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U. of 0. Librr.ry Eugene, Oregon Corrp A5irpor& . Diniirii lofebefrf Cose iiinaferi W.W.HUD j.U- iJHWiiBIJI Wi Mill I t. y REPRESENTING OREGON at the national convention of the Future Homemakers of America in Chicago June 30 to July 6 will be the two Roseburg High School pupils above. They are Gaye Thompson, left, and Dixie Wooton. The 'national organization which stresses homemaking studies in the high school, holds a convention every third year. Every state is allowed a certain number of representa tives. Oregon was allowed 26 from the approximately 4,000 in the state. Local organizations and the Roseburg FHA chapter are working to raise funds to help finance the trip for the. two girls. The FHA is holding a rummage sale for the purpose at the Roseburg Women's Clubhouse today. (Wilson Studio) Democratic Party Dinner, Eisenhower's Talk Spotlight Nations Political Picture By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Most of the top Democrats were in Washington today for a party rally and a $100-a-plate dinner, but Sen. Estes Kefauver kept pushing along the campaign trail into Ore gon. President Eisenhower was billed to deliver a major speech on for eign policy tonight at a dinner of the American Society o Newspa per Editors. His 1952 Democratic opponent, Adlai Stevenson, was featured speaker af an ASNE luncheon during the day. Stevenson, who wants to head the Democratic ticket again this year, had a chance, too, to get in a little campaigning in the Dis- Kefauver Arrives From California For Portland Talk PORTLAND I Sen. Estes Kefauver. predicting victory for himself in California, arrived here parlv Saturday for an intensive 19 hour of -campaigning in Port land. Fresh from a campaign trip In California, where the presidential nrimarv will ba held June 5, the Tennessee senator said he be lieved Adlai Stevenson still held a slight edge over him for the Democrat nomination in that state. "But we are coming up there every day. Things are looking much better now, and mjr peopie are doing a lot of work. I feel sura we will win that election he said on arrival at the airport, where 40 of his Oregon supporters met him. It was 4:30 a. m. when the plane from Los Angeles landed here, and Kefauver said he hopes to be through soon with night flying. He said campaign schedules calling for night flights were too stren uous. He managed a few hours of rest before plunging into a day that called for 11 meetings with Demo cratic, business, farm, labor and other groups, climaxed by a ban quet speech at night before ' the Oregon convention of Young Dem ocrats. In Oregon he is campaigning for write-in votes, seeking the state's IS delegates to the Demo cratic national convention. Sup porters of Stevenson also are wa ging a write-in campaign. Dele gates will be bound by the out come. Stevenson is expected to visit Oregon later. The state's pri mary will be held May 18. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Except for the farm Situation which produced the political mon strosity known as the farm bill I suppose there is no graver issue in the Eastern and Southern parts of our country today than racial segregation. It doesn't mean much to us out in the West, but east of the Mis sissippi River and south of the .Mason and Dixon line it has ex plosive possibilities because it is an EMOTIONAL issue. Economic issues can smoulder along, giving off smoke and a cer tain amount of heat but not reach ing the crisis stage. But emotional issues are apt to explode. This bit of preaching is inspired by an incident on this train a few hours ago. A colored man and his wife were sitting back in the club car. They were well dressed taste- (Continued on Page 4 Col. 4) The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Sun day. Few widely scattered show ers er thunder showers this even ing. Cooler Sunday. Highest temp, last 2 hours 90 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 48 Highest temp, any April .. .. 96 Lowest temp, any April 25 Precip last 24 hours Precip. from April I .441 Precip. from Sept. 1 45.59 Excess from Sept. 1 19.12 Sunset tonight, 7:02 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:21 a.m. i r pa .ft? trict of Columbia where a pro-Stevenson delegate slate is opposing a pro-Kefauver roster in a May 1 pri mary. The District ww nave six votes at the Democratic conven tion. The monev - shv Democrats hope to raise $250,000 from their dinner tonight at the capital s National Guard Armorv. The dinner is be ing held in memory of the late President Woodrow Wilson. Stevenson is attending. So is Gov. Averell Harriman of New York, still "not an active candi date" for the presidential nomina tion. But neither will speak. That job falls to House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas and Sen. Alben Barkley of Kentucky, who was vice president under former President Truman. Truman, by the way. will be ab sent. His daughter, Margaret, is being married today at the family church in indepenaence, jno. Kefauver planned a speech to night in Portland, Ore., on