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Newspaper Page TextU, of 0. library cugeno, Oregon Comp t mmm mm m azalea mm ROB EN J. MAASKE. . . .death ttrikts at SI Dr.R. J. Maaske, O.C.E. President, Dies At Desk MONMOUTH W) Dr. Roben J. Maaske, president of Oregon College of Education, was found dead in bis campus office early Sunday morning. Death was blamed on a heart attack. A night watchman discovered the 51-year-old educator slumped over his desk. A college spokesman said Maaske apparently died of coro nary thrombosis about an hour earlier.1 Maaske came to OCE in 1950 from La Grande, where he had been president of Eastern Oregon College of Education since 1929. At the time of his death he also was director of elementary teacher education in the state, and was a member of the board of trustees of the Oregon Education Assn. Survivors include the widow, Iola; two daughters; three broth ers; and two sisters. GOP Senators At Odds On 1956 Control Outlook WASHINGTON Wt-Sen. Millikin (R-Colo) took issue Monday with an appraisal by Sen. Goldwatrr (R-Ariz) that the Republicans, face "heavily stacked" odds in their fight to regain Senate control in 1956. Millikin, chairman of the confer ence of all Republican senators, laid In an interview he isn't at all pessimistic about GOP chances of gaining the net of one or two seats they need to recapture the Senate. "We have never had better prospects than we have right tutvi." he declared. "We have an excellent national administration and I am "sure its record will appeal to the voters." Goldwater, who heads the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, rep&riea to the GOP National Committee last week that a grass roots survey indicates 10 GOP Senate seats are "in great danger" while only two Democratic posts are similarly threatened by the Republicans. His report became available Sunday. Of the 32 seats at slake next year, Republicans now hold 17 and Democrats 15. The Senate's present division is 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans. Whichever party wir.r the vice presidency in 1956 could organize the Senate with 48 regular party votes, since the Vice Presi dent may vote to break a tie. Two Killed, 3 Missing In Blast On Submarine . SAN FRANCISCO W Two sailors were killed and three were missing and presumed dead in a battery explosion and fire aboard the submarine Pomodon at San Francisco naval shipyard Sunday night. . . Four other sailors were injured seriously and two civilian rescue workers were hospitalized after in haling poisonous gases. One of the Navy injured underwent surgery at Oak Knoll Hospital. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A week or so ago, while attend ing a meeting in Spokane, I spent a fascinating afternoon at the In . land Empire Paper Company's ' mill. I learned, among other things, that a decade or so ago the mill's owners were looking with considerable apprehension to ward the future. Why? Well. Daner is made out of trees, and a decade or so ago the supply of trees in the Spokane area was decreasing rapidly. It looked like the end of the mill might be in sight for the simple reason that the end of Its supply ot raw ma terial mieht be in sight. It was the old story of cut out and move out. There has been a change. A starllintf chanze. The owners of this mill now look , forward to the future with confi ' dcnce. Thev anticipate steady and consistent increases m its capacity. ( Continued On Page 4 Col. 4) The Weather Fair today, partly cloudy to night and Tuesday. Low temper ature ot 28 a-r:r. Highest ttmp. last 24 hours ..... 53 Low$t tamp, last 4 houra 21 Highest tamp, any Fab, Lowttt tamo, any F?b. Pracip. last 24 hours -0 Praeip. from Fab. 1 --.Hi Praeip. from Sept. 1 . lJ-'J Deficiency from Sapt. I ' Sunset toniqhr, S:S2 J.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:01 a.m. 3 Lost Girls Safe After Chilly Ordeal In Woods. Three Douglas High Sciool girls, cold and hungry but otherwise in good shape, were resting at home today after a chilling night lost in the hills. The girls are Laura Belle Cooper, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Cooper; Charlotte Barclay, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Parker; and Velma Page, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carlson. They made their way lo a road and were picked up early this morning by the aunt of one of them after being lost all night near Whitetail Mountain in the Flournoy Valley area between Mel rose and Lookingglass. Information gathered by two News - Review correspondents. Mrs. Nettie Woodruff of Melrose and Mrs. Arthur Marsh of Look ingglass, indicates the girls be came lost after starting out on a hike about 1 p.m. Sunday. The girls wore slacks and light jack ets. ' . . To protect against the cold fit was 22 degrees at Roseburg Air port last night), the girls built a tire, after darkness had fallen and they realized they were lost. Search By Man FuMla