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1 U. of 0, Library COMP Eugene, Ore, imIE in UUJ Union Leader . Faces Threat Tht Weather Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday, with early morning fog. Sunset today 4:4 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:07 a. m. WHO DOES WHAT " OfT-H Law SIS r w I iM lllii II II Ml 111 I I I " 111 " JACKIE GOLDEN pauses obligingly in her duties at Horn's Super on North Jackson street as I snapped her picture. A change of photography will do her good. Her husband, you see, ii. ace photographer for Fredrickson's Photo Lab and "uses mfor a model, I guess he takes a picture of me about each week," she says. John L Lewis, Mine Union Pay Huge Fine In Contempt Cases WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. (API John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers today paid $1,420,000 in contempt fines their penalty for failing to obey court order to end a 1948 coal strike. - Welly. Hopkins, general counsel to the union, who made the payment, remarked that the fine is "probably the biggest ever paid by a defendant in the federal courts certainly the big gest ever paid by a labor union." On last Monday, the supreme court declined to hear an appeal by Lewis and the union from the fines imposed by Judge T. Alan Goldsborough. Coldsborough was the judge in another, earlier case which brought fines of $710,000 against Lewis and the union for dis obeying a stop-the-strike order. So two bouts with Goldsborough have cost Lewis and the union a total of $2,130,000. Of the fines paid today $20,000 was for contempt by Lewis personally and $1,400,000 for contempt by the union. The whole amount was paid by the UMW, the union having authorized payment of the fines against Lewis himself. Another Baby Bom On Transatlantic Flight PRESTWICK, Scotland, Nov. 15 P) If this keeps up, Trans Atlantic Air liners are going to have to start carrying bassinets as regular equipment. A baby girl was born half way across the Atlantic between Prestwick and Gander, New foundland, to a Polish woman today aboard a Scandanavian air lines plane carrying 60 displaced persons to New York. She was the second Transat lantic "Air-born" baby in less than a month. Chest Fund Goes Up To $14,200 Gifts for the Roseburg Com munity Chest, moved up to $14, 200 Monday .evening, picking up from a weekend slump caused by the Armistice day holiday, re ported Art Lamka, secretary. Canvassing for the chest will con tinue through this week. The drive, with its goal of $25,550, is scheduled to end Saturday. Giff Thermometer. GOAL $25,550 i! P ( $20,000 I ' Ik $15.000 f JH .I. if I $10,000 ri J $5,000 TO "Falsie" Trade Facing Rival In Plastic Surgery HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15 UP) The nation's multi-million dollar 'falsie" business is periled by plastic surgery. Dr. H. Otto Barnes, Los Ange les, plastic surgeon, told the con vention of the Pan American Medical Women's alliance yes terday, that an operation can in crease a woman's bust measure ments. The operation, which re moved the need for falsies, re quires a small incision and re arrangement of tissues. He added that it has been un dertaken successfully and is val uable because anything that ud lifts a woman's morale "is ben eficial." Survivor Of Bus Crash Suffocates In Home GARVEY, Calif., Nov. 15 OF) Peter Barisof f, 26, one of eight survivors of the 1946 Cascade mountain crash of a bus load of Spokane baseball players, suffo cated Saturday when fire dam aged his home. Barisoff, who is survived by his wife and two children, was play ing with the Spokane Western In ternational league team when the bus crashed through a steel ca ble on Snoqualmie pass July 24, 1946, plunged 300 feet down a steep slope and burst into flame. Eight other occupants of the bus were killed. Milwaukie Balloting Again On Bond Issue MILWAUKIE, Nov. 15. UP) Voters here were balloting today on a bond issue measure for a second time within a year. The funds are needed for a sewage disposal plant and system. The proposal would change the city charter to permit a $200,000 bond issue to be retired from a general tax on property. A bond issue pinned to a water users' tax was rejected by a 12 vote majority a year ago. NEW DIPHTHERIA DEATH MEDFORD, Nov. 15 P An other diphtheria death was re ported by the county health of fice yesterday. The victim was a 9-yearold girl. Her death brought the total fatalities from the outbreak that started a month ago to live. Six teen persons have been stricken by the disease. Established 1873 Marshall Plan Nations Told To Cut Prices ECA Report Sent To Congress