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Ul m l ll ini El mi V Ship Wage Dispute HaltsWork In California No Agreement Reached In Bus Tie-Up: Lumber Situation Is Unchanged (By The Associated Press! I-ubor unrest spread in Pacific coast stale during the last 24 huur period as 5.000 ship repair workers in Southern California were added to the number of idle. Here are the developments: Shioyards Fourteen yards in the Long Beach-San Pedro-Wilmington area were affected when 5,000 employes engaged in repair n work struck yesterday in a pro test authorized by the Los An geles AKL Metal Trades council. Objections to a War Labor board pay differential decision granting un 11.6 per cent increase pre cipitated the walkout. The strik ers claimed the boost was given to only a few crafts and was difficult to administer because of "extreme vagueness." At San Diego officials of three major shipyards yesterday tele graphed William Green, presi dent of the AFL, asking him to intervene in a strike that has halted millions of dollars worth of work on tuna boats. The pro test to Green said that boat-builders walked out without applying for or taking a strike vote. Green was urged to order his men back to work if a contract with the AFL Metal Trades council was ' fnntt mioH nn Prop ft In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS NEW YORK The long and tire some routine of debarkation Is finally completed. Immigration and security control are satisfied. We get baggage at the pier fchlch doesn't take long. After all, you can't buy much fn Europe these days, for the simple., reason, that, .there isn't much left to buy. Clearance labels are quickly fixed to the bags and we're FREE. OUT through the pier shed to the street, where a fairish SWARM of taxis is waiting. You think of England, where cabs are always few and far between and usually occupied already, and of the continent, where there are none. (This writer's destination is up in the high Eighties, and the fare is $1.50. There was a time when it would have seemed steep, but now your mind goes back to Paris, where you dickered in bad French with the proprietor of an ancient and rickety carriage drawn by an even more ancient and rickety nag for the trans port of yourself and luggage for a distance of eight blocks and the best offer you could get was 400 francs, which tots up to $8.) THESE streets! They're wide and roomy and STRAIGHT. Where did you ever get the Idea that the streets of American cities are deplorably narrow? And these cars! The LEGIONS (Continued on pax 81 Hospitals Going to Doctors Big City Locations Easiest Way to Contact Specialists, Vets Administration Finds WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. .D The Veterans administration has decided that if the doctors won't go to the veterans hospitals, the hospitals will have to go to the doctors. Which means, an administration official said today, that more and more of its hospitals will be built in and near big cities, where it Is easier to hire specialists part-time. He contended this will mnke many members of congress un happy. . In the oast some of the live liest behind thescencs skirmish ing the Capitol has seen has been over 'he question: What town get the new hospital? The reason: It has been esti mated that a 250-hed veteran hospital may bring in $1,000,000 year In extra business to a community. Veterans Administrator Omar N. Bradley and his actinc; sur. peon general. Mat. Gen. Paul R Hawlcy, are worried because: The Veterans administration has onlv 2.327 doctors. It could use another '",300 right now Within a couple of years. It will need 5.700 more. It has 231 dentists. It needs 300 in the next vear. Worst need: 400 psychiatrists (Repair Crews Join: Western Strikes Established 1873 hi GIs GET HITLER'S BEER HALL Beer mugs that once were used by the Nazis to toast Hitler, now hold coffee for doughnut-dunking purposes, as pictured above. Munich beer hall that was the site of Der Fuehrer's 1923 putsch has been taken over by the Red Cross as a canteen for enlisted men and officers. Crash Kills One, Injures 5 Others .ALBANY, Ore.. Oct. 13-OPI- A head-on collision near langcnt last night killed a Portland man and sent five other persons to hospitals. Thomas P. English, 23, was killed almost instantly, said Dep uty Coroner John Summers. Rid ing with him were an unidenti fied sailor who was tr.ken to Camp Adair Naval hospital and a man believed to be from Port land, identified as Clarence Nighswongar. Three persons believed to be from Salem were In the second car, including a Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, now in a Salem hospital. State police said they had no statement to make yet on cause of the crash. Investigation was hampered because the two other men riding In English's car were still unconscious this morning. Firemen said both cars were bad ly burned, but passengers were not harmed by flames. Log Truck Plunges Through Bridge; Two Men Injured SHELTON. Wash.. Oct. 13 (. Don Randall and