The News-Review from Roseburg, Oregon • Page 1

U. of 0. Librarji Eugone, Oregon- Mill 15) lo) Governors Of All Stales Get Ike's Bid To (onfab On Role In World Status WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower hag invited the 48 state governors to a White House conference May 4 and 5 to give them a confidential "first hand picture of the present state of the world and the role of the Unit Established 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1953 84-53 RedsViIIDeliver500 Disabled Men In Return For 5.800 Of Their Ovn MUNSAN The Allies and Communists today signed an historic agreement for the first formal exchange of disabled captives of the Korean War and the Reds pressed impatiently for a quick renewal of the full-scale armistice negotiations. The Communists agreed to return 600 sick and wounded prisoners, including 120 Americans, and the Allies pledged to give up 5,800 North Koreans and Chinese. The first of these may begin the journey home as early innesoto Prison Eliot: Scene 11 as next eunesaay.

Harry Bridges, Facing Probable Prison Term, Taps James Fantz To Succeed Him As Union's Chief SAN FRANCISCO Harry Bridges Friday said he Picket Ban Bill Dispute Still Rages Plane, Sans Pilot, Demolished After Taking Off Here A Roseburg flier's plane was demolished Friday afternoon when it took off without its pilot and crashed at the west edge of the Rosebarg airport. The owner of the plane, Elmer Worth, according to witnesses, was turning the engine over by hand prior to starting it. The would nominate James Fantz, 42, of Portland, to succeed him as head of the International longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union in the event he, Bridges, is jailed. Moose's Chief Officer Dates Roseburg Visit A special meeting, honoring Frlt-chof T. Sallness.

(above), suoreme governor of the Loyal Order of the Moose, has been called for Tues day April 14, at the the Roseburg ijooge. Sallness, holder of the highest elective office of the Order, will speak at a meeting, which begins at 8:30 p.m. The Roseburg Lodge is one of three lodges that Sallness will visit on bis Pacific-Northwest tour. Initiation of new member will take place during the evening, and will be followed by a joint meeting with the Women of the Moose at 9:90. Preston Rhoner Quits Roseburg Teaching Job Preston Rhoner, coordinator of Distributive Education at Rose-birg High School since October, has resigned and is moving to Grants Pass Sunday.

The move is necessitated by the illness of Mrs. Rhoner, who has been teaching in Winston. She will receive medical care in Medford. Rhoner has accepted a contract to teach at Grants Pass High School next fall. At present he will take over management of the Frontier Motor Inn, a motel on Highway 99, seven miles south of Grants Pass.

Previous to teaching at high school, Mr. Rhoner was manager of Roseburg Country Club. H. T. Carstens Named On County Housing Body The Douglas County Court Friday appointed H.

T. Carstens, Roseburg, to the Board of Commissioners for the Douglas County Housing Authority. Carstens, who will serve a five-year term beginning Tuesday, replaces the late V. M. Orr.

NEW SAFEWAY MARKET A Safeway grocery and meat market is scheduled to open in Sutherlin on April 23, according to D. R. Compton, state advertising director for Safeway Stores, Inc. Convicts Set Fire In Cells, Do Damage Outbreak, After Five Days' Unrest, Occurs As New Warden Comes STILLWATER, Minn. I Screaming convicts smashed windows and lit small fires In their cell blocks Saturday as violence flared' after five days of unrest within the gray stone walls of sprawling Stillwater prison.

All of the 1,000 convicts had been locked their cells before the violence broke out. It flared when inmates were raid there would oe no further negotiations on a series of "grievances" they had filed. It followed disturbances that started Tuesday noon when the prisoners staged a sit-down after complaining about liver patties served for lunch. Shutdown on the negotiations was anounced Saturday morning, along with naming of a new warden for the prison. He is Edwin T.

