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Newspaper Page TextU. Of O. Library Eugene, Oregon Jews, Arabs Poised for All -Out ar Arabs Massed W v " - ' - - - n f""t ' ' V-. 4 ' 1 - V i NAMED CITY RECORDER William D. Bollman, above, was appointed city rocorder-treasurer by City Manager M. W. Slank ard, after, the recent resignation of Mrs. Amelia J. Dick as recorder-treasurer, t-ormerly ot Los Angeles, Bollman was em ployed by a local office supply concern before his employment ) by the city. County Candidates Receive Bids to Talk at 'Town Meeting1 All candidates for elective office in Douglas County have been invited to speak at the courthouse Monday, in a "town meeting" arranged by a group of local women. The meeting will.be In the Circuit Court room of the courthouse at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Kugene A. Springer, chair man of arrangements, said the meeting will be preceded by a band concert. The Roseburg High School Band, she said, is to march through the downtown streets from 7, to 7:30. Several numbers will be presented on the court house lawn. The town meeting will be opened with a few words from Mayor Albert G. Flegel. Modera tor of the evening will be Gor don Carlson, local attorney. Kvery candidate for public office in Douglas County has been in vited to participate in the pro gram. Mrs. Springer said that each candidate has been sent a letter, in which he has been informed that he may speak for three minutes in behalf if his candi dacy. Following the talks, the floor will be thrown open for general discussion and question ing of office seekers. If candidates are unable to at tend in person, they have been asked to send representatives.. Candidates for stale and national 'Continued nn Pntip Six In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THERE was going to be a rail road strike. The country was all stirred up. The stock market had sinking spells. On the city markets, prices of perishables zoomed. In California and Florida, early food crop workers were laid off because there wasn't going to be any way to get the crops to market when they were har vested. The country generally was in a tizzy. AS it turned out, the trains kept on running. The government took them over and told the Army to run them. A federal judge stepped in with a temporary injunction. The three unions concerned called off the strike and their-men went to work for the Army. The public heaved a sign of relief and hoped it wouldn't hap pen again at least right away. k UOULDN"r everybody really ' 5l have been better off if in stead of all the hullaballoo and hurrah and the upset and the bitter talk and the angry passions the case had been submitted to a jury and the jury's decision ac-' cepted as is done In the case of (Continued on Page Two) Alcoholics Being Cured Wifh New Truth Serum1 Treatment SEATTLE, May 13. (Alcoholics are benig allowed to talk their way to a cure under the so-called "truth serum", a physician said here today. Dr. Paul O'Hallaren, assistant chief of staff of the Shadel Sanitarium, said the treatment has been tried on 210 persons. Sixty per cent have been cured. It is particularly useful, he ex- E'l-" ' ZL holism results from nervous ten- sion. The work is done under spon sorship of the Research Founda- j Hon lor Alcoholism, ur. rreaer ick Lemere, staff psychiatrist, also helps in the work. Persons treated thus far. Dr. O'Hollaren said, were selected as the most difficult of 4,000 per sons surveyed. If any results could be ob- tained in this group ve might expect even better results in a more desirable patient," he 1 explained. Four Effects Noted t The sodium pentothal has four effects that help bring about a cure, he explained. Information obtained while un der the drug' influence U used Picture by Paul Jenkins Sen. Taylor Draws Hot Denunciation WASHINGTON, Mav J3-.'P) Senator Knowland (K-Calif.), yes terday wrathfully denounced Senator Taylor (D-Idaho) in the Senate after Taylor criticized President Truman and called Sec retary of Denfcnse Forrestal "a potential Hitler." Knowland, stepping down from the rostrum where he had been presiding, shouted that Taylor "could not if he tried have given more aid and comfort to the Kremlin" than he did in his re marks to the Senate. Taylor is a candidate for the vice-presidency on the third party ticket of Henry Wallace. Taylor opened a lengthy speech by saying Mr. Truman