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EDITION
61st Year, No. 234
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Ocrobe. V
Prica 5c
Appeal Filed by
Salem in Water
Prevents Cut-Down
City Supply From
Santiam River
. Last minute notice of appeal
was (lied in circuit court just
before noon here Saturday in
the ease of Gardner Bennett, vs
City of Salem, Carl Guenther
and Floyd Siegmunri, watermas
ter, involving the right of the
city of Salem to use of waters
from the North Santiam river
for Ita municipal supply.
Senator Allan Carson who fil
ed the notice for his firm of
Carson & Carson assisting Chris
J. Kowitz, city attorney, in de
fending the case, stated that
the notice would serve as a stay
of proceedings in the permanent
injunction against the city from
using an excess of waters over
its priorities as determined by
the court.
Senator Carson said that as a
matter of fact, the injunction
against the city does not become
effective under the decree of
Judge Charles Combs of Lake
view until 12:01 Sunday morn
ing as, he stated, the decree
reads that the injunction is in
effect "from and after October
1."
Under terms of the Combs de
cree Floyd Siegmund, the wat
ermaster for the county, would
have been given control over
the valves at the Stayton island
Intake of the city water supply
to regulate and control them in
such a manner that the city
would not receive in excess of
22 second feet of water.
Water at Low Ebb
The water supply in the river
is now said to be at a low ebb
and without the notice of ap
peal, or Judge Combs granting
an extension of time from the
original date, it would have been
up to him to have handled the
situation accordingly.
As it stands, Senator Carson
stated that the injunctive pre
ss are delayed until adjudi-
in of the appeal.
I? said it was his information
- 4 the city probably intended
i so ahead with the apr 1 and
Ivas not merely serving the no-
J&tc as a t
temporary stay.
1 funnel Wreck
Near Glendale .
Roseburg, Oct. 1 (P) Rail
traffic on the Siskiyou line was
blocked last night, when a 14
car Southern Pacific freight train
was derailed at 7:30 p.m. in tun
nel No. 4 at Brandt, north of
Glendale, said J. . Clark, local
SP agent.
He said the cars struck the
sides of the tunnel, ripping down
timbers and tearing up 200 feet
of track. The locomotive was
turned over on its side. No one
was injured.
The northbound freight was
unofficially known as the "East
Cantonment," said Clark.
Relief trains (wreckers) were
dispatched from Ashland to
work at the south end of the tun
nel, and from Eugene, to work
the north end of the tunnel.
Train 330, northbound Ash-land-Portland
train, was held up
at Grants Pass, and train 329,
southbound Portland Ashland
train, was turned around at
Roseburg this morning.
Passengers were transferred
between here and Grants Pass
by Greyhound busses, while mail
and express was transported by
Pacific Motor Trucking compa
ny. .Chief Dispatcher V. N. Fields,
lugene. said that the freight
had a total of 70 cars, the en
gine and first 14 cars being all
derailed. A car jacknifed in the
tunnel punching a hole through
the roof and causing dirt and
boulders to pour into the open
ing. Smith of Dallas
Heads Cities League
Portland. Oct. 1 The may
or of Dallas, Hollis S. Smith.
was elected president of the
Lea cue of Oregon Cities today,
succeeding George W. Peavy offor such purpose are inadequate j
Corvallis. j to complete an overall road lm- stated that "the petitions are not
As the league wound up its 1 provement program: that there-, to be treated lightly and the re
annual session today, it also,fore It would be unfair to the monstrators are building up a
named Mayor Morris Milbank. i citizens of the county at large to i good case for themselves."
Grants Pass, as ice president
and City Manager Oren L. King.' new right-of-way in order to re
Eugene, as treasurer. New direc- locate this portion of the Salem
tors are Mayor R. L. Elfstrom .' Silverton road in view of the ad
Salem; Mayor George W. Peavy.lequacy of the present location.
Corvallis: Citv Manager C. V "We wish to point out furth-
signor. pennieton: mm nayor
noncri a. inompsun, rt.amain
rails.
Ho Progress
In Parley Here
On Barge War
McKay Meets CIO and
The Dalles Officials
In Secret Meet
By JAMES D. OLSON
At the conclusion of a closed
two-hour session Friday on the
"hot" pineapple situation at The
Dalles, called by Gov, Douglas
McKay, it was announced "that
absolutely nothing had been ac
complished."
