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COMP ma mm am ui U. of 0. Library Eugene,' Ore. WHO DOES WHAT ' ! N ' . i - t w r 1 EUNICE WALTERS, waitress at the Silv.r Nook, presents a cup of coffee to an ardent java fiend who probably drinks much more of it than he should. Mrs. Walters and her husband, Lee, live at the Kohlhagen apartments. They came to Roseburg two years ago from Santa Monica, California. GLOOMY PREDICTION Strikes For Wage Boosts Coming In Next 12 Months. Oregon AFL Official Says LaGRANDE, June 12 (API A plea for better labor-industry relations and a prediction of a wave of strikes in the next 12 months was made today as the AFL State Federation of Labor convention opened. The work stoppages were forecast by James T. Marr, execu tive secretary, who said union demands for higher wages to meet rising living costs would be resisted by employers. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS STANDING the other day in the pulpit of the Augustana Evan gelical Lutheran church in Wash ington, President Truman asked the nation to pray that he may be given the wisdom to obtain peace in the world. Speaking simply, apparently meaning every word he uttered, he said: "Never in the history of our country has a servant of the people and that is what the President is needed your support and your prayers as does' the present occu pant of the White House . . . ". . . No man, no matter how great or how informed he may be, is capable of filling the Presidency in the manner in which it ought to be filled. It is the greatest job in the world. , . , ". . . All any man can do is the best he can in the interests of all (Continued on Page Four) Rubber Check Existence Of 2 Years Ends In Jail KLAMATH FALLS. June 12 MP) Harry Leonard Derby, 61, stretched his visit here too long sod the rubber checks snapped dim into jail Saturday night. Derby was seized in a hotel room. charged with having lived lor two years on bad checks forged on a number of construction firms. Detective Bud Atkinson said Derby's forgeries were very authentic looking. They were on stolen check blanks of at least 11 firms, bore carefully filled in sal aries complete to deductions for Social Security and taxes, and were stamped by a stolen check protector. - The amounts total at least $5,000. Atkinson reported. The check pro tector had been stolen from the Steele Construction co., Eugene, about two years ago. Derby has a previous forgery record and served time in the Washington state prison. Spectator Kills Self At Baseball Game . HOUSTON, Tex., June 12. (&i Houston television listeners heard a 50-year-old laundryman commit suicide last night at a Texas lea cue baseball game. Stanford B. Twente shot himself to death as he sat beside KLEE- TV Telecaster Dick Gottlieb in a press box at Buffalo stadium. The snot was neara over television ana throughout the stadium Seconds later a TV camera focused on Twente s slumped body, Police sad a report a half hour earlier he had told a bar waitress he was going to kill himself and "to watch me at the end of the fifth." The shooting occurred as the Houston pitcher stepped to the plate to start the last half ot the sixth inning against Tulsa. " "Continuation of price increases will force demands for higher wages. Some of these demands may be expected this fall and a greater number in the winter and next spring. Employer resistance is growing more determined, so it would not be surprising if a wave of strikes is experienced with the next year," Marr said in his an nual report. Marr urged labor and industry to try to work closer on their com mon problems, industry's seasonal situations and labor s resulting un employment. He noted that Ore gon's per man hours lost by strikes was below the national average. Austin F. Flegel Jr., Democratic nominee for governor, told the State Building and Construction Trades council that he would give labor representation on numerous boards if he were elected gover nor. He mentioned the state board of higher education, the state high way commission, the state wel commission, "and those other boards which actually govern Ore gon." The building and construction trades council, meeting prior to the main AFL convention, protested the highway commission's wage scale and the practice of using prisoners to build - cell blocks at the state penitentiary. A committee will ask general contractors to join in protesting the pay on road work. The union said it was not UNION SCALE. The council also called for ade- quate punishment of sex criminals and demanded the five percent dif ferential favoring local contrac tor bids op public projects be made mandatory instead of optional. Grain In Central Oregon Leveled By Hailstorm PRINEVILLE, June 12 UP) Thousand of dollars' loss in grain and hay was reported in this cen tral Oregon area today as the re sult ot a tremendouw hailstorm Saturday night and yesterday morning. The worst hail and rain storm in recent years will mean a big gain to cattlemen, however. The deluge soaked parched grazing land, promising better forage and fatter herds in the cattle country. The hail flattened growing fields