2 The Newi-Rtvitw, Rostburg, Org. Ttiuri. Aug. 8, 1957
BLM Timber Sales Decline,
But Other Progress Made
An innual review by the North
west Hcgional Office of the Bu
reau of Land Management con
concerning its fiscal 1957 timber
tales, access road construction
and reforestation program shows
progress in each of the latter two
phases, but a decline in timber
tales.
The report, from the Portland
office of the BLM, Indicates that
sales from O & C and Coos Bay
Wagon road lands under super
vision of the BLM amounted to
$18,952,272 in fiscal 1957, compared
to $25,025,991 in the previous fiscal
year.
Oecllne 24 Par Cent
Although this was a decline of
approximately 24 per cent in dol
lar volume, board footage sold lag
ged behind only about six per cent.
The 1957 fiscal total was 624,505,
000 board feet compared to the
664,887,000 board feet total In 1956.
In the Douglas County district,
which also includes parts of Jack
son and Coos counties, sales total
70 Miles Of Timber Access
Roads Graded, 50 Surfaced
By BLM, Annual Report Says
Nearly 70 miles of timber ac
cess roads were graded, over SO
miles surfaced and three bridges
were built on Oregon and Califor
nia timberlands by the Bureau of
Land Management in fiscal 1957,
according to the year-end report
of Virgil T. Heath, Oregon state
supervisor for BLM.
In this reforestation project for
the year, the report shows an in
crease in both planting and seed
ing on Oregon and uamornia lanus
by BLM for the year concluded
Of the construction total, four
miles of road were constructed in
Douglas County at Canton Creek
Surfacing on that stretch will be
completed this year, according to
Merle Winn, local district forester
for BLM.
Other construction by that agen
cy in the district over the past fis
cal year includes one bridge nearly
completed at Cow Creek, about
right miles above Riddle.
Road Work Planned
Near future plans of the BLM,
according to Wmn. call for letting
of contracts for the Cow Creek
Road construction. The BLM is
also negotiating for purchase of
several road systems in the dis
trict, including the Rock Creek
Road.
Overall, for Oregon and Califor
nia, the road program during its
cal 1957, with funds appropriated
by congress during tne past sev
eral years, amounted to $4,735,328.
There were 68.8 miles graded at
a cost of $3,554,488 and S4.1 miles
surfaced for $1,030,000.
The three bridges were built at
a cost of $150,840.
With the new BLM roads added
to the road building program start
ed in 1951, access has now been
made available to a total of 17
billion board feet of timber, ac
cording to the state supervisor.
This total Includes some timber
owned by private companies and
some administered by the U. S.
Forest Service as well as BLM's
stand.
Other Roads Started
In addition to access roads com
pleted in the past 12 months in
the Oregon-California region, roads
under construction but not com
pleted amounted to 40.3 miles grad
ed, totalling $2,333,000 in contracts
and 46.7 miles to be surfaced for
$233,129. Five bridges to be built
total $250,000.
Another 6.5 miles of roads were
purchased by BLM at a cost of
$204,000.
In the reforestation campaign,
the BLM planted 3.809 acres of
timber lands and seeded 827 acres
Photographer It Slugged
By Dio Before Hearing
(Continued from page one)
cured fist as he left the building.
He ducked into a taxirab with two
male companions.
The racketeer's progress from
the building had been a sort of
hide-and-seek game.
Dio ducked around pillars, head
ed down hallways, and always en
countered another reporter or
photographer. He ignored ques
tions as to whether he would in
voke the Fifth Amendment when
he took the witness chair.
As Dio got to the revolving door
that leads to the street, he spun
and swung on the photographer.
"I've got a family," the rack
eteer said in grating tones.
Dio was to he called as a wit
ness in the afternoon committee
session. In the forenoon, a group
of his alleged henchmen were
busy taking the Fifth Amendment
to questions about their accusa
tion with Dio.
Bulgy, bespectacled Sidney
Hodges of Brooklyn refused to tell
the special senate committee
whether he helped Dio set up
"phony" unions.
