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Comp. 1 Strike Still Deadlocked WHO DOES WHAT U. Of 0. Library , Eugene , Oregon I) V- v jf ' T If , I .wa..A.i..jLJ i1!::;-. -W MRS. EVERETT TEATER, co-owner of Dorothy's Gift Shop on 5. Stephens St., is caught by the camera as she stands beside a display table containing many figurines and vases. Her husband, Everett, expertly cuts and polishes agates, fashioning them into articles of jewelry. The Gift Shop: recently moved from its old location near Cass St. to its present new quarters in the Newland building. Detroit Bus Drivers Strike Against Proposed Wage Cut; N. Y. Longshore Riot Halted (By the Associated Press) A strike of AFL bus drivers in the Detroit area today left some 30,000 suburban residents without public transportation. The drivers quit at midnight in protest against a 'wage cut pro posed by the Dearborn Coach Co. Cuts proposed by the company range from 81 to 131 cents an hour. Present wage scales were not disclosed. ' Inferior Dept. Opposes Dams On Two Rivers PORTLAND, June 8.-UP) The Department of Interior will oppose any hydro-electric dams on the Deschutes River because of , salmon restoration programs for Lower Columbia tributaries. C. Girard Davidson, assistant secretary of the Interior,. told.-a. ' Press Club of Oregon forum ' group ' last' night that the De partment was opposed to a Cow litz river dam in southwest Wash ington for the same reason. Davidson said the Deschutes project at the Pelton site, pro- gosed by the Northwest Power upply Co., Portland, would be a barrier to salmon spawning grounds. He said the river has a role in the federal depart . ment'i plan to rebuild and pre serve the salmon fisheries in dustry in the Columbia. The cabinet aide said the fed eral power commission would be asked to refuse the site to the Portland company. The govern ment has authority over the ' river because it is listed as a navigable waterway and exten sive federal drainage lands are involved. Death Toll In Atlantic Plane Crash Believed 54 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, June 8. (p) Searchers used flares this morning' to scour murky, shark-ridden waters where a transport plane crashed yester day. At least 54 of the 81 aboard are believed to have perished. Capt. D. H. Dexter, in charge of the U. S. Coast Guard base here, said he did not believe any more would be found alive. Twenty-five of the 27 saved themselves by swimming to shore. FINED FOR ASSAULT Roland Edward Braz, 29, Rose burg Trailer Court, was fined $50 on a charge of assault and battery when arraigned in Justice Court Monday, reported Justice of Peace A. J. Geddes. Braz was arrested by sheriff's deputies bn a com plaint filed by his wife. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS FIVE years ago this week, our men landed on the Normandy beaches and began the long and bloody job of exterminating Hit ler't Nazi "ism." They did their job. They put an end to Nazism. IN ITS PLACE, WE HAVE COMMUNISM. DO you recall the myth of the dragon's teeth? Wherever they were sown, armed men sprang up. And there is the other myth of the hydra-headed monster. When ever one head was cut off, seven more grew In its ilace. "ISMS" ARE LIKE THAT. - WARS 'are like that. For each evil cured by war, seven other evils spring up. WAR necessary evil though It (Continued on Page Four) Other labor developments to day included: Washington: John L. Lewis, chief of the United Mine workers, announced the U. S. Steel Corp. has agreed to new contract talks for ts coal mines beginning June 13 at Philadelphia. New York: Police halted pick eting1 of the AFL Longshore men's headquarters by a rival union faction after a violent street battle yesterday. Some 2,500 dock workers clash ed in the melee which climaxed a 13-week-old dispute between therivar factions 'over alleged union discrimination against Ne gro members. Boston: Ratification of an arbi tration agreement was awaited today to end a strike which has cut off transportation service to some 50,000 commuters in 79 communities since last Thurs day. The strike involves about 2200 AFL bus drivers and mechanics. Detroit: An arbitration panei which will seek to effect settle ment of speed-up charges in the recent Ford strike was completed last night. Third member of the three man panel to be selected was Dr. Harry Shulman, professor of law at Yale University, who was (Continued on Page Two) Girls Drum Corps Leaves Tomorrow For Festival Traveling by chartered bus, the Knights of Pythias Girls Drum Corps will leave here at 6:30 to morrow morning to march in the Rose Festival Parade at Portland Friday, as representatives of the Pythian lodges in Oregon. rne gins