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Peace Congress, Opening In Chaos
In Britain, Plans Shift To Poland
SHEFFIELD, Eng. (API Sheffield", bob-tailed peace Con.
gran met in chaotic session today to daviie mean, of moving
quickly to Warsaw, Poland.
Tha Sheffield city hall, where the Communist-line Congress
had engaged an auditorium for a five-day meeting, wet for a
few hours a strongly guarded fortress. Dozens of ttewardt ad
mitted only delegatet with credentials, and some people were
left out in the rain because they could not find their tickets. Re
porters end the public were not allowed inside.
Some of the hundred, of persons J
who got past the screening at Ihe iii, , Fx
doors and came out said the prac- Winter wlNKCS
tical problems of making a thou-!
tand-mile thift in scene on short EflSTertl Ok?aflan
notice were being considered. . " ,wn. -
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ports that the Polish government
is willing to meet the costs of an
adjourned meeting in Warsaw.
There, on Thursday, the travel
ers will open their week-long con
gress to demand a Russian-style
ban on the atom bomb and re
duction and control of armaments.
Britain's rejection at her borders
of some "hundreds" of delegates
including many of the Congress'
leaders forced cancellation of
elaborate plans in this steel and
arms center.
Poland stepped in when plans
went awry with a promise of hos
pitality. The congress committee had in
vited some 2,500 to 3.000 delegates
from 74 countries here. The bulk
of the foreigners were refused ad
mittance to Britain.
Mrr. Nan Green, the Congress
secretary, said the Czech airlines
had offered to transport some dele
gates to Warsaw. An urgent ap
peal was made to Poland for a
ship to carry others. Delegates un
able to fly or sail will be asked
to cros, Europe by train.
.Freight Rates Slashed
For Mid-Western Points
WASHINGTON (JP The In
terstate Commerce commission to
day ordered a cut of about 3.5 per
cent in rail and water freight rates
between a score of mid-western
cities and the remainder of t h e
western states.
The cities affected are located
on the western border of the so
called tone one of western trunk
line territory.
The zone traditionally has freight
rates somewhat lower than the
eastern states and somewhat
higher than the rest of the west so
as to avoid too abrupt a change in
the level of charges in the middle
of the country.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
. This, today, is the biggest ques
tion in the world:
WHAT ARE THE CHINESE
COMMUNISTS UP TO IN KOREA?
Are they running a bluff with the
idea of making a settlement that
will save face for communism in
Asia?
Or is it their purpose to DRIVE
IS OUT OF KOREA, thus saving
communism's face by shooting
war?
If the latter turns out to be IT,
then World War III is in the off
ing. For an answer to these grave
questions, watch the Yaln river.
It u the boundary between Korea
and red Chinese Manchuria. It is
also a fairly good river line of de
fense. If it is the purpose of the
Chinese commies to drive us out
otCXorea by military torre. and if
we are to UPSET THAT PUR
POSE, we must prevent them from
crossing the Yalu first with effea-
(Conrimreat eai pete taur)
cik carnival to ba hald at tha
ar campaign
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Br Tha Aasoelatad fttm
Winter weather that prevailed
over most of Oregon today worried
farmers, particularly those in the
central portion where potato and
ladino clover crops still were un
harvested. The weather bureau held little
hope for improvement with inter
mittent snow forecast for tonight
in eastern Oregon.
Slightly warmer weather was
forecast for western Oregon with
rain starting in the north and
spreading to southern areas by to
morrow. Mountains surrounding Klamath
Falls were snow covered this morn
ing, with the temperature down to
25.
A new snowfall wat reported at
Lakeview.
Pendleton, where 2.2 inches of
snow fell in 19 hours Saturday night
and Sunday morning, expected a
similar fall tonight and tomorrow.
The 3-2-inch total was the most
ever recorded there in a 24-hour
period in November.
Six inches of tnow covered Jef
ferson county farms with an estim
ated 30 percent of the clover crop
still unharvested. A. heavy loss was
(eared. I
Most western Oregon points had
clear, snappy weather.
