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U. of 0. Library Eugune, Ore, v U 1 fe Vim WmHmt Partly clotjdy today and Sm day. Stints today t:2l p.m. SwtrtM tomorrow 5:50 a.m. Established 1S73 ROSEIURG, OREGON SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1950 113-50 ( :r. iT.tr'v.f-r--ff TRUMAN AT COULEE DAM President Truman inspects the transformer deck of Coulee Dim et Grand Coulee, Wash., prior to the dedication of the largest concrete structure on earth. Left to rightr A. F. Darland, supervising engineer; Truman; Frank A. Banks, district manager of the Columbia Basin Project, and Sen ator Magnuson (D-Washl. (AP Wirephoto). SIRENS. BOMBS DUE U.S. Savings Bonds Drive Will Start Monday Noon Whistles will blow and bomb blasts will shake the city Monday noon but Roseburg citizens need not fear sn invasion. The excite ment will indicate ihe opening ot the U. S. Savings Bonds Independ- r 1 ence drive in Douglas county. County School Budget Election Slated Monday Monday is the date for the county-wide election to authorize the Douglas County rural school board to adopt i budget of $829,037.44 outside the six percent limitation. Excluded from the vete will be Roseburg district 4. and five dis tricts joint with Lane and Coos counties. The election time will be 2 to p.m. PST (S to p.m. DST) at Myrtle Creek and Sutherlin, and 7 to 9 p.m. PST (8 to 10 p.m. DST) in all other component elementary school district. Voting will take place in the elementary schools. The published statement of me Douglas County Rural School budget, appearing In the News Review Thursday, .May II, er roneously listed item 2, county school fund, under estimated re ceipts, at 110,735. The figure for this fund should have read $107,190. While the total- proposed budget will be greater than that- of the current operational budget, the amount outside the six percent lim itation and the total to be raised by taxation will be less. This is made possible by increased reve nue from the basic school support fund from income taxes and coun ty land sales. The total budget of $2,457,217.92, provides for IS high schools, 42 ele mentary schools, and tuition and transportation for students in non high school districts. It provides for 45 school clerks, 13 superintend ents and administrative principals and two supervisory high school principals. It also provides for 85 high school and 344 elementary teachers, a total of 344, compared with 321 for the current fiscal year. Allowance is made for educating an additional 407 pupils, based on school census figures, or a total of 8,203 pupils. No change is made in salaries or transportation basic costs. Additional expenses result from the additional students to be educated ayid transported. H. O. Pargeter, chairman of the Douglas county committee, said the campaign is to encourage thrift, providing a backlog of sav ings to insure this nation against economic instability and increased inflation. The county's quota in this cam paign has been set at $160,500, Pargeter said. He urged residents of the county to help maintain the records set during former bond sale campaigns by meeting or ex ceeding the quota.' Mayor Albert G. Flegel, In an announcement to local citizens, said, "I urge all who are able to help the volunteer savings bonds committee of this city reach every possible bond buyer during the ramDaira. "The more we exceed our "In dependence Drive" quota and the more we snread the habit of regu lar saving, the more we shall have done for ourselves, our community and our nation." Fire Chief William "Dutch" Mills reminded local persons not to become alarmed when the rural fire whistle is sounded Monday noon. The siren and five "bomb" blasts, set off aop Mt. Nebo by n.embers of the local American Legion post, is part of a nation wide observance of the bond drive. Roseburg merchants and townspeo ple were also requested to display Ule II M HUM 3 It" IS PENDLETON, May 13 The Federal government s inoe pendence savings bonds drive in Oregon will be launched here Mon day to run until July 4. Gov. uougias mcivay win spea from the platform recently usea by President Truman, ana ring a replica of the original Liberty bell. The bell will be given to the state at the end of the drive. It is one of 53 made in a foundry at Annecy, France, a small city near the Swiss border. Oregon's independence drive quota is $5,892,000 in E. bonds. Umatilla county's quota is $246,- 000. The dedication was set in Pendleton because of this county's outstanding record in earlier bond drives. Railroad Strike Spreads To UP; Pickets Active CHICAGO, May IS. Th. crippling strike of locomotive fire men against four key rail systems spread la. a stretch of the Union Pacific railroad today. At the same time, striking fire men began picketing Pennsylvania railroad yards at mrrisDurg, ra., after the Pennsylvania put 10 freight trains in operation. There were unconfirmed reports that firemen