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Comp. , Hawaii Strike Arbitration Favored WHO DOES WHAT Wn' -.t j U. Of 0, Library A j Eugene, Oregon 4 "': U ' PS r; BILL THOMPSON is caught by the camera at he stands beside the first chair in his barber shop at 518 North Jackson street. He purchased the shop five years ago and moved it to its present location from across Roseburg, Mr. Thompson lived in ROBESON IS ANSWERED U.S.Negroes Would Fight Russia Or Any Other Foe, Jackie Robinson Testifies WASHINGTON, July 18 UP) Jackie Robinson said today that 11 Singer Paul Robeson "wants to sound silly" In public, "that's his business." . The Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman, first Negro to break Into the major baseball leagues, told the House Un-American Activi ties committee that Negro Americans would fight for this country "against Russia or any other enemy." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS FOR months, Truman has been talking in broad and general terms about a program to spread American Industrial - know-how and American technical achieve ment throughout the world so that world standards of living may be brought up to a level more nearly comparable with ours. He touched on it again In his "fireside chat" the other night. He spoke then of "legislation to provide technical essistance to un derdeveloped areas abroad and to ENCOURAGE INVESTMENTS IN SUCH AREAS." Representative Spence (Demo crat, of Kentucky) has Just intro duced a bill in the house that If enacted Into law would "provide authority to the export-import (Continued on Page Four) Girl Killed In Wreck On Crooked River Road PRINEVILLE, July 18. (Pi-Teen-age Patsy Nelson was kill ed Saturday and a companion in jured when a car in which they were on an outing overturned along the Crooked river road. Miss Nelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Nelson, Prine ville, died in the wreckage. Billie Bordon, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bordon, Prinville, suf fered a fractured pelvis. ONE-MAN SESSION . RAYMOND, July 18. B Ot if Senter, secretary of the Wil lapa Harbor Toastmasters club, was main speaker at a recent club meeting. He called the meeting to order, called roll and delivered his talk. Senter was the only member present. His talk was on the ravaging effects of baseball and fishing on club meetings. Without a dissenting vote, the meeting adjourned. REFORESTATION BEGUN Tillamook Burn Reseeding Launches State's 15-Year, $10 Million Timber Plan OWL CAMP, Washington County, July 18 UP) Oregon's 15 year $10,000,000 program to restore 750,000 acres of denuded forest lands got underway here today on the sight of the thrice-burned Tillamook burn. The money was voted by the people last November to start the most ambitious reforestation program in the country. About 300.000 acres of that land Is in the Tillamook burn, which was ravaged by fire in 1933, 1939 and 1945. The other 450.000 acres are burnt-over and cut-over lands in other sections of the state. The state board of forestry will supervise the reseeding. Plans al so call for protection of these areas while the trees areg rowing. Governor Douglas McKay, ad dressing the ceremonies here to day, said the people of Oregon "have taken a long, bold step for ward to insure that Oregon tim- berlands will be maintained in i full production. "Just as private timberland 1 the street, frior to coming to Tillamook. He was the last witness called by the committee to refute a recent statement by Robeson, once a famous athlete himself, that Negroes in the United States would not fight in a war against Russia. The committee's small hearing room was packed when Robin son and his attractive wife ar rived.aud a loud "amen" came from somewhere in the crowd when he finished reading a long prepared statement. The baseball star said he never has had time to become an ex pert on anything "except base stealing or something like that," but that he appeared out of a sense of responsibility. He said there has been "a terrific lot of misunderstanding" about com munist Influence among Ne groes" and it's bound to hurt my peoples' cause unless it's cleared up.'1 Robinson said any Negro "worth his salt" is going to re sent "any kind of slurs and dis crimination" because of his race. "This has got absolutely noth ing to do with what communists may or may not be trying to do" he