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61st Year, No. 256 KTAISrthSS Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 27, 1949
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Price 5c
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Acute Shortage
Of Freight Cars
Hits Industry
Lumbermen and Other
Industries Hampered
In Shipments
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Freight car shortage in Salein
and the entire Willamette valley
it seriously acute.
The lumber Industry Is feel
ing the shortage most severely
Some other lines of business fcl
the cramp. Fruit r ackers have
gotten past the peak of the sea
son and manage to get cars by
watching future needs and mak
ing a fight with the railroad
companies.
Cause of the shortage can't be
clearly determined locally. But
it appears to be the larger move
ment of loaded freight cars go
ing east than coming west. And
for some reason that is a little
mysterious the empty cars of
(he Southern Pacific system fail
to return for months.
Blame Exchange System
Some shippers are inclined to
blame the SP's exchange system
with other roads. But most of
them think the SP just doesn't
have enough equipment, and
some want pressure brought to
have that road bring up its in
ventory of freight cars. The
growing Oregon country has
something to do with it, they
say. It's hard to keep up with
the demand for transportation of
commodities.
The West Salem Lumber com
pany, which turns out finished
lumber, needs a car every day.
Last week it got none. This week
so far it has had one Southern
Pacific and one Oregon Electric
car. The company produces from
35,000 to 45,000 feet a day and
its market is nation-wide.
Lumbermen Hit
The Arrow Mill & Lumber
company is getting about 25 per
cent of the cars it needs. It wants
an average of seven every five
lai,a in c nr.,, i . i- nutriiit r9 4vnm
40,000 to 50,000 feet daily to a
market all over the United
States. The company has recent
ly been sold by M. DeNeffe &
Son to Harlan Goble and Harry
Engelen of Forest Grove.
The company's main activity
is wholesaling, but it is interest
ed in milling and logging. The
normal shipment in this area,
which is from Eugene north, re
quires about 100 cars a month.
When it saw the shortage loom
ing it quit putting out orders
here and locally has been out of
the market about six weeks.
Inventory Increased
From Dallas the Willamette
Valley Lumber company reports
an inventory of from 2,500,000
to 3,000,000 feet more than us
ual because of the car shortage.
In the last six weeks it has had
only about half the cars needed.
The company faces possibility
of a shutdown, it was reported
today by Art Quirin, sales man
ager for the operations at Dal
las, Corvallis and Foster.
(Concluded on Pane 8, Column 8)
Czechs Ask French
To Leave Country
London, Oct. 27 VP) Czecho
slovakia accused two French em
bassy officials in Prague today
' prying into Czech uranium
mining and asked them to leave
the country.
A Czech note handed to the
French embassy said the two
were Georges Helliot, the
French military attache, and his
assistant secretary, Marcel Sa
labert, said a broadcast dispatch
of Ceteka, the official czecnono
vak news agency.
Uranium is used in atomic
production.
Officials of the French for
eign ministry in Paris declined to
comment pending a report from
its Prague embassy.
Ceteka quoted the Czech note
as saying the two Frenchmen or
ganized spying against Czecho
slovakia and tried to get "lmpor
tant state secrets concerning the
output of uranium ore.
Rates Ordered Cut
On Wool Shipments
Washington, Oct. 26 m In
ruling on a seven-year-old case,
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission has ordered reductions
on freight carload rates to the
east on western wool and mo
hair shipments.
The commission's investigation
of the rate case began in 1942.
The changes apply to wool and
mohair shipped "In the grease,
or before cleaning.
The reductions are due to take
effect Feb. 10. .
Tito
to Battle
'Enduringly'
Against Russia
Pledges Continued
Opposition to Kremlin
Domination
Belgrade, Oct. 27 Mi Mar
shall Tito last night promised to
fight enduringly" against Rus
sian attempts to dominate Yugo
slavia.
'We know," said Tito, "that in
this struggle we are fighting
for a great, just cause that will
have tremendous historical sig
nificance for the future and that
this is the true, correct relation
ship among the socialist states.'
Tito sounded this serious note
after a day in which a Moscow
newspaper accused him of lav
ishing diamonds on an "Ameri
can spy," named as the Yugoslav-born
Metropolitan opera so
prano Zinka Kunc Milanov.
Singer Says "It's Silly"
.The singer, interviewed over
the telephone, said the story in
the Moscow Literary Gazette
was "just silly."
Tito pledged continued oppo
sition to the Kremlin's present
policy in a speech to a visiting
group of Italians who had fought
alongside his partisans during
the last war. He declared:
'We shall fight and we shall
fight enduringly " to prevent
Yugoslavia's subjugation by
Russia.
