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MISTAKE WAS OBVIOUS "What do you v know," laughs six-months-old
Dean McKellips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl McKellips
of Coffeyvllle, Kan., as he waves a draft board questionnaire
he received from Montgomery county Board No. 47. The letter,
obviously misdirected, bore a registration number. It sought in
formation on Lewis' dependency status and related data regard
ing his family connections. (AP wirephofol
Police Trap Masher, Plus
'Car'; He's 14, Rides Bike
DALLAS (Pi A mashtr
who had been phoning Dallas
housewives for dates in recent
weeks was in police custody to
day. The police persuaded one of
the women to arrange a date
with the caller, who described
himself as about six feet tall and
equipped with a car.
As Detective W. C. Fannin
watched the masher arrived and
said to the woman: "Hiya, babe.
Ready to go?"
He was about 14. about four
feet tall and astride a bicycle.
New Pastor To
Serve Baptists
The Rev. Raymond Shafcr o f
New York City has received his
call to serve as pastor of the First
Baptist church of Roseburg and is
expected to occupy the pulpit
within the next two weeks.
Mr. Rev. Shafer has lived most
ot his life on the Pacific coast
and is a graduate of the Univer
sity of Washington and of Berke
ley Theological seminary. In 1940,
he was commissioned to China as
a missionary and spent six years
in that country. He returned t o
this country in 19-16 and has served
as an officer of the American Bap
tist Foreign Mission society in
New York since that time.
Rev. Shafer is now in the pro
cess of moving his wife and two
children to Roseburg from New
York.
The Rev. Elwood Marvin of the
Willagillespie chapel of Eugene
will be visiting pastor this Sunday,
conducting both the morning and
evening services at the First Bap
tist church.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
George F. Kennan, who for 25
years has been a career diplomat,
is stepping (at least temporarily)
out of our state department. Since
1947, he has been our No. 1 author
ity on Russia. That lends consid
erable interest to his views on the
general Russian situation as it
bears on us.
He says:
"I believe the American people
will have to maintain a large mil
itary establishment for many years
to come . . . But we should never
make the mistake of regarding war
with Russia as inevitable ... If
we do that, we shall write off the
chances of peace."
In other words:
We must be ready to fight at
the drop of a hat if our liberties
are threatened but we must be
equally ready to make peace if
peace with honor and liberty is
possible. War is the LAST resort.
But we must be prepared for it.
It sounds like good common
sense.
While we're at it, let's think
through to its ultimate conclusion
this business of maintaining a
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Heiress Gets City's Nod
To Establish Pig Farm
SOMERVILLE. N. J. (B
The Hillsboro township board of
health says it is all right for Doris
Duke Rubirnsa, the tobacco heir
ess, to build a pig farm
The plans, which call for a $50,
000 ultra-modern farm to raise
from 2.500 to 3,000 pigs, originally
ran into some objections from 'he
board of health. But Wednesday
the board okayed an application
by Rudolph Sommers, the heiress'
farm manager.
The only restriction is that gar
bage for feed purposes may not
be brought into the township.
The Weather
Cloudy with light showers, be
coming partly cloudy this after
noon and Friday.
Highest temp, for any Aug. 106
Lo.'est temp, for any Aug. 3'
Hijhtst tamp, yesterday . 73
Lrest temp, yesterday ... 60
Precipitation from Aug. 1 05
Precipitation last 24 hours .OS
Precipitation from Sept. 1 34.21
Deficiency from Aug. 1 .17
Sunset today, 8:03 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 6:29 a. m.
Girl Confesses
Aid In Murder By
Her Boy Friend
LOS ANGELES UP) -"We
wanted money to get married on,"
16-year-old Peggy Byrns testified
Wednesday in explaining the mo
tive for a holdup that ended in
murder.
Speaking slowly, blowing kisses
occasionally to her sweetheart,
Tommy Cook, 18, on trial for mur
der in the slaying of liquor store
owner Dominic Calarco, she shoul
dered blame for the affair.
