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2 , Tht News-Review, Roseburg, Ore Wed., F.b. 22, 1950 Ltwli May Re Drawn Into Contempt Action (Continued from page One) plaint against the 370,000-member i union. Now, he said, more specific rhargei may be lodged. FBI Gathering fvidence This dovetailed with reports from both union and industry source! that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have been busy in the coal fields, assembling evidence on the union's effort or lack of effort to comply with '.he court s back-to-work order. Lewis, who has twice wired hit (tenant men to resume digging, smiled gently ai be left each bar Raining session, and ssid not a word. As (or legislation authorizing a seizure of the mines, the White House obviously regarded sucn a step as a last resort, to be taken only if ail other efforts fail. Senator Morse (R-Ore) believes the time hss come. Morse, a mem ber of the labor committee, told a reporter the government should take over the mines and run them until both sides "develop some common sense." and settle. Administration leaders in Con gress were said to be waiting on the White House. And the last word from the White House was: Mr, Truman neither has nor wants sei zure power. Reports of spreading unemploy ment, closing schools, hsrdship and violence nuut up tne tension here, Independents Join Strike Ten thousand members of the Independent Progressive Mine Workers union went on strike in Illinois today. Negotiations, pursu ed sporadically since last summer, collapsed finally last night. - The PMW has been producing most of Illinois' coal supply since Lewis' much larger UMW went on strike. Simultaneously with the new blow, Rockford, 111., closed its pub lic scnoois lor me rest ol tne week The state capital. Springfield, fol lowed New York's lead and be gan a "brownout." Cleveland turned off almost 4.000 street lights. Pittsburgh suspended all night school classes, as Wash ington, D C, did yesterday. The Indiana Public Service com mission authorized the state's elec tric utilities to cut service as much as 25 percent, upon a showing of emergency. Idleness in the steel mills and other coal-fueled industries total ed 55,500. Another 23,000 steel work ers were due for furlough tonight. State police in Pennsylvania re ported that about 2,000 pickets were roving In the rich bituminous area northeast of Pittsburgh, trying to close down all non-union mines. It was in this area that a fire- fighting comoany yesterday smash ed through a road blockade and a barrage of stones to put out a fire at a mine tipple. Police said the blaze was started By miners pickets. Dewev Plans Seliure In Albany, Governor Thomas E, Dewey asked the New York state legislature for power to seize coal in "non-essential" private stocks. Saying the coal shortage is reach- me aesperaie siage in ine siaie, he also sought authority to put price ceilings on the dwindling sup plies. A vice-president of the United States Chamber of Commerce ac cused UMW President Lewis of us. ing "tactics which are little more than legalized blackmail" to bring about a crisis in the coal industry. The official, Thomas R. Reed of Baltimore, made his accusation in a statement prepared for a Senate judiciary subcommittee's hearing on a bill to apply anti-trust laws to unions, need said Lewis has suc ceeded because he holds "mono polistic power over an essential industry." There was no sign from the coal fields that the miners were im pressed either by the government's orders or by angry denunciations Their unfailing reply to question er! was: "No contract, no work." One Pennsylvania coal digger add ed: "If some people are going with out heat, remember our kids are a little short on food. British Election Rtsult Regarded As Tossup (Continued from page One) will be chosen from the party with the majority in this dominant body of psrliament. Though Attlee and Churchill head their parties their names will appear only on ballots in the district in which each is a candidate for election to the Commons. 100 Red Candidates The full list of candidates totals 1.868. with 621 running for Labor. 620 for the Tories, 474 for the libersls, 100 for the Communists and the rest scattered among in dependent and minor local parties. ine main issues Britons are be ing asked to decide are socialism, taxes, housing, Britain's dollar shortare and the cold war. Labor is for more government ownership of industry. The Con servatives promise less. ine conservatives claim they can cut taxes and still maintain social benefits by trimming government expenses. Although they are avow ed anti-socialists, they do not pro pose to do away with the wel fare state but only promise to run it more efficiently. Telephone Strike Now Appears Inevitable (Continued from page One) tiate only in New York, where it has been meeting for weeks in fruitless bargaining