of grain, and, piled up six inches deep on the highway between Prineville and Madras. The rain was so heavy that one motel stood in four feet of water, and many ranch houses were surrounded by little lakes. Gerald A. Barr, Former Roseburg Resident, Dies Word has been received here of the death Saturday of Gerald A. , Barr, 4235 S.E. 100th avenue, Port- i land. He is a former Roseburg res- ident. Funeral services will be held Tuesday from the Colonial mortuary at 2:30 D m Mr. and Mrs. Barr moved to Portland about a year ago. He was an insurance adjuster in this dis trict. Mrs. Barr was employed in the sheriffs office prior to their departure for Portland, The Vr'ewrtief Partly cloudy with scattered showers today. Cloudy Tuesday morning with clearing in tho afternoon. Sunset today 8:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:32 a.m. Established 1873 Strike Cuts Milk Supply Of U.S. Capital Demand For Shorter Work Week, Without Pay Cut, Closes Nine Dairies WASHINGTON. June 12 UP) The wage dispute shutdown of nine big dairies cut deeply for the third day today in the milk supply for Washington and its sprawling sun urbs. If it continues, usual con sumers may find little or no milk in the capital. The area normally takes about 760,000 quarts a day on week-days, most of it from the nine closed dairies. An emergency meeting called by the District of Columbia com missioners yesterday produced an arrangement for supplying milk to district institutions and hospitals. Efforts were pushed to extend this so as to provide for babies and sick persons. All nine unionized dairies have been closed since noon on Satur day. The union, the AFL milk drivers and dairy employes local 246, said it struck only three of them and that lockouts were or dered in the other six. Dairy spokesmen said the union struck all nine. Shorter Week Demanded ' The quarrel is over the union de mand that the present six-dav. 48-hour week be reduced to five days and 40 hours with no pay cut. The dairies offered a five-day week based on the present pay, with inside workers getting over time after 40 hours a week and drivers after 44 hours. In -the meantime, the demand for milk far exceeded the avail able supply, with dairies in towns as far as 30 miles away getting business from people who drove there from the Washington area. The Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers association said that most of the milk it handles from the Washington milkshed has been diverted to other points along the Atlantic coast. PITTSBURGH. June lZ-UP) Representatives of striking dairy workers and their employers will try again today to bring an end to the walkout that has shut off the milk supply of 2,300.000 persons in western Pennsylvania. The strike, called by members of the AFL-Dairy Workers union, Degan last Friday against nrms belonging to the Greater Pitts burgh Milk Dealers association. A number of contracts are in volved, the association said. The drivers are seeking a 40-hour week instead of the present 48-hour week at the same rate of pay. The driv ers are also asking ior a raise in the daily guarantee from $10 to $13.50. The dealers offered $11. Seven counties, including popu lous Allgheny (Pittsburgh) county, are affected by the strike. MOTORIST INJURED State police reported today Fair- rel Edmund McCuin of Roseburg suffered cuts and. bruises and his coupe was badly damaged follow ing an accident near the Roseburg south city limits Saturday. According to state police. Me Cuin was proceeding across the highway near Nielsen's market and was struck broadside by a truck driven by Robert Leo Lamoure- aux, also of Roseburg. GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY quen of tho Sutherlin Timber for a vote-button by pretty Nency Wult, commander of v tors. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the sale of the buttons it retained by the cendidate't sponsors and the other half goes to Sutherlin to help finance the July 1-4 carnival. Each button represents a vote for the candidate. Queen !iopefuli, clad in dress-up dresses were much in evidence in Roseburg, Kiddle day ef the button-selling campaign. . Logging Accident Near Gunter Kills Yoncalla Resident Vernon George Patrick, 31, employed at a bucker for the Woolley Legging Co. of Drain, was killed instantly Saturday af ternoon, June 10, near Gunter. He was sawing a twisted leg which came back and hit him In the head. Coroner Harry Steams reported. Patrick was born at Buhl, Ida., Feb. 22, 1918, and had been a res ident of Yoncalla for the last 18 years. He was married Oct. 6, 1940 to Evelyn Potter of Yoncalla. Be sides his widow, he is survived by three children: Karen Jean, Michael Ray and Judy Ann, and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Lois Lohikoski of Eugene, Ore., Mrs. Louise Robinson of Honolulu, T. H., Paul Patrick of McMinnville, Ore., Wallace Pat rick of Nez Perce, Ida., Mrs. Lil lian Cole of Pasco, Wash., and Mrs. Ruth Anderson of Ft. Worth, Tex. He was a member of the Church of God. Services will be held in the Yoncalla Christian church Wednes day at 2 p.m. with the Rev. James Smith