U. Of O. Library Comp. Eugene , Oregon V PENSION Bill SIGNED LOOK WHO DOES WHAT 'Wm 1 0 ?fm-$ i WW" -y -n - BILL and JACK ADAIR, proprietors of the big Flying "A" parking lot at the corner of Main and Washington Sti., have to jump lively to serve a rujh of patroni. A supervised parking lot such ai this one is a big city conveni ence Roseburg long has been in need of. No need to worry here if some one parks in your usual spot just drop the reins and an attendant will spo your car for you and, when you want it again, he'll get it for you. Fun, hey? Ford Management, Union Leader Reuther Agree To Conference In Effort To Break Strike Deadlock , DETROIT, May 10. ) The Ford strike idling 65,000 men and threatening as many more was carried to the peace table today. On the sixth day of the "speed-up" deadlock management and the CIO United Auto Workers sought a solution together. Airplane Crash Into Odell Lake Fatal To Pilot KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., May 10 UP) Crash of an airplane into Odell Lake claimed the lile of a San Francisco pilot yester day. Three federal foresters es caped a similar fate. - Klamath county Sheriff Jack Franey said Pilot P. David Pupescue failed to come up with the others when the amphibious craft plunged into the Lake just after taking off. Saved were Ralph Crawford, Bend, Deschules National Forest supervisor; Newell Corey, Cres cent, Ore., forester, and Allen Boetcher, Bend, recreational di rector of the Deschutes Forest. None of the three was seriously hurt. Both Crawford and Corey were unconscious after the crash, however, and Boetcher held them on a floating wing until rescued by persons from shore. The sheriff said the plane had taken off about 4 p. m. from the west side of the lake, near Sum mit Lodge, and lost altitude in attempting a turn. The plane hit the water about 300 yards from shore. (At Bend, the forest office re ported the pilot was touring the lakes with the foresters prior to starting an air trip service for San Francisco fishermen to Ore gon lakes.) State Festival Set For High School Musicians KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., May 10 UP) Hundreds of Oregon high school musicians will be here May 13-14 for the annual state music festival. Judges from Washington, Ore gon and California will screen the district contest winners for the state awards in instrumental and voice group and solo performances. CRITICAL HANDICAP FACED O. & C. Land Management Requires Budget Boost, Daniel Goldy Points Out Management of O. and C. lands will be critically handicapped unless appropriations tentatively scheduled In the federal budget are materially increased, the Roseburg district advisory board was told Monday. Pointing out that the Bureau of Land Management has a budget of $521,500 for the cur rent fiscal year and that $2,628, 000 was estimated as needed for efficient administration during the ensuing year, the budget ap proved by the House Appropria tions Committee is only $500,000 for the coming fiscal year, Daniel L. Goldv, Portland, regional ad ministrator, told the advisory board at it organizational meet ing. The local board elected County Judge D. N. Busenbark as per manent chairman and Harold Woollev. Drain, vice-chairman. Goldy emphasized that fire pro tection contracts will Jump from $171,835 to $267,350. and that sal ary increases will amount to around $21,500. bringing in creased costs up to nearly $300, 000 more than for the current vear. Thus, if cuts made in the budget are permitted to stand, there will lie virtually no funds for more than a skeleton organi zation. The Bureau of Land Manage ment, Goldv said, had sought $900,000 for access roads, $410,000 for reforestation and timber stand improvement, and $200,000 Several hundred unionists asked in a petition that the talks be broadened to deal with an al leged speed-up in the axle build ing of the Ford's big Rouge Plant. Thus far the dispute has been confined to the Ford as sembly line in the Rouge plant's B building. In keeping with other events of this first major labor battle in a year in the auto industry, the agreement to negotiate came yesterday with dramatic sudden ness. Young President Henry Ford II, acting swiftly, accepted a pro posal for talks from President Walter Reuther of the union. The two acted as strike-caused layoffs In Ford and supplier fi rms. aliady were. -mounting-!