isspeimsiioinis v mmvssm Franchises Slussestiedl to IFotrce Crossninig Ksepaors 83th Yaar 18 PAGES Thm Orsyoa Statesman. Satem, Orocan, Tuesday, November 23, 1948 Pries 5c No. 217 OUNDID 165f 4 i TO) CODS The national convention of the CIO assembled in Portland Mon h frr i tenth meeting. The Ore- Konian's B Mike whose column is the last reiuge 01 uranmuiicu imimaiicm in the metroDolis. says: TtMt tailnrd bunch of brains ever to convene in Portland is the CIO top brass. For last lew days t. ontiiri h seen entering and leaving Masonic temple respondent In their tastefully cut, nana-maue suits, their Esquire bow knots and custom-made shirts.' That may be spreading it on too lavishly; but the picture nas cnang ed from the days when it took tough mugs with plenty of guts to stay with the labor movement. Labor now commands both good incomes and respect and wants its l4r tr hav h rains, courage and style. Very definitely they do not go for the blue serge wnicn is almost a uniform for communists of western Europe. The CIO got a bad name with Industrialists because n organized 4n4iicfri rubber, chemic als, automobiles which the AFX. craft unions had never been able to touch. It used plenty rougn tact ics too, like the sitdown strikes in the motor Industry. And it did at tract many who were very radical. Some, still identified with CIO unions, follow Moscow's party line quite slavishly. The great major . ity of its leadership and of its membership are good American citizens. I very well recall an experience in the days before the war when we were not certain what the at titude of labor and particularly the CIO might be, at the time when Russia and Germany were still on (Continued on Editorial page) Apprenticeship Council Vetoes ining Irian The state apprenticeship coun cil turned down an on-the-job training program proposed by Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph company in a Salem meeting Mon day, automatically cutting off about 450 Oregon company trainee veterans from further federal sub istance payments. A council member, following the session at the state library, said the company plan fell short of state apprenticeship standards, and it "seemed impossible" to reach agreement. He said the proposal has been under negotiation for about two years and finally "came to a head" in Monday's meeting. The differences between the company and council over the terms of the proposal were not ex plained. The council spokesman explain ed that the company originally employed the trainees under a plan approved by veterans administra tion In Washington, D. C. Ha said the state council "in herited" administration of the pro gram from the VA about two years ago, and must approve the plan before further subsistance checks will be Issued to the company trainees. Earlier in the session, five mem bers of Salem's apprenticeship council received 'merit awards for their outstanding local services. The awards were presented by W. X. Kimsey, Salem, state labor commissioner and director of the apprenticeship council. Those hon ored were Monroe Cheek, William J. Zntress, Herbert E. Barker, Barry Scott and Frank B. Ben nett. GLOBE CIRCLING STOPPED FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 22 OPy Mrs. Richard Morrow - Tait, British aviatrix, said today the crash - landing of her single-en-gined. plane on an Alaska high way yesterday may halt her world flight 74)00 miles short of its goal. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH i A9se gay nats . oo thing for you, baby." ews a a By Robert E. Gsngware City Editor, The Statesman Drastic action to force grade crossing improvements by railroads operating in Salem was initiated council. In other attention to traffic, the council acted to reopen Miller street to two-way traffic at South River road and to make California Gets Rose Bowl Nod PASADENA Nov. 22-;p)-Cali- fornias Bears '; will meet North western in the Rose Bowl New Year's day. That was the announcement from the office of Pacific Coast conference Commissioner Victor O. Schmidt, following the casting of ballots by faculty representatives of schools in the PCC and the Big Nine from which comes North western. It was fairly certain that North western would: get the bowl nod in the Big Nine after plainly es tablishing itself as second best club in the circuit. Title-holding Mich igan was prevented from return ing to Pasadena for a second straight year by a recently install ed ruling. Divided Choice But in the Coast conference it was anybody's! guess up to an nouncement of the vote as to whether Lynn Waldorf s Bears or the Oregon Webfoots