Offers Advice To Get Further U. S. Aid WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. UP) President Truman today sent lo Congress a Marshall plan report declaring tnat Europe must low er its prices to compete In the united states market lor tne American consumer's dollar. The United States, of course, must be willing to accept great er competition from European suppliers in order to help Europe pay its way," said the study pre pared by the Economic Coopera tion administration. Even if European sales in the United States were doubled thus restoring Europe's pre-war share of this market the volume would represent less than one percent of this country's total output and would "only be scratching the surface of the American market" Congress was told. "The participating countries must intensify their export drive to the dollar areas if they are to attain independence from ex traordinary outside assistance." the report went on. this win require on the Dart of many European businessmen a reorganization of factory meth ods, installation of new and more efficient machinery in order to reduce costs, greater attention to merchandising and advertising, redesigning of products and pack aging to suit American preferen ces, and a determination to serve American customers with the care and attention they receive from American producers." it also win be necessary, the report said, for the Marshall plan countries to give their exporters incentives to enter tne tougn (Continued on Page Two! Danube Monopoly Draws Protest WASHINGTON, Nov. xo -UP) The United States served notice on Russia and five Soviet bloc states today that it considers invalid their new commission to control shipping on the Danube river. The commission was set up Nov. 11 at Galatz, Romania. It replaced a control commission dating back to 1921 on which five wetsern nations were represent ed. An American note today said that the new arrangement, coupled with the device of Soviet controlled joint shipping com panies on the river, is "clearly designed to enable the Soviet Union to maintain a monopoly of Danubian commerce." The Soviet bloc commission, It was charged, violates the pease treaties signed with Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania and "vio lates the concept oi international waterways which has been recog nized in Europe lor more than 130 years." Passenger Train Plunge Carries 70 To Death PRETORIA, TRANSVAAL, South Africa, Nov. 15 UP) A passenger train hurtled off a bridge Into the Crocodile river 50 feet below, killing at least 70 natives and a European, it was reported today. Another 100 natives were said to be seriously injured in the wreck which occurred at Water val Boven in the wilds of the up per Transvaal. Floods had under mined the bridge. Passengers were workers from Portuguese East Africa who were returning home aftpr a per iod of service in the Transvaal gold mines. Parking Meters To Get Tryout At Sutherlin Parking meters are to be In stalled at Sutherlin on a six months' trial basis by the H. D. Fowler company of Seattle, it was decided by the city council there recently. The devices will be Installed on principal downtown street loca tions. They will cost $70 each to be installed. Payment will be made on a 50-50 basis from re ceipts from the meters. C. G. Hart, manufacturer's rep resentatives, estimated that Su therlin woud derive approximate ly $6,000 annual revenue from the meters. A man woud have to be empoyed to service the meters and to tag parking violators. Explosion, Fire Destroy Alaska Airfield Hangar ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Nov. 15 UP) Exploding gasoline drums and magnesium landing flares kept firefighters from battling a $100,000 blaze yesterday lhat vlr tually destroyed the Alaska air lines hangar at Merrill field. Two planes and two automobiles also went up In smoke. Cause of the blaze was not known. T f; FRATERNITY SLAYER- BROTHER James D. Heer, 21, fraternity pledge at Ohio State university in Columbus, O., fa tally shot fraternity brother Jack T. McKeown after a gay cocktail party and formal dance. McKeown, 21, was a star jour nalism student and popular campus leader. Authorities said that Heer declared under ques tioning: "I get trigger happy when I get drunk." (NEA Tel ephoto). Walter Winchell's Mother Killed In 10-Story Plunge NEW YORK, Nov. 15 UP) Mrs. Jennie Winchell, 77, mother of Walter Winchell, plunged to her death last night from her room on the 10th floor of Doc tor's hospital. Her private nurse. Kathleen Carton, said she had left Mrs. Winchell's reom- for- a few min utes to obtain the patient's eve ning meal, and