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v.,.v: .. : . J : ; POUNDBD 1651 Dtp Weather Max. .. M - 86 .72 . 82 Mia. tl 53 48 68 Free! a. Salem Portland .. .00 .00 .tr Ml mum San Francisco i ma Chicago ...i rew xorK ;: dj ti S3 il Willamette river -2.4 feet. j TO RECAST (from U. S. leather bureau. McNary ifield. Salem): Contin ued fair and waiira today, tonight and Thursday. High today near 80: low to meht near 55. Excellent weather for almost all farm Activities. POUNDBD 99th YEAR 14 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, July 13. 1949 PRICE Sc No. 116 congress hesitates over a iaDor a lanor diu wnicn reim limited use of the injunctive pow er in crisis-strikes the labor gov ernment in Britain has invoked royal proclamation to break the dockworkers' strike " in London. The king's decree recognizes a state of national emergency and vests the government with 19 drastic powers to use in dealing with the strike. The labor (social ist) government is the first to call for such a proclamation since the general strike in 3926 whim led to anti-union legislation" by parliament. The government has power un der the proclamation to draft civilians but not the strikers to unload and load the ships. It can use soldiers, and already 2,000 soldiers, sailors and marines have been moved into the dock area. Last week some were used to, unload perishables. As with injunctions in the United States, strikers are not permitted to interfere with work ers, and police are given bropd authority to arrest persons sus pected of trying to block work at the docks. The dock strike had gone on for two weeks, and Britain, which ives tby shipping, was getting desperate. Food was badly need ed; and empty ships were needed to carry away exports. The strike was a wildcat strike, which be gan over a jurisdictional dispute between, two Canadian sailors' unions. Prime Minister Attlee de clared it was communist inspired, part of the (Continued on editorial page) While our School Merger Vote Okeh for Hayesville - An election to consolidate Hayesville with Ihe Salem school dis trict was authorized Tuesday night by the local school board. Possibility that Hayesvillemight come into ' he Salem school sys tem this September, was seen in the board's deci: ion to set an election date as early as possible after the necessary Hayesville petitions clear iha Atintw unhA vffiji ' i' The proposed consolidation was advanced by Hayesville school di rectors and recently was endorsed by a public meeting of Hayesville residents, trie Salem board was told last night by Superintendent Frank H. Bennett. In other Salem school business, the resignation of William Kidwell, director of special education, was accepted and assurances were re ceived from Contractor Henry G. Carl that .work will be rushed on new schools at Capltola and Four Corners as soon as the gravel strike, a few materials tie-ups and tewage plant approval by the state art cleared. Superintendent Bennett in dis cussing the Hayesville request not ed that local junior high schools would be able to absorb 7th and 8th graders from Hayesville with out adding teachersor overcrowd ing. This in turn would alleviate overcrowding in the four - room Hayesville school. Bennett said consolidation by Hayesville would have no affect on the Salem school budget for the coming year. The Hayesville dis trict Is debt-free and much of the property it serves is already sub urban in character, board members pointed out. The board agreed the ballot should stipulate that the $4,000 re serve fund which Hayesville dis trict now has. would be used only for Hayesville improvements in the event of consolidation. Kidwell informed the board in a letter he would become assistant psychology professor and director of appointments at San Diego state college, where he Is now doing summer work to complete a doc torate. (Additional school news page 2) Log Misliap Kills Grand Ronde iMan WILLAMINA. July -(Special)- Jack Kenworthy. 