- into the thousands; A full 40.000 more Ford work ers face idleness within a week if the strike is not settled. Ford has warned it may have to shut down all its 49 plants. In agreeing to negotiations Ford said his company assumed that the talks would be "con tinued until this strike can be brought to a close." Ford Spurns Two Proposals He declined two accompanying proposal's from Reuther, how ever. Ford said he would neither ap pear personally at the negotia tions nor would he engage in a public debate with Reuther if the dispute wasn't settled by Friday. The union chief. In a public statement later, deplored Ford's answer on those two counts, but he carried the matter no further. As Ford negotiations gave rise to hopes for peace on that dis pute, there was other trouble in the Industry. Chrysler announced an indefi nite layoff of 22.000 workers be cause of a shortage of windows stemming from a reported slow down in a supplier plant. Chrysler shut down final as semblies at its Dodge, DeSoto, and Chrysler main plants and passenger car and body making at its Chrysler Kercheval Ave. plant. for forest Inventory. These items, he pointed out were in the form of "capital Investment." He told the board that $60,000 is required annually to service timber sale contracts already ex isting, covering the cost of cruis ing, Inspecting, establishing cut ting allotments, and for plan ning, appraisal, advertising, exe cution of contracts and bonds, and supervision of cutting and slash disposal. The bureau, he said, estimated $150,000 would be needed during the coming year but that only $76,650 had been provided in the tentative budget for the coming fiscal year. Ten-year programs of refor estation and forest inventory were recommended by the re- f;ional board, he said, but no al owance Is made for these ac tivities in the budget. Onlv Hbout 100.000 acres out of 2,500,000 aeies have been intensively in ventoried to dale, Goldy said. The Bureau of Land Manage ment is inadequately staffed for the work required in administra tion, he told the board, and with more than half of next year! (Continued on Page Two) The Weather Generally fair today and Wednesday. Little change In temperature. Sunset today 7:24 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:54 a. m. Established 1873 Blockade Coal, Food To Move First To Berlin Needy Soviet, Western Allies Ready Restoration Of City To Former Freedom By THOMAS A. REEDY BERLIN. May 10 (JP) At one minute past midnight Thursday- flag-bedecked trattic will end the epic of blockaded Berlin. That's 2:01 p. m., P.S.T., to morrow. So far there hasn't been a hitch in final arrangements. Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet com mander In Germany, and the Western Powers both have or dered that transport, trade and communication services between their zones resume at that time. Things will revert back to the way they were on March 1, 1948, when the blockade began. Sixteen freight trains will move into the city daily. High ways will be open. The Soviets won't or at least say they won't demand travel permits. They also say they'll not try to search allied baggage. Mail service will be resumed. Western Berlin's Mayor Ernest Reuter ordered the black, red and gold flag of the new West German Republic he flown on street cars and buses. The Berlin flag will be draped over other buses which will speed to the West German cities of Hanover, Hamburg and Frank furt. Coal and Food First The first day, 10 trainloads of coal and six others of fresh po tatoes and consumer goods are scheduled to move into the city, which ha-s been supplied by the airlift for 10 months. Twelye,, thousand, (.tonoii.supv (Continued on Page Two) Permit Issued For $150,000 Baptist Church Building permit was Issued this morning for construction of the new First Baptist Church, an nounced City Inspector C. .T- Os bun. The permit for $150,000 was issued to Clyde Johnson, who will supervise construction of the edi fice. The new church Is to he con structed of cement, pumice blocks and brick, Johnson said, the building, with outside dimensions of approximately 98 by 142 feet, will adjoin the present education al building, which faces S. Rose Street. Construction 'of the new church will start immediately, said John son. On its completion, it will replace the present Baptist Church, a wood frame building, at the corner of S. Rose and W. Lane Sts. The old church wlll be razed. State Timber Land Sold To Drain Corporation At an oral timber auction con ducted by the State Land Board on the courthouse steps Monday morning, the Douglas Timber Corporation of Drain purchased 1,596,000 board feet of timber at the minimum price of $8 per thousand. The State Land Board was rep resented bv F. C. Dechebach of Salem, assistant clerk. He said the sale includes 1 168,000 board feet of yellow fir; 375.000 feet of red fir: 11.000 feet of hemlock, and 42,000 