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Comp 1 i . . . ... U. Of O, Library Eugene, Oregon . PAUL BUNYAN JUSTICE City Recorder William D. Bollman, foolish man, wore a business suit when he should have donned western garb Tuesday. He was nabbed by the Paul Bunyans and haled with a group of other city officials before the Keeper of the Consequences, in the first of the Paul Bunyans' rodeo courts. Here Bollman bows his head for the axe, preparatory to receiv ing judgment. Bollman had to pay a $2 fine. Chief of Police Calvin H. Baird, left, was fined 50 cents for wearing only a west ern tie; Mrs. Vita Wright, assistant city recorder, center, also paid 50 cents. The city manager, not shown here, also felt the mighty rap of Paul Bunyan, paid a $2 fine. (Picture by Photo Lab) 1 Rodeo Will Be Publicized By Southwest Oregon Caravan Neighboring communities will be invited to attend the Doug las County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo here June 17, 18 and 19, by a caravan of decorated cars bearing the Rodeo queen and her court to Medford, Grants Pass, Coos Bay, North Bend, Reeds port and Eugene. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS THE upsurge for freedom con tinues. In California two convicts en route by auto . from Bakersfield to San Quentin overpower their guards down below Palo Alto, take their guns away and com pel them to drive back to Bakers field. There they dump the guards, take the car and "flee northward." (They had apparently secreted a razor blade somewhere. With it they cut the straps that bound them, slashed the officer who was driving and kicked the other In the head. They were in the back seat and their captors rode In front.) Before ditching the cops, they vow they "won't be taken alive." , .--1 ; 1 I'D like to risk a guess. When the pinch comes, they'll come out with their hands up. It's one thing to "vow" you'll shoot it out with the officers rather than go back to jail and quite another thing to do it. Soldiers die rather than yield. (Continued on Page Four) Jobless Compensation Denied Ford Strikers DETROIT, June 9. UP) More than 70,000 Michigan Ford work ers idle in the recent "speed-up" strike were denied unemployment compensation today under a state agency ruling. . However, the Michigan Unem ployment Compensation Commis sion said that 7,600 strike-idled war veterans employed by Ford would get benefits under GI regu lations. . The latter payments will amount to an estimated $456,000. A difference in interpretation of the state and federal laws fig ured in the decision, the Commis sion said. The agency said that Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylcania, New York and New Jersey ruled similarly. Bids For Street Jobs At Drain, Yoncalla Asked Bids for street surfacing and paving projects at Yoncalla and Drain are being called by the State Highway Commission, it was announcedjiy Herb Glaiser. secretary. The projects include .33 mile of grading and surfacing on B Street at Drain, and on 2nd and D Streets at Yoncalla. Russian Officers Use Fisfs In Repulsing Looting Mob Of Berlin Railway Strikers BERLIN, June 9. UP) Four fist-swinging Russian officers today beat back a looting mob of 200 railway strikers who had invaded the American sector headquarters of the Soviet-controlled Berlin railway. Later, on U. S. Military Govern ment orders, Western police guarded the entrance of the five story building as a result nf Soviet commandant Kotikov's of ficial complaint against the "hoodlum mob." Meanwhile, rail strikers grimly picketed the huilding, preventing most of the headquarters stalf from reporting for work. One Soviet officer, escorting a Russian woman, was assaulted this morning. Pickets stormed around his car when he stopped In front of the building. Another Russian officer rushed from the entrance to help. They pushed through the mob, holding the arm of the Russian woman. One of the Russians was kicked from the rear. He ignored it. The West German police guarding the building kept a hands off policy, except to warn several pickets who seemed to be getting too threatening. IA? 3 Jf . ,. ff 1 ' TV 1 1 i ine caravan is tentatively set for Monday or Tuesday, June 13 or 14, and Roseburg Retail Trade Association was informed at its regular luncheon meeting Wednesday noon at the Umpqua Hotel. The Association gave au thority to its president, Roland West, to spend $60 toward pro moting the caravan. The caravan would also include a cowboy orchestra, Paul Bun yans, members of the Sheriffs Posse and others as well as the queen and her court. They Rose burg Retail Trade Association would be one of the sponsoring organizations. Jack