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t u. ui ui liiuitiry . fi Eugene ,; Oregon -vVi.h IT tSXt . Compe . -J SEN. CORDON SCORES PACT British-Argentine Trade Proposal Branded Threat To European Relief Plan WASHINGTON, Jun. 18. (API Britain wes reported land ing test today on it proposed trade agreement with Argentina, despite strong objections from the United States. ti Senior Guy Cordon IR.-Ore.l, describing the agreement as an ominous threat" to world recovery, said the Senate Appropri ations Committee will call on Undersecretary of State James E. Webb for a full report on the American position. Under the ' pact, Britain and Argentina would exchange goods and commodities for a five-year period. umciais nere are ieariui mis would give Britain a strangle hold on the Argentine food market. In addition, they' argue, it Is the type of trade agree ment which could -liurt.lin rope's recovery. , Cordon told a reporter the freedom In world trade desired by this country never will come a Bout it me worm iaces oar riers thrown up by a govern ment "which feels It must pro tect Itself In some particular field." John Taylor, commercial min ister of the British Embassy, was reported to have insisted during a State Department visit .yesterday that the Argentine agriement due to be signed on Tuesday Is essential to British recovery. That statement was taken as a tentative rejection of American protests. ECA Head Scores Pact Economic Cooperation Admin istrator Paul Hoffman- bitterly denounced the pact yesterday while defending the ECA's recov ery spending. ECA is asking $3,- 56S,47U,uuu tor next year wnn permission to spend the money in lOi months if necessary. Hoffman told Senators ECA will use "every pressure" pos sible against the Britain-Argentine type of trade pact. Two days ago he said such trade bar riers must be wiped out If Euro pean recovery is to be consid ered a good risk In the fiscal year starting July 1, 1951. Britain has been under es pecially heavy fire In the Sen ate study of the ECA program. And the Argentine agreement is proving an embarrassing point in ECA's arguments. Some members of the Ap propriations Committee agree the pressure for a heavy cut In recovery spending has eased. But Senator Wherry (R-Neb) continued to hammer away for a slash. "If we can't cut $700,000,000 off this program," he said, "then we can't cut the domestic ap propriations at all." Two-Way Need Cited - Officials here said Britain pre sented Its posMri on the Ar gentine trade agreement this way: ' Both Britain and Argentina are short of dollars, and there fore have difficulty buying from other nations. But each has goods which the other needs. The Brit ish esDecially need Argentine meat for their workers. Nothing in the agreement, say the British, would keep the South American counties from doing a large part of its dollar buying in the United States. And, while free trade U highly desirable, from the British point of view the right conditions for It don't yet exist Two Women Hurt When Cars Crash Patricia Ann Stovall, Roseburg, is in Mercy Hospital with serious injuries, as the result of a head on collision of two cars two miles south of Roseburg about midnight last night. Also in the hospital Is Edith Huston, who suffered head injuries and a possible fractured knee. State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell reported that a car driven by Ran dall Romain Huston, Portland, at tenpted to pass a truck, when he met the second car, driven by Richard Lee Plumlee, Roseburg. Raymond Arthur and Jack Phil lips, were treated at Mercy Hos pital for cuts and injuries but were later released. They and Miss Stovall were passengers in Plumlee's car, while Mrs. Huston was in the other car. Sgt. Harrell said charges would be preferred against Huston, pending the condition of Miss Sto vall. Plumlee was cited for having no operator's license. NEW SAWMILL DEDICATED Pictured above is the sawmill at Creen, for which Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., held a formal dedication Friday. Construc tion of the mill was started in October and completed last month. The mill is designed to cut 100,000 board feet of lumber per day. It is equipped with an eight-foot Sumner band saw, a Klamath carriage, Sumner edger, automatic 24-foot trimmer, and Western re-sew. The dedication program included es corted tour of woods operations near Little River,, lunch at