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2 Capital Journal. Salem, Ore., Friday. November 11 fljft Milk Men Wan! Better T-H Law Portland, Or., Nov. 12 The National Co-operative Milk Producer! association believe! the Taft-Hartley law "should be strengthened, rather than weak ened." A resolution at the annual con vention here yesterday called the act a "great step forward toward Industrial Justice." The 700 delegntes urged am endment! preventing any at tempt by unions to interfere with farm-to-market deliveries and to provide the right of in junctions against secondary boy cotts. They also asked an anti-trust law to prevent unions from or ganizing farmers. In other resolution! they op poped any return to price con trol, urged that trade agree ments be made by congress rath er than the state department and that colored oleomargarine be kept off the market. New York City won next year'! convention. All officer! were re-elected at the conven tion's closing session, including W. J. Knutzen, Burlington, Wash., second vice president New director! include Russell S. Waltz, Seattle. Baptists Try For Harmony Portland. Ore., Nov. 12 (UP The Oregon Baptist convention which refused to seat delegations from 51 "conservative churches' yesterday laid. "The door is open for them," as the convention end ed. The ousted group had said It would form its own organization, meeting at the Hinson Memorial Baptist church, instead of Joining the parent conclave. On Armistice day, the origi nal convention resolved: To "regret if any unjust state ments have been made concern ing them (the conservatives) on the convention floor in the heat of debate, and that we do respect them as our brethren in Christ though differing from them in policy. "We convey to such churches our earnest desire to co-operate with them in all areai where we can act In harmony for the ex tension of the cause of Christ. "That we assure such church es that the door ii open for them to be restored to good standing on terms mutually acceptable to them and to us. Most of the conservative church delegates had gone home when the announcement came after appointing a seven-man ad visory board. Rev. Harold Jacobson of Grace Baptist church in Portland was elected president of the original convention, replacing Mr. M. B. Hodge. President Dr. Harry L. Dillon of Baptist Linfield college said he "lamented" the division but the position of Linfield "will be more clarified " Crash Landing Ends Endurance Flight LoiiRview, Tex., Nov. 12- The attempt of endurance fliers Fred Vinmont and Bert Simons to crack the world record of 726 hours ended last night in a crash-landing. The two men had been in the air S29 hours when they were forced to come down about 11 p.m. CST. Vinmort suffered a fractured rose in the landing Both men were hurled from the plane. Houston Dan. ground chief for the flirrs, said the plane's engine "frore" at between POO and 1.000 fret Any Hospilal May Receive a License Portland. Nov. 12 Any Oregon hospital which mee's li cencing requinments can re ceive a license, the tate board of health said today. The lxmM a;d confusion had anrn beoaue of the decision to I limit federal funds for hospital I construction to o-e applicant ' per community. "Because of trie limited quan tity of the funds " said acting 5ate Health Officer Pr G D Carlyle Thompson, ' a plan was worked out to distribute them equitably through the state . . . ) however this is entirely sepa rate from licensing law and re gulations The state board of health will license any hospital which can meet requirements." Hunting, Fishing Licenses May Jump Portland, Ore . Nov. 12 A plan to increase fees on hunting and fishing license! i under consideration of the state game commission, a Portland newspaper reported today. The proposal was discussed this week with legislative In- terlm committee, the Oregonlan said. The newspaper aaid the com mission wai recommending these increases: Resident fishing license, from the present $3 to $7; resident hunting license, from S3 to (7 combination resident hunting- fishing license, from $5 to $12 SO. Non-resident fishing license. from $10 to $19; non-resident hunting license, from $23 to $30 The commission also discus sed a plan to take game law en forcement out of the hands ol state police and set up a system of game wardens, the newipaper said. Game commissioners and le gislators had no comment. Strike Forces Rail Embargo New York. Nov. 12 OP An immediate embargo on all freight destined for export from strike bound New York and Boston harbors was recommend ed today by the regio"al office of the Association of American railroads. The recommendation was sent to the association's Washington office. George C. Randall, man ager of port traffic for the rail group here, said he was sure the proposal would be put into ef