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i U. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon Comp, WHO DOES WHAT Fns; 1 ,tl' 0 '.'?- '-;,M i 'HRhvi i ii ii I'll irnmniiii iimimi i iii nil ALLENA ROSE studies the application of new car owner for an automobile license at the branch office of the automotive department of the secretary of state's office, maintained in the Courthouse in Roseburg. Plates will be issued here to the appli cant immediately, instead of his having to apply by mail to Salem and suffer the long wait which often has been the appli cant s tate prior to establishment of this service last December. I don't know anything which maddened me any more than to buy a new car lor an old jalopy, as the case might be and often was) and then have to drive for a month or more with a tem porary license sticker the ise of a mape of Texas plastered all over my windshield. This montsrous practice was enforced by law ana still is in many localities, at the same time another law subjected me to the clink if I so much as pasted a sticker of Homer I Money house or ot ureter Lake on my windshield. "The law is a ass," someone once wrote. If you know who, take the head of the class; you'll be .crowding him there. ' Worker Suffocates In Sawdust Bin Tho Weorker Centinueet hot today. Cooler Tuesday. Sunset today 7:50 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:33 . m. Established 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1949 132-49 John L. Lewis Contempt Conviction Upheld Miners Union Secret FBI Aide Tells Of Link With Red Spy, Who Was Protected To AvertRiot1 WASHINGTON, June 6. W -A one-armed rubber repairman who helped trap a warflme Russian spy testified today an FBI agent told him the State Department wanted to "appease" the Red operative. The witness, before the House un-American Activities Committee, was Joseph J. Franey of Niagara Falls, N. Y. Franey, employed by the Hook er Electro Chemical Co., served as photographer and deliveryman. Mrs. Franey got documents from the Bell Aircraft Company, Buf falo, where she was librarian, and Franey delivered them to the spy. f i'.y.; The Franeys related how they worked with the FBI in feeding information to the Russians under FBI supervision. The Russian was identified as a Soviet purchasing agent named Andrei Schevehenko. Franey said Schevehenko in struced them to deliver rolls of 35-millimeter film to him in New York. The Russian supplied a camera and the film, Franey ex plained, and Franey photograph ed the documents at his home. The Russian arranged meetings vlth Franey by sending picture gostcards of the Empire State uildlng, Franey said. Each card In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS GENERAL Waltpr Bedell Smith (Eisenhower's chief of staff in the late war years and our am bassador to Russia in the critical after-the-war years) . tell the Chamber of Commerce of the state of New York: , "Prime Minister Stalin once told me: "WE DO NOT WANT WAR ANY MORE THAN THE WEST DOES, BUT WE ARE LESS IN TERESTED IN PEACE THAN THE WEST AND THEREIN .LIES THE STRENGTH OF OUR 'POSITION." rHAT is to say: As long as Russia thinks we won't fight, she'll crowd us hard. If she changes her mind and thinks we WILL fight, she will be more cautious. HISTORY tells u plainly that there are times in the lives of men when the way to avoid war is to be ready to fight at the drop of a hat. What General Smith means is (Continued on Page Four) All But Three Of 14 Fugitive Convicts Nabbed MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., June 6. Only three of the 14 hardened convicts who sawed their way out of the West Vir ginia state penitentiary Friday were still at large today. Police from West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio were pressing the search for the trio Gerald Nolan, 19, and Eddie Starcher, 23, both under 10-year sentences, and Denver Vannest, 35, who was serving 25 years. The 11 other Inmates were recap'.ured within 60 hours after the 'ipectacular, pre-dawn breaks from the old, tnlck-walled prison. Three of them, all life termers, were reapprehended in Ohio yes terday. (Continued on Page Two) Jail Breaker Finds Officers Waiting For Him SALEM, June 6. UP) A prls 6ner worked five hours yesterday morning and sawed his way out of the Marion County Jail. But he dropped at the feet of Sheriff Denver Young and four armed deputies. The prisoner, Jack O'Neill Todd, 32, was awaiting trial for auto theft. A deputy heard him