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U. Wl" 0. liluiaAjr Eugene, Oregon - The Weather Light rain tonight and Fri day. Established 1873 Telephone Co. Plans Building In Roseburg OuHay of $550,000 Will Embrace Dial System; New Phones Now Going in Plans for the construction of a new, dial telepnone building In Roseburg to cost, together with land and equipment, a total of approximately SofO.uuu, were an nounced today by R. J. Henwood local manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. The building is scheduled for tentative completion late in 1948. It will be erected on the pioneer Binger Hermann residence prop erty, presently held by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Young, from whom the site was purchased recently lor a reported $30,000. The firm of Whitehouse, New berry, Church and Roehr has been retained to handle the architectural details of the pro ject, Henwooa said Plans, which are subject to C. P. A. approval, call for the erec tion of a two-story building with basement, of steel-frame, fire proof construction. Dimensions of the building will be 75 by 101 feet on a 160 by 200-foot lot. When complete, the new build ing will provide ample space for otnees. it will house dial central equipment capable of serving in excess of 5,000 telephones. Designed for efficient operation on a long range basis, the office Is expected to furnish adequate facilities to meet the require ments of continued growth in the volume of local and long distance calls. Installing More Phones Henwood also announced that lOorttlnnort on Pnre Plx In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS STRIKES some coming, some going still hold their place in the news. The coal strike seems ot be coming. There is tough talk In Washington to the effect that with stocks low and winter be ginning coal must be dug. The impending strike has been for bidden by a federal court order. Meanwhile, miners are quitting their Jobs. The number idle as this is written Is reported to be about 58,000 an up of 20,000 since the day before. TH5 long, bitterly-contested maritime strike on the Pacific Coast seems to be going. San Francisco dispatches indicate that an agreement may be ratified soon. It is added that after ratifi cation an additional two days will be required to get waterfront work rolling and ships moving. In the meantime Alaska, de pendent on shipping for food and other supplies from the U. S. mainland, is being partially fed L with flour and meat from Can , ada. BEING Americans, preferring the American way of life to other ways, we can't say that there shall be no more strikes. To do that would be to adopt the TO (Continued on Page Two) Unsettled Grievances Point To Another Weekend of Idle Ships in Pacific Coasf Porfs SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. Another weekend of virtual maritime Idleness was in prospect for the Pacific Coast today as the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots their grievances not settled in a previous employer-CIO agreement maintained picket lines pending a vote on acceptance of a shipowners proposal. The picket lines were estab lished yesterday shortly before the CIO International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the CIO Marine Engi neers were scheduled to return to work, ending the eight-week tleup. The two latter groun observed the AFL picket line, aithoueh the Committee for Maritime Unity is sued a statement It was "suspi cious" of the lastmln't'e picket In" activities by the MMP. Some longshore work was In prospect, following the CMU an nouncement that CIO crews would, if requested, begin to work foreign and East Coast vessels in Fails to Get Suit in Time for Marriage, So He Sues Cleaners 8HREVEPORT, La.. Nov. 21. m Because he didn't get his new suit back from the cleaners in time and was forced to get married in a "soiled and unkempt" gray ensemble, Thomas J. Mitchell of Shreve port has filed suit for 12,500 against the Shreveport Laund ries, Inc., and its agent. Mitchell asks an additional $27.50 damage for the value of the suit which was never re turned. The petition maintains that Mitchell has "an odd and un usual size and physique" and is not easily fitted and that a "frantic search" of Shreveport stores on his wedding day fail ed to uncover a suit which would fit him. Fred W. Williams of Garden Valley Found Dead of Gun .Wounds Found dead on the floor of his cabin late yesterday, Fred W. Williams, long-time Garden Val ley resident, apparently took his own life this week with a double barreled, 12-gauge shotgun. Sher iff O. T. Carter said. Williams had worked for a number of years for R. S. Hut ton, Garden Valley