U. of C. Library Eugene, Oregon Comp Fiire Meors Los AmioeDes Federal Agents Raid Still, Arrest Thomas L Spencer, Confiscate 13 Gal. Whiskey ? . -r' - m 'tr - i n -v : to1 "irri r V 4X' ' . I .V v " sVj -I fi " I'JJ k! -;V.u. ' Y ill , . MOONSHINE WHISKEY was being made in the still shown ,at top when federal .agents raided the .operatiorv. Thursday afternoon. The mosh was placed in the lower portion of the still which was heated by butane. The vapor rose to the steam head (sealed with dough) and went through' the copper tube to the barrel at the left. The barrel contained a copper coil and was filled' with water to cool the steom and condense the whiskey which dripped into the crock below the condenser. This equipment, nearly 13 gallons of whiskey, and the barrels of mash shown in the bottom picture were destroyed by officers. (Sheriff's Office) Another Douulas County inoon shinuig operation was halted Thursday with the arrest of one man and the destruction of a crude still and nearlv 13 gallons of whis key. Arrested by federal agents who moved in on the still located on Jleston Road was Thomas Levi Spencer. 46, Rt. 4 Box 1114. Rose burg. The treasury department men had been watching the opera tion for several days and made the arrest when it appeared Spen cer was getting ready to move out. Spencer had rented the small house where he set up his still. The place was rented Oct. 26 and he told officers he had made but "two runs." In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . How about going sentimental in t.iis space today just tor a change? ! The thought is suggested by Dr. I Fred Singer. Dr. Singer is an as-, trophysicist who lives in Virginia ! and '-orks at the University of I Maryland, just across the Potomac; River. Astrophysics is the science' that deals principally with the con-; stilution of the celestial bodies. That makes him an expert on! space satellites, space missiles, space travel and so on. lie is a hard-headed scientist and is one of our leading authorities on this business of outer spare, includ ing fantastic weapons and counter-! weapons that may travel through outer space in order to reach tar gets halfway around our terres trial globe. It was Dr. Singer who suggested recently that shooting a rocket to the moon would be perhaps as simple in these days as falling off a log but would have little military I value. The moon, he added, might i be a handy place to test our nu- ' (Continued on Page 4 Col. 1) ; The Weather j Partly cloudy this afttrnoon, to j night and Saturday, with morning 1 fog Saturday. Continued cool' nights. ; Hightit timp. last 24 hours SO Lowott tomp. last 24 hours 27 Highest ttmp. any Novtmbor . 73 : Lowest ttmp. any Novtmbor . IS! Prtcip. Uit 24 hours 0 : Prtcip. trom Not. 1 2.70 ! Prtcip. from Stpf. 1 1.34 tic til from Sopt. I .. 1.07 Sunstt tonight, 4:43 p.m. Sunriso tomorrow, 7:15 a.m. The original information leading to the raid was received by stale police who tipped off the federal officers. Participating in the inves tigation and raid were the sheriff's office and Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Spencer, a welder hy trade but unemployed, claims he made the copper still but its battered ap pearance seemed to indicate a history of moonshining. lie also insisted to the federal agents, one from Portland and the other out of the Eugene office, that it was a solo operation. He had no accomplices, Spencer maintained. He was cooperative in answering nearly all questions put to him by officers. At one point, however, he parried a question with a question. Parrits Question Spencer said he was horn and reared in Arkansas. "Is that where you learned to make whis key?" asked Bill Jordan, state liquor inspector. "Do 1 have to answer that?" was the rejoinder. Previously, he had answered a News-Review reporter differently. He claimed he had learned about still building and corn whiskey making by asking questions "here and there." He was candid in furnishing his recipe: 30 pounds of cracked corn. oO pounds of sugar and a pound of yeast per batch of mash. The mash was allowed to "work" for seven days before being distilled. Spencer said it took about 14 hours to "cook off" 50 gallons of mash. His still was filled with about 20 gallons of mash ready to be cook ed. It was mounted on a two burn er butane hot plate hut was not operating at the time of the raid. The butane tank was empty. Ovtr 'Hundred Proof Spencer said his product uas run (Continued on Page 2 Col. 3) ONLY 27 DAYS LEFT FOB CHRISTMAS SHOPPING i m mus-m mam i aw m a mmmmmmmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm , . Established 1873 12 Communist Leaders Call For Peiping Radio Broadcasts Text Of Communique LONDON, UPi The leaders of world communism have called for iron unity of Communists of all countries in a "struggle for common goals." Peiping Radio broadcast the