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President Truman Directs
Army To Run Struck Road To
Safeguard National Defense
CHICACO. July I (AP) Fronds A. O'Ntill of the
Notional (railway) Mediation board said today that tho strike
Ing switchmen's union has rtfustd to send its man bock to work
"on tho boils of tho govirnmont's seizure ordor as It presently
exists."
O'Neill said that Union President Clover told him that when
tht President ordered the government to seixe the rails in 148
It was a "token order" and that "the present order seems to be
"I will not order the men back on that basis." O'Neill said
Glover told him.
the same thing."
WASHINGTON. July 8 (API President Truman today
ordered seixure of the strike-bound Reek Island railroad and di
rected the army to run It for the government.
Government seixure is "Imperative" in view of the strike by
the switchmen's union to protect the national defense and se
curity of the nation, Mr. Truman said.
The President acted In the face of a proposal from the
strikers which the union said may "dispose of our dispute." The
umon proposal, reported in Chicago, was not made public,
Houses Too High
For Low Incomes
WASHINGTON. July 8 -UP
me Housing and Home Finance
agency said today that "many
low and middle-income families
are priced out of the market for
new houses."
Furthermore, "many have keen
forced to pay prices for new homes
far beyond their means," admin
istrator Raymond M. Foley said
in the annual report to Congress
on his agency and its subdivisions.
He declared the time is fast
approaching when builders will
find demand for houses slackening
from the high levels of the last
two years, unless they can find
a market among "the millions of
families now living in inadequate
units."
The industry can take a major
step toward creation of that mar
ket.he added, if it is "able to direct
more of its output to meet the
needs of middle income families
in urban areas those families of
two or more persons with incomes
ranging between $2,800 and $4,400
a year."
Census data show about one
third of all urban families fall
into that income class, he said.
J. J. O'Connell Quits As
Aeronautics Board Head
WASHINGTON, July S ,-(
President Truman today accepted
the resignation of J. O'Connseil Jr.,
as member and chairman of the
Civil Aernautics board.
O'Connell said he wished to return
to private life and was based on
'personal considerations" with
which Mr. Truman was familiar.
In The Day's News
-By FRANK
Skimminr the telptvn in in .
fort to find out what the heck
happened in Korea, my eye light
ed on this paragraph:
"General MacArthur's headquar
ters nas aavisea me rentagon(the
Pentagon is the vast building in
Washington in which the War
department is housed) that the sit
uation o American ground forces
in Korea is not considered serious
in any way."
Something amazing happened
when I read that.
I discovered that when General
MacArthur speaks, I believe what
ne says.
Dnn't ho CMpnriettrl it wa h.n.
Plough time in Korea. It woud be
strange u we didn't.
ixjoK at your map or. pre
ferably, your globe. You will note
mat the relatively tiny peninsula
of Korea is just across the fence
from Communist China which
is either Russia's buddy or Rus
sia's stooge, whichever way vou
choose to look at it. The northeast
corner of Korea joins onto Rus
sian Siberia in the immediate
neighborhood of the Russian city
of Vladiostok.
It is a LONG, LONG WAY from
the United States of America. A
minor dispatch relates that it will
take a fast troop transport ship 20
days to get from Seattle to the seat
of the Korean fighting.
You see the point, of course.
We're a whale of a distance from
our base of supplies and it takes
TIME for us to get help to our
friends the South Koreans. Russia
is iust over the rail fence 'rom
HER friends the North Koreans.
I'd like to offer a little bet. I
think, in spite of the handicap of
distance, we'll stop the Commies
in Korea, give us a few days of
clear weather and our air force
twnich can get there quick) can
do a lot to change the situation.
. But when we stop the Commies
in Korea, I'm guessing they'll bust
The Weather
Increasing cloudiness today and
"night. Sunday partly cloudy and
cooler.
Highest to mp. for any July ...
Lowest temp, for any July
Highest ttmp. yesterday
"west nnp. last J4 hours .
Precipitation last 24 hours .
ProcinitaftiAM i..ru 1
Precipitation from Sept. I ..
Deficiency from July . .. .
Sunwt today 1:5$ p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 5:41 a.m.
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In a statement issued with his
seizure order, Mr. Truman called
on every employee to return to
nis joo and added:
"I call upon the officers of the
Switchmen's Union of North Am
erica and such other labor organ
izations as may be affected t o
take appropriate action to keep
their members at work."