were walking out on the Grand Trunk Western railroad, but a union spokesman in Chicago said be hat no information on that. The strike was called Wednesday by the Brotherhood ot Locomotive Firemen and tngmemen againsi parts of the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Southern and Santa . systems. The union is demand ing a second firemen on certain big diesel locomotives and a firemen on small switch diesels. A union spokesman in Chicago said firemen will refuse to run Union : acific trains over 100 miles of track between Daggett and San Bernardino, Calif., starting at 6 p. m. (PDT) today. He said these tracks are owned by the strike bound Santa Fe railroad. The union attributed the picket ing in the Harrisburg district to the Pennsylvania railroad's re sumption of freight operations. D. S. Herrick, a brotherhood representative, said the Pennsyl vania railroad promised at the start of the strike that it "would not operate trains west or north of Harrisburg." He added: "The management has violated the provisions of that statement, , , . leaving us no alternative but to establish picket lines in the Enola, Pa., and Harrisburg district. ft " Milk Fight Opponents Await Decision From Circuit Court Litigants quietly awairted the outcome of the recent picketing in junction hearing as attorneys for both sides late yesterday filed case briefs and marked time while Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly pre pared to give his decision. No indication was given as to when the judge will decide on the legality of the picketing of Umpqua Dairy or whether the Umpqua Valley Milk Producers association should be enjoined from further picketing. Named as co-defendants in the case were officials and some members of Roseburg Teamsters local 962. However, Roseburg's "milk war' Truman Backs Power, Flood ' Control Of U. S. FOR PECK DAM, Mont., May IS UP President Truman said to day that the government's vast flood control and power program is helping build the "stronger and more prosperous United States" upon which depends "the world's best hope for peace." Mr. Truman appeared more pep pery than most of the people on his cross-country tour a a he started out on another day of "non-Dolitical" stumping with a prepared apeech at the big Fort Peck dam. "Projects like Fort Peck are investments in the future of our country," the President asserted. "Just as a new factory is an in vestment in the future of a cor poration." He said people who "criticize the federal budget overlook facts like these." As he has done since he started his personal "report to the peo ple" at whistle stops through the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest, the President contended his do-' mestic program is strengthening the country for its leadership of free nations. RESEARCHER Ross New. comb, above, has been ap pointed to a new office in th. Stat. Gam. department. H. will serve as chief fishery re search biologist and coordin ate and supervise all fishery re search in the state. His work will be done in cooperation with the school of fish and gam. management at Oregon State college. A graduate of the University of Maine, New. comb cam. Ho Oregon in 1938 and took post graduate work at Oregon State. He joined the gam.' department in 1940 end initiated the river study on he Rogue river. Following wartime service with th. Coait Guard, h. began the Umpqua river study in 1944, and has since been in charge of that activity. Baby A-'Bombs Made By U.S., Report States WASHINGTON. May IS UP) The united Miles nas oaoy a bombs small enough to be car ried bv let fighter-bombers yet possibly as powerful aa their king- sired Drainers. Detailed information on the bombs is a carefully guarded secret. In fact, there has been no official announcement aa yet that they exist. The first definite indication that such weapons are in production was cleaned by a reporter seek ing information on discussions among military leaders over the oossibilitv of arming this coun try's north Atlantic Allies with ato mic weapons. The discussions were said to be based on Ihe possibility of using "lightweight" bombs as tactical weapons to replace expensive ground forces In fcurope. While the site of the "baby A-boms is secret, the fact that they can be carried by jet fighter-bombers gives some hint of their weight. The Republic F-84 Thunderjet, a typical jet fighter bomber now in use by the Air Force, can carry two 1,000-pound bombs, one under each wing Wtytrhoeustr Pension System Announced - PORTLAND, May 13. tV-Con' ract negotiations for the west coast paper industry continued here today after announcement of a pension system for 1.000 pulp di vision employes of the Weyerhaeus er Timber Co. . Union officials said the Weyer haeuser pension program had no relation to the coast-wide bargain ing still underway. Two unions, representing 15,000 employes, are involved in the ne gotiations. They are the