had turned down what Taylor called Russia's willingness to confer on differ ences between the United States and The' Soviet. "ft isn't a question of America's bigness," Taylor told the Senate. "It's a question of the smallness of the President of the United States." Taylor said "it is too bad the people of the United States and the world have to have their hopes dashed because we have a man from Missouri who thinks he has to live up to Missouri stub bornoss, now that he has set out to get tough." Farm Program Message Coming from Truman WASHINGTON, May 13. UP) President Truman said today he hopes to send a farm program message to Congress tomorrow. He told his weekly news confer ence, however, that he is not ready to announce the appoint ment of a new secretary of agri culture. He'll do that, he added as soon as he gets the man. Clinton Anderson resigned Mon day as secretary to run for the Senate in New Mexico with the President's blessing. Mr. Truman gave no indication what he will propose in tomor row's message, regarded as a bid for the farmers' vote. Emmy Goering Indicted As Nazi "Profiteer" MUNICH, Germany, May 12. (IP) Emmy. Goering, widow of the reichsmarshal, was indicted today as a major offender under the denazification law. Mrs. Goering, in jail near Augs burg, is charged wiih "profiteer ing" from Nazi connections. The trial date has not been set. Her husband, Herman Goer ing, committed suicide in Nuern berg jail a few hours before he was to be hanged as a war crim inal. influence of sodium pentothal, the to make the person understand and hjs p1,,,,,. the ..,ree talking" induced by the drug gets the patients problems olf his chest the urug-causea cairn helps the nervous person "get a grip on himself"; and sugges tions passed to the drugged pa tient are retained subconsciously when the serum wears off. The treatment, which requires about a year, is given in connce- ,inn wlth the conditioned reflex treatment which makes the pa- ,lr.nt sck at tne smPu of acohol. The latter ts similar to giving a small boy a cigar to end fils desire to smoke. A drug, emetine. Is injected by hypodermic. It makes a person sick any time his stomach is irri- (Continued on Page Six) Established 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 1 3, 1 948 hub ChryslerJStrikers Prepare! for; Long Siege Union Raising $8 Million To Finance Fight 75,000 Workers Out At 15 Plants; Government Plans No Intervention DETROIT, May 13 UP) An $8,000,000 "kitty" being raised by the CIO United Auto Workers for their Chrysler Corp. strikers today gave the auto industry rea son to leaf a long walkout. The big corporation's 75,000 production workers who walked off the job yesterday morning to enforce union demands for 17 cents more per hour were set for a long siege on the picket lines. "The strike of the Chrysler workers is solid," declared Emil Mazey, UAW secretary-treasurer and acting president who is di recting the walkout. "They are set for the duration. The Chrysler workers will win." Some observers estimated the strike might last as long as two months. il Orderly picket lines were set up at 12 Chrysler plants In Michi gan, two in Indiana and one in California a short time after the strike deadline yesterday morn ing. Almost immediately effects of the auto Industry's first major strike in two years began to spread. Briggs Manufacturing Co., which supplies Chrysler plants, laid off 11,000 workers today and said the rest of its work force of 13,000 would be sent home Monday. State Law Tested With the strike a day old, It was still uncertain whether it would be used as a test of Michi gan's new labor law. The Bonine-Tripp legislation re quires a strike vote. The UAW contending it did not apply be cause several Chrysler plants are outside Michigan, took strike ac tion without such a vote. Gov. Kim Sigler ordered the Michigan Labor Mediation Board to find out "if the law is consti tutional." Philip Weiss, chairman of the board, asked Prosecutor (Continued on Page Six) V. J. Adair to Head Community Chest W. J. (Bill) Adair was elected president of the Roseburg Com munity Chest last night, at a joint meeting of the outgoing and incoming boards of directors. Adair succeeds Thomas Parkin son as president. Directors approved the expendi ture of $2,000 for youth recrea tion purposes by the Citizens Rec reation Committee. That amount had been requested prior to the fund drive last