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, U. Of 0. Litrary ' Comp ""'4 Eugene, Orego.n .;'.-,, M I ! mm am lira I WHO DOES WHAT i : i 1 i 7 .it i ? , sjflr CHRIS HESTNESS it cabinet maker at Coen Lumber Com pany and hat been for the last 23 years. He is the creator of all the fancy cabinet work you may find, if you look, in the post office and his designs decorated the interior of the old Marsteri Bank. Born in Oslo (Christiania at the time), Norway, Ch'ris came to the United States in 1898. He now. is 76 years old. . His chief recreation is found in fishing. For the information of certain captious friends, that rule he is using on the cabinet in the picture is for business only if he uses a different one on his fish, I reckon that's his own business. WALL STREET TAKES RIBBING So Do Truman & Company, Sundry Individuals In Bond Club's Annual Burlesque NEW YORK, June 2. UP) Advertisement: "H. Truman & Co. the .nation's haberdasher, offers the plunging neckline. The ultimate In Wall Street haberdashery. If you stuck your neck out In November, here's something you can stick It in now." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS rIEN Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko left New York the other day at the con clusion of the United Nations assembly meeting, HE SMILED FOR THE REPORTERS AND THE PHOTOGRAPHERS. Is that what you'd call man-bites-dog news? I THE New York papers seemed I to think so. They printed big pictures of Gromyko and his smile. We newspapers LOVE the unusual.) iNE more thought before we leave it: When vour competitor smiles right after you feel you've put something over on him and think he ought to be looking grim and (Continued on Page Four) Eisler Given Welcome In Soviet-Ruled City BERLIN, June 2. Com munist fugitive Gerhart Eisler received a hero's welcome today in Soviet-occupied Leipzig, the Russian -licensed news agency Adn said. The agency said he was greet ed by Mayor Max Opitz at a public rally. The Mayor described Eisler as "an upright fighter for peace, Justice and freedom." Delegates to a Communist-dominated Free German Youth Con gress cheered. BICYCLE TARADE ON JUNE 16 Prizes Will Be Given For Best Decorated Bikes In Safety Promotion Event Almost every bicycle rider in cipate in the biq parade to promote sater Dicycie rioing on June r 3 r .. ... . ,w j 16, under the sponsorship ot Montgomery waro so., tho ioo burq Chamber of Commerce and the News-Review. Prizes will be awarded for the best and most originally deco rated bicycles. E. C. Nolte, man ager of the Roseburg Montgom ery Ward store, is providing a large number of valuable mer chandise prizes for the parade winners. Bovs or girls Deluxe bicycle as first "prize will he awarded by Don Radabauih of the Roseburg Amusement Co., and second prize, a bicycle trophy, will be awarded by Roseburg Jewelers. Eight ad ditional prizes will soon be on display in the window of Wards store. There will be no registration fee of anv kind. A set of colorful wheel discs and a list of safety rules will be given to each rider By Paul Jenkins 1 The advertisement is Illustrated with a hangman's noose "styled by Elmo Roper." It's all part of the 30th annual burlesque on the Wall Street Journal published today by the Bond Club of New York for their annual outing. And if you can believe the Bond Club's "Brawl Street Jour nal," you can believe that John L. Lewis is negotiating the purchase of the Chase Na tional Bank as a depository for the United Mine Workers' wel fare fund. . . . The U. S. government i3 going into the steel business to make money to meet the deficit after seeing how much money U. S. Steel makes. . . . J. P. Morgan & Co. is building a $100,000,000 hotel on its Wall Street Bank site and will occupy the hotel pent house. ... The first office boy resigned from Montgomery Ward & Co. (Continued on Page Two) Assault Charges Follow Alleged Altercations Irvin Ray Chancellor, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, waived preliminary hear ing when arraigned before Jus tice of Peace A. J. Geddes, Wednes day. His bail was set at $500. Chancellor was arrested by Sher iff's deputies Tuesday at Glide, following alleged altercations in that community Saturday night in two separate beer parlors. Taken into custody also was Al fred Fernandez, who is to appear in Justice Court Saturday on a similar charge. He was released on $250 bail. Fernandez