nave Deen practicing for the parade for a number of weeks. They will hold their final rehearsal tonight, said Bill Black, their director. The Corps will stay two nights in Portland, at the Abbey Hotel, returning here Saturday. Accompanying the group as chaperones will be Mrs. Edward Frenette, most excellent chief of the Pythian Sisters; Mrs. Al Kuy kendall, and Mrs. J. P. Motschen bacher. Vacation Planners Told To Notify Police Dept. Roseburg citizens leaving for their vacations should notify the police of the time they are to be absent, so that their homes may be watched by police officers, said Chief of Police Calvin H. Baird. Empty homes are a temptation to burglars or others who might disturb them, during their owners' absence, the police chief pointed out. Regular police . patrols will check homes of all persons who notify the police of the-dates of their absence from the city. Several families have already taken advantage of this service of fered by the police, the chief pointed out. Serve Yourself Laundry Bought In Merger Plan C. N. Currier, owner of the Self Service Laundry on Burke St., an nounced today he had purchased the Serve Yourself Laundry at 916 Cobb St., and is combining the two businesses at the latter location. Mondav he took out a'clty build ing permit for the construction of a $650 addition to the building. Currier purchased the Serve Yourself Laundry from Ralph Fisher, its most recent owner. The enlarged laundry Is to be equipped with 16 washing ma chines, five tumbler driers, and two extractors, providing com plete facilities for self-service. The Weather N I Mostly cloudy today and Thursday. Rain Thursday. . Sunset today 7:51 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:33 a. m. Established 1873 Atomic Energy Quiz Develops Into Wrangle Lilienthal, Hickenlooper Stage Oral Combat Over Exporting Of Isotopes WASHINGTON. June 8. UP) Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) said today the Atomic Energy Commission has sent Norway radioactive isotopes for use in studies of steel for jet engines and rockets. He called that a violation of the spirit if not the letter of the law, but David E. Lilienthal, the AEC chairman vigorously de nied it. It was one of several wran gling exchanges Between the Sen ator and Lilienthal during a Senate-House Committee's hear ings on AEC policy. Earlier, when security at U. S. atomic plans was under discussion, Lili enthal bitterly protested that the investigation ot Ac.u is smear ing" people by "innuendo." Hickenlooper questioned ship ments of isotopes to France and Finland as well as to Norway. Isotopes are forms of an ele ment resulting from atomic bom bardment. ' Lilienthal denied the Commis sion had violated either the spirit or letter of the law In sending the isotopes abroad for industrial experiments. He declared there is nothing secret about isotopes. And he added the law prohibited any exchange of information on atom ic energy but that sending iso topes was not an exchange of in formation. - Lilienthal argued that no one (Continued on Page Two) Plaintiff Gets $2,500 Verdict In Traffic Case A verdict for the plaintiff, Mar- jorie G. Davis, administrator of the estate of Lfitth Gail" Jenkins, in the sum of $2,500 was returned bv a Circuit Court jury late Tues day. Defendants in the case were Bernard Fenwick. truck driver. and Flegel Transfer and Storage. The plaintiff had asked damages of $10,000 as the result of a truck car accident at Club 99 near Winr Chester last summer, in which Miss Jenkins met her death. Remaining on the docket Is a related case, asking the same amount of damages, brought by L. L. Davis, administrator of the estatte of James Arthur Bales, against Fenwick and Flegel Transfer and Storage. Bales aiso died as a result of the accident. It Is probable that this case will not be brought to trial this term because of the similarities of the case. Opening today was the suit asking a total of $16,150 damages brought by M. K, Brown against Glen E. Marshall. The trial is an outgrowth of an accident Jan. 22, 1949, south of Canyonville, when the two cars collided on icy pave ment. Brown asserts he received injuries of a permanent nature. Hospital and medical care is list ed at $200, loss of income from miuries $1950, and general lam- ages of $15,000. IMMWIiMin,llllllllM.IMMMMMMllMl : 'S 'V- , A ci f Tl-ff ft If I? f fll . - MVi U i i- wsaM j Ml I b u . I .... 