i U. Of 0. Library Comp, v i .: ';-V.-''r r iugene, Oregon tmwm 1IB1EI1 Cody Kids Enrich Their Anuatir Laurels By Capturing Top Place hi iiiYiidiionai mm roeer George McFaul Breaks Own Mark In 220-Yd. Stroke; Judy Cornell Posts New Time In 100-Yd. Event ... (Pictures On Page 6) A talented group of swimmers the Cody Kids-of Portland's Multnomah Athletic Club swam their way to first place in the first annual Southern Oregon Invitational Swimming Champion ships held under the sponsorship of the Roseburg Junior Cham b.erLlf Commerce, at the Roseburg Municipal Pool Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. . The MAC kids outswam the opposition in all four divisions to gain a total of 352 12 points. Portland Aquatic Club was second with a total of 184 points, Northwest YMCA was third with 17 and The Dalles Natators were fourth with 15. Unattached swimmers accumulated counters Outstanding Individual swim mers Included Georee McFaul Jr.. MAC, high point man in the senior mens division; Jack Palmer, PAC, junior men's divi sion; Delia Moore Sehorn and La velle Flannery, both PAC, who tied for first in the senior wom en's division and Ann Hackworth, MAC, in the junior women's divi ' sion. McFaul broke a previous state record held by himself in the 220 yard breast stroke, with the new time of 2:58. The speedy 18-year-old holds all boys' and men's breast stroke records in Oregon. McFaul also holds the far western breast stroke record for junior boys in 11 western states and Hawaii, and the Pacific North west Association record (Oregon, Washington and British Colum bia.) Women's Record Broken Judy Cornell broke Nancy Merki's 100-yard breast stroke record of 1:17.5, with a time of 1:17.3. This is .8 slower than the (Continued on Page Two) Marshall Plan Funds Slashed By Committee WASHINGTON, July 11. UP) The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a 10 per cent cut in funds for the Euro pean Recovery Program, a mem ber said today. The Senator, who asked that identification be withheld, re- ?orted the group agreed to $3, 78,380,000 to finance continued ; MarshaH Plan- operations.-- - . - The approved cut totaled $420, 620,000 which will come from the Economic Cooperation: Adminis tration's proposed budget for re covery operations during the fis cal year which started July 1. i The Senate figure represented a compromise between those who favored the full EC A program and economy advocates who wanted to cut up to $740,000,000 off the program. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE news, as this is written, is pretty thin. NOBODY HAS MURDERED ANYBODY. (At least, at the mo ment, no new murders have got into the news.) No nation has started shooting at another na tion. There are no violent ruck uses. A startling thought occurs: Maybe "thin" news is good news. SUPPOSE everybody, all of a sudden, started working hard, getting along with other people, selling goods and services at the lowest possible price consistent with a fair and reasonable profit, saving up money for new automo biles, new houses, NEW TOOLS FOR INDUSTRY, reading good books, retiring early, sleeping soundly, rising early full of vim (Continued on Page Four) Emergency Act Invoked By King George As Dock Strikers Defy Back-To-Work Order LONDON, July 11. UP) King George VI proclaimed a state of emergency today to deal with a crippling strike on the London docks. The king acted on the recommendation of the cabinet after wild cat dock strikers defied a back to work call by the Labor govern ment., A mass meeting of 5,000 dockers had voted earlier to continue their stoppage. It was the first time the Brit ish government had invoked the 1920 emergency act since the general strike of 1926. Under the act the government is em powered to draft civilians but not strikers for work on the docks, may confer extraordinary powers on the police and may commandeer buildings for the use of troops. A total of 10.278 men out of the London dock force of about 25,000 failed to how up for work this morning. That le.'t 112 ships idle In the tieup denounced by the government as Communist-led. The dispute began with a re fusal of British dock workers to handle hip involved in a strike Hi SECRETARY OF '49 Irene Williams smiles after being crowned "Miss Secretary of 1949" at the annual convention of the National