Swenson, presently warden of Maryland Stale Prison. An outgrowth of the liver pattie squabble was removal of chef Louis Gilles, after state officials listened to demands from delegated group of 65 convicts. Barrage From Calls Swenson arrived to take over, convicts were yoliing in their cells. Utensils from breakfast, served convicts in their ceils, were hurled into the prison yard and corridors. Small wads of paper and rags were lighted by some convicts and tossed into- the corridors.

Prison anoVSrnte official! apparently won a strategy struggle with the convict leaders in getting the men locked up. Jarle Leir-fallom, director of state institutions, said damage to th aII blocks would probably be minor cumparea wisn me "millions of dollars" in damage that might have been caused if the convicts had been able to seize the prison shop. Worker Kills Another In Big Cement Mixer FLINT. Mich. (1 Poll sidered today bringing a manslaughter warrant against Harold W.

Widenhammer, 28, who confessed he pushed the switch of a giant cement mixer which cut to ueain a ieuow worker inside. State police Quoted Weirienham. mer as admitting he pushed the switch because he "just wanted to see It (the giant mixer) run while a man was in there." Weidenham- mer confessed at East Lansing headquarters of the state police. Slashing blades of the biz mixer ripped Ira T. Uptegraff to death at rue Flint Cement Producrs Com pany here April 3., TO PROBE FRANCHISE The Oakland City Council this week approved an investigation of a contract between the city anf the Oregon Water to determine whether the franchise to supply water to the city had been violated by the firm.

The probe was requested of the Council by the Oakland Develop ment Club, which wants a report on the condition of the drinking water. U. N. NEGOTIATORS William Welch, Corvollis, ed states in it. The White House said Saturday the president sent a letter Friday to the governors asking them to come here for a briefing by cabinet and other administration officials.

It said the Idea is to produce a better understanding of the need he feels for full cooperation of the governors in dealing with problems confronting the nation as a whole. The conference will consider, among other matters of national concern, current developments fa foreign affairs, defense, national security, and an analysis of the nation's fiscal policies as it relates to all of these subjects. Here is a partial text of the presi-. dent's letter: "It is my earnest conviction that you will find this conference a worth-while occasion. The program will give consideration, among other matters of national concern, to current developments in the field national relations, the American defense effort, the problems of national security, and an analysis of our fiscal policies as related thereto.

"In these critical times an occasion which offers the prospect of America's leaders, state and national, working side by side to give the United States elightened leadership warrants vigorous support. I am firmly convinced that this conference will produce a better understanding of the need which I feel for the full cooperation of each of you in dealing with the variety of problems which confront the nation." New Apartment Court Projected Construction of a SO-unlt apartment court at Alameda and Vine Streets in North Roseburg was started this week, according to John Todd, president of the Todd Building Co. It will be known ai Westvue Court. The project includes 30 two-bedroom apartments and 20 three-bedroom units. The first units will be ready for occupancy in the early summer, Todd said.

Eleven buildings are planned on ttie site. Five of them will contain six units, four are planed for four units, and two duplexes will be built. All are to be of frame and masonry construction. The site Is 260x750 feet in size. All buildings will be one-story, and contain electric heat, refrigerators, ranges, washers and driers.

An off-site street and parking facilities are planned for use of the occupants. Subcontractors include Harris Plumbing and Heating and Trowbridge Electric Co. Other subcontractors will be named later, Mora Surplus Butter To Be Given To Schools WASHINGTON to The government is giving another 50 million pounds of butter, out of its 143 million pound supply, to the school lunch program and charitable institutions. The Agriculture Department bought the butter in recent months under a dairy price support program. In January it gave 24 million pounds to the same agencies.

In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In this space yesterday, I dealt briefly with the origins of Reno, which trace back to the legendary Comstock lode which not only gave Reno its start but handed a big push to the beginnings of San Franciso itself. The wealui of the Comstok was ALL dug out of Nevada ground. The origins of Las Vegas go back to the Colorado River which, you will note if you will study your map, rises in other states and barely nicks one corner of Nevada. The point I wish to make is that from its earliest start, practically from its very first day, Las Vegas has drawn its wealth from elsewhere than Nevada. It still does sc.

