Naval Reserve
Auxiliary Unit
Looms for City
Offer Made to Lease
Training Site for
Air Reservists
Will Salem have another na
val reserve installation the
naval air reserve auxiliary unit
where air reservists from the
northwest section of the state
can train?
That question should be an
swered within the next week.
When Comdr. E. J. Lanigan
from the office of chief of na
val operations, Washington, D.C.
was in Salem November 22, he
promised his answer 30 minutes
after getting necessary informa
tion from the city on rental
terms for the site.
That information now is en
route to Lanigan's office via air
mail special delivery from city
officials.
$3600 a Year Lease
In reply to the navy's request
for the information, the letter
offers the navy use of the Mc
Nary field site at $3600 per
year.
Included would be the hangar
on the east side f the field and
the aprons to the hangar; two
25.000 gallon gasoline storage
tanks with pumps and hose, a
20 by 100 foot building back of
the main hangar, now occupied
by one of the flying services on
the field, but for which space
will be made available on the
west side of the field by the
city; and the four buildings on
the west side of the field now
used by the navy.
In addition, the building now
used by United Air Lines would
go to the navy when vacated
by the airline, which plans a
move to the west side of the
field when the administration
building is constructed there.
30 Days Notice
The letter stipulates that pres
ent occupants of the hangar
shall have at least 30 days no
tice before required to move,
and adds that the weather bur
eau now housed in an addition
to the main- hanger shall re
main in that location until con
struction of the administration
building. This is planned in a
year or two.
The navy will also pay for
their own utilities, including
electricity and water. ,
Salem was one of three sites
inspected by Comdr. Lanigan
and Comdr. W. W. Paull, also
from Washington, November 22.
The other two were Portland
and Hillsboro.
Previous Inquiries
The navy first evinced Inter
est in the local airport over a
year ago but it was not until
early this fall that inquiry was
made from Washington about
the facilities here however,
though local ex-navy fliers had
previously made inquiries about
establishing a unit here for
training.
The visit of Lanigan and Paull
was arranged late the afternoon
of November 20 when the 13th
Naval district Naval air re
serve office called the Capital
Journal requesting that ar
rangements be made for the
two men from Washington and
Capt. C. F. Greber, in charge
of the 13th naval district air
reserve training, to confer with
local men.
Asked to meet with the trio
were Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom,
City Manager J. L. Franzen,
Airport Manager" Wallace Hug,
and two former naval fliers,
Glenn Fravel and Ivan Esau.
At that time Comdr. Lanigan
asked that the city submit its
rental proposition to him as soon
as possible and stated that his
answer would immediately fol
low. Both Mayor Elfstrom and Hug
were out of town at the time so
the city's proposal was delayed
until their return.
Jake Bird to Hang
On January 14
Tacoma, Dec. 3 & Superior
Judge Hugh Rosellinl, after lis
tening to an hour's oration by
the condemned man, today set
Jan. 14 as the execution date for
Jake Bird, ax slayer of two Ta
coma women and confessed slay
er of many others.
Rosellini's action in setting the
Jan. 14 date came as a surprise.
He has several times said the
date would be Jan. 7. He did
not explain his change of mind
THt WEATHER
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Clearing this evening with
patches of valley fog tonight and
Saturday morning. IncreMlng
cloudineu Saturday afternoon.
Little change in temperature.
Minimum yesterday 47. Mini
mum today 35. Mean tempera
ture ymterday 4 which was 1
below normal. Total 24-hour pre
cipitation to 11:30 am today .14.
Totl precipitation foi the month
159 which Is 1.11 inches above
normal. Willamette tlrer height
at Salem mday morning, 10.1
feet
60th Year, No. 289
State to Pave
Pudding River
Highway Unit
The county court was noti
fied Friday by R. H. Baldock,
state highway engineer, that the
state highway commission in its
construction program for 1949
and 1950 is considering among
other projects the grading and
paving of the Pudding River
Silverton section of the Salem
Silverton road, which would
complete that federal aid proj
ect from Salem to Silverton.
The project would also in
clude construction of a new
bridge over Pudding river and
a railroad overpass. The length
of the section is 3.4 miles, says
Engineer Baldock's notification,
and the estimated cost is $325,
000. Right of Way Asked
However, the county court
received something of a jolt in
connection with the letter when
the state highway engineer says,
"As this road is not on the
state highway system the com
mission will consider its im
provement with state and fed
eral funds only in event that
necessary rights of way will be
acquired by the county without
cost to the state." Commissioner
Ed Rogers said that on the pre
vious work on the road the
state has met the cost of right
of way and this is an item on
which the county court has not
figured.
