G apital
THE WEATHER HERE
CLEAR TO partly cloudy to
night and Saturday. Not quite
bo warm. Lowest temperature
expected tonight, 55 degrees;
highest Saturday, 86.
Maximum 7eiterdr, 06: minimum to
day. 58. 24-hogr precipitation. 0; for
month. 0: normal, ,80. Season preclplU.
tlon, 41.61; normal, 87.35. Hirer heirbt,
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EDITION
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61st Year, No. 167
Entered u lacond elts
matter at Salem. Oregon
Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 15, 1949
(18 Pages) Price 5c
Steel Industry
Strike Averted
For Sixty Days
Big 3 Producers
Reluctantly Accept
Truman Proposal
Washington, July 15 VP) T h e
steel industry's giants bowed to
President Truman's Insistence
Jjfoday and accepted his plan for
- dealing with their labor dis
pute. Since the million-member
CIO United Steel Workers al
ready had accepted it, the ac
tion of the "Big Three" produc
ers headed off for at least 60
I days a strike scheduled to begin
'in some plants at midnight.
Most of the smaller compa
nies already had agreed to Mr.
Truman's proposal that he ap
point a three-member board to
investigate the wage-pension dis
pute and make recommendations
for a settlement while, mean
time, work continues for 60
days.
Wanted T. H. Provisions
The Big Three U. S. Steel,
Bethlehem and Republic re
jected this idea when Mr. Tru
man advanced it Tuesday. Their
stand was that he should act un
der the Taft-Hartley law. That
law provides for fact - finding
boards but says the boards shall
not make recommendations.
In the face of White House
pressure, they gave up today
first Bethlehem, the No. 2 pro
ducer; then Republic, No. 3, and
finally, "Big Steel" itself, the U.
S. Steel Corporation.
All emphasized that they
would not be bound by the
board's recommendations. Mr.
Truman had not asked that they,
or the union, bind themselves
to take the board's proposals.
Had Banked Furnaces
U. S. Steel already had bank
ed some furnaces and given out
ward evidences of a willingness
to take a strike, if necessary,
when it finally announced at 1
p.m. . (EST) that it would go
a along with the president's plan.; .
1 (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Malheur Fire
Under Control
Portland, Ore., July 15 VP)
Seven hundred smoke-fagged
workers linked their trails
around south central Oregon's
Gunbarrel creek fire today and
the forest service reported it
"under control."
The blaze, in Malheur nation
al forest 35 miles northeast of
Burns, swept through 5000 acres
of scrub pine and for a time
threatened commercially valu
able stands.
Guy Johnson, regional fire
ulBl.aH.llCl OOllvl 1.VV1C1 WGC1I.11V1
in the fire area today gave hope
that the lines around the fire
could be held.
The entire state had relief
from the heat today, with a few
scattered sprinkles in prospect.
Portland, which had a high
ov '94 yesterday, was scheduled
to get a peak of only 77 today
as clouds moving In with cooler
air from- the southwest were
scattered over western Oregon
Eastern Oregon also was to get
relief with a cover of high
clouds.
f Western Oregon humidity was
up today and eastern Oregon's
was forecast for higher tomor
row. Forecasters cautioned, how
ever, that fire danger remained
acute. Logging operations were
suspended over much of the
state.
The entire northwest sweltered
yesterday: Medford 104, Yakima
101, Ontario, Redmond, Rose
burg, Lewiston, 100; Boise 99,
Pendleton 98, Salem 96, Spokane
95. Only the coast was cool with
Newport reporting 62 and
Brookings 59.
Oldest G.A.R. Yet
Has 108fh Birthday
Rochester, N. Y., July 15 W
James A. Hard celebrated his
108th birthday today with one
principal worry the lack of
large-sized aromatic cigars.
The oldest living member of
the Grand Army of the Republic
also was mildly concerned over
whether he will get to the GAR's
final encampment next month at
Indianapolis. He hopes to make
it.