officiating. Interment will be in Yoncalla cemetery. Ar rangements are in care of Stearns mortuary, Oakland. Flagg Forecasts Annual Shortage Of Freight Cars SALEM, June 12 UP) Ore gon faces a serious freight car shortage in the next few months, public utilities Commissioner Geo. H. Flagg said today. He said the worst shortage will be on the Southern Pacific lines south and southwest of Eugene. Flagg said the shortage already is being felt, with sawmills being able to get only 60 or 70 percent of the cars they order. Flagg said seed growers, who will have a crop twice as large as last year, also will be hard hit. Flagg said his employes are trying to see that Oregon ship pers get their share of cars and that the cars are being distribut ed fairly. "This is an annually recurring problem," - he- said, and there does not appear to be any im mediate solution. The railroads have not been able to meet their obligations to the shippers." Rail Strike Ban Opposed By Green WASHINGTON, June 12 -UP) AFL President William Green to day opposed legislation to ban rail road strikes. He said it was "a gratuitous insult" to assume that labor would permit any real nation-wide strike emergency to de velop. Green testified to the Senate La bor committee on the bill proposed by Senator Donnell (R-Mo) to pro- niDii ran striKes ana require com pulsory arbitration of all rail la bor disputes. Green reported the argument of other union leaders that compul sory' arbitration and prohibition of strikes means control of wages and will lead to control over prices and production as well. He said there are fewer strikes on railroads than in any other in dustry and most rail strikes, when they develop, are local in nature. Green also argued that the over all collective bargaining record has been good for railroads. J vfWGwJ's.r. 1 7 Ik- a. ( x !EvLr ,"""v 71- Nv i Aiding In the "kick-off" activities of the seven candidates or deys carnival was Mayor Al Flegel, ebove, who wel nailed Carol Morley, -i ght, of Wilbur. Watching the goings-on is Mrs. the local Disabled American ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1950 Officers Oust Pickets From Rayon Plant Non-Strikers Attacked, Dynamite Used, Tacks Strewn On Highway MORRISTOWN. Tenn.. June 12. (.IP) State highway patrolmen re- movea siriKing jiu picxets trom in front of the American Enka Corp., rayon plant today. State Safety Commissioner Sam K. Neal, who came here from Nashville to direct policing activi ties ot 75 patrolmen at the strife torn plant, said the pickets were moved from the immediate plant vicinity "until we are assured that no more tacks will be thrown on the highway." Neal said union Officials have promised to havo pickets sweep the tacks off the highway. He added that picketing, limited by court order to six persons 10 feet apart, probably will be resumed later in the day. Company officials said 263 per sons reported for work on the morning shift today without inci dent. Meanwhile, company and union officials scheduled a meeting at Knoxville with National Labor Re lations board officials concerning the right of the striking CIO Tex tile Workers union to bargain for plant workers. The AFL United Textile Workers union has peitioned for an election to determine the bargaining agent for the plant's hourly-paid workers. The company has taken the posi tion it cannot legally bargain with either union until the proper bar gaining agent is determined. New Violence Occurs New violence linked by police with the strikj occurred yesterday. Sheriff Robert Medlin reported d namite was exploded in front of the homes of two non-strikers but no one was hurt. Early Saturday, the sheriff said, a mob of "75 to 100" threw stones and swung clubs in an attack on several carloads of non-strikers leaving the plant. The strike of CIO Textile Work ers union members is in its 11th week. The union struck March 28 after long negotiations in which it asked a wage increase and benefits totaling 23 cents an hour. The work ers receive a $1.32 average wage. A 10-cent increase has been offered by the company. Three Planes Forced To Quit Women's Race TUCSON, Ariz. June 12 UP) Twenty-seven planes took off from here today on the second lap of the annual "Ninety-Niners" wom en's air race from San Diego, Calif., to Greensboro, N. C. Others of the 33 starters resumed their flights against time from other points on the route, including Colombus, N. M., and El Paso, Tex. At least three of the planes al ready are out of the race. The plane piloted by Irene Gerhcart dropped out here when the co-pilot, Mickey Collins, became ill. Bad weather forced Isabel Mc- Rae and Joan Greenman of Lemon Grove. Tex.; down short of Odessa. Tex., last night. Mary Packard of Vallejo, Calif., was eliminated be cause she landed last night at Needles, Calif., not a designated stop. Veterans auxiliary, Carols spon bething suits, formats, suits and and Sutherlin Saturday the first 7 Ml . ' ' I rfv,' 'Y-t I" 4MsW4MMMsa4 iwypuwwiesiiiwse ...... ,, . ., - v. ' t a I j , . ' , ii AIDING WORTHY PROJECT club president, left, is pictured Capt. Claude 3owden of the Army lassie on her trip to England