Baker in central Oregon recorded
a minimum of 20 degrees, while
farther east at Baker it was 21.
La Grande reported 24.
Snow and ice covered highways i
in the Cascades and central Ore
gon. Child Killed As Dad's .
Auto Dives Down Bank
GRANTS PASS (Jpi Donald
Evitt. 3'i. was killed when an au
tomobile driven by his father, John
Evitt, Gasquet, Calif., plunged
down a 125-foot embankment on the
Redwood highway east of Crescent
City Saturday night. The parents
are in Seaside hospital. Crescent
City.
Mrs. Hazel Flanker, O'Brien, sis
ter of Evitt. said she believed the
driver "blacked out" from a heart
attack.
John W. Kelly, Oregon
Newspaperman, Passes
SAI.EM .P John W. Kelly,
75. veteran newspaperman and
former slat official HiH nf a
heart attack at hit home here to
day. Kelly wat executive director of
the Oregon commission on postwar
development after the close of
World War II.
The Weather
CieueY tedey with rain Tuesday.
Highest temp, far any Nov.
74
Lew.it temp, fer any Nov. 14
Highest temp, yesterday M
Lowest temp, last 24 news 42
I Precip. last 24 hours freee
I Precip. from Nov. I .01
j Deftc. from Nov. 1 1.7
Precip. from Sept. 1 1J.17
Sunset today, 4:11 p.m.
I Sunrise tomorrow, 7:91 a.m.
tstoblrihed 1171
Woman Doctor
Lands In Jail As
Child's Kidnaper
Seized By FBI
As She Reaches
For Ransom Bait
SANTA FE, N. M. UPl A
suicide guard kept watch all sight
over 43-year-old Nancy Campbell
Yale-lra ined woman doctor charged
with kidnaping a rich contractor's
nine-year-old daughter.
Dr. Campbell dressed in men's
clothes wat caught red-handed
Saturday night when the reached
for 120,000 ransom rash and 10 hid
den FBI agents and police rushed
her in the darkness.
'I'm only a go-between!" they
said the shouted as they hurtled
into her, thinking she wat a man.
But in her convertible only a few
feet away they found her be
draggled victim blonde Linda
Mamm. The little girl was groggy
from a dose of sleeping medicine
and chilled from exposure to the
9-degree above zero freezing tem
perature, but otherwise unharmed.
Later, after they found two mora
ransom notes and a 25-caliber pis
tol in tne woman s pockets, the
FBI said she admitted luring the
child away Friday from the
Stamm't ranch estate in the
wooded outskirts of Santa Fe .
Dr. Campbell, who has a four-year-old
adopted son. Rufus. said
she was beset with debts and un
paid bills and worried about her
elderly parents, both injured in an
auto crash last month.
She was formally charged with
kidnaping Sunday and held under
$25,000 bond. If convicted, she
would face from five years in pris
on to death in the electric chair
under New Mexico's severe kidnap
law.
Linda's mother, 32-year-old Mnr
Allen Stamm, was shocked to find
the admitted kidnaper was the
same respected women's specialist
who had delivered her second son,
Craig Stamm, just two years ago.
But after her 30-hour ordeal she
had little sympathy for Dr. Camp
bell. "I hope she will never be free
again to bring to others what she
has brought to us in heartaches
and worry," she said.
"It must not be allowed to happen
again. . .this mistreatment of an
innocent child. . .the leaving of a
little girl to the mercy of winter."
Despite her admissions, personal
and professional friends rallied to
Dr. Campbell's defense and said
she must have been mentally de
ranged to have done such a thing.
City Thunderstruck
Her attorney, former State Su
preme Court Justice A. L. Zinn.
said her friends had offered "hun
dreds of thousands" of dollars for
her bond. As soon as he can win
her release, he said, he would have
her taken to Albuquerque for hos
pital care.
Ssnta Fe was thunderstruck to
learn Ihe identity of the kidnaper
prominent citizen in this town
of about 30.000.
Dr. Campbell was an honor grad
uate of the University of Texas.
She took her medical degree at
Vale in 1931 one of the first
women to do so, and after her in
ternship came to New Mexico as
a doctor for the Indian service.
