Kaiser-Frazer Assembly
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Portland, July 7 () A Kaiser-Frazer automobile assembly
plant will be in operation in the Portland area within four months,
Edgar F. Kaiser said here today.
The president of the Kaiser-Frazer corporation told a press
conference the site had not yet been picked. Asked whether it
: ; -would be "within 50 miles of
I Portland," he said, "much clos
er than that."
Kaiser announced plans for
the plant while at Wichita. Kan..
recently. He expanded on that
today.
The plant will employ 200 to
300 persons and turn out 15 to
20 cars a day. If successful.
many similar plants will be es
tablished throughout the United
states.
The plant will cost about
$500,000, he said, and labor will
be recruited locally.
The purpose, he said, is to
get better labor relations, give
better service to customers, and
eventually shave about $200
off the price of each car. The
saving would be about $100 on
the dealer's cost in readying the
car for delivery and "in freight
we re talking about $125.
Auto workers in huge plants
lack pride in their work, Kaiser
said, but it is thought that in
smaller plants the workers will
visualize the finished cars as
theirs. That should improve la
bor relations. Just now, "no
body's handling this matter
right. Nobody has successful
labor relations.
It isn't a question of break
ing away from the unions in
Detroit, he added. The work
ers will pick their union.
Kaiser said that ultimately
the company hoped to get into
the Ford - Chevrolet - Plymouth
price class, but now isn t selling
enough cars to do it.
We lust haven't got the pub
lic acceptance," he said. "The
American public is more prej
udiced on autos than on any
thing else I know."
Kaiser said the reason for
picking Portland for the first
small plant was because the
Kaiser interests found "this was
the best place to work." He
added that the Swain Island
shipyard was not likely to be
considered for the plant site. Its
facilities are not suited to it, he
said.
Pegler Attacks
Union Bosses
Washington, July 8 OT Col
umnist Westbrook Pegler said
today that labor unions In this
country "have become infiltra
ted with despots, criminals and
communists."
Hank and file members have
"little or no" voice in their or
ganizations, he added.
Pegler appeared before a
house labor subcommittee inves
tigating undemocratic practices
in unions. The chairman is Rep.
Jacobs (D-Ind.), a freshman and
a former Indianapolis labor
lawyer.
"The government has long
ducked the communist question
in unions for political reasons,"
Pegler said in a statement he
read to the subcommittee. "Yet
jve have union after union, com
pletely dominated by Commun
ists and pro-Communists and
run by them.
' An Instance of this, and only
one of many, is the united elec
trical workers. Not very long
ago the atomic energy comission
told the General Electric com
pany not to deal with the united
electrical workers because of
its red domination."
Fields' Widow
Wins Estate
Hollywood, July 8 (U.R) Supe
rior Judge William R. McKay
today ruled that W. C. Fields'
widow is entitled to half his es
tate and denied William Rexford
Fields Morris' claim he is the
late comedian's illegitimate son.
The widow, Harriet V. Fields,
from whom the bulb-nosed co
mic was separated during most
of his life, was willed only $10,
000. She contested the will on
the grounds that California's
community property law should
give her half the $800,000 estate.
Her son, W. Claude Fields,
Jr., joined her in the contest.
Morris, of Dallas, Tex., also
contested the will. He claimed
a son's share on grounds he was
born out of wedlock to the com
edian and former Follies girl
I Bessie Poole and that Fields had
' acknowledged him as a son.
Fields died Christmas day,
1946, and willed most of his for
tune to set up a college for or
phans. In the meantime, the mo
ney was to go in trust to his bro
ther and sister, Walter Dunken
field of Philadelphia, Pa., and
Adel C. Smith of New Jersey.
He also set up a trust fund
for his protege, Actress Carlot
ta Monti, who was to get a to
tal of $50 a week from the trust
fund and other portions of the
estate.
The widow and son were giv
en $10,000 each.
Under McKay's ruling, Fields
was found to have been a resi
dent of California since 1927
and his widow was ruled to be
entitled to half their community
property.
Building Service
Employees Gather
Salem Heights, July 8 Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Frahm were hosts
to the annual picnic of the
Building Service Employees Lo
cal 160 at their Croisan Creek
Road home, with 65 persons at
tending. The day was spent in
formally and a covered-dish
dinner was served.
Mrs. Leon Frahm has as her
house guest this week her
nieces, who are visiting here
from Pasco, Washington. They
r are Miss Doreen Jones and Miss
lone Jones.
Henry Anderson who has
been visting friends andrela-
tives in Salina, Kan. for the
past three weeks, has returned
home.