"Of course we considered our
selves married. . . we even had a
(mock) marriage certificate drawn
up. We both signed it and felt
we were man and wife. But we
wanted money for a real wed
ding." she said.
"It was my idea to stage the
holdup. It was my idea to get a
gun. It was my idea to 'case' 4he
store first . . . I even helped load
the gun for Tommy. But it wasn't
his idea, or anybody's to shoot that
man. That was just an accident."
Authorities say Peggy, Cook and
other teen-agers were members of
a cilme club that planned rob
beries in high schocl class rooms,
using ideas obtained from comic
books and radio mysteries.
Other witnesses have testified
that Cook fatally shot Calarco dur
ing the May 12 holdup.
"I met Tommy at a halloween
party. I loved him. I love him
now." Peggy sobbed. They half
carried her, weeping, from the
stand.
Aged Woman, III,
Ends Own Life
Lovena Rose Bohnhoff, 78, resi
dent of Gardiner, was found dead
this morning from a gunshot
wound which Deputy Sheriff Cecil
Beaver, Reedsport, reported was
self-inflicted.
Officer Beaver and State Police
man James Joy were called to the
Bohnhoff home early this morning
and report they were informed the
woman had shot herself through
the temple at 5:10 o'clock a. m
She had been in ill health for a
long period of time. Officers said
they were informed she had made
previous suicide attempts. She was
to have been brought to Roseburg
today for a mental examination,
the deputy sheriff said.
Her husband, Harry William
Bohnhoff, and a son A. J. Whit
aker, the latter a resident of
Hillsboro, survive.
Aged Drew Resident
Found Dead Of Gunshot
The body of an 88-year-old man
who apparently shot himself in
the head with a German Mauser
gun was found yesterday evening
in a cabin near Drew, state police
reported.
The body ot Gus Bachmann was
found by H. E. Van- Buren of
Drew, in Bachmann s cabin on the
Whiskey creek road, about one
mile from Drew. Bachmann lived
alone in the cabin.
The body was taken to Stearns
mortuary. State police had no in
formation this morning regarding
relatives.
Winston Churchill's Son
Wounded In Korea War
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD-
QUARTERS, Korea UP War Cor
respondent Randolph Churchill, son
of British wartime prime minister
Winston Churchill was wounded to
day by a mortar hurst on a Nak
tong river-crosing foray into enemy
territory with a U. S. patrol.
A n American correspondent,
Frank Emery of International News
Service, was hit in the same action.
Neither was hurt seriously the
army said.
The shell fragment tore a hole
about the size of a U. S. half dollar
in Churchill's leg, army medics
said.
Emery was hit three times.
License Of Tavern
Operator Suspended
License of James DeWille. oper
aior of Carl's Tavern at Reedsport,
was ordered suspended for five
days, beginning Sept. 5 by the
Oregon Itiquor Control commission.
According to the commission's
findings, suspension was ordered
following a hearing on charges the
operator permitted visibly intoxi
cated persons to enter and remain
on licensed premises.
Established 1873
Maneuvering
Reds Threaten
Pusan Again
Allied Lines Braced In
New Positions, Awaiting
Expected Major Attack
By The Auoclated Press
fmnmitnil farnas ntciwl a ....
inilS now throat tn Pi, can in tha
south today. Pusan is the main
u. a. supply Dase tor souin Ko
rea. On Ihp nnrth antral frnnl alliofl
troops inched ahead into positions
given up oy wunnrawing rlea
forces north of Taegu.
A division of Red Korean troops
in three heavily armed columns
of men and machines began roll
ing eastwara inursaay night on
the Knrnnn emith nnaet anain.t
........... uuu.il .uu..t ngouiai
positions of the U. S. 25th infan-
uy uivisiun. intelligence onicers
said a major offensive may be im
minent there. . .
With American forces on the
alert, U. S. pilots watched the
neus marcning in Clusters ot eight
or 10 men at 50-foot intervals to
minimize the danger of air attack.
