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U. of 0, Library COMP Eugune, Ore, mi TO t03 WHAT ly Paul Jenkins Dixiecrats Win Out After 15-llouT Bsllb Substitute lid Opposes Job Discrimination lut Fixes No Enforcement Tn VYolir Clootety with tight rata Malay, tonight 4 Friday, little catena, e la temperature. Saxase today S:S4 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow e:St a. m. WISLfY CORN if foreman at the county shops on the Dixon vilU road, having served in that capacity tor thrao yaars. Ha has boon employed thara for eight. Tha shop is haadquartars lor rapair work on all county road aquipmant and is an eiceed ingly busy placa. Fourtaan mechanics work thara. Statad in round figuras without chocking or exactness, about 200 piacas of rolling stock of various typas ara ownad by tha county, sported at stratagie points throughout its area, and about 180 man ara ongagad in oparating and servicing this aquipmant. Dogged By Dentures. District Advised By Its Congressman Trying To Discard Them May Require Night Trip, He Fears WASHINGTON. Fab. 23. (API "I'm not guilty of sub varsivo activities," Rap. Cotton (RNH) is telling his constituents. "I'm just trying to gat rid of my old dentures." Cotton sands a weekly report to tha voters in his district. This week it wes a wistful report indeed. In the Day's Hews 1 By FRANK JENKINS ROBERT Vogeler, whose "confes sion" ia i Communist court the other day followed tha gruesome, shivery, out-of-thii-world pattern tha Communists have used so long against those they are determined to destroy, is convicted and sen tenced to 15 years imprisonment. The breath of clammy air from tha graveyard is even clammier and the shuddery touch of spectral fingers is even more shuddery after that. What are these Communists? Ara they human? a WE break diplomatic relations with Bulgaria, another Com munist stooge that has just accused our minister to Bulgaria of plots and espionage. History marches on. HERE is a dispatch from Wash ington which small business men should read and ponder: "Out-foxed by the Republicans on one POLITICAL issue. Senate Democratic leaders tried to rally their forces today ... they were (Continued on Page Four) -HOME JOB TOO MUCH LONDON, Feb. 23 OP For nine months 90 London street clean ers battled for. a five-day work .week. Recently they got it. Today they asked for permission to work five and a half days. They said their wives were making them do household chores on Saturday morning. Said one worker: "We just can't stand the missus." Captain Crommelin Balks At Navy Department Gag Order Critic Of "Prussian Pentagon" Will Obey Only His Superiors SAN FRANCISCO, Fab. 23. (API A Navy order to gag Capt. John C. Crommelin Jr., outspoken foe of unification, seams headed for test today. Crommelin, with IS speaking engagements on tap, including one today, said ho had no intention of dropping them unless specifically ordered by his superiors. The gag order of Admiral for-1 ' rest Sherman, chief of naval op erations, was made public by Crommelin yesterday and later confirmed by Vice Admiral George D. Murray, commander of the ander of '.K western sea frontier. It said: "Direct Captain John G. Crom melin to refrain from public state ments, and from statements which may be published, which are criti cal of the organisation or officials of the department of defense or art critical of any officer or group of officers Crommelin has been blasting ' "Prussian Pentagon policies" speeches sine bis transfer here two months ago from the Navy staff hi Washington. D. C. The transfer followed his vociferous entry iata too unification dispute. "A "Old ape," he observed, "creeps on apace and once more I ara spending time in the dentist's chair. The partial plates I have been wearing no longer suffice. "Monday I returned from the dentist, despondent, and threw them into the waslebasket. "Tuesday I was called from the -floor of the House and found two members of the capitol police wait ing for me. One of them with great ceremony handed mc the old den tures." Cotton said that the more he thought about it, the more the inci dent worried him. "Can it be," he wondered, "that I too am under the cloud of suspi cion that hangs over Washington, so that even my wastepaper bas ket is being watched?" But that was nothing compared to the really big problem: "How," he asked his constituents, "am I going to get rid of these dentures? Must I steal down to the Potomae river some dark night and throw them in? "Perhaps if I do I shall be seized by the minions of the law and ac cused of destroying "pumpkin pa pers' or other dangerous activity. "If you read that your represen tative is guilty of subversive acitv ity," he concluded, "don't believe it." Powell's Store Robbed Of Cash And Pistols Police Chief Calvin H. Baird today reported a break and entry into Powell's Sporting Goods