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V " PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28.-(ff-On the basis of mounting, in-
complete returns, the ClO-United Steel Workers union, repre-
Renting workers in the nation's .steel, aluminum and iron ore
1 producing centers, .voted overwhelmingly today, in favor of
strike to support demands for a $2, a day wage increase.
' Unofficial returns to the national labor relations board from
The Willamette valley got a jolt
Monday when the house appro- Tlomriviltc trfc
Driations committee knocked outNLCIIIUUlCil tJ
of the supplemental appropriation
01 uit suppiemeniai appropriation
bill Items amounting to $128.4
millions for rivers and harbors
' millions for rivers and harbors
improvements. Included were ap
, propriations of $2,000,000 for
starting the .Detroit reservoir pro
Ject on the North Santiam and
$1,000,000 for the Dorena reser
t.voir,- both in. the. Willamette
flood control project. While the
committe said it was holding up
these appropriations because "a
. number of the undertakings
should have further investiga
I tion, the real nigger' in the wood
pile is antagonism to the govern
malt's power program. Their de
letion can be chalked up as a
I cwry ior uic private power in-
r. terests. '(
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; ' That this is truels proven by
ftee drew red pencil lines through
such items as a $500,000 request!
for a transmission line from the
: Colorado-Big Thompson, project
and $315,700 for studies of power
markets and power transmission
lines in the Missouri river pro
ject, although the latter was
grant&i $10,269,000 for other fea-
tures ' of the development The
only exceptions were for a line
to carry nower for irritation
' pumping underline Central Val
' ley project in California and one
1 to carry power from Fort Peck to
the new Garrison dam construc-
. tion project on the Missouri
The committee itself took the
. frank position that "the govern
ment should not go into the busi
ness of constructing transmission
lines to market power developed
at government expense." In rela
tion to the Fort Peck project
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Nearer Reality
Negotiations under which the
Oregon higher educational, insti-
tutions expect to obtain approxi
mately 500 housing units to ac
commodate their increasing en
rollment, were a step nearer com
pletion Wednesday following a
conference here' between George
Aiken, state budget director, and
Charles Byrne, secretary of the
; state board of higher education.
- Fifty-two units already have
been clinched for removal from
Bichiand, wash, other units win
i be obtained in various sections of
"the northwest.
Byrne said all present accom-
, mod&tions for students at the uni
versity and state college were tax-.
j ed to capacity. The Richland units
1 were received by the state with-
. out charge from the federal gov-
rernment
EUGENE FLANS FM STATION
! EUGENE, Nov. J-6TV-Instal.
la tion ef a frequency modulation
radio station is planned by Eu
gene schools, the school board
amid' today.
Animal Cracltcrs
Day a btavtn, vidtedT
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DoUinjr places in ; - hundreds of
plants in the large producing areas
of 27 states showed those in sym
pathy with a walkout leading by
a margin of nearly 5 to
The vote late tonight stood:
For the ' strike, 304,799; against,
62,303.
.In western Pennsylvania,- the
greatest steel producing area, the
returns showed 79,718 voting "yes'
to the question of whether a work
interruption was favored, and 21,'
059 balloting "no." Similar ratios
were reported from populous' steel
centers in Ohio, New York, Illi
nois, and other areas.
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JOmUiate, Baill
To Seek Post
The first declaration of candi
dacy from a democrat and the call
to a first district democratic con
gressional convention to be held
December 15 in Salem came out
almost simultaneously Wednesday.
Jack Bain, "picturesaue member
of the 1945 Oregon house of repre
sentatives, declared in Oregon
City yesterday he would run for
the office left vacant by the death
early this month of Congressman
i James W. Mott
Sain, a Milwaukie resident who
operates a Portland night club and
restaurant, said he considered
himself the only candidate for the
0ff ice.
He did not say what assurance
had been given him of party sup
port. Central Committee Chairman
Lew Wallace yesterday mailed to
party officials of the 10 counties
comprising this district call to a
December 15 meeting and nom
mating convention and issued an
pen invitation to party members
of the district to attend and make
up the 250 necessary to nominate
by assembly. The republican meet-
ig to be held ere December 8 is
of congressional committee mem
bers, who, in turn, are expected
to call a nominating convention.