would get the coveted job of representing the PCC in the January 1st classic. Schmidt did not reveal how many of the ten ballots California re ceived but it was plain that sever al schools deliberated to great lengths over their choice since some votes were not received by Schmidt until late Monday morn ing. The earliest was in the com missioner's office Sunday noon. Docks Unhappy Disappointment was voiced in Oregon circles when word of the vote outcome was received. Many Duck supporters thought that the Webfoots stood a very good chance of getting the bid: after beating Oregon State Saturday, 10-0, while California was barely getting over Stanford, 7-0. j California went through an un beaten season. Its 10 wins includ ing six In conference play. Oregon captured seven circuit games, its only loss being a non conference mix with Michigan early in the season.; The coming j Pasadena engage ment will be in California's fifth trip to the Rose Bowl. The Bears last were there in 1938 when they beat Alabama, 13-0. (Additional stories on sports page) IO Students 1 'i Ask Bowl Tilt At Huge Rally EUGENE, Ore., Nov. 22(JP-Or-gon students rallying on the cam pus tonight called for a post season Bowjl game, anywhere and against any opponent. The demonstration was a climax to a day and night: long series of parades, student rallies and a formal assembly program in which the disappointed Ducks and boost ers lamented the Rose Bowl bid going to California. Athletic director Leo Harris ad mitted to one group that feelers have been received about another Bowl game, but he did not elab orate. We will do whatever we con sider to be the best thing for everyone concerned," Harris said. Earlier ' t o d a y. Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin broke into tears when asked about the bid going to California. Coach Jim Aiken said MI think our ' football team has been slighted 1 Court Upholds Second Portion Of TortaF Act By Donald Sanders WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-P)-The Supreme Court upheld today the validity of a second major portion of the portal-to-portal pay act the so-called "good faith" section. The act, passed in May, 1947, sharply restricted the rights of workers to claim portal-to-portal pay for such activities as traveling from factory gates to work bench, washing up, sharpening tools and so on. I In other cases today, the court: 1. Held that mailing of drugs and labels of instructions for their use in separata packages at dif ferent times is not an escape from the food and drug act's prohibition against misbranding. 2. Agreed to pass upon' a ruling by the Federal district court at Los Angeles that a new collective bargaining agreement could not change seniority rights of three veterans in their peace-time jobs. The Los Angeles court had held that the veterans, James L. Camp bell. MitcheU B. Joplin and Mal colm E. KirkJ were entitled to seniority as they enjoyed it -when they entered the army. Monday night by the Salem city D street a through street from Capitol street east. Explaining possible legal action to force long-promised crossing repairs, City Attorney Chris Kow itz advised a new city ordinance to provide penalty against rail roads operating without a fran chise, then legislation to remove or suspend franchises now held by railroads for their lines through Salem. Penalty BiU Ordered Action affecting the Southern Pacific mainline would have to be submitted to the state public uti lities commission, Kowitz said at the city hall meeting last night Upon motion by Alderman Albert H. Gille, the council instructed Kowitz to bring in the penalty bill at the December 13 meeting. City Manager J. L. Franzen said both SP and Oregon Electric had drawn up repair programs this year but little of the work had been done. He declared that city officials had gone about as far as they could to encourage the rail road work projects. Businessmen Appeal A South Salem businessmen's delegation -appeared before the council to ask that two-way traf fic 'be restored on Miller street where a one-way plan was ef fected last year when the Owens street access to South River road was improved. These men in cluding Grant Kightlinger, Roy Adsitt, H. A. Harrington and Clayton Jones told aldermen they felt traffic would be expe dited by reopening the street completely. They asserted that a remon strance petition by 24 residents seeking to make Miller street dead-end at the river road would serve to benefit only the cottage property of Thomas K. Earl at Miller street and South River road. Earl and S. M. Earl de fen d e d the remonstrance