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61st Year, No. 232 .rJSZ Salem, Oregon, Thursday, September 29, 194
(32 Pages)
Price 5c
Ford Agrees lo
Pension Plan
Averting Strike
Agreement Based on
Proposal Made by
Steel Fact-finders
Detroit, Sept 29 (PI The
Ford Motor company and the
CIO United Auto Workers reach
ed agreement early today on a
history-making pension plan to
be financed by the company.
" It will pay $100 monthly in
cluding social security to Ford
workers over 63.
The agreement, based on a
ten-cent an hour package recent
ly recommended by a presiden-
(tial fact-finding board in the
Iteel industry, averted a strike
of 115,000 Ford production
workers.
The ma r a t h o n negotiations
ran nearly 35 hours without re
cess and set an endurance record
for the auto industry. As late as
midnight, when the old contract
expired. UAW President Walter
P. Reuther said there was still
a 50-50 chance walkout might
be called. -10
Months Peace
The new pact runs two and
a half years, giving hope of long
peace in the industry.
Effective Oct. 1, providing it
is ratified by rank and file
Ford workers, the new contract
is unique in the auto industry's
history in at least three respects:
1 It calls for the firs.t major
pension plan, and the company
agreed for the first time to
shoulder the entire financial re
sponsibility for pensions.
2 For the first time, the un
ion let its demand for an hourly
wage increase go by the board
in favor of security provisions.
The present wage rate of $1.65
an hour will be continued.
3 The 30-month duration, a
record in the auto industry.
Affects Other Workers
The pact may well affect mil
lions of workers in the nation's
other heavy industry particu
larly the steel workers.
Ford Vice President John S,
Bugas said his firm's pension
agreement was based on the ex
penditure of the 10-cent an hour
limit recommended by a presi
dential fact-finding board in the
steel industry.
That "package" has not yet
been granted to steel workers
and a strike has been set for
midnight tomorrow.
"This agreement," Reuther
said, "points the way in the steel
industry, where they are resist
ing a principle established here
that a pension should be en
tirely company-financed. It will
lay the ground-work in our in
dustry for moving forward."
Housing Survey
Assured Here
The federal housing adminis
tration will, as soon as possible,
make a survey of housing in Sa
lem In connection with applica
tions for approval of apartment
house projects here.
The applicant is Robert
Coates, Portland contractor,
who is being assisted by the
Salem Chamber of Commerce.
The chamber has enlisted the
services of Senators Guy Cor
don and Wayne L. Morse and
Representative Walter Norblad.
A telegram received by the
chamber Thursday from Sena
tor Cordon said the survey had
been promised by Raymond M.
Foley, federal housing commissioner.
"The commissioner has
agreed," said the Cordon tele
gram, "to review the situation,
and is making arrangements for
an FHA market analyst to make
a survey in Salem as soon' as
possible."
A letter from Manager Clay
Cochran of the Chamber of
Commerce to the Oregon con
gressional members mentioned
the fact that Salem's population
has increased since the 1940
census from 30.000 to about
55,000, and mentions an "actual
record of new families coming
into Salem on an average of
over 100 per month for the past
year."
Cochran mentioned new nationally-known
businesses that
are becoming established in the
Capitol Shopping Center and
other industrial expansion.
Coates proposes three apart
ment houses totaling about 80
housing units to rent at $75 or
more a month. One would be
located In the south part of the
city, one near the Capitol Shop
ping center and on in the Hol
lywood district
Russia Scraps
Peace Treaty
With Yugoslavia
Alliance Signed in
1945 Abrogated As
Result of Rajk Trial -
London, Sept. 29 W Soviet
Russia scrapped her friendship
treaty with Yugoslavia today,
declaring that Premier Marshal
Tito's regime baa lined up with
"foreign imperialist circles."
The decision ending the alli
ance signed in 1945 was disclos
ed in a Soviet note to Yugosla
via. It was broadcast by Moscow
radio.
The note declared the Buda
pest treason trial of former Hun
garian Foreign Minister Laszlo
Rajk, sentenced to death Satur
day, disclosed Yugoslavia had
been carrying on hostile activity
against the Soviet union.
Rajk was accused specifically !
of plotting with Yugoslav and!
