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Newspaper Page TextNational Guard Headquarters G apital AJour Says 2 Red Spy Rings Operated Western Bloc Draff Demands Belong in Salem r In State Bureau n Berlin Crisis 60th Year, No. 246 Entered u Mcood clut matter At Sfclim, Ortgoo Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 14, 1948 Price Five Cents Attorney General Neuner Rules Against Moving to Portland Oregon National Guard head quarters and all permanent re cords of the organization must be maintained In Salem, accord ing to a verbal opinion given the military department Thurs day by Attorney General George Neuner. "The adjutant general is a state officer," Neuner said, "and under the state constitution must maintain his headquarters in the city of Salem." Adjutant General Tom Rilea has been preparing to move his headquarters to Portland. The move had originally been sched uled for October 1 and later was Relayed because renovation of new quarters in the Portland armory had not been completed. Declines Comment Brig. Gen. Raymond F. Olson, assistant adjutant general, de clined comment on the ruling. "I was not asked for a writ ten opinion," said Neuner, "but I did issue a verbal one and if the adjutant general desires a written opinion outlining the basis of my opinion, I will pro vide him with it." Rilea Plans Branch Office Portland, Oct. 14 W Maj Gen. Thomas E. Rilea said today plans to move headquarters of the Oregon national guard to Portland from Salem stymied by a legal bar might be contin ued In part by opening a branch office here. Rilea, state adjutant general, said the shift had been planned to increase efficiency. Attorney General George Neuner said however, the law puts the head' quarters at Salem. Rilea said no plans would be made until he confers with Neu ner, but "if we are permitted to have a branch office here, as other state departments have, we will move only that part of our staff and equipment that we find absolutely necessary to per mit us to operate efficiently." Picket by Sear Air at Tacoma Seattle, Oct. 14 (U.R) Striking CIO longshoremen ousted from Port of Tacoma docks today began a sea and air picket patrol on "hot" AFL ships. A plane equipped with a pub lic address system began cruis ing over the Tacoma harbor area at 9 a.m. A speed boat "picket ed" three Tacoma docks yester day. The crew of the picket boat - four Seattle longshoremen finally found their way through the fog to Tacoma after region al longshore director William Gettings had expressed doubt as to the "landlubbers' naviga tion." Business Agent Andy Larson of Tacoma's International Long shoremen's association (AFL) bitterly attacked CIO picket ac tion as "merely child's play.' His men drove Seattle pickets from docks Monday and Tues day after the AFL voted to work all ships that came into port. "Child's play or not," Get tings replied, "We don't be lieve the rank and file AFL members really want to cross a picket line. Yiahten Russian - Zone Blockade Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 14 (A)iThe western allies tight ened tonight their counter blockade of the Russian zone of Germany. Eleven new regula tions were issued to German of ficials, i The Russians acknowledged publicly Sunday that the coun ter blockade is causing econo mic troubles in their zone. Ruhr coal and steel and machine pro ducts from western Germany were among main products cut off from the Soviet area after the Russians blockaded Berlin in June. An American and British an nouncement said that, "although the flow (of goods to the east) was greatly curtailed, leakages exist." THE WEATHER (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with some fog again to night. Little change in tempera ture. Lowest temperature ex pected Friday morning, 42; high est. 68. Maximum yesterday 67. Minimum today 47. Mean tem aerature yesterday S4 which was 1 below normal. Total 34-hour precipitation to 11:30 ajn. to day 0. Total precipitation for the month 1.81 which Is .49 of an inch above normal. Willamette river height at Salem Thursday morning, -.10 of a foot. Court Rules ITU In Contempt for Defying Order Indianapolis, Oct. 14 VP) Federal Judge Luther M. Swy- gert today ruled that the Inter national Typographical Union is in contempt of court because it bas Insisted on a closed shop in its contracts with newspapers. The judge, who issued an in junction against the Printers union last March 27, did not penalize the union, but ordered it to prove within 10 days that it is abiding by his injunction, based on the Taft-Hartley labor relations act. Four officers of the union were cited. They are Woodruff Randolph, president; Larry Tay lor and Elmer Brown, vice pres idents, and Don Hurd, secretary treasurer. Asked by the NLRB Counsel for the national la bor relations board had asked the contempt citation, charging that the union had continued to insist on a closed shop; had discriminated against non-union men in hiring, and had sup ported strikes against newspa pers in volation of the injunc tion. The union had insisted it was negotiating with newspapers in good faith, but Judge Swygert ruled it had "deliberately at tempted since the issuance of the Injunction" to continue 'closed shop conditions in the newspaper industry." Directives Issued The order specifically directs the ITU: 1. Not to encourage local unions in demands tor a con tract which would discriminate against non-union employes by setting certain standards of competency for them and none for union members; 2. Not to instruct local unions to demand that the "form con tract" be signed by employers; 3. Not to support strikes, slow down and walk-outs in disputes brought about because the union has violated the March 27 in junction, : '.' 