declared. "Negroes were stirred up long before there was a communist party, and they'll stay stirred up long after the party has disap- (Continued on Page Two) Dance Scene Of Stabbing Affair A Cottage Grove man, Frank Henry, was taken to a Eugene hospital early Sunday morning, suffering from knife wounds in flicted during an altercation at the Hayhurst dance hall, cast of Yoncalla, according to State Po lice Sgt. Lyle Harrell. State police Investigating the stubbing fray said today that Melbourne Crites, also of Rose burg, was arrested Monday to face charges in Roseburg. Sgf. Harrell said he was told the knifing took place when Crites, the dance orchestra's gui tar player, objected to the at tention his wife was receiving from Henry. Crites will be lodg ed in the county jail pending his arraignment in Justice court. owners In the past decade have been putting their timber house in order, setting up sound man agement programs, turning to sustained yield principles, to tree farming and better utilization and improved protection and applying the teachings of trained foresters, so will the state handle Its for ests." Besides the Tillamook burn area, other sections to receive top priority In the reforestation plan are the Nicolai mountain area, Rice Creek area, eastern Lincoln county. Lane county and Klamath county. The Weather Fair with morning cloudiness today and Tuesday. Suns.t today 7:49 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:49 a. m. Established 1873 Vatican Edict Battled By Red Leaders Catholics, Communists Can Toil Together, Cry In Italy And France (By the Associated Press) Communist leaders in Italy and France are attempting to per suade their followers that com munism and Catholicism can ex ist side by side despite the Vati can's recent excommunication de cree. It is a different story behind the iron curtain, where commu nists in some countries are ex erting heavy pressure on the church. Roman Catholic priests in Czechoslovakia have spurned ord ers from the communist govern ment there to desert Archbishop Joseph Beran and the Vatican in the church-state war. Pope Pius XII has told Ger man Catholics, and through them Catholics everywhere, that no government that denies God can survive. Palmiro Togliattl, Italy's lead ing communist, told 2,500 of his followers In Rome yesterday that they could be communists and good Catholics at the same time. The Vatican says not. An edict issued Wednesday by the Vatican informed Catholics - throughout the world that they subject them selves to excommunication by supporting communism and thus deprive themselves of the church's sacraments and associa tion with the faithful. Togliattl referred to the Vati can's action as a tactic "dragged from the darkest ages of humani ty's history." He declared ex communication would never de stroy communism. France Follows Suit French communist leaders fol lowed the line that Catholics and communists could work to gether on the political and labor fronts. Maurice Thorex, France's (Continued on Page Two) Greece Puts Ban On U. S. Observers ATHENS, July 18.-0P) The Greek general staff today banned American and other foreien cor respondents here from territory comprisign half the total land area of Greece. The Greek army commander said the order was issued because reporters had violated censorship regulations. American reporters here told the U. S. embassy and the U. S. military mission the order ap parently violated the Aemrlcan aid agreement under which cor respondents are supposed to have freedom to report how aid funds and materiel are used. Police In Athens, meanwhile, announced that a communist or ganization headed by a woman doctor, has been shattered. Police said Maria Nikoletoy, 35, headed a band which operated In terrorist groups of three persons each. A Kozane military court today sentenced 19 persons to death on charges of crimes committed while members of a communist underground in western Mace donia, dispatches said. Twin Infants Quit Cribs, Fall 30 Ft. To Pavement LONDON, July 18. UP) The 18-month-old Mansfield twins, their third story bedroom window Linda and Leonard, leu out or together today. They climbed over the tops of their twin cribs. The spirit of twin adventure carried them to a double window. They opened it and both plummeted to the pave ment, 30 feet below. Linda was sleeping peaceiuny at a hospital later, but doctors feared Leonard might have a slight brain concussion. Actress Betty Hutton, Wealthy Husband Part HOLLYWOOD, July 18 (IP) E-Jtty Hutton and Ted Briskln, her wealthy camera manufactur er husband, have parted. Her studio disclosed last mgnt that the dynamic blonde actress has moved into a hotel while Briskin, member of a rich Chi cago family, remains at the couple's home. tsetty Diamea nerseii lor me rift and added she had no plans for divorce. They have two children. Crash Kills Child, Sends Five Kin To Hospital TACOMA, July 1&.