Here's how Las Vegas came to born: The government of the United States decided away back in ANOTHER age when the Repub lican party was in power to do something big in the way ot damming a river and getting power (Continued un page Four) The Weather Mostly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Sunday. Highest temp, last 34 hours 57 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 32 Highest Temp, for any April Lowest Temp, for any April 25 prtcip. last 24 hours Procip. from April 1 Precip. from 1 Iicest from Sept.

1 Sunset today, 4:51 p.m. fvnrlto tomorrow, 5:17 a-m. J0-'s 1 U.S. Jets Destroy Three MIGs; Reds Regain Bloody Hill SEOUL UK U. 8.

Sabre jets blasted three Communist MIGs out of the North Korean sky in a swirling air battle shortly before dusk Saturday, the Fifth Air Force announced. Three other MIG. were reported damaged, but the claims haven't yet been confirmed by gun camera films. On the ground, two Chinese Com munist companies, about 350 men. drove tough South Korean infantrymen off shell-pitted Texas Hill, the Central Front peak which haa changed nanda nine times in, the past week.

km suppii. Bombed Friday night. B2s from Okina wa bombed a 115-acr Communist supply dump near Sinanju, leaving it a mass of flames. The dump had been ldt untouched for weeks while the Reda stocked it with valuable war material. Four U.

planes were lost ba-hind enemy lines during the past week. One of the four the first U. S. Snore jet lost in air conu-at since March 13 was piloted by a double MIG ace, Capt. Harold Fischer of Swea City, Iowa.

Fischer faued to return trom his 70th combat mission Tuesday and the Communist radio haa aaid he was' captured aftr parachuting from nis crippled plane. U. S. Air Ace Shot Down, Divorced Same Day LAS VEGAS, Nev. to A U.S.

double air ace, Capt. Harold Fischer, was divorced the same day the Communists shot' him down and reported capturing him. Mrs, Dorothy Fischer charged the jet fighter pilot with unspecified mental cruelty. The dis closed Friday was granted last Tuesdav. That aame day 27-year-old Capt.

Fischer, one ct the two hottest aces in Korea, was reported miss-1 ing. The Pelping radio (aid he i parachuted from his plane and was caught. The Swea City. pilot, who; shot down 10 Russian-buM MIGs In previous sorties, was on his 70th mission. The Fischers were married in Columbus, April 22, 1949, the same year Fischer joined the Air Force.

They have i son, 3-year-old Harold III. Walt Mallory To Attend Course In Rhode Island Capt. Walter S. Mallory of Roseburg will leave next week for a two-week war college course at Newoort. R.

I. He is associated with the Naval Reserve Unit at The topic of the two-week course will be ''global warfare." Mallory will soon become the commander of a new Naval electronics battalion to be formed in Roseburg. This will be tha second local battalion. The move only awaits authorization from the federal government. Mallory and his wife will com bine pleasure with Business wnn a visit to Mallory's parents in New York City.

Latest Atomic Blast Milder Than 4 Others LAS VEGAS, Nev. I An ex Deri mental atomic device was de tonated at 4:45 a.m., Saturday atop a 100-foot tower at the Yucca Flat nroviniz around and the Atomic Energy commiision No other details were given. The explosion, fifth of the spring test series, did not seem aa forceful as some of the previous shots, Neither troops, cars nor animals were Involved in the experiment. All have been used In previous shos in the series. HAIL WREAKS HAVOC BALTIMORE to Hall atones, some reported aa big as eggs, battered sections of nearby Ft.

Meade late Friday, damaging autoi and homes. The hall came down during i severe thunder storm. Within minutes it put a six-inch layer of Ic. on one area near the Ft Mead. hospital, post personnel Mid.

