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Increased Grass
Production Needed,
Ben Day Declares
Gold Hill Cattleman
Addresses Convention
Klamath Falls, May 9 (U.R)
. sound conservation program
that will bring about increased
grass production will give new
life to the state's cattle industry,
Ben Day. Gold Hill cattleman,
today told the 37th annual con
vention of the Oregon Cattle
man s association.
"It is now time for livestock
producers, hunters and repre
sentatives ot various pupiic tana
interests to take up and draw up
a long-range conservation pro
gram that will include reseeding
of thousands of acres of brush,
weed and fern-covered land with
perennial grass." Day said.
"Life-sustaining grass not only
means more meat but is the an
swer to holding valuable soil in
place and furnishing more wa
ter the year around."
F. L. Ritter. Oregon meat
council adviser, described the
state's meat inspection laws as
"one of the nation's eight woist
set-ups." He indicated that Ore
gon's independent meat packers
were planning to ask the state
legislature for a complete inspec
tion service to be jointly fi
nanced by state and industry
funds.
The marketing committee rec
ommended tighter meat inspec
tion laws but opposed compul
sory federal meat grading.
Ervin L. Peterson, state agri
culture director, said that assur
ing the public wholesome, heal
thy meat was the best public re
lations program the cattlemen
could undertake.
Loren Bamert, American Na
tional Livestock association pres
ident from lone, Cal., said that
his organization was still against
the Brannan farm plan. He said
"most American cattlemen feel
they can run their business with
out subsidy."
Princess Elizabeth's
Plane Turns Back
Nice, France. May 9 (U.R) A
plane carrying Princess Eliza
beth from Malta to London turn
ed back to Nice today after run
ning into a heavy thunderstorm
over southern France.
Elizabeth, who is expecting
her second child this summer,
said on landing here that she
foiuid the "whole adventure
amusing."
Air Commodore Henry Field
en. commanding the Royal air
force twin-engined Viking, said
he decided to return to Nice be
cause he feared the princess
might find the flight rough and
unpleasant in her condition.
It was exppctcd Elizabeth
would resume her journey to
morrow. Commies Promise To
Reease U. S. Airmen
Hong Kong, May 9 (U.R)
The Chinese communists prom
ised today to relea.se two Ameri
can airmen held prisoner since
they made a forced landing in
territory near Tsingtao nearly
19 months ago.
The fliers are William C.
Smith, of Long Beach, Cal., a
navy electrician chief, and El
mer C. Bender of Cincinnati and
Chicago, a marine corps master
sergeant.
They were attached to U. S.
naval headquarters in Tsingtao
in northern China in 1948 when
that part, a base for the Ameri
can fleet in far eastern waters,
was surrounded by communist
armies.
Murray Favors
In Merger of
Atlantic City, N. J., May 91
U.R' Philip Murray said today
he is in favor of attaining "or-
ganic unity" with the AFL in a!
move that would merge 14 mil
lion unionists into one labor I
group. I
The statement came in reply ,
to a sugsestion from AFL Pres
ident William Green that the
two organizations merge "on a
permanent and organic basis"
rwtlier than simply work togeth
er as suggested earlier by the
CIO.
"If we can attain organic
unity, then let's attain organic
unity." Murray said at the open
ing session of the United Steel-
workers convention here. "What j
we can do must be done in the j
national interest,"
Auras
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 9,
Teapot Dome Scandal
Used By President
As Warning to West
Aboard Truman Train, May 9
U.R) President Truman resur
rected the Teapot Dome scandal
today, warning the west against
returning to the republican
"philosophy" of "greed and priv
ilege." Speeding westward on his
6.000-mile "report to the peo
ple," Mr. Truman spoke early
today at Casper, Wyo., 50 miles
south of the Teapot Dome oil
field which he described as a
"symbol of the greed and priv
ilege that underlay one philoso
phy about the west."
Welcome Mat Due
For President on
Northwest Visit
By United Press
The Pacific northwest spreads
its welcome mat for President
Truman in Oregon and Washing
ton Wednesday and Thursday,
climaxing the presidential visit
with formal dedication of Grand
Coulee dam and Franklin D.
Roosevelt lake.
More than 20,000 guests are
expected at the largest man
made waterfall in the world,
where President Truman will
view the 350-foot drop and
speak to the nation on the rec
lamation work started by his
predecessor, Franklin D. Roose
velt. In Oregon Tomorrow
Mr, Truman's special 13-car
train pulls into Oregon from
Idaho at Huntington at 2:45 p.m.