feet of cedar. Douglas Timber Corporation, represented by R. E. Cook, sec retary, was the only bidder. The timber is located approxi mately 10 miles west of Drain, north of the Drain-Reedsport Highwav, on Tom Follev Creek. The timber is included in a 160 acre area In Section 36, Town ship 21, Range 7, said Dechebach. State Bar's Governors Will Meet In Roseburg The board of governors of the Oregon Stale Bar Association will hold its next regular meet ing In Roseburg Saturday, May 21. The board, which supervises the State Bar Association and works on legislative matters, is composed of 12 members, three from each of the lour congres sional districts. Local arrangements for enter taining board members and their wives are in charge of At torney A. N. Orcutt, Roseburg, a former member of the board. UNION REJECTS OFFER SPOKANE, May lO.-ti Ne gotiations for 3.000 striking East ern Washington carpenters turn ed down yesterday an offer of four cent hourly pay boost. The AFL union is seeking a 14 cent increase to total of $2.20 n hour. ROSEBURG, OREGON Lifting 'TOO MANY BYRDS Truman's Crack Arouses Senators To Plan Battle Against Attempted Purge By JACK BELL ' WASHINGTON, May 10. UP) The reported crack by President Truman that there are loo many Byrds in Congress spurred Senator Byrd (D.-Va.) and his friends to arm themselves today against a possible purge movement. t 4't W - NAMED MANAGER Miss Helene Hoffman (abovel was named as a $ 1 7,000-a-year now car sales manager of an auto mobile firm in New York. She was described by her tirm as ""thS"'firs't and thus farVhe only woman to attain such an execu tive position in the automobile industry in New York City." She joined the firm in 1 93 9 as a $25-a-week stenographer, and when the proprietor went into the Marine Corps during the war, she kept the business go ing. (AP Wirephoto) Wasco Attorney, Wife Found Slain THE DALLES, Ore., May 10. UP) A Wasco County attorney was found dying in the home where his wife lay dead here yesterday, bolh vlclims of .32 caliber bullet wounds. Coroner Ben Calalway said Beu lah Jones Dick, 48, was found dead in her bed and Frank G. Dick, 64, was discovered mortally wounded in the kitchen. He died later in a hospital. The coroner said the tragedy, presumed slaying and suicide, was discovered by the attorney's son, William. He had gone to the home on an errand. The gun was near where the elder Dick lay. Dick was a former chairman of the school board. He had prac ticed law In Wasco Counly 40 years and had been in court yes terday morning. Mrs. ' Dick, formerly of Port land, married the altorney last December 21. Cop Picks Up 'Rag' That Contains $12,000 In Cash NEW YORK, May 10 UP) A hie blob of grease fell on the windshield of a police car from an K track today forcing Pa trolman Gilbert Orr to get out in the rain. He spotted a pink rag In a gut ter and picked it up to use to wipe off the grease. He noticed the rag was knotted at four cor ners and felt heavy. He took it to the car and opened it. Out spilled an even $12,000 In cash. There were scvcnty-ight $100 bills, seventy five $50s, and many smaller ones. Police higher-ups were mysti fied by the find. No such loss had been reported anywhere in the metropolis recently. Money Nearer Oregon Kin Of Bomb Victims WASHINGTON, May 10 UP) Survivors of six persons killed In the explosion of a Japanese balloon near Bly, Ore., were nearer today to sharing In $20,000. A bill authorizing the govern ment payment was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. It already has been passed by the House. Five children attending a Sun day school picnic and Mrs. Archie Mitchell, wife of their pastor, were killed In the explosion. The bill provides that parents of each of the children receive $3,000 and that Mrs. Mitchell's husband receive $n,000. ' 1 I it A'A-. I ll TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1949 Slated Thursday IN CONGRESS' Asserting that "if the Presi dent wants lo purge me from the Senate I'll be around when the purging starts," Byrd said he intends to keep fighting for the slash in spending he doesn't think the president wants. Gilbert Harrison, national com mander of the American Vet erans Committee, quoted the President after a White House conference yesterday. Byrd said further: "I'm going to continue to make some small . . . plans that the President won't like at all. "And I've got an interest in a big plan, too. I'm going to see to it, if I can, that the Senate doesn't confirm the nomination of Mon Wallgren to head the Na tional Security Resources Board. He's definitely not big enough for that job." Byrd furnished the necessary