In Chicago, C. E. McDaniels,
vice president of the Switchmen's
union, said the strike committee
would be called into session at
once to consider the seizure order
and the union's decision.
He said there would be no com
ment until he had contacted Ar
thur Glover, the union president,
ana memoers ot the strike com
mittee.
The switchmen had called off
their strike against four other
railroads. They kept the walkout
in force against the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific, however, and
there have been threats that other
unions also would declare strikes
against the line.
The walkouts began June 25 over
the men's demand for a five
day week with the same pay they
get for the present six-day week.
The union had rejected a pre
sidential fact-finding board's re
commendation for an 18-cent
hourly pay boost and a 40-hour
week. In his order Mr. Truman
directed that the wages and con
ditions in force at the start of
the striae continue in efert. He
did not however, bar any settle
ment which might make new
terms and -conditions retroactive
when a final settlement is reached.
The President on Thursday
called the strike unjustified and
threatened drastic action, hut. un
til today, the nature of such action
was not revealed. The other lines
the Chicago Great Western, Great
Northern, Denver and Rio Grande
Western, and I Western Pacific
now are getting rolling again.
JENKINS.
out somewhere else. Mavhe down
around Hong Kong. Maybe over
ine Doroer into indo-cmna. May.
be way, way over in Iran.
Whv?
Well, if you're a tennis player
you'll understand. If you can get
your opponent in a tennis game to
running back and forth across
the court you know his tongue
will soon be hanging out from the
exertion while you will be stand
ing more or less still and placing
the ball where it will give him
the most trouble.
That's Russia's position in this
Far Eastern ruckus. She is stand
ing in the middle. Every time she
makes a move it is onlv short
distance to her objective. To coun
ter her move, we have to run like
crazy all around the outer edge
of the wheel to get to where1 the
trouble is. Russia has the advan
tage of what the military experts
call "inside lines."
I'd guess that Russia knows this
and plans to take full advantage
of it. I know I certainly would in
ner piace, and so would you So
it seems reasonable to expect that
everytime we begin to think
we're getting the trouble cured in
one place it will break out in an
other. To follow this strategy, Russia
won't have to do any actual shoot
ing with her own gun, thus preci
pitating formal war with the Unit
ed States. All she will need to do
is to sit in the middle of the circle
and egg on her stooges around the
edges. What she hones is that
we'll run ourselves footsore and out
of wind getting from place to place.
Death Hits After 60-Ft.
Swim Under Water
TAFT. Calif.. July 8 UP)
Doyle Cameron, 17, swam under
water the full length of the city
plunge some 60 feet.
As he drew himself up on the
pool's edge to receive the plaud
its of his friends, he slipped back
into the water.
Friends and firemen, working
two and one half hours, were un
able to revive him. The coroner
said death yesterday resulted from
a heart attack.
10t! WRONG ADDRESS
40 j HOUSTON, Tex., July 8
II Recruiting officers here appre
$1 ciate the spirit of the World War II
I veteran who wrote that he would
0 like to serve his country again.
34.15 1 They had to decline the offer
. .14 because of the man's present ad
I dress: The Texas state penitentiary.
Miff
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Established 1873
YANKS
Draft- To Strengthen Armed
Forces To Be Invoked Only If
Voluntary Enlistments Fail
WASHINGTON, July 8
ine aran law over tne heads ot reservists end prospective re
cruits today in an urgent effort to build up military manpower
for the demands of the hot war in Korea.
The President gave the Pentagon power to draft men in a
general order late yesterday designed to lift economy limits
imposed on the army, navy, marines and eir force.
Negro Boy Admits
Shot That Killed
Fan At Ball Park
NEW YORK, July 8 (rP)
ronee said they were satisfied
they have solved the Fourth of July
Polo grounds killing o f Bernard
Lawrence Doyle.
They had a written confession
from a 14-year-old Negro boy that
he stood on a nearby roof and
fired one shot from a .45-caliber
pistol to celebrate the Fourth. It
was the only cartridge he had.
At almost the same time 1,120
feed away, the 54-year-old Doyle
slumped dead in his grandstand
seat a .45 slug in his brain.
Police had held the boy, Robert
M. Peebles, in custody since the
night of the fourth after their
necdle-in-a-haystack search turned
up one 22-caliber pistol and two
22-caliber rifles in his apartment.
