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r Goal Strike As Pensions Van Horn Resigns WASHINGTON, Sept. 18-OTV-A Nationwide coal strike, was feared tonight as John L. Lewis suspended miners' welfare payments because of a shortage of funds. f t Lewis carefully refrained from saying "strike." Butt already 8,000 western miners had walked out Eastern and southern miners were nnt t work today because they are on a three-day week ordered by wsssm Highway needs for Salem and Marion county will be presented to the state highway commission at its meeting next week by local representatives. Meetings of city, county and chamber of commerce officials this week outlined the croeram. It follows that prev iously recommended. The Salem traffic plan prepar mA hv the state highway depart ment has been approved by the council as will be reported to the commission Tuesday afternoon. This, includes the new bridge over the Willamette, rerouting oi mgn way 99E through Salem and en t of a i)VD&ss for through raffia ast of the city. With the ronrt in hand the com mission is expected to direct the department to go ahead with the bridge and the street changes In Kalpm. No date has been set for u nrlr on ther bVDaSS. Next in order of priority for this area Is the North Santiam highway. The local group will urge immediate construction of the section between Mehama and Mill ritv on rieht-of-way already acquired on the Marion county ride of the North" Santiam. This construction is urgently needed because the road above has been completed clear across the Gas cades, and a fine road it is. Dur ing the next few years movement of oversize cargoes by truck to the Detroit dam Job require a better road and bridges of bigger capacity than now exist. The steep pitch and turn coming out of Mill City would be avoided by this new section. The cost of this project is not heavy as compared with many others, while the need for it is urgr- Eventually Highway 222 will have to . . , Continued on editorial page, ) Completion of Santiam Dike Recommended JEFFERSON, Sept lB-(Special) Leaders of the North Santiam riv er flood control project urged im mediate completion of the main dike at Jefferson in a meeting here today. rinancins of the dike, to be lo cated in the new river channel,! wu tha principal topic of discui lon during the session. The com mittee voted to put two additional bulldozers to work to complete a .major portion of the project be i fore rainy weather sets in. 1 The added equipment brings to fivi the number of bulldozers dig ging tha eight-foot channel through the island for the dike and channel. The mam dike, when completed, will be 130 feet thick at tha bot tom and 20 feet high. During the flood stage, when the river rises to ,24 feet at Jefferson, water will be backed up three miles Into Linn county by the dike. Members of the committee ex plained the barrier must be strong enough to hold back this wa'tr and still carry the river fast enough to prevent washouts of about 1,000 acres during flood stage. Engineers from Portland, Salem and Albany will be in Jefferson next week to Inspect work on the dirt dike. Local farmers, victims . of flooding nearly every year, are financing the project. Police Catch Arson Suspect KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 16--A mounted" state policeman to day fought and captured a man accused of setting two fires in the Deschutes national forest. 'State police here said the man, a logger.'was "crazed. They said he drove his truck into the 'woods near Mowich Thursday night, set the truck afire and then laughed raucously as flames spread into the timber. Police chased him, but he eluded capture until the patrolman on horseback subdued him at a ranch building in northern Klamath county today. Max. es ea Tl Mia. Trtrrp. S Jl II M Ian Franrtaco 8 .00 cnieaco .00 .03 Y fork 71 WIEamtt river 4.1 (nL FORECAST (tram US. wathr bu reau. McNarr field): Partly cloudy to day bacomivf generally cloudy tarjght th rain. High today near TO. Low t night near Si. Weather will be favor aoi for farm 1 activities except for moderate afternoon wind. aAXXM PBXCrPlTATlOM (Sept. X V Sept. 17) This Year . Lat Yew Average 1.2a Jl .U PQjQDuCi Feared Cease; Lewis, ineir intentions will be come known Monday. The multi-billion dollar welfare fund had been seriously diminished by refusal of some southern opera tors to continue chipping in their 20-cents-a-ton royalty. 4- Turi U'!imoH Aariiot tVia tuAV that 'social conclusions"; were in store if the southerners did not change their mind, i I The welfare fund trustees, hea ded by Lewis, suspended pensions, disability pay and other benefits to miners because of "diminishing revenues." Senator Bridge (R-NH) one of the trustees,, said the fund had dwindled from; $30,000,000 on July 1 to $14,000,000 on Septem ber 1. Industry spokesmen feared the benefit suspension ?meant a full scale strike. 