Attending the secret session
were high CIO officials, repre
sentalives of the city of The
Dalles and an attorney for the
Hawaiian Pineapple company.
harly in the day newsmen had
been urged by the governor to
attend the conference, McKay
saying. "I want you there be
cause I want the people of Ore
gon to know what I say when
I tell them off."
But instead of sitting in on
the session, the newsmen cool
ed their heels in the executive
reception room for two hours,
along with H. G. Maison, super
intendent of state police, and
Harry Dorman, state budget di
rector. These two officials were
sent to The Dalles by the gov
ernor after Wednesday's out
burst between union pickets and
non-union longshoremen.
Shortly after 5 p.m. Friday
the conference began at 3 p.m.
the newspapermen were in
vited into the conference room
where they heard Gov. McKay
say:
(Concluded on Pag. 5, Column 4)
6 Break Jail
Af Roseburg
Roseburg, Oct. 1 W Six pri
soners beat up the Douglas coun
ty jailer last night, locked his
wife in a cell and escaped.
Two of them were recaptured.
No trace of the others has been
found although road blocks
were set up within minutes of
the escape.
Jailer Walter Wilson said he
was tricked into opening the
door of the cell that held the six
on the fourth floor of the coun
ty courthouse.
They rushed him, pummeled
and kicked him down to the
floor, then bound and gagged
him. Wilson's wife, who heard
the commotion and ran into the
hallway from their nearby
apartment, was grabbed and
locked up.
Then the prisoners used office
keys to get to the elevator,
which they rode to the ground
floor.
Mrs. Wilson said she asked
four girls in a cell for Juveniles
to call for help. Deputy Sheriff
Ira Byrd heard their screams
and responded.
The six who escaped: Larry
Leslie Kerstine, 18, Roseburg,
charged with being a parole vi
olator; Willie Welton Hughes,
49, and his son, Carol Welton
Hughes, 19, both of Pittsburg,
Calif., accused of auto theft;
Quenlin Cecil Wilbur, 30, Gar
diner, M., charged with auto
theft; Lee Thomas Clayton, 49,
Sutherlin, accused of arson; and
Chester William Clark, 50,
Stockton, Calif., charged with
assault with intent to kill.
New Protest Filed on
Silverton Road Plans
By DON UPJOHN
Opposition to the proposed new routing of the Salem-Silverton
federal aid improvement has boiled up again with submission of
opposing petitions to the county court carrying 353 names.
Declaring that they remonstrate against proposed relocation
of tht road from Steffen corner to Silverton the remonstrators
direct the attention of the court
"to the fact that the existing Sary to maintain the old portion,
right-of-way is sufficiently sub-land therefore, Marion county
iect to widening and general lm- taxpayers would unnecessarily
provement so as to provide and be burdened with the expense of
maintain a safe and efficient maintaining two roads whe the
highway at a minimum of ex-j existing one is sufficient. We,
pense. therefore petition our honora-
"Yovir attention is further di-jble court to proceed immediate
rected." they continue, "to the,ly with the Improvement of the
fact that the county road sys-j present course of the Silverton
tern throughout Marion county is : road."
generally in need of great im- Two members of the county
provement and potential fundsjeourt were absent Saturday but
for such purpose are inadequate County Judge Grant Murphy
incur the expense of obtaining
rr. me remonsiraiors
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ipioptted, it (till will b necei-1
B-1 7 Crashes in
Storm, 10 Killed
Raton, N. M., Oct. 1 m An
air force B-17 plane flew into
the top of a mesa in a storm near
the Colorado-New Mexico border
last night and killed all 10 men
aboard.
James B. Barber, editor of the
Raton Range, said the plane had
been identified as an air rescue
craft from Biggs Air Base, El
Paso, Tex. . - :
The plane had been missing
since 5:42 p.m. yesterday en-
route from Biggs to Lowry field
at Denver.
The wreckage was located by
an air rescue plane about the
same time as two ranchers found
it and reported to Mary Bar
tolino Black, owner of the moun
tain pasture where the snip
crashed.
Barber reported the plane
crashed about 6:15 p.m.
Barber, who visited the scene,
reported the wreckage was atop
9500 foot Lynwood mesa, seven
miles north of Raton. The plane
lacked only 150 feet of clearing
the gently sloping table land and
hit a quarter mile north of the
rim.