sawing the bars, and the sheriff and the deputies waited for five hours for him to get out. "After all this work, I meet you guys," he told the sheriff. The sheriff said: "We knew he had already cut several bars when we first heard him, so we Just waited- to see what would happen." Wildcat Strikers Tie Up British Railroads ; LONDON, June 6 UP) Wild cat strikers on the government owned railroads threatened today to shut down every line in Brit ain next weekend. The trainmen are demanding cancellation of a summer sched ule which requires some of them to spend nights away from home. A third "Sunday only" strike in a row yesterday stranded half a million Britons who had planned trips over the Whitsund tide holiday. Truman And Marshall Give Western Europe Pledge Of U. S. 'Strength, Resources1 WASHINGTON, June 6. UP) The United States has pledged western Europe its entire "strength and resources" to the mainten ance of world freedom, peace and democracy. The solemn assurance came last night from President Truman and a comparatively new elder statesman, General George C Marshall, achitect of the European recovery program. A dinner In the Carlton Hotel, a few blocks from the White House, was the setting for an his toric dinner at which they spoke. Spokesman for 16 Marshall plan countries voiced, too, their thanks for American aid in their hour of great need. The president of the United States assured them that the fight for lasting peace has only Just begun. The occasion was a celebration honoring Marshall, whom the pre ; sident railed a "soldier and a pat- trlot" and one "of the greatest Americans of all time." It was the second anniversary of Marshall's historic "remarks at Harvard University which gave birth to the program under which the United States offered its economic strength to help re vive free nations. General Marshall, looking fit after relaxing in his retirement (Continued on Page Two) Also Loses On Fines Appeal Penalties Of $1,420,000 Hold For Ignoring Order To End 1948 Coal Strike. WASHINGTON. June 6. ) The U. S. Circuit Court of Ap peals today upheld the contempt of court conviction of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Work ers for failure to call off a month-long strike last year. The court ordered the UMW chief and the Union to pay fines totaling $1,420,000. The fines were imposed by federal district Judge T. Alan Goldsborough on April 20, 1948. The fine against Lewis amount ed to $20,000. The Union fine was $1,400,000. Goldsborough imposed the fines because Lewis refused to carry out a court order to halt a strike over miners' pensions. It was the second contempt finding against Lewis and the Union. In 1946 Goldsborough fined the Union $3,500,000 and Lewis $10, 000 for contempt. On an appeal to the Supreme Court, the Un ion's fine was cut to $700,000. Lewis' penalty was left unchanged. In the second contempt action, Goldsborough doubled both fines. The three-Judge Appeals Court, in its unanimous opinion, held that the contempt conviction "does not concern the meaning of the agreement between the miners and the operators or the right to strike, or the so-called Taft-Hartley Act." It added: "It (the decision) concerns only the narrow question whether peo- file must obey a temporary order ssued by a court which seeks to maintain conditions until it 'CUTIE' ROLE FLOPS )( Continued on Page Two).1 Hunt For Escaped Convicts Shifts To Portland Area PORTLAND, June 6. A large police contingent resumed beating its way through wooded areas at dawn today in the hunt for two convicts who escaped from the state penitentiary a week ago. More than 50 men marched through the brush in the Viking Park and Dabney State Park areas, off the Columbia River Highway about 20 miles east of nere. Road blocks, too, were up. The man hunt started last night, after a family near Viking Park reported that a man resem bling William P. Benson, one of the escaped convicts, had ask ed for food, saying his "buddy" was in the woods, sick. A little- later a motorist saw two men helping each other over a guard rail in the same area. The motorist Identified one of them as John O. Pinson, the other sought convict. A systematic searcn or tne woods and road blocks failed to flush either man last night, and the hunt resumed as soon as day light broke this morning. What police hoped was tnat one of the convicts, who fled over the penitentiary wall in a hail of bullets, naa oeen wounaea and consequently unable to get very far away in the