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m Coal Miners in 3 Stales Jump Gun in Strike . New Walkouts Cause Further Slump in Pro duction As Winter Nears tBy the Associated Press) New walkouts and increased absenteeism caused a further slump in West Virginia coal pro duction today as the govern ment's showdown with John L. Lewis on new wage demands for his 400,000 miners remained in a "delicate" stage over a week end recess. A check of the West Virginia coal fields showed an estimated 6.600 men were off the job in that state today compared with 4,000 yesterday. Operators at tributed the increased idleness to "a continuance of yesterday's action" which they said stem med from the miners' tradition al "no contract, no work" pol icy. The first session of the coal parleys ended in Washington with negotiations in "delicate (Jshapc," and with some 5700 "workers in 42 mines in three states away from their jobs. But other federal' agencies were busy seeking to end strikes. The labor department and the maritime commission acted to settle the month-old Pacific coast maritime and stevedore strikes, a two-month work stop page of sugar workers in Ha waii, and the six months old walkout of some 11,000 workers at the Allis-Chalmers Manufac turing Co. plant at West Allis, Wis. Needling Government In the coal dispute, an indus try official expressed apprehen sion that the AFL-Unitcd Mine Workers may needle the govern ment with a series of "unauthor ized strikes" while President John L. Lewis dickers for a new wage-hour contract. The shutdowns of pits in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ten nessee, in the belief of the solid fuels administration, resulted from a misunderstanding by miners over the status of the government contract. UMW leaders had urged the workers not to leave their jobs during negotiations and they were to attempt to get them back to work by Monday. There were reports of minor shutdowns in Ohio and Indiana. Blocks Reserve Building . The UMW chief has said the "fcesent contract made by the ujiion with the government last May after a federal seizure is good until November 1 and a general strike then would be possible since the miners tradi tionally adhere to the union pol icy of no-contract, no-work. John D. Battle, executive sec retary of the National Coal as sociation, said that an epidemic of such stoppages as reported yesterday at the mines could block industry attempts to build up coal reserves and thus strengthen Lewis' hand at the discussions. The mine owners are not participating in the ne gotiations. Bing Crosby Sings As Nightingales Detroit, Nov. 2 U.R The De troit Symphony orchestra was set for it rendition of "The Pines of Rome." A radio-phonograph was hidden among the instru ments to provide the necessary accompaniment of a nightin gale's singing. Came the cue and a player switched on the record-player. But it wasn't a nightingale. It was Bing Crosby. The machine had been set on t radio by mistake. The attendant discovered the error immedia tely and the nightingale caught , up with the orchestra before any damage was done. $442,000 Damage Suit Is Settled Coquille, Ore., Nov. 2 (U.R) WL. AAn nnn .... ' a. ne 94, uuu lorcst lire damage suit of Irwin & Lyons Co. against the Coos Bay Logging Co. has been settled out of court. A stipulation on file in cir cuit court here today did not show the terms of the settle ment. Irwin & Lyons alleged negli gence on the part of the logging firm in a fire that broke out July 12, 1945. The Weather (Released by the United States Weather Bureau Forecast lor Salem and vicin ity: Clear tonight becoming partly cloudy for Sunday with slight rise in temperature. Low est temperature tonight 33 de grees. Conditions will be favor able for all farm work for next 24 hours. Max. yesterday 50. Min. today 30. Mean tempera ture yesterday 42, which was 8 below normal. Total 24-hour pre cipitation to 11:30, a.m. today .01. Total precipitation for the month .20, which is .03 inch be- iow normal, wiuamette river leigm 1.3 IU apit al jk Joima 58th Year, No. 260 Ei'iSSrkSSS Salem, Oregon, Saturday, November Shipping Strike Still on Along Pacific Coast San Francisco, Nov. 2 (U.R) The west coast shipping strike dragged on today as ship own ers, despite authorization from the U.S. maritime commission, refused to put east coast wages and working conditions into ef fect. A telegram from the mari time commission authorized the ship owners to adopt the terms of an agreement which settled the shipping strike on the east and gulf coasts. The authorization was grant ed for all government-owned ships, which