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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30tPr
Prenident Trunun has strong
backing from congressmen of
both parties for a non-com pro
mise, finish fifhl with John L
Lewis, a check disclosed today.
Almost without exception.
Democrats and. Republicans said
they think Mr. Truman should
go to a final showdown with the
United Mine Workers chieftain,
without ma kmc ny concessions
that could be heralded as a vic
tory for Lewis.
Responsible Republicans in
the house, who did not want to
be quoted by name because they
insisted that until January 3 it
is Mr. Truman's battle, told a
reporter that the new GOP-con-t
rolled congress is certain to
consider legislation directed at
Off
earns
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The gag about "giving the coun
try back to the Indians" got an
unexpected twist last week when
the U. S. supreme court supported
the claims of four tribes of coast
al Inidans for compensation for
lands taken from them in 1855.
People wondered if a general re
vival of demands for compensa
tion would arise, and the Orego
nian jocularly suggested people
ahould look up their deeds to see
how valid their titles are.
As far as the Willamette valley
is concerned no cloud on the land
titles remains, because cessions of
Indian lands were made by form
al treaties in 1855. and congress
appropriated the money $62,280
. to pay the Indian claims. The
north part of Marion county, for
Instance, was ceded in a treaty
made by the Callapooya band of
the CallaDooyas on Jjn. 4. 1853.
Other treaties were made in that
month with other bands of the
Callapooyas the Santiam, the
Yamhill, the Che-luck-e-my-ute
covering lands in Marion. Linn.
Polk and Yamhill counties Other
treaties were made with the
Clackamas. Molallas, Tualatins.
The difference between these
treaties and those with the coastal
tribes is that in the latter case
the senate failed to ratify the
treaties and congress failed to ap
propriate the money agreed to In
the treaties. As Chief Justice Vin
son said in his opinion:
"Thev alone of the tribes with
whom Dart and Palmer negotiated
some 20-odd treaties between
1850 and 1855 have yet to receive
recognition for the loss of lands
held by original Indian title.
All of this opens up some inter
esting history respecting the set
tlement (Continued on Editorial Page)
Supply Lack Slows
(liiip Adair Job
The approximately 150 Salem
fcuilding construction workers who
in September were dispatched
from the local labor temple to
Camp Adair for reconversion and
demolition work are expected to
remain at work there for several
,'weeks. F. D. VanSweringen, busi
ness agent for the Salem building
and construction trades council,
said Saturday. Most of the plumfo
" ers, carpenters and laborers have
been working on reconverting the
camp hospital into apartments lor
use by veteran students at Oregon
State college at Corvallis. This
work has been slowed consider
ably by a lack of materials, Van
Sweringen declared.
200 Pounds of Sugar
Coea Down the Sewer
PORTLAND. Nov. 30WP-The
firemen felt very bad about it,
and their wives even worse.
The fire department had to
flush 200 pounds of powdered su
gar, loat from . an overturned
trailer, off a Portland street and
down the sewer.
Animal Crackers
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throttling Lewis' power if the
coal strike is not ended before
it meets.
In the senate, the only avail
able member who saw any hope
of compromise was Senator El
bert Thomas (D.-Utah), listed
as a strong supporter of organ
ized labor in the patt.
Thomas said he thinks some
compromise could be found by
which a welfare fund, could be
established permanently for the
miner, if that is Lewis' main ob
jective in attempting to termi
nate the UMW contract with the
government. This contract pro
vides for such a fund,1 but mine
owners have not agreed ot it.
Thomas added, however, that
it appears Pres-ident Truman is
almost inevocably committed to
Bridges Plans New Pay
Demands on Employers
HONOLULU. Nov. 30-P)-Harry Bridges declared today his
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union (CIO)
would ask for higher wages for west coast longshoremen next week.
Bridges told a news conference the union would begin discus
sions with employers under a clause of a newly-signed contract per
mitting reopening semi-annually of the wage scale.
The president of the ILWU said .; - - "
the union would seek a wage boost ! . j -m . r
effective Jan. 1 based upon two i A In elm A I a rfcir
arguments:
1. The increased cost of living.
2. Parity with east and gulf
port scales.
