UAW Orders Ford Strike Rouge Plant Disagreement Arises on Date; Local Says May 4; Nat. May 5 Capital Injunctions on Strikes Kept in II II Mill Commie Plot ,Taoaie To Block Up ""-, an uoaw ,o AiieMun 1 NAiif I ahAr Kill 61st Year, No. 105 Entered u ttec-ad eltu matter t Stlem. Or ton Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, May 3, 1949 (18 Pages) Price 5c MCW LQUUI JL IT . Mil . II f TV II II II Detroit, May 3 (U.B The na tional CIO United Automobile Workers today authorized 1 trlke Thursday noon against the Ford Motor company's River Rouge plant unless a dispute over a "speed up" of assembly lines is settled by that time. Walter P. Reuther, president of the UAW, announced the board's strike approval about an hour after the executive board of local 600 of the UAW set its own strike date for 10 a.m. tomorrow. Reuther said the Thursday strike date was set without re gard to the local's action. The national executive board ignored the strike action of its giant River Rouge local. A national UAW spokesman said a strike by the local union before Thursday would be v branded a "wildcat walkout' under union rules. Reuther accused Ford of "dou ble dealing" by slowing down its assembly lines when inves tigators were at the plant and then speeded them up again aft er the union committee left. "Today the company has again increased the speed of its lines, Reuther said. Notification Made The telegram to Reuther read: "The executive board of Local 600 in its regular weekly meet ing this morning voted unani mously to shut down the entire Rouge plant effective on the day shift, Wednesday, May 4, 1949, at 10 a.m. "This action was taken because Ford Motor company violated its oral agreement to maintain as sembly line speeds during nego tiations and speed up the 'B' building assembly line. "Signed "Thomas Thompson "President Local 600." A Reuther spokesman said l that he had received no "offi- I cial notification" of the local's executive board action. He de I clined further comment. ' Workers Vote A strike was voted by the 62,- 000 Rouge workers two weeks ago in protest of alleged speed ups which the union claimed was . endangering the health and safe- y ty of workers. Last week the national exec I utive board of the UAW delayed 1 authorizing a strike at River I Rouge. Instead it ordered an J Investigation of the alleged speed ups. r' When a UAW executive board committee enierea me nouge plant to check charges of a speed up, workers in the trim depart ment left their jobs stopping the final assembly line. Ingrid Keeps Plans Secret Rome, May 3 W Like any girl in love, Ingrid Bergman walked Stromboli's sunny shore today hunting a design for hap py living. In her heart was the answer to a question which might have been lifted from one of her Hol lywood scripts: Did she love Roberto Rossel- lini, stormy genius of Italy's film world, as Italian newspa pers reported? Or were there more happy years ahead with her doctor- husband, Peter Aron Lindstrom, whose marriage with the actress '1188 for years been about as near an idyl as Hollywood could boast? Nobody knew the answer except the 31-year-old film star But Robert Conway of the New York Daily News, who talked with her for four hours on Stromboli, said Miss Berg man had "tacitly confirmed" that she is in love with Rossel linl. Conway quoted Ingrid as say ing she and Rossellini "wanted to keep it quiet." She refused to deny that she will divorce Dr. Lindstrom, fa ther of her daughter, Conway cabled his paper. But Dr. Lindstrom still had to be heard from. His dramatic halfw,- v-around-the-world flight from Los An geles resulted in i face-to-face meeting with his wife, film cir cles said. What the results were no one knew. Another question mark was whether Rosselllni was free to marry. He has been separated from the mother of his children for some years, Italian press re ports said. Bandits Collect $700. . Chicago, May 3 U Three masked bandits today took over a Prudential Life Insurance company of f i e e for one hour and held 58 persons captive while they collected $7000. I Franzen Talks To Engineers About Water By STEPHEN A. STONE What the city of Salem will need in water intake construe tion at Big Cliff dam is infor mation wanted by the army en glneers before the design for the dam is completed. For that reason City Manager J L. Franzen was in conference with the engineers in Portland Tuesday afternoon, having been asked by the engineers to come to Portland for the discussjon. Big Cliff dam is part of the Detroit project, and will be known as -e reregulating dam It is three miles below Detroit