fect. Meanwhile, delegates of the striking dock workers, whose dispute threatens to tie up the Atlantic and gulf seaboard awaited a message from Presi dent Truman. Joseph P. Ryan, president of the AFL International Long shoremen's association, of which the dock workers are members, said the message would be read to the delegates later today. He said he did not know its contents, but added it was writ ten before Mr. Truman went to Florida and before the walkout began Wednesday. It was prepared and given to Cyrus S. Ching, director of the federal mediation service, for delivery to the stevedores in the event of a collapse in negotia tions. The ILA president also said he believed the union membership had voted overwhelmingly against acceptance of a wage agreement worked out by union leaders with shipping operators. Masonic Orders Will Assist Lodge Home Amity Amity chanter. Or der of Eastern Star will hold its regulnr meeting November 15 at the Masonic hall. After a brief business meeting, the Masonic lodge will join the chapter for a harvest home festival, fr the benefit of the Masonic home, Forest Grove. The order will al- observe the "centennial" of Masonry in Oregon, and the DUth anniversary of the Masonic lod?e in Amity. 1 I f v . w pi v n jm r'lW.--. frit Pet Great Dane. Prince of Neelia, Armnsco..2 at Belmont. Australia. DANCE i. u -j SATURDAY NITE CRYSTAL GARDENS 60c OLD TIME ONLY Music by "Pop" Edwards Opposed lo UN Action in Berlin Paris, Nov. 12 'J' Russia and the western powers were report ed today to be opposed to air ing the delicate Berlin deadlock in the United Nations general assembly. Reliable sources said Argen tine Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglla, November president of the security council, hat ask ed UN Secretary-G e n e r a 1 Trygve Lie not to step into the Berlin case. Sources close to Bragmulla said he was planning to deliver a similar message to Herbert V. Evatt, Australian external af fairs minister and president of the assembly, who has been re ported ready to raise the Ber lin issue in the 58-nation assem bly. Bramuglia's visit to Lie fol lowed a series of conferences between him and delegates from the western and neutral nations on the security council. Lie earlier this week had In structed UN legal and financial experts to study the Berlin mon etary question. This was on the theory that only the issue of making the Soviet zone mark Berlin's sole currently really prevented an accord In the negotiations by the neutrals last month to end the deadlock between east and west over Berlin, the two sides could not agree on whether the block ade should be lifted before the Soviet mark was made Berlin's only currency or vice versa. 250 Teachers to Meet at Keizer The approximately 250 ele mentary school teachers of Mar ion county outside of the Salem Silverton and Woodburn first class districts will hold a work conference at Keizer school next Thursday and Friday, Novem ber 18 and 19. While all ele mentary achools of the county outside of first class districts will close down those two days the schools in Salem, Silverton and Woodburn will operate as usual. Mrs. Agnes C. Booth, county superintendent, states this con ference for elementary teachers outside of the districts named takes the place in part of teacher institutes held in the past, the breakdown being a bit differ ent. The work conference for the elementary schools in the first class districts already has been held. A five-county con ference for high school teachers including Marion county, will be held at Corvallis in Febru ary. At the Keizer meeting the work generally featured at an institute will be carried on with various phases of the school pro gram up for discussion. 4 is petted by Maureen I Include! Toi re - Ttn o Leaden Attend Defense Conference Gen. Omar Bradley (third from left), army chief of itaff, talks with the first group to arrive in Washington, D. C, at the Pentagon build ing for orientation conference on national defense. In the group are (left to right) Malcolm Muir, Newsweek magazine president; Winthrop Aldrich, chairman of the board. Chase National bank; Gen. Bradley: Robert R. Young, board chair man of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad; Arthur Hays Sulz berger, publisher, New York Times, and John L. Lewis, presi dent of the United Mine Worker!. (AP Wirephoto) Greyhound Bus Strike Monday San Francisco, Now. 12 W) With a Greyhound bus strike in seven western states tentative ly set for Monday, wage nego tiations resumed today and are expected to continue through tomorrow. Federal Conciliator Omar Hoskins sat in the meetings as an observer. There was no re port at noon as to what prog ress was made. In a letter to the company, the union said the strike would be called unless an "acceptable" wage offer is forthcoming be fore