Bridges said the union had com
pleted a study of the cost of living
but did not disclose how much
increase he Would ask.
He added, however, that the
west coast scale averaged $1.52
an hour, and that the east and
gulf coast scales generally were
13 cents an hour higher.
A source close to Bridges said
a 23 per cent boost might be
asked. Bridges is here to partici
pate in Hawaiian longshore nego
tiations. November Rain
Tops Normal
By 2 Inches
November's recorded 8-04 inches
rainfall, which brought with it a
rising and. in some areas, danger
ous Willamette river, was 2.05
inches above the 5.99 normal, Mc
Nary field, U. S. weather bureau,
reports. jNovember, 1945. saw 10.73
inches of rainfall. The year's to
tal rainfall is 36.92, compared
with a normal 3178.
Like October. November, too,
was wetter and colder than the
normal, which is decided by com
putations made aver a number of
years.
Fourteen consecutive days when
rain was recorded were from No
vember 18 to 29. Rainiest day was
the 17th. with 1.41 inches. Only
five clear days were observed.
Largest number of clear days dur
ing November were in 1936, which
recorded 16.
The month's mean temperature
was 44 degrees. Salem experi
enced only a day of this mean
temperature, however, weather
men said. Eight days were above
and 21 were below the mean fig
ure. The all-time November aver
age mean is 46 degrees. Novem
ber, 1946 s, mean minimum was
35, mean maximum, 52.
Occupation Costs
To Surpass Budget
ATLANTIC CITY. N.J . Nov. 30 j
yVSecretary of War Robert P.
Patterson declared tonight the
army faced a deficit that made it
necessary for his department to
ask congress for an appropriation
of an additional $369,000,000 to
meet expenses of American occu
pation armies for the first six
months of 1947.
Patterson told a national mobil
ization conference of the United
Jewish Appeal that "new waves
of persons fleeing oppression in
Poland," plus increased food
prices and a congress-reduced war
department budget forced the
army to ask for additional funds.
Meeting to Discuss
School Districts Merger
MONMOUTH. Nov. 30 A mass
meeting for discussion of the pro
posed merger of Monmouth and
Independence school districts has
been scheduled for Tuesday night.
Dec. 3, in Monmouth high school
auditorium. The proposed merger
has been endorsed by school di
rectors of Monmouth and Inde
dendenre, and a committee is now
working, headed by T. N. Ed
wards, to .acquaint the tax payers
with features of the plan.
Rural Fire Protection
District to Vote Monday
Election of a director for the
Four Corners rural fire protection
district will be held Monday at
the Four Comers community
hall, E. L. Scott, secretary, has
announced. Balloting will take
place between 8 a. m. and 8 p. m.
ATOMIC ANNIVERSARY
CHICAGO, Nov. 30-iiV-The
fourth anniversary of the famous
"Chicago Pile Experiment" man's
first demonstration that atomic
energy could be released and
controlled will be observed here
Monday by the scientists who
made the operation possible.
Yraomiaini
a finish fight with Lewis
through the court action the
government has taken.
"The court will commit the
president by its decision," he
said.
Advancing a variety of pro
posals for legislative action,
democratic and republican sen
ators generally agreed that Mr.
Truman will get staunch back
ing it he fights it out to the
finish with Lewis.
Senator-elect Dworshak (R.
Idaho) put the sentiments of
many into words:
"It's time for a showdown.
We've got to guard against
punitive legislation but the en
tire country cannot be placed at
the mercy of a few leaders who
disregard the public welfare."
To Start from
Portland Soon
! PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 30-fP)-It
looked like a brighter Christ
mas for Alaska as Lt Comdr. E.
P. Chester arrived here today to
arrange early shipments of food,
clothing and medical supplies.
Chester, aide to Gov. Ernest
Gruening of-Alaska, warned that
most of the Christmas trimmings
and presents would remain in
storage irv Seattle but that vital
supplies from here should be in
Alaska by holiday time.