Le Roy Smith, employes ofdhe Kindell Lagging company of Shelton, were being treated in a hospital here today for severe Injuries suffered when their truck-trailer fell through a bridge on the Cloquallum road near White Star in Grays Harbor county yesterday. The vehicle, carrying bulldozer, fell about 20 feet and landed upside down. to treat the thousands of vet erans who are coming out of this war with ailing minds. The doctor situation Is likely to get worse before it gets better. Seventeen hundred veterans' doctors are on loan from the Army. They'll get discharges soon. Many of these were In the Veterans administration before the Army nabbed them, and they probably will return. But others undoubtedly will go Into private practice. No one In the Veterans admin istration Is too optimistic about getting sufficient recruits. The pay isn't too attractive, for one thing. Dentists make S3.G40 to $fi.O20 year, doctors $3,640 to $8,730. $50,000 Alimony Payment Frees Man From Jail ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 13. XIPl E. W. Allen, 72-year-old business man who went to jail for 14 months rather than pay allmonv, has paid up in full some $50,000, and is a free man again. But he is not happy. Released yesterday, he came back to jail to spend the night because he could not find a hotel room. In addition, the county wants him to dig down deeper and pay board for the time he spent in jail. Allen, loan company and print ing firm operator, produced $21, 295 in cashier's checks and money orders in superior court yesterday to complete the alimony pay ments. The sum included $4,500 In fees for Mrs. Allen's attorneys. Sheriff A. B. (Bud) Foster said he let Allen return to his 1ail bed last night because "you can't put a man out on short notice these days." Canada Slashes Taxes On Incomes, Businesses OTTAWA, Oct. 13 UP) Can ada put her first peacetime budg et Into operation today, cutting personal income taxes by 16 per cent and lowering taxes in busi ness as a means of stimulating initiative and enterprise in the period of reconstruction. All Canadians who now pay income taxes will continue to do so, computing their tax by the old formula but deducting 16 per cent from the total bill. There are nearly 2,500,000 income tax payers in Canada's 12,000,000 population. Nurses Sought Here to Aid Against Polio Epidemic An appeal for seven nurses from the Douglas county district to aid In control of a polio epi demic in the Salt Lake area was received today by the District No. 11 unit of the Oregon Regis tered Nurses association, Mrs. Vernon Keel reports. Nurses are needed for 60 days' special serv ice. Nurses interested may secure full particulars from Mrs. Keel. Larceny Charge Holds . Defendant to Grand Jury Waving preliminary examina tion on a charge of larceny by bailee, George W. Vincent was ordered held to the grand Jury under bail fixed at $1,000, upon appearance today In the Rose burg justice court. Vincent Is ac cused. Judge Hartfield said, of removing a trailer and tires be longing to Ray Collett and John W. Doyle, after entering Into a conditional sales contract. Quisling's Appeal From Death Sentence Rejected LONDON, Oct. 13. (.P The Norwegian supreme court today refused Vidkun Quisling's appeal rom the death sentence Imposed for treason. The former Norwegian puppet leader whose name became sv nonymous with "traitor," had been sentenced by the lower court September 10. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER Argentina Now Without Government Bloody Clash Occurs In Capital: Farrell Said to Have Quit as President BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 13 (tP) Argentina was virtually with out a government today in a po liiical crisis which had exploded into open civil strife in down town Buenos Aires last night. Gun fighting involving police, nationalists and Internationalists killed one man and left 35 wounded, including six police men. After the entire cabinet with the exception of the Amy and Navy ministers resigned yester day, the Army announced it had the resignation of President Edel miro Farrell "for use at any moment." Today the only authority re maining was that of the Army, Navy and the two holdovers from the fallen government. Minister of War Avalos and Minister of the Marine Rear Admiral Lima. The police, apparently acting autonomously for the time being, forbade newspapers to publish news of the street fighting. How ever, they were permitted to mention the 12-hour wait of thou sands of persons in front of the Army club yesterday while gen erals, admirals, and civil leaders Inside debated the future of the country. Shots Exchanged It was after this debate broke up without results that the fir ing began. Who began It was un certain but at its height police fired on the crowd. Individuals in the crewd returned their fire, and a group of unidentified civil iansperhaps nationalists aided police by shooting into the massed thousands. The fighting spread to other parts of the city. Horses with empty saddles