returned to find window open and Mrs. Win chell gone. The elderly woman's nightgown-clad body was found on the 87th street sidewalk below. The official police report said she either fell or jumped. Mrs. Winchell was admitted to the hospital Oct. 24 for treat ment of a heart ailment from which she had suffered several years. The wife of the columnist and broadcaster said she had notified her husband, who was in Miami, Fla., and that he was flying back to New York immediately. She said Winchell told her he had had a "premonition of disaster," Winchell's father, Jacob, a re tired silk merchant, died in 1940. Another son, Al, is associate J with the Emerson Radio and pho nograph corporation. Auto License Plates For 1950 Placed On Sale SALEM The 1950 auto mobile license plates can be used December 15 or later, Secretary of State Ncwbry said today. Newbry's office started mailing out the plates two weeks ago. They are now on sale in his of fices in Salem. Portland, Eu gene, Oregon City, Hillsboro, Roseburg, Grants Pass and Coos Bay. The new plates must be bought by January 1. They are the same color as this year's, being black numerals on aluminum background. PFC DEAN BARTLETT, Company D, 186th Infantry, Oregon National Guard, yields a few drops of blood si Siiter Norene, x-ray and laboratory technician at Mercy Hoipital, prick! hii finger for blood typing. Later he will donate pint of blood which will join other donationi in the hoipital. Continuous free dispensation is hoped for by the Sisters, to those in need of it. Blood will keep only from three to four weeks; but it is expected that some member of each recipient's family may, in his turn, replenish the supply by ( donation. ( By Paul Jenkins I ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, NOV. Plot To Kill Harry Bridges Told At Trial Lundeberg, Defendant's Union Rival, Mentioned In Jury Examination SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15- UP) Prospective Jurors in the government's perjury trial of Harry Bridges were told by a defense lawyer yesterday that a rival union head once sought to nave Bridges killed. Bridges, 48, Australian-born and for 15 years headf the left wing CIO Longshore union, is charged with perjury In testify ing at his 1945 naturalization hearing that he had never been a communist. Two aides, J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt, are charged with aiding Bridges to obtain citizenship by fraud. As the Jury selection proceed ed, chief defense counsel Vincent Halllnan told one venireman that Harry Lundeberg, head of the AFL Sailors' Union of the Paci fic, once "literally and actuallv hired murderers to try to kill Harry Bridges." He asked the man how he would receive testi: mony from witnesses testifying under Lundebcrg's direction. Objections Sustained Federal Judge George Harris sustained the government's speedy objection to the question. ii it were snown, Halllnan than asked, "that certain AFL of ficials such as Harry Lundeberg and Dave Beck (of the Team sters) were guilty of atrocious conduct bearing on the credibil ity of witnesses, what weight would you give this evidence?" Again the government object ed. The court observed there was perhaps "an element of the in flammatory in the question." When Halllnan Indicated he plan- (Continued on Page Two) Bystander Arrested As Sequel To Traffic Crash Three cars were damaged and a bystander was arrested, as the result of a collision on Lane street between Jackson and Rose Monday night. Chief of Police Calvin Baird reported that a car operated by Marie Wunsch, Roseburg, was being backed out of the driveway in the rear of the Presbyterian church. A car ODerated by G. E. Kite of 523 Mill street was traveling west on Lane, and a third car, operated by Mary Hill of Glide, had rounded the corner at Jack son and Lane when the cars col lided. James Vestal Blewett, Rose burg, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for "in terfering with an officer at the scene of an accident." according to Chief Baird. Blewett was scheduled for arraignment municipal court today. in West Roseburg Civic Assn. To Meet Tonight A meeting of the West Rose burg Civic Improvement associa tion is scheduled for tonight t 7:30 p.m. in the city council chambers, 119 Setting up of a permanent or ganization with election of offi cers is planned as the principal business. Also to be discussed will be needed Improvements of the West Roseburg area, II the city votes the .district in at Its election Dec. l". Mil i: . 