Fighters, bombers and jet planes
hammered at the three columns
immediately after the movement
was reported. Two B-26 bombers
smashed at concentrations which
apparently were marshalled at
Chinju, the Reds' southern anchor
55 miles west of Pusan.
North Pressure Eased
There was danger in the north,
too, although pressure eased. For
five days the Americans and South
Koreans beat back flanking at
tacks which jabbed and probed in
an apparent search for a soft spot
In launch n 5n nm.mnn ad.nl.
TeRu, main United Nations for-
wara Dase.
With the immediate threat to
the city apparently somewhat
lessened, U- N. forces tightened
their lines. South Koreans, aided
by U. S. fighter-bombers, captured
"the citadel," highest peak on the
U. N. right flank along the rocky
corridor leading to Taegu. It had
been a Red observation post..
Reds Poised for Lunge
There was an air of cautious
optimism at the front. But the
Reds still were massed for a pos
sible lunge. Some U. S. officers
expressed belief (he Reds were
seeking a flanking route for the
Taegu drive. Others said the Com
munists were pulling back to re
group. American destroyers yesterday
made their second bombardment
of Chongji on the north Korean
east coast, starting fires which
could be seen for 10 miles.
B-29S HPnill hit tfafrin f .,.-!t I..
t.a.iiv latllulCB
of the North Koreans in the rear.
manelinp rail line nlnntr tha
coast and hitting the main west
ern lamuau running towara the
battlefront. The Superforts also
smashed at one of the largest
chemical plants in 1?act Aala t
Konan in North Korea, dropping
inuusana-pouna oombs. They
met no opposition in the air.
Two Men Killed When
Locomotive Blows Up
RATAVTA n inn v
-.-....., v., i iwu men
died, windows in nearby homes
were shattered and railroad tracks
were ripped up by the explosion
ui a ivunoiK & western railroad
freight locomotive near here last
night.
The blast occurred about a mile
east of Williamsburg in the east
ern part of Clermont county.
Dead are Carl D. Clark of Ports
mouth, O., the engineer of t h e
train, and R. D. Aldred, also of
Portsmouth, the fireman. Their
mangled bodies were blown sev
eral hundred feet.
Paul Keynes of South Shore, Ky.,
the brakeman, was blown from a
cupola atop the coal tender but
escaped with only a sprained
ankle.
GERMAN SLAVES TOIL UNDER RED LASH
Uranium Ore Needed For Atomic Bombs
Keeps 300,000 Digging
BERLIN (JPt The British
charged today that 300,000 Ger
man "slave" laborers under a
Communist whiplash are mining
uranium ore essence of atomic
bombs night and day in east
Germany "for the sole benefit of
the Russian war machine."
"Millions of tons of German
uranium ore" for the Soviet is
being produced in "little Siberia"
prison camp conditions, said a re
port by British control commis
sion authorities.
Unskilled, impressed labor is
paid less than $2 weekly it was
said.
Detailing the "frantic" 24-hour-a-day
operations inside barbed
wire enclosed shafls, the British
statement observed:
"The only beneficiaries of this
extravagant drive are the Rus
sians. The east German economy
gets nothing out of it, but is even
disrupted by the inexhaustible de
mands, "It can only be concluded that
the Russians are in urgent need
of uranium for purposes other than
peaceful reconstruction."
ROSEBURG,
Scottsburg Bids
Public To 100th
Birthday Party
Residents of ten Douglas, Coos
and Lane county communities have
been invited to participate in
Scottsburg's 100th birthday party,
scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 27.
Miss Emma Hedden, general
chairman of the centennial cele
bration and granddaughter of the
pioneer postmaster and merchant,
Cyrus Hedden, said residents of
Roseburg, Drain, Elkton, Loon
Lake, Smith River, Gardiner,
Reedsport, Coos Bay, Florence and
Mapleton are urged to pttend the
festivities.
Scottsburg's birthday party will
begin at 10 a.m., with a pioneer
parade. A pioneer exhibit will fol
low, preceding a picnic lunch to
be held at noon, with coffee furn
ished by the Scottsburg Grange.