60 Foot Width
Engineer Baldock states that
a minimum 60-foot right of way
will be required in existing lo
cations, "Where a new route is
selected requiring the purchase
of all new rights of way," he
says, "the minimum right of
way required would be 80
feet, but existing rights of way
with a minimum of 60 feet will
be accepted on existing roads
unless additional width is neces
sary for slopes or . drainage."
(Concluded on Pare 17, Column 5)
All-America
Pact in Effect
Washington, Dec. 3 U.R The
United States and 13 other
American republics were bound
together formally today in
historic alliance pledging joint
action to defend this hemisphere
against outside attack.
The "pole to pole" defense
pact, signed at Rio De Janeiro
15 months ago, went into force
when Costa Rica filed its ratifi
cation with the Pan American
union at elaborate ceremonies
here. It brought the number of
ratifications up to the required
two thirds.
The U.S. senate unanimously
ratified the treaty a year ago.
The senate next spring will be
asked to approve U.S. entrance
into a similar defense alliance
with non-communist western
Europe. The state department
will open diplomatic talks on
that agreement in the near fu
ture. The Rio pact commits the sig
natory nations to regard an
armed attack upon any Ameri
can state as an attack upon all.
Each signatory is obligated to
assist immediately in meeting
the attack by whatever action it
considers appropriate.
But it is specifically left to
each nation to decide whether it
will use its armed forces.
Polio Chapter Works on
Rehabilitation Project
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
A special committee to Investigate the resources and possibili
ties of setting up a physiotherapy department in Salem was au
thorized at the meeting of Marion county chapter of the National
Foundation of Infantile Paralysis Inc., Thursday evening at the
Salem hotel coffee shop. Purpose of such a department would be
to carry on needed pysiotherapy
during rehabilitation following
polio or for other cases in need
of such service.
The action followed a talk
by Dr. Robert F. Anderson in
which he 'stated he believed the
possibilities are here for Mar
ion county to take care of Its
own cases when polio strikes if
the needed facilities are organ
ized. Dr. Willard Stone, county
health officer and member of
the chapter executive commit
tee, was named chairman for the
special committee. Complete
personnel and plans for the com
mittee will be announced later.
Officers elected at the meet
ing include: Mrs. David Wright,
chairman; T M. Medford, vice
chairman; Miss Dorothy Cor
nelius, secretary; Lawrence
Fisher, treasurer. These officers
will officiate until June when
the annual meeting will be held
on schedule. Mrs. Wright has
G apit alj Jour nQ 1
Salem,
matter tt 6)ql Ortio
Hop Growers
Told Economic
Aspects of Pact
By DON UPJOHN
Hearing on the proposed hop
marketing agreement for Ore'
gon, Washington, California and
Idaho growers went into Its sec
ond and probably final' day at
the Chamber of Commerce Fri
day when it will move south to
Santa Rose, Calif., and its con'
elusion.
Thursday was the day for tes
timony as to production data and
Friday for discussion of the eco
nomic phases which make such
an agreement desirable in the
opinion of the United States Hop
Growers association, its leading
proponent.
Highlight Friday was the tes
timony of Dr. D. B. LaRoach,
consultant to chief of the bur
eau of agricultural economics in
the department of agriculture at
Washington, and member of the
Oregon State college faculty on
leave. Dr. LaRoach two years
ago made a complete survey of
the hop situation and this he
has revised and brought down to
date and this information was
injected into the testimony Fri
day.
Statistics Listed
This has been supplemented
by extensive lists of statistics
prepared under the direction of
the fruits and vegetables branch
of the production and marketing
administration of the federal de
partment all of which have gone
into the testimony and copies of
these were on hand for those in
terested. And interest was high
from the fact that the hearing
room at the chamber was pack
ed and it became necessary to
install a speaker system to reach
the ears of the large number
present.
Another important feature of
Friday's hearing was exposition
by Paul Rowell, associate mana
ger of the United States Hop
Growers association in charge of
the Salem office, who made clear
other specific provisions of the
proposed market agreement than
those touched on including the
surplus control provision which
made up one of the keys to meet
ing market recessions.
Minimum Standards
The hearing Thursday went
into a late evening session at
which discussion of the mini
mum standard proposals was
had dealing with the matter of
keeping cull hops from the mar
ket. Also provisions of the agree
ment as to establishment and
personnel of the proposed con
trol board were gone into thor
oughly. The board would con
sist of 18 members, half grower-
members and the other half split
up among grower-dealers, deal
ers and brewer members which
would protect growers-members
from being overridden by
the balance of the industry. Id
aho would come under the Ore
gon membership on the control
board as its small acreage is just
across the state line.
