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iUS BODY OF 1
Falling Tree
Kills Logger
Near Tiller
Elby Mitchell Meets
Tragic Death On 20th
Day Of Employment
A 27-year-old logger, who had
been working in the woods near
Tiller for only 20 days, Wednes
day became Douglas County's sev
enth logging fatality of 1955.
Elby Glen Mitchell, home ad
dress Chehalis, Wash., was pro
nounced dead upon arrival at For
est Glen Hospital in Canyonville
at noon, according to Douglas
lnnntv Coroner I.. L. f JimV Pow
ers. He was taken to the hospital
by the Riddle ambulance.
The coroner said he died as a
result of being struck by a piece
nf a falling tree. He suffered a
broken neck and back injuries, the
coroner said.
The accident occurred about 10
miles east of Tiller on the South
JUmpqua River. Mitchell was em
1 ployed as a bucker for the Swal
ley Logging Co. of Tiller. .
According to the coroner, he
was working with his brother El
vin and H. j F. Gillaspie, Tillei.
The coroner said Gillaspie was
falling a tree and Mitchell was
standing some 100 feet to the left
as it thundered to the ground.
In falling, the tree hit another
and broke into pieces. The coroner
said a "chunk about 20 inches in
diameter" struck Mitchell in the
back.
Veteran Of Korean War
Mitchell is survived by his pat
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Mitchell,
Chehalis; three brothers: Elvin,
Tiller, Loren and Vernon living in
Seattle; and one sister, Erna, of
Chehalis. He was a veteran of the
Korean War.
His body will be shipped to Che
halis by Ganz, Mortuary, Myrtle
Creek. According to. the News-Review
Correspondent Erma Best
burial will be at the Fissell Fu
neral Home there.
Mitchell is the second logger to
be killed in the county this month.
Glendale woodsman Benjamin Al
lan Babb, 38, was crushed be
tween logs as he worked in the
woods July 12.
Mitchell's death also marked the
second tragedy to strike Tiller in
less than one week. Little Eilene
Perkett, 4, was killed Saturday
when she ran in front of a car.
Vermont Lass Awarded
Accolade Of Miss U.S.A.
LONG-TjEAOH, Calif. W Miss
Vermont, the prettiest Republican
you ever saw, today is Miss U.S.A.
rnrlonn Kine Johnson, of Rut
land, won the crown last night
over 14 other pretty finalists, rne
runners-up were the Misses Ar
kansas, Nebraska, California and
Georgia.
Miss Johnson, a 22-year-old blue
eyed blonde who looked 16, is also
the prettiest business woman you
ever saw. She runs her own jewel
ry business in Rutland.
Two years ago she was M i s I
Vermont in the Miss America
Pageant at Atlantic City but only
placed 13th. Tonight she enters the
Miss Universe semifinals.
Asked if she were a traditional
Vermont Republican, she replied;
"Is there any other kind?"
Doll-like, she stands 5 feet 8 in
her high heels with the perfect
Miss Universe measurements
bust and hips the same at 35 inch
es and the waist 11 inches smaller
at 24.
Her big prize is a six - month
contract with Universal -International
Studios.
Heroic Sutherlin Woman
Is "Slightly Improved"
Mrs. Charles B. Williams, the
Sutherlin grandmother who was
seriously burned Friday as she re
moved her grandson from her
flaming house, was reported in
slightly improved condition at
Mercv Hosmtal Thursday.
She had been on the critical list
jpince being taken to the hospital.
Mrs. Williams battled flames in
an attempt to save her grandson
Preston Wilkerson. The 2-year-old
died 12 hours later. She had been
unsuccessful in trying to remove
another grandson, Benton, 1, from
the burning structure.
Susan Hayward Twice
Tried Suicide, Court Told
BURBANK, Calif. ( Actor
Jess Barker says that his ex-wile,
Susan Hayward, has twice at
tempted suicide by taking sleep
ing pills.
Barker filed a motion for full
custody of his twin sons Wednes
day asserting that Miss Hayward
was emotionally unfit to retain
custody of the boys.