Josse, bull of the woods of the Paul Bunyans, announced a talent show to be held June 22 in conjunction with the Roseburg High School Band, the Knights of Pythias Girls Drum Corps, and a dance orchestra to boost the Opportunity Savings Bond drive. A covered wagon will parade the streets that day as a symbol of the drive. Last Criminal Case Of Current Term On Trial Testimony In the case of Edward Newland. Canyonville, charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, opened todav in Circuit Court. This is (he last case on the docket for the current term, as other cases, both criminal and civil, have been continued over until the Septem ber term. , A jury was drawn Wednesday to try the case of Newland, who is being held under $2,000 bail, following his indictment by the Grand Jury May 21. A 15-year-old boy is involved in the charge. The civil cose of M. K. Brown vs. Glenn E. Marshall, which had been set for this week, was con tinued until the next term of court. Brown asks a total of $16, 150 damages as the result of an accident in which his and Mar shall's cars were Involved south of Canyonville Jan. 22, 1949. Criminal cases continued were those of the State of Oregon vs. Nelson James Sawyers, indicted by the Grand Jury on a larceny charge. He is accused of the theft of a wallet, the property of Jessie Dedrick, on Nov. 5. His bail is S500. Al and Beatrice Schaefer of ' Camas Valley are accused in In dictments of assaulting and oeat ing Clarence E. Ward, May 4. They are out on $500 bail. Robert D. Nelson is charged by the Grand Jury with larceny of a safe con taining currency from the Gas Appliance Company at Reedsport. He is being held under $2,000 bail. The mob had Invaded and occu pied the building on the Spreee Canal late last night, but re treated shortly after midnight when the four Russian officers suddenly arrived. The Russians, angered by the sight of the mob ripping pictures ol Prime Minister Stalin ano Lenin off the walls, pitched into the strikers with their fists and drove them to the ground floor of the building. The mob withdrew after the ar rival of 100 American sector Ger man police, dispatched to the scene by Brig. Gen. Frank How Icy, American commandant In Berlin. Some 14.000 employes of the Soviet controlled Reichsbahn have refused to work since May 21 unless demands for west I mark wages, union recognition, and Job security are granted. Russ 'No' To The Weathtr Partly cloudy today; scat tered showers tonight and Fri day. Cooler Friday. Sunset today 7:52 p. nt. Sunrise tomorrow 4:33 a. m. Established 1873 Lewis' Strike Order Cuts T-H Law Repeal Chance; Harm And Benefit Seen Pro-Repeal Solons Bitter Over Action By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, June 9. UP) Bitter resentment against John L. Lewis seethed today among Senators trying to get rid of the Taft-Hartley law's emer gency injunction provision. Those lawmakers claimed pri vately that' the United Mine Workers' chief, In on"erlne a week's shutdown of the coal pits, proDaDiy Killed any chance tor scrapping the section which calls tor court orders to halt strikes .threatening the national wel fare. Some Senators who favor the Taft-Hartley law figured Lewis' action strengthened their posi tion ail along the line. Word that Lewis had ordered the miners out of the pits for a week starting Monday reached the capitol yesterday while the Senate was debating the admis- nation Din to repeal the T-l-i Act. Neither that bill as drafted nor a compromise version back ed by the Senate's Democratic leadership contains any injunc tion provision. the i art-Hartley law does, or course, and the government has used the provision in the past to halt a Lewis ordered shut down. Lewis himself has de manded repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and he has bitterly de nounced the injunction section. Those circumstances Increased the amazement of Senators who are plugging for elimination of t.nai,;SCCtl0,.J5i.:ifriyw(j J comments Are cauitic Their comments for publica tion are mild compared to their private remarks about the Lewis move. One Senator told a reporter "I'm really bitter about this it couldn't have happened at a worse time." Another said: "I find it hard to believe. I thought he wanted to get rid of this law." Still another wondered wheth er the Lewis action was prompted by his bitter clash with Presi dents Philip Murray of the CIO and William Green of the AFL (Continued on Page Two) Larcenist Given 2 Years; 2 Others Await Sentences Rayford Boyce Hilburn, 22, was sentenced to two years in the slule penitentiary on a charge of larceny by bailee, when he ap peared before Judge Carl E. Wim