the eompany'i legging camp, Inspection ef the new sawmill, and cocktails and dinner at Ken nedy's Dutch Mill. (Picture by Photo Labi Floods Sweep Two States; Deaths Feared PETERSBURG, W. Va., June 18. ;!) More than a dozen persons were reported missing today as flash floods sent waters rushing down streams of the Potomac -Shenandoah Valley areas of West Virginia and Vir ginia.. West Virginia State Police said they had received unveri fied reports that several others were missing and feared dead. oiaie -ouce Capt. Basil E. Wright said at Elkins, W. Va., that indications were that many hundreds were made temporarily uuiuciens ana mat property dam age was heavy. "The situation Is pretty bad,'' he said. At least seven persons were missing in Bridgewater, Va. Aft er Shenandoah River flood waters poured through the town of 1,- uuu. Fire Chief Allen Harvey' Sr., said the town was "in a state of confusion and near-hysteria." Many residents were maroon ed on housetops and trees. Houses were bowled over by tons of water sweeping down on them. Petersburg was virtually Iso lated. Bridges were washed nut Communication lines were down. nescue workers had to walk the last several miles to tret to the town. The home of State Police Cnl. A. M. Hurst, was sweet into the (Continued on Page Two) Two Union Men Shot In Battle Of Factions FAIRMONT CITY. III. . .Tune 1R OP) Two union men were shot ana two members of a rival union were beaten in a melee that broke out- lasr-Tilght among ' a crowd of striking American Zinc Com pany employes. The men who were shot were Joe Petroski, former financial sec retary of Local 82, CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, which called a strike at the com pany's plant here last August, and Colmaro Rodriguez, a mem ber of the local's strike commit tee. Both were taken to a hos pital for treatment. - Roughed up by a crowd of about 300 which included wives of the strikers, were Angelo and Joe Verdu, brothers, who led a revolt of midwestern locals in June, 1947 from the Smelter Workers' union. Child Saves Herself By Clinging To Cliff Side SPOKANE, Wash., June 18 OP) A two and a half-year-old girl saved her life here yesterday by clinging to a bush on the side of a 150-foot cliff. Frightened and weakened, Jean Marie Henderson was found on her precarious perch after a two hour search. How much of that time she had been clinging to the bush was not known. A pair of suspenders was her only aid. She fell while playing with an other child. The suspenders snag ged on brush, giving her a chance to grab a bush with one hand. There she clung, 50 feet below the top of the cliff. The playmate's Cocker Spaniel led the child's mother, Mrs. Jo seph Henderson, and other fran tic searchers to the cliff. PICKERS NEEDED SALEM, June 18. (iP) The cherry harvest was seriously crip pled today by a shortage of pick ers. The State Employment Service broadcast appeals for a thousand more pickers. ' : : . - .... , ... . . VXS.,: - ..,..v:,,-..-v.--.if, 1""""'l"",fi. U r-iwr ,-;' M Strike The Weather Centrally fair today and Sun day. Scattered shewert or thus der showers over the mountains. 'Sunset today 7:5 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:32 a. m. Established 1873 Rodeo Parade Color Charms Spectators Pageant Ranks In Beauty Among Best Ever Viewed On Streets Of Roseburg FRIDAY'S WINNERS Bareback Riding (1) Bill Hartman; (2) Dan Boag; (3) Tater Decker. Saddle Bronc Riding (1) Tater Decker; (2) Gene Pruitt; (3) Bill Hancock. Bull Riding (1) Eddie Ack- eridge; (2) Dick Pascoe; (3) Jim my Davis, the only tnree to riae their bull the required eight seconds. Bull Doaolna (1) Gene Kunkle 6 35 Sec; (2) Tex Con nelly 6 45 Sec; (3) Marlon Getz wilier. Calf Roping (1) Cotton Ros ser; (2) Tater Decker; (3) Leon Thome and John Dalton (time not available, but under 19 15 seconds. Dally Team Tying (1) Cot ton' Rosser and Dick Pascoe, 25 25 Sec; (2) Walt Nichols and C. T. Jones; (3) Glen Shaw and Leo Hurdes. This morning's Rodeo parade was one of the longest and most colorful in the city's history. Hundreds of spectators lined the sidewalks of N. Jackson St. to view the bands, floats, horsemen, and scores of commercial vehicles and farm Implements in the pro cession. Picked as the best float was that of Epsilon Sigma Alpha, lo cal sorority, which looked like a large, frosted wedding cake. The "groom," on top, was none other than Roseburg's genial, smiling