In 1940 she set up private practice
in Santa Fe as a women's
specialist. She was obstetrician to
many prominent Santa Fe families
but her practice was charity work.
Ten Die, 16 Hurt
When Hotel Burns
LEDUC, All.. Rtcev
try of additional bodies frotwthe
ruint of th Ltduc hotel, da
stroyed by explosion and f I r a,
brought tha daath toll to 10 Sun
day. Sixteen par ton t ware hospital
had aftar tha blast Saturday.
The loss wat estimated of
mora than SI 00,000. Natural gat
which collectad in tha hotel cel
lar fram tome unkrtawn teurce
wat believed te hawp caused the
blast
Leduc It an oil town 21 mil at
south of Edmonton.
School Students Offered
Counseling Service
Winston D. Purvine, Director of
Oregon Tech, has announced the
counseling service of the school
will now be available for all high
school students in southern Ore
gon area and elsewhere, who are!
interested in vocational and edu
cational guidance.
No charge is made for these tests
when given to regularly enrolled
students of Oregon Tech, but for1
high school students there will be I
a nominal fee of $10. Thit fee Willi
cover the initial interview, the en
tire battery of tests, counseling in
terviews ami a written summation
of the results. Persons interested
in the service msy contact tha
office of the Dean of Men, Oregoi I
Technical Institute, Oretech, Ore-1
gon. I
Douglas School Units
Show Increased Debt
Douglas wat one of 32 Oregon
counties to have school district in
debtedness increase during the two
years ending last June 30, Walter
J. Pearson, state treasurer, re
ported, according to an Associated
Press disptach from Salem.
Increase for Douglas, one of nine
counties to go into the red over
the million dollar mark, wat
$2,474,379.
Four countiet In the ttate r e-
duced their indebtedness and
Sherman county had none during
the period, Pearson said.
The total county school district
indebtedness in the state on June
30 was (45,680.675, compared with
$13,390,700 on the tame date two
years ago.
The Portland school district ran
counter to the general trend by re
ducing indebtedness from $326,000
to $76,000.
CONSCIENCE GOADS
Salesman Quits
Dollar Chasing
To Serve Lord
LOS ANGELES (JP A 41-year-old
businessman today said
he hat given up the "mad scram
ble for the almighty dollar" to en
ter the Episcopal ministry. "
J. Philip Bartlett, a seminary
student t the University of South
ern California, said he sold a thriv
ing farm machinery business I
San Diego because "the external
pressure of the business world wat
not worth it." - - -
By everyday standards he wat
well off, Bartlett related, but he
felt there wat something lacking
in his life.
"I was forced to follow certain
ethics which were not Christian,"
he explained. "They were not eth
ics that would put a man in jail,
but modern business it cut-throat
and dog-eat-dog for the small
businessman who it trying to sur
vive. "My business wat telling and it
was necessary to make certain
representations about products.
Your competitors did it and you
were forced to. In other words, a
lot of double talk."
Now, Bartlett works part time as
a shipping clerk to help pay his
way through college. He commutes
weekends to Ssn Diego to be with
his wife, Dorothy, and two sons,
aged 15 and 11. Mrs. Barlett it
working as an insurance under
writer to help make ends meet.
He came to USC this fall and wl
remain a year before entering tha
church divinity school of the Paci
fic at Berkeley, Calif.
Friendly Dot Causes Gun
To Wound Boy Hunter
EUGENE (.P). A 16-year-old
boy was wounded while hunting
Sunday because of hit dog't friend
liness. Gerald Robberson of Creswell
was standing on a log when the
dog jumped up, causing thea youth
to lose his balance.
The gun went off when he fell,
wounding him the'shoulder.
He was reported in fair condition
today at a Eugene hospital.
PERHAPS $8 BILLION MORE
U. S. Aid Extension Beyond Marshall Plan
Blueprinted For Congressional Decision
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON (Al A blue
print for a vast new American for
eign aid program, including eco
nomic help to Western Europe be
yond the scheduled end of the
Marshall plan, has been msde pub
lic by the sdministratian.