was al legedly eneased in the alterca tion with Chancellor and a third party, but no charge has been filed against the third person, according to local officers. Roseburg is expected to parti at the time of registration. Any bicycle rider, young or old, may enter this parade by filling out an entry blank In the Sporting Goods Department of Montgom ery Ward & Co. Three prominent local citizens will be chosen as judges for the contest. The parade is scheduled to start at the Court House at 1 p. m., June 16, and proceed up Jackson Street, where the judges will select the winners and award the prizes. Chief of Police Calvin Balrd, and the Roseburg Safety Council, believe that in the Interest of safety, every bicycle rider in Roseburg should takt part in the parade. The Weather Fair and partly cloudy today and Friday. Warmer Friday. Sunset- today 7:47 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:35 a. Established 1873 Laxity In Guarding Atom Loyalty Check Not Given To 3,280 Persons Inquiry Further Reveals Guard In Lost Uranium Case Had Police Record WASHINGTON. June 2. UP) Capitol Hill's atomic investiga tion toaay orougnt stones U) that 3,280 persons got access to secret data or work without full loyalty investigations, and (2) a guard in the missing uranium case had a police record. senator Hickenloorier (R- Iowa), fierce critic of the Atomic Energy Commission, produced the figures on the number of persons cleared to atomic secrets without a full FBI check first on their loyalty. AEC Chairman David Lillenthal did not dispute the figures, but argued vigorous ly that the AEC was justified in granting these "emergency .clear ances." Rep. Elston (R-Ohlo) extracted the story of the guard from Car roll Wilson, the commission's general manager, by a series of questions concerning a "hypo thetical case." Elston asked Wilson to suppose a guard had been arrested in his (Continued on Page Two) Diplomas Will Be Given Friday To RHS Graduates Graduation exercises Fridav at 8 p. m. in the Senior High School auditorium will mark the close of the school year in Roseburg, and the end of schooling in this city for the 182 seniors who will re ceive their diplomas. Dr. Harry K. Newburn of Uni versity of Oregon will deliver the evening address. His subject will De ine Challenge ot High school Education." Opening the evening s program will be the processional by Clar ence and Ruth Trued. Dr. Morris Roach will give the invocation, followed by the salutatory add ress by Miss Jane Wiggen. A musical number, "Pierot, Pierette," by Forest L. Buchtel, will be presented by Janet Foster and Don Parr, accompanied by Miss Helen Goode. The valedic- tnrv address bv Miss Dona Mears will follow. Superintendent of Schools Paul S. Elliott will introduce Dr. New- burn, after which the sophomore quartette will sing "Speed Well," Dy May w. iirane, wnn arrange ment by R. Cloyd Riffe. Principal Alva Laws will pre sent the class, while J. P. Motsch- enbaeher, School Board chairman, will presem the diplomas. Dr. Roach will pronounce the benedic tion, and Mr. and Mrs. Trued will play the recessional. Laundry Workers At Wenatchee Walk Out WENATCHEE, Wash., June 1. (P) Union workers in the two Wenatchee laundries walked off their jobs Tuesday in a wage dispute. They are asking wage increases ranging from 15 cents per hour in higher wage brack ets to 25 cents in lower brack ets. A meeting between contractoi'3 and union carpenters failed to break their month-long deadlock. Carpenters are asking a 14 cent-an-hour increase. Contractors of fered four cents an hour. All major construction here, includ ing the Columbia River bridge job, has been halted. Garage Crasher Sued, Following Bill For $1.50 DES MOINES, June 2. (Pi- Testimony that a car owner be came so irate over a repair bill that he crashed his car through the garage door was given in a lawsuit here yesterday. Two employes of the Sanders Motor Co., said Leland Embree deliberately drove through the door when he was presented a $1.50 bill for examination of his gearshift. They said his action caused about $300 damage to the car. The motor firm is seeking to repossess the vehicle. Youth At Grants Pass Admits Holdup Guilt GRANTS PASS, Ore., June 2. -7P) Raymond G. Robertson, 19. of Seattle, pleaded guilty In Circuit Court here Tuesday to a robbery charge. Sentence was delayed pending a fingerprint check. The youth was charged with holding