(PDT) Wednesday and from that
moment he will be a busy man
with platform apearances,
speeches, picnics and personal
appearances, on what he has
called a "non-political" tour of
the west.
From Huntington, the Tru
man special proceeds through
Baker and La Grande to Pendle
ton, where the president plans a
one-hour stop starting at 7:05
p.m. (PDT) Wednesday for his
only speech in Oregon.
Crowd Expected
More than 20,000 persons are
expected to jam around a plat
form erected east of the Union
Pacific depot in Pendleton.
About 200 northwest officials
will share the platform with Mr.
Truman and the audience will
stand in Pendleton streets which
will be roped off from traffic. A
network of 14 Oregon stations
will carry the presidential ad
dress, originating over Pendle
ton station KWRC and starting
at 7:30 p.m. (PDT).
Mr. Truman's train will make
other platform stops at Umatilla
and Ayer, Ore., before entering
Washington state at Wallula in
Walla Walla county at 8:50 p.m.
President Truman's address
from Pendleton will be carried
over Radio Station KWIN, Ash
land. (1400 kc) at 7:30 p.m.
(DST) Wednesday.
Sample Election Ballots
Available from Clerk
Ballots are now being pre
pared in the county clerk's office
lor distribution to the county s
84 precincts for the May pri
mary election one week from
Friday. Both official and sam
ple ballots are being prepared
but a limited number of the
samples will be available for
pre-election distribution to the
public tomorrow. They can be
obtained at the main counter in
the county clerk's office in the
courthouse.
Organic Unity
Labor Groups
The CIO leader predicted his
organization "will create a com
mittee to meet with the AFL,
and the vice presidents of the
CIO will vote for it." He said
the two groups would discuss
the "mutual problem affecting
labor in its fight for the Ameri
can people.
Murray said he ha not had
enough time to fully study
Green's letter, and would with
hold further comment until "my
associates in the CIO must get
together and authorize a course
of action."
If all labor is welded into one
group, "their decisions will best
serve the 'nterests of all the peo
ple in t'.-.e United States," Mur
ray added.
OUT
Crowd Disappointed
The city also is just 50 miles
northeast of the new Kortes dam
which he hailed as "an example
of the right way to use national
resources for the benefit of all
the people."
About 500 persons waited at
Alliance, Neb., until the 13-car
residential special pulled in at
12:50 a. m. today. They were
disappointed, however. Aides de
clined to awaken the president
to make an appearance, although
the crowd shouted repeatedly to
hear him speak.
The train resumed its west
ward journey 20 minutes later
after city officials gave Presiden
tial Assistant William Bray a
10-gallon hat to pass on to Mr.
Truman.
In Fighting Form
The chief executive was in the
same fighting "to-hell-with-the-opposition"
form he displayed in
1948 to defeat Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey. But he still maintained
that his trip across the country
was "non-political."
Yesterday, swinging through
the midwest farm belt, the presi
dent plumped at Lincoln. Neb.,
for the Brannan farm plan of
production payments, admitting
there were serious defects in the
current system of price supports.
He resumed his strident de
fense of democratic policies af
fecting the west today at Cas
Der and scheduled a speech about
the administration program for
small business in Cheyenne,
Wyo., late this afternoon. Other
Wyoming speeches were sched
uled tonight at Laramie and Raw
lins. BULLETINS
Hollywood. May 9,U.R)
Mrs. Bing Crosby denied to
day reports that she and the
crooner may separate, and
aid they haven't even quar
reled. The former screen actren
Dixie Lee said, through a
family spokesman, thai she
couldn't "even understand
how those stories got started,
and I'd certainly like to find
out how."
Oakland, Cal., May 9 U.R)
A former communist told the
state senate un-American ac
tivities committee today that
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer,
director of the Lot Alamos
atomic bomb project during
the war, attended a commun
ist meeting in Berkeley in
1941.
Missing Falls City
Man Returns Home
Falls City, Ore., May 9 (U.R)
No wonder Caesar and Cleopa
tra, the bloodhounds from
Seattle, couldn't get a scent to
get excited about in the search
for 82-year-old Richard Paul of
rails city. They simply had
been taken where he wasn't.