The investigators contend Dio
used such unions as a device to
extort from employers and also
misused the dues of rank and filo
union members.
Nathan Cordon, an alleged Dio
henchman, also invoked the Fifth
Amendment. He refused to say
whether he feared Dio or even
knew him. The committee identi
fied Gordon as secretary-treasurer
of Teamstera l-ocal 6M.
Abe Brier, another of Dio's al
leged henchmen in setting up the
phony Teamsters locals, was
another who took the Fifth Amend
ment. The committee, haaded by Sen.
McClellan (D-Ark), contends that
Dio and Teamsters Union boss
James R. Hnffa formed a cor
rupt alliance in a grab for power
in New York area unions.
ed 85.016.000 board feet on 109
tracts. This was from a total of
120 tracts offered and an offer of
134 million board feet. The sales
total for the county on BLM land
was $2,539,245.90, according to
Merle Winn, Roseburg district for
ester. On the statewide picture, Virgil
T. Heath, Oregon State supervisor
for BLM. announced that 759,338,
000 had been put up for sale, al
most 90 million board feet more
than in 1956, but due to the lum
ber market slump there was a de
crease in sales.
Price Reflects Decline
The declining lumber market
was reflected also by the average
price per thousand board feet
which decreased iron) SJY.bi in I is
cal 1956 to $30.35 in fiscal 1957.
It was explained by Heath that
the 13 per cent increase in volume
of O & C timber offered for sale
in 1957 was made possible by com
pletion of new inventories and
major increases in forestry per-
on lands in Oregon and California
This compares to the fiscal 1956
planting of 3,765 acres and seeding
of 676 acres.
Local district tree planting by
the BLM covered 620 acres and
seeding was done over 145 acres,
about one-sixth of the total plant
ing and seeding in the entire pro
gram. According to Winn, 400,000
seedlings were sown in the dis
trict, including 115 pounds of Doug
las fir seed.
Contributing to the seeding were
Roseburg Lumber Co., Martin
Bros. Container and limber Pro
ducts Corp. and the Woolley Lum
ber Co., as required under timber
sales contracts.
A greatly expanded reforestation
program is in 1958 fiscal year
plans, states Winn, (or planting
almost 3,000 acres in Uie district.
This is in keeping with the inaug
uration of a million dollar refor
estation program for 1958 by the
BLM on Oregon-California lands,
in cooperation with the IS O & C
counties.
Three Boys
Admit Taking
Carriage
Three Lookingglass boys, ages
12, 13 and 14, were wiser today
after severe reprimands, and the
Douglas County Fair Board ia like
ly to still have two antique horse
carriages.
The three youngsters have ad
mitted to a sheriff's dcDulv thev
had taken two horse carriages, a
hack and a two-seater rig, from the
Crow ranch between Lookingglass
and Flourney roads.
They said the carriages were out
in a field and they didn't know
anyone wanted them. They used the
bed of one for firewood, took the
wheels off both and used the bed
of the second to slow down the
wash of a creek. The boys were
reprimanded and the charges dis
missed. Meanwhile, Wes Meredith of
Lookingglass told I deputy he had
an antique carriage he would give
the fair board and knows of anoth
er in good condition he knows he
can get to replace the two the
board earlier reported lost.
Long-Time Resident
Of Yoncalla Dies
Mary Elizabeth Newby, 85. a
resident of Yoncalla, died Wednes
day at a local hospital.
She was horn on July 19, 1872, at
Oxford, Ind., and cania to Oregon
53 years ago and had resided at
Yoncalla since 1920. She was mar
ried to Wesley E. Newby on Feb.
3, 1897 at Tmiploton, Ind.
Survivors include her husband
and four children, Altha Newby of
Wllamina: Mrs Kulh Moore. Eu
gene: Mrs. l.iola Edmonds of
Montague. Calif, and Mrs. Phebej
Jones of Elkton; two sisters, Mrs. I
Adelaide Curl of Miami, Fla. and !
