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Gov. Douglas McKay announced Wednesday night that he dis
patched state police forces to The Dalles to curb what; he ' called
"banditry" in the disorders following a controversy over unloading of
pineapple barge there. I j
"We won't tolerate that in Oregon,' said Jthe governor.!
McKay said he had been informed by "five Dalles city officials
that the situation was way beyond control of local authorities.
"Harry Bridges is not running the state o pregon," Gov. McKay
declared. ; f
McKay said enough state policemen would be at The Dalles to
prevent further violence. "And if they need: more help, we have
plenty of tough xoys to send there,
THE DALLES, Sept.- 28-0P)-CIO longshore pickets smashed an
attempt to unload Hawaiian pineapple here today in a mass attack
that seriously injured two truck drivers. j j - - .
Nearly a dozen others were battled around when some 200 pick
cts rushed the dock, smashing truck windows, knocking down the
drivers and dumping canned pineapple into the Columbia river.
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Labor in Britain, both the
workers and their trade unions,
have taken a lot of the rap for
high production costs which have
Circumscribed markets for Brit
ish products. Labor is not solely,
perhaps not ehiefly responsible
True, the trades unions have
Dressed for and obtained (both
from conservative and labor
arty aovernments) many serv
ices paid for out of the public
treasury: social security, health
and education. And workers have
the workers' traditional fear of
speed-ups and labor-saving ma
chinery. But as far as retention
of antiquated methods in indus
try is concerned, proprietors are
Quite as responsible as workers.
Coal mining in Britain was no
toriously backward. The owners
looked for dividends; few paid
much attention to workers' wel
fare (remember the "depressed
areas" in coalfields of Britain
and Wales?) and few were will
ing to make investments in ma
chinery such as American mining
companies have done. The result
was that coal was a sick indus
try in Britain before the govern
ment nationalized it .
In manufacturing- too proprie
tors were content with old ma-
S Vines and old methods, although
some lines of enterprise such
as shipbuilding the British retain
ed leadership in low cost pro
duction. Lately organized efforts
have been made to bring English
managers and foremen to Amer
ica to study production methods
here, with the hope that they may
return and adapt them to their
own operations.
One of the worst offenses of
British business and industry
(Continued on Editorial page 4.)
Episcopalians
Liberalize,
Divorce Canon
SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 2MA)
The Xpisoopal church tonight took
a preliminary step toward possible
liberalization of its eanon on mar
riage after divorce.
That suggestion was made in an
interim report of a special com
mittee of the church's house of
bishop's.
The report was submitted at the
88th triennial convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church in
America. It held that causes stated
in fiie church law for dissolution
of a marriage are acceptable If
they , occur after a marriage has
been performed.
The committee further contend
ed a member of the church may
seek a ruling on marriage after di
vorce from any bishop.
Prior to 1948. the church would
remarry only the Innocent party
In a divorce resulting from adul
tery. In 1946, the house of bishops
and the house of clerical and lay
deputies authorized nine grounds
for nullifying marriage.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
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"BuHslo, Bison Bison, Buf
fo wAsf's fAe differttKi as
long at you're tuppil"
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xaxen to a nospitai here were
Raymond Curto, San Jose, Calif .,
in charge l the trucks seeking to
movethe pineapple to a San Jose
cannery and Clarence Resales, al
so of San Jose.
Suffers Broken Back
A physician at the hospital said
Rosales' back was broken. He said
Curto suffered head and chest in
juries. I I
Late in the day, Circuit Judge
Malcolm W. Wilkinson i of Wasco
county issued a temporary restrain
ing order ! aimed at halting any
further picketing or interference
with trucks or dock operations.
The order was issued after Po
lice Chief I. E. Cloe testified po
lice were; not able to maintain
peace in the community as a result
of the riverfront dispute.
The Hawaiian Pineapple com
pany asked an injunction to halt
the union interference. ;The judge
set Fridayv Sept 30, as a hearing
date on the injunction petition.
Seeks Injunction !