text of a long communique drawn up on completion of several weeks of talks in Moscow by the top leaders of the Communist - ruled nations. Time after time, the communique said, there is a dan ger of war, including nuclear war, in the present world politcal situations in such areas as Ger many, the Middle East and Asia. The communique called upon Communists to rally together be hind antiwar slogans to "surmount all obstacles in their onward movement and further accelerate great victories for the cause of peace, democracy and socialism." When the Communists use the word "Democracy," they mean it in the Soviet sense of rigid Com munist rule. Tite Doosn't Sign President Tito's Yugoslav Com munists did not sign this com munique. It itated that the Com munists recognize there are "dif ferent roads" to socialism, but it played that theme down in favor of one which insists that the fun damental principles of Red revo lution are the same for all coun tries. Tito's long quarrel with the Soviet Communist Party stemmed from resistance to the doctrine that Moscow must be the domin- (Continued on Page 2 Col. 2) Allies Pondering Nuclear Missiles Retalliation Uses LONDON I The Atlantic Al lies are reported pondering plans for an "aggression thermometer" a scale by which NATO's Amer ican commander would get limit ed powers to decide on the use of atomic and hydrogen weapons against any Red aggressor. Informed Western diplomats said the 15-nation Atlantic Alliance is seeking advance agreement on all the varying circumstances in which Communist attacks might take place and which would, in the Allied view, make nuclear re taliation instantly permissible. The Allies at the same time were said to be engaged in the com plicated process of trying to de fine "grades" of aggression. This, informants said, is to determine what form .Allied retaliation might take. The outcome of the study is not yet known. All the members of the alliance are taking part. Conclu sions are being prepared for dis cussion and possible decision in mid-December, when NATO heads of government meet in Paris. In this way the United States and Britain, as the West's only two nuclear powers, are seeking to associate their partners in some of the decisions that might govern the future use or nonuse of nu clear weapons. Overheated Stovepipe Causes Ceiling Fire ' An overheated stovepipe caused the ceiling to burst into flames at the home of Bob Huskey, 2410 SW Frear St. early this morning. I Firemen from the Roseburg Rural Fire Dept. were called to the fire at 8:30, but it had been extinguished when they arrived. Firemen estimated the damage ' at S5. They said the stovepipe, from a wood stove, led through the ceiling and was insulated. It 1 got too hot. even for the insulation, and the ceiling caught fire. Mother Of Four Held On Contributing Charge Booked at the Douglas County jail Thursday on a charge of con tributing to the delinquency of a minor was Helen Watson. 33, Idle yld Rt., Box i:. Roseburg. She is held in lieu of S3.000 bai and is accused of contributing to her daughters' delinquency. The girls are 11. 14, 15 and 17 years of age. deputies said. EX-GOVERNOR DIES Fl.K.MINGTO.Y SJ. Fran cis Burton Harrison, former gov ernor general of the Philippines and member of Congress, died in Hunterdon Medical Center yester day of a heart ailment. He was 83. A resident of nearby Califon. Harrison has been in failing health for several years and entered the hospital a week ago. Paget ROSEBURG, Missionary Radios Everything's Okay In Land Of Aucas QUITO, Ecuador im A Prot estant mission headquarters said' Friday a British missionary re ported by radio he is all right and in no danger from savage Auca Indians. The Christian Missions in Many Lands office here reported the Rev. Dr. Wilfred Tidmarsh of Bury, St. Edmunds, England, talked by radio with a Shell Oil station early Friday and said there is nothing going on in his area. Earlier, word received in the United States was that tile In dians, who killed five U. S. mis sionaries two years ago, had closed in around Dr. Tidmarsh's mission station on the Oglan River. Not since January 1956 has any one tried to Christianize the Au cas. That month five Americans who had flown into the dense jun gle were killed, impaled by needle-pointed spears nine feet long. Sot Up Shack A few weeks ago Dr. Tidmarsh, a missionary for the Christian Mis sions in Many Lands, set up his shack on the Oglan River in Auca territory. Wednesday, the savages closed in on him. Friendly Indians got the word back to missionary camp at Ara juno, just across a rugged ridge on safer ground. When his plight became known to Rachel Saint, working on thn Auca language at the Summer In stitute of Linguistics in Arkansas she had an Auca girl there make a recording, pleading with her peo ple not to slay the white man. Miss Saint, a missionary her self, is a sister