store at 308 W. Cass which resulted in the theft of "an undetermined amount" in cash and checks. Also taken were two pistols, the chief said. The robbery occurred sometime during the night and was discov ered at opening hours this morn ing. Entry was believed gained through the roof. Chief Baird also reported the arrest of a 15-year-old Myrtle Creek youth believed by the police to be involved in a recent break and entry of Benson grade school. The boy will be turned over to juvenile authorities. "I do not intend to turn in my suit." Crommelin said in his state ment disclosing the ban on his cntit"m-. I have scheduled IS invitations to discuss our national security before groups of patriotic Ameri cans during this month and next. Unless specifically ordered by my superiors, I intend to keep eacn appointment." He aaid he could not agree with 'the present defense setup where- under the Navy is overruled and the Marines eliminated. "If necessary," Crommelin con tinued. "I am ready to stand and be counted among those who ara opposed to Prussian Pentagon policies.'' Estoblished 1873 Atomic Peace Parley Idea Frowned On Truman Wants Against "Vain Hop Of An Easy Solution" To Problem ' By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (& Evidence piled up today that the Truman administration is dead set against seeking an atomic peace conference with Russia at this time. From President Truman hinue.f came a warning that the nation "must not be misled by the vain hope of finding quick and easy so lutions" for the world's difficulties of which the atomic arms race ia one of the greatest. Instead, the President declared in a speech honoring George Wash ington yesterday that the United Statea and other Democracies must stick to the "hard path" of building up the strength of the free world in its struggle with Communism. The vice chairman of the Senate House atomic energy committee, ReD. Durham (D-NC). meanwhile directly attacked the idea of an atomic conference with the Soviet union. In a speech for the North Carolina Democratic club here last night, he declared: "The pressure which is building up for a conference of some sort with the Soviet union, in my opin ion, is dangerous; it would imme diately place us in a position of despair and defeatism." Would Offar Aid To Soviat Durham thus appeared to take a position in conflict with Senator McMahon (D-Conn), the committee (Continued on page Two) Homo Of Millionaire Looted By Bandits CLEVELAND. Feb. 23 (JPt Six hooded bandits boldly burst in to the spacious home of multi-mil lionaire William U. Mather early today, slugged his wife and got away with jewelry valued at mora than $200,000. Moving with commando-lilte pre cision, the robbers were armed with a aub-machine gun and re volvers. Mather, S3 -year -old honorary board chairman of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., slept through the entire operation. Stationing one man outside in case the burglar alarm went off, the robbers entered the main resi dence through a servants' en trance. None of tha seven ser vants heard them. Bod Check, Larceny Cases Top List Of Convictions Bad check passers and persons charged with the crime of larceny constituted the major portion cf criminal convictions in Douglas county over the last 10 months, said District Attorney Robert G. Davis, speaking before the Drain Lions club Tuesday night. Of the 93 felons sentenced in cir cuit court since April 25, 1949, 21 were convicted on bsd check charges and 39 for larceny. Also, three persons were convicted of murder, four each were convicted for robbery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor child and five persons were convicted on non support charges. Sixty persons were sent to tha state penitentiary during this pe riod, while 34 were placed on proba tion, Davis said. Italian Marshal Again On Trial As Nazis' Aide ROME, Feb. 23 StPt Marshal Rudolfo Graziani, Fascism's "Lion of Africa," went on trial for a sec ond time today on charges of aid ing the Nazis. The ailing. 67 -year -old soldier looked tired as he entered the courtroom to face a tribunal of five generals and an admiral. He wore a beribboned uniform without sym bols of rank. Strong forces of police gusrded ttie building a barracks once used by the Germans to guard Italians picked up for forced labor. Graziani is chirped with helping the Germans conscipt labor as well with collaboration. Dodd May Yet Enter Race For U. S. Senate PORTLAND, Feb. 23-a Nor ris E. Dodd. United Nations food and agricultural director general, may yet be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for sena tor in Oregon. National Committeeman Monroe Sweetland. who earlier had boom ed the former Hainea, Ore., ranch er for the nomination, said Dodd'a Washington. DC, office had in quired about election filing proce dures. Dodd is now in Brazil for tha UN organization. LOO BUCKS KILLIO EUGENE, Feb. 2S.