week since their escape. The first tip came from Mr. and Mrs. George Bietz. She gave a man a loaf of bread at his request, and then phoned state police that she was sure the man was Benson. Later, with the search under way, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Nolte saw one man helping another over a guard rail a mile east of the Troutdale Bridge. One looked like , Pinson. Disguise Fails Deserter From U.S. Air Force BURTONWOOD, England, June 6. ) The U. S. Air Force today formally accused Donna Delbert, the cutest music hall fire-eater in Britatn, of lead ing a double life. The Air Force asserted that Donna, with her hair cut off, is Private Delbert Hill of Philadel phia, a deserter since 1945. The provost marshal of the Air Force base here ordered Hill to trial on a desertion charge before a general court-martial Friday. ine iantastic masquerade came" to an end on April 7 at New castle. Acting on a tip from an undis closed source. British police picked up the 36-vearold Hill at a theatrical boarding house where he stayed between turns on the -age. Hill was hefty but fetching in won-tns clothing, a shoulder length hair-do and plucked eye brows. A girl assistant in the fire- eating act said she had been with mm to.- months without suspect in" ;he truth. 'Donna Delbert. demon fire- eater," was Hill's billing. r,.e Air Force cropped "Don .'s" hair to GI leneth. outfitter! him with a set of fatigues and ). it him in the nrisoners' stockade to grow a new set of eyebrows while they Investigated the case. The formal charge today followed. Powers Lions Aid Girl To Get Seeing-Eye Dog PORTLAND, June 6 UP) Florence Rushing, IS, of Powers, was enroute East with a travel ing companion today for a see-ing-eye dog. With Miss Rushing is Audrey Langbecker, 17, both graduate of Marshfield High School of Coos Bay. The trip is being financed by the Powers, Ore., Lions Club, where the blind girl lived before moving to Coos Bay to reside with her grandparents. Rancher, Dog Killed By Wreck Of New Auto HEPPNER, Ore., June 6. lPl Joe Haynes, rancher of near Lone Rock, was found dead under the wreckage of his new car on the Wvland grade near Hardman Sat urday. Morrow County authorities said cause of the mishap was not ap parent. The ranohar'i do( also die In the ear. , . 5 Youths Jailed Following Fight Five youths are In the county Jail following an alleged attack upon six high school boys and girls, who were seated in a park ed car on Cobb St. after the com mencement . exercises ..Friday night,' Chief of Police Calvin H. Haird reported. He said the youths had seen the High School students three boys and three girls seated in the car and had inquired if there would be any "parties" that night. When the students replied in the nega tive, the youths went away but later returned and "nicked a fight," the report said. . In the assault, one of the High School boys was struck in the face by a beer bottle. His nose was broken and he required hos pital treatment. The youths were named by Chief Baird as James Branton, 20, Umpqua, Ore.; William Harold Klatt, 19, 1127 E. 3rd St.; Efnest Harry Branton, 22, Umpqua, and two 17-year-olds. Ernest Branton pleaded innocent Saturday in Jus tice Court. The others were fined $100 and sentenced to six months I each in the county jail on charges of vagrancy involving disorderly conduct, by Justice of the Peace A. J. Geddes. Case of Ernest Branton has been set for trial in Justice Court in the coming week. Senate Opens Fight On New Labor Law GOP-Dixiecrat Link Appears To Have Edge In Three-Way Split WASHINGTON, June 6. UP) The Senate starts today a labor law debate keyed to President Truman's campaign pledge to get rid of the Taft-Hartley act. A month ago the House blocked the first big drive in Coneress to redeem Mr. Truman's promise. Now that hot political issue is before the Senate, it's there in the form of the administration's bill to repeal the T-H law and replace it with a slightly modified ver sion of the old Wagner Act. Again, the odds are aH against enactment of the Truman meas ure, despite its backing by union leaders. In fact, very few in Con gress are talking any more about either (1) outright repeal or (2) keeping the Taft-Hartley law practically intact. In'the Senate, for example, the strongest opposing factions are backing different compromises. In advance of today's Senate session, key Democrats and Re publicans arranged for separate strategy pow-wows. Three-Way Split There are three main