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Newspaper Page TextU. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon ;orap. "Ml l T Jj3 0) UK if li - I lf I ft'1"'??? c " sir : s.: GROUND LEVEL HELICOPTER Keeping pace. with the Oregon Journal at Portland, which acquired a helicoDter for raster, state wide news coverage, the News-Review has stepped out with its "doodlebug" tor better hometown news coverage. Sitting astride the machine is Royal S. Denton, News-Review staff writer. Inter estered onlookers are Stan White, left, advertising manager, and Jerome Sheldon, city editor. Denton is growing his chin adorn ment for Roseburg Rodeo Week in June. Alternafive to Beafen City Budget Topic of Discussion At Chambers Weekly Forum What if Roseburg voters fail to approve the city's $191,435 bud get, with its levy of $79,218.53 above the six per cent limitation, at the special election May 27? - That was one question fired at Mayor Albert G. Flegel at the Chamber of Commerce weekly forum luncheon yesterday, which he relayed to City Auditor A. B. Collier. . . . . . " . " ; ; , The Chamber's forum program U. S. Extends Agreement To Bolster Mexican Peso WASHINGTON, May 13. P) The United States and Mexico today announced the signing of a $50,000,000 financial agreement to .stabilize the dollar-peso rate of exchange between the two countries. A joint announcement, said the U. S. will purchase $50,000,000 worth of Mexican pesos during the next four years beginning July 1, this year. The pact had been extended twice previously and was sched uled to expire June 30. this vear. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AFTER a week of perfunctory debate, the houe of represen tatives votes 287 to 107 for Presi dent Truman's Greek-Turkish aid bill. The senate had previously approved it by a vote of 67 to 22. The President, of course, will sign it. It is his bill. So we are now embarked upon a program of checking .he spread of Rus sian communism before it gets too big to handle. SS it a wise program? That is a question that can't now be answered with a flat "yes" or "no." Time alone can tell. About the best we can do at the moment is to seek an answer from the past. In the clear light of hindsight, it seems probable that if we had stopped Hitler before he got too big to handle there might have been no World War II. THERE are many who believe (some of them sincerely) that the way to handle Russia is to give her what she wants in the hope that when she gets enough (Continued on Dee 2 World Needs Understanding Of U. S. fo End Imperialism' Talk, Dean Acheson Declares WASHINGTON, May 13. (IF) Undersecretary of' State Dean Acheson declared today that world wide understanding of the United States its objectives, its principles, and its hopes would end "fool ish talk" that it follows policies of reaction and imperialism. And understanding is the aim of the State Department's inter national broadcasts, he said, summing up the purpose as: "To cover the earth with truth." Acheson testified before the House Foreign Affairs Commit tee on legislation which would authorize a $10,000,000-a-year in formation program by the depart ment. DUring the war, the depart ment set up a cultural and infor mation division which now makes . the broadcasts, including a "Voice of America" program beamed to ft asked Congress for $31,381, 220 to continue these activities in the 12 months beginning July 1. but the House Appropriations Photo by Photo Lab was devoted to a discussion of the city's budget proposals to be voted on May 27, and Mayor Flegel told his listeners, "We are here not to defend the budget, but to present It. If anything, we .arc-on. the offensive." . - Yesterday's forum was thrown open to questions from the lloor soon after the mayor's opening remarks. Any that he preferred to not answer himself, he refer red to the city official accom panying him, best able to reply. In addition to Mayor Flegel, the city was represented by At torney A. N. Orcutt, Collier, and Councilmen H. T. Carstens, Per cy Croft, Frank Ashley, and George E. West. Pruning Would be Needed If the budget should be turned down, it was explained by the auditor, the mayor would imme diately, call the committee to gether and the task of pruning the budget would begin. He sug- (Continued on Page 6) Jobless Pay Not For Vacations, GIs Advised WASHINGTpN, May .13. (IP) The Veterans Administration said today that war veterans at tending school under the GI Bill may not