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TWO. ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, .JUNE 10, I94e FablUbed Dally Exoept Sunday by tb NBWS-REVIBW cflMPAN. INC. Sntrd as second clau matter May 17, 1020, at tha postofttce at Ruaeburg Orajfan, under act of March 3, 1878. CHARLES V. BTANTON SUWIN L. KNAfl EDITOR .MANAGES Member of tha Associated Press, Oro- m Newspaper Publishers Association, a Audit Bureau of Circulations. Represented by WEST-HOLLIDAY CO., INC., offices In New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Loa Angeles Seattle, Port land, bU Louis. Sabsoriatlon Bate' in By Mall Per Year Bi Months . Threw Months Per year, by city, carrier..... Per month, by city icarrier.4..... Oregon an , a.70 Out r". state 4i.DC 3.00 1.75 7.fW ...... .W : The Weather U. 6. Weather Bureau Office Roseburg, Oregon Forecast tor Roseburg and vl cinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; warmer Tuesday. Highest temp, for any June .. 106 Lowest temp, for any June .... 36 Highest temp, yesterday 69 Lowest temp, last night 43 Precipitation yesterday 0 Precipitation from June 1 02 Deficit from June 1, 1946 36 Excess from Sept. 1, 1945 5.38 In the Day's Hews (Continued from page 1) "In the beginning, as we emerge into the post-war world. we find that producers are op erating at high rates of profl:, as shown by their income st.it mcnts. They have come out of the war with a bad case of glve-mo, "To maintain that high rate of profit, the price of the necessities of life Is set beyond the working- man's reach. He can not pay those prices and keep his family housed and clothed and fed. He needs higher wages. . "The leaders of his union then make demands for higher wages. But they make their demands ex cessive. They, too, have como down with a case of glve-me." THERE will be disagreement -with Hannegan, of course as lo which Is the hen and which Is the egg und as to which comes first, the hen or the egg. But In general his diagnosis is accurate rnough. It la a race to keep up with the other fellow. . HE closes his dissertation on in flation with a questionable statement. "Give-me," he tolls Is Missouri postmasters, "never ends." It DOES end. Always. Either as Germany ended attct the last war, when It finally took a wheelbarrow-load of marks to buy a postage stamp, ,and as France ended a century earlier after the Mississippi Bubble epi sode, OR by the rise of produc tion to the point where compe tition takes over. The first Is fatal. The second Is wholesome. THE trouble Is that when (be cause of lack of production) demand fantastically exceeds sup ply and COMPETITION ENDS, trovemment has to take over (price control, etc.). Government then becomes the Great White Father--the dlspcn scr of all favors. Business goes hat In hand to government with nlcas for higher prices. Lalwr goes to government with pleas for higher wages. Government, lacking the cour age to act decisively to end the in flationary cycle before It reaches the point of disaster, seeking to please both sides, giants higher prices, which In turn call lor higher wuges, which then call lor STILL HIGHER prices. And so on. Or It starts by granting higher wages, which call fur higher prices, which then call for high er wages. - It works the same cither way. It results In disaster, cither way, It results In disaster, cither way, unless the cycle is STOP FED somewhere along the line. THIS writer (shaking from per sonal observation) doubts If anybody is hurt VET. Business generally Is showing good profits (as measured in paper di-'lars). If there Is WIDESPREAD want or poverty or actual deprivation anywhere In America las yet) this writer has failed to see it. BUT There IS widespread (ear, bor dering at limes almost on panic, of WHAT WILL HAPPEN if we go on as we are going. People are generally willing to admit thai so far they aren't so bad off, but they are afraid of what will hap pen next week or next month. We are nil Jumpy. In a time when everybody is jumpy, ANYTHING can happen. History leaves us no room for lli.IlM nil il.al t.,,t..t . ' NEW PROPOSALS OFFERED City Attorney A. N. Orcutt has proposed two alternatives to the plan offered last week in this column for submitting the city manager plan of government to voters in time to start operation by January 1, 1947, rather than delaying the change until July 1, 1947, in which case it would be neces sary to go an additional six months without tax income to support the department, thus drawing from funds needed for generaVadministrative purposes. One of Attorney Orcutt's proposals is an improvement of the special tax levy plan as suggested in this