One point brought out at
Thursday's hearing was a de
cline in the use of beer, it be
ing stated that beer consump
tion has dropped off with a con
sequent drop in the use of hops.
Trolley Crash Kills 10
Strasbourg)!, Dec. 3 um Po
lice reported today that 10 per
sons were killed and 50 injured
last night when two trolley cars
crashed head on at Drusenheim,
north of Strasbourgh.
been vice chairman and acting
chairman following the resigna
tion earlier in the fall of Roy
Houck, whose business takes
him out of town and made it
difficult for him to carry on the
chairmanship.
In the reports it was revealed
that in nearly two years time
the chapter has spent $6568.45
for expenses and necessary care
in treatment of polio cases, that
18 polio cases were provided for;
that $8000 has been given to the
Shrine hospital for crippled
children in that time and that
$3000 additional will be given
the hospital as the commitment
for 1948.
Elmer J. Church, who Was ,
named several weeks ago to be
chairman for the 1949 "march
of dimes" rampaigi for the
county, was among those at the
meeting and some discussion
was held on plans for the cam
paign opening in January,
Oregon, Friday, December 3, 1948
if m
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l'7 , -HP, 1 1 AjJL Mry.-t" groups totalling 250.00(1
ps." I .-.- --a.-"- -T v ir ,n f jt pulled out of Suchow in an
P ,! -i ? - 'sfZrPiZ 'Tv?WM 11 army group to the south, in
I - ,-p rTl 7'V I'f-'"- 'I Suhsien sector.
I r 'v, -. 0 1H vrw'", V'"ifVrvV Mjk Foreign military o
I L . "t'', ,;A,t"i lV'W;M however, estimatethe
I J-V - ' tosZ, Ct" WT, L V"S V ,,0VQ combat strcniUh of the Su
r ' - -. .., "''ii 1 'SrV,? A. garrison at 110.000 men-in
fci i.irnfil-.-imn. i,.ii'Mini itir mliy-f7i hi if lii.'.TT't -.1.1 nl. iiiTi'r 1TW Wiii.."! mV.'
Obsolete The smoke coming from the barrel of this 16
inch coastal defense rifle at Fort Funston, in San Francisco,
is not from gun powder, but an acetylene torch. The gun is one
of several declared obsolete by the Army and is being junked.
The Army said it takes two days to cut one of the rifles to
pieces. (AP Wirephoto)
Young GOP Seek
To Oust Old Guard
By JAMES D. OLSON
Resolutions demanding that Senator Robert Taft and Speaker
Joseph L. Martin, Jr., vacate positions of power in the republican
party will be placed before the
Oregon Federation of Young Republicans opening in Salem Friday
afternoon. 5
This and similar resolutions
will be the vehicle by which a
group of members of the or
ganization hope to win support
to a proposal that would recom
mend eliniination of the so-called
'old guard' domination in the
party both on a state and na
tional level.
Robert A. Elliott, who was
Harold Stassen's Oregon man
ager in the spring primary cam
paign and a leader among the
young republicans, declares that
"we want to go back to the party
of Abraham Lincoln and clear
out such people as Taft, Martin
Carroll Reese and Harrison
Spangler."
Another of the Young Re
publican group who contend
that the GOP needs new leader
ship if future success is to be
obtained is John Hakanson, edi
tor of the Oregon Young Re
publican Trumpeter.
"The actual live issues before
us are as pressing as any which
Lincoln faced," said the editor
"Until we develop answers to
these issues which spring from
a realization of the dignity of
each individual in the world
and until those answers are pre
sented with courage and forth-
rightness, the republican party
is a dead duck."
The convention session will
open at 10 a.m. Saturday in the
Salem armory. Steve Anderson,
Salem attorney, and president
of the federation will preside.
Election of officers is slated at
4 p.m.
Senator Wayne Morse will be
the principal speaker at a ban
quet beginning at 7 pm. Satur
day at the Chamber of Com
merce. He will speak on "The
Elephant's Future."
New Palestine
Plan Approved
Paris, Dec. 3 W The United
Nations approved today a new
American proposal for broad
conciliation on Arab and Jewish
boundaries in Palestine without
reference to the Bcrnadotte
plan or last year's partition.