this summer.. Rotarians got behind the project at their Thursday meeting when they learned that Nancy Rabuek was one of and southern Idaho at the world-wide Salvation Army youth meeting in London but needed tion. Thanks to the Rotarians will leave Aug. I for England and photo). Nation's Political Spotlight Shifted To Coming Contests In Connecticut And New York (By llw AuoelaUd PrM) In a two-day convention this week, Connecticut Republicans pick a slate of candidates for what may be one of the nation's hardest tought political battles Involved in the Connecticut balloting Wednesday and Thuri day will be two seats that might well decide whether the Demo crats are to continue to control the Senate in the. 82nd GongreiA... ,. ..... Pair On Trial In Dewey Girl Death VANCOUVER. Wash.. June 12 iP) Two brothers went on trial here today for the kidnap-slaying of Jo Ann Dewey, 18, last March. The trial opened in the court of Superior Judge Eugene Cushing. Selection of a jury is expected to take several days. Turman Wilson. 24. and Utan Wilson, 20, of Camas, Wash., face two charges: first-degree murder and kidnaping. Conviction on ei ther charge could bring a death sentence. Jo Ann Dewey was dragged from a Vancouver street into a car the night of March 19. People nearby heard her scream, but could not come to her aid in time. The girl's nude body was dis covered a week later on a sand bar near the mouth of Wind river, in Skamania county. The Wilson boys were arrested in Sacramento, Calif, and charged with her mur der. Sanford Clement, Vancouver, and Irvin Goodman, Portland, are attorneys for the defendants. Clark county prosecutor De Witt Jones and Skamania county prosecutor Raymond Sly are conducting the state's case. Runaway Truck Stages Rampage In Laramie LARAMIE, Wyo., June 12 A runaway truck loaded with 10 tons of shelled corn roared down Laramie's main street to day, sideswiping 16 cars before it jacknifed to a slop on the Union Pacific railroad track one minute after a passenger train passed. The driver, Gail Gayman, 20, of North Platte, Neb., lost control of the trailer truck as it came out of Telephone canyon, which drops about 1,500 feet in 12 miles as it comes into Grand avenue. Gayman was not hurt. The corn spilled over the railroad tracks delaying rail traffic an hour. A pickup truck was demolished, three lamp posts and a traffic signal were knocked down. Fragment Of Broken Bottle Kills Little Girl BEVERLY, Meis., June 12-M A four-year-old girl bled to dea'h today when she tripped and fell on a quart bottle ef milk clutched in her arms. Police said a fragment ef shat tered glass pierced little Eileen Louise Hennessy's (ugular vein. Frozen Food Plant Razed By $650,000 Blaze FRESNO, Calif., June 12 -UP) Fire destroyed the Ice Sickle fro zen food plant last night with a loss estimated by the owners at more than tfi.W.ooo. A brisk wind fanned the flames and threatened other buildings in Fresno's industrial area. ' Witnesses said the blaze started with an explosion, 137-50 Leroy Hiatt, Roseburg Rotary above as he hands a check to Salvation Army to aid a local two girls to represent Oregon additional funds for transporta and other contributors, Nancy the conference. (Paul Jenkins next November. or the Republicans take over Also at stake In the November test will be whatever presidential or vice presidential ambitions Democratic Gov. Chester Bowles may be nourishing. Although the advance picture Is clouded, the race for the GOP nomination to oppose Bowles seems to lie between Rep. John Davis Lodge of Westport, Conn., and J. Kenneth Bradley, also of Westport, former GOP national committee man. Republicans sorely need to pick up two senate seats in Connec ticut if they are to make a net gain of seven to give them control of the Senate, where they now are out numbered 54 to 42 by the Demo crats. .... With no primaries scheduled dur ing the week. New York's political situation will share interest with that of Connecticut. Await Dewey's Answer In New York, the Republicans still are waiting to find out whether Gov.- Thomas E. Dewey will run for a third term. Dewey hasn't said yes and he hasn't said no, but national leaders would re gard it something of a calamity if he decides not to run. They apparently think that only Dewey might be able to . carry along to victory a Republican sena torial nominee over Senator Leh man (J-Lib.) If Dewe doesn't run, most Rel publicans here think that Lt. Gov. Joe Hanley will get the nomina-. tion New York Democrats also are up in the air over their candidate for governor. Some of them have been flirting with the idea of fitting Rep. Frank lip D. Roosevelt Jr. (D-Lib-) in the spot. But others don't like the idea of running two Roosevelts for gov ernor in the same year. James Roosevelt, eldest son of tne late president, thus may have stolen a march of his younger nrotner ny winning the Democratic nomination for governor of Cali fornia. Washington Legislature Called In Money Crisis OLYMPIA. Wash.. June 12. WP There was apparent agree ment today between the leader of the Republican-controlled Senate and the Democratic - weighted House