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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. 2A Thur., Apr. 21, 1955 2 Men Injured As Workers, Pickets Clash Labor Picture Remains Bleak By ASSOCIATED PRESS For the second day. violence and injuries were reported Thurs diy at the strike bound Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake Success, N.Y. And there appeared little prog ress toward immediate settlement of any o the nation's major strikes. CIO Electrical Workers re sumed mass picketing at the Sperry plant and two men were reported injured. Several autos were damaged as non-striking workers tried to enter the plant. A proposal by Southern gover nors to immediately end the 39 day Louisville & Nashville Rail road strike was rejected by non operating unions. A union official said the walkout would continue until any arbitration is com pleted. ARBITRATION VIEWS The railroad had said it was willing to submit to arbitration "if the strike is immediately terminated," but that the issues to be arbitrated "should be rea sonably limited." The union said it was willing to submit the dis pute over a health and welfare plan to binding arbitration. Meanwhile, a group of South ern governors planned to meet in Atlanta Saturday with represen tatives of the Southern Bell Tele phone Co. and the striking CIO Communication Workers of Amer - ica in an attempt to end the 39 day telephone strike. The union demands arbitration on fringe points and higher wages. The company says that a no-strike clause is the bar to a new con tract. " PREVIOUS MEETING Governors of six Southern states and representatives of six others had met in Nashville earlier this week to discuss the L&N and telephone walkouts. Both strikes, marked by violence, have cut deeply into the economy over wide areas of the South and Southeast. Unemployment mount ed in many areas because of the rail strike which has forced the shutdown of some related indus tries. No headway was reported In efforts to settle the CIO Textile Workers Union strike against 24 mills in four New FnplnnH ctntA The strike started last Saturday in a aispuie over wages. A strike of CIO stcclworkers closed the Curli.M U'rioht m.i.ic processing plant at Buffalo, N.Y., maKing idle about 1,300 employes TASTY Phil Yazdzik starts in on a fried chicken eating marathon in Detroit that wound up with his putting away 31 orders to claim a record- (NEA) d Coal Miner Polishes Off 31 Chickens DETROIT Wl Pennsylvania coal miner Phillip Yazdzik wear ily pushed back after eating his 31st order of fried chicken Wed nesday and claimed a world record. A two-fisted eater who disdains knives and forks because "they slow me down," the 42-year-old, 200-pound Yazdzik chomped steadily from 9:30 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. to reduce 15 ',4 ten-ounce chickens to a huge pile of bones. He had said he could finish 40 servings, but declared himself satisfied at 31. He figures his record will stand, along with the one he' claimed at Chicago Tues day when he devoured 77 ham burgers. ' Yazdzik, an Olyphant, Pa., coal miner and delivery man, said he'd like to get some exercise, then dig into a few orders of spaghetti and meat balls for dinner. He passed up his customary breakfast of 14 hot dogs and sev eral quarts of milk as well as his three dozen eggs for lunch to concentrate on his chicken eat ing. He put away 16 fourtcen- ounce glasses of pop between chicken bites. Yazdzik, father of seven chil dren, has a $130 a week food bill for the family. In between cooking meals, his wife works as a cleaning woman to help with the budget. He got Wednesday's chicken free, along with $150 and $100 expense money from the North west Drive-In Restaurant where he performed his feat. London Newspapers Resume Operation, Hail End of Strike By HAL COOPER Of The AiiocUted Pretf LONDON ( A columnist in the Daily Sketch started off Thurs day: "when I was so rudely in terrupted . . ." The News Chronicle stoutly de nied that it is dead. A Daily Express cartooon show ed a gentleman in a bowler hat crawling around with a news paper in his mouth while his wife explained to a neighbor: "He has to teach Rover all over again how to fetch our paper." YANKEE JIVE" And the Daily Telegraph gave thanks that Britons now can stop trying to dig such Yankee jive as "Redwings rip Leafs as Cana- diens blank Bruins." The great London newspaper strike was over. After 26 days in a muzzle, the nationally distributed dailies, most of them in expanded edi tions, set out to tell their 15 mil lion readers what they had missed. Such chit-chat, for instance, as the retirement of Sir Winston Churchill and that a general elec tion is coming up May 26. Emulating its New York coun terpart after Gotham's big strike, the Times carried a 12-page sup plement which summarized the lost news day by day. BACKLOG OF BIRTHS On the front page where they always appear were four solid columns of birth, death and mar riage announcements. It was the first installment of a huge backlog. The Telegraph published an 8- page supplement highlighting the lost 26 days and most other news papers hit the high spots in smalltr condensations. The papers reappeared with such headlines as "Here we are again!" "Read all about it!" and "Good morning all!" The tabloid Daily Mirror, whose readers like pictures of pretty girls, had to make a choice from OSC Students Hold Election CORVALLIS Wl Fraternity and sorority candidates swept the top offices in the annual Oregon State College student body elec tion Wednesday with John Rice, Corvallis, winning the presiden cy. He defeated Phil Carlin, Port land. 1,440 to 841. Jerry Thomas, Portland, was elected first vice president, and Linda Courtney, McMinnville, second vice president. Named president of the Me morial Union, student activities center, for the coming year was Bob Ewalt, Corvallis. About 50 per cent of the stu dents voted. al Metropolitan Fri Sot anl Mon APRIL SALE OF COTTONS and WHITE GOODS an accumulation of nearly four weeks. And what was it? What else but Marilyn Monroe on that elephant? COSTLY STRIKE The Daily Express said the strike had cost the papers 4 mil lion pounds ($11,200,000). The Telegraph remarked that attempts had been made to fill the news vacuum by flying in newspapers from the continent and New York. It implied strong ly that the language barried kept this from being entirely success ful, especially the language bar rier between English and Ameri can sports pages. '5 Giants hrs, Heam clobbers Phils 8-3." Frankly friends, they had trou ble with that. The newspapers took a serious view of the Communist-led strike and called for a government guar antee against any repetition. BOSSED BY REDS The presses were stopped March 26 by a walkout of 700 electricians and maintenance men seeking higher wages. They belong to the Amalga mated Electrical Trades Union, which is bossed by Communists, and the Amalgamated Engineer ing Union, which has strong Red influence in its London branches. They demanded a raise of $8.19 a week and finally settled for $1.40 for day workers and $1.68 for night men plus a promise of industry-wide negotiations later. With the increase, wages will be $31.08 for day work and $36.33 for night work. The average weekly industrial wage in Brit ain is a bit more than $28. Prosecution Winds Up Case At Portland Murder Trial PORTLAND Wi The defense began building its case Thursday against the state's contention that Wayne and Sherry Fong killed 16-year-old Diane Hank last year because she knew too much about them. The state closed its case against the Fongs Wednesday after pre senting medical testimony on the girl's death. The state said Fong was mixed up in narcotics and gambling in Portland, and Miss Hank had learned too much about it. The present director and the former director of the Slate Crime Laboratory indicated a combination of alcohol and bar bital killed the girl. Dr. Joseph A. Beeman, the former director, said he was con vinced barbiturate poisoning did it, possibly speeded up by combi nation with alcoholic drinks. Dr. Homer Harris, the present director, said that could have been the cause. The Foncs have insisted thev know nothing of the girl's death. They said she was a friend who stayed at their home the night of Jan. 6, 1954, and last was seen when she left for school Jan. 7. The girl's bodv was found beside a rnarl in fimtthwactorn Wachincf. I ton late in February, 1954. A defense motion for a directed verdict of acquittal was denied by Circuit Judge Alfred Dobson. 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