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Newspaper Page TextTJ. Of 0. Library 5omp Eugene, Oregon Steel Wage Pact Cheers Industry With Prospect Of Strike-Free Production PITTSBURGH, April 21. OP) Agreement on wage Increases of $1 a day lor 140,000 U. S. Steel Corp. workers today cheered the en tire industry with the prospect of a year of strike-free production. The pay hikes agreed upon yesterday by Philip Murray, presi dent of the CIO and the United Steelworkers, and J. A. Stephens, "Big Steel" vice president won quick approval by the union's execu tive board. The raises affect employes of five major producing sub sidiaries and are expected to set the wage boost pattern for other steel companies as well as other industries. The agreement comes before i the union's 175-man wage and policy committee today for final approval. The union said signa ture of the pact could be expected tomorrow. Accord on a new contract was hailed by some executive board members as "a great victory." President Benjamine F. Fair less of the steel corporation is sued a statement in which he said he hoped the cost of the In creases could be taken care of in the present price structure. He asked employes' cooperation in ansormng tne costs by improving emciency. U. S. Steel put the direct cost of the wage increase at $75,000.- 000, including pay boosts for fab- ricating companies expected to sign similar pacts. The steel workers announcement estimated the cost at more than $42,000. 000 but explained that figure ap plied only to the five subsidiaries involved in tne present agree ment. Hike Is $1 a Day, Plus Here is the pay increase ar rangement which may be reop ened after one year which (Continued on Page 6) Boat Upset Drowns Youth In McKenzie River EUGENE, Ore., April 21. & The McKenzie River was being dragged today for the body of Clarence Haynes, Cottage Grove youth who drowned late Saturday when he and a companion were experimenting with an air-propeller-driven boat. Clark W'iltsey, Blue River, man aged to reach shore with the help of residents after Haynes was torn from his grasp by the swift river current. The boat capsized In the rough water. W. R. B. WILLCOX DIES EUGENE, Ore.. April 21. CP) Walter Ross Baumes Willcox, 77, professor emeritus in architec lure at the University of Oregon, died yesterdav at his home here. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS lfE get some Interesting figures ff from Washington. For example: We Americans are now eating meat at the rate of 150 pounds per person per year. To meet this demand, American farmers are producing about 21 i billion pounds of meat this year. In the five-year period before the war, our consumption aver aged 126 pounds of meat per year. If we cut back to that per capita figure now, only about 17 34 billion pounds of meat would be required this year. THAT is to say, if we went back to our pre war consumption rate we would be left with a sur plus of nearly four billion pounds of meat per year. The world moves, you see in eating habits as well as In other ways. WHAT we want, of course (and need), is to keep on eating meat and other foods at our pres ent high rate. Big production and BIG CONSUMPTION provide the best possible American recipe for prosperity. THAT Is easily said. Talk is al ways cheap and plentiful. If empty words were as nourishing as meat and bread, there would (Continued on Dan 2 THOUSANDS OF JOBS AT House Committee Slices Off 47 Per Cent of Budget For Inferior Department WASHINGTON, April 21. (JP An unprecedented 47 per cent budget cut was recommended for the Interior Department today by the House Appropriations Committee. Slashing vigorously in Its promised "meat axe" drive to chop $6,000,000,000 from President Truman's $37,500,000,000 federal budget for 1948, the committee sent to the House floor a $156,538,513 bill to operate the Interior Department for the 12 months starting July 1. This Is $138,881,907 below the President's budget estimates. $101,362,173 under current appro priations but $26.8).053 above the department's last prewar fund in 1938. With a single exception The Fine Arts Commission which re ceived the full $12,000 It request ed, every one of the department's far-flung activities felt the com mittee's axe. If Congress follows the com mittee's recommendation, the di vision of power and the division of geography will be abolished, the oil and eas division will be cut down to "hot oil" act enforce ment activities, and thousands of Interior Department employes will be looking for Jobs. And such multi-million dollar ' agencies as the Reclamation Bu reau, the Bonneville (Ore.) Pow Priest Stabbed by Kneeling Attacker NEW ORLEANS. April 21. (. Slashed and stabbed as he bent toward his kneeling assail ant to minister the Sacrament of Holy Communion, the Rev. James W. Courtney, 46-year-old Catholic priest, was In "fair" condition today at Mercy Hospit al. The sudden and unexplained at tack, which the priest made no attempt to ward off as he sought to protect the