Group to Weigh
Highway Bids
Bids 1 on grading and surfacing
with macadam of 3.53 miles of
Gates -Niagara section , of .the
North Santiam highway will be
arnon? those considered by the
gtate ughway commission at its
next meeting in Portland Decem
ber 13 and 14.
Other - bids, covering projects
aggregating a cost of approxi
mately $3,000,000, represent the
largest letting : in the history of
the state. Among projects, other
than the Marion county highway
surfacing, to be considered by the
commission include:
Polk . county Construct 32 by
78 foot frame maintenance build
ing at GranL Ronde on Salmon
River highway.
Spec' K eerie Appointed
To State Parole Board
R. S. "Spec Keene, recently
released - from military service,
Wednesday was appointed by
Governor Earl Snell- il a mem
ber of the state boanT of parole
and probation to succeed Dr. n.
Hi Olinger, who has resigned.
Keene previously-was a mem
ber" of the ' board but " resigned
when he entered the armed forces.
He .has returned "to Willamette
campus where : he' Is director of
athletics. .
Injunction Filed to Pf Cent
Installation of
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An injunction suit filed Wednes
day against the city of Salem,
Mayor I. MDoughton and City
Recorder Alfred - Mundt by Dr.
Henry r Morris, Salem optometrist,
seeks to prevent the installation
of parking meters In city streets.
On the firing line are a city
ordinance passed In 1939 provid
ing for thelnstallation of parking
meters in Salem streets and a reso
lution adopted by the city council
last month authorizing the mayor
and city recorder to enter into a
contract with the Michaels Art
Bronze Co., Covington, "Ky- for
450; meters at a price of $21,375
plus an additional amount of not
more than $1573 to cover freight
charges 'and installation. - :
The complaint alleges the pro
posed contract is void' because it
is not in terms and condition of the
contract authorized by the city
council. -:.
Illegality of the contract Is al
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ballot at Jones ;A .Lattghlhi Steel i corp- PttUbwrh werka today
In a nationwide strike vete. Resalts verwheunlagly favered a
walkout (AP Wlrephote) j
Missing
Located,
COOS BAT.
Ore, Nov. 28, -
over j an army plane crash scene
seven men still missing in a
I A coast guard plane from
supplies tQ five known
further flights.
I One of the survivors, Flight
suspended in a Douglas fir tree,
his parachute caught in the limbs,
whefii that last report trickled In
from! the wooded hinterland 50
miles; northeast of here.
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Loggers from Dimmick camp,
4-4 ?, '
about 30 miles from here, went
with block and tackle to release
Reed; But definite news of his
rescue, which must be relayed
throUgh telephones' about 40 miles
from; the scene, .had not come
Coast guardsmen and Portland
army air base officials sent j hos
pital j equipment,! f ood, and rescue
crews by road to the isolated site.
Four of the fliers, whose plane
crashed Monday trudged through
the mountains to a trailer house
and f farm near pimmick logging
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Election Noti
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Notices calling the special elec
tion! on Friday! January J 11 to
choose a successor to the late
Representative James W. Mott, 1st
Oregon district,! will! be sent tot
all county clerks 'by the state de
partment Friday, I Secretary j of
State Robert S.-Farrell annouaeed
Wednesday. f r -- . '
- The electiorf will be confined 0
10' counties with " the polls" open
between 8 a.- m'Jand 8 p. m. Gov
ernor Earl SneQ called the elec
tion Wlier in the week in a spec
ial proclamation. A dozen or more
candidates are being discussed in
connection , with, the election.
- Nominations will be made by
assembly of. not less than i 250
qualified voters or by petition.
These must be filed in the state
I department not later than Decenv
Iber $1
Parking Meters
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leged because It would permit a
private corporation j to derive rev
enue for its owh benefit
The contract is alleged to be un
constitutional because it allows a
foreign corporation to place an ob
struction on th4 sidewalk in front
of the plaintiffs place of business
at 444 State st4 I . i
Contract and jresolution botii al
leged to be illegal on the grounds
that! they provide) tor expendi
tures' of public: money for which
no appropriation has been made,
for which no estimates were made
on the city annual budget and be
cause a debt IS created not au
thorized by city voters. .4 k,
The suit further challenges the
city"! authority; to impose a fee
for parking on city streets. t -
The contract! for installation of
the Imeters, returned here this
week, has not Seen signed by the
city officials, Who indicated they
would await the court's action.