Ater brief arguments in Bur
bank superior court, Superior
Judge Leroy Dawson denied the
motion on the ground that it was
not in his jurisdiction because
Baker has appealed the interlocu
tory divorce decree on which the
original custody award was based.
The Weather
Fair today, tonight and Friday.
A little coder Friday.
Highest temp, last 24 'hours SS
Lowest tamp, last 24 hours 4
Highest temp, any July 109
Lowest t.mp. any July 41
Proeip. last 14 hours 0
Precip, from July 1 .11
Precip. from Sept. 1 . . 21.55
Deficiency from S.ot. 1 7.59
Sunset tonight, 7:47 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 4:51 a.m.
Minneapolis Police Aid
Drain Boy In Blood Need
. Gary Winslow, 13-year-old son of
Drain Police Chief and Mrs. El
mer Winslow, has found that peo
ple are pretty much the same
everywhere.
Gary, who has been taken to
Mineapolis, Minn., for a delicate
heart operation, is being helped by
police officers in that city.
When doctors decided Gary need
ed 18 pints of blood for the opera
tion, set next Wednesday, his fath
er told his story to a detective
at police headquarters. The Win
slows knew no one in Minneapolis.
Soon, enough persons had volun
teered their blood for the young
ster who was born with a hole in
a heart valve. He was taken to
Variety Heart Hospital at the Uni
versity of Minnesota after an oper
ation at Portland last October fail
ed to correct his ailment
It isn't the first time the Win
slows have found friends ready to
help Gary. The trip to Minnesota
was financed by benefit projects
carried out by the people of the
Drain area, after doctors recom
mended Gary be taken east for a
revolutionary "cross circulation"
operation which has attracted
world attention.
Tram Bandits Get
Sacks Of Canceled
Checks For Effort
NEW YORK im Tuv. mociAu?
desperadoes held up an outbound
man-express train last night as it
stopped briefly in an open cut be
low the Manhattan street level
near the Hudson River shore.
as in aWtld West movie scen
ario, they bound and Bashed mail
clerk Thomas Mason and dumped
eisht mail sacks on the tracks.
Then they disappeared into the
night with the bags.
Police said today the bags con
tained worthless canceled checks,
each bag insured at $50. They
added that the bandits discarded
a mail pouch containing $2,700 in
small bills and silver.
The bandits apparently jumped
on the ll-car New York Central
train when it stopped for inspec
tion of its air brakes.
An interstate alarm was flashed
for two men described as in their
20s and wearing dark suits and
hats. Both were armed. The BFI
joined in the hunt.
Mason said the train was mov
ing when he managed to free his
legs and spit out the cap used to
gag him. Then he screamed for
help.
A tower signalman heard his
plea. The train was stopped at the
next signal. Mason was taken to a
hospital with severe bruises and
a -possime- nn fracture.- - -
Federal Official Under
Suspicion Of Disloyalty
WASHINGTON im The Wash
ington Post and Times Herald said
loaay a U.S. security board has
found "reasonable doubt" of the
loyalty to this country of William
Henry Taylor, an official of the
International Monetary Fund.
The paper said the finding was
made after a hearing by the In
ternational Organizations Employ
es Loyalty Board. Because the
IMF is an international bodv not
under U.S. government control, rne
ooara s finding was an "advisory
recommendation." The agency it
self must determine what action,
if any, to take.
"The board is convinced," the
paper quoted its opinion, "that the
employe (Taylor) has engaged in
espionage and subversive activity
against the United States. . . and
that he was and possibly still is
an adherent to the Communist
ideology."
Taylor, a native of Canada and
a naturalized U.S. citizen, has long
fought charges that he was a sub
versive. He was named bv Eliza
beth Bcntley, a one-time Commu
nist spy courier, as one of a group
of persons who she said were en
gaged in espionage.
Umpqua- Forest Timber
Sold To Eugene Firm
U. S. Plywood Corp. of Eugene
was high bidder Wednesday for
1,350,000 board feet of Umpqua
National Forest timber located 32
miles southeast of Cottage Grove.
