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m mum, SMI fifn nnnfq)R D mm MM Easing Of Rail Paralysis Spotty; Parley Continues By The Associated Press , , The critical and costly tie-up of the nation's railroad transportation appeared easing today as more striking switchmen joined in the back-to-work movements which started Tuesday. However, there was not a full-scale return across the country marking the end of the "sick call" walkout which started on Jan. 30. Indications were that the crippling week-long stoppage was nearing an end in most parts of the country. Several bright spots appeared on the troubled rail front following the first major break Tuesday when thou sands of switchmen returned to work. Service was normal on major lines in the New Voi'k and New England areas. It was near normal in many other cities. And many carriers expressed hope "for nor mal service soon as the back-to-work movement spread Louisiana Sheriff Agrees To Testify At Crime Inquiry . WASHINGTON P) -Frank J. Clancy, a Louisiana sheriff, has been given a chance to escape a possible contempt of Congress charge by telling what he knows about gambling in his county. The senate crime committee, at the sheriff's request, agreed to hold a hearing here to give Clancy an opportunity to prove he has had a change of heart since he re fused to answer many questions at a hearing in New Orleans late last menth. Clancy said then he might in criminate himself by answering the questions, but he since has ex pressed a willingness to "answer anything." Chairman Kefauver (D-Tenn) notified Clancy last week that the crime committee had decided to let him have a chance to "purge himself of contempt." The sheriff notified the committee he would be on hand. Clancy, who has a 1,000-acre ranch near Kenner, La., ii a key political figure as well as the sheriff of Jefferson parish (Coun ty), adjacent to New Orleans. Lush gambling casinos contin ued to operate openly in the pa rish while Kefauver's committee was in New Orleans for two days of hearings as part of its nation wide investigation of organized crime Shortly after the , committee asked the Senate tp cite Clancy for contempt, he clamped the lid on gambling in the unincorporated parts of his parish, closing the casinos and yanking out slot ma chines. He also sent woVd to the crime committee he would like to testify. He told reporters before leaving for Washington that he now was leariv tn "answer anvthinff thev ask." He said ,his new ban on i gambling was going to stick as long I he was sheriff, that he was "through with these people." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Chicago, headquarters of the National Safety Council, we get these figures: "The U. S. home front experi enced its safest year on record in 1950. but accident casualties easily outdistanced U. S. losses in the Ko rean war. The National Safety Council totaled today the cost of the nation's 1950 accidents, and this is what it shows: Killed 90.000. Injured 8,900,000 Cost in dollars $7,700,000,000. I don't doubt the killed and in jured figures, but I find myself a little skeptical as to the alleged dollar cost. On that point, the Safe ty Council's report says: "T h e estimated $7,000,000,000 (seven billion seven hundred mil lion) economic loss covers fatal and (Continued on pig four) Fate Of Colored Oleo Sale Proposal In Doubt As Oregon Senate Nears Decisive Vote By 13STHER GEDDRS e ' SALEM AiiPwrite this column Tuesday evening;, the fate ofQthe bill to permit the sale of colored oleo in Ore jron is still undecided. If one senator changes his stand from opposing to favoring this bill, it will have a major ity in the Senate anff will be sftit to the House. Common talk indicates that it might well pass the House. At the moment the situation seems to be as follows: Senate bill No. 5 was rrrported ! out of the committee on Agricul ture with a minority report. This means that the committee was di vnled and each group proposed to nersurde the Senate to its yty The two mWibers, -signing ine (he seniority report mo1 aj to nave from city to city. But there were some dark spots, too, in the overall picture. There were a couple -of new, although small, walkouts. And not many trains were moving in some of the key rail centers notably Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland' and the twin cities. The delay in a full return to work delayed the recall of