- Y-3S" f j I f. i - - - J , . .... ; f :. . i , " - - ; ! r i - n nriD J'uvlIddh n oVA7 iSKEdUDDB WU : i ! ! Mi' The Weather Max. Min. Frecip. 44 M .23 Portland 44 33 .24 CMctro M X7 JW Wiltmtt liver S.7 ft. FORECAST (from US. weather ba- ran. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy with continued rain ahowcra today and tonight. Highest tempera tur 48. Low- mZtTTT-SXXTH TEAR City Water Supply Sources Figure in Court Suit AA " '"-ICvSTN 8EESDDQS Industrial relations remain the most acute problem in the domes tic politico-economic field. Ten sions remain. Fears are general that fresh demands for stiff wage advances will result in another wave of strikes to tie up produc tion. Naturally people are turning to the new congress for some re lief from the country's "labor pains." The expectation is that congress will enact legislation to curb the powers of labor unions. Some industrialists look for con gress to repeal the Wagner act and . put labor in its place by other drastic legislation. More practical minded men anticipate no such erasure of labor's gains. President 'Truman remains an important fac tor in any fresh legislation be cause of his power of veto. It is timely to take a look at the pres ent situation both as to law and as to evils which fresh lawmaking might seek to cure. Foundations of organized labor's .present security are the Clayton act exempting unions from pro visions of the Sherman act banning conspiracies in restraint of trade; the Norris-LaGuardia act cupping the authority of judges in grant ing injunctions in labor disputes; the Wagner labor relations act en forcing collective bargaining and invoking punishment on employ ers for "unfair" labor practices; the Wages and Hours act govern ing minimum, wages and length of .the work-week. To these may be added the opinion of Justice Mur phy in a picketing case which gives constitutional immunity to picketing as an exercise 01 free dom of speech. It hardly (Contiued on editorial page) Parking Meters Due in 65 Days Parking meters will be In stalled in Salem within 65 days, according to the contract which Mayor I. M. Dough ton nad City Recorder Alfred Mundt Wednes day signed with the Michaels Art Bronze company of Covington, Ky. The contract was signed by the two city officials on order of the city council. Authorized by the council on October 15, 1945, execution of the contract was delayed by the Henry E. Morris injunction suit attacking its validity. The state supreme court, last week, in over ruling a Marion county circuit court opinion upholding the in junction, ruled that the city of Salem was authorized to sign the contract. Animal Crackers By WAPREN GOODRICH "Never ' mind what I use if ., for just build that nest W nmi place else!" yajO OjlT II ! . 1 PlsTl I V 14 PAGES 1 t ir- l . -t"---J fill i- ; Pictured are mm f the InstalUtiena at Mlnte isUnl, a few miles! Berth f Stayton mm the aWV-1 river, which flgw Im the salt breoght by Gardner Beuett, SUytM, agalawt the city ef Saiesa U restrain the diversiea of water frm the river, the first hearing kt which wUl be heM la Marion eonnty elrenlt conrt teoay. (Story an page 7.) At naper left the three pomp houses ever the M-foot wells which augment the regnlar water sapply ef the city from seepage wells. The dam shown on the apper right belongs to Bennett uuues d nun. mwct iuw Is cleaned before being piped to Photographer.) Boy Arsonist Admits Setting Costly Blazes FRESNO, Calif., Nov. -(District Attorney James M. Thuesen said today that a 14-year-old boy has admitted setting a $15,000,000 bonded brandy warehouse fire south of Fresno August 28, as well as a series of other incendiary blazes here and elsewhere on the Pacific coast. Thuesen said three arson charges would be filed against the boy here. The boy, who gave his name as Billy Williams, was arrested by Undersheriff Ross Cochrane and Deputy Sheriff William Gann of Tulare county. Thuesen said that fires which the youth admitted setting includ ed a lumberyard in Sacramento, a theatre in Chico, a structure in Phoenix, Ariz., three houses near Portland, Ore., a grocery store in Vancouver, B.C., a warehouse in Los Angeles, a residence in Stock ton and a brush fire in Gerber. Auto Strikes Elderly Couple An elderly couple were in Sa lem Deaconess hospital last night after being struck by an auto as they crossed 12th street near Lee street, according to Salem police reports. Both John Tibbits, 76, and his wife, Fannie, 69, of 887 S. 12th st., were reported suffering from shock and Mrs. Tibbits incurred a compound fracture of her right leg, below the knee, hospital of ficials said. Tibbits incurred a dis located shoulder and a minor cut on the back of head. Walter S. Frederick, 1170 Hines sL, driver of the car which struck the couple, was cited to apepar in municipal court at 10 o'clock this morning on a charge of failure to give right of way to pedestrians. 