General Debate
'On T-H Repeal
Hearing End
Bitter Fight Over
How to Handle Na
tional Emergencies
Federal Aid on
G apital Journal
Hoffman Told
By McKeller to
Resign ECA Job
"The Sooner the Bet
ter" Shouts Senator
As Hearing Reopens
Hew Big 4 Meet
Asked by Russia
South River Road
Petitioned For
On Berlin Peace
Propose That All 4
Powers Withdraw
Troops Within Year
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Fight Over Rights-of-way
May Shunt Si I
verton Road Work
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Washington, June 10 UP) The
senate warmed up today for its
hottest labor light over how to
handle strikes that could cause
national emergencies.
General debate on changing
the Taft-Hartley act neared an
end, to come after speeches by
Senators Humphrey (D-Minn),
Murray (D-Mont), .and Neely
(D-W Va). Next will come the
one-by-one consider ation of
amendments to the Truman ad
ministration's bill for Taft-Hartley
repeal.
"National emergency" amend
ments may be taken up Tues
day and some senators say this
battle may continue the rest of
next week.
Lewis' Coal Strike
That also happens to be the
week John L. Lewis has set aside
;-.r a coal strike. With coal sup
plies high, a one-week stoppage
isn't considered a national emer
gency. But it brings sharply to
the attention of congress the
possibility of a longer strike be
ginning in July.
President Truman was asked
yesterday at his news confer
ence about the work stoppage
Lewis has called for his United
Mine workers.
The president catalogued Lew
is as a headline hunter, and said
also that this is not supposed to
be a strike but a sort of special
sitdown. He said he understood
that its object was to use up coal
and put the miners in a better
bargaining position.
Want Injunction End
On one thing, the president
and Lewis are agreed: They
want an end to the Taft-Hartley
provision for court orders to
stoD national emergency strikes.
Lewis has been heavily fined
under this provision in the past.
Mr. Truman has expressed the
view that the president already
has inherent powers to deal with
an emergency.
As much as Lewis hates the
whole Taft-Hartley law, howev
er, his strategy in calling a
walkout during debate on the
law's repeal has dismayed some
of the lawmakers who are lor
repeal. Likewise, it has encour
aged T-H friends who say that
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effort to preserve much of the
law.
The administration repealer,
for which Mr. Truman express
ed continued support, does not
authorize either injunctions or
government seizure of plants to
delay strikes in vital industries.
Mrs. Chambers
Talks of Hiss
(By the Auoeiitea Preu)
A secret FBI report Introduc
ed at the Judith Coplon trial in
Washington today said a woman
who "may be a Russian espion
age agent had important con
tacts in the capital.
Irina Efimovna Aleksander
was named as the possible agent
The report was taken from Miss
Coplon's purse when she was
arrested in New York with i
Russian United Nations em
ploye. The report said army offi
cers "carrying brief cases" fre
quently gathered at the home
of Very Sandomirsky Dunham,
a friend of Mrs. Aleksander's.
Mrs. Whittaker Chambers
took the stand in New York to
support her husband's account
of his relationship with Alger
Hiss, former state department
Official.
She testified that she and her
Afrmsband saw Hiss at least twice
' ifter January 1, 1937. One
count of the government's per
jury indictment against Hiss
charges that he lied when he
said he never saw Chambers
after that date.
In Washington, Robert Davis,
a wartime employe of a West
Point .atomic laboratory testi
fied before the house un-American
activities committee that he
was recruited into the commun
ist party by an atomic scientist,
Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz.
Lomanitz, who also testified,
would not say whether he ever
was a communist or tried to
recruit anyone Into the party.
Election Ordered
At Lebanon by NLRB
Washington, June 10 UP) The
national labor relations board
today ordered an election at the
C St M Lumber company's Leb
anon, Ore., plant to determine
whether employes wish the CIO
International Woodworkers of
America to continue as bargain
ing agent.
The union has had a contract
with the company. An employe.
George Thompson, filed a peti
tion asserting that the union no
longer represented a majority
ffcPd asking that recognition as
bargaining (gent bt withdrawn.
By DON UPJOHN
Possibility that completion of
the Silverton road into Silver
ton as a federal aid project may
be shunted to one side and Im
provement of the South River
road from the Salem city limits
to Roberts station be asked for
Instead loomed Friday as the
county court received petitions
from 233 landowners and tax
payers along the South River
road asking that road be recon
structed with federal aid funds.