galloped through (Continued on page 6) Mrs. Truman is Turmoil Center Oyer Negro Ban WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (JF Mrs. Harry S. Truman found herself In the middle of a hot controversy over racial discrimi nation today despite her wish, plain ever since her husband be came President, for a back ground role in public affairs. In the case of Negro pianist Hazel Scott, denied use of Con stitution Hall because of her color, Mrs. Truman took this stand: (1) "I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an oppor tunity to express itself because of prejudice against race or origin." She said this In a telegram made public by the White House. (2) But she sees no reason why she should boycott the Daugh ters of the Ajnerican Revolution, who own Constitution Hall. She was honor guest at a D.A.R. te-. yesterday. Wherr a reporter j asxea wnetner she will accept similar future Invitations, she replied "Why Not?" Negro Rep. Adam C. Powell (D., N. Y.) Miss Scott's husband, promptly declared: "From now on Mrs. Truman Is the last lady." Mrs. Truman Is an honorary D. A. R. member in her home town. Independence, Mo. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the late President, resigned from the D. A. R. in 1939 to protest exclusion of Negro Soprano M.ir lan Anderson from Constitution Hall. Red Writer Says Facts of Big 5 Fizzle Not Told MOSCOW, Oct. 13 .fl-The general public In the United j States and Britain has not vet i been enlightened by explanations ! irom .-iccreiarv of state Bvrnes and Foreign Secretary Bevln as to what happened at the break down of the foreign ministers con ference. Red Star's political com mentator asserted In an editorial today. The Army newspaper said It anpeared from the foreign press accounts that the failure was In terpreted as a triumph of British and American diplomacy. The Weather Clear tonight and Sunday, except morning cloudiness. :! " M NEW SENATOR James W. Huffman, above, state director from Ohio appointed by Gov. Frank J. Lausche to take over the post vacated by Republican Senator Burton's appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court. Huffman, e democrat and cor poration lawyer, opposed Gov. Lausche in the primaries last of commerce, is the new senator year. Negotiations Of IWA, Conciliator May End Today PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 13 UP) Possibility that negotiations between the' CIO' International Woodworkers of America and 209 Northwest fir operators would end today was forecast by George Brewer, federal labor conciliator. The negotiations have been on for five days before Brewer, and are based on a union demand for a 25 cents hourly wage Increase "across the board." The AFL Industry-wide strike, which has closed operations in five states since October 1 marked time with no new pick eting operations reported before CIO mills In the strike area. G. A. Metzger, secretary-manager of the Willamette Valley Lumber Operators' association, announced at Eugene, Ore., that a group will resume negotiations with AFL Northwestern Council of Lumber and Sawmill Work ers In Portland next Tuesday. The Willamette Valley District council, AFL, has hit a snag In Its attempt to implement its lum ber boycott action. The council recommended that the Building Trades council and carpenters in Eugene consider all CIO and non union lumber as "hot." Then it was determined that the carpen ters' union is not affiliated with the council. The carpenters will consider the matter during their convention at Salem over the weekend. ' Price Ceilings on Four Federal Agencies Draft Program Despite Opposition Of Truman, Reconversion Aid WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (.?-Despite reported administration opiHjsltlon, a strong recommendasfin for price ceilings on houses Is being prepared today by the chiefs of four government agencies. Slated to reach Reconversion Director Snyder early next week, the program calls for: 1. Ceilings on all new houses. 2. Ceilings on old houses If they have changed hands since January 1, 1913. These recommendations were drawn up this week by John C. Collet, stabilization director: Chester Bowles, price administra tor: John B. Blandfnrd, Jr., na tional housing administrator; and Marrlner S. Eccles, chairman of the federal reserve board. Reports have circulated that Snyder and Preildent Truman are opposed to ceilings on hous ing. But proponents of the plan sav both are maintaining an open mind on the subject, and will de cide only after all arguments have been studied. Building Industry representa tives already have registered vig orous protests against ceilings. Ihoy say price control would stifle construction. vCV A 1 3. 