2?, Grand Ronde. wa killed in the woods near here Monday when a log ! rolled over him. He was werking for his father, A. JKenworthy,rwhen the acci- j dent occurred. He had been dis-i charged from the army only three weeks ago Survivors are his ! "parents. ' j The Sheridan , mortuary is in! charge of funeral arrangements, j " Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH you re out of thts Steelmen Refuse Tr u hi a n WASHINGTON, July 13 -(JF) President Trujman tried to avert a steel strike! without using the Taft-Hartley jact today but the U. S. Steel and Republic Steel corporations jflatly rejected the plan. j The president asked both sides to continue operations for 60 day beyond the Saturday strike dead line or unjjil September 14 while a special board studied the dispute and jnade recommenda tions, jj Benjamin Fairless, U. S. Steel president wired the president that the Taft-Hartley act is ap plicable to tlie present situation that it does riot permit boards to make recommendations, and that "we are unwilling to go outside of that statute." Republic sent a similar tele gram, addingjj "We can not agree to be a : parry to any procedure which is outside the scope of such law." i , jj The Bethlehem Steel company followed sui giving much the same reasons It was not; known union immediately now would whether the! continue its. strike plan or wheth er it would j decide to postpone the strike. New Revenues To Be Sought In Tak Study A new stuidy of Oregon's taxa tion system Jwill be made by six state officials and reported to the 1951 legislature, the board of control decided Tuesday. An equitable tax system with possible ne sources of revenue was the general purpose of the study as apjproved by the board. Appointed tb carry out the study were the three state tax commis sioners and Budget Director Har ry DormanJChief Auditor Sephus Starr and Deputy Treasurer Fred Paulus j The committee may work inde pendently Or with a legislative interim comjmittee. The study was proposed byj State Treasurer Wal ter Pearson and approved by Gov. Douglas McKav and Secre tary of State Earl f. Newbry. They agreed the tax .studv should include comparison of present Ofegon taxation with !Sf 1 - t S, 3.-eS' "e.W reveni,e ErE, estr5orrelat4lon ' rat " -"vmo, w vpvi t icAca, ucv i 1 1 1 ui an equitable and understandable system, placing of as many reve- I nues as ptesible in the general i fund. The board also .directed that1 this independent report be free from Inflneice of pressure groups and outside! interests. j Iri other action, the board of j control cal ed fori an immediate 'survey of state institutions and 1 department - regarding, budget i ronditl&ns. jj Secretary of State j Newbry safy current price reduc- tions In mny lines may enable state activities to operate at less than their legislative approprn . tions. i V Reutlier A.ain UAW President MILWAUKEE. Wis.. July 12-,', Walter Reijther was elected todav to his third term as CIO United Auto Wprkers president. The union's other three top officers wire swept back in at the same time at the UAW con vention. ? ra n raw! h ir jed chieftain was W. G. Grant. former hed of the big Fo'd local 600 at Detroit. Grant was the nominee of the left-wing Pro gressive upity caucus. Other Encumbents reelected were y Secretary-Treasurer Emii Mazey and;: Vice Presidents John W. Livingston and Richard T. Gossef. BLAZE HITS TOWN ADAMS j Ore., July 12-ip)-A welder's trch started a fire) that ate througjh a garage, part of the postoffice, the roofs of two houses and a quirter-mile of grassland last night SALEM PtKCIPrTATIOH (Scot. 1 to July 131 Thi Yr i Last Year Normal 411 3 hi Earlier Scuffle Mystery By Franklin Arthur and Bill Becker LOS ANGELES, July 12-(P)-Minutes after the pilot radioed word of a terrific fight aboard, a non-scheduled C-46 airliner crash ed and exploded in flames : today in the rugged Santa Susana moun tains, killing 35 persons. Fourteen others miraculously were still alive nine hours after the big twin-engine plane plowed into a hill at about the 1,800-foot level. Passengers gave varying ac counts of the fight between two men which started about an hour and a half before the plane was due to. land at Long Beach j What happened during 25 hectic min utes between the pilot's call for police aid and