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2 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ort. Mow., Oct. 34, 1949 Mrs. Herriges Dies Following Illness Ruth Mildred IIr-rrlt(OS, 51. of Little river, near Glide, died laj.1 night after a very short Illness. She wan born Jan. 17. 1R95, in Fort Atkins, Wis., and came to Oregon five-and-a-half years ago to make her home. Surviving are the widower. Kr vin. Glide; three daughter. Ella Mae Jamieson. Seleck. Wash.; Kdna Marie Butts, Roseburg; Kdith Star Herriges. Glide; five sons: Kranklvn D., Glide; Boyd and Earl, both of Roseburg; Kl ray and Harvey, of (Jlide; four brothers: Charles Hoiton, Madi son. Wis ; Harry, Clarence and George Ilorton, all of Roseburg, and 13 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held in The Chapel of The Roses, Rose burg Funeral home, Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. Vault intermert will follow in the Masonic cemetery. Mrs. Ella Thclma Cobb Passes Away Sunday Mrs. Ella Thelma Cobb. 45. well-known resident of Roseburg. died Sunday at Mercy hospital following a short illness. Mrs. Cobb was born in Broken Arrow, Okla., in 1904. She was married to Gilbert Cobb Nov. 19. 1924, at Okmulgee. They have made their home in Roseburg for the past 22 years. Surviving, besides the widower are two sons and three daughters, Vernon Glen Cobb and Gilbert Walter Cobb, Sandra Lou Cobb and Mrs. Virginia Grethel Hoot en, all of Roseburg. and Mrs. Reva Fern Robinett, Myrtle Point. The body has been removed to the Long & Orr mortuary, where funeral arrangements will be an nounced pending word from relatives. Stearns mortuary and funeral ar rangements will be announced Fall Flower Show T Open At Church 1 iday (Continued from Page One) Ing will he taken, Mrs. P. E. Beaver, chairman of the show slated. The flower show will be open to the public, Tuesday from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m. and on Wednesday from 11 a. m. until 4 p. m. Mrs. Beaver requested that no "xh.blis be removed before 4 p. m. Wednesday. The Weather U. S. Weather Bureau Office Roseburg, Oregon Mostly cloudy with morning fog today and Tuesday. Highest temp, for any Oct. ... Highest temp, yesterday S3 Lowest temp, for any Oct. .... 22 Lowest temp, last 24 hrs. ... 31) Preolpltatlon last 24 hrs 0 Precipitation since Oct. 1 2 21 Precipitation tinea Sept. 1 4.17 Eseesa since Sept. 1 .47 MM Comstock Funeral Set For Tuesday Funeral services for Margaret Pendergrass Comstock, 54, who riled Oct. 20. will be held In The Chapel of The Roses. Roseburg Funeral home, Tuesday, Oct. 25. at 2 p.m. Surviving are the widower. El mer, Roseburg: three sons: Nor ris, Horace and Donald Pender grass, all of Roseburg; three daughters: Mrs. Eulva Robertson and Miss Hal Pendergrass, both of Roseburg; Mrs. Margar et Davis. Las Vegas, Nev.; four sisters: Mrs. Pearl demons and Mrs. Jewell Smith both of Port land: Mrs. Jeanelte Waters. Ba kersfleld, Calif.; Mrs. Mary Kirk Patrick. Roseburg; four broth ers: Jesse and Issac James both of Roseburg; George James, Sa lem; James W. James. Yrek.1, Calif., and 11 grandchildren. Interment will follow in the Ma sonic cemetery. Attlet Slashes Budget For British Spending (Continued From Page One) eightpenee (about 10 cents) goes to the medical service. Other taxes pay for the remainder of the program. The prime minister also lopped millions from government ad ministration expenes and capital exienses for new buildings, hos pitals, schools and public works. This economy program is the government's first announcement of policy since it devalued the pound. Commons will debate the program Wednesday and Thurs day. Alt lee said Britain's purchases of goods from dollar areas would be limited ta $1,200,000,000 a year. Prices of some foods will rise, Attlee told the House. The primt minister's program Is tied In with Britain's recent devaluation of the pound from $4.03 to $2.80. Britain is faced with the necessity of spurring her export drive to earn dollars, and thus, heavy reduc tions in her dollar purchases from the United Slates have been forecast. "The government has made It clear that any advantages to he reaped from the devaluation of the pound sterling might