1 945 Jap Cabinet Quick to Obey Reform Edict Law Drafted for Woman Suffrage, Abolishment of Political Police Decreed TOKYO, Oct. 13-UP) Premier Shidchura's "crisis" cabinet took its first step todav toward meet ins General MacArthur's dictate that the Japanese government be made the servant rather than the master of the people. In the face of rank skepticism of Nipponese liberals, the cabinet in its second extraordinary ses sion In two davs, approved for submission to the diet measures f ranting votes to women and owering the voting age from 25 to 20 years. In a move to comply with the allied commander's order for freedom of speech and thought, the cabinet dismissed 4,800 politi cal (thought control) police and abolished, effective today, the 13-year-old law under which they had arrested some 60.000 political olfenders, mostly left wing lib erals. Japs Obey Quickly General MacArlhur gave his directive for sweeping social and political reforms changes neces sitating revision of Japan's con stitution for the first time in more than half a century to (Continued on Pace 6) Jap Cannibalism Okayed By Army, Papers Reveal , TOKYO, Oct 13. ()-Japa-nese Army orders approved can nibalism among NlDponese troops, li tney ate tne nesn oi allied dead but they were put to death If they feasted on their fullen com rades. Captured papers of the Japa nese Army showed some of Its troops were convicted of eatln? their own dead and were exe cuted. The papers called this "the worst possible crime against hu manity." Japanese newspaper men who were told of the documents com mented that the Japanese people probably would not be as horri fied at the cannibalism as would Americans. They explained that since the days of sailing shins, when becalmed Japanese crews ate the flesh of dead companions, the nation was aware of the prac tice. Central Labor Council Backs Community Chest Delegates to the Roseburg Cen tral Labor council from various A. F. of L. local unions have given unanimous endorsement of the Roseburg Community Chest program, Lester Williams, pivsi dent. announced today. 'We feel." Williams said, "that this is a most worthy cause and we want it to go over In a big wav. We feel a successful drive will save duplication of effort which would be required by sep arate drives. We will give the Chest our energetic support." Houses The four agency chiefs plan to tell Snyder that without ceilings there will be grave danger of In flation during a building boom expected to begin when all war time construction controls are dropped next Monday. Snyder will be asked to rail on congress for legislation dele gating either to OFA or NHA authority to fix ceilings. An alternative proposal will be that President Tmmnn delegate such authority under the second war powers act. It was under an executive order stemming from that act that NHA fixed in M.0OO celling on new houses bulll during the war. That celling goes out with removal of construction controls. A Cv A AVT 45 240 Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal MacRory, Dies 'V-i Rev. Jqs. Cardinal . MacRory ARMAGH, Northern Ireland, Oct. 13. i.lY) His Eminence Jo seph Cardinal MacRory, 89, arch bishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, died today. In 1942, when American troops were landing In Northern Ire land, Cardinal MacRory Issued a public statement in which he said he found It "exceedingly hard to be patient" when he thought of "my own corner of the country overrun by British and United States soldiers against the will of my nation." His eminence was a contribu tor to the Catholic University Bulletin of America and other church publications and was widely known in the Roman Catholic church for his writings. He was a co-founder of the Irish Theological quarterly. New Flying Club Will be Organized Here by Devotees A group of aviation enthusiasts will meet at 7:30 P. M. Thursday, Oct. 18, In the Roseburg Cham ber of Commerce office for the purpose of reorganizing a civilian flying club, it was announced to day. All Interested persons are invited to be present. The organization will be pat terned after the Umpqua Flying club, one of the most successful civilian flying groups in the na tion prior to the war. The Ump qua club, operating without fed eral aid, except in the last fc w months before hostilities began, enrolled more than 160 members during three years of its organi zation. More than 40 of Its mem-bci-s served In air forces of the military services during the war. The new club, it Is anticipated, will be patterned after the plan successfully followed prior to the war. which calls for an Incorpo rated, non-profit organization. Members contribute to the pur chase of a training plane, paying Individually for flight Instruction and plane use. Approximately 20 persons, a sufficient number to form a club, already have signified their in tention of becoming members of the new group, It was reported. Secy. Wallace Favors Pay Increase of 15 Per Cent WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. (fl5) Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace believes labor could be granted wage Increases of around 15 per cent In response to Its 30 per cent reconversion increase demand. Ills opinion was given as a personal one, but was the first public advocacy by a high of ficial of