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EDITION
61st Year, No. 233 ..V'Vr Salem, Oregon, Friday, September 30, 1949
(20 Pages)
Price 5c
Capital
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Last Ditch Try
To Stave Off
Biq Steel Strike
Chances of Peace
Slim As Industry
Banks Its Fires
Pittsburgh, Sept. 30 (Pi Big
Steel and the CIO (tot together
with federal mediators today In
a last (ditch try to tave off a
nationwide steel strike at mid
night.
But even as they met, the
news was not good
From coast to coast, and from
the Gulf to the border, the gi
gantic steel industry banked its
fires in readiness for the strike.
And thousands of Philip Mur
ray's United Steelworkers
Jumped the gun in wildcat walk
outs. William N. Margolis, assistant
director of the federal mediation
and counciliation service, and
Peter Seitz, Its general counsel,
met with the disputants.
Air of Good Humor
Surprisingly, there was an air
of good humor.
Nobody mentioned in public
the point at issue: Should the
union help pay for its insur
ance and pensions?
But Murray joked with report
ers and he grinned as he asked
Margolis:
"Is the enemy here yet?"
A mediator has no power
other than the power of sugges
tion. Sometimes he can hit on
an idea that is acceptable to
both sides. But neither the union
nor the companies needs to pay
any attention to what he says.
As production dropped, as
picketing started, the two sides
still seemed far apart.
Picture Held Bleak
For example, after last night's
meeting with U. S Steel, Mur
ray had only this to say:
"I wouldn't even comment
about hope at this time."
That's how bleak the picture
is..
The issue is a pension-insurance
program The union wants
steel firms to adopt the formula
set down by President Truman's
fact-finding board. This is a
10 - cent - an - hour contribution
paid entirely by Industry. The
union says it's the minimum they
will take.
Big Steel rejected the propos
al. Instead it offered a pension
insurance plan toward which em
ployes would contribute.
Murray and his 900,000 steel
workers wouldn't take that.
They say:
"We've given up demands for
a pay increase as ordered by the
fact finding board. Now indus
try must yield."
Morse Urges
Use of TH Law
Washington, Sept. 30 (IP)
Senator Morse (R-Ore) urged
the administration today to in
v o k e emergency provisions of
the Taft-Hartley law in the dis
pute between Hawaiian long
shoremen and employers.
He told the senate that vio
lence broke out this week at The
Dalles, Oregon, when an attempt
was made to unload a cargo of
pineapple from Hawaii which
the CIO Longshoremen's union
declared to be "hot cargo."
Morse denounced "the jungle
law of economic force." He said
the violence that has already
taken place in the 153-day strike
Is sufficient cause for the fed
eral government to move in im
mediately and try to bring the
parties together.
The president can invoke the
emergency provisions of the
Taft-Hartley act by proclaiming
that a labor dispute is a threat
to national safety and health.
Then a board of inquiry is nam
ed. After it reports, the govern
ment is empowered to go into
court and get an injunction
against a strike.
Appointment of a board of
inquiry, Morse said, would pro
vide a federal review of the
merits of the case, which he
hopes would lead to acceptance
of the board's findings or to an
agreement to negotiate on the
basis of those findings.
The 2000 longshoremen are
demanding an increase in pay
from $1 40 to $1.72 an hour.
Penland Operated t'pon
Vancouver, Wash., Sept. 30 VP
Theodore Penland, 100, the last
commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, underwent
bladder operation here yester
day. .
102,000 Mine
Workers Called
Back by Lewis
Hard Coal Miners
In East, Soft Coal in
West Get Ukase
White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va Sept. 30 iPj John L. Lewis
today ordered Pennsylvania's
80,000 hard coal miners and 22,
000 soft coal diggers west of the
Mississippi to go back to work
Monday.
As far as these men are con
cerned it ends a walkout start
ed Sept. 19.
The move was announced in
a telegram from Lewis to Presi
dents of the affected United
Mine Workers' districts.
The telegram said:
"The suspension of mining in
the western and anthracite areas
is not now vital to the pending
wage negotiations."
To Minimize Losses
It said the action was taken
to minimize loss to all parties."
