THE WEATHER HERE
BECOMING CLOUDY with few
light showers late tonight, Tues
day. Slightly warmer tonight,
continued low daytime temper
atures. Lowest tonight, 45; high
est Tuesday, 64.
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Criminal Trial
Day in County
Circuit Courts
Some Sentences De
layed for Information,
Others Draw Penalties
By DON UPJOHN
Both departments of circuit
r t tntertained criminals
Y and in Judge George
'i department it Is vir
all day session.
Jtex Kimmell withheld
on the case of Joseph
4, ' who pleaded guilty
wting in an armed holdup
jlliam Graen in a 12th street
t September 20, until the
k (ttte parole board has time to
nake a pre-sentence investiga-
tion. Bruce Williams, his attor
ney, pointed to the man's war
I record, which showed two com
bat wounds and an honorable
discharge, with no prior crim
inal record. Two men alleged
to have assisted Mainella in the
holdup are still at large. He is
under $3000 bail which has not
been posted. The holdup alleg
edly netted $75 and was accom
plished with the use of a revol
ver. Wilson Was Continued
Albert J. Wilson was granted
continuation of sentence after
his plea of guilty to larceny of a
Buick car from Estella E. Pom
eroy pending receipt of his rec
ord from the files of the FBI.
Judge Kimmell said he wanted
to know something about the
man's past before imposing sen
tence. Archie Oxford pleaded not
guilty before Judge Kimmell 1i
a charge of attempting to steal
an automobile and was contin
ued for a trial date.
In Judge George R. Duncan's
department, Eldon Hendricks re
ceived an 18-months sentence
in prison with credit to be giv
en for time in jail on a charge
of larceny of a power saw. Hen
dricks was shown to have been
arrested for bTirelary in Minne
sota in 1947 and he said was
granted probation. He also was
involved in a larceny charge in
Seattle.
(Concluded on Pare 5. Column 5)
Smoke Slashed
Air Operations
Low-hanging smoke during
the month of September cut air
operation at McNary field to
the lowest since the CAA con
trol tower was re-opened here
the last of February.
The operations for September,
totaling 4,883, were 908 below
those of the lowest previous
month, which was July with
5781 operations. Biggest month
for operations since opening the
tower was August with 6,839.
Increasing their flights during
that month were the local navy
planes, who had their biggest
month since the facility was es
tablished here. Total local oper
ations for the navy were 70.
Air carrier operations for
September numbered 352. This
figure held high because of the
almost nightly stops of the new
ly scheduled United Air Lines
cargo plane. During five days
of the month, September 23, 25
26. 28 and 29, there were 14 air
carrier operations daily, seven
flights in and seven out.
Other figures on operations at
McNary field during September
were: air force itinerant, 102;
civilian itinerant, 723; navy itin
erant, 84; air force local, 10;
and civilian local, 3542.
Yandenberg Under
Knife of Surgeon
Ann Arbor. Mich., Oct. 3 W
Senator Vandenberg (R.,
Mich.) spent more than six hours
on the operating table today and
doctors said half of his left lung
had been removed. They term
ed his condition "excellent."
Dr. John Alexander, surgeon
In charge, released the follow
ing statement:
"Senator Vandenberg was op-
crated on this morning, one-half
of his left lung was removed
His condition during the opera
tion was excellent. '
Stole Policeman's Vniform
Washington, Oct. 3
Rookie park policeman Michael
I . J, f iore reluctantly reported yes
' terday that a thief broke Into
his parked car and stole his blue
uniform and new police badge
102,000 Coal
Miners Return
But 400,000 Out
513,000 Steel Workers
Idle Optimism in
Hawaiian Dock Strike
(By the. Auoclited PrM)
One hundred two thousand of
John L. Lewis' coal miners went
back to work today, but 400,000
remained on strike as did 513,
000 CIO steelworkers.
There was optimism voiced
that settlement of the 156-day
strike of 2,000 CIO longshore
men at Hawaii may come soon.
Tension relaxed in Detroit's auto
industry as CIO auto workers
planned to apply the Ford settle
ment pattern to Chrysler and
other manufacturers.
Want Shorter Day
Meanwhile, as the AFL con
vention began at St. Paul, Minn.,
the federation's officers recom
mended shortening of industry's
work day and work week as an
immediate economic goal.
