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Jfo DUSKS ft JVL (Story in Columns 7 and 8) NMD 1651 NINETY-SIXTH YEAB 12 PAGES Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning, December 3. 1948 Price 5c No. 213 j ksrr A Iikm blMMmcd oat la Chris tin finery oyer the weekend, marking pat up onder the direction of K. M. Needham, president of the bareaa, the official epeaimg of the Yale tide shoppinr season. View aboTC and Osear D. Olson, local florist, who did the actual decora tint. Be shows the festoons and gartaads alone Commercial street. Decora- low Is pictured one of the trumpeters placed on the lamp posts of ttona were sponsored by the Salem Retail Trade Bareaa. and were Commercial street. (Photo by Don Dill. Statesman staff photographer). TTQDQjQCE All divisions of organized labor have expressed support of the United Mine Workers in the pres ent case In federal court in Wash ington, in resistance to use of the Injunction in a labor dispute. They regard this exemption as estab lished in the Norris-LaGuardia act as fundamental to labor's rights. But what. I should like to in- , quire, does Labor leadership offer ; as a solution to the impasse which has developed? Do the CIO, the railroad brotherhoods, other AFL j unions believe that the govern- j merit should capitulate and accept j the term to be laid down by John ! V Lewis? Union leaders are quick to demand social action to meet social needs: and surely coal for fuel is a prime human need. How then do they propose that coal mining be resumed? The answer may be. that the injunction is no way to get min- ; ers back into the pits. Very well; is the only way left to acquiesce in the conditions specified by John L. Lewis? If so. what becomes of the "collective feature of bargain ing? For as long as the mine workers are tightly organized in single union, responsive to the j lift of their leader's eyebrows, em- ! plovers, whether private or the i go ernrrtpnt. are helpless. It is a mistake for workers to ' assume that the interests of all ' workers are identical, that they , should always be on the side of I other unions in wage controver- , sies. In the present instance an other wage increase for the min ers means a wage cut for all other workers who use coal (Continued on editorial page) Navy Vessels Start on Trek To Antarctic . ABOARD THE U S S. MT. OLYMPUS. Dec. 2 -The lead hips of the navy's expedition to Antarctica steamed through the 1 cold waters of Hampton Roads to- day and headed for the immensely colder realms of the South Pole. The flagship Mt. Olympus, the Icebreaker Northwind, the sea plane tender Pine Island and the destroyer Brownson left Norfolk jammed with supplies enough to last eight months. Four thousand men make up the i amphibious navy expedition. Rear Admiral Richard Byrddid not sail with the expedition today. At a news conference he said he would join the expedition "some time in January." Atom Seen as Coal Competitor in 1955 PARIS. Dec. 2-iJF) Dr. Arthur H. Compton, noted atom scientist, declared today that atomic pow er might become a serious com petitor to the coal industry in the United States by about 1955, pro vided "political difficulties do not interfere." Animal Crackers B vxa;?LN GOODRICH 3il "No, Son, don I er so good in tact T m tick as a num." Courtesy Opens; Hundreds of dollars in prizes, ranging from, wrist watches to ' nylon hose, awaited the most courteous drivers in Salem to day with no strings attached. The prizes 110 of them are the donations of merchants co operating in the first Oregon Statesman - Warner Brothers Courtesy Driving campaign. They will be given to the drivers who noticeably cooperate in making Salem streets more safe for the throngs -of Christmas shoppers, both afoot and in cars. Gov. Earl Snell, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell. jr.. May or I. M. Dough ton. Mayor-elect R. L. Elfstrom and the Salem chamber of commerce have giv en whole-hearted endorsement to the plan, and last night the Salem city council tormally vot ed to approve it. Courteous deeds are to be not ed starting today and will be judged in the final listing of UoS.-British German Zones To Be Merged NEW YORK. Dec. 2 -UP)- Bri tain and the United States signed tonight a bi-lateral pact for the economic merger oi ineir iwnrs ui occupation in Germany designed '. i to make the territory self-sustaining within three years. It was understood on the basis of reports from London that the merger would be carried through on a 50-50 financing basis and - would involve a total expendi ' ture by Britain and the United ) States of approximately $1,000, i 000,000 the three-year period. LONDON. Dec. 2-A)-A source high in the labor government de clared tonight that Britain was not formulating plans "for any sort of a military pact with America which would commit one or the other to any definite action in the event of certain eventuali- ties." He issued a statement in r'enT- ing so assertion in London's corn- munist Daily Worker that Bri tain was about to enter secretly into a 10-year far reaching de facto military alliance with the United States. Frank T. Wrightman, Pioneer Sheriff, Lawyer, Dies at Age 88 A former Marion county sher iff and resident of the county for 75 years, Frank T. Wrightman died Monday in a Salem hospital at the age of 88 years. He had been hospitalized two and a half months. Retired at the time of his death, Wrightman at one time had been an attorney here and at another head of the corporation division under the Oregon secretary of state. He was the last surviving charter member of the iSalem Elks lodge. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., he came with his family, the Benja min Wrightmans, to Oregon in 1871, settling near Sublimity. He was married July 15, 1891, to Jo sephine Glenn, who preceded him in death several years ago. Wrightman was appointed dep uty sheriff in 1888 and was elec ted sheriff for one term, begin ning in 1896. He was graduated from the Willamette law school here and later was associated with the law firm of Brown, Wright man and Myers. He was captain of the old national guard com pany A, during the 1880's. Long active in the Elks lodge, Wrightman was the local lodge's third exalted ruler and later was a district deputy. He was one of 47 charter members of ' Salem Elksdom. The funeral will be conducted by Dr. Charles Durden of Calvary Baptist church at 1:30 pjn. Wed- Driving Campaign Valued Prizes Ready grand prizes to ' be awarded at the close of the campaign. The daily prizes are to be awarded starting Wednesday, December 11, and extending through Sat urday, December 21. Here's the plan: Salem police on routine rounds, and a Statesman "cour tesy car", are to be constantly on the alert for courteous driving incidents. Each day the list of such incidents, starting Wednes day. December 11, will be taken to the state's traffic safety deci sion for judging. The top 10 each day will receive prizes 100 prizes for the 10 days between December 11 and 21. Then, there will be 10 grand prizes judged in the same man ner. But incidents to be listed for the grand prizes will start today in a pre-campaign move to lessen traffic hazards among the Yuletide crowds. The good deeds will be listed School Consolidation Plans Will Be Talked At Woodburn Tonight WOODBURN, Dec. 2 Ques tions in regard to consolidation of school districts will be discussed here Tuesday when Agnes Booth, Marion county school superinten dent, meets with interested board members at 8 p.m. in the Lincoln school Notices of the meeting " have been rnaHd to board members in the Hall, West Woodburn, Belle j p. tin ion anrl Jnhn.tnn rti- tricts. Board members of any oth- er areas interested in the discus sion are invited to attend. Due to overcrowed conditions in a number of schools in this area, many inquiries have been made to the county school superinten dent concerning consolidation of districts rather than the construc tion of new buildings, Mrs. Booth explained. Three Cars Involved In Highway Accident ALBANY, Dec. 2-( Special )-D. J. Harris of Seattle, driving north on Highway 99, seven miles north of Albany collided with a car driven by George E. Oswell of Eu gene, southbound, Monday morn ing, state police reported. Duane McClaslan of New berg, north bound, crashed into the Harris and Oswell cars just after the wreck, it was stated. Mr. and Mrs. McClaslan were bruised and were taken to Albany General hospital where they were later released. All three cars were considerably damaged, state police reported. Frank T. Wrightman nesday in the W. T. Rigdon chapel, followed by concluding service at Mt. Crest Abbey mausoleum. Rit ualistic services will be conducted by the Elks lodge. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Fay Smith, San Francisco; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Barbara Wrightman of Albany and Mrs. Jessie Minto of Tampa Fla.; two nephews, F. T. Wrightman and Joe Wrightman, both of Albany, and two nieces, Mrs. Ina Kizer and Mrs. Merle Longe of The Dalles. 