It probably will form the basis
for President Trumsn's foreign
econom
mic recommendationt to the I
Congress next year. I
new Congress next yea
The chief executive made public
a global turvey of economic pros-fa
pects and American aid in the light
of the Communist threat and the
Western rearmament program
The survey calls for far-reaching
developments in American policy
to provide help running into b i 1
lions of dollars over Ihe next few
yean . perhapt $8,000,000,000 or '
more.
Mr. Truman released the report, ! under what conditions,
prepared by former Secretary of j This was indicated in a call by
the Army Gordon Gray, as a docu- I Senator Taft (R-Ohio) for a de
ment deserving "the attention and I tailed review of the program of Eu
study" of the American people. I ropean rearmament, already un-
Ih.r. i. A,h that ill main,,
But administration otiiassis iai
recommendations will largely
shape the President's foreign eco
nomic proposal hit stste of the
unioa message te Congress in Jan
uary, t
Thif will pose squarely the Issue
JtOSEIURG. OEECON MONDAY, NOVEMIER 13. If SO
Pickets Again
Shift In State
Phone Strike
87 Pet. Of Workers Out,
Union Claims; Company
Says Little Difficulty
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Western Electric CIO Commun
cations workers pickets were
shifted to nine new Oregon points
today as the union continued its
"hit-and-run" ttrike tactics.
Pickets were posted at Oregon
City. Newport. Baker. St. Helens
Pacific .Telephone and Telegraph
offices and at two dial exchangea,
a warehouse, and supply depot and
a garage in Portland.-
Phone exchanges at Newport,
Baker ami St. Helens are man
ually operated.
Pickets, which previously patrol
led offices at Eugene, Roseburg,
Corvallit. Albany, The Dallea,
Pendleton, Springfield and the
main office at Portland, failed to
thow up thit morning.
D. F. Ward, a spokesman for the
union, taid the central Portland
office would be picketed again at
some later date. He said it was
still too early to tell how effective
today's picketing was.
Service N.ar Normal
But Edllie Smith, spokesman for
PT4T said company officials had
reported little operating difficulty.
The picketed Portland ware
house contained Western Electric
supplies, Smith said, and the
garage housed trucks used by
PT&T installer,.
Supervisory employes used to
replace phone company workers
who refused to cross Western El
ectric company employes picket
lines have kept service at nearly
normal so far. Smith asserted.
Ward, on the other hand,
claimed picket lines had kept at
high as 7 percent of regularly as
signed telephone company work
ers from their jobs in Portland.
Western Electric and PTtT
workers belong to different divi
sions of the same union, but only
those employed hy Western fclec
tric, numbering 140 in Oregon, are
on strike.
A threat to file unfair labor prac
tice charges against PT4T at Eu
gene apparently has dissppeared.
Smith said. The threat developed
Saturday when phone operators,
reporting for work after pickets
were withdrawn, were tohl to re
turn to their jobs at their next
regular shifts.
Normal work schedules were re
sumed at Eugene Sunday, Smith
said.
Oregon Circuit
Judge Resigns
SALEM Pi Circuit Judge
Homer I. Watts of Pendleton re
signed todsy, effective Nov. 30, be
cause of ill health.
Governor McKay said he hoped
to announce a successor within the
next 24 hours.
Judge Watts, who first was ap
pointed April 21, 1947, was sever
ely injured in an automobile acci
dent last Msy.
He said in hit letter to the gov
ernor: "Since my discharge from the
hospital, I have put forth my best
efforts to bring my health up to a
point where 1 could continue, but
my recovery has been too slow."
Judge Watts 61 h district consists
of Morrow and Umatilla counties.
He was elected to a full six-yesr
term in 1948. But his successor
wiil serve only two years, until the
1950 general election. -
of how long and how much the
United States wsnts to give or
lend friendly nstions to help them
re-arm and strengthen their polit
ical and economic life against the
threat of communism.