-VP) An 18-month-old child was killed and five members of her family In jured in a two-car collision on the Des Molnes-Seattle highway last night. Little Margaret Wright, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Wright of Tacoma, died several hours after the accident. Her parents, two sisters and a brother were hospitalized with Injuries following the crash. The second car Involved in the accident was driven by Charles T. Hoard of Klamath Falls, Ore. fit-:?' Iitinn.in mmmJli 'V SUSPENDED Major Generals Herman Feldman, at top, and Alden H. Waitt. lower photo, hava been; temporarily-.relieved from duty pending investigation of their alleged participation in "five percent" business deals. This. alludes to the use of in fluence in obtaining government contracts for business firms for a five percent commission. Committee OKs Army Pay Raise WASHINGTON, July 18-UP) The senate armed services com mittee today approved a pay raise for the uniformed services. The vote was 9 to 1 to accept the bill already passed by the house. The measure, estimated to cost $300,000,000 a year, would raise the pay of almost every body in military uniform. Individual boosts would range from three per cent for lower ranking enlisted men to 37 per cent for brigadier generals. Although the committee i en dorsed the bill, Chairman Tydings (D.-Md.) said he doubts the bill will pass the senate "unless sav ings to offset its Increased costs result from other legislation now pending before congress." 1 He was referring to the armed forces unification bill pending be fore congress." Tydings and some other sena tors have taken the stand that military pay should not be raised unless savings are made in other costs of the armed forces. Back ers of the unification bill contend it would permit savings of up to a billion dollars a year. 48-Hour Week . Reaches Into Monastery Life TOKYO, July 18 (JP) The eight-hour day, six-day week has penetrated the walls of a Budd hist monastery atop 7000-foot high Mt. Schichimenzan, the newspaper Yomiuri reported to day. Until this month, the priests got up at 5 a.m. and worked un til 5 p.m. but now, said Yomiuri, they have recognized Japan's labor standards law. Nuns have been given eight days off each month. Lay employes of various Japa nese temples have been organiz ing unions and improving their hours and working conditions. Priests and nuns have not joined the movement, however. Lover And Tamer Of Wolves Passes Away PERTH, Scotland, July 18. UP) The man who said he could talk to wolves It dead. Announcemen t was made today of the death in a nearby hospital Friday of Douglas Stuart Spens Steuart, 77. Steuart, a fellow of the zoologi cal society, bocame known as the wolf man of the London zoo. A tall Scotsman with a beard, he siad he could talk to wolves and understand them. He tamed them and owned four himself. 'To me." he once said, "wolves are just like human beings, very intelligent and lovable when you get to know them." Mr f ' 1 I" tm. P I fv I ? ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, JULY Operation In Red Idea Faces GOP Attack Truman Proposal Also Opposed By Two Top Democratic Senators By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, July 18. OP) Republicans Intend to bear down on President Truman's ap proval of operating the govern ment in the red, Senator Brew ster (R-Me) said today. Brewster, who heads the Re publican senatorial campaign committee, viewed it as possibly a major issue in 1950 elections. The voters aren't going to be allowed to forget, he told a re porter, that Mr. Truman spoke out against cutting spending and In support of a program that tem porarily would leave the govern ment pay out more than it takes in. Mr. Truman said In his eco nomic report last week that "we cannot expect a budget surplus in a declining national economy." He also said a big cut in govern ment programs would hold back recovery. 