r U. Of 0. Library ; Coop, , ,v , ; Eugeue, Oregon UTp ' -mm i UUJ APPOINT! D U. S. Circuit Judge Sherman Minton (above) of Indian, an all-out New Daal r during th Rooiavalt ara, hat bn appointed by Praiident Truman to luceaad th lat Wilay B. RutUdg on th Su prm Court. Oregon Employes Of Telephone Co. Select CIO Union PORTLAND, Sept. 17 JP) Oregon employes of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company apparently have named the CIO Communications Worker! as their bargaining agent. Harold Ash of the CIO staff said week-long balloting in a score of Oregon cities resulted in a 2,246 to 1,896 vote for the Com munications Workers. The vote affects about 5,000 workers. The Oregon president of the union, C. H. Wright, sal ' he ex pected the National Labor Rela tions board to certify the union as the bargaining agent in about a week, after which the union would seek a contract. Among union demands, he said, would be: Elimination of the practice of classifying towns for the purpose of giving different pay for the same work performed; seniority recognition in promotions, lay offs and re-hiring; shorter pro gression to the top pay scale; an apprenticeship program in which the union has a voice; recogni tion of the union's right to have a voice in the pension program (a pension program now is in effect); seniority rights in selec tion of hours; wages in line with other industries. Pay demands will be tied to the big steel settle ment, h added. . House Cold, Fire's Out, In Fact, Furnact Is Gent KANKAKEE, 111., Sept. 17. UP) Mrs. Hazel Lane built a fire in the furnace to take the chill out of the house and then left for work. When she returned home the fire was out. So was the furnace. The entire heating plant, with its pipes and other connections had disappeared from the base ment. But th mystery was quickly solved. A furnace company said their workmen had been sent to the home of Mrs. Harry Lane, Mrs. Hazel Lane's neighbor, to dismantle the heating plant. They got in the wrong Lane basement. Storm Warnings Hoisted Along Pacific Shores SEATTLE. Sept. 17 (.TV-Southeast storm warnings were hoisted at 6:30 a.m. today from Tatoosh to Cape Blanco, including the out er strait of Juan De Kuca and Mouth of Columbia river. South to southeast winds of 10 to 20 miles an hour were forecast for this morning Increasing to 45 to 55 miles along the Washington coast and 35 to 45 on the Oregon coast by tonight. They are ex pected to shift to westerly by Sun day and diminish. BOYS LOCATED ,Two Elkton boys who were re ported "missing" last Saturday, were located by their, parents at Eugene Friday. The boys had driven there in their car. Dr.Rayner Outlines Program For Rehabilitation Of Salmon In Lower River Of Umpqua At a meeting of the Umpqua Basin Conservation council held at the Roseburg Rod & Gun club In Winchester Friday evening, a tentative program for the rehabilitation of Umpqua river salmon was outlined by Dr. H. J. Rayner, chief of operations, fisheries division of the Oregon State Game commission. Council President John Ama cher called for a report by L. D. Bloom relating to the Joint coun cil picnic held last month and a report by Hugh Thiele on the public land acquisition program. The next meeting of the land ac quisition committee will be held in Reedsport Sept. 24. The salmon rehabilitation pro gram was presented to council members in an effort to advise them of the steps which the game commission's fishery division would like to take to speed the rebuilding of badly depleted runs of migratory fish with the hope that discussion would be carriod back to member clubs for wide spread dissemination. ur. rtayner poimea out mat "the conditions which have con- ' which are essential to the pro tributed to the rapid decline of Rram. Ravner made it clear that the Umpqua river anadromouj could not definitely state that fish populations and especially the ; al of ,he desired steps could be Chinook salmon have been, in j carried out. There are many as measure, checked, and 'he pro- cess of restoration of the runs I (Continued on Pag Two) Th Weather Fair and slightly warmer Hits aftaraoM. Increasing claadlaau tonight with rain Sunday. ' Sum today 6:20 . m. Sunrise tomorrow I: So a. m, Iitabliihod 1873 Vest Powers Agree On Plan To Resist Reds Ministers Of 12 Pact Nations Take Only One Hour To Reach Decision WASHINGTON. Sept. 17. . Th 12-natlon Atlantic council to day ordered creation of a top level military committee to work out "military measures for the unified defense of the North Atlantic area. The council of the foreign min isters also reported they had established a defense committee, to be composed of the ministers of defense of each of the Atlantic powers. Defense secretary Johnson rep resents the U. S. on that group. A communique also brought out that as members of a "standing group" within the projected mili tary committee the U. S., Britain and France the Big Three of the western world will play the dominant role in unifying west ern defenses under the Atlantic treaty. The U. S., by participation in a western European "regional planning group," can