I
1
vood Labor Bill
Returned to
Committee
Recommittal Won by
Bare Margin of 3;
Vote Was 212 to 209
G apital AJnra
Berlin Blockade Lifted by Big Four
Powers to Be Followed by Paris
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61st Year, No. 106
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, May 4, 1949
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Effort Made to
Stave Off Ford
Hangchow Falls
Foreign Ministers to Consider All Questions and
Problems Relating to Germany Including Cur
rency; Formal Communique Expected Thursday
To Communists
Northwest Vote
Washington, May 4 UP)
The vote of northwest
house members on the mo
tion to recommit the Wood
labor bill to the labor com
mittee: Democrats for: Jackson
and Mitchell of Washing
ton. Republicans for: Angell,
Oregon, and Tollefson,
Washington,
Republicans against:
Ellsworth, Norblad and
Stockman of Oregon;
Holmes and Horan of
Washington.
Paired for: Mack (R),
Washington.
Washington, May 4 UP) Tru
man democrats today won a fight
to send the Wood labor bill back
to a house committee. Their mar
gin on the motion to recommit
was three votes 212 to 209.
This outcome left the house
with no labor bill before it in
effect ending the great labor bat
tle with a stalemate.
The administration was una
ble to put through its bill to re
peal the Taft-Hartley law and
enact labor statutes more to the
liking of unions.
On the other hand, it succeed
ed in preventing passage of the
Wood bill which would repeal
Taft-Hartley in name, but keep
most of its essential provisions.
To Wait on Senate
House leaders indicated that
in event of such an outcome
they would let the matter rest
for a while and see what kind
of a bill the senate passes.
The outcome of the recommit
tal vote was an upset for repub
lican leaders, who put the Wood
bill over in the house yesterday
with strong support from south
ern democrats.
Yesterday's voting turned up a
margin of 217 to 203 for the
Wood bill. That meant the ad
ministration forces needed to
swing eight votes overnight to
put the Wood bill in the cooler.
They succeeded in getting the
needed margin although there
was one more cast today than in
yesterday's ballot.
The motion to recommit was
supported by 193 democrats, 18
republicans and one American-
labor member.
Demos Join Dissent
Voting against recommittal
were 62 democrats and 147 re
publicans.
The outcome served to take
some of the sting from the re
buff handed to President Tru
man by yesterday's vote. He had
made Taft-Hartley repeal a key
point of his re-election campaign
and after yesterday s maneuv
ering it appeared the adminis
tration could not put it over.
The Wood bill would "repeal"
the Taft-Hartley act on paper
but would theft re-enact most
of its important features.
Compromise Rejected
House leaders, including
Speaker Rayburn (D., Tex ), had
openly conceded that the admin
istration's Taft-Hartley repeal
bill, introduced by Rep. Lesin-
ski (D., Mich.), could not .pass
the house without a number of
compromising amendments.
So they offered these amend
ments yesterday in a substitute
bill. To the surprise of some un
ionists, they even restored the
Taft-Hartley provision for 80-
day injunctions to delay strikes
in vital industries. Rayburn
himself made one of his rare
speeches, fervently begging the
house to adopt the substitute.
But late in tne aiternoon tne
G O P. -Dixie wave rolled over
the Rayburn-sponsored bill and
washed it out, 211 to 183. A few
pro-union congressmen Joined
the coalition and voted "no.
Amity Rams Sold
At California Sale
Sacramento, May 4 UP) More
than 1S00 purebred sheep were
old at the California ram sale
here.
Pacific coast ranchers paid
$134,814 for the animals at the
sale, sponsored by the Califor
nia Wool Growers association
Two ranchers from Dixon,
Calif., paid $525 apiece for two
Suffolk stud rams recently im
ported from England. Both ani
mals were consigned by Broad
mead Farms, Amity. Ore. They
were sold to Mrs. Nancy Frost
Campbell and J. H. Palmer.
Milk Prodnction Down
Portland, May 4 (?i Oregon's
milk production in March was
estimated by the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture today it 99,
000.000 pounds.
That was about the same as in
March of 1948. but 8 per cent
below the average.
Rouge Strike
(By th AuocUUd Preu)
Ton CIO United Auto Work
era leaders and officials of the
Ford Motor company took steps
today to avert the biggest strike
thus far In 1949.
