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61st Year, No. 251
Salem, Oregon, Friday, October 21, .1
(18 Pages)
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Capital 'jk
Top U.S. Reds
Sentenced by
Judge Medina
Ten Get 5 Years Pri
son, One 3 Years, All
$10,000 Fines
New York, Oct. 21 UR The
11 top leaders of the American
communist party were sentenc
ed to prison today for conspir
ing to teach and advocate the
overthrow of the United States
government by force and vio
lence. Ten were sentenced to
five years imprisonment and a
$10,000 fine. R. G. Thompson got
three years imprisonment and a
$10,00 fine.
Identical sentences were
handed down against Eugene
Dennis, the party's general sec
retary: John Gates, editor-in-
chief of the Daily Worker, party
paper; New York City Council
man Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.;
Jack Satcher, national educa
tional director; Henry Winston,
national organizational secre-
tary; John Williamson, labor
secretary; Gilbert Green, Illi
nois chairman; Carl Winter,
Michigan chairman; Gus Hall,
Ohio chairman, and Irving Pot
ash, vice president of the Inter
national Fur and Leather work
ers and a member of the party's
national board.
Two of Politbureau Free
The conviction and sentencing
riddled the communists' high
command. Of the 13-member
national board, only two mem-
ors remained free. They were
aMlliam Z. roster, national
?-iirman who was too ill to
id trial on the same charge,
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn who
f"V named to the board after
-vo other 12 were indicted by a
NeW York grand Jury.
Medina told U.S. Attorney
John F. X. McGohey that he
was giving "the most careful at
tention" to the fact that Thomp
son received the Distinguished
Service Cross for his heroic ac
tion in leading a patrol of the
32nd infantry division during
the Buna campaign in New
Guinea.
Individual Sentences
Medina pronounced sentence
on each of the 11 individually,
beginning two hours after the
court session began.
The judge directed the 11 to
stand at their chairs at the left
of the bench and called each of
them by name as he pronounced
sentence.
Behind each defendant was a
U.S. marshal.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column ()
Everson Jailed
For Firearms
Clifford M. Everson, an ex
convict employed with the Sa
lem Merchant Patrol business
protection service, was ordered
held in Marion county jail Fri
day in lieu of $1000 bail pend
ing a hearing on charges of il
legal possession of firearms.
Everson was taken to dis
trict court in the morning, but
asked for a 24-hour period to
study the charge against him,
The charge accused him of a
fjnnv fllo-nl niMOainn nf a
firearm capable of being con
cealed upon the person.
The charge was based on a
law making it Illegal for ex
convicts to carry such weapons.
A conviction carries with it a
one to five year penitentiary
sentence. )
Everson was arrested in 1032,
but paroled. On a forgery con
viction In 1933, he served four
months at the Oregon State pen
itentiary. The arrest came last night
while Everson was on patrol for
the protection service operated
by Harley V. Cordray, the for
mer Salem police officer and ex
convict from Illinois, who was
arrested Thursday on charges
of promoting a lottery tied up
with slot machines.
Cordray posted $1000 ball
and was free pending further
action of Marion county cir
cuit court.
Pickets Hold-up Payroll
Pittsburgh, Oct. 21 (M Strik
ing CIO United Steelworkers
today refused to let non-union
workers cross picket lines to
collect pay at the Jones 'nd
Laughlin Steel corporation
Some joined the union so they
could get through. No disorder
developed.
Teachers of 5
Counties to
Meet Monday
Instructors from Ben
ton, Lincoln, Polk, Linn
And Marion to Confer
By DON UPJOHN
County Superintendent Mrs.
Agnes Booth Friday announced
plans for a high school confer
ence for teachers of five counties
to be held in Salem next Monday
and Tuesday at Salem high
school with teachers here from
Benton, Lincoln, Polk, Linn and
Marion counties.
On the same days at Leslie
Junior high school an elementa
ry teachers' conference will be
held for elementary teachers of
Marion county only.
At the opening session of the
big five county teachers' confer
ence guest speaker for the morn
ing will be Governor Douglas
McKay. Greetings will be ex
tended from Rex Putnam, state
superintendent of schools, and
invocation will be by Rev. Ches
ter W. Hamblin of the First
Presbyterian church. The bal
ance of the morning and after
noon will be given over to de
partmental meetings while that
evening has been designated as
"fun night with square dancing
and games and an orchestra pro
vided. Departmental Meetings
Tuesday morning's program is
made up of departmental meet
ings. In the afternoon F. A.
