The World from Coos Bay, Oregon • 1

University of Eugene, Oreg. 4M Mmtts Quads The Weather Partly cloudy tonight, Wednesday. Scattered light showers east portion. Little temperature change. light to moderate westerly wind off coast.

Minimum temperature 612. Minimum temperature 42 4. Tides and Sunrise Coos Bay bar, Wednesday, high, 12:25 a.m, 5.3 11:35 pjtt. 6.9 ft. Low, 6:25 5:50 p.m., 1.6 ft.

Sunrise 4:39. Sunset 7.36. WOULD PORT nSHINA Published in the Great Diversified i4rea Soutiwesferre Oregon Vol. XLVII Entered tmmi class nutter it the rnstorrice I'oua Bay, Oregon COOS BAY-NORTH BEND, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1946 PRICE: FIVE CENTS No. 158 VlULl M.CSIS With Sen BOUND FOR ALASKAN WATERS ABOARD COOS BAY BOAT NEW GRID COACH Changes by Housing Aide Hope of Rail, Truman Asks Services to Agree May 31 1 I Tirrr a) fS Off for a two-months' pleasure cruise to Alaskan ports aboard the 65-foot Coos Uy fishing boat Cygnet is the party shown p.bove: Harold Howell, at left; Cecil Holland, Miss Barbara Wright, Mrs.

Howell, Mrs. J. W. Hillstrom, Miss Betty Wright, J. W.

"Bill" Hillstrom, and J. W. Hillstrom, jr. The Howclls are from Coquille, the Misses Wright from Bandon and the others from Coos Bay. The toat, owned by the Hillstroms, is powered by twin diesels and was completed recently at the HUlstrom Brothers Shipyard.

After the trip, thq Hillstroms plan to use the Cygnet tuna fishing. (Times photo) Bonham Given Orders Leave For Columbia House Get Approval Committee Asks for Adoption to Save Act From Dying May The senate military affairs committee voted unanimously today to accept house amendments to the draft act in an attempt to keep the measure alive after the midnight deadline. The house amendments would ban drafting of fathers and teen-age youths. Senate acceptance of the amend ments would avert expiration of the draft tonight and provide a 45-day extension until July 1. Sen.

Edwin O. Johnson, told reporters that none of the committee members wen entirely satisfied with the houes amend ments. However, Johnson added that they agreed to ask senate acceptance of the house provisions to "keep the system altve." Truman Beady te Act i Favorable action by the senate on the house amendments would avert the need for a joint senate-house conference and tend the ex tension measure to President Truman's desk for signature. Committee Chairman Elbert Thomas Utah, took the committee proposal to the senate floor. He told the senate that no mem ber or the committee was "happy regarding the acceptance of the house amendments.

But be said the night deadline made acceptance necessary. He told the senate that his committee will press for a longer extension of selective service, without the house prohibitions. Meanwhile the White House announced that President Truman will issue an. executive order preserving the selective service machinery if congress fails to vote ait extension. Such an order could not authorize induction, but would preserve the administrative machinery of selective service for possible future use.

Quiet Election Looms Friday SALEM, May 11 (Un political observers predicted today Oregon will experience one of the most tranquil elections in the state's history as they estimated not more than 30 per cent of the qualified electorate will visit the polls Friday in the nominating primary election. 1 There are 215 candidates tor Ul state and district offices. Ninety-nine candidates (63 Republicans, 29 Democrats and seven non-partisans) are assured of victory In the primaries because they are without opposition. Thirty-eight Republicans, four Democrats and seven non-partisans are certain of general election victories, barring write-in votes, while the Republican party Is bound to comer 50 offices not contested by the Democrats. The Democratic party is assured of four positions.

There are no contests in 25 of nor in six of the nine senatorial districts on the ballot. Garvin Nominee To Head Legion Nominated for commander of Coos Bay post No. 17, American Legion, for 1946-47 it Walter Garvin, now vice-commander, lt was announced today by the nominating committee composed of past commanders of the post who prepared a slate of candidates Monday night-Other nominees are: first vice-commander, William L. Miller; uc-ond vice-commander, Kenneth Rollins; finance officer, Alva Brown: adjutant, Eugene Ooude; sergeant-at-arms, Lyle Marcy; service officer, Shirley Brannock; chaplain, Joe H. Campbell; members of executive committee, Erwln Klnue and D.