All plans for federal aid funds
this year had been based on
completion of the Silverton road
project from where such work
left off last year on into Silver
ton over a completely new right
of way from the present road.
Right of Way Lags
But County Judge Grant Mur
phy stated Friday at a meeting
of the court that the right of
way progress has lagged and en
countered several snags and also
that property owners along the
present Silverton road which
would be abandoned have threa
tened injunction proceedings if
the proposed new route is se
lected. "The one advantage of the
new route," he said, "is that it
would furnish facilities for erec
tion of an overhead crossing ov
er the railroad not available if
the present route is used. But
the present route can be used
without expenditure of a nickel
for right of way. However, we
are faced with sharp differences
of opinion in the area as to
which route the road should
follow.
Fight Over Routes
"People living along the pres
ent route contend it would be
folly to abandon a road through
a well settled stretch of country
to run it over a new route that
is not built up and at a very
heavy expense for right of way.
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Unions to Unite
To Defeat Taft
Washington, June 10 (U.R) Un
ion spokesmen disclosed today
that organized labor has been
holding preliminary talks aimed
at joining together politically
to beat Sen. Robert A. Taft, (R.
O.) when he comes up for re
election next year.
Taft is the symbol of the labor-hated
Taft-Hartley law. Or
ganized labor has made him the
"No. 1 target for 1950" and Is
out to get him. To that end, the
spokesmen said, some top labor
people hope to set up a formal
alliance of all the big labor
groups. Some of the preliminary
talks have been held in Taft's
home baliwick of Ohio.
Among the principals in the
movement for a solid-front "beat
Taft" campaign are four nation
ally-known labor leaders all
residents of Ohio. They are
George Harrison, political direc
tor of the AFL League for Po
litical Education, and Jack
Kroll, director of the CIO Politi
cal Action Committer both
from Taft's home city of Cincin
natiA. F. Whitney of Cleve
land, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, and
John Owens of Cambridge
Springs, international secretary-
treasurer of the United Mine
Workers.
Analysis of City Tax Levy
Made by Treasurer hauser
By STEPHEN A. STONE
City Treasurer Paul H. Hauser has made an analysis of the
city of Salem tax levy as estimated for the fiscal year 1949-1950.
The figures are compared with those of the fiscal years 1948
1949 and 1947-1948.
The fiscal year dates from June 30 to July 1 of the following
year.
Salem's city budget for the
coming year, not yet acted on
by the budget committee and the
city council, is estimated to to
tal $1,658,355.29.
Of this amount an estimated
$572,320.29 will be raised by
taxation, as against $457,267.35
for the current year, and $473,
267.35 last year.
Of the total tax levy for the
coming year there will be lev
ied for the general fund an es
timated $326,094.16, as against
$307,636 for the current year,
and $290,218 last year.
Other items going into the
total as special levies are: Bond
and interest, coming year $39,
826.16, current year $42,131.35,
last year $80,801.99; 2-mill fire
tax fund, coming year $51,600,
current year $43,000, last year
$41,000; 3-mill tax, voted by
the people last November and
now effective for first time,
$77,400; 2-mill street tax, com
ing year $51,600, current year
$43,000, last year $41,000; 1
mill park tax, coming year $25,
800, current year 21,500, last
year $20,500.
Vandenberg As
Atomic Check
Washington, June 10 VP)
Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich)
called today for a close military
check before atomic materials
are sent abroad, "even to the
friendliest of countries."
The Michigan senator said he
wants to be sure that the mili
tary liason committee approves
in advance atomic energy com
mission decisions such as that
which sent radioactive isotopes
to a research division of the
Norwegian military establish
ment.
"The point is not whether a
country is friendly to us," he
told a reporter.
The Liaison committee is
composed of two high ranking
officers from each or the army,
navy and air force.
Chairman David E. Lilien
thal of the atomic agency in
sisted during an exchange with
Vandenberg yesterday that the
fact Norway is a friendly coun
try had some bearing on the
commission's decision to send it
the isotopes.
Lilienthal was' appearing be
fore the senate-house atomic
enerBv committee as it contin
ued its hearings on charges by
Senator Hickenlooper (R., Iowa)
of "incredible mismanagement"
bv the commission chairman.