and pre sumably will take an active part (Continued on Page Two) Assassination Plot Of Hungarians Is Revealed In Trial BUDAPEST. Hungary, Sept. 17. (IP) Lieut. Gen. Gyorgy Palffy. former chief inspector of the Hungarian . army, confessed In court today that he and his co defendants had plotted to assassi nate Hungary's top government officials last May. He said the planned putsch failed because the government arrested Laszlo Rajk, former communist minister of foreign affairs and minister of the in terior. Rajk admitted hit guilt on the stand yesterday. Palffy said the scheme had Yugoslav help, and after the planned assassinations, the plot ters would have seized the country. The general, number two de fendant In the treason trial here, took the stand and, like Rajk yesterday, pleaded guilty and then embarked on a long public confession. (Six others are scheduled to follow Palffy to the witness box. It appeared certain that they also would follow the established procedure of confession). All eight defendants are charged with treason.. Palffy speedily Incriminated himself, not only as a leading Clotter In the purported putsch, ut as "chief of spies" while in spector of the army. Gen. Palffy's narrative lasted about an hour. Then the No. 3 defendant, Laz or Brankov, 37-year-old former councillor of the Yugoslav lega tion in Budapest, took the stand. After some hesitation he de clared that he was "partly guilty." He charged that Allan Dulles, brother of U. S. Senator John Foster Dulles (R N.Y.) was linked with the alleged plot as chief of American wartime "spying or ganizations." will be given every possible Im petus by the Oregon State Game commission. That body now has almost total control of the fish populations except for the shad fishery and the fish taken In the off shore troll fishery." The Umpqua river has had only one major environ mental change. Speaking pri marily of the North Umpqua river he pointed out that the food supply is probably yet un changed and that the river could undoubtedly support a large pop- ulation of fish. Patttrn Outlined The pattern of restoration was outlined in several steps, all of North Atlantic Pact Unified Defense Policy Worked Out Scout Roundtablt Well Attended; Program Planned ' Rollle Quam, Roseburg Scout executive, said today that the all county Scout leaders roundtable held at Riverside school Thursday night proved to be "the biggest success of the 1949 season." A. tntnl rtf M Pith Sw.itt MnA F. plorer leaders were present for the meeting, coming from as far north as Elkton and as far south as Riddle. Jerry Willis, new district com missioner, presented tentative pro gram plans before a joint session of all three scouting groups. He also emphasized the importance of planning unit meetings by use of the three scouters' assistants, scout leaders, program notebook, the Scouting magazine and the Boy's Life magazine. To point up the need for such planning, a film entitled "The Three Assistants" was shown those present. Following the film, the group divided into their re spective sections and practiced planning a program for the en suing 12 month period. Outline of the nationwide scout ers' roll call and unit inspection, slated for Oct. 1-15, was also given, Quam said. The plan calls for each unit in the nation to be in spected at that time by district commissioners and committee members. Units will be judged on attend ance, advancement, number of days and nights spent in camo, long term camp activities and the proper wearing of the uniform. Quam said the troops receiving the highest rating will receive ci tations signed by President Tru man. Members of the new commis sioner staff which will serve the various units from throughout the county were introduced as fol lows: Jim Addock, Lee Emory, Frank Wickham, Lowell Bass, Chuck Friday, Harold Glover and Bob Proctor. , . - Two Elderly Pensioners May Keep Automobiles PORTLAND, Sept. 17 (IP) Two elderly pensioners won the right yesterday to keep their au tomobiles. The State Public Welfare com mission, reconsidering an earlier decision, decided that Logan Fields, 78 and one-armed, need ed his 1937 model car to visit the doctor -at regular intervals. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Bartholo mew also were told they could keep their car after Mrs. Bar tholomew said she needed It to visit a clinic. A third case still Is under consideration. Old age groups protested after the commission earlier announc ed that the pensioners had to give up their cars or their pensions. Discussion Of Airport Highlights Forum Meet Frank discussion on what can be done to give Roseburg an air port adequate for its needs will be held at the Chamber of Com merce forum luncheon, Monday noon at the Hotel Umpqua. Among the speakers will be E. L. Youravich, chief of the plan-, ning and evaluation division of the Civil Aeronautics adminis tration, Seattle; J. V. Fryberger, assistant district engineer, C.A.A., Salem, and Ben B. Irving, local engineer who has surveyed the airport and prepared cost esti mates for improvements. Program chairman for Mon day's forum will be