That was disclosed when Paul
returned home Monday night
while half a hundred men and
Cleopatra and Caesar were
searching for him 18 rugged
miles away, in the dense woods
below the isolated lumber town
of Valsetz.
Paul said he'd just been out
on a leisurely hike that he
didn't think would concern any
one. It only concerned some 250
persons who joined in the
search for him Sunday after
his wife discovered he was not
at home.
"I came home because I got
hungry," the elderly hiker ex
plained. Power Line Contact
Fatal to Kerby Man
Cave Junction, Ore., May 9
'U.R) Melvin Ray Wallace, 19. of
Kerby, Ore., was accidentally
electrocuted north of here Mon
day when an A-frame being used
in a longing operation struck a
112.000-volt power line.
Resuscitation efforts failed and
Dr. A. C. Collman pronounced
Wallace dead. He was the son
of Clarence Wallace Kerby and
Mrs. Zclla Hastings of Mesa,
Ariz.
Body of Steward
Located in Woods
Medford, N. Y May 9 U.R
A body found in a wood near
here was identified today as that
of John Harris, a Pan American
World Airways steward who was
?uckcd through the open hatch
of a New York-bound Strato
cruiser February 11.
Tribune
1950
NO. 41
Passenger, Freight
Traffic Curtailed
As Strike Nears
Walkout Scheduled
At 6 A. M. Tomorrow
Chicago, May 9 (U.R) Rail
roads cut service today as the
deadline approached for a coast-to-coast
strike tomorrow against
four big rail systems in 26 states.
The Pennsylvania and the
Southern announced embargoes
on both passenger and freight
traffic, and the Santa Fe said it
is curtailing some of its passen
ger traffic.
The New York Central, fourth
system involved in the threat
ened walkout, was expected to
announce curtailments later to
day. Set for 6 a.m.
The Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen set
the strike for 6 a.m. standard
time in each zone.
Hope dimmed for a settlement,
but federal mediators were ex
pected to ask the union to post
pone the strike for a second
time. It originally was scheduled,
for April 26.
The strike could cripple vital
freight shipments. The roads in
volved span the nation from
coast to coast across its southern
half and serve some of the rich
est agricultural regions and
heaviest industrial centers.
Whether the firemen could
halt the trains, however, was
problematical The railroads
could replace them with super
visory personnel. The Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers
said at Cleveland that iU mem
bers could cross picket lines and
help keep the trains running.
The Pennsylvania announced
an embargo effective at midnight
tonight on all freight traffic, and
President Walter Franklin said
passenger traffic "also will be
stopped by the strike deadline."
The embargo, he said, will
curtail service west and north
of Harrisburg, Pa., but passen
ger and commuter service east
and south of Harrisburg will
continue.
Would Affect 38,000
The Southern embargoed all
passenger and freight traffic
that cannot clear its system be
fore the strike deadline. Offi
cials at the road's Washington
headquarters said the "virtual
closing down" of the 8.000 mile
system would affect most of its
38.000 employees.
The Santa Fe announced that
it already is curtailing some pas
senger service, and asked pros
pective nassenffprs In rnnlnnl
Santa Fe representatives for spe
cific intormation on which trains
will be cancelled.
Republicans Ponder
Apropriations Cut
Washington, May 9 (U.R)
House republican leaders today
mapped plans for a last-minute
attempt to slash $096 million
from the omnibus $29 billion ap
propriations bill tomorrow.
Tentative agreement on the
size of the proposed cut was
reached at a morning session of
the GOP house steering commit
tee. Rep. John Tabcr (N. Y.). rank
ing republican member of the
appropriations committee, said
two amendments will be of
fered tomorrow to limit expendi
tures on specific items, including
federal payrolls but not military
spending. If the amendments fail,
he said, republicans will move
to send the whole bill back to
committee with instructions to
lop off about $1 billion.
Meanwhile, the house was
asked to approve $14 billion In
military spending to keep the
armed forces ready in case of a
shooting war.
Body of Man Found
Below Savage Rapids
Grants Pass. Ore.. May 9 (U.R)
Police reported that the body of
Walter C rouse Sr., 64, who
drowned in Savage Rapids dam
boat accident on the Rogue river
April 18, was recovered last
night by fishermen Al Zenor
and Bill Angst of Grants Pass.
The bodv was found about a
mile below the dam.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Hl(h floudinfll
and continued mild tonight
and Wednesday.
Tun p.
Hlsheat YeiUrday If
Low ti this Mornlnf ; li
service
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America, Frar .
