cancerous grow- to, ner surgeon saia. 1954 VALUE SENSATION 7-Jewel, Water & Shock Resistant 116 NORTH JACKSON ROSEBURG Boss Of Korean POWs Greeted By Cenerals PANMUNJOM (-South Korean army officials, includina sevvral generals, Wednesday welcomed the reputed-boss of more than 7.000 Ko rean War prisoners returning from Indian custody. moon joong no, 39, shook hands and exchanged greetings with the generals, then accompanied them to a nearby tent for a private conference. Moon told newsmen he controlled more than 4,000 members of the "anti-Communist youth organiza tion" in the anti-Red South Cimo. But ROK officials said he actually was regarded as the leader of more than 7,000 Korean prisoners. ATTENTION BUILDERS SAVE TIME AND MONEY ; WITH Pacific Plywood Sheathing AMERICA'S BUSIEST BUILDING MATERIAL . A MINIMUM OF WEIGHT WITH A MAXIMUM : OF STRENGTH SEE US TODAY PACIFIC PLYWOOD CO. 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