George E. West, chairman of city council's airport committee. . Police Raid Chicken House; Capture Still ALBANY. Sept. 17 P Just like in prohibition days, police closed in on a chicken house yes terday and seized a 100-gailon still. They also grabbed two men they said were operating the still. The two, identified as Robert Charles Bruce, Waterloo, and Frank Beweley, Sodaville, were tent to Portland for federal court arraignment. The raid was on the outskirts of Sodaville. Wayne Hoffman, state policeman, said police also seized 30 gallons of moonshine and 200 gallons of mash. Four Circus Trains Halt Here Early This Morning Four circus trains of the Ring ling Bros, and Barnum and Bai ley combined shows stopped In Roseburg early this morning, en route to California points. The first train came in at 3:25 a.m., the second at 7:15, the third at 7:45, local Southern Pacific officials reported. The fourth train was du later in the morn ing. The trains Included both pas senger and freight sections. They stopped at the Southern Pacific depot for servicing of cars and lo comotives, and to permit train crews to eat, ROSEIURG, OREGON SATURDAY, SEPT. 17. 1949 POLIO FUND ENHANCED Lions Members Contribute $75 To Campaign; Program Features 4-H And FFA Work Roseburg Lions club, meeting Thursday night at the Umpqua, combined 100 percent attendance night with 100 percent contri bution toward the Infantile paralysis emergency fund campaign. 'Roseburg Polio Chairman Del McKay, announcing that he wasn't asking members to "give" anything, nevertheless left th meeting with 175 in his pockets to be turned over to the drive headquarters. Each member present dug in his pockets and produced a dollar bill. Lockwood Named President Of Game Association Charles A. Lockwood, Oregon State Game director, was elected pit-SllHMll Ul MIC VYtTBieill AMW elation of State Game and Fish Commissioners September 12. The election of the Oregon Game Director was announced after an executive session of the Associa tion in Winnipeg, Canada, where the game officers were attending the annual meeting of the Inter national Association of State Game and Fish Commissioners. Th Western Association of State Game and Fish Commis sioners is an organization made up of administrators, technical fish and game men, and commis sioners of the eleven western states. After his election to the presi dency, Lockwood wired the Port land onices or tne commission that the annual meeting of the association will be held in Port land some time in June of 1950. The annual meetings of th Western -are also held. In on junction with the meetings of the western division of the Ameri can Fisheries society. Several hundred game and fish men from the western states and others from all parts of the nation will attend the Portland sessions. Lockwood has served on the legislative committee of the IVMtprn accrvMatlnn anil has held the post of vice presi - ent. The exact dates of the meft- Ings will be announced by the! Board of Directors some time before the first of the year. INFECTION TREATED SANTA MONICA, Calif.. Sept. 17. (P) Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger is in St. John's hospit al here for treatment 'of an in fection. Dr. Rex Ross said her condi tion is not serious, but the exact nature of the infection has not been determined. The late presi dent's daughter was admitted to the hospital Thursday. v JAYCEES WELCOME CONCERT ARTIST A party of Ro.ab.urq Junior Chamber of Com mrc mamberi, hdd by Aldo Solito da Soils attar th bin hr vocal talantt with thot artittt and original eompoiitiont by Da Solii. Th concert, Jayeaat, will b held at junior The club's attendance record was tops for the season. The only absentees had legitimate excuses for not being present. An interesting program of 411 and FFA work was provided by Frank Von Borstel, county club agent, who introduced Homer Grow. Future Farmers of Amen- ra instructor at Roseburg high . MiM p,tricil Tuthill, Oakland high junior, and Michael Wooteu, of Elgarose, a Roseburg junior high ninth grader. The latter two were sponsored by Lions clun scholarships to the annual 4-ii Summer school at Corvallls. Tails of Cooking Miss Tuthill told of her work with the 4 H. in which she now leads a cooking club. She parti cipated in the Dollar dinner con tests both at the Douglas County fair and at the State fair,' and received high honors. She toll how the girls at home practice on their parents, from soup to mut ton, and how her father has changed the supper call from "soup's on" to "sheep's on." Both she and Michael discussed their attendance at the summer school, and told of the many things they were able to learn. Michael is president of his Elga rose club, and 1 an enthusiastic kworicei. , Urges Better Fairs Grow, who has been Interested In promoting youth farm work for many years, stated it is a "disgrace" that Douglas county has not had a fair for the many (Continued on Pag Two) ! Man Accused Of Setting Ic - et l rv'"' rirw vaprain KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 17 A man accused of deliber- ately setting a forest fire was captured