The Eugene company paid a to
tal of $56,260 for the Douglas fir,
pine and hemlock and other spe
cies appraised at $28,560. It bid
S55 per thousand board feet of
Douglas fir and pine appraised
at $27.30. The winning bidder paid
appraised value of $3.60 for
350.000 of hemlock and other spe
cies.
Other bidders were Bohemia
Lumber Co.. Inc.. Culp Creek:
and the Walter Woodard Lumber
Co., Cottage Grove.
Sanitary District Plan
Awaits Election Date
Creation of a sanitary district
at Green just south of Roseburg
came closer to reality Wednesday
when a public hearing on the mat
ter was held in the county court
house.
No objections were entered at
the hearing, reports Judge Carl C.
Hill. He said an order is now
being prepared to set a date for
an election.
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CLUB LEADER DIES
LA JOLLA, Calif, I Mrs.
Ruth Ottaway Sokoloff, 68, club-
woman and one of the nation's
1 foremost patronesses of music.
1 former president of the National
Federal of Music Clubs and pres-
I ident of the National Council of
I Women, died Wednesday.
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Russ Anxious
For Results
At Geneva
Easing Of East-West
Tensions Sought, Ike
Reports To Congress
GENEVA Wl President Ei
senhower, in a dramatic bid for
coexistence, propostd Thursday
that the United States end Rus
sia give each other "a complete
blueprint of our military estab
lishments." Each of the two major powers
then would inspect by air the
establishments of the other, the
President told the Big Four con
ference. His proposal was hail
ed by Premier Faure of France
and Prime Minister Eden of
Britain but Premier Bulgan
in of Russia was silent.
By MAX HARRELSON
GENEVA (fl The Big Four
foreign ministers began trying to
day to salvage something from the
summit conference deadlock on
the two issues of German unifica
tion and European security.
The four government heads at
their daily session this afternoon
were expected to move on to dis
armament discussions, third of the
four items on their agenda.
An authoritative Western source
said that the United States did
not plan to offer any specific dis
armament proposals, but that
Preisdent Eisenhower would re
state the long - time American
stand that any arms limitation
agreement must provide for ef
fective inspection and control to
prevent violations.
This was the major deadlock on
the two problems: The West in
sisted that German reunification
must come first, with an all-European
security system including
a united Germany to be worked
out later. The Russians demanded
the security system first, with
German unification to follow at
some future and probably far
distant date.
Maor Problems Listed
In turning the unification and
security problems over to the for
eign ministers, their chiefs laid
down a specific mission to study
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Walter Callahan Hurt
In Traffic Accident
A 37-year-old Roseburg resident.
Walter Callahan of 1800 Hicks Sfc,
was reported in "fairly good" con
dition at Douglas Community Hos
pital Thursday, following a traf
fic accident.
According to a fellow workman
at the Roseburg Memorial Gar
dens, the pickup in which Calla
han was riding Tuesday afternoon
was forced off the road near Suth
erlin by the inidentified driver of
a logging truck. The pickup rolled
into a ditch, he added. Callahan
was believed to have suffered a
fractured shoulder and an injured
neck. He was taken to the hospital
Wednesday evening.
The accident occurred east of
Sutherlin on the Nonpanel Road;
according to the workman. .
Man Drowns As He Tries
To Retrieve Tot's Ball
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. in -
Marlin Brown, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
noticed a little girl's beach ball
being carried away in the upper
Niagara Kiver.
"Don't worry, honey, I'll get it."
said the 21-year-old .man as he
jumped up from a picnic lunch
Wednesday with his wife and
friends and dived into the water.
He swam after the ball for near
ly half a mile, then disappeared.
Firemen dragged the river
through the afternoon but could
not locate the body.
Long-Bell Planning Start
Of Fourth Plywood Mill
PORTLAND fl The fourth
plywood mill of the Long-Bell Lum
ber Co. will be started at Vaughn
in western Lane County of Oregon
soon, President J. D. Leland said
Wednesday.
He said the mill will go into
production about March 1, 1956,
employing 250 men and turning
out 50 million square feet of ply
wood a year.
The company already has timber
holdings and a sawmill there.
Dili- r.:i- T
BiDi rails io neip.