Carleton will open the discussion
followed by greetings from Cecil
Posey, executive secretary. This
will be followed by a panel on
private industry and the conser
vation program with Charles A.
Sprague acting as moderator.
Panel members will be Walter
DeLong, director of public in
formation for Weyerhauser Lum
ber company, and Art King, soil
conservationist for Oregon State
extension service.
(Concluded on P-cr .1, Column. 5)
Truman Quoted
On Big Strikes
Washington, Oct. 21 W The
White House refused today to
affirm or deny reports that Pres
ident Truman said there is "no
sense" to the steel and coal
strikes.
Mr. Truman reportedly made
the statement in an off-the-rec-
ord talk to a group of 200 indus
trialists at a hotel here last
night.
He also was reported to have
told the businessmen there was
something wrong" with them if
they didn't sit down with their
employes and work out their
problems. He was quoted as
saying labor' has equal respon
sibility with management in set
tling the coal and steel strikes.
Press Secretary Charles G
Ross was informed of second
hand quotation but declined to
say whether it was correct. Ross
did say he had seen a steno
graphic transcript of the presi
dent's impromptu remarks.
He said he is not making pub
lic the transcript because the
president spoke off the record
and announced he was oins so
at the start and close of the talk
Ross said he understood the
dinner was arranged by Ward
Canaday, chairman of the board
of Willys-Overland.
A printed program carrieu
about 200 names of industrial
executives, including many it'
company officials.
Holding up Pearson 's
Bill Hit by Neuberger
Pendleton, Oct. 21 State Senator Richard Neuberger
charged today that i. s "a prime act of political hypocrisy" for
the secretary of states office to question a $160 state printing
bill run up State Treasurer Walter Pearson, "for so-called per
sonal advertising."
(It was Gov. Douglas McKay,
not Secretary of State Earl New
bry. who refused yesterday to
approve Pearson's printing bill.
Newbry assistant, William t.
Healy, said he thought it looked
like a political campaign state
ment, and predicted that New
bry out of town at the time
would not approve It, either
(The governor and Newbry
are republicans; Pearson and
Neuberger are democrats)
"I don't approve what Pear
son did," said Neuberger "but
Newbry has turned the licensing
of motor vehicles into a personal
publicity agency for distribution
of hii own name."
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Deadlock in.
Both Big Strikes
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Coal operators walked out on
contract talks with the United
Mine workers Friday. But there
was a flicker of hope that a
break may come in the steel
strike.
Northern and western mine
operators left White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va., where negotia
tions designed to end the live
weeks old coal strike, were be-
ing held.
They accused John L. Lewis
of being willing "to destroy" "ie
coal industry "in his mad race
for power. They said they
would meet with union leaders
again when the union leaders
show they are ready "to con
sider our employes and the in
dustry." The situation in the costly, 21-
day steel strike, says Cyrus S.
Ching. federal mediation chief.
is not hopeless."
But, Ching said in a state
ment in New York last night
after conferences with U. S.
Steel corporation officials, "we
do not want to create the im
pression that there is a basis for
optimism."
Ching's hint of hope, coupled
with a warning against optim
ism, followed earlier comment
by President Truman that he
has no present plans for inter
vening in either the steel or coal
strikes or for seizing either in
dustry. Ching's statement came as the
continuing steel - coal tieups
choked off much of the nation s
industrial activity and made idle
more than a million workers.
Troops Escape
Hong Kong. Oct. 21 U-
More than 50,000 nationalist
troops from Canton and Kwang
tune province escaped by the
West river in the last days be
fore Canton's fall and now are
heading for Hainin islands, pn
vate reports said today.
The troops are commanded by
Gen. Yu Han-Mour, who advised
his family by telephone that he
was seeking sanctuary on Hain
an, of the southwest China coast.
Forces under Gen. Pai Chung
Hsi, which have dwindled from
300,00 to 200,00 men because of
disaffection over failure to re
ceive pay, were reported re
treating through southwest
China toward the Indo-China
border.
All communications with
Swatow, southern coast port eva
cuated by the -nationalists, have
been cut.
Neuberger. here to address the
Pendleton Woman's club, also
said that the official seal of Ore
gon, embossed on gold paper, is
sent all over the state like con
fettl with Newbry's name signed
to it." The senator said that the
state printing office foots the
bill.
