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Newspaper Page TextU. Ot 0. Library Comp. Eugene, Oregon Mrs. Stanley L. Kidder, Roseburg Matron, Chosen Oregon Mother of 1948 Mrs. Stanley L. (Maude Rest) Kidder, 69, mother of three sons, a native of Roseburg, a former war prisoner of the Japanese, and a woman whose fortitude and courage won praise from fellow internees, has been elected Oregon Mother of 1948. The an nouncement was made by the special committee of club leaders appointed by Governor Hall. Mrs. Kidder was selected from among 26 prominent Oregon women nominated from all parts of the state. The committee conferred the high honor after considering her record of birth as a native Ore gonian, one of six children In a pioneer family; her civic activi ties over a long period of years, her religious work, and achieve ments as a mother, as well as her heroism in time of war. She was born in Roseburg July 30, 1878, the daughter of John G. Rase, who crossed the plains by ox team in 1852, settling on a donation land claim near Rose burg. Educated in the Roseburg pub lic schools, she took an active part in civic and fraternal affairs at an early age. In 1906 she became Worthy Matron of Roseburg Chapter, No. 8, Order of Eastern Star. -In 1908 she crossed the Pacific to become the bride of Stanley L. Kidder, then serving in Manila as postal inspector in the Philip pines. She returned to Roseburg for the birth of her first son, Stanley Rast Kidder, born April 26. 1910. Her second son, Robert Priljip Kidder, was born inManila, Sept. 1,1915. The family then re turned to Roseburg where her third son, James Donald Kidder, was born March 7, 1919. Leader In P.-T. A. Activities While her sons were attending school, Mrs. Kidder became in terested in educational affairs and continued work with Parent Teacher Associations over a long period of years, serving as presi dent of the Benson. and Junior High parent-teacher groUDS. In this work she assumed leader ship in landscaping school grounds. She also took a prominent part in the community's civic and soc ial and religious affairs. Her husband, who had operated a retail shoe store in Roseburg for several years, returned to ICrmHrmprt nn Pntrp Slv) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AS its final windup of a cam paign, our side (Britain, the U. S. and France) make a THIRD Jemand on Russia for a yes-or-no answer on the question of return ing Trieste to Italy. The practi cal effect of the demand was to call on Moscow to quit stalling and put up or shut up. We're obviously pleased with our Trieste campaign strategy. We're sure it was a smart move. We think it put Russia on the spot. Besides, we THOUGHT OF IT FIRST. Dispatches indicated that our State Department thought the Italian election was in the bag and there isn't much doubt that Washington thought the Trieste stratagem helped tremendously. TRIESTE has unquestionably been "smart" politics. But that is about all that can be said for it. We need to go much farther than smart politics If we're going to be the leader of the world. First of all, we've got to be SIN CERE AND GENUINE. Smart politics won. the Italian election In the present pinch, but in the long pull it will be the sin cerity and the genuineness of America, as reflected in her for- (Contlnued on Page Two) All-Out Government Service Vln Wartime Recommended By Military Research Leader WASHINGTON, April 21. OP Legislation to put every man in the country into government service in wartime was recommended today by Dr. Vannevar Bush. In a letter to the House Armed Service Committee, he said a future war would require the united effort of the nation's entire manpower according to each individual's ability. "This would mean universal service to be put into effect with out delay," he wrote. "Legisla tion for this purpose should, therefore, be ready in case of need." Dr. Bush is chairman of the Army- Navy- Airforce Research and development board. He was asked by chairman Andrews to comment on draft proposals be fore the committee., A'ter the Bush letter was read, the committee heard Maj. Gen. John E. Dahlquist, assistant chief of army personnel, estimate that the armed forces will need 950, 000 men to reach a proposed strength cf 1,842,000 by July 1, 1949. Dxhlqulst said at least 730,000 of these would have to be draft ed, nr received as new volunteers. The rest would be provided by repnlistmems. He estimated that the National Guard and all reserve units could be brought up to maximum effec tive strength bv taking In ap proximately 1.000,000 men dur ing the same period. Draft