The UAW will strike tomor
row noon in two Ford plants,
employing some 63,500 work
ers, unless a settlement is reach
ed over the union's speed-up ac
cusation. New talks were ar
ranged for today.
Ford's River Rouge plant,
which employs 60,000, supplies
parts to a nation-wide network
of Ford plants in which some
115.000 persons work. Ford's
Lincoln-Mercury plant, employ
ing 3500, also is set for a strike
tomorrow.
Ford First Target
Besides its 'production-crip
pling effect, the strike might
have a strong influence on the
UAW's schedule for 1949 con
tracts in the automotive indus
try. Ford was the first target
of the union. The UAW asked
to start negotiations on a new
contract on May 16.
The union's known goal is,
$100 monthly pension, health
and welfare plans and an unde
termined wage increase.
The Bendix strike at South
Bend, Ind., had widespread ef
fects. The strike began more
man .two weeks ago over a
union charge of a speed-up
Some 7500 workers are Involv
ed.
(Concluded on Pare 5. Column 8)
3 Indians Killed
In Bus Collision
Hermiston, Ore., May 4 UP)
Three men were mangled to
death in their automobile and
15 bus passengers and the driv
er were injured yesterday in a
collision on Highway 30 near
here.
The three victims were iden
tified hours after the accident
as members of the Umatilla and
Nez Perce Indian tribes. None
of the bus passengers was in
jured critically, although six
riders and the driver were held
overnight at a hospital.
State police reported the bus
driver. Oliver Taylor. Beaver-
ton, Ore., had to be cut from
his seat with a gas torch. He
suffered fractures of both legs.
Victims in the car were Iden
tified as William Elk, 40. and
David Halfmoon, 30, driver.
both of the Umatilla tribe, and
Sam J. Pablo, 42, a Nez Perce
of Kooskia, Idaho.
The injured in the bus were
taken to St. Anthony's hospital
Pendleton. Most of them had
suffered cuts, bruises and shock.
$40 Millions
For McNary
Washington, May 4 (IP) A
senate appropriations sub-corn
mittee refused today to appro
priate funds to start construc
tion of Ice Harbor dam and
reservoir on the Snake river
in Washington state.
The committee, however, al
lotted $10,110,000 for Chief Jo
seph dam on the Columbia riv
erf. The house had allotted $5.
000.000 for Chief Joseph but
nothing for Ice Haroor.
ine senate committee ap
proved the budget figure of $40
000.000 for McNary dam on the
Columbia river between Wash
ington and Oregon.
The action was announced by
senator Cordon (R., Ore.)
member of the committee.
Expected 17.5
River Fails to Materialize
The anticipated 17.5 foot crest for the Willamette river at
Salem did not materialize, the waters crested late Tuesday l
MA feet, and remaining at that point through the night. During
Wednesday morning the river started falling slowly as the spring
freshet pushed on northward. A let-up in the rain and more
gradual Intake from tributaries
shortened the period of rising
waters.
By reaching only the 14 4
mark, the spring high water also
missed the all-time May record
for Willamette high water. In
May Jif 1898 the Willamette
reached 145 feet at Salem for
the record for the month.
Cooler temperatures came in
on the Salem area last night,
the minimum Wednesday morn
ing dropping to 34 degrees, the
weather bureau stated. Yester-,
Without a Fight
Shanghai, May 4 (IP) The
government confirmed today It
has yielded Hangchow to the
Reds without a fight.
Loss of this port and rail city
100 miles down the coast cut
Shanghai's last land escape
route to south China.
A Shanghai garrison com
munique said Hangchow's de
fenders, a provincial peace pres
ervation corps, withdrew at
noon yesterday. Chinese press
dispatches said a force of 4000
communists took over.
(Hangchow's population is
about 400,000.)
Nationalists Trapped
The new Red advance trap
ped nationalist forces remain
ing in the big triangle bounded
by Hangchow, Shanghai and
Nanking, 160 miles inland. One
Red radio broadcast, elaborat
ing on earlier claims, said 80,
000 nationalists were captured
in this triangle.
(This was not confirmed else
where.)
Only sea lanes remained open
to the government defenders,
and they were using them.