of one of the men Killed, pilot ffnte'Saintr Last night, the processed record ing was broadcast by ham radio operator Paul Carpenter here to Quito, capital of Ecuador, where it was picked up and taped by Maj. Everett Beall, signal officer with the Army mission, and Robert G. Schneider, the linguistics insti tute's agent there. Douglas Women Form Route 42 Organization Camas Valley area housewives met this week to form a chapter of the Housewives for Highway 42 Assn. The group now is circulating pe titions in Douglas County calling for improvement in the Trail-to-Coquille highway. Officers elected at the organiza tional meeting are Mrs. Albert Schafer, chairman; Mrs. O r 1 e y Weist, secretary; and Mrs. Iiuis Pryor, treasurer. Committee chair men and the committees they head are Airs. Henry Denn, petitions; Mrs. Ross Halterman, transporta tion and Mrs. William Banks, pub licity. Mrs. Schafer, Mrs. Weist and other members will attend a meet ing in Portland Dec. 6 at which association members will discuss the Highway 42 program with Charles Reynolds state Highway commissioner. A tentative meeting with the Douglas County Court has been slated by the Camas Valley group for next Tuesday BOY'S JACKET STOLEN Mrs. Agness Waer, 1579 NE Poplar St., reported to the sheriff's office Thursday that her son's jacket had been stolen trom his locker at the Joseph Lane School. f ,JW i y ' ' iijVH If Hi TmPVI W hi i pinnnm ill ruiu-e .ini wiry tumti , f ' J V I ?V. V Aikm- Tll I I nH nothing disturbed inside the JV Mi tv li'tfVryWW.: X fiV L I nuiMin: .nil that the owner, Clar I'S'I ""iM S:W V Jrl.X''Vv''i!i4'i '-'' J?J kffVence Ilonn. is to make a check lm Mirpi f j mtM W&itf-sX 1 h WIS V) V "- ' V J J- H'tA A i Two more youths were arrested 1 tJIprt Vr ' t f' TrTVl Kfk'Y'r 'f'? 'f'' To' Thursday in connection with the r- Xjir.V' f&U f 'tVW f? jk ' ;" Sunday burglary of a Heed.sport fc ' iIfr J5 iJr"" - L'ti-Ai ST firh J-lk'-i f&'7- Sheriffs deputies brought two ' ' g.Cay.'!..i'.iJ ffiir;""l!b"y'. ' anrl 17 year, of age, lo I, if '- -" .t'Mr-te&j&L f4V' 'Jj- ,ji Vj&i- s " h'M on burglary charges in P 3 M-'ViiV-V3 Reedsport. I I V7.Vfe .,'Jti?-J VAfP'M'Wj A 15-ycar-old was arrested Wed- W i ' iM, n . v. . . v. .- , n w - A i , i ii i.i I CLOVERDALE WORK STARTED A shovel started cutting the first ditch for laying of o storm sewer in the Cloverdale district of North Roseburg Thursday. J. R. McAllister, holds the $74,000 contract for installing the sewer. Also scheduled soon is street improve ment. The Federal Housing OREGON- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1957 Union Leader Claims News Stories Unfair NEW ORLEANS UPi George M. Harrison, vice president of AFL CIO, today accused the nation's editors of unfairness . to labor in their coverage of the McClellan committee. "I say Uiat the newspapers have failed to point, out that the dis honesty and racketeering revealed before the McClellan committee have involved just as many busi nessmen as labor leaders, Har rison said in a speech prepared for delivery to the Associated Press Managing Editors Assn. "tor every labor man who took- a bribe or a kickback there was businessman who gave it. While the statements were con tained in the text of Harrison's speech made available in advance, he omitted them in his delivery of the talk at the morning session. Harrison, who also is president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, said that the committee of Sen. John McClellan (D-Ark) was set up to investigate labor and management but "you'll find most newspapers have put the empha sis on the misdeeds of labor. "You can probably guess that I don't think we've had fair shake," Harrison added, "a n d (Continued on Page 2 Col. 7) Cein Awaits Sanity Test WAUTOMA, Wis, ( . Edward Gein. who admits slaying two women and pillaging the graves ox at least nine other women, wept and prayed Thursday as the courU studied his fate. The 51-year-old bachelor was ar raigned in Waushara County Court on a charge of first-degree murder and was bound over to Circuit Court for trial. Defense counsel William Belter and Dist. Atty. Earl Kileen al ready had agreed on a sanity test for Gein. Under Wisconsin law. Circuit Court could commit Gein immedi ately to the Central State Hospital for the Criminal Insane without hearing the murder trial. Wiscon- ' sin docs not have capital punish ment. Gein is charged specifically with murder and mutilation last Satur day of Mrs. Bernice Worden, 58- ycar-old hardware store operator in Plainficld, seven miles from his farm. Oil Drilling Started Again In Riddle Area The search for oil ia continuing in Douglas County. This time, it is Sam Humphrey and Buck Comer of Riddle. They are down to the 600-foot depth on the frcd Wallenberg place at Rid die. Their rif? will drill to between ,2,000 and 2,500 feet. Humphrey rs the son-in-law of the late