-'-Chester Russell Gundt. 24. died instantly in a woods accident Wednesday morning 13 miles southeast of Fall Creek. The young man was buck ing logs with two other men when he was crushed between two rolling logs. ROSE BURG, Fact-Finders May Be Appointed To Defer Rail Strike WASHINGTON. Feb. 2i.-41P- The White House said today that President Truman probably will create an emergency board tomor row or Saturday to head off a threatened nationwide railroad strike. The Brotherhood of Conductors and Trainmen have called a strike for ( a. m. Monday. Tha Conductors and Trainmen's Brotherhoods refused arbitration, which had been proposed by the National (railway) Mediation board. Together the unions rep resent 200,000 and 250,000 workers. Appointment of a presidential fact-finding board under the rail way labor act requires both sides in the dispute to retain the atatua quo. The board has 30 days in which to make a report and no strike can be called for 30 days after the board's report is sub mitted, according to the law. A spokesman for the Trainmen's Brotherhood in Cleveland said the union would comply with the legal procedures. The union's principal demand is for a 40-hour week for some 85,000 yard service employes, without a cut in pay from their present 48 hour scale. Negotiations began nearly a year ago. The unions asked for 13 chang es in operating rules, and the na tion's carriers asked for 17 changes. Bulgaria Blames U.S. For Break SOFIA, Bulgaria. Feb. 23 tPi Bulgaria announced today that Poland ha a agreed to represent her in the United States. The United States broke diDlo- matic relations with Bulgaria Tuer- day. The official announcement. Duh- lished in the Bulgarian Dress, re ferred to the U. S. break in re lations as an "arbitrary and un friendly act of the American gov ernment for which it exclusively carries the guilt." Referring to Bulgaria's note of Jan. 19 asking the recall of U. S Minister Donald R. Heath and the U-. S. demand that it withdrasttiie note, the announcement declared: "The Bulgarian government ob viously had no reason to withdraw fts note and to obey such an out of place and unlawful ultimatum and therefore it did not answer the note." The announcement declared Bul garia had always shown its desire to maintain friendly relations with Uie U. 8. PRISON ISCAPEI NABBED OREGON CITY. Feb. 23 -- Washington prison ascapee Clifford D. Jennings, 34, was arrested yes terday, at the home of friends in nearby Gladstone. Gladstone Police Chief Louis Biby said Jennings had been liv ing there under an assumed name for the past year. He escaped from the Walla Walla penitentiary in 1948 where he was a trusty. He had two more years to serve on a five-year sentence for a Seattle burglary. ft aWos' a iiT "-i'-'ii i iar-1 rJjK Wawa-tsVIaveat wV i'. DUI FOR COMMISSIONING This quonset hut, homo of local Naval Reserve unites, will bo tho scon of commissioning cere monies Thursday, whan reserve officers from Seattle meet with local reservists and invitad guests for tho affair. Tho building 1 OREGON THURSDAY, FEI. Lewis. Mine Owners Said Nearer Accord Operators Slightly Boost Concessions; Violence In Cool Regions Grows WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. John L. Lewis and coal operators were reported today to have nar rowed the gap between them in the long drawn out haggling over a new mining contract. The report officially unconfirm ed from either side -was that op erators had offered to increase slightly the financial concessions they previously had proposed. It came from sources close to the negotiations and aent a aurge of hope through government offi cials struggling to get tha mines back into production and end the fuel famine that already has brought rationing and "brownouts," chilled homes, curtailed schools and industrial production in many areas. Pressure was building up on both sides to reach agreement. For Lewis, time was running out. He ia confronted with the danger of multi-million dollar fines on the United Mine Workers un ion if the miners are still on strike tomorrow. Federal Seizure Favored Bearing on the operators was the increasing talk among soma pro labor members of Congress that the government should seize the mines and retain any profits made (Continued on page Two) World's Eyes On British Election By The Associated Press Voters in record numbers start ed filling up tha ballot boxes in Rritain today in a momentous elec tion watched closely y most ot the world. Broadly the issue Is whether Bri tons want to extend Socialism by giving the labor government of Prime Minister Attlee another five years in office or turn to the Con servative program offered by the Tories, under former Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill. For a nation long used to queu ing up, the line forming in front of the polling places was the most important in the past five yeara. More than 34,000,000 people ma vote. The only mild sensation of the campaign was Mr. Churchill's ap peal for high-level talks with Rus sia to end the atomic armament race. The Laborites stressed their program of "fair shares" and full employment. The Conservatives said "me too on many social measures and full employment. But they promised also to reduce taxa tion, increase the gasoline ration, cut red tape and halt nationaliza tion. The election for "the mother of parliaments" followed recent elec tions in the dominions of New Zea land and Australia where Labor governments were turned out after long periods in office. . . :; v ''' -'. '7f ' 23. 