A search party of about 15 men was out all night, but some of the men returned home about 5:15 a.m. after finding no trace of the girls. About an hour later Mis. Steve Cooper, aunt of the Cooper girl, came upon the girls on the Doer- ner cutott roaa. xney naa toiiow ed a creek down the mountain. In Roseburg, Dep. Sheriff Dal las Bennett was preparing to take a bloodhound to the area when the call oame that the girls had been found. The girls had started out to hike four miles in order to earn points for a school course. Hrs. Wood ruff was told. The fact they had matches and could build a fire may have saved them from freez ing. When found, they were scared and a little dirty but not suffering too much from exposure. Ailments Reject Many Would-Be Blood Donors Sutherlin, Myrtle Creek and Roseburg hooked up forces last week to collect 324 pints of blood1, according to Red Cross Blood Re Brittell. Actually 380 donors turned out. but 56 had to be turned away be cause of colds or low hemoglobin rates. Mrs. Brittell said the "first consideration in blood donation is the "donor's health." At Myrtle Creek, 66 donors turn ed up, and 21 could not give be cause of high rate of colds' and flu. At Roseburg, 273 persons of fered blood, and 22 were deferred because of low hemoglobin.' At Sutherlin, 71 donors appeared at the American Legion Hall. Thir teen were turned away because of low nemogiooin. Three j were fwo-?allon donors. They are: Mrs. Carl Rose lund, H. E. Schmeer and Eugene W. Powell, all of Roseburg. Five turned up as one-gallon donors. They are: Mrs. Elmer Scrape, Robert Raxfensperger, Laurancc A. Peterson, Robert LeBleu and Howard Cracroft, all of Roseburg. FPC Keeps Hand Off Retail Trade Rivalry WASHINGTON Ifl The Federal Trade Commission has adopted a hands-off policy toward the grow ing rivalry between regular retail stores and price-cutting discount houses. In a major decision announced Sunday night, FTC rejected a request that it enforce slate ' fair trade" laws on discount houses that sell to the public at prices approaching wholesale levels. FTC advised retailers to meat discount house competition by slashing their own prices rather than seeking FTC enforcement of state-sanctioned minimum price agreements. - lFw4gfcl: . , vtr-r JIAE.il ;t . 4'' g V" ' VJ FLOATING DOUGHNUT The new log pond boot ot Umpquo Plywood ot Myrtle Creek powers its doughnut shape oround the pond with o 1955 Willys motor. It has no rud der but does have a propeller. One man operating the levers ottached to the revolving motor can turn the boat backwards or forward. A similar boat was in use ot Tiller, but Vernen Williams, the designer, made many mechanical improvements. A former em ployee, AI Lane, built the first boat. This apparently, however, is one of the first round boots in Oregon for log pond purposes. Williams Is shown ot left unhooking the chain offer the launching from o giont crane. See other picture on page 2. (Worren Studio Photo) Established 1873 14 Fight Looms Over Tax Slash Move Democrats' Plan Raises Politics Cry Proposed $20-A-Person Levy Cur Draws Attack From Treasury Chief WASHINGTON Hi' Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey Mon day vigorously attacked a Demo cratic proposal for a $20-a-person income tax cut. but declined to say whether President Eisenhower would veto such a bill. Humphrey met behind closed doors with the House Ways and Means Committee, which annear- ed to be set to approve the tax cutting plan late Monday. Eisenhower has argued the gov ernment's fiscal picture will not permit a tax cut this year but may permit one next year. The Democratic plan is to add the. income tax cut to an admin istration bill which would postpone tor one year scheduled cuts in corporation and excise taxes, now due to drop April 1. Those cuts in tne corporation and excise taxes would cost the government about three billion dollars a year In rev enue. The proposed income tax cut would relieve up to seven million taxpayers from any income tax bill at all. But for the fiscal year beginning t : (Continued on Paga 2 Col. 7) Jobless Man Kills Four Persons, Ends Own Life UNIONTOWN, Pa. Wl An unem ployed steelworker killed his wife, 17-year-oid daughter and two men, then shot himself to death. Police were looking today for a motive. Officers found the bodies bun- day in the home of the steelwork er, Robert Miller, 42. Miller was clutching a ,25-caliber pistol in one hand and a flashlight, still burn ing, in the other. Police went to the Miller home. in a drab nuneside community eight miles from here, after An thony Rivak, .14. a former coal miner, staggered into a tavern and said he had been shot by Miller. The bodies of Miller and Steve Demko, 27, an auto mechanic who lived nearby, were found in a bed together in a downstairs room. In an upstairs bedroom was the body of an unidentified man about 25. Police said Demko and the oth er man had been beaten in the head, apparently with