1 I WASHINGTON, i Sept. 16H&V Ezra Van Horn of Cleveland, O., has resigned as trustee jrepresent welfare and retirement fund, it ing coal operators on the miners' was learned -tonight. His letter of resignation gives no reason for the resignation. I Van Horn, a veteran negotiator for coal concerns dealing with United Mine Workers i President John L. Lewis, attended today's meeting of the welfare fund's board of trustees. lone vote against ! a decision to bring welfare payments to miners Van Horn reportedly cast the to anend. The motion was ap proved on the votes of Senators Bridge (R-NH), the netural trus tee, and Lewis, trustee for the miners. i Italian Fliers Over Ocean OnWaytolLS. NEW YORK, Sept. 16 -JP)-Two Italian fliers in a light single engine plane early tonight were reported to have covered more than half the distance on a 2,000 mile flight from, the" Azores to New York. I I Brisk headwinds encountered early in the flight apparently had diminished, and the plane was ahead of schedule. The airmen radioed here that they were some 1,100 miles from the Azores and, expected to land at La Guardia field about 2 a.m. (EST) tomorrow. This would better by about four hours the takeoff estimate of 26 flying hours.i They left the Azores at 5:13 a.m. (EST) today. The fliers, John M. Brondella ana camiiiio Bafioglio, are mak ing the flight to help promote American support for a proposed oys Mown' in Italy. The fliers abandoned an at tempt to make a non-stop flight from Lisbon to tNew York last week when a f yel line clogged, forcing them .to land In the Azores. ' i r Judge Grants Annulment to Allergic Wife O ; : LOS ANGELES. Sent 16 -fJPU Pretty Joyce Holdridge, who says sne Dreaxs out in a rash even when her husband's name is men tioned, won an annulment today from a Judge who said It may set a legal precedent. Mrs. Holdridge; V: testified that she loved Nolah Holdridge. 26. aan fTancisco watchmaker, and he loved her, but "Whenever I Was with him. I would break out in a rash from head to toe. This would clear up 24 hours after I left him ... but It would recur even at the mention of his name." Superior Judge Ray Brockmann called the Holdridges "guinea pigs and commented: "Courts may be forced to recog nlze what medical science has dis covered that such allergies as Mrs. Holdridge complains of are a fact and not a caprice. MRS. BOETTIGER IN HOSPITAL SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept 16-(P)-Mrs. Anna Roosevelt, Boet tiger, daughter of the late presid ent, is in St John's hospital here under treatment for an infection. Vets Given WASHINGTON, Sept 16 -(JP)-The top dividend checks to be sent to World War II veterans on their National Service Life insurance will be for $328. i Dividends will start going out in January. Veterans Administrator Carl R. Gray Jr., disclosed this today in releasing the formula to be used In distributing ; the $2,800,000,000 dividend ; among some 16,000,000 veterans and their dependent! and heirs. ' '!! The dividend, to be paid before next June SO, is not subject to in come tax. Veterans must apply for it, and about three-fourths of them have already done so. The formula Gray said, is cal culated on the basis of a dividend of 83 sent for each f 1,C39 oi in 99th YEAB rgirp Woods, 1 Escapes BERLIN, Sept 16 John J. Slen- kiewicz. 26, U. 8. army private from Baltimore, MdV gestures In TJ. S. hosplUl In Berlin to day as he tells bow he and three British soldiers broke eat of a Russian orison In east Berlm shortly after midnight and made their war to the V. S. tone. (AP Wlrephoto to The Statesman.) GI, 3 Britons Escape f roiji Russ Prison hfth.TN Sent." 16 -JP- Four western soldiers, an American and thrf Rritons. broke to freedom last midnight from a Soviet prison in which they said they were tortured, beaten and poorly fed for months. The American is Pvt. John J stenkiewicz. 26. of Baltimore. Md.. a veteran of 21 montns oi nntrh camnaiening in the Pacific war, who disappeared irom nis unit of the 16th Infantry regiment here last November 5. -r-- r ' ' . . The Britons, who face charges of being absent without leave at the time of their arrest 18 months &eo. were identified by British nrmv authorities as Jonn ttonv face. Morris Sullivan ana Artnur Taylor. PrlsAn Pallor Weary, dirty and marked by prison pallor, the four made their way on foot to safety in the west ern sectors early today. All were hospitalized. The Britons were reported "in poor phyikal shape." The U. S. army taid sienxiewicz was "in generally weakened phy sical condition, but not unaer nourished." KInkiewix2E said he was nab bed by a Russian officer when he rode a street car into ine soviet sector by miitake November i and his name, carried on his iden tlficatlon card, led the Russians to believe he was a Foiisn dis placed person being uied as a ipy. Ir Water Dunklnr Tha ttockllr built soldier told tales of lee water dunking, of long questioning, of standing 24 hours in a cell without room to sit or kneal and of "having the hell slapped out of me." He said he was "questioned dav and night" for the first 16 days of his arrests. Accounts of the midnight escape varied in ininor details, tbut agreed: Sullivan pierced his cell well, either with a knife or a, metal leg of bed, and then! battered off locks of the cells holding the o.