cirhorium he held, occurred at Sunday high mass in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. His assailant, identified by po lice Sgt. Clarence Molinerio as Don Louis Laurentz, 27, was Jail ed on a charge of aggravated battery. Molinero said identifica tion cards bore the man's name and addresses at Houston and Beaumont, Tex. Later Archbishop Joseph Fran cis Rummel visited the Church and ordered that it be re-blessed at 5 A. M. today. Meanwhile, the chapel was closed and a 12:30 P. M. Sunday mass was cancelled. Molinerio said authorities could gain no information from the prisoner. Although obeylnff all orders without hesitation, oficers said, he refused to answer ques tions and "looked into space with glassy eyes." Red Cross Rapped In Texas City Job TEXAS CITY. Tex.. April 21. fP Roy Wade, official of the Department of Public Safety, an nounced today that the explosion dead in this sorrowing coastal city now totals 421 and said the death list will total not less than 575. Wade, administrative assistant to Col. Homer Garrison, chief of the Texas agency, said 295 per sons stiy are missing and 132 victims remain unidentified. Mayor 'J. C. Trahan reassured Texas City that there was no danger of new explosions irom leaking naphtha gas. Earlier Trahan had criticized the Red Cross for its handling of relief activities In the blast-torn town. An official of the Red Cross, however, assured him that the organization was doing every thing possible to aid victims. Thirty five bodies were re covered yesterday, the majority from the torn steel and debris in the 70-acre blast area. A Red Cross list posted Satur day listed 580 persons presumed dead, but at Ked jros neaaquar ters In GalveBton yesterday an official said 19 of the names list ed had been found alive. Rent Controls to End In Parts of 23 States WASHINGTON. April 21 VP) The OPA plans to wipe out rent controls in parts ol ZJ states late this month. Officials of the rental division said the order will affect por tions of 40 of the 648 areas under rent controls. It will be one of the biegest de control steps the agency has taken under its policy of remov ing restrictions as tne need tor them slackens. OPA dropped con trols In parts of 13 areas In Feb ruary. The order Is still "in the works," officials said, and the areas affected will not be dis closed immediately. Thev added that about 7tx) oi the 6,000 rent division employes will be dropped as a result of the lighter work load which will result. STAKE er Administration, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, will be re quired to get along on sharply trimmed budgets. Well over half of the entire re duction in the bill was applied to the Reclamation Bureau. A battle to restore some of the funds will be fought out on the House floor when the measure comes up for debate beginning Thursday. The bureau asked for $145952. 200 The committee rave it 62, 717.600. a cut of $83,234,600. How ever, with monev left over as a result of a 1947 Presidential freeze order on construction, the bureau will have $141085.367 available to it next year, the com mute said. Suthevi'm CS0 Lumber Sinke Established 1873 Senate Group Ready For Tax Slashing Bill Three Major Proposals Face Committee; Cuts Opposed by President WASHINGTON, April 21. (IP) The Senate raises the curtain tomorrow on the first act of its tax-cutting performance with the cash customers waiting to see: Whether they will get a refund on part of the taxes they've al ready paid this year, or Whether the new lower rates will bt delayed until July 1. The third possibility that no I cut will come this year appears remote despite these two ween end developments: 1. President Truman's declara tion that higher prices already have "inflated the entire econom ic structure" and that lower taxes now would only promote further inflation. The chief executive coupled this prediction with a forecast that the government's budget for the current fiscal vear ending June 30 will show a $1,250,000,000 surplus tht first since 1930. 2. A bill by Democratic Senator Lucas of Illinois to cut taxes next January 1 on a somewhat differ ent basis than the 30-20 per cent slash retroactive to last January 1 already voted by the House. Lucas' bill presumably will be considered along with the House measure when the Senate Fin ance Committee opens its tax hearings tomorrow. But with Republicans firmly committed to a cut this year, most senators agree that the main test will come between those who favor the House date and those like Senator Taft of Ohio, chair man of the Senate GOP Policy (Continued on page 6.) Fresh Violence; Hits Holy Land JERUSALEM. April 21.