a hammer. Demko also had been shot with a .25-caliber pistol. Miller was shot in the chest and his wrists had been slashed. Rivak's condition was reported critical from a bullet wound in the abdomen. .r Nationalist Werplanes Again Pound Reds' Base TAIPEI, Formosa l Nation alist warplanes for the fourth straight day Monday pounded a Red buildup area and shipping in ine raisnan islands and "prob ably damaged" an "unfriendly" submarine, the air force said Tues day. A communique said one wave of fighter-bombers destroyed three armed junks of about 100 tons each and damaged 11 other large and small craft. Another wave hit and set fire to barracks on the Taishans, which threaten the flank of the Nation alist island of Nanchishan 30 miles to the northeast, the air force re ported. . riur aavs ot atio"a"sr air at tacks, however, have failed to stop the Communist buildup in the Tai shans, 120 miles northwest of For mosa, reliable reports said. WASHINGTON W Adm. Arth ur W. Radford said Monday that as of now there can be no suc cessful invasion across the For mosa Strai' eifher v" and that it is a situation I think can be stabilized. 'I think both sides know they cannot Invade each other." Medic Facing Morals Charge Kills Himself LOS ALAMOS. N.M. Wl-A 48- year-old pediatrician, the president of the Los Alamos Medical Soci ety, was found shot to death In his apartment Sunday. ponce umei naiixi rvouauany said Dt Malcolm, ty. .Cook appar ently' chose suicide rather than face the morals charges for which he had been Indicted. Dr. Cook, free on S5.ooo oona had been indicted bv a federal grand jury in Albuquerque Friday on morals charges involving two girls, one 9 and the other 10. Art School Registrar Victim Of Sex Murder LOS ANGELES OB Police to day studied a bloody fingcipnnl and followed up names in a small address book, two leads in the savage slaying of Mrs. Karl Rog ers Graham, 39, registrar ai an art school. The body of the attractive bru nette divorcee was found Satur day night in her one-room apart ment, one naa Deen siiuisitcuiiy raDed. police said, and her head had been crushed by at least two blows from a heavy weaoon. THREE-LEGGED CALF A three-legged calf born Satur day morning at the Don Pankey place, lit. 3 box luso, is learninp, to take care of itself, according to neighbors. The can has dui one irom leg. There is no sign of the second front leg. The calf already is able to get up and hobble about, neigh bors report. Poget - ROSEBURG ORECON MONDAY, jiu iui ! in i iaa vn t LOOT RECOVERED IM $300,000 ROBBERY SAN FRANCISCO Police Inspector Al bert Birdsali, left, looks over the assorted jewelry recovered after the arrest of three ex-convicts in the $300,000 diamond robbery in San Francisco Feb. 18. At right is Dr. James Brumback, prominent San Francisco dentist, shown as he was questioned by police in connection with the robbery. District Attorney Tom C. Lvnch said the dentist and Adolph E. Bigarani, Oakland, Calif., steel broker,- were arrested as suspected "fences" after two of the ex-convicts told their version of the gem robbery. (AP WIREPHOTO) Bullets Claim Gunman -I After 90-Minute Battle NEW YORK im The long crime career of August . Robles. sworn enemy of the law, ended in death Sunday after a blazing,' 90 minute gun battle with oolice. : The pint-sized gunman had been tne object of an intonse. three day manhunt In the city's Puerto Rican districts. Police, rankled by the memory of his two escapes Friday, were determined to get their man. He was at last tracked down in a third-floor tenement hideaway on 113th Street near Park Avenue. Two hundred nohcemen sur rounded the shabby building and pumDed machine-gun, rifle1 and pistol bullets and tear gas into Robles' lair. He answered their challenges to surrender with gun shots. When there were no more an swering shots, police entered the apartment. On the floor, In a pool of blood and water, lay Robles, who had sworn he would nefer be taken alive. Blood oozed from a ra"?ed chst wound. A roueli tourniquet had been tied around his left arm, pierced by another bul let. ' Police originally went out to ar rest Robles to question him about the gangland slaying ot ex-convict Joseph Aronowitz in Brooklyn last Tuesday. Neuberger Hits Again At School Aid Program PITTSBURGH W) Sen. Neuberger- (D-Ore) Sunday continued his attack on the Eisenhower adminis tration's proposals for federal aid to public schools. He said he was particularly opposed to the 200-million-dollar limitation in federal aid to hard pressed school districts. "Why my ,own state with only one per cent of the national population needs 100 million dol lars alone in additional public school funds in the next five years," he said. "We're 360,000 classrooms behind now. in terms of new construction. We'll never catch up under a program like this," he added. Roseburg Cets Eyeful Of Army Helicopters Five big Army helicopters swooped into Roseburg Airport Sunday about noon, a sight