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i U. Of 0. Library , t Eugene, -Oregon ' J Th Wtathvr Fair and sliqhrty warmer to day. Partly cloudy Sunday. Suns today 5:55 p. m. 1 Sunrise tomorrow 4:1 1 a. m. Eitablishod 1873 Half-Million Steel Workers Out In Nation Severe Blow Being Dealt II C lriIiit4rif U. J.IIIUUdllJ Picket Lines Permit Passing Of Supervisors To Keep Equipment Up PITTSBURGH, Oct. 1. UP A strike by a half million CIO United Steelworkers today shut down Iron and steel mills from cosat to coast. The free pension and Insurance , long been prominent In the Ma walkout dealt a crippling blow to j sonic lodge and is president of American industry. Coupled with the Roseburg Rotary club this the two-week old coal mine strike, year. ..... .... It threatens to disrupt American Chandler stated today that he ecinomy. Picket lines at mill gates In 27 states generally were small and quiet in the first nation-wide steel strike since 1946. Plant gates in Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cleveland were circled by picket lines which dwindled to mere handfuls several hours after the strike began at 12:01 a. m., eastern standard time. A restaurant man In Lorain, O whose establishment is near a giant plant of the National Tube company, posted this sign in a window: "Large bowl of soup, for dura tion of strike, one cent." Pass Through Lines Supervisory workers and fore men passed through picket lines without incident. They are al lowed free entrance to keep mill equipment in good shape to re- (Continued on Page Two) In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS SOVIET Russia asserts that Tito has lined up with "foreign im perialist circles" and follows up the assertion by scrapping her "friendship" treaty with X ujjoivia. A lew days ago Russlan-commu-nlst-ruled Hungary EXPELLED Tito's diplomats from Budapest and Tito retaliated by expelling Hungary's diplomats from Belgrade. About the same time Tito ac cused Russia of a "rattling the saber" and digging trenches in satellite countries along the Yugo slav border. WHAT of it? Well, suppose Tito became so cantankerous that Moscow had to spank him OR LOSE FACE IN THE EYES OF HER WHOLE COMMUNIST CREW. That could be the match that blew up the powder keg. 4THIS one comes from Detroit: 'I "Salt mines under city of De troit are being Inspected for pos sible usefulness as air raid shel- (Continued on Page Four) County PTA Representatives 'Hold Instruction School With Large Group Attending Over 85 representatives from Parent-Teacher associations in Douglas county attended a school of instructions held at the Epis copal parish house Friday. This is by far larger than last year's attendance, which had shown definite growth over the attendance of the previous years. Mrs. Hilmer Llndstrom of the state Congress of P.-T. A. of SDPCjai .r-,, wa, Dut on the Astoria, vice president of region I, Peaal stres , . . 10. was In general charge of the importance of projects and study meeting. Mrs. Ralph Herron. : ffoups, rather than upon fund Lebanon, also on the state board I raising and purchasing. New of the Oregon congress took part I emphasis was placed upon room in the Instructions Mrs. Earl Sheridan of Klamath Falls, vice president of region 3, Mrs. S. A. Warg, Roseburg, vice president of region 8, and Mrs. Prentiss Card, Sutherlin, state chairman of 'publications com- pleted the state officers partici pating in the instructions. Mrs. Alvin Helgeson, president of the Douglas county council, stated she felt that the institute, operating on a new and more in formal plan, was very worthwhile. There seemed to be a very live and vital interest in P.-T. A. work, she said. There were 61 In attendance at the luncheon served at noon in the L'mpqua hotel. Twelve units of the Parent Teachers were represented, in cluding Drain, Yoncalla. Myrtle -fteek, Glid, Riddle. Sutherlin, Tt.kland and Benson. Fullerton, verside and Rose school from eburg. ROSEBURG, Hiatt Is Named As New Manager Of Radio KRNR Bud Chandler, director of the Southern Oregon Publishing com pany' radio 8tatlon, today an nounced that Leroy Hiatt, for the last several years KRNR's chief engineer, has been approved as the station's new manager by Frank Jenkins, president of the company, effective as of Oct. 15. Hiatt was long a member of Roseburg High school's faculty as science Instructor and Joined KRNR'i engineering department in 1943. He has been the station's chief engineer since 1945; has was very pleased to have Hiatt accept KRNR's managership; also that additional new staff as signments and operating policies would be announced by Mr. Hi att prior to the 15th. Members Of Truman Cabinet To Get Pay Boost WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 l.V President Truman's cabinet members can look forward