Mayor Albert G. Flegel. Other floats picked by the judges, stationed on one of the Umpqua Hotels fire escapes, were those of the Roseburg Active Club, depicting the need for ad- (Continued on Page Two) Truman's Rap At Realtors' Lobby Draws Denial WASHINGTON, June 18. (JP) President Truman's statement that real estate lobbyists have launched a "deliberate campaign of misrepresentation" against housing legislation drew a sharp denial today from Rep. Martin (R-Mass). The President said yesterday In a letter to Speaker Rayburn that he has been "shocked In recent days at the extraordinary propaganda campaign that has been unleashed" against a Sen ate-passed public housing, slum clearance bill now pending in the House. The campaign, Mr. Truman declared, "consistently distors the facts of the housing situation in this country." Martin, the House Republican leader, told a newsman: "This Is a surprise to me. The only lobby that has contacted me is the lobby trying to put over the bill." Martin declared that onoosi- tlon to the measure has come from people concerned over gov ernment spending not real es tate lobbyists. The Presidents strongly-word ed letter said that "a little group of ruthless men" is responsible for the campaign to defeat the bill. He asked Congress to "be aware of the false and mislead ing nature of this propaganda." House Democratic Leader Mc- Cormack (Mass) promptly com mented: The President Is absolutely right. I hope his statement will have the effect of driving this neianous lobby out of Wash ington." . Ties N. Coast Greyhound ROSEBURG, PARADE FLOAT This is only It is the entry of Beta Sigma yellow paper roses. Thousands floats, drum corps, high school PARADE WINNERS Best floats: Epsilon Sigma Alpha. Active Club. Beta Sigma Phi. Best riding club: Myrtle Creek Saddle Pals. Best musical organizations: Roseburg High School Band. Best dressed western couple: Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Sconce. Rival Political Throngs Threaten Battle In Paris PARIS, June 18. (JP) An esti mated 20,000 to 25,000 police, many of them steelhelmeted and carrying gas masks, patrolled Paris streets today to head off a possible riot involving Commu nists and Rightists. Two big demonstrations took place on the ninth anniversary of General Charles De Gaulle's historic appeal: "France has lost a battle; she has not lost the war." De Gaulle's political followers massed to hear him speak at the edge of the city. The occasion was the renamine of the Avenue Id'Orleans for the. Me Gen. PhU ippe lj?i;itl L. It wets uuivii una street that Leclerc's second arm ored division marched to liberate the city, five years ago in August. The Communists, who charge that de Gaulle's people are ap- firopriatlng the ceremony for po Itical purposes, held a counter demonstration about half a mile away. Fists flew an hour after De Gaulle finished speaking. Police who had been ordered to stop any parade by either De Gaullists or Communists, halted about 100 young followers of the general when they started march ing down the newly named Ave nue General Leclerc. Copco Net Income Up For Year Ending May 31 In a statement issued by A. S. Cummins, president, The Cali fornia Oregon Power Co. report net income for the 12 months end ing May 31, 1949, of $2,106,992 as compared with net income of $1, 756,196 for the corresponding pe riod ending May 1948, an Increase of 19.97 percent, Net income for the 12 months ending May 31, 1949, was equiva lent to 5.08 times preferred slock dividend requirements, and, after deduction lor such dividends, was equivalent to $3.08 per share on the 550,000 shares of outstanding common stock. Net income for the five months ending May 31, 1949, amounted to $876,564, an increase of 19.20 per cent over that of the same period of 1948. PLANE CRASH KILLS 4 NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa., June 18. (JP) An Air Force Training plane crashed into Cum- Denana Mountain today, killing all four occupants of the craft. The victims were reserve offi cers from the Cleveland area. OREGON SATURDAY, JUNE one of many beautiful floats entered in today's big Rodeo parade. Phi, on which members have been working since January, making of persons lined Roseburg's streets to witness the pageant many band, posses and horsemen. Little River Logging. New Plywood Mill At Green Are Viewed By RosebUrg Group By JEROME SHELDON ' Feature editor, News-Review