But Robert denied having a .45
until yesterday.
In his confession police said, he
told them he found the gun in Cen
tral Park six months ago and kept
it hidden until the fourth. Then
he fired the single shot claim
ing he had no intention of aiming
at the Polo grounds, where the
dodgers were warmng up for a
doubleheader with the Giants.
Young Peebles was held on a
charge of Juvenile delinquency. A
child under 15 cannot be charged
with homicide in New York.
Doyle, who lived at Fairview.
N. J., was a former fight mana
ger who launched Jimmv RrH.
dock on the path to the world's
neavyweignt championship.
Building Permits In
June Drop To Year's Low
Building permits issued by the
City of Roseburg fell off to a
year's low of $70,100 in June, City
Inspector C. H. Boniols reports to
day. The June total is considerably
lower than the average for the
first five months of this year
Through May, building permit to
tals had already reached the high
est in the city's history, with a
mark of $1,254,308 more than
before.
June totals Included $46,000 for
six new residential dwellings, $5,
000 for the Acme Welding shop on
E. 2nd Ave. So, and the remain
der in dwelling and commercial
repairs.
City Superintendent New
System At Ashland
ASHLAND July 8 UP)
This city now has a superinten
dent, as a variant of the city man
ager plan, designed to centralize
control of all municipal depart
ments. The council unanimously aDnrov-
ed the plan Thursday and confirm
ed the appointment of Elmer C.
Biegel in the position.
Biegel, a veteran city emloyee,
will have supervisory power over
the various departments of t h e
city government.
the council indicated that it will
act July 12 to reduce electric
rates to the level of the California
Oregon Power company from which
tne city buys power at wholesale.
Use Caution In Buying
Homes, Veterans Told
WASHINGTON. Julv 8 (Pi
Veterans Administrator Carl R.
oray Jr. told war veterans todav
to shop carefully before buying
homes.
Now that the nos'-war hnutino-
shortage is easing ff. Veterans
should make sure the will be sat
isfied with the aualitv and ion.
dition of the home and its equip
ment " r .-A
The advice came in the form ot
a letter attached to a new pamph
let, 'to the home-buying veteran ".
soon to be made available at VI
officers.
OREGON YOUTH KILLED
SANTA BARBARA. Calif.. Julv
8 tip) A tunnel accident in a
construction project killed Douglas
McNabb, 19, Newberg, Ore., yester
day. He was struck by an emotv ore
car in a tunnel being excavated to
carry water from Cachuma dam.
He was a chuck tender on the
project.
IN ANOTHER -BE7BEAT
(AP) President Truman dangled
No official would say how many
men are wanted. However, a com
parison of the limits fixed by law
against the present strength of the
armed forces indicates that the
figure could run as high as 547.
482. '
Officials of the armed forces
said that as far as they know there
has been no decision yet to call up
the national guard or reservists.
But, they said, "we will wel
come reserves with open arms." .
The general impression was that
this "first step" was taken to spur
the return to active duty of as
many reservists as the services
need at the outset officers and
technicians and to boost re
cruiting. I
The second step, if and when it is
needed, would be to start draft
calls.
A third step apparently would be
to call into federal service the
national guard and the organized
reserve units.
Clorical HiId Na.d.d
The selective service system. In
a precautionary step, instructed its
state boards to hire such clerical
neip as tney might need. A spokes
man said "we're ready."
The present draft act is really a
15-day interim law tidi nir nvpi nn.
til tomorrow a 1948 law which ex
pired June 24.
A regular one-year extension of
the draft act becomes effective
Sunday. Under it, all males must
register Opon reaching 18. Those
who have reached 19 and are not
yet a may De drafted (with cer
tain grouDS exemnteri. Thv n
be kept in service 21 months. Na
tional guardsmen and reserves can
be called for 21 months.
The army's present strength Is
about 596.000. Even hpfora ih
outbreak of the Korean fighting,
it was haying difficulty keeping
up us uesirea strengtn. Monthly
new enlistments were running
about 60 per cent of what the army
hoped for. Reenlistment rates were
roughly the same.
Anyone Who is 17 nr nlriar mav
volunteer. Seventeen-v e a r-o 1 d i
must have parental consent.
