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Next is e view of the Roseburg High School band, led by Majorette Pauline Miller. Typical of Rose burg's logging industry is the 'n groom none other on I Bean. (Pictures kins) Creation Of Welfare Asked Tht Weather CUuy tedoy, scatter thowMt. Fair and warm av. Suneet today 7:Si p. i Sunrise tomorrow 4:33 Established 1873 Tater Decker Tops Winners In Rodeo Bill Ntw Mexico Cowboy Beit Performer Among Seventy Contestants " Tater Decker, cowboy frem Roswell, N. M took top honors in the Douglas County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo Sunday, by winning the all-round championship, the Elks Club special $500 purse, and more than $1,150 in other cash awards. . Decker competed against more than 70 other cowboys from throughout the West many of them champions In other famous rodeos. Decker also took lesser championships Sunday in saddle bronc riding and calf roping. The three-day show this year had more entries than any prev ious show here, drawn principally by the large amount of cash awards posted by the1 Sheriff's Posse. There were so many en tries that the program continued two extra hours Friday night in order that all calf riders and steer wrestlers could compete. Cowboys were limited to only two annearances in anv event during the three-day Rodeo. Of those who competed Friday, many skipped Saturday; others who competed Saturday skipped the Sunday show. Averages for each event were based on two appear ances for each cowboy, regardless (Continued on Page -Two) Lonely Hearts Husband Held In Double Murder LAKEPORT. Calif.. June 20. UP) A lonely hearts club fan is in Jail today accused of murdering nis bride ana ner two-year-oia daughter and burning their cabin to hide trie crime...'' '- ' - The accused man, Stephen Brus- nahan. 34. a mechanic, had a dos sier of 31 women with whom he had corresDonded. District Attor-. nev Levett K. Fraser said. Last on the list was Mrs. vir Inia James Wiltgen Brusnahan, 16. former wife of a Chicago fioliceman, who died In the blaze ast week. She and Policeman Charles Wiltgen were divorced, and Brusnahan married her in Hutchinson, Kan., last March 31. The hefty mechanic was arrest ed Saturday after he had attend ed a double funeral for his wife and daughter, Agnes. The district attorney said Brus nahan made large purchases of fuel oil the week before the fire, and that unburned oil was on i rug near Mrs. Brusnahan's body. The district attorney quoted neighbors as saying Brusnahan was reluctant to fight the fire with a hose. Bandit Kisses Grandma After Taking Car, Cash KANSAS CITY, June 20. UP) -w The bandits had a kiss for grandmother. But granamoiner aa-year-oin Mrs. Sadie Crosner would ralher nave her automobile back. Her storv. as told to nolice, was that a young man stepped into the car as she slonoed for a traffic light while driving home late Saturday nignt. He flourished a gun. forced her to drive to another intersection where another young man got into the car. She was then order ed to drive out into the country where the two holdup men rifled her purse of between $10 and $18, forced her to get out of the car and then drove away with the automobile. Before leaving, however,' she said one of them "gave me a motherly little kiss on the cheek and told me:"You remind me of my mother'." Bruce L. Yeager Heads Wildlife Federation BEND, June 20 (P) Bruce L. Yeager, Roseburg, is the new president of the Oregon Wildlife Federation. He was elected after a sur prise nomination from the floor at the quarterly meeting here Saturday. Ole Larson, The Dalles, was the regular committee nom inee. Larson then was elected vice-president. Alvay Day, Hood River, was re-elected treasurer. H. C. Tobin, Portland, will con tinue as secretary until Yeager names a successor. A resolution passed unanimous ly a-aked Governor McKay to ap point an entire new Game Com mission when the Game Depart ment, reorganization act goes Into effect July 16. Motorcyclist Crashes Through Bridge To Death ALBANY, Ore., June 20-7P)-Howard M. Miller, 28, crashed through a bridge guard rail on his motorcycle yesterday and dropped 120 feet to his death. Dan Dougherty, taxicab driver, said Miller paed him on the bridge over the Willamette River here, but apparently lost control. ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1949 5,000,000 JOBLESS FORECAST Government Musf Boost Business, Reduce Taxes, Provide Work, Assertion WASHINGTON, June 20. UP) Two national surveys agree the nation soon may have 5,000,000 for what happens next. In reports published over the weekend: The Public Affairs Institute warned, "nothing in sight Indicates a halt in unemployment trends." The American Federation of Labor declared, "A serious bus iness recession is almost impos sible." f Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo), also in a weekend statement, said the situation is confused and Con gress will study it. The Public Affairs Institute, which describes itself as a non profit, non-partisan research or ganization, predicted that 8,000, 000 workers will be out of jobs a year from now unless the federal government steps In to give bus iness a boost. Unemployment may hit 6,000.