Fight Looms This testimony was heard as the outline of a hot draft fight in Congre began to take shape, Roseburg Airport Survey Arranged Survey of the Roseburg air port to determine what work will be necessary to establish suitable approaches to the runway will be made by County Surveyor Ben B. Irving, it was reported by City Manager M. W. Slankard. Irving, Slankard, and J. W. Blair, assistant engineer of the State Board of Aeronautics, visit ed the airport yesterday in a pre liminary inspection before the survey is started. In a letter read to the City Council Monday, W. M. Bartlett, director of the State Board of Aeronautics, advised that the sur vey should determine the cost of excavating the hilltops of Mt. Nebo and the hill to the north of the airport. Such excavations would permit establishment of a 40 horizontal to 1 vertical aporoach ratio through the two-mile length of the approach zone of the runway, Bartlett said. Cost of reestablishing naviga tion aids should also be deter mined in the airport survey, Bart lett's letter added. Cost of the survey will be met with a $500 grant from the State Board of Aeronautics matched by a like amount of city funds. The Roseburg Chamber of Commerce was instrumental in securing the state grant. Grants Pass Woman, Baby Killed in Auto Crash YREKA, Calif., April 21 OB Mrs. Dorothy Elwell, 26, of Grants Pass, Ore., and her infant daugh ter, Bornlee, were killed yesterday when their automobile crashed into a parked truck near Mount Shasta. The car was driven by Mrs. Elwell's brother, Colin Cris well, 19. Criswell was injured seriously. He indicated they had been on the road through the night and day from Southern California. C. M. Rollans Take Over Studio Management C. M. Rollans of Berkely, Calif., has taken over the management of the Bishop Moderne studios, located 'In- Miller's store, it Is an nounced by W. E. Klosterman, owner of the studios. Rollans, an ex-service man who is married and hus two children, arrived here Sunday to manage the business. Rev. Len B. Fishback Burned in Explosion Len B. Fishback, former pastor of the First Christian Church in Roseburg is recovering from seri ous burns he suffered in a gas explosion at the Christian Church In Bend about three weeks ago. He is now at home and regaining the use of his hands, which had second and third degree burns. Mother. 27 Years Old. Has Record of Ten Children STREATOR, III., April 21. P Mrs. John Cole believes she may be the nation's young est mother with the largest family. Mrs. Cole, wife of an electri cian, is 27 years old and has 10 children. All births were single. The children five boys and five girls range in age from four weeks to 10 years. The family has been living In the basement of a new home which is under construction. A second member of the House Armed Services Committee came out flatly against any peacetime revival of selective service. He said still a third member, as yet unidentified, will vote "no" on the issue. "I'm against it, and the people back home are against it," Rep. Bishop (P..-I11.) told a reporter. "I have found that out. Other members ot the House will find it out, too." As House opposition began to take voice, Rep. Engel (R.-Mich.) estimated tnat raising the armed forces to the size contemplated by the dralt bills now under con sideration would cost the country at least $2,250,000,000 more a year. . bill calling for all men from 18 through. 30 years of age to register for a peacetime draft was formally introduced in the House yesterday. Men from 19 through 25 years of age would be eligible for draft ing which would start automati cally 90 days after the measure war signed Into law by the presi dent. It sets a new ton of 2.006.- 000 men for all the armed ser vices, 621,500 more than the pre- sent strength The Weather Cloudy with occasional show ers tonight and Thursday: little change in temperature. Established 1873 Coal Strike Injunction Continued Nation's Peace Still in Peril, Court Asserts Lewis' Order to Miners To Resume Work Still Awaits Full Obedience WASHINGTON, April 21 (IP) Judge T Alan Goldsborough to day issued a ban against a soft coal strike for about 80 days. This Injunction replaces a tem porary eot'rt order which John L. Lewis was found guilty of of violating. It was Lewis' disre gard for the temporary order which brought him a $20,000 fine personally and the United Mine Workers a $1,400,000 one yester day for criminal contempt. Lewis still faces the possibility of 'urther fines, or even jail, on a civil contempt count and has telegraphed the miners his wish that they fret back to