column. The other is a method by which the matter could be left until a special election in September or October, at which time a charter amendment and financing program, through a bond issue, would be submitted simultaneously. Attorney Orcutt's first proposal is one that would demand immediate and speedy action on the part of the city council. It would necessitate a special meeting of the council, sum mons to the budget committee, and an order for a special election after a 30-day advertising period. The city's budget committee has prepared a tentative budget which is now being advertised, with public hearing and final adoption scheduled for June 24. The city attorney suggests the possibility of canceling all budget proceedings to date, recalling the budget committee, inserting an item to provide for city manager operation for a period of six months the cost roughly estimated at $6,000 and submitting the budget to a special election, as the $6,000 item, amounting to about one-mill additional taxes, would be outside the six per cent limitation, As it is necessary to advertise an election for a period of 30 days, and certification of a tax levy to the county asses sor must be completed by an early date in August, even if an extension of time from the July 15 due date is granted by the assessor, no time could be lost in preparations to sub mit the issue to voters. There is time to follow this procedure if the council is willing to put on a burst of speed: If this plan is to be adopted, work must be started at a special session of the council prior to its regularly scheduled meet ing June 17, as this latter date would be about the latest at which the election could be authorized in time to permit ad vertising for 30 days prior to the vote. An alternative proposal is that financing be accomplished by a short-term bond issue. This latter plan would provide time to prepare a charter revision setting forth the details of the city manager program. The revision of the charter would be submitted to voters in late September or early October, ahead of the general election in November, when a full slate of city officers will be elected. Simultaneously there would bo submitted a proposal to vote bonds sufficient in amount to finance the six months period between January and July. These bonds would be sold prior to January 1. They would probably be of only two years' duration, bearing interest at 2 per cent, a carrying charge of about $240. Attorney Orcutt's first proposal would involve an expendi ture of about $60 in advertising cost, as the budget hearing notices already published would be canceled and new notice given. . On the other hand, if the first suggestion is adopted a tax levy would be authorized for November of this year while, by the second plan, collection of taxes would be post poned to November 19-17, although interest charges would be added. Each of the city attorney's proposals has merit on its side. One would save money but would necessitate speed. The other would give time for more orderly consideration. It is our opinion that the city council should be called immediately into special session to determine which course is to be pursued. Whitney, Johnson Accused of Pulling Rail Strike to Raid Membership of Other Unions By PETER KDSON (NEA Washington Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C (NEA) This Alvanlcy Johnston and that Alexander Fell Whitney to whom President Truman gave such a terrible dressing down In public are also cast as the villains in long-standing warfare that goes on beneath the surface of railroad labor brotherhood tranquility. It is a bitter jurisdictional and membership-raiding dispute with a long history. It was one of the prin cipal reasons for the strike, though it has never come out in the open and has never been the subject of a dispute wilh railroad management. In brief, the charges are that Whitney's Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen and Johnston's Brotherhood of Locomtlvc En eThe Worker and His Takeiome Pay 1940 -. $25.20 'II'MHITTT 7TT "I" MM'!SE3 TIT'?!" "I 'I 'SIB, 77r!!!!l'll'IIWl 777 ' I! ' ! M if! ''i "'Ml ill "i'j'llllH jtf- i;;;i rTmasti; T7r!!! 1 (in fjjrrTTTTTrnjir 11! lili 11 : TTt" 1 ! ! 1 1 M HISSB7 Tit H '.iiiwWi nrymw'tui' ttt Hiimi'itiap 1945 '.' ' $47.50 ' . - ; piriDTirTnn i j - -ompromise? irr tnnnmiTT " ' - ..