Evacuation of troops by ship
was continuing on a fairly lar
scale today.
Reports that Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek was still in
Shanghai persisted. It has been
suggested he is here to see that
no "deals are made (selling out
to the Red enemy).
Reds' Thrusts Deep
The Red radio reported deep
enlng thrusts into south China.
but there was no indication of
any impending attack on Shang
hai. Trains were reported run
ning westward at least 26 miles
and southwestward at least 50
miles today.
One Red broadcast said the
communist troops had driven
more than 200 miles southwest
of Shanghai and an equal dis
tance south of Nanking. It
claimed 12 more towns in the
continuing Red push.
The government central news
said many points near Hang
chow, to the north and north
west, were under Red attack. It
also reported 30,000 Reds had
infiltrated" into points justJ
west oi Kashing, halfway be
tween Shanghai and Hangchow
Troops Board Ships
In Shanghai, more nationalist
troops evidently a' division
boarded waiting ships this
morning. The men were fully
equipped, but there was no
word of their destination.
The last big- American liner
due in Shanghai before May 23
also was getting up steam at its
pier here today. The ship, the
American President Lines' Gen
eral Gordon, took aboard 1200
passengers, including some 800
Chinese going to Hong Kong
Only SO Americans went aboad
A U. S. navy spokesman said
it has ships available to evacu
ate the 1,650 Americans still
here, if necessary; and that the
navy will stay as long as needed
Heavy N.W. Wheal
Exports Expected
Spokane, May 4 (IP) Secre
tary of Agriculture Charles
Brannan says his department
plans to export large amounts
of Pacific northwest wheat dur
ing the rest of 1949.
A letter by the cabinet mem
ber said:
"We hope that west coast ex
ports will average 7.000,000
bushels a month for (the next)
live months."
Brannan's letter was sent to
Pete Stallcop, secretary of the
Northwest Grain Dealers' asso
elation, by Senator Cain
Salmon Catches Spotty
Astoria, Ore., May 4 UR) Co.
lumbia river fishermen todav
said the opening catches of the
spring salmon season were
spotty and snaggy."
Crest of
day's mean was 48, six below
normal.
Worst damage in the current
high water spell in this section
was to the Labish Center re
gion, some 300 acres of vegeta
ble gardens in the lower lake
area being washed. The area,
noted as an onion-producing
area, was flooded by the Pud
ding river. Those crops planted
three weeks ago were Just nice
ly through the ground.
Rails Repaired as Blockade Ends As Big Four powers
agree to lifting of Berlin blockade, German railroad workers
repair switch-rails at the Grunewald station in the British
sector of Berlin, preparing the line for resumption of rail
traffic to the Western zones. (Acme Telephoto)
Changes in Court House
Under Consideration
With the courthouse buildings
afternoon to consider further
interior arrangements of the proposed new courthouse building
at which department heads are asked to put in their final
gripes if possible. It was stated
Four Miners
Trapped by Fire
Girardville, Pa., May 4 UB
Four miners were trapped more
than 700 feet underground to
day by fire sweeping near the
bottom of an anthracite mine.
Officials of the Gilberton Coal
Co. said rescue squads were un
able to get below the second
level of the four-level Packer
No. 5 mine. The fire was burn
ing somewhere below the sec
ond level.
The company said the trapped
men had a chance to survive if
they could reach manways in
side the mine to get tresn air.
The company said air lines to
the bottom levels were broken,
and electric lines which power
the mine pumps had snapped
Telephone lines inside the oper
ation also were broken.
Three air compressors and an
emergency fan were set up to
force air into the mine and also
pump out the smoke. With the
water pumps out of service, the
trapped men faced the added
hazard of the lower levels flood
ing.
The fire was reported just be
fore midnight when seven work
men came to the surface and
told company officials that the
mine was afire and full of
smoke.
Education Bill
Slash Defeated
Washington, May 4 UP) The
senate voted down today a pro
posal to strip funds for almost
hafl the states from its $300,-
000.000 federal aid to education
bill.
Senator Tydings (D., Md.)
proposed it, but lost 57 to
17.
Tydings argued that federal
aid should go only to poorer
states whose spending for edu
cation is below the average.