comprise more than half the vessels on the west coast. The government-owned ships are operated by the strike bound private ship operators. Merely Authorization The ship owners said the com mission's telegram was an "au thorization," not an "order." A Pacific American Steam ship association spokesman said a meeting would bo held as soon as possible to consider the commission's telegram, but em phasized that there was no as surance that the settlement would be extended to the west. The ship owners earlier re fused to accept union preferen tial hiring terms included in the eastern agreement. (Concluded on Pape 11, Column 7) Taylor's Speech Brings Libel Suit Boise, Ida., Nov. 2 (U.R)Mrs. Margaret Cobb Ailshie, publish er of the Statesman newspaper, said today her attorney will lilt? a $100,000 damage suit in Ban nock county district court at Pocatcllo against radio station KSEI of that city. She said similar suits will be filed against other stations which broadcast a recorded ad dress by Sen. Glen H. Taylor. The Statesman alleges the broadcast contains "false rep resentations defamatory to the publisher.",,: . .. . Two other stations last night broadcast the address KFTI at Twin Fa'lls and KBIO at Burley. KSEI broadcast the talk Thurs day night. A $100,000 civil damage suit already has been filed by the Statesman against KIDO of Boise, first station to broad cast Taylor's disputed talk. Two stations declined to broadcast the recording KFXD of Nampa and KGEM of Boise. Postal Receipts Break Records Given a big boost by cam paign literature, receipts of the Salem postoffice totalled $49, 073.15 during the month of Oc tober, or $5396.62 more than they were for a similar period in 1946, according to announce ment Saturday by Postmaster Albert Gragg. The largest volume of first class mail in the history of the postoffice, with the exception of last December's pre-Christmas rush, was experienced during the current week. Thursday's cancellations totalled 79,946 while 44,919 additional pieces were taken care of through the metering machines. This made a total of 124,865 pieces as com pared with the 136,000 first class mailings recorded last De cember 18. Total first class mailings for October were 945, 200 as compared with 762,300 for October, 1945. The month of November got off to a good start when 60,300 pieces were handled Friday,- Million Dollar Embezzler Reveals Names of Confederates Miami Beach, Fla., Nov. 2 (U.R) The names of three confederates in a nearly $1,000,000 embezzlement case were revaled here today by W. Arthur Nickel, 46, and orders to pick them up were rushed to New York. Assistant District Attorney Jo seph T. Hoey of Brooklyn said Nickel had admitted the names of the three "apparently respect able" men. with midtown New York addresses. The addresses were believed those to which checks drawn on false invoices were sent by Nickel. Hoey said the men were war contractors, and that two of them had recently "frozen out" the third He said the plan was that Nickel keep half the gigan tic proeends. and the others split the remainder. Hoey hoped that questioning of the men would reveal more details of the swindle perpetrat Truman Keeps Still on Politics In Home Town Independence, Mo., Nov. 2 (U.R) President Truman continued his "hands off" policy on poli tics in general today while his friends in Jackson county de clared that a vote against the democrats would be an insult to a home town boy. Mr. Truman last night spurn ed a fiery, tub-thumping demo cratic rally less than two blocks from his house. The only item on his schedule today was the annual reunion of his old World War I outfit, battery D of the 129th field artillery. Shadow of Silence The president came here to vote in the election Tuesday. He made the trip under a mysteri ous shadow of silence which caused him to pursue his "no talk" policy so far that he de clined to say hello to school chil dren in two Missouri towns yes terday Jefferson City and Se dalia. The president waved to the kida, but he wouldn't say a word. Mr. Truman's absence last night at the traditional pre-election rally of the eastern Jackson county democrats was recogniz ed repeatedly by the speakers, includinij Sam Rayburn, speaker of the house, who was the fea tured figure of the evening. Explains Absence Roger T. Sermon, the mayor of Independence, explained the president's absence to the crowd. He said Mr. Truman didn't ap pear because he had to "uphold the dignity of his high office." "He'd give his right arm to be here, but there are some things he can't do," Sermon told the iTowd of between 500 and 600 in the