Wreckage was scattered over
400 yards. Only the tail section
remained intact.
Judge MacKay Dies
Condon, Ore., Oct 10 Wi D.
N. MacKay, circuit judge of Gil
liam, Sherman and Wheeler
counties, died at his home here
last night. MacKay had been
circuit judge here since 1944.
when the late Governor Earl
Snell appointed him to fill a
vacancy on the bench.
County Judge Grant
However, speaking of the pro
posed new route he said in his
opinion the one selected by the
engineers provides the best en
trance to Silverton. furnishes a
Junction with the Cascade high-
way. is the only one providing a
jocation for an ovepafcS
(Concluded rag i, toluma IMuntil police began Investigating
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New Leather Jackets for Cycle Cops The Salem police
department's six motorcycle patrolmen are equipped with
new leather jackets, and in the picture are three of them.
From left, Orrin O. White, Richard C. Boeliriniier, and Jack
R. Creasy. They are holding in their hands the lucky rabbit's
foot that was attached to each jacket when received.
District Attorney to
Probe Hopkins' Death
District Attorney E. O. Stadter announced Saturday that he
was holding the investigation into the death of Brakeman Ken
neth W. Hopkins open to check for possible criminal action.
"We don't have a particle of evidence to support any criminal
action at the present time," Stadter said. "But I don't regard
$3,843,495.34
9 Mos. Building
Salem building permits for
the first, second and third quar
ters of 1949 - totaled $3,843,-
495.34, records at City hall
showed Saturday.
This was $2,848,951.66 under
the $6,692,447 of the first three
quarters of 1948, which is an
all-time record. '
By quarters the 1949 figures
are: January, February, Marcn,
$752,441.65; April, May, June,
$2,178,941.69; July, August,
September, $912,112.
Major construction in the first
quarter included further devel
opment of the Capitol Shopping
Center, the W. R. Grasle custom
cannery project at $30,000, and
alterations to the Pacific Tel
ephone & Telegraph building
at 740 State street at $35,000.
Major work of the second
quarter included the First Chris
tian church, $300,000; Engle-
wood school remodeling, $176,
454; and Court Street Christian
church completion, $61,000.
In the third quarter major
construction dropped. The main
permits were an additional
building in the Capitol Center at
$30,000, and the Knights of Col
umbus hall at 1520 North Cot
tage at $47,500.
The permits for September,
just closed, totaling $298,050,
included $244,400 in new work
and $53,650 in alterations. Of
the new work 25 permits were
for new dwellings to cost $168,-
050.
Russian Roulette
Fatal to 10 Year Old
Portland, Oct. 1 fi Two
runaway boys decided to try
the game of Russian roulette
The result: One dead 10-year-old.
The story came out yesterday
after discovery of the boy's body
in a grassy lot here. Detectives
found he and another 10-year-old
had run away from home
Wednesday.
The boys spent the night in
the lot, and the next day one of
them produced a nine-shot .22
caliber revolver. They slipped
in one bullet, then began spin
ning the cylinder, aiming at each
other in turn and pressing the
trigger.
The boy who bought the gun
Elvin Moraski. was shot through
the heart In his first turn as the
target.
The other boy fled In terror
and did not tell what happened
25
"-'the case ps closed.
"I intend to keep It open until
we check out every bit of evi
dence.
The district attorney went on
to explain that he had asked the
Salem police department to
check the all-metal sledge hanr
mer which was used to club the
crazed rail worker into insen.
sibility after an attack on the
crew of the special freight in Sa
lem Friday morning.
"There's little hope of find
ing fingerprints from the victim
on the hammer by this time
Alter ail, it wasn t picked up
until the train reached Portland,
and the police there took it. It
was turned over to Salem au
thorities late yesterday morn
ing," Stadter said.
He explained that originally,
check of fingerprints might
have substantiated the account
of the engineer, Brent W. Camp
bell, 35, to the effect that the
35-year-old brakeman had i
saulted him.
Stadter said that the engineer
and fireman, Ben J. Mackowiac
bore signs of burns and bruises
from the wild battle in the en
gine cab in Salem.
"I don't know how the engin
eer's eye wasn't burned out. His
skin right below it was curled
up from the burn," Stadter said.