Russia's leaders, said Tito
"are following a policy of un
conditional subjugation of small
socialist countries by a big so
cialist country."
This Tito termed a breach in
the development of relations be
tween socialist partners.
Socialism Not to Fail
The Yugoslav leader conced
ed that "socialism in the Soviet
Union will not fail" because of
the Yugoslav fight against the
Kremlin policy. .
(Concluded on Page S, Column 4)
George V. Allen
Envoy to Tito
Washington, Oct. 27 W
President Truman today named
George V. Allen ambassador to
Yugoslavia.
Allen has been an assistant
secretary of state.
His recess appointment to the
Belgrade post was announced
after the resignation of Ambas
sador Cavendish W. Cannon,
who is retiring because of ill
health.
Allen has been in charge of
the public affairs section of the
state department, which includes
the "Veice of America" and
various cultural cooperation ac
tivities. He returned today from a
meeting in London of U.S. am
bassadors to "Iron Curtain"
countries.
Japan Population Up
Tokyo, Oct. 27 W) Tokyo's
population was 5,910,701 on
Sept. 1, the metropolitan gov
ernment announced today. It
said this was an increase of
340,709 since Jan. 1.
School Officials File
Answer in Frat Case
Three identical sets of motions by three separate groups of
defendants have been launched
here in the case of Gene Lebold
24CJ and others in which it is sought to have IS students restored
to their studies at Salem high
They were removed Iron-
school on a suspension order be
cause of their alleged affiliation
with a certain secret society and
have been returned to school
for the time being under a tem
porary injunction order grant
ed against the school board and
officials by Circuit Judge Earl
T. Latourette of Oregon City
He has been assigned by the
supreme court to hear the case.
The defendants are separated
in groups in the motions filed,
Donald A. Young appearing for
school board members; R W
DeArmond for Connell C. Ward,
clerk of the board and Frank
B. Bennett, school superintend
ent, and George A. Rhoten for
Edmund A. Carletnn, principal
of the high school, and Gurnee
Flesher assistant principal and
dean of boys.
The motions seek to make the
complaint of the plaintiffs more
definite and certain as to its
allegations.
They ask that allegations be
Subs to Carry
Atomic Bombs
Pearl Harbor, Oct. 27 ff)
The navy will show Nov. 7 how
atomic bombs can be delivered
by submarines.
It will be done by launching
15,000-pound guided missiles
"loons," which could carry ato
mic warheads from the stand
ard fleet type submarine Cusk
and Carbonero.
Pacific fleet headquarters said
the "loons," 30-feet-long im
provement on the wartime Ger
man buzz bomb, will be fired by
the two undersea craft off Ha
waii. The missiles, electronically
guided by the subs, have a range
of 100 to 200 miles.
The demonstration will be a
very significant step in the ex
ploitation of sea power," said
Cmdr. John S. McCain, Jr., who
has charge of submarine guided
missile development. He added:
"The submarine, with guided
missiles, has become a siege
bombardment weapon and can
be used to deliver atom bombs.
The whole idea of using sub
marines to launch guided missiles
is a long step toward push-but-on
warfare.'-'
The navy said submarines
proved in the Hawaiian war
games concluded yesterday that
they can carry huge high-speed
long-range guided missiles across
oceans in normal undersea op
erations. For more than three years ex
periments and training has been
carried on off Point Mugu near
San Diego, Calif.
Egg Price Declines
2 to 7 Cents Dozen
Further declines in egg prices
were reported Thursday, varying
from 2 cents on top grades down
to as much as seven cents on
smaller grades. The cuts here
followed similar ones in Port
land, which market followed the
general trend over the nation,
egg markets everywhere being
in a scramble due to excess sup
plies. The buying list here Thursday
included the following quota
tions: Extra large A A, 59 cents;
large AA, 58 cents; large A, 55
59 cents; medium AA, 42 cents;
medium A, 40-46 cents; pullets,
34-36 cents.
Wholesale prices generally list
grade A at 64 cents, mediums at
51 cents.
at the complaint in circuit court
and others vs. School District
school permanently
made more definite and certain
as to the acts of the defendants
being done in "an arbitrary, ca
prlcious, officious, oppressive
and discriminatory manner " as
alleged. They also ask that cer
tain parts of the complaint be
stricken out, particularly a sub
paragraph alleging that the de
fendants were without jurisdic
tion "by virtue of the constitu
tion or of any valid law of the
state, or any valid mle or reg
ulation of the district or board
to make, adopt, enact, issue or
enforce any such order . . .'