The United States apparently
lost its fight for immediate ad
mission of Israel to UN member
ship, however. The membership
committee of the security coun
cil decided to adjourn its con
sideration of the application un
til after the political committee
completes its Palestine debate.
This could mean the assembly
will be unable to reach the ap
plication in this session, even if
the security council had time
to approve it.
The political committee ac
cepted by a large majority an
amendment proposed by Dean
Rusk of the United States to a
British resolution. The change
passed by a vote of 42 to two,
with the 12 Arab and Slav bloc
states not voting.
The amendment instructs the
conciliation commission to be
set up under that portion of the
British resolution passed yester
day to take steps to assist the
Jews and Arabs to settle all out
standing problems.
The committee yesterday de
leted that nnrt nf th nrillsh
nr ODOsn I Whirh wmtlH hnvn in.
sirucied the commission to give
equal weight to the Bcrnadotte
plan, proposed by the slain me
diator.. Count Folke Bcrnadotte.
and the partition plan passed by
the UN general assembly in
1 1947.
r t v?,V' " 1
nttlZP
10th annual convention of the
Flooded Area in
West Salem
Heavy rainfall and clogged
drainage sewers caused some
damage and considerable incon
venience in the West Salem
area and the Kingwood water
district across the river in Polk
county Thursday.
Faulty drainage systems fail
ed to carry away the more than
an inch of rain which fell yes
terday with a two-block area in
the Kingwood district hit the
hardest with water from one to
six feet deep covering a 50-acro
tract north of Eighth street in
West Salem where ten homes
were flooded to their founda
tions.
The water also affected a five
block area on both sides of
Seventh street from the Wallace
road to Patterson street. Water
pouring from the Kingwood
ridge on the north practically
covered the site of the West Sa
lem junior high school.
Walter Musgrave, West Sa
lem mayor, said the Seventh
street flooding was caused when
street and highway catch basins
became clogged. The drains
were cleared as rapidly as pos
sible and little water remained
Friday morning.
Polk county officials did not
clean a drainage ditch near the
school site because, it was
claimed, the project is not link
ed with road work. West Salem
has no jurisdiction because the
ditch lies outside the city lim
its. Several hundreds of acres on
the Marion county side and in
the northeast area of Salem
were also under water but in
most instances the depth was
not more than a few inches.
Willamette Flood
To Crest at 10.5 Ft.
The Willamette river was up
to 10.2 feet here Friday morn
ing and the weather bureau said
the crest still was expected Sat
urday morning somewhere
around 10 V4 feet or so. Flood
stage here is 20 feet.
Tributaries to the Willamette
were starting to fall Friday,
colder temperatures and snow in
the mountains checking the
rains.
Only river overflow expected
in this section was on the San
tiam in the Jefferson area and
the reading there Friday morn
ing was 12.8 feet. Flood stage
there is 13 feet and the only
damage in an overflow would be
water over some of the adjacent
lowlands.
Kaiser-Frazer Buys
Willow Run Plant
Detroit, Dec. 3 tr Kai.irr
Frazer Corp. announced today
It is buying for $1S, 100.000 the
famous, government-owned for
mer Willow Run bomber plant.
It cost the government $100,
000.000 to build the factory, ac
cording to unofficial figures.
As leaseholder, Kaiser-Frazer
has been manufacturing automo
biles in the plant since taking
occupancy aftrr the war's end.
K-F said it is buying the plant
from the government on a 20-
year Installment plan.
p" .,t -e Five Cents i
Crash Fatal to
St. Paul Man
St. Paul, Ore., Dec. 3
Charles Sylvester Mullen, 33,
president of the St. Paul Tele
phone company, was killed
when his truck went off the
highway at the edqe of town
Wednesday night. He received
skull injuries.
Mullen had been working on
line extensions and repairs and
was on his way home The acci
dent occurred in front of the
home of Peter P. Kirk, a half
brother, with Mrs. Mullen driv
ing the family automobile im
mediately behind him. After
investigation by Donald Bar
rick, Marion county deputy cor
oner, the body was taken to
the Hudson mortuary in New
berg. Mullen was a farmer and in
addition to his work with the
telephone company was active
in the Rod and Gun club and
the St. Paul Rodeo association.
He was born here Se;)l. 17, 1915,
and is survived by his widow
and three daughters, Irene
Kathleen and Patrici-j and a son.
Jerry Mullen, parents, Mr. and
Mrs, C, S. Mullen; brother, Ed
gar J. Mullen; half-brother,
Peter P. Kirk, all of St. Paul
and a sister. Sister Theresa
Portland. Funeral services were
held from the St. Paul Catholic
church Friday morning.