-WP1 Two ropes fashioned Into nooses were found by British authorities today near the spot where two military Jeeps were ambushed in Jerusalem by men believed to be members of the Jewish under ground. The discovery recalled broad cast threats by Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground organiza tion, to retaliate in kind for the hanging of four of its members by British authorities last week following their conviction for anti-British violence. Three men were detained after the ambushing, in which the Jeeps were attacked with gren ades and machinegun fire near the edge of Jerusalem's Jewish quarter. Five soldiers who were riding in the Jeeps escaped in jury, but a civilian was reported injured. Two other British military ve hicles were blown up today In continuation of a new reign of violence in which 12 persons including 10 British soldiers were injured yesterday. Six soldiers were injured when a bomb was thrown into a motion picture theater at a leave center near Nathanya. Four other sol diers were wounded one serious ly when two military trucks were blown up by road mines while en route to investigate the theater bombing. Two Arab Legion soldiers were woundi'd earlier when their truck hit a road mine north of Haifa. Treaty Deadlock Again Tackled MOSCOW, April 21. (Pi The council of foreign ministers went into semi-secret session to day in a desperate final effort to break deadlocks on the Austrian treaty. It was the second semi secret meeting of the conference. The action was taken on sug gestion by Secretary of State Marshall. It followed a declara tion by Russia's Molotov renew ing his opposition to including in the Austrian treaty a clause guaranteeing Austria's integrity. When it became apparent the Soviets were unyielding on even semi-Important issues, Marshall said he saw no use in repeating discussions already made and suggested proceeding as a semi secret committee. All advisers were ordered out of the meeting room except three to each min ister. Previously Britain's Ernest Bevin had said with a laugh, "It looks as though we could get a treaty If we could agree on articles four and five and thirty five." These articles deal with Yugoslav claims for Carinthia and a definition of German assets In Austria, which have bwn blocking the treaty since the first day negotiations started. The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Myrtle Creek-Bound Couple Killed When Their Car Hils Train EUGENE, Ore., April 21. I API Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Murphy, 7826 North Willamette Blvd., Portland, died Instantly early today when their speed ing automobile crashed into a slow-moving Oregon electric freight train at a Harrisburg crossing. W. H. Dunham, Portland, con ductor on the train, saiJ he saw the automobile, a 1941 Mercury auto, coming about a mile away, and that it was traveling at an excessive rate of speed. The train, he said, was traveling about 10 to 12 miles per hour. The car crashed into the train, derailinq one freight car. The car was dragged down the track 130 yards and complete ly demolished. The Murphys were apparently on their way to Myrtle Creek from Portland, where he is engaged in the trucltinq business. The bodies were taken to the Miller-Sherman chapel at Junc tion City. Gl Black Market Costly for U. S. WASHINGTON, April 21. OP) Losses to the United States government through money op erations eonm-etcd with GI black marketing overseas may exceed $500,000,000, a government offi cial estimated today. He empha sized that this is an estimate and referred reporters to the War Department. There the officially stated answer said only: "Some United States military and civilian personnel overseas did participate in certain extra legal sales in Germany of person al, governmental or other dollar acquired supplies during and after the war. These are com monly referred to as black mar ket transactions. "Today, the U. S. Army has a 'long' position in German marks which under present policy it is disposing of by normal processes. The present holdings do not, however, excei-d future contem plated expenditures. A complete report on the acquisition and dis posal of these holdings is present ly being prepared for the infor mation of the appropriate com mittees of congress." Prices Must Drop Truman Declares NEW YORK, April 21 (Pi President Truman sounded a new alarm today against rising living costs and called for a united effort by government, in dustry, agriculture and labor to prevent a disastrous depression. He told the annual meeting of the Associated Press that "prices must be broght down" by private enterprise and asked "mndrea tion" from labor. He also asked all-out farm production and re sistance to tax cuts until the country is "over the hump" of inflation. Unless all cooperate, he said, an "economic cloudburst" may weaken American resistance to "totalitarianism" and leave free peoples everywhere "easy targets for external pressures and alien Ideologies." Ellsworth's Mining Bill Receives Support PORTLAND, April 21. Mi Support of a congressional bill sponsored by Rep. Harris Ells worth which would open Oregon revested lands to mining develop ment Is urged by a civic-industrial group here. C. K. Sterrett, secretary of raw materials survey, said the House bill would open 2.500,000 acres In Oreg'in to exploration and de velopment, particularly In the Oregon-California land grant tracts where mining now is res tricted. The Oregon Mining Association will discuss the bill at its May 21 meeting in Grants. Pass. Ruling on Milk Prices Delayed for New Survey PORTLAND, April 21. - Ml -A ruling on possible new milk prices on the basis of testimony at the Oregon Department of Agriculture public hearing here will be delayed by study of new surveys. Agriculture Director E. L. Peterson reported attorneys for producers, distributors, retailers and consumer groups agreed at closing sessions Saturday to ad mit to the record any higher labor costs occurring within the next 30 days. ROSEBURG. OREGON. MONDAY. APRIL 21. 