use unemployment al lowances as summer vacation pay between school terms. The agency said only veterans actively seeking and willing to take any suitable work may legal ly accept the allowance. Even then, the veteran is not eligible for unemployment pay during any period for which he receives subsistence allowances under the education and training provisions of the GI Bill. Accident During Bath Kills Agent of FBI KANSAS CITY, May 13. (IP) The body of Horace B. Dill, an FBI agent, was found today in a hotel room by employees making a routine inspection for fires. Dwight Brantley, special agent in charge of the FBI office here, said Dill was electrocuted, appar ently when he touched a sun lamp while taking a bath. Committee voted against giving it any funds. The committee said Congress never had authorized such activities. The measure before the For eign Affairs Committee would simply authorize such activities. The matter of an appropriation to finance them still would have to go through the Appropriations Committee. While Acheson was testifying, Chairman Taber (R.-N. Y.) of the Appropriations Committee, dis cussing the issue at a news con ference, indicated willingness to approve a $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 program "It it's cleaned up and get rid of the Incompetents." Established 1873 School Budget Approved By Labor Council, C. of C. Offers So Far I Not Sufficient To End Strike Phone Workers Insist On Protection Against Company 'Discrimination' SEATTLE, May 13 (IP) Strik ing Pacific Northwest telephone workers will return to work im mediately If today's San Fran cisco meeting between National Federation of Telephone Work ers and company officials results in an agreement, Douglas Chis holm, area strike director, said today. He added, however, that the workers are "still solid down the line" for continuation of the strike at present negotiation levels. Similar sentiments were ex pressed last night in Tacoma, where some 500 workers voted "no" on the question of accepting curent wage offers or returning to work without a raise' under present bargaining contracts. Better Offers Wanted Hal Conlin of Spokane, business agent for the Washington-Idaho area of the T. W. I. U., said "yes" votes were predominant on the question of strike continuance pending receipt of better offers on wages and the subject of dis- (Continued on Page 6) Jap Girls Explain How ' Their Romances Begin TOKYO, May 13. (IP) Tokyo officials, worried about, "protect ing" young girls from tempta tions," interviewed 8,580 giri stu dents to learn exactly what goes on and found nothing new. - Some 734 of the girls said they were winked at in streetcars, and 319 others said a formal hand shake began their romances. More than 400 said they had been followed by would - be swains, and 180 were "victims of other forms of temptations," the official report noted. Only 44 of the 8,580 girls had inspired their suitors to write love letters. The report didn't mention it, but Japanese girl students uni versally wear a baggy uniform with the lines and romanitc ap peal of a potato sack. Chinese Railway Blasted After U. S. Marines Pass PEIPING, May 13. (IP) Sever al sections of the Pelping-Linyu (Shanhaikwan) rail line were biased and uprooted today a few hours after two trains carrying 500 American Marines and their commander passed safely through Cornmunist-held terri tory. Col. Julian N. Frisbie, comman der of the Fifth regiment of the First Devision, traveling in a de luxe coach, aid 500 Marines In a special train reached the port of Chinwangtao without incident. They began boarding two trans ports for Guam and the United States in the withdrawal of leath ernecks from China. Demo Group Seeks Delay In Income Tax Reduction WASHINGTON, May 13. (IP) Senate Democrats began lining up today behind a movement to delay action on the proposed $4. 