easily be offset by an Inflationary ten dency," Attlee said. "To counter this risk of Infla tion, and that arising from ex cessive demand on the home mar ket, we must reduce expenditure and Increase production. Man Found Dead In Axalea Cabin Alexander Qulndt, 70, resident of Aalea for the past six years, was found dead in his cabin by a neighbor, George Olinghouse, at 6 p.m. Saturday, Coroner Harry C. Stearns reported. Quindt apparently had died from natural causes, the coroner reported. The death was Investigated by the coroner and Deputy Sheriff Haggard of Glendale. The bodv was removed to pending word from relatives. Labor Picture Over Nation Still Gloomy (Continued from Page One) the 176-day walkout of stevedores at five of six Hawaiian ports. The Missouri Pacific expected to have some trains running by late today and the Hawaiian dock workers were ordered back to their jobs tomorrow and Wednesday. Negotiators did not disclose the terms which ended the Missouri Pacific strike but it was an nounced that agreement was reached on 1S9 union claims against (he railroad with the other 93 to be submitted to ar bitiatlon. The dispute involved grievances only. The strike of 5.000 members of the Brotherhoods of Locomo tive Engineers, Englnemen and Firemen, Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors forced the railroad to abandon nperatolns and lay off about 20, 00 other employes. But these settlements scarcely dented the nation's total of near ly 4,000,000 Idle workers which Secretary of Commerce Sawyer says might climb to 5.000.000 by Dec. 1 unless the steel and coal strikes are settled meanwhile. Nearly 4 Million Idle More than a million are idle as a direct result of the steel and coal shutdowns alone. Most of the others were reported In an Associated Press nationwide survey Saturday as eligible for and receiving unemployment coin pensiation. Pennsylvania, wnh .tlO.lKKP Idle from tne steel anil coal strikes, was the hardest hit state. Stale labor department and un employment compensation claims Indicaied the nation's total idle at 3.815,000. Of these, 500,000 arc striking sti-el workers, 380.000 striking miners, 16,000 striking aluminum workers, and 2.922,000 others. Including those laid olf or involved In widespread smaller strikes. The Townsend company at Brighton, Pa., became the 17th steel fabricating concern to ac cede to the CIO United Steel Workers' demands for free pen sions. It was the only one of the 17 plants struck. The agree ment, announced Saturday, brings a tolal of 4,100 mon In the 17 plants under the company II nanced pension terms. Federal Timber Slated . For Salt In November Ten additional parcels of O A C and Coos Bay Wagon road tim ber carrying 6.2 million board feet appraised at $41,278 will be offered at the bureau of land management sale (he week of No vember 6. It brings the Novem. ber sale total to 57.6 million feet appraised at $434,343. Seven of the new tracts will go by sealed bid November 8 at the regional bureau of land manage ment office here, Administrator Daniel L. Gnldy said at Portland Saturday. The rest will be offered at oral auction November 7 at Roseburg, November 8 at Eugene and No vember 9 at Salem. Previously announced for the same sale are 20 tracts of O&C and public domain timber with 51.3 million board feet valued at $393,067. Alask-j Stampede For Gold In Full Swing (Continued From Page One) They are bound together by the common hope of quick easy riches. Quiet-spoken Clifton Carrol, whose discovery touched off the melee, summed up the thoughts of many men when he said: "I don't know how good this Is. Nobody docs yet. I know we found gold In the fishwheel. I know what I hope we find in the ground." LOCAL NEWS Attend Conference Mrs. Paul Barcus, Mrs. Gladys E. Folev and Mrs. LeRoy Gorton attended la Zonta conference in Medford Saturday and Sunday. Back From Convention Mr. and Mrs. II. R. Augustas have returned to Roseburg after at tending the third annual Western Dental laboratory congress in San Francisco. Truman Urges Parley To Terminate Cold War iCon'inued from Page One) atomic weapon's threat to peace. Human Hignts stressed In another obvious dig at the Soviet orbit, Mr. Truman also sharply criticized