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Newspaper Page TextCOMP k Mh raras IFDk Psk U. of 0, Library Eugene, Wre. DinpiiM m JESSIS HIMELWRIGHT. above, the Sutherlin Business and Professional Women t club for the title Queen of the Sutherlin Timber days carnival, to be held July 1-4. Born in Klamath Falls 18 years ago, the BP&W candi date has lived in Sutherlin fer the last, seven years. She is a re cent graduate of Sutherlin senior high school and says she is currently looking for a job. Jessie is one of two Sutherlin can didates for the royal title. (Master Studio picture). Plan To Repeal Peddlers' Ordinance Due For Retail Trades Assn. Debate Discussion of the proposed ordinance" will be the principal Trades association members who Civic room of Hotel Umpqua. According to RTA spokesmen, to thoroughly thresh out the city council voted June 5 to call for a new ordinance repealing the existing one. Among merchants, opinion seems divided as to whether the existing rule should be kept on the books or be 4 replaced. V Main 'bone of contention, 'according to proponents of 're peal, is the stipulation requiring businesses located outside the city limits to pay a $100 license fee if they conduct door-to-door solicitation within the city. Solicitors living within the citv pay $1. Roland West protested the licensing regulation at the city council meeting, saying his laundry business was no different from other businesses located outside the city and which pay no license. City Attorney Paul E. Geddes ruled, however, that West's business was subject to the licensing fee if his truck drivers solicit business within the city. West is a former president of the Retail Trades association. Tomorrow's moeting is open ts all retail merchants of Rose burg. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS yHE news last week was full of I highlights. Here is one of them: T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, has quit the (Kuomintang (China's Nationalist 'ruling party) rather than come to Formosa, where his sister and her husband, the generalissimo, have pledged themselves to stay and die( die when the Communists take over the island that is the last stand of non-Communist China.) SOONG is one of the world's wealthiest men. He is safe in New York, along with his brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, another of the world's wealthiest men. The for tunes of both were MADE IN CHINA. If they had obeyed orders and had gone to Formosa, they would have gone thereto die. Death is a futile gesture. They tell themselves they can do more for their country by STAYING ALIVE. Who are we to criticize? We don't face death. Till you face the (Continued on Page Four) Fines, Jail Terms Meted To Two Drunken Drivers Mark Clem Hookin, 39. Winston and Edward Charles Ralls, 40, De troit, were sentenced on drunk driving charger in Douglas county justice courts over the weekend. Hookin was sentenced by Justice of the Peace A. J. Geddes in Rose burz. to serve 30 davs in the county jail and to pay a fine of $225, following his arrest by state police omcers. Rails was sentenced by Justice of the Peace Ward C. Watson at Sutherlin to serve 30 days in the county jail and fined $200. Ration Of Fresh Meat In Britain Reduced LONDON, June 13. -4JP) Brit - ain's fresh meat ration will be re duced 12 percent Sunday. Each person will be allowed to buy the equivalent of 18'4 cents worth weekly. The food ministry said drought had caused meat ship ments from Argentina to Fall, i ii the candidate sponsored by repeal of the city "peddlers' item to come before Retail meet Wednesday noon in the the special meeting was called controversial ordinance. Th Policeman Freed Of Manslaughter ALJANY, Ore., June 13 A manslaughter charge against a Sweet Home policeman was thrown out of court here yesterday. F. A. Cornell, Sweet Home justice of peace, ruled there was insuf ficient evidence to warrant prose- cution of Albert us Born on a charge of killing Theodore Sylvester, Lebanon, in a scuffle at Lebanon last week. He dismissed the charge, which District Attorney Melvin Goode said he filed just to clear the record. Seven persons save testimony including Osborn. They related that Osborn and another Sweet Home policeman chased a speeder from Sweet Home te Lebanon. They cornered the man there, jumped out of their car to arrest him. Sylvester got out of the halted car, and tried to make off with the police auto. Osborn said. He leaped in after Sylvester, pulling out nis gun, osborn continued. Syl vester grabbed for it, and in the scuttle tnree shots were fired others said. Osborn testified he never lost possession of the eun but had no idea how many shots were urea, one Bullet strucK Syl vester utally. Goode added his opinion that Osborn was justified in resorting to his gun, since Sylvester was committing a felony in trying to taice tne police car. Ex-Czech Envoy Gets Permit To Stay In U. S. WASHINGTON. June 13 & The United States todav save Via dimir Houdek, former Czech rep resentative to the United Nations permission to