"Let's take all the names off
the state literature, not just
Pearson's," he said. "Very few
states permit the auto license
bureau to be turned into per
sonal promotion agency."
Neuberger had a bill in the
1949 legislature to take all
names of individuals off official
state literature, but it was de
feated in the senate.
Vishinskv Protests Russia's
raises his hand to voice his protest during voting at United
Nations general assembly at New York, which gave Yugo
slavia seat on security council. Yugoslavia's United Nations
delegate Edvard Kardelj (arrow) listens to proceedings. At
extreme left taking his seat is British chief delegate Sir Alex
ander Cadogan. (AP Wirephoto)
Unemployment Claims
Near Top 1949 Levels
By JAMES D. OLSON
Unemployment claims increased by 3,500 in the two weeks
preceding mid-October to approach 25,000 a week, according to a
labor report issued Friday by the state unemployment commis
sion. Employment was maintained at near the top 1949 level through
''recent weeks, but seasonal de
Mayer Fails to
Form Cabinet
Paris, Oct. 21 M" Premier
Rene Mayer today was almost
hopelessly stalled, informed po
litical observers said, in his ef
forts to form a new French
coalition cabinet.
Hesitancy of the socialists to
enter his government was re
ported the stumbling block for
the radical socialist whom the
national assembly last night ap
proved for the premiership by
a vote of 341 to 183.
The possibility loomed, that
the only way out of France's po
litical crisis, now 15 days old,
might be the dissolving of par
liament followed by a general
election.
The socialist group in parlia
ment debated all morning with
out agreeing whether to go into
Mayer's cabinet. There was talk
the socialists might summon a
national congress Sunday to
reach a decision.
Forecast tor
Warmer Spell
m th An.ntlatro Prrxat
Temperatures dipped slightly
lower again early today in east
ern Oregon but the weather bur
eau reported western Oregon
was generally warmer than yes
terday. La Grande, where a $100,000
apple crop is still to be harvest
ed, reported a low of 18 degrees
compared with 26 yesterday. Ba
ker had 24 compared with 27;
Lakcvicw 22 compared with 22,
and Redmond 21 compared with
24. The Dalles reported 33, down
three degrees from yesterday.
The mid-Willamette valley was
the exception to the generally
warmer western Oregon region.
The mercury touched 28 at Sa
lem two degrees below yester
day's minimum. Elsewhere, to
day s low temperatures were two
to five degrees above Thursday.
Klamath Falls had 24, Roscburg
30, Eugene 26, Medford 27, North
Bend 34. Portland 30.
Central Oregon potato grow
ers were concerned about spuds
still in the ground. At Prine-
ville, grower reports indicated
some of the crop may have been
damaged by the early season below-freezing
snap.
General Electric
Behind with Orders
Schenectady, N.Y., Oct. 21 (Pi
General Electric company pro
duction can't keep up with cur
rent consumer demand, GE pre
aident Charles E. Wilson re
ports.
Wilson said yesterday In a re
port to stockholders that trre
spective of the steel strike "wc
will be unable to meet all pro
duction requirements for the
balance of the year."
He reported a five percent In
crease in net sales for the first
nine months of the year. The
total was SI. 190. 372. 040 com
pared with SI, 137,935,052 farwsttcr for the Justice depart
me same perioa msi i
Andrei Y. Vishinsky (left)
clines in lumbering and food
harvesting and processing be
gan early in the month, the re
port stated.
Local offices reported 36,000
qualified workers without jobs
on October 1, a figure 21,000
higher than the unemployed a
year ago. Placements for the
month were slightly higher with
jobs found for 7,505 persons in
trade, service and industry and
15,523 in agriculture.
Only 1,583 were placed in
construction and lumbering
however, as compared with 2,952
during September, 1948, and
only 88 jobs in these industries
remained unfilled at the end of
the month, the report said.
On the basis of reports cov
ering 1,000 representative estab
lishments, the number of non
agriculture jobs as of Septem
ber 15 was estimated at 433,500,
almost the same as in August
but 16,400 under a year ago. ,
Lumber and logging opera
tions occupied nearly 77,000 per
sons for most of the past two
months about 14,000 below the
1948 all-time peak for Oregon's
main industry.
Construction with 25,600
workers was also about 15 per
cent below last year's top, but
other industries and most trade
and service groups reported as
many or slightly more employes
than a year ago.