7-" f fA ; .VbS U f . i ? ,1 '" 'Yv -' s 1 "R" FOR ROSEBURG The Roseburg High School Band is pictured in' a familiar ''R'' formation while practicing for its part in Portland's Rose Festival North west band jamboree, which takes place Thursday night at Multnomah Stadium. The band members, directed by C. A. Riclcetts and led by Majorette Pauline Miller, will put on a 12-minute demonstration, in which several novel formations will be presented to the tune of popular songs. The band, which left Roie burg this morning, marched through downtown Portland this afternoon, and will take part in the big festival parade Friday morning. The group, numbering 80 members, will be housed at Lewis and Clark College. Following a day ef amusement at Jantzen Batch Saturday, the students wlH return te Roseburg on Sunday. (Picture by Clark's Studiol ROSEBURG, Economic Policy May Supplant Paris Huddle PARIS, June 8 (tP) A move ment to cut of fx the deadlocked negotiations on Germany and Berlin in the four-power Foreign Ministers' Council was reported gaining headway today in West ern circles. The informant said that in view of the deadlock within the Council, the best course seemed to be the designation of special commissioners who could at tempt to work out technical de tails of a currency agreement, arrangements for access to Ber lin from the Western Zones and an accord on East-West trade. Now in its third week, the current session of the Foreign Ministers' Council thus far has produced only a restatement of widely divergent Soviet and Western views on re-unification of Germany and the restoration of a single municipal administra tion for Berlin. Russia has demanded a voice equal to that of the combined three Western powers in the con trol of Berlin. This proposal for a 50-50 vote actually one power equalling three was flatly rejected yeste day by Secretary of State Dean Acheson as a device for impos ing the will of one occupying power on the other three. The Western ministers urged adoption of the American plan to give Berlin's administration the leeway enjoined by Vienna where the city administration can do as it pleases unless all four of the occupying powers dis approve. Use Koch Slated For Another Trial MUNICH, June 8.-UB Ger man justice officials reported to day they were planning a new mai oi jise is.ocn, widow or the former commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Her life sentence was com muted to four years Imprison ment tjy American authorities last year and she will be eligible for release from Landsberg Pris oi by Oct. 18. The commutation Is based an a decision' of a "reviewing board that there was no evidence she participated in the killing1 of Buchenwald Inmates. Dr. Hans Walther, department al chief of the Bavarian Justice Ministry, said evidence had been found she mistreated and par ticipated in the killing of Ger man camp inmates. The previous sentence was based on charges of mistreating subjects of the United Nations, he said. Oregon 'Con' Identified As Idaho Theater Robber BOISE, June 8. UP) -.' A theater manager here has identi fied a picture of escaped Oregon convict William P. Benson as one of two gunmen who robbed the tneater. v Police said Clyde Wlllard, found bound and eaeeed after the $75 holdup, reported the second man in the crime did not resemble John O. Pinson, the life-termer who es caped with Benson. Willard's theater was robbed Saturday night the two Oregon convicts went over the state prison wall at Salem before dawn on Memorial Day. . M ' ' OREGON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1949 Fire Strikes 'Jinx Bridge' At Tacoma Damage Estimated At $400,000 Dealt Tower Of New Narrows Span TACOMA, Wash., June 8. (ff) A spectacular fire caused a pos sible $400,000 or more damage early today to the 502-foot tow er of "the Bridge of Jinxes." Flames, fed by oil, gasoline and timbers, turned the nearly completed west tower of the ill fated Tacoma Narrows suspen sion bridge into a gigantic steel framed torch. ': . Engineers' early estimates of damage were $400,000 or more. It was the third blow of the elements at the Narrows span. The original bridge, with a half mile long center suspension span, collapsed In a gale in 1940. Then the recent earthquake shook a giant steel "saddle" from atop a tower. , Engineers expressed belief that a short circuit on the pier at the tower's base may have start ed the destructive blaze short ly before midnight. They leaned to that theory because the fire sprang up after a smaller one had been put out five hours earli er. They were Inclined to discount an earlier theory that It might have been caused by a discarded hot rivet, because or the long lapse between the 4:40 p.m. quit ting time and the major blaze. Tom Martinsen, resident en gineer for the Bethlehem Pacific Steel Construction Company, said he did not believe there was any serious damage to the steel tow er Itself. It was so hot, how ever, that he did not expect any workers to be able to check