1 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore TKur., Sept. 15, 1949 President Truman Names Minton To Supreme Court WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 tm Sherman Minton of Indiana, who battled In vain for the 1937 Roosevelt plan to put younger blood on the supreme court, to day was chosen by President Tru man to serve on that bench. Minton. In 1937 a democratic. pro-New Deal senator, now Is a judge of the seventh U. S. Circuit COurt of Appeals. That court has headquarters at Chicago and embraces the states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Mr. Truman announced his decision at a news conference todav. He said Judge Walter C. Lindley of the U. S. court for the eastern district of Illinois will ucoeed Minton on the appellate court. Casper Platte, now a circuit Judge of Illinois, will succeed .indley. Minton, 58, will fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Wiley Kutledge. A Democrat and a Protestant, Minton served In the Senate from 1935 to 1941. He had the desk next to Mr. Truman's when both were In the Senate. Minton is a protestant but his wile is a Catholic. There has been no Catholic on the Supreme Court since Justice franic Murpny aiea in juiy. There had been speculation that the President might choose an other Catholic until he named former Attorney General Tom Clark, a protestanl, to succeed justice wurpny. With the death of Justice Rutledge, political dopesters again foresaw the possibility that Mr. Truman might give recogni tion to catholics in lining that vacancy. Pennsylvania Election Draws Truman's Laugh WASHINGTON. Sept. 15. t.V) rresioent 1 ruffian today laughed off the republican con gressional victory In Pennsyl vania Tuesday with a suggestion that it couldn't be taken as a barometer of future elections. The election of a republican to succeed the late democratic Rep. Coffey in the state's 26th congres sional district was called to Mr. Truman's attention at a newt con ference. The president said at first that he had no comment. Then he added that he remem bered In 1947 we had barometers like that and they didn't work. He did not elaborate, but he ap parently was referring to GOP victories which had been Inter preted as heralding a republican sweep In the 1948 presidential and congressional races. Portland To New York Air Service Scheduled PORTLAND, Sept. 15 V) Alr coach service from here to New York City via Northwest Air lines Is scheduled to start Sept. 22 with a $99 plus-tax price tag. Airline Manager James Speer said the rate of $70 to Chicago compares with $113.75 for the De luxe service. The CAB recently approved coach service by the company from Portland-Seattle east and by Western Airlines south to San Diego. Western has not announc ed Its starting date. k J? on In S&4T . ST.".! k " s ', 1 WW NT. ' v Roieburg Lions Plan 100 Per Cent Night One hundred percent attend ance Is the aim of the Roseburg Lions club, meeting tonight at 6:30 at the Umpqua hotel. Local Lions have entered the 1949-50 international attendance contest sponsored by the Inter national Association of Lions clubs and will be competing to night for one of the many prizes offered by the parent association. To be run on a world-wide scale, the contest Is open to 365, 000 members of 7,175 club In 25 different countries. In addition to club awards, In dividual members will be eligible for awards presented for unbro ken attendance records during the 32 consecutive weeks In which this annual contest is In prog ress. Many Roseburg Lions have earned these Individual awards, granted for perfect attendance ranging from one to five years. County Extendi Road Westward From Drain Construction of three miles of roadway westward from Drain along the south bank of Elk creek has been started hy the county court. The road, It was slated, will provide an outlet for about 15 families now depend! upon private bridges for fords across Elk creek. Many of these families have previously been stranded during much of each winter. County Judge Busenbark said. The court expects to com plete about one-half the road this year, and will extend It next year. Fall Opening Program Will Be Put On Air (Continued from Page One) the latest In fall merchandise, the windows will also contain the winning ticket numbers for the Treasure Hunt. A photographer and two Judges will tour the downtown business district to determine the four best dressed windows. Pcltures of the prize winners will be published in the following day's News-Review. Tickets for the treasure hunt mr avallahle free to the nub ile, without purchase obligations. at each ol the participating nose- ourg stores. Murder Trial May Go To Jury Tonight (Continued from Pige One) factors of everyday life. Don't tell me that that was a motive for murder." Me hrleflv told the lurv that Victoria and Ralph had lived in a tent with a dirt floor at Reeds port. Later they moved to Drain to "live in a house I would not care to live In" without plumbing or healing. "There has neen no intima tion in the case that those people did not love each other a great deal." said Geddes. 'The only In nuendo that we have comes from Los Angeles. "As I analyze the supposed mo tives I can't see any good reason why she should have killed that man. All the state nas presented is the opportunity she had to kill him." Geddes continued that Victoria was "guilty of bad company" in "getting mixed up with that crowd In Los Angeles," where she had the opportunity or meet ing Ralph Mojnnnier. Aim Worn ? 