Secretaries As sociation in Chicago. Employed for 23 years by a Chicago bank, she won dut over 59 contestants in 'neatness, personality, dress, grooming and grammar. Truman Withdraws Friend's Nomination WASHINGTON, July 11. UP) President Truman today with drew the nomination of his old friend, Fred A. (Bull) Canfil, for reappointment as United States marshal at Kansas City. Canfil's nomination for a new term was sent to the Senate January 13. Apparently, the president act ed to avoid a fight on Canfil's confirmation. . Under the strategy, Canfil can continue to serve on his present term, since he holds office until a successor is appointed and qualified. The Senate Judiciary Commit tee has taken no action on the nomination of Canfil during all the months it has been before the committee. Elderly Brothers Die In Sympathy Murder, Suicide PORTLAND, July 11. ( Two elderly brothers died of bul let wounds yesterday in what the coroner's office described as a "sympathy murder" of the old er man and suicide by the other. Found dead at home were Henry T. Holford, 64, shot in the chest while seated in his bed, and his brother, Bert, 60, who had fired a bullet into his heart. Police reported the older broth er had been suffering from a heart ailment for months which the younger man had exper ienced last February. by a Canadian seamen's union. Dockers at the mass meeting agreed again, as they have sev eral times before, to handle all but the Canadian ships involved in the seamen's dispute. The dock labor board has turn ed this proposal down. Elsewhere on Britain's troub led labor front, 3,000 rallmen started a slowdown this morn ing at nine depots In Manchester and Salford. They are trying to force ac tion on a demand by 460,000 un ion railway workers for a ten shilling S2) a week pay raise from the state-owned lines. The government is setting up a court of arbitration to deal with this demand. The Weather Fair today, tonight and Tues day. Sunset today 7:45 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:44 a. m. Established 1873 Crash Of Auto Sends 3 Men To Hospital Skidding Vehicle Hits Post, Shearing It Off; Charges Await Driver Three Myrtle Creek men were seriously injured when the car in which they were riding left the nignway live miles south of Rose burg Saturday at 10 p. m. State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell ustea tne men as follows: Ralph Edward Jones, 23, driv er of the car, sustained broken ribs and a broken collar bone. Donald John Alden McCar ton, 25, a passenger, sustained a broken neck. His condition Is reported as serious. ' Harold William Riley, 22, a passenger, sustained a broken back. His condition Is reported as critical. Jones and McCarton are both at Mercy Hospital, but Riley has been removed to a Portland hos pital because of his more serious condition. According to Sgt. Harrell no other car was involved. He said (Continued on Page Two) Botanist, Wife Pilot In Plane Crash Rescued FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 11. UP) With a bottleful of beetles and a chinful of stubble, Dr. Melville T. Cook, 79-year-old Louisiana botany professor step ped jauntily from a rescue plane last night with h!s wife and pilot Bill Currington. The trio, object of a week long search by more than 30 military and civilian planes, were snatched by a helicopter only 24 hours before from the side of a 3,200-foot mountain 50 - miles north of the Arctic Circle and 50 miles north of Fort Yukon. Their single-engined Cessna crash-landed on the tundra slope when Currington became lost and the gas supply ran low. Despite their apparent calm Dr. Cook and Mrs. Cook, who is also near 80, and pilot Currington were emphatic in declaring they have had their fill of eggs and Alaska mosquitoes, the world's hungriest. Thev had a cargo of 90 dozen eggs aboard consigned to a roadhouse wnen tne plane put down. Only a few eggs were cracked in the crash. 