85 Polk County Tax Roll Collected DALLAS, Nov. 20 Eighty-five per cent of the Polk county tax roll was collected or in the mail at the end of the period, Novem ber 15, Sheriff T. B. Hooker, tax collector, has announced. Cash received totaled $595,598.60 out of the 1946-47 tax roll, of $789, 005.70 or 75 per cent of the bal ance was in the unworked mail in the tax collector's office. - Camera Photographs' U. S. from 65 Allies Up WASHINGTON. Nov. 20 -UP- Scientists who sent a motion pic ture camera aloft in a German V-2 rocket obtained photos of earth at an altitude of 65 miles, they disclosed today. At this altitude more than one- half of the United States theoretic ally would have been visible to an observer with unlimited eyesight and unobstructed vision. Snlnm. Orwgon. Thursday Motnng. and diverts water to the Bennett pictures (no settling Basins ana the city water works in Salem, Clouds Slay Screenf Eclipsef Saturday PORTLAND, Nov. J0-VA partial eclipse of the sun is due at 8:14 sun.; Saturday, but local astronomers l- fear it is going to be rained out iThe semi-annual eclipse will be most clearly visible in the east, with 56 per cent of the sun hidden ; in the New York area. In this section, only about per cent of the sun will be covered by the moon. And that -part will probably take place behind clouds, any way. Seamen Strike To Continue Over Weekend SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20- AFL picket 'lines kept all hands except security crews from strike bound ships in the San Francisco bay today, and even the most op timistic mediators conceded t would be at least Monday before the seven-week west-coast tieup could be fully broken. Some longshore work, however, is expected to be resumed before that. l I J The new? pickets were placet! early this morning two hours be fore the scheduled' return to work of CIO unions by the AFL mas ters, mates ' and pilots. The MMP officers said they were "protecting our interests" until they had tirte to vote upon acceptance of a con tract proposal by shipowners. !' Omar Hoskins, federal concilia tion commissioner, said he would bring the MMP and the Pacific American Shipowners association together: as- soon as the MMP votes were counted. A count expected b? Saturday. Fine, Jail Term Rent fNon-Registration Penalty Possibility of a $5000 fine and one year in jail, or both, face tjhose landlords who failed to reg ister with the Salem OPA rent control office within the specified 45-day period which ended No vember 14, Francis E. Harrington, OPA enforcement attorney tin Portland, declared yesterday, f- r ailure to register, as provided in section 7 of the rent control regulation, constitutes a violation. Such violations subject the land lord to the criminal penalties. civil enforcement actions, and suits for treble damages,- pro vided in the act," Harrington said. "Section Z05B of the price con trol act fixes a maximum penalty of $5000 fine and one year in laiL or both, for wilful and deliberate Violations of the act. In addition Nrrmbr 21. 1U3 Starting Today - ':vTnf -f: -v ; I: iH'i.".-.... i - , Jft, power canal which supplies Stay ton screening bouse where Salem's water (fhotos by Don Dill, Statesman Staff I 22 Houses for Salem Okehed By FHA BoSd Veterans' priorities for 22 houses in Salem were approved by the federal housing administration in Portland yesterday and S5 were approved for Lebanon according to The Associated Press. The civilian production admini stration also announced approval of a permit to Reinholdt St Lewis company, Salem Venetian blind manufacturers, to construct a $12,000 custom lumber manfae turing plant here, but rejected the local Isaac Walton league's request to build a $21,500 club house and turned down a request by Evelyn Sowa to build a $2,000 beauty shop at Brooks. The veterans