. Named 'j defendants In the re
straining $rder were four officers
of the International Longshore
men's union local in Portland and
200 John Doe members of the un
ion. Fred Kamahoahoa, Hawaiian
longshoreman Gown here to head
the picket line, was also named a
defendant! i' , j
There will be no more attempts
to unload; "until we are assured
there will be no violence," said
Richard Botley, president of Isle
ways Inc. The subsidiary of Hawai
ian Pineapple company owns the
1,700-ton cargo and barged it to
this inland Columbia river port.
The violence flared : suddenly
this afternoon. At dawn today a
youthful hem-union crew started
unloading! the cargo. An hour later
the first longshore picket appear
ed. I warm Through Gates
By mid-morning there were 100
pickets, mostly from Portland's
CIO waterfront By noon, police
estimated there were 200.
In mid-afternoon, when the first
two tncks were loaded and ap
peared ready to leave for San Jose,
two more big trucks came up to the
gate. Silt' uniformed ; policemen
opened the gate. The pickets were
massed behind the trucks.
The pickets swarmed through
the gate, brushing the police aside.
They halted the trucks, pulled out
the drivers and knocked them
down. They smashed windshields
and headlights and tore out the
wiring on one truck.
While one group attacked the
trucks, a ' larger group ran the
length of the 1,000-foot terminal
platform.f They came to the two
loaded trucks, beat the drivers and
smashed ; the trucks. They tried
unsuccessfully to overturn the
trucks, then threw some of the
pineapple-cases Into the river. Oth
ers sought to overturn the unload
ing crane and. falling, threw some
of its mechanism into the river.
Barge lines were cut, but one
tied to a piling underneath escap
ed the knives and held the barge.
Air Search
Plans Geared
For! Action
With fcoming winter weather
expected! to bring an increase in
lost planes, the air search and res
cue program of the Oregon board
of aeronautics is being geared for;
action this week.
The program, set up by the 1947
legislature, activates a statewide
system o rescue operations in case)
of a lost: plane or missing person.;
Last year alone some 35 searches
were conjducted. '
The board of aeronautics of
ficials will meet sometime next
week with the state civil air patrol
heads from Portland. The board
and CAP work in close coordina
tion on rescue searches.
Although all details of this
year's program have ; not been
worked Ijput vet it was reported
Wednesday, H. C. (Hub) Saalfeld
will again head the air arm of the
search program in this zone, and
Marion u County .Sheriff Denver
Young, he ground crews- - j
For fast action in rescue operaj
tions the state is. divided into 21
zones, each with its own rescue
units. When a plane or person is
missinr jor believed lost anywhere
in the State the news is flashed
over the board's statewide telej
type system. The search is theiji
narrowed down to the vicinity in
which the plane or person is be
lieved lost ' I
Local pilots and planes are then
used for the search with the pro
gram paying the cost of gas and
oU for Jh planes. : ;
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept X8 An expressionless "Tokyo Kose." Mrs.
Iva Tognri D'Aqnlnp, leaves the federal court room here after a
Jnry of six women and six men failed arain to reach a verdict in
her trial for treason. The Jury, deliberating since Monday, de
elded to knock eff for the night at 7:45 p.m. and will resume again
at 9 ajn. tomorrow. (AP Wirephoto to the Statesman.)
Churchill Asks Labor
Government Ousted
LONDON, Sept 28-W)-Winston Churchill today called devalua
tion of the pound a lamentable and serious disaster for Britain and
asked parliament to oust the labor government.
Thj former prime minister who leads the conservative party rip
Foreign Arms
Bill Passes
WASHINGTON, Sept 28
An historic $1,114,010,000 foreign
arms aid bilL the greatest in
peacetime history, sped through
both chambers of congress today.
It now goes to the White House
for President Truman's signatured
The measure, designed to bul
wark the defenses of friendly na
tions against communism, first
cleared the house by a top-heavy
margin of 223 to 109.
Then, by voice vote, the senate
shouted its approval-
In its final form, the bill emerg
ed as a major victory for admin
istration leaders who fought back
all efforts to cut the vast expendi
ture. The bill authorizes $1,000,000,
000 for Atlantic Treaty nations
$900,000,000 in cash and $500,000,
000 in future contracting author
ity with the .balance going to
Greece, Turkey, Iran, Korea, the
Philippines and the "general area"
of China.