The motion then a t k that
should the foregoing motions be
denied an order be issued re
quiring plaintiffs to show in
what respect defendants were
without jurisdiction and to show
whether it is claimed the state
law as to secret societies is in
valid and the grounds for such
claim It is also asked that the
same showing be made as to
rules or regulations of the
board.
Oahu 'Invaded' Carrying complete equipment, first wave
of U. S. Second infantry division troops hit the beach at
Pokai, leeward Oahu, to recapture the island from "enemy"
troops. "Invasion" of the island was the climax of "Opera
tion Miki," the biggest army-navy war games in the Pacific
since the end of the war. Lying on the sand in the foreground
are life preservers discarded by earlier invaders. (Acme Tele-photo)
Police Probe Charge Of
Racial Discrimination
An investigation into charges
policeman in Salem was launched
assistant chief, following receipt
owner of extensive farm and packing operations near Dayton.
The letter, which was directed to the chief as well as the
Berserk Pilot
Commits Suicide
Clearwater, Fla., Oct. 27 VP)
A 23-year-old pilot terrorized
Clearwater residents for two
hours with wild power dives in
a stolen lane, then calmly
landed and shot himself to death
today.
Police Chief George McClam
ma Identified the youth as Sam
uel W. Watkins, member of well
known Virginia family. Magis
trate R. L. Baker pronounced
the death a suicide.
Officials pieced together this
story:
Watkins telephoned a girl
friend last night about 11:30 and
told her he had decided to kill
himself. Then he hung up.
Thirty minutes later frantic
residents from virtually every
section of town called police
headquarters to report that a
plane, flying without lights, was
buzzing rooftops. Police cruisers
spotted the zooming, diving
plane and ambulances were
readied for a crash.
Watkins hurled the Piper Cub
toward the Memorial causeway
drawbridge and fishermen lin
ing the span were forced to cow
er behind concrete guard rails.
Three times the plane screamed
across, once missing the bridge
tender's shelter by inches.
Then the plane began raking
Clearwater beach.
Finally Watkins flew back to
the airport, its runways lighted
by the headlamps of police
cruisers.
He made a perfect landing, ap
plied his brakes and cut out
his run to less than 100 feet. Po
lice heard a pistol shot, closed in
and found him unconscious with
a wound in the temple, a pistol
on the cockpit floor.
No Confidence Vote
Defeated in Commons
London, Oct. 27 "PI A con
servative motion of no confi
dence in the labor government
was defeated 353 to 222 in the
house of commons tonight.
The opposition got more votes
than It ever has in any of the
eight confidence votes won by
the labor government since it
took office more than four years
ago.
Defeat on a confidence vote
would mean the resignation of
the government, followed either
by appointment of a prime min
ister from the opposition or a
general election for a new par
liament and new government.
Bids Asked Friday
On Detroit Projects
Portland, Oct. 27 Ml Bids
will be asked tomorrow by the
Portland district corps of engi
neers for projects at the Detroit
dam site.
The work Includes construc
tion of a laundry and bath house,
water and sewer systems and
electrical distribution system for
the trailer camp area at the
site.
Bids will be opened Nov. 10.
x-' " ' ' i
of racial discrimination by a city
Thursday by E. C. Charlton,
of a letter from U. S. Alderman,
Capital Journal, mayor and the
governor, cited the fact that Al-
derman farms followed the letter
of the state fair employment
law which bans discrimination
on color.
The message charged that on
last Friday a group of farm em
ployes, including two Negroes,
had waited for the paymaster
at the Alderman bus stop in Sa
lem on Commercial street be
tween Chemeketa and Court
streets.
"During this interval," the lat
ter said, "a city policeman, who
was on his beat, approached the
colored people and asked them
what they were doing on the
streets in Salem.
"When informed as to their
purpose they were told that as
soon as they had received their
money to get in their car and
get out of Salem, as their race
was not tolerated in Salem
Alderman's letter was ended
with the question of whether the
officer had spoken with author
ity for the city.
Charlton withheld all com
ment on the incident, pending a
full investigation. He said he
was seeking to question the Ne
groes or others in the Alder
man group who heard what, if
anything, had been said and ex
actly who had said it. He said
he wanted to learn If it was a
policeman who made the state
ment.
The assistant chief declined
to release the name of any of
ficer on the beat in that section
at the time the incident allegedly
took place until his identity was
positively established.
On the problem of racial dis
crimintaion, however, the as
sistant chief said that no officer
had any right to tell Negroes
they would not be tolerated in
Salem
"No officer has the right to
make such a statement of policy
for this department or for the
city but we want to know all
the facts before any conclusions
are reached," Charlton explain
ed.