thou sands of workers in rail-related industries. More than 250,000 had been made idle in the last week because of the rail work stoppage. Despite the apparent growing back-to-work moves, the Defense Transport administration in Wash ington ordered trucks to give top priority to movement of vital gov. ernment shipments and to help break the log jam of undelivered mail. A railroad spokesman in Wash ington said that "any idea that the show is over is completely erroneous." He said that for ev ery group that goes back to work "there's another bunch that goes out." The situation in Chicago, where about 95 percent of the normal freight movements were paral ysed, remained serious. Only one of 24 carriers the Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy reported a near normal number of workers, 68, on the job early today. The number of switchmen back to work on the Milwaukee, the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern and the Chi cago and Eastern Illinois, was far below normal, the army s rail road control office said. The back-to-worl- movement ap- i peared not developing in some parts of the west. But there were signs of the walkout ending on the Union Pacific line in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other far west cities. Mediation Continues The national mediation board met with rail union leaders in Washington and obtained written demands from the four brother hoods involved in the negotiations with tne carriers in the long-stand- wage-nours dispute The earners are insisting- terms of an agreement signed last Dec. 21, calling for a 25-cent hourly wage hike for yard service employes and a - 10-cent raise for road service workers. Both the unions and the car riers remained "on call" from the board today. The contempt case continued in (Continued on page Two) Deer Creek, Glide Vote To Unite School Districts The Deer Creek school district will consolidate with Glide, accord ing to reports from the election boards of both districts, Kenneth Barneburg reports. The two districts held a con solidation election Monday. Barne burg said the merger proposal car ried by a heavy majority. The official voting figures must now be examined by the boundary board, which will make the final decision on the consolidation elec tion, Barneburg said. The board is composed of the county school superintendent and county court members. the minoritv report substituted for the majority report which would in effeM iW!caterthat the Senate favored passia lV bill. However, after an hmiTnnd a half of He bate the vote taken on this sub- stitution of the minority report (Continue page Two) '0 Established 1B73 Teachers Request Pay Custodians, Clerks Join Application Living Costs Coverage, Adjustments Desired, School Officials Told Employes of the Roseburg school district have asked for a cost of living raise. Three employes committees, representing teachers, custodians and clerical help of the district, appeared at the Roseburg school board meeting Monday to request a cost of living raise and working conditions' adjustments. Paul S. Elliott, city school su perintendent, said the committees showed definitely that prices and living Pxnpnups liaH innrAacoH It ' percent since the last cost of living adjustment in 1949. The commit tees based their figures on the U. S. Bureau of Labor cost of living index, he said. The employes claimed they were finding it dif ficult to meet the actual expenses of living in the Roseburg area, Elliott said. The city school superintendent reported the school teachers and custodians requested approxi mately a nine percent adjustment on the average salary with in crement raise for satisfactory service to be set at $110 per year. Elliott said this amounted to an approximate increase of $2 per day. Policy Changes Asked - The custodians also requested the establishment of certain poli cies relative to overtime, sick leave, vacations and the appoint ment of head custodians in build ings with three or more janitorial employes. The school clerical employes asked the board for an adjustment on a salary scale with definite rules for overtime, sick leave an vacations. One secretary was em ployed at such a low salary, El liott said, that she was granted a $25 per month raise at the Moiday night meeting. Representing the teachers at the meeting were the following mem bers of the welfare committee: Ralph Scudder, senior high; Mrs. Dorothy