DISABILITY AWARD, Frsnk B. Lynch Friday was awarded in Circuit Court compensation rights equal to 70 percent Eermanent partial disability in the iss of the -function of an arm. He claimed in a complaint filed against the State Industrial Acci dent Commission that he was In oem uiminiMion mat was in tured whil. operating jack-ham- mer. a The agreement mav have nivl the way for armlaUc.

is Korea. The truce talks have been deadlocked for a year and suspended since Oct over the last bie issue of exchanging war prisoners. The item naa insisted on the return of all their 'captured soldiers. The Allies refused to return anyone to Communist rule against nil wiU. North Korean Mai.

Gen. I.M Sang Cho told the Allied llaisoa team: Our side considers that plenary session of the delegations of both sides should resumed lmmeaiateiy to discuss and settle the entire question of prisoners of war so as to realise an armistice in Korea." U. S. Rear Adm. John C.

riinl.l said the U. N. Command in Tokyo would give an answer. Geo. Mark Clark.

U. N. Fir East Commander, already his aaid the truce talks can be resumed after settlement of the dis. Wed prisoner exchange. R.c.ption R.adkd But the exchange of sick and wounded captives, tome of them undoubtedly prisoners sine th.

first daya of ah. Korean War nearly three yeara ago. was tha hi job for the moment. American enainepri rapaA deadline to complete roads and camps within the receiving ion. at Panmunjon before Tuesday.

Doctors, nurses and corpsmea waited eagerly 10 miles away at Munsan's freedom sate for th. influx ot disabled Allies. Scores ot helicopters and ambulances were readied for the job of transporting them. Most of the Allied sick and wounded will bo rushed to their homes by plane Immediately after they cross the line, if they sr. able to travel.

Th. othan will ha wxen io nospitait la Japan. The Americana among th latter wQl go to Tokyo and Yokohama, The exchange" must be completed within 20 dayt after it starts. It must begin not later than April 21 and can start earlier. Besides the 120 Americans, then 29 British, 15 Canadians, Turks, Greeks and ilutcn and about 450 South Koru'na In th.

group the Communists will Red Spies Jailed In W. Germany; One Hangs Self BONN, Germnny to An alleged key -member of the big Soviet, operated spy ring just uncovered in West Germany has committed suicide the Federal Interior Ministry said Saturday. Dr. Hans Hartig, arrested with 37 other Germans on charges of spying for Russia, hanged himself Friday night In hi. jail cell ia E.sen, the ministry said.

Until recently, Dr. Hartig was an official of ttie West German Iron and Steel Association. In this capacity, he had an Intimate knowledge of West Germany's Industrial secrets, the ministry aaid. It claimed he bad been giving the Soviet espionage ring secret reports on Industrial research and production for, two years. Acting Chancellor Franz Bluech-er Friday announced the arrest of 35 German members of what he called "the biggest and most dangerous Russian-operated espkmag.

ring uncovered since the beginning of the occupation 1945." The Interior Ministry said two more members of the ring were seized, At least six others are Doing hunted. Fund Voted For Survey Of Umpqua Water Plan SALEM to The Senate Friday approved a proposal authorizing the state engineer to enlist th. aid ot federal agencies in a survey of th. water us potential of the Umpqua River. The bill would appropriate $5,009, with Douglas County and th.

federal government putting up similar amounts, to Initiate the survey. Sen. Paul L. Geddes, Roseburg, said the bill would be a start on a serious flood control problem in Douglas County, He declared extreme fluctuations In the flow of the Umpqua had shown the need for holding dams and stream control work. Levity Fact Rant By L.

F. Reizenitels In eddirion to their other accomplishment, the Chines. Red, in offering to iwap only 600 lick end wounded pri- 1 I d.mortitroHnj ttie lectict ot inort-enonge switch had been turned on, ap parently unknowingly, when Worth inserted the key In the ignition. The throttle was advanced far enough so that the plane's engine fired, and the craft took off cross-ways of the field in a westerly direction, worm, uninjured, scrambled to safety. The $6500 four-place Piper Pacer barelv rose from the ground it crashed about 800 feet from the hangar.