rancher. Late ly he had been living with the E. J. Webber family. Saturday he moved to a cabin in back of the Webber nlace. Neighbors, noticing no signs of activity around the cabin since Saturday, became curious and made the tragic discovery yes terday afternoon, Carter said. Discovery of Williams' body was made by Frank Neves and K. C. Layer, who notified the sheriff's office. The shotgun was tripped in Williams' hands. Shots had oenetnated through his Jaw and "blood Was splattered on the ceiling. Williams had no known rela tives, according to the sheriff. His age was not known by inves tigating oficers. He had lived In Garden Valley for about 25 years. Murder Charges Denied By 23 Nazi Physicians NUERNBERG, Nov. 21. UP) Twenty-three Nazi doctors plead ed Innocent today to charges of murdering hundreds of thousands of persons in cruel medical ex periments. Arraigned before an American tribunal in the second Nuernberg war crimes trial, the defendants, Varl RranHt AHnlf Hitler's former physician, leaped to ineir ieei anu wiumut urano tlon answered "not guilty" to a 1 -T lw.lnmnl ra,H htf TlHff lllulLlllirm .mi. wj Gen. Telford Taylor, chief prose cutor. . , Following the pleas, the trial was recessed until Dec. 9. All the defendants were poKer-iacea and displayed no emotion. Lumber Restriction Order Hits Tacoma Firm WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. (JPi William F. Buchanan and A. Stolen, partners in the Lumber Supply Company of Tacoma, Wash., have been barred by the CPA from placing certified orders for housing construction lumber during the next four months. Any construction lumber re ceived during that time must be set aside and sold only to veteran housing priority holders, the CPA ordered. CPA said the firm fa.I placed orders for lumber durir. March, April, May and June in excess of authorized amounts. the harbor here but not ships op erated by the Pacific American Shipowners' Association, the or ganization with which the MMP is negotiating for a new contract. Membership voting in the MMP is expected to be completed by Saturday. If the ballot is favor able, only formal signing of the contract would be necessary be fore work could be resumed. In the Northwest a new con tract dispute threatened to keep those ports strikebound after other Pacific shipping begins to move. The new disagreement In volved the AFL Checkers' Union and the Waterfront Employers' Association. Yintry Wave Retains Grasp. On Northwest (By the Associated' Press) The mid-November cold wave continued to grip the Pacific nortnwest today irom Mediord, Oregon, well into British Colum bia as the Weather Bureau gave rise to slight hopes ot roller with the prediction that occasional snow flurries today would change to "occasional rain Friday. The storm-caused death toll In creased to six last night five In Washington and one in British Columbia. Mrs. Irene Davis Buell, 25, wed at Helena, Mont., five days before, was fatally in jured when her car ran off the snowy highway at Eltopia, en route to Pasco, and an elderly man, identified as Hans Rasmus sen, was found dead beside his boat at a Seattle wharf. Police expressed belief he had slipoed during the first snowfall Monday. Roy L. Pike, 18-year-old hiker, was reported safe after being missing since Saturday at Nortn Vancouver, B. C, but four mem bers of an Indian family were unheard from after leaving Stev- eston, B. C, Saturday in a small fish boat. Two hunters, marooned In Bar low Pass, near Arlington, Wash., since Sunday were rescued by a (Continued on Page Six) Roseburg Turkey Prices Uncertain Price of 32 cents per pound for torn turkeys, 48 cents for hens "levailed in Roseburg poultry houses this week, with the ap proaching Thanksglvin season expected to set the up or down trend In prices. -.-! . . . At the Douglas County Poultry Co. birds are oelng accepted only on a consignment basis, since prices are expected to drop. At the Oregon Turkey Growers and tne Northwest Poultry and Dairy Products, cash prices are being paia. The latter two houses also have growers who are members- on a cooperative basis, but who will not receive returns from their turkey crop until it is sold by the "oultry house. They are, how ever, guaranteed a minimum of :. i cents a pound for toms. Uncertainty in prices is attrib uted to the great surplus of tur keys now In storage. Department of Agriculture reports indicated more than 79 million pounds in storage on the East Coast, almost 39 million more pounds on the West Coast. During the meat shortage. It was stated, hotels and restaurants stocked up with poultry. Now that meat is more plentiful, they show no further inclination toward buying poultry this