American agents to overthrow
the Moscow-backed communist
government in Hungary. Marsh
al Tito denounced the trial as a
Russian propaganda move aim
ed at weakening his Yugoslav
regime.
Economic Boycott On
The Russian action was the
sharpest diplomatic slap at Yu
goslavia since the Moscow-led
Cominform (communist interna
tional information bureau) ex
pelled the Yugoslavs in June,
1948.
Since that time Russia and her
eastern European satellites have
clamped an economic boycott on
Yugoslavia.
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Plane Outruns
Sun in Flight
New York, Sept. 29 (P) A
plane that outruns the sun was
mentioned last night in an ad
dress by Air Force Secretary W.
Stuart Symington.
"This same plane, if it had
the range," he said, "would ar
rive in San Francisco before it
left New York. That will give
worry to the time table experts."
There is a three-hour time dif
ferential between New York and
the west coast.
Symington spoke at a dinner
of the National Security Indus
trial association. The group in
cludes major industrial suppliers
of the armed forces.
Symington did not specify
what kind of plane he was refer
ring to, but he prefaced his ref
erence to it with his remark:
"Man has now flown and lived
at speeds hundreds of miles an
hour faster than the speed of
sound which is 760 miles an
hour at sea level."
The air force has admitted pos
session of a super-sonic plane,
the X-l, but hasn't disclosed its
top speed. The plane is under
stood to have reached a speed of
close to iuuo miles hour for a
matter of seconds.
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State Police Oust Pickets on
The Dalles Water front Area
ilPeace Prevails
Following Goon
Riot at Docks
Italian Fliers
Adrift in Plane
New York, Sept. 29 M") TWA
announced todav it had received
a dispatch from its Paris office
indicting two Italian fliers, miss
ing since Sept. 17 in a trans-At
lantic flight, were adrift in their
plane near the Bahama islands.
The fliers, John M. Brondello
and Camillio Barioglio, were on
a planned non-stop flight from
the Azores to New York in a
single-engined plane.
The U. S. coast guard said an
army plane already had left San
Juan, Puerto Rico, for the loca
tion given a point due east of
the middle section of the Baha
mas group.
TWA said the dispatch from
Paris was relayed at the request
of the coast guard.
The message indicated the
fliers were alive and relayed
from the Italian marine radio
which picked up a blind message.
The coast guard said the blind
message said: "Alive, drifting
near Bahamas. Insufficient food.
Radio inoperative. No search
planes sighted."
Training Program
For Atom War Ready
New Orleans, Sept. 29 W)
The federal government is ready
to train the nation's fire fighters
in what "to do in the event of
atomic, biological or chemical
warfare.
William Gill, coordinator of
civil defense planning in the na
tional security resources board,
told the International Associa
tion of Fire Chiefs here yester
day that the training programs
are ready.
The Dalles Police at the sate to the waterfront terminal
were powerless to stem onrushing longshoremen yesterday in
pineapple-unloading melee. Several photographers were hit
and their cameras smashed, but Mel Junghant of the Oregon
Journal, who took this picture, was not molested. Officer in
uniform is chief of police; man in white trousers is auxiliary
policeman. (AP Wirephoto)
No Water Shortage for
City from Cut at Intake
By DON UPJOHN
While an injunction against the city of Salem from diverting
more than its 22 second feet of water from its Stayton Island in
take becomes effective under decree of Judge Charles Combs of
Lakeview Saturday, City Attorney Chris Kowitz said today there
will be no shortage of water this year resulting from it.
Judffe Charles Comhc. in hand
ing down his decision from the
Weather Predictions
Blamed for Forest Fires
By JAMES D. OLSON
A dry east wind, together with low humidity in place of stormy
weather as predicted by the weather bureau, was principally re
sponsible for the devastating forest fires of the past week, accord
ing to Acting State Forester George Spaur.
Timber operators under the law are required to dispose of
slashing and other debris once
each season and during the week
of September 11-17 many such
controlled fires were in progress
under permits issued by state
forestry inspectors.
On September 17 the weather
bureau predicted a storm rolling
in from the coast. Even though
the weather at the time was
clear, the bureau insisted that
the storm was on its way. The
storm failed to materialize.