1947 Snell Approves Airport Zone, Piloting Bills SALEM. Ore., April 21. WP Governor Earl Snell, ussertlng he hopes to finish acting on all of the : legislative bills before the day ends, signed into law today bills to permit cities to adopt airport zoning regulations and to prohibit drunken and reckless piloting of airplanes. The measures are the legisla ture's new airplane code. He also signed the bill which requires counties to levy up to 41 mills If they need it for wel fare purposes. Other measures signed today provide for a 50 per cent Increase in state aid for homes caring for orphans and delinquent girls, ap propriat $17,500 to place statues of Jason Lee and Dr. John Mc Laughlin in statutory hall in the National Capitol, make traffic laws apply to driving on ocean beaches, provide for a new build ing in Salem for the state high wayicommission. and appropriate funiis lor the Willamette Basin and the postwar development commissions. Other Bills Signed Yesterday he signed bills to change the name of the attorney general's office to the State De partment of Justice and to give It authority over all attorneys for state activities; and ' to levy a timber tax of 5 cents a thousand feet .to provide funds for forestry research. The governor last Saturday signed a series of bills including those which permit county zon ing; allow trustees to follow the "prudent man rule" in making investments of trusts permit the formation of livestock con trol districts; increase from $3,- Continued on Page 6) AFL Renews Bid io Cl&lor Merger lo Bailie Labor Bills WASHINGTON. April 21. (.Pi The AKL Executive Council to day invited the CIO peace com mittee to confer here Thursday on merger of the two big lalior or ganizations. ( ArL wesKlent William ureen announced the Invitation after a meeting of the council to discuss general problems, including the prospect that Congress will en act sharp restrictions on labor union activities. Green said a telegram was dis patched to CIO President Philip Murray suggesting the meeting. At Pittsburgh, Murray said he would not have any comment un til he received the telegram. The groups have made fre quent gestures toward union, but no real progress in that direc tion. The council's decision to bring up the matter again at this time appeared to be traceable to the crisis building up for labor unions in the form of legislation in Congress. The CIO has insisted that be fore "organized unity" can be discussed, both organizations with a total of more than 13.500, 000 members must cooperate in fighting restrictive legislation on Capitol Hill and In state legislatures. TEAMSTERS STRIKE GRIPS PORTLAND Goods Accumulate at Docks, Warehouses in Demand for Wage Boost, 40 Hour Week PORTLAND, Ore., April 21. (Movement of Incoming goods Including food supplies for this city of nearly 400,000 virtually halted today as the result of a wage dispute between AFL teamsters and 66 companies. Union officials termed the work stoppage a "lockout" while em ployers called it a "strike." About 1200 drivers were affected. Canned food, tobacco, soap and other incoming goods began pil ing up at dock and warehouses this morning. Railroad and ship ping officials said all available storape space probably would be filled bv Wednesday, after which r;iilroad cars would be shunted to side lines and ships would sit idle waiting for unloading. Meanwhile Earl B. White, man ager of the Portland Draymen's and Warehousemen's Association, said the teamsters had re)eeted the latest propoaal to settle the dispute. It came from the U. S. concili ation service. Under Its terms em ployers would have added 20 cents to their original offer of a 00 cent-daily Increase for team sters. The union was asking a $1 20 boost and a 40-hour week. No Contract, No Work Jack Schlaht, teamster's busi ness ardent, said the work stop page bepan Saturday when the union culled a "strategy strike" 8falnt seven firms because the employers refused to make fur thnr offers. White said the strike against the seven firms Invalidated the contract teamsters had with all fi i ON DANISH THRONE New king of Denmark is Frederik IX, at top, who succeeds his father, Christian X, lower photo, who died last night at the age of 76, after a reign of 35 years. Chris tian had been ill 15 days since suffering a heart attack Easter Sunday, and unconscious