disregard of human rights uhicn he said were j "indispensable to political, econ omic and social progress." He said U. N. members know that "dis regard of human rights is the be ginning of tyranny, and, too ( often, the beginning of war." I He spoke Just two days after i the general assembly voted agree ment with western charges that Russian satellites Bulgaria, Ro mania and Hungary are suppress ing human rights and freedoms. The questions first were raised after trials of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty In Budapest and other religious leaders In Bugaria. The General Assembly an- ' proved, 40 to 6, Nov. 4. 1948, the lUnlted States-endorsed plan I drafted by Bernard M. Baruch and others of the UN atomic energy I committee. Meanwhile, the Atomic Energy I commission went ahead with a $300,000,000 expansion program I Involving Increased facilities at I Oak Ridge. Tenn., and Hanford, Wash, plants. Mr. Truman told a news conference Tliursd.iy the plans were under consideration long nerore the Russians pro duced their explosion. BIBLES FOR JAPANESE SEATTLE (.Pi Two represen tatives of a religious organiza tion have sailed for Yokohama with 10.000.000 pocket-si7e Bibles which they plan to distribute among the Jananese people. They are Alfred A. llunz and Edwin L. Frizen, ex -niive di rector and field representative, respectively, of the Pocket Tes tament league of New York. The Bibles are printed In Japanese. Kunz said the organization had been requested by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to distribute the tes taments. He said Gen. MacArthur "believes the best way to storj Communism is to teach the Irte.iK of Christianity to the Japanese." UNION TURNED DOWN HOOD RIVER. Oct. 24 -(.PI A collective bargaining election at the Hood River Anple Grow, ers' association Friday resulted In defeat for the AFL, an em ployer spokesman said today. Earl Ziegler, personnel man ager for the association, said em ployes voted 295 to 194 against the AFL Cannery Workers and Fruit Processors union. He said 526 were eligible to vote. To Eugene Mr. and Mrs I, I. Crafton and Mr. and Mrs. O. D. McAllister attended the funeral of V. M. Pelterson, assistant su perintendent of the S. P. com pany, in Eugene Saturday. W.B.A. Benefit W.B.A. will hold a benefit card party at the home of Mrs. Eugene Little on I South Stephens street Thursday j at 2 p.m. Members and their ' guests are Invited. Mrs. Mary Riley Dies After Illness Mary Riley, 86. of Myrtle Creek, died yesterday after a lin gering illness. She was born Sept. 10, 1S63, in St. Marie. 111., and came to Oregon two years ago. She was a former resident of Mattoon, III. She was a member of the Catholic church and of the Altar society. Surviving are two daughters. Mrs. Bertha Bloomqulst, Myrtle Creek; Mrs. Louis Maver, Mat toon; a son. Marks Riley, Port land; three brothers. Frank and Leo Spitz, both of Mattoon: George Spitz, Evansville, Ind; 2) grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. The body will be shipped by the Roseburg Funeral home .o r.ight to Mattoon for funeral serv ices and vault Interment. ' "Individualized Floors of Beautility." 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NO AID FOR COMMIES WASHINGTON, OCT. -.P Secretary of Defense Johnson has promised the Senate that any western European nation that has a Communist cabinet member will get no arms aid or militaiy secrets from his department. This was disclosed in a repot t on Johnson's testimony before the Senate appropriations com mltlee hearings on the foreign aid program. MOSCOW'S VERDICT MOSCOW, Oct. 24 The Moscow press Saturday called the sentences given the 11 U.S. Communist leaders "monstrous." . The trade union newspaper Trud said the trial was nine months of "Judicial mockery of truth and conscience, of- the ele mentary human rights of citizens." For more comfort, greater fuel savings . . . WEATHER STRIP Your Home You'll be lots warmer and save on your fuel bill if you weather strip your home now. You'll stop those heat-wasting drafts that waste your money. Simple and easy to in stall, weather stripping more than pays for itself in fuel savings. 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