"We were caught off guard
by the report" the acting forester
said "and the next thing we
knew we were fighting fires.
Fortunately, none were as disas
trous as they might have been.
Under the law logging opera
tors are required to dispose of
all slashing and debris consti
tuting fire hazard. Both jail
sentences and fines are provided
In the law for operators who fail
to do this.
But before I slash fire can be
started permit is necessary
from the forestry department
and an inspector passes on the
burning area, the fire equipment
of the operators and other essen
tials before such a permit is
granted.
Lonely Heart
Slayers Guilty
Dover, Del., Sept. . 29 W)
Under heavy guard in the Kent
county jail, Mrs. Inez Brennan,
46, and her son, Robert, id,
spent a calm night after their
conviction in the lonely hearts
slaying of Wade N. Wooldndge.
Deputy Warden Harry Perry
said today neither of the de
fendants broke down after leav
ing the courtroom where they
were found guilty by a jury of
10 men and two women.
Robert was convicted of first
degree murder in the death of
his mothers elderly Virginia
suitor, but the verdict carried a
recommendation of mercy.
His mother, found guilty as
his accomplice, was accused of
ordering Robert to shoot Wool
dridge. The jury did not rec
ommend mercy for her.
Perry said Mrs. Brennan
seemed stunned by the verdict
and at first was not able to un
derstand the differences in the
jurors' decisions between herself
and her son.
Bevan Replies
To Churchill
London, Sept. 29 Ml Bri
tain's labor government defeat
ed a conservative motion of no
confidence tonight by a vote of
350 to 212 in the house of com
mons.
Steel Plants
Bank Fires for
Strike Signal
Pittsburgh, Sept. 29 WP In
the face of a strike threat, one
small steel firm today agreed
to pension and insurance pro
gram terms demanded by the
CIO United Steelworkers.
The union jubilantly reported
that Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel
Corp., employing 4.000, had ac
cepted a 10-cent hourly non
contributory program exactly
as recommended by President
Truman's fact-finding board.
The firm ranks 14th among
steel producers.
It was the minimum that
Steelworker President Philip
Murray said he would accept to
keep his unionists on the job af
ter midnight Friday strike
deadline.
Meantime, other steel firms
began to shut down operations
as steelworkers began walking
out.
Picket Lines Formed
The Crucible Steel company
just outside Pittsburgh said
picket lines had been establisned
at its gates and have resulted
in a full-fledged strike, shutting
down the entire Midland (Pa.)
operation involving about 7,000
employes."
A company statement added:
"Arrangements have been
concluded with the union for
the orderly shutting down of the
open hearth facilities and the
coke ovens."
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Oral understandings art reach- (under control.
ed between the Inspector and
the operator as to burning pro
cedure and written Instructions
as to what areas are to be broad
cast burned and what areas spot
burned.
The difficulty arises that wea
ther conditions can change the
entire picture when slash burn
ing time arrives and should an
operator go ahead with his burn
ing a high wind could carry the
fire out of control.
All logging operators must in
stall fire fighting equipment
satisfactory to the forestry de
partment regulations; must re
move all snags from the slash
burning area must not burn In
any area where young trees are
growing.
Spaur explained that the prob
lem of slash fires is difficult.
This he said was due to the fact
that the department requires
holding up large slash burnings
until after a rain, but the slash
ings won't burn if too wet.
When slash fires are set the
law requires that there be a su
pervisor to each ten or 12 men
on the job, such supervisors re
sponsible in keeping the iires
London, Sept. 29 (U.f A gov
ernment spokesman, answering
Winston Churchill's challenge to
hold an election, denounced
him today as a peddler of "fla
tulent generalities" and called
upon him to retire from public
life.
Health Minister Aneurin Be
van, ace orator of the labor
party, lambasted Churchill yes
terday mercilessly on the third
and decisive day of debate in
commons on devaluation. He
pounced hard on Churchill's
black picture of British life un
der a labor administration.
Bevan rejected "tor the mo
ment" the conservative demand
for an immediate general election.
The word "He" was bandied
about. Bevan said at the outset
he welcomed the chance "to
prick this bloated bladder of
lies upon the poinard of truth."
Churchill snapped back that the
word "lie" should not be used
in the house.
