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ot 0. library Eugene, Oregon orrp MkroDhooes Use Approved Former U. S Attorney ' By Paul Jenjdn Wos U Gave Okay By JOHN CHADWICk WASHINGTON 11 Rnhert M M i y i w . EDITH DAMEYVOOD, owner prepares a sandwich for one who habitually frequent her the general run of citizenry farmers and professional men. Before purchasing the Silver Nook Edith was chef at the Hose Hotel for 19 years, where she ca tered to a far different trade. But I'll bet they didn't like Edith any better than her present customers do. who like her plenty. They like her saucy waitresses, too. I guess I'd better sign off or I'll have them liking everybody. Court Of Appeals Upholds Guilt Of Puerto Ricans WASHINGTON The U. S. Court of Appeals Thursday upheld the conviction and prison sentences given four Puerto Rican fanatics for shooting up the House of Rep : resentatives March 1, 1954. Five lawmakers were wounded, but all recovered. In a unanimous decision, the ..court rejected all points raised by t-outtrdppoinled counsel for . the Puerto Ricans and commented "Their guilt was clear and their convictions must stand. The court specifically upheld V. S. District Judge Alexander HolUoffs refusal to order a psy chiatric examination to determine the Puerto Ricans' mental com petency to stand trial, and his re fusal to submit to the jury the question whether the defendants were sane when they fired their pistols into the crowded House Chamber. Three Puerto Rican men received prison sentences of 25 years and j lolila Lebron, who said she was their leader, received a sentence of 16 years and 8 months to 50 j years. The difference in the sentences resulted from the fact that the trial jury convicted the men on five charges of assault with intent to kill and five charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, but con victed the woman only on the dead ly weapon charges. C. Hammond Breaks Arm; Condition Good Chester Hammond. 2548' N. Stephens St., Roseburg was re ported in good condition at Doug las Community Hospital Thursday where he was to undergo surgery on his broken left arm. Hammond, 42, entered the hospi tal Wednesday afternoon. Details concerning the accident were un available. He is employed by Rose burg Lumber Co. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS George Howson of Sacramento, celebrating his 100th birthday, says he made one bad mistake in his long life. He quit work at 90. He added: "That's too young to retire. I'd have gone on working if people weren't so touchy about hiring old men." Food for thought: Maybe if the minimum wage fix- ed bv law weren't so hiKh. people wouldn't be so touchy about hir- ...k imu men. mm u o.. K nierav ! Americans of "a postal card Switz- mert. And old women. And handi-i At the finish of his program, the 1 erlanri " and aimed himself at capped women. native Swiss had his near-capacity j showing his audience that' Swilz- I nder our American system it s audience of distinguished Rose-ierland -i5 (ar more na ju5t quite all right to require by law burg citizenry of the knife and nation of cowherders and cheese that relatively high wages must . Fork Club Wednesday . evening 'SSJSSSSEXZJ be paid to able-bodied and compe-: crooning and keeping musical time Though his native land is 200 (Continued on Paae 4 Col. ) The Weather Fair tonight and Friday, foggy Friday morning. Highttt ttmp. last 24 noun Lowest timp. last 24 hours Highest limp, any Oct Lowtst ttmp. any Oct. ..... Prtcip, list 24 hour Pracip. from Oct. 1 Precip. from Spt. 1 Efkst from Spt. I Sunstt tonight, 5:34 p. Ait Sunrise tomorrow, 6:25 ,M ... ..oj; .... i.o? tf& ! and chef of the Silver Nook- of a varied lot of customers restaurant. These consist of business men, laboring men, Source Of Oil Found In Sewer System Located Source of a quantity of oil found in the Roseburg sewer system Tues day was found by city employes Wednesday afternoon, according to Acting City Manager Kenneth Meng. The trouble originated at Ump- qua Dairy, where a leak developed in a line in the company's system to pre-heat crude oil. The oil went into a sump and from there into the sewer system. The sewage disposal plant super intendent noticed the oil