Tydings had estimated his am
endment would save nearly $10,-
000,000 in the cost of the pro
gram by eliminating aid "for
states that don't want it and
don't need it."
His proposal would have giv
en aid only to 25 states which
he said need it. The other 23
states and the District of Co
lumbia would have received no
help.
Fire Traps 3D Girls
Glasgow. Scotland, May 4 (IP)
Fire trapped 30 shopgirls on the
roof an an Argyle St. store to
day, and several jumped 50 feet
to the ground.
THE WEATHER
(Released by United Statu
Weather Bureau)
Forecast lor 8alem and Vicin
ity: Partly cloudy tonliht and
Thursday, slightly warm Thurs
day. Lowest temperature expect
ed tonleht. 3a deareea; highest
Thursday. S3. Conditions will be
favorable for all farm work ex
empt for occasional fresh winds
Maximum yMterdsy 60. Mini
mum todav 34. Mean tempera
ture yesterday 41 which waa
below normal. Total 34-hour
precipitation to 11:30 am. today
0. Total precipitation for the
month 1 S3 Inch whu-h is I 33
Inches above normal. Willamette
river hlht at Salm Wednes
day. 144 feet.
commission meeting Wednesday
changes in plans suggested as to
by County Judge Grant Murphy
that although plans are getting
advanced it will still be a year
or more before construction can
start on the new building.
The judge said if work starts
during May or June of next
year he figures they will be do
ing pretty well and this will be
dependent on estimates and bids
fitting into funds available.
But he said it is possible they
may get under way by that
time.
It is considered likely it will
take about six months between
the time the county takes over
the old high school building for
use in interim occupancy and
when the new building is start
ed. The plan is to take over the
old high school about January
1 next year. Some alterations
will have to be made before oc
cupancy, then some time requir
ed for transfer of equipment
and records before the open for
business sign can be hung out
there. In the meantime it will
be necessary to make arrange
menta for razing of the old
structure and the actual work
of tearing it down and remov
ing it. While this is going on
preparatory work to building
the new one will be under way.
Then it is likely two years may
elapse before the new building
is ready for use.
Dr. Bellinger
Wins Election
Dr. Grover C. Bellinger, sup
erintendent of the state tuber
culosis hospital, has been nam
ed president elect of the Ameri
can Trudcau society, medical
section of the National Tuber
culosis association, according to
a telegraph communication re
ceived from Detroit, Michigan
where the society is now in ses
sion. The society is made up of
more than 3000 doctors who
specialize in the treatment of
tuberculosis and the presidency
is the highest honor the group
can -bestow. Dr. Bellinger has
been a member of the Trudeau
council for a number of years
but owing to press of affairs at
his institution he was not able
to make the trip to Detroit.
Dr. Bellinger for the past two
years has been area consultant
in tuberculosis for the veterans
and administration for branch
No. 11 which Includes the north
west states.
As president of the Trudeau
society Dr. Bellinger will serve
during the fiscal year 1950-51.
New School District
Named Victor Point
The newly formed consolidat
ed school district known as 42C
will be called Victor Point, it
was decided at a meeting of
school patrons at the Union Hill
Grange hill when various
names were considered.
The new three-room school
building is being erected on the
site of the former historical Vic
tor Point school and it was be
lieved best to preserve the old
name. The new building will
probably be occupied in the fall.
District 42C was former by
the Union Hill. Victor Point.
Valley View. Silver Cliff, Mc-
Alpin, Oak Grove and Center
Point district.
31 Killed in
Plane Wreck
Turin, Italy, May 4 (U.R)
Thirty-one persons, including
the entire Turin football team
returning from Portugal, were
reported killed today when
their plane struck a church
tower in Turin and crashed.
The passengers included 27
football players, trainers and
Italian journalists and four
crewmen.
The special plane was circling
the city for a landing at the air
field at the base of the southern
Alps when a wingtip was re
ported to have brushed against
the spire of the cathedral.
Portland Site of
Forest Meeting
Grand Rapids, Mich., May 4
(IP) The Forest Products Re
search society today elected a
Portland, Ore., man president
and selected Portland as the site
for its 1950 convention.
The new president is Edward
G. Locke, chief of the forest
utilization service of the U.S
forest and range experiment sta
tion In Portland. He succeeds
Dean George A. Garrat of the
Yale university forestry school.