Gloria Frahm, who broke her
arm when she fell off of her
fathers motor scooter, had the
cast removed last week.
Mill City Improves
City Water System
Mill City The Mountain
States Power Company in Mill
City is installing water meters
throughout the city. Installa
tion was completed last week
on the Marion county side of
town and several days of work
was accomplished before the
Fourth on the Linn county side.
A new water tank and larger
water mains are being installed
in all parts of the city.
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I Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 8, 1949 11
Cheesecake by Contract It isnVt a matter of choice
whether Peggie Castle (above) poses for cheesecake pic
tures. She signed a contract with Universal-International
movie studio in Hollywood, which compels her to pose
for such pictures if the company feels it advantageous to
her career. Studio officials said so many young players
consider themselves "dramitic actresses" who are reluctant
to pose that they inserted the clause in Miss Castle's contract.
(AP Wirephoto)
NEAREST THING TO A SCHMOO
Picnics Featured
By Liberty People
Liberty, July 8 A Webster
family picnic was held Fourth
of July at Paradise Island with
guests present being, Mr. and
Mrs. Luther Billings, and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Webster
and family, Mr. and Mrs.
George McMillian and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Vaden Richards
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lafe
Sherwood and family, and Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Billings and fam
ily.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Wilson,
Richard Jr. and Deborah of
Mountain View, Calif, spent the
holiday week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Moore, on Rt. 9.
Mrs. Wilson is the daughter of
Mrs. Moore.
Rev. C. Paul Moore of
Athena, Ore., was house guest
of his father Rev. Charles Moore
last week when he attended the
convention for the Christian
Church in Turner.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Scharn were
hosts to a Fourth of July pic
nic at their home on Vita
Springs Road. Guest present
were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bell,
and Carl Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Vern
Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hob
benseifkin, Mrs. George Lloyd,
Patty, and Sandra, of New
Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Walling, Gary, and Cheryl, Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Scharn of
Eugene, Gerald Scharn, and
George Stoutenburg, who is on
furlough from the Navy. The
Lloyds will leave in August for
Louisiana, where they will
make their home.
Chickens Without Wings
Trotted Out for All to See
Des Moines, la., July 8 (U.R) Peter H. Baumann, a veterinary
supply salesman, today trotted out for inspection his flock of
400 chickens all without wings.
Each bird runs like a chick-f
en, cackles like a chicken, and
Baumann said, tastes like a
chicken. The hens lay eggs.
But none has wings.
"It's the nearest thing to a
schmoo of anything alive," said
Baumann.
He said their ancestors came
from Texas.
He picked up a two-week-old
chick and let newsmen inspect
it. There was no trace of wings
Legion Units Picnic
Dayton The Dayton and La
Fayette American Legion and
auxiliaries will hold a joint pic
nic on Sunday, July 10, at the
LaFayette Locks. These picnics
have been annual affairs and
this year the committee in
charge decided to hold it togeth
er. The dinner is scheduled for
1 o'clock.
Baumann said the wingless
chicken has a thick layer of
white meat where orthodox
chicken has joints and wing
bones to annoy Sunday dinner
carvers. '
Baumann said he spent more
than ten years developing the
wingless fowl. He didn't make
his discovery public tmtil now
because he wanted to be sure
it was a success," he said.
"These chickens are not
freaks," Baumann said emphati
cally. "A freak does not re
produce." Baumann acquired a light
Braham rooster and a white
Monorca hen when he was trav
eling in Texas in the 1930's.
Each bird happened to have
only stubs where their . wings
should have been.
He said he bred them and was
amazed when some wingless
chicks hatched from the eggs.
Then he began a long process
of inbreeding and experimenting.
"At first I got only three or
four wingless birds out of 100
eggs," he said.
Now, however, i about 95 of
every .100 chickens he hatches
have no wings at all, Baumann
said. Some of the others have
stubs, or a stub on one side and
a wing on the other.
They average about 4A
pounds apiece, about the same
as a leghorn. Most of the young
chicks are pure white, but as
they get older many become
mottled with black. Baumann
has one pure black hen.
Baumann's wingless wonders
look like ordinary chickens ex
cept for the absence of wings
and a somewhat slimmer upper
body. The neck appears to be
a little longer than that of an
ordinary chicken, perhaps be
cause of the absence of wings.
At first, Baumann said, he
used artificial insemination in
breeding, but he has discarded
the practice as the breeding
supply of wingless roosters increased.
An animal husbandry gradu
ate of Iowa State College, Bau
mann bred his chickens with
out the help of any other ex
perts, although a high school
boy now helps care for them.
"I told one of my old profes
sors about my chickens once,"
Baumann said. "He just laughed
politely."