- 000 by the end of this year, the Institute added. In a special report on employ ment, the Institute recommended tax cuts for the low and middle income brackets, emergency pub lic works in hard-hit areas, re vival of the Civilian Conservation Corps,' and other federal actions to reassure and stimulate bus iness. "Unemployment has Dassed the 'spot' stage," the institute said. "It is not a local, but a national. problem." The AFL looked over the econ omic outlook in its magazine, "La bor's Monthly Survey," and found me prospect good, it acknowl edged there are some dangers, however, and said policies of unions, management and the gov ernment right now are "all im portant." It said wages should keep mov ing upward to increase consumer (Continued on Page Two) Barker Gang Duo SldiV After Theft LINCOLN, Neb., June 20. VP) Two members of the notorious Barker gang of more than a decade ago have been Identified as the men shot to death in a gun duel with Nebraska officers fol lowing a $75,000 jewel robbery last Friday. Albert C. Gladson, 48, and Alton Crapo, 47, were identified through fingerprints last night as the men killed a little more than two hours after they had robbed a Lincoln salesman of a small fortune In diamonds. Both had long criminal records. Crapo having spent a term in Alcatraz, Lt. Harold Smith, head of the criminal division of the Nebraska safety patrol, said. The Barker gang, notorious for bank robberies and killings, broke up in the mld-30s after "Ma" Bar ker and Freddie Barker were kill ed by FBI agents In Florida. Of her other sons, Arthur was killed in 1939 while trying to escape from Alcatraz. Lloyd, who served a 25-year term at Leaven worth, vas killed at his Denver home March 18. Herman was killed in the early 1920s. COFFEE PRICE UPPED NEW YORK. June 20 (IP) General Foods Corp. today raised its wholesale price of coffee packed in cans, jars and bags one cent a pound. The company said this includes Maxwell House and Bliss brands. General Foods became the first large roaster with national dis tribution to raise coriee prices following a recent increase of one cent a pound on bag-packed coffee by several grocery chains. SOVIET NATION HIS Paul Robeson Declares Himself At Welcome To His Son And White Bride NEW YORK, June 20. iP) Paul Robeson, addressing a welcome home rally shortly after seeing his son wed to a white girl, declared last night he loves the "Soviet people more than any other nation." The Negro singer told a Har lem audience of 3 500 persons that he loves the Russians "he cause of their suffering and sac rifices for us, the Negro people, the progressive people, the peo ple of the future of the world." Robeson, just returned from a tour of the Soviet Union and sev eral countries of Europe, said he would "defy any part of an In solent, dominating America to challenge my Americanism. The Harlem rally was spon sored by the Council of African Affairs, a group listed by At torney General Tom Clark an subversive. The baritone said he had ex perienced discrimination as a youth, and declared: "I never accepted an Inferior role because of my race or color, and hy God I never will." Robeson told the crowd that In Paris he had said "It was un thinkable the Negro people of America or anywhere else In the world could be drawn into war Cabinet or more Jobless, but they disagree TOP MONEY WINNER Tatar Decker, cowboy from Roswell, N. M., won the all-round cham pionship of the Douglas County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo Sunday, and with it the $500 special purse awarded by the Roseburg Elks Lodge. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) ' Heckling By Reds Prevents Sermon By ArchbishoD PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June 20. (IP) The Communist eov- errinienir '.wciirtfy potire appar ently tigmenea tneir guard on Archbishop Josef Beran's palace today while Catholics weighed the meaning ol organized Communist, heckling at Ihe prelale at Sun day's cathedral service. The heckling drove him from his cathedral and prevented him from completing his sermon. Attempts of many persons to talk lo the archbishop today were foiled by security police supervis ing the palace reception desk and telephone switchboard. Shrill Communist Interruptions of the archbishop's Corpus Christ! Day sermon in St. Vitus Cathedral yesterday brought the