Responding to a formal invitation, more than 50 businessmen "lunched In the woods" Friday with the Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., at the firm's Little River logging camp. After an escorted tour of logging operations, they returned to Roseburg and went to Green for the formal opening of the company's splcand-span new sawmill. Construction of the mill was started last October. It has been completed and operating about a month. The formal dedication, however, was the occasion for an Inspection of the plant by com pany officials, county commis sioners, government foresters, ma chinery and equipment suppliers, and other representatives of the lumber Industry, The tour began yesterday morn ing, shortly after 10 o'clock, when the group boarded a chartered Greyhound bus in front of the Umpqua Hotel. It must have been the first Greyhound ever to go up the North Umpqua. The ride was .smooth as far as.GUdc. Along the narrow Little River Road, the bus was escorted by a pick-up truck waving a red flag. Several stops were made to permit loaded logging trucks to pass. 'Typical Fare' Real Feast After arrival at the Associated Plywood's camp, the party In spected the bunk houses, the neat rows of family homes, shops and motorized equipment. The men were then summoned by a horn to lunch In the mess hall. There, Mrs. Frank Cowan, head cook, (Continued on Page Two) Wage Hike Averts Strike Of Milk Truck Drivers PORTLAND, June 18. (IP) For the first time in ten years the State Board of Conciliation has settled a labor dispute. That gives the board a per fect bailing average, for it's the first case the board has been ask ed to handle in that period. It was the dispute between 300 AFL milk truck drivers and sev eral dairies in Northern Oregon and Southwestern Washington. A threat of a strike was averted at the last minute, the board an nounced last, night. The drivers won a 10-cent hour ly increase In the settlement, the board announced. It was retro active to May 15. Drivers also won a 40-hour week and a promise of another 5-cent raise October 1. Eugene Sewage Plant Plan Given Approval PORTLAND, June 18. (JP) The projected $685,000 sewage treatment plant at Eugene got final annroval vesterdav from the Slate Sanitary Authorit". The plant will be financed by $250,000 already raised, and an expected bond issue of $400,000. 18, 1949 i New Instructor Is Recommended For High School Superintendent of Schools Paul Elliott said today that Owen W. Price, La Grande High School vice-principal, Is being recom mended to the Roseburg district board for a similar position In this city. ,' An Associated Press announce ment Friday stated Price had re signed at La Grande to accept the position, A graduate of Eastern Oregon College and the Univer sity of Oregon, he will complete work on his master's degree In education at the University this summer. He formerly taught for two years at The Dalles and nine years at Nyssa. Elliott said today that several changes In the teaching staff are being recommended and will be up for consideration of the board Monday night. A news release will be available probably on Tues day, he said. Attention Is also called to the school director election Monday, between the nours of 2 and .7 p.m., at the Junior High School. Two directors are In the field. N. T.' Johnson is running for the position of five-year director, to be vacated by explrallon of the term of J. P. Motschcnbacher, and Jack Doyle, appointed to the Board less than a year ago, who is running for the two-year term. Leader Of Elks Defends Probe Of Communism SPOKANE. June 18. UP) A Portland Judge vigorously de- tenden the Investigation of Com munism today In an address given before the Slate Convention of Washington Elks Lodges. . The speaker was Judge Frank J. Lonergan of the Multnomah Circuit Court In Oregon. Our greatest danger today Is the damaging inroad made by atheistic Communists Into our in stitutions of higher learning, the Judge said. "That and the lackadaisical attitude of parents who overlook the danger of imaginative young people who are impressed by the stony-eyed platitudes oi btann ionowers. Judge Lonergan said he could not agree with President Truman or anyone else who be littled committees Investigating Russian activities In this coun try. "The state of Washington has done a grand Job he said, "In routing out the Communists and bringing before the public