after a fight with a state policeman in northern Klamath county yesterday. Police said the man, a logger, apparently was crazed. They re lated that he set his truck aflame and crowed with glee as flames licked into the timber. The fire was extinguished hut police hunted the man for a day before a state patrolman on horseback ran him to bay in a ranch building. - 1 I'M J-v 6 0 Rcpt!on Chairman Bill Tipton, latter arrived In th city Thuriday night. Mitt Pag will com. of conctrt pitnitt 0 Solit, high auditorium tonight, ttrting Myrtle Creek To Erect New Grade School Building The Myrtle Creek board of edu cation has accepted the detailed plans for a new elementary school building. The plans call for a new brick veneered, 12-room structure to be erected on a plot of ground recently purchased by the district, adjacent to the present school site. In conference with Claude Freeman, architect of Freeman, Hayslio and Tuft of Portland, James Turnbull, school building consultant from the State De partment of Education and M. C. belter, superintendent of schools here Thursday the plans were ap proved and the go ahead signal was given to proceed with the building preparations. P. B. Froehllch, clerk of the board of Myrtle Creek will call for bids this week. The call will include an invitation to bid on the construction of a 40x80 addition to the present gymnasium and for considerable remodeling ' of the same structure. Accommodations reached th point of saturation last year and. expressed in mathematical terms, the Duuaings are overiiowing three times. The enrollment five years ago was 313 as compared to 941 at the present time. Washington Couple Die When Trapped In Fire SEATTLE, Sept 17 UP) A Lynnwood couple died early today when they were trapped i,i their burning home about 16 miles north of here. Snohomish County Coroner Ken Baker Identified the couple as Mr. and Mrs. George G. Rich mond. Their small home was completely daat rayed, Bker. said that Mrs. Rich mond's body was found at the doorway of the bedroom, where she had died in a desperate at tempt to escape. Her husband's body was found beside the bed, several feet from the doorway. The fire apparently started in an overstuffed chair. A neighbor, Mrs. . Elizabeth Davis, said that she discovered the fire about 4:30 a.m. when she as awakened by the whines of her dog. She said that it was impossible to get to the house because of the intense heat. Richmond, about 45, was a rail way mail clerk employed in Seattle. HEADS BAR GROUP GEARHART, Sept. 17 (IP) Wallace P. Carson, Salem, was elected president of the Oregon State Bar today. Wilbur P. Rid dlesbarger, Eugene, was elected vice-president; Lee Karr, Port land, secretary; and Roy F. Shields,' Portland, treasurer. VCV!& ... , ... .. i 1 greet Gal Paq and Count in program of mutic by popular being tpontorid locally by th at B:IS. iraul jankint picture) Iff 219-49 Nation-7ide Coal Strike Fears Mount 400,000 Miners Expected To Stay Away From Pits lecause Pensions Stop WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. VP) The danger of a nationwide coal strike next week mounted today but hopes brightened for averting a less-imminent sieei strike. The 400,000 coal miners were expected to stav away from the pits next Monday because their welfare fund's trustees, headed by Mine Union President John L. Lewis, voted to suspend pension and other benefit payments. This action was taken at a stormy five-hour meeting of the fund's three trustees yesterday. The reason was that the fund was fast running out of money. Many coal operators, because their con tracts wnn Lewis have lapsed, have refused to continue paying (Continued on Page Two) Iranian Student Takes Own Life Over Woman, 34 BERKELEY. Calif.. Sept. 17 CP) An Iranian student, discon solate because he had been re jected by an older co-ed, was found dead from hanging yester day. Police said Freydoon Sanati, 24, son of a wealthy Tehran con gressman and exporter, hanged himself with the cord of his red bathrobe, ' ' In his apartment police found correspondence Identifying the object of Sanatl's love as Mis. Vcloe Brink, 32, a war widow of Owensboro, Ky., and until recent ly a YWCA worker of Visalla, Calif. 'Oh. the poor boy!" Mrs. Brink exclaimed when told of the death. I felt like a mother to him. 1 always considered him a little bov. Widow of an army flier lost in 1943, she is the mother of an 11- year-old daughter. Police found a letter from Sa natl's father, urging him to come home and marry the daughter cl a rich Iranian. "I cannot accept the fact that you are In love," this said. "Don't give away a prosperous future you have in Persia just because you are In love. "Women are all the same. You can find them everywhere, and tall in love wnn tnem. mere win be more pleasure and happiness in your life when you are rich." The son's reply, not mailed. commented: "I think you will find out some day that riches are not the basis of life." Drivers Are Uninjured In Automobile Crash Two cars were damaged, but their drivers uninjured, in an al most head-on collision on the Pa cific highway 36 miles south of