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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
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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