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6 1st Year, No. 258 SSSfJ'SSS Salem, Oregon, Saturday, October 2
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Ching Breaks
Off Conference
With U.S. Steel
Strike Settlement
Abandoned Plant
Seizure Studied
(By Cnltrd Prpmi
Cyrus S. Ching, chief federal
labor mediator, broke off con
ferences with U. S. Steel today
and Attorney General J. How
ard McGrath revealed he is stu
dying whether President Tru
man has power to seize the
struck coal mines and steel mills.
Hardship and suffering threat
ened to spread across the nation
as result of the twin walkouts.
A railroad union official warn
ed that coal-burning roads would
be forced to cut operations an
other 25 per cent, as they did
Tuesday, unless the coal strike
it settled soon. W. P. Kennedy,
president of the Trainmen's
Brotherhood, said 50,000 of his
225,000 members were idled by
the strikes.
Miners Getting Hungry
Thomas A. Lewis, a Kentucky
state agriculture department of
ficial, said about 70 per cent of
Kentucky's 55,000 coal miners
were "getting hungry." In one
county alone, 1,500 families were
reported in "destitute circum
stances," he said.
At Washington, the labor de
partment reported that the steel
and coal strikes had created the
highest level of unemployment
since the middle of July. A total
of 236,00 new claims for unem
ployment compensation was re
ceived last week and the total
.claims for the week rose to 1,
3(1.800. "the bureau of labor statistics
said unemployment caused by
strikes was higher in Septem
ber than at any time since the
month. The total of 510,000 strik
ers did not include the 500,000
CIO steel workers who walked
out on October 1.
Presidential Seizure '
McGrath's statement that he
was studying the president s
rights of seizure came on a Mu
tual Broadcasting system pro
gram. He said he was studying
whether Mr. Truman could seize
the mines and mills but did not
reveal whether he had reached
a conclusion or submitted one
to the president.
(Concluded on Pate 5. Column 8)
2 Youths Admit
Robbery Guilt
Art Rusie and Dale Polston,
both 19, pleaded guilty Satur
day before Judge George R.
Duncan to assisting in the arm
ed robbery of William L. Gra
n's South 12th street grocery
on September 20 with Joseph
Mainella and a pre-sentence in
vestigation by the parole board
was ordered for the youths. The
trio took $75 from Graen. The
two boyi were captured at Gre
sham by state police and Main
ella was picked up in Portland.
Mainella already had pleaded
guilty and he too is under pre
sentence investigation.
Otto Skopil, Jr., appearing for
the lads, said one of them is son
of a captain in the Seattle fire
department.
, Willard Pollard and Percy
- McCarthy, lads from the north
f end of the county and both un
der 20, were granted a hearing
for parole with a number of wit
nesses, including pastors from
two Woodburn churches, testi
fied as to the reformation of the
lads since they stole a cow and
iome tools for which they were
indicted. Chris Kowitz appear
td as their attorney.
They pleaded guilty previous
ly to stealing a cow belonging
to Mary Karvelis and also some
tools belonging to George B.
Hanley. Restitution had been
made by the parents in both cas
es. Based on testimony developed
t the hearing Judge Duncan sus
pended sentence In both cases
and placed the defendants on
probation for three years under
supervision of the parole board.
The boys are to make restitu
tion to the parents for the mon-
ey they spent in repayment for
the loot taken. And the court
imposed the further condition
each of the lads is to dispose of
his automobile and not drive a
car during the period of proba
tion unless with the special ap
proval of the parole board.
Immunization Clinics
Portland, Oct. 29 iP Immu
nization clinics against diphther
ia, whooping cough, and small
pox will open throughout Port
land Nov. 1. The clinics, direct
d by the city health bureau
will b for youngsters.
Murray Ready
For CIO Purge
Of Red Groups
To Tell Convention
There Is No Room for
Pro-Communists
Cleveland, Oct. 29 W) CIO
President Philip Murray Indicat
ed today he was ready to rid
his labor union federation of all
pro-communist groups.
Murray said so in a report pre
pared for the annual convention
opening here Monday.
He used the most vigorous lan
guage in CIO record to describe
his feeling toward communist
and pro-communist unions in the
CIO.