t h farm nroblem which figures as one of the leading issues in the 1956 political battles. Neither Kefauver nor Stevenson has been entered in the Oregon primary May 18. How ever, supporters of both are bet ting on write - in vote campaigns (Oregon will have IS convention votes.) Speaking before college audi ences in California Friday, Kefau ver said the Eisenhower adminis tration has "no faith in peace and no hope of achieving :t in its time." The Tennessee senator said that if he becomes President he intends to "reinstitute not just bipartisan foreign policy but a non partisan foreign policy. At the Democratic party meet ing in Washington, members the national committee living Oregon, Florida and California ex pressed the opinion that Stevenson ana Jietauver are running a b o u even in primaries in those states Change Reported In State Police Personnel changes in th state police office in Roseburg have been announced by Sgt. Robert J Keete. infective May 1. two new na- trolmen will join the force. Both are transferred from other state police departments, Sgt. Keefe said. They are William J. Bennett Medford, and John H. Pardon, Mc JMinnvuie. Sgt. Keefe also announced the resignation of officer Charles Hollis. Hollis, 30, is tendering his resignation lor juay 1. He will join the sales force of United r ruit & Produce, Portland Hollis is married and has two children. He will move his family to Eugene. The officer has been with the state police for one year, SIX CHILDREN BURNED WASHINGTON tfl Six chi dren died in an oil-fed fire that swept through a two-story row house in southwest Washington r riaay. rour of the victims were chi dren of Mrs. Dorothy Parker, 26, ieKro. Mrs. Parker's sister, Mrs. Mary P. Saunders, 24, lost two of her four children. Margaret Truman's Rites Today Biggest Social Event By ERNEST B. VACCARO INDEPENDENCE, Mo. Harry S. Truman's daughter Mar garet, as happy a young woman as ever lost her heart to a man, gets married today. The blonde-haired girl who grew to young womanhood in the White House and Clifton Daniel Jr., the handsome foreign correspondent who wooed and won her in a whirl wind romance, exchange vows in little Trinity Episcopal Church. After a brief reception in the big. white-framed Truman home at 219 . Delaware St., they will fly off to Nassau for a honeymoon of t w o , weeks And her father, the former Pres ident, can relax from the ordeal that every father of a bride can understand. "I am happy because Margaret u happy," he laid, "the more I Established 1873 14 Accusations Juried Dn Vice 1 Langley Says Charges False, Hits At City PORTLAND UFi More accu sations flew Saturday i n a controversy touched off by a newspaper's charge that it had uncovered a conspiracy to try to control politics and vice in Port land. District Atty. William Lanelev accused the present city adminis tration of lax law enforcement and asserted that someone apparently had put an illegal wire tap on his telephone. He said statements being attrib uted to him "apparently have been lifted out of text, edited.' He called upon the public to withhold judgment until comple tion of a grand jury investigation he has called. The investigation, which Lang- ley iriea to get under way J- riday, was set over at least until Monday after Langley had subpenaed three stall writers for The Ore- gonian, the newspaper that is making the vice charges in copyrighted series of articles. The newspaper s attorney asked circuit judge to quash the sub- penas. asserting that the district attorney could not "impartially conduct" the investigation. Judge Frank Lonergan took action that will not allow the sub- penas to become effective until Monday afternoon. Seattle gamblers were involved ia the attempt to move into Port- continued on Page 1 Col. 4) Robert F. Bainbridge Killed When Logging Truck Crashes Bank Robert F. Bainbridge, 26, of Elkton, became Douglas Coun ty's eighth traffic fatality Friday afternoon whan a blowout appar ently threw th loaded logging truck he was driving out of con trol. The accident occurred at about 2:10 p.m. Bainbridge was driv ing the truck down a logging road to Highway 38 about two miles west of Elkton. At he near ed the intersection, the tire ap parently blew out and the truck careened into the bank on the opposite side of the highway from the point where the road in tercepts the highway. Death came as a result of the injuries received in the impact, accord ing to Coroner L. L. Powers. Bainbridge is survived by his wife and three children, all of Elkton. Stale police who investigated said it was apparently the left front tire that blew out. The truck plowed into a 3Mi foot bank hurl ing the three 18-foot short loss over ine caD, smashing it, accord ing to police. Bainbridge was still alive when a man, Clinton Lewey, who lived nearny came running to the scene, Bainbridge died about five min utcs after Lewey arrived. Deputy Coroner Lucien Imboden of Drain said death resulted from loss of blood, internal injuries and shock Imboden pronounced him dead wnen ne arrived at the scene. Temperature Hits 90 Friday; Rain Forecast