The trim tabs were adjusted so that the plane was unaoie 10 gam mucu It is customary to "null" the engine through a few times before starting it to prevent damage to the block and pistons wnen a plane has been sitting idle for a day or two. Red Cross Task Headed By Experienced Worker I MRS. -LLOYD H. BEST, pictured above, is the recently appointed service groups chairman lor Douglas County Chapter of Red Cross. Mrs.

Best has been an active worker in the Red Cross for a number of years. She participated in Red Cross work in Baker prior to moving to Roseburg. Before her appointment aa service groups chairman, she was residential chairman for the 1953 fund drive in Roseburg. Additional Penalty Handed To Traverra Robert S. Traverra, already sentenced to 17 years in the Oregon Penitentiary on two counts, received an additional three year term from Circuit Judge Carl E.

Wimberly Friday. Traverra waived preliminary hearing and pleaded guilty to a charge of rape involving a 13-year-old girl. He was sentenced Wednesday to 10 vears for arson and seven years for" burglary. All the sentences are to run consecutively. Deputy District Attorney Donald S.

Kelley said that Traverra will not be eligible for parole until 1971, when he may apply for one after the first two sentences are served. Germany's Huge Debt To U. Citizens Eased WASHINGTON I President Eisenhower says plans tor Germany to pay her huge debt to the U. S. government and citiiens will substantially help her toward "normal commercial relationships." The President has urged Con-irrsu ti annrove four agreements.

allowing the debts to be paid, with reduced interest, over 20 years. The amount has been estimated at ohnnl S-VKOO 000 000. Eisenhower said the schedule for paying private investors was "reasonable, satisfactory and equitable." Contempt Of Court Evokes $100 Penalty Clarence Whitmore Friday was fined 5100 for contempt of court by Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly, and was ordered to pay $100 monthly support lor nis uiree minor children to Mr. and Mrs.

R. W. Roberts. Judoe Wlmberly'a action said that Whitmore was contemptuous in testimony given in a suit hrmiffht aeainst him bv the Ron- Patterson Suggests Milder Measure Than One Voted By House' By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.

SALEM UF1 Employers and labor leaders resumed their warfare Friday afternoon over ttie House-passed bill to ban picketing imiuence worxers to join unions. But none of the witnesses, who appeared at a two-hour hearing oerare uie aenaie ana industries Committee, even mentioned Gov. Paul L. Patterson's substitute proposal. Believing the House biH would cause discord between labor and management, the governor ug-gested a much milder bill that would suspend strikes and picketing for IS days while the State Board of Conciliation tries to solve the disputes.

The governor's bill hasn't been Introduced yet. At the hearing, employers again argued that the restriction on picketing is needed to prevent small businesses from being picketed when no disputes exist. The labor witnesses claimed the bill would let employers block organization of unions. Bills Sent To Governor At Friday afternoon's session, the House completed action on several important bills and sent them to the governor. One would create a three-mem ber commission to preserve, dc- (Continued on Page Two) Pinks, Crackpots Declared Worse Than Real Reds MANCHESTER, N.

H. (1 The chairman of the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee says "parlor pinks and fuzry-minded intellectuals" are more dangerous than the actual Communist party member. Rep.

Harold H. Velde (R-Ili) also asserted Friday night there are "probably 300,000 people" in the United States, if given the opportunity would "hurl our hard-earned freedoms down the sewers of Red Communism." Although he ran into a storm of protest wnen ne once said his committee might investigate the cnurcnes, veiae said hv fminrf In mna these persons on the fringe of i-uiiiiiiuiiiab iivui organizations include various members of the clergy who are extremely outspoken during their participation in such organizations. "Because of their positions," the congressman said, "otherwise sensible and loyal Americans were influenced to join those organizations." Grievances Of Teachers Will Be Aired Monday Grievances of teachers whose contracts were not renewed by the Roseburg School Board will he heard Monday night in open hear ing scheduled In the Junior High School at 8 p.m. School Board Chairman N. D.