The United Mine Workers
sent back to their jobs today by
the terse hint from union head
quarters that their idleness "is
not now vital to the pending
wage negotiations" were 80,000
anthracite (hard coal) diggers
in Pennsylvania and 22,000 soft
coal miners west of the Missis
sippi.
In the steel strike which hit
56 basic steel plants and 50 iron
ore mines Saturday, there were
rumors of new government in
tervention.
(Concluded on Fare S, Column 1)
Reward Offered
By Mrs. Fanfz
Two awards totaling $3000 are
being offered by Mrs. Charles
W. Fantz, Silverton, for evidence
of the death of her husband off
the coast of California. Fantz
and Henry Wergley, of San
Francisco, were tuna fishing
when their craft disappeared
about 100 miles off the coast at
Santa Cruz September 16.
Mrs. Fantz, who returned from
California Sunday, announced
her awards through the state
board of aeronautics in the hope
that some private pilot with an
amphibious craft might make ad
ditional search In the area from
which the 40-foot craft was last
reported. She expressed disap
pointment In that the coast guard
conducted only one search off
the coast and will not make an
other unless evidence is present
ed. A reward of $1000 is offered
for any information as to the
fate of the missing crew or craft,
on shore or elsewhere, and $2,
000 for fishermen or private pi-1
lots who might locate any of
the wreckage.
Sideswiping Car Cuts
Off Man's Left Foot
Waldport, Ore., Oct. S UH
When Melvin Downey of Toledo,
Ore., pulled his car off the road
five miles south of here and
went to sleep early Sunday
morning, an automobile side
swiped his car and cut off his
left foot above the ankle.
Downey was taken to Toledo
hospital. State police searched
for the driver of the other car.
350 Canvassers Open
Chest Drive on Tuesday
Three hundred and fifty Community Chest workers, all of
whom have volunteered their
Salem and the surrounding area
Annual event marking the beginning of the drive is the kick-
off breakfast, set for Tuesday
Marion hotel with the 350 vol-
unteer workers as guests.
Speaker for the breakfast is
Gov. Douglas McKay, who In
his speech will ask for general
support for the campaign, which
supplies funds for eight local
agencies in addition to the state
Chest funds. Master of cere
monies for the breakfast Is Joe
Dodd, chairman for tht local
drive.
The Salem Chest this year Is
asking for donations totaling
$105,000. Of this the state chest
needs $10,890 and $17 473 is
needed for the emergency fund
shrinkage, campaign and admin
istration expense.
Local agencies receiving
funds from the drive and their
needs are Boy Scouts. $11,895
Camp Fire Girls, $5,207; Cath-
olic Charities, $3,800; Girl
Scouts. $3,250; Legal Aid Clinic.
$300; Salvation Army, $9,000;
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Find Wreckage
Of Lost Plane
Portland, Oct. S W) The dis
covery 40 miles from Roseburg
of a demolished airplane,
with the bones of a skeleton be
side it, was reported today by a
Portlander returning from a
hunting trip.
It was apparently the single-
engined Navion which vanished
in February of 1947 as Douglas
L. Locke, 22, Arcadia, Calif.,
was flying it from Los Angeles
to Seattle.
Harry Turnbull, Portland, said
he came across an aluminum
colored Navion, bearing the li
cense number of the craft in
which Locke disappeared two
and a half years ago. Locke, fer
rying the North American Avi
ation company plane to a dealer
in Seattle, was last heard from
when he radioed the Eugene,
Ore., control tower that he was
lost A long search was unavail
ing.
The hunter who found the
wreckage said the bones ap
peared to be from either one or
two skeletons. Locke, however
had been alone in the craft.
Clark Plane
Crash Probed
Los Angeles, Oct. 3 The
civil aeronautics board was in
vestigating today whether the
plane which crashed in a busy
m i d t o w n boulevard, killing
crooner Buddy Clark, may have
been overloaded.
Five others, including Sam
Hayes, top west coast NBC news
caster, were injured in the crash
Saturday night. The plane was
returning from the Stanford
Michigan football game at Palo
Alto when its gas supply ran out.
James N. Peyton, regional
CAB chief, said: "Two -engine
Cessnas of that type usually car
ry a pilot and four , passengers
This plane was carrying five
passengers."
Hayes, 44, suffered minor in
juries. Hayes' wife, Sally, 28,
suffered leg injuries. Frank Ber
end, 56, National Broadcasting
sales executive, sustained head
injuries, and Jennings Pierce,
52, also a NBC executive, suf
fered a brain concussion. All
were reported in "satisfactory"
condition.