Taxi Driver Gets $6,000
In Error, Doesn't Know It
SEATTLE. Julv s im t..i
driver James O. Pascoe collected
$6,000 as a cab fee and didn't
even know it. Neither did he get
w nccf 11.
It came about when Mrs. Nettie
Cross hired his cab, found she
didn't have the funds to liquidate
the $5 charge and turned over some
of her husband's clothes as secu-
Later Pascoe took the clothe
back to the Cross apartment. A
very worried husband, William
Cross, hadn't known about the
transaction and had reported the
clothes stolen. He qulcklev thrust
a hand into the pocket of one of
the returned coata and pulled out
$6,000 in cash.
The police report on the case
said "everyone satisfied."
Sinatra's Divorce Suit
Gouges Into His Cash
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 8
WP Pending trial Sept. 8 of
Nancy Sinatra's separate mainten
ance suit, her estranged husband,
r rankle the crooner, must pay her
$2,750 monthly for support of her
self t-.A three minor children.
Superior court also ordered Si
natra yesterday to pay $4,500 in
attorney fees in connection with
the suit. Frankie is in England
where actress Ava Gardner is mak
ing a film.
U. S. Reactivating Synthetic Rubber Plants
To Combat Price Boost For Natural Product
WASHINGTON, July 8 VP)
Three of the government's war
built synthetic rubber plants are
being recalled 'to active service.
Their mission: to add 88.000 tons
to currrent U. S. synthetic nntnut
of 487,000 tons a year.
n recent snarp Increase in na
tural rubber prices now selling
for around 31 cents a pound com
pared with 18.5 cents for synthe
ticappeared to be behind the de
cision announced yesterday.
Greater availability of the low
er priced synthetic will help Amer
ican manufacturers of tires and
other products to hold down their
costs and prices. They have em
phasized no tire shortage is in
prospect.
The action also will leave more
natural rubber available for stock
piling by the government against
an emergency need. Most natural
races imm
ROSEBURC. OREGON SATURDAY,
Conscience-Goaded Man
Pays For 'Stolen' Gravel
Conscience rested on the
shouldor of a God-fearing man
until the woight was too much
to boar. As a result county
judge D. N. Busenbark received
a check for throe dollars and a
Uttor directed to tho Douglas
county road commission.
Tho letter began, "Two years
ago I picked up soma gravel
along tho road for my driveway.
In Cod's sight". It continued,
'this was stealing, so here is $3
to pay for It."
5 Persons Die In
Two-Car Collision
WELLSBORO, Pa., July 8 UP)
Five persons were killed last
night in a two-car collision o n
route six four miles east of Wells
bo ro.
The victims were identified as
Andrew Holt, 61, and his wife,
52; Arthur Woodward, 74, and his
wife, 76, all of nearby Harrison
Valley, and Mrs. Walter Rerhstein
er, 24, of Moonachie, N. J.
Rechsteiner, 29, who is in the
thread cutting business with his
father in Union City, is in Wells
boro hosptal where physicians re
ported he was in critical condi
tion. A veteran of World War II, Rech
steiner was in the news in 1946
when an Italian official traced
to him a missing rare manuscript
written in tne I4tn century by the
poet i-etrarcn. Kechsteiner said
he had purchased the valuagle
poem for two packages of cigarets
and had carried it with him through
the Battle of the Bulge.
State- policeman William H.
Maurer of the Mansfield, Pa.,
substation, said a Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Cleveland of Covington, Pa.,
told him they had been following
the Rechssteiner car and gave him
this description of the collision:
a The Recsteiner -car -was travel
ing at about 35 to 40 miles an our
on route six. The car driven by
Holt came out of whata called
the Charlestown intersection at a
rapid speed. The two cars collid
ed, one climbing an emba;nkment.
MacArthur U.N.
General In Korea
WASHINGTON, July I -(PI
President Truman today named
Gen. Douglas MacArthur as com
manding general of the United
Nations forcos in Korea.
Acting under a U. N. Security
council resolution, Mr. Truman
also directed MacArthur to use
the U. N.'s blue and white flag,
along with tho flags of tho parti
cipating nations, in operations
against the Communist troops, In
North Korea.
MacArthur thus becomes the
first military loader to command
unified forcos of tho St-natlon
world organisation.