-r-$45 50 SFffiSSSS 1946 iiu ffuigL;.! " iiHnfftiTSff -$41.00 -- jil nuimffffi gfes; :.:MMjjUjjM niBs . gigs ISs life nruuiix niiiiliilliz. iRiiiiBB Pm SSI liHPB IsES teas :- fessj rpnEnsSK rtnszt w-STwffiK i;; if ;;;;;imiS: . ;: jn 4;i!i;;;ly5. ,, W- j g; TT "'M"r'M' , frr1"" Hawaii ' r-jUL-VL. rtV ..Sk The average weekly take-home pay of the U. S. worker is well above his 1940 earnings, but stands to go still higher if strike com promises result in proposed increases. Increases like President Truman's recommended 1814 cents an hour for steel workers would boost overage for 40-hour week to $45.50. Wartime pay of $47.50 was for 45-hour week f;lneers arc putting on lug organ ising drives, raiding the other railroad brotherhoods and trying to gain control of, or the domi nant position among, all the so called "operating" railroad men, meaning the people who run Ihe trains. It Is the belief of many railroad labor experts that Johnston and Whitney deliberately pulled their strike to gel more for Iheir mem bers and so build themselves up as the real leaders among rail way labor. Other Unions Peaceful Whitney and Johnston are the only Iwo railway labor leaders whose brotherhoods are not rep resented in the Association of Railway Ijibor Executives. lead ers of the 18 hrothrrhnods which are in the association don't like to discuss this fight. They are a lieneeful, decent bunch, and they don't think their dirty overalls should be washed in public. They believe thai some day soon there will be new heads of the engi neers and trainmen, and that then unity can be restored In the ranks of railway labor. Today, Whitney's Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has a total membership of LMK.dOO and is the biggest of the oorating hruthcr boods. Johnston's Brotherhood of Lo comotive Enginers is the aristo crat of all unions. The other three operating brotherhoods with whom Whit ney and Johnston are principally in conflict are these: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, IIN.OOO members, David B. Robertson, president. Order of Railway Conductors. 00,000 members, Including a num ber of brakemen, H. W. Eraser, president. The .Switchmen's Vninn, 15.000 members, smallest of the group but tremendously powerful and financially well off, T. C. Cashen. president. These three unions are backed to the limit against Whitney and Johnslnn by the 15 non-opcrating brotherhoods the telegraphers, s h o p m e n. mainienance of-way men, and .so on. Red Cross Executive Position in Douglas County Unit Filled J 4 '" ' J rxyj' .4 :r? Mrs. Jack Maris, above, has as sumed the position of executive secrelary of the Douglas County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Her appointment was ef fective June 1. it was announced this week by Earl Plummer, chairman of the local chapter. Mrs. Maris served three and a halt years m the Women's Army Corps during the war, enlisting in (ew 101K during ine summer 01 IIM2 after her return from Ha waii, where she was an instructor at the Mid-Pacific School In Honolulu. After her enlistment and train ing at Ft. Des Moines, la., she was commissioned a second lieu tenant in February, 1H4.'). and A-as discharged as a first lieutenant following the war. Before she went to Hawaii in lil-U, Mrs. Maris served seven years with the Oregon State Pub lic Welfare Department. She is the daughter of Charles Bradley, Roseburg. 1 5th German Girl Found Dead in Gl Quarters FRANKFURT, June 10. UP) A 17-year-old German girl was found shot through the head Thursday In an American en listed man's billet near Bad Kis singen, the Army announced to night. She was the fifth Ger man girl to die in soldiers' quart ers within a month. The theater provost marshal said that the girl an employee of the American Red Cross "is alleged to have shot herself." The girl, Doris Krath, was found on the second floor of bil lets used by enlisted men of the Third Battalion of the 15th In fantry Regiment. Three of the German girls who have died in American soldier's quarters in Germany one of whom was pregnant were said officially to have committed sui cide In despondency over the scheduled return of American of ficers to the United States. 10:30 Queen (or Day, Mitel Lab and 11:00 Band Concert. 11:19 Let's Go Bhoppinf, Loaee and Clark'a Studio. 11:30 Character Clinic, Preibyterlan Chureh. 11:45 Eay LUtenin'. 12:00 Musical Interlude. 12:05 u. 8. Becap of Sports, U. S. Tire Store. 12:15 Musical Interlude. 12:20 Buyer's Guide, Associated Distributors. 12:25 Rhythm at Random. 12:40 State and Local Mews, Hansen Motors. 12:45 National News, Douglas County State Bank. 1:00 Man on the Street, Henninger's Marts. 1:15 The Johnson Family. 1:30 Mall Order Melodies, Montgomery Ward. 2:00 Zeke Manners, Sterling Drug. 2:15 John J. Anthony, Carter Products. 2:30 Bill Gwinn Show. 3:00 Voice or the Army. 3:15 Organ Reverie. 3:30 Message from Emily PosL 3:35 Sentimental Serenade. 4:0O Fulton Lewis, Jr. 4:15 Rex Miller. Nabisco. 