year. If prices do continue in a downward trend, it is expected that many turkey growers will withdraw from the market, since they are operating almost at a loss now. Surgical Dressing Firms Facing Federal Charge BOSTON, Nov. 21. P A Fed eral Grand Jury today Indicted four surgical dressing companies and five Individuals on charges of conspiracy to restrain domestic and foreign trade and commerce in the manufacture, sale and dis tribution of surgical dressings In violation of the Sherman anti trust law. The four companies allegedly manufacture 75 per cent of the surgical dressings "reduced and sold in the United States. Total sales of the four corporations in 1945 amounted to $31,960,372, the indictment charged. The Indicted corporattsns are: Johnson and Johnson of New Brunswick, N. J. Johnson and Johnson Interna tional, of' New Brunswick. Parke-Davis and Company, of Detroit. Mich., and The Kendall Company, of Bos ton. Boys Jailed for Alleged Theft of Milk Bottles Two young boys were held In the county Jail last night under the custody of Juvenile officers following their arrest for alleged ly taking approximately $25 worth of milk bottles and cases from the Rainbow Grill, Chief of Police Erwin Short said today. Blast Levels Palestine Income Tax Building JERUSALEM. Nov. 24. WPV An explosion leveled the Pales tine Income tax building yester da - and the government an nounced that five men, an Army captain and a lance corporal, a British police sergeant, a Jewish policeman and an Arab police man were Injured. ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1946. Survey cf Roseburg Area's Industrial Sites Near Finish An Industrial site survey of Roseburg, to be published by tne Bonneville Power Administration, is nearing completion after six months of research by a com mittee of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce. The committee met yesterday afternoon with John F. Durr, Portland, of the market develop ment section of the BPA, to dis cuss the report, which will tell of Roseburg's present industries and agriculture, and of the possibili ties for future development. Maps to be included with the Industrial site survey, will show areas suitable for industrial loca tions along the Pacific Highway, south to Green and north to Winchester. The industrial site survey of Roseburg is one of a series which has been published for Oregon cities by the Bonneville Power Administration. The committee of the Roseburg Chamber of Com merce working with Durr In cludes Abe Bean, Frank W. Chase, W. C. Holmes, Al Parr, J. Roland Parker, Earl Wiley, and Harold J. Hickerson. Distribution of the survey will be handled through the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce. It will be sent to persons or industries planning to locate here. Rescue Chance In Plane Crash Poor PARIS, Nov. 21. (JP Ameri. can authorities at Orly airfield said tonight they feared the out look was virtually hopeless for the 11 persons aboard a crashed C-53 transport unless rescue crews reached within a few hours the spot in the Alps where the plane came down two days ago. They pointed out the 12,000-foot-high area was swept by bit ter .winds. U, S. Army headquar ters at Frankfurt reported a radio message saying eight of the 11 were stretcher cases. The pasengers included a briga dier general, Loyal M. Haynes, and the wives of three brigadier generals. The Lyon airport radio station reported a message that "some one on the ground" had been sighted, but it did not know whether this referred to the plane's occupants or to rescue parties toiling up the snow-clad slopes of the Mt. Cenis region. The Lyon - Bron radio an nounced a message from the C-53 at 5 P. M. (8 A. M Pacific Stand ard Time) saying "We want to live." Ultra-Nationalistic Purge of Japs Ordered TOKYO, Nov. 21. (.TV-The Japanese government today or dered ultra-nationalistic indus trialists and newspaoer officials purged from their offices. Thou sands were expected to be re moved, with widespread reper cussions. Today's action had been antici pated two weeks ago, when 250, 000 to 400,000 ultra-nationalists were ordered ousted from pro vincial government offices. Landlords Facing OPA Suit for Treble Damages PORTLAND, Nov. 21. UPy OPA has asked the Federal Court here to order three Portland land lords to nay treble damages on alleged tenant overcharges. OPA asks one third payment to the tenants and two thirds to the government In the first suit broupht here under the Supreme Court decision authorizing resti tution. Court Ousts OPA Suit Against Lumber Firm PORTLAND, Nov. 21. VPh The OPA's suit against the G. J. Johnson Lumber Company of Junction City, alleging sales at above-ceiling prices, nas been dismissed hv Federal .Turipe Me. Colloch. Judge McColloch. In dismissing the action, did so with prejudice which bars the OPA from bring ing the case into court again. Prisoner Balks at Jail Diet, Eats Light Bulb LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21.