An additional source of water for Salem is part of a long-range plan, looking to the future when the rapidly growing population will be much larger than now and the present source of water at Stayton island possibly not sufficient to meet requirements More Reservoirs Needed Also in the city's long-range plan several more reservoirs are considered, and plans for them are gradually taking shape. "Because of increasing popu lation," said Franzen before he left for Portland Tuesday, "we have to look ahead for an addi tional source of water. The Big v.mi aam is a 'natural.' It will afford plenty of good water with lots of head." Although the city has not vet made a formal application for an appropriation of watur from the Detroit project, assurances (Concluded on Pate 5, Column 6) Full Operation First of July The West Salem plant of the National Battery company will return to full production about July 1, in the opinion of H. J. McKay, vice president of the company who was in Salem to inspect the plant Monday. For several months the plant has been operating at about 50 percent of capacity. Demand is growing in the northwest, where the plant has its main market, McKay says. He believes the West Salem plant will be able to meet the demand for some time, and no additional plants in this region are planned now. For several weeks McKay has been touring the United States and Canada visiting various company plants. Speaking of business in general, he said he saw no threat of a business re cession unless the people let fear of one overcome their good judgment. Oregon and Texas, he said, seem to be keeping their economic equilibrium better than other states. Business, thinks Mr. McKay, is leveling off, the law of supply and demand is beginning to work, and the country doesn't need anti-inflation legislation. A luncheon for Mr. McKay was given at the Marion hotel at noon Tuesday. Present were Mc Kay, George Lewis, Clair Brown, William H. Baillie, Ma yor Robert L. Elfstrom, Mayor Walter Musgrave of West Sa lem, James J. Walton, and Man ager Clay Cochran of the Cham ber of Commerce. 'Booby Trap for Labor' Found in Truman CVA Bill Washington, May' 3 (IP) Rep. Horan (R., Wash.), said today the president's bill to create a Columbia Valley administration contains "a real booby trap for labor." The section in the proposal which would give the CVA author ity to remove any employe in discretion of the agency's board provides the trap, Horan said. The Washlngtonian made pub lic a transcript of a radio speech to be broadcast in his state to night in which he said the "Tru man CVA bill' is "an anti-labor" measure. He contended his own propos al for a Columbia Inters t a t e commission would guarantee "a double measure of protection" to workers, with the employes un der civil service and covered by the same labor-management reg ulations which the federal gov ernment applies to private busi nesses. Horan said he was Quoting from the Truman-backed bill that "any employe of the admin istration (CVA) may be removed in the discretion of the board." He added: "There is no qualification whatever attached to that sen tence. In the Truman CVA bill. backed by i party which claims to be the friend of organized la bor, in t bill which they have asked labor to support and which many labor leaders in the Paci fic Northwest have supported Rent Increase Formula Fails To Give Details Washington, May 3 P) The government came up today with a new formula for figuring fair rent ceilings but it provided no immediate answer on how much it will Increase rents. The new formula will be ap plied to the 14.000,000 dwellings still under federal rent control. It was worked out under orders from congress to provide the landlords with a "fair net op erating income." Housing Expediter T i g h e Woods last night announced de tails of the new "yardstick" de signed to provide property own ers a net operating income of 25 to 30 percent on rental units. Questions Unanswered The new policy. Woods said, will not mean a general, across the board hike in the nation's rent bill. But in announcing the basis under which all future rent increases will be granted, the housing director left unan swered: 1. How much will average rents go up under the new rule which congress ordered in ap proving the 15-month extension of federal rent controls? 