-. .s. They fled over a high wall topped by Jagged glass. Car's Funeral Pyre Cost. Owner $50 RESEDA, Calif, Sept IMflVi Thomas C. Freeman told the Judge he'd patched and patched, trying to get his 13-year-old ear to run. Finally he gaye up, poured keroi sene on it and set it afire. Titty dollars, said the Judge, for burning rubbish without a per mit Formula for ' A '-s of Gl Insurance Dividends surance, for each month the poller was In force before its anniversary date in 1948, for all policyholders who were aged 40 or younger at the time the policy was issued. ; For older, veterans, the dividend declines gradually until it is 20 cents a month, for each $1,000 of Insurance, for veterans S3 and over when the policy was issued. i The scale: Age 41 at issue, 52 cents; 42, 49 cents; 43, 46 cents; 44. 43 cents; 43, 40 cents; 46, 37 cents; 47, 34 cents; 48, 31 cents; 49, 28 cents; 80, 23 cents; 81, 24 cents; 52, 23 cents; 53, 22 cents; 54, 21 cents.- ' ;l Gray said the maximum pay ment of $528 Is based on a $10,000 policy in force for 95 months, on a 12 PAGES The Salem High Vikings Toppled UCLA Drops Kip Taylor's Beavers 35-13 LOS ANGELES, Sept 16 -UP)- A; fleet band of University of California at Los Angeles Bruins tonight stunned a crowd of 40,000 in the Coliseum by tramp ling the Oregon State Beavers, 33 to 13, in the opening football game of the season for both Coast conference schools- Pregame wag ering had the contest billed as anything from a tossup to a six point margin for the Bruins. The winners threw long gain ers at the Oregonians in dominat ing play. It was the debut game for both coaches. Henry (Red) Sanders of the UCLA team and Kap Taylor for the Beavers. UCLA started early in the first period and kept right on rolling. At half time it was 21-0 for the winners who surprised the crowd with their swiftness. Oregon State had defeated UCLA here last sea son 28-0. (Additional details on sport page) 86 Business Firms Join in Fall Opening Eighty-six Salem business firms, Including eight automoDue aeai ers, are participating in the an nual fall opening, scheduled Tues dav evenine in Salem. i .Tamp R. Beard, president of the Retail Trade bureau, an nounced Fridav that 30 to 40 new automobiles will be on display by the eight auto firms. It is the first time they have participated in the fall opening show. Each has treasure hunt tickets and is Offering prizes. ! Beard has remined Salem shop pers that the treasure hunt tick ets are for use in the hunt on Tuesday, September 20, though they were dated September 15 by error. All firms taking part in the opening have an ample sup ply of tickets on hand, Beard said. Window displays will be un veiled at 7 p.m. Tuesday with the nrize winners In 10 oivisions marked. Senate Blocks Nomination WASHINGTON, Sept. I The senate today rejected Carl A. Ilgenfritz for a high defense post because he refused to give im tha 170.000-a-year salary -he draws from U. S. Steel corp. The chamber turned down Pre sident Truman's nomination of the "biff steel" executive by a vote Of 40 to 28. Mr. Truman had picked Ilgen. fritz as $14,000-a-year chairman of the U. S. munitions board to direct advance planning for na tionwide industrial mobilization in the event of the another wan 00 Wins Phone Workers' Election PORTLAND. Sept le-CAVThe communication workers of Amer ica, CIO, today won majority sup Dort from Oregon employes of the Pacific telephone & telegraph Co. Today's vote count in the.week lona balloting to determine whe ther the union was wanted by employes as their barganing re presentative, was reported by Har old Ash of the CIO staff as: for the union 2246, against 1896. Figuring veteran 40 or less when the policy was taken out To determine the amount of re bate a veteran can follow these j three steps: (1) take monthly scale as fixed by age group, (2) multiply that by the number of thousands in his policy, and (2) multiply that figure by the number of months the policy was in effect. Here is an example: John Doe, age 39. tobk out $10, 000 in March. 1944. Since he is in the under-40 age group, he will receive 55 cents a month for each thousand dollars in his policy which waa in effect for 48 months. So multiply $.55 x 10 z 48. That equals $264; which is the amount of his dividend. Oregon Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Saturday. September 17. 