Most of the early October in
creases in unemployment claims,
the report said, came from west
ern Oregon, where seasonal lay
offs in food processing and lum
bcr were held responsible. In the
two weeks preceding mid-October,
the report said that initial
claims from Salem, Eugene, As
toria, Roscburg and Medford
had more than doubled, while
over-all increases of from 10 to
70 per cent were reported by
nearly every office west of the
Cascades.
Leftist Union
Files TH Oaths
Washington, Oct. 21 M"i The
left-wing United Electrical
Workers, biggest CIO holdout
against Taft-Hartley act rules,
gave in today and filed non-communist
oaths from its officers.
The affidavits arc required by
the labor law before a union can
have access to national labor re
lations board machinery for
such things as collective bar
gaining elections. They must
state that the union officer are
not communists and are not sym
pathetic to communism.
The U.E. has been described
in hearings of the house un
American activities committee
as a hotbed of communist activ
ity.
Officers who submitted the
anti-Red oaths Included Presi
dent Albert J. Fitzgerald, Sec-rctary-Treaurer
Julius Emspak
and Director of Organization
James J. Matlcs. The 10 vice
presidents also signed.
The NLRB bis no discretion
about accepting the affidavits
The authenticity of the oaths Is
iiucin iv nicva v.
Johnson Hits Hard at Critics
Of Strategic Defense Plans
Secrecy Veil
Screens Visit of
Chinese Reds
Washington, Oct. 21
Senators nave clamped a secrecy
lid on a state department mem
orandum discussing reports that
seven representatives of the Chi
nese government arrived in the
United States last August.
The existence of the document
came to light today in the print
ed report of hearings held by
the senate appropriations com
mittee on the foreign arms pro
gram.
The report shows that Senator
Knowland (R-. Calif.) told Un
dersccretary of the State Webb,
who was testifying behind clos
ed doors:
Seven from North China
"I have been informed on
what I believe to be reliable au
thority that then are seven rep
resentatives of the North China
communist government that
came into this country by way
of Honolulu on or after August
25. . . .
"I would like to know, first,
if that is a fact; and second, if
they are in this country, what
kind of passports they have
traveled on, . . ; and whether
their passports or visas in this
country had the approval of the
state department."
Webb, according to the print
ed hearings, said he would furn
ish the information.
Not on Record
Chairman McKellar (D.,
Tcnn.) remarked that it would
be made a part of the record
But the record released today
contains only a parenthetical
sentence: "This information has
been supplied to the committee."
Opposition to
Higher Taxes
WashinRton, Oct. 21 P) Cap
itol Hill fired back at President
Truman's talk of a tax increase
today with counter proposals to
slash government spending in
stead. Another popular suggestion on
how to make the government's
ends meet was:
By tax adjustments and oth
cr incentives, encourage a bil
lowing industrial and business
economy with sights set on a
$300,000,000,000 national in
come. That, it is figured, would
yield adequate revenue with
out hikes in tax rates to sup
port federal, state and local
governments. National income
now is at the rate of about $217,
000.000,000. House Republican Leader
Martin of Massachusetts, issued
a statement saying the president
wants more taxes to put "his
socialist schemes over on the
American people."
"The American economy," he
declared, "is so shaky now that
an increase in the tax burden
might easily lead to a depression
with millions ou of jobs."
'Unification Can Work' Army Chief of Stuff Gen. J. Law
ton Collins (lrf) listens intently as Grn. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, former army chief of staff, tolls the house armed
services committee In Washington that he believes unification
can work. He said differences of opinion were bound to oc
cur and that "We're expecting perfection too quickly." Gen.
Collins also testified, staling that he wanted In dispel any
fears that there was an "overall pint" between the army and
air force to "eliminate or drastically reduce the efiectiveness
of both the Marine corps and the fleet air arm." (Acme Tele-photo)
t
Sheriff 'Mike' Elliott
Portland Votes
On Recall of
Sheriff Elliott
Portland. Oct. 21 M"i Port
land and the rest of Multnomah
county voted today in a special
election on whether to recall
Sheriff Marion LeRoy (Mike)
Elliott.
James W. Gleason, elections
registrar, predicted 50 per cent
of the registered voters would
cast ballots, a heavier number
than normal in special elections.