on grounds that heavier traffic would be a hazard because vision at the corner is limited by an embank ment. Light S arrested Alderman Howard Maple back ed the reopening proposal and gave the motion to accomplish it, on the stipulation that a stop sign be installed at the end of Miller street (at South River road). Al derman Daniel J. Fry was the only dissenter, explaining he felt traffic would benefit by the open ing only if a traffic light were in stalled at Owens street. The D street action makes it a through street from Capitol to east city limits, with all intersect ing streets to be marked with stop signs. In a similar resolution passed by the council. Mission street was made through street at 25th street, with stop signs to be placed on 25th at both approaches to Mission. Te Remove Wall In another traffic consideration, the council learned by letter from the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., which is developing a retail center on North Capitol street, that its lease with Southern Paci fic for building a three-foot re taining wall on SP right-of-way between the insurance property and the railroad tracks recognizes the city's prior option on the right-of-way. The wall will be re moved ,the insurance firm stated, if the city decides to build a street paralleling the tracks. (Additional council news in column t and on page 2) Lumber Prices Decline in NW A Portland lumber Industry Monday pointed out that retail lumber prices in Oregon and Washington have dropped off from $7.50 to $13 per thousand board feet during the past few weeks. The industrialist, who wished to remain unnamed, said the current longshoremen's strike and conse quent curtailment in lumber ship ments is materially responsible for the price drop on certain grades. He said, however, that lumber prices will probably start on the upgrade after the first of the year when building along the coast re sumes a normal pace. More Playgrounds, Purchase Of Property Sought at Council A bid for more baseball dia monds and playgrounds in Salem and announcement that Salem post 136, American Legion, is interested in building its - own Legion hall confronted the Salem city council Monday night in city hall. The Legion post, an organization of World War II veterans, submit ted a letter over Joseph B. Felton's signature asking If the city would set a reasonable price on a city property, 80 by ISO feet, at Belle vuo and Cottage streets, facing Pringle park. City Manager J. L. Franzen, to whom the request was referred, said the city has no installation on the property. Homer Smith, Jr., commander of post 136, said fol lowing the meeting that the post has no definite building plans at present, but is considering general plans for future development Several business sponsors of Jun ior baseball teams petitioned the city council for additional local playgrounds, noting particularly a 0 Mff President " -J. "J" ' ' ' -"',' " f- -J. H.U .! .i l i j. 1. . I.J l H.lTm ,.l JIMIl- Hill. .. I V )J , ' 11111 ' ' 1 . m r , '''':'' -, -- . , 7 - ' i " - f.: , , t-f , ' : - i j- ss." ! a" WASHINGTON. Nov. 22 President Truman (left) greets Secretary of State Georre C. Marshall at na tional airport, Washington, D. C, today, upon the latter's arrival from Paris for foreign policy con ferences. French Ambassador Henri Bonnet is in center background. (AP Wlrepaoto to The Statesman.) Russia Attacks U.N. Program For Palestine By Francis W. Carpenter PARIS, Nov. 22 -JP) Russia at tacked the Bernadotte plan today as a scheme to keep the Arabs .of Palestine and Trans - Jordan un der the domination of British and American oil interests. Soviet Delegate Semen K. Tsar apkin told the 68-member politi cal committee of the United Na tions assembly that Russia believ ed the proposals of Count Folke Bernadotte. slain U. N. mediator, were "prepared in the British for eign office." Tsarapkin lashed out bitterly at the United States and Britain for the role they have played in Palestine. He declared the British American policy had made a fiasco out of mediation attempts. Polish Delegate Oscar Lange joined in the attack. Referring to the United States and Britain, he said: "Defense of an old and now crumbling empire, on the one hand, and the expansionist drive toward the establishment of a new empire, on the other, are respon sible for the present situation in Palestine." Britain is sponsoring the plan. U. S. Delegate Philip C. Jessup endorsed some parts of the report last week, but said the United States could not agree to any re duction of territory given Israel under the partition plan of Nov. 29, 