Prisoner Tears It Up
HOUSTON . Carl Jackson.
23, charzed with burglary, carried
a big Bible as he was escorted
into Judge Langston G. King's
court.
"I've found religion," Jackson
announced.
The jury gave Jackson 12 years
In the penitentiary and he was
taken to the court's confinement
room. There, courtroom attend
ants said, be tor the Bible to
shreds.
Second Atomic Sub Hits
SeaKeel Of Third Laid
GROTON, CONN. Wl The Na
vy's second atomic submarine
the long, lean deadly killer named
Seawolf went down the ways to
the sea Thursday.
Three hours earlier, the keel of
a third atomic submarine, as yet
unnamed, was laid in a ceremony
attended by a relatively few offi
cials. The 3,000-ton Seawolf is a trim
mer, sleeker ship than the Nauti
lus. Unlike the bulbous snout of
the Nautilus, the Seawolf has- a
sharp bow.
The official cost estimate of the
Seawolf's hull, minus the atomic
power plant, is $32,700,000. The
Nautilus is estimated unofficially
to have cost about $57,000,000, in
cluding the atomic engine which
accounted for about half the cost.
Tito's Course May Cost
Him Further U.S. Help
WASHINGTON I The United
States was reported Thursday to
be considering a halt in aid to
Yugoslavia until Marshal Tito's
government permits full inspectoin
of the use of American weapons.
Top State Department and Pen
tagon officials are reported ser
iously concerned over the Yugo
slav's government continued re
fusal to permit routine checks by
American military inspectors in
Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia further upset offi
cials, it was learned, by indicating
it will produce Russian MIG fight
ers in Yugoslav factories unless
the Western nations allow some
of their models to be built in Yugo
slavia. These developments combined to
cause serious discussion of whether
the American economic and mili
tary aid program to Yugoslavia
should continue.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee Wednesday recommended
aid be suspended until the Yugo
slavs permit "continuous obser
vation and review" of military as
sistance as required bv the 1951
aid agreement signed by Yugoslav
ia. , . i-o.
Shop Guard, Gunman
Shot In Holdup Battle
. NEW YORK m Two gunmen
invaded a Bronx workshop for the
partially disabled Wednesday in a
vain bid for a $5,000 payroll. They
fled empty-handed after a blazing
gun battle with a .guard.
One of the gunmen, shot in the
left shoulder, was nabbed minutes
later by an off-duty policeman.
Police identified him as Dom
nick De Gennaro. 40. Schenectadv.
N.Y., recently released from Clin
ton state Prison at Dannemora,
where he served time for robbery.
Wounded in the shooting were
the shop guard, Gerald Elliot, 40,
and a woman clerical employee,
Lottie Friedlander, 40. All were
reported in good condition.
Some 150 sewing workers, al
most all suffering from tubercu
losis or heart ailments, hit the
floor as gunfire echoed in the halls
of Altro Workshops, Inc., run by
the Federation of Jewish Philan
trophies. MILL WORKER INJURED
T. R. Garrison, Glendale, suffer
ed a badly lacerated and man
gled lower left arm Wednesday aa
he worked at the Glendale Lum
ber Co., reports News-Review Cor
respondent Mrs. G. B. Fox.
The correspondent said Garri
son caught his arm in a planer
early in the afternoon. He receiv
ed emergency treatment at the
Glendale Clinic and was then
transfered 'by ambulance to the
Medford Community Hospital.
More Farm Revenue
Chamber's Agriculture
Committee Plans Tour
To Inspect Possibilities
An untapped agricultural potential in Douglas County,
which can considerably boost economy, is believed possible
by members of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce's ag
riculture committee. i
Wednesday, committee members summed up results of
a study on farming and allied businesses. They listed three
undeveloped areas
1. Development of forage crops
to 50,000 acres from the present
10,000 acres, with a corresponding
increase in livestock population.
2. An 'up" in production of poul
try and eggs.
3. The establishment of a com
mercial cannery in central Doug
las County.