Mrs. Zadie Verill of Coodland. Ind. I
Other survivors include 11 grand '
children and 16 greal-grandchil-1
dren. I
Graveside funeral services will
he held Friday at 1 p m. at Rose-'
hurg Memoriil Gardens. Stearns i
and Little Mortuary of Oakland ;
are in care if arrangements. I
Air Transport Plane
Limping Toward Hilo
(Continued from page one)
were feathered. Baggage uas Jet
tisoned. ' Air rescue planes were sent i
from Hawaiian bases to escort the
crippled transport.
I The big plane, a Booms, has
'four J, WO horsepower engines.!
What rawed two of them to fail,
'was not known. I
j Both disabled engines uere re-
ported to be on the left side of the
pis ne, a more dangerous situation
than if they were on opposite:
sides.
I The plane as reported fly ins ,
I "on the deck," slang for close lo
I the w ater. ,
I (Pacific Military Air Transport j
i headquarters at Parks AFB, neari
Oakland, Calif., said it understood
'the plane waa only 100 feet above!
I the water.) I
sonnel during 1957. The up-dated
inventories disclosed greater vol
umes of merchantable timber and
greater growth than earlier, more
conservative surveys estimated.
Inventories are continuing.
The lifting of marketing restric
tions was another significant step
in BLM a management of the
O & C lands during the past year,
after- an order lifting the restric
tions on salvage timber had been
issued in July. 1956.
These moves abolished restric
tions on the marketing of logs from
the 2 million acres of heavily for
ested O St C lands in western Ore
gon in 12 local marketing areas
Better conservation and forest
management are expected to re
sult from the elimination of mar
keting restrictions, according to
Heath.
Public domain sales, according
to James F. Doyle, administrator
for BLM's Area I (the three Paci
fic Coast States), show that Ore
gon led in sales with $697,731, Cali
fornian had $405,199 and Washing
ton totaled $213,073.
Helicopter Pilot Died
Of Suffocation In Crash
(Continued from page one)
hours searching in the dark.
Standing by to carry Moore out
were Umpqua Forest personnel
who had hiked into the area during
the night. Many of the young men
are like Moore students work
ing during the summer. All showed
their concern.
The rescuers had come from
three points to climb six and seven
miles to the base of the rock where
they awaited sunrise and the hard
est part working their way throgh
dense thickets of vine maple on
the steep mountainside to the site
of the crash. Abot 40 men had
come to help from Reynolds
Ridge, Wolf Creek and Steamboat.
Crew Awaits Action
Fires had been built and the
men were in groups. Some stood
around the fires. A few had rolled
up in blankets and sleeping bags.
A couple even managed to sleep
while awaiting word to head for
the wreck.
Also waiting and fretting about
not being able to get to a man in
pain was Dr. Munroe. He had been
brought in by horseback on the
steep six-mile trail from Illahe
Ranger Station.
The doctor, Deputy Sheriff Lou
is Suiter and two News-Review re
porters made the trip up the trail
with Jim Elliott, Forest Service
packer. Elliott was waiting at the
station with three saddle horses and
a pack horse.
The pack horse was loaded with
two stretchers from the Civil De
fense disaster car driven by Suit
er. Also loaded onto the animal
were blankets, a ground-to-air ra
dio, Dr. Munroe's medical kit and
sack lunches.
Reporters Walk In
No horses had been provided' for
the unexpected reporters and they
walked most of the way. However,
the others frequently traded their
mounts for shank's mare to give
the walkers respite.
While the crews stood by at the
campfires, a small group had been
dispatched to the top of the rock
to work their way down to the
wreckage and then to find the
easiest trail by which stretchers
could be carried.
As soon as it was light, the
waiters were told to startout and
the arduous descent to the heli
copter began. It proved to be a
ruRgcd quarter-mile through tim
ber and rank underbrush.
The work really came after Dr.
