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BIX ROSEBURS NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 194. Contempt Citation for Lewis Is Prepared (Continued from Page One) John Sonnett awaited only the word from Attorney ricneral Tom Clark before presenting the con tempt citation before Judge Goldsborough. In all-out action, the adminis tration waa reported also pre paring to seek punishment for any lornl union lenders or others TURKEY SHOOT Sunday, Nov. 24th 10 A. M. Roseburg Rod end Gun Club WINCHESTER 12, 16, 20-Gauge Shells Furnished SAW DUST 16" MILL WOOD Prompt Delivery DENN-GERRETSEM CO. Phone 128 402 W. Oak St. TURKEY SHOOT Sunday, November 24th 3 Miles South of Roseburg on Highway 99 Telescope and Iron Sight Events LONG & ORR MORTUARY Formerly Douglas Funeral Home Corner Lane and Pine Sfj. Phone 112, Roseburg Licensed Lady Assistant A. F. 'Tony' Shuttle, Embalmer Frank Long Jewell Long Vera Orr Sole Owners and Operators "To Serve Others as We Would Be Served" EVELYN'S WMmm ill tA- ;-- EvENINC silhouettes seasoned to taste. Lush gowns expos ing your alabaster shoulders swishing end bustling behind you. Beautiful black and sweet come-hither pastels. 25.0029.75 Eastern Oregon Faces Problem in Soft Coal Strike (By the Associated Press) The coal miners' walkout to day, with Its threat of a critical national coal shortage, presented many Eastern Oregon plants and Institutions with an almost Im mediate problem. Western Oregon, where little coal is used, had onlv Isolated re ports of lmoending shortages. Two hosnltals had the most nresslng problem. St. Elizabeth hospital at Baker, the only hos pital In the county, reported that It would be out of coal tomorrow. Eastern Oregon state hospital at Pendleton 6aid It had a 10-day supply. It was assumed that loans and purchases from deal ers' stocks would avert any Im mediate crisis. Baker reported this supply sit uation: Schools in city, several months: schools outside city, a month or two; hotel, one to three months; courthouse and city hall, 15 days; creameries, one month; dealers' supplies cleaned out to day; power and light plants use sawdust fuel. Pendleton dealers reported 1300 to 1!S00 tons of coal on hand which under normal conditions would carry the city for three weeks. Dealers are rationing coal one ton at a time to all having less than 10 days' supply. Schools and flour mills have about a month's supDlv at hand. The scnool superintendent estimated that the fuel could be stretched to about Feb. 1. At Gresham, nee? Portland, the area's largest brick plant re ported that it had about a week's supolv on hand and that if It were forced to close, a month would be required to reheat the kilns. The plant produces 1,500, 000 bricks a month. No state Institutions, other than the hosuital at Pendleton, burn coal. The university and the who are found to be encouraging a strike. Others May Be Prosecuted If Lewis should be found In contempt for non-complaince with a court order, he could be fined or sent to Jail to stay until he purged himself of contempt, if the judge so ordered. It was Goldsborough who on Monday Issued an order directing Lewis to recall his "termination" of the United Mine Workers (AFL) contract, effective last midnight. Lewis did not recall it. Evidence Is being collected with a view to prosecuting under the Smith-Connally act anyone, from Lewis on down, whom the gov ernment may contend is en couraging a strike. The Smith Connally law forbids encouraging or Inciting a strike in a government-operated mine or plant. Conviction carries a penalty of $5,000 fine or a year in jail. May 'Freeze' Union Fund Study Is being given to the possibility of "freezing" the Unit ed Mine Workers S11.500.0lX) union fund, and this will be done if a way can be found around "legal technicalities." In the mounting crisis, U. S. troops stood ready to move into the coal fields to prevent vio lencebut not to mine coal. Unit commanders were alerted. Government officials also kept an anxious ear to the ground for any manifestations of a general upheaval hy labor. The AFL with its 7.1.")0.000 union members and the CIO with Its 6.01X1,000 had already thrown their moral support behind the UMW chief. By resolution at its Atlantic City convention, the CIO termed Goldsborough's order an attempt to lmxse "economic slavery" on the miner. state college use hog fuel and sawdust. CIO Wants More Pay, Disclaims Strike Threat ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov. 21 t.-V) The CIO convention to day adopted unanimously a reso lution calling for "substantial" wage Increases but there was no definite Indication just how much ol a wage hike the dele kates would consider "substan tial." Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, said In a speech that the "real" earn ings of American workers in terms of purchasing power had been cut 20 per cent since Jan uary, 1945. But when questioned later by reporters he said he did not mean to imply that 20 per cent would be the amount of the wage increase which his auto workers will demand this winter. Wintry Wave Retains Its Grasp on Northwest (Continued from Page One) "" A, J, AS ADVERTISED IN ditch or skidding across the road, they blocked those following. With the roadbed blailed and sanded, the marooned motorists finally were sent on their way. Telephone Co. Plans Building In Roseburg (Continued from Page One) county bulldozer crew and rang ers. Hardship Widespread Briefly the picture looked like this as the northwest went into its fourth day of storm: British Columbia Cranbrook reported coal supplies at "des !erate stage" as deliveries failed to arrive; government ferry serving west of Kootenai Lake sank at Nelson landing from un known reason; domestic and com mercial gas supply off for several hours by storm damage at Vic toria and plea for 10 per cent cut in gas consumption made in Van couver; string of abandoned autos reported all along east Kootenai roads. Seattle Air travel still ham pered but attempts were being made to get out south and east bound flights; trains arriving be hind schedule; city bus operations almost normal; public schools re opened but University of Wash ington students continuing an indefinite vacation because of shortage of coal; repairmen had restored 1.500 of the city's 8,500 impaired telephones. Phone Service Disrupted At nearby Beaconsfield, near PesMoines, approximately 40 familiei have been without tele phones, electricity and water since the storm broke Monday. Five thousand telephones still were out of order In Tacoma. At Lakebay, across the bay from Tacoma, wireless voice-path serv ice was initiated to replace broken-down telephonic communi cation. Snow continued to fall af a late hour last night In Spokane with four inches on the ground. Busses were maintaining sched ules but police reported the num ber of minor traffic accidents re-; ported was double that of any day in recent years. Yakima was blanketed beneath five inches of snow, Pasco report ed two and Wenatchi-e reported ice-covered streets and highways veiled by snow. additional, manually operated equipment now being Installed, will permit service to some 400 more telephones In Roseburg by next spring. Following completion of the present installation, additional equipment capable of handling approximately 1500 more tele phones will be Installed. Henwood said that the present installation of manual equipment, at an estimated gross cost of S118.000, is being "pushed ahead" to meet the unprecedented de mand for telephone service here. Average daily calls have soar ed from 7,058 in October of 1941 before the war to an all-time high of 10.386 in October of this year. Daily long distance calls alone, have jumped from 258 to 920 over the same period. More than 840 Roseburg fami lies now are waiting for tele phones, Henwood added. "Installation of this additional equipment is proceeding as rapid ly as problems of supply will permit," Henwood declared. "Basic materials still are critical ly short and dates of manufacture and delivery are not too firm." 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Walkouts spread to antnraclte fields employing 80, 000 in eastern' Pennsylvania. Kentucky All the state's 50, 000 UMW miners were idle, clos ing 2U0 large mines. Approxi mately 1,000 Progressive Mine Workers were still on the Job in four large mines and about 5,000 Independents were working 1,250 small truck mines. Illinois Ail mines employing UMW members closed, Idling 20, 000. About 850 Progressive Mine Workers also did not report for work. However, other Progres sive mines operated. The Progres sives have about 18,000 members in the state. Alabama UMW mines In the southern steel state were down 100 per cent, Idling 20.000. Some 2,000 men kept working at non union operations. Maryland 100 per cent walk out in western Maryland's two coal-producing counties, normally employing 2.o00. A spokesman for one group of miners said they would be permitted to dig coal for a miners' hospital and local schools if fuel supplies ran out. Other states reporting complete walkouts, included Ohio, 20.0IX) miners; Virginia, 16,000; Indiana, 8,000 and New Mexico 1.300. The nation-wide shutdown of soft coal choked off the flow of vital fuel to Industries and homes. Truman's Aid Advised in Plan to Prop Labor Code (Continued from Page One) will point toward "constructive" changes. "I would welcome any bill that would tend to establish perma nently the no-strike, no-lockout agreement which was reached by labor and management in 1941," he added in an interview. "We should set up the machinery for peacetui Bargaining wnicn win make strikes unneressirv." Nov Ye Olde Nov. 22 BARN DANCE 22 8 o'clock Friday, Nov. 22nd Oakland Gym Chick Miller's Orchestra $1.00 Couple 8 o'clock w E S T L I n Q Six-Man Battle Royal Sammy Cchen Kcrl Gray Billy Goelti Ike Cazell Tony Ross Billy McEuin Wrestling, Roseburg Armory, Thursday, Nov. 21 Note change in date to accommodate , Shrine Ceremonial t GRANTS PASS. Ore.. 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