almost eight hours. Frederik It 48. U. S. Mother of 1947 Raps Women for Broken Homes CEDAR RAPIDS, Ir.', April 21. (.W Mot hers are primarily re sponsible lor. today's encroaching waves of Juvenile delinquency, the same as women are respons ible for many of the nation's bro ken homes, says 72-year-old Jean ette Stevenson Murray, chosen Sunday "American Mother of 1147" by the Golden Rule Foun dation. ., , Mrs. Murray, writer and lect urer on child welfare a well as other subjects, previously was named "Iowa Mother of 1947" by a committee composed of repre sentatives of the Iowa Farm bu reau women's division, the Amer ican Legion Auxiliary and the Iowa Council of Church Women. Oregon Bank Robber Dies in Penitentiary SALEM, Ore., April 21 UPh Elmer Riley Lane, 34, serving a 15-year sentence for a Grande Ronde hank robbery, died in the state penitentiary late Friday night. Warden Alexander report ed today. The warden said the convict died of a glandular disease. He began his sentence Nov. 2, 1944. the companies, and that there would be no more work until an agreement Is reached. Some firms began giving no Ice Saturday for men not to re port to work today. Schlaht said the union had 5200 men, but only alout 1200 of them were affected. They were the key drivers, however, who move goods from the docks and railroad freight sheds. Schlaht said the Increase asked by the union was 15 cents an hour and that the drivers' take home pay averages $30 to $35 weekly. The present scale ranges from $9.65 to $10.65 dally, but workers usually do not average a full week. Schlaht said. Food handlers said there would be little Immediate effect on the puhiic. Meat, vegetables and milk largely were unaffected. Serious shortages In other Items would develop only If the strike con tinues three weeks or More, they said. Some wholesalers have their own trucks, and they said they could arrange new shipments to get foodstuffs to the stores II the stoppage continues long. 94-47 Phone Strike Pickets Stage Brief Blockade PORTLAND, April 21. tm Damage to dial phone cables which Interrupted service in Portland's west hills was being Investigated today by city de tectives. Chief of Police A. V. Jenkins reported detectives found the heavy protective covering of seven cables sawed through. Moisture caused a short circuit on the lines over the weekend. SEATTLE, April 21. UP) A demonstration by locked-arm pickets, blocking entrances to the main telephone company build ing here, broke up shortly after 9 A.M., today as the pickets dwindled to about 20 and four policemen ordered the sidewalks kept clear. C. R. Garvin, member of the CIO-American Communications Association, said his own union and other non-striking unions staged the demonstration In sym pathy with the striking workers. It was the first such mass picket ing during the two-weeks strike here. Both entrances to the building were blocked for a time and no one was able to get in or out, a telephone company official said. He said comparatively few man agement people and supervisory personnel were In the building after the weekend. A union spokesman said he understood supporting unions had sent additional pickets and that no additional striking union pickets had been placed. At a rally yesterday, Mervin Cole, sec retary of the northwest lolnt council of the AFL-Building Serv ice Employe union, and Al A. Fisher, secretary of the station CIO council, pledged the support of such groups. After the rally, approximately 1,000 singing uutyn members parauea aruunu tne Dunning. Nw Formula to Settle Phone Strike May Come WASHINGTON, April 21. (IP) - Spurred by new peace pacta In steel and other Industries, 1 jibor Department conciliators Indicated today they may be ready to spring a new formula for settling the nationwide telephone strike. Although these ace government trouble shooters declined to out- (Continued on Page 6) Stockman-Rayer Tilt in Bonneville Costs Quiz Bared WASHINGTON, April 21.' VP) Testimony of Dr. Paul Raver, director of tne Bonneville Power Administration, and associates, made public today, showed what led to the demand of Rep. Stock man (R.-Ore.) last February for Raver's dismissal. Raver and other BP A employ, ees appeared before the House appropriations subcommittee con sidering the Interior department appropriation bill, on February 10. Three times that morning Raver or another employee told the committee the KHA could not furnish data requested by the committee or that It could not be furnished for a week or maybe a month. Once Rep. Jones (R.-Ohlo), chairman of the subcommittee, asked for the profit and loss statement on each section or branch or portion of the Bonne ville grid system. ' "That Is Impossible," Raver replied and later repeated, "It is ImiKisslhle to do It." After discussion off the record he again told Jones "It Is Impos sible for us to make any such calculation." The data appeared In the record of the hearings when It was published. The testi. mnny was made public today when the Interior appropriation " (Continued on Page 6) 12 Drunks, 'Vags Fill City Jail Over Weekend Twelve persons were held In the city Jail over the weekend on charges of drunkenness and va grancy. Chief of Police u. A. Kennerly reported. It was the greatest numlicr of prisoners held at the same time in several weeks, he said. The offenders and their penalties Included: Herbert R. Sherman, 57. Rose burg, $10 and 10 days: Arthur Johnson. 