Munroe had administered seda
tives to Moore. The men were di
vided into two crews. The first
crew carried the injured man and
followed a team wielding axes to
rut a semblance of a trail along
the sleep slope back to the fires
where the horses had been left.
They were followed by the other
group hearing the body of the pilot.
Wait For Helicopter
Word had been received that an
other helicopter was on its way,
so again the men waited after ar
riving at the camp at the base of
the rock. They didn't want to waste
time and effort carrying Moore to
the top If the 'copter did not ar
rive. Finally a helicopter was heard
and came overhead making its dis- j
tinrtivc chopping noise as it came!
in to land at the fire lookout. Then '
the crews started up the steep, I
crooked trail lo the lookout with
their burilens.
The rescue helicopter was pilot
ed by Bob Trimble, flying for Aet
na Helicopters. Inc. of Etna, Calif, i
He made three trips to the rock
and back to the pasture at Illahe. '
carrying Moore, Dr. Munroe, and
the pilot's body. Forest Service ve
hicles transported the, injured man'
and the doctor to Roseburg. Anolh-;
er brought Forster's body to the
Chapel of the Roses. I
When the 'copter first arrived .
over the rock, the reporters start
ed down the trail bearing notes,
camera and assorted blisters. At
the ranger station the story was
phoned to The News-Review but
not directly.
Mrs. Wilson Helps I
Only through the cooperation of
Mrs. Frank Wilson. Forest Service
phone and radio operator at Steam-1
boat Ranger Station, was it pos
sible to get even brief notes trans
mitted. It proved to be impossible
for a direct call to be made to the I
newspaper so Mrs. Wilson copied j
notes frequently interrupted by
other calls and then relayed the
information to Roseburg. ,
PICK IRS NEIDID
S1I.VERTO.V .f - The stale!
Farm Labor Office here Wednes-i
day said 30U additional pickers are!
needed to help harvest this area's I
bean crop.
Yoncalla Council
Orders Cleanup;
Speed Limit Set
Yoncalla City Council voted this
week to begin cleaning up the
town.
Notices will be sent to property
owners to clean up their lots with
in ten days from time notice is re
ceived, with a five day grace pe
riod given to those attempting to
clean up. -After that time, the city
will do the work and have the cost
assessed to property owners.
A sign will be erected on 1st
Street with a speed limit of 15
miles an hour, and the law on reck
less driving will be enforced.
Representatives from the Amer
ican Rubber Co. of Portland and
Munnel, Sherill, Inc. of Roseburg
showed fire hose samples and pre
sented prices to the council. A
motion was made to split the or
der, giving American Rubber an
order for 400 feet of 2' a inch hose
and 100 feet of 1V4 inch hose, and
Munnel, SherriU, Inc., an order
for 350 feet of Z"i inch fire hose
and 150 feet of Hi inch hose.
The council decided to cooper
ate with the grade school board by
ditching in front of the upper grade
school building while grounds of
the school are being graded and
leveled. The library board asked
permission to put up a large state
and V. S. flag on the walls of the
council chamber, now being used
for the county library.
Plans are being formed to erect
a new building, 28x40 feet north
of the present city hall to house
city equipment, reports corre
spondent Mrs. George Edes.
Escaped Convict
Complies Meekly
To Police Orders
DALLAS, Ore. I Escaped
convict Andrew Taylor was cap
tured Wednesday in the Dallas
railroad yards, tired and hungry
after spending two days in the
hills west of Salem.
Police had searched for Taylor,
40, since he broke out of a Salem
courtroom and fled officers Mon
day. Another convict, Leonard
Miller, 25, was unsuccessful in his
try to break out with Taylor.
Acting Police Chief Jim Green,
who captured Taylor, said the
convict complied meekly when or
dered to lie down. Taylor, how
ever, did not admit who he was
until taken to Polk County jail.
Wearing the same clothes at
when he escaped, Taylor told
police that he stayed in the hills
Monday night and Tuesday. He
said he had nothing to eat, kept
out , of sight and did not enter
any homes.