Yesterdays temperature reach ed a new high for the year, top ping that of Thursday by I de grees. But It was still below th all time high of H for the month of April. The U. S. Weather Bureau re ported 90 degrees yesterday, but forecast a few widely scattered showers or thunder sheweri for tonight. see of Margaret's young man the Dtuer i line mm. Daniel, 43, assistant to the for eign editor of the New York Times, and the 32-year-old radio- i v actress-singer pursued t n e 1 arm-in-arm course about Independ enoe while Truman's neighbors looked on approvingly but with minimum of hubbub. Wedding day dawned with ore maritial events moving like clock work on the quiet and simple pat tern upon which mother, father and daughter agreed. - It was at Trinity Episcopal Church that Truman, a life - long Baptist, was married to Bess Wal lace 37 years ago. Margaret, when she goes down the aisle with her father, will car ry a prayer book given her by grandmother Wallace when she was confirmed In 1940. ROSEBURG, Second Annual Explorer Scouts Rendezvous Here Contests and activities were con tinuing today in the second annual Oregon Trail Council Explorer Ren dezvous being held this year at Riverside School in Roseburg. . All competitive skills activities were taking place on the River side School playgrounds and in the building, according to Robert Curtis, chairman of the Rendez vous committee. The council-wide Rendezvous is being hosted by the Douglas Fir District which takes in much of Douglas Coun ty. Explorers began arriving for the Rendezvous Friday night at 7. Reg istration took place between 7 and 8 p.m. m Activities started early this morning with reveille at 6:30. Com petition started at 8:30 on River side field. The competitive events include archery, plug casting, rope work two-man crosscut sawing, moskeet, log rouing, oDstacie running. Explorer units entered teams of four boys who stay together through the entire competition. The high est team and individual score to tal for all events determines ' the top awards for th Rendezvous. The two new events this year are log-rolling and obstacle run ning. The log-rolling event was taking place in a nearby millpond. tacn team selects one man to par ticipate. He dons a life jacket and tennis shoes and takes part in a spiasny elimination. The obstacle course is scored on total time the four-man teams take following a aeries of obstacles. Both eating and sleeping ware being done in the school. Sleeping quarters i riaay nignt were the school gym. Harbor Plywood Offers Low Bid For Timber Tract Harbor Plywood Corp. of Riddle was successful bidder for a tract of 2,400,000 board feet of Umpqua roresi umoer in a sale at Rose burg Friday. The company bid $69,190 for the tract appraised at $55,870. The tract included 1,800,000 feet of Douglas fir appraised at $27.10, 200,000 board feet of pine apprais ed at $27.75 and 400,000 feet of white fir and other snecies annrais- ed at $3.85. Harbor paid $34.50 for the Dnuir las fir and the appraised prices for the other species. ine two other bidders on the 99 acre tract 30 miles east of Tiller were Umpqua Plywood Corp. of Myrtle Creek and Roseburg Lum ber Co. of DiUard. The next Umnaua Forest Sale ia scheduled May 11. HELICOPTER INSPECTION PORTLAND W Col. Jackson Graham, the Portland district Army Engineer, Friday went on a helicopter inspection trip to ob serve emergency dike repair proj ects along the Columbia River. Page EPSILON SIGMA ALPHA sorority rr"-hi" from all chapters in the stote are in Roseburg today to attend the 10th annual ESA stati convention. Mrs, I. J. Bean, left, and Mrs. Gerry Moore, right, greeted Mrs. Jesse McAdoo, center, international president of the sorority, Friday. Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Beon or co-chairmen of the meetings. Over 200 women registered for the sessions which wjll conclude with o breakfast Sunday morning. Following a luncheon this noon, business sessions ond a formal banquet and dance will be held, (Paul Jenkins) j, j OREGON SATURDAY, APRIL Stevenson Asks U.S. To Call Off Atomic Tests WASHINGTON Wl Adlai TS. Stevenson Saturday proposed that the United States take the initia tive m disarmament by calling off the Pacific H-bomb test sched uled next month. He asserted that the Eisenhow er Administration has "lost the moral initiative" in foreign policy and the "marginal superiority over Russia" in armaments. The 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, campaigning again to become his party's standard bear er, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that under President Eisenhower, U. S. policy is "rigid, unimaginative and fails to take advantage of new oppor tunities." He said it is "fantastic" that "we have so mismanaged our selves of late that we must now try to prove we love peace as much as the Russians and are concerned with the problems of economic development and na tional independence as they are." To counter what he said is a growing feeling in the world that the United States is not interested in peace, Stevenson urged that serious consideration be .given