and sew age was bypassed into the South Umpqua River. Meng said the company was un aware that oil from its plant wrm going into ine sewer system and the preheating operation was clos ed down until repairs were made. He pointed out that "oil is dyna mite to the plant." If it had been run through the plant, there would have been a possibility that the plant would have been closed for a couple of days while basins were drained. Oil gums up basins and other units of a sewage treatment plant and the local plant would have had to be scrubbed had the oil been sent through. Contrary to earlier reports, the city would prosecute violators of a city ordinance, prohibiting dump ing of oil into sewers, only if the art was found to be malicious, Meng said. Supreme Court To Rule On Radio, TV Ownership WASHINGTON tjh A decision barring the Federal Communica tions Commission from fixing an arbitrary limit on the number of radio and television stations owned by one person will be reviewed by the Supreme Court. lp for review will be a ruling of the IT. S. Court of Appeals on a suit involving the Storer Broad casting Co., owner of ultra hiijh frequency television station KPTV in Portland, Ore. Storer attacked the validity of the ECC ruling. The U. S. Court of Appeals here struck down the limitation rule. This decision then was appealed lo the Supreme Court and on Monday the court announced it would review the case. Swiss Yodeler, Lecturer Entertains Knife, Forkers At Dinner In Elk's Ballroom ; By JIM VANCE ; Between choice morsels of Swiss culture. Swiis democracy and I Swiss cheese, loni l-auer. Switz - i erland's public-relations conscious yodeler and lecturer, reualrd the air-conditioned walls of the Elks' Ballroom with echoes of Alpine ihr ion losi MimiiM.s. Instructing his listeners to yodel had been part of Oauer s advance bill, and yodel he crowd did. tor himself, the American visit- or caroled numerous Swiss ballads oc.pt in Ihe different tvpes of dance i te European country make 65 per , rhythm; polka, waltz, schottische, cpnt of ,ne woria"s watchei. At "and accompanied himself with any thl5 p,,inti Gaucr pMell , ,witrh 53 one of three accordion-type instru- and d,spaved an alarm - clock - 96 ments. The most popular of these, I wristw atcb" - M he said, is what i called the "hand- j And he discouraged all joking of harmonica. Swiss" navy, "Switzerland has a is message oi tne awisi an v iiiiiik oul a winu-iiMt-u irciuit-. It ' 0e a :pi Itoty-teane hour. Established 1873 Pee Wee Program To Board's Action Keeps Activity Through Year Continuation of the Pee Wee ath letic program in Roseburg's School District 4 will go ahead "as plan ned" this year. School board members meeting Wednesday evening so directed Supt. "M. C. Deller. Lengthy dis cussion preceded the board's ac tion. The local stand comes following recent issuance of new athletic regulations by the state depart-1 with his attorney, Ray B. Comp ment of education. These regulation, to hear the indictment read tions, adopted Sept. 21. cover all ? to him. phases of grade school sports ac tivity. They stress curtailment in regard to tournaments, trophies and tackle football. The local Pee Wee progra m has been in ex is tence for seven years and includes such events as the recent Jam boree. Deller pointed up that it is a supervised, planned program. Chairman Mary Roberts read aloud four letters regarding com petitive sports in elementary schools in the district. Each favor ed continuance of the program and, in general, agreed its discon tinuance would be a "big mistake." The board's stand is strongly backed by school principals and other personnel. Recommendations for the Roseburg Administrative Council (principals and others) read by the superintendent cover t five areas. They are: (1) Ail principals want tackle football in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades; f9. Knntha haskpthall anrf tnft. ball will be played only by fifth, j and sixth graders on tnc exponent system. (This would mean drop ping the program in grade four.) (Continued Ok Page 2 Col. 1) Address Renumbering In City Nearly Finished The renumbering of Roseburg addresses Within the city limits Will be completed today, according to