J. Grant, Jr. All but Garvin and Brannock ara veterans of World War II. Nominations may tw made from the floor prior to the election at the post's May meeting, Monday night. Coal Peace Increasing Rail Union Leaders Leave to Confer With President By United Press Prospects appeared brighter to day that the two-weeks coal strike truce might become permanent, and there were signs of a break in the rail dispute.

F. Whitney and Alvanley John ston, heads of the Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen and Locomotive Engineers, left Cleveland for Wash-' The brotherhoods have scheduled a nationwide strike of 300,000 workers for Saturday. It was the first indication that the government was prepared to take concrete steps to avert the strike. President Truman had said he was considering seizing the carriers, but Whitney Indicated that the move would not check the walk out. Most Miners Working Most of the nation's .400,000 strik ing miners were back at their Jobs.

Hopes for reaching an agreement before the May 25 expiration of the truce rose after soft coal operators agreed to pay $3,000,000 for disputed overtime in the first major break since negotiations began In mid-Marcfh There; "appeared- BUI -pros pect, however, that a contract could be completed by the Wednesday After winning the back pay set tlement, Lewis followed up last night with a demand for a $70,000,000 a year levy on Industry to finance a miners' welfare fund. The proposal, a switch from his demand for a coal tonnage royalty to support the fund, called for a seven per cent assessment on mine payrolls to cover costs of the fund. Operators had no immediate comment, i Byrnes Urges Parley End PARIS, May Secretary of State James F. Byrnes today proposed an early adjournment of the foreign ministers conference and the calling of a peace conference for July 1 or 15. Byrnes proposed a brand new line of procedure for the Big Four foreign ministers in a series of recommendations to the council this afternoon.

All his proposals were deferred for discussion at a council meeting tomorrow. The U.S. representative on the council recommended that lt adjourn until June 15 as soon as the discussion of Germany Is completed, In the face of Soviet Foreign Minister. V. M.

Molotov's adamant opposition to a peace conference before treaty drafts are completed, Byrnes suggested that such a conclave be scheduled for July I or 15. He also proposed that Austria be Included on the program for the next council session, and that the Italian armistice be revised as a substitute for a peace treaty until the treaty can be completed. Penalty for Ceiling Violation Is Paid A check for $25 payable to the treasurer of the United States has been handed the Coos Bay OPA price panel by Dolan and Serfllng, Gardiner, in payment of a fine for violation of OPA regulation No. 423 involving tale of groceries above celling price. The price panel announced receipt of the check today and said the violator has signed a statement promising to discontinue evasions or violations.

Religious Books Shown Religious Book week In May is being observed by the Marshfleld public library this week, according to Mrs. Helene Bower, city librarian. 8he has placed' many books of religious nature on a special shelf for the readers' perusal during this week. Due to Visit Help for 100 Houses Promised Coos Bay Emissaries t. A representative cf the federal housing expediter's office will toe in Coos Bay Tuesday night, May 21, to attend an open meeting of the city's new housing committee and to give full details on the way jto obtain help in obtaining materials needed for building at least 100 new houses here for veterans.

This was announced Monday night at a meeting of the committee by City Manager Harry C. Mc- Crea and J. L. Hansen, who visited Regional Expediter G. Coplen at Seattle over the weekend, Coplen was inclined to discount the local committee's goal of 600 new houses, the pair reported, but indicated help will be forthconv ing as a starter for' 100 new houses for veterans.

To Send Blanks Application blanks will be mailed to McCrea's office today, Coplen promised, and sh6uld be available to veterans no later than Thurs-day. Coplen told the two the aim of the federal expediters is to help construction of houses in the 000 price class. A list of material needed here for home construction was submit ted by the- two' local delegates, andi Cor.len said tt would be valuable for his office to have that informa- lion. Ocplrn was Surprised, th4 pair reported, at Industrial expansion prospects here and the growth in population recorded since 1940. McCrea and Hansen said no definite information on how the ex pediters will help here was given them, but this is expected to be explained in detail May 21.

McCrea said a record will be, kept of all vet erans who obtain the application blanks and they will be invited especially to the May 21 session. Coast Guard's Gold Braid Hit WASHINGTON, May 14 (U.PJ The house appropriations commit tee today criticized the coast guard for returning to peace-time operations loaded down with "gold-braid." So it chopped almost $20,000,000 from the guard's fund requests for the next fiscal year. The committee recommended an appropriation of $114,166,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, the coast guard's first full year of peacetime operations since 1941 when It was tanen over by the navy. This represented a cut of $19,743,000 from budget estimates and a drop of $244,898,318 from the current (1946) fiscal year. In a report to the house, the com mittee pointed out that In 1940, the coast guard managed to get along with three rear admirals and 31 captains for an organization of enlisted men.