Included in the afternoon's pro
gram is an address by Stephen
Fowler Chadwu k, Seattle attorn .)
and grandson of Stephen F. Chad
wick, Scottsburg's first postmas
ter, Oregon's fifth governor and
third secretary of state. A high
way marker dedication and a free
salmon bake will round out the
day s events.
Registrations
At High Schools
Begin Next Week
Registration at the Roseburg
junior and senior high schools will
begin next week at the schools,
n. k. orana, junior nign principal,
said today.
Dates for registration at the sen
ior high school are:
Monday,' Aug. 28, seniors
Tuesday, Aug- 29, juniors
Thursday, Aug. 31, sophomores
Friday, Sept. 1, freshmen
No registration will be held
Wednesday, Aug. 30, because of
day.
Dates for registration at the jun
ior high school:
Thursday, Aug. 31, both seventh
and eighth grades, names begin
ning with A to K.
Friday, Sept. 1, both seventh and
eighth giades, names beginning
with L to Z.
Registration for both schools will
be held from 9 a. m. to noon and
from 1 to 4 p. m.
Fees Required
Required fees are 75 cents for
lock deposit and $2 for towel fee.
Desirable but not required are
$1.25 for student accident insur
ance and $4 for student body dues
at the senior high school or $1 for
student body fees at the junior
high school.
A medical examination clinic,
mandatory for those entering the
seventh grade in junior high will
be given at the following times:
Aug. 28 boys, A-H, 8-10 a. m.
Aug. 29 girls, A-H, 8-10 a. m-
Aug. 30 boys, I-Z, 8-9 a. m.;
girls I-Z, 9-10 a. m.
No registration at either of the
schools will be made ahead of the
days scheduled. Students who are
unable to register on their sched
uled day are advised to appear
between 3 and 4 p. m. on another
day during the registration period.
Those unable to register during
the regular period may sign up
during opening day, Sept. 5. How
ever, for the sake of convenience,
students were encouraged to regis
ter during the regular week if pos
sible. A full day of classes is sched
uled for the opening day, Sept. 5,
at both schools.
School hours have been changed
slightly at both schools with hours
from 8:40 to 11:40 a. m. and 12:25
to 3:25 p. m.
Contrary to a previous announce
ment, football practice at the jun
ior high school will not start until
school opens- Senior high football
practice began yesterday.
VET LUMBERJACK DIES
ASHLAND P William Hunter,
78, a veteran lumberjack, died here
weanesaay alter a heart attack,
The British report commented
that this campaign "supplies So
viet Russia with the essence of
the atom bomb which they so vo
ciferously condemn."
Secret Police On Guard
The report noted:
Five thousand NKVD (secret po
lice) agents are on the staff of
the Russian-controlled Wismuth
A. G. monopoly which operates
the uranium mines in east Ger
many. Extreme securitv is main
tained, to the extent that East
Germans having relatives in the
western zone no longer are per
mitted into the mines. The all-
powerful Wismuth has immunitv
from all German courts, with life
ann death power over miners, ail- l"y" ' . '
thority over all public and private 1 lo,K 'V M? m". ' S.'
property, and all the East Ger- "i1 'tU ' workrr get up t0
man funds it needs. M 00 monlhl)'-
The "slave" labor is conscripted Many miners suffer from the oc
in various ways, according to the ! cupational disease of lung cancer.
British report. German Red party I Russian doctors rule laborers able
leaders fill the corporation's man-1 10 continue to work if they are
power demands. The miners are on,y half-disabled, said the British
culled from criminals and political I report, adding:
opponents, or simplv shanphaied ' "Hospitals are full of miners
In other fields workers are laid who have either sustained injuries
off, then tapped for the uranium or fallen ill,"
ORECON THURSDAY, AUGUST
Canada Feels
Pinch Of Rail
Lines' Tie-Up
Parliament Plans To
Act As Country Faces
Industrial Paralysis
OTTAWA (JP) Canada's gov
ernment moved today to get the
full weight of Parliament behind
action to end the crippling coast-to-coast
rail strike, now in its
third day.