the crash was a mystery that civil aeronautics in vestigators were probing tonight. One Account Discredited "Everybody was jumpy, because we had a very Vough trip, very bumpy," said a survivor, Mrs. Judy Frost. She said the fight did not last long and was stopped by a stewardess who reseated the men, away from each other. An unidentified woman who died shortly after the crash was quoted by Det. Douglas C. Ingram of the Los Angeles police a say ing one of the passengers knocked the co-pilot into the controls and jammed them, causing the crash. Ingram said she was "obviously delirious," however, and his ques tioning of other survivors discre dited the storyv ' Shortly before the crash the plane headed; Into XSog barjkas sengers reported. Line Ordered to Quit Standard Airlines of Long Beach, operator of the plane, recently had been ordered by the civil aeronau tics board to get out of business next week for regulation viola tions. Bits of bodies, baggage and air craft were strewn over a 400-foot area on the boulder and mesquite roughened slope. Another 175 feet and the plane would have cleared the top. Standard officials rechecked their passenger list to show 49 aboard. Few Victims Identified Among the victims, (although still not positively identified) were a Long Beach mother, Mrs. Shir ley Frese, and her two children, Roberta, 12, and infant Billy. A navy man, Linton M. Bartscheck, his wife and their 3-year-old son also perished. Nine-year-old Harold Schwartz of Brooklyn, N.Y.. coming out for a west coast vacation, was another victim The crash occurred at 7:40 a.m. (PST), about 25 minutes after Pilot Roy G. White, former Amer ican and Royal Canadian air forces flier, reported the fight to the control tower at Lockheed air port, Burbank. and asked permis sion to land at Burbank, 15 miles closer to his position than Long Beach. IIyterical Man Blamed The figt started, some survivors reported, after one passenger, be coming hysterical during a violent lightning storm, finally was quiet ed. Although stories varied in some particulars, the concensus was that the hysterical passenger, smoking cigaiets in an endless chain, was rebuked by a fellow ussenger for blowing smoke in his fae. Survivors said the men traded punci - ai d voweo they would settle their diffeienoes when thev r;'.j landed. Both were am-mg the ie The Lockheed control tower, Burbank. said the ill-fated plane circled that field once. The pilot was told that other planes were coming in and he was not to 'and then. When the airline failed to return at the specified time, the tower operators asked the pilot of a California airliner to make ob servations. The pilot did, and spot ted the burning plane. Five persons, one a girl with her foot torn off, had stumbled 300 yards down the rocky slope to a fire road. j , Fire crews aided by patchy early morning fog, succeeded in -extinguishing the blaze quickly. Even so, most of the fuselage was destroyed. The right wing bad been torn off when it clipped a rock on the edge of a small ridge. Bodies were thrown 50 feet. LARSON ON HEALTH BOARD Reappointment; of Harold Lar son, as a member of the advisory council to the ! state board of health on hospital licensing, was announced Tuesday by Gov. Douglas McKay.! His term covert rate four years. 1 Diro PflairD pfloflDUg aft L Demolished Death Plane Burns on California Hillside . - ' 3 , , . - ; - : - ' ' -',, .... . 9f v -'''Wy "l:jr t -" 'Put, Mil "AN. 4 ' L. t - LOS ANGELES. July It While rescuers In fores round remove In- I SanU Susans pass came 25 mlnutea after the pilot radioed that a ylo jured from an unscheduled commercial airliner which crashed with lent fight had broken out among passengers. AP Mirepboto to The 40 ..ruina itwiarii tnAlT. a fire . Th rtn.nv nrruini airfl. inc crasn near iuc luimmi luw . .... . - - - Portland Newsman Victim of BOMBAY. July 12 Four of the near here are shovn as they interviewee we suuaauoi ja.ar.i. t .i n..-k --..