-4P Ali Mohammed Bev Is a man who likes roughage in his diet. Be" 28, convicted arsonist, complained yesterdav about the county Jail's diet, then chewed uo an electric light bulb in a Su perior Court prisoner's room. Doctor's say he'll be all right. Roseburg Repair Shop Application Is Denied Denied Thursday by tho CPA construction review committee was the application of Fred Chapman, Roseburg, for a $21, 200 repair shop. Approved was the application hv C. A. Catching of Drain for t $3,500 restaurant Paralysis Hits Soft Coal Industry as 400,000 Quit Contract Regarded Ended; Government Appeal Is Ignored PITTSBURGH. Nov. 21. UP) ,A general walkout by the; United Mine Workers shut down ! the nation's soft coal Industry! loony. The 400,000 United Mine Work ers in the bituminous fields pre dicated their walkout upon what John L. Lewis regarded as a termination of the union's con tract with the government. Tra ditionally the miners do not work without a contract. .The walkouts spread Into the anthracite field of Pennsylvania, with 7,500 employes of eight large mines quitting work. The hard coal industry employs 80.000 miners, who are under a contract separate from the bituminous one. The situation In the fields was generally calm. Miners simply laiiea to snow up at tne pits. The Stars and Stripes symbol of government management of the mines still waved over mine properties deserted by grimy faced coal diggers who chose not to heed the government's plea that they remain at work. Picture By States The state-by-state picture: West Virginia All 102,000 (Continued on Page Six) Teachers' Strike Slated in St. Paul ST. PAUL, Minn, Nov. 21. UP) A strike of 1,000 St. Paul teach ers who plan to picket the public miiuuis is ffunrtiuiea lor next Monday In an attempt to enforce salary demands which school au thorities say they would like to grant but cannot because of citv charter restrictions on expendi tures. Adding to the complexities of this incongruity is the fact that the city treasury holds a $350,000 surplus, enough for a start on higher wages. The citv commissioner of edu cation's office said today that if only half of the 1,000 teachers who voted the strike actually walked out, all of the grade and high schools would have to close. The members of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL) de mand $200 in lieu of increases for the fall months of 1946; an an nual salary ranging from $2,400 to $5,000, to start next January with a monthly increase of $100; and an additional annual appro priation of $1,700,000, in addition to the amount currently budget ed ot cover school maintenance, purchase of additional supplies and equipment, and new con struction. The current salary scale runs from $1,300 for teachers with a bachelor of arts degree and a vear of experience to top of $2,800 for those having a mas ter's decree. Retail Price of Sugar to Be Hiked, OPA Announces WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-1 OPA increased the price of raw sugar yesterday and notified housewives and othr buyers It soon will boost the retail price of the refined product by about a half cent a pound. The agency estimattd the In crease will add about SSO.OOO.OOO to consumers' annual food bills. The retail price boost will come when grocers get sugar refined from the higher-cost raw sugar. OPA authorized an Increase of 3fi.5 cents e 100 pounds for raw cane sugar and 40 cent a 100 pounds for semi-refined sugars. Series of Incendiary Fires Admitted by Boy FRESNO, Calif., Nov. 21. UP) A 14-year-old boy, whom Dis trict Attorney James M. Thuesen said has admitted setting a $". 000,000 bonded brandy warehouse fire south of Fresno Aug. 28 and a series of other Incendiary blazes elsewhere along the Pacific coast, was being held here today. Among the blazes confessed by the boy, who gave his name as Williams, were three houses near Portland, Ore., and a grocery store In Vancouver, B. C Spare Tire, Tube May Be Sold After December 16 WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. Ths Civilian Production Administration has decided that after Deo. 18 new automo biles may be sold with a spar tire and tub for the first time sine 19.42, when wsrtlm re strictions were imposed. F1 TV MINERS WALK OUT OF PITS AHEAD OF TIME Croup of Unit ad Mine Worker members walk off the job at the Chicago Wil mington and Franklin's New Orient mine near West Frankfort, III. More