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28th street station in Pittsburgh
diesel locomotive after striking
their walk-out aqainst four major
doned its demand for an additional fireman on multiple-unit
diesel engines and agreed to -
arbitration. INfcA lelephoto.l
Escaped Convict,
Pal Nabbed;
Holdup Admitted
MYRTLE POINT, May 1&-UP)-Richard
Johnson, 27, who escaped
from a prison work gang near
Salem Saturday, was nabbed here
Wednesday while seated in a tav
ern. With him was Peter Paul Biziko,
29, Toledo, wanted on a Marion
county warrant charging him with
aiding in the escape.
State police from Coquille made
the arrests.
There was no resistance.
State Police Sgt. E. Kenton
Thompson said the tip came when
the men sold a .22 caliber auto
matic pistol.
This pistol was used In an armed
robbery at Newport Sunday,
Thompson said Johnson told him.
He said Johnson reported that the
two held up a taxi driver at New
port and later forced him to drive
them to Gardiner where they got
out of the taxi and went on afoot.
'Johnson, a Lane county resident
who was serving a seven-year sen
tence for assault and robbery
while armed with a dangerous
weapon, ran from a gang of pris
oaers who were picking strawber
ries. He i jumped into a passing
car to make his quick getaway.
Two ex-convicts are being held
in jails at Salem and Toledo on
charges of aiding his escape.
Biziko was released from the
prison March 13 after . serving a
term for larceny.
His brother, Louis, is held in jail
at Toledo, and the other ex-convict,
Robert Roy Hooker, is in jail
at Salem.
State Police Lt. Farley Morgan
said Hooker told him that he was
offered $20,000 to help in the es
cape. Mother, Three Children
Perish In Heme Fire
VICTORIA, B. C, May 18 (CP)
A 30-year-old mother and three
of her five children died in a fire
which destroyed their two -story
home today in suburban Saanich.
Dead are: Mrs. Annie Reid;
Sharon, one-year-old today; Brian,
three, and Jackie, four.
Ray Reid, husband and father
of the victims, succeeded in res
cuing two other children by break
ing a window and tossing them to
the ground from a second story
bedroom. He suffered painful
burns on the wrists and face.
The fire it believed to have
started from smouldering clothes
which were hung around the kitch
en stove to dry during the night.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS ., .
FOR three days la Chicago, the
Democratic 'party held a JEF
FERSON JUBILEE CELEBRA
TION which brought to the Windy
City all the members of the Presi
dent's cabinet along with some
3,000 of the party's leaders from all
over the country. '
It was climaxed by the return of
President Truman from his wholly
non-political, just-visiting-with-the-
folks tour of the country. The littla
man from Missouri made a speech.
It wasn't a political speech.' It
COULDN'T HAVE BEEN, for his
tour wasn't ended till he got back
to Washington, and he has been
telling us over and over that it
wasn't a political tour.
The taxpayers paid for it and
quite a lot of Republicans are tax
payers. I can't believe our Harry
would be a party to a sneaking
little scheme to call a political trip
a non-political trip just so its cost
could be saddled onto the taxpayers
as a whole instead of being paid for
by the Democratic national com
mittee out of funds collected for
political purposes.
I choose to BELIEVE OUR
PRESIDENT when he says the trip
was completely non-political. So I
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railroad yard workers at the
wave happily in front of a
: railroad firemen called off
rail systems., The union aban
submit secondary ' demands - to
Phone Co's Request For
slates' Boost Suspended
SALEM. May IS im The Pa
cific Talaphone and Telegraph
company's request for a $2,920,
000 rate Increase in Oregon was
suspandsd today by Public Util
ities Commissioner Ceorge H.
Fligg.
Flagg's ection Is routine. The
suspension order has to be issued
before he can fix the date for a
hearing on the increase.
. If Flagg hadn't suspended the
requested increase, then the In
creased rates would have be
come effective today)
Doukhobor Prison
List Upped By 56
GRAND FORKS. B. C. Mav 18
UP) Three-year prison senten
ces were given another 56 trou
blesome ' Doukhobors yesterday,
bringing to 146 the number sen
tenced since April 28.
The latest group,' as were also
52 others sentenced Tuesday here
and at Nelsonr.were, charged with
nude parading.
