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vi U. Of 0. Library Comp. , Eugene, Oregon ,.; , ir , .. . '- . . ... v -" .. Truman5 j '! ? p ' BLANKET PROTECTION Fire .. wHvl y N W 1 , ; I tii : 1.1 f-i-IM " V ;r fv I . r - t Department personnel donned new uniforms to show one of the uses to which this latest piece of equipment may be put. .The blanket, a gift from J. C. Penney Manager Bruce Elliott, will be added to the first aid equipment carried by the city's fire trucks. The "victim" here is Can Henry,' Roseburg High School student, Reading from left to right are Bill Reed, Elliott, Chief Mills, Rus sell Westcott, Tony Shukle, Penney's Blanket Department Man ager Robert Walker, and Joe member of the Fire Department, Fact-Finding Board Will Be Set Up. By Truman In Effort To Avert Steel Union Strike WASHINGTON, July 14. UP) The White House said today that President Truman will set up a Steel fact-finding board tomor row whether or not the "Big Three" producers yield to his pressure "for them to go along with his plan to avert a strike Saturday. . Charles Ross, presidential press secretary, announced this after saying nothing has been heard from Mr. 'Truman's latest message Fall Opening Is Talked By Assn. Preliminary .plans for Rose- burg's 1949 fall opening were dis cussed Wednesday at . a meeting of the Roseburg Retail 'Trades V Association. . s j-w-. r .3 Association '' members viewed proposals lor ine type oi opening desired and the date the tan event would be held. Although Wednesday evening, Sept. 21, was the date suggested,, no definite action was taken. Association President Roland West said all members would be asked to vote by mail before the final date was set. Members will vote on the date and lime of day preferred. Also on the ballot will be a proposal to retain or reject the "Treasure Hunt" featured in last year's fall opening festivi ties. By FRANK JENKINS THE world, as nearly as one can judge from the dispatches, Is In a badly upset state, with every body dissatisfied with things as they are and wanting them different ' " So far as I can see, - peo ple are discussing everything but) WORKING HARDER AND MORE EFFICIENTLY, PRO DUCING MORE GOODS-TO BE SOLD AT CHEAPER PRICES, In the Day's News GETTING ALONG WITH EACH s JOTHER IN A SPIRIT OF LIVE AND LET LIVE ' AND RE- MOVING THE BARRIERS TO TRADE SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN SWAP WHAT HE HAS FOR WHAT THE OTHER FEL LOW HAS ON AN EVEN BASIS which is the only true measure of prosperity. ...... 'M afraid that unlil we begin to think along these lines the (Continued on Page Four) Britain And Canada Reduce U. S. Imports To Halt Drain On Scant Supply Of Dollars LONDON, July 14. (JP) Britain today sliced 25 per rent off her buying from the world's dollar areas for this year. Sir Stafford Crlpps, chancellor of the exchequer, told Commons Britain's Imports from the United States and other dollar areas would be limited to $1,200,000,000. In 1948 Britain spent $1,600,000,- 000 on imports. Crlpps announced a cut In pur chases of U. S. tobacco. He also said the sugar ration would be lowered from 10 to eight ounces weekly and the recently dera tioned candy would go back on ration Aug. 14. The weekly candy ration will be four ounces per person. v Crlpps knocked off $80,000,000 pf the $440,000,000 originally set side for the purchase of tobacco. He said this would mean a re duction of about five per cent to British users. Clgarets alreadv re scarce here and lines in front S Jrk ' ,1-1 Chief "Dutch" Mills and hit Fire Noyer. Bill Chalmers, the sixth was not present for the picture i to the three companies. . There was no hint from Ross as to who the President has in mind for the board a group whose findings and recommen dations may be decisive on the issue of whether millions of American workers are to have a fourth round of postwar wage increases. - 1 t IK" Asking .United States Steel, Jte4pposes - any. referendum 1 tn the public and Bethlehem to recon sider their rejections of his plan to suomrc tne wage-pension dis- pute to a special inquiry board tor a recommended solution, Mr. Truman told the. three: "Surely you are not afraid to have- your side of this dispute examined In the public interest." While some smaller steel firms and the CIO United Steel Work ers union accepted Mr. Truman s plan, the Big Three had con tended it by-passed Taft-Hartley law procedures for strikes im perilling the nation's health or safety. Strike Order Coming Philip. Murray, president of the CIO and its steel union, said he wili Issue a strike order to day to apply to all steel firms (Continued on Page Two) Fine Of $100 Levied For Gambling Devices Seth Greenhaw of Toketee en tered a plea of guilty to a charge