Democratic vote when Repub' cans on the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee bottled up the Wallgren appointment weeks ago. Since that time, the Virginian has not been on good political terms with the President, who has said repeatedly that he wants Wallgren confirmed for the post. Wherry Backs Byrd The President's reputed re marks about Byrd were criticized by Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the Republican -floor leader. - "The President notwithstand ing," Wherry said, "we need the Harrv Byrd kind of men In the United States Senate. If the fis cal policy of the President is net halted, it will lead to printing press money or to wartime taxes, one or the other." Byrd's friends said (he presi dent's crack probably will make the Virginian mov solid than ever with the voters of his stale. They usually rese.it outside in terference In their choice of of ficials. The Byrd Inciient was re garded as demonstrating a new irritation on the part of the '(Continued on Page Two) Roseburg Voting On School Tax Election to pass on a pro posed tax levy exceeding the 6 per cent limitation by $308,. 434.67 is being held today In Roseburg School District No. 4. The polling place in the Jun ior High School is to be open from 2 to 7 p. m. Any citizen residing in the district is eligible to vote, pro vided he is 21 years of age; registered 30 days prior to the election with the county clerk in an election precinct or part precinct within the district; has resided In Oregon six months, and is able to read and write. HENRY WALLACE DRAWS FIRE Peace Not Wanted With Hammer And Sickle On It, OSC Prexy Tells Critic PORTLAND, May 10. ,P Oregon Slate College President A. L. Strand challenged comments by Henry Wallace here last night when the Progressive Party leader said two O. S. C. faculty dismis sals were unfair. Dr. Strand, In his words with the former vice president, answered one statement with: "I want peace just as much as you do, but I do not want peace with a hammer and sickle on It." The exchange followed Wat lace's speech at a "peace forum" in the public auditorium. Wal lace had said the dismissals of Dr. Ralph Spitzer and L. R, La Vallee at Oregon State were dis criminatory. He noted they were Progressive Party supporters. He also deplored what he said was the change in Dr. htrand re calling that he was one of two college presidents to introduce the presidential candidate during last year's speaking tour. As the audience left the hall, Dr. Strand approached the plat form, lie reprimanded Wallace and denied the dismissals were unfair. The college president also told Wallace "I believed in you strongly for some time, but now I am glad I came to this meeting. If there is any doubt as to what the Progressive Party Hands for, ilt has been ma.le plain here." I Wallace's reply was "you do 110-49 Joe Walker Convicted Of Cold Murder Jury, Which Prayed For Divine Guidance, Files Second Degree Verdict BOULDER, Colo., May 10. OP) Joe Walker was convicted yes terday of second degree murder In the rape slaying of co-ed There sa Foster by a jury which said it sought divine guidance. The verdict carries a penalty of 10 years to life in prison. District Judge George Brad field granted the defense 30 days in which to file for a new trial. He delayed sentencing until then. The judge refused to release Walker on his old $25,000 bail but said he would hear a motion for a new bond. f Walker only shook his head when he heard the verdict late yesterday. That was just an hour short of three days from the time the jury took the case against the 32-year-old metal worker. Before he was returned to his cell, Walker talked briefly with his mother, Mrs. Myrtis Walker, 70, and his brother Marshall. They came from Santa Monica, Calif., to attend the trial. Both kept a toic look In the court room but L'voke into tears In the ante room where they saw Joe. In Santa Monica, Walker's wife said she refuses "to give up hope for Joe until after the case has been appealed." She termed "very ridiculous" a newsman's question as to whether she plans to collect (Continued on Page Two) State Police Investigate Theft of 3 Automobiles- . ' stnie nnllr tnrlnv were investi gating series of three car thefts anc! two recoveries during the night between 10 p. m. and o a. m. A 1937 Plymouth, owned by Duane Jones, reported stolen at Medlord. was located abandoned just north of Roseburg, near the Kenneth Button residence. Button's car was then appar ently stolen and abandoned at Winchester, where the third car, a 1939 Plymouth, owned by Grady Gooch, an occupant of the trailer park there, was stolen. At last reports, Gooch's