'The administration has noth ing but the old pump priming an swer to any recession In bus iness," was Brewster's sum-up. "The country tried that in the 30s and after $40,000,000,000 had been spent there stiil were 8,000,000 un employed. "The Republicans are going to fight to cut expenses and keep the budget balanced. We think a ma- (Continued on Page Two) Army Contract Case Inquiry Still Underway WASHINGTON, July 18.- WP) An Investigation of army con tract handling was still under way today, ft has led thus far to the suspension of two malor generals and a congressman's demand that President Truman send his mili tary aide to the sidelines. The Inspector general's office has orders from Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray to continue its probe of Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman. the Quartermaster een- eral, and Alden H. Wiatt, chief of tne chemical corps. Both were relieved of duty Sat urday after a senate investigat ing committee produced evidence which Gray said indicated they exhibited "a lack of judgment and sense ol propriety. On the heels of this develop ment Rep. Shafer (R.-Mich.) de manded that the President sus pend Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughn, White House aide. A member of the house armed services committee, Shafer said In a statement that Vaughn was "implicated in the same case" with Feldman and Wiatt. He gave no details but said the aide's con duct "has been, to put it mildly, t t.A HMNut latin" ill lite juuica, wait. Their names were mentioned in a recent newspaper story tell ing of agents who allegedly use their influenca to obtain govern ment contracts for fees of five per cent. Sheet Metal Workers In Eugene Go On Strike EUGENE, July 18. (IP) Sheet metal workers in the Eugene area went on strike this morning when negotiations failed to bring agree ment on wage scale ana overtime provisions in a new contract. With no contract signed, about 30 employees in approximately a dozen firms failed to report for work. The union is asking a 25-cent- an-hour Increase on the present rate of $2.12 and one-half cents. and retention of a provision for double pay for overtime. Manage ment oiiered s.io an nour ana time and a half for overtime. N. Y. Laborites To Name Marcantonio, Wallace NEW YORK, July 18. UP) The American Labor party report, edly was ready today to name Rep. Vlto Marcantonio and Henry A. Wallace as its candidates for mayor of New York City and the U. S. Senate in next November's election. The designating commit tee meets tonight. Marcantonio. head of the party and representative from New York s lHth congressional district, has said he wouid be a candidate against Mayor William O'Dwyer should the latter seek relection. O'Dwyer recently announced he would run for another term. Doe, 3 Fawns Sighted On Sanitarium Grounds Milton F. Smith, 529 Pltzer street, reported that his wife and daughter observed an old doe and three fawns, apparently triplets, gamboling on the Rose burg sanitarium grounds early Friday morning. . Smith's wife said the animals slayed approximately 10 minutes before' moving on. Smith added that triplets are a rarity among deer. 18, 1949 17. V KNOCK IT DOWN ACIN, PAW A slugging sheriff In Chicago goes to work with his two arms on a pila of "one-armed bandits" seized In recent raids. Nearly 100 jackpot machines bit the dust by the time Cook County Sheriff Mike Walsh was through; KANSAS HOOCH Liquor Stores Licensed After Nearly 70 Years Of Dry Law And Bootlegging TOPEKA, Kan., July 18 UP) Liquor will go on sale legally In Kansas this week. . It will mark the end of an era of colorful crusading and multi- million dollar bootlegging business In this long-time stronghold of prohibition. ' ' ! " Mob Balked In Try For Negroes GRCVELAND, Fla., July" 18. UP) Tension gradually cased to day after a touchy weekend which saw an armed mob try to take two Negroes out of jail. National Guard troops moved in to main tain order in this central Florida town, but left early today. A touch of the Ku Klux Klan was here too. Pamphlets titled "ideals of the Ku Klux Klan" were tossed from a group of about 20 cars which passed through. Residents said three or four men were In each car; none wore the traditional Klan hoods and robes. ' Sheriff W. V. McCall, who quieted the mob of about 100 men that gathered at the county court house in Tavares