Congress May Balk
The administrstion had hard
sledding getting fundi from the
present Congress to finance the
third year of the Marshall plan for
Western European recovery There
! is every indication that it will have
rougher time with the new Con -
gress in obtaining approval for an
extension of helwto Europe beyond
the scheduled end of the Marshall
plan oo June 30. 1932.
The attack of the enlarged Re
publican opposition may not be,
however, so much on the point of
furnishing some assistance as on
me related issues of how much and
oerway. it was also mtjateo in
comment on Ihe Cr.v rennrl hv
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis), who
said he thought this country win
nave 10 continue to man monen
and make grants" ts ita friends.
Korean War Boosts Lead O
In th. main, Gray proposed ae-
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TOP POST Mrs. Anna Rosen
berg (aboval, New York labor
and personnel specialist, has
been appointed by President
Truman to replace Paul H, Grif
fith as assistant secretary of
defense. INEA Telephoto.)
Oregon Highway
Crashes Kill Four
Rv Th. Aiaorlatml Preaa
.Highway accidents claimed four
lives in Oregon over the weekend.
A fifth person died either of heart
attack or crash injuries.
Oscar G. Rosenau, 59, Seattle,
wat heard by two women patsen
gers to cry out as it in pain and
slump against the wheel of his car.
It went out of control and rolled
top-down into an irrigation ditch
along highway 97 north of Bend
Sunday.
The passengers. Myrtle M.
Sboldt end Luella Pirkenbrock,
both of Seattle, were unhurt.
Seattle truck driver Wilson Nich
ols, 27, was putting chains on hit
parked transport truck S u n
day when struck by a tanker near
Kalema in eastern Oregon.
A truck-trailer careened out of
control on the Willamette highway
south of Oakride Saturday night
and crashed, killing James Thur
man de Lon, 46, Portland, who wat
asleep in a cab bunk. Driver Hillard
Baxter, Portland, and G. Dean
Groom, Rolling Bay, Wash., are
in a Eugene hospital. -
Charles O. White. 39. Butte Falls,
Ore., was trapped and drowned
when a car in which he was riding
with five other persons plunged off
Ihe old Pacific highway north of
Ashland into Bear creek. H 1 1 wife,
Arlene, 37, was in an Ashland hos
pital. The driver. Edwsrd L.
Hampton, 24. Butte Falls, and three
other passengers were not hurt
when the car landed on its lop in a
few inches of water.
Portland's 40th traffic victim of
the year wat Mrs. Margaret Van
Hoomissen. 49. Portland. She was
struck by a car at an intersection
early Sunday.
Recovery From Polio
Assured Nina Warren
SACRAMENTO. Calif. (A
Gov. Earl Warren and his family
were overjoyed today at the news:
His youngest daughter, Nina
"Honey Bear," 17, will recover
from polio. . .and will walk again.
Dr. Junius B. Harris said tests
showed her legs are no longer par
alyzed, but are very weak.
Dr. Harris said Nina would not
be crippled, she may be forced to
convalesce for as long as a year
and a half.
lion along three lines:
1. Forngn assistance a vastly
expanded U. S. aid program car
rying billions not only for Europe
but also for under-developed areas
Africa, Asis, and Latin America
and administered by single agen
cies in Washington.
The Marshall plan has succeeded
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j ';.b,. 'h'""n "u'.."d
L'" , , aggression,
mean that the countries will con-
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2. Domestic economic policies
drastic revision of American tar
iff, shipping, agricultural and other
I internal policies which Gray de
scribed as conflicting with this
country's fAfeign economic policies
aimed at helping friendly nations
produce and sell more goods for
dollars.
3. Conditioni of ll - the Gray
I report takes the Sffne that the
United States, using aid agree-
m,nu ind distribution as a lever,
should continue to insist on high
perlormance by other nationt in
carrying their thtra of th. load.
2-S0
Korean Waist
Defense Knit
By U.N. Forces
Reds' Counter-Attacks
Dent Extremes Of Line;
B-29s Score Heavily
SEOUL (Al A strong column
of U. S. marines advanced 34 miles
unopposed today through icy hills
toward prized Changjin reservoir.