Kenneth Meng, city engineer and acting city manager. The city program to syslemize street numbering and street des ignations will be virtually complete. Only about six street names still have to be changed, Meng said. He asked that persons to whom new street numbers haven't been assigned to call the city engineer's office. He also asked that people bear in mind that all addresses within the city now bear direction al prefixes NE, SE, SW, NW and W. Renumbering of addresses out side the city limits will begin soon Meng said addresses on arterial arterial streets will be changed first. The city engineer's office will assign alt new numbers outside the city after county and cily engineers complete renumbering of present addresses. FLIES BACK EAST DENVER i.fi Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, the President's young est brother, headed back east by plane Thursdy after a hospital vis it with the chief executive. Accompanied by Sherman Adams, the President's top aide. Milton took off from I-owry Air Force Base for Harrishurg, Pa. He is president of Pennsylvania State University. Adams is returning to Washing ton for a cabinet meeting. !nini! in descriptive and Swiss-ae- cenled phrases: 'I want to make i a mosaic of Switzerland that is al- 1 together authentic. . .1 don't want j to be an artist. . .1 don't want lo be a yodeler. . .1 just want to be another Swiss." He described Ihe impression of ,inl(.s smaer tnaD thr United , Slate!1 ..)t ls a greal jndstrla j country and a leading exporter of' machines and engines." The name Switzerland "is for I nrerision " The nennl. nf thai hi. naVy 220.0OO tons of merchant fleet afloat. But above all the alcrial (Continued on Page 2 Col. 4) 28 Pages ROSEBURG ORECON THURSDAY OCTOBER Secret Indictment Names Wcodworth; Arraignment Set A 30-year-old Roseburg man, se cretly indicted by the grand jury on a charge of negligent homicide, is scheduled to make a plea at 9:30 a.m. Friday in circuit court. He is Clcmore Charles Wood worth of 2126 Hollis St.. charged in connection with a traffic ac cident south of Koseburg on Sept. 13 which claimed the life of T. V. trmy) Gurney, 62, Winston. Woodworth was released under I $3,500 bail bond Wednesday after noon after he appeared in court The indictment charges that the i death of Voltaire Gurney resulted i directly from '"injuries caused by negligent driving ot tne defend- ant A warrant was served on Wood- worth earlier in the day at his at torney's office by the slate police officer. At the time of the fatal mishap, officers said Woodworth's car ap parently skidded out of control as he came up behind a line of traf fic on Highway 99. The car skidded across wet pavement and into the path of the car driven by Gurney, police re ported. The driver of a car behind Gurney which rammed the wreck was not injured but both Wood worth and Gurney's passenger, George Goodman, were hurt in the accident. Drain Man Burned By Electric Flash DRAIN ( A flash at the Bonneville Power Administration's sub-station here " severely burned the operator, James C. Stewart, eany inursuay. Stewart, 65. who was to retire in January, was alone at the time nut two passers by saw the flash from a 34,500-volt line and investi gated. Stewart, unconscious, was taken to a Cottage Grove hosnital wnere ne was reported suffering from severe .burns on the arms, back and hips. Service to the Douglas Electric Co-operative was out tor nearly two hours and to the city of Drain for some 2(1 minutes. Morse, Ellsworth Billed For Separate Meetings Two nationally-known political figures will speak to Douglas Coun ty residents Thursday evening. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore) Is featured spokesman at the initial i fall dinner meeting of the Riddle Chamber of Commerce. The sen ator will be heard following the dinner which starts at 7 p.m. at the Riddle High School. Rep. Harris Ellsworth fR-Ore) will report to members of the Hose burg Lions Club at their dinner session which starts a( 6:30 n.m. The Lions will meet at the Hotel umpqua. Christmas Seal The Douglas County Christmas Seal sale conducted by the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health Assn. gets under way Nov. 16, according to information released Wednesday. Some 20 chairmen from through out the county were in Roseburg to participate in an all-day work shop devoted to the seal campaign. The slate Christmas Seal chairman for the association. Miss Jean La Neve, directed the session. She placed special emphasis on the progress in treatment of tu berculosis. The average cost for individual patient care is still 515. 