Chamber Secretary - Manager
HaroM Hickerson, in reporting for
the committee, said it was spon
soring a field trip Aug. 3 for sev
eral business men. Purpose of the
trip up the North Umpqua River
would be to allow those participat
ing to stop at various farms and
inspect agricultural possibilities.
Details concerning the tour will be
announced later.
Increased production of forage
crops (lotus, etc.) was considered
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NtA Khrkoh
SHOWS AMERICA'S LATEST At Geneva, President Eisenhower, center, right, proudly
shows off ah American atomic reactor set up on the grounds of The Palace of Na
tions. Among audience were two Russian correspondents of Tass, official Soviet news
agency;
Union Of Roseburg District
BLM Units Given Okay
Major recommendations to alter
administration of the , Bureau of
Land Management's Roseburg
District were approved In a meet
ing this week by the district ad
visory board and sent to the state
supervisor in Portland.
The recommendations included:
Consolidation of the district's two
master units and marketing ar
eas: consolidation of 16 small ad
ministrative units into four large
ones; and examination of the pres
ent southern boundary of the Doug
las master unit and marketing
area. . ...!',. .
"James' W. Watts, district for
ester, also said the board had ap-
poved five minor changes in the
1955 timber sale plan. The chang
es already are effective and were
made necessary Dy a lacK ot ac
cess to the sale area or by condi
tion of timber.
The district now contains two
master units and marketing ar
easthe South Umpqua and the
Douglas, which overlap in the cen
tral and south-central part of the
district.
Effectively, sale of timber In
the South Umpqua unit is blocked
to mills in the northern part of the
Douglas unit. Although these mills
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U. S. Sells Last Of Its
Ladino Seed Holdings
PORTLAND Wl The federal gov
ernment disposed of the last of
its ladino clover seed holdings
Wednesday.
The Department of Argiculture.
which once held 16 million pounds
of the seed, acquired in the price
support program, sold the last
8,800,000 pounds to the Continenlial
Grain Co. of Portland.
The Portland commodity office
of the department said the price
was 55 cents a pound making
the total purchase price nearly five
million dollars.
The once-booming ladino clover
seed business has been dwindling
recently. Oregon produced 4 Va mil
lion pounds of seed in 1951, but
the production was down to 304,000
pounds last year.
tremendously Important by the
chamber group, Hickerson said.
They believe it is possible on larg
er acreages in the county.
For smaller acreages, committee
members suggest egg and poultry
production.
The hope of bringing a com
mercial cannery to the county con
tinues. Committee members told
Hickerson it could be supplied ade
quately by truck from small
farms. They estimated it would
add a one million dollar payroll in
tho county.
Dave Rusenbark is chairman of
the chamber committee. Others
working with him are R. H. Franks,
L. L. Chitwood and Homer Grow.
Chamber vice president J. Roland
Parker also met with the group.
Innocence Of Marijuana
Averts Prison Sentence
SALISBURY. Md. Wl Norris
McPherson and Gustavus Miller
have learned that what's tea in
their native Jamaica is dope in
Salisbury.
Their innocence saved t n e m
from a two-year jail sentence
Wednesday on a charge of grow
ing marijuana in their gardens.
Circuit Judge Rex A, Taylor
suspended me semence auer men
lawyers told him McPherson and
MUlor. didn't know there was a
law against cultivating the dope
weed.
The two farm workers brought
seeds of marijuana with them
when they came from Jamaica 10
years ago. There, said McPher
son's lawyer, it is brewed like
tea and used for "all sorts of aches
and ailments."
The two have been using mari
juana since they were 20. McPher
son now is 35 and Miller 37.
970,000 More Anti-Polio
Vaccine Shots Released
WASHINGTON MR The Public
Health Service Thursday released
approximately 970,000 shots of po
lio vaccine produced by the Eli
Lilly Co.
Surgeon Gen. Leonard A. Scheele
said this brings to approximately
3,908,000 shots the amount of polio
vaccine approved since revised
testing requirements were adopted
May 26.
The vaccine will be turned over
to the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis for distribution.
The service reported meanwhile
that 565 new polio cases occurred
in the country for the week ended
July 16. It said this represents a
40 per cent increase over the pre
vious week, but noted the increase
is not "greatly different" from
those in comparative weeks over
the last five years.