housing priorities approved for Salem went to A. W. Hill for six houses to sell at $7, 750 each; Lee Ohmart foe six houses to sell at $7,000, Ralph C. Lee, for five houses to sell at $9,400, and Less E. Lowe,! five houses to sell at $6,750. Jack Mann Given Stayed Sentence ALBANY, Ore., Nov. 20 -VF)- Jack Orville Mann, held in the Linn county jail for 11 months awaiting disposition of a burglary charge, today was given a three years -stayed sentence which Judge Victor Olliver said was issued pending Mann's good behavior. Mann pleaded guilty to burglary of an Albany confectionery .store prior to a Brownsville safe crack ing job in which he was involved as a suspect and held since De cember, 1945. Tvoy Moore, Portland, was later cciivicted by a Linn county; jury in the Brownsville case after Mann turned state's evidence against Moore and -Douglas Day, who died while the trial was in progress. Held Possible violators may be the subject of injunction suits for treble dam ages, he added. Since October !, when federal rent control was established in this area and registration of Mar ion county and West Salem land lords began, up to the deadline on November 14, approximately 5000 of the estimated 7600 landlords had registered, leaving about one third of the landlords unregis tered, j Figuring strongly in the local rent control situation was im In junction suit brought against OPA rent control in Salem by Henry B. Koehler, local! land lord. The suit was dismissed Monday by Circuit Judge George R. Duncan on grounds that the state of Oregon has no Jurisdic- uon in the matter. Nx 203 lime In West Salem experienced rain and a lew flakes of hardly-noticed snow while the worst November storms in a4 quarter of a century con- tinued in other parts of the north- west : Wednesday. Washington, British Columbia, and other northwestern points as far east as Salt Lake City and south to Medford. Ore., with- stood heavy snowfall and freez- ing temperatures were recorded as low as 19 degrees above zero in some parts of Washington. .Winds varied from 45 to 55 miles per hour. Washington storm fata- lities rose to five, Flurries of snow were reported in Portland's rural areas. An inch or two of snow was reported at Klamath Falls, Grants Pass and Bend. Trains Delayed Storm conditions were reported from all parts of the northwest Trains were delayed, private cars stalled, buses slowed, schools clo sed, long distance telephone calls hampered, plane flights cancelled and thousands of telephones in Seattle, Tacoma and other cities were put out of commission At Lakebay, across the bay from Tacoma, the phone company initiated wireless voice path ser vice after that area had been without inter-city service since Monday, Associated Press reports said. The University of Washington in Seattle was closed "indefinite ly" because of a coal shortage, due to a power failure at a coal A TJZ V "CTttu "In; mine. Snow kept Seattle public schools closed. Travel Hazardous Travel conditions continued hazardous In the mountain dis tricts of eastern and central Ore gon and the northern section of the Oregon coast highway. R. H Baldock, state highway engineer reported. Motorists were' warned not to cause oi a Diizzara ana use oi chains in the LaGrande district was advised. The highway n - gineer said weather over the state was expected to clear Thursday, when snow crews would have a chance to clear the roads. Wednesday's road report SanUam snnamit 24 degrees Snowing intermittently.. 14 inches new snow with total of 25 inches, Highways plowed but slippery Chains required. No sanding until storm ends. Odell lake. Willamette highway 15 degrees. 7 inches new snow with total of 21 inches. Packed snow throughout district Chains advised Siskiyen summit. Pacific high way 4 inches new snow. Road plowed, but chains required The Dalles Snow throughout district in depth of 4 to 8 inches. Snow plows and sanding trucks in operation. Still snowing lightly Wednesday Grange Urges Labor Courts PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 20-JP)- Special courts to handle labor dis- putes and empowered to order nvcmmnt irnr m,T MOTtn- 4 v,w 4v- M. ..v. j orange convention as an am to- ward industrial peace. Delegates also called for a laiAir-iiiuusMj'aKricuiiuni con- Pricw 5c Storm's L.ont ference to draft a program for 512 votes. The opposition vote in-peace-time