of illegal possession of gambling devices, when he appeared in Justice Court Wednesday, report ed Justice of Peace A. J. Geddes. He paid a fine of $100. District Attorney . Robert G. Davis said that two machines found in Greenhaw's possession at Toketee will be confiscated and destroyed. He was arrested by Sheriff's Deputies Ira Byrd and Red Eckhardt. Springfield Realtor Drowns During Swim EUGENE, July 14. P) Rich ard Richardson, age 30, Spring field realtor, drowned Wednes day night while swimming at the Playground public picnic grounds near . Jasper. Coroner Fred Buell reported that he was swimming with three compan ions and decided to swim across the river with one of them. He went down when he start ed to swim back. of tobacco stores are a common sight. OTTAWA, July 14. (JP) Canada, the United States' best customer, is turning thumbs down on Imports of United States fruit and vegetables. Officials estimated today that the banning of U. S. fruit and the placing of restrictions on vege tables has saved the dominion about $2,000,000 a month in scarce U. S. dollars. She Is continuing the ban on ttack On foes Of Spending Draws Fire -5 The Weather Continued hot with low to very low humidity today and Friday, v Sunset today 7:52 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:46 a. m. Established 1873 Heat Suspends Logging In All Douglas Areas Temperatures Soar Near 100 Mark; Pool Jammed, Foresters Worried Hot? You bet it is the weatherman reported a high of 95 for Wed nesday. And as temperatures rose, the humidity fell to a low of 20 percent, halting logging in all Douglas County areas at noon. Although yesterday's high fail ed to approach the all-time rec ord of 109 set in 1946, nearly all Koseourg activity, or lack oi it, centered around thermometer readings. Over 1000 Roseburg citizens, adults and children, jammed the city's new swimming pool yes terday to break a previous at tendance record of 800 paid ad missions, established Tuesday. This does not include the Red Cross swimming classes. As one swimmer put it, "There's hardly room for your little finger, let alone room to swim." The city's ice cream parlors were jammed throughout the day, with "boom ing" business reported. Forest Officials Worry Forest Service officials were "worried" about the continued hot weather and the dry, hazard ous condition of Douglas County forest lands, according to C. K. Rand, forest service administra tive assistant. Rand said that all normal maintenance and re pair work had been suspended by Forest Service fire crews and the men were staying close to (Continued on Page Two) Krug Opposes Referendum On CYA Proposal ' WASHINGTON. Julv 14 (JP) Secretary of the Interior Krug Pacific Northwest on whether to set up a Columbia Valley Ad ministration. Krug, now being cross examin ed before the ; House Public Works Committee on his testi mony in behalf of CVA legisla tion, testified It would be im practical to hold referenda in the interested states. The elected representatives in Congress should speak for the people on creation of the agency to develop natural resources of the Columbia River basin, Krug said. "If the people are against it, he added, "we should find some other means of developing a river basin. Krug said agencies such as the proposed CVA "will not work" if the people in the affected areas are against them. He added he thinks the Committee should de termine whether the people of the Northwest want a CVA. He did not enlarge on how the Com mittee snouiu ao tnat, nut ne am indicate that could be done by hearing witnesses for and against the legislation. Missouri's Union Control Statute Is Repealed JEFFERSON CITY. Mo., Julv 14. (JP) Organized labor won its fight Wednesday for repeal of Missouri's union control act. Gov. Forrest Smith, with labor leaders as witnesses, signed a bili repealing the Madison Act almost two years after it was approved July 22, 1947. The Madison Law barred Juris dictional strikes (fights between unions), sympathy strikes, strikes against government and second ary boycotts (where a labor dis pute ties up a business not in volved I.. the parent strike). It also set up compulsory ar bitration. It said no strike'could be called unless a majority of the eligible union members voted for it. Mother Of 14 Children Electrocution Victim HOUSTON. Texas, July 14. (JP) -The 41-year-old mother of 14 children was electrocuted Wednes day as she ironed clothing in her backyard. She was Mrs. Viola Williams. Capt. Charley Nix of the sher iff's office said Mrs. Williams had cone outside to iron because it was cooler. She was barefoot, he said, and the ground was damp, making a good electrical contact. Nix said a neighbor quoted Mrs. Williams as saying a few days ago there