sessions with the union. The union representatives, who stood by all day yesterday while Ching argued with company offi cials to sit down with the union in his office, refused to return to New York for talks there. The last countrywide 'phone strike was in 1947, by the same union, then the National Federa tion of Telephone Workers, an in dependent organization. Now the union, under the leader ship of Beirne, is affiliated with the CIO. It has solicited the coop eration of the CIO's 6,000,000 mem bers in its effort to make the strike ss effective as possible. The Western Electric employes are the key groups in the strike plans, because Western Electric installation and salea divisisions operate in nearly every major tele phone exchange across the na tion. Their pickets will be counted on by CWA leaders to keep tele phone operators from taking their posts alter Friday. -What Union Demands The CWA's uniform demands are for a lS-cent hourly boost in a "package" including higher wag es, shorter hours, and shorter train ing periods. The company insists the union is not entitled to any increase, but that each unit of the parent American Telephone and Telegraph company should bargain locally. It has opposed arbitration. ine Western tlectric company said in a atatement issued last night in New York: 'The company wants to bargain where it can do so most effectively. It hsd an opportunity to bargain less than two hours on the union's demand for a 15-centan-hour package increase when adjourn ment was occasioned by the re ceipt of Cyrus Clung t invitation. As explained to Mr. Clung, the company believes that progress to- wsrd a peaceful settlement of the dispute can be most easily and quickly faciliated in New York The Weather U. t. Weather luraau Offlo Reseburg, Oregon Partly cloudy today and Thurs day, Little chant In temperature. Highest temp, any Feb. 7 Lowest temp, far any Fob. .. 1 Highest temp, yesterday it Lowest temp, last 24 hrs. 15 Precipitation last 14 hrs. ( Precipitation from Fob. 1 .... 1)1 Precipitation from Sept. I ..24.44 Deficiency from Fob. I 1.17 Terror. Death System Used In Bulgaria (Continued from page One) City, where all of Its records, per sonnel and other essential facilities for the careful consideration of the union's demanda are immediately available." PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 22.-IJP) The Oregon telephone union will join the projected nationwide phone strike at 6 a. m. Friday if earlier settlement is not reached. C. H. Wright, head of the Ore gon union which is affiliated with the CIO Communications Workers, said the effect would be to tie up all long lines and all Oregon ex changes of the Pacific Telephone ii Telegraph Co. West Coast Tele phone company and the several smaller independents will not be affected, Wright said. The union s locals are located at Portland, Baker, Pendleton, The Dalles, Bend, Klamath Falls, Med ford, Ashland, Roseburg. Eugene. Corvallis-Albany, Newport, Salem, Tillamook and Astoria. There are also a number of sub-locals, auch as Milton-Freewater and Hermis ton, under Pendleton, and St. Hel ens, under Portland, blanketing the ri&r operations, Wright said. The National GeoiraDhie So ciety says that, contrary to general belief, only two Important areas of Holland were flooded during me war. in Hungary of "political persecu tion and acta of injustice te citi zens of foreign nationality." Trie "Tortured, Killed" About the same time at the blast at Hungary waa issued, the state department disclosed the secret de tails of American effort! to protect ita last Bulgarian translator at tne American legation at Sofia against probable death at the hands of the Communist authorities. Apparently efforts to save the life of this man, Michael Shipkov, had delayed ac tion on the actual break until yes terday. Last summer the Bulgarian po lice, according to State department disclosure, seized three Bulgarian employee of the legation on charges of spying. The Bulgarian govern ment, the State department aaid, "permitted the torture and killing of these three men. Shortly thereafter, In August, Shipkov was arrested when efforts of American Minister Donsld R. Heath to obtain an exit permit fir Shipkov and his wife and child fell through. ' The State department story con tinued : Shipkov was questioned for thirty-two hours continuously and then tortured into making false confes sions of sabotage and espionage and implicating personal friends and officials of the American lega tion. He was threatened with deatr but was released after signing an agreement to return to the Ameri can legation as a police spy. Treatment Expo tad Instead of spying, however. Ship kov disclosed his position and the police tortures to the legation. Heath, in order to protect him, per mitted him to live in the American chancery where he was relatively safe from arrest. Subsequently