AFL, CIO Take Joint
Name In Merger Plan
WASHINGTON Ml The last
major obstacle to merger of the
AFL and the CIO was crossed
Wednesday when officials of the
two big labor irouos agreed on
a name for the combined fedora-1
tion.
Short of using the name AFL
as that group urged or CIO, the
officials settled on the simplest, if
somewhat unwieldy, compromise.
Their choice: "The American
Federation of Labor and Congress
of Industrial Orjanizations" t h e
full names of the existing groups.
Presidents George Menny of the
AFL and Walter Reuther of the
CIO said only procedural details
now remain to be worked out he
fore formal merger actions to be
taken at conventions in New York
in December.
Corpus Christi Schools
Throw Out Segregation
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. 11
This south Texas city of more
than 150.000 will no longer bar a
student from any public school be
cause of race.
The 100 per cent compliance
with the U. S. Supreme Court ban
on segregation in schools was an
nounced Wednesday by the board
of the Corpus Christi Independent
School District.
Dr. H. Boyd Hall, Texas Con
ference president of the National
Assn. for Advancemnt of Color
PeoDle. called it "the most per
fect decision that has been issued
in any of the 48 states."
Wage Floor Of $ 1 Hour
Awaiting, Effective Date
WASHINGTON WV-Only Senate.
House agreement on an effective
date stood in the way today of
final congressional approval of a
$l-an-hour federal minimum wage.
The House Wednesday overrode,
188-145. President Eisenhower's re
quest for a limit of 90 cents an
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r wage
floor for most workers in Inter
state commerce. The present mini
mum is 75 cents.
The Senate, which previously
had approved uie same $1 figure,
had voted to make it effective
next Jan. 1. The House voted for
March 1.
The House sent its bill lmmedi
atcly to conference with the Sen-
age for a compromise on the date.
About 24 million workers in in
terstate commerce, with certain
exceptions and exemptions, now
come under the law's provisions.
The approved increase would
mean a pay hike for an estimated
2,100,000 of them.
Another Meeting Slated
In Meat Cutters Dispute
A meeting of employers and un
ion representatives has been sched
uled for Friday fcftrnoon in Rose
burg to discuss a meat cutters'
contract dispute which has been
in tho news the past three weeks.
A. G. Henmngcr, chairman or
the Roseburg Independent Meat
Dealers Employers Committee,
said he had been notified of the
meeting.
The dispute Involves Independent
markets and Safeway Stores, Inc.
The Meat Cutters Union has ask
ed for a 40-hour week for journey
men at 587.50 por week, plus
health and welfare benefits.
Members of Local 324 met Wed
nesday night with Herbert Smith
of Eugene, business agent, but of
ficials did not say what transpired.
President Stella Sade of Roseburg
would make no comment, saying
any statement should come from
Smith. Smith left early today,
presumably to attend a meeting
at Coos Bay where meat markets
are actually struck, lie could not
be reached for comment on the
union meeting in Roseburg.
Bomb Blast Damages
Peron's Political School
BUENOS AIRES W A bomb
exploded early today in front of
Peromsta political school in
downtown Buenos Aires, shatter
ing windows in the vicinity and
damaging a nearby automobile
sliuhtlv.
There was no immediat report
of anv nersons In lured.
Police put a cordon around me
area of the school, which gives
courses In the principles and po
litical practices of President Juan
Peron's dominant Pcronista par
ty. BEER INNOVATION
FRANKFURT, Germany Wl To
Iho dismay of some old-time Ger
man brewmastcrs, a Frankfurt de
partment store began selling beer
Thursday from automatic coin ma
chines. The beer is sold for 30 pfen
nigs (7.5 cents) a paper cup.
CEMETERY NECKING TABOO
LANCASTER, Ohio I Mayor
John Harvey has deputized super
intendents of three city-owned
cemeteries In what the mayor said
was an effort to break up vandal
ism, drinking, card play and "pot-
I ting" on the burial grounds.