1 -f& (A beside the license number of the car involved. But even the li cense number will be omitted from the list given to the state for judging no one will know to whom the good deed is ascribed. The list of license num bers noted, along with the good deeds attributed to them as well as the prize and the name of its donor, will appear in The States man. Owners of the cars merely call at The Statesman office with sufficient proof of ownership, and receive their prizes. Among prizes offered, in addi tion to wrist watches and nylon hose, are floor lamps, blankets, umbrellas, car vacuums, angle flashlights, theatre tickets, pho tographs, sandwich grills, fish ing rods and a host of others. The entire list, with their don ors, will appear in subsequent issues of The Statesman, as will other details of the plan. The courtesy campaign is on! Brooks Man Suffocates in Home Tragedy I A. W. Blacksten, 37, was found aead in his smoke - blackened house on route 1, Brooks, Sunday morning. Blacksten, according to reports from the Marion county sheriff, j E EndonMMl office Monday, apparently fell to j The council unanimously carried sleep while smoking, awakened endorsement motion by Alderman too late to escape the smoke and ! Kenneth C. Perry that the coun fumes from his burning mattress. ! "heartily endorse" the Oregon , . ,, ' I Statesman-Warner Brothers cour- and fell unconscious by nif, bed tesy drivers campaign (details where his body was discovered by , elsewhere on this page). "This is his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lynn Rob- i quite an unusual thing. We should ertson. Death officially was as- 1 ncouraged because, as a rule, cribed to suffocation. Reports by deputies called to the scene about 11:30 a. m.' said the body was not burned, and a watch worn by the dead man was still running. Also suffocated was 1 Blacksten's spaniel dog which was sleeping in the kitchen of the two-room house. Damage by the fire was confined to the mattress, bed clothing, bed and the curtains of a window by the bed. The re port placed the time of the death as sometime between noon Satur day when Blacksten was last seen and the time of discovery of the body Sunday morning. Blacksten is survived by his wi dow, Jewell and his 13-year-old daughter, Lola, both of whom were in Salem visiting over the weekend. The body was taken in charge by the county coroner, and services will be announced later by Clough-Barrick company. Water Service May Continue After Deadline The possibility that severance of city water service beyond city limits may again be deferred pend ing annexation movements looms today, following city council dis cusion of the matter at last night's meeting. Although the water office last month reiterated the city coun cil's earlier decision that water users not in city territory would be cut off from the city water system on January 1, the council adopted last night a utilities .com mittee recommendation that the city engineer and city attorney give further study to the matter, in view of new possibility of re quests for annexation from areas adjacent to the city. The move was sparked by A. Jacobson's pe tition asking the city not to cut oft 'water service to his home at 290 Taylor st. The Weather Max. Mia. Preeip. 4i - jm 43 M 47 M IS trace Salem - M Portland S3 San Francisco sa Chicago x 33 New York 23 17 M Willamette river tS feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather, bu reau. McNary field, Salem): Mostly cloudy today and tonight with occa sional light rain. Highest today 12, lowest 44. City Zone Hearing Set Dec. 16 Salem citizens will have an op portunity to express their opinion of the city planning and zoning commission's plan for overall zon ing changes in the city when the city council conducts a public hearing on the pending zoning or diance bill 7:30 pjn. Monday, De cember 16, at city hall. The hearing was set last night by the Salem city council which also ordered that the bill be refer red jointly to the long range plan- j ning commission of the talem Chamber of Commerce and the city zoning commisiion before the hear ing. New Lights Authorised Salem will be lighter, too, as a result of last night's council meet ing in city hall. Installation of 25 modern street lights on High street, between Trade and Center streets, at an estimated $14,440 cost, was approved. Monthly up keep of the lights and investment charges are expected to toal be tween $220 and $240. Alderman Forkner's proposed zoning ordinance calls for making Salem generally ready for the ad vent of new business and to rezone as business districts areas of the city already primarily business in character. Although newly annex ed areas in the eastern part of the city would be residential, areas annexed in the north and in the South 22nd street area would be primarily business zone. Valley Packing company property would be zoned as industrial. Business Zones Set Both sides of State street, be tween 12th and 18th streets, would be business zone and the Holly wood business zone would extend northward to Madison street and west to the present business zone. i South Commercial street ajid Lib erty road would make up a uni form business zone. This would include both sides of the street except in the present residential J1UQSe WBUy uismisseo. a enm zone in Bishop's addition. ! lna information which alleged A proposal for one-way traffic i Petrillo violated the act by calling on Capitol street, from Court to ! a strike at a Chicago radio station. U. S. Attorney J. Albert Woll. 1 placed on file' by the council. The ' traffic restriction