TJ. 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
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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
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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
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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,-
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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-
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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.