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Comp. jt M f The Weather Clear tonight; partly cloudy 1 Saturday. jW U. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon" mmm IF 4 -A. V tr r v w v Established 1873 Extension rpf Bmtt Exempts 3.8-Yeair-Ollds Compromise Sets 19 Years ,As Minimum Pay Increases to Attract Volunteers Voted, Also Release of All Fathers WASHINGTON, June 21. (ff) The slam-bang congressional struggle over peacetime drafting oi teen-agers suosiaea near a com promise finish today with 19-year- olds once more subject to a call ana youths oi is exempt. Only the usual House and Sen ate approval of the hard-fought conference agreement was needed to assure a nine months extension of Selective Service beyond the end of this month. Speaker Rayburn saw a slight chance the House might act late today if two pending bills could be cleared, but it appeared more probable the measure would not be reached before next Monday or Tuesday. A floor battle against accepting . the compromise was promised by Rep. Short (R.-Mo.), lone member of the 14 Senate and House con ferees whose signature did not ap pear on the final compromise. Would Release Dads Despite Short's last ditch oppo sition, congressional leaders ex pected both the Senate and House to approve the conference report and send it on to the White House well ahead of the June 30 dead line when the present stop-gap draft extension expires. The compromise measure pro f Vides that effective Oct. 1. 1946, 18 Continued on Page 6 Arrest of Nehru Brings India Chaos NEW DELHI, June 21. VP) India's major cities were in tur moil today with demonstrations and strikes protesting the arrest of Jawaharlal Nehru, Congress part-- leader. Bombav was virtually a dead city as 100,000 millworkers stayed home, the stock exchange and bullion markets closed, workers walked out of the royal mint, two railway shops closed, shopkeeners shuttered their windows and stud ents boycotted university lectures. Al! markets in Karachi, Cal cutta and Madras were closed and in Calcutta the transportation sys tem was stopped by a strike. Several persons were iniured during a demonstration in which nolice used tear gas at Madura, South India. Nehru was arrested yesterday by authorities of the princelv state of Kashmir. He had defied a ban against his entering that northernmost portion of India to defend Shiekh Abdullah and others accused of sedition in con nection with a recent abortive "revolt" aeainst the Hindu mara rajah, Sir Hari Singh. Fire Destroys U. P. R. R. Warehouse at Fairview FAIRVIEW, Ore., June 21. VP) Fire of undetermined origin razed the Union Pacific Railroad Company warehouse in this Mult nomah County community last night. Loss was not immediately estimated. The blaze destroyed hay, grass seed and other items in the ware house, leased to brokerage firms. Life Prison Term Meted to German Girl Who Killed Gl NUERNBERG, June 21. VP) Erika Krebs, 20-year-old German girl, was sentenced today to life imprisonment for murdering Sgt. Robert E. Flanigan of Peoria, 111. A military court convicted the pretty killer Just nine days after the American soldier was shot to death In his apartment here. " merman doctors testified the girl at one - time might have shown signs of pregnancy but not now. The decision of the five-man tribunal of the American military government came after less than 10 minutes' deliberation. The trial took two days. The pirl, a native Sudeten German, broke in to tears as the court pronounced sentence and continued to cry as she was led away. The girl's mother was in the audience and managed a meeting with the daughter she had not seen since they were elected from the Sudentenland in Czecho slovakia a year ago. The prosecution called the Krebs girl a "willful murderer," while Dr. Frederick Bergold, her attorney, told the court Flanigan ( -jf Ws, l.mfVrnmnnV-r.J 11 I...-J I- j j? ...AJJ"ll THREE FILL POSTS AS ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF LABOR to man the three newly created posts of assistant secretaries of A. Morse of New Jersey, former cial and present assistant to secretary ot Labor, and fhilip Hannah, Ohio, AFL official. Ma. Gen. Halsey, on Vacation In Roseburg, Will Return fo Japan for Peacetime Service MaJ. Gen. Milton B. Halsey, whose 97th Division drove Into Czechoslovakia with Gen. Patton's Army, and was first to be re deployed to Japan, has been vacationing quietly in Roseburg this month as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Church, whom he met during a war-time assignment at Fort Lewis, Wash. The general does not expect to retire for a few more years, but when he'does, he Is thinking of returning here .to try the fishing of the North Umpqua, he said. ' ' Gen. Halsev will depart for Ja pan June 30, to assume the du ties of chief of staff of the IX Corps, with headquarters at Sen dai, Honshu, where his division was inactivated in March. The 