which created quite a stir and brought many onlookers. The aircraft were enroute to Ft. Lewis, Wash.', from California. They stopped long enough to take on fuel, then continued north. Saturday was also a busy day at Shirley's Flying Service when eight planes of a group of Flying Farmers stopped for gas. They were headed for a stale-wide "fly in" at Medford. Seven Persons Killed In Headon Crash Of Cars KINGSVILLE, Tex. fi Two cars edged into the center of a three-lane highway Sunday night i and smashed headon. Seven died in the tangled mass, Including four ! members of one family. Three other persons were seri ously hurt one, I little boy. lay near death. The collision occurred in the middle lane on a straight stretch of road. Oddly, both cars were the identical make and model 1951 Ford sedans. FEBRUARY 21, 1955 - . City Officers Probe Batch Of, Larcenies Rosebur; police .ire investigat ing five larcenies which occured dm inn iho laul part of last week. Harriett Novak, 805 s. Mill St., said that $100 in cash was stolen from her apartment above the Mill Street Market Saturday afternoon while she was working in the mar ket. She said four $20 bills' and $20 in small change are missing. A front wing window on a car belonging to Bell Telephone Co. was smashed sometime Friday night while the car was parked behind the Rose Hotel. . Howard Riley, company employee from Springfield, said a cruiser jacket, flannel shirt and flashlight were stolen. ? ' A coin box was ripped loose from a soft-drink machine Friday night, according to Ross Miller, 1602 Harvard Ave., but the cash box was empty. Etta Rogers, 625 S. Pine St., complained of the theft Friday afternoon of $9.25 in small change and a gold wedding band from, her bedroom dresser. James Lester, 546 S. Mill St., said a tire, wheel and small box of tools were taken from the trunk of his car Thursday night. He placed value at $40. DRIVER JAILED Isaac William Overman, 18, Myr tle Creek, Saturday afternoon was jailed in lieu of $150 bail after Roseburg police arrested him and charged him with driving with a revoked driver's license. He was to appear today before Municipal Judge Randolph Slocum. Undesirable Comic Books Targets Of Two Measures In Hopper At Legislature By ESTHER GEDDES Legislature Correspondent From time to time much interest has been shown by parents, church groups, education interests and others in the problem of undesirable comic books. Various indivi duals have devoted much time to discussing the effect which these publications have on young people and what should be done to discourage their widtf-spread distribution. With this problem In mind. Ore-! gon Senate Dills No. 172 and 173 1 have been introduced. The first of . these provides for the establish ment of a sort ot publications ad visory committee to be establish ed by the county courts or hoards of county commissioners. This committee , would he expected to function by finding whether cer tain publications are harmful for any one of several reasons from using obscene language to ridicul ing racial or religious grojpj, etc. Mavinr; so decided, tne commit Ice would be expected to study the publications available and then publish a list of publications cor. sidered to be harmful to minors. The second bill is aimed at mak ing it illegal to force any purchas er to receive package lots of maganins thus panning nit un desirable material as a prere quisite for receiving the better grade magazines. This bill, while 1 43-55 PRICE 5e WW. i t J 1 No Survivors Among 16 Aboard Crashed Airliner ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. WV-New Mexico State Police reported Mon day five badly burned bodies have been recovered at the wreckage strewn spot on a mountainside where a Trans World Airlinor crashed Saturday with 16 aboard. . . The search team said there was no sjgn of life "and no possibility of survivors." The reports, trickling down by walkie-talkie from the huge rock pinnacle in the Sandia Mountains east of here, said identification was impossible at this nme and indicated recovering oilier bodies would be slow going. The airliner rammed the pillar in the rugged snow-covered moun tains just minutes after it took off. Airline officials have surmised the pilot became lost in clouds which shrouded this area at the time, and saw the mountain too late to avoid it. He was about two miles off the regular course which leads along the cast side of the mountain. Drain Merchant Dies While Talking On Phone C. C. Rittcr, Drain merchant for many years, died as he talked to t friend by phone, Saturday eve ning. Death of the Drain businessman was unexpected, reports News-Review correspondent Mrs. Maude Deaver. He was believed to be about CO. He was owner and man ager of the Red & White Store. He Is survived by his wife, Bes sie, Drain; and two sons, Arthur, Drain, and Gerald, Coltiige Grove. Funeral services will be held Tuesday ct 2:30 p.m. in the Metho dist Church in Drain. Mills