Searchers Led
To Spot Near
Cabin By Dogs
Cabin Owner Arrested
For Probe In Murder
Of Stephanie Bryan, 14
WEAVERVILLE, Calif. Wl
Bloodhounds led two ranchers and
a newspaper reporter-Dhotogranh-
er team to the shallow grave of
a young girl near Dead Man's
Cabin Wednesday night in the wilds
of Northern California.
Trinity County Sheriff Harold
Wilson, called to the scene, tenta
tively identified the body as that
of 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles
Bryan of Berkeley, Calif. She has
been missing since April 28.
Arrested for investigation of
murder and kidnaping was Burton
Abbott, slender 29-year-old Univer
sity of California graduate student
under treatment for tuberculosis.
Abbott's family owns the moun
tain cabin near here where the
body was found. He used the
cabin on weekends and has main
tained consistently that he was
here on a fishing trip the day th
school girl disappeared.
When he was arrested and In
formed of the discovery of the
body, Abbott exclaimed: "It just
can't be. I just can't understand
how it got there. I don't know
anything about it. I'm stiU stay
ing with my story."
Girl's Effects In Cellar
In the basement of Abbott's
rented home in Alameda last week
his wife found a red leather purse
which was identified as belonging
to Stephanie. Police subsequently
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Bloodhounds Called
In Idaho Search
Two registered bloodhounds and
owner Dallas Bennett were in Mc-
i-au, luano, loaay to help search
for a 5-year-old youngster, missing
since Tuesday.
-ennett was contacted through
McCall city police and state po
lice in Roseburg late Wednesday
night, and left immediately by
car for Idaho.
CASCADE. Idaho Us A S-vean.
old boy who disappeared on a fish-
uig irip wiui nis granoiauier was
sougni in me woods north of Cas
cade rnursday.
More man zoo volunteers helped
state police and sheriff' officers
in an unsuccessful search for Pat
Cochran of McCalJ Wednesday.
Scratched and bruised by a
nightlong search through the
woods. Bill Fitzwater, grandfather
of the missing boy, drove to Cas
cade Wednesday afternoon to re
port him missing. His car went
into a ditoh en route to Cascade.
delaying him several hours.
Fitzwater said the bov. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cochran, had
wandered away the previous eve
ning. It was feared he might have
drowned in Deinhart Reservoir.
Roseburg 8th In Value
Of New Construction
Roseburg stands eighth among
cities of Oregon in valuation of
new construction started during
the first six months of 1955. fig
ures supplied by the Equitable
Savings Loan Assn., Portland,
reveal.
Statistics also show valuation of
building permit issued bv the Citv
of Roseburg during the, period was
a per cent over tne amount is.
sued during the same period in
1954.
To date, the city has written $1.-
226,512 in permits, compared to
$963,438 in the first six months last
year.
This year. Roseburg stands be
hind Portland, Salem, Eugene,
Bend, Medford, Pendleton and
Springfield in permits.
Tho city followed the pattern re
corded throughout the Northwest
so far this year for increased con
struction activities.
In permits for new dwellings,
Roseburg was 10th, with $436,675.
In the first six months of 1954,
the figure was only $129,300, an
increase in 1955 of 238 per cent.
Vinston Woman On Mend
From Traffic Injuries
Mrs. Darwin DeHart, Winston,
was reported recovering satisfac
torily today from injuries received
in a traffic accident Wednesday at
Winston.
Mrs. Dcnart was taken to Com
munity Hospital for treatment of
head lacerations and bruises after
the car she was driving was struck
by a truck.
State police said the truck,
driven by Neal J. King, Myrtle
Creek, hit the DeHart car as both
vehicles headed north. Officeri
said Mrs. DeHart apparently start
ed to turn off the highway without
signalling. Mrs. DeHart was knock
ed unconscious in the mishap,
but not seriously injured.
Levity F0ct Rant
By L. F. Relzenstein
"Ignorance of the law ex
cuses no man," but, in thes
days of tinkered statutes burst
ing at the seams, mosr crim
inals no longer worry about
that; they dodgo tht peniten
tiary by ducking through the
abundance of tht law's loopholes.