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Air
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7 Still Out
0 - Ceiling zero closed down
itoday, hampering search for
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rugged wilderness.
Seattle succeeded in parachuting
survivors Deiore rtne weatner enaea
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Officer Dive Reed, was hanging
Donor Dies
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. -ff)-
Owis-ht F, Davis, secretary of
war daring the Collidge adminis
tration died at his home tonight
after a tx month nines. He was
SS. Davis, I donor of the famons
bavis tennis cap, was in a eoma
-When death came shortly after
pildiiiiht.
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ENDOKSE8 STOPPAGE
PORTLAND, Ore, Nov.
Stuart Ni Ingalls, port agent for
the Nationals Maritime union
here, today I endorsed a recom
mendation, J originating : la San
Francisco, for a nationwide, 24
hour work stoppage on all vessels
except troop ana reuer snips.
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cisioa on a large class af platlnnm fox at the mink-fox anew at the Oregon rairgrennos. exuoung
foxes are from right to left: J. A. Gardner. Salens; C M. Beboot el Aloha, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Veraee ef Heed Rrrer and there'
.Jkd(sw.Orton Thursday Morning, November 29.
Bkn
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Flood
Averted
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Sanliani River
Proppiiig,Rescue
Squads. Stand By
Danger of a-, serious 8 Marion
county flood has been averted.
the Red Cross reported Wednes
day after a reading of the Santiam
river at Jefferson showed that it
was dropping and the weather bu
reau said no new storms were
brewing. ' I ' . I -
The Santiam fat Jefferson had
reached 18 feet five feet above
flood level butfnot high enough
to flood highways.-Some residents
along the-river hadv as much as
five feet of water on their prop
erty but only one family was re
ported evacuated. !
First Deata !
The first death attributed to
Oregon's weather rampage was
reported Wednesday as the high
winds and rain began to subside.
Roger Gray, 4, evidently stum
bled into a rain-f wollen ditch near
his home north; of Corvallis.
The Willamette river at Salem
had reached 15.1 feet Wednesday
but reports were that the upper
portion of the river was dropping.
No danger of a flood had been
expected here, however, as Hood
stage of the Willamette Is 20 feet
in the Salem area.
County Commissioner Roy Rice
said that the old Silverton road
between Central! Howell and ML
Angel was closed due to two feet
of water, but that the bridges
over ' the smaller streams in the
f county are in good shap.e None
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01 we inree county lcnics, i
Wheatland. Independence and
Buena Vista, were operating.
Every chairman serving with
the disaster program of the Mar
ion county chapter of the Amer
ican Red Cross i still alerted and
the entire program is in readiness
to function should a flood come
in the Marion area, I. A. De-
France, vice chairman j! for the
disaster division! said Wednesday
night
Commendations
DeFrance paid special tribute
to John Korenian, sub-chairman
at Jefferson, for, the efficient and
quick work don to prepare that
region when floods were threat
ening through Tuesday and Wed
nesday. I .
' Over-all chairmen who are in
readiness include Capt Walter
Lansing, transportation and com
munication: Lee ' Eyerly. rescue
work; Mrs. Chester Cox, registra
tion, with Mrs. X V. Benson as
her acting assistant; Dr. William
L. IJdbeck,; emergency I medical
aid chairman; Ray Yocom, she!
ter chairman; Alex Jones, cloth
ing chairman; Joe Randall, food
and canteen chairman, md Ivan
Stewart, central purchasing chair
man. ' "Fy, J . ;
UXSS TO ASSTJUE OFFICE
LA GRANDE, Ore, Nov. 28-(ff)
Henry Hess, newly appointed UJS.
district attorney 'for Oregon, said
today he probably would assume
the office Jan. V
Casting an
Exver
shown here In loregramd a left havfaur a sUfflentt tkae snaking a .