Agree on Plan lor
European Nations
Germany Would Enter
Economic Partnership
Paris, May 9 (U.R) The Unit
ed States and France were re
ported today to have agreed on
a plan for bringing Germany in
to a broad economic partner
ship of democratic European na
tions. A government spokesman dis
closed that. the cabinet at a meet
ing today approved a plan hing
ing on an association of the basic
industries of western European
countries.
Announcement Waited
Reliable sources said Foreign
Minister Robert Schuman might
make an announcement about an
American-French agreement in
that field at a press conference
this evening.
Only yesterday Secretary of
state ucan Aeneson announced
after talks with government of
ficials here that the United
States would give France aid in
fighting its war against commu
nism in Indo-China.
Schuman told the cabinet to
day that the United States put
no political strings onto its of
fer of dollars and arms for the
Indo-Chinese campaign.
Plan Polished
Informants said of the report
ed agreement on Germany that
ine pian was ponsnefl by Ache
son and Schuman yesterday.
They said it was designed to
strengthen the economic basis
for the integration of western
Europe which American officials
have urged repeatedly.
The sources said Germanv,
France and Great Britain would
be the first members of an asso
ciation of basic industries, but
later it might be extended to in
elude Italy, Belgium. The Neth
erlands and other nations.
17 Taxpayers Appear
At Equalization Board
Seventeen taxpayers appeared
before the Jackson countv
board of equalization yesterday
to seek corrections or reductions
in valuations placed on their
property by the county asses
sors' offiet Assessor C. A. My
ers said many of the complaints
were the result of misunder
standing or misinformation and
that when that was cleared up,
no written complaints were
tiled.
The board will take no action
on the complaints this week but
will wait until all applications
for reduction of valuations have
been received before meeting to
consider individual cases. The
board, composed of the assessor,
the county judge and commis
sioners and the county clerk,
will hear protests from taxpay
ers for the remainder of this
week.
They meet at 11 a.m. (DST).
Ashland Council OKs
City Ballot Subjects
Ashland. May 9 The ques
tion of recalling Ashland's May
or Thomas Williams and City
Councilman Elmer Sheldon was
certified to a special election
ballot by the city council at a
special meeting here last night.
The election will be held in con
junction with the May 19 pri
mary election.
One other matter a proposed
charter amendment to permit
sale of city timber lands was
also placed on the ballot by
councilmcn. The estimated $32,
000 from such a sale would be
devoted to water department
improvements.
The council also voted to
change city voting precincts to
conform to recent changes
made by the county clerk.
Kidnaper of Stepson
Faces Life in Prison
Montesano, Wash., May 9
(U.R) Mechanic Frank Chase, S3,
Oakville, Wash., today faced pos
sible life imprisonment for hold
ing his one-legged, war veteran
stepson a "prisoner of fear" for
IB months.
Chase was convicted by a su
perior court jury on charges of
kidnaping and assault. The jury
of eight women and four women
returned the verdict last night.
Chase was accused of holding
his stepson, Henry Chum, 29. a
prisoner in the Oakville ranch
house which Chum purchased
with a veterans' loan. Chum,
who lost a leg in World War II,
testified that Chase beat him and
forced him to crawl on the floor
"like a pig."
Chase was arrested last Au
gust by a posse of American Le
gionnaires who learned of the
veteran's plight.
Return of Vessels
By Russia Demanded
Washington, May 9 'U.R)
The United States demanded to
day that Russia return by June
30 two ice breakers loaned to
the Sovicti under wartime lend
lease.
CAPTURED COWBOY - "Betcha my boots I'm stuck," says little
Jimmy Anderson, 7, whose mother, Mrs. Lois Anderson, comforts him
In Long Beach, Calif., as they wait for police and rescue squads.
Playing cowboy, he hid In a trash barrel and then couldn't get out
because of the boots he was wearing. Pried out bv rescuers, he suf
fered only slightly skinned1 knees.
Senate Post Office
Committee Votes for
Service Restoration
Washington, May 9 (U.R)
The senate post office committee
voted unanimously today to can
cel Postmaster General Jesse M.
Donaldson's recent cutback in
postal service.
The committee approved, 9 to
0, a bill directing Donaldson to
re-establish full mail deliveries
and "other essential postal serv
ices" which he ordered curtailed
on April 18 as an economy
measure.