Saturday night, said he wasn't around when the Klan literature was tossed. The two Negroes had been moved to another Jail before the mob arrived, McCall reported, be cause he expected trouble. They were arrested on an open charcc in connection with the robbery of a wnite man ana tne Kidnapping and subsequent rape of his wife early Saturday. Sheriff Mcuall said the men who marched to the jail were armed "to the gills." Returning here, the mob drove through the almost-deserted Ne ?ro section and fired several shots into a restaurant and a house. Most of the town's 400 Negroes were moved to surrounding towns on trucks a few hours earlier. Radio Guides Stricken Flier To Safe Landing PORTLAND, July 18. UP) National Air Guard Lt. John Ha ley landed an F-51 Mustang safe ly yesterday with radioed Instruc tions after his head and neck were paralyzed while In the sky. Although he fainted when he climbed out of the plane, Lt. Haley later returned to his group and fie formations during an air force reserve dedication cere mony. - Maj. Gordon Doollttle, Oregon air guard officer, said Lt. Haley's head was snapped violently back ward In a stunting maneuver. He lost consciousness momentarily In trying to straighten his head. Two other pilots in the forma tion detected the Portlander's trouble. While the stricken air man held the awkward position, he landed perfectly from instruc tions radioed by another plane tailing him into the air base. Two Soldiers Held On Three-Crime Charge MONTESANO, Wash., Julv 18. -.1 Two McChord air force soldiers, one a Yakima man, have been charged with rape, robbery and second degree assault in con nection with an attack on an Aberdeen couple July 2 near Grays Harbor city. They were Identified In an In formation filed this weekend in superior court as Kenneth Yurlan, Yakima, and William Fulmer, Westmoreland City, Penn. Siipreinr Judge J. M. Phillips set bail at 13,000 each. 167-49 LV NOW LEGAL i For almost 70 years the sale of liquor has been banned In Kansas by the state constitution. And for 32 years the state bone ary law made possession of so much as a thimbleful of liquor punishable By a JrII .sentence. But last November Kansans voted 422,294 to 358,310 to repe.U prohibition. After a two months' struggle, mainly to retain local option, the legislature passed a liquor con trol act. It wiped the bone dry law from the statute books. Then followed four months of feverish work to establish a con trol and licensing setup. Late today, the state liquor control office will mall out licenses for more than 260 pri vately owned stores to retail liquor or high per cent beer. Boer of less than 3.2 per cent alcohol was legalized in 1937. Despite the seemingly radical change for a traditionally dry state, no wild binge is in the mak- lng. Saloons and public drinking are barred. Liquor will be sold only in packages at stores licens ed solely to sell intoxicants. Kansas' desertion of prohibition leaves liquor illegal only In Okiahoma and Mississippi. Disgruntled Kansans who had hoped to have drinking in hotels and restaurants and on trains legalized, say Kansas merely is being transformed from the "wettest dry state Into the driest wet state." John S. Duer, Ex-Police Chief Of Roseburg, Dies John S. Duer, Eugene, former Roseburg chief of police during the administration of the late Mayor Charles W. Clark, died at the Veterans hospital In Portland, July 16, following several weeks Illness. He was a past com mander of George Starmer camp, United Spanish War Veterans, Rosebu rg. Surviving Is the widow, Grace V. Duer. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Portland mausoleum. Friends have been asked not to send flowers. Pressure To Repeal T-H Law Is Uncertain WASHINGTON, July 19.-UP) Speaker Rayburn said after a talk with President Truman today that no decision has been reached on whether to press In the House for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. Rayburn said that Chairman Lesinskl ID.-Mich.) of the House labor committee is "still working" on that matter. He added it is pretty much up to Lesinsky's committee. Asked by a reporter if he were going to "build any fire" under the committee in an effort to get action, Rayburn said that there was fire already and it was "Just a little hot now to talk about building a fire." HOGS UP TO NEW HIGH CHICAGO, July 18. 