W. M. Parnell, who was killed several months ago when his oil rig collapsed on the Dayton farm near Kiddle. The Wallenberg place is near the Dayton farm, and Humphrey said the same oil-bearing shale formation found Dayton ' cation. ty extends into the new lo- I he ran Authority ij putting up the money. (Paul Jenkins) Death Vehicles Highway Dangers In Display Slated Here November 30 Six traffic deaths in six days other "Death Row" campaign. The grisly remains of the vehicles which carried these six and others to their deaths in Douglas County this year will go on display in downtown Roseburg Nov. 30. It was the same man in 1951 who spearheaded the presentation of a similar display. The reason was the same then deaths on the highway had taken a disturbing increase. Robert G. Davis, chairman of the Douglas County Highway Life savers, Thursday afternoon called for a repetition of "Death Row." With spontaneous vigor, ponce agencies and a small group of in terested citizens offered their sup port. i-ieain now is uie aramatic focus of a program to shock the driving public into the conscious ness of the peed tor trainc aaiety. Shock Treatment This "shock treatment," Davis said, is necessary to show what speed and reckless and unatten- tive driving can cause, "reopie have heard so much about safe driving they take it like a radio station break. It doesn't mean any thing to them. They need to see what hanDens." "Death now tins year wm oe set up in Roseburg between Cass and Oak avenues on Southeast Jack son Street. The smashed remains of death vehicles will be dragged (Continued on Page 1 Col. 1) Miller To Speak To Douglas Fir Scouts' Dinner Guy Miller, who is being trans ferred from duties as executive of the Oregon Trail Council of Boy Scouts, will be the speaker next Monday night at the Douglas rir District's annual dinner. The dinner will be in the St. George's Episcopal Parish Hall in Roseburg at 7 p.m. New council of ficers will be elected. Vondis E. Miller, district chair man, said the dinner is for scoutcrs and their wives. Miller, who will become execu tive of the Portland area Jan. 1, will be succeeded by George E. Alexander, 45, Seattle, who has been deputy executive in Seattle since 1954. Alexander was a field executive in Joplin. Mo., from 1940 to 1942. Afterward he was executive at Greeley, Colo., and assistant exe cutive in Portland before going to Seattle. He is married and has three children. Miller has been execulivo of the Oregon Trail Couacil for the past five years. NEW SPEED MARK SEATTLE l A new London Seattle speed mark over the polar route was claimed Ihursday ny Pan American World Airways, which said one of its airliners made the flight Wednesday in 17 hours 54 minutes. The scheduled Itime is 19 hours. 15 minutes. Am 1JC7C carried to crew of 12. I passengers and a PRICE 5c Unity To Point Up were enough to trigger an Texan's Filibuster Efforts Futile; Ends 20-Hour Talk AUSTIN. Tex. I Sen. Henrv B. Gonzalez dropped into his chair and ended an anti-segregation fil ibuster at 7 a. m. Friday after i Hours and six minutes of stub born opposition to the measure. The bill to give the Texas at torney general authority to help tocai school Doards detend tederal integration suits was quickly shoved through to third readme by the voice vote of fewer than naif a dozen senators present. sometimes wnisoering hoarsely the San Antonio senator noured out mountains of words in his ef- fni-t In hlnlr tt,,n liille The other would give local boards power to close schools threatened with control by itate or federal troops. Gonzalez, one of the few Latin Americans ever to serve in the Senate, started talking against the lawsuit measure at 10:45 a. m. Thursday, Throughout the night Me read voluminous court deci sions, school laws and books on public education usually to emp ty rows of chairs in the chiliv senate chamber. At limes a howling north wind rattled the windows and virtually arownca out nis now of words. Roseburg Youths Picked Members Of Silver Wings Kcrwin 1.. Doughton. David S. Jackson and Barney D. Winter, all of Roseburg, were recently picked as memoers oi silver wings, the Air Force ROTC drill society at Oregon State College. uougnion, ii s. Pine St., is a freshman maioring in business and technology; Jackson, 114 SE Tcmp- un Ave., is a ireshman majoring in Liberal Arts: and Wimer. 