work. Goldsborough approved the In junction or. the plea of a govern ment attorney that "the public interest remains In peril" and a strike still exists. "National Saftey Periled" Goldsborough said he thinks the government is right that the "national peace and safety are still in oeril" and said he had "no difficulty" In deciding to is sue the injunction. The injunction was issued un der the Taft-Hartley law which permits an 80-day ban on a strike whsn a labor dispute threatens the national health and safety. The starting date and closing date for the 80 days was not im mediately determined. The in iunction Itself haa no terminat ing date. Government lawyers said the SO days should start when the court's orders have been com plied with and the strike ends. They added this date is still un certain because there "still is a strike. Lewis' lawyers fought against the injunction with the argument there is now no strike and that the injunction, issued under the TafMIartley Law, was unconsti tutional. Lewis Faces New Rap I.?wis Ik scheduled to appear In court Friday to face a charge of civil contempt. It was pretty clear that what Gol'lsborough will do then will (Continued on Page Six) Three Organizations Vie For Telephone Workers SEATTLE, April 21 (m An all-out drive to organize the Paci fic Coast's 55,000 telephone work ers will be undertaken by the Communications workers of America (1ND), officials said to day. Twenty thousand workers al ready are afflilated with the CWA. John Crull, director of the or ganization, told convention dele gates yesterday that the union is battling the CIO's National Federation of Telephone Workers in Oregon and Northern Califor nia, and Is engaged in a juris dictional dispute with the AFL Electrical Workers to represent 600 employes of the Interstate Telephone Company. Negotiations affecting 2,500 Washington-Idaho employes of the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Company will open Thurs day. Life Sentence Begun By Slayer of Woman AUBURN, Calif., April 21 IIP) Tne gates of San Quentin pris on opened today for Charles Ed win Thomasson, 26, starting a life sentence for shooting Lulue Ma" Easley of Stockton, his com panion on a motor trip to Ore gon. Thomasson. one-time bartender, cool: and bellhop, was sentenced to life yesterday when he apear ed before Superior Judge Lowell L. Sparks and changed his plea of innocent to guilty. Miss Ear-ley disappeared early in Novemher. Her trail was fol lowed to Klamath Falls and later her body v.us found in a pasture np" Roseville. Thomasson was picked up in December in Miami, Fla. Earl K. Long Elected Governor of Louisiana NEW OP.LEANS, April 21 (IP) Louisiana voters went through the formality yesterday of electing Earl K. Long as their governor in a statewide general election. There was no opposition for the youneer brother of the late Senator Huey P. I.ong, and the vot" was li.ht. The fight for the governorship was staged In the Democratic primaries In Jan uary and February. In the primaries, Long defeat ed former governor Sam Jones, who campaigned cn a "reform jovornment" platform. ROSEBURG, Early Returns Favor . Proposed Budget For Schools in Douglas Taxpayers cast a generally favorable vote in the county school budget election Monday, on the proposal to levy $5S3,208. 24 i t excess of the 6 per cent tax limitation. Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, county school superintendent, re ported. Complete returns have hot yet own received. Largest vote in any 'district making returns to the school superintendent's office Thursday was registered in Oakland School District No. 1. There, the vote was 82 to 55 In favor of the pro posed excess county school tax lev.'. Oakland voters also approved the purchase of a site for a new school budding by a vote of 97 to -11. Other districts making returns inclnde Sutherlln, where the vote was 25 to 3 favoring the budget;' Caryonville, 74-14; Winchester, 19-6: Drain, 2-1, as well as several small districts. Mrs. Gorrell said she had not vet received returns from Myrtle Creek or Reedsnort, or other larpe districts. Total votes cast in the election will be announced as soon as complete returns are received here, she added. Claims Trail Deaths Of 6 in Oregon From Bomb WASHINGTON, April 21 (IP) The Senate received a house approved bill today to pav $20, 000 in claims for the death df six persons by explosion of a Japanese balloon-bomb near Bly, Ore., three years ago. The House, in approving the measure, said the armv had not given the civilian population suf ficient warning that the bombs had fallen in the Bly