with assurance today to a pay boost following Senate approval of a bill to raise them from their pres ent $15,000 a year to $22,500. The Senate action, taken on a 52-to-14 vote Thursday night, sent the measure back to the House, which previously had voted the department heads a $25,000 sal ary. Both bills also call for pay Increases for a long list of other high government officials. Their differences must now be ironed out in conferences. All 37 Democrats present In the Senate voted for the pay increase, which Mr. Truman said would make it easier for the govern ment to compete with industry for top executives. The Republicans split, 15 for to 14, against Father Hurls Son To His Death, Then Follows Him HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Oct. 1. IIP) A shabbily - dressed man tossed a small boy off the top of the 220-foot high West Virginia building in the heart of Hunting ton's business district Friday and then leaped to his own death. The bodies crushed on the side walk on Fourth Avenue, which was filled with shoppers and of fice workers on noon-hour leave. Police said "every bone" in the boy's body was broken. He was described as being between three and four years old. The man, about 50, struck on his head. The two were Identified later as Claude S. Hatton, 44 a mail carrier, and his son David, 5. The widow is a school teacher. John Bates New Manager Of Arbuckle's Store John Bates has taken over the management of Arbuckle's Shoe Store, replacing Jess House, who has been transferred by the com pany to Its Klamath Falls store. Bates, who has been with Ar buckles the last three years, comes here from Salem. He is married and has three sons. He said he is looking for a house. mothers and study group depart ments, In order that closer rela tions between the parents, teacher and the child may be obtained. Any problems arising covering tne cniid or scnooi snouia De mo- "vated to the final solution to the problem, it was brought out. Child participation in P.-T. A. work is good, provided that the child is used to demonstrate the starting or finishing of school projects, with teachers and advis ors explaining the project, the dis cussion emphasized. Closer cooperation with the school principals and superin tendents was urged in the plan ning of Parent-Teacher meetings. A great deal of time should be given in planning a worthwhile program of education. Mother singing units are a new innovation already started in Myrtle Creek and Sutherlin. They are being urged In more asso- 1 ciations. OREGON SATURDAY, OCT. OREGON COAST Mpproacn vt rour more Pineapple Laden Barges THE DALLES, Ore., Oct. l.OP) CIO Longshoremen watched the Oregon coast closely today for four new pineapple barges re ported en route from Hawaii. They set up a scouting system to get Longshoremen quickly to any port where unloading it attempted. Train Derailment In Tunnel Blocks Siskiyou Traffic Rail traffic on the Siskiyou line was blocked last night, when a 14-car Southern Pacific freight train was derailed at 7:30 p.m. in Tunnel No. 4 at Brandt, no.tli of Glendale. said J. E. Clark, local SP agent. He said the cars struck the sides of the tunnel, ripping down timbers and tearing up 200 feet of track. The- locomotive was turned over on its side. No one was injured. The northbound freight was un officially known as the "East Cantonment," said Clark. Relief trainj (wreckers) we.-e dispatched from Ashland to work at the south end of the tunnei. and from Eugene, to work the north end of the tennel. Train 330, the northbound Ash- land-Portland passenger train, was held up at Grants Pass, and Train 329, southbound Portland- Ashland passenger train, wis turned around at Roseburg this morning. Passengers were transferred between here and Grants Pass by Greyhound busses, while mail and express was transportea oy Pacific Motor Trucking company, said Clark. The southbound train arrived here on time, at 3 o'clock, and was returned to Portland at 8:50 this morning, after passengers and mail and express had arrived from Grants Pass. Walter Cobb Dies Of Heart Attack On Hunting Trip Walter Cobb, 74, well-known resident of Roseburg, died sud denly Friday afternoon from a heart attack near Lakeview, Ore., while on a hunting trip in that area. He had left Roseburg on Thursday and was stricken whiU in camp about JU miles irom Lakeview. Mr. Cobb was born Nov. 17, 1874, at Owensburg, Ind., and was united in marriage to Cora Ann Brown on Feb. 29. 1896. He came to Roseburg from Okla homa in 1924 and had been en gaged in gunsmith work. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cora Ann Cobb, Roseburg, and two sons. Delbert John Cobb and Gilbert Semer Cobb both of Roseburg. He is also survived by five sisters and three broth ers all of whom reside in the East. His body is being brought to Roseburg by the Long & On mortuary and funeral arrange ments will be announced later. Hit-Run Driver Pays Fine Of $25 SusDicious police reserve offi cers trailed a car with a smash edln front fender last night, thinking the driver might be an escapee from the county Jail. He was arrested near Mercy hospital, said Assistant Police Chief AI Hughes, and his car was Identified from paint on the front bumper as the vehicle wmcn struck a parked automobile be longing to A. J. cjnson, near tne Junior High school. The youth. Jack Francis Phil lips, 20. 1865 Myrtle street, plead ed guilty in municipal court this morning to hit-and-run driving, said Judge Ira B. Riddle. He paid a $25 fine. The Judge atso reported that George Ware Tullos, 25, employ ed at the Associated Plywood camp on Little river, forfeited $20 bail posted on a drunkenness charge, for failure to appear in court. GIRL KILLED FLORENCE. Oct. 1. .P An accidental gun shot killed a 15-year-old farm girl yesterday, dep. uty sheriff William Moon re ported here. He said the girl. Betty J. Woo lev. was hit as she sat in the living room of the Woosley farm 18 miles west of Deadwood. The father, Wilbur Woosley, said his .22 caliber rifle discharg ed as he loaded It while walking through th house, enroute to the yard to shoot at a crow, Moon reported. 1, 1949 WATCHED re IT?? An airplane and five speedboats were held at points along the coast to investigate any barge like craft approaching. CIO lead ers said they had been tipped the barges were coming. So far the longshoremen have a win and a loss in the battle over Pineapple slipped out of strike ound Hawaii. One barge got into Tillamook bay on the Oregon coast before longshoremen de tected it. It was unloaded. The other was tied up at The Dalles, but the port commission crdered the barge to move after longsnoremen raided the dock, damaged equipment and threw some pineapple into the Columbia river Wednesday. Still Hopeful The Hawaiian Pineapple com pany, owners of the shipment, clung stubbornly to hope that the unloading still might be allowed here. Almost no one else believed it possible. The longshoremen called away (Continued on Page Two) New Trial Asked In Damage Suit Motion asking for a new trial has been filed in Clr-niit court by the defendant in the case of M. K. Brown vs. Glenn E. Mar shall. The motion asks that the Judg ment entered Sept. 22, 1949, In the sum of $7,100 in favor of the plaintiff be set aside. The de fendant also asks for an order, which has been granted, staying issuance of execution of the judg ment until the court has had time to consider ihe motion. The new trial is asked on the alleged grounds as follows: 1. Abuse of discretion of the court for the Jury to view the scene of the accident. 2. Insufficient evi dence to Justify the verdict. 3. Excessive damage appearing to have been given under influence of passion and prejudice. 4. Er rors in law expected to (a) in the refusal of the trial court to grant the defendant a directed verdict; (b) erroneous Instruction to the jury; (c) failure of the trial court to give certain requested Instruction submitted by the de fendant's attorney. The auit grew out of an auto mobile accident last January be tween can of the plaintiff and de fendant on Canyon mountain. Underworld Feud Hinted In Slaying Of Bookie SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1 (IP) Police wondered today if thsy had the makings of an under world war in the slaving of a longtime San Francisco bookie in traditional gangland fashion. A man identified as Martin D. Breslauer, 61, was slugged to his knees and then shot through the body In nearby Daly City Thurs day night at dusk. He staggered to the doorway of a grocery store and collapsed after murmuring, "they shot me and they robbed me." He died shortly. . But police discounted the rob bery motive since the man car ried $3,800 in $100 bills. Breslauer. a bookie here for three decades, was known as a layoff bookie one who takes bets the smaller bookmakers consid er too big for them. THI DALLES Lonaihoraman waterfront her yesterdey. Douglei McKey ordered tt I 1 j T 23149 J fQfte Fliers Killed In 3 States Seven Parachute Safely As Plane Creshes In Flames Near Raton, N. M. tBy Tha Auorlaud Prcul Thirteen air force fliers died and seven parachuted to safety yesterday iFri.) In flaming crashes In New Mexico, Tennes see and New Jersey. An air lorce plane crashed near , Raton, N. M, last night, killing all 10 men aboard. It was a B-17 ; enroute from Biggs air base, El Paso, Tex., to Lowry Field, Den ver. Thirty-six passengers in a Northwest airlines plane escaped injury at Milwaukee when the airliner's left landing gear col lapsed as the craft came in at an airport ine .ennessee crasn occurrea near Chattanooga. One engine of a twin-engined