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Newspaper Page TextU. Of U. Library Corfjp, Bugane, Oregon ill nil 111! p The Weather Mostly cloudy with occas sional rolit today, tonight, and Wednesday. Established 1873 School Roseburg Vote Scheduled For Friday, Apr. 16 All Other Douglas County Districts Ballot Apr. 19; Excess Levies Proposed Annual budget elections will be held Friday, April 16, in Rose burg School District No. 4, and Monday, April 19, in all other school districts throughout the county. Roseburg taxpayers will uanui on a proposed levy or 360 outside the 6 Der cent llmita. tion, while county-wide voting wiu concern a proposed excess levy of $583,208.24. Superintendent of Schools Paul S. Elliott, including a series of ihjks Deiore r.-r. A.'s service clubs, and other comunity groups, stated that the school administra tion is "very much concerened" with the outcome of Friday's elec tion. He urged all eligible per sons to participate in the voting. Polling place in the Roseburg district will be in the home eco nomics room on the first floor of the Junior High School, to the left of the front entrance. The polling place will be open from 2 p. m. to 7 p. m., as required by law, for the accomodation of voters. The excess levy on which Rose burg taxpayers will cast their ballots is included within a total proposed operating budget of S540.673.98 for the 194849 fiscal year. Taxation within the con stitutional 6 per cent limitation will be $97,158.98, while income from other sources is estimated t $260,379.64. In addition to the- operatmg budget, an amount of $9,225 is allowed lor bond redemp tion. Alternatives Cited In the county scholo budget election, polling places will be 'Continued on Pnpp Sl In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS BELGIUM'S premier, Paul Henri Spaak, has been in Washing ton this week, conferring with President Truman. He tells ft news conference that the five na tions (Britain, France, The Neth erlands, Belgium and Luxem bourg) included in the so-called Western European Union will ask for American military support, as well as recovery help, later on. Note that he says these nations WILL ask military support from America. He is doing realistic thinking. Everybody knows that It will have to come if we are to get any where with our "stop Russia" policy. PERHAPS, before going any farther, we'd better review this Western European Union business. A month ago, representatives of five Western European nations met at Brussels and drafted a treaty for economic, political and MILITARY co-operation. These nations were Britain, France, Belgium, Holland and Luxem bourg. The announcement of (Continued on Page Two) Rep. Ellsworth Asks Fund For New Power Lines to Relieve Southwest Oregon Overload WASHINGTON, April 13. UP) Power Lines running into Southwest Oregon are so overloaded that new lines must be built, a congressional committee was told today. Rep. Harris Ellsworth of Ore gon urged the House Interior Ap propriations Sub committee to provide $2,379,000 in money and $893,000 in contract authority for the additional lines. He said that In the peak period of 1947 a total of 49.000 kilowatts was taken from the Bonneville Power Administration lines to augment public and private pow-1 er facilities in the lower and upper Willamette Valley and soutnewstern Oregon. "The best evidence available In dicates that this supplemental supply of 49.000 kilowatts will grow to 76,000 kilowatts with in the next two vears and to 265,000 kilowatts by 1954." Ells-' worth testified. Ellsworth said the money he ' asked -ould take care of the Ids Budgets U. S. Superforts Fly Overseas For Display of Strength Over Germany. Italy. Saudi Arabia DENVER, April 13,-OP) A Denver Post writer said today a European bound flight of Superfortresses will make "a show of strength for the western powers" Italy. Pension Bargaining Held Compulsory WASHINGTON, April 13.-4JP) The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that employers must bargain with their em ployes on pension plans if the employes request It. The 4-1 decision was the first on this subject In the board's 13 year history. The four-man majority held that such plans come within the scope of the Taft-Hartley law which requires both employers and unions to bargain collectively "in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment." The board held that the pay mcnt of benefits under pension plans falls within the meaning of ''wages." It said the terms of retirement such as the age when pensions begin would come within the category of "conditions of em ployment." The ruling was made In a case involving the Inland Steel Com pany. The board found the com pany guilty of refusing to bar gain collectively. It held the company had violat ed both the Taft-Hartley law and the Wagner Act under which the case wa originally, filed hv Au gust, 1946. Suit to Condemn Land Won by City of Eugene SALEM, Ore., April 