1 H 15, 1949 HIGHWAYS FORUM TOPIC State Engineer Baldock Says System's Expansion Rests On Congress Action By WARREN MACK Nwi-Rvlew Reporter A near-capacity crowd at the Chamber of Commerce noon forum was told Monday "the future of Oregon roads and highways de pends upon the future legislation passed by Congress." Speaker H. R. "Sam" Baldock, state highway engineer, termed the 1944 Road act passed by Congress a "milestone" toward achiev ing the needed repairs and expansion of this country's road program. He said the act made avail able to Oregon a total of $12,000, 000 a year for each of the three postwar years. At the time, the states' highway commission;; were asked to estimate their probable future needs, but even by "gazing deep Into the crystal ball" Oregon's estimate was low by 15 percent. Baldock said this country's roads and highways are, as a rule, taken for granted by the vast majority of people. How ever, he declared people should i not get the idea that road build ing funds are unlimited. Empha-1 sizing the rate at which the road i dollar has shrunk, Baldock said i In 1948. costs of road building ; were double what they had been in prewar days, Rlthorgh the present trend Is toward declin ing costs. In 1948, the Road act was re vised, with Congress reducing both the time in which It was to (Continued on Page Two) Missing Child Found Murdered; Fiend Is Sought LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 UP) Her head crushed by an axe, six-year-old Linda Joyce Glucolt was found slain today a few blocks from her home. Police broadcast a pickup order for a 67-year-old man. The girl had been missing fim the home of her parents, Jules and Lillian Glucoft since yester day afternoon. Officers Identified tne man they sought as a kniwn pervert, questioned only last April In a child molestation case, but re leased. The chubby body was found by homicide detectives who enter ed the case when a night-long search by neighbors and officers failed jammed Into a box cov ered with rubbish, debris and old boxes. It was in the backyard of a modest dwelling near her own home. "It is unbelievable," screamed her mother, told of the discovery. It was In that vicinity that the murders of Nina Martin and her sister May occurred in 1924 a case that led to the conviction of Scott C. Stone, a nlghtwatchman. The case was the city's most brutal child murder since 191B, when six-year-old Rochelle Glus koter, daughter of Butcher Abe Gluskoter, was Kidnaped at play. Her body was found more than a year later In the hills, and al though scores of persons have been questioned and one now is being held, no formal charges have ever been filed. WAGE BOOST WON PORTLAND, Nov. 15. (ZD- Arbitration resulted yesterday In 10 to 15-cent an hour wage in crease and two weeks vacation for three-year employes of the Hobbs Battery company here. 169-49 BALDOCK Progress Told Two Plead Innocent To Grand Jury Indictments Innocent pleas' were entered oy Kutn Mcrnerson ana wmiam Ross McPherson to Indictments brought by the Douglas county grand jury,, when they appeared before Circuit Judge Carl E. Wim berly Monday. They were both charged with "transporting a female for the purpose of prostitution," with L ill set at $1,000. Ruth McPher son also pleaded Innocent to a further Indictment of attempting to obtain money by false pretens es. Her bail on this charge was set at $2,500. 1 hey were arraigned last Thurs day, but asked for time In which to enter a plea. Legislator Can't Act As Temporary Judge SALEM, Nov. 15 (JP) A men ber of the Legislature can't serve a temporary Circuit Judge, Attorney General Neuner ruled torlay. the Lonstututlon prohibits any person from holding office In more than one of the three gov ernment branches Executive, Legislative and Judicial. And for Legislator to serve as a Judge would be violating thr Constitu tion, Neuner said. The opinion was asked by State Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Port land. Myrtle Creek Suburbs Plan Annexation Vote An ordinance calling for a vote on annexation of six suburban ad ditions at Myrtle Creek is being pared ny uuy Attorney James J. McGinty there. Elections would have to be held in both the city and the suburban areas con cerned. McGinty named the additions as School addition (Sunrise addi tion), Allen's addition, Rhodes addition, Laurance addition, Her man addition, and Christian addi tion. The voting may be carried nut before Jan. 1, according to Mayor Leo Sanders. New Police Chief Is Named At Sutherlin Oliver W. Eggleston, 33-year-old cabinet maker and carpenter, was named Sutherlln's new po lice chief last week, following the resignation of Harold Goodrich, former chief. Eggleston has been a Suther lin resident the past three-and-one-half years. Although without f previous police experience, Egg eston was recommended for the position by Councilman Harvey Brown for his "Integrity and hon esty." Housewives' Boycott On Coffee Faces Collapse MEDFORD, Nov. 15-(T The housewives' boycott to brine; down the cost of coffee Isn't win ning much support from addicts of the bean. Mrs. Grace Clark complained most persons approac'ied for help said "Good luck, but I can't get along without coffee myself." She was among the group who announced they weren't buying until the price dropped. 