The cautious push carried the
marines to within four miles a (
their goal. Defense of the reser
voir, facing the center of the North
Korean front, was believed to be
a. major reason for the belated
entrance of Chinese Communists
into the war.
To the south the Third division,
brought to full strength by Korean
and Puerto Rican elements, linked
up with the South Korean Eighth
division to form a solid United
Nations defense line across tha
narrow waiat of Ihe Korean Penin
sula. Fighting flared at both ex
tremes of the battleline.-
North Koreana guarding the
approaches to the Soviet border
attacked in force on the east coast
Monday under cover of a blinding
snowstorm. The Red spearhead
battalion wat led by tankt and self
propelled guns. It pushed across
the Orangchon river, about 90 miles
from the Soviet border, threaten
ing to outflank a South Korean
regiment.
Near the west coast, U. f. First
cavalry division unit advanced a
mile and one-half. That carried
them halfway to the walled town
of Yongbyon. Patrols reached the
walls but did not enter tne town.
Heavy Communist resistance
stoDoed other First cavalry troops
near Won, eight miles southeast of
Yongbyon.
S. Korean Line Dented
And five miles south of Won,
an estimated' three regiments of
Chinese Reds smashed a two-mile
dent in lines of the South Korean
Sixth division. Allied fighter-bombers
halted thit drive, killing about
l.ooo reds in a blazing attack two
miles south of Kunu. The &outh
Korean Seventh division moved up
to bolster the Sixth.
Elements of the U. S. 24th di
vision advanced up to two miles
on the extreme western end of the
front, about IS milrt west of Won.
An Eiehth army spokesman said
this placed them in the vicinity of
Tungsan, four miles northeast of
Pakchon and about 60 miles south
east of Sinuiju, entryway for Chi
nese troops from Manchuria.
Fleets of B -23s ranging back of
tha fronts hammered again at Sin
uiju and set three main supply
points aflame with fire bombs.
A spokesman at General Mac
Arthur's Tokyo headquarters said
both bridges across tne Yalu river
from Manchuria to Sinuiju were
believed knocked out after Mon
day's attack.
Forty B-29s made the fire attack.
They loosed 340 tons of incendiaries
on Sakcnu and cnossn, on tne vsiu
river northeast of Sinuiju, and on
Namsi, communications center be
tween Sinuiju and the northwest
front.
Three other communications and
supply centers were set aflame
Sunday in the B 29 scorched earth
raids. The air force is methodically
burning out Red collection points
for men and supplies.
Admits Slaying
That Sent Another
Man To Prison
NORRISTOWN, Pi. P) The
Montgomery county district attor
ney scheduled a conference with
state police today to discuss a "con
fession" by a man who ssys he
killed Mrs. Miriam Green, pretty
Pottstown (Pa.) divorcee, four
years ago.
The body of the 29-yesr-old di
vorcee was found in her Pottstown
apartment Dec. S, 1948. She had
been garroted with a scarf. Gerald
C Wentzel, 39-year-old Pottstown
civic leader, was convicted of sec
ond degree murder for the slaying
and sentenced to 10 to 20 years in
prison.
He has stesdily maintained his
innocence.
The defense department said the
confession csme from a soldier
who hss returned to this country
from Europe. A military spokes
man said the statement gives the
wrong date, by several months, for
the tlsying of Mrs. Green.
The soldier, whose name was not
disclosed, wss a civilian when Mrs.
Green was slain, the defense de
psrtment ssid, and volunteered his
statement while imprisoned on an
other charge in a Berlin stockade.
A wire recording was made and a
copy of the statement was sent to
Norristown alter the soldier had
been returned to the U. S. as a
prisoner.
SNOW, ICE ON ROADS
SAI.F.M l.tl Snow and ice
was reported today on highways in
the Cascade mountains and central
Oregon.
The State Highway commission
advised motorists to carry chains
on the rosd from Government
Camp to Timberline lodge, but
said chains aren't needed on any
other route.
Union Plans Renewed
Campaign To Disturb
Long Distance Service
' NEW YORK (. Federal
mediators, pleading for a settle
ment in the public's interest, taid
neither union nor management had
budged an inch over the weekend
in the partial coast-to-coast tele
phone strike.