004), she said. '"Farly diagnosis and treatment is imperative." she said, "and it is to this end the association is working." She said the primary purpose of the association was to educate the public and to increase the number of chest X-rays and tuberculosis tests. She stressed yearly visits to the family doctor as the best wav of detecting tuberculosis in its ear ly stages. Mrs. Edwin L. Tauscher, execu tive secretary of the county group, noted that 20 cases of IB were discovered in Douglas County in She reported two deaths resulting from the disease. HEADS LEGION MIAMI. Fla. (vPi J. Addington fAdd) Wagner, 41, a Battle Creek. Mich., attorney, was elected na tional commander of the three mil lion member American Legion Thursday. Wagner, a Navy veteran wound- ! d 10 tne Pacific, won by an over whelming margin in a roil cau t vote. White House Makes Public Letter To Russ DENVER im President Eisen hower, in a letter to Russia's Premier Bulganin, couples a for mal U.S. offer to accept a Soviet military inspection plan with a new plug for the Eisenhower "predis armament' program. The convalescing President's brief note, made public bv the Denver White House late yester- day. underscored the administra tion's continuing hope the Soviet Union eventually will go along with his proposal that the United States and Russia exchange nuutarv blue P"nls and aeree on reciprocal aerial inspection At the same time, apparently in a move to keep that hope alive, Eisenhower reiterated that this country is willing to combine his j plan and the Soviet program with a view toward disarmament in the long run. In a Sept. 19 message to Eisen hower, five days before the Presi dent was stricken with a heart attack. Bulganin found much fault with the Eisenhower plan first set forth at the Big Four summit con ference in Geneva last Julv. So much fault, in fact, that ad ministration officials reportedly concluded at the time that Bul ganin had chosen either to miss or ignore the essence ot the Eisen hower plan that it would be a step toward disarmament and not dis armament itself But if the Kremlin leader did choose to miss or ignore that ba sic point, Kisenhower in his reply 1 quite clearly chose to overlook the fact, presumably in the hope tne Soviet Union eventually will come arnund to endorse his nronram. Making no mention of Bulcanin's blunt criticism of his proposal, the -resKtent iook noie oi me r Te nner's assertion that the Eisen hower plan was getting careful study by the'Sovict high command. " . . .1 am encouraged, ' JMSen hower wrote, "that you "are giving such full consideration to my Gen eva proposal. Herbert Coss Purchases Roseburg Diesel Service Herbert Goss, owner of the Goss Welding Service, has purchased the Roseburg Diesel Service, 2140 N. Stephens St., he announced to day. The change of ownership was effective Wednesday. Both businesses were located in the same building, former owners of the diesel service were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Boy or. They plan lo move to California, the combined business will he known as the Goss Welding Service. the companv will continue truck work, building up machinery, weld ing and all kinds of machine re pairs. DAY CELEBRATED NEW YORK l The 4(i.)rd an niversary of Christopher Columbus' uiscovery or America was cele brated Wednesday. in jncw York 7.,000 persons marched up Fifth Avenue in ob servance of the historic event. . ' " iii Tit. ... .- ,r., .... . -..TA-.lT&tJr.p, Jf f iftf in fcr'Mil Hill III mil .l CHRISMAS SEAL DRIVE PLANNERS Advance plans for the coming Douglas County Christmas Seal sale were made in Roseburg Wednejdoy at a workshop conducted by Miss Jean LaNeve (left), state seal chairman for the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health Assn. Also present were: Mrs. William Hutch, county seal chairman (front, center); Mrs. Ed 'win L. Tauscher. county executive secretary for the association (right) ; and Dr. Donald M. Jeppeson, ossociotion president for the county. (Paul Jenkins Picture). 