groups in the picture at this point. ine nrst is made up of a few Democratic Senators who still are plugging for the administration bill, even though some of them acknowledge privately that it hasn t a chance. The second group Is composed of a majority of the Democrats (Continued on Page Two) Western Oregon Cooler Tomorrow, Forecast PORTLAND, June 6. P Another hot day was forecast today for Oregon, which steamed yesterday in tempera tures ranging up to 100. The weather bureau taid it would be cooler In Western Oregon tomorrow, however. The Dalles was Oregon's hot test point yesterday, with a high of 100 degrees. Medford had 97; Pendleton, Salem and Roseburg 92; Ontario 90; Port land 89; La Grande 86. Chambers Admits Second Contact In State Dept. NEW YORK, June 6. UP) Whlttaker Chambers, ex-Commu nist courier, testified today that he had another "source in the State Department" in addition to Alger Hiss, now on trial on per jury charges. unambers, chief government witness in the charges against the former high State Depart ment official, made his claim of another, contact In the State De partment under cross-examina tion by Hiss' chief counsel. Leaving aside Mr. Hiss, did you have a confederate in the State Department?" Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker asked him. We had a source in the State Department," the witness re plied. Under further questioning Chambers said the "source" was employqed In the trade agree ment section ol tne state Department, Earlier, Stryker drew two new admissions from Chambers that he himself had committed per jury. It brought to three his con fessions of penurious acts since the trial began. v Chambers acknowledged that he knowingly lied under oath in statements before the House com mittee on un-American activities last August. Hiss, one time State Depart ment official, Is accused of lying when he denied before a spy- hunting grand jury that he turned over secret government papers to Chambers for transmis sion to a Red. spy network. He was indicted on two perjury counts. 'PLUSH' LIFE ENDS Prison Escapee; Nabbed In Camp Near Eugene ; EUGENE, June 6 UP) A. 22-year-old ex -escaped convict, Harry Vaughn Russell, who local state police reports is wanted by authorities in San Bernadino, Calif., was arrested Sunday night at a gravel pit used as a fishing spot. Deputies from the sheriff's office Were called to the spot by some fishermen who said that someone had been shooting at them. Accompanied by state police officers, the deputies went to the pit and ordered the mysterious marksman to come out. After some persuasion, Russell threw away two guns and surrendered. The officials found his camn well stocked with stolen guns, knives and iood irom stores near Eu gene. Russell told police officials that he has escaped from San Quentln prison farm a year and a half ago where he was serving from one to 15 years for burglary at the time. He said he had served nine months at San Ouentin and escaped Just after hij transfer to tne farm. Electrical Fees Increase Target Of Referendum SALEM, June 6. -M1) Three Cottage Grove residents have fil ed a referendum attack on a 1949 legislative act which would in crease fees paid by electrical con tractors. It the sponsors get 15,926 sig natures of registered voters by July 15, then the bill would go on the November, 1950, election ballot. The bill was requested hv State Labor .Cgmmissioner W. B. Klnu sey, who said it would ''provide oeuer regulation oi electric wir ing installations." The fees for contractors would be boosted from $20 to $50 a year, and for journeymen from $3 to $5 a year. It also would require owners doing their own wiling to get permits and be inspected. Kimsey said this would prevent sale of new homes with detective wir ing. Sponsors of the referendum are George D. Drury, Marvin J. Drury and Vlnal T. Randall Jr., all of Cottage Grove. It is the fourth referendum launched against hills of the 1949 legislature. The otner bins wouia make possible the Rogue River irrigation, power and nooa con trol project ; prohibit daylight sav ing time in Oregon unless the governor proclaims it; and pro vide $50 monthly pensions, with the slate to get claims against estates of deceased pensioners. No Sign Yet Of Peace In Local Strike Picketing Of Markets Continues; Statement Is Issued By Carlson There were no new develop ments today In thestiike of meat cutters against 12 markets in Rose burg. Picketing of stores con tinued over the weekend. There