13. UP) The city of Eugene won a Su preme Court case today to con demn 51 acres of land for use in the city's power and water sys tem. The land is owned by Mr. and Mrs. A. West Johnson. They claimed that the city didn't need the land, and tnat tne eny waniea to pay only a tenth of what the land is worm. Tht citv offered $2,500 for the land, and the Johnsons wanted $27,795 for it. The lower court ot circuit Judge Skipworth gave the city the land and fixed $4,500 as the fair value. The Johnsons then appealed. Today's Supreme Court deci sion upheld the $4,500 figure. Ohio River on Rampage Following Heavy Rains HUNTINGTON. W. Va., April 135) A "major flood" of the Ohio river, with severe flooding of all its tributaries was fore cast today by Meteroiogist LeRoy Stone of the Huntington Weather Bureau. He said the river would go above flood level in the Pitts burgh area this morning, in the Parkersburg, W. Va.-Marietta, Ohio, area tonight, and in the Gallipolls, Ohio-Huntington area tomorrow morning. 'The streams will continue to rise," he aded, "and tne condition is expected to continue for several days." Drenching rains continued over much of the Ohio water shed again last night, and Stone said more is expected today and to night. Salem-Albany-Lcbanon; the Eu-gene-Reedsport ; the Reedsport Coos Bay and the Cottage Grove Drain lines and the Detroit sub station. "The Southwestern section of the state of Oregon." Ellsworth said, "is the most rapidly expand- inf? section of the entire Pacific Northwest." The representative also asked ample appropriations for Crater Lake national park, to permit rehabilitation of tourist facili ties, and an Increase from $10, 000 to $25.0000 of funds for roads and trails at the Oregon Caves National Monument He also proposed additional ap- oropriations for the Bureau of Mines laboratory at Albany, Ore. Await Elections before the April 18 elections in Lee Callison, writing under a dateline "Over the Atlantic Aboard a B-29," wrote this: "The group'3 top officers say mey expect to go irom uermany to Italy 'for a show of strength for the Western powers' before tne April is elections." Callison is with what U. S. Air Force officials term the migiitiest peace time air fleet ev er to De sent overseas, i ne Jiignt is en route now to Germany. Callison added: "The number of Superfortress es and men are secret, but it will take hours for the group to land when they arrive at Fur- stenfeldbruk, Germany, their home while in Europe. "Following the expected Italian maneuvers by the group, the B29 Goliaths are expected to fly to Saudi Arabia where the U. S. has one of its biggest B-29 air dromes and a point, incidentally, within close range of most of (Continued on Page Six) Miners Obeying As Lewis Awaits Rap WASHINGTON, April 13 (TP) John L. Lewis sweated out the miners' response to his back to work advice today. Thousands of soft cool miners returned to work in response to nis wora to end tneir month long strike. But many others still stayed home. They appareirtly were awaiting the outcome of Lewis' contempt of court trial tomorrow for ignoring a court order to end the strike last week. A check in the coal fields show ed production as high as 75 per cent in some sections of Western Pennsylvania and Illinois. The severity of Lewis' possible punishment for Ignoring a court restraining order may depend on the miners' reaction. If found guilty tomorrow, Lewis could be sentenced to jail as well as fined heavily. But if the mines are back In operation, Justice T. Alan Golds borough might ease the penalty for overlooking the court order. Once before, he slapped a S3, 500,000 fine on the union and $10, 000 on Lewis for contempt of a similar court order to end a strike. The fines later were re duced to a total of $710,000. Henry Wallace's Mother Claimed by Death at 80 DES MOINES, April 13. (Pi Mrs. May Wallace, 80, mother of Henry A. Wallace, third party presidential candidate and for mer vice president, died yester day at her home here. At her bedside were four of her six children Henry, James of Des Moines; Mrs. Annabelle J. McLay. Birmingham, Mich.; and Mrs. Marv O. Bruggmann, wife of the Swiss minister to the Unit ed States. Mrs. Wallace, widow of Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agricul ture under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, lived on the out skirts of the nation's political life for 30 years, but took little inter est in politics herself. Lumber Plants Operate Despite Partial Strike LONGVIEW. Wash., April 13 CP) The Long-Bell and Weyer haeuser lumber plants here con tinued to operate today despite the fact that members of Local 11-107, Boommen and Rafters Union, were on strike over a wage dispute. Company officials said all employes reported for work except the boommen and that the boommen only placed pickets at the log ponds. The plants will continue to operate as long as logs are avail able, which is expected to be but snort time. Canning Plant in Alaska Destroyed by Flames JUNEAU, Alaska, April 13 UP) Flames, fanned bv a 40-mile- an-hour wind, raced through the Astoria & Pueet Sound Canning Co. plant at Excursion Inlet yes terday, destroying five buildings and the company oil docks. Thp fire destroyed the cannery building, cable shed and three warehouses, In addition to the oil dock. The cable shed held 150, 000 feet of cable. No one was reported Injured. The fire started from a flare back In a stove. ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAYS APRIL 1 3, 1948 Pan-American Meet Goes On Despite Bevolt (By the Associated Press) -Pan-American conference dele gates are expected to vote today to remain in Bogota, Colombia, despite the short-lived revolt which killed 300 persons and dev astated much of the capital. U. S. Secretary of State Mar shall, heading the American dele gation, blamed international Communism for the revolt. He told newsmen and delegates last night it followed a pattern simi lar to outbreaks which provoked trouble in Fiance and pre-election violence in Italy. The trouble flared suddenly Friday with the assassination of a liberal party leader. Colom bia's coalition government, still under conservative President Perez, has broken relations with the Soviet Union. Two Russians, described as Communist agents, are in custody. Chile's government said today the Colombian uprislne was part of a Communist master plan which called for similar out breaks In Chile and Bolivia. Presi dent Videla summoned army and police olilciais to plan defense measures against a purported Communist May Day plot in Chile. Bogota still is paralyzed. Banks and stores are closed. There is no transportation and some places are wtihout lights. A number of rebel snipers are still loose. Wide spread snooting broke out again yesterday in the charred capital. The city's 400,000 population face, a. serious health prohlom. Hospitals crowded with wounded have sent out appeals for serum. Corpses still litter the streets. Damage runs Into millions of dollars. Russian Hits ERP A high Russian official In Ber lin told a German youth meeting today "the Marshall plan means the division of Germany; the di vision of Kurope it means war." The speaker. Col. Sergei Tul panov, Information chief of the Soviet military administration of Germany, likened President Tru man to the late Hermann Goer ing, Hitler's deputy, evidently re ferring to Goering's four-year (Continued on Page Six) Wood Waste Fund Refusal Rapped WASHINGTON, April 13.-UP) Rep. Mack (R.-Wash.) chided the House yesterday for appro priating $(ju,uuu,iKH( tor rcsearcn in orodction of oil from coal and refusing to grant $1,250,000 for seeking methods of utilizing 109, 000.000 tons of wood waste. The House last week cut funds In the Acriculture Department bill for the Forest Products Lab oratory at Madison, Wis., from $1,250,000 to $1,000,000. Mack olfered a letter Irom tne Simpson Logging Co., Shelton, Wash., savine it used 44.000 tons of wood waste annually in making wall board. "I do not know that the addi tional $250,000 asked for the Madison laboratory will develop use for all of the wood that Is eroine to waste, but I believe that $250 000 will be as good a cal culated risk as any our govern ment undertakes," Mack said. "Our government, on a purely dollar and cents revenue basis, has a great stake in seeing this waste wood utilized, even if we don't consider the far greater values of more jobs and more wealth to consume and enjoy which utilization of that waste wood would provide." Mack said that 57 per cent of all timber logged is left either in the woods to rot or is lost In milling and manufacturing processes. He said ho honed the Senate will restore the $250,000. Tanker Being Pounded To Pieces Near Newport NEWPORT. Ore., Anril 13. IIP) A concrete war surplus con verted tanker Is being pounded apart on a reef north of here. The 353-foot vessel, built as the tanker Asndin broke from its moorage earl- yesterday and with a tuff and baree drifted to sea with the tide. Later it grounded on the reef. Salvage attempts were aban doned when the shin began to list badlv. It has settled to the tv.ftom and the four holds are filling with water. The tne and barpe were freed before thev were damaged and were towed back to the harbor. The abandoned vessel was to have been used as a breakwater Inside the harbor. rjti $r r WAIT TILL THEY HEAR ABOUT WISCONSIN! Toshiyo Oda, the man with upraised arms in the foreground, calls Gen. Douglas MacArthur a "Ifving saint," With his friends, he paraded through the streets of Tokyo with signs boosting the Ceneral for President. But Toshiyo will probably be a bit downcast when the news from Wisconsin reaches him. Some Japanese say the primary defeat will cause MacArthur to "lose face" in Japan. I Photo by NEA-Acme staff correspondent Richard j. rerguson.l Nebraska G. O. P.'s Choice in Apparently Between Stassen. Russia Building Biggest Air Force WASHINGTON. April 13. tIP) Russia is building' the greatest air force in the world, Air Secre tary Symington told the House armed services committee today. , "They, seem to want tq reach a declsionr with lis and they want to reach it In the air." he said. . Symington testified on draft' legislation. A mil ueiore tne com mittee would authorize a draft to boost the armed forces to 1,. 