Mor tuary is in care of arrangements. eminently sensible, has some leg.il technicalities and some lawyers, who approve of the intent, feel that it is unconstitution jl in thai it infringes on the right of free speech and to conduct a business in any manner desirable to the in dividual. Cincinnati has pioneered in this problem and the proposed laws in Oregon are somewhat copied aft er legislation invoked 'here. The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors banned sales recently of comic hooks depicting crime aud vio lence. And 1 understand that a measure is being considered be fore the British parliament to ban horror comics. The problem seems to be world-wide. The problem is being considered and a public bearing is going In ho held in the near future to -How views pro and con to be aired. m Pinned Under Upset Auto When Found Raymond L. Johnson Of Medford Dies After Removal To Hospital Douglas County's noteworthy record of no traffic fatalities in 1955 was broken Saturday with the death of Raymond Leslie Johnson, 26, Medford. Johnson's 1S55 sedan went over an embankment on Highway 99 about two miles north of Azalea, on Canyon Mountain. He was pin ned under the overturned car whwi state police found him at about 9:40 a.m. Coroner L. L. Powers reported he was rushed to Forest Glen Hospital at Canvonville and died there less than an hour later.. State police said the man had apparently been pinned under the car for some time. Powers re ported the victim's parents, resi dents of Medford, said the acci dent must have happened about 2:30 in the morning, 'the man had left Medford before 2 a.m., going north. State Police Officer Fred Jung wirth said the accident may have occurred when Johnson fell alscep at the wheel. Coroner Powers said death came as a result of injuries, shock and exposure. The body1 was removed to a mortuary in Grants Pass. Not only was this tho first traf fic fatality in Douglas County in 1955, but it was the first on High way 99 since Oct. 30, three months and 10 days before. The last traf fic fatality in the county was on Nov. 22, when three people died after a plunge off an embankment on the Loon Lake Road. That was three months ago. Other Traffic Accidents Two other persons were slight ly injured in other weekend traf- (Continued on Page 2 Col, 3) Angry Lover Slays Former Legislator, Woman, Himself ATLANTA Wl A jealous lover shot and killed a former Georgia legislator, a Tennessee shoe sales man and the woman he was dat ing and then committed suicide last night. . . Another woman was injured se riously in the wild burst of gun- lire wnicn Broke up a gay party ' in an Atlanta home. - One of the victims was ilcntl ficd as John Verlyn llooth, 49, member of tho Georgia House of Representatives from 19.14 to 1938 and one time Fulton C'ountv At lanta campaign manager lor Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga) when Rus sell ran for governor. Booth was divorced. Police Capt. E. O. Mullins identi fied the jealous man as Altjn Nix Trcadway, 45, an Atlanta electric al engineer. They said he smashed his way into the house with a ,2-caliber target pistol, in hand and fired with deadly accuracy at all four persons. The other dead were liileJ as: Mrs. Ella Warren, 39, in whose bungalow the shooting occurred, and Ira D. Lane 49, a -shoe sales man at Chattanooga, Tcnu., who was in Atlanta attending a con- " vention. Lane also was divorced. The injured woman was Mrs. Anna Padgett Cone, a widow em- , ployed at Chattanooga. She suf fered bullet wounds in ilie head and stomach and cuts about the ' head. Capt. Mullins said Trcadway , had been dating Mrs. Warren anil just recently purchased an engage ment ring for her. Mrs. Cone, the sole survivor, told police she was in bed when Treadway burst into the room. She said he hit her on the head with a gun, banged her about and then shot her. She fled 'o a neigh boring house. Neuberger Nominates 3 For Air Force Academy WASHINGTON W Sen. Neu berger (D-Ore) Monday named three nominees for admittance to the Air Force Academy. They are: Robert Louis Ilary, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank llary, Ordnance, and freshman at the University ot Portland's college of engineering, Gerald John Creasy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank It. Creasy Toledo, a sophomore in business technology at Oregon State College. Robert L. Sheldon, son of Mr. land Mrs. Wayne S. Sheldon, Beaverton, a senior at Beavcrton High School. The senator's nominees will take a competitive examination along with other Oregon nominees to determine that state's three entries in the Air Force academy's first class, Levitv Foct nnt By L. F. Rcizcnslein i Russia has enough money to buy U.S. surplus wheat jto ease the hunger of her starving peasantry, but she needs the cosh to increase her stock of war materiel. Hence, the may be glad to get the wheat as a donation from . Undo Sam, at kind- hearted Ike rteommtnds.