1949 Tloli TJ nil VilriiifVfiW Wta ! er draw Salem hlth school's giidsten this season will JAcfll. JAdll, T IrVlHO... te ,nre of enthusiastic support from Its rootins section. The photo shows the school's rally squad performing at a pep assembly Friday in preparation for the open ing football game against Vancouver high's Trappers. The girls afe. left to right, Alice Glrod. Ginger Currier. Gwen Fry and Joan Miller, all seniors. In the middle is Don Herring, Junior, with Kent Myers, senior, perched atop bis shoulders. (Statesman photo). Salem Hish 4J Football Team Loses Opener VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 16 (Special) The favored Van couver high school Trappers put a sour ending to Salem high's bid for a successful 1$49 football sea son opener here tonight by down ing the Vikings, 20-6. The Trap pers scored in the first, third and fourth periods. Salem tallied in the second quarter when Captain Jim Rock went over from five yards out. The count at halftime was 7-6 for Vancouver. Although the Vikings gained almost as much yardage as Van couver and rolled up nearly as many first downs In the wide open game, they couldn't make a number of scoring opportunities Day off. Salem was within the 20- yard line in scoring territory half a dozen times but managed to score only the one time. (Addi tional details on sports page.) Pensioner to Keep '37 Auto PORTLAND, Sept. 16 (JP)- The state public welfare commission decided today htat Logan Fields, 78, one-armed old age pensioner, can keep his 1937 automobile. The commission decided that Fields could keep the machine in order to visit a clinic regularly. A medical examination indicated he needed regular treatment. The ruling reversed the com mission's earlier stand, which had supported the Multnomah county welfare commission. That body told Fields he must sell his car or lose his pension. In ' another case that of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Bartholomew the commission found the wife need ed a car to visit a clinic. Fined for Going j On Water Wagon ROCK ISLAND, 111., Sept 16-(P)-Martin Kohn, 24, went on the water wagon and drew a $25 court fine for intoxication. Police Magistrate Walter E. McBride assessed the fine yester day after testimony that Kohn climbed aboard a city water wagon and drove off while the attendant was in a restaurant. Kohn was caught after a four blocks chase. DL M. RANDALL ELECTED BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 16 -VP)- H. M. Randall of Salem, Ore., today was elected the new president cf the Western Probation and Parole association as the group ended its meeting here. Randall is director of probation and parole for the state of Oregon. i POUNDDD 1651 ' . - A ft Steel Union, Employers To Start Negotiations WASHINGTOk, Sept. 16-0P)-In a new attempt to prevent a crippling steel strike, the government asked CIO steelworkers and their employers to end their long-distance sparring over a contract and sit down with mediators here Monday. The strike now is set to begin in eight days at 12.01 a.m., Sunday, September 25. September Truman has persuaded the union and the steel companies to agree to an 11-day truce to study the re commendations of his fact-finding board issued last Saturday. Cyrus S. Ching, director of the federal mediation and consiliation service, summoned management and union representatives to the mediation session here at 8:30 ajn (EST) next Monday. In doing to; ht expressed the belief there is a "good possibility" that the failure of the union and employers to start negotiating on the fact finders recommendations "springs not from irreconcilable fundamental differences in views, but 4rom the meaning of words." Police Arrest Bootleggers ALBANY, Sept. 16 -JP- Two men were arrested today on .charge of manufacturing liquor, after a raid reminiscent of the old bootlegging days. State Police Officer Wayne Hoffman said he and three other officers caught two men running off 100 gallons of mash in a still. Two men Identified as Robert Charles Bruce, Waterloo, and Frank Beweley, Sodaville, were taken to Portland for arraignment in federal court. The officers seized a 100 gallon still, SO gallons of moonshine, and 200 gallons of mash in a chicken house at the edge of the commun ity of Sodaville. McKay Gives Opinion on Demos, Politics, Moving Bonneville Dam Friday was a quiet enough day1 around the Oregon statehouse, but Gov. Douglas McKay got in his licks. In fact, he had "a word" for it in three divergent announcements to the local press. ; Asked if he might oppose Wayne Morse for U. S. senatorial nomination next year, the gov ernor said no. I have all the work I can handle in my present Job," he added, "and it keeps me busy day and night." Reporters countered with a sug gestion that the governor might be trying to discourage opposition to his reelection. j McKay laugher, Tm having a good time on the sidelines watch ing the democrats light each other." ! Democrats apparently In mind otherwise, as Governor McKay endorsed Seattle's attempt to re tain its Boeing airplane plant, de PRICE Sc Hdl p by Vancouver 20-6 Hungarian on Trial Accuses U.Se of Spying BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. 