.Another 211 sect memoes, all
belonging to the radical sons of
freedom branch, await trial for
arson and nudism.
Meanwhile, in Ottawa, justice
Minister Garson announced that a
detachment of 22 Royal Canadian
mounted police is being sent into
British Columbia from Alberta 'to
help bring the rebellious sect, un
der control.
The additional helo was requested
by the British Columbia attorney-general
several days ago fol
lowing the dynamiting of a Cand
dian Pacific railroad bridge.
'Assignment of the police detach
ment brought to approximately
60 the number of officers on duty
in the - strife ridden Doukhobor
area. . , .
Romania Orders U. S. To
Reduce Legation . Staff
WASHINGTON. May 18 -UP)
Communist Romania today de
manded that the United States re
duce the staff of - the American
legation at Bucharest by approxi
mately half.
A note to the State department
called for trimming the staff of 10
persons to 10 and renewed charges
that some Americans have taken
part in spying agamst the Com
munist regime.
It was a new blow in the running
dispute between the United States
and other Western powers on one
hand and the Soviet bloc Eastern
European countries on the other.
The U.S. only last month re
quired Romania to close an office
of its commercial attache in New
York city. Earlier, Romania had
forced suspension of operations by
the U.S. Information service in
Bucharest. -
Two Men Jailed Here
On Outside Requests
Ray Sebcm Pruitt, 57, of Myrtle
Creek was arrested Wednesday at
Myrtle Creek on a warrant issued
at Independence, Oregon, charg
ing Pruitt with auto theft. Pending
removal to Independence, Pruitt is
being held in the county jail under
$1000 bail, Sheriff O. T. Carter re
portes. Earl I. Barton, 35, Rapid City,
S. Dak., is being held for authorities
of that state on a forgery charge.
Barton has waved extradition
proceedings and the S. Dak.,, au
thorities are on their way to pick
him up, sheriff Carter said.
Argentine Banks Given
Export-Import Bank Loan
WASHINGTON, May 18 UP)
The Export-Import bank has an
nounced approval of a $125,000,000
loan to a group of banks in Argen
tina. The approval was disclosed in a
statement which said the credit
is being made after lengthy con
sideration of the economic and fi
nancial position of Argentina and
its trade relations with the United
States.
The csport-lmnort hank said un
paid debts owed by Argentine busi
ness firms have put a heavy crimp
in that country's dollar reserves.
Tito Wecfker
Parrty etoody with scattered
showers today cmd Friday.
Sunset today 1:33 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow 1:45 a. ni.
Established 1S73
Switchmen s Strike Threatens Jen Roads
Walkout Of
6,000 Slated
Next Tuesday
Union Demands 48-Hour
Wage For 40-Hour Week;
Refuses To Wait Longer
CHICAGO, May 18. CP) Ten
midwestern and western railroads
were threatened today with a
strike Tuesday morning by 6,000
switchmen.
The walkout was called last night
by the AFL Switchmen's Union
of North America in a wage dis
pute. It came less than 48 hours after
settlement on the crippling six-day
firemen's strike against five of
the nation's carriers. The threat
ened walkout is not directed
against any of the recently struck
lines.
Union President Arthur J. Glover
said in Washington the strike was
set to enforce demands for 48
hours pay for a 40-hour work
week. The union, one of the five
operating brotherhoods, was not
affected by the 1949 decision by
presidential emergency boards giv
ing the 40-hour work-week to non-
operating workers.
rue strike action, mover said.
will be directed against the Chi
cago Great Western; Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific; Daven
port. Rock Island and Northwest
ern; Denver and Rio Grande
Western; Great Nortnern:
apolis and St. Louis; Northern
Pacific Terminal company ot Ore
gon; St. Paul Union Depot com'
pany; Sioux City Terminal Rail'
way Company, and Western Pa
cific Railrdad company. The strike
deadline was announced as 6 a.m.
local time.. '
A spokesman for the Association
of Western Railways said switch
tenders, yard foremen, yard brake-
men and helpers would.be affected
by the strike. The- union, he said,
represents about 10 percent of the
men doing this class of work on
the nation s carriers.
Separate Action Wanted
A presidential fact-finding board
in a report to President Truman
on April 19, had suggested the
switchmen's case would be passed
upon after hearing similar cases
by two other operating unions.
the Trainmen and the Order of
Railway Conductors.