Then, early Wednesday morn
ing, Taylor said he decided to go
to Dallas. So he hopped a freight
train.
But his downfall came when he
tried to get a drink at an outside
faucet in Dallas. He was spotted
by a householder, who called po
lice. Taylor said he made the break
because he was not getting proper
medical and dental care. He is
serving nine years on an assault
and robbery charge filed in Port
land. Orvid Guy Rogers
Lookingglass, Dies
Orvid Guy Rogers. 81, well
known resident of Lookingglass
and Spanish American War Veter
an, passed away at a local hospital
early Thursday, following a pro
longed period of ill health.
He' was born at Monticello, Ark.
Dec. 31, 1875 and enlisted in the
U. S. Army during the Spanish
American War. He later resided
in Brooklyn. N. Y., where he was
married to Emma Ludwig June 21,
1909. He came from Brooklyn in
1916 to Lookingglass where he was
engaged in farming and fruit rais
ing, lie was a member of the Pres
byterian church and the Looking
glass Grange.
Surviving art his widow, Mrs.
Emma Rogers. Lookingglass; five
children, Mrs. II. S. (Dorothy) Hen
sell, Alexandria, Va.; Mrs. Brooks
(Lucia) Smith. Marietta, Ga.; Mrs.
Oscar (Margaret) Maier. Garden
City, Calif.; Mrs. Durward (Vir
ginia) Owens, Roseburg. and Or
vid G. Rogers, Jr., Cottage Grove.
He is also survived by a brother.
Reeves Rogers, Texas, a sister,
Mrs. Merle Scoddins, B 1 y t h e.
Calif., fourteen grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be held in
the chapel of the Long & Orr mor
tiiury. Saturday, at 2 p.m.. with
the Rev. Clarence Currier officiat
ing. Concluding services and inter
ment will follow in the Looking
glass cemetery.
Fishing Minus Tag
Nets Fines To Two
Two California fishermen aooar-
ently are now sure they can't trust
another fisherman.
The two. Kenneth I.. Dodd and
Allen W. Wegner, both of Engle-1
wood. Calif., were each fined $30 !
in Douglas County District Court'
Wednesday after pleading guilty to
angling without licenses in Dia-'
mond Lake.
This is the story thev told Judge '
Warren Woodruff: They were1
walking toward the lake when they 1
met two other fishermen coming
from the lake. Thev asked how
fishing was. were told it was not
too good. Then, they asked if a
fishing license was necessary. The I
fishermen replied, "No, it's a pn-
vate lake."
It wasn't too much later that
state game officer R. F. Roussean ,
arrested the Californians on the
lake for not having licenses. j
RADFORD DICORATID
WASHINGTON', , - President
Eisenhower Thursday awarded a
distinguished service medal to
Adm. Arthur W. Radford to mark
Radford's retirement as chairman
of the joint chiefs of staff.
Free Spending
Hotel Gur!
Shot To Death
INDIANAPOLIS I - A free
spending hotel guest was shot to
death in his barricaded room on
the 12th floor Thursday after a
lobby gun battle which wounded
two policemen and t young wom
an bystander.
The man, who had registered
Sunday as Nolan Carter, Portland,
Ore., was found dead after police
had flooded the 12th floor with
tear gas and finally shot through
his locked door. Police said it
was not determined whether Car
ter shot himself or was shot by
police.
Robert Callis, assistant manager
of the hotel, the Sheraton-Lincoln
in downtown Indianapolis, said the
man started exchanging shots
with Det. Sgt. James Partain, 52,
after an argument about paying
his hotel bill. .
Partain was wounded seven
times in the gun battle in front of
the clerk') desk in the 14-story
hotel, one of the biggest in In
dianapolis. Also wounded in the lobby shoot
ing were Raymond Cooper, 36, a
policeman who had been direct
ing traffic at the busy street inter
section outside, and Miss Connie
Caile, 19, Crawfordsville, Ind.,
who was walking into the lobby.