in lieu of wid- i ening Capitol street is suggested by the state highway department, aldermen w?re informed by the uic iajulc mrjjeii luictiii. icaii ls uiii y i poor uriviri&. rerry saia ne was confident of the full cooperation of the Salem police, who will be asked to list deeds of courtesy in TJiZZ" "" determ'n!ng. w"n!" f-?T,eS (Story also on page 2) Taxi Firm Resumes Service After Brief Row on Insurance Passenger service of Salem Taxi LCo.. which operates 12 of Salem's 24 taxicabs, continues today after about two hours' interruption last night following action by the Sa lem city council. When the council was Informed at its meeting in city hall by a state public utilities commission letter that Salem Taxi's insurance had been terminat,ed by Lloyds' of London, it instructed Police Chief Frank Minto to give notice for the discontinuance of taxi ser vice by today. The action was tak en in conformance with the city taxicab ordinance requiring taxis to be fully covered by liability insurance. The council voted to suspend Salem Taxi licenses until the firm could show such insur ance coverage. Robert L. Clark, Salem Taxi Where UN f " T" .;. ' 77" n j SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. Z. The army has announced the hlstorle presidio at San Francis eaa be made available as the permanent home of the United Nations. The sMe was listed as topping- proposed sites. The picture b of some of the officers' homes on the presidio. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman) Heiress Found 'TV, ' ' ' --i aHm iii ' " ' 1 i - t I f - -,- - X s ; " , VJ v ,,Z ' r s. X. '-x-2? ; .-OmA. : MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Dee 2 Peg gy Land, (above) 17, of Mem phis, Ten., daughter of a bank vice president, left her home and was the object of a wide search until she called her parents from Los Angeles sev eral days later. She did not say why she left home. (AP Wire photo). Petrillo Wins Case; Lea Act Ruled Invalid By the Associated Press Overshadowed by the soft coal strike, an important labor ruling was issued in Chicago today by Federal Judge Walter J. LaBuy who held that the Lea act is un constitutional. The ruling was won by James C. Petrillo. president of the AFL American federation of musicians, in his fight to erase the legisla tion from the government's law boqks. 1 . J " ; 1 wno prosecuted the criminal case, s3'1 ne wuld appeal. Judge LaBuy declared the Lea act attempted to make musicians "a class separate and apart." Elsewhere on the nation's trou ble labor scene: C. E. Boyer, president of the Minneapolis federation of teach ers, (AFL), announced an agree ment had been reached between the teachers negotiating commit tee and school authorities on teachers' demands for increased pay. In Los Angeles the Herald and Express resumed publication after having been closed since Sept. 4 by a strike of .the CIO American newspaper guild. Editorial work ers received increases raising sal aries $10 a week to a top minimum of $80. They had asked a $100 top. i owner, ordered a halt on opera- tions after he received notice from Chief Minto to cease service im mediately, Clark's attorney, W. C. Winslow said. Taxi service was resumed at about 11 p m., a few minutes after Winslow told The Statesman that conditions specified by a Tacoma insurance firm had been complied with Monday afternoon and the taxi company's acceptance of the terms forwarded to Tacoma. Winslow said last night that notification of discontinuance of the initial policy had been re ceived on the day after a $7,000 judgment was recently returned in Marion county circuit court in a suit by Lynch vs. Salem Taxi Co. The suit is now being appealed to the supreme court, Winslow said. May Make Permanent Home U. S. Rests Contempt Case Against Lewis; Gas Lines to Be Used WASHINGTON, Dec 2.-;P)-With testimony that the national income rate will plunge $20,000,000,000 and 5,000, 000 persons will be out of work if the coal strike lasts 48 days longer, the government rested its contempt case today against John L. Lewis. The end came quickly after Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborongh announced he would present evidence himself tomorrow which may determine the guilt or innocence of Lewis and the United Mine Workers Secretary of the Interior Knig was the final witness. He testified that the new demands Lewis had made would raise the cost of coal 50 cents a ton at the mine. Asked by the judge how that would affect the price to consumers, is. rug repnea max ix probably would cause an even greater increase to them. Lewis' specific demands never have been officially revealed by him or the government. It has been reported, however, that Lewis demanded the same pay for 40 hours which miners now can earn in 54 hours, about $75, and doubling of the five-cent a ton levy for the welfare fund. The judge announced he him