The ususal birthday party in a
downtown hotel was by-passed
this year due to Hard's impaired
health. He was hospitalized
three times during the past eight
months with pneumonia.
Sewage Disposal
Plans Outlined
For West Salem
Corvallis Engineers
Estimate Cost at Total
Of $174,181
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Methods of constructing and
financing a sewage disposal
plant and sewer expansion for
West Salem are offered in a re
port by Cornell, Howland, Hayes
& Merryfield, Corvallis engi
neers, released today by Mayor
Walter Musgrave.
One recommendation is that
a sewer rental ordinance be en
acted by the West Salem city
council to create a sewer sink
ing fund.
Estimates for this indicate
that it would be to the advan
tage of water users if West Sa
lem merges with Salem, which
would bring residents there au
tomatically under Salem s 65
cent per month sewer rental for
residential users with industries
on a metered basis.
West Salem, without merger,
would have to pay more, the re
port indicates.
Sanitary Sewers Exist
Most of the residential district
of West Salem is now well-served
by existing sanitary sewers,
the report says, which discharge
through a 12-inch outfall line
into the Willamette at the end
of Murlark avenue. It is not an
ticipated that any additional ex
pansion or alterations of the ex
isting system be required.
.However, most ol the area
east of Patterson street is with
out sewers, and is fast develop
ing into an industrial area, and
sewer extensions into the area
will be required in the very near
future, the report says.
Portion Unsewered
Also that part of the city gen
erally bounded by Cascade drive
and known as the Hill area
the west part of the city is not
now sewered. The area is very
steep, and seepage from septic
tanks outcrops and runs on the
surface, in many places, causing
an unsanitary condition "which
can only be corrected by the in
stallation of sanitary sewers."
All of the area north and
west of the city is fast develop
ing into a residential district
and thus creating sanitary prob
lems," says the study.
It has been estimated," says
the report, "that a population of
some 5000 should be provided
for . . . There are definite indi
cations that the residential area
will grow beyond that whose
natural drainage is to the south
and east, and sewers for this
will need to drain in a
general northerly direction, and
are therefore not included in
the plan for sewer extensions as
prescribed in this report."
(Continued on Pane 5, Column 7)
Russians Confiscate
West Marks on Trucks
Berlin, July 15 VP) Russian
troops began confiscating west
marks today from Berlin-bound
truck drivers inside the Soviet
zone.
Arriving drivers said they had
been halted briefly at Michen-
dorg, ten miles from Berlin, by
a new Russian checkpoint.
East German police, under
Russian military supervision, de
manded all west marks in the
drivers' possession. .
American military govern
ment officials immediately start
ed an investigation of the hew
Soviet maneuver, which follow
ed yesterday's easing of the
little blockade" of West Ber
lin.
Water Flows at Record
Rate for Salem Users
At certain afternoon hours during the present warmest week
of the summer the use of water
22,000 gallons a minute.
Multiply that by 1440, which
24 hours, and the total is 31,680,000 gallons, which would be
used in a day at that rate,
Actually, however, the actual
usage of water in baiem lust
now in 24 hours is running just
about half that amount arounc"
15,000,000 which is still higher
than in previous summers.
That flow reduced the level
in the city's 10,000,000-gallon
reservoir, but not dangerously,
and Salem has no shortage of
water. No restriction has been
placed here, as in some other
cities, on irrigation or other con
sumption. Distribution difficulties are
still causing a shortage of water
in the Kingwood annexation dis
trict above West Salem. Man
Truman Sions
Housing Bill
Washington, July 15 VP) Pre
sident Truman signed the long
range housing bill today and
said it must be put into opera
tion quickly.
Passage of the legislation a
week ago gave Mr. Truman his
first major victory in the pre
sent congressional sessions.
The most controversial pro
vision of the bill authorizes con
struction of 810,000 public hous
ing units during the next six
years.
It also provides for slum clear
ance and aids to farm housing.