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Railroad Gars -
Bring Water to ;
. ' CrQos Bay Area
" COOS . BAY, Ore, Nov. 28
(-Coos Bay and North Bend
residents tonight lined tip be
fore .four . railroad cars to re
ceive . allotments of - drinking
water, sent from Eugene after
a storm - pounded reservoir
broke last night.
Housewives set out dish pans
to catch rain water and fami
lies with wells on their proper
ty doled out supplies to water
hunters. A temporary pipe arrange
ment was expected' to restore
service tonight. Meanwhile, engineers-began
repairing the
reservoir a 'two-day job.
Solons Clamor
For Foreign
Policy Probe
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -P)
Demands for an investigation of
United States foreign policy swept
Capitol Hill today as legislators
vigorously debated the charges
levelled by Maj. Gen. Patrick J.
Hurley against some of America's
professional diplomats.
Meanwhile, Gen. George C
Marshall slipped quietly into the
White House for a conference
with President Truman and Sec
retary' Byrnes prior to leaving
probably tomorrow for China to
replace Hurley, who resigned as
ambassador yesterday.
Hurley charged career diplo
mats with undermining American
policy in China by backing com
munists or "imperialists' instead
of democracy and unity.
Clamor for congressional Inves
tigations of Hurley's charges
f arose in both senate and house,
with republicans leading the de
mands.
Longshoremen
Plan to Halt
NEW YORK, Nov. 28-P)-Jos-eph
Curran, president of the Na
tional Maritime union (CIO), an
nounced today that approximately
90,000 men would be involved in
a 24-hour work stoppage starting
at I sun., 'Monday in protest
against what he called delays in
bringing servicemen home from
overseas. -
. Earlier, Harry. Bridges, head of
the longshoremen's union,' said in
a telegram to the war shipping
administration that members of
his union on the west coast would
cease loading on Dec 1 ships di
verted from troop-carrying to
commercial purposes.
Judges Agree Oregon Foxes
Top East, Midwest Showings
By lillie L.
Farm Editor, The Statesman
. Judges and visitors at the-seventh
annual Oregon fox and mink
show, which, closes Thursday at
the state fairgrounds, agree that
foxes are far better at this show
than they havebeen at the east
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Hospital
Bill Again
House Restores ;
Aid Tentatively
Pending . Study N
WASHINGTON, Nov.
The house today tentatively .re
stored to the deficiency appropri
ations bill $58,320,000 for veter
ans hospitals, j ' f'''
The list of hospitals submitted
by Ithe veterans administration
(location, number of beds, type,
and estimated cost) included:
" Portland, Ore., 150, tuberculo
sis,; 11,371,918; Roseburg, Ore.,
184, neuropsychiatric, $1,125,467.
!The Vl ni 1 A snnrnnriatinnt nm.
mittee had stricken the item pend
ing further study and possible use
by the veterans administration of
surplus army and navy hospitals,
(The requested funds provide
$23,460,674 for completion of the
regular construction program pro
posed tor the current fiscal year
and $134,859,36 for an additional
hospital construction program.
The supplementary appropria
tion of $134,859,328 provides for
construction of 19 new hospitals
and additions to 20 existing hos
pitals. Seattle Craves
Neivs o f Comic
Strip Favorites
SEATTLE, Nov. 28.-fl3)-Sea
tle,' without comic strips since the
newspaper strike closure Nov. 18
and with no indication of immedi
ate relief, is a I city of the very
glum.
Apparently desperate, thousands,
of ! readers desire to know the lat
est! doings of a cartoon detective,
say harassed telephone switch
board operators in newspaper
buildings.