their insidious activities. Judge Lonergan was grand ex alted ruler of the elks in 1943 and 1944. FORGERY CHARGED . State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell reporled the arrest last night of Harry Calvin Jones, 35, wanted by the Oregon State Police at Grants Pass on a forgery charge. Jones, traveling north, was ar rested by Canyonvllle clly police. He has been returned to Grants Pass. DRUNK DRIVING ALLEGED State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell reporled the arrest of Vera Mae Slenerson, Roseburg, on Highway 99 eleven miles south of Rose burg last night She will he charg ed with drunk driving, he said. 143-49 State Grange Out To Defeat 21 Legislators Effort To Tinker With Initiative Act Resented; Rep. Gile on 'Purge' List COOS BAY, June 18. (IP) Twenty-two Oregon legislators found themselves on the "purge" list of the State Grange today. In its first such acition. the Grange voted to go out after the defeat of the lawmakers who at tempted to revise Oregon's ini tiative and referendum last spring. The measure which would have enabled the legislature to fix the number of signatures necessary to place an initiative on the ballot did not pass. But it made Grange Master Morton Tompkins fighting mad. He called for the defeat of those who tried to tamper with the Initiative act, often used by the Grange. Delegates to the an nual convention here responded yesterday with a resolution en dorsing tne purge plan. (All on the "purge" list exccDt one are Republicans. Tlu? lone ueinucittt is neiiry ouinun oi Klamath County. Included in the Republican list Is Ren. Robert C. Gile of Douglas County.) In othe resolutions the dele gates gave tentative approval to the Brannan farm program, call ing it "deserving of our study and consideration." The resolution did not go as strongly for the pro gram as Tompkins did In an ear lier speech. Oregon State College and the extension service were asked to withdraw from the field of farm administration, concentrating In stead on education and research work. Many Demands Listed Advocating raising legislators' pay to $buu a year. Proposed to make the state su perintendent of public Instruction a member of the State Land Board. Urized an Increased severance tax en timber from the present 5 cents to a cents a thousand board feet to finance "an adequate re forestation and timber conserva tion" program. Recommended that dog and horse racing revenues not be used for state and county fair appropriations. Pledged opposition to any at tempt to legalize slot machines. Upheld congressional filibust ers as necessary to defeat "dan gerous legislation." . Called for a lieutenant gover nor in Oregon. Opposed daylight saving time again. Asked that Oregon banks re- (Continued on Page Two) Woman Convicted Of Slaying Boss RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 18. (JP) An all-women Jury has con victed Mrs. Agnes E. Gamier of manslaughter in the slaying of her wealthy employer and lover, John E. Owen. The 53-year-old business woman took the surprise verdict stoically, although the penalty may be from one to 10 years In prison. She had testified she acted in self defense when Owen, 68, presi dent of the National Apartment House Owners Association, was fatally shot In the bedroom of his nearby Jurupa Hills Rancho April 22. She was charged with murdering him. But the Jury apparently sided, In some degree, with the state's contention that Mrs. Gamier, for 12 years Owens' confidential secre tary and sweetheart, was moti vated by Jealousy of his attentions to Actress Irene Rich. Mrs. Garnler's attorney said a new trial would be sought. Sneeiing Siege Ends For Boy After 37 Days LONDON, June 18. (JP) The sneezing boy finally has quit sneezing. Fourteen-year-old Michael Hip plsley, whose 37-day siege of un controllable achoos attracted worldwide attention, was report ed cured today by a London nursing home. Just how the sneezes, aver aging one every three seconds, were stopped remained a mystery. All the nursing home would say was that "Michael's condition was of a psychosomatic nature and he has now been treated suc cessfully." The statement Indi cated that the sneezes were the result of a nervous condition. Grocers' War Knocks Down Price Of Bread QUANAH, Texas, June 18. P) A price war knocked the price of one-pound loaves of bread down to 64 cents today. One grocer recenlly opened a branch store In Oklahoma