944.000 men. about 559.500 more than they now have. The bill would provide for 70 air combat groups compared with 55 at pres ent. "Wo know Russia Is building 12 times as many planes as we are," Symington told the committee. Symington said the air force does not believe It would have to use the draft to get the men needed for 70 groups. More Hospitals to Get Cancer Treatment Aid . PORTLAND, April 13 OP) Cancer treatment equipment for more Oregon hospitals will be the aim of the state unit of the American Cancer 3oclbty this year. Dr. Harold M. Erlckson, state health officer, said the program would make cancer equipment available to hospitals planned under the federal-state program. He said it would permit local treatment of patients heretofore required to travel great distances from their homes. TtUAWOOK f ' ' X 1 - PORTLAND t . 1 ' " 1 1 ,oC(hmmi ' ) ' 'S- it ' - J'm-' , V ! ' 0 R A i .akoRVAtujU- , t ': !; ' ' ...'0StW f' ,, I I ; ' . w " h LEADS TOUR TO HOME TOWN JoAnn Amordo, "Miss Oregon 1947," is pictured above as she points out the Rosoburg-Sutherlin community to Oregon Ad Clubbers in preparation for their "Tourist Host"- tour. The tour was scheduled in Roseburg this afternoon. "Miss Oregon" is accompanying the group of Cham ber of Commerce executives, entertainers, photographors and community representatives on the 1,050-mile "barnstorm" jaunt, designed to familiarize as many people as possible In each Oregon community with the tourist attractions in all other sections of the stale. Stassen Claims He'll Top Rivals At National Meet By JACK BELL OMAHA, April 13. (fll Ne braska Republicans pick from a fidld of Hcven candidates .tndav the man they want the GOP national convention to nominate for president In June. With heavler-than-usual prim ary voting In prospect, most poli ticians here thought top choice lies between Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of Now York and Senator Robert A. Tatt of Ohio. These three ended their cam paigns with a blaze of oratory directed primarily against Com munism. Stassen was the only one here for a personal appear ance. Dewey and Taft talked to Nebraska voters only by radio. But what they said added up to a generul attack on the Com munist, pinpointed at the Bogota, Colombia, revolt. Some politicians forecast that Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan who says he isn't In terested In the n o m 1 n a Hon might run well up among the leaders. Almost no campaigning has been done here for him or for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gov. Earl Warren of California,' and House Speaker Joseph Martin of Massachusetts. Any of this latter group who finishes among the first four (Continued on Page Six) 88-48 Today's Vote Dewey. Taft 2 Drunken Drivers Feel Hand of Law Arrested late Sunday on his release from Mercy Hospital, ueorge a. yjann, a. or Mediora, was sentenced to fid days in the county jail and fined 5200 by Justice of the Peace Thomas (5. Hartflel Monday. on a charge ot uruiiKen driving, we pleaded guilty. Zuiin was Involved In an auto mobile accident two miles north of Hoseburg Sunday morning, when his car collided with an automobile operated by Mrs. Alice Oldham of Seattle, Wash., the state police renorted. Mrs. Old ham and Mrs. Iiura H. Cunning ham of Seattle, her passenger, were taken to Mercy Hospital, where their condition was re ported "fair" today. William B. Pltchford, 40, of Eu gene, passenger in Zahn's auto mobile, was fined $25 by Hartflel on n charge of drunkenness on n highway, to which he pleaded guilty. Clifford C. Ksterbrook, 37, of Albany, was fined $100 and sen tenced to 30 days In the county jail by Hartflel Monday, on a charge of drunken driving. His license was revoked One year. Estcrbrook also was fined $200 for operating a motor vehicle while his operator's license was revoked for an earlier offense, Hartflel said. Esterbrook, arrested north of Roseburg on tho Pacific Highway late Saturday night, pleaded guilty to both charges. Federal Aid Highway Program Has House O.K. WASHINGTON, April 13 (IP) A $1,500,000 three-year federal aiu nignway program was ap proved yesterday by the House.- ine measure was sent to tne Senate. It authorizes, but does not actually appropriate. $500.