car had not been recovered. The car was parked adjacent to Gooch's trail er, and had apparently been first rolled away, so as not to awaken nnv one before the motor was started, according to the police. Thieves Loot 3 Schools In John Day Locality lDHN DAY. Mav 10. UP) Thieves were either many or sys tematic in mis area ivionaHy nignt. f.nnl nf nhnllt 90 WAS tflJn from three schools. A man's suit plus about $10 in small change i,ao iateon at I he r.rRnt Union High School. One safe was crack ed open outside tne scnooi. At tempts to break a larger one failed. At Prairie City the thefts were valued at $65 and at Mount Vernon School about $115 was missing from a candy machine. not want peace, Dr. Strand." The college president answered that he wanted peace, but not with the Communist symbol of the hammer and sickle. In his speech earlier, Wallace told his audience the North At lantic pact was "insane and fool ish." He said the cost of military support of the alliance would wreck America's standard of liv ing. The Progressive candidate for th presidency In the November election was accompanied on the platform by legislators of Britain and Italy. Bolh II. L. Hutchinson, Labor member of the British House of Commons, and Mlchele Guia, .Socialist senator of Italy, attacked the North Atlantic Pact. Mrs. Paul Robeson, wife of the Negro linger, said the nation rannot continue to Ignore the plight of her race. Companion Measure Forcing Children To Support Parents Also Approved By Governor SALEM, Ore., May 10. (AP) Pension groups prepared to day to nullify the 1949 legislature's old-age pension bill, signed by Gov. Douglas McKay late yesterday. The governor signed the controversial measure and its com. panion piece which provides that children able to aid thoir par. ents financially, must do so. No sooner had he affixed his signature than Joe E. Dunne, a spokesman for pension groups, said in Portland that a referendum campaign would be launched immediately. The objective, he said, would be to rule out the law and reinstate the initiative approved by the voters last November. Winchester Post Office Razed By Fire Fire of undetermined origin completely destroyed the post office at Winchester this morn ing. Fire fighters from Rose burg, arriving on the scene after flames were well started, were unable to save the struc ture. The fire started during the regular time of closing, between 10 and 12, and Mrs. Marie Nance, postmistress, apparent ly had come into Roseburg to shop. There was no one in the building when the fire was dis covered by neighbors. John Amacher, operator of tourist cabins at Winchester, who remodeled the post office building three years ago and sold it to Mrs. Nance, estimated the loss might approximate $10,000. The building included household furnishings as well as postal equipment and supplies. Traffic on the Pacific High- way was blocked in both direc tions for almost an hour, whili the building burned. Roseburg firemen controlled the spread of the flames. Tanks of the fire truck were refilled with water from the North -Ompqaa Rivery , . , , , Husband Stabs Estranged Wife While Kissing Her ROCKFORD, III., May 10. UP) A young husband related today that, he stabbed his estranged bride while kissing her, Police Cant. Ralph Johnson said. The husband said his bride of nine months had spurned his plea for reconcilliation. The wife, Mrs. Wanda Gales, 18, Is In critical condition from stab wounds In her side and breast. Her husband, Thomas, is held on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The stabbing occurred yesterday. (jam. Johnson said Gates re lated he threw his wife on a bed and drove a fishing knife Into her side as she gave him a part ing kiss after turning down his plea that she return to him. Then he slabbed her a second time, the officer quote- Gates. Two Killed, Three Hurt In Collision Of Autos YAKIMA, Wash., May 10. P) Miss Daisy Hendrix, Newberg, Ore., a former missionary In Korea, died today as the result of injuries suffered in a two-car crash four miles south of here yesterday. Miss Hendrix, who had been speaker at a Fishers of Men re vival conference here, had re turned to this country in 1945. She spent 15 years In Korea. Still in serious condition as a result of the crash are: DeVern Fromke, 25, Ml. Vernon, Mo., evangelist; Ed Erke, Ml. Vernon, Mo., his assistant; and Mrs. Esther Schmit, 48, Portland, Ore. Jamen Ackley, 25, Yakima, who was driving the other car ln the crash, died yesterday. Salem Joins Parade Of Daylight Saving Cities SALEM, May 10. --Oregon's capital city will go on day light saving time next Monday, at 2 a.m. Cllv councllmen