The committee acted after
hearing President William C. Do
herty of the National Association
of Letter Carriers denounce the
postmaster's order as a "rape"
of the postal service. Doherty
said Donaldson's order was "ill
timed, ill-advised, unnecessary,
unwarranted and obnoxious."
j Donaldson had ordered the
cuts in service to take effect by
July 1 at the latest. He acted on
advice of the house appropria
tions committee.
Meatmen, Council,
Discuss Inspection
No definite conclusions were
reached last night when city and
county officials met with meat
packers and retailers to discuss
the possible enactment of a city
meat inspection ordinance and
the factors involved in such
legislation.
It was indicated, however,
that the various groups involved
will choose representatives form
ing a smaller committee to con
tinue study on the matter. About
30 men attended the meeting.
Much of the discussion last
night concerned the need for In
spection, possible consumer re
action, cost and how it will be
borne, the burden on small op
erators and the possible extent
and effectiveness of city legisla
tion. Mayor Presides
Mayor Diamond Flynn, who
presided at the session, empha
sized that the city administra
tion was not trying to "sell a bill
of goods." He inferred that city
officials looked to meatmen to
determine the issue and take the
lead in the matter, and that the
session was to learn meatmen's
views on inspection. It was
brought out in other discussion
that inspection will come about
eventually and will be less bur
densome on the meat industry
if it rather than consumers init
iated the measure.
Typhoon Skirts Guam,
Heads for Open Sea
Tokvo. Mav 9 (U.R) A ty
phoon, with winds of 125 miles
an hour near the center, skirted
Guam todav and headed into the
open seas in the direction of
Okinawa, the air force typhoon
warning network reported.
The winds were expected to
increase to 135 miles an hour by
tonight, but no land lay in the
immediate path of the storm.
If the storm keeps to its pre
sent course, it would cross Ok
inawa Thursday or Friday. How
ever, air force weathermen said
there was a good chance It will
lose Its intensity or change its
course before then.
Reports from Guam said resi
dents of Inarjan village In the
southern sector of the Island
have been forced to flee their
homes to higher ground because
of flood waters.
HEATING MODERATE
The temperature dropped to
about 29 degrees in the coldest
orchards last night with readings
of 30 and 31 degrees more gen
eral, according to R. J. Rogers.
federal meteorologist. Moderate
smudging was necessary, but it
was not general.
!SSj5
The post office lost $551,084.-
000 in the 1949 fiscal year.
The committee-approved bill
still must be passed by the sen
ate and house. If it cleared those
hurdles, it would face the strong
possibility of a presidential veto,
since the post office cutback was
an administration economy
move. Then it would take a two
thirds vote in both houses to
override the veto and restore
the full postal service.
President's Plan
WouldStripRFCof
Independent Status
Washington, May 9 U.R)
President Truman submitted to
congress today reorganization
plans to strip the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. of its independent
status and give broader powers
to the new chairman of the na
tional security resources board.
The proposed changes were
contained in four reorganization
plans. Three of them affected
the RFC, which would be trans
ferred to the commerce depart
ment. The plans will become
effective within 60 days unless
a majority of either house re
jects them.
Would Lose Function!
The RFC, which has been an
independent agency since con
gress created it in 1932, would
lose some ot its functions as well
as its independent status.
Here is what Mr. Truman
would do:
1 Transfer the Federal Na
tional Mortgage association from
the RFC to the housing and
home finance agency under Ad
ministrator Raymond M. Foley.
The mortgage association buys
home mortgages from lending in
stitutions.
2 Transfer to the housing and
home finance agency the lend
ing functions of the RFC with
respect to the production and
distribution of prefabricated
houses and components.
3 Transfer the RFC to the
commerce department. Mr. Tru
man said RFC would continue to
be adininistercd by its board of
directors, but that it would be
"subject to the supervision, co
ordination and policy guidance
of the secretary of commerce."
Monlccllo, Cal., May 9 (U.R)
William Pierson Hamilton, one
time partner of J. P. Morgan,
died here today. He was 81.
'Little Guy' Promises Kick
In Pants for John L. Lewis
Washington, May 9 (U.R) A
self-styled "little guy" in John
L. Lewis' United Mine Workers
union said today he will "cither
kick the mine union boss in the
pants or get kicked."