4. To notify all locals that the union is in contempt of court and that the International cannot support any local that in sists on contract terms violating the terms of the injunction insisting on the "form contract" and discrimination against non union members. The American Newspaper publishers association office in Chicago said there now are 46 strikes against newspapers 38 in the United States, seven in Canada and one in Alaska. The oldest in the series dates back to Nov. 11, 1945. , Strikes in France Said Ebbing Paris, Oct. 14 VP) The French communist strike offensive ap peared to be ebbing today, but the costly coal mine tieup con tinued. Rail traffic was reported al most normal. Throughout the nation rail workers were going back to their jobs after a week of sporadic walkouts. In Paris, taxis reappeared af ter a week-long drivers' strike. In eastern France 40,000 iron miners and metal workers re turned after a three-week stop page. The nationwide coal strike remained the biggest problem. The 11-day walk-out of 335, 000 miners has cost France al most 1,500,000 tons of coal. Board Deadlocks on Policy For Institutional Buildings Governor John H. Hall and State Treasurer Leslie Scott 'locked horns' again Wednesday over the question of construction of homes for superintendents of state institutions. Some weeks ago Scott joined Secretary of State Earl Newbry in rejecting bids for a home for the superintendent of the Hill- crest school for girls on thesp- grounds that the bids were too high. Scott went even further and declared that he did not believe that a separate home for the superintendent in this institu tion was necessary and that the present apartment in one wing of the institution was sufficient. This stand brought an out burst from Hall who declared in favor of a home at this institu tion, maintaining he could see no reason for discriminating against this single institution. At a meeting Wednesday when the board was asked to call for bids for a residence for the superintendent of the blind school Gov. Hall demanded adoption of a policy by the Farmers Balk On Expansion Of Livestock Washington, Oct. 14 (P) Gov ernment forecasts of a boost in meat supplies and lower prices by late 1949 may be over-optimistic. Made chiefly by the agricul ture department, these predic tions have been based largely on the fact that, at the moment, the relationship between feed prices and livestock prices is very favorable for producing meat animals. This year's record grain crop has pulled down costs of feed while livestock prices have re mained relatively high. Fear Price Drop But reports from the corn belt, where the bulk of the na tion's meat supply comes from, indicate that farmers are not jumping in to expand livestock production as much as the de partment had expected. These reports say many farm ers fear that prices may drop sharply by the time new meat animals can be produced, fat tened and marketed. This view was expressed by Carl C. Malone, Iowa State college economist, before an ag riculture department farm out look conference here this week. He was supported by several economists from other western corn belt states. 1 Escape Any Risk Malone, somewhat to the sur prise of department officials, said he does not believe farm ers will meet the government's goal of a 60,000,000-head 1949 spring pig crop. Such a goal must be met if there is to be a big jump in pork supplies next year. It compares with this year's spring crop of 51,000,000. Malone said many farmers in Iowa the major corn-hog state prefer to put their corn under government price support loans and thereby escape any risk that might be involved in feeding the grain to livestock. Calls Christians For Cold War London, Oct. 14 (U.R) The archbishop of York called upon the Christian world today to fight the cold war to its bitter end and, if that did not subdue Russia, to "recognize that war is not the worst of all evils." The archbishop also recom mended that the international control plan submitted by the United Nations atomic energy commission, based on the Ame rican plan, be adopted at once as a "matter of extreme urgen cy." "Soon it may be too late," the archbishop, Dr. C. F. Gar rett, said in his presidential ad dress to the convocation of York. Outlining the duties of a Christian during the cold war, the archbishop said he must ne ver give up hope of peace and should support continuation of negotiations, "however exasper ating their length," while any chance of settlement remained. "But the Christian, despite all his hatred of war and pas sionate desire for peace, must recognize that war is not the worst of all evils," he added. "The utter degradation of man the loss of human rights and trampling under foot of all that is righteous and true is an evil worse than war." board on the question of homes for superintendents. "Either we should provide homes for all the superinten dents or abandon the program" said Hall. Scott said that he would vote for the blind school residence but wanted to consider each re quest on its own merits. Newbry expressed the opinion that he considered it poor policy to begin construction of frame residences in the winter months and said that all of the projects