that the special session of Washington s legislature should be kept "short and sweet." Governor T,anglie called the ex traordinary session Saturday, set ting July 17 for its convening. The immediate problem facing legislators will be the dwindling appropriation for general assist ance. Additional funds must be ap propriated or the program will stop when present monies run out. Similar Mishaps Kill Undertaker, Another Man WALDORF, Md June 12 ( A few hours before undertaker Jamts B. Goldsmith, 49, wss due te direct funeral services for e man crushed by e tractor he, toe, was killed similarly. Goldsmith died yttterday while pulling stumps en his farm. The ether victim, William R. Clark, (1, ef Marbury, Md wee killed Thursday. ft Attempt To Kill Measure Fails On Vote Date Of Final Ballot Uncertain; Cain Ready For New Filibuster WASHINGTON, June 12-0B The Senate refused today to shelve the rent control bill. The vote was 44 to 25. The vote was regarded as a gen eral test of Senate sentiment to ward the question of continuing federal rent controls, now due to . expire June 30. But some of those who voted against putting the bill aside had announced they would vote against the bill on the question of final passage. The attempt to shelve the bill was made by Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the Republican floor leader. Early last Saturday morn ing, at the end of a turbulent 17-' hour Senate session, he moved to send the bill back to the banking committee. Such action often means killing a measure. By agreement, a vote on Wher ry s motion was put off until to day. For administration leaders, the big question now is when they can get a vote on final passage. tain Not Squelch senator Cain fR-Washl con ducted a 12-hour filibuster against tne measure last week. Before the vote. Cain told a re porter that the outcome of it would determine his future plans. "If there seems to be a fair chance of winning this thing, I'll certainly be ready to take off . again," Cain said, as he directed assistants to assemble a thick stack of ammunition for another long filibuster. Cain conceded that Senate Re publican leaders had been pushing him to end his filibuster and agree . upon a definite time for a vote on passage. Ira going to use every legiti- mate means at my command to see that controls are not ex tended," he commented. While Democrats are pledged to vote against extending the con- trols, Lucas and other Democrats said they were confident they have enough votes with some Republi can support to put through the extension after disposing of the re committal move. The extension bilt would con. tinue all present rent controls for six months through the end of this year and allow cities and towns to extend tnem oy local. option lor another six months. Evidence Links Black Hand With Big-Time Crime WASHINGTON. June 12. VP) Senate crime investigators were reported today to have evidence that the Sicilian Black Hand soi ciety "is responsible for much big time crime" in tne united states. A committee source, who asked to remain anonymous, said the senate's special crime investigat ing group has turned its attention to the American operations of the society, which also is known as the Mafia. The Mafia originally was a se cret society of assassins and miu derers which existed in Sicily more than 100 years ago. Some of its members are believed to have en tered this country around 1850. It was held responsible for the killing of a Now Orelans police official in 1890. The organization's name cropped up most recently about four years ago, during a narcotics case before the general sessions court in New York. At that time, Col. Garland Wil liams, district supervisor of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, said two of six men arrested on illegal drug traffic charges were Mafia members. Williams told the court that the society was engaged in nationwide narcotics traffic "and also is mak ing tremendous sums in gambling and hi-jacking." The two men charged by. Wil liams with Mafia membership were Joseph "Pip-The-Blind" Gajliano and Charles "Little Bullet" Albero. Both were sentenced to prison te.ms on April 8, 1947; Gajliano committed suicide two days later. The Italian government claimed after a determined drive against the organization in 1928 that it had been virtually wiped out in Sicily. Father Accused Of Neglect In Son's Poison Death PORT TOWNSEND. Wash., June 12. (JP) Egmont G. Hildner, 55, was charged with criminal neg lect today in connection with the death of his 12-year-old son, Jona than, frrn heavy lead poisoning. Pros. Atty. William J. Daly said the boy and his mother, Mrs. Ade line Hildner, 56, both died of the poisoning. The father, former ferry ticket agent at Port Ludlow, was held in $10,000 bail. He was charged spe cifically with wilful neglect in fail ing to provide the necessary medlral care for his son prior to the hoy's death on June 7. Levity Fact R ant By L F Reiienstetn Weather uncertainty beim what It Is, It might bt wis Idea te draft a water eomlval program far use in ease ether scheduled outdoor events are HWirW iHei sMeeJ lA4eltMQ4Mte