Spencer, junior high; Mrs. Maxine Burt, Benson; Mrs. Thclma F 1 c s h m a n, Riverside; (Continued on page Two) Students Exceed Polio Fund Goal "he Roseburg Senior high school students have completed their March of Dimes campaign and col lected $175 over their $500 goal. The students contributed $675.45 to the polio drive. The freshmen class won the in terclass trophy for raising the most money of the four high school classes. The freshmen collected $227.40 which was an average of 70 cents per student. The classes were judged on a per capita basis. The sophomores collected $188 38 for a per student average of 62 cents. The juniors set a per student average of 60 cents with a total collection of $154.59. The senior class placed last in the inter class contest with a collection of $105.08 for a per student average of 55 cents. The freshman class will be awarded the trophy at a future school assembly. Woman Gets Probation On Forgery Sentence Lois Irene Lewis, 24, a Bond waitress, was sentenced here Tues day tn serve one year in the Ore gon State penitentiary and placed on probation by Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly. She pleaded guilty to forgery. She allegedly forged a $129.95 check and passed it to G. E. Davis of the D and M Food Center at Reedsport on Dec. 20. The Weather Showtrl today, tonight and Thursday, Highest tamp, for any Fab Qr Lowest ttiatfy for any Feb 3 Highest tamp, yastarday 62 Lowast tamp, last 24 hours 41 Praeip. last 24 hours 11 Pracip. from b. 1 2.53 Praeip. from Vpt. 1 31.19 Exeass from Jan. 1 .... l.U Sunut today, 5:33 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:20 'r) ROSEBURG. ORECON Allies Gain Initiative, Maul Reds At All Korean Points; Seoul Now Within Gunshot By OLEN CLEMENTS TOKYO AP Allied ground forces smashed for ward today with three powerful tank-columns to the lasf hills, guarding the plains of shattered Seoul. American doughboys with flashing bayonets drove Reds from vital heights at one point. The Chinese and Korean Reds were digging in for a new stand on the ridges just south of Seoul. At their backs was the Han river, still an ice-covered way. of re treat for the Reds but now on the verge of thawing. Sacrifices Life To Aid Comrade; Medal Awarded i Linn E. Kibler, above, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kibler, Look ingglass route, Roseburg, has been posthumously awarded the silver star medal for braving "extremely heavy enemy fire to render med ical aid to his wo-nded comrade at the sacrifice of his own life." Private Kibler was awarded the United States' third highest decor ation for gallantry in action against the enemy on Nov. 11 near Kunu-ri, Korea, while a member of the First cavalry division. During Pvt. Kibler's company's attack against a well-fortified en emy hill position, according to the citation accompanying the decor ation, he observed that one of his comrades was hit by a hail of fire from an enemy machine gun po sition. The citation tells how Pvt. Kib ler "voluntarily braved the enemy fire to render emergency medical treatment to the wounded man. "Courageously, Pvt. Kibler at tempted to carry the wounded man to safety but in doing so," states the citation, "he was mortally wounded by the enemy machine gun fire. "Pvt. Kibler's outstanding dis play of gallantry and supreme sac rifice are in keeping with the high est traditions of the service and reflect great credit upon himself and the military service," the ci tation concluded. Kibler was born and raised in Milltnwn, Mont. His parents re cently moved to the Roseburg area from Montana. U.S. Casualties Nearing 48,000 In Korean War WASHINGTON UP) An nounced U. S. combat casualties in Korea have reached 47,388, an increase of 574 in a week. This represents the smallest weekly increase since the first de fense department summary was is sued August 7. Today's total, based on notifica tions to families through Friday fenruary 2. included ti.oi 4 killed in action, 30,941 wounded and 9,- 433 missing in action. DEWEY SLATES SPEECH NEW YORK (II Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will deliver "an important address on foreign pol icy" on Feb. 12. The speech will be broadcast from the annual Lincoln day din ner of the National Republican cluQQ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1951 On the central front, united Na tions forces with South Koreans in the lead pushed northward toward