was a short in her iron. Gov. McKay Undecided On Proposed Rent Decontrol SALEM, July 14 -Ujp) Gov ernor Douglas McKay hasn't made up his mind whether to de control rents in Salem and Eu gene. The dty councils In those cities asked him to remove rent con trols. The governor said he won't decide until he sees all the evi dence on both sides. .1 Truck Mishap Kills Worker Near Tiller Phillbrook. W. Holmes, 51, contract construction worker, was killed when the body of a dump truck fell upon him, crushing his !ad, Wednesday, July 13. He was engaged In fixing, a broken part of the truck near his home In Tiller when the accident occurred. He had terminated his contract with E. G. Gates Co. a, little over a week ago and was pre paring to move with his family to San Francisco, his former home. Holmes was born Aug. 26, 1897, In San Francisco and had come to Oregon three years ago, making his home in Tiller. He was a member of Occidental No. '22, A. F. & A. M.i Calvary Presbyterian Church, and Rotary Club, all of San Francisco; a for mer member of the Lions Club of Santa Fe, and a member of the Teamsters Union Local 962, A. F. of L., Roseburg. , '' Surviving are the widow, Clara May. Tiller; a son. Peter. Tiller: his mother, Mrs. H. E. Holmes, San Francisco; a sister, Mrs. F. W. Pleas, Woodside, Calif., and a brother, Henry P. Holmes, San Francisco. The body will be shipped by the Roseburg Funeral Home to Sacra mento, Calif., for funeral services and interment. Mother Loses Her Life In Saving Her Son ASTORIA, July 14. (JP) A 30- year-ola mother was credited to day with sacrificing her life to save her small son. An autopsy showed that Mrs. Florence Rita Peterson, 30, died of Injuries inflicted when she tumbled out of a moving car after grabbing her 3-year-old boy to safety. The tot opened the door of the car in which Mrs. Peterson and her husband were riding last Sunday. He started to fall out. The mother lunged for him, yanked him back to the safety ot' -tner.-caP(but- lost her own balance. She crashed to the pavement just as her husband braked the car to a stop. Mrs. Peterson died in a hos pital Tuesday. She came here from Boston a year ago to Join her husband, Carl, who Is sta tioned at Tongue Point naval station. - GOP Chairman Ready To Yield To Right Man WASHINGTON, July 14. UP) Senator Martin (R.-Pa.) Indi cated today that Rep. Hugh Scott Jr. will step down as Republican National Committee chairman "If we get assurance an outstanding man will take his place." Martin said, however, that he, Scott and other Pennsylvanlans "are not going to be shoved around" by those who want some one else in the key GOP post. "There is no use talking about Scott moving out until we are sure that there Is a top flight man 10 succeed mm, reporter. Martin told a 1,1'' ' I REMOVED FROM BURNING PLANE Rescuers (foreground) remove injured persons from a burning commercial airlines (background! which crashed and bunt into flames shortly befora it was to have landed at Burbank, Calif. Th pilot had just reported a fight among passengers in which on man was badly baalen. Thar ara 35 dead and 14 injured. Civil Aeronautics authori ties blamed th crash, not on th fight, but on th negligence of the pilot in flying too low. Th plan struck hill in th Santa Susan Mountains. (Ap Wirephoto.) ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1949 Papal Decree Descends On Communists Excommunication Of Red Catholics Arouses Bitter Resentment ROME, July 14. (JP) The Pope s excommunication of Com munists stung the Communist controlled press of Europe to vio lent reaction today. The Vatican disclosed last night that Pope Pius XII has cut off from the Sacraments and Comforts of the Faith all Ro man Catholics "who make pro fession of the materialistic and anti-Christian doctrine of the Communists." The action was a stern warning that the church will not com promise with Communism. II Paese, Communist-line news paper in Rome, called the de cree "an act of hatred" and the official Italian Communist news paper, L'Unita, said the order ''crowns a violent provocatory campaign of the Holy See against Catholics who do not intend to submit to its political directives." Italy is an overwhelmingly Ca tholic country in which the Com munists officially number more than 2,000,000, and the Papal decree could have a telling ef fect here. French Paper Failed , The Communists have swung 5,000,000 votes in the postwar (Continued on Page Two) Mother And Child Burned By Blast Mrs. Wilbur Brookout, and her two-year-old daughter, Linda, sud tamed serious burns when a gaso line lantern exploded at , their home at Winston Wednesday.. Mrs. Brookout was quite seri ously burned about the arms, the lower part of her abdomen and legs, -The4 child