area. Under the bill. Frank J. Patske, Grand Forks, N. D.. would re ceive $6,000 for the death of his son, Richard, and daughter, Ethel; the Rev. Archie Mitchell of Bly would get $5,000 for the deathof his wife, Mrs. Elsie Mitch ell; and $3,000 each wotdd go to J. L. Shoemaker of Bly for the death of his son. Edward, and to N. L. Gifford, Bly, for the death of his son, Jay. The bomb exploded as It was being examined by the party. Colombia Revolt Cost 1.500 Lives; 2.500 Hurt BOGOTA, Colombia, April 21. (IP) The rebellion which broke out in Bogota April 9 cost the lives of 1,500 persons, Red Cross officials reported today. They said 1.200 were killed in Bogota, the capital, and 300 out side the clt". Authorities in Bogota esti mated 2,500 persons were injured. Damage ran Into the millions of dollars. The Red Cross brought in 815, 000 worth of drugs lo combat disease. Umpqua Harbor Fund In Bill That Gets Okay WASHINGTON, April 21 (IP) Tie House Public Works Com mittee yesterday approved new Hood control and rivers and har bors projects which would cost more than $37,000,000. If Congress and the president approve the projects, they still co'.ld not be started until Con gress appropriated money for the work. Projects approved included Umpqua harbor and river at Win chester Buy, Ore., $34,500. Auto Blow Kills Boy In Sight of His Mother CAMAS, Wash., April 21. (IP) Four-year-old Donald E. Max well was struck by a car and killed in front of his home two miles east of here in Weir Park Addition last night. His mother, Mrs. Eldon Max well, witnessed the accident. State Patrol Sgt. James Coshaw said Orville T. Smith, Camas, was driver of the car. Crickets Begin Annual Threat to Wheat Crops PENDLETON, Ore., April 21. (IP) Hordes of Mormon crickets are hatching out in the sacehrush, and this area's wheat ranchers want to declare war before the insects invade the grain fields. Officials of the Federal Bureau of Entomology were asked yester day to eradicate the crickets, hut the bureau said funds would per mit only control measures. Rural School Budget Loses in Sherman County MORO, Ore., April 21. CP) A rural school county budget of $245,904.88 was relected yesterday by Sherman Countv voters. The vote was 207 to 119. The election was held under the new law creating a county-wide school budget for all but Class 1 districts, the tax lew to be made on a county-wide basis. Walter P. Reuther Shot OREGON, WEDNESDAY. Drop Fight On ERP, Hint To Italian Reds ROME, April 21. (IP) Italy's Communists, overwhelmed in the election, received a hint from their top labor leader today of an about-face on the Marshall plan. The Communists opposed Mar shall plan aid throughout the campaign. Smarting from their worst de feat in free voting, the Commu nists also faced the possibility of a serious rift with some of their left wing Socialist allies. With nearly complete returns apparently assuring the American-backed Christian Democrats of control of both Houses of Par liament, Giuseppe Di Vlttorio of the Communist-dominated Gen eral Confederation of Labor Indi cated It wants to take a stand on American aid independent of Mos cow. Dl Vlttorio announced he in tends to ask the executive of the World Federation of Trades Unions (WFTU) to let each coun try decide its position on the Mar shall plan independently of Rus sia. This, he said, would let labor in each nation decide on the basis of the country's needs. The move was believed calcu lated to avert a split in the 6,000,-000-membcr confederation over American aid. It also Indicated the powerful role American aid must have played in the elections. . Di Vitlorio's announcement came after a popular front spokes man declared that "our opposition to the (Marshall) plan is un changed." Jacinto Cardonu, infor mation director of the Front, placed a large oart of the blame for the Communist defeat on the women of Italy, who voted in large numbers. Victory Decisive Official returns on all but 155 of the 41,647 precinctt) in the "'amber, of Deputies I election gave the Christian Democrats 48.7 per cent of the vote, a total of 12,681.527. The Commuist-led Popular Front had 7,995,601, or 30.7 per cent. In third place were the anti-Communist Socialists, with 1,848,826. or 7.1 per cent. Final official returns on the Senate vote pave the Christian Democrats 10,740.131, or 47.9 per cent; the Popular Front, 6.955.229, or 31 per cent, and the anti-Communist Socialists, 1,580,722, or seven per cent. Thus Premier Alcide De Gas pet i's Christian Democrats seem ed assured of being able to form a government with the Independ ent Socialists, with