Snow and Rain
Fall in Oregon
(By the AAtoel.trd Prw
Snow lay in a deep blanket
over a large part of Oregon to
day (Friday) and elsewhere the
ground was sopping from heavy
rains yesterday and last night.
Power failures in the Klam
ath basin and Rogue valley were
laid to heavy wet snow on trans
mission lines.
The weather bureau gave this
picture of snowfall:
An even foot at Mcacham in
the Blue mountains; 5 inches
on the ground at Baker, 1 Inch
on the ground at La Grande, a
trace at Burns; 8 inches at
Klamath Falls, 7 inches at Lake
view, an Inch at Medford, 20
inches at Keno, varying amounts
at every point from the Cas
cade mountains west at eleva
tions of 1000 feet and above
where there was any precipi
tation. And there was plenty of pre
cipitation. Where it didn't snow
it rained. The weather bureau
gauge for 24 hours ending at
4:30 a.m. today showed 1.94
inches at Brookings, 1.75 at
North Bend, 1.25 at Newport
and 1.17 at Roseburg and Mod-
ford.
3800 Unemployed in
Salem Area, States Baillic
While considerable unemployment exists in the territory served
by the Salem labor office of the slate employment service, W. H.
Baillie, manager, expressed the opinion Friday that there were
more persons employed now than during the war peak. New
industries have made this possible.
Baillie estimates there, arci
3800 persons actively seeking
employment in this district with
few or no jobs available. The
office, swamped with requests
for stenographers for many
months, has filled all of these
positions. What few seasonal
Jobs are made available from
lime to time are quickly taken
care of, Baillic states
Much of the unemployment is
seasonal while a certain portion
nf It is due to the cloture of saw
mills. Lumber has been piling
up in the yards during the
strike of water from employes
and this fact, combined with
the customary program of mid-
winter closure has idled many
mills, particularly the smaller
ones. Most of them do not plan
to reopen until early In 1949.
' Reflecting a mass movement
Suchow Army
Groups Fighting
Way to South
Chinese Reds Find
Huge Supply
Depots Destroyed
Nanking, Dec. 3 tPi Chinese
I communist capture of Suchow
was confirmed today by govern
ment military sources.
They said evacuation of the
'big nationalist base 11 miles
S-S'pleted at noon Wednesday. The
Red radio announced capture of
the city at 10 p.m., locai time.
last night
r m y
men
of-
I will I
the
observers.
effective
chow
the
16th, second and 13th army
groups. The forward elements
were stalled by Red columns 25
miles south of Suchow. The
13th army group was holding
rear guard positions.
Supply Depots Destroyed
Military sources reported the
communists entered Suchow
only to find huge supply depots
destroyed. Ammunition and
gasoline dumps were blown up
Air observers said smoke pillars
reached 8,000 feet above Su
chow.
Those sources said the Suchow
army groups would have to fight
through a 30-mile belt to make
contact with the troops trapped
at Suhsien, and about 60 miles
to reach the Sixth and Eighth
nationalist army groups which
have formed a defense line on
the Hwai river, 100 miles
northwest of Nanking.
Meanwhile, seven Red col
umns totalling about 100,000
men eased their assault on the
Hwai river line. They were re
ported to have moved north
(evidently to help stop the Su
chow garrison and to have left
only a small holding force op
posite the Hwai river armies.
Fruit Canners
Under HLRB Ad
Washington, Dec. 3 P -In a
ruling important lo the fruit
canning business the National
Labor Relations Board ruled
today that the industry's em
ployes are subject to the federal
labor relations laws.
The board ordered an election
held among cannery employes
of the Di Giorgio Fruit Corp's
Lucerne Park, Fla,, grove to de
termine if they wish to be rep
resented in labor negotiations
by the American Federation of
Labor.
Congress has exempted "ag
ricultural employes" from the
labor relations laws, just as they
are exempt from the wage-hour
law.
However, the NLRB found
that cannery workers cannot be
considered exempt as "agricul
tural workers." The NLRB said:
"When fruit is sold in its raw
state and the only processing in
volved consists of boxing or
crating It in order to ship it
to market, the operation retains
its agricultural aspect.
"This is quite different from
the situation in the instant case
where the employes work in a
cannery, operate machines, cut
up and transform fruit into juic
es, and other materials such as
sugar, and can the resulting
product."