Alaska has been cut off from
regular shipments by the mari
time strike and a following wa
terfront dispute in Puget Sound,
where shipments to the territory
normally are loaded.
After failing to settle the dis
pute, Chester came here. Water
front authorities, assuring him
they would speed loading and
called a meeting of steamship men
for tomorrow.
The first aime is to line up a
ship by Monday to begin taking
cargo and then assemble the
cargo.
India Factions
Near Meeting
LONDON, Nov. 30-;p)-British
officials crossed their fingers to
night and hoped, after another
day of off again-on-again deci
sions by India's antagonistic poli
tical leaders, that all would ar
rive here for a conference on sav
ing the plan for Indian independ
ence and averting a communal
war.
Representatives of the Irtoian
Congress party, the Moslem
league and the Sikhs were in Ka
rachi, prepared to board a plane
with Viceroy Lord Wavell to
morrow for the flight to Lon
don. But Mahomed Ali Jinnah. pres
ident of the Moslem league, al
most wrecked the plans for all
party participation in the round
table by a last minute change of
mind which he later reversed.
Election Monday May
Extend Water District
A special election In the Vista
Heights water district Monday
will determine the district's stand
on annexation of land lying along
the district's eastern boundary in
to the Vista Heights water dis
trict proper.
Approximately 20 families liv
ing in the proposed addition, who
petitioned for annexation, will be
affected if the district votes fa
vorably on the measure. Ballots
will be cast in Waddle's garage,
180 Vista ave., Monday from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m.
U. S., Reds Agree A-Bomb Rates
No. 1 Disarmament Priority
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Nov. 30
(JPt-The United States joined So
viet Russia today in calling upon
the United Nations to give the
atomic bomb No. 1 priority in
world-wide arms limitation but
the two powers remained far
apart on the principle of the veto
disarmament program.
The British disagreed with Rus
sia and the United States on such
a high rating for atomic weapons,
insisting that they be considered
along with all other modern
means of warfare. The British
also flatly stated again their re
jection of Russia's broad plan for
disarmament as long as it is tied
up with the veto.
The political committee of the
TJ.N. assembly, conforming to the
speed-up program adopted by the
United Nations to try to complete
the assembly by December 11,
NINETY -SIXTH YEAH 20
Generals
To Die for
Massacre
ROME, Nov. 30-jflP-Death be
fore a firing squad was ' ordered
today by a British military
tribunal for two German gen
erals found guilty of the reprisal
massacre , of 335 Italians in
Rome's Ardeatine caves a little
more than two months before tri
umphant Allied troops liberated
the Eternal City in 1944.
Col. Gen. Eberhard Von Mac
kenzen, wily commander of the
German 14th army which fought
at Anzio beachhead, and Lt. Gen.
Kurt Maeltzer, head of the Rome
garrison, received the verdict
calmly.
Von Mackensen. in a black civ
ilian suit, and Maeltzer, in the
uniform of the German air force,
merely nodded their heads as the
tra.A lator informed them they
would be shot to death.
Firing Squad Decreed
The court decreed the firing
squad after counsel for Von Mac
kensen asked that he be granted
"the clean death of a soldier
death through shooting." Such a
plea was spurned for the top
Nazis tried before the interna
tional military tribunal at .Nuern
berg. The courtroom audience, which
had been cautioned against any
demonstration, received the news
of the sentence in silence except
for an aged woman who merely
murmured "grazie" (thanks).
But when the defendants were
led out cries of "Bravo!" and
thunderous applause broke from
the spectators, who during the
trial had hurled shouts of "As
sassin!" and "To Death!" at the
two generals.
Relatives of Dead
Some in the room were rela
tives of the Roman hostages who
were shot to death with their
hands tied behind their backs on
Match 24, 1944, in reprisal for
the ambush of 32 German police
troops. Rome was liberated by
the Allies on the following
June 4.
Bilbo Arrives
For Hearing
JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 30
Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo arrived
here today to attend "as an inno
cent bystander" the senate com
mittee hearing which will open
here Monday to hear complaints
against his election campaign for
last summer's democratic primary.