The congressional group met
behind closed doors again today
to decide how to carry out the
inquiry.
Coal Strike Forces
Railroad Lay-offs
New York, June 10 MP) A se
ries of railroad layoffs develop
ed today with the approach of
John L. Lewis' one-week coal
mine shutdown due to start
Monday.
A spot check of railroads
showed well over 10,000 lay
offs definitely scheduled and
others likely, with indications
the number would soar if the
United Mine Workers should be
out longer than a week.
Late additions to the list of
nlanned layoffs included the
Louisville and Nashville rail
road, 4000 to 5000 workers, and
the Reading company with ap
proximately 1000.
The assessed valuation of pro
perty in Salem is estimated for
the coming fiscal year at $25,
800,000, as against $22,352,447
for the current year, and $21,
168,801 last year.
Salem's tax rate, it is esti
mated, will be 80.9 mills for
1949-1950. For the current year
it is 73.5 mills and last year it
was 69.2 mills. This is a total
of the city, school, and county
taxes. The city tax for the com
ing year will be 22.2 mills. For
the current year it is 20.5 mills,
and last year was 22.5 mills
The school tax, for district No
24, will be 41.7 mills the com
ing year, as against 36 this year,
and 29.7 mills last year. The
county tax will be an estimated
17 mills. This year It is 17 and
last year was 17.1 mills.
The remainder of the city
budget comes from various
sources. Among them are sewer
rentals, estimated at $84,900 for
the coming year, and parking
meter revenues, estimated at
$100,030.01.
Cherrians Float Wins Fourth Place in Rose Festival Parade
Salem's entry portraying the state fair as a cornucopia in
flowers received fourth place among Rose festival parade
floats entered by cities outside of Portland. Shown on the
float as it appeared in stadium for judging are: Doris Lane,
Donna Weiderkehr, Lois Egger, Cherryland festival queen
for 1948, Floyd Fox and Jerry Wipper. Cherrians float will
be brought to Salem and displayed on the street here after
three o'clock.
Salem Cherrians' Float
Wins 4th in Rose Parade
Portland. Ore.. June 10 VP)
ed a five-mile line of march today to see half a hundred bands,
floats and marching units in the Rose Festival's annual parade
The sun was warm through a thin high overcast.
Sidewalks and curbs were
crowded into Multnomah stadi-
um where the parade formed.
Hours before the parade would
reach them, thousandsof persons
perched themselves on folding
chairs and apple boxes along the
route.
Police Capt. Eugene Ferguson,,
from the head of the parade, ra
dioed his estimate of "well over
200,000" spectators. It was a
typical size for the 41-year-old
June feature.
The spectacular Butte, Mont.,
high school band headed the pa
rade after the marine corps color
euarri. Montana's Gov. John
Bonner, honorary grand marshal,
followed. Then came the festival
queen and her court, seated on
a 30-foot float fashioned of ros
es, daisies, peonies and white
huckleberry.
Fourteen more bands were
snrinkled through the line of
march. The parade took nearly
two hours to pass a given point.
Sweepstakes award for com
mercial floats went to Portland's
Hollywood District Booster club
35-foot violin in white and
blue, with non - commercial
sweepstakes going to the Port
land Kiwanis club for a huge
pink and white rose.
Vancouver, Wash., fire depart
ment captured first place for ci
ties outside Oregon, with a 35
foot float depicting an old steam
pumper playing streams of wa
ter on a burning structure. Sec
ond went to the Pasadena Tour
nament of Roses entry, showing
a yellow moon shining between
palm trees. The Pasadena entry
broke down just as it was leav
ing the stadium but it completed
the route under tow.
For Oregon cities outside Port
land, the awards were; First,
Beaverton Junior Chamber of
Commerce; second,. Multnomah
Boosters club; third, Oregon
City Junior Chamber of Com
merce: fourth, Salem Cherrians;
fifth, The Dalles; sixth, Newberg
Berrians; and seventh, Albany
Timber Carnival.
C. F. Leon, Portland, won the
grand sweepstakes trophy in the
rose contest yesterday. Portland-
ers won most of the other top
prizes.
