C apital jkj oum
Lewis Rejects
Krug's Terms to
Avert Strike
White House Appeal
Brushed Aside; Strike
Called for Wednesday
U.S. Stands Pat
vjuivcv ui rue
Hazards in City
Now Underway
On Veto Power;
Asks Limitation
Calls for Big 5 Restric
tion to Very Rare and
58th Year, No. 271
Entered lecond elau
matter tt Saiem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon, Friday, November 15, 1946
Price Five Cents
Complete Record Sought
By Firemen for New City
Government
Exceptional Cases
Oil Wlf All 4t C I
Although building inspection
for protection against fire haz
ards has been carried on semi
annually for some years by the
fire department, an inspection
started Friday by Captain Ben
Kaught and Captain Robert
Mills will be more thorough
than any ever undertaken be-
fore. As complete a record as
' possible, for the convenience of
I the city manager who will take
office in January, is the purpose
. of the department.
Inspections heretofore have
been incomplete in that no rec
ords have been kept. In the
, inspection started Friday rec
ords of all buildings checked
' will be made on forms fur
bished bv the office of the state
' fire marshal, and some assist
tance in their preparation will
; be given by Deputy Marshal M.
t J
J. Gilson.
overs All Buildings
The inspection will cover both
private and public buildings.
Among buildings to be checked
will be private houses contain
ing two or more apartments,
rooming houses, hotels, public
, schools, hospitals, convalescent
homes, places of assembly such
; as theaters and dance halls, in-
' dustrial buildings such as can
neries and factories, mercantile
buildings, cleaners, plumbing
shops, etc.
A list of the fire hazards
found will be listed for each
building where hazards are
found, or if none, the report
. i will show it.
The Inspection is according to
fin ordinance enacted by the
-' city council in 1917 which cre
; ated thp office of city fire war
den and made the fire chief
' the ex-officio warden and each
member of the fire department
a deputy.
, Authority Given Warden
Included In the authority giv
en the warden is the follow
i Ing:
"To order removal, repair, or
- elimination of anything which
i in his judgment may or shall
i constitute a fire hazard, wheth
er such fire hazard or fire men-
. Hce cjcims jii a uuuuiiig or upon
premises already constructed, or
the construction of which is in
.J prograss or contemplation. . .
Concluded on Page 13, Column 7)
" ArresFl 000
Film Pickets
Hollywood, Nov. 15 (IP) Po
. lice accepted the challenge of
film studio strikers and their
' adherents today and arrested
more than 1,000 pickets who
; massed at the gates of Colum
5 bia studio in the early morning
i In open but peaceful defiance of
a court order limiting their
number.
Transportation facilities were
taxed, as the authorities loaded
them into police cars and "black
marias" and herded them into
Lincoln Heights jail for book-
. ing.
"There's plenty of room' for
them in Lincoln Heights." said
Assistant Police Chief Joe
Reed. He added that police
t would be ready to arrest "an
: other thousand" tomorrow
' morning if they continue to vi
olate a court injunction restrict
ing pickets in the current union
jurisdictional dispute to eight at
a gate. There are two gates at
Columbia.
Observers said the striking
AFL unionists apparently had
adopted new tactics of passive-
ly submitting the pickets to
i incarceration. Leaders of hun-
reds of police who watchfully
1T-00U oy xeau cuun iujuuti.iuii2
imiting the pickets to eight at
each gate. The paraders were
ordered to disperse. Nobody
retreated and arrests followed.
Confusion On Airport's Future
1 Created by War Department
'! Salem airport authorities were much at sea Friday about the
; effect of the war department's reported decision to retain certain
-J buildings will have on development of McNary field. That it will
seriously disrupt the present or-
ganization on the field, particu
larly the relation between the
city and commercial operators,
was certain.
Concerning the effect it will
have on plans between the city
'4 and United Air Lines to build an
administration building there
j was a difference of opinion.