A tense situation was resolved
by a ruling from the speaker that
Bevan was reciting a quotation,
not applying the word to Churchill.
Bevan accused the conserva
tive party leader of using every
opportunity to deprecate British
efforts.
bench last August in the case
against the city for alleged ov
eruse of North Santiam river
water, fixed the October 1 date
as effective time for the per
manent injunction. But, he said
t the same time, if the eity
found itself short for municipal
use the date might be extended
on into next summer.
City Attorney Kowitz Friday
is preparing papers for Judge
Combs' signature asking for an
extension of time. He said if this
is not granted in time to permit
the extension of the injunction
date he will be prepared to file
notice of appeal to the supreme
court from Judge Comb's decis
ion which, in itself,' would serve
as a stay of proceedings as to
the injunction date.
Right now, said the eity at
torney, the river mark is below
that allowed under the decree
so that the 11 cubic feet allow
ed the city Is encroaching on the
priorities of the plaintiff Gard
ner Bennett. September, he said,
is the low water period for the
North Santiam. It had been
hoped there would be fall rains
which would bring it up past
the necessary level for the city's
water supply to be in the clear,
but so far no such rains have
fallen. As a result quick action
is now considered expedient or
the watermaster, acting under
decree, will shut down the city's
headgates to regulate the divers
ion flow into its intake pipe, or
regulate the valves, as he may
find necessary.
The decree directs the defend
ant water master to assume con
trol of the division of waters in
that locality by adjusting the
headgates and valves or other
diversion works to divide the
waters in accordance with the
relative priorities "and to con
tinue to divide said water as
aforesaid so long as such defic
iency in the flower of the stream
at the city's diversion point shall
continue."
The decree states that the pri
ority of Gardner Bennett, plain
tiff, dates from 1866 that the
Salem power right dates from
1856 and the eity of Salem's
right for municipal use from
1923.
Huge Bombers
Sent Alaska
Fort Worth, Ttx Sept. 29 W
The Star-Telegram said to
day long-range B-36 bombers
began moving to Alaskan bases
last week at the same time Pres
ident Truman announced an at
omic explosion in Russia.
The newspaper said the huge
bombers were manned by crews
trained to deliver the atomic
bomb.
The 8th air force, whose 7th
bombardment wing is the only
wing in the air force operating
B-36s, is located at Carswell air
force base here. Eighth air
force headquarters described the
B-36 flights as "routine train
ing missions."
However, the Star-Telegram
said it learned one of the planes
which flew to Alaska carried
Brig. Gen. John William P. Fish
er, Carswell base commander
and commander of the 7th bom
bardment wing.
Ma). Gen. Roger Ramey, the
8th's commander and one of the
top experts in the air force on
atomic warfare, was scheduled
to return to his hvaclquarters
here today after more than a
week of conferences in Washington.
Fishing Boat Blast
Fatal to Youth
Portland. Sept. 29 An 18-
year-old boy perished and his
father and another man were
hurt in the explosion of a fish
ing boat at a moorage here to
day.
Edward Arthur McGrath, Jr.,
Portland, was knocked Into the
water. Rescuers pulled him out,
but he was dead on arrival at a
hospital.
Timothy David Lake, Depot
bay, said the sports fishing
boat Jlnco blew up when be
tried to start tht motor.
Lonely Vigil telipe D
Aquino, husband of Mrs. Iva
Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo
Rose), maintains a lonely vigil
in corridor outside San Fran
cisco federal court as he awaits
jury's verdict in his wife's
lengthy treason trial. (Acme
Telephoto)
Jury Still Out
Tokyo Rose Case
San Francisco. Sept. 99 119
A jury of six men and six wo
men today went into their fourth
day of deliberation on the fate
of Mrs. Iva Toguri D Aquino
accused of ireason lor broad
casting as the wartime 'Tokyo
Rose."
The jurors had argued for 98
hours and 25 minutes wham they
were locked up last night and
told to resume 'their study of
the evidence this morning.
Although shaken by the 66
day trial and the long wait for
a verdict, the 38-year-old de
fendant still managed a wan
smile and a small joke.
After the jury filed into tourt
yesterday afternoon to request
further exhibits, a faint smile
played across Mrs. D'Aquino's
lips. When she was led back to
the U. S. marshal's office, a pho
tographer's flashbulb failed to
go off.