self will introduce tomorrow the pre-trial statement of Counsel Welly K. Hopkins which tends to show, he said, that Lewis and the United Mine Workers "did not obey" his restraining order and that the nationwide mine walk out violates it. Solution Seems Distant As the walkout of the 400,000 miners passed its 12th day, ac tivity outside the court was wide spread but there was nothing which promised any immediate solution. Rep. Rankin (D-Miss), after a White House call, quoted Presi dent Truman as saying "He would present to congress the strongest message he knew how to prepare" for strike control legislation. Senator-elect Joseph R. McCar thy (R-Wis). proposed that Lew is and the 400,000 idle miners be drafted into the army and order- j ed to produce coal under penalty j of court martial. Will Use Pipe Lines A finish fight with Lewis was indicated by the government as i Interior Secretary J. A. nounced plans for emergency movement of natural gas within six days through the $145,000,000 ! war-built big inch and the little i inch pipe lines. Most Oregon roads returned to "In the next five or six days, ; normal and the WHsonville ferrj; Krug said, "We can be moving j resumed operation when the Wil 50,000,000 cubic feet of natural j lamette river receded there, the gas through the lines daily. In state highway department report two or three weeks this can be : ed yesterday. Some slippery spots stepped up to 100,000,000 cubic ; remain on mountain roads, th feet daily and in 45 days, to report added. around 150,000,000 daily." At the Santiam summit, roads However, he admonished that , are clear of ice and snow and in while "This gas can be a help, it ! the government camp area icy f is not the answer." He estimated that the gas would be equivalent to only about 6,000 tons of coal daily, while the normal coal pro duction exceeds 2,000,000 tons daily. Statement Barred The eovernment suffered one temporary setback when Justice! Goldsborough declined to perm? j the introduction of a statement j Lewis made for the newsreels I last May 29. White House steps at that time that "A contract has just been executed in the White House cov ering the bituminous coal mines. This settles for the period of gov ernment operation of the mines all the questions at issue." Chadwick Heads Hotel Association CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 2-iJPy-W. W. Chadwick, Salem, was elected president of the Oregon State Hotel association here to day as the group concluded a week-end convention. The as sociation announced almost every hotel in the state has plans for expansion and remodeling. ' fry Philadelphia, San Francisco Choices of UN LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y Dec. 2 (JP)A special United Nation ite committee announced tonight that , it had agreed to recommend the ! Presidio at San Francisco and the Belmont Plateau - Roxborough. areas of Philadelphia as most de sirable sites for the permanent U. N. headquarters. Second choice of the sub-committee, which will oresent its re port to the full 54-nation head quarters committee on Wednes day, was the White Plains-Harrison site in Westchester county, N. Y. It was understood that Russia and Yugoslavia still are support ing a site in the New York area as first choice. " SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. In the event the San Francisco Presidio should become the per manent home of the United Na tions, the Sixth army command will be prepared to meet any deadline for moving. Maj. Gen. nnrc T Y?9mrc Ci-vtk armw m . j mander iold a' news conference ; today. Roads, Ferry Again Normal; River Recedes j pavement exists between Frog ; lake and Bear .springs, according' to the report. The following; stretches of one-way traffic were noted: Short section five .miles north of Gardiner, on Pacific highway near Leona. to the north, of Coquille (due to mud slide). and at mile post 11.23 on Alsea highway (due to culvert wash out). KlPrfinn Tftlf Aired at Hearing Of Senator Bilbo JACKSON, Miss, Dec." 2.-0TV Senate investigators of Senator Thee G. Bilbo's 'primary cam paign tactics heard today testi mony by a negro veteran that ho had been, beaten after he was re fused registration for voting. Other negroes said that Bilbo's speeches had frightened " many away from the registration offices and polls. Bilbo was re-nominated in the primary last July 2 lor a third term. Bilbo took no part in the ques tioning of witnesses. , Cherry Brining Plant For Salem Approved" PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. 2.-(V , The civilian production adminis tration today authorized construc tion of a $28,021 cherry brining;, plant by the Willamette Cherry; Growers, Inc., at the foot of Smith,' street, Salem. Other approvals: R. A. Newman, automobile building, McUinnville, $19,000. afrlLsBSBBssaWHBMBssflaBsssslssssiBL " fn?) SHOWING T U- bays iirx R -1