Roseburg Frldav morning, State Police Sgt. Lyl'e H. Harrell re ported. He said the cars were operate! by Roy C. Slaybaugh. Smith Riv er, Calif., who was traveling north, and Eugene W. Hill, Brem erton, Wash., traveling south. The cars met on a curve. Columbia Valley Authority West's 'Golden Opportunity', States Secretary Davidson BEND, Ore., Sept. 17. P C. Glrard Davidson, assistant sec retary of the Interior, said today that a Columbia Valley authority would be the "golden opportunity" for the Pacific northwest. "The CVA will put the Con gress in a better position than ever before to make available the funds necessary to bring fed eral expenditures for conserva tion activities into balance with expenditures for river control programs," Davidson told the Izaak Walton League. "Why are the government con servation agencies so strapped tor funds?" he asked. "Because we are still lacking the tools of management and 'he administrative mechanisms whlcn are needed to get the conserva tion Job done. Must Organize "We have still to organ ire our governmental apparatus for ef ficient, economical and democra tic utilization of our resources. "A long step toward the solu tion is at hand. The CVA legis lation provides th governmental machinery which we have ail been seeking to preserve and pro tect our priceless natural heri 185 Are Knov;n Dead As Fire Traps Victims Pleasure Ship Moronic Was Loaded And Ready For Final Season Trip TORONTO, Sept. 17. (IP) A middle-of-the-night fire roared through the Great Lakes cruiser Noronlc at her pier and by noon today, police said, 185 bodies had been removed from the wreck age. Investigating officials at th scene of the Great Lakes worst ship fire In a century said they thought the death toll would mount to at least 192 and possi bly to 226. In addition they said three per sons died in hospitals and four were recovered from the water, making a known death toll up to noon of 192. Passangars Aslaap The fire which raced through the 56-year-old vessel, broke out while most of those aboard were sleeping. Operating officials put the number aboard at 512 pas sengers and 170 crew members. The 6.905-ton Noronlc tied up at her pier In downtown Toronto last night with holiday tripper bound from' Detroit and Cleve land for the Thousand Islands. (Continued on Pag Two) Alleged Burglar Shot And Killed By Portland Man PORTLAND, Sept. 17. IIP) K 21-year-old man, who was sleep ing in his father's tavern In th hope of trapping a recurrent prowler, fatally shot a man In th tavern today. Detectives identified the dead man as Ellts Ruben Garrison. 37, who has served three penlt"" tiary terms for auto theft and burglary. Athanaslos (Tom) A. Monatis told police he had decided to sleep in the back room of his father's east sid -tavern, hoping to catch a -prowler. The- tavern had been burglarized 4wlce re cently. Monstls said he was awakened nrlv tills mnrnlnff bv the crash of glass and splintering wood, and crept into, the tavern to s man nearHhe cash, register. Monstis ' drew his gun and yelled, "hold It." The Intruder, spun around to ward Monstis, and th latter fired. Then the intruder got up and started toward him. Monstis said, and he fired again. Simultaneous ly he yelled out the door for a passing motorist to call police. Police took the injured man to a hospital, where he died be fore he could be questioned. Detectives identified the man as Garrison. A car registered to him was found nearby tvith bur glar's tools. He was last con victed of burglary In Multnomah county In 1940, and served 18 months In the Oregon State peni tentiary. Telephone Hearing Is Indefenitely Postponed An order suspending Indefinite ly Tariff P.U.C. Or. No. 7 of th Umpqua Valley Telephone com pany, was Issued today by Georg H. Flagg, public utilities com missioner of Oregon. The commissioner had sched uled the proposed tariff for a hearing at the Canyonville city hall Sept. 7. The Umpqua Valley Telephone company, just prior to that date, advised the commis sioner by letter that It desired to withdraw the proposed tariff schedule. The commissioner ordered that the proposed tariff be suspended indefinitely, without prejudice, and that no hearing be held tn the matter. DIES OF INJURIES PORTLAND, Sept. 17 UP) Logger Walter Juskey, 27, Sweet Home, Injured near Cortabill Wednesday died In a hospital here yesterday. tage and to guarantee the con tinued economic growth of th Pacific Northwest." Legislation to combine the Pa cific Northwest operations of th Bureau of Reclamation, the Bon neville Power administration and the Army Engineers Into a sin gle agency CVA responsible for flood control, irrigation, naviga tion and power, is befor Con gress. Davidson said In his prepared speech that lack of glamour in conservation work Is "one of the factors which leads to multi-million dollar appropriations for dams and thousand-dollar appro priation for soil conservation." 'The largest concrete dam In the world and the largest hydro power plant in the world are front page news," h said. "But the steady drop-by-drop erosion of our tnpsoil is some thing much more intangible."