Southeast Salem Drainage Improvement Project Underway
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Winter rains and spring floods went be plagrning- the sentkeastera
pert ef Salesn this year as snack ae la past years if aralaage werk
new ander way le ef any avail. Clearance and dredging ef a cJuutael
n a ditch ruining la a northwesterly direction from a point about
fear blocks sooth ef city limits at sonta 12th street past Leslie
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ped into Sir Stafford Cnpps as a
blundering chancellor of the ex
chequer who lacked foresight and
turned "completely round like a
squirrel in his cage."
Then he offered a motion of no
confidence in the labor govern
ment. If the motion should be car
ried in the vote tomorrow, at the
end of an emergency, three - day
session, ' Prime Minister Attlee
would have to resign and take his
case to the voters in a general el
ection. However, labor has 393 tff
the 640 seats in the house of com
mons. The predominantly conservative
f house of lords tonight rejected 93
to 1 24, a government motion ap
proving devaluation. It then ad
opted, without a record .vote, an
opposition motion criticising the
government. The lords' vote car
ries little weight The real test
comes in commons tomorrow.
Churchill, who put the pound
back on the gold standard a quar
ter of a century ago, said the Sept
18 devaluation of sterling from
$4.03 to $2.80 was untimely and
a "new and serious drain upon the
life strength of Britain."
He charged the labor govern
ment with having brought Britain
"to the verge of national and in
ternational bankruptcy."
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Fordo WoKers Settle out
teel Me
Mediators Try
Last Maneuver
To Halt Strike
PITTSBURGH, Sept 28 -W)-U.
S. Steel offered today to put up
10 cents a man-hour for a Jointly
financed pension - insurance pro
gram, but the steelworkers char
ged the industry is trying to force
a strike.
The disputants were deadlocked
only two days away from the
deadline for a nationwide strike.
In an eleventh hour attempt to
side-track a crippling walkout,
Federal Conciliation Director Cy
rus S. Ching sent expert media
tors to key steel negotiations
around the country. He indicated
this was the last peace maneu
ver his office planned.
Follows Recommendations
U. S. Steel, leader of the Indus
try, noted its offer contained "the
exact amounts recommended by
a presidential steel board." How
ever, employes were asked to
contribute about $2 to $3 a month
for insurance and unspecified am
ounts for pensions, and to agree
to a year's contract extension to
April 30, 1951.
A fact-finding board that stu
died the dispute recommended a
pension-welfare program costing
10 cents a man-hour, with the
employers footing the entire bill.
The union did not immediately
give a formal answer to the peace
proposal. But it issued a statement
saying negotiations were dead
locked and charging that industry
was refusing to accept the board's
recommendations.
Bank Furnaces
. The company's offer hinged on
the union's willingness to extend
the present contract until April
30, 1931.
Crucible Steel broke off negoti
ations In Pittsburgh after each
side rejected the other's peace
proposals. Inland Steel began
shutdown operations at its east
Chicago, Ind plant in prepara
tion for a possible strike.
U. S. Steel began Wednesday
night banking furnaces of its
Chicago-area subsidiaries, where
97,600 are employed.
Red Sox Lose,
Yankees Win
NEW YORK, Sept. 28-(yP)-The
lowly Washington Senators put a
crimp in the American league
pennant hopes of the Boston Red
Sox tonight as they upset the
Sox, 1-1, to throw them back in
a firsUplace tie with the New
York Yankees.
The Yankees downed the Phil
adelphia Athletics, 7-5. Each team
has three games left two with
each other.
Rain stymied the National
league contenders, St Louis be
ing rained out at Pittsburgh and
Brooklyn being Idle at Boston.
(Complete 'details on sports
Page.)
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left to a ahevel erew with, left te right. Arthar aUblna, tU 8.
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Cenyer, 2f $1 Pertland rd.; and at right Is a drag Una perated by
Bareld gck stela. Xaizer. (lUteamaa photea)
Thursday. September 29. 1949
o&totrs
CityR
ents
Off, Survey Shows
By Conrad G. Prange
Staff Writer. Th Statesman
The case j of the Beleaguered
Landlord vs the Outraged Tenant
appears to be adjusting itself in
Salem.