The retiring president pre
sented the Annual Woods maga
zine award to John L. Hill of
Milan, Minn., a Yale forestry
student, for a paper dealing with
high tensile strength of balsa
wood.
In a closing convention ad
dress C. D. Dosker, president of
Gamble Bros., Inc., of Louisville,
Ky., criticized the "wood using
industry" for what he termed a
lack of interest in research.
He called particularly for re
search on potentialities of hy
brid trees and a simple fire
proofing process for wood.
16 Slot Machines
Grabbed in Raids
Roseburg, Ore., May 4 U.B
Sheriff's deputies raided four
clubs last night and confiscated
16 slot machines in a broad
sally against the one-armed
bandits.
District Attorney Robert G.
Davis said the raids were con
ducted at the Elks lodge and the
Country club.
Dulles Claims War May
Come If Treaty Unsigned
Washington, May 4 (IP) John Foster Dulles said today that
"war is highly probable" if the United States does not ratify the
North Atlantic treaty.
Dulles, American delegate to the United Nations, made this
assertion to the senate foreign
approval of the 12-nation de-
fense alliance.
The tall, scholarly diplomat
told the committee it Is dealing
with a "totally different" world
situation today than it was a
year ago. The pact then was on
ly being discussed, he said,
whereas now it has been form
ally signed by each of the par
ticipating nations.
Thus to repudiate the treaty
now, Dulles continued, would
reflect change in the Ameri
can point of view and this
would make other nations
change their plana.
Out of that would come
war," he declared.
Dulles offered that summa
tion after Senator Hickenloop
er (R-Iowa) had asked him
whether he regards war as in
evitable. Dulles did not specify which
nations he thinks might change
their plans if the senate refuses
to ratify the treaty.
But In his earlier prepared
testimony he said the lifting of
the Berlin hlorkade, if it comes,
may mean merely a change in
Russia'! methods and "not a
By GEORGE
New York, May 4 (IP) The Big
lift Berlin blockades and to hold
on Germany. The probable dates
spectively.
The United States announced
here of United Nations delegates from the four powers.. The state
ment gave no dates, but they were reported by London sources.
A state department announcement of this gave no date for the
lifting.
It said: "It can be said specifically that agreement has been
reached and that all restrictions
been the subject of conversation
After an interval," the statement said, "a meeting of the
council of foreign ministers will
ministers will consider questions"
relating to Germany and prob-l
lems arising out of the situation
in Berlin, including also the
question of currency."
Some Details Remain
The agreement thus far ob
tained was described as an agree
ment "on all the main questions
of principal involved in the Big-
Four talks on the Berlin and
German situations." Some de
tails remain to be worked out.
The intention of the Four
Powers, the statement said, is to
arrange these details speedily
and issue a formal communique
"embodying the agreement"
early tomorrow.
The conversations held today
were among representatives of
Russia, the United States, Brit
ain and France.
Two-Hour Meeting
The statement was issued aft
er a two-hour meeting at the
United States' UN headquarters.
This marked the first time that
representatives of all the Four
Powers had conferred together
Porter McKeever, American
delegation press officer, said the
statement afterward was issued
in behalf of all the conferees.
The foreign ministers confer
ence, to be held in Paris, will be
the first in a year and a halt
and tol seventh session of the
foreign ministers body.
Only five persons were pres
ent at today's meeting. They
were delegates of the United
States, France, Britain and Rus
sia and a Russian secretary-in
terpreter.
Met at 12:31 p.m.
The conferees met at 12:31 p.
m. (8:31 a.m., PST). Just be
fore the session began the
British- Press association said
Sir Alexander Cadogan, Brit
ain's representative, had not!
fied London of the dates for lift
ing the blockade and for the
council meeting. Another Lon
don source later disclosed the
same dates.
Today's meeting at the United
States' United Nation headquar
ters here marked the first time
that representatives of the four
great powers had sat down to
gether on the Berlin blockade
issue since talks broke up in
Moscow last summer.
Russia agreed last night to
have the United States call in
Britain and France.
The Soviet deputy foreign
minister, Jakob A. Malik, arriv
ed at the United States delega
tion headquarters at 2 Park ave
nue Just after 12:30 and went
into session with Dr. Philip C
Jessup, U. S. ambassador at
large, Cadogan and Jean Chau
vel of France. The western pow
er conferees were in Jessup's of
fice waiting for Malik.
