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Wage Boost In Contract Talks Invalid Union Must Be Notified Unless Raise Rejected, Supreme Court Rules WASHINGTON, June 1 UP) The Supreme Court held Tues da. that a union must be notified before a wage boost can be granted during contract talks un less the increase has been re jected by tne union. Specifically the tribunal held that a Georgia textile mill com mitted an unfair labor practice because it raised wages 12 days after contract talks-with the CIO textile worKers union had be come deadlocked. The firm, Crompton-Highland Mins, inc., 01 uritnth, Ua., con tended the increase was neces sary to keep a workine force In a highly competitive labor market. justice- Burton delivered the opinion, which was unanimous on the principle issue involved. Jus tices Douglas, Murphy and Rut ledge disagreed on a question of procedure. Burton was joined in the ma jority opinion by Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Black, Reed, Frankfurter and Jackson. The increase at issue, ranged from four to six cents an hour. It was more than the union had asked during the negotiations. Actiom On Other Cases In other actions the court: 1. Held unanimously that the OPA should not have used as evi dence against a businessman in formation he volunteered during questioning by an investigator for the wartime price control agency. The case involved a $470, 000 fine and three-year prison sentence given George Smith, a New York manufacturer, on charges of illegal use of textile buying priorities. The tribunal sent the case back to lower courts in New York. 1. Denied Dawn L. Allen, an unmarried mother, a hearing on her efforts to recover her two-year-old son from a Tappahan nock, Va., couple who adopted him. The mother claimed that before the baby was born, and while she was in "a state of emo tional agitation" an agreement to the adoption was obtained "by duress and coercion." 3. Refused to reconsider its re cent action upholding the convic tion of two men for offering bribes to New York Giant pro football players. The pair, Har vey Stemmer and David Kra kower, were sentenced in New York to prison terms of 5 to 10 years each. 4. Cancled an $80,000 award made to the Penn Foundry and Manufacturing Company, Inc., of Waynesboro, Va., because of a broken wartime contract with the Navy. The case, decided 7-2, hinged on a letter to the company notifying it that It had been given a $2,087,555 contract for gun mounts and a telegram received the same day saying the notifica tion was a mistake,. 5. Agreed to review a National Labor Relations Board order re quiring the Colgate-Palmollve-Peet Company to reinstate, 37 employes discharged from a Berkeley, Calif., plant on de- Dr. E. W. Carter Chiropodist Foot Specialist 129 N. Jackson Phone 1170 Over Rexall Drug Store Established 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1949 SECTION TWO 128-49 Af rAjAto' Ifthftf-'virfh TrrrJ f -v IV K H m " "!. r:Mv J ' - , A ii f J yy .. . - -it: Jcr ? M ' - "' ;. -l " .: 1 . v, , i-'s r - ,s-v- . 1 'v i- ;,v A v ",s - t Ex-GI Presumed Dead Turns Up With New Family NEW YORK, June 1 UP) An ex-infantryman, presumed by his Connecticut wife to have been killed in the war, has a second mate and family on Staten Is land, Tits former' employer said Tuesday. The former soldier, Identified as Anthony V. Martino, a taxicab driver, was listed as missing in combat in France In 1944. Later the Army presumed him dead. His wife, Mrs, Mary Martino, who lives with her two children in Waterbury, was startled a few days ago when the Army in formed her Martino had walked into an Armv recruiting station to check on his status. BIBLE SCHOOL STARTS A two weeks' daily vacation Bi ble school was started Tuesday in the Winchester School, under sponsorship of the American Sun day School Society A. Kelstrup, missionary, is In charge. Classes will meet daily, except Saturday and Sunday, from 9 to 11:30 a. m. Army officials said Martino told them his memory had a blank spot. Tuesday, Nicholas De Joy, owner of the Staten Island Taxi Company, said Martino worked for him as a cab driver 41 years, but quit his job several weeks ago. De Joy said Martino has a wife and two children living at Tamp kinsville, Staten Island. A woman at that address declined to give her name. Martino left his home Monday and has not been seen since. Meantime, the first Mrs. Mar tino headed here from Waterbury in the hope of meeting her husband. Pinson previously had served time at Walla Walla for forgery and robbery and in Missouri for burglary. WANTED Apprentice Mecit Cutter Good working conditions APPLY SAFEWAY STORES Roseburg We Have a New Phone Number! 1524-J IDEAL CONCRETE "Concrete for Every Need" GRADUATES Roseburg Senior High S in the Junior High School students in Roseburg. Th I's araduatina class of '49 is Dictured here as the students appeared for baccalaureate servxices Sunday evening il auditorium. Graduation exercises Friday night, in the Senior High auditorium, will complete the preparatory schooling of the e largest class in the school's history, 182 students, will receive diplomat en the stage. (Picture by The Photo Lab.) U. S. Witnesses In Bridges Case Said Tampered With; Grand Jury Probe Ordered WASHINGTON, June 1 .P) Attorney General Tom Clark said Tuesday he has ordered a grand jury investigation into re ports ot tampering wnn govern ment witnesses in the Justice De partment's proceedings against Harry Bridges. The attorney general said tne mand of a CIO union which claimed they favored a rival AFL i union. matter has been placed In the hands of F. Joseph Donohue, his special assistant on the West Coast. Donohue was In charge of the grand jury at San Francisco which Indicted Bridges, the CIO Longshoremen's leader, and two other union officials last Wed nesday. The Indictment accused Bridges, who has twice success fully resisted deportation, of em ploying fraud In obtaining- his American citizenship in 1945. Bridges is a native of Australia. The indictment also charged Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robert son, other officials of the CIO International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's Union, with making false state ments in the naturalization proceedings. to recruit him as party memler. Communist 25 New Judgeships OKd; Oregon Slated For One WASHINGTON, June 1 l.f) The House Judiciary Commit tee Tuesday approved a bill to creale new judgeships. 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K SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 (P) Sam Darcy, who ran for governor in 1934 as the Commu nist Party candidate, is here to testify before the federal grand jury. The jury's probe of "the Harry Bridges case" will b resumed todav. Bridges, head of the CIO Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, was indicled last week, accused of perjury and conspira cy in oblaining his naturaliza tion papers in 1945. He was born in Australia. There was speculation that the new hearing would go beyond the Bridges issue; that it would open up the wider field of reputed Communist activities in Pacific Coast labor unions. Darcy will be one of about 13 new witnesses. Darcy, described years ago as America's No. 2 Communist, was expelled from the party several years ago on charges of "demo cratic centralism." He refused to day to discuss what Information he might supply the grand jury. But he confirmed he would be a witness. 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