whom they are closely allied in the present government. The Christian Demo crats apparently do not even need (Continued on Page Six) Mother Has to Choose Between Tots in Fire ' MANCHESTER, Me., April 21. (IP)- A molherhadto choose be tween two of her children and as a result one perished in a fire that razed their home veslerday. Mrs. John L. Childs told fire men she reentered the burning house twice in an effort to reach her baby. Sadie Jean. Her son, Joseph, three, toddled after her. Mrs. Childs was forced to turn hack from smoke-filled stairs each time to carry Joseph to safety. The third time the boy stayed outside. By then the stairs were cut off. The blaze was so Intense fire men were unable to enter a sec ond floor window. Oregon Cattle Thieves To Draw More Police SALEM. Ore.. Anril 21. (IP) Governor John H. Hall said today additional state policemen would be sent to Eastern Oregon to stop cattle rustling. He said the request for more officers came from D. R. Cook, secretary-treasurer of the Uma tilla County Cattlemen's Associa tion. Governor Hall said cattle thefts are on the Increase. It Is made easy by the fact that stolen tattle can be taken to Nevada, where Ihelr identity is lost because Nevada has no brand laws. Hall said he would ask Governor Vail Pittman of Nevada to have his state enact brand laws. Child Under 6? Don't Take Him to Worship, Advice KANSAS CITY, April 21 (IP) A director of children's church work suggests that If your child Is less than six years old, don't take him to the worship services. Miss Atha Bowman, Richmond, Va., director of children's work for the Presbyterian Church, U. S., said the child is likely to de velop a distast for religion. Miss Bowman advocated a church-operated nursery which would pre pare children for later attendance at worship services. A child under six or seven, she said, finds it uncomfortable to sit still for an hour or more dur ing services. APRIL 2 1, I948 Russian, German Commies Launch Economic Program To Fight Marshall Aid Plan BERLIN, April 21. (IP) Russians and German Communists launched today a campaign openly aimed at offsetting the moral value of the Marshall plan aid to Western Germany. Eastern Germany has been kept out of the European recovery program by the Russians, but the moral effect is bound to be pro found when the Eastern Germans see their western hretheren get $500,000,000 in economic aid. Vagrant Held As Prowler Suspect Going to the police station to report the theft of a pair of boots from his garage Monday night, Tony Shukle, 219 S. Pine St., recognized the boots on the feet ot a man being booked for vag rancy, Chief of Police Calvin H. Baird reported. Russell Thomas Wilms, 32, had been arrested Tuesday morning in the lobby of. a local hold, Baird said. He had been reported as a car prowler to the police. For lack of evidence, however, he was held at the city jail on a charge of vagrancy pending investigation, Baird said. Shukle said he heard noises in his back yard Monday night. Go ing out to lock the garage door, he apparently trapped a thief in side the garage. The intruder took the boots from the back seat of Shukle's car and kicked out a window of the garage to escape. Baird said that Wilms was ar raigned in the Justice Court Tuesday on the charge of enter ing a vehicle with intent to steal. He was granted a delay in enter ing a plea. He was committed to the county jail with bail set at $500 by Justice ot the Peace Hart f lei. Accused Prisoner Not Employee of Phone Co. tanford - Edward Malone, '41, returned here from Stockton, Calif., to answer charges of ob taining money under false pre tenses, wa not employed by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. us reported by Sheriff O. T. Carier, but a subcontractor working tin the coaxial cable, said R. J. Henwood, local mana ger of the telephone company. Sheriff Carter said Malone had called at the Roseburg post of fice to collect mall for the fore man of the camp at Canyonville. Contained in the mail were pay roll chert's which he allegedly cashed wi'h local merchants. He was picked up at Stockton last week on vagrancy charges und nol 1 for Douglas Counly author ities. Two County Bridges May Receive Steel Decking Plans to deck with steel mesh the Brown Bridge, on the Garden Valley Road, and the county bridge at Dlllard. are being con sidered by the County Court, It was reported by County Com missioner H. B. Roadman. The steel decking would be similar to that on the Oak Street Bridge in Roseburg. Both the Brown Bridge and the Dlllard Bridge are of si eel. Road man said that installation of