334 SE Ella St., is a freshman major ing in engineering. The Roseburg youths qualified in tryouts conducted among 520 fresh men enrolled in Air Force ROTC at the school this year. Silver Wings present special drill denv onstrations at campus programs, sports events and community na- rades in addition to taking part in iiuii- lormanons and ceremonies Two Break-ins Reported To Roseburg Officers A burglary and an attemnted burglary were reported by Rose burg police today. In the Thursday burglary of the Harvard Avenue Fruit Stand, only some pennies about a dollar's worth and a few apples were taken, police said. The burglary was aiscoveren ry tne owner, ( larenrc Mabley, Rt. 2 Box 575, Roseburg. The method of entering the fruit stand prohalily was by means of an air vent, investigating officers said, They also found that the burglar had slept there in a bed made of ...... . .ml t,.f( naif of l.irk h- n( a i,i,.r nr n.o Vo... i.fi1A,i rionnor. U I. fmmH fnrr,i rwn earlv this rnurninK by a merchant patrolman. Police said they could lind nothing disturbed inside the the sWre where watches and mon ey wi) stolen. Several of the watch es have been recovered as was Sfll which was overlooked when store records were thrown away. 274-57 Hurricane Winds Spur Huge Blaze 1,000 Men Fighting fast Spreading Blaze; Airplane Buffeted LOS ANGELES W A mon strous forest fire that spread with . fantastic speed under the lash of hurricane winds ranged uncon trolled Friday only 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It broke out late Thursday amid shrieking gusts that caused havoc from the Mexico Border 200 miles north to the San Joaquin Valley. This morning the fire had raced over some 20,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains an acreage figure fires usually take days to reach. Potentially threatened are a half dozen communities at the base of the San Gabriels, the famed observatory at Mt. Wilson and adjacent television towers, and summer cabins in mountain canyons. Barren Area Protects The fire got to within less than two miles of Mt. Wilson Friday morning, then the wind changed and it started blowing away. The area is partially protected by an area made barren by a fire a few years ago. Winds that lopped 100 m.p.h. Thursday and Friday raked most of Southern California toppling countless trees, fences, signs and even oil derricks, shattering win dows and unroofing homes. A Las Vegas, Nev.-to-Los An geles airliner with 33 aboard met turbulence flying over the fire and was so buffeted 16 were injured, three seriously. A 75-foot yacht sprang a leak in stormy seas and barely made a safe anchoraee. Two smaller craft were sunk hy ncavy seas, mere were no injur ies. Many Injuries There were many minor Injur ies, but no known deaths. Winds dropped Friday, but were still strong in the fire area. The fire started Thursday when a camp fire got away from a Urison crAW wnrlclno nn a hint,. way near Cyrstal Lake, at the neaa oi san oaorlel Canyon, .fanned by the dread Sant Santana windstorm hot dry blasts forced over uie mountains and into the Los Angoles Basin by high pres sure conditions in deserts the flames raced wildly. ' -One veteran fireman said he "never saw fire move so fast in my life." Ninety m.p.h. winds funnclcd down the canyons sent embers hurtlinc like tracer hnllein through the night, hissing a mile or more ahead of their source. The blaze is centered in timber and brush at the 3,000-to-4,000 foot level of extremely rugged isolated country, mostly roadless. To reach one of the fire's worst spots, fire men had to walk four hours up hill. 1,000 Men On Lines There were J.000 men on the fire lines at dawn and the nerim- ctcr of the blaze was 40 miles. Hundreds of additional fire fight ers were being flown in from all over the Southwest. The flames, starting on the ud- per slopes of the San Gabriels, were fanned downhill toward the communities of Azusa, Duarte, Monrovia, Sierra Madre and East Pasadena. During the night and morning several canyons were evacuated, among them San Gabriel and Fish canyons. Highways in the area were closed. But by dawn only one cabin had been burned and the fire line was still several miles from the out skirts of any city. One hundred children at Camp Hi-Hill, a Long Beach City school facility, were evacuated by bus. The smoke from the great blaze, plus dust clouds kicked thousands of feet into the air by winds, made it a grey, sunless morning for the Los Angeles Basin. A fine film of dust and ash coated trees, cars, sidewalks. Pedestrians left footprints anywhere they walked. 600 Persons Apply For Jobs At U. S. Ply A spokesman at U.S. Plywood Corp. said today that some 600 persons have applied for work at the new plant slated to begin op erations next February. The spokesman said about 230 I initially wil ne put on tne pa- fnll tuith hirind tit art in 17 nmh:imV i " early January. He emphasized I ill iiw nil in lanuit, K"ivi o 1 nrosent. but that applicants are be- I in "scrpenod" to uncover those I mnst nunlified Applications have been taken throughout the week, anil fie spokesman said Ihey will continue to be received through next week. Applicants may file for work at the plant from 1 to 4 p.m. on weekdays and next Tuesday eve ning, he said. Levity Fact Rt 8y U. F. Reizenstein should be grateful to Uncle Sam that the postage rate wot not boosted from 3 to 4 centi this year at any rat.