Warehouse Erection
Permit Given Copco
City Inspector C. H. Boniols re
ports issuance of a permit of con
struction of a $47,000 warehouse
has been granted the California,
uregon Fower company.
The permit calls for construction
of a reinforced concrete building,
60 by 150 feet, to be located on
Copco property on E. 2nd St. and
the S. P. tracks. The new struc
ture will be added to existing faci
lities at the same location.
Todd Building company of Rose
burg is the general contractor.
1 HEAVY FIRE DUTY
WAKEFIELD. Mass.. July 8
UP) Firemen from two towns
were summoned yesterday to
stop two boys from fighting.
J-ire chief Clifford E. Jacobs said
companions, who wanted to break
up the fight, sounded the alarm.
Apparatus from this town and
nearby Reading raced to the scene.
The fire laddies snuffed out the
fight.
rubber comes from the far Pa
cific, and the rubber industry has
been urging action to protest U.
S. supplies from "the spreading
threat of Communism" there.
The Reconstruction Finance cor
poration, which manages the government-owned
synthetic plants,
said it is arranging for reactiva
tion of three plants which have
been in standby status.
1. A plant at Port Neches, Tax.,
which can add 75,000 tons anually
to current output of 425,000 tons
a year of general purpose synthe
tic, used in making tires.
2. Another at Baton Rogue, La.,
which can add 13,000 tons a year
to current annual output of 62,000
tons of butyl special purpose rub-
ber, which is used in inner tubes,
3. A Houston, Tex., plant which
JULY 8, 1950
Red Army Captures Another
S. Korean Town; Fresh U.S.
Equipment On Hand To Fight
TOKYO, Sunday, July 9 (API Fall of the South Korean
fown of Chonan end e renewed American retreat before the
North Korean Invaders were resorted todav bv field ditrjatch.c.
This news by telephone
came shortly after e Tokyo headquarters communique said the
Red drive had been "curtailed" but that the invaders were mast
ing troops, armor end artillery for a renewal of their offensive.
O. P. King, Associated Press
field correspondent, said that Am
erican equipment had arrived and
fresh troops' had reached the gen
eral area, lending encouragement
to American determination to re
verse the trend and hurl the north
erners back soon. He said that as
of 6 p.m. Saturday the American
equipment had not yet gone into
action, however. (The "equip
jnent" he mentioned presumably
included tanks, which a Tokyo
headquarters spokesman previous
ly said had reached Korea but
had not yet started fighting.)
King added that the invaders
had not followed the American re
treat for its full distance, but were
using heavy artillery.
MacArthur's bulletin also said
"reports over the past three or
four days indicate a steady buildup
of enemy troops along the east
coast. Troops and tanks concen
trated in this area, it added, "sug
gest that fact that preparations
are under way for a drive in the
direction of Pusan."
Piusan is the main American sup
ply port at the extreme south
eastern tip of the peninsula.
Weather Also Slows Rods
MacArthur's announcement said
blown-up bridges and flooded
streams continue as the most
serious obstacles to North Korean
armor. Air force operations were
continuing to hit Red communi
cations, slowing movement of sup-
piles southward, it added.
A high American official at U.
S. headquarters in Korea said
American planes had knocked out
as many as 40 Red tanks aouth of
Suwon. But air force reports 1 n
Tokyo were more conservative,
claiming only 20 as probably de
stroyed. General Mac Arthur said
American troops had captured a
mammoth 60-ton tank the largest
Russian made tank vet seen in
the Korea war.
MacArthur estimated American
combat casualties to date at 24S.
of which 192 are missing.. Many
of the missing are expected to
get back to the American lines
later.
To tighten his military defenses
in the rear area. MacArthur auth
orized the Japanese to add a 75,-
uw man reserve to their police
force and 8,000 to their coast
guard. This will bring the police
force up to 200,000.
U.S. Freight Tax Dodge
In Canada Is Halted
WASHINGTON. July 8 UP
Shippers no longer can evade the
federal 3 percent transportation
tax by paying their freight bills
in Canada, the International Re
venue bureau has ruled.
In an about face, revenue Com
missioner George Schoeneman
advised all shippers and freight
carriers yesterday that:
ine 3 percent transportation
tax applies to all shiDments ef nro-
perty between two points in the
United States and the law does
not exclude anyone from this tax
if he pays his domestic freight
bills outside the United States."