The board has been holding hear
ings here for two months and its
report is due June 1. The switch
men contended its case deserved
a separate board.
"We refuse to wan," Glover said
in announcing the strike action,
"We have waited long enough,
We followed the law and we ex
pect to be treated as law abiding
citizens and as a law abiding
union."
Glover said that "most of Ameri
can industry has had a basic 40
hour work week for years. That's
ail we want."
Woman Auditor Enters
Arizona Governor Race
PHOENIX, Aril., May IS.-UP)-
Mrs. Ana Frohmiller. Arizona's
state auditor for 24 years, today
entered the race for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor,
She is the first woman to seek
the Arizona governorship.
Mrs. Frohmiller, 58, is known
in her state as the "watchdog of
the treasury" because of the many
times she has rejected expense
claims ot state officials and de
partments because of doubtful le
gality.
She has been elected state audi
tn. 19 llfiAAGsiira ftmna
Navy Scientist, Pilot
Lost In Arctic Flight
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 18
W) A navy scientist, missing for
nine days, was identified last night
as Rogers D. Hamilton. The Inden
tification was made by Johns Hop
kins university, sponsor of tne
arctic research laboratory at Bar
row, Alaska, where Hamilton
an assistant.
The scientist and pilot Bert Gal
breath have been unreported since
taking off from here May 9 on a
flight to Barrow. Pilots of search
ing planes said they had drawn a
complete blank for their efforts.
LOGGER, HURT, DIES IN PLANE
CLARKSTON, Wash., May 18
UP) A logger, struck by a rolling
log, died yesterday in ar. ambu
lance plane flying him here for
treatment.
Witnesses said the victim, Alvin
N. Carney, 48, of Anatone, Wash.,
was struck when the log rolled
from a truck at the Troy Pines,
inc., yards in Troy, Ore.
TRAFFIC FINE PAID
James Grant Arbuckle, Rose
burg, entered a plea of not guilty
to a charge of violation of the
basic traffic rule, upon arraign
ment in municipal court today,
reported Judge Ira B. Riddle.
Arbuckle, however, pleaded guil
ty to a charge of driving without
an operator's license, and was
fined $20,, ihe judge said.
ROSEBURG,
Fiery Crash
Of B-29 Kills
All 16 Aboard
PONTA DELCADA, Azores'
May 18. AP) A B-29
bomber crashed off the runway
at Lagans field last night and
burst into flames, killing all 16
persons aboard.
Unofficial reports said the
U. S. air force plane hit an
automobile parked off the field.
The plane caught fire immedi
ately and burned in a few
minutes. Fourteen men were
burned beyond recognition.
me plane, carrying a crew
of II and five passengers, be
lieved to be military personnel,
was en route from Bermuda to
England.
its noma was Barksdale air-
force base at Shreveport, La.
Capt. Salvador Pelle, public
information - officer at Barks
dale, said the plane had been
diverted to Lagans field when
it developed engine trouble. He
said no high-ranking officers
were aboard. i
The bomber was en route to
England as part of the air force
rotational plan to provide over
seas training tor regular air
force groups.
Rights Restored
To Freed Convict
TACOMA. Mav 18 UP) A
convicted forger who served nearly
four years in the state penitentiary
had his full rights restored yes
terday. ilL, a- .tr&Hltinn -.ihiittoM.
ing move by a Pierce county judge. I
rnu- t. : , A i
mo ui-uer. siuneu ov aunenor
Judge W. A. Richmond, restored
full rights as an American citizen
to Lemuel L. Wingard of Tacoma.
I he action was believed without
precedent in the state's legal his
tory, it constitutes, in effect, a
pardon a power normally exer
cised only bv a coventor or nrnil.
dent, depending upon whether the
crime is a violation ot state or fed
eral law.
Restoration of full riehts as a
citizen permits a person to vote
or to hold public office. State law'
denies both rights to persons con
victed of a felony.
Under terms of the conditional
parole, Wingard was directed to
live within King county and "to
leave King county only with the
written permission ' of the parole
board; to refrain from writing let
ters criticizing public officials; to
support his minor children and to
consult on alternate weeks with
father McGoldrick, Seattle univer
sity psychiatrist.