the old parallel 38 border. On the east coast, South Ko rean forces secured high ground three miles east and west and five miles south of Kangnung, a coastal road town 17 miles south of 38. Allietl naval power blasted the Reds in Kangnung itself. The whole complexion of the war had shifted once again. The allies had regained the initiative In their 14-day-old "limited offen sive and the Reds were giving ground. Allied artillery was in position to pour shells into the old Korean capital of Seoul, abandoned Jan. 4 for the second time in the Ko rean war by anti-Communist forces, Three tank task forces prowled the southern approaches to Seoul again Wednesday for the third straight day, shooting up Red rear guards wherever they choose to make a stand. Lice Baset Commias In the West, an intelligence of ficer said Chinese army headquar ters had warned Seoul residents to stay indoors because of an epi demic. There have been roports of louse-borne typhus among Red troops. The Reds were sowing mine fields. Engineers cleared paths through them and the tank columns killed hundreds of Reds. Allied warplanes roared down low and artillery thundered, piling up the toll of Red casualties which has passed the 50,000 mark in the 14-day action, The Chinese, building their new defense line just south of the Han, were rushing reinforcements across the frozen river on plank bridging. All the steel bridges span ning the river that runs through Seoul's southern outskirs were down. Greyhound Line Ends One Strike, May Face Second PORTLAND UP) As one Greyhound bus tie-up ended here today, another threatened. Just ended was a strike of bus staliun .workers, who walked out Jan. 11 in demand for more pay and a one-year contract. The bus station workers, mem bers of the AFL Motor Coach Employes union, reached a set tlement with employers, getting $1 a day increase on a five-day week, and a one-year contract. Management had wanted a three year contract. The new, threat is a strike vote being conducted among 3000 Grey hound employes from Portland south to Los Angeles. Some 250, also members of the Motor Coach Employes union, are in the Port land division. They asked a pay increase of IVa cents a mile for drivers and 30 cents an hour for station em ployes. Management offered an in crease of 4 mills a mile for driv ers and 10 cents an hour for sta tion workers. The vote will be on whether to reject the company offer and to strike gn March 1. Union negotiators recommended rejection of the offer, a union spokesman said here. Boy Scout Judge Sends Two Drunks To Jail Kenneth Reeder of scout troop 93, substituting for Municipal Judge Ira B. Riddle during the annual Boy Scout civic day, re ported the disposition of two cases in coutOodnosday. Harry John Stanton, 49, tran sient powder monkey, and Buddy Fremont Kisor, 50, tran sient cook, were each commit ted for 10 days in the city jail in lieu of $20 fines on drunk charges. 32-51 Boost Corporations Fight Income Tax Proposal Consumer Would Stand Bill, Spokesmen Tell Oregon's Legislators By PAUL W, HARVEY JR. SALEM UP) -Electric, tele phone and railroad companies pro tested to the house tax committee that if they are forced to oav corporation income taxes, the con sumer would have to pay the bill. Utilities now are exempt from corporation income taxes, but the committee Is considering a bill to take away this exemption. The bill would give the state about $1,000,000 a year in extra revenue. Clarence Phillips, Portland Gen eral Electric company attorney, said his company already pays $5,153,000 a year in taxes, of which $2,094,000 goes to the state, coun ties and school districts. He said that if the bill is passed, his company would have to ob tain a rate increase. Phillips aaid the bill would result in double taxation. The Pacific Telephone and Tele- 0rnh nnmtifinir Mnratttnlallua Bruce Pickett, Salem, protested" tne out as "untair. Lobbyists for the Portland cham bar of commerce and the Portland retail trade bureau favored lower taxes on all business. They said high taxes would keep business from coming to Oregon. Fireworks Ban Fought The legislature's education com mittees opened a long scries of public hearings on the bills to re organize the state's school system. e ireworks wholesalers pleaded with the house state and federal affairs committee to kill the Sen ate passed hill to outlaw fireworks. As a minimum, they asked that they he allowed