production. eluded: national peasants, 255,183: The powerful farm group, tak- ing a-stand on the labor situauon, proposea special courts to wmcn either party of a labor dispute might appeal for a prompt public hearinc The resolution advocated that these tribunals be empow ered to order state or federal seizure of a company if strike or lockout should endanger public health or safety. Boy Receives Cut In Auto Accident Richard Bagger, IS, of route 2, box 8, Salem, was treated by first j aid men and at Salem Deaconess I hospital last night for a cut on his left temple incurred in an auto accident ' at High and Che meketa streets at about 9 o'clock last night. The boy was riding In car driven by Harvey Finn, route 2, box 4, Salem, which collided with an auto operated by Theodore R. Rappe, 1820 Cross st RETIREMENT COMPULSORY Employes subject to the state retirement law must retire from their state positions when they Lreach the retirement age, Attor ney General George Neuner ruled here Wednesday. The opinion was asked by the state retirement commission. Oul- Cilv aterL Sefejan. 1 One hundred out-city users of Salem's water or sewer systems had notices today restating the dty council's action of last August 5 ordering: discontinuance of such services effective January 1. The notices, sent i out by the water department, said the only exceptions would be users who constitute ! government agencies, public utilities or whose property is crossed by the main water line of the Stayton island water main. Also excepted are the VUta Heights and Morningside water districts, which now obtain water from the city, I Districts especially effected by the council's action include those south-east and north-west of Sa lem, Carl Guenther, water de partment manager, said The city council's order once applied to considerably more than the 100 users now affected, but since its issuance seven adjacent erritories have been annaxed to Salem proper and therefore are entitled to continued service. The 100 homes affected under the order also have recourse to the formations of water districts. under which plan they could ob tain city water for 25 per cent more than is paid by city rest dents, it was pointed out by Carl Guenther, water department man ager. There was no indication that the city government-elect which takes office January 1 would al ter the council's original order. VA Suspends Cuts, Funds to 500,000 Vets WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-A- Veterans administration officials today more than half a mil- ,. , .ui iivu itwiaiia aaa ax- w va training will find their monthly government checks reduced, elim inated or temporarily held up They Include: 1. More than 150,000 trainees throughout the country whose payments have been suspended because they neglected to report their outside earnings by Nov em ber 5. 2. About 300,000 whose sub sistence will be reduced under the G. I. bill limiting amounts in sc- 1 coVdance with size of earnings. 3. About llv.OOO whose pay ments will be chopped off for theJ same reason. The next pay date November 30. The VA also disclosed it is spending $1,800,000 on a survey and regular inspection of schools and establishments offering job training. In most cases, the states will do the work. As soon as delinquent veterans turn in their reports, the checks will be mailed to them if they qualify for payments, the VA said. Those feeling the pinch come under the GI bill which stipulates that if a veteran's subsistence payments and job earning exceed $175 a month, without depen dents, or $200 with dependents, his allowance must be cut to come within that maximum. These restrictions do not apply to the 159,389 disabled veterans in job training and educational institutions under public law 16. Communists Win Romania Election BUCHAREST, Thursday, Nov. 2 1 -fin Romania's comraunist- dominated government bloc rolled "P immense lead today over opposition parties in .Tuesday's parliamentary elections. Results from 22 of 58 election districts, inc-ludinv Rnrhirt rrenuer ietru uroza s bloc 1.535.- independent socialists. 