Wingard signed the parole under
protest.
Old Anti-Bowling Law
Slated For Knockout
BALTIMORE, May 18 W
Bowling to Baltimore is the same
as- smoked glasses to Hollywood.
One goes with the other. ' 1
, But it's just been discovered that
the game has been illegal here for
117 years. With a $2 fine, to
boot.
A councilman thumbing through
Dusty city ordinancds came across
a section that outlawed the game
of "long bullets."
A little research made it pretty
obvious that "long bullets" was a
forerunner of the gams that is a
$4,000,000 business here.
But don't worry about bowling
alleys installing' speakeasy - style
peep-holes in their doors. The law
is to be wiped off the books at the
next council meeting.
Wage Increase Won By Lumber-Sawmill
Union In Douglas Fir Areas
Northwestern council of Lumber
and Sawmill workers, AF of L
today announced it has reached a
proposed settlement' with a large
part of the Douglas fir area for an
across-tne-Doard increase oi
10W
cents an hour, retroactive to May
1, according to Ted Prusia, busi
ness agent of Local 2049.
The proposed settlement estab
lishes a minimum of $1.55Vb an
hour within the industry, up from
$1.45 the previous prevailing scala
All wages will be increased ac
cordingly. Executive committee of
the council is recommending to all
local unions and district council
thst if any employer In the north
west lumber industry refuses to
grant the 10V4 cents increase retro
active to May 1 "with absolutely
no strings attached," that strike
action be taken.
The recommended agreement
covers approximately 22,000 work
en in the Douglas fir belt.
.4
OREGON THURSDAY, MAY
Primary Vote
Of 50 Percent
Is Predicted
Registration Lead Spurs
Democrats Of Oregon To
Bid For State's Control
SALEM, May 18-fl More than
350,000 Oregonians are expected to
vote in tomorrow's primary elec
tion to decide who will be the Re
publican and Democratic nomi
nees for state, national and local
offices.
The campaign, featured by a bit
ter Democratic race for governor
ana a not Dame tor united states
senator, will end tonight with can
didates making their final pleas
to woo the voters.
The predicted total vote tomor
row is based on the face that
usually only about half of the reg-
laicivu vuieia luai uieir utuiuis ill
a primary election.
This is the year that the Demo
crats are making their supreme
effort to console the state.
They have been heartened by
tne fact that for the first
time, the Democrats lead the Re
publicans in the number of regis
tered voters.
The Democrats have candidates
for almost all offices. Never be
fore have they bad so many can
didates listed.
Most interest is centered on the
Democratic contest for governor
in which three Portland men have
been fighting bard to win the nom
ination, ine winner will oppose
Governor Douglas McKay, who has
no opposition in the primary. .
The three Democratic guberna
torial candidates are State Treas
urer, Walter J. Pearson. State Sen
Austin Flegel, and former State
Sen. Lew Wallace. This race is a
toss-up.
Morse Favored To Win
U. -S.' Sen.' Wayne Morse? raft
n'nB for a second term, is an over-
'. l. , :i i t-n
Vrhelining favorite to win Republi
can renommation. He's running
against Dave Hoover. Lane county
dairyman who has been putting up
a oiuuuuiu uaiuc 111 Wllllll lie IC
cuses Morse of supporting Presi
dent Truman s program. Morse
contends Hoover is an isolationist,
A third candidate is John Mc
Bride, who is clerk of a senate
committee in Washington, but he
hasn't campaigned.
On the Democratic side of the
Senate race, Dr. Louis A. Wood,
cugene, retirea economics protes
sor, is running against Howard F,
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Inheritance Shifted By
Voodoo Trick, Suit Claims
LOS AGNELES, May 18 -UP)
Voodoe and mystic voices talked
her blind mother into disinheriting
her from a $100,000 estate,- Mrs.
Frances Howe claims.
The estate was willed instead to
a spiritual medium, Mrs. Teresa
Anderson, who arranged the sean
ces in which an Indian guide named
White Feather advised the mother,
Mrs. Howe's complaint alleged yes
terday in superior court.
The suit charges Mrs. Anderson
conspired with six other persons
to fake messages to Mrs. Martha
L. Franklin, who died last month
at the age of 88. Mrs. Anderson
was named sole beneficiary and
executrix in Mrs. Franklin's will.