Coos Has Blackout
Coos Bay, Dec. 3 (.Pi Power
service was cut from all mills
in this area for several hours
yesterday. Waller Asplund, dis
trict manager for the Mniititjiin
States Power company, said de
mand outran supply.
of people from the east and mid
west, records of the Salem of
fice show that approximately 50
percent of those seeki.ig em
ployment are from out of the
state. Field men report a simi
lar situation existm,' tiirmmh
out the valley.
In the meantime the office is
receiving a Hood of Utters from
heads of families s:rkii'g in
formation regarding the io;-si
bility of finding empl'iymrut
here.
A branch employment office
will be opened in Mill City, Dec.
7 which will hinrlinn on an ev
ery other Tuesday haia thereaft
er. A deputy will he in charge
from 10 a.m. through the after
noon. Similar branches are func
tioning In Silverton, Dallas and
Wood bum. ,
Berlin Police
Mobilized to
Check Commies
Fear Attempts to
Break-up Sunday
City Election
Berlin, Dec 3 (UPWi-vt Ber
lin's full force of 10.000 l.i'rman
police was being mohiliyrd ludav
to block any commiim.it attempt
to break up the Sunday munici
pal elections whirh Soviet au
thorities have outlawed in tlicir
sector.
Communist agitators had
sought for three days to break
up election rallies. West sector
newspapers published warnings
that they probably wquld try t
interfere with the balloting on
an administration rivaling the
newly established government
for the Soviet quarter.
The Russian government
officially recognized the new
communist puppet regime, an
nouncing it would get all the
Soviet help it needed to carry
out its tasks.
Financial Reforms
The final partition of Berlin
into two cities crystallized fur
ther when the western powers
announced pending financial re
forms. They would withdraw
western support from the Soviet
mark and let it fall to its own
value, already about one-quarter
that of the west mark.
Eventually, American finan
cial experts said, the Soviet
mark will be outlawed in the
three western sectors and the
western Deutschmark will be
declared the sole legal currency
there.
The legal rate of exchange be
tween the western mark and the
cheap Soviet mark is one to one,
but on the open market on
western mark is worth nearly
four Soviet marks.
German Mark Banned
A spokesman said the western
powers had hesitated to take ac
tion against the Soviet mark as
long as there was any hope of
cooperation with the Russians.
This hope now has been dashed
by formation of the Soviet pup
pet government, he said.
"The Soviet kommandatur de
clares it will give all help and
support to the provisional city
council necessary for it to carry
out its functions in the interests
of the people," said a Soviet an
nouncement. .
The announcement said Rus
sia has recognized the commun
ist rump government as the
temporary provisional govern
ment of Berlin until elections
are held for all Berlin.
Last of Unions
End Ship Strike
San Francisco, Dec. 3 W
Agreement was reached ioday
with the last of five striking
maritime unions to end the west
coast strike.
Omar Hoskins, federal concil
iators, said the CIO Radio Op
erators and the Pacific Ameri
can Shipowners association
came to terms after an all-night
conference. Both sides were to
hold ratification meetings to
day. Karlier the other unions and
employers reached agreementi
to end the three-month strike.
Even before the radio opera
tors and shipowners reached
terms, the unions had agreed to
a limited work schedule today,
with four ships freed for work
in this port so that Chri.rtmas
cargo could start moving to Ha
waii and the Philippines.
The radio operators new con
tract would run for three years,
with annual wage reviews. It
provides for a 10 percent pay in
crease, bringing the basic freigh
ter wage from $29.t a month
to $:i2fi. Operators will receive
pay for shifting ships in port.
Two unions, the CIO Mirinc
Cooks and Stewards an ! the In
dependent Marine Firemen,
made peace with the employers
yesterday. The CIO longshore
men and CIO m'iriue engineers
previously had a l' reed on terms,
Power Firm Names
Leever Engineer
Albany. Dor, 3 Charles R.
Leever has U-cn named assist
ant Will.unette division engineer
for th'- Mountain Stairs Power
company, it was announced
Thurxi.iy ; t the company's Al
bany headquarters office. L'-ev-ers
services are requin-d on the
company's engineering staff be
cause of the vast expansion
program the company is under
taking, company officials ad.
Leever graduated from Ore
gon Stale college in I ICR with a
degree In mechanical engineer
ing. From l!tli! to IfU3 he wns
employed by the California-Oregon
Power company at Klamath
Kails as assistant division super
intendent. He also served in World War
II and after his releaso from
st-r vice he operated an auto sup
ply store in Portland. Leever
will move his family to Albany
the first of the year.