2. How widespread will new increases be and in what areas will they occur? Woods said, in effect, that these questions now are a mat ter for landlords and tenants to determine with area rent of fices acting as referee. . New Policy Outlined Under the new policy, "small" landlords those renting one to four dwelling units will be al lowed rent increases if net in come is less than 25 percent oi gross income. In such cases, rents will be upper to a 30 per cent level. For "large" landlords those renting more than four units increases will be permitted to bring net income to 25 percent of his gross if the net figure is now below the 20 percent mark. Woods said it was impossible to tell how many rents will be increased under the formula. No accurate figures are avail able to show how much land lords' net operating Incomes now average. Percentage Given The percentage is the amount of rent from the property not the amount of investment. For instance, say a house rented for $100 a month. That is $1200 a year. If the landlord was entitled to a 30 percent "fair net operating income," that would be $360 a year meaning the amount he should have left after payment of taxes, maintenance, and making a reasonable deduction for depreciation. If he had $10,000 invested in the property, his net operating return on investment would be 3.6 percent. Actually, the for mula takes no account of in vestment except indirectly through the factor of deprecia tion. New York, May 3 W) Hous ing Expediter Tighe Woods said today both landlords and tenants would be happier under the new rent regulations. But even as Woods spoke at a businessmen's meeting here, a city-wide rent strike against any increases was urged. without question in that bill Is a provision more devastating to the rights of labor and the workers than in all of the 29 pages of the much-maligned Taft-Hartley act put together . . "There is no provision for ap peals, no requirements to show justification for firing an em ploye, no provision for turning the disputes over to a third par ty for settlement, no syttem of mediation in case of disputes, no machinery of avoiding or settling costly strikes, no protection of the most important utility op eration in the Pacific Northwest against sabotage except by de nying the rights of innocent workers. "In short, the CVA proposal presently before congress is an anti-labor bill." Horan said the CVA bill would authorize the corporation to bar gain collectively with Is labor ers but would not require It. "It gives no guarantee to la bor that an agreement once made," he said, "will not be broken by the corporation the next day." Shanghai's Defenders Move In Members of Shanghai's garrison command rest in front of Birtish-owned Cathay hotel, while officers successfully dickered for living space. The manager said he expected about 80 "guests " Shanghai factory owners had requested protection for their plants and this move was the result. The Broadway Mansions, Palace and Park hotels were also housing troops. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Shanghai) Suit Against R. E. Jones Dismissed by Plaintiff The $30,000 suit of Horisho Kaneko against Ronald E. Jones and Labish Celery Growers Cooperative association was dis missed on motion of the plaintiff's attorneys just as it was about to go on trial here Tuesday morning in circuit court before Judge George R. Duncan without a jury. Death Decreed For 7 Rapists Martinsville, Va., May 3 W) Death in the electric chair had been decreed today for seven Negro men found guilty of rap ing a white Martinsville house wife five months ago. v ' The last two of the sever! de fendants, James Luther Hairs ton, 19, and John Clabon Tay lor, 20, were convicted last night by a Martinsville circuit court jury. Hairston and Taylor were tried jointly on motion of their own attorneys. Their conviction climaxed the series of almost identical cases which opened April 18. Eleven days of court proceed ings were required for the sev en to be tried and found guilty of raping Mrs. Ruby Stroud Floyd on the night of January 8 as she walked in the Negro section of East Martinsville. Identified by Mrs. Floyd as those who raped her "12 to 14 times" on the Danville and Western Railway tracks and in a nearby wood were James Hairston, Taylor, Joe Henry Hampton, 20; Frank Hairston, Jr., 19; Booker T. Millner, 20; Howard Lee Hairston, 19: and Francis DeSales Grayson, 37. Atlanta Unmasks Ku Klux Klanners Atlanta, May 3 IIP) No longer will this capital of the Ku Klux Klan allow the hooded order to wear masks in public. The city council voted unan imously yesterday to outlaw masks except for holiday cele brations such as hallowe'en. The ordinance, introduced by Councilman Archie Llndsey, sets punishment at 30 days In jail and a $200 fine for persons wearing masks in public. The night before the council meeting, Llndspy reported an emblem, shaped like a klans man's hood and bearing a cross and the initials K.K.K., was placed on his front porch. A little later, he said, an an onymous telephone caller told him: "For your sake and safe ty, the klan must not be unmask ed." THE WEATHER (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast fnr Salem snd Vicin ity: Increasing cloudiness to night with rain beginning by morning, becoming showry by late afternoon. Little change in temperature. Lowest tempera ture expected tonlsht. 