'We ate them raw, we ate them cooked," said Dr. Cook. To foil the formations of buzz- bombing mosquitoes, the three slept inside the plane at night and sealed up the cracks with emergency bandage tape to keep the insects out. They sent up daily smoke signals in hopes of catching the attention oi res cuers. The three suffered only bruis es in the crash, which washed out the plane's landing gear, pop ped off the doors and twisted the propeller. . School Heating Permit Obtained A building permit for $67100 has been taken out for the con struction, of a central heating plant for Roseburg Senior High and Fullerton Schools;- The contract for the work has been let to Industrial Building Co. of Eugene, builders of the River side School last year. The central heating unit will be housed in a separate structure west of the high school building. Bids for the construction of an auditorium gymnasium for the Benson School have been Invited by Roseburg School District 4, announced A. B. Collier, clerk. Bids will be received at the Junior High School building un til 8 p.m. Jury 18. Prequalifica tion is required 10 days in ad vance of the bid opening date. Plans and specifications can be obtained from Collier or from L. W. Metzger at 321 S. Mill St. Excavation work for the gym nasium has been done by the dis trict, but the construction will be done by contract. Dollar Problem Awaits Britain's Solution LONDON, July 11 UP) Britain hopes to find a solution to her dollar problem by Sep tember. That Is the upshot of a three day, closed-door conference here between United- Stales Treasury Secretary John Snyder, British economic chief Sir Stafford Cripps and Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott. Before Snyder left for Brussels on the next stage of his huropcan tour, the three issued a Joint com munique. It promised fact finding discussions right away and more ministerial talk In Washington in September. ROSEBURG, OREGON ELLIOTT'S OUSTER SOUGHT Young Multnomah GOP Asks Demos To Join Ir Plan To Recall Sheriff : PORTLAND, July 1 1. (API The Young Republican organ ixation of this county invited Democrats and other groups today to start a recall move against the Multnomah County sheriff who is feuding with Portland newspapers and some of his own staff. ; me Young- Kepubiican presi- dent, Donald C. Walker, announe. ed the. recall move after Sheriff M. L. Elliott filed a $500,000 libel suit against the Oregonian and challenged his critics to "go ahead and start a recall." ' County ' Democratic Chairman Nicholas Granet -rallied to the sheriff's defense, calling the re call attempt a "straight political issue" and accusing the Portland newspapers of "persecuting" the sheriff. Other Democratic spokesmen, however, indicated a possible willingness to support the recall if assured that a Democratic successor would be chosen. Owen Card, first vice-president of the Young Democrats, said he per sonally would favor a recall. The controversy over Elliott, simmering since he admitted making incorrect statements about his background during his political campaign, boiled over last week when he suspended Stanley MacDonald, the veteran head of the Criminal Identifica tion Bureau in the sheriff's of fice. ' Other county officials charged that MacDonald one of the best known Civil Service men in the sheriff's staff had been un justly treated. Both Portland (Continued on Page Two) Referendum Vote On Oregon Pension Bill Now Assured PORTLAND, July 11 UP) A referendum vote on the last Legislature's pension bill was de-, dared assured today T by Joe Dunne, spokesman for old age pension groups. Dunne said 14,000 signatures had been validated and another 4,200 checked names were due here from Lane, Linn and Marion counties. He said these would exceed the required 15,926 and put the measure to vote in No-J vember, l5U. He said the referendum spon sors want a bill that guarantees $50 monthly. A ballot measure stipulating the monthly goal was passed last year, but was declared unworkable by the state attorney general. The Legislature then passed the measure which Dunne's group seeks to kill off. Two other referendum Issues, one to allow daylight saving time and another opposing a Rogue River dam, may be on the ballot in 1950. Daylight time sup porters need 3,800 additional sig natures. W. J. Smith of the Na tional Wildlife Federation said the opposition to any new Rogue River dam is meeting with moderate success. ' The referendum petitions must be completed and filed by July 16. Bull Blamed For Fatal Accident To Motorist SALEM, July 11 UP) Ar mond Franklin Frey, 13, Dallas, died in a Salem hospital Sunday from injuries received in a head on auto collision south of Salem Friday night. . State police