AFL Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers and the AFL Paper Makers Op erators of 35 west coast mills also are involved. Details were not announced, ei ther for the contract negotiations. or the Weyerhaeuser pension pro gram. All that was said ot me Dension Dlao was that it covered workers at weyernaeuser s pianu in Springfield, Ore., fcvarett ana Longview, Wash. Secretary To President Calvin Coolidae Dies WASHINGTON, May 13. (PI Everett Sanders, 68, former chairman of the Republican na tional committee and secretary to President Calvin Coolidge, col lapsed and died in his law offices yesterday. ODY FOUND ASTORIA, May 13 tPh- The body of an unidentified man was found near the eastern border, of Clatsop county yesterday. Officials said it apparently had been washed down from the south fork of Wolf creek. Man Convicted Of Manslaughter In Dubell Death EUGENE, May 11 im Jamoa Lloyd Thompson, 27, Oak ridge mill hand, was convicted of manslaughter last night for the March It shooting of Police Chief Clyde Dubell, 41, of Oak ridge. A circuit court ury took S hours to bring In the verdict by an 11-1 vote. The state had asked the ury to convict him of second dogroe murder. . Witnesses said Thompson, aft er an early morning drinking party, shot the police chief who wont to Thompson's hous te Irw vastigato a complaint of noise. Thompson fled, but was arrest ed after a day-long search of the neighboring woods. Dubell was formerly chief of police at Sutherlin. was slill eliciting comment from interested parties througnout tne slate. Statements made recently by th. manaerr of a Portland milk produc ers group in regards to the strike and subsequent injunction hearing were refuted today ny separate statements from the milk producers association and tne teamsiers union. Letter Written In a letter written to Portland papers, the producers group termed as "errors the statemeni issued Thursday by uene u. rosier, manager of the Portland Independ ent . Milk Producers association who aaid he headed a committee oi dairymen asked to "arbitrate" the dispute. Roseburg producers wrote the lavinifin "believes it can work out its own problems with its dis tributors on a local level ana re- enta interference of other dis tributors and other people through out the atate unless they are spe cifically authorized to arbitrate un- J II. .I..1mA Ibui " aer ine mint niimwii .. Ma Siv Pr-dt.:ors Local milk proaucera saia ro- ter and his committee were not asked bv the association 10 meai ate, arbitrate or in any other way interfere with lawful collective oar ootnino " Both the farmers group and the teamsters unioa called attention to Foster's statement that "a few mis led milk producers who affiliated wun me . r 01 u imaici were responsible for this city's milk strike. . "We farmers are not ainiiaiea with the teamsters," the statement said. "We are affiliated only with the Central Labor council of Rose- ls. ' MRS. LOUISE HUMPHRIES', staff assistant, Oregon Business end Tax research, aad mem ber of th. legislative Interim tax study committee will b. in Roseburg May 17 with other m.mbers of the interim tax committee for a noon meeting. Mrs. Humphrey is th. first woman to s.rve on such a com mittee In Oregon. Sh. is r.cog nised as on. of th. bast in form.d women on tax matters in th. stat. Postmaster . Stands Firm On Cut Order 22 Workers In Diplomatic Corps Booted Act Is Retaliation For Election Of 40 Americans ly Reds WASHINGTON, May IS UP) A mass ouster of 22 of the 33 Csech diplomatic corps employes in th. United States waa ordered by the American government today. The action waa taken In retaliation for the ejection of about 40 Americana from Communist Czechoslovakia. In addition, the United States ordered th. Csecha to close their consulates In Cleveland and Pitta burgh. The Csech embassy In Washing ton and the consulate in New York will continue to operate but ob viously with reduced staffs. The American not. delivered In Prague and to the cieca am bassador here amounted to an order but was couched in the us ual diplomatic language of a re quest. Other Moasuroa Hinted The United States also Minted It mar take new aud possible more drastic action against the Cxechs in the future. A statement laauea by the State department said this government "is examining the sit uation not only with respect to the present but also for the future." The mass ejection of Csech re presentatives and their staff em ployea must occur within a "rea sonable time" the Slate depart ment said. Officials added that they have not told the Prague government just what is meant by that. "The Csecha presumably will bave several weeka to settle their affairs and get out of th. country. Figures Change The State department announced originally that there were 52 such officials in the U. S., and that 35 had been ordered Jo leave. Uler the department corrected these figures with the following break down aa to their location: Washington IS, New York 13, Pittsburgh 2, Cleveland 2, and on. in the process of being trsnsfer red from the Chicago consulate which previously had been ordered closed. The department originally WASHINGTON. May 13. UP) Postmaster General Donalds stood firm today on the cuta he haa or dered in postal service, saying complaints against the action were mspirea Dy mo icucr can ici union. In The union promptly fired back rail MiUCriVUIl burg and vicinity.' An Associates Press dispstch (Continued on pago Two! Canyonville City Budget To Be Discussed Tonight The public meeting scheduled in Canyonville tonight at 8 o'clock at the city hall will be for the purpose of discussing the proposed cily budget, not the school bond issue, as previously reported. Three elections are scheduled In Canyonville. Monday. Voting on the city budget amount outside the six percent limitation will take place at the city hall from 9 a. m. to 7 n m A special school election will take place trom S p. m. io p. m. on bond Issue of 315.000 for proposed renovation, repair and completion of the school gymnasium and for ichool and Dlaveround equipment. The third election, from t to 10 p. m. (DST) will be on the county rural school budget. with a atatement accusing t ie cabinet officer of trying to shift the blame for his own "hasty til- advtied action" to Congress. - . In a 3.500 -word statement yester day, Donaldson aaid the depart ment haa received many complaints about the service cutbacks ha or dered lsst month. A lane percentage of these ap pear to have been Inspired by the officers of the National Association of Letter Carriers," he added. I do not feel thit the curtail ments in service will greatly in convenience any considerable num ber of our citizens," his statement declared. The aervice cuts include reduction of msil deliveries in residential areaa to one a day. shorter window hours in post offices, fewer pick ups from street comer boxes, par cel post delivery on a ence-a-day oasis, ana an ena to mgni nanaung of mail other than first class, par cel post ana newspapers. Rep. Ellsworth Sees Long Congress Session WASHINGTON, May 13-JfP)-Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore) predicted today the present session of Con gress will "continue well into Aug ust." "This vear most members would like an early adjournment not lie cause of hot weather," Ellsworth aaid in a statement, "but because of hot elections. My guess is the session will continue well into August." Ellsworth said the senate must dispose of the general appropria tion bill, both houses must act on foreign aid appropriations, some sort of tax bill must be enacted, changes in the social security law must be enacted and action taken on reorganization plans submitted by President Truman. , . LA. Tremor Felt LOS ANGELES, May lS-W-A alight earth tremor waa felt today in the southwest section of the city in the vicinity of the international airport. Apparently there was no dam age. The weather bureau reported the tremor at 7:43v a.m., Pacific daylight time, and caUed it "very slight." t Senate Group Votes Boost For Water Control Budget WASHINGTON, May 1J-P) A Senate appropriations subcom mittee has voted to restore more than half of the nearly $200,000,tiO0 trimmed by the House from 'Pres ident Truman's $798,492,000 budget for flood control and rivers and harbors. Better than $16,000,000 of the increase would go to Pacilic Northwest projects. Actually, what the subcommit tee did was to vote a 10 per cent cut, or $79,848,200, in tne presi dent's budget for the projects in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The House had lopped off nearly 25 per cent, bringing the amount down to $599,145,000, so the effect of the subcommittee's action was to restore a good part of the House cuta. The matter now goes to the Senate appropriations committee and then to the Senate, itself, for a vote. After that differences with the House version would have to be ironed out in joint conference The subcommittee went against Mr. Truman s expressed wishes ommended that no new projects be started this year. The new projects Include the Skipanon channel at Warrenton, Oregon, 5154,000, ana inanesion Harbor, Coos Bay, Ore., $349,000 Figures for Pscific northwest projects already underway were placed at (amounts allowed by the House in brackets): McNary dam, ($37,500,000 ($35, 000.000); Detroit dam, $20,000,000, ($13,000,000): Dorena dam, $800,- 000 ($720,000); Lookout Point dam and reservoir. $15,720,000 (siu.ww,- nrm- Willamette bank orotection. $450,000 ($200,000): Chief Joseph dam, $12,000,000 ($12,000,000). The subcommittee also aiioiieo $245,000 for planning Ice Harbor: dam on the Snake river. The 1 House had knocked out the $250, 000 recommended by the budget. I Iu addition $115,000 was voted for planning Cougar reservoir in the Willamette valley. Senator Cordon (R-Ore) said work on McNary. Detroit and Lookout Point dams and Willam ette bank protection would not fife M fx) W mm 1 i. j 1 r 1 m if 1 I .... 