"1 guess I broke tht earners."
she said.
McKay Holds-up
State School Survey
Governor Douglas McKay in
structed the atate department of
education to hold up the ap
pointment of an tupert to make
a survey of tht state schools.
Yesterday, the board voted to
hire T. C. Holy, an Ohio State
university professor, to make
the survey.
But Attorney General George
Neuner ruled that the legisla
ture intended that the survey
be made by its interim commit
tee on the school system. Neu
ner held that to hire an outside
expert would be an illcgaj del
egntion of power.
Tht Dalles, Ore., Sept. 29 -J R)
Oregon state police carrying ri
ot guns with fixed bayonets to
day ousted CIO longshoremen
from tht waterfront area where
six 'men were injured yesterday
in an outburst of picketing vio
lence over the "hot" Hawaiian
pineapple issue.
Four hundred longshore un
ionists had arrived in The Dalles
by 11 a.m., Leonard Kelly,
prominent The Dalles wheat and
cherry rancher, notified authori
ties that he had organized a vol
unteer brigade of farmers and
ranch hands which would be "on
call" If needed by police.
Injuctlon Defied
Despite an injunction issued
against further picketing at this
Columbia river port, carloads of
CIO dock workers from Port
land and other downriver water
fronts returned to The Dalles in
mid-morning. They described
themselves as "pedestrians," not
pickets.
Thirty-five blut - uniformed
state troopers, under orders from
Gov. Douglas McKay to "tup
press banditry," turned back
longshoremen who approached
the forbidden dock area. AH
persons without special permits
were ordered out of the water
front district.
'What are they going to use-
tear gas?" asked one longshore
man who was halted outside tht
restricted area.
Stottlt Goon Squad
Automobiles loaded with long
shore-men began arriving in The
Dalles in mid-morning. Police
Chief M. X. Cloe said he had re
ceived an "unconfirmed report"
that a "goon squad" was enroutt
here from Seattle, Wash.
(CoaoMaal on Faxe I, Column )
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Maison Leaves
For The Dalles
Superintendent of State Polio
H. G. Maison left for The Dalles
this morning to take over per
sonally supervision of state po
lice operations in the "hot pine
apple" dispute.
Gov. Douglas McKay, who dis
patched state police to The Dalles
Wednesday night to curb what
he described as "banditry" in
violence growing out of a dis
pute over unloading of a pine
apple barge there, said he would
remain in Oregon until the situ
ation is "clarified." The gover
nor was slated to leave for St
attle today to attend a meeting
of the Pacific Coast Intergovern
mental Relations conference. He
had accepted an invitation from
Gov. Arthur Langlie of Washing
ton to attend the Notre Dame
Washington football game In Se
attle Saturday.
McKay said The Dalles city of
ficials informed him that the
situation was beyond control of
local authorities. He declared:
'Harry Bridges is not running
the state of Oregon." Bridges
is president of the International
Longshoremen's union, CIO,
which has been on strike for sev
eral months in Hawaii in sup
port of wage Increase and im
proved working conditions demands.
Airmen Confer Britain's air chief Marshal Sir Arthur
William Tedder (right) chats witli Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold,
retired army air force chief, on the iatler's ranch near Sonoma,
Calif. Tedder, who is In the U. S. to learn more about
American air power, would not comment on connection of
his visit to the rerent announcement of Soviet poestion of
the A-bomb. (Acmt Telephoto)
New Republic
For Mongolia
Hong Kong, Sept. 19
F.ttablishment of a new anti-
communist autonomous Mongo
lian repubic claiming jurisdic
tion over 1. 000,000 people of in
ner Mongolia was announced
htre today.
C. T. Shi, official spokesman
for the new "Mongolian self
government." told a news cli-
ference the republic was pro
claimed on August 11. The na
tionalist government, he said.
will have nominal tontrol over
foreign relations and national
defenst for tht new Mongol
state.
Tht proclamation was disclos
ed as Red armies swept from the
west through Inner Mongolia,
ChtntKt communist troops, sup
ported by their satellite Red au
tonomous Mongol government,
are believed to have already oc
cupied the capital of tht new
Mongol slate.