blamed tne accident on a stray bull which was wand ering along the Pacific highway. Four other persons are recover ing in a hospital from injuries received in the same accident. atelrUfcW v . GIRL SCOUTS OFF FOR EUROPE This group of senior girl scouts and assistant troop leaders pose aboard the Marine Flasher in New York harbor before sailing for Europe. They plan to work as volunteers in the girl guide and girl scout camps in France, the Netherlands and Great Britain. Left to right are Margaret Ann Shoot of Upper Darby, Pa.; Georgia Earlywine, Pratt, Kai.i Cerry Smith, Omaha, Neb.; Virginia Milbenk, Pidena, Calif.; Mercedes Urda, Sewickley, Pa.; Margaret I. Stone, San Francisco; Kitherina Adams, Ross, Calif.; and Helen E. Dickerson, Newton, N. J. (AP Wirephoto) MONDAY, JULY 11, 1949 ft i MIKE ELLIOTT, ' . Recall attempt faced. Coal Miners Begin Second Three-Day Work Week PITTSBURGH, July 11 UP) Most of the nation's 450,00 soft coal miners today began their second successive three-day week. Diggers east of the Mississippi will produce coal today,, tomor row and Wednesday. Then they are expected to knock off until the next Monday in accordance with John L. Lewis' edict. ; . i The threedajr week startec) at fti'ft' jSrtrf 'nf rthtt final 'mmpr' 10. day, paid vacation July 5, al though their contract expired June 30. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, ordered them to work three days a week during current contract negotia tions. Racing Driver Killed On Portland Speedway PORTLAND, July 11 UP) Les Anderson, Oregon's top big car racing driver, was killed yes terday In a two-car crackup on a turn In a featured race at the Portland Speedway. Anderson, 38, and an entry In the . past three Memorial day classics at Indianapolis, died three hours after his car and one driven by Art George, Los An geles, crashed on the 16th lap of the class A 35-lap event. George suffered several broken bones, but was not in critical condition, according to Emanuel hospital. , Texas .Governor Jester Found Dead On Train HOU8TON, Tex., July 11 (fP Governor Beauford Jester was found dead today In his Pullman berth on a train at the Southern Paciflo depot. He was 56. Death apparently was from natural causes. Jester was serving hit second term as governor. He took of fice In 1946. The lieutenant governor who will take over as governor Is Allan Shivers, also serving his 'second term. v "T m c (I 0 161-49 Blast On Boat Takes Life Of Gen. Prichard Commodore W. Painter Also Dies; Col. Biddle Performs Heroic Act ' WASHINGTON, July 11 UP) The general who headed the Army's public relations and a retired navy officer were killed when a cabin cruiser exploded on the Potomac river yesterday. The dead: Maj. Gen. Vernon E. Prichard, 57, and Commodore Wilfred L. Painter, 41, USNR. Navy Captain Sergius N. V. Loboshez and Johannes Johanne sen, 40, steward at the. fashion able Corinthian Yacht Club, were carried on hospital critical lists today, Eyewitnesses credited Col. An thony J. Drexel Biddle, one of those aboard, with great personal courage. Biddle, . soldier, athlete and diplomat, told reporters the 50 foot cruiser- Halcyon was just pulling away from the Yacht Club dock enroute down the Potomac when the explosion occurred. "I was standing on the' bow of the boat with mv wife and Mrs. Prichard," Biddle said. "We weren't more than two or three yards from the dock when we heard this huge explosion, and the three of us were shot into the river. There was a lot of debris and flame. "I swam to my wife and brought her to the dock posts and then grabbed Mrs. Prichard. Both (Continued on Page Two) Reorganization Petition Filed By Lumber Firm PORTLAND, July 11. W) Two firms asked permission Sat-urday-of -Federal" District Court to continue operating under pres ent management while reorga nizing. The Judd Creek Lumber Co., Inc., of Riddle filed a reorgani zation petition, listing total lia bilities at $229,741 and total assets at $181,738. ' The lumber firm said the fed eral government has filed liens against it for $29,593 for with holding and unemployment tax es; and the State Unemployment Compensation and Industrial Ac cident Commissions Hens of $6, 584. The petition also listed $12, 217 In judgments against the company In Douglas County, $13, 911 in pending suits, and a $41, 000 chattel mortgage. The other company to file a reorganization petition was Coos Curry Transportation Inc., a Co quille trucking firm, which said its business was hurt by the maritime strike and the bad winter. It listed assets at $93,256 and liabilities at $66,532, but said It needed more time to collect money owed It by customers, Caterpillar Invasion Of Lebanon Halted LEBANON, Ore., July ll.