U. 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-
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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
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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
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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."