$ Alderman Tom Armstrong,
chairman of the airport commit
tee of the city council, sow a
s danger that the war depart
,; ment's decision would interfere
.j with the administration build
ing plans. Members of the
city's airport advisory commit
tee, however, doubted if there
would be any interference with
those plans, explaining that the
location of the proposed build
ing is on the city's own prop
el'. Henry R. Crawford and
TWA Pilots'
Strike Settled
Washington, Nov. 15 W)
The Trans World Airline pi
lots' strike the nation's first
major walkout of commercial
fliers ended today with an
agreement to submit the dispute
over pay and working rules to
arbitration.
Paul E. Richter, executive
vice president of TWA, and Da
vid L. Behncke, of the AFL pi
lots union signed the agree
ment at 5:12 a.m. in the office
of Chairman Frank P. Doug
less of the national mediation
board. Nearly nine hours of
continuous conferences over the
final wording preceded the sign
ing. TWA said It expects to put
its first planes into the air about
7 a.m., Saturday, with trans
continental flights starting from
both coasts.
The walkout of approximate
ly 1000 pilots began October
21 over demands for higher pay
for pilots and copilots of four
engine planes. It grounded 115
aircraft along most of the com
pany's 28,000 miles of route on
three continents, threw nearly
15,000 non-flying employes out
of work and cut off $2,000,000
in weekly revenue to the com
pany. While initial flights will be
gin tomorrow, at least two
weeks will be required to restore
the line's full schedule.
3 Training School
Escapees Captured
Portland, Nov. 15 (IP) Three
boys who escaped from the
Woodburn Boys' Training school
last Friday were captured here
today with another youth, aft
er a 15-minute chase at nearly
100 miles an hour ended in a
crash into a service station.
Deputy Sheriffs Albert Free
man and Vernon Biddle said the
quartet, all Portlanders, ad
mitted a series of week-end pil
ferings and theft of four auto
mobiles. The sheriff began the chase
early this morning after notic
ing a stolen car.
The sheriff's office began a
check of articles found in the
wrecked car.
Lee U. Eyerly both so expressed
themselves as members of the
committee.
Armstrong and Eyerly were
both in contact Friday with the
civil aeronautics administration
offices in Seattle by telephone,
and the information reaching
here Thursday about the war de
partment retaining certain
buildings, including the new
hangar, has not yet reached the
CAA. Eyerly was advised by
the CAA to write Charles Don
aldson, airport administrator, in
Washington, D. C.
Following the olegram an
nouncing the war department's
decision, which was received by
the Chamber of Commerce from
Robert E. Parkman, secretary to
Senator Cordon, came a letter
(Concluded on Page 13, Column 4)
Coos Bay Issue
In Ship Strike
San Francisco, Nov. 15 VP)
The insistence of shipowners on
settlement of the AFL-CIO jur
isdictional dispute which has
tied up the port of Coos Bay,
Ore., and assurance against a
recurrence remained today as
the last major barrier to ending
the west coast shipping strike.
"Coos Bay now is the key to
the entire situation," said Dr.
Nathan P. Fcinsingcr, special
mediator for Secretary of La
bor Schwellenbach, after an
other day of continuous negoti
ations aimed at ending the 46
day strike by three unions.
The mediator said he was
drafting a written proposal for
possible solution of the Coos
Bay dispute, and that the un
ions had promised to consider
it today,
"That is the first hopeful
sign in this issue," he declared.
Shipowners demanded settle
ment of the jurisdictional dis
putes such as that which tied
up Coos Bay for months. They
insisted the CIO longshoremen
(ILWU) give specific assurance,
as a condition for settlement of
the strike, that terms of the
contract preventing, a recur
rence of the Oregon tie-up
would be observed.
Feinsinger said the waterfront
employers (WEA) and the IL
WU had settled all points of dis
pute. But the employes said
they would not sign until the
Coos Bay issue was settled. That
issue, Feinsinger emphasized,
was jurisdictional and not an is
sue between the WEA and the
ILWU.