autumn. The money will be used as it is needed. Six new directors were wel comed to the Roseburg Communi ty cnest board last night. They include Wilson Henson, Roy Catching, J. V. Long, Eldoh Clark, Frank Ashley, and Eu gene Miller. The new directors replace the outgoing members of the board, Lester L. Wimberlv Bob Franks, Ken Bailey, and Parkinson. Other new officers of the board for the' coning year include Har rison Winston, vice president; Roy Catching, treasurer and David J. McCarroll, continuing as secretary. Holdover members of the board are H. T. Hanson, Bruce Elliott, and V. V. Harpham. One vacancy exists on the board. It is that of Carl Moser, who was recently transefrred from the Roseburg Veterans Hospital, where he was adminis trative officer, to the VA office at Billings, Montana. The new president of the Rose burg Community Chest has been active In community affairs. He is employed as superintendent of transportation for the Roseburg Lumber Co. He serves as mem ber of the City Council and is chairman of the City Fire Com mission. He is a member of the Roseburg Rotary Club. Federal Aid Sought To Widen Little River Road Federal aid in widening the Little River Road to eliminate 'hazardous conditions has been ! asked of the U. S. Public Roads I Administration, it was reported today by County Commissioner H. B. Roadman. Because the road is heavily traveled bv logging trucks, its narrow width is considered dan gerous. A number of accidents have occurred on the road. The road was formerly main tained by the PRA under a fed eral forest road nropram, but last year the road was turned back to the county for mainten ance. County Commissioner Lynn V. Beckley went to Portland Tues day to confer with PRA officials over tte county's request, Road man aid. T.v 1 'rq . -k "5? &jf j ' l BANANAS 'MUST' This 19 month old youngster, Peter Buescher, munches bananas In a Berlin hospital as doctors fixed a diet which they hope will save his life. Peter was stricken with an intestinal ailment at his home in Frankfurt and when his con dition became serious, a U. S. Army plane flew him to Berlin where a banana diet was ar ranged. Peter will have to eat six or seven bananas a day for several weeks, doctors say. IAP Wirephoto) Douglas Lumber Firms Buy Timber PORTLAND, May 13. UP) Auction of public lands timber in Washington and Oregon again has pushed prices to near record levels in the latest bidding, the Forest Service reports. Demand for Douglas fir In a Washing;on tract of 25,000,000 board feet of "peeler" timber near Packwood, Wash., put the price at $34.10 a thousand. A new stumpage record price was set for all species in sale of 117,472,000 feet of Oregon-California timber in Western Oregon. Total price was $1,685,930. In the Oregon deals, Pucket and Scherer of Keno, Ore., bid $28.50 per 1,000 feet for sugar pine and $27.50 for ponderosa pine in Klamath and Jackson counties. The prices set new rec ords on O-C timber. The McPherson Lumber Co., Lebanon, bid $27.50 for Douglas fir in Linn County, another O-C timber record. Successful bidders for the vari ous tracts include: Blue Mountain Lumber Co., Cottage Grove; Coos Bay Lumber Co., Coos Bay; Ben Diercks Lumber Co., Murphy; Robert Dollar Co., Glendale; Elk Lumber Co., Medford; Fischer Lumber Co., Marcola; Frores Frank Lumber Co., Lyons; Gar diner Lumber Co., Gardiner; R. D. Gates, Corvallis; Fred A. Hills, Springfield; Kissling Lumber Co., Yoncalla; E. A. Kruse, Drain; Long-Bell, Eugene; Murtin Bros. Box Co., Oakland; Modoc Lum ber Co., Klamath Falls; North Umpqua Timber Co., and Rose burg Lumber Co., Roseburg; Ore gon Caves Lumber Co., and S. H. & W. Lumber Co., Grants Pass; Pacific Mill Co., Creswell. Truman Defies Congress To Get Secret Files WASHINGTON, May 13. UP) President Truman today defied Congress to get confidential in formation from the White House or the cabinet. He told a news conference that Congress has no right to confi dential records of members of his cabinet. He said he would veto anv leg islation requiring such records, and that he did not believe the veto would be overridden. The courts have held repeat edly he said, that the President and his cabinet cannot be forced to divulge confidential informa tion. Congressional committee work ers and officials In executive agencies appear likely to be the only persons subject to Jail terms under a so-called "secrets" bill now pending. 