45, Spokane. $10 and 10 days; Billy Bert MrGutre, 21, Corpus Chrlstl. Tex , $10 and 10 days; Chris Emll Madison. 60, transient, $10 and 10 days: Wil liam P. Hackrworth, 38. $15 or 7 days: Robert Oliver, 32, Rose burg, $20 or 10 days: Claude L. Hlunk, 37, 10 days; Jam ljirsen. 39. $20 or 10 days; Edwin Lund berg. 49, Mvrtle Creek. $20 or 10 davs; Carl I,ewls Miller, 42, Sea-1 side, Ore., $20 or 10 days; R. E.I Vaughan, 42, $20 or 10 days. Ended HLRB Takes Over Dispute Of Six Weeks Ousted Women's Status At Issue; Part of Crew Find Work Elsewhere The month and - a- half Ions strike of CIO millworkers at the Rock Island Lumber Co. in Suth erlin ended today, with the prom ise of the National Labor Rela tions Board to "Immediately" process the dispute, Ray Lea, business agent for Local 7-307, IWACIO, announced. "The entire issue' will now bo determined by the NLRB," Leu said. "The crew will be back at work by next Monday. This ac tion is being taken by the union on the basis of the NLRB prom ise to Immediately process tin' case." Lea explained that the Rock Island Lumber Co. plans to in stall new machinery at its Suth erlin mill. This will prevent there-employment of a full crew. Several striking millworkers, however, have found other em ployment during the strike per iod. "If the company does not ac cept the NLRB offer of imme diate arbitration of the dispute," La said, "it will be considered a 'lockout' against the union." Women Workers at Issue The strike occurred over dis missal by the company of eight women employes, who were re garded by the company as tem porary wartime help and not gen erally as efficient as men. The company also announced its new policy to no longer hire women. Union officials said the women were fired without any attempt by the company to- "negotiate" their dismissal. In disregard of the union's bargaining contract with the company. Lea said that if the NLRB had not promised its immediate ac tion in the strike, the work stop, page could have lasted more than a year, due to the huge backlog of labor disputes now on file with the NLRB, which are await ing arbitration. The eight women will not go back to work In the Ruck Island Lumber Co. mill unless the NLRB decides they must be re hired. Lea said. Referendum on Fish Board's Powers Opposed ' THE" "ALLES, Ore., 'April 2L (.f llemivrs of the Oregon Wllntti. Fedontlon voted yester day aK;nt a motion calling for a referendum on tht. ,-iewly enact ed law giving the Slate Fish Com mission Increased powers. At the federation's luarterly meeting, President James Lorier, Salem, offered the motion, call Ing the law "dangerous" o spnrta fishing. Backers of the law said if would Implement the California-Oregon-Washington compact to control off shore catches. Among resolutions passed was one calling for opening of the deer season on the first Saturday preceding Ocr. 10 and opening of the elk season by Oct 29 with the deer season to close a week be fore elk hunting begins. Pending Hawley Paper Co. Sale Involves $7,900,003 PORTLAND. April 21 UP) The pending sale of the Hawley Pulp & Paper Company would be a $7,900,000 transaction, stock holders learned today. John H. Smith, president of the firm, said in a reort to stockholders that the buyers, a combine of three eastern men, were offering $39.50 a share less deductions. This topped the $32 quotation by the National Asso ciation of Security Dealers last Friday. Major stockholders are West ern Cooperage Company with 50 per cent and Smith with 15 per cent. The deal will not go through, however, unless an ad ditional 20 per cent Is offered for sale by May 31, bringing the total purchase to 83 per cent of the common stock, Smith said. He added, that the price was ex pected to bring In the other 20 per cent. The buyers have of fered to purchase the entire 200, 000 shares of stock. Not itu hided In the $7,900,000 figure is an option agreement to buy $6 second preferred stock owned by, Western Cooterage Company, which holds slightly less than half of the 8000 shares of this stock. Drunken Driver Draws Fine, 30-Day Jail Term Duane IHoy Pfaff, 3ti. of Rid dle, was fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days in the county jail on the charge of driving while un der the Influence of Intoxicating liquor, Justice of the Pence llarl fiel reported today. Pfaff pleaded guilty. evity pact jant 9f L. F. Reiiensieln With the fishing season open ing slated for next Saturday, this It the last week of life far many a night crawler. So don't bo too hasty with the shotgun If the family dog summons you to the lawn towards the tnd of tho week.