Anderson
Talks to Grange
Portland, Ore., Nov. 15 J.R)
American farm production was
increased by one-third during
the war, and how to prevent this
new-found productive capacity
from driving us "into economic
chaos" represents the major
problem facing agriculture, Sec
retary of Agriculture Clinton
Anderson lold the National
Grange Masters' convention
here today.
"The revolution in produc
tion . . . can not be reversed
and it has not run its course,"
Anderson said.
"It represents a challenge to
farmers, to their organizations
and to the government a chal
lenge at least as great as we
faced in the war."
The cabinet member told the
National Grange convention that
the issue in the problem is sim
ple: "Shall we find way to use our
abundance as a great blessing
for mankind, or shall we allow
it to drive us into economic
chaos?"
The nation is meeting the
problem, Anderson said, by tak
ing an active pat in the world
of the United Nations and con
gress has provided for a new
scientific approach to the job of
making distribution match the
accomplishments of agricultural
production.
Destroyers Collide
Pearl Harbor, Nov. 15 (IP)
The destroyers Frank Knox and
Higbee, their bows damaged se
verely in a collision while ma
neuvering 500 miles to the east,
steamed under their own power
toward Pearl Harbor today.
They will go into drydock here.
S Division Street Bridee Location Promised Ahnvo is (ho m r. S-
posea new oriage over the Willamette river at Salem as con
ceived by F. G. Hutchinson, artist of the state highway depart
ment. Highway Engineer Hedda Swart who has long contended
this is the logical place for the structure, says it will free the
valley for all time of the bogey of east and west traffic being
cut off by flood waters of the Willamette. It also will leave the
old Center street bridge to handle local traffic back and forth
from West Salem and by running over Front and Commercial
streets will avoid traffic tangling on those streets with railroad
trains on Front street and the flow of cars on both of those streets.
Advantages Offered by
Division Street Bridge
By Don Upjohn
The artist's conception of the proposed Willamette river bridge
in Salem entering the city from the west over Division street re
veals that traffic to and from the west side would never again be
cut off by flood waters of the river if the bridge became a reality,
that traffic would never again be interfered with by long logging
trains either on the east or west
side of the river and also that
traffic could run free in and out
of the city over Front and Com
mercial streets, debouching on
Liberty street to' spread out
over the city at its whim.
County Engineer Hedda
Swart, who also is connected
with the staff of engineers of
the state highway department,
has long been an advocate of the
Division street bridge as op
posed to the idea of replacing
the old Center street bridge with
a new structure.
(Concluded on Page 13, Column 6)
Wyatt Asks for
Scandal Probe
Washington. Nov. 15 (IP)
Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt
called upon Attorney General
Tom Clark today to investigate
a "mysterious" New York law
yer's alleged offer to trade as
serted government influence for
$400,000 in stock and $180,000
in counsel fees.
In the background is a many
sided dispute involving:
1. The $171,000,000 govern
ment - owned Dodge - Chrysler
war plant in Chicago.
2. The Trucker Corp., of Chi
cago, a new automobile manu
facturing firm.
3. The Luslron Corp., also of
Chicago, a prefabricated hous
ing concern.
4. Wyatt's national housing
administration which wants the
government to lease the Dodge
Chrysler plant to Lustron forlhe
assembly line manufacture of
homes for veterans.
5. The war assets administra
tion, which already has leased
the huge plant to Tucker.
Wyatt's demand to Clark for
an immediate inquiry followed
a statement by Preston Tucker,
head of the auto firm, that he
had been approached by the
New York lawyer with an im
plied offer to help him in the
lease dispute.
Hawaiian Sugar
Strike Settled
Honolulu, Nov. 15 (IP) The
Hawaiian Sugar Planters asso
ciation today announced it had '
signed an agreement granting
$10,500,000 more yearly to em
ployes. The agreement must be
ratified by the CIO internation
al longshoremen's and ware
housemen's union and by 33
plantations.