13, 1955 le Continued - 4 BERNARR MACFADDEN . . . physical culturist dies Bernarr Macfadden Ends Colorful Career At Age Of 87 Years JERSKY CITY. N.J. i-Bernarr Macfadden, colorful exponent of rugged living who regarded old age as "just a bad habit," is dead at 87. The onetime millionaire publish er died last night at Jersey City Medical Center after an attack of ' jaundice. I his physician said the attack, which brought him to the hospital last iriday, hart been aggravated by a three-day fast. The death certificate listed the cause of death as "cerebral thrombosis." From a sickly child. Macfadden built himself into a hardy physical specimen and amassed a fortune estimated at- one time at 30 mil lion dollars. However involved In' re c e n t court disputes with his second and "rd wives, he listed his income - " a year aiier iacs. Macfadden once was publisher of such magazines as Physical Cui - lure. Liberty and True Storv. and his former newspaper holdings in cluded the New York Evening Grafic, the Detroit Daily, the Phil adelphia jncws and the New Haven Times. During his vigorous lifetime, Macfadden was wed three times and had a total of nine children. (Continued on Page 2 Col. 6) Herman Abercrombie, 22, Asks Preliminary Hearing Herman Norton Abercrombie, 22. Koseburg, was released on $1, 000 bail Wednesday after he ap peared in district court lo face a charge of contributing to the de linquency of a minor. Abercrombie asked for a prelim inary hearing, and Judge Warren A. Woodruff set Oct. 17 as the date for one. The defendant was arrested by the sheriff's ollice after it was al leged the young man left with 17-year-old girl and married her when she did not have parental consent. Sales Date Set PRICE 5c Truman Scores Legion's Stand Against Unesco MIAMI, Fla. I The Ameri can Legion went "haywire" when it asked that this country with draw from the United Nations Ed ucational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Former President Harry S. Truman said Thursday. By an overwhelming voice vote, Ihe Legion called on Congress Wednesday lo do away with the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Such an action would virtually put a stop lo U.S. partici pation in the world organization. "The Legion doem't know what it is talking about," Truman com mented in New York. "They have gone haywire the last three or four years. They don't know what they are doing." The former President, a Legion naire himself, noted that a six man Legion committee had given UNESCO a clean bill of health. This committee, headed by Past Commander Ray Murphy, an lo wan now living , in Manhassett, N.Y., found that UNESCO was neither Communistic, atheistic nor in lavor ot world government. As (Continued on Page 2 Col. 8) Lumber Trucker Is Injured When Trailer Ditches A Myrtle Creek lumber truck driver, Charles Eilenberger, was hospitalized Wednesday evening when nis loaded semi-trailer tup ped into a ditch on Ncr.h Myrtle Hoad about three muei from Myr tie Creek, according to state po ller. Officer said Eilenberger receiv ed a severe cut on his left arm. shock and other injuries. Appar- I faily he ,ost "P'rol of the rig and M r7un, " haT curv . iVhe" carried the cab with it The cab was heavily damaged when it landed on its top in the ditch. In Roseburg, one minor traffic accident occurred. Police cited Wil liam Ernest Butler. 67. Kohlhagen Apis., for failure to yield right-of- way. Onicers sain he hacked out of a driveway on Rose Street near Washington and collided with a Consolidated Freightways truck driven by Robert Blanchfield, 34, Sutherlin. The accident was al 2 p.m. Wednesday. CONTRACT AWARDED PORTLAND A $4,338,085 contract for the final major work of The Dalles Dam on the Colum bia River has been awarded to Guy F. Atkinson Co. and Ostrander Construction Co, on a joint bid, the Army Kngineers reported Wed nesday, The chief part of the work is construction of a closure dam con- meeting the east end of the power I house with the Oregon shore, Completion date is August, 1957. 