long battle between church and state to its highest tension. The archbishop, defiantly resisting Communist ef forts to control the Church and break the spiritual rule of the Vatican over Czechoslovakia's 9,000,000 Catholics, had to leave the pulpit and return to his palace, already under the watchful eyes of the security police. The wnistllng and leering broke out from demonstrators bunched near the altar ns the archbishop began a denunciation of the gov ernment's moves against the Church. The rest of the congre gation, manv In tears, burst Into a hymn in an attempt to quell the disorder. VATICAN CITY, June 20. OP) The Roman Catholic Church to day excommunicated members of the government-sponsored Catho lic Action Society of Communist dominated Czechoslovakia. The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office Issued a decree which condemned the group as a schismatic one fraudulently label led. FIRST LOVE with the Soviet Union." "I repeat It with hundredfold emphasis. They will not," he de clared. Robeson addressed the rally after attending the wedding of his son, Paul Robeson Jr., 21-year-oid electrical engineer, to Miss Marilyn Paula Greenberg, 21. Young Robeson, only child of the baritone and his wife, met his bride at Cornell University where he starred on the footbail and track teams. They were married by a Prot estant clergyman In an apart ment house. A crowd of several hundred persons gathered out side, and some In the crowd booed as the wedding party left the building. . The elder Robeson, who once was an All-American end on the Rutgers University football teem, told newsmen "this marrlaee would not have caused anv ex citement In the Soviet Union." Dept. Of By 144-49 Senate Hears Showdown On Labor Law Taft Predicts Victory For Plan Providing For Injunctions, Seizures WASHINGTON, June 20. (IP) The Senate labor law de bate edged today toward a series of key test votes on how to deal with strikes imperiling the na tional welfare. . Senate leaders hoped for a showdown by nightfall on that issue. It is regarded generally as a key issue, because the outcome is expected to point uo pretty defi nitely lor the first time the vot ing strength of: (1) Those in the Senate who want to get rid of all or most of the Taft-Hartley law, and (2) those who want to preserve most of lt. As the third week of labor legis lation debate began, nearly all Senators In that second group were backing a proposal by Sen ator faft which would keep the Taft-Hartley provision for injunc tions against critical strikes. Taft's plan also proposes gov ernment seizures of struck plants something which is not author ized under the present law. Senators in the other group those opposed to the Taft-Hart ley law are far from being agreed on an alternative to the Taft-Hartley injunction, a provi sion the labor unions hate. But the plan which appears to have the most support In that camp la one by Senators Douglas ilciiu ana AiKen iK-vtj. it would let the government seize plants for up to 90 days. Taft Pradiots Victory ine uoueias-A ken plan savs nothing about injunctions, but its sponsors have acknowledced that once the government had seized a plant or industry, the way would be open for an Injunction. . jail predicted pvr the. week end that hlg plan would be ap proved. He said he expects that (Continued on Page Two) Hospital Assn. To Choose Trustees Ballotn for the election of nine trustees have been mailed to mem bers of the Douelas Communitv Hospital, Inc. Three trustees are to serve for three years; three for two years, and three for one year. All ballots must be returned to the hospital office, 327 N. Main St., not later than 5 o'clock, June 30. Those nominated for positions on the board of trustees Include: Three-year term: Kenneth Ford, lumberman: Morris Roach, minister; Frank Ashley, Central Labor Council: Dale Albright, hotel owner; John Amacher, farm owner, and Frank Hammersmith, businessman. Two-Year term: Roy E. Han ford, physician; Dick Gllman, pub lisher; D. K. DimicK, aitorney; Viola Blessing, laboratory techni cian; John Hodson, businessman; and William Devaney, lumber man, Ona-vear term! Buckley Bell, businessman; Bill- Oerding, busi nessman; Phil Johnston, lumber man; Henry Jacobson, lumber man; Vern Keel, businessman, and Charles Emery, businessman. Couge or Takes Life Of Little Indian Boy VANCOUVER. B. C. June 20 (P) Wounds Inflicted by a cougar took the life of a 7-ycar-old Indian boy last night at an Indian village 21 f miles norm oi here. A plane carrying a doctor and medical supplies failed to reach the vlllaee in time when lt was delayed by bad wealher. The boy was Identified In sketchy reports from the village as the son oi uominic iayior, a fisherman. Benefit Bill For Short Term Reserves Signed WASHINGTON. June 