it today. Falling debris made the base (Continued on Page Two) Triplets Arrive For Parents Of 17 Children , BANGORv Me.i , .June ffc 4P) - - The George E. Chapmans, who had 17 children, now have M. Mrs. Chapman gave birth to trip lets yesterday. The babies Two girls and a boy and their 36-year-old moth er are "doing fine" at eastern Maine general hospital. Chapman, 46-year-old truck driver, said he and his wife were "astounded." The triplets have an older brother, sister and 15 half brothers and sisters. Chapman had 10 children and his wife five by former spouses. Shoe Salesman Pulls. k Double Pinch On Crook MEMPHIS, June 8. (P) A hoe salesman administered a double pinch to his oustomer. Police said the talesman be came suspicious when the ous tomer presented a $120 govern ment check to pay for a pair of shoes. So he wrapped up a smaller paid, told the customer goodbye, and called police. Officers found the oheck had been stolen. They waited In the store until the man re turned to exchange the tight shoes and pinched him. ? J-,'';i;.iV'& ft Continued Good Business In Prospect For Fir Plywood Industry. Association Told TACOMA, June 8. ) Aggressive salesmanship will permit the West Coast fir plywood industry to maintain high sales and production, Arnold Koutonen, retiring president of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, says Continued betterment of prod uct, coupled with the Industry's new million dollar advertising campaign, means the entire in dustry can look forward to con tinuing good business, he told 250 officials at opening of a two day convention yesterday. Frost Snyder, of Tacoma and Vancouver, Wash., was elected president, succeeding Koutonen, who has served two terms. Sny der is president of the Vancouver Plywood Co. Other officers chosen were: F. L. Johnson, Anacortes, general manager of Anacortes Veneer. Inc., vice president; Leonard Ny strom, Eugene, Ore., president of Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., secretary (reelected) and J. H. Smith, Tacoma, general manager of Pudget Sound Plywood, Inc., l reelected j. Trustees named were: R. E. Walton, Everett; J. P. Simpson, Tacoma; J. W. Forrester, Coos Bay, Ore., and Dennis M. Slen nlng, Tacoma. Numerous additional new firm' members of the association were announced. They were Crescent Plywood Co., Crescent City, Calif.; Evans Products Co., Coos Bay; Fir Manufacturing Co., Myrtle Creek, Ore.; Humboldt Plywood Corp,, Areata, Calif.; Menasha Coos Head Plywood Corp., North Industrial Paralysis Creeps On Hawaii As In Strike Of HONOLULU, June 8, UP) Thirty-nine days of waterfront strike squeezed virtually every business end was not In sight. ' CIO longshoremen struck the wanted to boost their pay 32 cents an hour to $1.72, This would restore restore the old dlflerential 10 Waterfront employers offered Two U. S. government medi ators, the territorial governor and mounting public pressure have failed to narrow this gap. bom sides nave quit talKing. Each is out to wear down the other. Meanwhile; Businesses Big and little falter. Employment drops. Bank clearings plummet. The striKe of 2,000 men reaches into prac tically every home. Propaganda barrages come from all sides. But the big fleet of merchant ships doesn't come and go. And ocean-borne com merce ! the lifeline of Hawaii. What pyramids the Impact of a strike like this? ' 1. Hawaii o isolation. It de pends on the dollars it gets from sugar and pineapple to support its economy, sixty percent oi its food is imported. It's too far from the mainland 2,400 miles for a commercial airlift to fill the need. 2. Dominance by one big un ion Harry Bridges' militant, left wing International Long shoremen's and warehousemen's (Continued on Page Two) . ' . ".Vr or. 134-49 FROST SNYDER Heads Plywood Assn. Bend, Ore.: Pacific Veneer & Ply wood Corp., Bellingram; South ern uregon Fiywooa, inc., urants Pass, and Western Veneer Co., Lebanon, Ore. Deadlock Holds Longshoremen and home in Hawaii today. The islands' six ports May 1. They cents under the Pacific Coast scale. a 33-cent raise. 1 , Race Equality In Navy Decreed WASHINGTON, June 8. (P) The Navy was free today to put Into effect its plan for assuring "equality of treatment and op portunity" for all its personnel, regardless of race, religion or color. , That policy was approved yes terday by Secretary of Defense Johnson, It was submitted following Johnson's order to comply with President T r u m a n's directive aimed at abolishing discrimina tion in the three armed services The air force plan was approv ed last month, but Johnson said he turned down a proposal sub mitted by the army and asked for a new one by June 20. Officials would not say wheth er this moans an end to segrega tion oi iNegroes. The policy applies to the Ma rine Corps as well as the Navy. . ?. 