The man fled and barricaded
himself in his room.
Callis said he called Carter to
the desk to ask for a payment
because Carter had been piling up
a big hotel bill.
Callis became suspicious of Car
ter's manner in writing a check.
The hotel man said Partain walked
into the lobby just as Carter
pulled a gun and said:
"You are all going up to my
room. Walk naturally across the
lobby or you ore going to get it."
An assistant manager was included.
Detonator Blast
Rocks Big Area;
Injuries Minor
BOSTON, on A terrific ex
plosion in a construction project
shed containing dynamite caps
Thursday rocked the Bay View
section of South Boston, damaging
more than 100 homes, but injuring
only a few persons. Officials said
sabotage might be involved.
The blast near the entrance
of a Boston Metropolitan District
sewage tunnel under construction
hurled metal and splintered
glass over a mile area.
The explosion, endangering
thousands of residents, shook
some from bed and showered the
area with the dangerous caps.
Police cruisers with sound equip
ment toured the district warning
oi inc danger.
"Don't pick up the yellow caDS
on your lawns or porches call
a policeman or fireman," was the
warning sounded over the air.
MDC Commissioner Charles W.
Grcenough said sabotage might
be involved, but he did not elabor
ate. The MDC controls the project
where the blast occurred.
Two hundred patrolmen sped
into the area to search for caps
blown over a wide section by the
explosion.
Minor cuts from flying glass
and debris appeared to be the ex
tent of personal injuries.
The explosion blew debris, in
cluding steel pipes and wooden
beams, over a wide area.
Broken windows and lallen plas
ter were reported in hundreds of
residences in the South Boston,
Dorchester and Hyde Park dis
tricts of Boston, and in Milton,
Dedham, Hull and Squantum.
The blast was in a 25-foot metal
shed at the South Boston Entrance
to a sewage tunnel project. A near
by shed containing a "mound" of
dynamite was not affected by the
explosion.
Killed Pilot New
At Flying 'Copters
James Bruce Forster, 29, had
been flying helicopters for the For
est Service just 31 days when he
was killed Tuesday night in a
crash at Illahe Rock.
The pilot, who lived at Berkeley,
Calif, with his wife and two chil
dren, had received his master's
degree in engineering from the
l niversity of Southern California
this spring and had taken a job
with Rick Helicopters, Inc. of San
Francisco.
He had been working out of Cave
Junction on various assignments
for the V. S. Forest Service and
had come to the Umpqua Forest
only a few days prior to the crash.
He is survived by his wife. Phyl
lis: a son, Randall. 7, and a daugh
ter. Kim. 6 months. His father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. James
Forster of Orinda. Calif., and a
sister, Mrs. Richard Seymour, also
survive.
The body was taken loday from
the Chapel of Roses to Berkeley
for funeral services.
Vagrancy Charge Nets
Glide Man Jail Term
John Milton Flory, 22. Glide,
pleaded guilty today in Kosebuig
.Municipal Court to vagrancy and
was sentenced to serve five days
in the city jail.
He was arrested Wednesday
night allegedly prowling around a
house at "39 NE Jackson St. He
was held for police by a resene
policeman who lives next door to
the above address. He is Richard
A Harris of 749 NE Jackson. Har
ris said he saw Flory standing
near the house and then prowl
around it. Harris said he went out
and forced Flory to wait for police.
Flory told police he had seen
someone prowling around the house
and had been waiting to try (a
catch the illusory prowler. Today
in court, however, he said he "had
no business'' at the house.
Court Authorizes
Road Department
To Buy Equipment
Expenditure of almost $20,000 for
new road department equipment
was authorized by the county court
this week.
Bids for two 14-passenger carry
alls, three 8-passenger carryalls
and two dump trucks were re
ceived. After the offers had been
studied by Al May, county engin
eer, he made his recommendations
which were accepted by the court.
Hansen Motor Co. was low bid
der for the 14-passenger carryalls
with a price of $4,766.44. Canyon
Motor Co., Canyonville, offered to
supply two International - Metro
school buses for $7,178.50.