- 000,000 for road work for each of tne fiscal years ending June 30, 1950, 1951 and 1952. The actuul appropriation must be made later. lit tne total for eacn year. $225,000,000 would be for projects on the basic highway system, $150,000,000 for secondary roads, ane $12,(uMJUj lor city roads in the federal system. The money would be apportion ed to the states on a basis of area, population, and existing post-road mileage. Unit Quits CIO Council Over Political Issue TACOMA, April 13 (pLo. cal 29, Tatoma unit of the Inter national Woodworkers of Ameri ca, has withdrawn from the state CIO council in Seattle in a pro test to State Council political ac tions. R. J. Carlno, member of the local's t-xecutive hoard, said the Tacoma unit broke off Saturday because the state council had re fused to follow a national direc tive to support the Marshall plan and to oppose the third party of Henry Wallace. Rogue River Judge, Wife Found Dead of Gas Fumes ROGUE RIVER, Ore., April 13 (tV) The ROgut River City Judge and his wife were found dead In their trailer house yes terday, apparently asphyxiated. Judge Tom Waller and Mrs. Waller had evidently been dead for two days. Specie! Court Stands 2 to 11 On Approval J Majority Also Sustains Provision for Unions To File Financial Reports i WASHINGTON. April 13. UP) Splitting 2-1, a special three. Judge court today ruled constitu. tlonal two key provisions of tlja Taft-Hartley labor act those re quiring union officers to swear" they aiv not Communists and un. ions to file financial statements. The provisions apply only to) those unions which want to mako use of the National Labor Relu- tions Board s machinery. But un Ions which do not go to NLRI1 cannot get legal status as exclu sive bargaining agent In a plant. It was the second major court ruling on constitutionality of im. portant provisions of the Taft Hartley act. On March 13, V. S. District Judge Ben Moore ruleil unconstitutional a section forbid. ding spending of union funds fop political purposes. The NLRU nag appealed Moore's ruling tu the Supreme Court. The three-judge court which ruled today is a tribunal which federal laws provided for In or. der to speed action on constitu tional Issues. In effect, it takes cases at th District Court level, but appeals from It go directly to the Su preme Court, by-passing U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This al so can be done in some cases on regular U. S. District Court de cisions. It was done in the case oC Moore's ruling. . Aids Purge of Reds In today's ruling, Judge Wilbur1 K. Miller and Bolltha J. Laws up held the non-Communist and ii. nanclal registration . provisions. . (Continued on Page 3) Pilot of Crashed Plane is Sought TIMBERLINE LODGE, Ore., April 13. W) A crashed liaison plane was found early today on the edge of Mount Hood's New ton Glacier but the pilot was not there. ,. Unrirplmra fnnnn mif" tn fnllni mint footprints -leading an'o; from the plane. The pliot, Lt. Edward K. Ka houn of McChord Field, Wash., crashed yesterday while search ing for aji Oregon National Guard A-20 missing since Friday. Lt. Ku gene C, Gore, flying a second L-S plane in "yesterday'i:. seanch, salt! Kahouiits Diane was- forced against-the mountainside by .a violent downdraft, but Gore sub sequently saw Kahoun walking around, apparently unhurt. Tracks led down tho mountain to the northeast and if Kahoun continued on the course he would get into a region of steep canyons. and neavy timoer, tar irom any road, Langdon said. Kahoun s plane was one of sev eral searching for tho A-26 which carried tnreo rwtianders wnen it vanished as It approached Port land on a night flight from Mo Chord Field. New Directors Chosen By Turkey Breeders Assn. Directors of the Northwestern Turkey Breeders Association to serve aurmg tne coming year were elected at the annual meet ing of the association Monday night in the Chamber of Com merce rooms, It was reported by Sam J. Shoemaker, secretary treasurer. New directors are A. M. Bon ner, Medford; Roy o. Young, Roseburg, and Lawrence Michaels, Canyonville, three-yeai" term; Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Eagjo Point, Ore., and Eugene Fisher, Springfield, two-year term; H. B. Roadman and Jay Conn, both oC Roseburg, one-year term. A special meeting nas been called lor the evening of April 20, for the election of officers tu head the association and tu choose a manager and secretary- treasurer for tne annual iNortn- western Turkey Show, Shoe maker announced. Japanese Mines Keep Destruction Boat Busy ASTORIA, Ore. Aoril 13. UP) The Nnw's Northwest mino disposal officer is busier blowing up Japanese war explosives than a boy shooting firecrackers on. July Fourth. The Coast Guard reported moro turned uu along the Oregon and Washington coasts yesterday. Five dinted toward tne Beaclics or ashore Sunday. Several are alone the Lincoln County shore, at Gravs Harbor, Wash., and at Oysterville. Wash. Lt. Don Winslow, the Navy of ficer, still has several to detonato Irom the weekend reports. jevity pact ant By L. r. Rdztnatein Hank Wallace and his fol lowers to the contrary notwith standing, the conviction is grow- ing that the only way to stop Russia's mean business is to show her that we mean business.