97th Division, which Gen. LHalsey commanded in Europe ana aunng its re-aeioyment to Ja pan, was the "Trident Division," so named because its blue shoul der patch bore a trident reDre senting the three New England states from which it drew most of its original strength. Served In Patton's Army Orldnally scheduled for ser vice in the Pacific, the division went through rigorous amphib ious training with the Navy on tne uantornia beaches. Sent to Europe, the division saw 43 davs of combat and took 49,711 prison ers, excluding enemy units that surrendered en masse. The 97the drove in Czechoslo vakia with the XVIII Airborne (Continued on page 6 W. S. Hart, Veteran Film Cowboy, Seriously III LOS ANGELES. June 21 VP) William S. Hart, 76, veteran cowboy actor, was reported in a critical condition today at Cali fornia Lutheran HosDital where he has been under treatment for several days. Dr. H. D. Van Fleet said he was running a high fever and occasionally was In a coma. His son, William S. Hart, Jr., yesterday was appointed co- guardian In Superior Court bf the person but not the estate of his lather. Judge William S. Baird named Young Hart, 24, and George H. Frost, an old friend and business adviser of the elder Hart, as guardians of the veteran actor, but Frost was aDDointed sole guardian of holdings estimated as high as $1,000,000. led her to believe he was being divorced and trifled with her af fections. He said she had been a member of the Hitler youth but was not a fanatic. The little courtroom was filled with German girls who heard the sentence stolldlv without any kind of demonstration. When she was arrested for kill ing Flanigan here nine days ago, she asserted she was going to have a child, that Flanigan had spurned her love and laughed at her, and that she was upset by seeing another German girl leave his apartment as she arrived. The doctors said Erika was treated for veneral disease but that Flanigan's record showed he had not been Infected. general counsel of NLRB; John May Halve Yank Force in Germany BERLIN, June 21. IP) Gen. Joseph T. McNarney said todav a plan was in existence to halve American occupation forces in Germany to 150,000 men but "it has not yet been determined if it will be implemented." He told a news conference that German civilian rations would be raised from 1,180 to 1,225 calories a day on June 26 because the food situation had improved. He said 130,000 tons of food were exoected from the United States this month for the American occupa tion zone. McNarney said the American proposal to appoint a four power commission to investigate Ger man disarmament was dead locked hooelessly and would be referred bv occupation authorities to the foreign ministers in Paris. The Russians were understood to have blocked the proposal because it contained a clause for investi gation of the economic phase of disarmament Girl Kills Playmate With 'Unloaded Rifle BELLINGHAM, June 21. VP) Because of a gun that supposedly was not loaded, 3-year-old Sharon Nichols is dead. The youngster, playing with three other girls in an upstairs bedroom Wednesday while her mother visited with friends below, was instantly killed when Jean ette Mannes, 9, found a .38 cali bre rifle in the closet, asked "Who should I pretent to shoot?" and pulled the trigger. The gun dis charged in the Nichols girl's face. Sharon was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Nichols. Poultry Feed En Route West, Sen. Cordon Told WASHINGTON, June 21.-fP The Agriculture Department notified Senator Guy Gordon yes terday that noultry feed is being sent from Minnesota to shortage areas in the Pacific northwest. Cordon said 80 cars of oats, 38 cars of barlev and 41 cars of plu ten feed had been ordered ship ped to production marketlne ad ministration at Snokane, Wash., for distribution where it is most urgently needed. Risinq Costs Force Sale Of Herd of Guernseys MEDFORD. Ore., June 21 VP) C. A. Smith, owner of dairies here and at Vancouver. Wash said todav he had sold his Med ford herd of 88 registered Guern seys tn the San Carlos dairy of Santa Barbara, Calif. Rising costs, he said, promoted discontinuance of his dairy here but he added that he would re tain his Vancouver herd. ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, Nominated by President Truman labor were (left to right) David W, Gibson, Michigan, CIO offi Criticism Fails to Bar Gen. Clark's Promotion WASHINGTON, June 21 OF) Mark W. Clark's permanent promotion to major general won Senate approval late yesterday despite criticism of his abortive attempts to force a crossing of tne Kapido Kive rin Italy in 1944. Senator Connally (D.-Tex.) cabled his opposition from Paris and Senator O'Daniel (D.