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SIX MEDrOHD MAIL-TRIBUNE Sunday. Oct. 7, 1945 EX-SOLDIERS LOSE WHENCLOUDBURST WRECKS VILLAGE Bakersfield, Cal Oct. 6 U.R) Two brothers and a deputy rheriff were missing tonight after flood waters from a cloud burst hit the mountain village of Kccne, which whs partially washed away. Frank and Jeffrey Thompson, brothers who were enroute to Ihcir Missouri homes after being discharged from the army, were swept along with Deputy Sheriff Howa-d Knott, who aided in rescuing the wives of the Thompson brothers. The two hysterical women were taken to Bakeisficld and oficers were unable to gain much information from them. Railroad tracks, a road, a ser vice station and a store were washed away at Kccne, a rail road Junction, according to a re port to Sheriff John Loustalot. He sent 12 deputies to Keene tonight and Jean Chambers of the Ted Cross disaster corps also went there. A tuberculosis sanitarium, Ftony Brook Retreat, was not damaged by the downpour, which started this morning and spread to the lower end of the San Joaquin valley. The first carload of lambs ever to be processed in a Wyoming packing house, left Casper, Wyo., this summer for a large Chicago meat distributing plant. Closing time tor Sunday Too Lnw r.lfy 4:00 baturaay uernuuu Please remember PICKERS WANTED GOOD PICKING LONG JOB CLOSE TO TOWN HOLLYWOOD ORCHARD 1 Milo West of Mcdford on Jacksonville Highway LEWIS BALKS AT ORDERING MINERS TO Denies Strike Responsibility At Conference With Labor Secretary Winter Is Almost Here! Let us check your car over now. Tune it up for cold morning starts- Repair all cooling system trouble so you won't waste your anti-f reeze. Let us put the proper lubricants in their proper places. In other words, let us put your car in proper condition for winter driving. Selby Chevrolet1 Co. ASHLAND, OREGON Washington, Oct. 6 (U.R) President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers refused to day to order striking mineis back to work at the demand of soft coal operators. Lewis' refusal was disclosed by Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach. Schwellenbach announced nt the same time that he would nress for early War Labor board determination of current labor demands for maintenance of "take-home pay" at wartime levels. Faced with mounting labor un rest, Schwellenbach summoned Lewis and soft coal operators to a conference today in an effort to settle the dispute over union recognition for 60,000 mine supervisory employes. The dis pute has shut down mines cm ploying 160,000. Spokesmen for the operators told Schwellenbach that they would not discuss the merits of the case unless the strikers re turned to work. After two sessions with the union ' and management repre sentatives, Schwellenbach '.old reporters that Lewis had said he was not responsible for the walkouts, that the men had left their jobs voluntarily and that it was not his business to order them back to work. The operators, Schwellenbach said, asserted that the UMW was responsible and that Lewis should move to reopen the mines before the dispute was submitted to negotiations. Schwellenbach said that he had made no recommendation of his own but had emphasized that the strikes were viewed as serious because a coal shortage YOUR New SOLE) E At Chrystal Brewing fir Dist. Company's Plant Yes, the new lockers wo've been building to meet local demand will be ready for use SOON. They are located at our plant just TWO BLOCKS FROM MAIN STREET and will be ACCESSIBLE from 700 a. m. until 10:00 p. m. Reserve Youii Locker NOW Reserve lockers with a $2.00 deposit. Telephone reseravtions cannot be accepted BREWING & DIST. CO. CLIQUOT CLUB BOTTLING COMPANY 301 North Fir Street would develop toon. He tailed the meeting a "typical first day" of discussion and announced the conferees would meet again Monday. He said the government would make its position known when it had heard full statements from both parties. Schwellenbach also told re porters that the "general strike situation is better today than it has been for some time" but added that he would not discount its seriousness because it "might very definitely interfere with reconversion." He said the labor outlook had improved through settlement of the Kelsey-Hayes company strike at Detroit, government seizure of the strikebound oil companies and the reopening of other struck plants. He does not want to think about mine seizure, lie said. FAMED VIOLINIST FAMILY PART Sa.i Francisco, Oct. BOJ.R) The family of Ychudi Menuhin went separate ways tonight but the violinist and his red-haired Australian wife denied the sep aration was permanent and said they would be reunited in the spring. Mrs. Menuhin and her two small children, a six-year-old daughter, and a son, five, em barked on the Matsonia for Australia where they will visit Mrs. Menuhin's wealthy father, who Is reported ill. The violinist saw his family off on the ship and then boarded a plane for New York, en route to London, where he will com plete work on a picture, "The Magic Bow '' based on the lite of Paganini, famous 19th cen tury musician. STRIKE HINDERS WEEK-END TRIPS IN COAST AREAS By United PrMi Weekend travel throughout seven western states was serious ly hampered as the two-day-old strike of Greyhound bus em ployees continued Saturday night. Oil workers in navy seized oil plants in California were generally returning to work and picketing continued at the Burbank (Cal.) Warner Bros, stu dio, where rioting flared Friday. Posters at the Wilmington, Cal., Union Oil plant warned pickets outside the gates they were liable to severe penalties for interfering with navy posses sion of the refinery. Besides the transportation, oil and movie industries, strikes and walkouts were underway or pending in five other industrial or service classifications can neries, retail stores, machinists, shipping and lumber. Telephone operators who took a four-hour recess Friday were back at the switchboards Satur day after voting to authorize their national union to call a strike in protest to NLRB ruling abolishing a New Jersey work ers' union. JAPS CUT OFF LEG OF ARMY F San Francisco, Oct. 6 (U.R) JaDanese captors cut off one of Capt. Frederick Garrett's legs to prevent him from flying again, but tonight the army of ficer planned to return to his home in Riverside, Cal. Shot down over the Marshall Islands, Garrett suffered a leg injury. The Japanese picked him up and later amputated his leg at the hip, indicating by the sign language they wished to end his aviation career. i FAMILY DIES IN Dixon, Kl Oct. 8 (U.R) Eight members of one family were killed today when a car crashed head-on Into a Grey, hound bus after a blowout. Sheriff Ben Harrington of Webster county said the car, driven by Leslie A. Garrett, 42, hit the bus so hard the big ma chine went into the air and fell back on the automobile. Only surviving member of the family is Pvt. William H. Gar rett with the army of occupation in France. Want Temporary Work? Want Extra Money for Christmas? HERE'S YOUR CHANCE! WE NEED 8 Typists 8 Checkers 10 File Clerks Forty-eight hour week through Christmas. Pay for all over forty hours at time and one-half. BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS Phone 2161 See Mrs- Bartelt SZ-a X It 1 A tB 4Mtff J l II Ki . - y j 1 ferv- ?J Increucd J: . ... .... ,TW:"S d fflcdioj, . vtBCW ' -""will crretht .- i.... -"T'U'iaunanJ, . 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