Johnson said that the meeting definitely will be open to the public, and, if necessary, the meeting place will be changed from the superintendent's office to more spacious quarters. Johnson emphasized that all meetings of the school board are open to the public, and saM that Monday night's hearing will be no exception. Apricot Crop Ravaged By 2-State Snowstorm DENVER to Colorado and southern Wyoming were in rhe clutches of a howling snowstorm Saturday. Airline and bus schedules were disrupted by the spring storm which was blamed for one Colorado traffic death and numerous other accidents. Temperatures dipped sharply below freezing at most places.

The plummeting temperatures were believed to have seriously damaged the apricot crop. Many of the trees were In full bloom when the storm struck. Wimberly To Speak At Chamber Forum Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly will discuM "Our Jury System" at the membership forum of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce Monday noon at the Hotel Umpqua. The meeting is open to non- members of the Chamber, accord ing to Gordon Stewart, ohalrman of the forum oommittee.

If Bridges loses his appeal from a five-year sentence on a perjury-conspiracy conviction, the union would have a new leader for the first time since it was founded 20 years ago. Bridges said he also would nominate Joseph Keolilio of Hawaii to serve aa vice president in case J. Robertson, who holds the office now, were imprisoned. Robertson faces a prison term for conspiracy to commit perjury and is appealing. Henry Schmidt, pension di rector, faces the same charge.

The appeal of all three men will be heard April 27 by the Supreme Court. The union accepted Bridges' pro posal after a majority of the 200 delegates first indicated they would spurn the auvice. In other action, he union convention almost unanimously approved a resolution pledging support to Hugh Bryson and the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. Bryson is under indictment on charges of falsely swearing he was not a Communist. In the afternoon session, Bridges predicted that "the whole world will line up against the United States" in a third world conflict.

Fantz, College Trained, Longshoremen 25 Tears PORTLAND to James Fantz, tapped by Harry Bridges as longshore r-esident in case Bridges has to go to jail, has been a waterfront worker since nis 1928 graduation-from high school, with time out for eollege, A big man, weighing over 200 pounds and standing over. 6-1, Fantz went to work as a longshoreman here in the spring of 1928. He later attended Willamette University at Salem for two and a halt years where his studies emphasized physics and mathematics, then took night classes in Portland for a year and followed that with foreign trade and o'her studies at the University of Oregon in 1934-35. In 1931 ha joined the AFL International Longshoremen's Association and shifted to the CIO in 1937 along with majority of the members of the now independent International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. He had held virtually all offices in the local, has been chairman of the coastwide longshoremen's caucus and has been known as a strong Bridges supporter.

Born In Park City, Utah, Fantz lived as a boy in Calgary, and on farms near Burns and Estacada, He was a highly regarded school athlete in four sports and was a letterman in the weights and quartermile at Willamette. Robbers Get $83,770 From Bank In Georgia SAVANNAH. Ga. W-A tight cur- tain of secrecy wan draped today around uie investigation of a $13,770 robery at the Southslde branch of the Citizens' and South ern National Bank. The FBI would only admit there bad been a robbery, and Savannah police have not released any clues.

Three men took over the bank about 8:45 a.m. Friday and cap tured each incoming employe to keep him from sounding an alarm, Col. Wil- the rry Omaho, Nebraska. I) Peoce teom shown In Panmunjom ore left to right: Lt, Cmdr. Jomes E.

Shew. Goldendole, Col. erts. I Whitmore is suing hla wife. ffinia.

for rfivnrr. chiming ner Hard Corlock, Galveston, Rar Adm. John Daniel, Phijadelphio, leader of 1 1 group; Col. Le So Yong, Korea; Col. Douglo Cairns, Riverside, Lr.

Col. Ha I lion, and the children were put in Odren, Dunn Center, N. and Lt. Col. Leo J.

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