Clark, 38. was a top recording
and radio artist. In recent years,
he starred on his own NBC pro
gram "The Contented Hour" and
previously on the "Hit Parade."
services, will start canvassing
early Tuesday morning.
morning at 7:30 o'clock at the
Salem YWCA. $15,000, and Sa
lem YMrA, $28,183.
Members of the campaign
committee working with Doddi
are C. A. Kells, director, and!
George Alexander, Reynolds Al
len, Carl E. Aschenbrenner,
Charles A. Barclay. H. E. Bark-
er, H. L. Braden, Claire Brown, i
Frank Doerflpr, Junior Eckley,
Robert L. Elfstrom, Rex Gib-,
son, Tinkham Gilbrrt. A. C ;
Haag, Mrs. George S. Hoffman, I
Carl Hogg, Harry Johnson. R.I
M. Kelley, Gardner Knapp. Al
Loucks. T. W. Lowery, Edward
Majek, E. Burr Miller. James F
Moslof. Mrs. Conrad Paulson. W.
L. Phillips. W. L. Phillios, Jr.
Russell E. Pratt, Edward Schre
der, William R. Shinn. Francis
W. Smith, Mrs. George Spaur,
Loyal A Warnor. Robert F.
White, and Mrs. Robert W. Wil-
(son, Jr.
Strikers Picket Closed Steel Plant Striking workers picket
the main gate of U. S. Steel's Homestead Works in Pittsburgh,
Pa. They carry signs stating their demands for pensions and in
surance. Throughout the nation a half million CIO United
Steelworkers were on strike. (AP Wirephoto)
New Wage Increase
Drive Opened by AFL
St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 3 W) AFL President William Green today
served notice of a new wage increase drive and bluntly said the
AFL has no intention of being bound by President Truman's steel
fact finding board no-pay-boost recommendation for American
workers. '
In a keynote address opening
the American Federation of La
bor's annual convention, Green
said:
"We have never waived our
right to demand wage increases
for the workers of America.
And we are not going to do
it."
Pres, Truman's steel board rec
ommended against any new wage
increases for workers, atthistime
saying they would disrupt econ
omy. The board, instead, recom
mended a pension insurance
plan worth 10 cents an hour for
steel workers.
Green was heavily applauded
by the more than 600 delegates
when he said the AFL had no
fiUfaTuTTglng DoUBir By" any
government board's recom
mendations.
"We don't want government
boards," he said. "We don't ask
for government boards. We don't
accept the principle of govern
ment boards setting our wages
anywhere."
Green said the AFL is "con
stantly" seeking to boost pay
rates.
Labor must share in the earn
ings of the corporations and we
must share equitably, he said.
We're not going to give up
the right to demand an equitable
share of these earnings,
Green said that shaping plans
for an even greatpr AFL politi
cal role in next year's election
will be the primary work of the
convention.
Higher Taxes
British Threat
London, Oct. 3 UJ9 The gov
ernment today threatened the
British people with still higher
taxation if they spend instead of
save their money.
Douglas Jay, economic secre
tary of the treasury and one of
Sir Stafford Cripps top advis
ers, admitted that devaluation
had produced a real threat of
inflation and a rise in the cost of
living.
Speaking at the annual meet
ing of the Westminster local
savings committee, Jay said the
degree to which inflation could
be limited depended upon "how
far the public are willing to save
rather than spend."
'If the public's savings are not
enough," he said, "only two al
ternative methods of checking
the rise in the cost of living are
open to the government, both of
them unpleasant.
Those two ways, he said, are
higher taxes or cutting down
building programs like housing.
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page.
Nab Burglars
With $20,000
Osterville, Mass., Oct. 3 (IP)
Two pistol-brandishing robbers,
listed as from San Francisco and
Milwaukee, today roused a sleep
ing couple, looted their Cape Cod
home of $20,000 in valuables,
and fled only to be trapped at
a bridge to the. mainland, police
reported.
Donald Parsons, Jr., 30, a
Woods Hole marine biological
laboratory staff member, and his
wife, Phyllis, 28, were awakened
at 4 a.m., by the two men who
took suitcases and loaded them
with jewelry and antiques.
Without awakening the cou
ple's three young children
asleep in another part of the
house the robbers bound and
gagged the parents and locked
them in a closet.