than 1, 300 men normally are employed at the pit, re puted to be the largest shaft mine in the world. Truman's Cooperation Sought By Republican Senator In Plan To Strengthen Labor Statutes WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. UPh-Senator Ball (R. MInn.) said to day he thinks congressional Republicans ought to seek President Truman's cooperation In any changes they propose in existing labor laws. ' ". "When we have finished drafting our bills, I think Sve ought to go down to the While House, lay them before the President and ask him If he objects to any of their features," the Minnesota senator told a reporter. "Perhaps In that that win not be vetoed." Price Drop Hear In Dairy Products WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.UFl The Agriculture Department said today dairy pnxlurt prices have about reached their peak for this year and should begin to decline after production starts a seasonal increase within a few weeks. It said the prospective upturn In production will be accom panied, as a price Influencing fac tor, by indications that consumers are beginning to spend less lor food as Industrial products he come available In larger quanti ties. Reflecting resistance to price Increases and heavy demand for milk for manufactured products, the consumption of fluid milk and cream has d-cllncd more than normal at this time of the year. Much of the cream has gone into the production of creamery butter. The department said that despite an Increase In the rate of butter production this fall, the 1!W6 production will be little more than 1,100,000.000 pounds com pared with 1,302,000,000 last year and a l'J35-39 average of 1,601,. 000,000. The department predicted that December and January supplies of creamery butter will be smaller than In the same months last vear because storage stocks are much smaller. Oregon May Need Sales Tax, Legislator Thinks PORTLAND, Nov. 21. UP) Oregon may be forced eventually to resort to a sales tax to gain revenue to meet obligations, State Legislator Joseph E. Harvey told a retail trade bureau meeting here. His comment came after Dr. F. II. Dammasch said the state faces a deficit if all budget re quests now filed are approved. PORTLAND, Nov. 21. UP) A general sales tax and a farm price policy that will make far mers Independent of subsidies was recommended by the annual convention of the State Farm Rureau, Executive Secretary H. I. Storey reported today. Offer of Bacon for Grid Game Tickets Is Futile ATLANTA, Nov. 21 tJPt An Atlantlan who offered to swap 12 pounds of bacon for two tick"'! to the Georgia ieorgla Tech foot ball game Nov. 30 reported to day that he had received no takers. The offer, made In the Con stitution waif) ad columns Tvs oay, would amount to about $!).50 In bacon for $7.20 worth of foot ball tickets. 275-46 way we can work out legislation Ball Is a member of a senate G. O. P. subcommittee assigned to the task of drafting labor bills. His proposal represented the first concrete Indication that the Republicans may meet the presi dent half way In his post-election offer of cooeratlon with the new congressional majority on meas ures lor tne nation s benem. Ball Is now drafting revisions of some sections of the Case strike control bill which Mr. Truman vetoed last summer. He said he plans provisions making unions subject to suit for violation of contracts, banning secondary boy cotts and "equalizing" employer and employee status under the Wagner act. Demo May Join In Plan Senate Republicans are expect ed to go along generally with such changes. Senator Elbert Thomas (D.-Utah), former chair man of the Labor Committee. Indicated that he and many other tJemocrats recognize that some alterations are in order. Thomas, who has opposed any change in the Wagner act and other basic labor laws In the past, said he hoMs the Republicans (Continued on Page Six) Community Chest Drive To Be Closed This Week Planned to be finally ended this weekend, the Roseburc Com munity Chest lacks $1,500 of its goal. Franklin Wickham, cam paign chairman, said todav. Approximately $12,500 has been cnlli'iicd within Roseburg from residents and merchants, he stat ed. A $3,000 emergency fund haf bcen held over from last year'f collections, In order to assure 10C per cent oayment of the local agencies' budgets and to covet any emergencies In getting next year's Community Chest started All milk bottle banks and b.ir rels of the chest will be cellected today, Wickham stated. All per sons who have neplected sendlnp In their contributions and who were not personally contacted, are asked to remit their donations at on-e. Man May Appeal Verdict In Triangle Case Killing SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. (JP- If Superior Judge Alfred J. Fritz will consent, attorneys for John J .Coston plan to drop his filea of InnfK-ence by reason of nsanlty and take an apieal from his conviction of murdering the man his divorced wife married. Thi tarn 1ilrv thnt mnvlf-ti1 the former Norfolk, Va., theater manager -nd Navy enlisted man was scheduled to begin the In sanity trial today. Basis of the appeal, Couldn't counsel said, would be a claim that the Judge erred In not con sidering self-defense as a factor when he Instructed the Jury. If the conviction stands, Cos- ton faces a possible life term. Miners' Chief j Still Siient, Stays at Home Other Union Heads Abo May Be Prosecuted; Coal Use Being Restricted WASHINGTON, Nov. 2L UP) - The government moved quick ly to cite John L. Lewis for con tempt of court today as a general walkout of UMW miners occurred in the soft coal mines. Reports from the field Indicat ed some anthracite miners wen) Joining the 400,000 bituminous diggers In a stoopage that could eventually touch all industry. Work suspension came in the fnea of government pleas to keep the mines going. Lewis, who disregarded a court order to restore the effectiveness of the miners' contract with tha government, continued silent. The United Mine Worker boss was at h'ls home In suburban Alexandria, Va., and as the morn ing passed there was no Indica tion that he planned to come into his Washington union headquart ers. There were Indications there that Lewis may have made arrangements for an extended absence from his office. It was known that he spent much of yesterday answering mail and otherwise clearing his desk ot pending ousiness. By noon today, government at torneys had been expected to go before Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough and petition for a contempt citation that might sub ject him to fine or imprisonment. However, midday came and went with the government at torneys still in consultation and indications that there would be some delay in their appearance . In court Coal Use Restricted Orders went out meanwhile to cushion the impact of a prospec tive coai iamine. Federal Works Administrator Philip B. Fleming ordered a re turn to wartime heating and lighting strictures in all federal buildings throughout the country which depend on coal. Fleming said he will seek to reduce temperatures to the war time level of b8 degrees. The order affects approximately 300 buildings In the capital alone. 4 The CPA prepared a directive designed to help ration artifidal gas, produced from coal. The same agency pondered an elec tricity conservation order. Assistant Attorney General (Continued on Page Six) Coal Miners Not In Financial Condition For Fighl-lo-Finish WASHINGTON, Nov. 2t. VPi Labor exports differed to day on how long John L. Lewis' coal miners could hold out in a flght-to-the-finish strike. On one point most of them agred: The miners generally lead a hand-to-mouth existence, oven at top pay of $75.25 a week, and few have cash re serves in the bank. But In past strikes, notably In last spring's 59-day walkout, the miners and their families have undergone little If any ac tual suffering from hunger. For one thing, the thrifty wives usually keep a "war chest" of sup plies stored away in their cup boards against Just such a rainy day. Then, too, a good many of tne miners are skilled hunters and the pits lie in some of the rinost hunting land In the coun try. May Resort to Scrip Although the union has an esti mated $13,500,000 reserve, It does not generally disburse relief funds In strikes. At best, It would be a drop In the bucket for the 400,000 miners in a long strike. Nor could they count much on itate help to weather the storm, dnce most states reported they will give no unemployment com pensation to miners on strike. In a pinch, the union might re vert to past practice. Years ago, ttrlklng miners paid their bills with union-backed scrip which was accepted by stores. Jail Sentence, $100 Fine Meted to Drunken Driver Charge of drunken driving In lustice court yesterday resulted In a 30-day Jail sentence, $100 fine, and revocation for one year of his driver's license for Robert Anderson, Roseburg. Justice of Peace Hart (lei reported. Other traffic violations and fines Included: William H. Cutts, no PUC permit, $10; and Robert F. Van Blshler, passing with ob structed view, $10. LvlfyPacfJant f U T. ElsmrtsU A conqrvuional eommlttaa prob it ilofsd to determine If government controls ore Imped ing the veterans homing pre. gram. Tha answer will probably confirm what all the rest of the nation has suspected about the whole control policy from Its In ception. t ' " v