The CIO leader was reported
ready to tell the 11th annual con
vention there is no room in his
organization for pro-communist
unions.
He -also was said to have de
scribed the left-wing anti-Murray
program as one of destruc
tion. To Disaffiliate
"The CIO wants none of the
communist program," Murray
aides said the president's report
would declare.
Persons in position to know
said Murray would tell the con
vention: "We chartered the un
ions, and we can disaffiliate
them."
Murray and other top CIO
leaders have threatened to toss
all left-wingers off the powerful
executive board.
They also have laid plans to
throw at least three unions led
by leftists out of the organiza
tion. The left-wing unions
scheduled to get the boot are
the United Electrical Workers,
the Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers, and the Farm Equip
ment Workers. The three have
combined membership of
about a half million.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 8)
Reds Accuse
Mukden Consul
San Francisco, Oct. 29 tfP)
The Chinese communists today
accused U. S. Consul General
Angus Ward and other members
of the Mukden consulate of bru
tally beating a Chinese workman
and declared they must answer
to a communist "people's courc "
Ward and his staff of nine
have been virtual prisoners since
the communists captured Muk
den last November.
The state department last
May ordered him to close the
consulate, and he has been able
to acknowledge the order but
has been unable to get transpor
tation. The charges today were aired
by the communist radio in Pei
ping and heard in San Francis
co by the Associated Press.
The broadcast said he beat
ing occurred Oct. 10 and that
the man beaten was a Chinese
employe. Besides Ward, it nam
ed as participants "R. Rehberg,"
an Italian, "F. Ciogna," a Japan
ese - American Shiro Yatsumi,
and "A. Krista," not otherwise
identified.
Rehberg is Ralph C. Rehberg.
a consular clerk from Rochester,
N. Y.
Printers Found Guilty
Of Violating Labor Law
Washington, Oct. 29 W) The International Typographical
Union today weighed whether to appeal for its defeat in the
first major newspaper case under the Taft-Hartley act.
The national labor relations board yesterday found the AFL
Printer's Union guilty of violating the labor law. The board held
that the ITU tried to force on
publishers the outlawed closed
shop, through "continuing
threat to strike."
Two unanimous decisions were
handed down. In each, the
NLRB directed the union to stop
trying to compel employers to
"discriminate" against any em
ployes. One case arose from its 22-
mnnth strike asainst Chicago
, Newspapers, settled last month
The other, In which ITU was
held guilty of unfair labor prac
tices, was filed by the American
Newspaper Publishers associa
tion, in behalf of its 800 mem
bers. The broad pattern of the de
cisions, board officials said, may
be expected to guide the NLRB
in other pending cases involving
at least one newspaper and
roups of commercial printers
in six cities. These decisions
A-ill be forthcoming shortly, an
official predicted.
Mhj elm P O 1-UJ- 01 ht fflitrt . mtei
Climber Falls
On Ml. Hood
Portland, Ore., Oct. 29 P
A mountain climber plunged 1,-
500 feet down a precipitous slope
on Mount Hood early today and
a companion said he was un
conscious or dead on a glacier.
A party of three Portland
climbers was within 300 feet of
the summit ridge on the 11,-
245-foot peak when Don Welk
lost his footing in an icy chute
and fell.
Bob Buscho, who was with
Welk and his sister. Miss Alice
Welk, reported the accident at
Timberline Lodge this morning.
Lodge Manager Jim Caswell
said he gave this account:
The three started up the moun
tain from the Lodge at 12:30 a.
m., climbing the south side
which is the most popular route
and frequently used at this time
of year.
While nearing tne top of a
rocky, ice-covered chute a nar
row, deep "V" Welk . slipped.
He slid swiftly down the chute
and out onto the head of a gla
cier an estimated 1500 feet be
low. Buscho said he climbed down
to Welk, found him unconscious
but could not say definitely that
he was dead. He went to the
Lodge for help while Miss Welk
remained at the scene.
Caswell dispatched Lodge em
ployes up the mountain. He said
it would be afternoon before
they returned.
Welk, 20, is a sophomore at
Lewis and Clark college. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George T.
Welk, said he and his sister had
gone to the mountain last night
and planned to attend a Hallow
een party of the Mazama club,
mountain climbing organization,
tonight. Buscho. a city fireman,
is a member of the Mazsmas.