-mm.nt orra oj Chicago Daily News. (AP Wlrephoto to The Statesman). (Storieo ivmm u'Airisw lime maritin' I tMrrp mooraa. inr rwriianu Docks Seized; Walkout Grows LONDON. July 12-yP-Britain's labor government formally seized j the port of London today to force a showdown with striking aocx workers, but the wildcat walkout spread. A five-man emergency commit tee, armed with extraordinary powers, was appointed to run the docks on behalf of the nation. As army and navy reinforce ments moved in. hundreds of dock workers joined the work stoppage, which the government blames on communist agitation. Strike lead ers deny they are communists. Fire District Petitions In for South of Salem Petitions asking formation of a Liberty-Salem Heights rural fire protection distript south of Salem were, filed with the Marion coun ty clerk Tuesday. The petitions were sent to the county assessor to check whether they are signed by 25 per cent of qualified! property owners in the district.! I r r vf IlKnter iriCS lO Onnr a iwatcr nwK i r ( v - American newspapermen! reported dead today In crash t DuUh airliner If to rlrttt irf I lur M I.TBlKe. " " V 1 Santiam Hatchery Work Inaugurated DETROIT. July 12 -(Special Gaasland Construction company. Bellincham. Wash., has started work on the North Santiam river salmon hatchery near Marion Forks and the projiect wilL be completed in about seven irjomns. Also started is the U. S. en gineers' office at the Detroit dam site. The wOrk is befng done by Rushlite Automatic! Sprinkler company, and will be completed about November 1. There Are Lots of Salems i i In fact, more than a score of them. Right now, it ap pears Salem. Ore., is the largest - - although Salem, Mass., may still contest that honor in the next federal census. i ; . Anyway, The Statesman has felt that we'd like to know more about oui- other Salems. With that in mind. Erie Bergman, former full-time Statesman editorial staff mem ber, is on a nation-wide tour. He'll stop in at least 10 of the Salems and report in writing and pictorially what he sees. His first story, on: Salem, Utah, will appear in The Statesman's feature section next Sunday. Z. . H f. X W- . aMK,m.u.; Asia Tragedy " LnntUU BTirucr aiuuiwi . n .j v, R,rr the and picture mUo on pace 14.) uicivih iDulles Backs ! , . ) Atlantic Fact WASHINGTON. July 12-Vln his first senate speech. Senator Dulles (R-NY) said today thaV failure to ratify the North Atlantic treaty would immediately "re vive the communist offensive against western Europe." The New Yorker declared the 12-nation treaty is vital to keep Germany from turning toward a Soviet alliance. Truman Speech Tonight Set Oh Economy . WASHINGTON, July 12 - (VP) -President Truman talked business with Budget Director Frank Pace today as he polished up the radio message he scheduled tomorrow night to explain the new economic course he has charted for the na tion. Pace kept mum on the subject of their conference. The lawmakers indicated that they may give the slow signal to other phases of the economic pro gram the president outlined yes terday in a major reversal of the direction of administration, finan cial policies. While they generally cheered his retreat on the income tax front, key leaders predicted there would be no early action to lift excise levies on transportation as he requested. Although the WTute House did not indicate exactly what Mr ..Tru man will say in tomorrow night's radio speech (7 JO p. m., POT), his nationwide broadcast is expected to hammer hard on the theme that the country's economy is basically strong and requires only faith, co operation and action to boost it over the hump to new peaks of productivity. The address of President Tru man will be broadcast over radio KSLM at 8 o'clock tonight (day light time). Pension Ballot Claimed Sure PORTLAND. July 12-CffV-Joe E. Dunne said today that enough signatures have been certified to assure that the legislature's old age pension bill will be submitted to referendum. Dunne, sponsor of the old age group, said that 16,981 signatures have been certified with the dead line three days away. Only 15,920 are needed. The daylight saving referendum was still ,5,000 names short, but sponsors . said they thought - they had enough more signatures ready for checking to meet requirements. HISS PROBE DENIED WASHINGTON. July 12 - UP) The house un-American activities committee rejected today a repub lican bid for immediate reopening of the Hiss-Chambers case. Actu ally, the committee left the door open for reconsideration by saying it wasn't going to call any wit nesses at this time." ' o ureeon Men Dejad i i On Tour By The AsaocUtad frf BOMBAY, India. July )2 Thir teen American neWs coffreF pend ents flying home from a yix-week tour of Indonesia berishied today in a plane crash. j; One of them was.