An emergency airlift has been
organized to fly members of Par
liament to Ottawa for an emer
gency session Tuesday to deal with
the walkout. Already idle are
more than 200,000, including 124,
000 rail strikers.
No direct government interven
tion was in 'prospect before the
opening of Parliament. The ad
ministration stood by its decision
to have the legislators share re
sponsibility for any action.
Meanwhile, industries dependent
for supplies on the Canadian Na
tional and Canadian Pacific rail
systems face early closedowns.
Some already have begun.
Food shortages threatened. Some
industrial issues on the stock ex
change took a nose dive. Travel
ers were stranded.
Merchants started food ration
ing in northern Ontario towns.
Three thousand Novia Scotia
coal miners were laid off, because
of lack of coal cars. Similar re
ports came from other parts of
the nation.
The government obtained auth
ority today to mobilize and control
all commercial aircraft to cope
with the strike.
Paralysis Crowing
The nation meanwhile faced the
gloomy prospect of widespread
shutdown of its heavy Industry and
of heavy losses in sales and dis
tribution. Canada's millions already felt a
shortage of mail and a total lack
of telegraphic services.
Big cities dependent on rail-
hauled coal for their power houses,
faced electrical shortages.
As the quick effects of the stran
gulation swept across the country
refinery workers, packing house
workers, base metal miners and
flour mill operators went home
with nothing to do.
Western wheat farmers and
Ontario peach producers expected
critical results from the lack of
rail transportation which carries
their products and which bring
migratory harvest workers to their
fields. . .
Roseburg Offices
Lack Candidates
Political offices in Roseburg are
going a-begging.
City Recorder W. A. Gilchrist
said today only two candidates
have submitted their petitions to
file for city offices in the Nov.
7 general election and the Sept.
2 deadline is only ten days away.
Frank Ashley, incumbent coun
cilman from ward 1, has signified
his intention to file again for the
office he has held since Jan. 1,
1947. Ralph L. Russell, local bus
inessman, was the first to file
for candidacy. He will run for
mayor.
Also slated for the ballot 1 s
voting on an additional council
man from ward 1 and two from
ward 2. Neither Mayor Albert G.
Flcgel, nor Councilman Percy
Croft, Chester Morgan and Henry
Carstens have signified their in
tentions to run again for office.
According to City Ordinance
1092, the council is authorized to
appoint councilmcn to vacancies
created when terms expire and
an election does not produce suc
cessors.
Night And Day
workings. Their food ration cards
are taken away if they refuse, the
British analysis said
Even Women Toil
Males 17 to 50 years old are
dratted. Women workers range
from 18 to 55. Included in the uran
ium labor force are a few "vol
unteer" blue-shirt German Com'
munists under 17 years of age.
The British report said mothers
also have been put to work in the
pits, barred from visiting their
children except under special per
mission. 'Squalid" living conditions and
m"g" pay ,re "m I0, ,ne
' rule,- Jhe overage wage of the un-
I ftLrillavt uranium I r K t- a v la rankptAri
24, 1950
NOW YOU SEE IT Now you don't. Photo at top shows the rail
road repair yard near Wonsar,
nearly identical view, bur with addition ot several tons ot bombs
from U. S. air force B-29t, which were on mission fo eras the
yards. U. S. air force photo. (NEA telephoto)
DAVE BUSENBARK
That's Name Chosen For
Tract To Be Dedicated
In County Judge's Honor
A 28-acre plot of county timber land will be dedicated to re
tiring County Judge 0. N. Busenbark as a recreational park in the
near future by order of the county court.
This body will dedicate for public use a county-owned tract
just one and one-half miles west of Reston on the old Coos
Bay wagon road. Specifically it is that part of the southeast
quarter of tha northwest quarter located south of tha California-
Oregon Power Co. holdings
The heavily wooded acreage with
sparkling streams and springs will
be dedicated to the 71-year-old
iudee who has for almost ten years
devoted himself wholeheartedly to
the county service.