242-55 Cowger, former asst. U.S. at torney, testified Thursday he agreed to permit a University of Chicago research team to record jury deliberations in a condemna tion case he was prosecuting for the government in May, 1954. Cowger, i Topeka, Kan., lawyer, told the Senate Internal Security Committee that he was asked in the chambers of Federal District Judge Uelmas Hill if he had any objection lo a recording being made. "At the time I stated I did not." said Cowger, who served as as sistant U.S. attorney in Kansas from March, 1954 until the follow ing November. Earlier, William C. Farmer, the present U.S. attorney for Kansas, and his predecessor, George Temp- leMiueu. mey iirsi learned of Ihe recordings when they were played in the annual conference of the 10th Judicial Circuit in Estes Park, Colo., last July. This s the second dav of the hearings. At the close of "the first. Sen. Eastland (D-Miss) said he and Sen. Jenner (R-Ind) favored mak ing it a fclonv to Dlace rernrHin devices in a jury room. Eastland is chairman of the subcommittee. University of Chicaen I.aui Schnni officials testified Wednesday that v iiii-i juukc urie runups ot the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as Judge Hill, had consented to a microphone being concealed in the jury room in Wichita, Kan., in five or six civil cases as part of a study project aimed at strengthening the jury system. Templar was the first witness called Thursday and testified that "upwards of 75 to 100 persons were present" when the transcrip tions of the jury proceedings in Wichita were played back at the judicial conference in Estes Park. SP Workman Hurt InYoncalla Fire A Southern Pacific molove re ceived severe burns, but quick lo tion prevented a serious lire at xoncaua Wednesday mgqt. A section hand, Samuel Miles, 26, drove to Cottage Grove Honpi- lhi aiier ne was uurneu in a lira at a work train on a siding in Von c&lla, police said. Another SP workman, Ben Gra ham, received a slight burn on one hand, but was not treated by a physician. Miles received second and third-decree burns of both hands and his rieht side. Den. Sheriff John McCool of Drain aaid. ine jnenn s office and stale po lice are alill investigating the lira because of the possibility it start ed as someone was attempting to steal gasoline from a car in Ihe work train. Fire Chief Stacy Adams said his firemen were called about S p.m. The car in which the fire started contained about 1.200 sal Ions of gas and 200 gallons of kero sene. Quick action by SP employes and the firemen kept damave slight. The only damage was where flames burned across the floor of the car, Adams said. Miles apparently was burned as he tried to toss a burning can of gasoline out of the car. Employes began using water to prevent spread of the flames, then the fire department brought the situation under control. Ine worlc train is hooked up with the city water sys tem. Adams pointed out. Beaten Itinerant Found By Roseburg Resident KLAMATH FALLS im An itinerant farmhand was found beat en, near death, alongside Southern Pacific Railroad tracks here Wed nesday. Railroad employes said the man. Identified as Garland Taylor. 49. apparently was one of 10 or 12 who had attended an all-night wine drinking party in a nearby hobo jungle. Two tarm workers, uuy Lyons, Roseburg, and Vincent Mai- laker, Nan rrancisco, were want ing along the tracks when they saw Taylor laying amid two dozen empty wine jugs. He had lost an eye, his face was badly cut and he had been beaten on the head, lie was taken to a hospital where doctori held little hope lor his re covery. Police were looking for others who attended the parly. Oregon 8-40 Unit Wini Trophy For TB Work MIAMI BEACH, Fla. W The Agnes Allen Trophy for outstanding work in primary tuberculosis in children was won by the Oregon unit at the 8 and 40 convention here. The S and 40 organization is the women's division of the American Legion 40 and 8. Mrs. M. Stephen llunniciitt of Muskogee, Okla., was named president. National poetry day, open ing Oct. 15, should spur com petition for fast bucks, if not enduring fame, by composing olluring yen for television commercials. i Levity Fact Rant j By L. F. Reizenstein