"I'm here as an innocent by
stander, but of course if anything
hot develops I have two or three
lawyers who will give the matter
proper attention," he said at a
press conference.
He said he would be represent
ed by Attorneys J. F. Barber of
Yazoo City, John Burkett of
Jackson, Forrest Jackson of Jack
son "and about 50 more if I need
them."
Mahoney Swings
Vote to Cornett for
Senate Presidency
PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 20-(JP)-Sen.
Marshall E. Cornett of Klam
ath Falls appeared to have a firm
hold on the state senate presi
dency today, as a Multnomah
county senator swung to Cornett.
Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Port
land democrat, said he joined the
Cornett camp "to get the thing
over with". That gave Cornett 15
known pledges, and he claims an
"off the record" pledge from an
other senator for the 16th and
deciding vote.
Sen. P. J. Stadelman, The
Dalles, has announced he would
become the 17th pledge, once Cor
nett has a majority.
The opposition coalition of Sens.
William E. Walsh, Coos Bay, and
Earl Newbry, Aashland, claims 14
pledges.
will hold its first Sunday meet
ing at 3 p.m., EST, tomorrow. The
U.N. press department announced
late today it would take up the
veto instead of continuing dis
cussion of disarmament Austral
ia's delegate, Paul Hasluck, ex
pects to speak tomorrow in op
position to the veto system.
The United States delegation
submitted to the political commit
tee just as it adjourned today a
proposal by which the general as
sembly would recommend that the
security council, which all dele
gates agree must take up the
subject r of disarmament, "give
prompt consideration to working
out the practical measures, ac
cording to their priority, which
are essential" for the general reg
ulation and reduction of arma
ments under international agreements.
POUNDID
PAGES Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, Dtcsmbtr 1. 1946
Football Scores
OSC 21, Washington 12
UCLA 18, Nebraska 0
Mich. St. 26, WSC 20
Army 21, Navy 18
Notre Dame 26 USC 6
So. Methodist 30, TCU 13
Tenn. 7, Vanderbilt 6
Georgia 35, Ga. Tech 7 -Holy
Cross 13, Boston 6
La, State 41, Tulane 27
Rice 38, Baylor 6
No. Car. 49, Virginia 14
Bomb Control
Transfer May
Take li Years
WASHINGTON, Nov. SQ-(JP)
The complexities of putting the
civilian atomic energy commission
into full operation may require
retention of the army's Manhat
tan district until mid-1948.
The government, it was learned
today, has included such a con
tingency in its plans for placing
complete peacetime control of
atomic energy research and de
velopment, including both mili
tary and civilian application, In
the hands of the new super
agency.
The current appropriation for
the war department includes
$375,000,000 for "atomic service"
to cover a period from last July
1 to June 30, 1948. Persons in a
position to know said this will
allow Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves'
Manhattan district to carry on
while the civilian commission
headed by David E. Lilienthal
analyzes its assignment and
makes ready to take over.
As part of the planning for the
transition, the army and navy
have appointed a joint liason com
mittee. The army delegation is
headed by Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brer
eton and the navy membership
by Rear Admiral Thorvald A.
Solberg. This group has been
given theob of advising the civ
ilian commission on that part of
atomic energy useful to the mili
tary, including the business of
making bombs.
Ferry Closed
By High Water
Operations are suspended at
Wilsonville ferry by high water
and Corvallis Eastside road was
reopened to traffic early Satur
day, R. H. Baldock, state high
way engineer, reports. Kings Val
ley secondary highway is also
open after being closed by high
water.
One -way traffic is reportedly
enforced by slides on Highway
101, near Gardiner and Florence,
and on several coastal highways.
Wednesdays road report:
Government Camp Roads nor
mal. Santiam Junction Patches of
light packed snow.
Odell Lake Roads normal.
Klamath Falls Frost spots
sanded at Sun Mountain.
Clarion Delegates to
Attend Journalism Meet
Salem high school's newspaper,
The Clarion, will be represented
at a high school press conference
on the University of Oregon cam
pus at Eugene on Friday and Sat
urday by Cornelius Bateson, edit
or, and Robert Klosterman, busi
ness manager.