The telegram was released
here by UMW vice president
Thomas Kennedy.
In the absence of Lewis, Ken
nedy heads the union bargaining
team in contract negotiations
with northern and western soft
coal operators.
The order affects the three
UMW anthracite districts in east
ern Pennsylvania and seven bi
tuminous districts covering
Washington, Iowa, Kansas, Colo
rado, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Missouri, Wyoming, Utah, and
Montana.
Soft coal production in these
states is estimated at less than 10
percent of the national total. The
hard coal districts produce some
57,000,000 tons of hard coal each
year.
Kennedy said the western pro
duction goes largely to domestic
markets. Mines west of the Mis
sissippi, he explained, do not
compete with the big eastern
fields and the action was taken
to meet special problems in the
west.
(Concluded on Tnge .1, Column 6)
Pilgrims Can't
Visit Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Sept. 30 (IP) Holy
year pilgrims to Rome in 1950
have only a slim chance of be
ing able to visit Jerusalem, the
holy city of Christendom.
In 1933 the last holy year
thousands of the faithful flocked
to Jerusalem and other shrines
in Palestine either before or aft
er their trip to Rome.
Today, however, a state of
war still exists around the holy
city, although an armistice has
stopped actual fighting.
Military and other restrictions
make travel difficult. There is
no passage through the armistice
demarcation lines except to a
privileged few chiefly United
Nations personnel.
Even if tourists could get here.
there is no place for them to
stay. Arab refugees have crowd
ed into every habitable place on
the Arab side of the line. Limit
ed hotel accommodations are
stretched to capacity by UN em
ployes Pilgrim hotels, like the
Hospice Notre Dame de France,
have been wrecked by the fighting.
Minnesota Professor
Identified 'Scientist X'
Washington, Sept. 30 (IP) The house un-American activities
committee today named Joseph
nesota professor, as the "scientist X" accused of slipping wartime
atomic secrets to a communist spy.
In Minneapolis, Weinberg got out statement saying "I am not
the person" referred to in previ--
ous committee reports as "Bcien
tlst X." He also said he had
never given secret information
to any unauthorized person.
The committee recommended
in a report that the justice de
partment prosecute Weinberg on
charges he lied under oath in:
1. Denying communist party
membership and attending young
communist league meetings. 2.
Knowing communist leader
Steve Nelson. 3. Knowing Nel
son's secretary, Bernadette
Doyle.
Nelson, the committee says,
"was engaged in securing infor
mation regarding the develop
ment of the atomic bomb from
Scientist X."
That was back in 1943, the
committee adds, when Weinberg
was employed at the radiation
laboratory at the University of
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$7,124,000,000
European Aid
Washington, Sept. 30 UP)
Congress sent to President Tru
man today the second of two
bills designed to pump $7,124,-
000.000 into foreign recovery and
military aid.
The president's signature was
the only thing needed to start
the dollars working in the giant
effort to defeat Russia in the
cold war.
The senate completed action
last night on a $5,809,990,000
program to bolster the economics
of western Europe and other
friendly nations.
The big money bill was ap
proved without a word of op
position. A short time earlier
the house had passed the bill
with critics taking only a brief
final slap at the program.
Two days ago congress au
thorized a $1,314,010,000 arms
bill. The measure provides
enough cash to start shipments
of $450,000,000 worth of arms
overseas. The rest of the money
must be provided later by ap
propriation. Government officials said the
first arms cargoes will begin
moving to Atlantic pact coun
tries by mid-November. Ameri
can military experts are due to
go overseas In about two weeks
to pave the way for these ship
ments. Most of the recovery dollars
will pour into western Europe.
1200 Men For Training
Seattle, Sept. 30 (U.R) Approx
imately 1,200 men will be ac
cepted by the navy for flight
training as naval aviation cadets
between no wand June 30, 1950.
the armed forces information
service announced today.
W. Weinberg, University of Min
California. The laboratory help
ed perfect the A-bomb.
As to the accusation of lying
under oath, Weinberg said: "I
have always told the truth. I
affirm my position."
Weinberg declared also that
he was not working on a secret
project and had no access to
secret Information at the time
a committee report said "Scient
ist X" gave a secret formula to
Nelson.