In the fiscal year 1947, they reported, the coast guard contemplates going on with one four-star admiral, 17 rear admirals, 15 commodores and 138 captains for an enlisted force of 19,000 men. Germans Stand Firm Against U.S. Tunes LONDON, May 14 (U.R) The Germans are proving so resistant to the music of American radio stations in Germany that it will take at least 20 years to alter their tastes and another 30 to make sure they dont backslide into the belief that the only good music is German music. That's the word Lt. Leonard Coplen of Newton, brought back' from Germany today.

He was on an expedition In search of music ncores for the symphony orchestra of the Stuttgart radio. Garage IVrmit Issued A building permit to construct a private garage on his property was Issued Monday to E. H. McCrea, 892 Colorado street, North Bend, City Engineer R. L.

Cavanagh said today. The estimated cost of the building was said to be $400. Here May 2 WASHINGTON, May 14. (U.R) President Truman has asked the army and navy to agree on a unification plan for the armed forces by May 31, the White House disclosed today. Press Secretary Charles G.

Ross said "very good progress toward unification" was made at a conference yesterday between the president; the secretaries of war and navy and the chiefs of staff. "The president asked then to list their points of agreement and disagreement and he asked the two secretaries to get together and have all these differences Ironed out by May 31," Ross said. Ross explained Mr. Truman made no demand and laid down no ultimatum, but expressed a hope that the Inter-service differences on unification could be cleared up speedily. Bay Industry, History Told Tourist School History and industry of Coos bay were reviewed Monday night for 86 men and women at the second ses sion of the tourist host school spon sored by the tourist committee of the "rs'Bay Chumterctf-qom- merce.

Major Industry of the bay area is lumbering and wood processing: the group was told by Freeman Schultz, assistant manager of the Coos Bay Lumber company. The 97 nlants of this type in Coos county 1U produce more than 600 million feet of lumber this year. The mills' products for 1945 exceeded that of Puget Sound, Grays Harbor and Wlllapa harbor combined and were valued at $24,000,000. 88 Per Cent Land Timber The forest service classifies 88 per cent of Coos land as timber area, and there Is more than 20 billion feet of standing mature timber in the county, most of lt privately owned. Timber grows faster here than in any other timber growing region.

Coos county's work force of 15,380 people is divided, Schultz reported; as follows: manufacturing, 6300; agriculture, 3600; wholesale and re tail trade, 1400; and the remainder In service occupations. The county has 150,000 acres devoted to crops, pasture and grazing, the value of products totalling $4,000,000 in 1945. Coos county marketed $1,250,000 worth of sea products in 1945, the speaker said. He reviewed mining, cheese manufacture, and discussed the various products from lumber, iown Incorporated in 1871 In 1864 Louis Simpson applied for the first patent on land that is now Coos Bay, John Ferguson told the group. Fifty-one acres of land cost Simpson $64.26 and the next year he sold it to C.

M. Pershbaker for $200. The original plat is based on a survey by William Hall in 1873 The town 'was Incorporated in 1874, with F. Webber as president of. the board of trustees.

Ferguson reviewed the rise of manufacturing from the E. B. Dean company's first mill between Curtis and Central on the waterfront. He told of the logging camps In the hills, paying their men on Christ mas and the Fourth of July, at which tune the men cashed their checks here' and great activity followed, The third tourist host session will be Monday night, May 20, at the Marshfleld high school. Chinese Seamen to Leave Wednesday The 43 Chinese seamen who slag ed a sit-down strike in Coos bay aboard the Dutch M.S.

Van dcr Heist when denied shore leave by the (migration service have com plrted signing off the ship and will leave Portland Wednesday for Vancouver, B.C., to sail for home aboard two Chinese slUps. In Portland the seamen were un der care of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent association. They were given an opportunity for sight seeing during the three weeks they spent in Portland, 7 ,) i 1 I Election of Pete Suslck, former North Bend High grid star and now In the marine corps, as Marshfleld High fotball coach for was announced today by the Coos Bay school board. 1 (Times Photo) Susick Signed As Coach for Pirate Eleven Election of Fete Susick of North Bend as Marshfleld high school head football coach and assistant in basketball in the coming year was announced today for the Coos Bay school board by Supt. L.