16 -P)-Laszlo Rajk, former Hunga rian police boss and No. 2 com munist, confessed fluently today to charges he plotted with Americans and others to smash Hungary's government in an anti-Soviet cru sade led by Yugoslav Premier Marshal Tito. Pouring self-denunciation into a people's court microphone for four hours, the poker-faced, 40-year-old Rajk described tha revolt plot at part of a sweeping plan by Tito "to lead and organize an anti Soviet movement in every people's democracy (Russian satellite)." Rajk and seven others went on trial for treason. He declared Tito planned a mili tary invasion of Hungary, the in citement of border strife with Bul garia, the liquidation of Greek communist guerrilla forces and the Incorporation of Albania into Yugoslavia. Raik showed eagerness to pile detailed blame on himself for acts since he began what he called his double-dealing with thi commun ists in 193L He named a former U.S. minister to Hungary, Selden Chapin, and two other Americans In the plot. He accused by name Yugoslav of ficials and others on trial as Bri tish and French spies. J claring, "If the bureaucrats in Washington succeed in their ef forts to move this plant east, they probably will try Oregon next: They might try to move the Bonneville dam east," McKay quipped. He suggested that ade quate provision for defense of Alaska, would safeguard north west industries. Football made its seasonal de but in the executive office, too, with the result that the governor turned down free plane ride and tickets for both the University of Oregon game at St. Mary's and the Oregon State game at Lot Angeles. A w M j , mm mmmj m m, planation. He bad four speaking engagements for Friday night and Saturday Including e community club banquet and crippled child' ren's society meeting" in Portland end two sofl conservation group gatherings here. f f No. 182 40,000 See Ducks Subdue j j St. Mary,s 24-7 - SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 16-VP)- The Oregon Webfoots open ed their 1949 football season tonight by squashing the St Mary's Gaels, 24 to 7, before 40. 000 surprised fans here in Ketat stadium. The game had been list ed as a tossup, after Oregon's nar row one-point'win over St. Marys last season, and many in the Bay area felt that the Gaels would turn in the victory tonight. There was no question about th outcome as early as the first per iod as the Web foots, shining both offensively and defensively, com pletely dominated play4 Only , la the late stages of the contest were the Gaels able to click. By then it was to late. The winners scored three touch downs and a field goal and led at halftime by a 17-0 count. (Ad ditional details on sports page), Fire Dest roys Steamship on Great Lakes TORONTO. Sept. 17 -(&)- Tire destroyed the Great Lakes Steam ship Noronic at her dock here this morning. How many, if any, died in the blaze could not be de termined at once. : The fire broke out at 2:30 a.m. (EST) and was seen first at the vessel's stern. Within minutes the ship was aflame from bow te stern. 1 Some of those aboard jumped from the decks to the pier and others climbed down ropes. ; A number were seen to jump from the burning ship into the waters of Lake Ontario. j There were reports that others had been trapped aboard and per ished in the figure. The vessel carried about IfO persons, Including 185 crew mem bers. Apparently almost all had jumped overboard safely, but there was a report that one woman drowned after she leaped from the ship. Snyder Backs Devaluation WASHINGTON. Sept. 18 Secretary of the Treasury Snyder said emphatically today he be lieves dollar-short European gov ernments should consider deval uation as a means of boostlnst their exports to the United State Experts explained Snyder's sug gestion this way: If Britain reduced value of ; the British pound sterling from Ms present $4.03 It would have 1 the effect of lowing the prices eg British goods shopped to I the) United States. I This would result because Aaa ericans would then be able to buy more British goods for their dol lars. And this, in turn, would tend to stimulate American purchases of British products. J 90 Sign for j Bend College BEND, Sept. 16 -UP)- More tha 90 students have registered so far for the new Central Oregon Com munity college, established by the state system of higher education. An even larger enrollment to expected by the time classes stai September 20. f Four instructors will shuttle be tween the classes here and similar ones at Klamath Falls. Course are taught in late afternoon and evening, si ; . - - Coast Leagee ' j At Kan DUf 4. Portland At Sramnt S. StUa I At San rranclaco S, HoUjrwooa! t At Lew An-tM 4. OaJUaa U Nattesal Leagv ! At ft LooLa 1. gi1 f I ' At CSTafl. N5Tfrk4 At Ctocinnatt X, FhfiadclphU I American League J At Kew York 4. Detroit 1 f . At Waanlaftoa) S. CWraland 4 At Boston 12. St. Laula 4 At fhltartalphU S-S. Chicase J-