1947, without Israel's consent. The United States is expected to speak more fully on the Pales tine question within the next few days, after President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall fin ish their review of the internation al situation in Washington. FALANGISTS 'REELECTED MADRID. Nov. 22-;P)-Falange national headquarters said today 82 per cent of all the city council members elected in municipal elec tions Sunday were members of the party. The Falange is the only poli tical organization legally authoriz ed to operate in Spain. need for more practice fields and baseball diamonds. Signers includ ed Yeater Appliance, Valley Mo tors, Midget market. Walling Sand ic Gravel. R. L. FJfstrom Co. and Schrock Motors, all sponsors of ball teams. Alderman Howard Maple told the council the baseball teams rep resent some 500 Salem boys and an Important . part of summertime recreation. He asked that the mat ter be seriously considered in next year's budget. The letter was re ferred to the city manager. At present the boys league has only the Leslie and Olinger fields for practice and games. Alderman Thomas Armstrong was sworn by City Recorder Al fred Mundt at the meeting last night, replacing Robert DeArmond as a result of the recent election for sixth ward council member. Alderman David O'Hara presided in the absence of Mayor R. I Elf-Strom. Truman Greets State Tax Position Replacement Top Concern for Board Among the first important ap pointments to be considered by the new state board of control next year probably will be a suc cessor to Earl Fisher, veteran member of the state tax commis sion whose current term expires next July 1. Friends of the com missioner said he desires to retire. As his retirement date, based on age, does not become operative until October 1, officials indicat ed he would be retained until that time. Fisher is in charge of the state income tax division of the state tax commission. Chinese Reds Renew Battle Near Suchow , NANKING, Tuesday, Nov. JS-UPy- Chinese communist armies mounted twin offensives in cen tral and north China today. Red troops attacked with re newed vigor on the east flank of Suchow, key defense point for Nanking and central China. Pro government dispatches said the Nationalists held the initiative. In dependent sources gave an oppo site account. cesses east of Peiping. but they seemea minor, ine announcement, in Peiping .came immediately on the heels of the unexpectedly sud den admission of Nationalist with drawal from Paoting. Hopeh pro vincial capital. Paoting. can decide the fate of both Peiping and Tient sin. Gen. Fu Tso-Yi's north China headquarters declared his forces pushed the reds back east of Peiping and gained Sanho and Hsiangho. control of Czech Intelligence Ring Arrested in West German Area HEIDELBERG, Germany, Nov. 22-Pr-An authoritative U.S. army source said tonigin 20 members of a Czechoslovakia Intelligence ring have been arrested in the American and British zones of Germany. This source said those arrested will be prosecuted for "activity against the occupation powers." The informant, who cannot be quoted by name, said the arrests, on Nov. 9, climaxed an investiga tion which began in 1946, two years before the communists seized pow er in Czechoslovakia. Most of the Czech agents were seized in the U. S. zone city of Munich, headquarters of the ring. The others were -picked up in the British zone, the informant said. Weather SALEM Portland Saa Francisco Max. Mln. Prveip. 49 Chicago trace New York M Willamette river 4.T Forecast from U. 8. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy with rain today and tonlsht with little tem perature chance. Hixh today at. low tonlsht 44. ialem MicirnAnoN (Treas See. 1 te Nev. ZD Thai Year Last Year Average SJZ Marshall Truman Talks Foreign Policy With Marshall By John M. Hichtower WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-V President Truman received a "very informative" report from Secre tary of State Marshall today on the whole field of American for eign relations. Including the crit ical situation in China. Word of the discussion between the two men in the president's White House office came from Press Secretary Charles G. Ross. Ross declined to reveal whether any decisions were made on China or any other foreign policy issue. He also gave a no comment re sponse to inquiries as to whether the talk had determined whether Marshall would remain as secre tary of state. Ross told reporters that their discussion ranged over the whole field of foreign relations. He de scribed Marshall's report as "very informative": and said