43 de grees; highest Wednesday, S3. Maximum yesterday 58. Minimum today 37. Mean temperature yen. terday M which was 4 below normal. Total 34-hour precipi tation to 11:30 a m. today .11 of an Inch, Total precipitation for the month 153 Inches which Is 137 Inches above normal. Wl. lamette river height at. Salem Tuesday morning. 14 feet. On behalf of the plaintiff his attorneys said that they found they would be unable to stay in court on the theory on which the case started and therefore asked that it be dismissed. Whether an effort will be made to proceed anew on any othci theory was not stated. B. B Skulason and C. W. Powers of Portland appeared for the plain tiff and Bruce Spaulding of Sa lem for the defendants. The case had come up to trial based on a complaint and a lat er amended complaint. The plaintiff, a Japanese evacuee from Lake Labish dur ing the war, had alleged in his complaint that the board of di rectors of the cooperative voted Jones $30,000 to be paid in in stallments of $10,000 each dur ing 1946 and 1947, that the sums were paid and he asked the money be returned with Interest from the various installment dates. He charged the sum was paid without consideration The defendants in their an swer admitted payment of the sums but denied that they were paid without consideration. In the original complaint filed it was cited that the plain tiff and others were, evacuated 1942 and entered into an agreement with the cooperative, granting power of attorney, to harvest and market the crops and retain for itself one-half of the net profits to which the de fendant Jones, consented averred, that complaint. It also was alleged in the original com plaint that a net profit of $36, 851.29 was realized and collect ed by the association as its one half profit. These allegations had been deleted from the amended complaint which in pf feet -merely charged the $.10,000 was paid over without consid eration which the defendants de nied, "particularly" as to alleg ed lack of consideration. Pat's Bridge to Close for Repair As a result of a conference between County Commissioner Ed Rogers and County Bridge Foreman Ted Kuenzi of Mar lon county with members of the Clackamas county court at Oregon City Monday afternoon, the Clackamas court ordered Pat's bridge over the Pudding river west of Barlow at the Clackamas county line In the northeast corner of Marlon county closed to all traffic pend Ing repairs. The Marlon county officials Clackamas county court to what it alleged was a dangprnus con dition on the bridge that might result In serious or even fatal consequences. They said exam ination has revealed the center chord had parted under a sill and also that two others had spread several inches causing a list of the structure, Boys Held In Rosehurg Roseburg, Ore., May 3 UP) Two 13-year-old boys who alleg edly stole a car from Orcgoniand Jean Chauvel maintained City and abandoned It at Grants the secrecy which has surround Pass, were being held here for ed the 10 weeks of talks since Oregon City authorities today. Jessup first talked to Russia's ! it " .-' ' River Due to Rise to 17.5 The muddy waters of the Wil lamette are due to hit a crest of just under 17.5 feet at Salem by Wednesday afternoon, or 2.5 feet below flood stage, it was announced at the weather bur eau Tuesday morning. The figure will set a new May record for the river here, the previous May record for a spring river freshet at Salem being 14.5 feet, reached in 1896. The local gauge Tuesday morning showed the river passing the 14-foot stage. Crests for the mid-Willametle and lower valley were revised Tuesday with greater quantities of water rolling northward. Pre viously, the crest was forecast for 15 feet at Salem. From Eugene on north of Harrisburg the Willamette was falling Tuesday. Corvallis and Albany stations are due to reach their crests of 19 feet to night. The record late-spring Willa mette river freshet is threaten ing the low-lying waterfront installations In Portland by Sat urday. The lower Columbia, in creased by the waters from the Willamette