New bargaining talks were set
for today in the pay and contract
dispute.
The CIO Communications Work
ers of America (CWA) planned
new "hit-and-run" picketing t
snarl long distance lines of th a
huge Bell system.
The company ridiculed the
union's four-day campaign of har
assment and taid weekend long
distance service wat normal. .
The union conceded the com
pany's latter claim, but explained
it by saying weekend service de
mands are light and that picketing
was limited. The union promised
a renewed campaign, which it as
serted would have a definitely ad
verse effect on long-lines operation
and manually operated exchangea.
The strikers have, been working
on a system of flash picketing at
big city exchanges. It it detigned
to catch management unawares
and throw the long dislance service
into chaos before the company can
mobilize enough clerks and super
visors to man the switchboards.
No Break In Sight
There appeared to be no aiga
of an early break in the four-day-ttrike,
which grew out of long
ttanding conflicte.
Federal mediator Walter A. Mag
giolo ssid the two maior units
CWA division and Bell's Western
Electric Co. still were far apart
in the weekend talks.
He ssid the union wants a 15
cent hourly raise, while the com
pany's best offer is 11 1-4 cents.
Present wages average from II S5
to $1.62 cents an hour The union
also insists on a one-year contract
only, while the company wants a
two-year pact with a 16-month wage
reopening clause.
Strike's Street Veries
The CWA claimed its 33 000
strikers have idled up to 37,000
other Bell workers who have hon
ored picket lines.
The CWA claims as member!
300,000 of the 500,000-odd Bell sys
tem non-supervisory employes. But
, because o( Bell's far-flung ac
tivities, its wide tystem of tub-
sidiary companies, diftcring unioa
contracts, and partly obscure union
allegiance, the strike situation is
often complex.
Automatic dial telephone service
it nearly immune in a short ttrike,
but a long walkout could drag it
down, too, in the absence of tha
Western Electric maintenance
men.
Effectiveness of the ttrike varied
widely in the 44 itatos affected by
the walkout. Injunctions stopped or
curtailed picketing in Alabama, In
diana, Iowa and Ohio, and threat
ened to do so in New Jersey, ,
More Facilities .
Needed For State
Polio Patients
PORTLAND (Pi Oregon's
polio planning committee is ex
pected to meet this week to dis
cuss ways of expanding the state's
hospital facilities for infantile par
alysis patients.
Dr. S. B. Osgood, chairman, said
he would call the meeting after
hearing Portland and state med
ical olficers warn that the short
age of polio equipment and special
nurses had brought about emer
gency conditions.
Dr. Thomas R. Meador. e 1 1 f
health officer, urged Saturday that
other counties do more to care for
their own polio victims. He taid
two of four Portland hospitali tak
ing tuch patients are filled to ca
pacity. The isolation hospital hss
beds but not enough nurses. Equip
ment is overtaxed at others.
Meador reported there had been
87 Portland area casea aince Aug.
5. Another 54 persons from other
counties are being treated here, ha
added.
Dr. Harrld E rick son, state health
officer, said tha 403 cases in Ore
gon so far this year was the highest
on record. He taid treatment cen
ters at Eugene, Salem and Nytsa
were hewing, but othera would
need to expand if those stricken
are to have adequate recuperative
care.
SALEM UP) Chester C. Mer
rick, 26, Perryda'.e, stricken with
poliomyelitis Friday, died here in
'a hospital less than an hour after
being placed in an iron lung.
EX-COUNTY JUDGI DIES
' EUG ENE (."PI Former Count
Judge Clinton Hurd. who resigned
his position in September because
of ill health, died Saturday. He wat
7.
Hurd had served for 22 yean on
the county court, 10 yean at a com
missioner and almost 12 at judge.
levity Fact Rant
By L. F Relznstem
A one-sided blessinq of eur
electoral system is th. privileq.
enjoyed by tha non-property
owner of voting a itaqqerlnt
tax burde en the person tort
unoto (or unfortunot.) tnoittjh.
to own property.