The slory of the Nelson-Scientist
X case is an old one the com
mittee first unfolded a year ago
But while the identity of Scient
ist X was believed widely known
around Washington, the commit
tee waited until today to put the
finger on him by name.
During the intervening year it
tried to weave around Weinberg
a network of evidence to support
its demands that he be brought
(to trial on perjury charges.
Scans Bloody Jacket The extent of the fatal injury to
Kenneth W. Hopkins, 35-year-old head brakeman of a South
ern Pacific train, is surveyed by Detective Harvey Tautfest
from the bloody evidence to be observed on the trainman's
jacket and cap. The jacket and cap were brought to the
Salem police station after Hopkins died of a head injury a
few hours after a battle in the cab of a freight train moving
through Salem. The train was halted in the Hollywood district.
Oregon Assessed Value
Of Property $1.5 B
By JAMES D. OLSON
The assessed value of property in Oregon this year totfils $1,
539,029,071 according to a report released by Carl Chambers,
chairman of the state tax commission Friday.
This compares with a total assessed valuation of $1,401,429,035
for 1948.
Marion county's assessed value
for 1949, the report shows, totals
$69,635,761.65, of which $60,
511,030 is assessed against prop
erty in the county as equalized
by the board of equalization and
$9,124,731.65 covers assessments
made on property owned by pub
lic utilities company in the
county. This last assessment is
levied by the tax commission.
The total assessment for the
state includes $1,292,422,330 was
reported by the assessors in the
several counties and represents
levies on property and $222,093,
724 is the total levy on public
utilities throughout the state.
The assessed valuations re
turned by the county assessors
this year are approximately $112
million above the 1948 valuation
while public utility assessments
have increased approximately
$24,500,000.
Real property values as as
sessed by the counties increased
from $892,924,000 in 1948 to
$996,948,690 this year while as
sessed value of personal property
Increased from $291,301,759 to
5330,673,853.
'Flying Boxcar'
Crashes in Flsme
Olympia, Sept. 30 W) Three
crewmen apparently perished
when a C-82 "flying boxcar"
crashed and burned in a heavily
forested area 30 miles west of
here last night.
Herb Grell, state forestry fire
warden at Shelton, reported
parts of bodies had been found
scattered in the area.
They were so badly broken,
he said, that he could not tell
whether one or more bodies had
been located.
Al Davis, forest fire warden,
reported to his office here that
all three perished in the crash.
He did not report whether the
bodies had been recovered.
Grell, who was called to the
scene to put out a fire the plane
started In second growth timber,
said the wreckage was strewn
over ten acres.
A watch found at the scene
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Meanwhile In Shelton, 30
milea northeast of the crash
scene. Airport Manager J. L.
Tiffany said he turned on land
ing lights shortly after 8 p.m.
when his mother telephoned
that she heard a Diane flying
jlow over town.
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Truman to Keep
Congress Busy
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 30 (U.R)
President Truman intends to
keep congress in session until
the house and Senate pass the
bulk of his "Fair Deal" program
The chief executive hade this
unmistakeably clear here last
night when he told a mammoth
democratic rally that his party
would win in 1952.
The occasion for the chief ex
ecutive's remarks , was a testi
monial dinner for William Boyle,
new chairman of the democrat
ic national committee.
More than 3,000 dues-paying
citizens of Kansas City paid $15
a plate to eat with the president
and most of the members of the
cabinet. The public at large
swelled the house to more than
10,000 but without the food and
drink of the Boyle testimonial
Mr. Truman told about his
"Fair Deal" program and how
it would work for the "general
welfare" of the country. The
program hasn't been going ex
ceptionally wtll in congress.
"I have told the confiross and
the leaders in the congress," he
sai d, "that we are going to fight
it out on that basis if it takes
all summer and winter, and all
next summer, too.''
Goodrich Rubber
Strike Settled
Dayton, O., Sept. 30 (Pi Nego
tiators announced today they had
agreed to settle the 34-day-old
Goodrich Rubber strike of 16,-
000 workers.
Asa Tiller, international rep
resentative of the CIO United
Rubber Workers, announced the
agreement.