up John Havens, local cab driver, Saturday night, taking $17 and the cab. The suspect was ar rested In Med ford and the cab recovered there Sunday. .ff -l fo-y VV- ROSEBURG, Manslaughter Charged In Death Of Roseburg Man PORTLAND, June 2. (API Thaddeus P. Henderson, 30, Portland, was herd today on a manslaughter charge in yester day's death of James N. Solt, 38, Roseburg. Solt died of a skull fracture suffered Memorial Day. Ho was first reported to have fallen from a stool in a tavern. Given treatment at a hospital, he was booked at the city jail as drunk and held overnight. The next morning he was unconscious. Taken to a hospital and oper ated on for a fractured skull, he died yesterday morning. A report that Solt and Hen derson had fought in front of the tavern led to the charge against the latter. He is 'held under $5000 bail. A sister, Martha Konsezage, Seattle, was summoned to Port land and consented to an autopsy, which was performed at the hospital Wednesday. Detectives Richard T. Ten nant and John F. Fraser said Henderson signed a statement admitting the fight but bUmed it all on the Roseburg man. Henderson said that Solt "tried to pick a fight" with him, first in the tavern, and la ter in the street. Other witnesses said they saw the tight on the sidewalk. Missing Child Walks Home During Search An extensive search was launch ed for six-year-old Lerov Joy in in the Melrose district Wednes day morning, but about the time folks were becoming desperate, the child walked home. According to sheriff's deputies who were called into the search, the boy had gone to a small creek to release a "pollywog", which he Jiad in a glass. When he failed to come back immedi ately, the search was started. He had apparently wanaerea Into the brush and had become temporarily lost, it was reported. His parents live on the old San Sousi ranch near Melrose. Federal Car Drivers Ordered To Be Careful WASHINGTON. June 2. UP) President Truman has ordered drivers of government vehicles to take the lead in accident preven tion, the President's Highway Safety Conference learned today. A conterence committee report said motor-vehicle accident suits against the government since 1944 have averaged $38,000,000 a year, awards have averaged $900,000 a year, and claims pending total more than $160,000,000. Boost In Allotments For Hospitals Asked WASHINGTON. June 2.-im Rep. Angell (R.-Ore.) has Intro duced a bill to allow states to re ceive additional allotments for hospitals where census reports show increased population, the ad ditional amount to be $6 for each person m the Increase. I VM-,. I WINNERS CIYEN ELKS' AWARDS Pictured har are Roseburg High School winners of special awards offered by the Roseburg Elks Lodge and Elks Southern Oregon District. From left to right are Dona Mears, winner of the most valuable student award and second place essay contest winner; Harry Pinniger, past exalted ruler, representing the Elks; Betty Jean Bellinger, third place essay winner; Hope Stubbs, first place essay winner; Dr. Bruce Tuck of the Elks, and Nancy J. Nichols, third place, most valuable student award. Second place valuable student award winner, Rieherlee MeCormick, was not present. (Picture by Paul Jenkins.) OREGON THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1949 North Umpqua Road Job To Be Extended County Court Requested To Obtain Rights-Of-Way Beyond Susan Creek ' The Douglas County Court has been requested bv the Bureau of Public Roads to secure addi tional rights-of-way beyond Su san Creek, in order that a con tract may be let for additional Nirth Umpqua Road improve ments. The proposed work will be a continuation of the project from Rock Creek to Susan Creek. a 5.5-mile stretch, for which Mil ler & Strong, Eugene, recently submitted the low bid. The ex tension would carry from Susan Creek beyond the National For est boundary. Although this Is a federal project, it Is up to the county to obtain rights-of-way, most of which have already been se cured, according to members of the court. Susan Creek is 30.7 miles from Roseburg. . 