9x12 FT. FELT HaJJoi) H.vll Newest, most modern patterns in felt base rug design ere now available In Super Quality room siio HADDON HALL Rugtl Treat all your rooms to colorful, easy-to-clean noon with those finer Pelt Base Rugs available In Hies, fibres, tone - tonet. Morals and marble patterns famous B.H.P. decorator colors! on-tones, florals and marble patterns i AdgnQUgr Named First Chancellor Of West Germany BONN. Germany. Sept. 15. JP Catholic Conservative Dr. Konrad Adenauer skinned through by a one-vote margin to day to win the necessary major ity to elect him first chanceller of the West German republic. The 73-year-old lawyer pulled a bare majority of 202 votes In the 402-member Bundestag (lower house of parliament after nomination by President Theodor Heuss yesterday. As first German chancellor since Adolf Hitler, Adenauer will be the strongest man in the new federal government, heading a cabinet of his own choice. In his new position equivalent to prime minister Adenauer will assume the guiding role in west ern Germany's return to self-rule. The three-party rightist coali tion supporting Adenauer came within one vole of failing to win the necessary majority. Although there are 402 depu ties, only 389 were present at to day's session. The constitution re quires a majority of the full house, regardless of whether all 402 members are present. Murray Charges U. S. Steel Forcing Strike (Continued from page 1) ceptlon to the board's view that the pension plan be financed en tirely hy the Industry. It said that "as a matter of sound nrin dple any program of social in surance should be on a contribu lary basis." Facts Issu ' Murray faced the Issue. He told Fairless that he wasn't sat isfied with Fairless' Initial an swer that bargaining be resumed without committing Big Steel to the board's findings. It didn't take Fairless long to reply. Within a few hours he told Murray the labor chief can't dictate IJ. S. Steel's acceptance of the board's recommendations as a condition to bargaining. But Fairless reiterated he is perfectly willing to resume ne gotiations. Murray didn't com ment. In giving U. S. Steel's reaction to the presidential board's report, Fairless made it plain he didn't like many of the recommenda tions. He was particularly angry at the board's suggestion the In dustry bear the entire cost of a pension plan. The hoard suggested this peace formula: 1. The union should give up demands for a wage Increase. 2. Labor and Industry sbouid work out company financed pen sion plans to go Into effect next year. 3. The union ana company should work out now satisfactory Insurance plans also paid for by employers. Murray promptly accepted all the board's recommendations. Six steel companies said they would he willing to resume negotiations. But none committed themselves to the fact finders' recommenda tion for a 10-oenl hourly package covering Insurance and pensions. Gold PricsTWcVt le Boosted, Soys Snyder (Continued From Page One) Cripps. British governor for both Iiuna ana miik, may leave wain lngton for home early Friday, be fore the conference ends. BASE RUGS Super Qu.Hty NAHM Nail Rota Tough leSve Protective Ceattnf Nina ttmnd New Ream Patterns leevttful Heme Deaerato Ce4ea PertHms wttn Mafehinf. Vara! aaahi $10 ' "" ? i t v.- UPSET U. S. Senator Wayne Moris (R-Ore.) reads messages in a Salem, Or., hospital while awaiting a barber. Ha was knocked unconscious whan a buggy ha was driving over turned on a sharp turn during a State Fair horse show. (AP Wirephotol. Bid Are Called For Canyonville Road Strip - (Continued From Page One) of the Umpqua forest, said M. M. Nelson, supervisor. Funds for construction will come from fed eral forest highway money. The new section, starting near site of Mexia's Pie shop, about five miles south of Canyonville, will proceed south to Azalea to Joint the present Improved sec tion of the highway, said Nelson. Fellew Old Routs Nelson said the new highway will follow virtually the same route as the present highway along Canyon creek. Several curves and grades will be elimi nated. The creek bed will be changed in places. Specifications call lor a two-lane highway, graded and asphalted, with some portions of the highway to be three and four lanes. The contractor is expected to start work on the protect this fall, within 10 days after receiv ing notification of acceptance of his bid. The Bureau of Public Roads Is cooperating with the Stale High way department In construction of the new Pacific highway. Con tract Is to be let by the state for a portion of the new highway south of Canyonville, Joining with that section lying within the national forest. K. D. Lytle, division engineer here, was not In the city today to explain the work to be under taken by the state. The United Slates produced more than 3,500,000.000 bushels of corn In 1948, about a billion more than were produced In 1938. WANTED PRUNE PICKERS aeon & lac) Umpqua, Oregon 8 i, : fed t' r,i ,mM il ( : . kf 11 rail Russian Minister Expected To Ask Big Four To Meet MOSCOW, Sept. 15 t.T) Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky. slated to head the Soviet delegation at the U. N. assembly In New York next week, Is expected to press for a new meeting of the big four council of foreign ministers. With U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevln and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman all due to be on hand, Informed circles here said Vishin sky will urge an early formal meeting of the council. When the foreign ministers ended their Paris meeting on Germany last June, they agreed to meet informally during the U. N. session to discuss their next meeting. The Paris session reached an agreement to end Soviet traffic