Quick ratification an esti
mated 48-hour process by the
ILWU could return the 25.000
strikers, already idle 75 days,
to work Tuesday.
The strike completely halted
the islands' sugar industry.
: .- , . . - ,-,3-J
Bevin Chasers
Debate Monday
London, Nov. 15 (IP) A de
mand for an immediate change
in British foreign policy, which
has caused a critical cleavage in
the ranks of the ruling labor
party, will come before the
house of commons Monday for
debate, Speaker Douglas Clif
ton Brown ruled today.
Cabinet sources left no doubt
that they intend n fight with
all their power Ihe proposal by
more than 50 laborite rebels for
recasting British foreign policy
so as to avoid what they, termed
an "inevitable conflict" between
the Soviet Union and the United
Slates.
It appeared certain that with
the full force of the government
and conservatives under Win
ston Churchill both lined up be
hind Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin's conduct of foreign af
fairs the cabinet would receive
a thumping vote of confidence,
if the issue comes to a show
down vote.
The so-called "Bevin chasers,"
sDonsors of an amendment to
the king's parliament-opening
speech from the throne demand
ing that Britain's foreign policy
be tied neither to that of Rus
sia nor the United Stales, have
already announced they do not
intend to press for a vite, how
ever. Road Conditions
Back to Normal
Road conditions were normal
today, the state highway com
mission said in its 9 a.m. road
report.
The report said:
Government Camp Cloudy,
24 degrees, 13 inches of snow
Patches of packed snow on road
from Twin Bridges to Beat
Springs.
Santiam summit 28 degrees,
overcast, short sections of pack'
cd snow and ice, but has been
sanded.
Odell Lake, Willamette high
way patches of ice and snow
from Salt Creek tunnel to Odell
Lake.
I'hp Weather
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday. Local valley logs In
morning. Little change in tem
perature. Lowest temperature
tonight. 32 degrees. Maximum
yesterday 53. Minimum today
29. Mean temperature yester
day 40. which was 6 below nor
mal. Total 24-hour precipitation
to 11:30 a.m. today, 0.00. Total
precipitation for the month, .67,
which Is 1.98 Inches below nor
mal. Willamette river height
1.7 feet.
Assembly Operas
Reds Absent
Nanking. Nov. 15 (I'i Chi
ang Kai-Shek called the na
tional assembly into session to
day as the boycotting communist
delegation hinting thai China's
neace hopes were .sunk, packed
its hags to leave Nanking.
The departing communist
leader, Gen. Chou En-Lai, said
darkly that the government's
"unilateral decision" to go
ahead with the assembly would
send civil warfare? flaming in
North China blazing higher
than ever.
While the communists and the
democratic league stuck to a
decision not to send delegates,
the generalissimo stood before
the assembly and hailed it as
the beginning of constitutional
government for China.
The day of political tutelage
in China, he said, was now over.
Among the listening delegates
was Madame Chiang. The as
sembly adjourned until Satur
day, when the first preparatory
session will be held.
Thirly inner Mongolian dele
gates threatened to walk out
unless the government grants
some measure of autonomy to
their and other border prov
inces. It was not immediately clear
what the government proposed
to do next. The convention,
made up mainly of Kuomintang
(government) party delegates, is
charged with the task of draft
ing a new constitution.
No Sit-Down
Strike by GOP
Washington, Nov. 15 IIP) Re
publican senators showed a dis
position today to go along with
President Truman on recess ap
pointments to important federal
jobs which require senate con
firmation. They made It plain thai any
thought of a sit-down strike
against confirmation of appoint
ees who are democrats is out.
Senator Wallace H. White, of
Maine, present republican lead
er, told a reporter such action
would be "inexcusable." Other
highly placed republicans
agreed with him.