berly 'and pleaded guilty to the charge Wednesday. Hilburn appeared before the judge May 27 on a bad check charge, and at that time was sen tenced to one year in the county jail but was placed on probation. The next day, according to the complaint, he obtained a car at Barcus Sales and Service on a promise to return with money for a down payment, but failed to return with either the money or the car. He was arrested al Coos Bay last week. Also arraigned before Judge Wimberly on District Attorney Robert G. Davis' information were Richard Backus, who plead ed guilty to a charge of larceny of personal property over the value of $35, and Jim Hendricks, 51, who pleaded guilty to a forg ery charge. He is alleged to have passed a $10 worthless check at the Roseburg Branch of the U. S. National Bank. He allegedly sign ed the name Ila Viola Myers to the check. Judge Wimberly set Friday at 2 p. m. for sentencing of Backus, and held up sentencing of Hen dricks until his record could be checked. Deportation Of Former Slav Official Sought NEW YOFK, June 9.-4PI De portation charges have been Infixed aeainst Toma Babln, for- mer Yugoslav government uin- clal wno came to mis country o a United Nations employee in 1947. He was arrested yesterday, and taken to Ellis Island to await a hearing. Edward J. Shaughnessy. district immigration director, said Babln recently was accused before a U. S. Senate Subcommittee of "or dering many Yugoslav seamen liquidated on their return home after the war." Shaughnessy said Babln also was known as a contact man for Communist Leader Steve Nelson, whom the House Unsmerican Ac tivities Committee has named as a wartime Communist spy. ROSEBURG, wage increase Wage Increase Prevents Strike At Atomic Plant OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 9. UP) An eight cents an hour wage increase has headed off what would have been I he first strike in a government atomic plant. Just before the old contract expired last midnight, the CIO United Chemical Workers and of ficials of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation agreed on a new contract. It assured continued production of the vital atomic bomb element Uranium 235 in the huge gas eous diffusion production plant here. Two thousand atomic pHnt em ployes had threatened to strike today if their wage demands were not met. " The CIO members were sched uled to vote at two meetings to day on ratification of the new agreement. Their average wage under the new contract will be $1.67 hourly. The union naa sougni a .o-ceni increase in nearly twom onths' increase In nearly two months' operates all atomic Installations here for the government, propos ed a six-cent reduction in wages. The comoanv also is negotiating with the AFL atomic trades and labor council toward a new con tract for 800 employes of Oak Ridge national laboratory. Another Company Cuts Prices On Its Tires AKRON. O.. June 9. UP) Lower prices to dislributors for its silent grip line oi ures were announced today by General Tire & Rubber Co. The conventional type was cut 71 percent and the low pressure typefl7e (Senicnt. The "company said reductions in passenger tubes averaged about the same. This move was similar to cuts made by Goodyear Tire & Rub ber Co.. Firestone and United States Rubber Co. Czechoslovak Consulate Officials In U. S. Quit CHICAGO, June 9.-UB Three officials of "the Czechoslovakia!! consulate general in Chicago have resigned their nation's dip lomatic service. They are consul Leopold Riedl, secretary Miroslav Mejzr and chancellor Josef Nemeck. A spokesman for the informa tion service of free Czechoslo vakia said the three who resign ed had Informed Secretary of State Acheson of their action and had requested him to grant political asylum in this country for themselves and their fam ilies. N. Dillard Span Open Without Restrictions The North Dillard Bridge on Highway 99 Is again opsn to traffic without restriction!, fol lowing repairs made to the supporting members of the bridge which had pulled apart. E. G. Rickettt, bridge engi neer, reported crews had ruihed installation of props to support the weight of the bridge, until permanent repairs can be made. Yesterday, all Highway 99 truck trafflo had to be de toured from Winston to Dillard by way of Brockway, but cars were allowed to use the bridge. ' -- l ,' ' L BOND SALESMEN Roieburg Kiwanit Club members were first to report 100 per cent pur chase of savings bonds in the current "Opportunity Bond" sales campaign. Chairman Franklin Voyf, front right, is shown telling a bond to President Earl Plummer, while Committee memberi Harold Hickerson, Jack Wharton, Dale Sims and Ceorge Luoma look