SEEKS DIST. ATTY. JOB
Gerald O. Kabler, Sutherlin at
torney, today announced that he
would be a candidate for the of
fice of district attorney on an inde
pendent ticket in the November
general election.
Kabler is currently a candidate
for justice of peace Tor Calapooia
district in the primary election.
Jerry Villis of Roseburg has been
announceu as his campaign
manager.
Strike votes already have been'
taken in western Washington by
the Puget Sound District council
and in the Willamette Valley Dis
trict council area.
I Deduction Plan Rejected
The AFL Lumber Workers nego
tiators rejected all offers of wage
increases which would be deducted
by the employ r to be turned over
to insurance tympanies for wel
fare benefits, K was announced.
This was done, it was explained,
because such dec actions would in
crease income tax and other with
holdings, an increase which the
employes would never receive,
causing an actual wage reduction
and "because it would place the
entire obligation of establishing a
welfare program on the union and
employes only."
The Northwestern council, an
nouncement said that the AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers also
rejected all other settlements of
18, 1950
State Expense Brake, Revenue
To Meet Tax Bill Problems
At Legislators1
How to hold state expenses to
money to pay Oregon's $199,000,000 tax bill are the big prob
lems the state interim tax commission is attempting to solve.
Koseburg, visited Wednesday, wes the groups 12th stopping
place in a busy tour of the state. This commission is presenting
facts about state finances and ' attempting to obtain local
opinion on primary issues.
Extension Of Rent
Control Favored
WASHINGTON. May 18 - UP)
The Housing Banking committee
voted 13 to 4 today for another
year of federal rent control.
me Din provides, however that
controls will end December 31 in
cities that do not vote to continue
them until June 30, 1951.
The present rent control law ex
pires at the end of next month.
rne committee s action sends its
bill to the House.
Governors of the various states
would have no authority to veto
the action of cities taking them
selves out from under the federal
rent ceilings.
President Truman asked for a
renewal of the rent law in a special
message to congress April zi. He
said "a sudden and simultaneous
removal of rent controls on a na
tional scale would precipitate a
wave of exorbitant rent i n
creases."' - Mr. Truman also argued that
rent increases would mean the
average family would have to cut
its spending for food and clothing.
He said that would lead to unem
ployment. Labor groups also campaigned
strongly for continuation of con
trols.
A
Spokesmen for the CIO and A,
of L. told the committee yesterday
Lthat if controls were dropped, la
bor certainly .would ask for a new
round ot wage increases.
Millions of rental units have
been decontrolled under the pre
sent law that permits state legis
latures to decontrol whole states,
localities to decontrol themselves
and the federal housing expediter
to lift ceilings where he thinks
housing pressures have eased.
Dope Ring Operating On
Mexican Border Smashed
GALVESTON, Tex., May 18.
CP) Federal and local officers
claim to have broken up a $1,
000,000 dope ring which bought
heroin from New York racketeers
with marihuana, smuggled from
Mexico.
About 50 suspects were arrested
yesterday in a day-long series of
raids on taverns and rooming
houses in this gulf coast area.
Al beam, customs agent In
charge at Houston, said the ring
paid a New York syndicate $250
an ounce for heroin by trading
marihuana in payment. He said
the value of marihuana . ranges
from $50 to $60 a pound.
Narcotic Activity Of
Juveniles Stirs Police
VANCOUVER, B. C, May 18
UP) Declaring that narcotic acti
vity among juveniles has hit "ma
jor crime proportions" in Vancou
ver, police officials ordered an all
out drive yesterday on adult ped
dlers believed to be supplying the
vounesters.
Among the juveniles taken into
custody was a 14 - year - old girl
charged with possession of narco
tics.
KILLED BY TOOTHPICK
LONDON, May 18 UP) A
coroner's jury found today that
Thomas Newman, 69, was killed
by a toothpick.
He swallowed the toothpick and
it cut a blood vessel in his inten
stincs, causing a fatal hemorrhage.
Of Northwest
fered in lieu of wage Increases
because thev were not offered or
obtainable without strings attached
that would make the value of such
offers, including paid holidays,
more favorable to employers than
to the workers.