to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb. in making tne proposal, wnicn was similar to a suggestion by Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray, Stevenson said he was not going to be "in ti undated" in his views by the fact that the Russians have pro tested against the scheduled tests. Planning Croup Seeks Another Technician Here The Douglas County Planning Commission is seeking another planning technician to replace James Coleman,' who has signified he will not return to the office here, according to Chairman O. J. Fett Jr. Coleman, who has been on leave to the University of Oregon, has in dicated he will go into landscape architecture rather than return here as a planning technician. J. Haslett Bell, consultant to the commission, is attempting to find a replacement for Coleman. Two other technicians, Frank Johnson and Keith Chalterton, are now employed in the office. The next meeting of the planning commission will be Thursday at 8 p.m. at the planning office in the courthouse, Fett said. THIEF SCARED AWAY The attempted theft of hubcaps from a car parked on Oak Avenue early today was averted Dy a ho tel employe who scared a "young man" from the car. Roseburg police said Leo H. Dell, Glide, an employe of the Hotel Umpqua, scared the would be thief away from the car, which officers said is owned by Orville C. MUtenbcrgcr, Springfield. 21, 19S6 SIDNEY MOON , . , resigns from boord Sid Moon Resigns District 4 Budget Committee Position When the committee meets Wed nesday to start revision of the nuscuuig auuuui uimiki uuufici, the first act will be the election of a new chairman. I Sidney Moon Jr., chairman of the committee, last night submit ted his resignation. His withdrawal, he said, was not influenced by the result of the elec tion in which the resubmitted budg et was beaten Thursday. Unforseen circumstances beyond his control. he reported, made it impossible for him to devote further time to the work of the committee. In addition to service on the school budget board for the past few years, Moon is a member of the Roseburg vity council. Army Sergeant's Trailer House Burns On Road An army 'sergeant, traveling to Fort Lewis, Wash., with his fam ily, Friday brought his car to a halt on Highway 99 north of Oak land' to examine the smoking left rear tire of his 35-foot trailer house. Even as M. Sgt. June Howard Swaby requested help from Billy Mohr Towing to change the tire, it burst into flame. State police re ported the fire spread rapidly, de stroying the trailer house and con tents. Mohr told officers the sergeant had explained his need for help in changing the tire, then as he was hanging up, said "Now my trailer house is on fire." The blaze slowed flow of traffic. The trailer was parked on the highway, officers said. i Sgt. Swaby told officers he had insurance on the mobile home "if it was parked." No one seemed to know if the insurance covered parking on a highway. The blaze occurred about five miles north of Oakland at mile post 178. !JJf ' IVviiti. T" PRICE 5c Probe Soviet Leaders Breakinq Down British Coolness LONDON tfl Soviet Commu nist party boss Nikita Khrushehev and Soviet Premier Bulganin ap peared Saturday to be . breaking through Britain's cold recention to their visit with a forceful "lct's-be-friends" offensive. Khrushchev, who has been mak ing all the more important Soviet pronouncements so far on the tour. has obviously impressed Britons with arguments that an arms race in a superscientific age must lead to disaster. He took this theme in a speech that had the tone of a sermon last night in Greenwich at a Royal Naval College dinner honoring the visitors. The two Soviet leaders and their party left this morning for another day full of rush and bustle, i'iieir schedule was so tight it seemed to preclude any of the baby-kissing tactics employed by former Soviet Premier Malenkov a few weeks ago in captivating British crowds, British government officials seem ed intent on preventing a repeti tion ot mat. They headed first for the atomic energy research establishment at (Continued on Page 2 Col. 1) Southern Pacific Passenger Train Hearing Tuesday State Sen. Paul E. Geddes, of the complainants "in 'a one suit against the Southern Pacific Co, has again asked groups interested in me status ot ran passenger serv ice to southern Oregon to apnea at a public hearing in Roseburg Tuesday morning. The Public Utilities Commission hearing is to gather opinion and fact from Southern Oregon resi dents regarding the suit. Gcddcs and State Sens. Gen Brown of Grants Pass and Philip Lowry of Medford filed suit when the SP suspended the rail service last summer. Site of the hearing will be the hearing room of the Douglas Coun ly court in the courthouse. T w days later, a second hearing will be held in Medford. decides said there apparently will be little evidence given at the hearing unless more persons or groups show up than are Indicated at present. only ine city ot Koseourg. tne Roseburg Chamber of Commerce and a veterans' organization have signified they will have represent atives, Geddes said "so far