-Tex.) registered his disapproval on the floor before the Senate's voice vot-action. - . , . The Texas senators based their protests on contentions by sol diers of the 36th Division com posed mainly of men from their state that Clark used poor judg ment and wasted lives in futile smashes against strong German positions along the Rapido. Oregon Highway Program Stymied SALEM, Ore June - 21. VP) Oregon's postwar highway pro gram, which was scheduled to be In full swing by now, is being de layed bv materials shortages, the State Highway Commission said todav. The program calls for spending $12,000,000 a year for three years, and $8,000,000 of the first year's contracts have been awarded. But contractors are slow to get started because of shortages of cement, lumber and steel. The commission said It is hard to get contractors to bid on bridges and other structures be cause the contractors don't know what the lumber and steel will cost them, and they don't know when thev can get delivery on it. Difficulty in hiring common la bor also is a factor in the con struction delay. One engineer on a nublic works lob said "the men who should be doing pick-and-shovel work now think they should be executives." State Employes Won't Gain by Salary Boosts SALEM, Ore., June 21 UP) State employes' take-home pay will be less after July 1 In spite of the $10 monthly salary in crease granted two days ago, Floyd Query, president of the Oregon State Employes Associa tion, said today. The reason is that the increase will not equal the deductions which will be made starting July 1 for the new state employes re tirement plan. The deductions for men range from 3.71 to 9.24 per cent, and for women from 4.06 to 10.56 per cent of their salaries. The amount of deductions vary according to age, with older employes paying more into tne retirement luna. Paint, Fencing Slated For Statue of Liberty NEW YORK, June 21 VPy The Statute of Liberty Is going to get a new green inner paint coat for her 60th birthday this fall. Revealing that a refurbishing program was planned for the national, monument, Charles S. Marshall, national parks super intendent on Bedloe's Island, also announced that the statue's in terior from ton to bottom is to be fenced off with wire to prevent visitors, especially girls and wo men, from scrawling lipstick In scriptions in that area. Marshall said the number of visitors coming to the island now was 10 per cent ahead of 1945 when 504,000 visitors set a record. JUNE 21, 1946 Rodeo's Top Talent to Vie At Roseburg Rbseburgers will see a few of lastt year's rodeo participants as wel) as numerous world famous stock showmen in action Satur day and Sunday In the Sheriff's Posse Rodeo at the county fair grounds. Along with several of the coun try's best rodeo cowboys enter ing vario'.is events will be Gerald Roberts of Phoenix, Ariz., who won the 1942 World Grand Cham pion Cowboy title. This title is awarded yearly to the cowboy who has won the most events in 12 months of rodeo-ing. Competi tion comes from throughout the world. Roberts, 29 years of age, has been In the rodeo business for 10 years and will participate in Rose burg in the bullriding event, sad dle broncing, and bareback riding. Douglas County stock show fol lowers will again see Sonny Ture man, John Day, Ore., who won the all-around champion title of last year's rodeo in Roseburg, participating in practically every event. He recently gave a repeat performance of all-around cham pionships at Sisters, Ore., and last February won second place in the bareback riding contest at Fort Worth Stock Show, one of the (Continued on Page 6 U. S. Refuses to Yield to Russia on A-Bomb Policy NEW .YORK, June 21. VP) Backed up by president Truman s reaffirmation of American policy, Bernard M. Baruch and his ad visers in the Untied Nations Atomic Commission maintained a i firm stand today against Russia's move to retain the veto power in relation to world control of atomic energy. The President's statement in Washington yesterday re-empha-sized Baruch's pronouncement to the council last week that the United States would not yield atomic secrets to a world pool or dispose of her bombs under treaty provisions unless the veto is dis carded on atomic control matters. Mr. Truman commented that the Baruch proposals had his en dorsement and said the American plan and that of Russia presented as a substitute will be subjects of negotiation which may lead to agreement. He emphasized the word "may." 