Some political speculators
have sugcesled that while con
trolling the senate during the
next two years Ihe republicans
might simply lake no action
on Truman appointees.
This would permit the White
House choices to serve on an
acting basis only, while keeping
the jobs open for the republi
cans if 'hey should elect their
presidentail nominee in 1948.
Senator Taft of Ohio, chair
man of the republican steering
committee, said he had never
heard of any such move.
250000-Year-Old
Skull Returned
Tokyo, Nov. 15 (U.Ri A price
less 250.000-year-old Neander
thal skull, stolen by the Japa
nese from Java in 1942, was re
turned to the Netherlands mis
sion here in a brief ceremony
today.
The skull, named Homo So
loensis, has been definitely iden
tified as Neanderthal by Japa
nese and American scientists.
Before the war, it was under
study at the Royal Batavian
Scientists' institute at Batavia.
Washington, Nov. 15 IIP)
John L. Lewis brushed aside a
White House appeal today and
signaled a soft coal mine shut
down starting next Wednesday
midnight.
Promptly after President Tru
man squarely checked to him
responsibility for any pre-win-ter
mine stoppage, Lewis an
nounced the working contract
with the United iMne Workers
with the government will be
considered terminated Novem
ber 20.
By tradition, the miners do
not work without a contract and
Ihe UMW boss gave formal no
tice of a termination of the con
tract under which the govern
ment has operated the mines
since last spring.
Truce Rejected
Mr. Truman announced at
2:15 p.m. that Lewis had reject
ed a government proposal for a
60-day truce to permit negotia
tions looking to a return of the
mines to private ownership.
The president said Attorney
General Tom Clark had ruled
that the government's current
contract with Lewis could not
be reopened unless both parties
agreed.
Within 20 minutes, Lewis' of
fice made known that the mine
eadcr chief already had notified
Secretary of the Interior Krug
that the contract will be con
sidered at an end within five
days (that is next Wednesday
night). This notice was based
on a previous contract between
l
Ihe UMW and the mine owners.
"Empty Platitude"
"Your proposal for tilis operator-miners'
conference to su
percede the conference now in
cxislenc sine Novmbr 1 (be
tween Krug and Lewis) is sheer
folly, an empty platitude, well
known to you so to be," read
Lewis' communication to Krug.
The president had called on
Lewis for "serious reconsidera
tion" of the proposal under
which the seized mines would
be returned to their owners, and
also:
1. Disclosed taht Attorney
General Tom Clark has ruled,
in agreement with Secretary of
the Interior J. A. Krug, that
Lewis is wrong In his conten
tion that the current contract
can be reopened during the
period of government operation.
Accepted by Operators
2. Reported that the mine op
erators have accepted the pro
posal, which was put forward
by Krug.
He declared a second loog
will convince the United Mine
Workers oil is "for the best in
terest of all concerned."
In a formal statement, Mr.
Truman said the government
cannot replace private manage
ment as the bargaining agent
with the col miners "without in
terfering with true collective
bargaining between manage
ment and labor."
Krug's proposal, the president
said, "has been accepted by the
bituminous coal mine operators'
negotiating committee."
11,115 Increase in
Federal Workers
Washington, Nov. 15 (IP) To
tal federal employment dropped
131,300 during September but
outside the war and navy de
partments there was an actual
increase of 11,115 workers, the
congressional joint committee
on reduction of nonessential fed
eral expenditures reported to
day. Senator Byrd (D., Va.),
chairman, asserted in a state
ment accompanying the report
that executive department per
sonnel, outside the armed serv
ice branches, has shown a net
increase of 231,938 in the thir
teen months since V-J day.
In the same period the war
and navy departments have cut
employment by 1,400,748.
Sight Wreckage
With 1 1 Persons
Burbank, Calif., Nov. 15 (IP) A Western Airline pilot reported
today he was "positive" he had found the wreckage of one of th
company's passenger planes which disappeared early Wednes
day with 11 aboard. He said
he sighted the big plane at Le
bec, on the ridge route 50 miles
north of here.