City and obtained a bakery to supply both stores, He undersold other stores here until three of the larger local groceries banded to gether to lease Idle bakery equip ment. Now all four stores sell bread at 6i cents. Lines 500 Workers Quit In Wage Controversy Western Washington Is Affected; Strike On Line To Montana Averted SEATTLE, June 18. (!P)Ap proximately 550 employes of the North Coast Greyhound Lines walked off their Jobs at 1 a. m. today, halting north -south bus service in Western Washington. The strike was called by the AFL Motor Coach Employes Un ion, Local 1384, after a 15-hour negotiating session had failed to break the deadlock in a disputs over. wages and working condi tions. ,. , . Less than an hour before th North Coast walkout, a last min ute agreement averted a threaten ed strike on the Northwest Grey hound Lines, whose routes ex tend from the Olympic Penninsula eastward to Butte, Mont. . Northwest Greyhound employes belong to Local 1055 of the Motor Coach union. Separate negotia tions had been conducted by the companies and the two locals. The 260 members of Local 1055 were ordered to continue working while they consider a company offer. Terms of the proposal were not disclosed. Rejection or accept ance by the union is expected with in two weeks. On strike against North Coast are drivers, maintenance men, dis closed. , On strike against North Coast are drivers, maintenance men, terminal workers and general ac counting office employes. James R. Neely, administrative . assistant to President C. E. Grave said the Company had asked Loc al 1384 to postpone Its strike dead line for two weeks to permit fur ther negotiations. John B. Parker, Union business agent, replied that "the Company failed to make us an offer which was acceptable to our member ship we felt we would be no further ahead at the end of two weeks than we are, now." First Strike In 22 Years Three federal conciliators met throughout the day yesterday with Union and Company representa tives in an effort to settle the dispute. Parker said no further sessions have been scheduled but "we are ready and eager to meet with the company again, anywhere, anytime. The Slrlke is the first In North Coast hlstory, bringing the -first disruption of service in 22 years. The Union, whose contract ex pired May 1, had asked an across-the-board increase for its mem bers of 10 cents an hour, and re tention of working conditions cov ered in the old contract. Drivers' scales now range from $1.10 to $1.65 an hour, while those of malntenace men are from $1.25 to $1.65, with premium brackets as high as $1.75. General account ing office and terminal employes have varying wage rates, depend ing on experience and clasiflca tion. Union Secretary Answers Suit Filed By Safeway S. W. Barker, secretary of the Meatcutters Local, commenting today on the suit of Safeway against the union, asking $5000 damages, stated that (hat Com pany and the Independent Meat Dealers Associations are attempt ing to confuse the Issue by their accusations. He stated the suit Is unfound ed; that anyone can file a suit. but proof Is another thing. He asserted the Meat Cutters strike was legitimate, but th contention of bnfeways suit la to make the people feel the Un ion is taking unfair advantages. It seems, he claimed, tnat tne big Safeway Company and the Association is trying to break the local Union. The Union contract expired June 1, and an additional 24 hour notice was given before the strike was called, according lo Barker. He added that to date the Union has not been served with any papers in respect to the Safeway suit. Reedsport Logger Killed Week After Marriage EUGENE, June 18. (JP) A New Hampshire girl who came West, to get married will leave for home today In tragedy. With her will go the body of the man she married a week ago. He was Douglas Blrney Mitch ell, fatally crushed by a log near Scottsburg Thursday. His bride, the former Janet Catherine Mes sier, came to Oregon ton days ago. They were married at Reeds port June 10, then Mitchell went back to his Job as log loader. He will be burled In Derry, N. H., where both lived previously. Levity Fact R.rf By L. T. Relrensteln The elements at least art) taking cognizance ef Father's Day tomorrow tht weather man forecasts electrical storms in the mountains. Father per haps will prefer the compliment of explosive heavens to the re placement ef last Christmas' necktie. V