B. May-field. One of North Bend high's all- Umi gmts' Susicit' oh to ah outstanding football career i i ii. Ijfruja. following his graduation from North Bend in 1939.

Susick will replace Orvllle "Red" Bailey, who. notified the board recently he was entering private busi ness and will not return from his military leave of absence. Anthony Fralola filled the coaching position the past year. but resigned recently. Hard Hitter At North Bend high, Susick participated in football, basketball and track and Is considered to be one of the hardest-hitting ball carriers ever to play for Coach Vic Adams at North Bend.

Susick, In accepting the Marshfleld High position, will become a coaching rival of his first grid teacher when the two bay teams meet. The new coach Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Susick, 1649 McPherson street, North Bend. His wife is the former Marcella Nelson of North Bend.

At the University of Washington, Susick played under and studied coaching methods of Jlmmle Phe-lan and Ralph "Pest" Welch. He won all-coast honors as a halfback and was awarded the Flaherty medal for selection as the outstanding backfleld man on the university squad one year. In Marine Corps In 1942, Susick enlisted In the U. 8. marine corps.

He participated In a number of south Pacific engagements and was -wounded by shrapnel in the Okinawa campaign. He has been hospitalized in recent months. In announcing the board's action, Supt. Mayfleld said: "We are extremely pleased to be able to obtain Mr. Susick as our head football and assistant basketball coach.

He comes to us with an outstanding record of performance both at a player and a man." The election completes the local coaching staff for next year. William Borcher Is head basketball coach and assistant football coach. Dwlght Burch will act as freshman football and basketball coach and head track coach. Harold Beall will coach tennis and Alfred Landes will coach the golf team. At McAuley Medical patients at McAuley hospital today are A.

J. Bustinell, East-side, and Sherlene Davis, Coos Bay. Harry Kelley, Coos Bay, underwent a tonsllectomy. Mrs. R.

A. Jacob-son, Blossom Gulch, was dismissed. Chimney Burns Out The North Bend fire department was called out at 4:45 p.m. Monday to extinguish a chimney fire at 2677 Sherman avenue. There was no damage.

Fourth of New Wheat to Be WASHINGTON, May 14 (U.R) The government-announced; today that it will requisition 25 per cent of Uie ht-w wiiiul ituii tliui ii delivered to grain elevators. The agriculture department emphasized that the wheat would not be requisitioned directly from farmers. However, when a farmer delivers wheat of the 1946 crop to an elevator, 50 per cent must be sold immediately rather than stored there by the farmer; The government will requisition one-half of the wheat sold, or 25 per cent of the wheat This represented a new effort to get grain for export, and the most drastic action to' date. 15 Per Cent Less Bread The agriculture department said Americans would get 15 per cent less bread than normal between this July and July of next year, as a result of the continuation of a limit on the amount of wheat flour that millers may produce for domestic consumption. Millers now are permitted to produce for domestic use, only 75 per cent of the flour produced in the corresponding period of 1945.

This limit will be increased to 85 per cent on "July 1. At the same time, the department said the war food order prhiblting the use of wheat and wheat products In the manufacture of beer and alchol would be continued until the summer of 1947. Siamese Twins Die at Portland PORTLAND, May 14. (U.R) The "Siamese twins" born here a week ago to Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Hurse of Deep River, died at Portland General hospital today. Their deaths were 25 minutes apart. The twins began to fail yesterday, when both ran temperatures, according to the attending physician, Dr. Joseph Springer. Joined together at the base of their spines, the girls had a common circulatory system that prevented their separation by surgery.

Hungary Wipes Zeros From Banknotes BUDAPEST, May 14 (U.R)-Hun-gary wiped the zeros off its banknotes today, so residents of this inflation-plagued country won't go crazy trying to add up the cost of a streetcar ride. The government Issued a new note called a "milpengoe" worth 1.000,000 pengoes. Inflation has driven the exchange rate down to pengoes to the dollar. Weather Note MINNEAPOLIS, May The mayor of North Pole, Alaska, found Minneapolis too cold. Mayor Samuel Styles.