1 he state Highway Depart ment has the responsibility of constructing the road from Rose burg to Rock Creek. Beyond this point tne nubile Roads Adminis tration will carry the work as far as Steamboat, and eventual ly to Diamond Lake. When this federal portion is completed, it will be turned back to the coun ty for maintenance. Paving Job Planned Plans have been completed by the State Highway Department for letting of a contract in Au gust for grading, gravelling and paylngof, jhe North Umpqua (Continued on Page Two) T-H Law Repeal Plan Doomed, Sen. Morse Says PORTLAND, June 2. W) Sen. Wayne Morse expects the new labor bill to be very much like the Morse - Ives measure which the Reublicans turned down in 1947 in favor of the Taft-Hartley law. The Oregon senator, who arriv ed here from Washington last night, declared that outright re peal of the Taft-Hartley law has n't a "ghost of a chance" of passing the Senate. "Some bill that is equitable to both labor and management is the solution", Morse said. "Lead, ers in industry have mode con cessions and we will have a bill that will look much like the rjie the Republicans rejected In 1947." He accused the Democratic ma jority on the Senate labor com mittee of refusing to hold any "sensible" hearings on the ques tion, and predicted that, as a result, the new labor bill would have to be written on the Senate floor. The Oregon Republican said he Is convinced that Congress has lost the "common touch", and is "out of step with the thinking of the nation." "It looks as If we will be in session through August and Into September," he said. "What we should do is adjourn and go home to see what is going on there and what people are thinking." .As for himself, the Eugene man said he expected to be reelected next year. Secrets miftMttiiiiwt'rtrtffl iiiinnwiftfti -f"-1 " '. PiM NEW CHIEF SWORN IN William E. (Dutch) Mills, right, with hand upraised in oath, was sworn William O. Bollman as Koseburg Clenn H. Taylor, who was retired 10 years as chief. (Staff Picture.) House-Approved Pension For Yets Finds No Economy-Minded Senators WASHINGTON, June 2. (JP) Senatori trying to get some steam behind an economy drive had little to say today about a veterans pension bill overwhelmingly approved by the House. Lookingglass Bridge Closure Of 4 Hours Set Lookineclass Bridge, across Lookingglass Creek on Coos Bay Highway, will be closed to traffic for about four hours riaay, June 3, according to an an nouncement from the State High way office In Roseburg.' Closure at about 10 a.m. is reauired while the contractors, Llnstrom Bros., move the bridge to temporary piers alongside tne old location. The bridge will be set up to serve as a detour, while a new concrete structure is erect ed at this location during the summer months. During the closure, traffic will be detoured over the Olalla road, a distance of about 7i miles, between Coos Bay Highway mile post 50 and mile post 56. Look ingglass Bridge Is located five and a half miles west 6f the junction with Highway 99 at Winston. Moving of the structure, a 105 foot Howe truss span, will be done with special equipment, and will take the estimated four hours. Another bridge moving in this vicinity will take place in about a week or 10 days, It was an nounced. LOGGER KILLED EUGENE. June 2. (JP) Ernest Eusted, Springfield logger, was crushed at a woods sue loading dock near Coburg yesterday. Coroner Phil Bartholomew said a rolling log struck Eusted on the head. He died of a crushed skull before reaching a hospital here. is. i :;. 3 , . s . H MA 129-49 Charged in Wednesday by City Recorder s new tir cniet. ne succeeds by the aga limit after serving Favor Among Instead the Senators applauded action of their . appropriations "committee In whacking off near ly $13,000,000 cash from operat ing funds voted by the House for the State and Justice De partments. The Senate expenditures com mittee, too, recalled Budget Bu reau officials from testimony on plans to lop off from one to more than three billion dollars from President Truman's spend ing plans. By a 365 to 27 roll call vote, the House quickly stamped ap proval yesterday on a $72-a-month rnsion to be given World War and II veterans when they be come 65 years old. Budget oniciais estimate tne pension measure which drafts into written law present pen sion regulations after liberaliz ing them will require $65,000,- (Continued on Page Two) Animal Oddities Show Goes To Circus Grounds The Animal Oddities show, scheduled to set up one block west of the Junior High School on Washington Street, has been forced to move to the circus grounds on Garden Valley Road, it was announced following ar rival of the show here Wednes day. The showing will continue to day until 10 p.m., at its new