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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.
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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. -
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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.