on. Other members of the Committee art Harold Barber, Robert Ranert Rennie and Bill Tipton. (Picture by Paul Jenkins.) Acheson Request Looms OREGON THURSDAY, JUNE iMiners' Chief Says Industry Will Be Aided By NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON, June 9. UP) The 450,000 members of the Unit ed Mine Workers start a week long strike Monday to under score John L. Lewis' lecture in economics to the nation's coal industry. Lewis told the industry yes terday it has overproduced bad ly and the shutdown will help eat into the huge, 52-day supply of coal already mined. "This period of ina"ction." he said, "will emphasize a lack of general stability in the industry and the dangers which will ac crue therefrom if current harm ful practices are not remedied." And he added: "The mine workers are re quired again to protect affirma tively the human and property values inherent in the coal min ing industry." Lewis said the strike will be a good thing all around. Some mine owners agreed. An Industry source at Pittsburgh said: "Many co 1 producers will be glad to see a shutdown. It has been all outgo and little income recently because of supply back logs." Contract Said Violated But there were dissenting opin ions. President J. Atlee Schafer of the American Retail Coal Associ ation, attending a convention in Cleveland, said "Lewis Is violat ing terms of the present con tract by.caJliftg..out, rnineis. prion lu lite eAuiiuuuii uctir. At Charleston, W. Va., Secre - tary Walter R. Thurmond of the Southern Producers Association (Continued on Page Two) Eight Children, Mother Of Four Die In Two Fires NORTHVILLE, Mich., June 9. (P) A 34-year-old mother and four of her seven children per ished here early today in a fire that destroyed their two -story frame home. The father and three other children, one of whom was assist ed out of a window by the moth er, escaped. The dead are Mrs. Cora Neeley, 34, and these children; Shljiey Fay, 9; Llnville, 7; Phyllis, 4; and Bruce, Jr., 3. In critical condition at Univer sity Hospital in Ann Arbor is a "five-year-old daughler, Zeola Mae, whom the mother handed from a window of the blazing home to the father, Bruce, 37, oustide. SOMERSET. Pa., June 9. (IP) A fire killed four children, 1 to 6 years old. today at their home near Spiesville, eight miles north of this southwestern Pennsyl vania town. Cause of the fire was unknown. The youngsters' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Faidley, were In a hospital here. Bolh were badly burned. Neil her was able to give a coherent slory of the tragedy. The dead children were Gilbert, 6; Barbara Diane, 4; Charles Bar ron, Jr., 2 and Mary Anna 1. ft 'sT-'' ' 1biMlaiHM&itim1m 9, 1949 Contract Given For New School In Green Dist. E. H. Shannon Construction Co., Roseburg, submitted the low bid of $106,292 and was awarded the contract to construct the new school at Green. The only other bid was submitted by Industrial Building Supply, Eugene, tor $117,700. A 10-classroom, pumice block structure will be constructed on a new site south and across the highway from the present school. The building will be 219 by 60 feet. In addition to the 10 rooms, a lunchroom, which may be con verted to additional class rooms, and a principal's office are pro vided on one end. Cleo Jenkins, Corvallis, is the architect. Construction will start immediately, and will be com pleted, according to contract terms, In 120 days. It is hoped by the Board to have the new struc ture ready shortly after school opens this fall. The rapidly growing Green community has outgrown the ex isting school facilities. At present the Gresn school has five crowd ed class rooms. The old Glengary School is used as an additional class room, and a converted play shed Is used as another. The pres ent teaching staff of seven teach ers will be increased next year to at least eight or nine, according to the school board, which con sists of C. M. Foree, chairman; Elmer Landers and R. L. Adams. Yoncalla School Contract Is Let Industrial Building Co. of Eu gene has been awarded the con tract of $191,700 for the construc tion of a new high school build ing at Yoncalla, it was announced by Architects Freeman and Hay silp of Portland. The figure In cludes the basic bid and alter nates. The project will consist of six classrooms and a gym nasium. The building will be 120 X 280 feet of brick veneer on frame, brick veneer on concrete and re inforced concrete on the 80 x 100 foot gvm, MThe' building-will.