McCleary Escapes Injury
Dallas, Ore., Oct. 29 E. L.
McCleary, city water commis
sioner, escaped serious injury
this morning in an accident that
badly damaged the commission's
pickup truck. He was returning
from an inspection near the in
take on LaCreole creek when he
lost control of the vehicle which
plunged through a ditch, cross
ed a driveway and overturned.
McCleary was treated for a nose
injury by a physician and sent
home.
At one time, not less than 15
newspapers were being struck
simultaneously as ITU pressed
its campaign.
Gerhard P. Van Arkel, ITU
general counsel, told reporters
the big union has a "complete
right to appeal" to the United
States crlcuit court But he said
this must be discussed by union
officials, who are now widely
scattered.
Otherwise, neither he nor the
chief counsel for the Publishers'
association, Elisha Hanson, had
Immediate comment. Both want
ed to make closer studies of the
rulings.
ITU has been under a federal
district court injunction sincei
March 27, 1948. forbidding the1
disputed bargaining practices
pending NLRB i ruling. The in I
Junction now will be lifted.
Van Arkel said no present
ITU contracts will he affected the radically designed flying
by the board's action. iwing bomber, Northrop Aircraft
I (Concluded Pi t, Column til disclosed today.
Salem Gets Million-Dollar Apartment House A building
permit was issued Friday for this seven-story apartment house
to be built by Victor N. Jones and Associates of Seattle at the
southwest corner of North Winter and Union streets. Con
struction is dated to start a week from Monday, and the 101
apartments will be ready for occupancy in about 15 months.
Permit Issued for Big
Apartment
Construction will start Monday,
pected about 15 months later, for the $1,000,000 apartment house
nrnioft nf virinr N. Jones and associates at the southwest corner
oJ North winter and Union streets.
Th .finite announcement, which has been awaited with much
Child Rescued
In Cistern Pipe
Austin, Tex., Oct. 29 W
Slight scratches on the face and
side were the only physical re
minders today that Bobby An
drew Gow, a tiny 3-year-old, was
imprisoned three hours yester.
day deep in an 8-inch cistern
pipe.
Bobby, whose 26-pound body
dropped from view at 2:48 p.m.
(CST), just 50 feet from his
back doorstep, was reported in
good shape at Brackenridge hos
pital. He spent the night there
under observation in the pedia
trics ward.
Maybe he owed his life to
quick-thin king 12-year-old
Johnny Schneider. It was John
ny who shouted the Blarm when
Bobby slipped feet first into the
abandoned pipe.
Johnny dashed into the home
of Mr. and Mrs. James Gow and
told them what had happened to
their little reddish-golden-haired
boy, youngest of three child
ren. As the father rushed to the
back yard, Johnny stepped to
the telephone and dialed 4333
He remembered the number of
the fire department because he
had been a fire marshal at his
school last year.
Firemen and policemen were
on the scene in 10 minutes. Civ
ilian volunteers rolled in.
The swung pick axes and
shovels. A steam shovel went
into action less than half an
hour after Bobby disappeared i
from sight. Two more shovels!
and compressed air hammers
joined the scooping-out opera-
tion which allowed workers to
get to the base of the pipe.
Guilty Pleas Entered
By Y Cafe Burglars
Dallas, Ore., Oct. 29 Pleas of
guilty to charges of burglary not
in a dwelling were entered be
fore Circuit Judge Arlie G. Wal
ker Friday afternoon by Lucius
Charles Fenton and Elvin M.
Ferrians. Lillian Ruth Fenton,
wife of Lucius Fenton, was giv
en time to consult an attorney
and is expected to enter her plea
Monday when the two men are
scheduled to appear for sent
ence.
All three are former residents
of Bakersfield, Calif., and were
indicted by the Polk county
grand Jury for the attempted
burglary of the "Y" cafe on the
Salem-Dallas highway October
17, the two men being caught in
the cafe by state police called
by Erviil York, cafe owner. Mrs
fanlnn Ufa attfBtiri in rialln
I the day after the arrest of the
two men.
Cancel Flying Wing Plane
Hawthorne, Calif., Oct. 29 !UP
The air force has practically
canceled its its experiments with
House Here
Nov. 7,-and completion is ex
interest here, was made Friday
I by Jones, who was here from
Seattle. He was accompanied by
Walter Hitchinson regional at
torney for the federal housing
administration. The project is
under the FHA 608 program.
