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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.