Pineapples
Still Unloaded
The Dalles, Ore., Oct. 21 Wl
A carload of Hawaiian pineapple
waited on a spur track today
and there was no hint when or
whether it would be moved past
picketing CIO longshoremen.
The car was loaded with 49
tons of canned pineapple, destin
ed for a San Jose, Calif., can
nery, yesterday. Railroad offi
cials said necessary paper work
preliminary to moving it was
not completed yesterday. Long
shoremen, however, were bank
ing on rail crews refusing to
cross their picket line.
Three pickets lounged at the
port entrance today and two sat
in a car near the spur track
leading to the tcrmnial.
Longshoremen say the pine
apple was loaded in Hawaii in
defiance of a longshore strike
there, since settled. An effort
to unload it last month ended
in rioting.
Only that which was unload
ed before the fight broke out
was put in the boxcar. The rest
some 2,640 tons still is in the
barge.
A representative of Isleways,
Ltd., the cargo owner, said yes
terday the company still plans
to unload the barge, but has not
decided how or when. The port
commission say the company
must hire its own stevedores if
it wants to do the work.
l - . Y
Plans Adopted
Represent All
Arms Branches
Washington, Oct. 21 M Sec
retary of Defense Louis Johnson
said today his direction of tha
military establishment is tim
ed to keep world peace and get
taxpayers 100 cents worth of de
fense for every dollar spent
The big, balding cabinet of
ficer cracked back hard from the
witness chair of the house arm
ed services committee at critics
of his department and its poli
cies.
The navy men who have at
tacked strategic policies, he as
serted, have built their case on
'straw men" and "false ru
mors." '
In truth, Johnson said, the
department has an "emergency
war plan" that calls for utmost
use of all the services and does
n't resemble at all the picture
painted by some admirals.
Climactic Witness
Furthermore, Johnson said,
the congress members might be
surprised to learn, in view of all
the hullabaloo, that the plan was
approved unanimously by the
joint chiefs of staff represent
ing all the services.
Johnson was the climactic
witness in the wind-up of the
house group's airing of the bit
ter row in the armed services.
On the final day of the two
weeks of hearings it also heard
former President Herbert Hoov
er and Gen. George C. Marshall,
war-time army chief of staff and
former secretary of state.
Hoover called for "peace with
in the armed services." Marshall
said money was "at the root" of
all the squabbling. The difficul
ty, Marshall said, is that none of
the services can have all the
money they think they need.
(Concluded on Pate 5, Column T(
Johnson Fired
Sec. Sullivan
Washington, Oct. 21 VP) Sec
retary of Defense Louis John
son said today he asked for the
resignation of John L. Sullivan
as secretary of the navy because
Sullivan did not believe in armed
services unification.
Sullivan resigned last March
25 with a blast charging John
son with halting construction of
a proposed navy super aircraft
carrier without even consulting
Sullivan.
Johnson gave his account of
Sullivan's leaving to the house
armed services committee. He
did so after Rep. Short (R., Mo.)
had remarked that Johnson's sto
ry of the carrier cancellation var
ied from Sullivan's. Johnson was
uuiuic iiic buiiiiiuiicc icauijiiia
on bickering in the armed serv
ices.
"I have kept my mouth shut
about Mr Sullivan's resignation.
And Mr. Chairman, neither you
nor anyone else has ever heard
me say any unkind word about
him.
"Mr. Sullivan was not for uni
fication and would not support
unification.
"He submitted his letter of re
signation to the president on
March 25 or a day or two before
I was sworn in (as secretary of
defense), because I told h I m
there was no room on my team
on the civilian side of the de
fense establishment for any per
son who is not enthusiastically
for unification. "
Police at Monmouth
Active During Month
Monmouth Police depart
ment, city of Monmouth, report
for September, is as follows:
Number of arrests, 64; speeding,
13; no operator license, 6; park
ing violations, 4; blocking traf
fic, 6; no tail light on car, 3;
total traffic violations, 53. L.
M. Boyer nf Willamina was ar
rested for drunken driving; Ber
nard J. McHugh of Portland
was arrested for reckless driv
ing. Two arrests were for being
drunk on streets In car. Melvin
Keith Ross and Robert R. Wln
kleback, both also of Salem. To
tal fines collected during the-
month, $387.50.
Doris Not to Re-wed
New York, Oct. 21 (
Duke, the tobacco heic
today that she didn t j
marry Porfiro Ruh
inican republican
tache.