remain in this coun try. The action was taken on grounds that Houdek might have to oav with his life if forced to return to Communist-run Czechoslovakia Houdek broke with the Czech government and resigned his UN post on May Id. FLOOD THREAT EBBS PORTLAND, June 13. (JP) The Columbia river flood threat dwindling so fast that the weather bureau cut its official forecast today. Col. E. S. Ellison, head of the bureau here, said it now was nrob- able the river would climb so higher than 23 feet to the Portland - Vancouver harbor area. Tne rVeerrher Mostly cloudy with widely scattered ihtwiri. Portly cloudy Wednesday. Sunset todoy 1:54 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:32 a.m. Established 1173 Social George Speaks In Behalf Of Senate Bill Additional Coverage, Boost In Benefit Levels Principal Goals Sought WASHINGTON. June 13 - UP) Senator George (D-Ga) said today a more liberal social security pro gram is needed to protect addi tional millions ot citizens and give them reasonable retirement bene fits. Chairman of the senate finance committee, he opened debate on a bill which would add nearly 10,- 000,000 persons to the 35,000,000 now covered by the old-age and survivors insurance system and sharply increase benefit payments. The bill is a revised version ot a measure passed by the House last October. George said that a higher level of benefits is long overdue. He noted that the retirement system's benefit formula has been unchang ed since 1939 "despite the sharp increase in prices and wage levels that have occurred since that time." Higher benefits, together with the proposed expansion of coverage and easing of eligibility require ments, will help to lessen the bur den on the states and the federal government for old age relief, he said. He said the bill would continue to exclude farmers, and certain professional groups "because there has been little indication that they desire coverage at this time." Major Changes Listtd Here are some of the major changes the bill would make in the old-age and survivors insurance system: - 1. Extend coverage on a com pulsory-' basis to about -8,300,000 persons and on a voluntary basis to about 1.6O0.O0O. many oi ine self-employed and regularly em ployed farm and domestic work ers make up the bulk of those to be brought into the system. 2. increase tne mommy bene fit payments to the 2,900,000 per sons currently receiving old-age and survivors benefits an average of 85 to 90 percent. The average benefit for retired workers would be increased from $26 to more than $48. 3. Establish a new benefit for mula for persons retiring in the future under which benefits would be approximately double those pay able under existing law. 4. Make it much easier for older persons to aualitv for oenems by reducing the required period oi covered employment. 5. Retain until 1950 tne present tax of IV percent each on em ployer payrolls and employe earn ings to finance the svstem. Aftei that the tax rate would rise grad ually to a top of 3Vi percent each on the employer nnd employe The bill also would keep $3,000 as the maximum annual earnings on which taxes would be collected and benefits paid. Under tne house measure, tnis taxable wage base would be raised to 53.600. A similar increase is one of the principal changes which Lu cas and Myers, both members ot the finance committee, want to make in the senate bill. The effect of such a change would be to increase the top end of the benefit scale. Eastern North Dakota Raked By Heavy Winds (By Th Auoclited Pretll Winds of near tornadic violence struck in eastern North Dakota last night, causing thousands of dollars damage to buildings, crops and communication lines. No cas ualties were reported. The Midwest wet belt covered areas in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illi nois and Michigan. Strong shift ing winds accompanied the thun derstorms in some areas. A gust up to 75 miles an hour was reported at Madison, Wis. More than two inches of rain fell at Madison and LaCrosse, Wis. Auto Jumps Highway Near Azalea; Man Hurt GRANTS PASS, June 13-4Pi Oscar Odenborg, 34, Southern Pa cific railroad employee, Ashland, was brought to Josephine county general hospital here early Sun day. He suffered serious lacera ions of the face when an automo bile in which he was a passenger jumped the Pacific highway a mile north of Azalea. Identity of the driver was not learned here. Methodists, Both 'Ys' Benefit From Estate SALEM, June 13 I Pi The First Methodist church, YMCA and YWCA, all of Salem, were each given $80,000 from the will of the late Sarah Elizabeth Carrier of Salem Application for distribution of the 1 money was made yesterday in Marion county circuit court. Security v ) l-INfc itlinoi Tou can pay your overparking tine witnour qoinq to court in Medina, O Mayor John Brown points out the new penalty box, situated below the regular parking met er, where delinquent motorists can leave fines ranging from 10 cents if paid within one hour up to ona dollar.. Strike Ties N. Y. Daily Newspaper (By th Auoclated Preifl "Astrike