and the Snake, will flood low pasture lands down river from Vancouver, reports Elmer Fisher, weather bureau river forecaster at Portland. "In terms of a winter flood this one is small, but It is re garded as big now only because the river rarejy gets so high this late In the spring," said Fisher regarding the Willamette No new report was in from the Sanliam In the Jefferson area Tuesday morning. The riv er there Monday flooded over its banks, reaching 17.2 feet, or 4.2 feet above flood stage. On ly pasture lands adjacent to the river were reported suffering any damage. The rain let up some late Monday and Tuesday morning, only .11 of an Inch being re corded in Salem for the 24-hour period ending at 10:30 a.m. to day. The forecast is for rain to begin again tomorrow morning to become showery by late af ternoon. Two Army Fliers Killed The Dalles, Ore., May 3 UKi Two army fliers were killed at 10:30 a.m. today when their li aison plane crashed npar Five Mile locks of The Dalles-Celilo canal east of here. The plane, an L-16, took off from The Dalles airport. Berlin Blockade May Be Lifted Early Next Week New York, May 3 (IP) The three big western powers were re ported today to be completing Berlin blockade to lay before Speculation In some quarters the blockade as early as next week. A state department spokes- man Indicated there was a pos sibility the envoys of the Unit ed States, Britain, France and Russia would meet some time today. But Philip C. Jessup, U. S. amhassador-at-large, denied re ports that a four-power meet ing had been scheduled at 1 p.m. (9 a.m. PST) in his office at 2 Park avenue. The Joint declaration will pro pose dates both for lifting the blockade snd convening the council of foreign ministers for a dicsusslon of the whole Ger man question, it was under stood. Officially, Jpasup and the British and French representa tives Sir Alexander Cadngan Ray burn Takes Floor to Urge Support; Pres. Green Objects Washington, May 3 Wi The new democratic labor bill passed its first test today when the house refused to knock out a provision for 80-day Injunctions against iimiuiiMi emergent; strikes. Rep. Perkins (D., Ky.) sought to strike out this provision which is opposed by labor unions. The vote, taken without a roll call, was 238 to 132. Speaker Rayburn (D.. Tex.) took the floor to urge that the house accept the new bill. Let's be Just," he implored. "Let's be fair. Let us not move in an atmosphere of passion." Galleries Packed The spectators' galleries were packed. Rayburn was greeted by applause from the democratic side as he walked to tne wll if the chamber to speak. Memhers of his party stood to applaud when he finished But it was evident that the compromise stirred considerable resentment among many labor union men and some of their supporters in the house. Objections Wired While Rayburn was speaking, A F L President William Green announced down town that he had wired Rayburn objecting to the administration's agreeing to national emergency strike in junctions. "Such a provision would be objectionable and unacceptable to the membership of the Ameri can Federation of L a b o r," Green's telegram said. The compromise is far differ ent from the simple T-H repealer unions want. For one thing it would continue the present law's 80-day injunctions for dealing with national emergency dis putes, but some of the proced ure in the section would be changed. In two respects the bill would impose new restrictions on employers. It would require them to file detailed financial statements, similar to those required of la bor unions. Also, it would ex tend the loyalty and non-commu nist oath not only to principal officers of unions and firms but to policy-making groups as well Non-communist oaths are re quired now only of union offi cers, and only unions have to make detailed financial reports if they want to use national la bor board facilities. ALCO Anti-Trust Suit Dismissed New York, May 3 UP) The government anti-trust action against the Aluminum Company of America was postponed In definitely in federal court to day. No reason for the adjournment was given. The action involves a depart ment of justice effort to have Alcoa's holdings reduced under a court ruling that the alumin um firm was a monopoly as of 1940 In turn Alcoa asked the court to rule that it no longer has a monopoly in the aluminum in got field. Potato Program Extended Portland, May 3 W The fed eral government's potato pur chase program is being extend ed to May 15, the state office of the USDA production and marketing administration said today. a Joint declaration of