Hansen also submitted the suc
cessful bid for the smaller carry
alls, $5,767, for three Chevrolet per
sonnel carriers. Lockwood Motors
offered to supply three Ford con
versions for $5,518.90 but it was
decided that the factory models offered-
by Hansen would be more
satisfactory. Also bidding were Sig
Fett, International, $6,228; Barcus
Motors, Dodge, $6,051; Canyon Mo
tors, $6,256.
Four firms bid on two 3-4 yard
dump trucks. Lockwood Motors
was successful with a low bid of
$8,501. The other bidders were
Hansen, $10,704; Sig Fett, $9,471.
50; Canyon Motor Co., $10,170.
Cynthia Blomberg,
Drain Resident,
Passes At Tacoma
Cvnlhl'a Ann Rlnmh..., -
dent of Drain for the past 50 years,
died at a Tacoma, Wash., hospital
Tuesday at the age of 77.
She was born Cynthia A. Kin
caid, Feb. 18, 1880, at Svracus,
New York, and was married at
Klamath Fall In Franlr Rlnml.an
who preceded her in death in
itoo. iney moved to Drain from
Roseburg. Mrs. Blomberg was a
member of the Methodist Church.
Survivors include four sons, Jack
Hastings of Pensacola, Fla., Floyd
Blomberg of North Bend, A R
Blomberg of Drain, and Willard
Blnmhprcr nf CnnL-sna . lh.
daughters, Mrs. Viola Karn'ath of
amas, wasn.. Airs. Kav Feltv, of
Tacoma. Wash., and Mrs. Clara
Anrjle?alP nf rirain- nloiran a-.n.
children; eight great - grandchil
dren; one Brother, George Km
caid of Lakeview; and one sister,
Mrs. Minnie Gait of Flint. Mich.
Funeral services will be held at
the Drain Methodist Church Fri
day at 2 p.m. Interment will be
in the Drain IOOF Cemetery. Mills
Funeral Service of Drain is in
charge of arrangements.
YMCA Picnic Set Friday
At Susan Creek Park
! Approximately 100 boy's are ex-
pecieo io aueno a vmua picnic
Friday at Susan Creek State Park,
Bob Keady, program director, re
ports. The group will leave by chartered
bus from Central Junior High
School at 9:. in a m inH rofnr-n In
the school by 4:30 p.m. The boys
win participate in games, cooking,
hiking, swimming and fishing.
-,.. BbiiYiuca wui uv
climaxed Thursday, Aug. 15, with
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Junkman, Physician Dual
Role Bared In Attempt To
Settle Dead Man's Estate
NEW YORK - A conten ion
that a Queens physician led a dual
life as a Brooklyn junkman
formed the basis Thursday of a
claim to the junkman s $400,000
"The' physician was Dr. .Vincent
c. i..a. ,.,hn cnnnnsedlv died
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in 1941. The junkman was Harry
Chapin Smith, who died supposed
ly penniless in a Brooklyn hovel
UCl. 24, 1331. Oiumiia .
was buried in potter's field, in
vestigators found that he had leu
$290,000 in 60 savings accounts
and $100,000 in stocks.
The issue pivots about a photo
graph of Smith taken at a Har
vard reunion and published in
t .a min.-ini chnrllv before he
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died. Some persons who have seen
.... it la nintlire
me piciurc wumcim it - !.
of Smith, but others insist it is a
picture of Dr. Judson.
The riddle is in the hands or Na
than Sweedler, Brooklyn Surrog
ate Court referee, who has been
asked to postpone final settlement
of the Smith estate.
The dual identity theory began
to develop through an investiga-
Accused Russian
Spy Believed On
Way To New York
EDINBURG, Tex. i Rudolf
Ivanovich Abel, a thin, balding
alien accused of being a top Rus
sian spy was removed from jail
Thursday and presumably flown to
New York.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Gerald
Jones left a note for a fellow
marshal that he was taking Abel
from the Hidalgo County jail, but
didn't say where or how.