B-25 bomber caught fire just as the plane was preparing to land. Capt. William E. Blair of Hous ton. Tex., the pilot, ordered, the other eight men aboard to jump Dut ne roae tne plane to his aeain Into a Inioual-ea3'? lullSToMhe men wKo parachute jumped was not hooked properly and he perished in a 6,000-foot fall. An air force lieutenant died in the crash and explosion of his jet fighter plane near Cape May court house, N. J. In England, a jet "flying tri angle," a new craft with secret equipment being developed for the armed forces, crashed last night killing its test pilot. ' The pilot of the Martin 2-0-2 (Continued on Page Two) William Douglas Leaves Way Open For Candidacy SEATTLE, Oct. l.UP) The gate was ajar Just a crack today on whether U. S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas might consider being a candidate for the presidency in 1952. When the question was put to him directly in an Interview last night, Douglas replied: "I don't think anyone on the court should run for political office." Left unanswered was his status if for any reason he should leave the high court. Commenting on his recent trip with his son, William Jr., through the middle east, Douglas said that In Iran they heard numer ous rumors there were several Russian divisions engaged in combatting a revolt of tribes in the mountains of southern Rus sia. "We heard this rumor so often, I was inclined to believe it," he said. Border skirmishes between So viet combat patrols and Iranian military outposts occur two or i three times a week, the Justice reported. He termed the rum-, ors psychological warfare and . said they have made the Iranian people strongly anti-Russian. Douglas, who Is visiting friends here, will leave tomorrow morn-. ing for Washington, D. C. I BODY SHIPPED The bodv of Fred Martin Baunv gardner, 32, resident of Suther- in, wno was Kinea nere sept. 29, when a load of lumber fell on nim wnne nis ituck was dc-uik 3 . -unloaded, was forwarded to Tor- J rlngton. Wyo. last night by the Long tt Orr Mortuary, for fu- neral services there with inter- ment in Morrell, Neb. ran in pursuit of trucks which Two trucken went to the hoipitel. pelie to petrol, (AP) Jailer Walter In Bold County Jail Break Friday Hiqht; Police Scanning Countryside For Culprits Sheriffs Office Lists Records Of Prisoners The two escapees from the coun ty jail who were captured last night, . Willie Wei ton Hughes, 49, and his son. Caroll Welton Hughes, 19, both of Pills ,'burg, Calif., were held here for j California authorities for auto larceny allegedly commuted in Contra Costa county, Sept. 17. District Attorney Robert G. Davis said they were arrested on the Pacific highway just north of Roseburg by state police Sept. 24. They were held in the county jail until their escape and were returned to the jail after their capture last night. Three of the fugitives have pleaded guilty to charges anil were to have been sentenced Oct. 10. Chester William Clark. 50. of Stockton, Calif., pulled a gun or a Yoncalla officer after a char in a speeding car on the Paelfi highway Sept. 1. He pleaded gui' ty to assault with a dangerous weapon said Davis. Quentln Cecil Wilbur. 30, o. r.arriiner. Maine, and I-ei-nv Mm. tin Burnham, 23. of Llvermore Falls, Maine, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to larceny of an au tomobile at Reedsport Sept. 22. They were arrested by stale po lice near Drain that nlcht an brought here for arraignment, f I hey were to nave been sen fenced Oct. 10. Valcena Avis : Wnlte orgjnaiiv lsled .. W!l I k ...u. i. ..in i ,t, (n burs wife, is still In the jail. Larry Leslie Kerstine, 18, of Roseburg, was arrested by citj police June 3 on a vagrancy charge. He was sentenced to si: months In the county Jail am. fined SltfVJustice of the Peace re-r ' violation of hi, parole. A. J. (irudes and later was pa- Riverside Gymnasium Bids Under Advisement Flv bids for construction of ths Rivorsids school gymnasi um wert opsned by tho school board last nlaht. Thty wort i taken unoer' dvltment. and award of a oontract will bo an nounced latar, said A. . (Pat) Collier, olirk of Roseburg School District No. 4. Collier said the high bid was $138,000 and the low bid $112,000. CAPTURED wiU'))Jmii i mimmi nil imtif a ' WILLIE WELTON HUGHES jr' K f 1 1 ' r .0. Mi Vf ' - V, , t t y J ; Vv 5 a " spi-.'am CAROLL WELTON HUGHES planned to move pineepple from Tn unloading, wai halted. Gov. Wilson Beaten ESCAPED ' i . 1 , ' - - ' v.W it Wo LARRY LESLIE KERSTINE i QUENTIN CECIL WILSUR ) r v v d 5 'f .'! 1 If; .