-fP) Sulphite liquor from a paper mill and DDT halted an Inva sion of caterpillars here yester day that had kept housewives busy with brooms and garden hose. Firemen later burned grass and thistle patches where the Insects hatched out early Satur day and began moving across lawns and gardens in unnumber ed hordes. f. 3 ' President. In Economic Report To Congress, Also Drops Past Urge For Price, Vage Controls . ' By STERLING F.GREEN WASHINGTON, July 1 1 (API President Truman today can celed his call for a $4,000,000,000 tax increase. He bowed to a temporary deficit spending policy to head off any depression. "No major increase in taxes should be undertaken at this time"- were the President's words. Also: "We cannot expect to achieve a budget surplus in a declining national economy." , In a stunning reversal of his stand, Mr. Truman sent to Congress a mid-year economic report wiped clean of his past demands for price, wage or other business controls. Instead stating that unemployment is acuta in soma areas he proposed 1 1 new laws to build up jobs and production, boost consumer income and buying power, and loosen federal lending. Power Firm To Cut Rates To Fight Pud SALEM, July 11. UP) For the first time, a private power com pany was given permission today to reduce its electric rates in order to meet competition of a publicly-owned power system. Public Utilities Commissioner George H. Flagg Issued an order that the Pacific Power & Light Company can cut its rates at The Dalles In order to meet the rates of the Northern Wasco County People's Utility District. Flagg's order Is considered far reaching, because it might set a pattern whereby other power companies can reduce their rates in order to meet local competi tion by public power agencies. Flagg, however, told the com pany it can't increase its rates in the rest of its system in order to balance the reduction at The Dalles. Flagg deplored the fact that there now are two electric utili ties serving The Dalles, assert ing the duplication is "unsound and uneconomical: there isn't enough business to support both utilities. . . PUD Criticized Flagg said "the PUD is the aggressor in The Dalles and has entered the field occupied by Pacific. It did not see fit to ex ercise. Ha right to- acquire -.'Pa-' ciiic s property by condemnation and thereby eliminate the un economical duplication of facili ties." . - i Flagg said he received vigor ous protests against the Pacific rate reduction from "sources whose Interests are the 1 result of social and government theo ries." The protests did not come from the PUD. , "To deny Pacific the right to make effective its proposed rates In The Dalles would be to con demn It to slow starvation and certain death In that territory. Viewed In the light of competi tion, the proposed rates are rea sonable and in the public inter est," Flagg wrote. The order said that Pacific already has lost some of its cus tomers to the PUD. Flagg said that the reduced rates will not enable Pacific to make a fair profit in The Dalles area, but they would be high enough ' to pay expenses. Rain Breaks Hot Spell, Saves Crops (By the Associated Press) Thirsting crops in eight north eastern drought-stricken states had their first real beneficial rain yesterday in 49 days. A steady day-long shower brought almost an inch and a half of moisture to some parts of the area where crop damage had mounted into the millions of dol lars. Weathermen In New Jersey said the drought In that state had been washed out but farmers there and elsewhere throughout the northeast said more moisture would be needed soon. Crop dam age in New Jersey alone has been estimated at $31,000,000. Although the rainfall measur ed only little more than a trace at some points It was sufficient generally to be a life-saver to crops that were on the verge of doom. Drought conditions were re ported definitely broken in west ern New York. In New England, where crop damage had mounted to $?0,000, 000, many points reported an Inch or more of moisture. , . Tacoman New Head Of National B. P. O. Elks CLEVELAND, July 11. UP) The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks today elected Em mett T. Anderson of Tacoma, Wash., as Grand Exalted Ruler. President of a printing firm there, he is a past exalted ruler of his lodge and a former dis trict deputy grand exalted ruler for the Washington southwest area. Anderson succeeds George I. Hall of New York City. Rpp. Russell V. Mack (R-Wash) made the speech nominating An derson as head of the lodge which reported 965,387 paid-up members as of last March. Dur ing Hall's year In office, the Elks added 39,703 new members. Ail tne ideas were familiar. Most were not drastic. Thev in cluded public works planning, but not more public works; the Brannan farm plan; expansion of social security and jobless, pay; extended GI benefits. Crisis action isn't needed Mr. Truman said, because the econ omy still is strong and healthy; It can hit a soaring annual out put of "well above $300.000.000.. 000" In a few years, he predict ed. That is one-fifth higher than toaay s national production. "But there is nothing healthy about more unemployment or less production," Congress was tnM "dunk tranH. no. aA vmwi. wbiiu. van aim iiiuai. be reversed by positive action, private and public. ... "Our own people insist upon the maintenance of prosperity, and will not tolerate a depres sion." ; "' '., t' . Counoll More Optimlttlo ' ' . ' The president's Council of Eco nomic Advisers, in an accom panying report, was somewhat more optimistic in general tone than Mr. Truman. It found the business outlook reassuring. But agreed that federal action i called for. i "We may have the unique and , fortunate experience of liquidat ing a major Inflation without fall ing Into a severe recession" the three-member council reported. In a sentence certain to win the acclaim of business, Mr. Tru man took his stand against any major increase in taxes. Only estate and gift tax rate should be raised, he said. ) He added that the transportation tax on goods should be wiped out and the "carry-over" of losses In corporation taxes should ba liberalized, . ; .:.;. r-..Theexpected results:' (A) beU (Continued on Page Two) Strike Ties Sand, Gravel Plants CORVALLIS, July 11 ' UP) Plants producing sand, gravel and concrete products over most of the Mid-Willamette Valley were shut down today in a dispute with the teamsters union over wages of truck drivers. i " Affected were firms In Corval lis, Albany, Lebanon and Sweet Home. Salem plants have been shut down for a week. Spokesmen for the employers here said the wage controversy had been going on since January, with the companies offering a 10 cent-per-hour wage increase and the union asking 12Vi cents retroactive to the first of the year. Negotiations with the union are underway in Salem. Within a few days the shut down is expected to halt most building operations using the af fected materials. . ; Cop First Arrested In '' Hooded Terrorism Cases BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 11. UP) A Brookside, Ala., police man was the first man arrested today on charges by a grand jury which investigated masked mob violence in the Birmingham district. Thirteen other men were tab bed for arrest on charges of hooded terrorism. Elmer Brock, the first man arrested, posted bond of $300 each on two Indictments. One was for intimidation of a wit ness and the other for neglect of duty. At Brookside the night of June 10 a robed and hooded band in vaded a restaurant, cleared out Its occupants and forced there to witness a cross burning. ; Angler Vanishes From Winchester Bay Jetty REEDSPORT. Ore.. . July 11. (P Coast guardsmen searched the surf here today for Otis M. Wlthrow, 25, Hobbs, N. M., who vanished sometime Saturday eve ning while fishing off a dock near the south jetty at Winchester Bay. Mate Police said the young man's parents and a sister, camp ing nearby at the Umpqua light house park, reported Wlthrow was last seen about 9 p.m. Sat urday. Levity Fct Rant By L. F. Rehmutein New batch of hunting regula tions have been Issued by the Oregon Game Commission for sportsmen's headaches, lut de not concentrate too heavily. They're only tentative and likely to be revised after being glued in your memory. If