14, ,000 Orcasii Veteran Look ing for Employment SALEM, May 13. UP) More than 7.1 per cent of Oregon's war vpterans are unemployed, the State Veterans Department re- i ports. this is almost three limes tne national average of 2.6 per cent of veterans unemployed. The department estimated there are 200,000 veterans in Ore ton, and 14,000 of them are look ing for Job. Debate Plans Shaping For 6-0. P. Rivals PORTLAND, May 13 UP) Republican leaders Harold B. Stassen and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey headed today into the home stretch of their clear-cut race for this far west state's presi dential preference vote. Both candidates thumped on the topic of Communism last nigfit. Stassen Initiated his final drive In an address here in western Oregon. At the same time his New York opponent appeared before a crowd at Pendleton, In the eastern Oregon wheat region. Each has a full schedule of ap pearances through the state be fore the ballots are cast May 21. The election Is the last direct primary before the party's na tional nomination convention in June. Both candidates alone in the race have to a great measure their presidential chances at Rtake in winning In Oregon. Debate Plans In Making Still undecided is the time and place for the unprecedented de bate the two have agreed to stage. Stassen said on arriving back in Oregon yesterday he hopes the dlscusion on Communism would include vital national Issues. At Pendleton, aides of Dewey in dicated that Stassen's view had been transmitted to the governor and that ho mav have it under consideration. Aides are to meet today on the debate arrange ments. The Mlnnesotan reiterated last (Continued nn Phi?p Six) Truman Opposes Plan To Outlaw Communist Party WASHINGTON, May 13-fP) Pr(t;ident Truman expressed On- position today to outlawing the Communist party m this country. He gave this view at a news conference during discussion of the Mundt bill to require Com munists to register with the gov ernment. Mr, Truman said he was not forecasting his action on that bill if it should reach him, but that he thought there were ample laws to deal with persons who advo cate overthrow of the govern ment. He added that he thought log islation outlawing a political party is contrary to American principles. Oregon State Employes Voted Salary Increase SALEM, Ore.', May 13. UP) All of Oregon's 10,000 state em ployes, excluding those who re ceive board and room at state in stitutions, will receive a $20 per month cost-of-living pay increase on June 1. The increase was voted Wed nesday by the State Emergency Board. The Board of Control had recommended the increase be giv en only to employes getting less than $400 a month, but the Amer gency Board made it effetclve in all brackets. The Emergency Board appro priated $233,000 from Its fund to put the increase into effect. i Vt W'' :t"f1 'IT S AGAINST THE LAW There's no law against sleeping In an automobile Mrs. Mary Current, 58, tells Pasadena, Calif,, Police Sgt. Jerry Wilson here, but she was wrong. After thumbing through the books the police came up with a 46-year-old ordin ance which prohibits lying or sleeping in an allay, street, sidowalk I or other public place. She was arrested under the old law. Mrs. Current has been living several months In hor expensive converti ble because she said her home 'the mortgaga. IAP Wirephoto) i " , j . s . :;a -1 FIRST PRESIDENT Italy's first president, elected by its parlia ment this week, is former Vice Premier Luigi Einaudi, above, 74-year old governor of the Bank of Italy, who is hated by the Communists. His son, Mario, is a professor of political history at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. The elder Einaudi, inter nationally known writer of fi nance and economic history, was forced to flee Fascism in 1942. Gov. Hall, Sen. M'Kay Will Debate Issue Of Sale of School Lands , PORTLAND, May 13.