1950 Temple Costing $500,000 Will Be Built By Roseburg Eagles The Rostburg aerie of tha construction soon of a 1500,000 storo and office space. E. C. High, chairman of tho building committee, reports tha structure tentatively is designed to be five stories high with full basement in addition. It will occupy a site Immediately south of tho Roseburg city hall, where options have been taken on tha two houses formerly belonging to tho Dr. c. V. Hoover estate. To ba built of reinforced concrete, tha building, as now planned, will have storo space on tho ground floor, offices on three floors and lodga accommodations on tha top floor. ' Included with the lodga Installations will be roof garden ballroom, also designed to ba used for banquets, capable of accommodating 1,000 dinars. A lodga hall, club room and recrea tion hall will be provided. Plans call for financing entirely by the Roseburg aaria, High reports. Tha design and detailed specifications will ba prepared by Warren Weber, Portland, district architect for tha Grand aaria of tha Eaglas lodga. Members of the building committee, in addition to tha chair, man, art Tom Hobbs, Rommay Meek, Clann Forrest, Tom Krew son. Lea White and Earl McCoy. Wife Of Sander Jury's Foreman Taken By Cancer MANCHESTF.R, N.H., Feb. 23 JP) The forman of the Jury try ing Dr. Hermann N. Sander in the "mercy" slaying of a cancer doom ed woman saw his own wife die of the same disease last Palm Sun day. The disclosure was made by Dallas cutter, Hillsboro grocer and brother of Louis C. Cutter, 40, the jury foreman. The family physi cian. Dr. Thor Olsen, confirmed the statement. Attorney General Willaim C. Phinney told reporters he knew Cutters'a wife, Leona, died of can cer when he waa aeated as a juror. Both the prosecution and defense indicated Cutter would remain on the jury. Dr. Sander ia accused of slaying the woman by injecting air into her veins while she lay near death in Hillsboro county hospital. When Questioned for jury duty. Cutter stated that his wife died last year. He was not asked fee nature oi ner illness at mat nine. Dailaa Cutter told newsmen that his brother's wife had been bedrid den about a year and suffered in tensely before she died. About four yeara before her death, he said, she underwent an operation in an effort to rectify the condition. Tho Cutters had no children. The widower forman is the young est member of the panel. Community Chest To Elect, Set 1950 Plans The annual meeting of the Rose burg Community Chest will be held Friday noon at Hotel Umpqua, ac cording to Art Lamka, secretary for the organization. Included on the agenda will be election of new officers and plans for the 1950 program. Lamka aaid further consideration will also be given distribution of funds gather ed in the recent campaign. This will be primarily a business meeting and no speaker has been engaged, Lamka said. Picture by Paul Jonklno houses million dollars in radio, electronic and other equipment, with competent instructors providing excellent training for local reservists. In picture abov ii Naval Recruiter A. L. DeMott, center, flanked by Reservists Kenneth Millar, loft, and David Hill. 45-50 Eaglas lodga Is preparing to start lodga temple, combined with Surveys On Two Housing Projects Are Slated H. L. Scofield, executive director for the Douglas County Housing authority, announced today a spe cial survey will be conducted in cities of this area which have re quested public housing. 'because liiso lederal census fig ures will not be available until late thia year, a survey must be taken to determine the needs of affected cities, as well as the size of units which should be built," Scofield siad. The housing authority intenda to employ ten enumerators for tho task, spending ten working days surveying about 20 percent of Rosa burg and five daya working all of Sutherlin. Many of the questions will be similar to those to be asked hv federal census takers. The housing authority requested the iuo,. . tion of the public to enable them to complete tha survey as early as possible. Fund To Fight Budworm Given First Approval ' PORTLAND, Feb. 23 I.P) A Senate subcommittee has okayed an 3880,000 fund to help apray Washington and Oregon forests for Spruce budworm control. Senator Guy Cordon (R-Ore) informed the Western Forests In dustries association yesterday of tha action. The Senate appropria tions committee must next act and then the Senate and the House. State and private industry fund will be added to the federal moniea to finance the aerial spraying pro jects for this year. Extensive spraying was carried out last jll in heavily infested woods of both states. NO B LAO FILIS SALEM, Feb. ii.