Mrs. Charles M. Andreason,
Eugene; won the Dr. R. F. Hunt
er trophy for the best display of
12 roses, mixed varieties. P. W.
Miller, Corvallis, won a special
gold merit ribbon for a rose en
tered in the grand sweepstakes.
The Floyd C. Lynch Memorial
trophy for the best individual
rose in novice exhibits went to
Clifford L. Smith, Corvallis. The
Portland Rose Society gold med
al certificate for the best bloom
semi-double rose went to John
Criswell, Oregon City.
WEATHER
Released by United States
Weather Bureau
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Clear tonight and Saturday
except for morning cloudiness.
Little change In temperature.
Lowest temperature exepcted to
night. 53 degrees; highest Sat
urday. S3. Conditions will be fav
orable for farm work Saturday.
Maximum yesterday 78. Mini
mum today 58. Mean tempera
ture yesterday 68 which was 7
above normal. Total 34-hour
precipitation to 11:30 a.m. to
day trace. Total precipitation for
the month .13 of an inch which
Is .23 of an Inch below normal
Willamette river height at Sa
lem Friday morning .4 of a foot.
More than 200,000 persons jamm
jammed. Nearly 30,000 persons
Want Peace But
Not at Any Price
Easton Pa., June 10 VP) The
United States wants peace and
security but not peace at any
price, General Omar N. Bradley,
army chief of staff, said today.
"Technically, we have peace
now peace defined as the ab
sence of armed conflict but
certainly we do not have secur
ity," General Bradley said in
an address prepared for delivery
at the Lafayette college com
mencement exercises.
The American people and
their leaders must accept the be
lief that "military strength can
not be a last resort device for
the extraction of poorly forged
political irons from the fire,"
General Bradley said.
"It Is an unfortunate but
valid criticism of modern inter
national negotiations," he add
ed, "that a nation's voice whis
pers or commands in exact ra
tio to its moral strength and
military potential."
In addition to designing peace
and security, the army chief of
staff said, the American people
intend "to maintain our political
way of life" and to "raise if
possible our American standard
of living."
Elects Baldwin
To SOB Club
Washington, June 10 Wi In
an angry scene, Senator East
land (D-Miss) dismissed C. B.
Baldwin, who was Henry Wal
lace's campaign manager, from
the witness chair of the senate
hearing today and called him an
SOB in the full-words version.
Baldwin had refused to an
swer a question whether or not
he is or has been a member of
the communist party, and had
accused Eastland of "fighting
against Negro rights."
Baldwin, former administra
tor of the farm security admin
istration, also had shouted that
Eastland represented "the cot
ton council," an organization
which Baldwin said is made up
of "plantation owners."
Despite the epithets, neither
moved toward physical violence.
Baldwin is a man of medium
height, round- faced, balding.
Eastland is a sturdily-built man
of about six feet. Both are in
their 40s.
The hearings were by a sen
ate judiciary subcommittee on
bills that would require the re
gistration of communist and
communist-front organizations.
Baldwin appeared as secretary-treasurer
of the progressive
party.
Bus Strike Ends
Louisville, Ky., June 10 W
Buses were running in Louisville
today for the first time since
midnight, May 31, when Trans
port Workers union members
struck for more pay.
Truman Flies
To Little Rock
Washington, June 10 VP)
President Truman flies today to
Little Rock to rejoin his old
battery at another reunion of
the 35th division of World War
I.
The one-time captain of Bat
tery D, 129th field artillery, will
mix with old cronies, look in on
a ball tonight, and have 7 o'clock
breakfast Saturday morning
with his battery mates.
The president worked last
night to complete an address to
be delivered at 1:30 p. m. (Pa
cific daylight time) Saturday,
highlighting the observance with
the buddies with whom he ser
ved in France.
With Secretary of State Ache
son working at Paris on the Ger
man problem and the senate
soon to take up the North At
lantic pact, the prospects for
peace are expected to have
heavy emphasis in the talk.
Mr. Truman's take off in the
"Independence," the White
House DC-6, was timed at 12:30
p. m. (Eastern standard time)
fir the three and a half hour
flight to Arkansas. He will re
turn to Washington immedia
tely after Saturday's talk.
Making the trip with the pre
sident are Secretaries Charles G.