-(.TV-S1ate Sen. Douglas McKay of Ma. rion County and Gov. John H. Hall will debate the issue of. sale of school lands. . McKay' issued1' the ''chnrUmge yesterday und the governor was quick to accept.. Bolh are candi dates for the Republican .guber natorial nomination.. .:,'. McKay's headquarters anniuttfp ed the topic will be "Shall- Ore- on's School Lands Be Sold.' dr eased?" A date has not beennftt. The senator earlier this wwk protested sale of a parcel of, Cobs Bay tidelands'fo a lumber. com pany. The firm plans a $100,000 dock on the site; McKay said tne sale reverses a long standing. land board policy of leasing school land Instead, of selling. He nilded that this opens the dour to.' "tool ing of the- state's irreducible school fund tracts." Gov. Hall yesterday explained that, the state gains by thdisale. He said the $250 a year lease rent would more than be made urby taxes from the Improvement and real estate taxes. Furthermore, Hall said, the dock provides for community developmetn and jobs. OREGON BIRTHS UP PORTLAND, May 13. UP) Live births in Oregon durin" 1947 set a new record, the State Board of Health reported todav. The total of 35,020 births, a rate of 28.5 ner thousand nonula tion, was a new high for- the state. A preliminary study indi cates the state's mortality rate for the year may be the lowest in the nation. ITh . .fur' I 1 .'V I -i.V was rented so she could pay off Hope for Peace Not Increased, Truman Says WASHINGTON, May 13. UP) President Truman said today that his hopes for eventual peace have not been increased by the recent exchange of notes with Russia. The President told a news con ference he Is supporting to the limit Secretary of Slate Mar shall's statement that what is needed is action, rather than gen eral talks. Marshall said yester day that If Russia desires to pro mote peace she can act through the United Nations and other al lied agencies. The secretaiy of state ruled out any two-nation, Russo-Amerlcan talks on matters of concern also to other nations. President Truman said Mar shall covered thoroughly the sit uation as left by the exchange or notes between itussia and the United States. In response to questions, the President repented what ho has snid often before that he would be glad to meet with Soviet Pre mier Stalin In Washington. Asked what the two would talk about at such a meeting, the President snid he would let the newsmen know If such a meeting ever came anoui. Soviet Must Alter Policy The whole reaction here to Russia's publication of the notes suggests that the chance for any real improvement In relations be tween Russia and the United States hinges on whether there will be a haste change In Soviet foreign policy. That is Indicated strongly by the statements of all top officials. At Mr. Truman's conference, the questioning which led to his statement on peace prospects went in this manner: .A reporter recalled that the President told a news conference some weeks ago that his confi dence in eventual permanent peace had been somewhat shaken by developments abroad. He asked what the President thought were (Continued on Page Six) Phone Operators Fix Strike Plans WASHINGTON, May 13 UP) Plans for a nation-wide strike of long-distance telephone operators were set up today by the CIO American Telephone Workers Union but the date for a walkout was left open. The union, hended hy John J. Moran, has been engaged in a wage dispute with the American Telephone and Telegraph Com pany. The union represents 23,000 longdistance workers In 42 states. Union and A. T. and T. representatives came here yes terday for conferences with con ciliators of the Federal Mediation Service in an effort to reach an agreement. Moran said actions of the A. T. and T. and "failure to find some method of effecting a peaceful settlement leaves us with but one choke a nation wide strike." The union wants a 30 cents an hour wage boost, a shorter work week and larger pensions. It says workers now average $1.21 an hour. Moran and his bargaining com mittee planned to leave at onee for Boston to confer with CIO President Philip Murray, attend ing the steel workers' convention. New Program for Farm Price Support Approved WASHINGTON, May 1X-4JP) A new permanent program for government support of farm prices wus approved 8 to 0 by the Senate agriculture committee yesterday. The committee thus Jumped In ahead of President Truman who Is planning a furm message to Congress this week. Senator Aiken, principal author of the bill, said ho expects Con gress to pass It before the sum mer recess. The bill Is designed to provide for government support of the prices of basic agricultural com modities at 75 per cent of parity when there Is a normal supply. The support price would range from CO to 90 per cent of partly as the supply of anv commodity varied from 130 to 70 per cent of normal. Funds Asked for Sleuths To Halt Evasion of Taxes WASHINGTON, May 12")- presiuent Truman