restrictions (the blockade) In Berlin, but several other ques tions were left hanging. Among major problems stUI to be solved are possible future eco nomic and political unity of Ger many, an Independence treaty for Austria and reconciliation of divergent allied views on who should write a peace treaty for Japan. Hawaii's Governor Offers Proposal To Settle Strike HONOLULU, Sept. 15 VP) Hawaii's governor needled a new peace proposal into the islands' tangled 138-day CIO dock strike today. His formula: boost wages 14 cents an hour, resume work, set up a new contract. Gov. Ingram M. Stainback first put the proposal to the striking International Longshoremen's Warehousemen's union. Then he laid It out for Hawaii's seven struck stevedoring firms. Both sides said they will consider It. A basic wage of $1.54 an hour was the governor's suggestion. This is the same pay recommend ed by his fact finding board in June. The employers accepted It then. The union refected it. The ILWLI's 2.000 stevedores struck May 1. They wanted to hike their $1.40 an hour to $1.72. Their figure has been scaled down since, but never on terms the employers would accept. Now the governor urges: Take 14 cents. Make the docks hum again as quickly as possible. Then lit down at a bargaining table with the employers right away. There negotiate a new two-year cdntract and make It effective next April 1. Full coordination of the mus cles of the eyes la not believed to be attained In children until their fifth year. ( A SPECIAL NEW LOW PRICE 2 AT This Pictswtot Froitn Foods distributed Settlement If Seen For Settling Printer Strike (Continued From Pag One) for closed shop conditions in vio lation of the Taft-Hartley 'aw. The strike against the dailies was believed one of the longest against a group of Metropolitan city newspapers. But the struck newspapers the Tribune, the Dally Sun-Times, Dally News, Herald-American and Journal of Commerce have not missed a day's publication since the strike started Nov. 24. 1947. The strike of the composing room workers brought a new look to Chicago's dailies. A new technique of newspaper print ing was started. The printed pages were prepared by typing stories with typewriters, pasting them In place on large dummy sheets, fitting cut-out headlines over them, and photographing the finished page for reproduc tion by electroplating. Suit Filed To Break Nationwide Food Chain (Continued From Page One) ted to own more than one such division, probably covering about 800 stores, in contrast to the 6,000 retail outleta It now operates. The department pointed out, however, that the final form of the proposed dissolution would be a matter for the court to deter mine. McGrath described the A. and P. system as 'The largest enter prise In the food Industry in the United States," with annual retail sales amounting to about $1,900. 000,000 or about 6.4 per cent of the national total of retail food store sales. "The suit," McGrath said in a statement, "is designed to elimi nate the abuse by A. and P. of its mass buying and mass selling power." The complaint alleges that the big chain has used Its power and position to "impose unreasonable restraints of trade upon competi tors at all levels of the food In dustry from farm to table." It asserts this was done by ob taining discriminatory price preferences over retail competi tors "by exercising a dual threat permanently to withhold its patronage (from suppliers) or to manufacture for Itself." SLABWOOD in 12-16 ond 24 in. lengths OLD GROWTH FIR DOUILI LOADS WESTERN BATTERY SEPARATOR Phon 151 Per 12-oz. Pkg. I MassMallssMasHBMaBSMHBsajBW b YOUR FAVORITE GROCERY Special Low Price Effective Until Sept. 24 NCTSWEET SHELLS 2Vt pounds of Garden Frtth Pton to sorvo yon On 12-ounct package. The Weather U. S. Weather Bureau Office Roseburg, Oregon Mostly cloudy with sbewsrs to day and Friday. Highest temp, for any Sept.. Lowsst tsmp. for any Sept.... Highest Ump. ytstsrday Lowsst tsmp. last 24 hrs... Precipitation last 24 hrs Precipitation sines Sept. 1 Isceas since Sept 1 - 104 29 78 62 0 1.36 Many Killed As Prisoners Escape SEOUL. Sept. 15 (JPl Seventy-eight persons were kill ed or wounded today In a break by 4.30 prisoners from the Jail at Mokpo. a seaport 200 miles south of here. Ten guards and 68 prisoners were reported shot in a battle at a village two miles from Mokpo. Twenty-eight of the prisoners and 10 guards were known to be dead and 40 other prisoners were dead or wounded. The prisoners staged their break yesterday while being re turned to prison from work farms. They seized guns and ammunition and fled to the hills. Police, army and navy units pursued. A sharp fight was underway between guards and the remain ing 356 escaped prisoners. The 1.200 Inmates of the Mok po prison were mostly rounded up last spring during a cleanup of Communist led guerrillas on Cheju Island. PEAS Bolivian Revolt Said Ended As Fort Falls LA PAZ. Bolivia. Sept. 15 tCj President Mamerto Urriolagoit ia announced today the fall of the last rebel stronghold and de clared Bolivia's three weeks old rightist revolution "can be called ended." The fall of Santa Cruz, main strongpoint of the rebels, was reported bv the Santa Cruz radio. Shortly before, the army had captured Camiri. Bolivia's chief oil producing center, slash ing the last rebel supply line to Santa Cruz. About 800 pounds of finished steel per person are produced in America each year for domestic use. I 'GARDEN grown J L5 Kt HINT: If you'v a home freexer buy them by the case ot bio, savings! Umpqua Dairy C9MPUU UMt 9f " mi 14 U I J ft me 19 ti sm ftli CltttlKtSl T m.. Stephen and Cast Ph. 7