- beon Tvvo levels. II: will have a concrete lslab floor on grade, topped with asphalt tile. Striated plywood will be used In entrances and corri dors, with "V" lines so as to give the appearance of planking. The building will have dry-wall construction throughout. Some acoustical board will be used. Fire School For Lookouts Dated At Wolf Creek Annual fire school tor lookouts and suppression crews of the Umpqua National Forest has been scheduled for June 21, 22, and 23 at Wolf Creek Training Camp on Little River, said M. M. Nelson, forest supervisor. Ray B. Hampton, In charge of fire control activities for the for est, will be in charge of the school. Rangers, their assistants, and district guards will serve as instructors. About 80 persons will be trained. The school will be for the pur pose of Instructing lookouts In the detection and suppression of fires; training suppression crews in the safe way to use tools, and instructing crews in the operation of radios and telephones. Wife Accused Of Aiding Husband To Break Jail SALEM, June 9. UP) A 27-year-old Salem housewife, Mrs. Jack O. Todd, was arrested last night and charged with help ing her husband escape from the Marlon County jail. Todd, awalling trial for aulo theft, spent five hours sawing the bars of his cell last Sunday, only to be caught by sheriff's deputies when he crawled out. X ,'tl 135-49 Strikers Firm For Job Week Of 40 Hours Six Of Struck Markets Assent, Others Must, Is Edict Of Meatcutters - At a meetlne last night, strik ing meatcutters reaffirmed their position mat they must nave a 40-hour work week, reported S. W. Barker, representative of the AFL Meatcutters Union. The deadlock between the union and employers continues with the meat departments of a number of large markets remain ing closed and three independent meat dealers being picKetea. The strike is a week old today. Retail clerks, who walked off their jobs at groceries In refusal to work behind picket lines, re turned to their Jobs Tuesday, when pickets were withdrawn and market operators agreed not to sell meat. Deliveries of sup plies also resumed Tuesday. H. E. Carlson, secretary of the Oregon Independent Retail Gro cers Association, employers' representative, and E. R. Johnson of the Safeway Stores, Inc., re turned to Portland Wednesday. State Labor Commissioner Wil liam Kimsey, who acted in the role ol unomciai conciliator, re turned to Salem. Situation Summarized Briefly, the strike situation Is this: Union contracts with the mar ket operators ended June 1. The contracts had been opened for negotiation by the union 60 days earlier. As the strike began, the union demanded $75 for a 40-hour work week, rejecting an em ployers' offer of $72.50 for a 48- hour ween, tne latter represent ing a $2.50 raise above the old scale. . - . Before the strike actually started, the union negotiated con (Continued on Page Two) R. Dollar, Co. Buys Federal Timber Robert Dollar Co. of Riddle was the only bidder, in an auction In volving 3,208,000 feet of timber located on Dismal Creek, tribu tary of Cow Creek, about 15 miles east of Azalea, announced M. M. Nelson. suDervisor of-the Ump qua National Forest. The auction was held Wednesday In the Ump qua National Forest offices. Tom Meni, jr., logging auperinuiuueiui represented the company. Nelson said the sale Includes 2,190,000 feet of Douglas fir, at $9.30 pe rthousand; 833,000 feet of sugar pine at $24.25 per thousand, and 184,000 feet of western hem lock at $1.60 per thousand. The timber will be milled at the Robert Dollar Co.'s Glendale mill. The Forest Service timber will be logged In conjunction with some of the company's private holdings, Nelson said. The company bid appraised prices In the auction. The apprais als are "considerably lower ' .than those of last year, indicating the downward (rend In the lumber market, Nelson pointed out. Fire Chief, Two Aides Killed By Falling Brick cr PA11T. Minn. .Tune 9. ip, 1 The St. Paul fire chief and two aides were killed early to day when they were trapped by a failing brick retaining wall In the midway Industrial district. The victims were: rhiaf tTHuni-H Nnvnk. As sistant Chief Frank McMahon, and Harold Barck, a district chief. The wall collapsed after a com paratively minor fire In a waste- nnnnr stnpknllp had hpen lUSt about extinguished. The blaze started shortly before midnight at tne piani oi me waiuon paiici Di-Ainntc rTi InrAted at the west ern edge of St. Paul near the Minneapolis city limns. Senate OKs Woman As Treasurer Of U. S. WASHINGTON, June 9. UP) The Senate today confirmed Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas as the first woman treasurer of the Unlled States. The action was by unanimous consent. She succeeds William A. Julian who was killed in an auto acci dent 10 days ago. The Senate suspended its rules to act speedily on the appoint ment of Mrs. Clark. The nomi nation had been approved by the Senate Finance Committee only shortly before the Senate acted. Truman Will Address American Legion Meet WASHINGTON, June 9. UP) Col. J. Monroe Johnson announced today that President Truman will address the annual American Le gion convention In Philadelphia in August. Johnson, a member of the In terstate Commerce Commission, said Mr. Truman will attend the convention as a delegate and will be presented with the Ameri can Legion distinguished service medal. 