The pilot, Max Krall, was fly
ing an AT-6 training plane in the
extended search for the missing
airliner, which vanished when
within three minutes of its home
base after it had been granted
permission to land at Lockheed
air terminal.
"There were no signs of life,"
Krall said. "I distinctly saw
the tail section of the plane. I'm
sure it was ours."
Krall said on his return here
lhat brush and scrub timber
around the plane were "smoul
dering," leading to the supposi
Lake Success, N. Y., Nov. 15
IP) The United States an
nounced its firm stand today
against any amendment of the
United Nations charter to elimi
nate or modify the big power
veto privileges in the security
council.
At the same lime it called on
the other four major powers to
restrict the use of the veto vol
untarily to "the very rare and
exceptional cases."
Set Forth by Connally
The American position was
set forth in a 9-point program
by Sen. Tom Connally (D-Tex),
first representative of the big
powers to reply to the attack
on the veto which was launched
in the general assembly's 51
member political and security
committee yesterday by six
small nations.
Connally warned bluntly that
"division between the great
powers over intervention or the
use of force might result in"war
instead of peace" but declared
lhat the veto must not be used
to "frustrate" the functioning
of the council.
He did not mention Russia
by name, but in what appeared
lo be a reference to the fre
quent use of the veto by the
Soviet Union he declared that
the permanent members of the
council "have no right to cast
a vote in any narrow or nation
alistic or selfish interest."
Hits at Russia
"Let there be no embezzle
ment of power by the security
council or by any member," he
said.
Connally digressed from his
prepared text at one point to
issue a warning that if the U.N.
"charter doesn't work this or
ganization may go down in
ruins." He said lhat while the
United States opposed amend
ment of Ihe charter at this time
"we are for making it work."
He said there was "an outside
force greater than the United
Nations the crystalized opinion
of the world."
"If we cannot make the Unit
ed Nations work the public will
seek another remedy," he de
(Concluded on Page 13, Column 5)
Trieste Treaty
Deadlocked
New York. Nov. 15 (U.BSec
rctary of Slate James F. Byrnes
is ready to admit failure to write
Italian. Balkan and Finnish pece
treaties at this time if agreement
with the Soviet unio non Trieste
is not forthcoming within a few
days, it was learned today.
He is prepared to defer indefi
nitely, if necessary, completion
of Ihe satellite treaties on which
he has worked almost uninter
ruptedly for more than 14
months.
The big four talks on Trieste
are at their decisive stage.
Byrnes will not compromise on
the basic issues now in dispute.
And if the Russians refuse to
yield or show signs of yielding
by the first of next week, Byrnes
is expected to propose that:
1. This session of the big four
council of foreign ministers be
concluded quickly.
2. Preliminary and explora
tory talks on Germans take
place before arijaurnmont.
3. The satellite treaties be laid
aside indefinitely.
Byrnes tentatively has set
next Wednesday as a target
dale for the beginning of Ger
man discussions.
PGE Pays Up Taxes
Portland, Nov. 15 (IP) Port
land General Electric company
paid $1,303,143 to seven Oregon
counties today to cover 1946
property taxes. Multnomah
county received a $720,292
check; Marion. $96,870, Clack
amas. $385,582, Polk $10,575,
Washington $80,260. Yamhill
$49,439, and Columbia $20,
121. of Plane Lost
Near Burbank
tion that the airliner had ex
ploded and burned and afford
ing even less hope that any of
the occupants survived.
He described the wreckage
as being near Snowy peak about
four miles off the ridge route.
The ph'ce was described by
Krall and his companion as be
ing about 12 miles south of Gor
man, a small mountain settle
ment just south of Lcbcc.
Sheriff's posses were immedi
ately organized at the Newhall
substation and left at once for
the site They took with them
several pack horses in trucks
for the possible grim task of
removing bodies.