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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.