Independence Memo rial hall. Instead of attending the rally where he has been a fixture in past election years, Mr. Truman spent the evening with his 93-ycar-old mother, Mrs. Martha E. Truman, and his sister, Miss Mary Jane Truman, at Grand view, some 17 miles away. Chinese to Rule Dairen Soon, Nanking, Nov. 2 WP) Chinese and Russian authorities today were reported negotiating for China to take over administra tion of Dairen, Russian occu pied open port city toward which government troops are driving against Chinese com munists. The Nanking newspaper, Hsin Min Pao, reported in a Mukden dispatch that representatives of the two governments are con ferring in Dairen. It said satisfactory progress has been made and there is a possibility Chinese officials will be permitted to assume control of Dairen within 15 days. There was no official con firmation here. Chinese govern ment officials were sent to Manchuria some months ago in anticipation of resuming admin istration of the city. Russians have occupied Dai ren since the end of the Pacific war. Dairen was declared an open port, to be jointly administered by the two countries, in the 14 month old Sino-Soviet treaty, However, t)ie Chinese govern ment for months was busy seiz ing vast areas of Manchuria from Chinese communists and only recently announced it was ready to move into Dairen. A week ago, Chiang Kai-Shek's troops began moving on Dairen in a move to cut off Chinese communists on the Liaotung peninsula from the Manchurian mainland. ed on Nickel's employer, the Mergenthaler Linotype Co., and perhaps lead to recovery of most of the stolen money. "Nickel has admitted his part." Hoey said as he telephon ed Kings County District Attor ney Miles McDonald, to give him the names of the confederates. He expressed fear, however, that the men had disappeared since hearing of Nickel's arrest here Thursday night. The exact amount of the loss has not y-.-t been determined, but auditors in New York are con tinuing their check- of Nickel's books, and are searching for more than $500,000 still unac counted for. i "r cv , i n o Tokyo Rose Suspect Freed Ikuko Togura. 30, 1941 UCLA graduate arrested in Japan a year ago as a "Tokyo Rose" who broadcast from radio Tokyo during the war, is escorted from Sugamo prison, Tokyo, by an unidentified guard after being freed because Los Angeles federal authorities said there were at least 12 "Tokyo Roses" and they wouldn't narrow the field to one. (AP Wirephoto.) Courthouse Question Is Clear Issue Before Voters By Don Upjohn Although next Tuesday's election will give the people of the county their third chance at voting for a new courthouse, it will be the first time the issue has been put up to them squarely with no entangling complications, multiple ballot titles, or extraneous factors. Before the people on a separate ballot will be the simple question of whether they want a tax of $200,000 to be levied an nually for three years, to com plete a fund of $1,050,000 to build and equip the new court house. This in itself assures there will be no attempt to build the structure in this period of high prices, material shortages, or at a time when construction work i, is being mainly concentrated on the problem of furnishing vet eran housing. By its very terms the act indicates there'll be no attempt to start building the courthouse before 1949 at the earliest and probably not be fore 1950. In the meantime funds for the purpose will ac cumulate, and it may be assum ed there will be a great easing in demands on material, labor and the need for homes. (Concluded on Page 9, Column 3) Feverish Close To Campaign (By the Associated Press) The campaign for control of the 80th congress turned into the home' stretch today with democrats pounding on a theme once expounded by republican Abraham Lincoln "A house di vided against itself cannot stand." While republicans for the most part took an oratorical breather and President Truman maintained his silence, demo cratic party leaders urged voters from coast to coast to elect Tuesday a house and senate which will uphold the chief executive on international and domestic issues. In Kansas City, House Speak er Sam Rayburn of Texas de clared in a broadcast that the election of a GOP majority in congress could bring only "con fusion which would lead to chaos." Rayburn said the nation's voters have the choice of two roads: "One leads to the great est prosperity this country and (he world has ever known; the other will bring only confusion in a house divided against it self." On the same general theme, Senate Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky said in another Kansas City radio speech that if the republicans gained control of congress "the nation could say goodbye to any bipartisan foreign policy." Barkley accused the GOP of being "shot through with the old isolationist virus" despite "the lip service it pays to inter national cooperation." New Corvallis Radio Station Approved Corvallis, Nov. 2 (IP) The communications commission yesterda authorized operation of a new radio station by the Pacific States Radio Co., at Cor vallis, Ore. The grant was for unlimited time on 1340 kilocy cles with 250 watts powe" Arabs Strike In Palestine Jerusalem, Nov. 2 (IF) The Holy Land was in a virtual state of paralysis today as Jews paus ed for their sabbath and Arabs engaged in their tradition gen eral strike on the 29th anniver sary of Britain's Balfour decla ration favoring a "national home" in Palestine for Jews. Streets of Jerusalem were al most deserted. Shops were all closed, taxi cabs were out of sight and traffic was scarce. The only pedestrians were stroll ers in the balmy weather. A troublesome undercurrent was apparent in both the Jewish and Arab quarters. Thousands of Arabs were ex pected in the old city today for a possible mass meeting in the mosque area. Police were tak ing extra precautions to prevent any processions developing. Palestine Jews have been call ed to strike from noon to 6 p.m. tomorrow and to hold mass meeting in protest against yes terday's deportation to Cyprus of 1279 Jewish refugees taken off the ship San Dimitrio as they were trying to enter the country without permits. The San Dimitrio, listing bad ly, has been towed to a "grave yard" of illegal ships in Heifa harbor. Reports that refugees resisting a British boarding par ty were denied today by the of ficer of the party. $120,669 Building Permits in October The building inspection de partment of the city engineer's office reports a total of $120, 669 in building permits for Oc tober,, of which $95,900 was for new building and $24,769 for alterations and repairs. The total was less by $11,575 than the September total. New permits: Don Lutz. lo build a flower shop at 1276 North Liberty, $3500. Maple Keene Sports Goods store, to alter store at 372 State, $45. Ed win Browning, to reroof a ga rage at 396 South 18th, $100. H. A. Smith, to alter a one-story dwelling at 2153 South Winter, $600. M. R. Schrammack, to build a garage at 3115 South Fourth, $800. Work Will Resume On Coos Bay Mill Coos Bay, Ore., Nov. 2 (U.R) Work will be resumed Monday in the Coos Bay Lumber com pany Douglas fir mill, which has been closed several weeks for lack of storage space for cut lumber. The company announced that the partial reopening of operations will give employ ment lo 240 men. 2, 1946 "la- -if. 'ft' Price Five Cents to ha nine concies uasn With Stalin's Address to UN Har monizes With Prime Minister's Statement New York. Nov. 2 (.V. Vya cheslav M. iMolotov, Soviet Rus sian foreign minister, says the opinion expressed by sonic Americans that his address to the United Nations assembly disagrees with Prime Minister Stalin's statement on Russian policy Monday "docs not corre spond to the facts." In a two-paragraph statement written "for the Associated Press," Molotov said last night that "il is not difficult to sec this after careful study of the texts in question." Refuses to Answer Furthermore, Mololov declin ed to answer six detailed ques tions submitted late Thursday on what to some American minds appeared to be disagree ments between the two policy statements, one made by Stalin to a newsman in London by ca ble from Moscow and the other made by Molotov to a closcly listcnins UN assembly here at Flushing Meadows. Molotov said these questions were related to matters before the assembly and its commit tees and that he and other So viet representatives would dis cuss them there. The answer, typewritten in Russian on a sheet of unmarked white paper, and initialed "V M" in ink, with the date "Nov. 1, 1946," written in, was translat ed unofficially as follows: Molotov's Reply "Your remark that 'there is no complete agreement' between the answers of the head of the Soviet government, J. V. Stain, October 28, and my speech at the general assembly October 29 docs not correspond to the facts. 