'Ganging Up' Feared by Russia, Educator Says PORTLAND, June 21. The goal emphasized in all Rus sian literature is not world con quest, but a standard of living equal to or better than that of the United States, the Northwest In stitute of International Relations was told. Bert G. Mitchell of Washington Technical Institute, who spent six years in Russia as YMCA organ izer, said fear rather than aggres sion is behind Russia's actions. That nation feels the Anglo-Saxon countries are "ganging up" on her, ho declared. Counties Criticized for Welfare Help Requests PORTLAND, Ore., June 21. (IP) Criticism of county tax of ficials for asking federal and state aid in financing welfare and edu cational costs came yesterday from Governor Wallgren of Washington. "Counties have been lax In rais ing the money necessary to carry on their end of the program," he told the Pacific Coast Board of Intergovernmental Relations, meeting at Timberllne Lodge. He said counties would have revenue source if property were assessed at its true value. With Roseburg's March of Progress LOTS OF HOUSES, BUT LOTS OF HOMELESS Edenbower Trailer Court, near the Garden Valley road, is glimpsed In the background of the picture above. A row of new houses is rising to the right, and new houses are being built all around these. In spite of all the homes recently completed or now under construc tion, a young army of people here are homeless. f - M UP BEAT AND DOWN Stroll ing his beat in Philadelphia, Pa., patrolman Pallozza hits D-sharp as he runs the scale up to his tenor peak of two-and-a-half octaves. On the force for 22 years, he hopes to sing "Pag liacci" in opera when he retires. Recently he sang in the chorus of "Carmen" for the Metropoli tan Opera Co. Cantaloupe Crop Shows Heavy Gain The Umpqua Valley cantaloupe crop mis year win surpass yield ings of the past three years by almost double, marketing centers in Roseburg reported Thursday. Also this season s melons are ex pected to be of exceptional high quality. With the Melrose district re porting the biggest increase in acreage, more than 400 acres will supply the local and Northwest markets through Roseburg ship ping concerns. Last year's yield was approximately 75 acres with in the Umpqua Valley. The good market returns of the past two years are reported as the reason for the ereat Increase in acreage, as well as more avail able help in harvesting. The Office of Price Administra tion recently Increased the ceiling price of cantaloupes per crate by 4u cents over last year. Bonneville Signs With New Utility District PORTLAND. Ore.. June 21 UP) Signing of a 20-year con tract witn tne trankiin county. Wash., public utility district was announced today by Bonneville fower Administration. The district plans to acquire by condemnation part of the Pa cific Power & Light Company system. When this program has progressed far enough, Bonne ville will build substation facili ties near Pasco, officials said. The PUD will be permitted to utilize surplus power generated by Industrial plants in the area. Gain in Members Noted By Oregon Methodists SEASIDE, Ore., June 21. VP) A net gain of 910 members dur ing the past year was reported to day by the annual Oregon con ference of the Methodist Church. While the conference gained 2,125 new members and 2,481 through transfer, those who left made un the difference. Contributions to the conference declined $91,836, the 100 minis ters and supply pastors and 60 lay delegates were told. J ' iili it) ' Photo by Paul Janklna 147-46 Coal Prices Rise to Meet Wage Boosts WASHINGTON, June 21 UP) OPA today raised soft coal prices an average of 401 cents a ton to offset wages Increases and other gains which John L. Lewis' United Mine , Workers won in their strike. The increases range from 10 cents to $1.47 a ton, depending upon the producing district and type of mine. They boost retail prices about 31 per cent, OPA estimated. Part of the Increase was al lowed to offset losses suffered by the operators during the 59 day strike. Most soft coal Is consumed by railroads and industrial firms. OPA said less than 15 per cent of total production goes to house holders lor heating purposes. However, OPA expects to an nounce next week a price in crease averaging perhaps $1 a ton for hard coal, used generally for home-heating. This also will offset anthracite miners' pay raises. The soft coal price order is (Continued on page 6) Council Mulls Dike Job Suggestions Suggestions for reinforcement of the dike at the city sewage dis posal plant made by a represen tative of the Army district engi neer office at Portland this week are being considered by the city council, Comicil President Percy irou saia yesteraay. The engineer suggested that trees on tne west bank of the river and on the Island near the Oak St. bridge be bulldozed away, In order to divert the flow of water from the sewage nlant embankment during winter flood stages, Croft reported. The engi neer also suggested the west cnannei oe aeepeneu. RiD-rappIng with rock was sug gested as suitable reinforcement for the river bank. "He said we would 'be foolish' not to take an offer of the Lloyd M. Hill Co., made at the last council meeting, for furnishing rock for the dike," Croft stated. The L,lod M. Hill Co. had of fered to furnish rock meeting State Highway Department spe cifications at almost cost price, at this week's cltv council meeting. The proposal Is being considered tms wecK and may oe accepted by the citv at the coming council meeting Monday night. The Army engineer represen tative would make no recommen dations to Washington for