sustained less serious burns about the hands, legs and chest, according to a re port from their attending physi cian. Both are in Mercy Hospital. Also confined at Mercy Hospital Is 11-year-old Kenneth Mahoney. who, according to information re ceived by the News-Review, fell off the schoolhouse at Dilard. The boy reportedly sustained head in juries. . Kenneth had been flying air planes with neighbor boys about the school building. One of the planes reportedly landed on the school, and the boy fell in at tempting to retrieve it. GUNSHOT KILLS BOY SALEM, July 14. (JP) Doug las McCauley, 18, Airlie. died yesterday of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. The shooting occurred Mon day night when the boy was sit ting in a parked car with two I girls. ( !4M 4 H'i-.5 L 7 H WESTERNER ELECTED HEAD of Tacoma, Wash., who was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at the 85th Grand Lodge convention in Cleveland, shows his emblem of office to outgoing Ruler George I. Hall, Lynbrook, Malheur Forest Blaze Not Subdued; Tillamook Burn Is Closed As State Hazard Rises PORTLAND, July 14. VP) Fire Jumped over cleared trails on Gunbarrel Creek today and alreaBy-blackened acres of South The 200,000-acre Tillamook burn of Northwestern Oregon often burned powderkeg of the Pacific Northwest was closed to entry as temperatures soared and humidity The Gunbarrel Creek fire in Malheur National Forest, 35 miles northeast of Burns, was one of 34 set off by a Monday night lightning storm. It was the only one in Oregon not controlled quickly. Guy Johnson, forest service regional fire dispatcher, said the Gunbarrel situation was "ex tremely serious." Little merchant able timber, howevr, is In the immediate area, "We are sitting on a powder keg throughout the Btate' 'he said. , ' ' v. .! The Weather Bureau,' which sent its mobile forecasting unit to the Gunbarrel Creek area last (Continued on Page Two) No Competitive Bids ' ' For O-C Timber Tracts PORTLAND, July 14. (IP) Eleven Oregon & California tim ber tracts failed to attract any comnetitive bids in a sale in which the agency sold 4,563,000 feet of timber for $34,989.65. High bidders on ten parcels sold included R. B. Bohlman, i.s tacada; Monroe Lumber Co., Eu gene; Hlldeburg Lumber Co., Drain; Puckett & Scherer, Klam ath Falls; Gilchrist Timber Co., Gilchrist. Best bids by species, per louu feet, were Douglas r ir j.4b: salvage Douglas Fir. $2.05; hem lock $2.71; western red cedar $2.30; white fir $2.61; Port Or fnrd cedar S15.06; sugar pine $21.66; ponderosa pine $14.37. A". 1.- 164-49 i v4 f - j ELK Emmett T. Anderson (left) N. T. (NEA Telophoto.) roared out of control beyond 5000 Central Oregon pine forests, fell Roseburg Elks' Top Attraction At National Meet Roseburg is receiving its share of publicity at the national Elks convention being held this week in Cleveland. Ohio.. . , . 1 AV Cordon, a member of Rose burg's Ritualistic team, ' which competed lor, national honors Tuesday, sent an airmail letter to the News-Review and enclosed two pages of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in which Roseburg was prominently mentioned. Pictures of Mrs. Margaret Krewson and Mrs. Helen Cordon, Lady Elks, who accompanied their husbands, appear In the paper. Also a paragraph in a news story on the convention states: ' "Colorfully costumed groups of delegates were to be seen in all hotel lobbies. Frequent bellows of Timber! were shouted by a spectacular group from Roseburg, Ore.,, who made tne rounas oi most headquarters." Cordon wrote: "Enclosed are two plugs for Roseburg in Cleve land's leading paper on Monday a.m., . following our first full round of the hotels. Note the pix of our two gals, who were chosen from a huge crowd; also the 'blurb' on Roseburg ana tne Timber' call. The unique outfits or tne nose- huro ffrnun have aroused com ment throughout Cleveland and Oregon is acknowledged as the outstanding group." Soaring Traffic Deaths Bring On Speed Limits OKLAHOMA CITY, July 14. (VP) Something new will be add ed to Oklahoma's highways come August 25 speed limits. tin to now Oklahoma was one of the few remaining states to let drivers decide the speed best suit ed to safety. The Legislature cnangea mm this spring after debating the stale's soaring death toll, and the Highway Department is busy making signs to snow ine new limits. For cars, the new limits are 65 during the day and 55 at night; trucks under 4,uuu pounns, ou; trucks' over 48,000 pounds, 40; busses, 55. Haste At Bridge Costs Motorist 4 Tires, Fine SHEBOYGAN. Mich.. July 14. UP) Haste wasted $53.35 and four automobile tires for Edgar Malin yesterday. Mann, speeding to gei across the Sheboygan River State Street Bridge before It lifted, poked his car