Housing Administrator Ray
mond M. Foley has promised a
rapid start" of the public hous
ing features. He said he hopes
to get 50,000 publicly-owned
dwelling units under way with
in the first year.
The "entirely new program'
of slum clearance will take more
time, he said, because it requires
extensive local planning, or
ganization and possibly local or
state legislation.
However, he said 25 states
now have laws authorizing par
ticipatiqn in federally-supported
slum clearance projects." Also, a
number of cities are far enough
along to be able to enter slum
clearance agreements witnin tne
next 12 months, so the "actual
slum clearance can get under
way thereafter."
Bombay Funeral
For Newsmen
Bombay, India, July 15 (U.B
Final services, cremations and
burials took place today for 43
of the 45 persons killed Tuesday
when a Royal Dutch airliner
smashed into a hill near here.
Two of the victims' bodies
never have beenjound. Police
at the crash scene have aban
doned search for them.
World-known American H. R.
Knickerbocker, one of the 14
U. S. journalists killed, was bur
ied in a plain, brown-varnished
coffin covered with a wreath
from the American consulate.
As the coffin was lowered in
the grave, a minister read the
words which had been request
ed vby Knickerbocker's family,
This was a good man. He was
a good Christian. He knew com
passion." Bodies of the Dutch crew
men and passengers were cre
mated. All other unidentified
bodies were buried in individual
graves.
Services were read for all the
other victims at the Bombay hos
pital by Brotestant ministers, a
Jewish rabbi, and a Roman Ca
tholic priest.
in Salem has reached a rate of
is the number of minutes in
ager Carl Guenther of the Salem
water department said that Sat
urday or Monday a crew will
start laying a new eight-inch
main, 3300 feet long, which is
expected to eliminate the
trouble.
ine une win extend across
the hill from the 50,000-gallon
storage reservoir near the
KSLM radio installation.
The water department is mak
ing preparations for erection
shortly of a high-level tank of
100,000 or 150,000 gallons capa
city for the area. Ultimately
a large storage reservoir for low
level service is on thi program.
Policemen Sworn Into Service Seven new Salem police
recruits were sworn into service Friday. They are, from left,
Hunter, DeHut, Rogers, Grunewald, Fiedler, Wiebe, and Pot
ter. They are being sworn in by City Recorder Alfred Mundt
while Chief of Police Clyde A. Warren watches.
Bogus Check Day Sees 8
Paper Passers in Court
It was "bogus check" day in Judge George R. Duncan's court
Friday morning when a parade of paper passers filed before
him for sentence or other disposition.
Elmer Belleque, Jr., Gervais, who had once before been in
court and sentenced to a year in jail but was paroled on a check
"Dassine charge had his Darole
Light Rain in
Drought Area
(By the Associated Press)
More light rain fell on parts
of the dry stricken northeastern
states today.
The U.S. weather bureau said
no heavy falls were reported
but the showers were quite gen
eral from eastern Pennsylvania
to southern Vermont and south
ern New Hampshire. Rain for
parts of New York state and New
Jersey was forecast. .
. The . light" rains, the ...weather
bureau said, will help to some
extent to revive - the wilting
crops which have suffered mil
lions of dollars damage Because
of no rain for more than six
weeks. Rain fell over parts of the
drought area earlier this week.
Other showers fell today in
parts of the southern Rockies
and western plains.
Temperatures are normal over
the country from the Rockies
eastward to the Atlantic coast.
Readings are slightly lower in
the Great Lakes region but hot
weather prevailed from the
Rocky mountains to the Pacif
ic coast. A low of 45 was report
ed "at Cadillac, Mich., early to
day.
St. Swithin's Rain
Ends Britain's Drought
London, July 15 W 'Tis St.
Swithin's day and it's raining.
That, to an Englishman, means
this year's scorching drought is
over.
If there's no rain on this day
a 1,000-year-old superstuution
says there will be a drought for
40 days to come. In an England
already parched by hot, dry
weather, that could be serious.