that deadline. Affected would be 2800 driv ers, and ouu station employes in California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The letter said drivers "will be instructed not to take out any schedules (commute routes as well as inter-city runs) after midnight, Nov. 14." No company comment was available pending the arrival of President F. W. Ackerman, en route here by air from Chicago. The company's last offer, the letter said, was rejected "by an overwhelming majority" of the union membership. The union said the offer called for a rate of 6.3 cents per mile or an hourly wage of $1.32. and a daily minimum of $11.28 for drivers, with increases ranging from "nothing to $15" for the station employes. At present, the union said. drivers are receiving six cents per mile or $1.25 per hour and daily minimum guarantee of $10.48. Postmasters of Three Counties to Dine A dinner meeting of postmas ters from Marion, Polk and Yam hill counties will be held at Nohlgren's at 7 o'clock Satur day night. Wayne Flynn, post master at Sheridan, president of the organization will preside. Approximately 25 postmasters are expected to attend. In ad dition to discussing problems pe culiar to the postal service, re ports will be made concerning the recent national convention of the National Association of Post masters held in New York City. Postmasters Gragg of Salem. Courtney of Lafayette. Parker of Oregon City and Hedlund of Portland were among those at tending the national convention. Judge Murphy Off for Oklahoma County Judge Grant Murphy leaves Friday night for Okla homa City, Okla.. to attend the national reclamation congress as a representative of Marion county, the trip to take him about 4000 miles. He will be SOW MIOMINO OVkS JJHXUrHDUK PLt'S Edrar Kenned? Coined; -TROriU.K OR NOTHING" HOLLYWOOD KIDS CLl'B TOMORROW Dmti Open at t:M P. M. Amateur Protram Contests Two Cartoons Serial gpoelal rralare: Ratrh Jenkins, Mkaey Rooney In "TH HIM COMEDY" AIM BCNIIOVt BIRTHDAY CAKC for Annette HHns Beverly Olemon Gary Maederer Darla Dtanne Snyder Naa gleet accompanied by Mrs. Murphy as far as Modesto, Calif., where she will stop off to visit her daughter, Mrs. Charles Berger. On his return Judge Murphy also will stop at Modesto and continue his vacation there with Mrs. Murphy and their daughter and family. Judge Murphy expects to ar rive back in Salem December 5 and In the meantime the matter of appointing a state senator to succeed Governor-elect Doug las McKay will hang fire. In fact, no appointment could be made by the court at this time as Senator McKay's resignation from that post has not gone into the secretary of state. Oregon has played an import ant part in the affairs of the national reclamation congress for many years and its immedi ate past president is Judge Rob ert W. Sawyer, newspaper pub lisher of Bend. Cooney Tells Of Truck Trip What a native Oregonian will encounter and observe during a solo truck trip from Indiana back to his own state would fill a large book, Judging by a trav el talk given by Leon Cooney during Friday's luncheon of the Salem Board of Realtors. Coo ney, a member of the board, flew east to get the truck and then started home. The traveler described the monotony of the flat country covered with tall corn, beans and clover and the wide open spaces of Nebraska. "I once thought all of the displaced persons of Europe could be lo cated in the 11 western state, since crossing Nebraska I have changed my ideas and feel sure they could all be placed there and nobody would be the wiser, ' commented Cooney. His encounter with a woman on the highway after a near col lision was described by Cooney. The woman in parting told him she "hoped your mother crawls i out from under the porch and bites you on the leg when you get home." The board set in motion ma chinery for the annual election when it named its nominating committee. Three member! from the board named to the commit tee were Blanche Isherwood. Leon Cooney and Earl W. Dunn. Woodburn. North America has more than 600 kinds of birds, belonging to 75 families. r P 1 .TTryTTw LAST DAY! "deep Waters" -mary tor" TOMORROW! I.IWOIII.lliaFH IliTil iMI Alt Mil: rii j ItacaWltnshWilmr ' . IMfTTI ( iAri TYnomiMii is nf II fciaa Wf. Mutt wuctt -una Brai jj Greek Premier, Cabinet Quit Athens. Nov. 12 Premier Themistokles Sophoulis handed the resignation of his coalition i Greek government to King Paul i today. The king accepted it. Sophoulis said the king would summon Foreign Minister Con stantin Tsaldaris, leader of the populist party, to the palace to discuss the cabinet crisis before asking any leader or group to form a new government. Sophoulis resigned under pressure from Sophocles Venize los, deputy leader of his own liberal party. Venizelos charged the govern ment in 14 months had failed to suppress the