should be deferred until spring, Putting his views in the form of a motion, Scott quickly second ed it and the superintendents' residence program was shelved until next year, when a new board will tackle the problem. (Concluded on Page 17, Column () b (TV- II v I M I I If M V I I I "Tnrl ii i u ii ii n -rv ii tm!t-m'm''" """""" Eisenhower Receives Keys Gen. Dwight D. Eicenhower (left) receives the keys and charter of Columbia University from Frederick Coykendall, chairman of the board of trustees, at his installation in New York, as president of the Univer sity. General "Ike" declared in his speech at the ceremonies that "today's challenge to freedom and to every free in stitution is such that none of us dares stand alone." (AP Wire Boundary Changes Delayed The Marion countv district Thursday on DroDosed effecting the Salem scnool district, nas mem unaer unvimiucin until all the members of the board may De aavisea as to cuimi tions but Judge Grant Murphy indicated he would recommend adoption of at least the two of them contiguous to the Salem district to the other two mem bers, Commissioners Roy Rice and Ed Rogers who were away on road problems. The third, the only appar ently controversial one which woul3 take a large Ciunk out of the "combined Bethany and Hazel Dell consolidated district and put it into Mt. Angel, brought out a capacity crowd which required moving into one of the circuit court looms. A roster taken indicated about a three to one margin in favor of the proposal out of the 60 or more present. The land it Is proposed to move into Mt. Angei aistrict would include about half of the recently consolidated Hazel Dell and Bethany districts, now known as Bethany district. How ever, all the land in question would come from what was the old Hazel Dell district. It shows on the map as two dis tinct areas joined by a thin strip of land. Some of it is immedi ately adjacent to the Mt. An gel district. Fred Schwab of the Mt. An fel district said he signed the petition, even though he was not a resident of the area to be moved, because he thought It should be shown that Mt. Anr gel favored the change. He said for many years Mt. Angel schools had educated a large number of pupils from the area that wants to come in, that at one time there were 26 such pu pils in the Mt. Angel school. He added that if Mt. Angel had not accepted these pupils in its school then the other district would have been required to build an addition to its school house and Mt. Angel district, he said, has saved the other dis trict considerable money through the years. (Concluded on Page 17, Column 6) Bell Phone Strike In Detroit Area Detroit, Oct. 14 VP) Union operators struck or picketed 17 Michigan Bell Telephone com pany offices in the state today, endangering phone service in this area. The company and the Com munications Workers of Ame rica. (Ind.) have been locked in a wage dispute for months. Gov. Jim Sigler entered the dispute Wednesday with a sum mons to both sides to meet Fri day in an effort to iron out the dispute. The 10,500 switchboard operators have threatened a state-wide strike. For several weeks, operators have been conducting "quickie" strikes first at one exchange and then another. None has lasted more than a few hours. The CWA said these demonstra tions are in protest against Mi chigan Bell's failure to offer satisfactory wagt terms. District boundary board at a round of boundary changes, two of them The Political Parade Br the Associated Press) What the candidates are doing today (Thursday): IA11 Times Paoltte Standard) Republican Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in Missouri, speaks at Kansas City, address to be broadcast over CBS, 6:30 p.m. Gov. Earl Warren, vice presidential candidate, in Washington, speaks at Ever ett, 1 p.m., and Tacoma, 8 p.m. Democrats President Truman in Min nesota and Wisconsin, speaks at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. Sen. Alben Barkley, vice presidential candidate, in Ok lahoma, speaks at Clinton, at 12:30 p.m., and Enid, 6 p.m. Progressive Party Henry Wallace speaks at Milwaukee, to be broadcast over NBC network at 5:30 p.m. Sen. Glen Taylor, vice presidential candidate, speaks at Gary, 6 p.m. Dewey Invades Truman's State En Route With Dewey, Oct. 14 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today carried his "good gov ernment" campaign Into Mis souri, home state of his demo cratic opponent, President Tru man. The GOP candidate will de liver the second of three major speeches of his current cam paign 'swing tonight in Kansas City at 10 p.m. (EST) As Dewey's special campaign train approached the heart of Mr. Truman's home territory, the New York governor's staff promised that the Kansas City speech would describe Dewey's ideas on "the essential of good government." Yoshida Elected as Premier of Japan Tokyo, Oct. 14 (U.PJ Shigeru Yoshida, Japan's number one conservative, was elected prime minister today by an unenthusi astlc diet which cast less than half its votes. After days of bickering by the diet, Yoshida squeezed into office with 185 votes to one cast for former Premier Tetsu Kata yama. The remainder of the 399 ballots were blank a silent protest by democratic party members against Yoshida's re fusal to form a national coali tion government. Yoshida immediately began formation of Japan's sixth post war government along conser vative lines. Plan Pacific Defenses With MacArfhur Tokyo, Oct. 14 VP) Ameri can commanders In