to get rid of $250,000 worth of fireworks now in the hands of wholesalers and re tailers. They asked the committee to do this by postponing the ban until after next July 4. As the bill now reads, it would become law as soon as the legislature approved it, License Fee Cut Opposed The senate game committee voted to kill bills by Sen. Ben Day, Gold Hill, to change the non-resident fishing and hunting license fees. Under the bills, the fishing and hunting licenses for non-residents would cost the same as the non resident's home state charges Ore gon hunters and fishermen, but with a minimum charge of $7.50. The cost now is $35 for hunting and $15 for fishing. The fee for non-resident deer tags would have been cut from $15 to $1. Senate OKs Sale Of Colored Oleo SALEM lP) Sale of eolored oleomargarine In Oregon ws approved 16 to 14 by the Senate today. The vote came after a night of intense lobbying by both sides, each trying to break Tuesday's 15-15 tie vote on the question. The tie was broken by Sen. Vernon D. Bull, La Grande Democrat, who voted against the bill Tuesday, but who supported it today. The bill, which now goes to the House, would repeal the 191S law which forbids the sale of colored oleo. Roseburg Mail Service On Restricted Basis Postmaster L. L. Wimberly said mail service from Roseburg con tinued to operate on a restricted basis Tuesday during the strike of switchmen. Wimberly said the Roseburg post office was moving all first class matter and emergency parcel post. He Said all mail is moved ip and out of the city by two automobile star routes. Delivery of mail to the south has ljmost come to a standstill, Wim im'rly said. However, the postmas ter said, a large truck brought special mail to liosiivirg Monday, and continued soullM'o make de liveries as far south as Grants Pass. G Pennsylvania R.H "Broker" Plunges From Overpass Into Street Of New Jersey Ciiy WOODBRIDGE, N. J. AP A crowded commuter train plunged off a newly-erected 'trestle last night, killing; 82 persons and injuring about 600. It was the nation's worst train wreck in 32 years. Throughout the night and far into today, rescue work ers hacked through the twisted mass of wreckage. They said otner bodies still may be lound in the crumpled coaches and debris. The 11-car Pennsylvania railroad train, "The Broker," swerved wildly and jumped the tracks' as it sped onto the midtown overpass. The cars, jack-knifing crazily, hurtled down a 20-foot embankment. The new, temporary overpass had been put in service only five hours before the crash. In Newark, the FBI said it was investigating to deter mine "whether sabotage was involved." Prominent Citizens Among Victims The railroad, conducting its own probe, said it could offer no immediate explanation for the cause of the wreck. The dead included bankers, lawyers and businessmen, prominent in their localities and civic life, most of them home-bound from New York City,offices. The rush-hour crackup was the worst in the nation since 1918 when 115 were killed in a Nashville, Tenn., wreck, and more disastrous than a 1943 accident outside Philadelphia that took 80 lives. It was the third major train wreck in the metropolitan area in less than a year. A total of nearly 200 died in the World Prayer Day Plans Made By Church Women Roseburg Council of Church Wo men committees are completing arrangements for the 1951 World Day of Prayer service to be ob served Friday at 2 o'clock in the Methodist church. Both men and women are invited. Mrs. C. E. Bass, president, will be In charge and Mrs. S. Alfred Tyson la pro gram chairman. To unite Christians around the world ia prayer is the purpose of the organization. This year's theme, "Perfect Love Casta Out Fear, was chosen by the churcb women of Germany, Wendell Johnson will present the high school choius in the ofteriorjr number. The choir, representing various curches of Roseburg, in cludes Miss Virginia Marr, Mrs. K. Kleinfeldt, Mrs. C. A. Gilmer, Mrs. Charles Miller, Mrs. Andy Schlick, Mrs. H. C. Wells, Mrs. Harrie W. Booth, Mrs. Leo tiillelte, Mrs. Emmet Gibson, Mrs. W. How ard Pattison and the organist Mrs. S. A. Warg. Rev. W. At Mac Arthur will sivc the benediction. Ushers include: Mrs. C. K. Rand, Mrs. Harold Jones, Mrs. Henry Lebachcn and Miss Jennie E. Jorcy. Taking part in the service will be women representatives from the churches of the council and included Mrs. M. J. Newland, Mrs. Floyd