Seems that when Bishop
Swithin of Winchester died in
862 he decreed that he be buried
in the open, where the rain of
heaven could fall on him as he
slept.
In 971 a later bishop tried to
move his body to a crypt in the
church. Legend says a great
thunderstorm broke when the
first spadeful of earth was turn
ed, and kept on for 40 days, un
til the bishop abandoned his
idea of moving the bones.
That started the legend. Every
body believes it but the weather
men. Typhoon Headed for
Southwest Japan
Tokyo, July 15 0J.PJ A ty
phoon, 25 miles southeast of
Okinawa, was reported moving
steadily toward Japan today
with winds up to 80 miles per
hour near its center.
Weather experts estimated
outer fringes of the storm will
lash the southwestern coast of
Japan with rains and heavy
squalls not later than Saturday
if it continues on its present
course.
Young Wader Drowned
Portland, July 15 VP) A 7-
year-old wader was drowned in
the swift Sandy river east oi
here yesterday. He was Jacob
Charles Sumners, one of the six
children of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Sumners.
revoked when a new check bob
bed up submitted by parole of-
ficers. The judge sent him to
do his year,
Oral William "Bill" Mize and
Al Griffith, who worked togeth
er in passing checks each drew
sentences of not more than 18
months in the penitentiary. Mize
pleaded guilty to passing a $10
check on Karl Kuhn of Sham
rock Tavern. His record shows
he is on parole from the Arizona
State penitentiary from a two
to five year sentence also in
volving a check which he told
tne court here he didnt pass
and could "truthfully say I
wasn't guilty." However, he
did plead guilty in the present
instance. Histpartner, Al Grif
fith, charged with passing, a
$45.65 check at Clear Lake
grocery on Virgil L, Hulser,
asked for an attorney. Bryan
Goodenough was appointed
After he had consulted with his
client the client decided to plead
guilty also, instead of standing
trial.
Richard O. Copenhaver who
pleaded guilty to passing a $20
check on J. Parker Lineberry,
was sentenced to six months in
jail and placed on three years'
probation.
Clifton Thomas Jr., and Shir
ley Ann Denn alleged to have
joined in an attempt to pass a
$35 check on Francis C.
Schmidt of Mt. Angel, were ar
raigned and continued to August
1 at 11 a.m., as time to enter
their pleas.
Frank Lewis up for revoca
tion of probation on a non-support
charge saw his probation
revoked and he was sentenced
to a year in state prison.
Cooler Weather
Eases Heat Wave
"Not quite so warm tonight
and Saturday" was the word
from the weather bureau, Fri
day morning, following the siz
zling heat which sent the mer
cury to an official 96 degrees In
Salem, Thursday. Actually the
reading was 96.3 degrees but
under the weather bureau sys
tem the fraction does not count
on the record. It was the warn
est day in Salem since Septem
ber 10 last when the thermom
eter went to 97 degrees.
Friday morning gave indi
cations the day would not be
as warm, and Salemites were re
lieved. The mean temperature
for Thursday was 76 degrees, or
nine above normal.
Forecast is for conditions to
be clear to partly cloudy, Sat
urday, with a maximum of 86
in prospect tomorrow.
Senate Votes Tuesday
On Atlantic Pact
Washington, July 15 VP) The
senate agreed today to vote at
2 p.m. (PST) next Thursday on
the North Atlantic security trea
ty. Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
democratic leader, obtained the
agreement. Senator D o n n e 1 1
(R-Mq.), representing oppon
ents, ' objected when Lucas
sought an earlier vote.
Senate leaders are confident
the treaty will be approved.
Their problem has been to get
the debate shut off and take a
ballot.
Salem Enjoined from Taking
More Water from
Norblad Files
New Protest on
UAL Removal
For the second time this week
the U. S. house of representa
tives heard a protest to the
CAB's proposed substitution of
West Coast Airlines service in
Salem for that of the United Air
Lines.