the dike reinforcement to be done by me Army, Decause no appropria tions have been made for flood control on the Umnaua or Roeue rivers, although such appropria tions have been made for the Willamette, Croft said. Nails for Crates Slated For Northwest Growers WASHINGTON, June 21. (PP) Hone for relief from the crltl. cal shortage of nails for fruit and vegetable crates in the Pacific northwest was held out today by tne Agriculture Department. It notified Ren. Horan (R Wash.) that the Civilian Produc tion Administration had located 30.000 kegs of common and box nails in various sections of the country which would be routed to shortage areas. Horan said dealers In the dis tressed areas should notify the department promptly, requesting part of the supply. There has been hnrtatrn nf crate and box nails In both Wash ington and Oregon and with the crons beine harvested state offi cials have annealed to members of Congress for help. Better Surplus Goods Sale Plan Given Oregon WASHINGTON June 21. OP) The Wnr Assets AdminMrtlon notified Rep. Norblad R.-Ore.) todnv that all surnlus consumer ponds within Oregon porenfter will be solH through the Portland regional office. Norblod hud comnlalned that school districts In hU state wre having difficulty in ohtainiP"' snrnlin consumer goods and ask ed that the WAA net to old them. The WAA said that effort was being made to eive priority pur chasers sufficient notice of eon. templated sales so thev would have ample time to Insneet and nurchase sur)lu nronertv. It said it also would exnedlte notice to nurchaserg as to whether their orders can be accepted In full or in part. Bid Goes To Russia, China; Great Britain 25-Year Control to Keep Nippons Disarmed, Open Way to Democracy Aims WASHINGTON, June 21. The United States announced todav It has proposed to Russia, Britain and China the creation ot a four-nower control commission hacked bv militar" force, to keen Japan disarmed for at least 2;"5 years. The commission would takS over at the end of the present oceunation which is being carried out largely by American troops under the command of Gen. Dourf. las MacArthur. That action ore sumahl" would mark the end ot America's virtually single-handed domination of JaDanese affairq and begin a new period of control by all four powers. Secretary of State Bvrnes pro5. nosed the 25-vear Jananese dis armament treatv to the foreleri ministers of Britain. China and "ussl at the same time In April that he suggested a similar 25 ver treatv for Germany. One purpose of the treaties would he to end the present mass oceunations of hnth countries r9 oulckly as Dossible and to sub stitute for the rcular oceunation armies smaller forces of troons esoecinllv trained In disarmament control duties. The avowed purpose of tha treatv Is to Insure that, following the total disarmament and de militarization of Japan by occupa. tlon forces, the country shall h kent In n state of disarmament nnd demilitarization "as long as the Deace and security of the world may require." Five Steos Set Forth To accomnllsh this, the follow ing prlnciDal sterw are set forth: 1. Janan's military organiza tion shall "remain completely rii armed, demobilized end dis banded and Japan shall be de prived all sorts of arms and ex nloslves. Including atomic enerpv materials. The Japanese shall Continued on Page 6 Hotel Blast Kills Three; Twenty Hurt t)ALLAS, Tex.,' June 21. (AP) At least 38 ambu lances rushed to the Baker Hotel shortly before noon to day, after an explosion killed at least three persons and in jured 20 more, several prob ably fatally. The explosion rocked mid ' town Dallas. Dense smoke poured out of the hotel, one of the largest in the Southwest, and forced firemen to don gas masks as they raced to rescue the in jured. The explosion was unoffi cially believed to have been caused by an exploding: boil er, and ammonia gas from shattered pipes in the air con ditioning and refrigeration system. - , Scores were overcome by the fumes, and dense, acrid smoke filled the basement, the lobby and coffee shop. Spanish War Vets Will Open Conclave Sunday SALEM, Ore., June 21 UPy The four-day 38th annual en campment of the Oregon Depart ment of the United Spanish War Veterans will open here Sunday evening with memorial services at the First Methodist Church. Business sessions will open Monday morning with the ad dress by Governor Snell. Officers will be elected at the closing ses sion Wednesday. The organization's auxiliary also will hold meetings during the convention. Vinson. Confirmed WASHINGTON, June 21. VP) The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Fred M. Vinson to be chief Justice of the dissension ridden Supreme Court. He succeeds the late Harlan F. Stone. Confirmation was by voice lata yesterday, with no objection. The calendar says this Is the first day of summer, but for cherry pickers it's the opening of the "fall" season. LtvityFactntM y U F. stH