Few people realize the heavy
burden and tremendous responsi
bility the little man with the ever
present smile had to face when
he was pulled off his fruit and
vegetable tarm some ten years
ago. Beside the various duties
heaped on his shoulders as county
judge he is chairman of the board
of commissioners, pronaie omcer,
juvenile judge, member of the
county welfare commission, and
the man who handles insane com
mitments. Judge Busenbark was born
March 5, 1880 in Wichita Kans.
When he was 30 years old, he and
his family came to Roseburg and
settled in the Melrose district and
have been there since. Before the
judgeship he was an energetic
farmer and fruit grower. This is
the occupation to which he hopes
to return upon retirement from
office.
In 1940, the war crisis was be
coming grave so the then county
judge, Morris Bowker, was called
into the service. With three years
and eight months to go on the
term, Judge Busenbark took over
the reins. In 1944 he ran and was
elected in his own right for the
full six-year term.
The order establishing the rec
reational park in his name in
cluded a citation which sums up
an exemplary career of public
service. It reads:
"It appears to the court that
Dave Busenbark has honestly, in
dustriously and diligently served
as county judge of Douglas county
and is about to retire, and it is
fitting and proper that said park
area he designated as the Dave
Busenbark park."
Mexicans Jailed For
Illegal Entry Into U.S.
Four Mexican aliens are being
held in the county jail for delivery
to United States immigration auth
orities for illegal entry into this
country. They are Jose Aguirre,
3fi; Morrelino Mejia. M: Salvador
Aguirre, 38, and Roberto Serda
18.
The four men were picked up
by the slate police and sentenced
in the justice court to serve IS
days each in the county iail on
charges of vagrancy according to
Justice of Peace A. J. Geddes.
This sentence will be waived how
ever, since immigration officials
will pick up the Mexicans tomor
row, reported the Roseburg office
of the state police.
T8-50
in North Korea. Photo below is
PARK
Dad Drills Holes
In Son's Chest
D ANBURY, Conn. (IP) The
life of little Joey Korczynski,
whose father yesterday admitted
boring two holes in his chest with
a drill press, hung in the balance
today at Danbury hospital.
Surgeons said the 3-lGth-inch bit
had narrowly missed the four-and-a-half
year old boy's heart, and his
condition was listed as "extremely
critical." .
When he regained consciousness
in an oxygen tent after an emer
gency operation last night, nurses
said, the youngster tossed rest
lessly and sobbed:
I want my daddy. 1 want my
daddy."
His father. Joseph Korczynski
Sr.. 38. wasn't there. Police had
taken him to the county jail at
Bridgeport, 20 miles away, to a
wait trial on a charge ot assault
with intent to murder. At a pre
liminary hearing he was ordered
held without bail.
State police found Joey pinned
by the bit to the bed of a drill
press in a garage at fox Hill Inn,
a fashionable resort hotel in Ridge
field. There were two wounds in
his chest and a third in his back,
possibly where the drill had emer
ged. When Korczynski was first
brought to the state police bar
racks, Sergt. Louis Marcnese said,
he was "obviously crazed" and
unable to talk rationally.
Baby, Great-Grandmother
Die As Fire Razes Home
SALEM 1!) A nine-month-old
gin and her semi-invalid great
grandmother died Wednesday
when oil-fed flames trapped them
in a bedroom, then destroyed the
suburban home.
The victims were Deborah Bach,
daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Bacn, and Mrs. Lettie Morrow, 86.
The child's grandmother, Mrs.
E. C. Smith, escaped. She was cut
olf from the bedroom when the oil
stove exploded.
I ,
Winchester Street Ban
i - I onninn TrurLc CAtaA
.. 2 J ? -
Police Chief Calvin Baird this
morning reminded loggers mat
Winchester street has been closed
to logging trucks,
Hnh norlh ... 80ulhbound
trucks must take the highway in
stead of Winchester street, he said.
The action was taken because
of traffic tieups caused by loaded
trucks being slowed down on the
hill. Signs hava been posted.