Ross and Matthew J. Connelly;
John R. Steelman, assistant to
the president; Budget Director
Frank Pace, an Arkansan, and
the president's three aides, Maj.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan of the
army, Rear Admiral Robert D
Dennison of the navy, and Brig.
Gen. Robert B. Landry of the
air force.
Test Waters Run
Through Dorena Dam
Eugene, June 10 MP) Test
waters were run through the
mighty Dorena dam for the first
time this week as engineers
checked various controls. The
Rover river was diverted from its
course to allow water to pour
through one of the five hydraul-
ically operated gates. Only
few witnesses were on hand to
observe the tests.
The fourteen million dollar
structure is scheduled for com
pletion about October of this
year, although the contract pro
vides for completion by July
1950, according to the engin
eers. It will be a 4659-foot
earth structure, rising 145 feet
above the water.
Police Probe Alleged Thefts
Of 'Dickerin' Dick' Carter
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
The activities of Richard Roy Carter, better known as Dicker
in' Dick, of the south 12th street
continued investigation by state and Salem police friday.
The Investigation continued despite the fact that Carter enter
ed a plea of guilty in district
volving the theft of an oil stove'
from the Associated Oil station
in the Hollywood district of Sa
lem Bail was set at $350.
A complete check of car titles
and engine serial numbers on
both of the used car lots operat
ed by Carter was planned by
police as well as sifting of the
area for stolen parts and equip
ment. A statement signed by the tall
ex-Californian for Salem police
admitted that he was present
when a lawnmower was taken
from a home In the Hollywood
area. Police Inter Identified the
mower as belonging to Fred
Kirkwood, 1090 North Summer,
despite the fact that it had been
repainted at Carter s lot.
Four wheels and two tires
also awaited identification at
police headquarters.
Further admission In Carter's
statement included the theft of
a section of garden host from a
Washington, June 10 11
Senator McKellar (D., Tenn.)
today shouted at ECA boss Pau'
Hoffman: "The sooner you re
sign, the better it will be for
the United States."
The veteran chairman of the
senate appropriations committee
openly accused Hoffman of try
ing to bully the committee into
not cutting European recovery
funds.
Hoffman coldly denied he
tried to put any "pressure" on
the committe or that his talk
of resignation was a "threat."
To Press for Cut
Hoffman had told reporters
yesterday he would resign if he
reached the point where he no
longer thought he could direct
the recovery program success
fully. And he said he did not
think it could be done with less
than the $3,568,470,000 that
ECA is asking for the first ten
and one-half months of the next
fiscal year.
McKellar brought up the sub
ject early in today's hearing on
the ECA appropriation, saying:
"Other than giving away
ether people's money, I wonder
what you are doing in Europe.
I think it would be a very good
thing if you did resign."
Some senators said they will
press for a cut in the recovery
funds even if it means Hoff
man's resignation.
Defended by Ferguson
Hoffman tried to get in an
answer several times but Mc
Kellar shouted him down.
Senator Ferguson (R. Mich.)
broke in to say he did not con
sider Hoffman's remarks any
threat and did not think the
ECA chief had intended them
as such.
"Don't you think," Ferguson
said, "it is a good thing to have
people in the government who
are willing and able to resign
it they don t think they can do
a good job? Mr. Hoffman should
be complimented. There are too
many who stay when they know
they can't do the job."
Missing Flier
Returns Home
Seattle, June 10 UP) A flier
who was listed as missing for
five days on the Olympic penln
sula was back home in Seattle
today.
Alfred Blunt, a 30-year-old
former Canadian paratrooper,
was flown back from Portland
late yesterday by the owner of
the plane in which Blunt had
vanished Saturday.
The plane was found yester
day at a Portland airport. At
tendants said it had been park
ed there since last week-end.
Capt. Robert Masonheimer,
air rescue commander at mc
Chord air force base, estimated
the wide scale search for Blunt
had cost government agencies
$25,000 to $30,000. He Issued a
statement yesterday criticizing
the flier sharply for failure to
advise authorities of hit where
abouts. Half a dozen agencies parti
cinated in the search.
Tom Taylor, chief of the King
county sherif's air patrol, said
Blunt's wife had expressed con
fidence that the missing flier
was alive. But he said Mrs. Blunt
figured his survival would be
because of his parachuting
ability.