Five Killed in Fire
Jersey City. N.J.. May 4 ue
Five members of one family
were killed and three other per
sons injured early today in a
fire that swept through a three
story brick tenement building
relations committee In urging
change in Soviet Intention."
Former Undersecretary of
State Will Clayton said today
that, ."on balance, Russia is
winning the cold war."
Clayton said in a prepared
statement:
"Soviet Russia's principal ob
jectives in the cold war are to
frighten democratic govern
ments into excessive expendi
tures for defense, and to fright
en private capital and initiative
so that it will not operate free
ly." He added:
"Soviet Russia la a past mas
ter at this type of warfare; she
wages war on all fronts slmul
taneously, and at relatively
small cost to herself.
"Tha cost to the democracies.
on the other hand, is enorm
oiis."
So far. he said, the Soviet ef
fort to undermine the democra
cies appears to be succeeding
The only solution, Clayton de
clared, Is lo use the pact as the
basis for a federal union of de.
moeracles, which would muster
such strength Russia "would
not dara attack" it
PALMER
Four powers agreed today to
a foreign ministers' conference
are May 12 and May 23, re
the agreement after a meeting
Imposed In Germany which have
will be mutually lifted."
be held. The council of foreign
Gen. Clark May
Succeed Clay
Washington, May 4 (U-B Gen.
Mark W. Clark figured promi
nently today in speculation on
a successor to Gen. Lucius D.
Clay who will quit May 15 as
commander of U.S. military
forces in Europe.
Clay's other post as U.S. mili
tary governor in occupied Ger
many, which he will give up
simultaneously, is expected to
be taken over by a civilian high
commissioner about July 1.
John J. McCloy, now president
of the World bank, reportedly
is-being urged to take the job.
There are some reports that
because Clay's post will be
stripped of half its responsibili
ties, only a three-star general
will be appointed commander of
U.S. forces in Europe.
However, one high army
source said he believes a four
star general will get the job for
prestige reasons. The new ap
pointee will automatically be
come a front-line commander in
the cold war between this coun
try and Russia.
Spain Seeks
Loan from U.S.
Washington, May 4 (IP) Sec
retary of State Acheson said to
day the United States has no
poiltical objections to an Amer
ican government loan to Spain.
But he emphasized at a news
conference the United States
does not see how Spain can
qualify for American creditl
until it takes fundamental eco
nomic reforms.
Permission for Spain to nego
tiate directly with the export
import bank for a credit was an
nounced by the state depart
ment yesterday. The country ii
reported to be seeking $200,
000.000 for reconstruction and
rehabilitation.
Acheson disclosed that Yugo
slavia has asked the United
States to take a friendly atti
tude toward a new Yugoslav
application for a world bank
loan.
Acheson said he told Marshal
Tito's government that the Unit
ed States would treat the Yugo
slav bid the same as it does all
others, using the yardstick ol
sound business risk.
Acheson also reported thai
the United States is ready to
resume the suspended financial
discussions with the Czechoslo
vak ian government at any time.
The Czech-American talks
broke off yesterday, partly be
cause one of the top Czech nego
tiators renounced his govern
ment and asked for permission
to stay in thcUnitcd States as
a political refugee.
Sen. Byrd Raps
Farm Program
Washington, May 4 IIP) Sen
ator Byrd (D-Va.) today de
nounced Secretary of Agricul
ture Brannan's new farm pro
gram as a "horrible" and "Uto
pian" scheme. He said Its author
"admits the cost of the plan can
not be estimated."
The Virginian spoke to the
37th annual meeting of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce. The delegates are study
ing and are expected to approve
tonight a resolution condemn
ing the Brannan plan as a step
to "complete regimentation of
agriculture."
Byrd. an economy advocate,
coupled his criticism of the farm
plan to a general attack on ad
ministration spending.
Byrd predicted I three-year
federal deficit of more than
$11,000,000.00 up to ISM with
out counting the Brannan pro
posal. If personal Income drops
only to the levels of V-J day,
he ald, federal revenues will
sag another $10,000,000,000 a
year.