The building permit was is
sued Friday at the office of the
city engineer, and gave the con
struction cost at $500,000. How
ever, the complete expenditure
on building and furnishing the
seven-story, 101-unit building
will be practically $1,000,000.
The owner is Salem Invest
ment company, which is Victor
N. Jones and Associates. Forma
tion of a corporation was neces
sary to meet legal requirements.
The building is to be financed
by the National Life Insurance
Company of Vermont, and the
contractor is Republic Construc
tion corporation of Los Angeles.
The building was designed by
Victor N. Jones and Associates,
who are a firm of architects.
The building will have dimen
sions of 128 feet on North Win
ter street and 150 feel on Union,
and will be of reinforced con
crete construction.
Of the 101 apartments 40 will
be of the efficiency type, with
living dining and bedrooms
Pullman type kitchens bath and
dressing roms. There will be 49
one-bedroom and 12 two-bed.!'"1 lne cnurcn nicrarcny.
room apartments with baths.
A practical convenience will
be 100 percent off-street park
ing for automobiles of tenants,
some of the space covered. All
apartments will have laundry
facilities.
The furnished apartments will
rent at from $65 to $75 a month.
The property where the build
ing will be located was bought
I by Salem Investment company
jfrom Douglas Yea tor.
Adm. McVay Dies
Washington, Oct. 29 UP Adm,
Charles B. McVay, 81. who for-!
merly commanded the U. S.
atic fleet, died yesterday.
Asi -
The
retired navy officer, a native of
Edgeworth, Pa., had been hos-
pitulized at ttie naval medical
center at nearby Bethcsda, Md.
He left a widow and one son,
Charles B. McVay, 3rd, of New
Orleans, also a retired admiral.
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F.xprm Regrets Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl C. Ley (right) of Clay City, Ind., speaks for
about 200 enlisted Navy and Marine personnel who visited Adm. Louis Denfeld, formrr chirf of
naval operations, in his office in Washington. D. C, to express their regrets at his removal
from top navy command by President Truman. Denfeld told them there appeared nothing that
can d dont to prevent hit removal. (AP Wirephoto)
Truman Signs j
Bill Providing
Military Funds
President Impounds
'$615 Million for 58
Air Force Group
I Washington, Oct. 29 UP)
President Truman signet the
largest military appropriation In
peacetime history today but im
pounded $615,000,000 it carrier
to build the air force up to 58
groups.
The measure carries a total of
$15,585,863,498 for operation of
the army, navy, air corps, and
marines.
In a statement the president
said that congress' action in in
creasing funds for the air force
above his budget recommenda
tions "could have a serious effect
on our ability to maintain bal
anced military forces in subse
quent years."
Declaring that the larger air
force insisted upon by the house
would be "inconsistent with a
realistic and balanced security
program which we can support
in peacetime, the president add
ed:
"I am therefore directing the
secretary of defense to place in
reserve the amounts provided by
the congress in H.R. 4146 for
increasing the structure of the
air force."
The president said also:
"Although these increased
authorizations would have com
paratively little effect upon mill
itary expenditures in the cur
rent fiscal year, the fact that
they are largely for the procure
ment of aircraft would have a
serious effect on expenditures
in the future.
"As additional aircraft auth
orized by the act were delivered,
we should have to make corres
ponding provision for additional
personnel to man them, for high-
jlConcluded on Page 5, Column I)
Czech Priests
Given Freedom
Prague, Oct. 29 UP) Czecho
slovakia's communist president,
Klement Gottwald. today set free
127 Roman Catholic priests who
had been imprisoned for oppos
ing the government's new church
control law.
An official announcement said
i these priests had repented their
'acts and promised loyalty to the
communist-led government.