39, was In a hospital here today recovering from slight case of pneumonia. Requisitioned Bowles May Urge Return To Rationing WASHINGTON, May Economic Stabilizer, Chester -Bowles said tcday lie-will recommend a return to rationing if it appears rationing is necessary io assure equitable distribution of our food supply at home and to meet foreign relief commitments. He mentioned meat, dairy products and possibly bread among items which might he rationed. Bowles told a news conference he felt "we should go ahead with rationing if practical requirements call for it," but emphasized "I certainly hope it can be avoided." Band Concert Due Tonight Marshfleld high school and junior high school will present their annual joint band concert tonight in the high school auditorium under the direction of Harold Buh-man. The program will begin at 8 o'clock.

The program will include popular as well as semi-classical music. Numbers to bt played by the senior high group include: "Star Spangled Banner," Key; "Footlift- er March," Fillmore; "Booster March," Klein; "Rendezvous Overture," Cassels-Lake; "Stratosphere Overture," Frangkiser; "Night and Day," Overture," Buchtel; "The Little Rhapsody in Blue," Gershwin, and 'Tiger Rag," arranged by Ypder. The junior high band will play: "Normal March," Bennett; "Hom age to Youth," Olividoti; "Ambition Overture," Bennett, an da novelty, Trombone Toboggan," Weber. Solos, Trio Billed Other features include: clarinet trio, "Danse de Mirlitons," Tschai-kowsky, by Ardls Thompson, Nancy Johnson and Gladys Westmoreland with Eleanor Megale as accompanist; trombone solo, "Nola," Amdt, by Rodney Johnson with Charlotte Ann Johnson as accompanist; clarinet solo, "Concertino," Weber, by Ardis Thompson with Eleanor Megale as accompanist; trumpet solo, "Symphony," Alstone, by Robert Downer with Miss Megale accompanying; drum solo, "Columbia Legion Post March," Clark, by Elaine Rocheleaux. A massed band will play "Under the Double Eagle March" by Wagner.

The program will close Willi the "Stars and Stripes Forever," Sousa, by the senior high band. Car Stolen Sunday The automobile of William Ogren, Coos Bay, stolen Sunday night while he was buying some hamburgers at the Scuttlebutt on the waterfront highway, was recovered Monday abandoned on Flanagan street, according to local police. The car was not damaged but a camera was stclen. coastguard cutter' stationed fT Coos bay the past two months, Is being withdrawn uue to the shortage ol coastguard personnel. The cutter will be stationed until further notice at Astoria and will be assigned as the onlv cutter Da- trolling the coast between the Cali fornia line and the Canadian border, it was reported here today.

The Bonham, with a normal complement of 25 men, is down to nine at present. Other coastguard shlus are being laid up and their crews assigned to fill vacancies on the ships kept on duty. The change is believed by port officials to be only temporary until the coastguard can recall from widespread foreign duty and trans port stations its regular men. Many reservists who have been on dutv are leaving the services as they acquire discharge points. Mrs.

Robinson Dies Monday COQUILLE, May 14 (Special)-Mrs. Annie J. Robinson, 74, widely known throughout the Coquille valley for many quietly-performed benefactions, died at her home in the Wilson apartments Monday. She had been in failing health for some months but was confined to her bed only the past week. The funeral will be at 2 pjn.

Thursday at St. James Episcopal church, conducted by the Rev. R. L. Green, with burial in the Masonic cemetery beside the body of her husband the late George A.

Robin son. Mr. Robinson proprietor of a general drygoods store here died in Germany In 1927 while the couple was on a world tour. Daughter of Pioneers A daughter of the pioneer Mr. and Mrs.

S. L. Leneve, Mrs. Robinson was born at Parkersburg Jan. 1, 1872.

Survivors include: a brother John Leneve, Coquille; and three sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Briggs, Co quille; Mrs. Miranda Way, Coquille, now staying with a daughter at Independence, and Mrs. Jennie A. Rose, Coquille.

Mrs. Robinson had been active In work of the Order of Eastern Star, Rebekahs, Business and Profes sional Women's club and the Women's Civic club. Kiwanis Club Hears Of (loos Early Days Emll R. Peterson, North Bend, told of the early days and history of Coos county and Its cities before the North Bend Klwanls' club yesterday noon. Peterson said the history of Coos bay dates from around 1850 with settlers coming by both water and overland routes after that date.

He told of many early settlers here and of their children still living hi the bay area. i.