000,000,000 income tax cut until mid-June. By that time, they contend, Congress should have a much bet ter idea of what economies it can effect in President Truman's $37, 500,000,000 budget for the fiscal year which starts July 1. With most of the 44 Democrat ic senators not sold on the idea of cutting taxes until the prob able surplus can be computed, only a few Republican votes would have to be pulled over to achieve the postponement. Retail Grocery Clerks Accept Pay Hike Offer PORTLAND, Ore., May 13. (IP) The AFL Retail Grocery Clerks Union voted yesterday to accept an 18-cent-hourly pay in crease offered by Food Em ployers, Inc., thus averting a threatened strike. The increase, affecting 1,500 clerks, will give journeymen $50.40 and department heads $53.40 for a 40-hour week. It is expected to set a pattern for some 300 clerks in smaller groc eries, where negotiations have not been completed. The employes had voted to strike if a settlement was not reached. s-uar stamp lz Sugar Stamp 12, Good for 10 Lbs., Valid on June 1st WASHINGTON, May 13. (IP) The Agriculture Department announced today that sugar ra tion stamp No. 12 for individual consumers will become valid June 1 instead of July 1 as originally planned. It will allow purchase of 10 pounds. The department said that sup plies from this stamp must last until October 31, when price and rationing controls will expire un less extended by Congress. Consumers ration stamp No. 12 is the second to be designated as a 10-pound sugar stamp. The first was No. 11 which became valid April 1. The June 1 date was set for No. 12 in order to expedite move ment of sugar into home pantries while railway transportation is available. Officials say they expect a shortage of freight cars for sugar after the bumper winter wheat crop starts moving to market late next month. The department explained that supplies from a big Cuban crop, now reaching a seasonal harvest peak, are being imported in large quantities. Ex-Rep. May Hit; By Hew Evidence WASHINGTON, May 13. (IP) Secretary of War Patterson testified today that former Rep. Andrew J. May (D-Ky.) sought his help on several occasions in behalf of the $78,000,000 Garsson munitions combine. The prosecution summoned Patterson as a star witness in the fourth week of May's trial on charges of taking more than $55, 000 in wartime bribes. On trial with the 72-year old wartime head of the House Mili tary committee are munitions makers Henry and Murray Gar sson and Joseph F. Freeman, Washington agent for the Gar sson brothers. Patterson told the jury that on March 24, 1945, May asked him to give an "E" award, for outstanding war production, to a Garsson firm, the Batavia (111.) Metal Products Company. He said May also contacted him about a cutback of a Batavia Company contract in 1943 and, in September, 1945, called him to the Capitol to protest the Army's action in withholding $800,000 from the Erie Basin Metal Pro ducts Co., another Garsson firm. The money was held up pending renegotiation of a contract. 26 Firms Suspended From Rationed Sugar Dealing SAN FRANCISCO, May 13. (IP) Suspension of 26 firms from their right " to deal in rationed sugar for commercial purposes was announced yesterday by the sugar rationing administration of the Department of Agriculture. Those suspended included one each In Oregon and Arizona, the remainder being California firms. Charles F. Lawrence, regional hearing commissioner, said the action followed hearings on charges of violations of sugar ra tioning orders. The suspensions he announced included: Faber's Market, Central Point, Ore., 30 days; Retirement Pay Boost For Teachers Approved SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 13. (IP) California teachers who have retired and those who do so in the future would receive at least $20 a month additional re tirement pay under terms of a measure unanimously passed by the assembly yesterday. The added cost to local school iistricts was estimated by pro ponents of the bill at five to six million dollars a vear and to the state at about $600,000 a year. The bill now goes to the Sen ate. Italian Premier Quits In Dissension Over Debts ROME, May 13. (IP) Premier Aldde de Gasperi handed his re signation today to Provinsional President De Nicola as Socialists and Christian Democrats charg ed each other with responsibility for the collapse of his coalition government. A communique from the Christian Democratic premier's press office said De Gasperi was resigning because of Socialist at tacks on him yesterday. The three-party coalition has been torn with dissension over Italy's debt problem. ROSEBURG. OREGON. TUESDAY, MAY 1 3. I947 Taxpayers of District Vote Tomorrow Endorsement of the special school election tax proposal, to be voted on tomorrow, was given Monday by the Roseburg Central Labor Council and the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, the presi dents of the two organizations re ported. i Citv Councilman Frank Ashley, president of the Roseburg Cen tral Labor Council, said the la bor council had endorsed not on ly the proposed