The program for the confer
ence, centering on high school
newspaper problems, will feature
roundtable discussions among the
student journalists. School of
journalism professors and staff
members of the Oregon Daily
Emerald will direct the confer
ence. Sidewalk Merchants
Riot in Shanghai
SHANGHAI, Sunday, Dec. 1-(Jpy-Shops
were closed today and
barricades were thrown up in the
streets as sidewalk merchants
rioted for the second day in pro
test to police efforts ot close their
businesses. Street cars also were
halted in some sections of the
former French concession. The
toll was at least 100 persons in
jured, 100 automobiles wrecked,
and numerous shops looted or"
damaged.
The Weather
Max.
- M
Min. Frectp.
33 .M
31 JDO
41 JO0
Salem
Portland
San Francisco
5S
M
Chicago
32 M
Willamette river 16 9 feet.
FORECAST (from VS. weather bu
reau. McNary field, Salem): Mostly
cloudy today and tonight with occa
sional light rain. Highest temperature
S. Lowest 40.
Refinery
Ablaze
In Texas
HOUSTON, Tex, Nov. 30-fPl-Fire
fighters were winning their
fight tonight with the raging fire
at the Eastern States refinery
which has injured nine persons
and caused thousands of dollars
in damage.
They have saved the multi-million
dollar plant but an oil stor
age area near the Houston ship
channel was ' a charred, twisted
hulk beyond any hope of .salvage.
The storage area, roughly 100
yards long and 50 yards wide,
was surrounded by a four foot
high brick fire wall which sur
rounded nine storage tanks hold
ing 10,000 barrels of unfinished
gasoline and light gasoline oil.
Nine Burned
Eight Houston firemen and one
refinery employe were said in
early reports to have been burned.
Three men had been hospitalized
at St. Joseph's infirmary in se
rious condition, doctors reported.
According to refinery employes,
the fire started in a 2000-barrel
storage tank about 2 p. m. While
firemen were battling this blaze
the tank blew up with an explo
sion that was heard for miles.
Tanks Explode
The top of the tank was blown
into the air and onto another of
the nine tariks grouped in the
area. Blazing gasoline was thrown
over the others, and eight burst
or exploded intermittently. The
last, with a terrific explosion and
shower of fire, blew up at 4 p. m.
Petition Asks
Capitol Street
Zone Change
A petition seeking extension iof
the business zone on North Capi
tol street at Nebraska avenue will
be considered at 7:30 p.m. Thurs
day by the city planning and zon
ing commission.
The change from residential to
business (class III) zone is re
quested by Joseph E. DeWitt, who
owns property at the Capitol
Nebraska corner and plans to es
tablish a delicatessen and confec
tionery there if the zone change is
granted. The city engineer's office
has confirmed that petitions for
the change represent 78.9 per cent
of property owners in the affected
area.
To the south of the corner
property on the east side of Capi
tol street are a service station, a
residence, a cleaning establish
ment and a grocery, alj in a pres
ent class III business zone.
The zoning commission also
may consider a petition for exten
sion of business zone to enable
Walter A. Stevens, used car lot
nroDrietor at 644 S 12th Kt in
establish a trailer camp on South
13th street at Oak street. The pe
tition was tabled at the last com
mission meeting when nobody ap
peared in its behalf.
Jerusalem Police
Station Attacked
JERUSALEM, Sunday, Dec. 1-(JP)-A
violent outburst of gunfire
and explosion in Jerusalem last
night was climaxed by two at
tacks on the . Mahaneh Yehudah
police station, and police early to
day were questioning thousands of
suspects.
Thirty-five persons were re
ported detained by police. Four
persons were reported slightly
wounded by stray bullets. They
included a child, two constables
and one other person.
Finlay, McCorkle, Stacey, Miller
Win Fox Show Sweepstakes
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman
Williamette valley foxes com
pared very favorably with those
in Norway, was the opinion ex
pressed by Frank Prag of Oslo,
who attended the Oregon Fox
Breeders show at the state fair
grounds Saturday. Prag said he
was in this country to find out
how "American efficiency" raised
fur-bearing animals.