528.901. and national peasant democrats, 544,- 719. Tnilfa Hirofl tt "V'lYO IlirCU lO Gather Leaves City Engineer J. H. Davis has hired two of the trucks which the city council Monday night author ized him to employ to aid in re moving leaves from Salem streets. At least two more dump trucks wul be used if they can be ob tained, Davis said. Hirinor nf f K BrMitti-trtal n,olr Davis and the council's ans- wer to complaints registered by citizens against lack of leaf re moval in some parts of Salem. Leaves are being raked into piles by a sweeper, then hauled away in trucks. OPA FUe Rent Ceiling Cases' in Portland PORTLAND, Nov. 20.-4Vrhe first OPA rental ceiling cases here asking 'restitution to tenants of alleged overcharges were filed In federal court today.! In line with a U. S. supreme court decision authorizing such restitution, the, OPA brought suit against three Portland landlords, asking that they pay treble dam ageson third to the tenants, two-thirds to the government. Tmiflinniainr Urges i IPresse.dl Tnifey WASHINGTON. Nev. tl-Tbnf4ay)-AVTh natWn eaaae faee U-faee with another crippling sett ml walannt tedr and the tav ern meat girded fer an attempt te punish atlenUydefUnt Jaka L Lewis en contempt ef eeart charge. Lewis, whs bad served nntiee thai Ms contract with the tavern-, sent wenld be veid last aaldnlfkt. let the deadline cenme and t wUnent a net her weed, atthenc h Federal Jadgc T. Alia GeMaberentfc bad lasned a restraining erder calling en bins te caned the neUee. . With mm ward freea Lewis that be was retreating fraaa his pat tien. his miners apparently began a general walk eat. Nearly a third of the 400,00 miners already were idle before lt midnight and ' field reports early today indicated many more mines were closing. Operators in the Pittsburg and Johnitown areas said thousands of workers failed to show up for midnight shifts. ' President Truman, vacationing at Key West, , Fla swiftly In structed Attorney General Clark to press today for a contempt cita tion against the United Mine Workers chief a citation which could mean jail or fine, or both. i But there was little doubt that Lewis Intended to fight the charge to the hilt, in a historic showdown between he government and on of the moft powerful labor leaders In the world. Under the procedure, as outlined by a high authority at Key West, a subordinate of Clark's will go Into the federal district court General Coal Mine Walkout Begins ! PITTSBURG. Nev. tI-(Tlinrdsjr)-jP-A general wslkent ber an teday In the sett real fields with the esplrstlen ef the contract deadline given to the government by the United Mine workers. ' i Mines that had been operating steadily nnUl! last night be gan "ceing down" In the ruttbarr and Johnstown areas ef the Pennsylvania bUnmlnons coal fields. . Operators reported night shifts with several tbenaaad work ers falling to report for work at the time they were scheduled te start before Wednesday midnight. A I read r work stoppage In the fields bad Idled approximately 1 . miners In 12 tales prior to the Lewis deadline. This represented more than one-third of the nation's IHJM I'MW members. Operator reports from West Virginia also told t tailor of workers to show np on the nlcht shift. In the Illinois coal fields, an II p.m. shift did not start work at the United Electric company's fidelity snln at Da,aeln. The mine, employing SM. was the last Mbr operation to ties In a southern Illinois srea employing lt.ttv UMW worker. Reports from other far western states. Indicated a similar trend. here today. He will argue that Lewis silence amounts to a strike call the miners do not work in the absence of a contract and that therefore Lewis is in contempt of court. Even before the midnight deadline, 139,710 of the 400.000 bi turning ous miners had quit work. President Truman, it was stated, was not budging on Inch front, his determination to fight the strike threat every inch of the way. Lewis' defense was not outlined in advance, but the CIO n( AFL, in rallying to his support, gave a hint of its possible na.tutnj They called the restraining order illegal under the NorrU-LaGuardi act which curbed the use of injunctions In labor , disputes. ' Lewis himself was not availabl for comment on President Truman's signal for the great court battle, lie had retired to Ml whit frame house in nearby Alexandria, Va. A reporter who knock ed at the door was told by the houseman: I "Mr. Lewis to not to be disturbed." 