A Post-Intelligence Janitor - told
of being cornered' via. telephone
by a woman who demanded that
he read to her ithe week's comic
strips, retroactively,
Reader interest, hinges strongly
also on a comic strip - character
whom Seattle last saw clad only
in a bath towel and Ringing pre
cariously to a second-story window
ledge. With no further news in
10 j chill winter days Seatttleites
believe the condition of this car
toon favorite may well be critical
eni and midwestern shows but
that some improvement Is need
ed j to bring the mink 'up to the
top average quality of the eastern,
midwestern and particularly the
Wisconsin shows. -
Walter Pringle, ' manager of
Lampson, Frarier and Huth, New
York City, and one of the judges
at the show, shared speaking hon
ors with' Mike Dederer, president
of the Seattle Fur Exchange, and
Frank Glaser, fur breeder of Jef
ferson, . both assisting - Judges, at
the' Oregon fox and mink show
banquet at Marlon hotel Wednes
day night Eighty attended. '
, Pringle urged closer attention
to Uniform mink breeding saying
that he was somewhat disappoint
ed iin the mink showings at the
Oregon exhibit but very pleased
with the foxes. Dederer also urged
uniformity in breeding, and C la
ter asked for better "cleaning up
of animals before they are brought
to the show bench."
Eugene Flnlay, president intro
duced the speakers as well as Dr.
O. J. "Hummon, Pullman, Wash.,
C W. Stacey, Salem fur breeder;
V. Farnsworth and R. J. Chap
man of Salt Lake City, Mr. and
Mrs. C Jackson, Archie Gardner,
Mrs. Flnlay and Mrs. Dederer. -
Judging will start again. Thurs
day; morning at 9 ajn. Gardner,
Show manager, announced. ; v
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' Work Is scheduled to start Mon
day, morning at a Salem AFL saw
mill for the first time tn 11 week
with; the completion of negotia
tions Wednesday by the Capitol
Lumber Co. and the union grant
ins minimum wage of $1.05 ail
hour. ' ' !
B. J. Brady, chairman of 'the
grievance committee ef Local No.
2848. lumber and sawmill work
er (AFL), said last night that the
group voted to accept the com
promise offer and that their ac
tion was approved by the Willam
ette1 valley district council. ' -Retail
Opens Today '
The lumber company will open
its doors today for retail business, .
Charles H. Strickf aden Of the com
pany said, as well as the saw mOT,
plane mill and the Prest-o-Log
fuel plant. ,
The local Is the first In the Sa
lem area to resume work, union
leaders said Wednesday night.
PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 28-flV
The 'striking AFL lumber work
ers ' made peace with three more -operator
groups today, and an en
couraged federal labor conciliator
predicted a strike end within a
week, .
Companies Agree
"Business Agent James Whallon
said the Portland district AFL
council had accepted the 15-cent
compromise from four sawmills
and one remanufacturing plant in
the Portland area. - And the AFL
lumber and sawmill workers, etc.,
announced that the M and. It
Woodworking company, with ply
wood plants here, at Longview.
and at Albany, and nine mills of
the Seattle area hid agreed upon
a 15-cent wage increase.
The proposal a compromise of
the original 20-cent demand was
referred back to the rank and file
for ratification.
Salfem Lagging
Behind Comity
Iii Bond Sales
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What's the matter with Salemf
That is the big question around
Victory Loan headquarters today.
Marion county's E bond quota,
in the Victory Loan isTnow pas
the 50 per cent mark, put not
because Salem has done its full
share, bond headquarters spokes
men declared. Four towns in the
Victory Loan bead sales La
Marion county to date:
Total, all issues. $1,474,300.25
eat ef a aaota ef $2j690.00.1
Series E. $589,111.25 of a
ejaoto ef $1,150,000.
Deadline: December S.
County have gone ' so far above
their E bond quotas that they
have brought up the entire coun
ty's total. .
Wood burn has subscribed 1 129
per cent of its E bond quota, as
one example, while other figures
compiled by Lawrence Fisher,
aiMtitor at- bond headquarters, re
veaT that Turner has sold 144 per
cent of its E bonds, Gervais 148
per, cent of its E goal,' and Mt
Angel 124 per cent of its E bonds
Silverton, with $3 per cent oi
Its E bond total In, Stayton witht
64' per cent' subscribed, and the
Mm City, Detroit, Idanha area
with 76 per cent of the E bond
quota: sold, all are way ahead
of Salem.
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Criticizes Shidcbara
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TOKYO, Thursday, Nov- 2-P)
The Japanese press today sharply
criticized Premier Kijuro Shlde
hara's state of the nation speech
to the diet and further heckling
of the premier appeared likely
when interpellations are resumed
this afternoon in the house of rep
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