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Arrest Thomas L Spencer,
Confiscate 13 Gal. Whiskey
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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- '
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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.