-tP V. S. Rep. Walter Norblad, 41 -year-old Astoria Republican, filed his candidacy to day for reelection. Norblad represents the lirst dis trict, which never has sent a Dem ocrat to Congress. WASHINGTON, Feb. The House passed today a fair employment practices (FIPC) bill stripped at enforcement pre visions. , The vote was 140 to 177. The bill, far short at what President Truman wanted, new fees re the Senate. The House action came attar a debate that started at neon yesterday and ran into early this meminf. The bill rhat finally omened from the House fell (0 far short at what Mr. Truman wanted that many ef ita erieinal supporters refused to veto far It. Southern Democrats apposed It solidly. They were largely responsible for having knocked all the en forcement teeth tram the pro posal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. UP) The House refused today to shelve outright a fair employment prac tices ifEPC) bill already stripped of enforcement provisions. It defeated, 239 to 177, a motion that would have aent the bill back to the House labor committee, and then headed toward a final vote. It stiU may defeat the bill. Product of more than 15 hours of debate, the bill in effect merely proclaims the will of Congress that there ahould be no discrimination in job opportunities because of race, creed, color or other conditions. But It contains no provisions to enforce this principle and ia far short of what President Truman re quested in his civil rights program. The bill was tentatively approved In the early morning hours after (Continued on paga Two) Spring Opening Events Upped In Latest Planning More activities for the Roseburg Spring Opening festival were slated yesterday, following a meeting of the Retail Trades association board of directors and the spring open ing committee, according to John Hardiman, committee member. Although all plana are still ten tative, the group indicated they are arranging for appearance of both the junior and senior high school banda to provide march music tor the affair. Activities to be sponsored by local merchants include Miller's hair styling show, a fashion show sponsored by Mabel Lewis and a log choonina contest staged by Lawson's Jewelry store. In addition, the Roseburg fir department will display net jump ing, first aid and fire fighting techniques. Automotive dealers will display their varea on Jackson street and dealers of farm imple ments win nave exniDiu on cass, Washington and Oak streets. Hardiman indicated the local Naval Reserve and National Guard units would also be asked to par ticipate. Arrangements are also be ing made for a public dance to bo held the night of the opening. With announcement of the new activities, the committee again is sued lyi invitation to any local merchant who wishea to partici pate in the event. Interested busi nessmen are to contact Ray Sim at irownnage tiecinc Bargaining Truce Nod Defers Telephone Strike WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -(JP-The threat of a nationwide break down in telephone service, sched uled for tomorrow, haa been lifted by union acceptance of a presiden tial appeal for a 60-day bargaining truce. "We will bargain every day, 24 hours a day during that period in seeking a peaceful settlement," said President Joseph A. Beirno of the CIO Communications Work ers of America. President Truman asked that service remain uninterrupted whila work goes on under present wage, hour and other conditions. Some Bell system companies accepted promptly; others were expected to do so. Murder Of Husband Charged To His Widow (NY) LURAY, Vs., Feb. 2J-OP) An attractive widow charged with murder in the shooting of her husband, a survivor of the Bataan death march was free in $10,000 bail today after four days in jaiL The widow, 26-year-old Mrs. Bar bara Parks, was released last night. The release came several hours after page county commonwealth'a attorney I. R. Lovel formally charged her with murder in tha death of Robert Franklin Parks, 38-year-old retired army captain who spent four years in Japanese prison camps. She told police that Parks' death was accidental. JL evity J" act ant By L. F. Reizenstelm la) this vounted "land ef the free," 20th century, appears this nows dispatch: "Nan-union min ors carried gum today to en force THEIR RIGHT TO WORK during tha soft coal strike.''