voted in favor of the shift, 6 to 2, last night. The expiration date was set for Sent. 11. The move, expected to be fol lowed by neighboring Marlon County communities, put Salem Into the daylight time group of Northwestern Oregon. Portland started the change over April 24. Since then most cities In six Northwest counties abandoned standard time for the summer. Bend electors were to vote to day on whether to change May 15. nooa niver win snnt June 1. . Irish Protestants Asked To Quit Pro-British Prayer DUBLIN, Ireland, Mav 10. IP) The Protestant Church of Ire land will discuss this week a pro posal that the Church drop its traditional prayers for the British royal family, instead, prayers would be sub stituted "to fit the republican form of government In this nart of the country." The 26 South ern counties recently became a republic. governor in a statement sam wnue the act does not in. elude all provisions of the Initia tive measure, it does "maintain many of them and strives to that goal." He cautioned that a suc cessful referendum would lead to confusion and might jeopardize the federal grant. Last fall's initiative called for a definite minimum of $50 a month. The attorney general's of fice said however the Initiative measure was a directive to the Legislature, and not a law. Principal objection to the Leg islature's act was Its provision that the state have first lien against estates of beneficiaries, up to the amount of assistance they receive. Dunne said petition blanks to refer the measure to the people would be ordered at. once and would be in circulation In 10 days. He said the required 16,000 signatures could be obtained quickly. Governor Cites Pledge The text of the governor's stalement: , "As a candidate for governor I made two commitments to the citizens of Oregon receiving old age assistance. First, I promised to do my best to place all liquor receipts, from which assistance payments have been made In the j Past' ln the general fund, and to made from that fund. This has been accomplished. I also stated on numerous occasions that I be lieved our senior citizens should receive a minimum of $50.00 per munin ana in my message to the recent session of the Legislature asked that this sum he provided. I believe that this has been done by House Bill 436. I have given this bill most careful and . tho rough study, and it is my firm conviction that under Its provi sions recipients of old age i--s-slstance will be greatly bene fited. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding as to Its provisions, and I urge that in terested parties consider these facts : Lien Provision Omitted' "There Is no "lien" provision in the law. No one will be asked under Its provisions to sign away any property. The attorney gen- (Contlnued on Page Two) Patterson Bakery Will Be Moved To Short Street Plans for moving to a new lo cation and expanding baking fa cilities were announced today by ticorge Patterson ol Pattersons Bakery. The new building will be erected by Coen Supply Co. and leased to Patterson. Construc tion will begin this week and Pat terson expects to move in over the Labor Day weekend. The new building will be located on Short. Street between Sykes and Spring streets. Estimated cost cost of the building is $35,000. Plans call for a 80 by 100 foot siriiciure ol pumicK mum iu u erected from model bakery plans. The building will include show ers, maple flooring, oversize win dows and skylights and large storage space. Patterson staled that the firm has outgrown the present location on N, Kane street. Production facilities will be more than doubl ed In the new location and addi tional varieties of bakery products will he made. Several new pieces of equipment will be added. Patterson purcnasea me oaxery here about seven years ago. Prior to coming lo Roseburg he was In business in Albany, Corvallls and eastern Oregon. Governor McKay Clears Desk Of All Measures SALEM. Mav 10 UP) Gov ernor Douglas McKay cleared his desk todny of all bills passed oy the Legislature. He vetoed onlv one bill of the 571 passed by the lawmakers. He signed an tne rest. He sinned four bills today, in cluding one which places Colum bia River barge lines under the Jurisdiction of the public utilities commissioner. Another bill signed today will require beer and wine purchasers in taverns to give proof that they are over 21 years old, if the tnvern keeper suspects they might be under age. levity pact ant By L. T. Ketienatela With a new Oregon pension bill providing $50 a month "if funds art available," a sales tax right now would look mighty good much better than the Impending referendum. The governor in