- . V " VT, LEROY MARTIN BURNHAM v - ' 1 uA I j CHESTER WILLIAM CLARK 1 American Civilian Defense Organization Is Pitifully Week, If Need Should Rise WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. (IP) If American cities were attacked tomorrow the federal government would be ready with two civil defense planning organizations totalling about a dozen men wh have no authority whatsoever. Some states and communities hav gone ahead with their own I plans for rescue and protection of I civilian populations in event of atomic or other acn-.i suacK un der plans tentatively outlined by the federal government a year ago and since put aside for new studies. But the only civil defense plan ning groups in the federal set-up now are a study unit within the national security resources board consisting of a coordinator and one assistant, and a civil defense liaison office In the defense de partment made u- of about ten men. Office Ended In a directive earlier this year. President Truman ended the of fice of Civil Defense Planning cre ated in March 1948, hy the late Secretary of Defense James For restal. The directive transferred responsibility for Dlannlng a na tional civil defense system to the NSRB, with William H. Gill named coordinator. The office of Civil Defense Planning was headed by Russel J. Hopley, Omaha telephone com pany executive, and consisted of members and committees repre senting a cross-section of civilian . J... '.,; j ln November 194. (even 'month after It was officially dis And Bound Two Escapees Retaken After Eluding Trap Six prisoners escaped from thl county jail last night, after gang ing up on Jailer Walter Wilson, leaving him bound and gagged and locking Mrs. Wilson matron. In a cell. Tney took keys from tha jai office, and went down in tha courthouse elevator to the ground ' floor. State Police Officer Sherman Morris said two of the escapees, 1 Willie Welton Hughes. 49, and hit son. caroll welton Hughes, 19, both of Pittsburg, Calif., were ar rested shortly alter 9 p, m, near Winchester. . . An armed posse picked up tha pair, Morris said, at Deady, fol lowing a report that they had abandoned a stolen car south of the roadblock set up at Win chester. They were taken without a struggle when police officer met them walking down the rail road tracks. . Escapee listed Deputy Sheriff Ira Byrd named the other escapees as: Larry Leslie Kerstine, 18, Roseburg charged with parol violating. Quentin Cecil Wilbur, 30, Gardiner, Maine, scheduled lor sentencing Oct. 10, for larceny of an automobile. Leroy Martin Burnham, 23, Llvermore Falls. Maine, sched uled for sentencing Oct. 10, for larceny of an automobile. Chester William Clark, 50, Stockton Calif., charged with as sault with intent to kill and larceny of an automobile. Report that "suspicious charac ters" were seen near the railroad tracks In the vicinity of the El Ruth Rancho at Wilbur this morn ing were being Investigated, Mor ris said. Byrd placed the time of the jail break as around 8:30. He said h (Continued on Page Two) Federal Spending Billion Greater Than Its Income WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. OR The federal government - spent about $1,400,000,000 mora than it took in during the first three months of the 1950 fiscal year, and no relief from red ink fi nancing appears in sight. ' The most hopeful guess from an administration expert put tha budget deficit for the 12 month ending next June 30 at $2,000, 000,000. Senator Byrd (D. Va.) predicts It may run a high a $7,000,000,000. , While a lot depends on what Congress does with some $14,000, 000,000 in appropriations bill still awaiting final action, offi cials said yesterday that govern ment spending probably will top even the peacetime record of $41, 858,000,000 proposed by President Truman. And while spending climbs, tha government's revenues appear likely to fall below the $40,985, 000,000 forecast in January. So far, spending is running 22 per cent above last year, and reve nue have Increased only seven per cent. These are the official treasury figures for the first quarter of the fiscal year, through Sept 28: The government' income: $9e 015,000,000. It's spending: $10. 419,000,000. The deficit; $1,404, 000,000. . solved, this agency Issued a re port recommending that civil de fense be a orimarv responsibility of local civilian organizations. with a federal agency guuainf the program. Program Prepared 1 In addition, the office, working with state and municipal groups, prepared a program of legislation for introduction in Congress and in state legislatures. The. report and program were turned over to the secretary of defense and the president. The program was not introduced in Congress. The matter remained dormant until Mr. Truman's di rective ordf-red new studie to be made by NSRB. There has been no indication whether the announcement that Russia has set off an atomic ex Dlosion will mean a speed-up in continued on Page Two) Two trout ore th limit, Not leu than a foot; Toss the smaller one bock? Why of course tut, tat. Livhy Rant By L, F. Reieeneteta 1 V