The police department receiv
ed its copy of the letter Thurs
day morning at 9:15 a.m. The
assistant chief also reported he
had received assurance that ev
ery effort would be made to
have the individuals, who al
legedly heard the officer's com
ments, report to police head
quarters. Gandhi Slayers
To Hang on Nov. 15
New Delhi, India, Oct. 27 (P
The home ministry announced
today that N. V. Godse and Na
rayan Apte will be hanged Nov.
15 for the assassination of Ma
hatma Gandhi in January, lf'48.
Godse, who shot Gandhi, and
Apte were convicted of the as
sassination conspiracy and sen
tenced to death last February by
a special court in Delhi's Red
Fort.
Five other convicted conspir
ators were sentenced to life Im
prisonment. One defendant was
acquitted.
Truman Rejects!
Intervention in
Major Strikes
President Says No
National Emergency
Warrants Action Now
Washington, Oct. 27 W Pres
ident Truman said today no na
tional emergency yet exists in
cither the coal or the steel
strikes to warrant his interven
tion now.
He said he will not hesitate
to use the emergency provisions
of the Taft-Hartley act if such
an emergency does develop.
Reporters asked him at h i s
news conference if he planned to
invoke the national emergency
provisions of the Taft - Hartley
act to bring the steel and coal
strikes to a halt.
Refuses Committal
He replied that he will cross
that bridge when he comes to it
and added there is no national
emergency yet.
The president also rejected a
suggestion that the fact-finding
board which functioned in the
steel strike be reconvened for
further recommendations.
He said that board has done
its job and added that no other
board is to be appointed.
Later, however, when he was
asked if he might use the Taft
Hartley act to help to set up a
fact-finding board in each of the
cases, he said that the law will
be complied with when the time
comes but the time had not come.
No Deadline on Mediation
Earlier the White House said
Mr. Truman has set no deadline
on mediation efforts in the stop
pages.
Mr. Truman couldn't recall us
ing the Taft-Hartley act before
until a reporter suggested
he
had done so to halt
one coal
strike called by John L. Lewis.
A Long Way Off
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 6)
Record Prices
Beef on Hoof
Chicago, Oct. 27 m Beef on
the hoof is selling today at near
record prices in the union stock
yards.
But don't let that worry you.
You aren't going to find that beef
your butcher shop with a
near-record price tag. In fact,
you aren't going to find it
there.
The top 1949 price for cattle,
paid yesterday, was $41.50 a
hundred pounds for prime steers.
That will cut out to prime
meat. It's the kind which is sold
directly to "name" restaurants,
clubs and hotels. It doesn't get
into the butcher shop.
"People who will buy those
steaks won't care much whether
the price is $3.00 or $5.00," one
livestock commission man said.
'There's always a steady de
mand for beef from those res
taurants, regardless of price."
In the past two weeks prices
for prime cattle have skyrocket
ed. The price is now only 10
cents a hundred pounds under
the all-time peak made in Sep
tember of last year. If that peak
to be scaled, livestock men
think it will have to be done
before the livestock show starts
Nov. 26.
After the show, the present
extreme scarcity of prime beef
will hove lessened.
Pineapples Unloaded
By Non-Union Crew
The Dalles. Ore., Oct. 27 (U.R Protected by lhcriff's deputies
carrying shotguns, a crew of 16 townspeople today began un
loading Hawaiian pineapple from the barge "Honolulu" after a
CIO Longshore picket line was broken up by a temporary antl
nirlcrtina order. '
A squad of a dozen regular
and special deputies took up po
titions at the entrance to The
Dalles dock as unloading oper
ations of the once "hot" pine
apple cargo was resumed for
the first time since an outbreak
of picketing violence Sept. 28.
The amateur longshoremen,
mostly local cowhands and farm
workers, moved onto the dock at
9 a.m. after CIO pickets were
served with copies of a restrain
ing order issued by Wasco coun
ty Circuit Judge Malcolm W.
Wilkinson.
Using a sling lift, the crew
began lifting cases of pineapple
tidbits off the barge preparatory
to loading them aboard three
empty freight cars at the dock
siding.
Disbanding of the picket line,
even on temporary basis, left
lML
Above Admiral Louis E.
Denfield, purged by President
Truman, below, Admiral Forrest
P. Sherman, his reported suc
cessor. CIO to Expel
Left Wingers
Cleveland, Oct. 27 VP) The
CIO's confident right-wing ma-
iority planned today to expel at
least three or maybe all 12
unions wnose leaders nave
shown pro-communist sympathy,
A resolutions committee under
the United Auto Workers' head,
Walter P. Reuthcr, stood ready
to fight it out on the floor of
next week s convention if neces
sary. It is determined to oust the
three unions most critical of
Philip Murray's leadership: The
United Electrical Workers, with
nearly 400,000 members, the
Farm Equipment Workers with
50,000, and the Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers numbering
around 100,000.