5-Day Deadline Fixed To End Berlin Tie-Up Russians Said Bluffing At Paris To Screen Plan For Trad Agreement . PARIS, June 9. (If) Russia was expected to reject today the request of Secretary of State Dean Acheson that the "little blockade" of Berlin be lifted by Monday. At the same time Western au thorities who have been conferr ing with the Russians in Berlin asserted that an East-West trade agreement virtually concluded could go Into effect almost im mediately were it not tor the Ber lin rail strike. The Western Powers have told the Russians to order the Soviet controlled railway management to meet the strikers' demands and end the walkout, or there would be no signatures on the trade agreement. Western officials In Paris saw Acheson's demand as a move to force the Russians to make up their minds over exactly what they want to achieve In the Ber lin trade talks and the foreign ministers' conference. Informants in Berlin said the Russians actually desired a trade agreement with the West and were using the foreign ministers' conference in Paris as a smoke screen to hide their eagerness. Russian Scheme Indioated One high American official said the Russians, in his opinion, never intended to reach a politi cal agreement in Paris and the meeting they really were Inter ested in was not in Paris but in Berlin. These Berlin sources believed that as soon as the trade pact is concluded the true Soviet posi tion at Paris would be disclosed. They think the Soviet position will be disagreement on political questions with a proposal that the four powers keep the door open for future conversations. Western officials in Paris be- (Continued on Page Two) Arraignment Of Harry Bridges Is Scheduled Today SAN FRANCISCO, June 9. IIP) CIO Longshore Leader Har ry Brldgesrwho twire before rode out government efforts to deport him, is to be arraigned today on federal charges of perjury and conspiracy In obtalnfne his citizenship. Bridges was indicted by a fed eral grand jury May 25. He was accused of lying when he testi fied at his 1945 naturalization hearing that he was not then and never (iad been a Commun ist. The Australian-born Bridges is president of the leftwlng Interna tional Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's Union. One of his top aides, IWLU Vice President J. R. Robertson, was to be arraigned with him on a charge of aiding in the conspiracy. Henry Schmidt, another top ILWU official now directing the union's waterfront strike in Ha waii, was Indicted on the same charge as Robertson. Schmidt's arraignment was postponed a week. The grand jury ended Its in vestigation into other phases of tne case late yesieraay. n re turned no more Indictments. Special Assistant Attorney Gen eral F. Joseph Donohue said the Inquiry had revealed "substantial" Communist infiltration into west ern labor unions. "Any such In filtration is most alarming," he said. Woman Killed In Leap From Car After Dispute DADTt AWn .Tltno Q IX A 25-year-old waitress died Irt a fall from a moving automobile today but police said there was some ..n.,ln itihathai. It h n A anannerl Portland's 81-day skein of no tratne aeatns Detective Sgt. Dan Mltola said MMtnanii nf the ear rennrted that Betty Riley reaped from the car as It was approaching a stop street, and fell on her head. The detective quoted r loya rtlenn anH Mn anri Mrs. T.lovd Olson as saying the four were driving nome eany toaay wnen an argument arose over a $10 hill missing from Floyd Olson's wallet. When someone suggested going to the police station, the young woman opened a rear door and nlunced out. the detective quoted the others. SWIM COURSES RAPPED EUGENE. June 9.-4JP) Sani tarian Victor C. Morgan has con demned most of the Red Cross swimming programs In Lane County. Most of these are conauctea in streams, rivers and lakes where, Morgan said, there are not proper sanitation facilities. Ltvity Fact Rant ly L. F. Releeneteln Officially forecast rain failed to appear today, but a 2nd forecast says rain Friday. It it doesn't fall tomorrow well, anybody It entitled to at Itast three guesses on the weather; and to orr it human, to torgivo dlvlno.'