The apparent loophole in the law,
by which shippers avoided the tax,
was in its phrasing that the tax
applied only to "the amount paid
(for freight) within the United
States." 7
SMALL FIRE SUBDUED
Douglas Forest Protective assoc
iation extinguished a small forest
fire in the Winters Logging oper
ation in the Tenmile-Lookingglass
area today. No damage resulted.
turns out butadiene, one of the
major component materials nec
essary to the projected increase in
production of synthetic rubber.
These plants will lift the num
b e r of government synthetic
plants in operation to 18, two
producing butlyl, and nine supply
ing general purpose rubber from
raw materials and chemicals fur
nished by the seven other plants.
The 575,000 tons of synthetic rub
ber to be produced annually in
these plants compares with a cur
rent world-wide synthetic rubber
consumption rate estimated by
the commerce department at 800,
000 tons.
The department said world pro
duction of natural rubber reached
j , p,tw.r peak of 150,000 tons
month!y in May, topping world
consumption that month by 10,000
tons.
159-50
from correspondents at. the front
Year's Revenue Of
City Police Dept.
Nearly $73,000
A total of $72,974.82 was collect
ed by the Roseburg police depart
ment during the last fiscal year,
ending June 30, 1950, according
to the annual report prepared by
Police Chief Calvin H. Baird and
submitted to City Manager M. W.
Slankard.
Parking meter revenue, totaling
$40,595.50, accounted for the larg
est share, with the remaining $27,
612.32 coming from municipal court
fines.
A total of 903 persons were ar
rested during the 12-months per
iod. Arrests for intoxication rank
ed highest on the list, with 469
being made. Vagrancy arrests
ranked second highest with 137.
Felony arrests recorded 55, only
slightly less than the 68 recorded
for misdemeanors other than traf
fic. Other police action included
federal arrests, 11; disorderly con
duct, 94; drunk driving, 69; reck
less driving, 23; basic rule viola
tions, 355: non-stop. 191: no onera-
tor's license, 146; Illegal parking
and miscellaneous violations. 1.318:
visitors courtesy tickets and traf
fic warnings issued, 695. Police is
sued 11,520 overtime parking cita
tions. Police Investigated 142 accidents
and 1,072 other complaints. Busi
ness money escorts were provided
in 203 cases and policemen escort
ed 119 funeral processions..
Prisoners working out their jail
sentences for the city were employ
ed for a total of 4,767 hours.
Faces Sex Surgery,
Wants Male Name
FREEHOLD, N. J., July 8 -UP)
A 32-year-old long branch woman
wants to change her name to a
man's before undergoing an oper
ation expected to change her sex.
Miss Henrietta Marjorie Dangler
petitioned the Monmouth county
clerk's office yesterday to change'
her name to Hcnny M. Dangler.
She offered an affidavit from Dr.
D. Randall MacCarroll, Philadel
phia, which said in part: "My
opinion is that if the operation
is performed, the patent defnite
ly will be of the male sex."
Miss Dangler said in the petition
she wants her name changed be
fore the operation so she may ob
tain a promised position as a fac
tory foreman and earn enough In
pay for the surgery.
She formerly drove a taxicab.
She is of small build with the
appearance of a young boy, wears
a boyish bob and wears men's
clothes.
Mysterious Gas Routs
Citizens From Homes
MOLINE, III., -UF)- foul
smelling gas routed citizens from
their beds here early today, and
sent them scurrying by car in
their night clothes to high ground
and fresh air.
Police squad cars roamed the
area trying to find the origin of
the noxious odor. Reports here
said the smelly, invisible gas
cloud spread through East Moline,
Silvis, Rock Island, 111., and
Davenport, la.
Engineers at the low a-Illinois
Gas and Electric Co. sent a half
dozen crews out to track down
the smell They could find n o
leaky lines. Engineers at the util
ity company said that the smell
was similar but not exactly like
that injected into odorless natural
gas to make it noticeable.
$500,000 Damages Asked
For Phone Number Mixup
CHICAGO, July 8 - UP) -Attorney
Robert Dowling wants $500,
000 because he says his phone num
ber got fouled up. That's the sum
he asked in his superior court suit
yesterday of the Illinois Bell Tele
phone Co., and Reuben H. Donnel
ley Corp., which prints the phone
book.