1 ., , , f f - TX'itiX -tTr-"" (Continued on page Two) Woodworkers Resume Talks PORTLAND. May 13- -Nego tiations resumed between employ ers and CIO woodworkers here to day with 1 widespread strike hang ing in tne balance. Unlea an agreement is reached, the woodworkers will be on strike Monday throughout the pine region of the Pacific Northwest and in much of western Washington a id Oregon. There were Indications, nowever, that a settlement would be reached. One employer group, the Wil lamette Valley Operators associa tion, reached agreement wun me union yesterday, granting health and welfare benefits ana three pa 10 holidaya. Later the big Long-Bell Lumber company made a aimilar agreement. ' The contracts csn lor empioyera to osv 1 cents a msn-hour to insurance comDanies or hospital associations to finsnce a neann nH welfare nrotram. In addition, the Long-Bell agree ment calls for a union ahop at the Longview mill, the Longview boom nnpralions. the Long-Bell logging operetions at Ryderwood, Wash., nri at the Gardiner Lumber Co Reedsport. Ore. The Gardiner op eration ia a Long-Bell aubsidiary, A NEW TWIST NEW YORK, May 13- UP) Here's a new twist to the cold wsr The Associated Fur manufactur er of New York disclosed today it made a deal with Soviet Russia for the exchange of 12 live Amen ran mink for 12 live Russian sa bles. The animals were to be used fnr hreedina nurrjoses. The trade was completed. But the New York furriers said they now have discovered the Kussisn sablea were sterilized before ship ment. Airway Workers Out On Stride- ' NEW YORK, May lS-) Sev en hundred flight service workers, supported by 3,000 maintenance employeea who refused to cross picket lines, struck today against the hug. Pan American World Airways. A representative of the airline aaid that except for delays th. company's flight schedules wer. being maintained througnout th. world-wide ayatem. The strikers, members of th. CIO Transport Workers union, walked off their jobs early today after laat minute mediation nego tiations collapsed. Main Issue in the diapute ia the union's demand for higher pay. No new meetings of negotiations were scheduled. The company aaid the strike directly involved TOO flight service personnel stewards, stewardeaaea, and purses. They placed picket lines around the company'a far flung American bases and th. maintenance workers, members of the same union, refused to cross them. The company said supervisory employeea had taken over main- tenance work. The airline operates a fleet or 140 planes. It has a total ot 14,000 employeea. 'Actual Disloyalty" Discounted In Talk NEW YORK. Msy IS UP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sayi she does not believe there is very much "actual disloyalty" In our country. The former first lady, speaxing on her CBS television snow last night, also ssid she is "very un happy" about the kind of teati mony being used by the govern ment in esses or suspeciea suo- versive activity. Mrs. Roosevelt wss in a forum- type debate with Sen. Owen Brew ster (R-Me) on the subject "What does disloyalty to the Unites Statss mean?" At one point in th. debate Sen. Brewster recalled that Mrs. Roose velt had expressed doubt of Al ger Hiss' guilt after he was con victed of perjury for denying h. had given pre-war secrets to th. Soviet Union. "Alger Hiss was never a friend of mine," she replied. "I hsrdly knew him ... I knew him fairly well, but in a perfectly objective way." when it decided to add $10,000,000 bave to be curtailed during the to begin new projecU of "high year If the srwnta voted by the priority." The President bad rec-' subcommittee were retained. . , , , , ,i i HEALTH WINNERS From 30 contestants representing Douglas county -n eiuos " ' L L. L Kk;..t k, and oirls in the county. Pictured with Dr. E. J. Weinseott, canter, who supervised th. judging and mad. th. .seminations, th. winners pieof .Li ... i vi.r L4wrU Creak, second Diet: Terrv Le. Lamport, Myrtle (.reek. riqnr, mrw biuitin, mvvj, , r . . . first place for qirls; Dr. Wainscot; Arthur Hogan. Gardiner, healthiest boy. and Lorm Mun- sin, Myrtl. Creek, second place tor ooys. ir.iur. Dy mo.. TRUMAN JOINS TRIBI HAVRE, Mont., May 1S-(J1 Preaident Truman last night be-, came an honorary member of the i Blackfcet Indian tribe. j ' At a brief induction ceremony : during Mr. Truman's stop in this north central Montana city, seven Indians gave the President a war bonnet and peace pipe. The crowd urged Mr. Truman te try oa th. colorful headpiece, but he declined. J MOTORIST KILLED SALEM. May 13-WP)-HaskelI Sterling Russell, 21, Independence, wss killed early today when his automobile crashed into the Oak Point bridge on th. Salem-Inde- penrienre highway. Levity Fact Rant By L. P. Reizenstein Sign of super optimism: A eouncement of scheduled Mt doar affair that mlts wards, "H waejthar aarmrrs.