through a guard rail, rawd it up the raised part of the bridge and Jumped the four-foot open ing. As the car landed at the other side of the span, all four tires blew out. Then Malin was fined in Justice Court on a reckless driving charge. LIQUOR VOTE SLATED DUNDEE. Julv 14 UP) Whether sale of liquor Is to be permitted In this Yamhill county town will be decided at a special election July 26. Mayor Earl .Namltz said senti ment of the people appears divid ed on whether a state liquor store should rje opened here and tne Council decided on an election. The city now permits sale of beer , Both Parties Represented In Answers President Says That -'Selfish Interests' Block His Program By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON. July 14. UP) President Truman's sharp at tack on "selfish interests urging drastic cuts" in federal spending collided today with both Demo cratic and Republican criticism in Congress. So did his assertion that many . people would like to have a de pression "for political reasons." On the other hand, Senator Pepper (D-Fla) called Mr. Tru man's arguments "reasonable common sense and full of prao-, tical justification." l ne . President spoke out tasi night in telling the nation about his new program designed to ex pand production and avert a more serious business slump. He went on both the radio and television. "We shall have to be sure," the President said, "that the selfish Interests do not drive us into the ditch, as they have done before." As he did in the economic re port he sent to Congress last Monday, Mr. Truman said: "We are not in a depression." Many people who talk of a depression, he said, would like to have on "for political reasons." But he added that the increase in the number of people out of work "Is something to worry about, and something that must be cured." Tax Cut Denounced - The President again lit into the Republican-ruled 80th Congress of 1947-48 for cutting Income taxes. He criticized it, too, for re fusing to enact the anti-inflation program he wanted then but now has abandoned because, he said, of changed conditions. ' He called those policies blun ders on the part of the 80th Con gress, and he said "selfish inter ests" were to blame. Then he added: "Now these same selfish Inter ests are urging us to commit a third great blunder. They are now urging drastic cuts in gov ernment expenditures cut which would fall hardest on those expenditures which are most im portant to our aomestic econ omy." ' That was an obvious reference (Continued on Page Two) Tom Wharton Is Claimed Bv Death Tom Wharton, long time Rose-, burg resident, died today In , a local hospital. The body has been removed to the Roseburg Funer al Home, which will announce funeral arrangements later. Wharton was associated with his brother, G e o r g e, in the Churchill Hardware firm, now Umpqua Valley Hardware, .for . many years. Surviving are: brothers, Jack,. Charlie, and George, all of Rose burg, and Joe, ex -mayor of Grants Pass; and sisters, Mrs. G. V. Wlmberly, Bess Wharton and Jane Wharton, all of Roseburg. Jake Bird Loses Plea For Execution Stay WASHINGTON. July 14.-UP) Justice Black of the Supreme Court refused today to grant a convicted slayer scheduled to Le ' hanged tomorrow in the State of Washington. The Court twice before had re fused to review Bird's case. He was convicted In the ax slaying of Bertha Kludt at her Tacoma, Wash., home. Bird had asked for the execu tion stay on grounds that he had Deen coercea imo cumessinK ' ine crime and that he never had been permitted to have, a full transcript of the trial proceed ings. Wrestlers, Fans Lose Decision To Truman PITTSBURGH, July 14 UPl A flock of wrestlers lost a deci sion to President Truman last night but It drew a flood of pro tests. When television station WDTV Interrupted its grunt and groan show to switch to the Capitol for Truman's economic talk Its tele phone switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree. Irate wrestling fans demanded the station return to the usual Wednesday night fare. The presidential talk lasted Just long enough for the cameras to miss the main bout. Tragedy Suspends Flying Rights Of Air Line WASHINGTON, July 14-(JP) The Civil Aeronautics Adminis tration today suspended the oper ating rights of Strato Freight, Inc. It operated the plane In which ten persons were Killed in Puerto Rico last month. CAA Administrator D. W. Rent zel accused the company of oper ating faulty equipment. He also asserted that It had repeatedly violated safety regulations. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Relzsnsteln Lightning It bad enough; don't mcke things wort by per sonal coreletsnm with fir In th woods. Enjoy, don't destroy. (Continued on Pag Two)