With but i few exceptions ten
ants, real estate agents and apart
ment house managers agreed in
a Statesman! survey this week that
rents appear to be leveling.
While most rentals in lower
brackets have increased slightly,
rent on some higher-priced apart
ments has fallen.
With federal rent controls off
for nearly two months now, few
cases of exorbitant rent increase
since then were uncovered.
Reports of proposed construc
tion of several large apartment
houses in Salem, meanwhile; ap
pear to meet with the approval
of local real estate interests. Sev
eral spokesmen indicated this
week that they felt local popula
tion is expanding enough to create
a need for new rental units. These
same spokesmen were of the opinr
ion that the additional rental units
proposed would not drag down
other rents immediately.
The proposed apartments In
IKlungry Collegians
pleased by Soviet
HAMBURG, Germany, Sept 28 -V Two American college boys,
gaunt and pale from two months in Soviet zone jails, were released by
the Russians today. The first thing they wanted was a good meaL
The two are Warren Oelsner, 20, of Oyster Bay, N. and Peter
Sellers, 19, of Radn"or7Ta. They
said they were arrested as spy
suspects, haruffed at time and
held in "dungeons" below street
level after bicycling into the
Soviet zone July 31 without a Rus
sian permit -The
U S. military mission at
Potsdam obtained their release af
ter weeks of negotiation.
Sellers and Oelsner told news
men they had started out to cycle
from western Germany to Berlin,
the four-power city 100 miles east
of the zonal frontier, and did not
realize how seriously the Rus
sians regarded unlicensed travel.
Oelsner did most of the talking.
He said he put up physical pro
tests about j the food in both Sch
werin and in Magdeburg, break
ing up cell furniture, and the
Russians slapped the twA into
what amounted to solitary con
finement for 18 days.
"We got about 600 grams (a lit
tle more than a pound) of bread,
fish and porridge every day,"
Oelsner said. "They fed us
enough toward the end. I asked
for food one time and pounded on
the door. They put me in hand
cuffs. When I resisted, about five
of them piied on me andyone hit
me In the face." t
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Leveling
clude a 101-unit house to be erect
ed by Victor N. Jones of Seattle
and three houses with more than
80 units, by Robert Coatea Con
struction Co. of Portland.
Those interested in the rental
business say that rents are "find
ing their own levels' because the
law of supply and demand is
coming back into operation. As
the housing shortage eases itself,
tenants are becoming more
choosey and are balking at high
rates.
One landlord said he has been
trying for several months, unsuc
cessfully so far-, to rent a neat,
three-room redecorated apartment
at $60 per month. The same land
lord said he recently reduced
rents on four houses in order to
keep "steady tenants."
An example of rent leveling is
found in the following case: A
group of courts in north Salem
is increasing its furnished three
room apartments from $35 to $85
per month. Nearby, another land
lord has reduced the rent or simi
lar furnished apartments from $69
to $62 per month.
(Additional details on page 2)
Light Showers
Stop Flames
PORTLAND, Sept. IS--The
weather that foresters yearned for
turned 'Oregon's roaring forest
conflagrations into smouldering,
non-threatening fires today.'
A westerly wind and a general
light rain arrived Just as the worst
forest fires of the year were sweep
ing over vast areas in the western
half of the state. P
The blazes had burned across
possibly 23,000 acres, a dozen
homes and barns, a herd of sheep,
and threatened several towns be
fore the wind shifted and rain fell
last night
The rain continued intermittent
ly today, aiding hundreds of fire
fighters in bringing all the blazes
under control.
The district fire warden's office
at Forest Grove said trailing was
finished at almost all the fires
in northwest Oregon today.
The Pea Vine ridge fire, which
blackened some 8,000 acres, was
in the mop-up stage. Flames no
longer threatened the town of Can
non Beach.
A score of blazes In ; timber
around Dallas one of them a 1,000
acre fire at Grand Ronde were
under control.
House Approve!