Making the protest under "ex
tension of remarks" was Rep
Walter Norblad, who with his
statement inserted the Capital
Journal editorial of July 6 in
the Congressional Record of Ju
ly 12.
The Oregon representative,
prior to inserting the editorial
entitled "What's Wrong with
United'js Business Here?" point
ed out mat tne size ana growtn
of the operation of United was
attested to in the editorial from
the Salem paper, adding that
"facts cited make it clear that
this air service at Salem should
be continued."
C. J. Editorial Cited
The editorial of July 6 was one
comparing balem s passenger
revenue with those of other cit
ies having United service.
Among those cities mentioned
in the comparison were Balti
more, Md., a city 17 times the
size of Salem and yet with only
a little more passenger revenue
in the first four months of 1949
than Salem; Ogden, Utah, with
only half the revenue of Salem;
Fort Wayne, Ind., with a popu
lation of 100,000 persons and
only about two-thirds of the pas
senger business of Salem. Also
compared in the editorial was
the air freight handled here.
Norblad after drawing the e-t
itorial to the attention of the
House forwarded a copy of the
Congressional Record of July 12
to the CAB with his third pro
test of the proposed airline
change for Oregon's capital city.
To Sidetrack
Senator Dulles
Washington, July 15 VP)
Senator Dulles (R., N.Y.) seem
ed headed today toward medi
ocre assignments to the senall
rules and District of Columbia
committees.
But Senator Lucas of Illinois,
the democratic leader, told re
porters he has suggested that
Dulles be invited to sit in as a
non-voting member of the for
eign relations committee.
Dulles was adviser to four
secretaries of states and a dele
gate to the United Nations be
fore he was appointed to the
senate. Lucas said he thought
the New Yorker's experience
would be valuable to the com
mittee. There was talk among some
republicans of possibly giving
Dulles a voting place on the
group while he is serving before
a special election in November
to fill the post vacated by the
resignation of Democratic Sen
ator Robert F. Wagner.
Senator Morse (R., Ore.), who
has tried and failed before,
made it clear, however, that if
there is any republican opening
on foreign relations he wants it.
...Get License Crooner Dick Haymes and Nora Eddington
Flynn, each recently divorced, seem to be enjoying the pro
cedure as they take out a marriage license in Santa Monica,
Calif. Haymes was formerly married to Actress Joanne Dru;
Nora to Errol Flynn. (AP Wirephoto.)
City Granted Only
Allowed Under Adjudication
By State Engineer in 1945
By DON UPJOHN
The city of Salem was enjoined by Judge Charles H. Combs
of Lakcview in an opinion handed down in circuit court here
Friday from taking at its 18-inch diversion pipe on the Santiam
river water for its domestic use which will interfere with the
prior rights of the Gardner Bennett interests of Stayton, Oregon
Pulp & Paper company and its associates of Salem and of the
50 second feet allowed the state fish commission.
At any time the course of the stream is such that it threatens
the prior power rights of those interests, then the state engineer
and water master are directed to regulate, or snut on n necessary,
the flow into the city of Salem's diversion pipe.
In eliect tne city is granieu mm;
allowed it under the adjudication
and no more to run through its
with the use by the other interests named.
XTrt nimiinitinn ill KunillV &
Effect of the decision, said
John H. Carson, one of the at
torneys for the city, will make
no material dimunition in tne
Salem city water supply and no
alarm need be felt. He pointed
out that the decision does not
enjoin the city from continuing
to take what water it needs
from the seepage pipes on Stay-
ton island. "And," he said, "it
reauired. more seepage pipes
can be sunk to accelerate the
supply."
The decision is outgrowm ui
a complaint filed by Gardner
Bennett of Stayton against the
city and others In which he al
leged the city was using more
than the 22 second feet allowed
it under the adjudication ot
1 945 and that other interest had
prior rights to the supplies
awarded in the adjudication.