was no indication, from either side when the strike would end. H. E. Carlson, employers'-representative, returned today from Portland, where he went Fri day. He said the picketing of stores on Sundav, when the stores were not operating, was "appar ently an attempt to prevent de livery or merchandise. S. W. Parker, Portland, repre sentative of the Meatcutters Un ion, said he knew of no new de velopments in the strike. He said his union is "ready and willing to negotiate a settlement at any time." . In a meeting regarding picket ing of Patterson's Bakery Friday, Carlson said, "The employers have no quarrel with the Team sters Union. It is our belief that that officials of the Teamsters H. V. Holland, Newcomer, Death Victim Effort To Free Conveyor At Roseburg Lumber Co. Traps Man Underneath Hubert Holland, 38, died of suf focation when he was burled by sawdust under a bin at the Rose burg Lumber Co. Sunday morn ing. He apparently tried to un clog the conveyor system to the boilers, when the sawdust gave way and buried him. According to Fire Chief Wil liam E. Mills, the tragedy was discovered by Dave Swanson, company watchman, who observ ed Holland's- hand and wrist watch protruding out of the saw dust. He summoned firemen, who attempted to revive the victim with the resucltator. The sawdust bin is a large structure with the conveyor belt running through the center, at the bottom. Earl Plummer, busi ness manager of. the Roseburg Lumber Co., said it is customarv for employes to push sawdust down from the top into the center, as the conveyor carries the saw dust to the boilers. Holland ap parently had tried to go under the bin to- loosen the sawdust. The accident hRnoened within 45 minutes of its discovery by the watchman. He said he makes his rounds at the plant approximately every 45 minutes. He had seen Holland on his earlier round. Firemen were summoned im mediately to the scene. They con tinued their efforts at artificial respiration until Holland was pro nounced dead at Mercy Hospital, where he was removed. , Holland was employed as a fire man at the lumber mill and was tending boilers when tragedy struck. Family In Klamath Falls He was born August 29. 1910. In Beach Grove, Ark., and came to Oregon five vpars atrn. He was Union have been misinformed re-1 a former resident of Klamath lative to negotiations with the j Falls and had come to Roseburg Meatcutters Union. four weeks ago to establish a "We were Informed by a repre- home for his family. U. Of O. Student Drowns At Swimming Party EUGENE, Ore.. June 6 W George Reece, University of Oregon student from Boise, Idaho, drowned yesterday while swim ming with his fraiernity brothers In a pond north of here. Keece and some other memners of Sigma Alpha Epsllon went for a swim In pits dug by the high way workers Just off the Pacific Highway. He was in tne middle ot tne pond when he floundered and sank possibly due to a heart at tack or a cramp, a doctor said. His companions brought him ashore and called the fire department, but artificial respiration failed. !T4!''" enBWHMMMettfM 1 V4l p' ?r1 i) -J . I JLJ COMMUNISTS JAILED Three of the II Communiift on trial for conspiracy in New York dis play manacles as they leave the court room et the end of session during which Judge Harold Medina, his patience at an end, ordered them to jail. Judge Medina revoked the bail of defend ants Gui Hall I left I end Henry Winston Icenterl and remanded them to jail for fhe duration of the frial. John VV. Gates (rightl, editor of the Daily Worker, was sentenced te 30 days in jail for contempt of court, because h refused ie answer' queitiea under cress examination. (NEA Telephete) v v sentatlve of the Teamsters Union that It was their understanding that we had refused to carry oh legitimate negotiations with the Meatcutters Union. "We have every hope that the Teamsters will resclod their ac tion against our retailers, wnen they are Informed as to the man ner In which our negotiations have been carried on with the Meatcutters . Union. .