-a wofnan. The crash killed a total -of 45 ptrson. (Three Oregon men wrfre killed. Details on page I4.)j A 14th American! tha ?Iew Ytik public relations mat who sponsor ed the Indonesian tour In coope r ation with the Dutch government, was among the dead. Their big KLM i(Rotl Dutch airlines) Constellation w4s circling in a blinding; mon.'bo"n rjaiivfn mi attempt to land at Santa sCruz hir field. 15 miles north off Bombay, when It crashed and bprncd on 800-foot high G h a t k ojp a r hilL about four miles ttt the faM. Prise Winners Aboard f The bylines and? broadca.-ts cf the correspondents; were' familiar to thousands of readers ajid listen ers. Among them yere tiivo Pulit zer prize winners' jThe Amencan consulate listed thsm. j H. R. Kniokericker, 1 5 1 . riidio commentator for WDR, ittw Yoik, formerly with I r.tof nation. 1 News Service. Philadelphia PijUio Led ger, Chicago Sun' and! Newnfc Morning Ledger, a War irre-oii-dent in Ethiopia. I Spaip, China, Europe and North Africi. a Pulit zer prize winner tri 1930 S. Burton Hea'h,;50, Heus.fr Enterprise association, formerly of the Associated Press, New York World -Telegram, and Hurlinton, Vt.. Free Press, ajwinijer ol tle 1939 Pultizer prize fori domes tie reporting. !j f Charles Gratke.548, fbreign ed itor of the Christiih Scilmt Mon itor. -I Miss Elsie Dick, director of worn en's, religious and educational pro grams for Mutual Broadcasting System, formerly with New Yoik er Magazine and House Beautiful. Nat Barrows. 49; Chicago Di.ily News, formerly with the Hi ton Globe, a veteran reporter of South America, European arid United Nations Affairs whose reporting was cited last Ma by Sjigma Dl ta Chi, national journalistic fia ternity, as the outstanding oili of the year. Bertram Dyer Hulen,60. Wash ington staff of the New York Times, formerly of the lAssotiMt-d Press and Springfield, jIMass., le publican. William H. New ton Scnjps Howard Newspaper Alliann. a correspondent in E u f o p e and China. .-! . I John Werkley, )8. Time maga zine, formerly of the jNew Yorl Herald Tribune, Aisociated Piy Patterson, N. J., Evening New and Daily Oklahoman. 1 George L. Moorad, i 41, rdi commentator for KGW Portland, Oregon. f Thomas A. Falcb, 39j Washing ton staff of Business Week n.bga zine. I I Fred Colvig, 36, Denier Pot. James Branyan, 3l Houston Post, formerly of the Atlanta Georgian, Beaumont, Tex., Journal and International News; Service. Vincent Mahoney, 47 San Fran cisco Chronicle. Formerly with the Associated Press, United Pre- a. New York News.;r The tour conductor as Lynn O. Mahan, 40, vice president of the public relations firm if Theodor Swanson and CoNewYork, who had worked on several newspa pers, i ' 1$ Other Passengers The other dead, according to the best information here, included 20 passengers and 11 KLM employee. The passengers were IT Dutch, twe Chinese and one Britoh. Two other merfibersJof the cor respondents' group, William R. Mathews, publisher of he Arizorta Star at Tucson, and Mrs. Dorothy Brandon of the New York Herald Tribune, were not or the plane because they had decidtd to return by other routes, j? I KLM officials! at The Hague, said their first impression from re ports at the scene was that the crash was caused, by bad weather conditions. I ; PULP EXECUTIVE DIES PORTLAND, 4uly 2 -VP- Fu neral services Will be held her Thursday for Tbeodoe Osmond, 69, vice president, of fthe Oregon Pulp and Paper company and tb Columbia River paper mill. He died here yesterday. WESTEBM rvtEENiTIONAL At Salem 2. Wee tehee 1 At Vancouver . Victoria I At Taeocna . Brmertaa 1 1 At Yakima 10. Srokane T ALL STAB GAME American Leaf a II. NaUonal lesgu