levy for schools; but the proposed city budget, to be voted on at the special election May 27. Ashlev said the council's en dorsement of the two elections was given because it is felt that salaries and wages of city and school employes must be raised, "if any efficiency is to be expect ed at all." Ashley estimutcd that 75 per cent of the local A. F. of L. mem bershiD are property owners and taxpayers and therefore clegible to vote in the school election. Chamber's O. K. Explained Kenneth Ford, president of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, reported that the chamber's beard of directors went on record in ap proval of the special levy sought by the school board. "If we have an average bud get," he said, "we may expect to have average efficiency." j. quoted the comparative tax levies of 11 cities in Oregon, which show that Roseburg, dur ing i the 1946-47 fiscal year, has had one of the lowest tax millage rates in the state. That a great increase In taxa' tion is required this year, ir. due to the economies practiced in for mer years, in which a very low tax base was maintained, he ex plained. Full Vote Urged Every person "Interested In the schools" was reminded by City (Continued on Page 6) Postal Head May Have to Yield Democratic Post WASHINGTON, May 13. (IP) Speaker Martin (R.-Mass.) said today a nending House Investiga tion may lead to a divorce be tween the postmaster general and the Democratic National Commit tee. "There ought to be one," Mar tin told a reporter. The House schedule this week calls for action on a resolution directing the Postofflce and Civil Service Committee to investigate matters in its field. The commit tee would be required to report its findings to the oresent Con gross and submit any "recommen dations for legislation" it consid ers desirable. "Running a billion-dollar busi ness ought to be a full-time job," Martin said, "and the govern ment ought not to finance politi cal trips around the country un der the guise of official post of lice department business. Committee O. K.'s Navy Post-Grad School Plan WASHINGTON, May 13. (IP) The House Armed Services Committee unanimously approv ed today a bill to permit the Navy to acquire the Del Monte hotel properties at Monterey, Calif., for a Naval post graduate school. The bill was amended to autho rize an expenditure of $2,500,000 to purchase the properties and convert them to school uses. The owners would receive $2,149,000; the remainder would pay for the conversion. Rep. Gavin (R.-Pa.) told the committee today the full program of post graduate training at Mon terey involves an expenditure of about $40,000,000. No Hangovers From Petroleum Hoocht Claim HOU8TON, Tex., May 13. (fP Hangover-free whiskey, equal In taste and quality to the best grain liquors, could be manufactured from petroleum If manufacturers and drinkers did not have a "prejudice" against obtaining liquor from oil wells, Dr. Henry Hass, head of the chemistry department at Purdue University, said here today. "Whiskey processed from oil products would contain no fusil oil, which it the Ingredient that causes hangovers," Haas said. The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, 4i "4 . TO 'CHUTE CARGOES TO FIRE FIGHTERS Forest Service men from five Western Oregon National Forests, above, are instructed in the art of packaginq and wrapping food and supplies to be parachuted to forest fire fighters I . I I cargomg ana dropping scnool is Deing neia at trie Koseburg air port. Larry Souler, pilot, with his back to camera, center, loads a bundle into this Forest Service plane. New Technique Forest Firefighters Taught At School Held at Airport Fire fighters In isolated forest areas this summer may look for ward to eating hot meals dropped to them from the air, it was prom ised by Forest Service officials conducting a two-day cargoing and dropping school at the Roseburg airport. Schacht, Ex-Bank Chief of Nazis, Draws Eight Years STUTTGART, May 13. (IP) Hjalmar Schacht, German finan cial wizard who was cleared of war crimes charges by the Inter national Military Tribunal at Nuernberg seven months ago, was convicted -as a major Nazi offender by a German denazlfica. tion court today and sentenced to eight years Imprisonment. The former Nazi finance min ister and Reiehsbank president, 70 years old, has been on trial for six weeks. He heard the ver dict in stunned silence, his face drawn and white. The decision also banned him from voting or any public ac tivity. The court ordered the confis cation of all of Schacht's remain ing personal fortune officially estimated at 1,190,000 marks $119,000 except for 10,000 reichs marks. Yank Flier Killed By Bayonet Play, Japs Admit YOKOHAMA, May 13.