1 Earlier Lewis had stalked away from his UMW headquarieri In Washington without a word about his Intentions. r Previously, In a manner reminiscent of foot ball team pla President William Green of the AFL, another old min worked took the ball himself. Green, in a statement which was made available to reporters ef Lewis' headquarters, predicted that miners who have, walked ou( will "voluntarily refuse" to return until a new contract Is signed. , Green did not urge them to stay out. The Sraith-Connally oof forbids anyone to promote a strike ne mcreiy expressed roe opinion IT C T .1 1? u. o. iiLUtiitw .rrcigui iuiijargu i. lan A new development came with the report that the government is readying an embargo on all essential commodities. A transportaion official who withheld! the use of his name told reporter that the order will be Invoked "in a day or two If th strike comes off." All commodities except food, be kept from the trains. Another government official the possibility of a general demonstration by union members li Lewis should be jailed. Worried as they were at other possible effects of a coal min strike alone, government officials appeared to be giving little present, concern to the possibility of a general strike of organ I red labor, i The coal strike alone could resurgent automobile industry, necessities, dim the lights of millions of people and deprive peopld of fuel with severe winter weather ahead. Lewis obviously is out for guess is that he wants pay for a 40-hour week equivalent to wha miners now get for a 54-hour week. The top now Is $73,23. i Big 4 Agree on Trieste Points NEW YORK, Nov. 20 -UPh- The foreign ministers councM reached agreement tonight on all but two major points in their long dispute over Trieste The removal of for. eign troops, and the economic ad' ministration of the free Adriatic port. Persons present at the deliber ations said that Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov had now agreed to practically everything in the plans for Trieste as the re suit of two new compromises to day. Settling their dispute on the city's foreign affairs, the ministers agreed that the governor should have power to prevent enforce ment of treaties in conflict with the laws of Trieste, but ruled that they must be signed jointly by the governor and a representative of the U.N. security council. The ministers' argument over the Judiciary was settled by a clause providing that the governor can appoint candidates offered by the council, or from among other persons after consultation with the council. Signals Flash From Plane Crash PARIS, Nov. 20 -UP)- Reports that the crew of a British trans port plane had seen light signals flashed from a mountain ridge in th French-Italian border region spurred new hopes tonight for the rescue of survivors of disabled U.S. army C-35 transport which crash-landed in th wintry Alps Tuesday. There wer 11 Americans aboard th plan which down in below zero weather. in a government-seized Industry mat iney would stay out. l.a 17 l. Til , freight shipments by rail except fog J . clothing, medicines, fuel, etc., would ' ' speaking privately said he feared . stop steel mills, shut down the now stall transportation of thousands ol more pay, The commonly accete! , 1 3 Hurt in Wreck Near Wood I) urn S1LVERTON, Nov. 20-f'NIn. Schaefer, 18. of the Marquam dis trict near Wood burn, was serious ly injured in an automobile ac eident on th Silver Creek roadj early today and two other pen sons were hurt. Anton Pfelfer, . route 2, Silverton, incurred a frac tured Jaw. Francii Pfelfer wJ treated for cuts and bruises. ( Miss Schaefer suffered a skull fracture. She an Anton Pfelfes remain In a hospital her. Also in the car wer Robert Pfelfer and Joseph Ehll. Their car overturned in a diUU when a tir blew out. CIO Opposes Coal Strike Injunction ATLANTIC CITY. N. J- No 20-;P-CIO convention deiecaten gave Indirect support to John L. Lewis AFL mineworkers today and then heard Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower plead for steady pro d action as a major factor for world peace. A resolution passed unanimous. ly blasted th government for court injunction agslnst a walk out by Un nation's soft cot miners. DOO OWNERS WARNED i ' WEST SALEM. Nov. 20.r-hU of Folic W. if. Porter sald t4 day that h had received nunu erous complaints that dogs wer oeing allowed to run at larro. ' and that officers would b in structed to en fore atrirtlv thn ordinance providing that dor should b tied up. 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