Prag accompanied Willard
George of Los Angeles and Ben
Esman of Seattle, who judged the
108 foxes entered. George com
mented that the Salem show was
very high in quality and the ani
mals should come out very well
at the Northwest Fur exposition
which opens in Seattle Monday.
A large number of those on dis
play Saturday are also entered
in the northwest show in which
Oregon for the first time is a co
sponsor with Washington and
Canadian groups. Word here Sat
urday was that 400 foxes and 800
minks had been entered at the
Northwest show.
Exhibitors in the Salem show
were: From Salem, C. W. Stacey,
W. D. Olden, John Gardener, A.
Price 5c
No. 212
Civilian
MEXICO CITY. Nov. 39 Migueal t
Aieman. 3-year-oia lawyer ana
politician, who will take office j
tomorrow as the first civilian
president in. Mexico's history.
He plans a program of indus
trial development based on pri
vate enterprise.
Coal Shortage
Critical East
Of Cascades
SEATTLE. Nov. 30-(iip-Criti-
cal coal shortages were reported
eastern Oregon and Idaho today
as tne nationwide waiKoui
soft coal miners went into
tenth day.
tS
J. Henry Gatewood, assistant
area distribution manageffor the)what he asks. The miners must
solid fuels administration, listed uve up to the present contract
Sandpoint and Nampa, Idaho, and with the government
Union, Ore., as the distressed. As the nationwide walkout cf
areas. j the 400,000 bituminous miners "
Schools in Walla Walla are ! passed its tenth day. the number
closed. The Utah-Idaho sugar I of steel, factory and other work- "
beet plant at Toppenish, now ers laid off in the creeping indus
processing this season's crop, has ; trial paralysis climbed close to
only 10 days' supply on hand but! 100.000. Another 167.O0O were on
succeeded today in having a few , furlough from fuel-starved facto
cars of coal diverted there after ! ries for the Thanksgiving week
an apepal to the Seattle SFA of- ' end.
fice. In Idaho the state grange Indoor Lighting Okebed
master telegraphed the SFA that! Against this wintry prospect
11,000,000 pounds of sugar would! were a few feeble rays of cheer,
be lost unless sufficient coal is j The government announced its
allotted Idaho sugar beet plants. ; drastic. 21 -state dimout would not
Some coal is reaching the Pa-, prevent the illumination of indoor
cific Northwest from eastern j Christmas trees. .
British Columbia fields over the' The fines against the individual
Spokane International railway miners were authorized in union
but mines there were shut down1 agreements with private operators
for 10 days as a severe snowstorm and carried forward -in the gov-
disruDted power deliveries, he
added.
Guaranteed Wage
Held Solution to
Economy Problem
WASHINGTON. Nov. 30 (JP
A government study held today
that a guaranteed annual wage
for workers can help stabilize
the economy and point the way
to enduring prosperity.
The findings were contained in
an interim report made at White
House direction
Many industrialists have oppos-
Se ground they would loe a
J 1 : i
Tiir. , - t , 'reu 1 The spokesman noted, however,
to continue paying wages for as j 4V,, , -, ' -
lone as a vear to workers thev Xhat Probably not ail companies
had to lav off orkers tney,will seek approval to fine, many
aJr - if ! wil1 nct impose fines even when
dations were that congress amend
the tax laws to allow firms to
accumulate tax-free trust funds
against future costs of guaranteed
wage plans.
10 KILLED IN ARGENTINA
TUCUMAN, Argentina, Nov. 3Q
-yT)-Ten persons were killed and
more than a hundred injured to
day when a crowd waiting for the
wife of President Juan D. Peron
surged through police lines and
knocked down a reviewing stand,
She was invited here to distribute
food and clothing.