An autopsy on the body of
Hopkins, performed under the
direction of County Coroner Les
ion W. Howell revealed that
death of the man was due to
'lacerations and concussions
caused by being hit on the head
with the hammer." The autopsy
was performed at the request of
the district attorney.
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Shutdown Freight yards of the Carnegie-Illinois steel plant in Gary, Ind , are filled with
cars, hut fmnkrstncks of the huge U.S. Steel subsidiary are idle as Ihe plant shut down in
strike by steclworktri. (Acm Telepholo.)
Motion s Iron and Steel Milk
Closed, Picketed by Strikers
Major Strikes
Idle Over Million
All Oyer Nation
(Br th Aftiociatrd PrMO
The nation's idle in labor dis
putes soared past the million
mark today and there were in
dications it would climb.
The steel work stoppage add
ed 513,000 more to the list of
strike idle and there was no talk
of early peace in the air. The
coal strike accounted for anoth
er 430,000 idle, in the mines and
on coal carrying railroads.
The White House repeated its
statement of Friday that Presi
dent Truman planned no further
steps in the dispute. The presi
dent succeeded three times in
getting the strike deadline post
poned. More than 100,000 other wor
kers were idle in a dozen sepa
rate industries.
Steel and Coal Out
This is the first time in the
nation's history that the steel
and coal workers were on strike
at the same time.
Getting ready to leave the
strike lines were some 100.000
United Mine Workers. UMW
President John L. Lewis has or
dered a return to work for 80,-
000 anthracite (hard coal) min
ers in eastern Pennsylvania and
22,000 miners in western stales.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Atomic Group
Okrs Lilienthal
Washington, Oct. 1 ffl
proposed report clearing the ato
mic energy commission of "in
credible mismanagement" char
ges threw the senate-house ato
mic committee into a bitter fac
tional battle today.
Senator Hickenloopcr (R-Ia)
who made the charges several
months ago against the AEC and
Chairman David E. Lilienthal
branded as a "whitewash" r
staff - prepared draft report
which said the charges "could
not be proved."
Hickenlooper also bluntly
challenged a statement by Com
mittee Chairman McMahon (D
Conn) that "we need no change
in the management of the ato
mic energy commission. The
commission is not guilty of the
charges that have been levelled
against it."
Replied Hickenlooper1
"This is not a report at all. It
was not authorized, The conclu
sions never have been discussed.
The investigation is not even
completed."
The senate-house committee
wound up its public hearings
into Hickonlooper'i accusations
last July 11, after six weeks of
sometimes fiery testimony. It
then turned to a closed-door stu
dy of the atomic agency's secur
ity policy.
The proposed report on the
committee s investigation was
prepared by the committee staff
headed by William Borden, un
der McMiihon s direction.
37 Polio Cases in '49
Portland. Oct. 1 (W Polio'p.m. he complained of not feel-
cases for the year were up to a
total of 37 in Portland today.
following a report of three new
cases in scattered sections of thcjConnrly and William R. fiurge.
city. j Roseburg.
Taps Sound for
Last Flight of
Berlin Airlift
Berlin, Oct. 1 (1 It was taps
for the Berlin airlift last night.
The last plane of the lift, a
U. S. air force C-54, carried
news correspondents and coal
from Frankfurt to Berlin. A
band played and the Tempelhof
commander, Maj. Gen. John K.
Barr, hauled out the last sack of
coal in the plane.
That was the last act in the
15-month life of the airlift. Dur
ing those 15 months the Ameri
cans and the British made more
than 275.000 flights over the
Russian blockade into Berlin,
carrying more than 2,300,000
tons into the beleaguered city.
The air lift's success forced the
Russians finally to back down
and lift their blockade.
To the end the operation was
a record breaker. It had been
planned to end Oct. 31, but air
men kept flying in the food and
supplies at such a rate that the
last plane arrived yesterday, a
month ahead of schedule.
Army Equality
Program Set-up
Washington, Oct. 1 W) The
army is setting up a new pro
gram designed to give all Its
personnel equal treatment and
opportunity, regardless of race
or color.
The plan was announced last
night by Secretary of the Army
Gray, with the approval of Sec
retary of Defense Johnson.
The navy and air force al
ready have put similar programs
into eltoct in line with President
Truman's order to break down
discrimination in the military
forces. But a plan previously
submitted by the army had been
turned down by Johnson.