4:30 Erskine Johnson. 4:45 FUt Frolics. Standard Oil of N. J. 5:00 Musical Clock, Modern Furniture. 5:15 Superman Kellogg Co. 5:30 Captain Midnight, Wander Co.' 5:45 Tom Mix. Ralston Purina. 6:00 Gabriel Heatter, Forhan's Tooth paste. 6:15 Musical Interlude. 6:25 state and Local News, Roseburg Motor Co. 6:30 American Forum of the Air 7:15 Music You Remember, Douglas Supply Co. .ob"-. 'n"oiT5orsiteJ. E. G. High. 8:0OCount of Monte Cristo, Mrs. Wright's Bread. 8:30 The Falcon. 8:00 Alka Seltser News. 2 i5 i"nLef Crowley. Wlldroot. 2 22 Frefddie Martin's Orchestra. .n SJr5'f.p,ak.e Tlme- Knudtson s. !o.ft:NSc,,0nrWl' Jr" ""a, lO-Ten-Thirty Club. Lawson's Jewelry. 11:00 Sign Off. A StCKS:.MAUTy PRODUCT SICKS' BREWING COMPANY SALEM, OREGON The farm income of the United States in 1945 totaled twenty-billion dollars. Billions Lost In Nation's Strikes WASHINGTON. June 10 t.V) - Rep. Hoi an (R.-Wash.) pre dicted jn a statement it would not be long until "the dawn of a new day when reason, founded on law, will rule in labor prob lems" and prevent the great fi nancial loss caused by strikes. Horan asserted the financial loss from strikes alter World War I was estimated at $2,000, 000,000 for 1919 alone and said strikes since the end of the last war bad caused losses in wages for the workers estimated at $-180,000,000. "The Wcstinghouse strike cost employees Sti-12,001) a working day," the representative con tinued. "Total loss to business was well over 5100,000.000. The General Minors strike had cost, on ils IOO1I1 day over $750,000, 000." Our system of freedom has made strikes the only recourse for oppressed workers to effec tively demand col l ect ions. New procedures and new tribunals must be developed so that equi table corrections can lie made without the inestimable cost of continuing strikes and lockouts." Horan said the coal strike in 1902 lasted from May .12 until October 23 and cost the operators an estimated S Iti.OOO.OoO and the workers upwards of S'.ryOlkVQOO. KRNR Mutual Broa dcaitlng System 1490 Kilocycles. REMAINING HO UBS TODAX . 4:00 Fulton Lewi. Jr. ' 4:lVncx Miller, Nabisco. 4;:i0 Kr.sk Ine Johnson. 4:45 Evening Vetperti, McthodUt Church. 5:00 Musical Clock. Modern Furniture. 5:19 Superman, KelluKU's. 5:30 Captain Midnight, Wnnder Co. 5:45 Tom Mix, Ralston Purina. 6:O0 Gabriel Hoattcr. Kreml. 6:15 Musical Interlude. 6:23 State and Local Newi, Roseburg Motor Co. 6:30 Spotlight Bands, Coca Cola. 7:00 Bulldog Drummond, lewis Howe Co. 7:30 The Cisco Kid. 8:00 Michael Shane. Union Oil. 8:30 Rhythm Round-Up, Lock wood Motors. 8:45 Dance Music. 8:35 Crown Mill Mysteries. 9:00 Alka Seltzer New. 9:15 Hex Mille;-. SAW Fine Foods. 9:30 Hi Neighbor, Cars ten's Furniture. 9:t5 Henry J. Taylor, General Motors. 10:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr., Roseburg Pharmacy. 10:15 Message From Benny Leonard. 10:2ft Nocturne. 10:30 Ten -Thirty Club, Lawnon'a Jewelry. 11:00 Sign Off. 1946 TUESDAY. JUNE 6:00 Farm Bulletin Board. H:3(i Yawn Patrol. 6 40 The County Agent. 6:55 Schrlckcr Auction. 7:00 Frank Hemingway, L. A. Soap Co. 7:13 Rise and Shine, Sterling Drug Co. 7:30 State and Local News, Boring Opticat. 7:35 The Beehive. 7:40 Rhapsody in Wax. 8:00 Haven of Rest, Crew of Good Ship Grace. 8.30 Wally s Wake Up Time. Wally's Grocery. 85 Victor H. Lindlahr. Healthaids. 9:00 l.yle Van and the News. Kreml. 9:15 Morning Melodiex. 9:30 Man About Town, Josse and Lirtvells. 9:43 Shopper's Guide. Harlh's and Marshall-Welts. 9:55 Musical Interlude. , 10:00 Alka Sclter News. 10:15 Smile Time. Real Estate LOANS CONSTRUCTION REFINANCING Low Interest Rote Ralph L. Russell 112 Cass t. O. Box 1244 . Telephone 913 Mrs. Minnie R. dishing Dies at Jennings Lodge Minnie Richardson Cushlng, a native of Douglas County, died Thursday at Jennings bodge. Ore gon, where she had made tier home in recent year. . ;. bhe uak burn at Ouk deck, near Roseburg, Dec. 9, 1871!, Ihe daughter of the late ,T. J. and Sarah E. Singleton. She was a sister of Walter Singleton and Mis. Virginia Thornton, Rose burg, mid Mrs. UMnia Clements, Jennings Lodge. Funeral services were held to diiv In Portland with Interment following ut Rose City Cemetery. Pipti-Cola Company, Loitj Woitd CUy, N. Y. . FranchUed Bottler: PcpM-Cola Bottling Co., of Roiobutg, Oregon CARNIV The Carnival Is in Town Fun and Merriment for All Dart Games Dancing Fortune Teller Roulette Bingo PUBLIC INVITED Plenty of Talented Entertainment Throughout the Evening And It Only Costs a Dime V. F. W. Post and Auxiliary and Roseburg Recreation Program AT THE ARMORY JUNE 12th AT 8:00 P. M. 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