F. Kellogg. John Beckley; from
Corvallis. W. R. Price and Earl
Miller; Dwight McCorkle and
Glenn Hale of Eagle Point: and
W. F. Green, Philomath; W. Ml
Siefert, Canby; Charles N. Bebout,
Aloha; Max VanBuskert, Mt. An
gel; Eugene Finlay, Jefferson;
Odine Mathews, Eugene.
Finlay took all sweepstakes and
was runner-up in the Blue Fox
division, with VanBuskert hold
ing the champion pup. Sweep
stakes in Pearlatinas went to Mc
Corkle, who was also sweepstake
holder in the Pearl Platinum
group, Stacey was runner-up in
this division, and McCorkle held
the champion pup.
In the Silver Fox division,
Stacey won all sweepstakes as
well as runner-up prize. Stacey
again held sweepstakes in the
White Face group, with McCorkle
runner-up in both male and fe
male animal.
Miller won the adult male
sweepstake in the Platinums, with
Stacey, winning the female pur
ple, and McCorkle as runner-up.
Miller was championship winner
in the pup division.
(Prizes listed on page 2)
Medical '
Fund Nets
Proceeds
WASHINGTON, Now -()-The
government acted today to
chalk up retroactive fines against
the individual miners for each day
of the soft coal strike while pros
pects for an out-of-court settle
ment waned.
The fines, $1 to $2 for each day
of idleness, will not be collected,
however, until the miners go back
to work and they can be deducted
from pay checks. And the pro
ceeds will go to the union's own
medical fund, administered solely
by it
Undeterred by this move, coun
sel for John L. Lewis and the
United Mine Workers mapped
fresh strategy for their legal bat
tle against the government which
resumes Monday. They plan an
appeal to the United States cir
cuit court of appeals if the fed
eral district court ml in a rr
against them, it was learned, and
they hepe that any contempt of
court sentence may be stayed un
til it is decided.
May Remove Burke
The private operators of the
Southern Coal Producers associa
tion, called to meet here Monday,
may remove Edward R. Burke as
president, said one industry offi
cial, for his announcement Thurs
day that we are willing to talk"
with Lewis on Va fifes, hours and
everything else." Ten directors
have repudiated Burke's state
ment. Support for Burke came from
Hubert E. Howard, Chicago, mem
be of the coal operators' negotiat
ing committee.
Howard, in St. Louis, told a re
porter that Burke's move is see-
onded by e operator m
ReadT to Negotiate
"We are ready to negotiate with
. T iwic finv 4imA nftA Wa
return to work," he said, "but we
i are not readv to mnrS in Twi
! eminent contract which Lewis
claims is terminated and the gov
ernment contends Is still in force.
They were designed to give the
union a weapon for preventing
"wildcat" strikes which ft did not
authorize. The procedure under
government operation calls for the
mine operators to apply to the
government for authority to im
pose the fines.
Applications -Nsmeroos'
A spokesman for Capt N. H.
Collisson, coal mines administra
tor, announced that "numerous
applications have been granted,
but declined to give the exact
I number" ?" 3.300 strikebound.
i coal companies should fine their
' me" r th idleness to
! between $4,000,000 and
; UUU.
$8,000,-
permission is granted, and others
would not collect the money ever
if they levied the fine. Usually,
he said, companies waive the fines
once a settlement is reached.
Moreover, the fines are not pro
vided for by contract in all dis
tricts. The Pittsburgh - Consolidation
Coal company announced it has
begun to levy daily $1 fines
against the 4,500 strikers at its
I 14 western Pennsylvania pits. The
j money will be taken out of pay
checks when the strike ends.
Lewis Described
As Ally of Reds
WASHINGTON. Nor. 30-6P)-Senator
Wiley (R.-Wis.) today
described John L. Lewis as the
"chief ally of Communism in Eu
rope because of this coal strike,
Wiley, slated to head the sen
ate judiciary committe in the new
congress, told reporters he will
sponsor a "ten-point labor reform
program" designed to prevent
crippling strikes like the coal
walkout
"John L. Lewis has posed as
an anti-Communist all his life,"
Wiley said. "Now he is hitched up
to the hilt with them. He is the
chief ally of their cause in Europe."
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