Under the program disclosed
by Gray the army will not fol
low the lead of the other two
services in scattering its Negro
personnel among white units.
But, Gray said, "qualified Ne
groes, including those In exist
ing units, will have the oppor
tunity to learn those skills pre-
previously unavailable to them.
Hereafter, Negroes who acquire
skills will be assigned to posi
tions where their specialties
may be applied in the manner
most useful to the army."
First Deathof '49
Deer Hunt Season
Lakeview, Oct. 1 (&) Ore
gon a first 1 949 deer season
death by heart attack occur
red last night on the eve of the
season's opening.
The victim was identified by
Coroner Everett Osterman as
Walter Cobb, about 74, of Rose
burg. Last hunting season three
men from the western Oregon
low country succumbed to heart
attacks in Lake county's high
altitude.
Cobb made camp with com
nfihinns nt 1(1 am. vesterdav in
th i)r:ike' Penk area At S
ing well, and 5icinds later fell
Jdead. His companions were C.
A. Tiller. Onkl;ind, Ore., L. B.
Crippling Blow
To U. S, Industry
Seen in Walkout
Pittsburgh, Oct. 1 If, ,v
strike by a half-million CIO
united steelworkers todav shut
down Iron and steel mills from
coast to coast.
The free pension and insur
ance walkout dealt a crippling
blow to American industry. Cou
pled with the two week old coal
mine strike, it threatens to dis
rupt American economy.
Picket lines at mill gates in
27 states generally were small
and quiet in the first nation wide
steel strike since 1948. Plant
gates in Pittsburgh, Detroit and
Cleveland were circled bv pick
et lines which dwindled to mere
handfuls several hours after the
strike began at 12:01 a.m., east
ern standard time.
Soup Sign Placed.
A restaurant man in Lorain.
O., whose establishment is near
a giant plant of the National
Tube company, posted this sign
a window:
"Large bowl of soup, for du
ration of strike, one cent."
Supervisory workers and
foremen passed through picket
lines without incident. They are
allowed free entrance to kc '
mill equipment in good shape tK
resume work whenever thi
strike ends. No violence was re
ported anywhere.
The strike does not apply to
four steel producing companies.
They are Portsmouth Steel com
pany, Portsmouth, Ohio; Alle-gheny-Ludlum
Steel corpora
tion, Pittsburgh; Kaiser compa
ny, Inc., with plants in Utah,
California and Pennsylvania,
and Harrisburg (Pa), Steel com
pany. (Concluded on Pate 5, Column 7)
Tito Denounces
Red Espionage
London. Oct. 1 Pxtmier
Marshal Tito accused Rufssia to
day of trying to infiltrate spies
into the Yugoslav army and
government in an effort to over
throw him. .
The Yugoslav leader, replying
to Thursday's Soviet note scrap
ping the Russia n-Yugoslav
friendship treaty, charged that
the Soviet government, "with
diplomatic notes full of insults
and threats," followed by dem
onstrative troop movements in
countries bordering Yugoslavia,
sought to intimidate the Yugo
slav people.
Hungary and Poland yester
day followed Russia's lead in
denouncing their mutual aid '
treaties with Yugoslavia. Other
Soviet satellites in the comin
form are expected to take the
same step soon.
Tito's new note its wording
mixed witli pain and anger to
ward Moscow was reported "
here by Tanjug. the official Yu
goslav news agency.
"It is well known that Soviet
representatives tried to organ
ize their agents within the Yu
goslav government and Yugo
slav army witii a view of over
throwing the k-gal Yugoslav
government." the note said.
Russia's aim, it went on, was
to exert pressure on the Yugo
slav people "in order to realize
its undemocratic and anti-social
ambitions."
Truman Sees Pageant
From Yacht Deck
Washington. Oct. 1 M Presi
dent Truman, back from a two
day trip to Missouri, turns sail
or today.
From the dock of the ,cht
Williamsburg he planned to
watch an afternoon water pag
eant commemorating the 130th
birthday of the Washington
naval gun factory.
The president arrived by
plane from Kansas Citv yester
day.
Mr. Truman may remain
aboard his yacht overnight and
return to the regatta scene to
watch some outboard races
On Tuesday he will fly to Ft.
Bragg. N.C., to witness a mass
parachute drop of airborne in
fantrymen and heavy shooting
equipment.
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