higher wages to offset loss of overtime earnings as the work week drops to 40 hours. It followed pressure, on lower official levels, fur a government declaration In favor of a 10 or 15 per cent wage Increase, with manufacturers allowed to In crease their prices, if necessary In order to pay It. Wallace suggested that a 15 per cent wage increase would force living costs up only 3 or 4 per cent. It might prove a use ful measure, he said, to curb a deflationary trend which might develop eight or nine months hence If purchasing power drops off. Glen Callen, Roseburg Barber, Dies in Portland Umpqua post of the American legion was notified of the death at the Veterans hospital in Port land early today of G en Callen. Roseburg barher. Mr. Callen went to the hospital recently for treat ment. Members of nl family were called to Portland Fridav by news that his condition had taken critical turn. i i- " Lf -ItV -,, m ., 4t.av4ft3 Contract Aid Pledge Sends Crews Back Deadlock Continues in Coal Parley; 12 State Drivers' Strike Looms (By the Associated Press) Most of the strking longshore men began returning to their Jobs in New York harbor today, ending a 13-day walkout and eas ing somewhat the nation's trou bled labor situation. Some 400 ships in New York harbor were tied up by Jhe dis pute which centered alout the size of loads to he lifted in cargo nets. Should all of the longshore men, variously estimated at from 35.000 to 60,000, return to work, the nation's idle would drop to approximately 400.000. Another member of President Truman's cabinet, Secretary of War Patterson, had stepped into the labor picture. With Vice Ad miral Land, War Shipping ad ministrator, as well as Mayor LaGuardia of New York, they had urged the striking long shoremen to return to their 1obs. The mayor had pledged the com pletion of new contract negotia tions. Coal Deadlock Unbroken In Washington there was little Indication that an agreement was near between bituminous opera tors and John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers union, as they began their second week of con ferences In an effort to settle a dispute Involving some 200,000 miners. The only report Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach offered after yesterday's session was that the union leaders are "still In the process -of arguing" with the operators on the issue of recogni tion of UMW's foremen's union. The lack of coal was making heavy inroads In the steel in dustry. Production fell sharply In many mills as additional fur naces went down and mass lay olfs were reported In several steel centers. West Virginia and Pennsylvania were the heaviest hit by the work stoppages, with other mines closed in Kentucky, (Continued on Pair fi Paint Smears Defy Ban on Eve of U.O.-O.S.C. Game EUGENE, Ore.',' Oct: 13. Age-old rivalry between the two schools showed up today with paint smears on the University of Oregon and Oregon State col lege campuses today. The two teams were matched for a foot ball game today. Ruled out by administrators of the Institutions for years, the painting is a revival of what once was a common outbreak along about game time. Presidents of the two schools, Harry K. Newburn of Oregon and A. L. Strand of the State college, said thev would ask the State Board of Higher education to ex pel anv student caught in such vandalism in the future. Mean while, the two presidents are seeing that the mess is cleaned un, and that the respective stu dent bodies get bills for the work. Russian Film Enters War Criminals' Trial LUENKBURG, Germany, Oct. 13. (V) Herta Ehlert, SS . women's supervisor at Belsen, testified today she complained to Commandant Josef Kramer last spring about conditions In the concentration camp and he re plied: "Let them die. I can't do any thing about It. My hands are tied." The 40-year-old woman, accused with Kramer and 43 others of war crimes at Belsen. declared "I was sick of the smell of the camp." The military court hearing the case has agreed to view a Russian film of the Oswieclm camp, where Kramer previously served, despite a defense argument that it was propaganda which would prejudice the prisoners' case. Laval's Execution Will Occur Wednesday, Report PARIS. Oct. 13. P) A deci sion on whether the execution of Pierre Ijival will be carried out without delay was believed possi ble todav amid unconfirmed re oorts that Mlnlstter of Justice Teitgcn was called back bv piano from an election campaign trio. The Paris newspaper Llliera tlon said It had learned the execu tion of the former Vichv chief Wednesday. The unconfirmed reports said Tnlgen might confer with Gen. Charles DeGaulle concerning the fate of Laval, whose attorneys Pleaded for a new trial last night. The lawvers said DeGaulle lis tened wlfhmit comment. vity pact Rant By L. r. Rslnnsteln Popular tradition k that th optimist h en who text the douqhnut, net the hole therein. If he eon see the dimlmrtloa bm. duet on the market these days, he It net only an optimist but a person Immune to eye strain.