-- - - VOur- grocery store -operators have been unfairly treated by the Teamsters union ny tneir act oi attempting to shut off our sour ces of supply, we recognize the fact that we have a contract dispute with the Meatcutters Un- (Continued on Page Two) I Surviving are the widow. Paul ine; two daughters, Rena Sue and Shelby Jean, and a son, Jerry Dean, all of Klamath Falls; his mother, Mrs. Mary S. Holland, Flint, Mich.; seven brothers and two sisters, all in the East. The body will be shipped by the Roseburg Funeral Home to Arkansas for funeral services and Interment. , , Fire Kills Five Of 14 Children In Family HAZLETON, Pa., June 6-41P) More than $1,000 poured Into a relief fund today for a West Hazleton couple and their nine remaining children after fire wrecked their home and killed five of their sons. Steven Galzick, a mine laborer, Is In critical condition at Hazle ton State Hospital. His wife and a son, Robert, 7, also are reported in critical condition, suffering multiple burns and internal In juries. The fire which roared through their small frame home In the predawn hours yesterday killed these five children of the Galzick couple: Joseph, 11; Richard, 5; Leo, 3; Thomas, 2, and Donald, six months. Cause of the blaze was unknown. Truman Appoints First Woman U. S. Treasurer WASHINGTON, June 6 (P) President Truman, today nomi nated Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, vivacious Richland, Kans., bank er, as the first woman treasurer of the United States. Mrs. Clark, a 49-year-old di vorcee, was supported for the (lost by Mrs. India Edwards, head of the women's division of the Democratic National Committee. She flew Into Washington over the weekend after a hurry-up call from Mrs. Edwards. Hers Wi the first of several expected nomina tions of women to high federal office, including diplomatic posts. Anti-Lynching Bill Gets Senate Committee O. K. WASHINGTON, June 6 (IT) An antl-lynchlng bill was ap proved by the Senate Judilcary Committee. The measure, introduced bv Senator Ferguson (R.-Mlch.), was the first civil rights legisla tion to be approved by a henate Committee at this session of Con gress. The legislation provides a max imum penalty of a $10,000 fine or 20 years in prison, or both, lot conspiracy to Incite, aid or com mit a lynching, it wouin apply to peace officers as well as mem bers of a lynch mob. Officer Hurt As He Speeds To Manhunt PORTLAND, June 6. UP) A deputy sheriff, hurrying to duty on the manhunt lines, was critically Inlurcd this morning. 1 just as Portland reached Its 79th day without a traffic fatality. Deputy snerni Konert Dillon. riding his motorcycle toward the manhunt scene, collided with a car, and was hurled over the car's top through the door of a store. His skull fractured, he was still unconscious In a hospital severe! hours later. Woman Saves : Four Boys. Before Train Kills Her MALONE," Wash., June 6. UP) A Northern Pacific freight train took the life - of a 51-year-old grandmother near here yester day, but not before she pushed four boys to safety from the trestle on which they were trap ped. The victim was identified by deputy sheriff Knute Wennberg as Mrs. Ruth Merryman. He Identified the boys as Larry Har vey, 12, of Oaklville, Wash., and Ronny Hake, 6, of Malone Mrs. Merryman's grandsons and Pete Merryman, 8, and his 4-year-old brother John her adopted sons. The five were caught In the middle of the trestle oy the ap proach of the unscheduled "ex tra" freight. Mrs. Merryman shoved the grandsons off the bridge Into the Chehalis river, but the other two, panic-stricken, began to run. She caught them near the end of the span and pushed them on. tney landed on tne gravel below. Before she could jump, the woman Was struck by the train and knocked off the bridge. She died of a broken neck. The two who landed in the river were unhurt. The other two received minor injuries. Mrs. Merryman, a divorcee, lived on a farm near here, depu ty Wennberg said. Colorado, Kansas Areas Swept By Late Floods DENVER, June 6. (Floods along the eastern fringe of the Rockies and through the rich Arkansas River Valley left Vhou- under water today. Rail and highway traffic wa disrupted. Silt and debris clut tered tne streets oi several towns. Homes were isolated, but no deaths were reported. A weekend ot steady rain- unusual for the eastern slope of the mountains pushed tribu taries of the Arkansas out of their banks In southern Colo rado. The Akansas overflowed hut soon relumed to its bank. The main east-west line of the Sante Fe Railroad was washed out at Lamar. Holly, Granada, and Bristol, Colo., and Lakin, Kans., also were flooded. JAP TREASURE BURNS TOKYO, June H.tJP) Fukuy ama castle, a 34J-year-o!d Jap anese national treasure, was de stroyed by fire yesterday, It was reported here today. The castle s at Fukuyama, oldest city on Hokkaido Island. Livity Fact Rant By L. F, ReleeiMtein This weather should be per feet for the guy 'snowed undor with work.