'But somewhere back in the
ancestry of one of those origin
al two chickens was this wing
less tendency," he said. "Some
thing like that might not hap
pen again in 100,000,000 hatch
ings.
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Britain Produced More and
Exports More Yet in Red
By SAM DAWSON
New York, July 7 W) The British are producing more than
they ever did before, and exporting at least as much as they ever
did. And still they can't make ends meet. What's the trouble?
One trouble seems to be Britain's loss of the huge sum of
"invisible exports" which poured money into the tight little isle
before the two wars. Some $17S-
billion worth of these assets,
these British investments around
the world, were soid to finance
the last war. The earnings from
these formerly British properties
now go to others. They no longer
flow back to Britain.
In 1938 the British listed their
invisible exports" at 232 mil
lion pounds and the pound used
to be worth $5. The visible ex
ports of goods were listed at
533 million pounds. In the first
half of this year "invisible ex
ports" are estimated at only 35
million pounds and the pound
now brings $4 officially, and
little more than $3 in the "free"
market.
But so far this year their vis
ible exports are running at an
annual rate of around 1,800,
000,000 pounds, compared with
533 million in 1938. Unfortun
ately, their imports now are
topping all exports by 30 mil
lion pounds they re running
that much in the hole. But in
1938 they were running 70 mil
lion pounds behind.
Their second trouble is the
changing character of their im
ports and exports. They may be
running closer to balance in
their over-all trade now than in
1938. But they are running far
behind in their trading with
the dollar area.
Since the war a greater pro
portion of the things they must
import come from the western
hemisphere the dollar area.
And a greater proportion of the
things they have to sell are
wanted by persons in the sterl
ing area.
The British are doing all
right in the sterling area,
which includes their common
wealth, except for Canada, and
also includes part of the middle
east, and Iceland and Ireland.
This area is buying much more
from Britian than it is selling
to Britain. And so are the na
tions in Marshall plan area of
Europe, on the average. From
these two areas Britain is pil
ing up a fine favorable trade
balance.
But they are running far be
hind in the other areas, and are
spending more dollars than
they take in. And it is the dol
lar crisis that counts now.
Looking at the trade between
the United Kingdom and the
United States, and eliminating
all the other dollar area-sterling
area trade, we find:
The United States, in the
House to Probe
Hawaiian Strike
Washington, July 7 (U.R) The
house un-American activities
committee today voted to inves
tigate the 68-day Hawaiian dock
strike to determine whether it
is communist-inspired.
A member said the committee
decided at a closed session to
to send an investigator to Ha
waii after the strike ends. After
receiving the investigator's re
port the committee will decide
whether to go into the matter
further.
The committee member said
the investigator will inquire in
to reported communist infiltra
tion in the islands and into key
unions. He said the investigator
will not go to Hawaii until the
strike ends so there can be no
accusation of attempted strike
breaking by a congressional com
mittee.
The committee decision was
disclosed soon after President
Truman told a news conference
he has no power to intervene
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first quarter of this year, ex
ported to the British $174,800,
000 worth of goods. This was
considerably down from the
peak of $330,900,000 in the
first quarter of 1947.
But the United States was
importing from the United
Kingdom in the first three
months of this year only $67,
100,000 worth, and this has un
doubtedly slipped since then.
Our post war top imports from
the United Kingdom were $75,
700,000 in the last quarter of
1948. We aren't importing quite
as much now as we did a year
ago, when first quarter total
was $67,400,000, but much bet
ter than two years ago when
it was $47,000,000.
New Directors Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (right)
congratulates Dr. Raymond Allen, president of U. of Wash
ington, Seattle (left), in Washington, D.C., after swearing
in Allen and Dr. Richard Meiling (center), Ohio State U.,
Columbus, as directors for job unifying armed forces' medi
cal services. Allen is new director of medical services for
National Military Establishment and Meiling is his deputy.
Gen Hoyt Vandenberg (right background), air forces chief
of staff, was among those attending the ceremony. (AP Wire-photo)
in the crippling walkout and
voiced some doubt whether he
wants such power.
Mr. Truman made the state
ment when told that a bill to
grant him such authority is
about to be introduced in the
senate.
The measure, drafted by Sen.
William F. Knowland, R., Calif.,
and other west coast legislators,
reportedly would authorize the
president to invoke compulsory
arbitration and seize struck
shipping and waterfront facil
ities. Reappointments Made
Gov. Douglas McKay today
announced the reappointment of
David Turtledove and Joseph L,
Fearey, both of Portland, ai
members of the state collection
agencies advisory board. Each
will serve a two-year term.
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