He said a new contract will be
signed late this afternoon with
the B. F. Goodrich Co.
The strike over wages and
Pension. affected production
.workers In Goodrich plants
in
Akron, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Cadil
lac, Mich., Clarksvillc, Ten
Los Angeles; Oaks, Pa., and Mi
ami, Okla
It began Aug. 27 after expira
tion of the old contract. Ncgo-
tiations began in Chicago but
I were moved to Dayton,
Berserk Brakeman Killed in
Eerie Fight on Moving Train
The Dalles Port
Surrenders to
Longshoremen
CIO Claims Clear Cut
Victory in Pineapple
Ship Dispute
The Dalles, Ore., Sept. 30 (IP)
An orphan pineapple barge from
Hawaii was looking again today
for a port, loser In another bout
with CIO longshoremen,
The Dalles port commission
ordered the barge and its $800,-
000 load of pineapple to shove
off to prevent any further out
break of labor violence.
Jubilant longshoremen assert
ed they were making good their
boast of six weeks ago when
tho pineapple left strike-bound
Hawaii that they would make
the barge another "Flying
Dutchman," destined to sail
years without finding a port.
Goons Got Busy
Earlier the longshoremen's
roving picket platoons balked
the barge's attempts to find a
Puget Sound port where it could
unload.
Then the barge slipped up the
Columbia river, arriving here
last Saturday before pickets
could catch up. But the unload
ing was delayed and longshore
men apparently won their battle
Wednesday by swarming 200-
strong onto the dock. They
roughed up ten cargo workers
and truck drivers, wrecked un
loading equipment, and tossed
100 cases of pineapple into the
river.
This led the port commission
to cancel its agreement last night
with the Hawaiian Pineapple
company for unloading on the
commission dock. A clause per
mittcd cancellation in case of la
bor violence. The action came
before the company had moved
any pineapple from the water
front.
Protests Intimidation
A company spokesman, A. K.
Tobin, protested that the long
shoremen had "been permitted to
intimidate an American commu
nity through a display of violence
and brutality." Another assert
ed The Dalles had been subject
ed to a "reign of terror."
Still another, R. M. Botley,
was reported in Seattle today to
confer with Dave Beck, vice -president
of the AFL Teamsters,
on the possibility of attempting
to unload elsewhere.
The elsewhere may bp at
some obscure port like Tilla
mook, Ore., where an estimated
350 tons of pineapple slipped in
last Tuesday. The teamsters
drove some of the trucks moving
the fruit inland.
That led, however, to violence
in Portland yesterday. Long
shorccmn caught 'up with two
non-union pineapple drivers
from Tillamook and
mauled
them slightly
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Truck Driver Mauled Longshoremen of Portland, Ore.,
sent two truck drivers to hospital when 200 men stormed the
Inland Columbia river dock to halt unloading of pineapple
from strike-bound Hawaii. Here Is closeup of one AFL driver
bring roughed up by CIO men. Most of pickets are at other
truck In background. (AP Wirephoto)
'Moo Tze-TunglHopkinsDies
Heads New Redifo Hospital from
Peiping Regime
By th Auoclfttpd Prrxj)
Mao Tze-Tung, long the lead
er of China's communists, today
was elected head of the new red
regime in Peiping.
The communist radio in Pei
ping said Mao was named chair
man of the "central peoples gov
ernment" of "the peoples repub
lic of China."
Mao will preside over a gov
ernment council which, previous
broadcasts have said, will be the
highest ruling authority.
The peasant's son, who helped
to found the Chinese communist
party in 1921, was elected unan
imously by the political consul
tative conference.
The conference, dominated by
communists but including non
communist representatives, is
setting up the new government
in Peiping.
The broadcast was heard by
the Associated Press at San
Francisco.
Hungary Voids
Yugoslav Pact
Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 30
(U.R) Hungary scrapped its
friendship pact with Yugoslavia
today, accusing Marshal Tito's
regime of defaming the treaty
and plotting to overthrow the
Hungarian communist govern
ment. The Hungarian government
formally denounced the treaty
of friendship and mutual assis
tance 24 hours after a similar
action by Russia. The Budapest
move against the Yugoslavs was
in line with predictions that the
Soviet action would set off a
chain of reaction among the
cominform countries.