'a6 4 4 v MrTl. State Labor Head Fails In Peace Effort Grocery Clerks Resume Their Jobs But Won't Handle Fresh Meat With noithat- cMn artmlttln. hope for immediate settlement, thP mPfltrtt0tC, otlL-A MntlmmJ today. Both employer and union ivpit-seiutuives mei witn state Labor Commissioner William Kimspv. Artincr in fha tviln nf ,,n. official conciliator, last night and mis morning. But the situation remained stalemated and Kimsey pivpaieu io return to saiem. Retail grocery clerks returned to work Tuesday, after pickets were withdrawn from large mar. kets WherA Ihnu hurl luun att.. start of the strike last Thursday. oii-juiauun in me DacK-to-work iiiuvc uiuiaieo. oy me Ketail Clprlca Uninn la fkof erators shall make no attempt to atru .iresu meat. Three meat markets, not oper ated in connection with grocerv fiinrne cllll hnl.n nV-i i-J, The Safeway Store, which had uccu uuseu at me start oi the strike, reopened for business, but its meat counters remained bare, as were those at the other gro ceries involved in the strike. Clerks In No Dispute Paul Hansen, Portland, North west director of the Retail Clerks Union, said here yesterday that his group had initiated the re-turn-to-wnrk mnvp at tha sloros, provided that the retail cierKs win respect meateutters' , picket lines if the meat market Is operating and unfair." Hansen pointed out that the clerks had been out ' five days, unable to cross the meateutters' Picket liniae Kllf that , , -mv inui Ills UII1UII is not Involved in any dispute "mi me aiure operators. The Teamsters Union appar ently took the same stand as the Retail Clerks, because it was re- ' ported that deliveries to groceries resumed as soon as the meateut ters' pickets were withdrawn. KimSPV mpt loot nlnht ...t.U H- . , - "ov Willi . E. Carlson, secretary of the .-.i'K"ii iuuepenuent urocers As sociation, representing local em ployers; E. R. Johnson, repre senting the Safeway Stores, Inc.. and S. W. Barker, of the Meat cutters Union. Representatives of both groups said I hey could still reach no APrPPmPnt nttnr tharr . again this :norning. Carlson said he and Johnson are returning to Portland, but will be willing to ; resume me taiKs at any time, cither here or at Portland. Barker said he would remain "on the job" here. Wage Demand Cut OnP nt fhp mnlni nnlnis nt 1 ..- ..... ,,,U(JU. jb.0 nt, 0- atlp in thp elt'tb-o io tha nnntl a 40-hour work week. The meat cullers have reduced their original wage demands from $75 to $70, aronrriinar tn Rni'lfnr thminh ,,ihn offers were made or rejected in wie discussion witn Kimsey were not revealed. vh.iuu., l"uivu jrcuciua tliaL employers "believe that it is im- uuiwiuie io gram wage increases for a 40-hour week, due to present conditions in the meat industry." Even If employers yielded to the reduced demands of the Meateut ters Union, the Increase wouid be "decidedly out of line in compari- (Continued on Page Two) Two In Field For School Director Wilh deadline for filing for the position of Roseburg District 4 school director on Friday, June 10, only two candidates so far have filed, reported Superintendent Paul Elliott. N. D. "Nat" Johnson has filed for the five-year term, which will be vacated by J. P. Motschen bacher and Jack Doyle, who was appointed to fill the term va cated by Paul Keith, has filed for this position, which continues two years. Molschenhacher, who has served a full five-year term, has chosen not Io be a candidate, since his children are now all through school and he feels the responsi bility should pass on to someone else, said Elliott, who expressed regrets at his leaving the board. Election will take place Monday June 20, from 2 to 7 p. m. In the Junior High School auditorium. Since petitions must be in at least 10 days prior to the election, they must all be In by Friday night. Acceptance must be In five days Erevlous, in order that the names e placed on the ballot. Larceny, Drunkenness Charges Confront Man Dallas James Crumpacker, 29, Sutherlln, is being held In the Douglas County jail on two counts. Arrigned In the court of Justice of Peace A. J. Geddes Saturday, ball was set at $150 on a charge of being drunk on a public street. He was arraigned again Monday on a further charge of larceny In an office, and his bail was set at $500. Crumpacker asked to consult an attorney netore stating whether he wanted a preliminary hearing, Lvity Fact Rant By L. F. Relzensteln An appropriations committee has OKd funds to buy swivel chairs and refrigerators for U. S. senators. This will be nice news for the 'forgotten man' unabls te pay $10,000 for a $5,000 home. V