today 'halted publication of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, large evening daily news paper. The strike against one of New York's largest evening papers with a reported circulation of 600,000, was called by the CIO American Newspaper guild in a wage dispute. Nearly 400 editorial and office employes launched the strike and set up a picket line which AFL printers refused to cross. The pa per missed its first edition and of ficials said they doubted they could publish. ' The union has demanded a 10 percent wage increase, with mini mums to range from $40 a week for office boys to $120 for news men with six years experience, The present top is $110. The World- Telegram-and Sun offered general increases of from $2 to $5 weekly and increases of $1 to $3.50 in mini mum scales to make the top mini mum 113.50 weekly. Other issues were involved, in cluding shorter work weeks, se curity. union preference in hiring, arbitration of staff reductions, night differentials and holidays. Death Toll In French Plane Crash In Doubt PARIS. June 13 UP) A four- engined air France plane with 50 persons aboard crashed in the Persian gulf last night. After 12 hours of rescue operations, five are known dead, six have been res cued and the fate of 39 persons was in doubt. Three of those who survived were members of the crew of eight. The other three were from among the 42 passengers aboard the Sai-gon-to-Paris flight. KERNIN BUILDING This new built by W. p. Kermn and is ley junction. Kernin says he 4aV KA4aaaiiiiiiiiiliilHj house the sales and service departments of his heavy sawmill The new stone structure is being constructed around the old homed Kernin s well-drilling ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1950 Expansion Technical Aid To Backward Areas Assured United Nations Huddle Nears $20 Million Goal Despite Soviet's Bolt LAKE SUCCESS, June 13.-UP) Despite a Soviet boycott, the United Nations conference on tech nical assistance to backward areas appeared sure today to reach its goal of $20,000,000. As the worldwide meeting moved into its second day, 15 nations already had pledged $16,000,000 and the United States was ready to give another $2,000,000 if the other coun tries would contribute $2,000,000 more'. Although most of the large coun tries already had made their pledges, U. N. officials said they expected contributions a from at least 15 to 20 other countries. Fifty one nations attended the opening session of the three-day meeting. The opening day was marked by two significant developments apart from the series of speeches an nouncing contributions: 1. Russia and eight other Comin- form countries boycotted the meet ing in protest against continued ores ince of Chinese Nationalists delegates at the U. N. Yugoslavia, only Communist member present, tried unsuccessfully to get the con- terence to invite Ked China. 2. Many delegates to . the con ference, as well as U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie, praised Presi dent Truman for giving the ex- Eanded technical program impetus y announcing his support in the famous "point four" of his 1949 inaugural address. In addition to the United States offer yesterday to contribute $10, 000,000 to $12,500,000, other leading contributors on tne opening aay included: -- France $1,200,000. Britain $2,100.- 000, Netherlands $400,000, Belgium $270,000, Venezuela $40,000, Bolivia $50,000, Ethiopia $20,000, Norway $35,000, Brazil $406,000, Pakistan $140,000, Canada $850,000, Australia $400,000, Iran $40,000 and Yugo slavia $50,000. District Nurses Will Confer Here Nurses from Coos Bay, Grants Pass, Eugene, Douglas county and probably other localities will be in Roseburg Wednesday, to attend the regional conference of Roseburg district 11 of the Oregon State Nurses association. Starting at 10 a.m., sessions will be held in the morning and after nocn at the Veterans hospital rec reation room, and a dinner meet ing is scheduled at Melody Inn at Winston at 7:30 p.m. Nuring economics security will be the topic for the morning ses sion from 10 to 11:30. Resuming at 1 o'clock, the group will hear reports of the recent convention, to be followed by a discussion of new equipment and drugs and new ideas in medicine and surgery, A motion picture will be shown in connection with the session. Mrs. Virginia Kletzer, special consultant, will be the guest speaker at the evening meeting. Miss Ruth Bloom, head nurse at the Veterans hospital, is in charge of arrangements. CO-OP GRANTED LOAN WASHINGTON, June 13 UP) A $660,000 loan for the Umatilla Electric Cooperative association, Hermiston, Ore., was approved yesterday by the Rural Electrifi cation administration. Lite-Rock building, valued at located on rlighway V? about two blocks north of the Ciarden Val expects the building to be completed in about 60 days and it wil business. (Paul Jenkins photol Debate Starts Mf-lllll I IH I I m2L UNDECORATION DAY Movie Actor Audit Murphy, most dec orated American hero of World War II, has given away his 2 medals to kids aN over the