Foreign Minister Guyla Kal
lai handed the formal note nul
lifying the treaty to Yugoslav
Minister Jura Jovanovic at noon.
The note said the recent trial
in Budapest of Laszlo Rajk, for
mer foreign minister and No. 2
Hungarian communist, proved
that Tito's regime organized a
plot to overthrow the commun
ist government of Hungary.
CIO Plane Scouts
Pacific for Ships
Astoria, Sept. 30 (IP) Air and
sea patrols to spot any incom
ing Hawaiian pineapple barges
are operating out of here today,
Ralph Knutinen, CIO long
shore dispatcher, said a plane,
flown and owned by members
of the union local, is scouting
the Oregon coast.
Five speedboats are "ready
for action" in case an attempt is
made to land pineapple along
the coast from Astoria to Tula
Imook, he ddded.
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Blow on Head
The head brakeman of a spe
cial Southern Pacific freight
train died in Salem General
hospital at 6:50 a.m. Friday
from a crushed skull received
as the climax to an eerie battle
in the cab of the train as it
rolled through Salem.
Salem police were called to
investigate the case at 3:45 a.m.
The train was stopped at the
Madison street crossing, and
there, Kenneth W. Hopkins, 35,
1151 NE 55th Ave., Portland,
was found sprawled on the deck:
of the engine.
Crewmen immediately ad
vised the investigating officer
that Hopkins had "gone ber
serk" and that they "had to lay
him out cold." The victim had
been struck across the back of
the head with a piece of iron.
Taken to Hospital
The officer observed that .
Hopkins' head was heavily
gashed. He was bleeding pro- '
fusely and rushed to Salem
General by the Barrett ambu
lance and the officer.
The train was permitted to
continue north to Portland, and
District Attorney E. O. Stadter,
Police Capt. Stanley Frieze and -Detective
George Edwards left
Salem to question crewmen for
possible criminal action.
Hopkins' wife, Maxlne, wai
at his bedside when he died.
Story Appears
Engineer Brent W. Campbell,
58, told this story to Detective
Sgt. Dan Mitola of the Portland
police, after bringing the 70-
car train to Portland:
Hopkins boarded the train
with the rest of the crew at
Eugene and remarked he was
not feeling well.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column S)
Left Wingers
Ask British Vote
London, Sept. 30 (IP) A group
of left-wing laborites called to
day for a general election aoon
on the heels of yesterday's solid
vote of confidence for the gov
ernment's crisis policy in parlia
ment. Even as the house of com
mons registered a smashing
342-5 approval of the Atlee re
gime's action cutting the value
of the pound sterling, a leading
labor organ urged the govern
ment to call an election for No
vember, instead of serving the
full five-year term which ex
pires next July.
It was the first open demand
from an Important segment of
(he labor party for a "nap"
election and set members of
parliament wondering whether
their seats may be at stake
with in a matter of weeks.
The publication is the Tri
bune, a weekly journal edited
by Michael Foote, a member of
the labor party's executive com
mittee, and Jennie Lee, wife of
fiery Health Minister Aneurin
Bevan. Bi van also is a member
of parliament.
Political sources said Prime
Minister Altlee, however, op
poses an election before next
spring.
Left-wingers within the parly
appeared to be pressing for an
election now on the grounds
that delay minht cost them votes
f a rise in living costs develops
as a result ot devaluation.
No Wool Sales at
Salt Lake Auction
Salt Lake City, Sept. 30 (IP)
Nearly 5.000,000 pounds of wool
remained unsold here today as
a scheduled sale sponsored by
the Western Wool Handlers as
sociation closed.
R. C. Elliott and company,
which offered 2.250.000 pounds
of the wool, reported that 18
buyers inspected the product
during the three-day event.
Elliott said outside of a few
small transactions, no sales wer
made however, as buyers re
mained uneasy because of un
settled conditions which fol
lowed devaluation of the Brit
ish pound.
The wool offered here rep
resents about 35 per cent of tha
output of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah
and Nevada.
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