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Eugene, Oregon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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