communist re bellion and lacked the confi dence of the Greek people. He claimed enough support from his followers in the liberal party to combine with opposition parties and overthrow the gov ernment in parliament. Fog Cancels Airline Flights AH airlines flights into Sa lem were cancelled for Friday, including that of the chartered plane slated to bring the Univer sity of Utah team into Salem, According to United Air Lines only a decided change in weath er could today bring about the voiding of the cancelled stops in the capital city. The plane with the football team will come into Oregon but will make its stop either in Portland or Eu gene with the airports in both of these places open to air traf fic when checked at 1 p.m. Only one airlines plane left the Salem field Thursday. That was a United Air Lines plane that the night before had been forced to terminate its flight here because the Portland air port was fog-bound. Private flying also was at a stand-still both Thursday and Friday with the planes remain ing on the ground because of the fog and the low ceiling. Mat. Daily From 1 P.M. NOW SHOWING! Co-Hit! John Emerv "GAY INTRUDERS" Opens 6:45 p.m. Now! Two New Hits! Now! Open H:45 p.m. Monle Hale Color "UNDER COLORADO SKIES" KARTOOn KARMVAL at ltTMMHtk Reg. dhrwl 2a I wu( une etotci iissic THRILLS! ADVENTURE! UNDER THE SEA! 9gj Radio Battle Hard on Nerves Hollywood, Nov. 12 The .! battle of the networks reached the war of nerves stage today as I NBC tried to work out a several million dollar deal to keep Jack Benny In its stable CBS gave up on the Benny front, and went after Edgar Ber gen. NBC is reported to have $4,000,000 or close to it ready for the Waukengan wit. "They are paying out money to hold on to what they already have, while we have only to pay out to add to what we already own," a CBS executive told the Hollywood Reporter, a movie trade paper. NBC is countering efforts of CBS to raid its star list. The method: Capital gains deals autii b me uiic mm swiiuiitru Amos 'n' Andy to CBS. "How is the Benny deal going to set with Hope, Cantor, Duran te and other NBC stars who will want the same treatment?" a CBS man remarked to the Reporter's Joel Murcott. He hinted that dissatisfied stars might turn to the younger net work, joining t h e successful h o w s such as Suspense, Arthur Godfrey, My Friend Irma and Crime Photographer, recent- ly developed by CBS program- ming division The big talent scramble aim ed at building up listener inter est during the winter season was intensified by the latest lis tener surveys. Hooper ratings gave NBC a 10-5 edge over CBS In the first 16 programs; Niel sen gave CBS a 9-4 margin in the first 20 shows It rated. The ratings include Mutual and American network pro grams. Eleven His Number Long Pond, Me., Nov. 12 W Eleven is definitely George Pa radis' number. The 11th child of Mrs. Albertin Paradis, he was born on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. And yesterday was his 11th birth day. NOW! RED SKELTON in and THE S-ECRET LAND- It's easy to own the out! The elegance and richnesi of 1847 Rogers Bro an be yours tomorrow! Come in and let ui tmnge convenient budget terms. 52-PIECE SERVICE FOR EIGHT $ S4.15u'tlukst AlexjaitdeiA DIAMONDS UlATCHey Kl COUWT T 1 Plan Extension Atlantic Pad Washington, Nov. 12 Top western diplomats will try to decide soon, perhaps next week, whether to expand the proposed Atlantic defense alliance from I seven to at least 12 nations at the outset. An answer to this question will be high on the program when the ambassadors from Britain. Canada, France, Bel gium, Holland and Luxembourg meet with Undersecretary of State Robert A. Lovctt. Behind closed doors, they will discuss specific plans for weld ing Europe's free nations Into a giant defense belt supported by American arms and dollars. If all goes well,' invitations to join the alliance would then go out to the governments of Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and perhaps Ireland. Countries accepting would be asked to send delegates to a full fledged defense conference some time in December. A for mal alliance would be written at this meeting, pledging each nation to aid the rest in the event of attack. To put teeth into this alliance, the state department currently is planning to ask congress for , several billion dollars needed to buy arms and munitions for member countries. Police Hunt Raiders Seoul, Nov. 12 IIP) A police force of 170 men moved into mountainous Kangwon province 45 miles northeast of here in search of 60 armed raiders sus pected of distributing arms for the communist North Korean government. UDIONIPIBDO LC R E O I T-j -TILVeRUIflRe M Tonlte & Saturday! 1 1 1 Mark Stevens J 1 1 Barbara Lawrence ( II "ST. wmi NO nl Leo Gorcejr & M III Bowerv Bov 111 "JINX MONEY" If 111 Color Cartoon LATE NEWS J