The plan of action decided
upon by the powerful right-wing
faction but subject to plenty of
pressure before it can be put
into effect calls for kicking out
the three unions next Wednes
day. Charters of the three would be
challenged on the floor. First
resolutions will be offered Tues
day. Industrial Payrolls
Show Slight Decline
Oregon's industrial payroll
which includes firms covered by
the state industrial accident
commission, slumped during
September.
The September total was $57,
492,751. That was $7,000,000
less than in August, and $4,
000,000 less than in September.
1948.
The payroll in Multnomah
county was $20,384,808, or $4,
500,000 less than in August. It
wa- down $2,000,000 from Sep
tember, 1948.
the way open for hauling the
pineapple out by rail and truck
to the freight cocktail cannery
in San Jose, Cal to which it
was consigned several months
ago.
The pineapple was canned in
Hawaii and loaded there by
non-union labor at the height of
the International Longshore
men's & Warehousemen's union
strike against Hawaiian steve
doring companies.
Declared "hot" by union
longshoremen, the pineapple
was towed first to Puget Sound
ports and later to this Columbia
river port, 200 miles upstream.
The Dalles port commission
stopped attempts to unload the
barge Sept. 28 to prevent fur
ther "bloodshed" after six men
were injured in a picket line
me Ice.
Truman Ousts
a m
uenrem rrom
Navy Chief Post
"Act-inn for Good of
The Country" Sher- !
man Likely Successor
Washington, Oct. 27 W) Pres- '
ident Truman today lifted Ad- ,
miral Louis E. Denfeld from his
post as chief of naval opera
tions. Mr. Truman announced to a
news conference that he was
acting on the advice of Secretary
of the Navy Matthews that "for
the good of the country" Den
feld shnnlH h trnnsfprreri "tn
other duties."
Washington has been buzzing
with reports that Denfeld would
be ousted since the chief of na
val operations delivered a bitter
criticism of present military
policies to the house armed serv
ices committee on Oct. 13.
There have been reports that
he will be succeeded by Vice
Admiral Forrest Sherman.
Silent on Successor
President Truman declined to
say whether Sherman will get
the post. He said he did not
know what duties would be as
signed to Denfeld.
The official word that Den
feld was being removed came
atop announcement that the navy
and marine corps must make
a 56,200-man cut and admid in
dications that a storm was blow
ing up on Capitol Hill over Den
feld's case.
Rep. Arends (D-, 111.), saying
he had heard Denfeld would be
asked to resign, had protested
even before Mr. Truman's an
nouncement. Arends demanded in a state
ment that the committee con
vene to meet this "insult to
congress." He said the commit
tee had promised Denfeld and
other critics of present military
policies mat they could speak
their minds freely without fear
of retaliation.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
McNary Field
Airways Patched
Work of patching the taxi-
ways at McNary field was be
gun Thursday morning by the
Warren-Northwest, Inc., paving
company.
Unable to start the patching
sooner because of other work
and the damp weather, the com
pany was Thursday drying the
holes in the taxiways with
torches before filling them.
At the same time CAA men
here from Seattle were prepar
ing to erect the buildings to the
south of the airport where will
be housed the instruments for
the H-facility, Airport Manager
Charles Barclay reported.
Other work recently done at
the airport included the survey
ing of the drainage system at
the airport by engineers, clean
ing of culverts, burning of grass
in drainage ditches and the deep
ening of the ditches. Ditches
along the roao were also cleaned
and deepened. Fairview home
has plowed the area leased to
it and was sewing oats there.
In telling of the work that
has been done at the airport,
Barclay drew attention to the
fact there is an area of about
200 by 100 feet along the rail
road spur that the city would
rent to firms, who wanted to
erect buildings and use the rail
road spur.
City Officials Probe
Drainage Conditions
In rough garb, including rub
ber boots. City Manager J. L.
Franzen, City Attorney Chris J.
Kowitz, Engineer J. H. Davis
nd one or two other officials
were investigating the norm
part of the city Thursday where
drainage is demanded.
A meeting of residents of that
part of the city with the offi
cials is to be held Thursday
night at City hall, and Saturday
morning an outdoor meeting
with residents along Portland
road where lack of drainage
caused serious trouble last year.
With emergency measures be
ing taken by the city it is be
lieved much of the trouble can
be avoided this winter, es
pecially if weather is favorable.
Trouble last year was caused by
heavy rains Immediately follow
ing a cold snap that froze tho
ground to a depth of several inches.