the. Pacific and Alaska discussed measures to prevent another Pearl Har bor in a series of top seoret con ferences with General Douglas MacArthur ending today. The problem of Pacific de fenses brought together key of ficers of the army, navy and alrforce guarding the north western and Far Eastern fron tiers of the United States. Airforce Lt. Gen. Nathan F Twining, commanding the Alas ka defenses, and Vice Admiral John L. McCrea, . deputy com mander of the U.S. Pacific fleet, met with General Mac Arthur for three days. To Prevent Attack They met within view of Ja pan's imperial palace grounds- just across the moat from the big white building housing al lied headquarters where the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on the U.S Pacific fleet received final sanction. Informed sources confined in formation on the talks to two points: 1. The American commanders discussed with General MacAr- thur practical precautions against the possibility of an other surprise attack. 2 The high-ranking officers attained a "fine spirit of coop e r a t i o n and coordination" among the army, navy and air force. This was described as an outstanding achievement. To Work Together Agreement to work together in the Pacific followed the gen eral pattern of unified defense set forth by Secretary of De fense Forrestal. The Tokyo talks got down to the practical application which must take place in the field in the event of war. Sources reviewing the con ferences made no reference to the first mid-winter amphibi ous landing attack exercise in the far north. It will be held next February in "the Alaska area," Pacific fleet headquar ters announced yesterday. The three commanders repre sented a vast defense area broadened by the war. Truman Raps rMe Too' Dewey En Route with Truman, Oct. 14 (U.R) President Truman put his fight with Gov. Thomas E Dewey on a bare-knuckle basis today, charging that the GOP White House candidate is risky "me too" convert to bi partisan foreign policy The president hurled the charge in a speech at St. Paul last night in which he discarded Dewey's "unity" campaign as a bunch of "catch phrases" and "mealy - mouthed political speeches." Then he headed southward for another run across Minne sota and Wisconsin to wind up tonight with another major speech in Milwaukee. The St. Paul speech was the most caustic Mr. Truman has delivered so far and reflected the increasing tempo of his cam paign as the Nov. 2 election draws near. German Composer Dies Berlin, Oct. 14 UP) Siegmund Von Hausegger, 76, German conductor and composer, has died at Munich, the Berlin press announced today. VA Following Law in Flying Courses for Vets Washington, Oct. 14 P) The veterans administration says it is following the law In requiring ample "justifications" before approving flying courses for Oregon war veterans. B. F. Ruffner, chairman of the Oregon state board ot aero nautics, complained recently to Senator Cordon (R., Ore.), that the agency ' disregarding the law. Cordon sent the complaint to the veterans administration and made public its answer today. Ruffner said that under the law aviation courses which are taken in connection with in tended business or ' occupation shall not be considered avoca tional or recreational. The VA does not approve avocational or recreational courses. Ruffner said the VA In Ore gon has refused to approve flight courses for engineering and forestry school students. He contended that engineers use airplanes In their work, as do persons engaged in forestry and agriculture. In fact, he said, 37 per cent of the privately owned airplanes in Oregon belong to farmers. Chambers Testimony Reveals Underground Espionage Washington, Oct. 11 VP) The house un-American activities committee today released here tofore secret testimony claiming that two communist under ground rings were operating simultaneously in the state de partment in the 1930s. The testimony was given Au gust 27 to Reps. Mundt (R S. D.) and Nixon (R-, Calif.), com mittee members, at a closed ses sion here by Whittaker Cham bers, self-styled former com munist and now an editor of Time magazine. The congressman said Cham bers told them he had discussed with Alger Hiss, former state department official, several per sons who might be brought in to the Red "cell" to which he said Hiss belonged. Noel Field Named One person mentioned, Cham bers said, was Noel Field, then in the department's western European division. Field was not further identified in the tes tlmony. State department records show that a Noel Haviland Field was assigned to the department's western European division in the early 1930s. He was corded as having been born in London of American parents in 1904, and as being a graduate of Harvard, and a Massachusetts social worker prior to entering the foreign service in 1926. Of ficials said he resigned from the department April 30, 1936.) (Concluded on Page 17, Column 4) Little Progress In Dock Strike San Francisco, Oct. 14 VP) Prospects of an early end to the 43-day west coast maritime strike are "not too hopeful" but there is a chance, says Allan S. Haywood, national CIO or ganizing director. Haywood met yesterday with four employer representatives to offer an agreement under written' by the national CIO to end the strike. Employers had said they would not deal with what they termed "irresponsi ble" union leaders. John Cushing, president Matson Navigation company and spokesman for the employ er committee, warned that no sudden finish