policy on the Russia within 24 hours. was that this would call for lifting Jakob A. Malik on the subject Usually well Informed quar ters, however, said it would be safe to speculate on these dates in connection with the western position MBy 11 for ending the blockade and May 25 for the council of foreign ministers. Russia's two top represcnta lives here, Malik and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro myko, spent the morning at Lake Success where they are delegates to the United Nations assembly. These reports followed meeting of British, French and American envoys here yester day which lasted for more than an hour. The only official an nouncement after this session was a terse communique saying the blockade discussions still were progressing "satisfactori ly." Ships Revealed Kwangteh, Important City Captured by Red Troops; Tatung Falls Shanghai, May 3 (IP) United States, British and French naval craft left the Shanghai water front because of a reported com munist plot to block their pass age to the sea, a U.S. navy spokesman said today. The spokesman, from the staff of U.S. Vice Adm. Oscar C. Badger, said "reliable sources" told the United States navy that communists planned to scuttle a ship near Woosung, the Chinese nationalist garrison, that would have blocked the larger ships from the sea. The spokesman evidently dis closed this "plot" to offset accu sations that the U.S. navy had "run out" on communist threat ened Shanghai. Tip Is Given Details of the "plot" came from the same source which had previously tipped the navy the communists had a similar plan to bottle up naval vessels in Tientsin earlier this year, the spokesman said. The navy evacuated numer ous persons from Tientsin short ly before the city fell and tht route to the sea was cut "Nipped In Bud" The navy spokesman said the Woosung "plot" was "nipped in the bud." He declined to give details saying it was a Chinese matter. He said after the plot was "nipped" the American Presi dent Lines liner President Wil son came up to the Shanghai waterfront past the Soosung garrison. The Wilson tied up at a bund pier and evacuated 300 persons after an overnight stay. Shanghai, May 3 VP) Kwang teh, important city midway be tween Wuhu and Hangchow, has been captured by Red troops, the Peiplng communist radio said today. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 5) Old Age Bill Approval Urged County Judge Grant Murphy, in his capacity as president of the Association of Oregon Coun ties representing all the counties of the state, has written Gov ernor Douglas McKay urging that he approve public assistance legislation now before him. The judge says he realizes that the governor is "being bombarded every day by the organized in terest in favor of public assist ance to veto" the measure but on behalf of the counties he says he strongly urges approval In stead. "I believe that the organized pension people are over-emphasizing the sentimental part of the legislation creating a prior lien on the recipient's property," says the judge in his letter. "It fur nishes security to the pension ers in that it guarantees them a place to live during their life time and, moreover, in many cas es the owner has only a small, perhaps no capital Investment In the property as they are often acquired on deferred payment contracts from grants from the welfare commission given in lieu of rent. "The other feature of the law that is being hammered is the requirement that members of the family assist in caring for their parents. The exemptions pro vided in this bill are generous, and certainly anyone who has an Income grpater than the brackets of exemption In It ought to assist in supporting their par ents. "The Association of O r e g o n Counties has been on record for a number of years In favor of making the property of a recip ient of public assistance subject to a prior lien and legislation re quiring members of the family to support their parents. Speaking for the association I am very strongly urging you to approve the measure." Recession Held Relief to Millions Washington. May 3 (IP) The president of the United States Chamber of Commerce said to day that a "recession from post war peaks" of business Is Inevit able. He added that it will bring "overdue relief to millions of consumers." Earl O. Shreve. in the key note address at the Chamber's 37th annual meeting, also told some 2,500 business leaders: "When the current readjust ment has run its course, and buying for Inventory replace ment revives, business should find Itself on a sounder and In finitely mora satisfactory basis."