as I know." The hearing will be only to re ceive testimony from the public. Witnesses may testify as to the de sirability or undcsirability of the company s re-establishing passen ger service. There will be a delegation of Southern Pacific officers here, but none will testify. Members of the delegation will be: R. M, Gilmore, San Francisco, assistant vice president in the system's passenger - public rela tions department; Bernal S. Quayle, Portland, passenger traffic public relations manager; L. R. Smith, Portland division superintendent; Leith Abbott, Portland, public re lations; and Frank McColloch, Portland, and O. Young, San Fran cisco, railroad attorneys. Weed Killer Suspected In Death Of Toddler EUGENE Wl Authorities are awaiting a pathologist's report to determine the cause of a toddler's death, but weed killer is suspect ed, Coroner Fred Bucll said Fri day.. Jinny Thrapp, 23-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dexel Thrapp, Eugene, died about two hours after arrival at a hospital! here Wednesday night. Buell said her father told of the girl becom- w?cd." in arose" garden. " The father said he found the child near a can of weed killer he was using. Buell said the chemical was a type which contains ar senic. Strike At Macy's Store ded With Agreement F.W YORK Wl - Macy's depart Iment ment stores and representatives of i 8.000 striking employes reached a 95-56 contract agreement early today, after a 29-hour mediation session. I A union spokesman said a mem-1 bership meeting was not expected until tomorrow and that picketing would continue today. The settlement of the 11-day-old walkout was announced by Thom as L. Norton, dean of the New York University School of Com merce, chairman of the mayor's cituens committee. Arrested Trio Confess Part, Says Sheriff Lorontzen, Taylor, Choate Held In Bail After Quick Arrests Only 13W hours after a Friday morning stickup at the Airport inn, iin jvs Stephens St., in Rose burg. Sheriff Ira ('. RvrH nri tu deputies had cracked the case. ny o:vju r riaay night, three sus pects had been arrested. Byrd re ported today that all three had ad- mmea meir parts in the holdup. Raymond Lee Lorentzen ?n I a. roy Kirk Taylor, 16, both of whom vc at uia rai-UiC iaoins on iNortn east Stephens Street, and Charles Choate, 27, of 1563 SE Short St., were in the Douglas County jail all charged with robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. Bail of $5,000 was set on each of them by Sutherlin Justice of Peace Ward Watson. District court in Roseburg is not open on Satur days. Sheriff Byrd and deputies Larry Wright and Carl Smith went to work on the case immediately aft er George Dahl, owner of the Air port inn, reported he had been rob bed at 12:50 Friday morning. They worked without letup until the three men were arrested and had admitted their parts in the crime. Dahl told officers two men had come into the tavern - restaurant just before 1 a.m. Friday. The first, apparently Lorentzen went in alone ancf ordered a beer. Short ly after, the second, Taylor, came in and asked where the restroont (Continued on Page 2 Col. J) C GILES FRENCH, Mora Publish er ond ex-state representative, will speak Monday noon at the Hotel Umpqua on re-apportionment of the state legis lative districts. He is the spon sor of the so-called "federal plan." The talk will be before the Roseburg Chambar of Commerce. Douglas McKay Coming Thursday Douglas McKay, the ex-Oregon governor and former secretary of interior, will include Roseburg in . his first stump of the state next week in an effort to win the Re publican nomination for Sen. Wayne L. Morse's congressional Job. McKay will be in the city Thurs day noon. The place of his ap pearance nasn t Deen set. He said he will attack Morse s Senate record in his sweep through the state. McKay will start his stumping campaign in the Willamette Val ley, moving into southern Oregon Thursday. Besides Roseburg, he win be at North Bend, Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland and Klam ath Falls during the week. This Sunday, he will be a guest of the McKcnzie Chamber of Com merce at the annual White Water Boat Parade on the McKcnzie River in Lane County. Former Recorder Returns To Job A former city recorder at Riddle is back in the job today. It was announced that the City Council had appointed E. E. Hart to take over the job he had held once before. He was also a former city treasurer. Hart will also serve as muni cipal judge. Mrs. E. R. Alexander has been named to take the job as clerk in the city offices. Hart succeeds Robert L. Newton, resigned this week te take . posuiun lu uiu uuica ul iu-iuy Redy-Mix, according to correspond ent Erma Best. Another new appointment an nounced by Mayor Gid Aspey was that of Otto Griffith as city treas urer. Griffith resigned from the City Council to take the job. This leaves a vacancy on the council. Levity Fact Rant By L F. Reizenstein Y '1 lvY ' .,! 1 iV-al One fancies that th touch-and-go activity of John Faster Dulles may have been the In spiration for the push button driving gadgets, on the new automobiles. '