-UP) Seven former privates of the Japanese Army pleaded guilty be fore an Army tribunal today fo a charge that they used a living American flier as a dummy for bayonet practice. The airman was 2nd Lt. Dar win T. Emory, Denver, one of six survivors of a B-29 crash in Chiba Prefecture, across the bay from Tokyo, In May, 1945. Near death when taken prisoner, he was bayoneted, decapitated and thrown into a common grave. - Lt. Masakl Mabuchl, who or dered the bayonetting, was hang ed last Sept. 6. Hajime Honda, former civilian guard at a Kukuoka prison camp, pleaded Innocent today to charges of beating and contributing to the death of Cpl. William Ivarson, Seattle. Motorist Upsets Most Of City Then Wakes Up PORTLAND. Ore., May 13. (IP) A motorist crashed into a power pole here early today, knocked out electrical service in a large part of the city and set off burglar alarms all over town. The Impact sheared off the pole, put a substation out of com mission, severed four lines carry ing from 2400 to 57,000 volts each, set the city's traffic sig nals to operating erratically, and demolished the ear. All this woke up the driver, Francis W. McBrlde, 21, who told police he must have fallen asleep at the wheel. He noticed three wires had fallen on the car and sat inside until aid arrived. Then he leaped clear, uninjured. U. S. Diplomat Roughly Treated in Belgrade WASHINGTON, May 13.-OP) The State Department said to day that the American charge d' affairs at Belgrade was strip ped of his camera and embassy identification cards during a vis it to the Yugoslav town of Pec May 2. Camera and cards were return ed John M. Cabot, the American official, oiler a formal protest to Marshal Tito's government. A spokesman said the State De partment has now Instructed the embassy to ask "appropriate dis ciplinary action" against the local officials responsible for the incident. 11347 ' - 'si- 1 Picture by Paul Jenkins in isolated areas, the two-day I r. , . ' in Supplying Approximately 20 men from five national forests in Western Oregon and the Eastern and Western Lane, and Douglas For est Protective Associations, are learning the art of packaging food and equipment for the for est crews, and stowing cargoes in light airplanes. - A new technique is being de veloped this year, itn packaging hot meals In insulatevl containers and dropping the food to forest fire fighters at the scene of ac tion. I-es Colville, Portland, Instruc tor, said that airplanes are being utilized not only In supplying fire fighters but trail crews working in the isolated, backwoods of na tional forests. At the hangar at the Roseburg airport, yesterday and today, the men were Instructed In the meth ods of wrapping shovels, axes, picks, saws, and other tools for easy dropping, and practiced roll ing parachutes. The Forest Ser vice cushions its air cargoes with burlap. Likewise, parachutes are of the same material. ' Another new technique adopt ed this year is the use of lighter planes than In tne past, and the dropping of cargoes by the pilot himself. Previously, an extra man was carried to do the dropping- Underworld Character Slain on Detroit Street DETROIT, May 13. (IP) Fred A. Baraky, 33-year-old minor po lice character and once-convicted gambler, was shot down in the street today In a slaying remini scent of Detroit's roaring rum running era of the 1920's. Police expressed fears that his murder may be linked to a week end crackdown in which officers claimed to have smashed an $8, 000,000 gambling syndicate with roots deep In the city's under world. Nine bullets were pumped into Baraky's body by a man who ac costed him and an unidentified woman companion outside a bowl ing alley and bar. Fire at Coney Island Razes "Five Buildings NEW YORK, May "l3 UP) Fire at Coney Island destroyed five buildings and smudged a dozen more last night. Doctors said they treated 22 persons, mostly firemen, for smoke poi soning, but none was Injured seriously. Fire officials estimated the loss at $125,000. The amusement park Is scheduled to open this weekend for the summer season. Longer Skirts Mean Junking of Wardrobes SHAWNEE - ON DELAWARE, Pa., May 13. (IP) Longer skirts this fall will make obsolete 80 per cent of the wardrobe of Amer ican women, says Mack