11 is not difficult to see this after careful study of the texts in question. Regarding the questions which you submitted, they touch those subjects which at the present time are being discussed al the general assembly and its com mittees, where I myself and oth er Soviet representatives will have a i opportunity to speak about them. This permits me to consider myself free from the necessity to give special an swers to these questions at present. "Nov. 1, 1946. V M." Chessman, File Appeals Attorneys for Stale Senator Merle Chessman, Astoria news paper publisher, and Stale Rep resentative Earl Hill, Cushman, Lane county, filed an appeal here Saturday with the slate su preme court to quo-warrcnto proceedings which attacked the right of the officials to serve concurrently as members of the slate legislature and stale com missions. Circuit Judge George Duncan, Marion county, previously held that Senator Chessman, who was also a member of the state high way commission, and Represen tative Hill, who also served on the state fish commission, were holding two offices in violation of the state constitution. Attorneys for Chessman and Hill contended that the defend ants automatically vacated their scats in the legislature upon ap pointment to the commissions. Lilicnlhal Sworn In Knoxvllle, Tcnn., Nov. 2 UJ.Ri David E. Lilienthal, former TVA head, was sworn in today as chairman of the United Stales atomic energy commission. These Unopposed Candidates Will Be Elected Tuesday Canvassing boards at next Tuesday's election will be making practically empty gestures when they count the ballots of Marion county legislative and county offices, candidates for which arc running without opposition and"' in most cases captured both re publican and democratic nomi nations at the primary. Assured of election, although their names are on the ballot, are Allan G. Carson and Doug las McKay, candidates for the state senate, and W. W. Chad wick, Frank A. Docrflcr, Paul Hendricks and Douglas R, Yca ter for the lower house. All of these but Chadwick wore ac corded the nominations by both of the leading parties, Chad wick appearing as the republi can nominee only. United Slates Clashes With Russia Over Effort to Prevent Discussion Of Rejection of New Members Vishinsky Declares Security Council Competent To Make Any Decisions It Saw Fit Applications Of Five Countries Turned Down Three Admitted Lake Success, N. Y., Nov. Z 0' The United Slates objected vigorously today to a Russian attcmiit to prevent the political committee of the United Nations assembly from discussing the security council's action in rejecting five applications for mem bership. The clash occurred after the committee liatl recommended the admission of Sweden, Afghanistan and Ireland to membership in the UN, and Egypt had charged that the security council had over stepped its authority under the charter in rejecting the applica tions of Albania, Outer Mongolia, Trans-Jordan, Portugal and Ireland. Soviet Representative Andric Y. Vishinsky tried to cut off dis cussion of the security council's action on the ground that the "council is competent to make any decisions'' il saw fit and that he felt the committee had "no mandate to start a discussion of the action of the security coun- cil." Senator Tom Connally (D., Texas), U. S. representative, im mediately took issue with him. He insisted that the committee had a right lo discuss the whole question of new members fully, since it had before it the secu rity council's report. Connally Protests "What good docs information do if you can't talk about it?" he askcal "It you have to whis per it and mark it top secret? Why should wc be afraid lo dis cuss anything tlinl pertains to peace, pass il on the street, shun il as though it were a leper? "The United Slates position is that all matters in the security council report are eligible for discussion." Egypt already had made her declaration criticizing the coun cil's action before Vishinsky's move to cut off discussion which he described as an "attack" on the council. The Egyptian delegate spoke after Australian Delegate Paul Hasluck who also sits on the security council, unsuccessfully attempted to introduce a resolu tion to lay down for the council a definite yardstick to be used in considering the admission of new members. Ruling by Manuilsky The committee chairman. For eign Minister Dmitri Manuilsky of the Soviet Ukraine, ruled that any member who wanted to offer a resolution must submit a copy in writing al least one day before it was to be discuss ed. Senator Tom Connally CD., Texas), U. S. representative, agreed that the committee should act first on the three ap plicants which the council had approved Both Manuilsky and Sccrc lary-Goncral Trygvc Lie agreed with Vishinsky, but Mexican Delegate Luis Padillo Nervo, also a member of the security council, look issue with them. He said the committee had the right lo take up the whole ques tion now, but said he would withhold the general statement until later. 