the secre tary may see the president again tomorrow. Before conferring with Marsh all. Mr. Truman heard from Am bassador W. Averell Harriman that the outcome of the presiden tial election had created "a wave of enthusiasm across Europe." Vet's Loan Bonds To Be Offered for Xale December 7 Bids for $2,000,000 of bonds be ing offered by the state veterans affairs, department will be opened December 7. department officials announced Monday. At the time previously set for opening proposals for these bonds there were no bidders and invest ors declared they desired to delay submitting bids until they had an opportunity to study the effect of the newly; voted old age pension act. Money derived from the sale of these bonds will be used for vet erans home and arm loans. Following failure to receive bids for these bonds based on the original advertisement the veter ans department has continued to receive loan applications and make appraisals of properties offered for security but' no applications have been processed. Naval Reserve Air Station for Salem Hinges on Rental Deal Establishment of a naval air and Walter Paul of Washington. reserve training center at Salem airport may hinge largely on a rental proposition from the city of Salem and tonight's turnout of naval air reservists, it was indi cated Monday. Two officers were here during the day on an inspec tion which included Salem, Hills boro and Portland, the three pro posed training sites. The meeting tonight at 8 o'clock will be at Salem Chamber of Com merce for all' former navy and marine air force personnel, both officers and enlisted men, to in form them about the project and to take fteps toward activating a reserve unit in the mid-valley. Reservists said "things look fa vorable" after, talking Monday with. Comdrs. Xdward Lannigaa Delegation Supports; Unequaled Attack on Jt ' ''! , -1 Communist Groups Bj Matt PORTLAND, Ore., Nor. gates over-whelm ingly supported President Philip Murray tonight after he made an unprecedented attack on commun lata in the CIO. ' , ji J Almost as a man, the delegates voted In support W Mur ray's annual report - - which had been under firt of several AFL Reelects Green; Seeks Repeal of Act CINCINNATI. Nov. 22-UPV-The American Federation of Labor re elected 75-year-old William Green to bis 25th term as president to day and adjourned its 07th annual convention. Green pledged the organization to make repeal of the Taft-Hartley act its first goal. "It Is the dawn of a hew day, a new experience, a new opportun ity for the AFL," Green said after delegates gave him a rousing dem onstration. He has been president since the death of Samuel Gom pers In December, 1924. "We are determined to exercise good judgment, to proceed judical ly, to act together not as an or ganization but as citizens of the UJS.A." Green said. His remarks indicated the AFL's sober approach to what it thinks will be its in creasing role as a result of Presi dent Truman's victory ana me new democratic congress. Secretary - Treasurer George Meany and the IS vice presidents on the executive council also were re-elected without opposition. The convention adopted a com mittee report formally demanded repeal of the Taft7HartIey act and restoration of the Wagner Labor Relations act. From these, the AFL would favor building amendments based on IS years experience un der both labor laws. In the discussion of legislation, Charles J. MacGowan, head of the boilermakers, said "labor is not contemplating a wave of strikes." Delegates applauded when Mac Gowan said "instead of agitating for a general fourth-round of wage increases, the entire citizenry should concentrate on achieving a rollback of prices to defeat the in flationary spiral and to stabilize our economy." Breen Reports Safe at Lodge HAYWARD, Wis., Nov. 22-iPh The sheriff reported tonight that singer Bobby Breen "is in bed. asleep," at a Glidden, Wis., hunt ing lodge, some 50 miles from here. The former child motion picture star--onw 21 --and Kenneth Thompson, a Waukesha, Wis., charter pilot, disappeared yester day in a red, aingle-engined Stin son monoplane while flying here on a hunting trip. Tonight, the Milwaukee Sentin el announced it had received a call from a hunting party at Glid den. Breen told the Sentinel he and the pilot had landed when they were unable to reach Hayward or Park Falls because of icing. BUCK INDUSTRY RETURN PARIS, Nov. 22 France was re ported tonight to have handed the United States and Britain a formal protest against their decision to turn key Ruhr industries back to German ownership. D.C.. and Capt. C. F. Greber, 13th