steel decking would add consid erably to the life of the two spans. The Brown Bridge crosses the North Umnqua River near the Roseburg Country Club. The Dll lard Bridge spans the South Um pqua River. Independent Loggers Association Formed An organization affiliated with the Western Forest Industries Asnociatlon was recently formed hy independent loggers and saw mill operators of Douglas Coun ty. Clyde Todd, Days Creek, was chesen chairman, and Dick Der rlg, Azalea, secretary. The new organization will take action toward improvement of county roads and revision of the county timber sale policy and government sustained yield pro grain It was reported. Consid crutfon will ulso be given to the forthcoming elections. Future meetings of the group will be announced. Weyerhaeusers Cancel Lumber Price Slash TACOMA, April 21. (Il The general manager of the Weyer haeuser Sales Company said to day the concern has canceled its recent 10 per cent price reduction because of a declining timber market. Harry T. Kendall said the 10 per cent reduction was made in January "to help keep down the cost of building." "Today there Is every evidence to show that the recent danger ous Inflationary trend in lumber prices Is subsiding, Kendall said. ' we proposed, to get 'our prices closer to the market and make price adlustments up or down on individual Items as the need arises." 95-48 80 Days As the western-licensed news papers playd up aid allocations for the American, British and French zones, the Russians took steps to raise morale in their zone. The measures Included: 1. An announcement hv the Russian - controlled Berlin radio that steel production in the Rus sian zone will be increased. 2. A declaration In the Soviet Army's newspaper "Taegllche Rundschau" that the end of con fiscation of big industrial prop erties for socialization means that all forces of private enterprises as well as socialized industries can now get to work with all their powers for reconstruction." 3. A proclamation that denazi fication has been concluded in the Soviet zone. Meanwhile, the Russian-controlled press sought to explain the apparent communist defeat in Italy as a result of "American intervention and vote fraud." German press dispatches told of new Russian actions to seal off their zone against informa tion from the west. LONDON. April 21. (IP) Rus sian disputes with the western powers over Germany and Aus tria were sharpened today with new tnrusts ana counter thrusts. In London, a Tass dispatch said H Russian commission has found a British plane repsonsible for a fatal air crash over Ber lin April 5. In Vienna, the United States and Russia blamed each other for a clash Mondav on the streets' of the American zortc, when thro Russian officers attempted to ar rest a displaced person in the U. S. sector. American military police wrested the woman from the Russians. In Berlin, W. T. Babcock Amer ican deputy commandant of the city, called his Russian counter- Kart the biggest spreader of false oods "since the time of Aanan las." . In the British capital, the Unit ed States, Britain and France made plans which may further the split between western and eastern Germany. The three pow ers laid the groundwork for re storing tho western section's fi nancial stability and giving it wide self-governing powers. ine agenda wnicn was adopt eel closely resembled the one which served tho first three-pow er session last month. Russia was not Invited to cither session. Ban on Pensions For Miners Asked WASHINGTON, April 21 (IP) Coal operators today asked for a court injunction to bar pay ment of miners' pensions under the recently arranged settlement plan. Ezra Van Horn, trustee repre senting tho coal operators on the miners pension and welfare fund, said he filed suit to bar payments from the fund "until the court has had an opportunity to de termine the validity" of the pen sion arrangement made by John L. Lewis and Senator Bridges (R NH), tho other two trustees. Van Horn had dissented from the pension payment plan ne gotiated hy Lewis and Bridges. The plan calls for $100 a month pensions for miners 62 years or older who have served 20 years In the coal Industry. The plan would apply only to miners who reached 62 years on or after May 29, 194G. The plan provides for pay ments to miners who worked In mines which do not contribute to the welfare fund. That fund comes from a 10-cents-a-ton "roy alty" on each ton of coal mined from those mines coming into the plan. Van Horn's plea for an Injunc tion contends that pension pay ments to miners for whom no contribution had been made to the welfare fund Is illegal. Biggest Ride for Nickel Doomed in New York City NEW YORK. April 21 (IP) The world's biggest ride for a nlc'tel is doomed. Announcing a 10-ecnt fare for the city's auhwav system and a seven-cent tariff for bus and trol ley lines, Mayor William O'Dwyer last night ended a tra dition as old as the 44-vear-nld history of the Metropolitan Un derground Railroad. He said the higher fare would !eeomfl effective July 1. The In crease Is expected to furnish $81. 