At McChord, the air rescue
commander said Mrs. Blunt had
appealed for a stepped-up search
yesterday morning.
used car business, were under
court to a charge of larceny in
service station in Dallas and a
fog light which he removed from
a wrecked car on the highway
"this side of Sweet Home."
Police were tipped off in their
investigation by a juvenile who
admitted stripping parked cars
at night and marketing his stolen
goods to the used car dealer.
The youth told police that
Carter had provided him with a
car, auto jack and other tools
to carry on his thefts.
The Information received
from the youth was partially
corroborated by the used car
dealer when he signed a state
mcnt to the effect that he had
loaned a car to the 18-year-old
on several occasions.
The reason for the continued
investigation of the dealer and
his possessions was to endeavor
to locate "hot" cars.
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Paris, June 10 VP) Russia
called today for a new Big Four
conference within three month!
to draft a German peace treaty,
French sources said.
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky placed before
the foreign ministers' council a
proposal that all four powers
occupying Germany agree to
withdraw all their troops one
year after a German peace
treaty is signed.
The proposal came in a meet
ing in which the ministers of
Britain, France, Russia and the
United States sought to salvage
something from the clutter of
disagreements in their talks on
Germany's future. Yesterday
Vishinsky had accepted a U.S.
request that east-west trade and
traffic talks in Berlin be ended
by Monday.
Three Days' Recess
The ministers recessed for
three days and will meet again
Tuesday. French informants,
reporting this, did not give the
reason. In the three weeks of
the conference up to now the
ministers have met every day
except Sundays. Informants
said that when the conference
is resumed the ministers will
have reports of the Berlin nego
tiations before them.
The western powers previous
ly had told Russia they were
tired of jockeying in the foreign
ministers' council and wanted to
get results. If the Berlin talks
do not produce an agreement by
Monday the Big Four foreign
ministers will step in
Stymied by Strike
The current Berlin negotia
tions for an east-west trade and
traffic agreement are being sty
mied by the western-blessed rail
strike. The United States, Brit
ain and France have told Russia
that no accord is possible as long
as the Berlin rail strike con
tinues. Unless the strikers return to
work within the next 24 of 48
hours, the Berlin negotiators
will have to report to the foreign
ministers Monday that they have
failed to agree.
Meanwhile the problem of con
cluding peace treaties with Ger
many and Austria is up in the
air.
Western officials have said the
ministers may propose the for
mation of a four-power commis
sion to continue studying Ger
man peace treaty prospects If th
Paris conference breaks up with
out any positive agreements.
To Lay Groundwork
The main function of such a
commission would be to lay the
groundwork for another foreign
ministers conference at some fu
ture date.
The commission also might oe
assigned the task of tackling as
pects of the Berlin situation
which require quick four-power
action. '
It is believed that Russia and
the west are not far apart on the
issues holding up an Austrian in
dependence treaty. But neither
side is keen on concluding an
Austrian treaty and withdraw
ing occupation troops while
neighboring Germany ii so un
settled. Shipping Tieup
May Be Averted
New York, June 10 (IP) Fed
eral mediators are hopeful of
averting an east and gulf coast
maritime strike when the con
tracts of three CIO unions ex
pire next Wednesday.
Cyrus S. Ching, director of
the federal mediation and con
ciliation service, said progress
made so far indicates new agree
ments can be reached before
the deadline.
Federal mediators have been
meeting with the unions the
National Maritime union, the
Marine Engineers Beneficial as
sociation and the American
Radio association since the ne
gotiators reported last week that
they are bogged down.
Ching said both sides had
shown recognition of the seri
ous consequences of a shipping
tieup at Atlantic and Caribbean
ports and of their responsibili
ties to the public and industry.
Issues In the dispute are union
wage demands, manning scales,
establishment of a 40-hour
week, and continuance of union
operated hiring halls.
Representatives of the unions
and 38 shipping firms are to
meet again today.
Famed Cartoonist Dies
Chicago, June 10 UP) John T.
McCutcheon, 79, famous cartoon
ist for the Chicago Tribune for
43 years and former war corre
spondent, died today at his horn
in suburban Lake Forest.
McCutcheon, who won the Pu
litzer prize for cartoons In 1931,
had been ill line 1948 when he
retired from active work at tht
Tribune.
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