naval district air reserve officer. Local conferees were Glenn Fra vel of Salem and Ivan Esau of Dallas, reservists, and City Mana ger J. L. Franzen. Franzen said the officers asked that the city work out and submit a proposition for the use and rental of hangar, runway and other facilities. No date was set for the action, but it is expected soon. If sufficient reservists volunteer to set up the unit, and Salem is selected, the opening plan is for an auxiliary station with 2 officers, 24 enlisted men and 10 airplanes, said Fravel. The reserve unit would need f0 officers and 130 men. The station could grow along with the personneL Kramer 22-(P)-CI0 convention dcla- unions denounced earlier , in the day by Murray. " No one voted In opposition, and only one delegation the office and professional workers union - -recorded itself as abstaining. 1 It was a history making day for the CIO, which never before had seen such a convention floor fight; Murray bitterly assailed the communists, lashed three1 of the CIO's unions - - calling them "un fit" and "inadequate" - - and pub licly dressed down two union lead ers, i The unions were the office and professional workers, the ; united public workers and the retail and wholesale workers. The leaders he denounced in' scathing terms were James Dur kin, president of the Of lice and! Professional Workers union, and Donald Henderson, president of the Food and Tobacco Workers un ion. ! ' , Henderson led the attack against the foreign policy section in Mur ray's annual report. Particularly under fire was the Marshall plan, if The minority report criticized United otaies aid for "such fascist regimes as Greece and Turkey., It also deplored the cost of the for- eign and defense policy because they are drawing off vast federal monies at the expense t of the na tion's standard of living. : This opposition was completely snowed under when the vole came. Murray had - denounced "theta idealogical dive bombers" after the minority report, the first In the un ion'! convention history, challen ged the CIO policy on the Marsh-, all plan. f Murray referred to the commun ists variously as "dialectic theoret icians" and "apostles of dictator- ship." He challenged them to "stand up and be counted like 'men;". There were no takers. 1 Later, he demanded, "Why dont these- apostles of the wrong type of thinking take an occasional kick at old Joe or Molotov?" he asked, A roar greeted his words. The delegates obviously enjoyed Mur ray s words, and urged him on with cries of "Pour it on, Phil. j Walter Reuther. president of the Eowerful United Automobile Wor ers, came to Murray's aid. "I say to these brothers to make , up their minds either get clear into the' CIO or get clear out of , the CIO," he demanded. j Reuther objected to the minor ity report brought in by Hender son, attacked all unionists who supported Henry Wallace , in the presidential election, and said the big, question for them was: I "Are they going to be loyal te : the CIO, or loyal to the commu nist party? Are they going to be loyal to this country or the So-1 viet union?" i l Durkin replied to Murray In bit ter terms. He described Murray's speech as "reprisal, vindictiveness and revenge." He said the CIO had not helped hlM union finan cially since 1940 and that other unions were raiding his member ship, f- James B. Carey, CIO secretary- treasurer, denied this. He told the convention the CIO had given Dur kin's union $143,142.75. i Murray again took over with; one or tne neaviest verbal' on slaughts ever heard at a labor convention. i 1 He asked the CIO convention here to insist that all affiliated. unions support the declared poli cy of the CIO on! the Marshall plan. ' ij Tremendous cheers left little. doubt that the delegates .would. back him up. The Marshall plan brought about the blow-up. I : ; ij Donald Henderson, president of the Tobacco and Food Workers un-j ion. in a minority respprt denoun-j ced the plan. Boos punctuated his statements. j (Additional story on page 2) Two Valley Holstein Herds to Go on Block PORTLAND, Nov. 22 -)- Two well - known Willamette, valley; Holstein herds will be sold at the Pacific International Livestock ex-; position grounds here Dec; t. ,j Several animals from the Bene dictine order of Mt. Angel college will be on the block. John Fitz-: Simmons, Brooks, will dispose of bis entire herd. ' i ij Animals raised by Merl Schencky Seattle, will also be sold.; j HILLS BOKO LOGGER "KILLED j HILLSBORO, Nov. 22-P-Don-; aid V. Nelson, a logger working in the woods west of Glenwood, was fa tally "crushed today by a rolling log. . . , 'j, , jf