The court stated this total of 1156
feet is the' amount of water
which, the court held, must be
allowed to pass to the diversion
pipes of the Bennett and the
Salem power interests.
Unholils Water Right
Judge Combs said he was. in
clined to lean toward the city.
of Salem in his decision Be
cause the water was used for
domestic purposes. But, he de
clared, under the law a water
right is a water right, whether
for power or domestic use, and
the law differentiates only as
to priorities and not between
domestic and power use.
The court pointed out that
the city's attention had been
called by A. D. Gardner, Gard
ner Bennett's predecessor in in
terest, to the plan he used of
sinking pipes to catch tne seep
age water and said balem couia
do the same thing, and this
plan has been adopted at Stay
ton Island.
As to other letters of A. D.
Gardner to representatives of
the city of Salem on which the
city relied to establish a defense
in estoppel, he pointed out that
subsequent to the writing of
these letters the city had hired
engineers who made a report on
which the city relied and the
city could not contend now that
t relied on statements in uara-
ner's letters so as to set up such
a defense.
Old Adjudication Stands
Also the defense of the city
that Gardner Bennett had
shown laches or negligence in
instituting the present suit was
brushed aside by the court. He
said that the adjudication which
fixed the water rights was not
completed until 1945, that all
(Concluded on page 5, Column 8)
Santiam
22 Second Feet
ui me seuunu icei ui wuier
by the state engineer in 1945
diversion pipe if it interferes
Secret Atomic
Conference Held
Washington, July 15 (IP) A
White House shield of secrecy
today threw a tight cover over
super-mysterious conference
which brought President Tru
man together with top military,
atomic, diplomatic and congres
sional leaders.
For two hours and 33 min
utes these men the list was
impressive were together be
hind closed doors last night in
historic Blair house, the presi
dent's temporary home.
There was no announcement
whatever of what went on. How
ever, the Identity of the partici
pants pointed strongly toward
some development in the atomic
weapons field on an internation
al level.
The New York Times said the
meeting dealt with the question
of giving to Great Britain tech
nical information on the produc
tion ol atomic bombs.
It was learned later, however,
the newspaper added, that no
decisions were made during the
session unless the president came
to some determination that he
did not disclose.
Any decision to give informa
tion to Britain would require an
act of congress before it could
be carried out. Present law for
bids disclosure of atomic infor
mation to other countries.
Both the areas of speculation
and the mystery were enhanc
ed by an accumulating number
of facts, none of which supplied
any definitive answers.
Unification Bill
Looks a Cinch
Washington, July 15 VP)
Quick passage by congress of i
military unification bill now
looks like a cinch.
The house armed services com
mittee nimbly reversed itself on
the issue yesterday, and approv
ed a bill to reorganize the arm
ed forces' business-finances af
fairs. One member said instruc
tions from Minority Leader Jos
eph W. Martin, jr., (R-Mass.)
were partly responsible for the
reversal.
Majority Leader McCormack
(D-Mass) announced shortly af
ter the committee vote that the
bill is on the house calendar for
debate Monday. It is expected
to pass without much opposition.
Adding to the pressure was a
reminder of senate interest in
unification, expressed by Sen
ator Tydings (D-Md). He an
nounced that the military pay
bill passed by the house will
stay on ice in the senate armed
services committee until the
house passes the finances bill.
30 N. YlusTines
Tied-up by Strike
New York, July 15 (IP) More
It.on d million Man, Vn.U
hunted alternate transportation
today after a lightning strike
immobilized buses on 30 routes.
Riders who could do so han
dily switched to subways,
which were put on stepped-up
schedules to handle the extra
crush. Others hailed taxicabs, if
they could find empty ones.
Some walked.
The stoppage, touched off yes
terday by the lay-off of four
New York City Omnibus corpor
ation mechanics, spread early
today to the Fifth Avcnu
Coach company, affecting a to
tal of 3300 workers.