location. ' This educational exhibition of natural history provides an en tertainment program for young and old alike. Featured are such animals as Belgian Bob, world's largest horse, weighting 2740 pounds; Zebu, the sacred ox; caracul sheep from Persia; wild yak from Tibet, and many other attractions. Strike Affects 12 Markets In Roseburg Meatcufters Ask 5-Day Work Week, With Like Period $5 Wage Boost Retail clerks employed In groceries being plcksted by striking meatcutters walkad off their Jobs this morning. The Safeway Store was closed, while other groceries were op rating with skeleton orews. Picket llnoo ,,.. ...y.i:"u.j at Drinrinal mnrtota In D 1 this morning, as AFL meatcutters wem on sirme in demand for wage increases and a five-day work week. In a meeting this morning, the meatcutters rejected an emplov ers offer of a $2.50 per wee"k increase on th snma t.i last year's contract, according to . twiner, t-orriana, represen tative for the AFL Meatcutters Local. Affected In the walkout are about 40 meatcutters employed In 12 markets comprising the Rosehtirc TnripnonHan Ant rtnnl- o .i.v..it .iilui ic tri ors Association. According to statements by Bar ker and H. E. Carlson, Portland, secretnrv nf th oannn t pendent Retail Grocers Associa tion, the meatcutters are asking a $5 increase above the present weekly scale of $70 and reduc tion of the work week from 48 to 4U nours. The employers have offered $72.50 for a 48-hour week. Rarker sniri nnntt-nto UfltVi Am. ployers were opened for nego- imiiuns rtuni , ou aays prior lo the end of the contracts Tuesday night. Employers then were given OA hntll-a nntlna nt ,h. nnotUillt.. of a strike, to permit them to dispose oi meat siocks io pre (Continued on Page Two) Car Theft Shifts Hunt For Convicts To Eugene Area EUGENE. June 2'. UPi The four-day-old hunt for escaped con victs jonn u. fmson ana ms cellmate William P. Benson cen tered In this area today. Four persona tentatively identi fied u Plnaon a m aft--wo aban doned a stolen automobile and hitched a ride back to Spring field yesterday. State Police Set'. Vern Hill re ported the residents of Blue River, a small resort village on the McKenzie River along Highway 28, told of the stranger appear ing there early Wednesday. He had coffee at the Blue River Inn, related that his car had stalled down the road and then disap peared. Later a car stolen in Eu gene after midnight Tuesday was found nearby. Last night, logger Don Snyder told of picking up a nitcnniker at cju a. m. ana anv lng' him to Springfield. Snyder was quoted as saying his rider "looked similar" to a picture of Pinson. Police said three other Blue River townspeo ple had made identifying com ments. Police noted none of the four persons was positive the man seen at Blue River was Pinson, but all said there was a similarity. The circumstances of the stolen car, with license plates of Ore gon removed and Idaho substi tuted, fitted Into the situationi common to prisoner escapes, po lice said. Registration Set For Classes In Swimming Dnnl.tratlnn fn, Biimmpr swim ming classes will be taken at the new swimming pool at 9:30 Satur day morning, It was announced tAHov hu Mra Rpttv Smith, water safety chairman of the Douglas County cnapier oi me American Red Cross. More than 1,000 children In Roseburg have Indicated they de sire to take swimming lessons, dqIH Mra Kmlth nup tn the limit ed number of Instructors, lessons will be given on tne Dasis oi "iirst mm Tlrnt sprved" Instruction will be limited to beginners. Classes will start Monday, June 6, and continue through the sum mer. Instruction will be given daily, except ounuay, ueLween iu a.m. and 1 p.m. Instructors will Ha T7s, T3 -ni,'T. mnnnopr nf ttlA pool; Mrs. Dorothy Moore, Allen Knuatson, Mrs. nennein uaKiey, . . r t-it , . 1 ' ana miss morns ciihuwick, me latter of Myrtle Creek. Others wishing to volunteer as Instruc tors should contact Mrs. smitn. Yeggs Get $2,000 Booty From Safe In College TACOMA. June 2. (Safe crackers obtained $2,000 from the ' College of Puget Sound safe some time during the night, it was dis covered when the administration building was opened this morn ing. Police say the job was "highly professional" without a clue or fingerprint being left. The loss was Insured. Levity Ft Rant By L. F. Retsenstein Communist fugitive Eisler got a hero's welcome today In Leip zig, Cermany, but Uncle Sam got the $23,500 ball U left behind.