Abel had been held at a deten
tion camp at McAllen. Tex., await
ing deportation when the spy in
dictment was returned in New
York Wednesday.
Commercial airlines here said
they had no booking for the pris
oner, who has been described as
a colonel in Russian intelligence.
Federal Judge Allen B. Hannay
late Wednesday signed an order
at Houston for Abel's removal to
New York. The deputy U.S. mar
shal was to arrange for Abel's
quick return.
Abel, 55, a colonel of Russian
intelligence, was arraigned here
Wednesday on espionage charges
returned in a federal grand jury
indictment in Brooklyn.
Judge Overrules
Demurrer Plea
Circuit Judge Charles S. Wood
rich has overruled a plea for de
murrer in an attempted rape case.
Fred Bcrnau, representing Ches
ter Nye, 30, of 1270 NE Stephens
St., this week asked for the do
murrcr on the grounds the lan
guage of the grand jury indictment
did not meet requirements of state
statutes. Nye was charged with
attempting to rape a young Rose
burg matron in her house trailer.
Woodrich said the language was
such that it could be understood
by the defendant and overruled the
plea. Nye pleaded innocent to the
charge and trial was set for Sept.
25 at 9:30 a.m. Bail was set at
$5,000.
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tion conducted by Walter Tate, of
Brooklyn. Tate said his father, now
dead, told him Harry Chapin
Smith was his uncle, the half
brother of Walter's mother.
Tate said his father told him
Smith had a long-lost son, and
asked him to see that this son
was found and obtained his right
ful legacy if Smith should die.
The only clue to the son was
that he once had lived in the
Brooklyn city orphan asylum.
When Tate learned belatedly of
Smith's death, he started a search
and in the Brooklyn Hall of Rec
ords he met Elmore Smith, who
was trying to learn the identity
of his parents.
Tate questioned Elmore Smith
and the answers seemed to fit the
vague details his father had told
him years before. A trip to the
asylum now Brookwood Hall
disclosed that Elmore Smith, 4,
had been registered there by a
man claiming to be his father.
The boy was placed in a foster
home in 1902.
Tate found a 190? newspaper
story that said a man named Dr.
Vincent Edward Judson had tried
to take Elmore Smith away from
his fo'ster home.
The newspaper accounts men
tioned that Dr. Judson claimed
he knew Elmore Smith's mother
and father. Tate then began lo
wonder whether Dr. Judson him
self was the father.
Claimants to the Smith estate
introduced the Life magazine pic
ture of Smith to support their
case. Tate began showing the pic
ture to persons in M a s p e t h.
Queens, who had Known Dr. Jud
son. With varying degrees of cer
tainty, they said the photo of Har
ry Chapin Smith looked like a
photo of Dr. Judson.
Elmore Smith's counsel told the
referee "we believe that some
person was buried. . . in place
of Dr. Judson. And we believe
Dr. Judson assumed his identity
as Harry Chapin Smith of Brook
lyn on a full-time basis."
Confirmation
Of McElroy
Believed Sure
WASHINGTON I Senate
leaders said today that Neil H.
McElroy, soap company executive,
should win speedy confirmation as
secretary of defense.
But he must wait at least a week
and agree to dispose of his hold
ings in some corporations that now
have defense and government con
tracts. The nomination of McElroy. 52.
president of Procter Jt Gamble
Co., went to the Senate Wednes
day afternoon a few hours after
President Eisenhower had de
scribed him as "one of the most
capable men and the highest type
of people that I know in the coun
try. He succeeds Secretary of De
fense Charles E. Wilson, 67, whose
formal resignation was sent to the
White House.
"He's a fine man." Sen. Know
land (R-Calif). Senate Republican
leader, said of McElroy. "As fai
as I know there will be no trouble
about confirmation."
No date was announced for Mc
Elroy's taking over the post, but
in Cincinnati McElroy said it prob
ably would be a couple of months.
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