asked Con gress today to give the treasury money to hire 10,000 more agents to break up Income tax evasions. His request to the Senate for $27,323,000 came after a similar plea by Undersecretary A. L. M. Wiggins to a Senate appropria tions subcommittee. Wiggins estimated tax evasions I are costing the government $1,-1 000,000,000 a year. I For Invasion Of Holy Land All Trained Jews Being Mobilized; Mandate Of British Ends Tomorrow : (By the Associated Press) Jewish forces called upon all trained Jewish men and women today to mobilize- for the zero hour in Palestine when a Jewish state is proclaimed. Reports from Syria told of Arab tanks and , troops closing in on the Holy . Land. The Jewish state will be pro claimed early tomorrow night, effective after the British man- date ends nt midnight. The Arab ' league is preparing an Arab civil i administration not a state to . take over in Palestine with coop. . oration of occupying Arab troopii. Observers said the Jewish mo-' blllzation call was a precaution against possible invasion from surrounding Arab countries., Egypt has a martial law decree ready to take effect when Egyp- . tlan troops move in, and officials : In Damascus predicted Syrians would invade Saturday. Lebanese reports said southern garrisons ' wei! reinforced und motorized units were moving southward.' Travelers from Trans-Jordan re ported 400 Iraq brigade vehicles 1 and some Trans-Jordan units moving on the Palestine frontier. Jaffa Surrenders The Arab port city of Jaffa surrendered to Ilaganah, the Jew ish militia, adjoining Jewish Tel Aviv. Jewish milltury forces aro to control it. A five-man committee In Tel Aviv prepared a draft of the dec- , Uiration proclaiming the Jewish state. "For the first time In almost ' 2,000 years this sabbath Friday, : candles of the Holy Land Jewry will burn on the soil of a Jewish state," a memtier of the provl- ' sional government said. The .battle for the Jerusalem Tel Aviv road still swirled around Bub El Wad gorge outside Jeru-. suiem. Arnbs drove tne Jews ironv. the western end of the pass yes--etrday. , Jerusalem was quiet, although rifle and machlnegun fire during the night marked the second breach of the cease fire opera-' tion. ' ' Forces ot Egypt, Iraq, Trans-1 (Continued on Page Six) Child May Sue For Pre-Natal Injuries, Ruling LIMA, O., May 13 tP) A child has a right to sue after birth for pre-natal injuries, the ' Ohio Third District Court of Ap peals held yesterday. The decision was handed down In a $50,000 damage suit filed ' for Mlna Margaret Williams by . her father against Marion Rapid Transit Co., Marlon, O. The court said an infant has cause for action If Injuries oc . curred beyond the embryo stage. The appeals court reversed a ruling by the Marlon Common Pleas Court that Ohio law does not allow for recovery of dam- ages for pre-natal Injuries to an unborn child. However, since his decision Is In conflict with one by the Sev enth District Appellate Court, the Third District Court certified thu case of the Ohio Supreme Court for review. The petition contended that on April 4, 1941, the plaintlif, al- though unborn, was capable of ; living. On that date, the petition said, the mother, Ruth Williams, was paying customer on a , Marion bus. Negligent operation caused her to fall on the steps, the suit continued, adding: Mrs. Williams suffered ln-t juries which caused her deatli and the two-month, premature birth of the plaintiff. Wading Pool Planned In Spot Near Benson School Location of a children's wadlni; pool in the center parkway of E. Commercial St., near the Benson School was discussed Tuesday at a meeting of the City Park Com mission. The city manager was directed to prepare plans for thu pool. Purchase of playground equip ment for the Umpqua Park area. Including such apparatus as swings, slides, and teeter-totters, was authorized. The city manager was directed to supervise repair of the grounds. Winter flood wa ters caused minor damages to thu park. Purchase of necessary swim ming pool equipment was also authorized by the commission and the city manager was asked to prepare plans for construction of a dressing room to be erected be side the pool. Ievity pact ant By L. F. Relzensteln Unci Sam Is missing a great opportunity In spurning Russia's "outstretched hand." He might, like Finland, get an "invitation" from Comrade Stalin to send delegates to Moscow to draft a peace treaty.