Powell, Mrs. Keith Car ter, mrs. uienn murnocK, nirs. . E. Crawford and Mrs. Deming Bronson. Friday has been proclaimed "World day of prayer" by Mayor Albert Flcgel. He calls upon the people of Rose burg to attend a World Day of Prayer meeting and to pause for one minute of prayer at high noon, "to ask that God give us light to guide us, courage to support us, and love to reunite us." He further urges that every church having bells ring them at 12 noon for the observance. School Union Proposal To Be Talked At Dillard A meeting for the purpose of discussing the proposed school con solidation has been called for Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the au ditorium of the Dillard schoolhousc. All interested residents of dis trict 116, comprising Winston, Dil lard and Brockway are urged to be on hand, as it is expected a straw vote will be conducted to determine the public sentiment on the measure prior to filing on Feb. 15 a petition calling for a consoli dation election. Operation Rids Woman Of 304-Pound Tumor BURNIPS, Mich. CP) An operation reduced the weight of Mrs. Gcrtude Levandowski by half. Two weeks ago the weighed 600 pounds. Now she weighs 296, By dieting she hopes to get down to 200. Congenial Mrs. Levandowski, 58, ija widow, is recovering at her farm home near here from an operation to remove an abdominal tumor. The tumor, from which she suf fered tor ten years, created her excess weight by causing a se cretion of liquid. Trqtfic Slowed By Two Slides South Of Rosebufej The State Ilifihway department reported two ilaVcs about 15 mtl sh of Roscbura on(TjJhway han slowed traffic today. Q ingnway oiuciais said ore way traffic was passing the slide areas and highway crews had started re moving the ""cl. . 0 three crackups. Engineer Joseph H. Fitzsim- mons, a veteran of 33 accident-free years on the road, blamed the over crowded coaches and the new trestle for the tragedy. Alive but injured, the 57-year-old Fitzsimmons said from a hospital cot: "The moment my engine passed over the trestle and lurched sharply I felt the rest of the carl would never make it. "I hit the trestle at about 25 miles per hour and the speed of the train certainly couldn't be blamed for the crash. When I started to away, I applied the brakes, but It apparently was too late." The Pennsylvania said six trains passed over the new trestle safely before "the Broker." The railroad said the trestle it self was not a factor in the acci dentdespite the engineer's state ment. Excess Crowd Aboard It was more crowded than usual because another commuter line, the Jersey Central, was knocked out by the switchmen's "sick call" strike. Many central commuters elbowed in with the estimated 900 passengers who daily ride "The Broker:" The big engine left the tracks and plunged in an arc to the pave ment of a street below, in this city of 27,000 persons 30 miles south of New York Behind it, the first five cars of the train went this way and that in a jumble of jagged steel. Some of them turned over in the thick mud of the embankment. Others stayed upright, grotesquely twisted across the rails or along the em bankment. Passengers were tossed about inside the coaches like dice in a cup. Many were mangled to bits under the grinding weight of sharp, broken metal. Others survived or died in tomb like crevasses of steel, as some of the cars were bent into a U-shape by the terrible force of the crash. It took about seven hours until after midnight to dig and saw the last one clear. Major Disasters To Trains Listed NEW YORK UP) Among major train disasters in U. S. his tory: Dec. 29, 1876 Ashtabula, O., 84 killed. Aug. 10, 1887 Chatsworth, 111., 81 killed. Aug. 7, 1904 Eden, Colo., 98 killed. ' Mar. 1, 1910 Wellington, Wash., 96 killed. July 9, 1918 Nashville, Tenn., 115 killed. Sept. 6, 1943 Frankford junction (Philadelphia), Pa., 80 killed. Dec. 16, 1943 Lumberton, N. C, 73 killed. Dec. 31, 1944 Ogden, utan, wi killed. , Feb. 17, 1950 Rockvllle Centre, N. Y., 32 killed. Sept. 11, 1950 Troop train near West LaFayctte, O., 33 killed. Nov. 22, 1950 Richmond Hill, New York City, 79 killed. TRUSTY MISSING SALEM (Pi Allan Bow man, 24, trusty at the stata orison farm, was still missing O today after ha Tuesday. walked away Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizcnstein Typhui-b r e e d I n q vermin among the Chinese Reds com pletes o trio of Korean war phases: IrQ, lc and rice. u 0 0 0