He spent countless hours answer
ing calls for a record shop be
cause of a wrong phone number
listing; when he got a new num
ber, the operator failed to notify
callers of the change, causing him
to lose clients, the suit contended.
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Korean Fight
To Finish Is
American Aim
World Given Proof Of
Determination To Crush
Enemies Of Independence
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, July UP)
Prirint Tnimin1, rfMiiim 4m . -
large American armed forces fur
nishes the wnrlft naw nrnnf that
the United States intends to see
the Korean fight through to a fin
ish. While Russia is expected to as
sail the action as further evidence
of American "aggression," there
is growing confidence here that
the Soviets do not play to preci
pitate a world war.
Responsible- authorities believe
therefore that tha draft iimmhuu.
ment will not be seized upon by
tne Kremlin as a "provocative'
act by the United States, regard
less of what propaganda use the
Russians make of it.
On the other hand, ponntrlaa
suporting the United Nations
stand on Korea are expected to
hail the draft move as proof of
American determination to make
a successful fight for South Kor
ean independence, even at the cost
of placing hundreds of thousands
more men under arms.
Need For Mor. Pow.r S.tn
The official announcement yes
terday stressed that the decision
to use the draft, if necessary, was
made as a racnlt nf th rn...
situation. In this respect, it was
understood that two specific prob
lems of related grand strategy
id ul primary concern:
1. The course of the fighting
in Korea has inHieataH a nuul
greater troop strength in actual
combat- than was originally
thought necessary. This strength
na iu ue lurnisnea witnout strip
ping American riafasnaa ni IhA.-
ot other nnnnmmnmal ,-
side Korea.
2. 'From the start of the Kor
ean incident two weeks ago the
possibility has existed that it was
a diversionary move by the Soviet-Communist
bloc, to be follow
ed Un bv an aftanlr In mm-
sector of the east-west conflict.
sucn a development could require
an additional commitment of Amer
ican forces.
Having these problems in mind,
political and military strategists
were reported to feel that the
United States could not permit 1 is
armed strength to besome unbal
anced. A factor in top level government
calculations is that the conflict be
tween the Communist and non
Communinst nations is expected to
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unforeseen developments.
Leaders are conviced that the
United States must tharafn...
serve its total strength, economic
as well as military, for the lone
pull.
Clerics' Strike Slated
Against Astoria Stores
ASTORIA, July 8 UP) AFL
retail elprlca Uilf hanin - .t.lL-.
..... HV51U iuiab
against stores here Tuesday, only
iuur win De struct tne lirst day.
Tha union fallaA ...
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terday after announcing that
wage negotiations nao tailed with
25 stores.
Two. variety stores, Newberry's
and Wnnlwnrth'a an1 lun knbA.;..
the Home and Jones, are schedul
er iu ue sirucK luesaay. led Fer
ris. Iinmn huninaa- artnn, tU.
ncilt, DB1J lilO
strike may spread to others later.
Ferris said the union was will
ing to consider any new offer from,
employers.
The union recently settled with
grocery stores, getting a pay in
crease from $1,14 to $1.25 an hour,
Ferris said.
Posing As G-Men, Pair
Loot Currency Exchange
CHICAGO. July 8 UP)
"This is a G-man," the caller
said. "We're sending over a cou
ple of men to look at your books."
Ten minutes later two men ar
rived at the Sheridan-Irving park
currency exchange. Manager Os
car Hirschel, 7, let them into the
cage, then asked for their identifi
cation. One man knocked him to
the floor and the other tied him
up. They took $3,150 iust delivered
by armored car and $1,794 from
an open safe and fled in an auto
mobile. The "G-man robbery" oc
curred yesterday.
Stolen Property, Arson
Charges Hold Two Hero .
William Robert Brock, 35, of
Medford, Is being held for ques
tioning in the county jail on
charge of receiving stolen proper,
ty, reported Sheriff O. T. Carter.
He was arrested Thursday by the
state police.
Ernesto Cclso Belli, 48, of Rid
dle, was also arrested by the state
police and- is being held in the
county jail on a charge of arson.
Justice of Peace Everett S. SkiU
ings Jr. of Glendale has set bail
at $500.
Levity Fact Rant
By L T Reiiensteln
However, Uncle Sam has es
much right to bomb Red Ger
many with potato bugs ei Joe
Stalin has to ipray our forests
with kudwormt end beetles.
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