48 Estonians Remain in U.S. Washington, Nov. 8 P) Pre sident Truman said today the 48 Estonian refugees who recently landed in Florida without immi gration visas will be permitted to remain in this country. In a formal statement releas ed by the White House the pre sident said these refugees who sailed across the Atlantic in small boats "will definitely not be deported and will in due course bo given immigration visas which will enable them to remain in this country." On October 24 Mr. Truman had praised the courage of the Estonians in making the 6000 mile voyage, saying they had displayed the type of pioneering spirit that built Ihis country. On the same day the attorney general stayed an immigration order which would have requir ed the Estonians to be deported. Meanwhile he directed that all avenues be explored toward enabling them lo remain here if they desired and to eventually become citizens. Only two county offices arc lo be filled, that of county com missioner and county recorder. E. L. Rogers, candidate for county commissioner was giv en nomination of both parties at the primary. Me was appoint ed to that office the next day, May 18, lo succeed James 1" Sinilh, deceased. His appoint ment had been a foregone con clusion, but the court awaited his nomination lo make the ap pointment. (Concluded on Tat I, Column 1) UN to Admit 3 More Nations Lake Success. N. Y., Nov. 2 (U.R) The powerful political and security committee recommen ded to the UN general assembly today that Iceland, Sweden and Afghanistan be admitted to membership in the United Na tions. The mere formality of a vote by the general assembly, vir tually a certainty, remained for the formal admission of the three countries, whose member ship previously had been reoom- mended by the security coun cil. Australia launched a fight in the political committee to curb the security council's power to admit or reject applicants for membership, but a resolution submitted by Australian dele gate Paul Hasluck was tabled for future action. The Australian resolution stated that the general assembly should have "primary and final responsibility" on the admission of members, and that the secur ity council should be limited to deciding whether the applicant nation could discharge its obli gations under the sections of the UN charter which are the main responsibility of the council. Airport Kiddies School to Begin Class work will begin for more 150 youngsters living in the farm labor camp near the airport next Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at the Garfield arid Washington grade buildings in Salem. Superintendent Frank B. Bennett announced Saturday noon that he had succeeded in collecting sufficient textbooks, furniture and a corps of instruc tors. The instructors will re port to their respective rooms Monday forenoon, arrange their work and make final arrange ments for the youngsters. Mrs. Vera E. Bangs will leach the first grade and Mrs. Ray mond Carl the second and third, all lo be housed at Garfield. Mrs. Gertrude Hunter will teach the fourth and fifth grades at Wash ington, while Mrs. Gertrud Wampole and George C. Breck enridge will have charge of tht sixth, seventh and eighth grades, all to be housed in the Washing Ion building. Two rooms at Washington which have been used for storage were being cleaned and painted and lights installed Saturday. A truckload of furniture was secured at Vanport. Much of it is smoke damaged and it will have to be cleaned before be ing used. The children will be trans ported by the regular school buses. Cold Wave Returns But Break Forecast iBv the Associated Prefjl Thermometers again dipped i below freezing east of the Cas- cades last night, but the weath I er bureau promised slightly 1 wanner temperatures tonight. Snow continued lo choke most of the roads across the Cascades, although the two main routes between western and eastern Oregon were opcr- the Colum bia river highway ar'l the Eu-gcne-K';:maUi Falls rotc. Bend recorded 16 degrees above zero last night. Klamath and Meat-ham had 10: Burns and Baker 21; Mcdford 20; Pendle ton 31; Salem and Eugene 33; Portland airport 35. The forecast was for general ly fair weather today with in creasing cloudiness in north west Oregon Sunday and mod erate northwesterly winds off the coast. Triple Tragedy Emeryville, Calif., Nov. 2 tU.PJ A shrill midnight quarrel end ed early today when Pearl Syl vester Wilson, sr., 43, hacked his wife to death with an axe. shot their three-year-old son and then committed suicide in the bedroom of their home, po lice reported.