Pay Increase f pr
U.S. Civil Service
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WASHINGTON, Sept U -Wh
Tht house today passed its third
big federal pay-raise bill In 24
hours a boost averaging! $113 a
year for 883,000 UJS. civil: service
employes.
The measure will cost an esti
mated $95,062,000 a year. It now
goes to the senate.
Economy cries which echoed in
loth chambers of congress at the
outset of the present session dwin
dled to a whisper as the house
shouted the bill to passage.
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FORECAST (from V. t. ! Weather
bureau McNaiy field. SaWia) : Cloudy
today with ram dunne the aflarnooe
and evening. Scattered showers Vrt-
day, aaosUy ever the mountains. High
today near SS; low tonight near AS.
Farm ctrrttiaa wiU aot
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hindered
to areat ealeat ey rate , today . ee
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Pemisooinis
New Contract
Signed, to Run
Thirty Months
Br The Associated Pros
DETROIT. (Thursday) Sept.
tt-tiPWThe Ford Moter Ce aad
the CIO United Ante worker
settled their industry pace set
ting pension dispute at 2:1 a. am.
today. 1
The settlement was uanat.
ed officially after nearly SI
straight hours of bargaining, as
endurance record for the In dee
try. 1 !
The new contract, effecti.
OeC 1, wilt run for SS month,
another Industry record. It ere
vtdes the Industry's first tnajer
pension plan and may set the
pattern for most aU heavy lav.
d us try.
DETROIT, Sept 29 (Thuday) S
Weary negotiators wer '
wrapping up a pace-setting rorl !l
pension plan early today after Si
straight hours of bargalnirig. !
Ford's contract with the C1Q l!
United Auto workers: expired a
12:01 a.m. under a union teirmina- 1
tion notice, Almost i immed-at !
strike action had been threatened.
alf an hour later, however, t
Ford's 115,000 producUon worker! !
were told to stay on the Job pend
ing a final settlement. Some mince
Issues still lacked agreement.
A Ford spokesman reported be
fore midnight that "general pruv i
ciples had been agreed upon, but
well after midnight a uniort ,0urce
said that "as far as we are con
cerned the dispute is not settled.
A reliable union souree said that
a final announcement o(,sett)te
ment might be forthcoming "imam1
hour or so." ji ,,
The reported agreement on pea
sions would allow employes to re
tire at 03 on $100 monthly. Tha
company would foot all the bilia,
It was also reported byi infor
mants on both sides that the con
tract would run SO irionthaun
precedented In the auto Industry.
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Death Oaims
ll-Year-01d
P0U0 Victiiij :k
VTn.'7Mf-old Jotn outwal4B
died Wednesday after a week-lonl
battle against.polio. h 1
A flfth-fr.tfe pupil at Kiiscf
sohool, the boy became . ill lag.
week. His condition : grew woral
mim ne was nospiuiixed laturdi
He was kept breathfn 1 ftr
portable respirator equipment ai
later by an iron lung rushed
aiem irom Portland. j i
Fred H. Reinwald, 890 IflvmoufS
dr, was the llth person! to con
tract polio In Marion county this
7W. 11 ,
Reinwald's was the eighth polio
case treated at Memorial hosniul
since mid-summer when physio
uierapy equipment was Installed at
the hospital by the Marion countf
chapter of the national infantllsj
paralysis foundation. -j i
Surviving, besides the p
are two brother rai
Dwight Reinwald, both of; Salexai
tad the grandparents, Mr. at
Mrs. George Reinwald, f flem,
-Mr, aunnie ascuarrjr, UOl
xowa. i : (
Funeral services will be Friday
at 130 p.nj. at the Oough-tBarrtci
cnapei witn interment In; B
Belereei
Memorial park.
Bakery Truck Upact
Hurts Salem Driver
DALLAS. Sent 28 -(Special)
James Welch, 14, Salem bakery
truck driver, incurred a fractured
ankle here Wednesday; night
when his truck collided with ait
aUtO. ! j: j - ; j
Welch was removed to Salem
General hospital following treat
ment at Dallas hospital, i
Carl Schiermeister, (54, Dallas,
driver of the car involved, wag
not Injured. The accident occur
red at Ash street and Uglow
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