"The AFL-LSW did not agree to
withhold any further demands for
pensions for any period of time and
intends to make further studies
along this line," according to Ken
neth Davis, executive secretary of
Northwestern council. "We still be
lieve a pension in wMch the em
ployer is obligated is a definite
benefit to the industry."
The recommended agreements
covering all of Willamette valley
fir belt and other areas adjacent
to Portland, and the plywood and
door industry in Oregon and Wash
ington, wore completed by AFL
negotiators with Willamette valley
operators nssociatni. and the Ply
wood and Door Manufacturers In
dustrial committee.
117-50
Forum Here
a minimum and how to raise
Approximately 60 persons, repre
senting county, cities, school dis
tricts and civic organizations of
Douglas county, gathered in the
Hotel -Umpqua for the talks by
members of (the committee and
for a forum discussion which
followed.
, Headed by Senator Howard Bel
ton, the delegation included Repre
sentatives Giles French of Moro;
Mrs. Louise Humphreys, staff
assistant, Oregon Business and Tax
Research; Earl B. Day, former
legislator and Jackson county
judge; Representative John Sell of
The Dalles, and Vern Young,
assistant budgeb director.
Important topics discussed were:
The basic school support $30 in
crease measure, veterans bonus
bill, elimination of the property
tax bill, and the bill to eliminate
relative responsibility for welfare
cases, all of which will be up to
the voters in November, and the
po posed business tax,
Tax Burden Cited
Oregon has an overall tax burden
of $618,000,000, -Senator Belton
pointed out. This represents $389
per capita or 39 percent of the
assessed valuation of property in
the state. Of this burden, $413,000,
000 is federal tax witn $122,000,000
returned to the state in the form
of grants and federal projects. The
remainder, $199,000,000, represents
state, - county, city ana acnooi
taxation. t '
State budget balances are shrink
inft' nl JLlelLlf JfiTJJuJ
no on -memutos'iftn Hie ballot ln"J
November, the state will have a
deficit of over $7,000,000 by the
end of r next biennium, unless
additional revenue - is , provided,
Belton added. .
(More of this story on page i)
Western Europe
Defense Planned
LONDON, May II. im
Atlantic pact foreign ministers
et up e permanent high com
mand tonight and ordered it te
develop the ermed forces neces
sary for the defense of western
Europe.
Each ef the 11 member foreign
ministers will appoint a deputy
te serve en the permanent com
mittee. The appointments will be made
"with the least possible daisy"
so that the deputies can proceed
te appoint a full-tlr. e chairman
from among their members, the
foreign ministers announced In e
communique at the close ef their
four-day session.
This was in line with an agree
ment to set up e high command
te block Communism, whether It
tries armed attack or "Trojan
Horse" conquest.
Stalin In Good Health,
Trygve Lie Reports
MOSCOW. I Mav 18 MP)
United Nations secretary general
Trygve Lie says Prime Minister
Stalin is hals snd hearty.
Lie, who talked with Stalin for
n hour and a half on Monday,
told reporters the Generallissimo
"was healthy and lively as he
u In lfl-lfi "
"All these rumors about his
hoolth ire liei and false." Lie said,
"Maybe they are wishful thinking
on uie ui buiiio jwjv'.,
Lie last talked to tne nussian
leader when he was in Moscow
four years ago.
Waterway Projects Bill
Signed By President
WASHINGTON, May 18 UP)
President Truman has slgnea a
bill authorising flood control, navi
gation and reclamation projects es
timated to cost $1,730,251,825.
The hill carries no aopropria'
tions. It, simply clears the way Cor
future appropriations by Congress
for the various prelects usieti.
Criticized by' opponents as pork
barrel legislation, the bill Includes
projects in virtually all of the 48
states.
Plane Crash Victim Dies
Enroute To Hospital
SEATTLE. Mav 18. UP) As an
ambulance speeded him through
Stevens psss toward Seattle, Rob
ert Hushes of Cashmere died yes
terday of injuriea received in an
airplane crash Sunday.
' The 30-year-old man was being
brought to a hospital here for
emergency surgery.
Hughes was a passenger in a
training plane piloted by Vern
Moss, 30, Cashmere airport com
missioner. Moss died shortly after
the crash near Cashmere.