20 OP) President Truman today signed a bill to provide disability or death benefits for momoers oi the armed services' reserves en gaged in active duty training for periods or less tnan .iu aays or in Inactive duty training. The President said In a state ment the new law will eliminate a discrimination which has ex isted against Reservists and Na tional Guardsmen. Girl Drowns In Siletz In Sight Of Parents TAFT. Ore.. June 20 UP) While her parents stood on the river bank unable to help her, 14-vearold Barbara Joan Robert son, Logslon, drowned Saturday In the Slltez Kiver. Police said the girl, not an ex perienced swimmer, stepped into water over her head ana was car ried off by the c u r r e n t. Her mother was on the bank hut could not go to the rescue. The father hurried to the river", edge too late to grasp the girl before she sank and disappeared. Truman 6 Other Plans Are Proposed By President Reorganization Bill On Hoover Board's Findings Basis Of New Program . Ill A PTITVflnVM ah . vvniiniauiurt June i. tf) President Truman today asked Congress to create a tenth cabi- net-rank rienartrripnt n HonarL ment of Welfare and to put the uuiim:r(.-e department in cnarga of public roads. . Ihe plans seven ail told were sent to Congress within a half hour after Mr. Truman signed the long-debated reorgani zation bill eivino him hi-narf hers to merge and streamline gov- ciniiiciiL agencies, SUDjecx to Congressional veto. . ine labile Roads Administra tion now is In the Federal Works Agency. Welfare and social se curity matters are handled by the Federal Security Agency. AH the plans, if permitted to take effect, will rarrv nut i-ofni-m and economy proposals of the Commission on Government Or ganization hpnriaH hu rn-, President Herbert Hoover. ine otner five would (A) give the Bureau of Employment Se ourltv dnhloce j , j jiuj uiiu juu jjiaue ment) to the Labor Department, icuigaiiiie ine fosiomce ue partment, (C) enlarge the scope of the executive office of the president, (D) streamline the Civil Service Commission, and 'w sirengtnen ine authority of the chairman nt tVtp AiTaitl.. Clmmlssion. All seven plans were described by the White House as con forming "nulto nlneolu" trt ' ilia Hoover Commission " recommen- auons meg wltn Congress this (Continued on Page Two) Four Children, Two Men Perish In Three Fires BORING, Ore., June 20. OP) Two small children burned to death today in a fire that de stroyed a bunkhouse on the Ezra Munson farm near here. , ;, ThPV WPI-A ttAirorltf. Avm rn ,.Htti.5,.nd Frank Elliott, 4,. part of a family of seven which had come here only yesterday to pick hpt-rlpc The fire burst out Just after the mother; Mrs. Hazel Elliott, sloked the stove and left the bunkhouse for a minute 'to speak tO fl I'PlativP In a naoi'hii ti-niln.- Her children were still asleep." " Four older children' ran to safetv. hut the emnllot. nnm ii,p,a caught by the rapidly-spreading The father of the victims is Lnwipnrt H F!1H hand at Klamath Falls. FOLLANKRER W V .Tuno on (P) A father climbed Into the burning attic of his home early today after his three-year-old twin daughters and died along with them. Norman Lnntr. 38. , un fnnnrf near an attic window with on of the twins In his arms. i Defective wiring apparently started the fire in the attic. SAN FRANCISCO. June 20.- UP) An unidentified man was killed and 40 other persons were routed last night by fire in a mree-story notei. There was no Immediate estk mate of damage to the down town, Mission Street structure. Housing Bill Substitute Planned By GOP Group WASHINGTON, June 20. UP) A group of Republican law makers today polished up a sub stitute for the administration housing hill, for offer in the House later this week. Its main feature Is a provision for "a large program of direct loans for those with lower In comes Ineligible for public hous ing ana iineranzation of federal housing administration mortgage Insurance." For the rest. It bears such a similarity to the administration measure Including public hous ing and slum clearance provisions that few Republicans are ex pected to support lt, aside from ine in sponsoring it. "Under our bill," the group said In a statement, "a beginning of over 350.000 units is practicable at rentals or prices fully within the capacity of the family income In the range of $3,000 a year." Theater At Multnomah i Razed By $75,000 Fire MULTNOMAH. June 20. UP) The Multnomah theater In the downtown section of this com munity was destroyed by fire to day, at an estimated loss of at least $75,000. The fire broke out In the pre dawn hours, when no one was in the theater. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. keizenstein Ultimate answer to the gov ernment's plans for Columbia River Basin devei;smnt now looks like C. V. Aye.