country. His Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's most prized military award, went to his nephew, Weldon Burns, 8, of Dallas, Tex. He doesn't remember who got most of the others. "There are too many guys who should have gotten medals and never did," said Murphy. Congress Demand For Information Meets Refusal CHICAGO, June 13 UP) Clap. ence B. Randall, president of In land Steel company, today refus ed to supply information asked by a Congressional committee. Randall termed "inquisitorial" a letter from Rep. Buchanan CD Pa.) asking for what he said was detailed information on company activities dealing with public is sues. Buchanan, as chairman of the House select committee on lobby ing activities, had requested In land, along with 166 large corpora tions, to detail expenditures over a three and a-half year period. He said information sought by Buch anan includd travel expense, subs scriptions, contributions, and ad vertising "dealing with public is sues which might be the subject of federal legislative action." In a letter to Buchanan, Randall declared : "By your inquisitorial letter, you have demanded of the Inland Steel company a great deal of informa tion to which you are not entitled in a free America." Randall's letter concluded that "unless our present doubts as to your authority to ask these ques tions are satisfactorily cleared, we shall make no further answer to your questionnaire." Salem Doctor Badly Hurt In Auto Mishap SALEM, June 13 UP) Dr. C. A. Downs, 64, prominent Salem physician, was in critical condition today with head injuries after an automobile accident last night. Returning from a night call, Dr. Downs collided with a car driven by Dalton L, Hobbs, 22, who suf fered minor facial cuts. approximately $60,000, is being and logging equipment business wooden building which formerly 138-50 Senate Votes Retention Of Rent Controls Six Months' Extension On Local Option Basis Now Up To House Action WASHINGTON, June 13 UP) Swift House passage of legislation continuing federal rent controls on a local option basis was predicted confidently by Democratic lead era today, after the Senate rammed through the compromise measure on a 36-to-28 vote. The bill, which would keep alive the last of the major wartime con trols, on approximately 8,000,000 dwelling units, mostly in big cities. would work like this: 1. The federal rent control au thority, due to expire June 30, would continue for a year. , 2. But the controls would cease automatically in six months, on December 31, in all communities that before that date did not de cide affirmatively, through a vote of the local governing body or a referendum of the citizens, to con tinue the rent ceilings on to June 30, 1951. 3. Any community could vote it self out from under controls any time Delore December 31. No com munity could restore controls aft er they were lifted. House speaker Rayburn told President Truman he is confident the House will pass the bill. The administration had asked for straight extension of the present law. but banking committee Chair man Spence, a strong administra tion supporter, said the compro mise local option bill "in my opin ion is the best we can get through the House." Republican Move Falls Administration leaders overrode J Republican opposition yesterday to press tne measure through the Senate. On passage there, 30 Democrats were joined by six Re publicans in support of the bill. Opposing were 23 Republicans and five southern Democrats. . Democratic Senator Maerfuson of Washington was. the lone Pacific northwest solon to vote for the bill. Senators Cain (R-Wash), Cor don (R-Ore) voted against it. Sen. Morse (R-Ore) was luted as paired against it. The Senate vote came after Sen ator Cain (R-Wash), who filibus tered 12 hours against the bill last week,' gave up his right to another marathon speecn. Earner tne ben ate had rejected. 44 to 25. a Re publican move to send the bill back to the banking committee. Overlooked By Censor? File Name At C. Of C. City Manager M. W. Slankard and chamber of commerce Man ager Harold Hickerson are appeal ing to an residents ot itoseourg ana vicinity who have not been enumerated in the 1950 census to file their names and addresses at the chamber of commerce office. A number of people have re ported that their neighbors and acquaintances claim they have not been contacted by census takers and to make sure none is over looked they are asked to file their names so that those responsible for the enumeration can be ii- vised. As the allocation of certain state funds is based on the census count. it is important that all residents be counted. Alibi Apparent Plan Of Wilson Brothers VANCOUVER, Wash., June 13 (jpiThe Wilson brothers appar ently will insist in court here that they were miles away when 18-year-old Jo Ann Dewey was slain last Marcn. So disclosed their attorney, Irv ing Goodman, as the kidnap-mur- der trial of the brothers, Utah, 21, and Turman. 