Foreign Minister Poptomov deplored the police treatment of Shipkov, indicated re sponsible officials would be pun ished and also indicated such ac tion would not recur. The Ameri can government held to its hope that the Shipkovs could leave Bul garia. On Jan. 12 the foreign office sent Minister Heath a formal request for Shipkov, saying that he was wanted in connection with act! against the Bulgarian state. The American envoy declined to release him "in the light of Ship kov'a loyalty and the Bulgarian record of ruthlessnesi and injus tice." He remained at the legation un til recently, when ho left to seek "a more permanent refuge." Yes terday word came that he had been eeized by Bulgarian authorities in another of "the long chain of trage dies which have overwhelmed de cent, freedom loving Bulgarians It was against the then secret background of what had happened to Shipkov and the other Bulgarian employes of the legation and also in view of "intolerable restrictions placed on American officials, that the United States government de cided to sever diplomatic contacts with the Russian satellite country. The specific incident which caused the break was a Bulgarian demand last Jan. 19 for recall of Heath on the grounds that he had plotted for the overthrow of the Bulgarian government. The United States said this charge was utterly taise. Atom Control Stand Taken By President (Continued from page One) ACTIVI CLUB DATED The Roseburg Active club will meet Thursday at 7 a.m. in the Shalimar for breakfast. Each mem ber is asked to bring a guest. stroy them. The most aggressive of these enemies today is Commu nism. "Communism seeks to induce men to surrender their freedom by false promises of a better life, but the great danger of Communism does not lie in its false promises. It lies in the fact that it is a in strument of an armed imperial ism which seeks to extend its in fluence by force." Peace Desire Paramount When he turned to discussion of atomic weapons, the President re- Iterated his support of the Baruch control plan involving international inspection of atomic planta but de clared "the stakes are too large to let ua, or any nation, atand on pride ot authorship." "We asked only for a plan that provides an effective, workable sys tem anything less would be a sham agreement" he said. Asserting that the United States must make Democracy work and we must defend it against its ene mies," the President declared: "While the free nations stand pre pared to resist aggression, they are doing their utmost to find peaceful means for settling inter national disputes. They know that another great war could destroy victor and vanquished alike." The United States, he said, will continue "to do all that liea within our power to prevent the horror of another war." He ssid that this country is work ing for reduction of armament! and control of weapons of mass destruction. He applauded the North Atlantic treaty and the mutual defense as sistance program and asserted: "We shall continue to work with the other free nations associated with us in the common defense High School Society Trial Reaches Yawning Stage (Continued on page Two) Dal II. King of Coquille, Isn't i bit interesting. In fact, it has been so dull, monotonous and repetitious that Judg King hai been pleading for the boys' attorneys to speed things up. At first, the boys' lawyers planned to claim the 1909 law ia unconstitutional, but they dropped this line of attack. Now they are trying to prove that the fraternity is not secret, and thus legal. Secrecy Is Denied The boys and their parent! have testified that their meetings were wide open. They said they talked business at the meetings, and drsnk coffee and milk, and ate fudge, cookies and banana jello. The defense also tried to prove that school board members were not interested in the parent's aide of the case. The parents testified that, before the boys were tossed out of school, the school board held a hearing for the parents, and that some school board members and school officials went sound asleep while the parents talked. During this aleeping testimony Attorney Moody fell asleep and tipped his chair partly over with a loud thump. Even Judge King had to laugh ai that one. for our defense is theirs, and their defense ia ours." Americans. Mr. Truman contin ued must "be no less firm, no less resolute, no less steadfast" than George Washington was. While the stage is larger todav than in Washington's time, funda mentally the problem is the same "to make Democracy work and defend it from ita enemies." INCOME TAX E SERVICE al State I W. William J Room 207, Douglas Co. lank Bldg. Afternoons Only Phone 763-J SPRING DUET Thasa popular dream-mates go everywhere together with tht smartest dressed women. Shoes ie beautifully dona you just KNOW they're Carmelletei! 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