4. , H. R. " Highway President Truman Said Determined To Prevent New Strike December 1 WASHINGTON. Nov. 15. UPt John L. Lewis was confronted today with a virtual ultimatum to win a quick coal peace or face last wmte House action. The mediation service said Lew. Is Is being given 24 to 48 hours to get something stirring toward a coal contract. It implied that there would be action bv Presi dent Truman this week If Lewis does not. Officials seemed to believe Mr. Truman would invoke the Tatt. Hartley act although the Presl dent dislikes that law. Use of a special fact-flndlnsr board outside Taft-Hartley, as was done in the steel dispute, has been considered but that idea ap peared to have little support.' i ne wmte mouse evidently was determined, to stop a new strike on Dec. 1, the exphation date of a truce ordered by Lewis last week to end a 52-day strike. unaer i att-Hartiey, Mr. Tru man could order the Justice de partment to seek a court Induc tion barring a new strike for 80 days. Lewis slashed the staff of his once-rich- welfare and pension fund as operators remained cool to his offer to talk about build ing up the fund again. A top White House adviser said the question of a special board, outside the Taft-Hartley law, still is oeing considered Dut woum not be used unless Lewis would agree to keep his miners at work , This official summed up Presi dent Truman's attitude in these words; A decision on what tc do In the coal situation has not been made. "Consideration is now being given to offering Lewis and the coal Industry a fact-finding board such as was set up in the steel strike. Such a board, however, would be set up only with the understanding that the coal min ers remain at work during the uciiDerations oi tnat Doara. "If Lewis refused to keep the men at work, then the President ,wlll act under the emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley act. "Some of the White House of ficials Jeel that Lewis would not agree to calling off the strike under such conditions or to a board having authority to make, recommendations and .that the President should invoke the Taft- (Continued on Page Two) Death Sentence Draws Yawn From Youth PORTLAND, Nov. 15 UP) Morris Leland, 22, yawned again yesterday, as he heard himself sentenced to death in the state'i Lethal Gas chamber Jan. 6. Leland, who dozed through much of his trial, seemed unaf fected upon the formal pro nouncement of the death sen tence. He was convicted of slay ing Thelma Taylor, 15, after a rape attempt Aug. 6. The defense Attorney, Thomas H. Ryan, announced he would ask for a new trial. British Steel Industry Nationalizing Deferred LONDON, Nov. 15. URThm labor government yielded to the conservative House of Lords to day and deferred the date for nationalizing the British steel in dustry. This clears the legislative decks for an early general election, probably In February or March, In which government ownership of the steel mills will be a ma or issue. Assassins Of Gandhi Executed On Gallows AMBALA, India, Nov. 15W) The young editor who assassi nated Mohandas K. Gandhi and the man who told him to do It were sprung simultaneously through a gallows trap today. Their bodies were cremated Immediately afterward. RAIL FARES UPPED.. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -UP) The Interstate Commerce com mission yesterday gave railroads in the east permission to raise passenger fares 12 1-2 percent. The hike was granted to lines operating east of the Mississippi river and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. The boost will raise the rate In coaches to 3.375 cents a mile and In parlor and sleeping cars to 4.5 cents a mile. FINED FOR OVERLOAD Scott Vlnce Ferguson was found guilty by Jury of overload of tandem axle, according to Jus tice of the Peace Ward C Wat son. Ferguson was fined $90 and costs and given a 3&day suspend ed sentence .when he appeared In the Justice court at Sutherlin. Lvlty Fact Rant IfUr, Releensteta Perhaps our Community Chest drive will copy the tactics of the Roseburg high school foot ball teamt Slow start, whirl wind finish.