24. opened in super ior court yesterday. Attorneys still were trying today to complete se lection of a jury. The brothers long nave insisted they were arrested at Sacramento and accused of the crime here only because of the many arrests in their past. East German Policemen Flee To West Berlin BERLIN, June 13 UP) Four east German people's policemen fled today to west Berlin. One fought off an attempt to drag him back at pistol point. In the past month 42 have de serted the eastern force, described by the allies as a secret Russian-trained army, and won politi cal asylum here. One of today's fugitives had reached tho American sector house of his bride when a pursuing de tachment of eastern police over took him, The girl's cries for help caused neighbors to call a western police patrol car and the eastern detachment ran off across the nearby Soviet boundary. 'V Pennsylvania Governor Acts To Guard Loads Four Pickets Arrested; . Washington Situation Remains In Deadlock PITTSBURGH, June 13. UP) State police patrols rolled across a seven-county milk strike area to day in western Pennsylvania. Four pickets were arrested on charges of violating a court order. Charges of dumping milk truck loads brought orders from Penn sylvania Governor James H. Duff to state police to guard against violence on the state's highways. State police Captain Andrew J. Hudock said at Greensburg, West moreland county, his troopers ar rested four men he said had block ed a highway with an automobile and picket signs. Captain Hudock said the blocked road led to Bergman's dairy at Derry in southwestern rennsyl- . vann. The four men are charged with violating a preliminary injunction ' granted by the Westmoreland county court. The order forbids interference with dairy operations or truck movements. The governor s statement fol lowed reports of three earlier in- cidents in which milk strike pickets dumped loads of milk and threat ened drivers. Likened Te Bandits The five-day old walkout of 2.300 members of the AFL dairy workers union against 68 milk dealers in the area surrounding Pittsburgh shows no sign of heading for a settlement soon. 1 Gov. Duff declared in a state ment: These were acts of criminals. They were as criminal as the acts of bandits and will be treated as such." Meanwhile, dairy representatives in Washington promised to coma up with a proposal for ending the three-day-old milk strike in the nation's capital. An li-nour union-management meeting broke up last midnight with ao action taken on a union compromise suggestion. me urn? uairivB supplying musi of Washington's milk have been closed by the walkout since noon Saturday. The striking AFL union members are seeking a five-day 40-hour week with the same pay ther now set for a six-day 48-hour week. The companies' offer did not meet tne union demands. Hospitals and other emergency centers have fceen eupplien eriUs milk during the strike but many homes and eating places, including the House and Senate restaurants, have run out of milk. The milk strike in Pennsylvania has even produced milkleggera. Three Pittsburgh men drew $2S fines for attempting to sell bootleg . milk for 35 cents a quart IS cents over the price fixed by law. The trio agreed to turn 140 cases of milk over to some worthy institu tion. . Catholic Teacher Of Portland Thutjt' Victim OAKLAND. Calif.. June U.-UF) Brother Austin, 39, of the Cath olic teaching order of Christian urotners, at roruano, ore., was beaten to the street and robbed here shortly after midnight. Brother Austin, who was Paul J. Guenther before he entered the religious order, had just arrived by train from Portland, enroute to visit relatives in Wooster, Ohio. As he walked to his hotel an auto mobile carrying two men drew to the curb. One man asked "you got a match?" Brother Austin said "no." Both men leaped out, beat the teacher to the sidewalk, took his wallet containing $65 and a Port land university check for $87, and his two suitcasea of clothing. Brother Austin was treated at Providence hospital for cuts and bruises. Rail Car Shortage Begun-Ellsworth WASHINGTON, June 13. UP) Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore) said today the "annual" shortage of railroad cars in Oregon has started earlier th o usual. - Lumber is the principal com modity now affected, he aaid, add ing that unless the situation im proves soon employment in lumber and logging industries will be re duced. "Ordinarily," Ellsworth told a reporter, "there is a seasonal shortage of cars which occurs in the fall when grain must be moved. Usual!, the condition, though seri ous and costly, does not last more than a couple of months. But this year is different. "The car shortage in Oregon began to be felt in May and ahows no signs of diminishing as the peak grain loading weeks approach. "I have spent considerable time discussing the problem with of ficials of the Interstate Commerce commission here. "They state frankly that they cannot figure out a solution that will give any immediate relief. Cars cannot be produced by pass- tng law or issuing an order." Levity Fact R. ant By L. F Reltensteln Deoth and taxes are certain, 'tis said. Equally so is th an nual thortoo of Southern Pa cific freight ear.