Homes Again
Getting Dairy
Deliveries
Producers Accept Price
Of $5.73 Cwt. On Milk,
Halfway Between 2 Rates
. Roseburg's "milk war'.' Is over.
Representatives of the Milk Pro
ducers association met last night
with owner-managers of Umpqua
dairy and Roseburg dairy and
reached a compromise on a milk
price, thus renewing home milk '
deliveries stopped here more than
two weeks ago.
Farmera will be paid $5.73 per
hundredweight for raw milk of four
percent butterfat content. They '
were asking $5.98 per cwt., 46 :
cents above the state-authorized .
minimum.
The compromise price is retro-.
active to May 1.
Local persona will now pay a
half cent less per quart than they
were paying before May 1, when
the actual dispute flared up. Pas
teurized milk will sell for 20 cents
a quart and homogenized will cost
one cent more.
Halfway Mark Gets O.K.
A statement issued jointly by
the Umpqua Valley Milk Produc
ers association and distributor rep
resentatives said:
"We have reached a practical
solution in a democratic fashion.
Retroactive to May 1, farmers will
receive $5.73 per cwt. for their t
riilk. This represents a halfway
mark between the price originally -asked
and the price set as mini
mum by the state. The agreement
has been reached and. accepted
without prejudice on the part of
any person involved."
Home milk deliveries were be
gun this morning by Umpqua dairy
and Roseburg dairy, whose deliv
ery trucks bad been idle for IS
days. - '
Pickets Withdrawn
Spokesmen for , tne parties in
volved met last '.,ght to negotiate
a price which they deemed satis
factory and operations in the two
distributing plants began almost
immediately. Pickets, posted by
the farmers group to support their
demands for a wnoiesaie mux
price, were removed from Umpqua
dairy and plant workers there went
back to the job at 10:30 p.m. nose-,
burg dairy, which has been accept
ing and processing milk through
out the dispute, also resumed nor-
m.I MUMtlAna anil ViMflM t1ivn..:
tody for the first time jrinc..
(h. ,trik hesan ' ' .'
No mention was made today or.
lBmnt .rarrlMf in A Pnrtlanit
newspaper which said farmers here'
would resist efforts of the milk
marketing administration to re
move milk quotas from individual
farmers.
Interest Cut On;
Tax Refunds Voted
WASHINGTON. May 18.-6P)
The House ways and means com
mittee voted today to cut to 2
percent the interest rate the gov
ernment pays on overpayments of
taxes tnat later are refunded.
The rate now is 6 percent. The
committee decided to keep at 6
percent the rate the taxpayer must
pay if he is late with his pay
ments.
At present, the government paya
out about $100,000,000 a year in
interest on tax overpayments later
refunded. Staff experts advised the
committee that cutting the rate
from 6 to 2 percent would save
the government $67,000,000 a year.
Some big taxpayers are sus
pected in fact of deliberately over
paying their taxes in order to
collect the 6 percent Interest rates
being wnat they are and bond
yields as low as they are an
overpayment of taxes ia one ot
the most profitable safe invest
ments a man with surplus money
can make.
Damage Suit Results.
From Political Fracas
PORTLAND. May 18 CP) A
$50,000 damage suit for a punched
and broken nose over the Dave
Hoover campaign for the GOP sen
ate nomination was mea here
yesterday. ,,
Orville K. Buckner, who one
directed the financial end of Hoov
er's campaign, complained that
an advertising man bad broken
his nose. He ssid J. Showaltef
Lynch, who handled Hoover's ad
vertising, struck him while both
were seated in restaurant May
1. , - . ....-..-.:.
lynch said Buckner was overly
critical of the advertising.
SENTENCE IMPOSED
Circuit Judge Carl E. Wlmberly
Wednesday sentenced - Ctrl J.
Drake to two years In the Oregon
penitentiary, -fudge Wimberly im
posed the sentence following a plea
of guilty entered by Drake last
Saturday to the district attorney'
information charging him with ob
taining money by false pretiuesj
The district attorney said Drake
had passed a number of bad checks
in this vicinity. , 'f
Levity Fct Rant
By L. F. Relsensteln
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morrow. The oot-lpteteet 1 tnte)
wM be repretttttte' by the sV
fix of 'h' in from? ef "Veter,'
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