010,000 for the city's 1948-49 bud-jet. Auto Union's , Chief Struck In Chest; Arm Shotgun Blast Fired Through Home Window; Reported Out of Danger DETROIT, April 21 The CIO's Walter P. Ruether escaped death at a gunman's hand last night. ; A mysterious assailant, creep ing to a lighted kitchen window of the auto unionist's home, fired a shotgun blast at Ruether, in lllcting serious arm and chest wounds. Early todav. as doctors rennrterl Ruether out of danger, a battery of Detroit's police and top detec tives followed slim clues in a search for one or two men in the assualt Simultaneously Reuthers high est associates in the UAW pledged th-lr aid to police, calling a spec ial meeting of the executive board for that purpose. "We'll spend any amount of money to clear this tip," said secretary-treasurer Emil Mazey. For a time It was feated that Reuther, fiery president of the CIO's United Auto Workers, might lose his right arm, shatter ed by several slugs. "Communist or Screwball" Reuther himself, according to prosecutor James N. McNally, blamed "management, Commu nists or a screwball." However, the prosecutor said Reuther "was n't much help on what happened." The 40-year-old red-haired, ag gressive UAW leader has long been an avowed foe of Commun ism. Currently his big auto union, which speaks for nearly 1,000,000 workers of. the car plants. Is pressing its new spring wage In crease demand on the industry. , Reuther was shot a few minutes after returning home from a meeting of the UAW Internation al Executive board. As he stood at a refrlgator In the breakfast nook of his home on the northwest side, a blast was fired through a window four or five feet Xrom him. The charge struck his right arm. One slug penetrated hla chest cavity, stopping near the skin surface In the stomach area. Shooter Flees In Car Neighbors said they saw a man dash out of the Reuther yard and flee in a car a moment after th shot. ' 'i v Reuther'a wife, Mae. who had helped him prepare a snack be fore they were to retire, was out of the line of. lire. It was the second attack on Reuther since he became promi nent in organized labor. In 1938, in the course of a particularly stormy period of the UAW's his tory, he was beaten up by two men. There have been no known threats against him recently, how ever. GOP Rivals Gird For Oregon Vote PORTLAND, April 21. (IP) Republican presidential aspirants Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Harold E. Stassen of Minne sota are getting set to make Ore gon's May 21 primary a crucial battleground for their candidacies. The state election will be tho last major ballot clash between the two young Republican lead ers before the national convention June 21. Stassen is scheduled to speak here April 2fi, four days before tho New York governor leaves on a western trip that will glvo him 10 days of campaigning in Oregon. Dewey's secretary, Paul E. Lockwood, has been in the statu since Sunday. Two other aides, Hamilton Gaddis and Jules Dulce, are to leave New York for Ore gon later this week. The gov ernor's first appearance here will be before the state convention of the Junior Chamber of Commerce May 1. Other Oregon appearances have not yet been announced. : Robert Elliott, SUssen's Ore gon chairman, announced last night the duration of the former Minnesota governor's Oregon tour has not been decided. He spent four days up-stale earlier this year when he personally filed for the party's presidential prefer ence race. At Stake are 12 Oregon GOP convention delegates. Crop Dusting Flier Dies in Plane Crash WASCO, Wash., April 21. (IP) Crash of a crop dusting air plane in a field near here yes. terday was fatal to Pilot Jack Nichols of Portland. There was no Immediate ex planation lor the crash. Nichols had been piloting the plane, owned by the Columbia Crop Dusting Service of Portland, for severalweeks in this district. Ho is survived by a widow and small daughter. He was an Army pilot during the war. evity pact ant By L. F. Relzenstein Judging from Russian reac tion, tho Allies' recent demand on Moscow to "quit stalling" must have been misunderstood thus: "Quit Stalin."