4JPy Live hogs climbed to a new high since Inst Nov. 30 today when the top price reached $23.50 In early trade. On the November date a top of $23.85 was paid. Last year at this time a peak for tha day was reached at $29.75. Bridges Agrees If President Names Board Stevedoring Companies Object; Sen. Morse Would Use T-H Law WASHINGTON, July 18. UP) Harry Bridges, head of tht striking longshoremen in Hawaii, toia tne senp.te lanor committee today that the union will end ita crippling shutdown of Island porta if President Truman will appoint , an arbitration board. Stevedoring operations, on which the island's vital shlpmenti of sugar, pineapples and other commodities depend, have been closed down by a 79-day strike ot Bridpes' International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's union. James P. Blaisdell, attorney for seven Hawaiian stevedoring com panies, toia tne. committee that Bridges is fighting for establish, ment of the principle of arbitra tion. . .. If that is won bv the union, f e attorney said, "collective bargain ing is done in Hawaii.'" iou have to realize the com plete domination of the territory of Hawaii by Mr. Bridges' union, Blaisdell testified. He said the em ployers have been willing to 1 cent a 14-cent hourly wage In crease recommended by a fact- iinaing board appointed by Gov ernor Stalnback of Hawaii. The union has rejected It. - ine Jaenate committee Is con sidering a bill by two California senators Knowland (R) and Downey (D) to permit appoint ment 01 an arbitration board bv President Truman. Bridges objected to 'some de tails of the Knowland-Downey. Din, out saia: "On behalf of the ILWU I a.j authorized to state that If a board of Impartial citizens is established (Continued on Page Two) Jehovahites, Yets Clash At Meeting DUNCAN. Okla.. July 18 -VP) A riot broke out here last night at a meeting of Jehovah'i Witnesses after 20 veterana marched down the aisle carry ing two United States flags, Po lice Chief Raymond Webb re ported. Police said the paraders asked the audience of about 1,000 to Join in singing 'th "Star Spangl ed Banner?' and they countered by singing a religious hymn. They said a folding chair was tossed from the stage and the melee began. " Police Chief Webb summoned his entire force of 20, but failed to stop the brawl. Fire Chief H. Vernon Ray said he dispersed the rioters by turning a fire hose on them. M. M. Downle, Brooklyn, N. Y.. was speaking at Sunday's gather ing climaxing a three-day meet ing of the religious sect at tha high school auditorium. The pub lic was Invited. Police said about 20 persons were injured, none of them ser iously. Jim Whitley, Duncan mayor and former commander of the Legion post, said a group of veterans tried to get an Injunc tion Saturday to keep the Jeho vah's Witnesses from meeting in tne auditorium, but were refused. Slayer Of Nine Drank Their Blood LEWES. Ene.. Julv 18 (Pi- Handsome John George Haigh was quoted in court today as tell lng police he killed nine persons, drank some of their blood and then dissolved the bodies in acid. HaiEh pleaded Innocent bv rea son of insanity to a charge of murdering Mrs. unve uurana Deacon, 69, a wealthy widow, last Feb. 18. The debonair 39-year-old businessman walked jauntily to the bench and answered "not guilty" in a clear, firm voice. Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, a prosecutor at the International Nuernberg war crimes trial, is Haigh's defense attorney. He read in court a statement he said Halgh gave to police admitting the killing of the widow and the others. He said Haigh was "in sane so as not to be responsible for the act," and thus Innocent of premeditated murder. Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told the jury of 11 men and one woman he would show the primary motive for the crime was financial gain. IWA Outdoes T-H Law On Non-Communist Oath SPOKANE, July 18-;p Del egates to the international wood workers district convention have carried the Taft-Hartley non communist o.ith requirement a step farther. The controversial labor law re quires only that a union's officers sign the oath before the union may carry any problem before the National Labor Relations board. IWA delegates voted yesterday, however, to require all candi dates for office to file the signed oa'h before the union election. Levity Fact Rant By L F. Relzenstttn Sine weekends ie tht heaviest accident death tell, why not refer to Monday morn Inq oi "mourning."