Breaking out of the locked cu
bicle, Mr. and Mrs. Parsons noti
fied the Hyannis police. The
police swiftly threw road blocks
across the two Cape Cod canal
highway bridges at Sagamore
and Bourne, the robbers' only
means of escape from the cape.
Bourne police, at the mainland
end of the Bourne bridge, short
ly afterward halted a big car
its back scat loaded with valua
ble identified as from the Par
sons home.
They arrested the two men in
the car, who were booked as
Henry Leo Schnitzler, 21, of San
Francisco, and Gerald H. Noble,
25, of Milwaukee.
Taken to Hyannis police head
quarters, they were charged
with breaking and entering in
the night time and larceny.
Apartment Occupant
Dies by Gas Fumes
A man identified as Austin
Reed was found dead in an apart
ment at 486 N. Liberty street
early Monday afternoon from
asphyxiation caused by inhal
ing gas. Police and first aid
men who were called said the
gas appeared to have been pur
posely inhaled by the victim.
It was believed he had been
dead since Friday.
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Ten Die in B 17 Crash Only the giant tail assembly remained intact in the crash of the
B-17 air force bomber 10 miles south of Trinidad, Colo. The entire crew of 10 perished. The
four-engined bomber was on a routine training flight from Its base at Biggs field near El Paso,
Tex., to Lowry air base at Denver. Members of the Fifth air rescue squadron spotted the
wreckage. (AP Wirephoto)
fruman Drops Civil Rights
Legislation for This Session
finally broken with the nation
alist government In China to gie
the diplomatic nod to the new
Red regime there. At the same
time she accused the western al
lies of trying to split Germany
by setting up a separate govern
ment in their zones.
The recognition of communist
China was announced yesterday
note to the premier of the
Central People's government at
peiping from Soviet Deputy For
eign Minister Andrei I. Gromy
ko. I
Another Soviet note, deliver
ed to representatives of the three
big western powers in Moscow,
rapped the creation of the west
German government at Bonn. It
charged the U. S., Britain and
France had broken Big Four
agreements to try to regain po
litical and economic unity of
Germany.
Rival German Regime
Diplomatic circles here felt
the note .indicates that Russia
feels the time is ripe for the cre
ation of some kind of German
administration rivaling the
western government at Bonn
These observers said that crea
tion of such an authority in
eastern Germany would make
the western powers' position in
Berlin extremely precarious.
Four-power Berlin, lying in
eastern Germany, would almost
certainly become capital of such
a set-up, they said.
Meanwhile, Romania joined
the parade of Soviet-style "Peo
pie's democracies" in scrapping
her friendship treaty with Yugo
slavia. Poland, Bulgaria and
Hungary already have followed
the lead of Russia in denouncing
their allegiance with Premier
Marshal Tito's regime.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Argentina Cuts
Value of Pesos
Buenos Aires, Oct. 3 W) Ar
gentina today devalued her
money 46 percent in relation to
the doli.T. The effect was to
make the U.S. dollar bring 84.6
percent more pesos than it did
before for travelers and for cer
tain services. The rates for ex
ports and imports were realign
ed less drastically.
The rate was fixed at nine
pesos to the dollar, compared
with the old rate of 4.875. The
peso was devalued to 25.20 to
the British pound instead of the
old rate of 19.37.
This South American nation
also suspended all imports at
least temporarily.
The central bank put into ef
fect the reshuffled exchange
rates. It also issued a 30-page
list of items which can be im
ported but said the method of
asking for import permits will
be set up later.
The peso adjustments were
ordered Saturday by the finance
ministry In view of the devalu
ation of currencies throughout
the world touched off by Brit -
ain's cheapening of her money.
To date, 25 nations have de
valued since Britain started the
ball rolling by cutting the value
of the pound from $4.03 to $2.80
on September 18.
r h . i
Red China Premier Com
munist China formally pro
claimed itself the Chinese
People's Government with
Chou Enlai as premier at a
mammoth rally in Pekin. (Ac
me telephoto.)
Tribute Paid to
Justice Murphy
Washington, Oct. S (IP) The
supreme court opened its fall
term today with a brief session
given over chiefly to tributes to
Justices Frank Murphy and Wi
ley B. Rutlcdge who died during
the summer recess.
Chief Justice Vinson announc
ed the deaths of Murphy and
Rutledge and eulogized their life
work.