to the waterfront struggle was in sight. "I don't think it will move fast," he said. "The thing is wide open. We're subject to call at another meeting." Haywood said Harry Bridges, president of the CIO longshore men, had agreed to the proposal for a ClO-underwritlcn con tract. There was no comment from Bridges. Union strike committees of Seattle and San Francisco, how ever, announced they voted against authorizing "outside" representatives to underwrite an agreement. Hospitals Ask Raise On Welfare Patients Portland, Ore., Oct. 14 (U.R) Oregon hospitals have asked a $4 a day raise in rates for the care of welfare patients, il was disclosed here today. Dr. Leon Goldsmith, medi cal consultant for the state pub lic welfare commission, said the Oregon Hospital association had asked $13 a day for hospitalized welfare recipients. This, Dr. Goldsmith said, was $4 more than presently charged. The flight courses have been approved by the state board of education, Ruffner said, and have been included in courses of colleges as carrying elective credit applicable toward grad uation. He wrote that the use of air planes In forestry, engineering and agriculture is "well known apparently to everyone but VA officials.", The VA replied that lt intend ed to handle each Oregon appli cation on Its merits to determine If the justifications are suffi cient. "However, flight courses which are required by the insti tution as part of the institution's standard credit-hour require ment for the veteran's degree objective will not require jus tification," it told Cordon. To Ask UN Security Council to Lift Soviet Blockade Paris, Oct. 14 VP) Western power delegates met today on the Berlin crisis and authorita- itve sources .said .they were framing a joint demand for se curity council action to lift thi Soviet blockade. The council takes up the Ber- in issue again tomorrow. Hope vanished for mediation outsida the council with Russia's report ed rejection of conciliation ef forts by the so-called neutral states. American, British and French delegates studied the Kremlin's answer to the neutral states' mediation efforts. The content of the Soviet note still was not made public, but western sources said it set back the Ber- in dispute to where it was six weeks ago. Palestine Situation Britain and China demanded today that Israel report quickly on what progress has been made in her investigation of the as sinntion of Count Folke Berna dotte. The two powers asked in a draft resolution that Israel also indicate "the measures taken in regard to negligence on the part of officials or other factors affecting the crime." John J. MacDonald, U.S. consul and chairman of the three-power consular truce com mission in Jerusalem, reported to the council that Jewish mili tary Governor Bernard Joseph led "a deliberate Jewish cam paign to discredit the truce com mission and the acting media tor," Dr. Ralph Bunche of, the United States. He said this campaign is developing along lines of the attack launched against Count Bernadotte, the) mediator, before he was shot to death in Jerusalem last month. Bunche Blames Israel Bunche himself charged be fore the council that Jewish au thorities took insufficient meas ures to protect Bernadotte. It unquestionably was a well planned, carefully timed assassination aimed directly at the life of the mediator," Bunche now acting mediator, told the council. He said Israeli authorities have given him no official report on theprogress of the investiga tion of the murder. Bernadotte was killed in Jerusalem Septem ber 1 7 by a group from the Jew ish Stern gong. Bevin Calls for Russian Plans London, Oct. 14 (U.R) Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin called on the Russians today to reveal "the extent of their ambitions." Bevin made his first public address since his return rom the United Nations meeting in Paris at a luncheon of the National Union of Manufacturers. "If I cannot get an agree ment," he said, "the issue that has got to be settled is can we live together? What areas do they want to live in? What is the extent of their ambitions?" Labeling the Russians expan sionists, Bevin continued: "They are the last of the im perialistic races as imperialis tic as a czar ever was. We have ecuseel to be an imperialistic race. We dominate no one. Wo accept equality with everyone in religion, in color, and in status, and in tiie areas we still control we have directed our energies toward independence and self government. "We seek no power to upset their system, but we umst re sist any attempt on their part to destroy their liberty. If we cannot fix an agreement v.ith our neighbors, at lenst let them keep over on their thoiv side rt the garden wall and enjoy their own life In tholr own wav." Bevin concluded: "I wiil not advocate any into.-ferenc, but if they seek t'J disturb 113, they must not Ik? annnyert if we are upset at their Intervention and defend oursrlvrs." Scripps-Howard To Support Dewey New York, Oct. 14 (U.?).-Th Script's Howard newspapers to day endorsed Governor Dewey for President. In an editorial enptionrd "Dewey and Warren" the papers said: "We are not presuming to tell anyone how to vote, between now and November 2 we shall explain why we believe the elec tion of Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren will best serve tho interests of this country and all its people. " The editorial said President Truman "is a good man, a good American" but "not good enough for the next four years."