7
Call To Unions
Broke Pledge,
Truman Says
Decision As To Federal
Seizure Of Lines Due
Later From President
WASHINGTON UP) Presl.
dent Truman declared today the
nationwide railroad strike was
called within an hour after assur
ances to him that there would be
no strike.
He made it plain to a news con
erence that he felt he had not
been dealt with fairly.
As to what he intends to do. he
said he would have a statement
later. He refused to indicate
wuether he plans seizure. The
unions have been urging this step
for weeks.
Mr. Truman said the strike was
sudden and unexpected. He said
assurances came to him from both
the unions and the management
that there would be no walkout.
These assurances, he said, were
given within an hour before the
strike was called by the trainmen
and conductors. Membership of
the two unions totals 300,000.
They set the wa'.kout for 6 a.m.
(local standard time) nex Mon
day. A union spokesman had this
comment on President Truman's
remarks:
"We would ask that it be noted
the strike has been set far enough
in advance to provide opportunity
to clear this thing up, if the Presi
dent cares to call in the presidents
of these roads in place of the
(management) committee which
has been stalling all these months.
"Secondly, if th President de.
cides he will seize the railroads,
the two presidents of the unions
are remaining in Washington to
cooperate in any way possible."
The nationwide strike call
against 131 rail lines was unex
pected. The union leaders only
Tuesday night had given every
one to understnd they would not
expand five-day "token" walkouts
presently in progress at five key
rail centers.
However, the dispute over wages
and working hours has dragged
out over a period of a year and
a half and constantly been grow
ing more ominous.
Under the railway labor act,
which sets up a complex proce
dure for handling of rail disputes,
the unions have been free to strike
since July 15.
A strike of all railroads in Can
ada is now in its fourth day, ao
if the threatened walkout develops
in this country all rail transporta
tion in the United States will be
at a standstill.
Strike Outlawing Asked
The threatened nationwide rail
strike brought a demand from Sen
ator Donnell (R-Mo) for "imme
diate favorable action" on his bill,
pending in the senate labor com
mittee, to outlaw all rail strikes
and require rail labor disputes to
be arbitrated.
"The interests of the public are
paramount and overshadow the
interests of either the employers
or the employes of our nation's
railway system," Donnell said.
The dispute with the trainmen
and conductors has been going on
since March 1949. The unions
asked a 40-hour week with the
same pay as now received from
a 48-hour week for men in yard
service, plus a pay boost for work
ers in train service.
An emergency board named by
Mr' Truman turned down the re
quested pay boost for train serv
ice men and recommended the 40
hour week plus an 18-cent hourly
increased for yard service men. The
unions said the train service men
should have gotten something and
the yard service men a 31-cent
hike.
The carriers stood pat on tha
emergency board's recommenda
tions. The unions held out for their
full demands.
Rosenbergs Deny Guilt
In Atom Spying Case
NEW YORK-P)-Julius Rosen
berg and his wife, Ethel, pleaded
innocent Wednesday to charges of
conspiracy to commit espionage
in the Klaus Fuclis atom spy ring.
The government charges that
Rosenberg, 32, helped recruit his
wife's brother, David Greenglass,
28, as a source of secret informa
tion that was turned over to Harry
Gold.
Greenglass was stationed at the
Los Alamos atom bomb center in
1945 as an army specialist. Gold, a
Philadelphia chemist, has pleaded
guilty to spy charges.
Federal Judge T. Hoyt Davis re
fused to reduce the $100,000 bail.
Lebanon Exceeds Goal
For New Hospital Fund
LEBANON '.PI A campaign for
money to build a half-million dollar
hospital here got more than the
goaf, the hospital board reported.
The total subscribed was $558,778
a per capita offering of $93. How
ever there were some larger
donors. The late Max D. Tucker
head of the plywood plant here,
left the proposed hospital $50,000.
The new 50-bed hospital will re
place the present small community
hospital.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein
Wt ore frquntly wqrnd by
military wloerti that war with
Russia IS inevitable. Who in tht
hammer and lie 'em hava wa
been fighting In Korea for
weeks?