Lloyd Sidencr. ex-shovel op
erator for the United Electric
Coal company of Canton, 111.,
and Lewis have been subpoenaed
to appear next Monday before a
house labor sub-committee The
group Is investigating a charge
that Lewis used a secret code to
get miners to disobey a federal
Judge's back-to-work order dur
ing the recent coal strike.
Whistle Blowing Topic
The surprise hearing, ordered
by sub-committee Chairman An
drew Jacobs (D., Ind.), was called
yesterday.
Sidencr, then president of
UMW local 7455 at Canton, said
he Is prepared to testify that
Beaslcy telephoned him that
Lewis had ordered "one whistle
blown at the mines on the day
they had been ordered by the
court to return to the pits."
"On whistle It a signal used
Normally Placid
Streams Go Wild
In Heavy Rainfall
Three Automobile
Swept Off Highways
By United Press
Flood waters rampaged in Ne
braska today, leaving five dead
and 12 or 13 missing, while at
Winnipeg the rain-swollen Red
Cabano, Que., May 9 (U.R)
All resident! of this town of
4,000 population were order
ed to abandon their homes to
day when a wind-whipped fire
swept out of control and
threatened to destroy ever;
building here.
The flames already had de
stroyed 30 houses, three hotels
and two lumber yards and
were licking at other build
ings directly in their path.
There were no reports of
casualties.
Fire Chief Elie Grandmal
son said the mayor had ap
pealed for military help.
He said residents were be
ing sent to nearby Tillages.
river threatened to spill a 12
foot wall of water into the city.
Residents of a half-dozen
southeastern Nebraska counties
said thai normally-placid small
streams suddenly went wild
bringing the area its worst flood
in history.
Autos Leave Roads
The rushing water swept at
least three automobile off high
ways and left some persons
clinging to telephone poles and
trees, one farmer was found
atop a cow.
At Wilber, Neb., seven and a
half inches of rain were measur
ed in a five-hour period and the
little Nemaha river was surging
two miles wide. Normally, it ik
about 500 feet wide.
A five-hour rainstorm cut se
rious leaks into the last three
dikes around the Canadian city
and officials said a collapse
would drive thousands of resi
dents from their homes.
More Volunteers Called
Emergency radio appeals went
out for more workers to join the
1,800 .soldiers and thousands of
volunteers who are sandbagging
the clikes.-An estimated- 13.098--have
been made homeless by the
floods.
Iowa had high water, too. Five
families were evacuated and
three national guard companies
were called out when two creeki
spilled their banks near Glen-
wood. The- streams were report
ed subsiding.
In nearby Red Oak, la., a small
tornado struck an airport and
damaged six planes and a large
hangar. 1 ightning that accom
panied the storm knocked off a
cornice from a Red Oak bank
building.
Craft Warnings Up
Forecasters said the rains
would lessen, but small craft
warnings were hoisted over Lake
Mich san. Lake Huron and part
of Lake Superior. Diminishing
winds up to 30 miles per nour
were predicted over the lakes.
Most other places had clear
weather and temperatures In the
80's were predicted north to
Ohio. ,
Dead Indian Road
Reports Uncertain '
Reports of road conditions Be
tween here and the Lake o' the
Woods via Dead Indian are still
uncertain, since official reports
from the Klamath county side
of the route are indefinite. Some
Ashland reports say there has
been travel Into the lake from
this side and that the road is in
good condition though narrow in
spots.
Jackson county road crews
have opened uo the road as far
as the county line and apparent
ly Klamath county crews nave
done the same on their side.
Last week-end's storms dis
rupted the original schedule for
the road-opening work and the
route in to Fish lake has still not
been plowed out.
to tell miners not to report for
work," Sidener said, fieasley
has denied the charge.
Sidener said Lewis issued the
"one whistle" order at the same
lime he sent telegrams to union
locals ordering compliance with
the court's mandate.
He said the union subsequent
ly ousted him as president of the
local and fined him $50,000 on a
charge of "attempting to start a
rival union" and trying to fol
low Lewis' telegraphed order to
go bark to work.
Asks Thorough Probe
Sidencr told his story at a
press conference called by Rep.
Harold Vcldc (R., 111.), a member
of the house labor committee.
Vclde said he will insist on a
thorough investigation of the
charge.
Assistant Attorney General H.
Graham Morison previously ord
ered the FBI to look into Slden
er's complaint. He said yester
day the inquiry is still going on
and investigators had been in
structed to "see if there was any
pattern" in the refusal of miners
to return to work.
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