Gordon, president of the Linder Coy Wom en's Specialty Store of Cleveland. Gordon spoke before 100 textile manufacturers, executive' admin istrators and technologists. Approval Given Plan For Building Rental Units . Construction approvals listed today by the Oregon review com mittee of the Civilian Production Administration included a permit to M. L. Veatch, Roseburg, for construction of rental units at Rose-Etta Lodge to cost $32,000. Margin Large Enough to Kill Predicted Veto Compromise Will be Sought With Tougher Bill Adopted by House WASHINGTON, May 13 UP) The Senate today passed its controversial labor bill by a vote ' of G8 to 24 more than the two-' thirds margin needed to override the presidential veto which sonw opponents have predicted. The far-reaching measure, de nounced by organized lubor but generally endorsed by many In dustrialists, now goes to confer ence for compromise with a , tougher bill approved' by the House. ' Then the compromise version will go to the White House, prob ably late this month. Shortly before the final vote the Senate rejected, 73-19, a sub stitute bill drafted by a group of Democrats who regarded it as the kind of legislation Mr. Tru man would sign. Critics called it a "milk-and-water" bill. f Senator Taft, chairman of the Senate's Republican Policy and Labor Committee, led the fight for the bill adopted. Injunctions Provided The substitute was tailored to meet President Truman's recom mendations on labor legislation. Senator Murray (Mont.) and 10. other Democrats' presented the bill only to put themselves on record with a. specific example of the kind of labor bill they be lieved should be adopted. Unlike the Taft bill, the sub stitute would have permitted the closed shop, under which em' ployers can hire only union mem- . bers. It made no provisions for injunctions against national emergency strikes. The adopted Taft measure docs. Both bills deny collective bar gaining rights to a union if any officer can "reasonably be re garded" as a communist or com munist sympathizer. . This provision was placed in the Senate bill on adoption of an amendment by Senator Mc- Cleljnn (D.-Ark.).. Presiding officer Vandenberg named the following as conferees to meet with a House group to Iron out differences in the ver sions of the two bills: Senutors Taft (R.-Ohlo); Ball (R.-Minn.); Ives (R.-N. Y.); Murray (D. Mont.), and Ellender D.-La.). Barkley Raps Martin Senator Barkley (D.-Ky) shout ed to the Senate during debate that House Speaker Martin (R. Mass.) "engaged in a form of in timidation against the president of the United States" by declar ing that there will be no effort to pass new legislation if labor and tax bills are vetoed. Barkley told his colleagues he does not know whether Mr. Tru man will be willing to accept the House-approved labor bill or the Senate's milder version. It was a "peculiar spectacle." the Democratic leader went on, to find the Speaker of the House announcing in advance of final congressional agreement on the terms of such legislation that a veto would mean no new meas ures would be enacted. Western Votes Listed The vote of Pacific Northwest and California senators on the labor bill's final passage was: Republicans for: Cain, Cordon, (Continued on Page 6) Building Permits In 5 Weeks Shown City building permits issued during April and the first week In May totalled $17,860, with $G, 000 of the amount for construc tion and remodeling of commer cial enterprises, Fire Chief Glenn H. Taylor reported. Taylor expressed the opinion that the restrictive policies of the CPA were responsible for com mercial construction hitting a new low (Juring the past two months. Biiiest Industrial construction project here during April was the erection of a new sand house by the Southern Pacific Railroad, at $2,560 cost. Other industrial and commer cial prefects included: Addition to KRNR, technician's shop, $1, 200; remodeling of the Mabel Lewis Shop, $2,000; remodeling at 311 W. Cass St., Into the do nut shop, $300. Total of 14 permits were issued during April and only one during May. These were for two new dwellings, two temporary dwell ings, five garages and woodsheds and two remodeling projects. Lity Flit fll Bjr L. 1. IUutnitaln What matters if Britons haven't enough to eat, haven't enough fuel for heating and the country Is head-over-hee's in debt? George and his family have returned, and It will now be a pleasure to either starve to death, freeie to death or die in the poorhouse.