Seven justices were on the
bench. Tom C. Clark, former at
torney general, took - his place
for tffe first IllWe. Hetucceeds
Murphy. .- tv
Justice William O. Douglas,
injured yesterday in a fall from
a horse in Washington state, was
the absent member.
There is one vacancy on the
nine-member bench since the
senate has not yet confirmed
President Truman's choice of
Sherman Minton of Indiana to
succeed Rutlcdge.
Clark took his seat to the far
left of Chief Justice Vinson.
Next to him was the vacant
chair, draped in black, that Rut-
ledge used.
Clark took the oaths of office
in August in a White House ce
remony. So today all he had to
do to begin his court service was
to step up to the great mahogany
bench.
With traditional ceremony, So
licitor General Philip B. Perl
man informed the court of the
appointment of J. Howard Mc
Grath as attorney general, in
succession to Clark.
100 Families Routed
By Sulphuric Fumes
Lafayette, Ind Oct. 3 (IP)
Sulphuric acid fumes pouring
from a wrecked railroad tank
car routed 100 fnmilies from
their homes near the Purdue
university campus in West La
fayette early yesterday.
No serious injuries were re
ported. Church bells and police
sirens sounded an alarm as po
lice and firemen in gas masks
laided by volunteers, aroused
leeping residents and led them
to safety.
Families evacuated included
70 living in trailer camp for
married war veteran students at
Purdue,
FEPC Program
First on List
For January
Washington, Oct. t U.I! Pres
ident Truman agreed with his
congressional leaders today to
drop requests for civil rights
legislation at this session and
aim for consideration of a fair
employment practices bill early
in the next.
The president's decision was
disclosed by Senate Majority
Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illi
nois, after the regular Monday
legislative conference at the
White House.
Lucas said the president and
leaders of both houses had
agreed to let t he civil rights
fight go over until next session.
Lucas said it was agreed today '
that it was "very doubtful that
any prolonged discussion of civil
rights in the senate during the
remainder of this session would
be very helpful."
To Fix Adjournment
But, Lucas added, "the senate
will definitely take up on FEPC
bill early In the next session."
House Speaker Sam Rayburn
said that house democratic lead
ers will meet tomorrow with the
senate policy committee in an
effort to determine when con
gress can adjourn.
Lucas expressed the belief
that the senate could complete
the bulk of its work within two
weeks. He said he did not want
to guess on adjournment date
but thought it would come with
in two to three weeks.
Pending Legislation
The congressional leaders de
voted most of their meeting with
President Truman today to dis
cussing pending legislation and
taking stock of what they think
can be passed during the re
maining days of this session. ,
Rayburn said that if the house
gives clearance, the social secur
ity bill will be brought tomor
row or Wednesday. If there is
no immediate clearance the bill
will come up next Monday.
Lucas said he thought the final
big bill to come up for senate
action probably would be the
displaced persons measure
sometime late next week.
The democratic 81st congress
is in its 10th month and a large
part of the president's program
dead for this session. Today
marked the burial of the civil
rights legislation.
Social Security
Sent to House
Washington, Oct. 3 (IP) The
house rules committee today
sent social security expansion
legislation to the house under a
rule barring any changes.
That means the house must ac
cept the bill "as is" or turn it
down. House debate probably
will begin tomorrow. Rep.
Doughton (D-NC), head of the
ways and means committee
which drafted the measure, pre
dicted it will be approved over
whelmingly. The rules committee vote to
bar amendments was 5 to 4. One
member said five democrats
supported the rule and four re
publicans opposed. The republi
cans called the "this or nothing"
procedure a "gag'' rule.
Republicans already had ac
cused democratic leaders of a
double-cross for bringing the le
gislation up at this time.
"There was a definite under
standing," Rep. Clarence Brown
(R-Ohio) told a reporter, "that
this legislation would not be
brought up until next January."
Rep. Masor (R-Ill) also said
there was such an agreement in
the house ways and means com
mittee, which handled the so
cial security bill.
Speaker Rayburn says the de
mocratic leadership never made
any agreement to delay action
until next year.
Regardless of who is right, the
bill is on the house work sched
ule for this week. It is supposed
to come up tomorrow for its
first taste of debate.
Mrs. C. W. Rohison Dies
Portland, Oct. 3 i-P Mrs.
Charles W. Robison, HO, Port
land civic leader who had serv
ed on the slate board of educa
tion for 12 years, died early today.
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