I lne mcliu version was .nai
these priests had resisted the new
"" unui.-i ,u,c
It added: "The priests, how
ever, realized the results their
conduct would have. They pro
claimed they wanted to change
their attitude, were sorry for
their arts and promised loyalty
to the Czechoslovak republic and
asked the president for amnes
ty." According to the Roman Cath-
alic bishops, the priests w h o said. I , " 'sury - poi
were imprisoned had voluntarily! Meryn was arrested by Czech "fflce- Hc ,'s ""king repub
opposed the church legislation. authorities nine days ago, Oito-"can " tnc lal,er rouP
Church sources also have saidiber 21. At the same time the ny ,n an(1 di,y t during
that between 200 and 300 priests'communist regime denounced Isr-1 "lost of the session he sat with
have been jailed. 'aac Patch, an attache of the Am-1 subcommittees hearing requests
The church control law waSierican embassy, and expelled
- adopted unanimously by the na -
tinnal parliament Oct. 14 and be -
comes effective Nov 1. It makes
clergymen of all church civil
servants paid by the state and
gives the government control!
over an cnurcn appoinimenis, ri-
nances ana aaimnisirauve affairs.
New Purge
In Bulgaria;
200 Arrested
London, Oct. 29 (IP) Premier
Marshal Tito's communist party
newspaper, Borba, reported to
day a new purge in Bulgaria to
weed out communists who stray
from the Moscow line.
The report broadcast by Tan-
jug, the official Yugoslav news
agency, said 200 already have
been arrested, including three
former government ministers.
The mass arrests "have pro
voked great bitterness among
Bulgarian workers," the news
paper said
Borba is theofficial newspaper
of Yugoslav communism. It has
been taking pot shots at Rus
sia and her satellites since Yugo
slavia was thrown out of the
cominform In 1948 for refusing
to give unquestioning obedience
to Moscow.
Borba said Bulgarian leaders
are putting so many people in
jail the nation is having to build
new concentration camps to
house them.
Poland Ousts
Relief Agency
Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 29 (IP)
Another nation in the Russian
sphere, Poland, is closing her
doors on a western relief agen
cy. CARE, a U. S. relief organiza
tion, has been told to leave the
country by Dec. 1, a CARE of
ficial said. CARE last February
withdrew from Hungary be
cause, agency officials said, it
was unable to renew its agree
ment with the Hungarian com
munist government.
ad poland
Departure of CARE (coopera
tive for American remittances to
Europe) would leave only two
foreign relief agencies in War
saw the American Joint Dis
tribution committee and Ameri
can Relief for Poland. . The in
ternational committee of the
Red Cross has announced t h
Polisn government nas ordered
closure of the Warsaw R e d
Cr?'l' "J"? rU , ,
(A Red Cross spokesman in
Geneva said his organization
was told the order was a part of
a general move against ail in-
ternational organizations.)
U. S. Reprisals
Loom for Czechs
Washington, Oct. 29 (Pi The
state department disclosed today
that it is considering taking "fur
ther steps" against communist
Czechoslovakia government. It
"does not realize the seriousness
which with we view the action of
the Czech government" in arrest
ing Embassy Clerk Samuel Mor
yn and branding two American
diplomats as spies. I
We are, therefore, consider-!
i. Uk.i (,'.rlh, .,.' .i..!i,i ,!
taken by the government." thcl
state department announcement I
him from the country on 24
ihours' notice. Early this week
the Czechs denounced another at-
tache, John G. Heyn, who was
already out of the country.
Meanwhile American million -
lies in f-ragiie pressed demands
to be permitted to talk with Mer
yn.
lyn.
Maffhews lo
Pick Successor
ToAdmDenfeld
Navy Secretary Ig
nores Demands by
Congressmen
Washington, Oct. 9 (JP) Sec
retary of the Navy Matthews,
calmly ignoring lawmakers' de
mands that he quit, combed
through a list of admirals today
seeking t successor to Louis Den-
fcId as chief of naval opera-
lions.
Matthews gave not the slight
est indication that he intended
to heed angry cries for his resig
nation from a least two members
of congress. But he declined
any comment on that or other
statements from congressional
quarters.
When reporters asked him if
there was any chance he might
change his mind about removing
Adm. Denfeld and giving him
some other job, Matthews said
firmly:
Will Go Through With It
"I asked the president for au
thority to make the transfer. I
do not ask for things just to ask
for them. Of course I Intend
to go through with it."
Denfeld's special assistant.
Capt. Walter Karig, told report
ers he expects the admiral to re
time from the navy rather than
take a lesser post.
Vehement assertions that Mat
thews should leave the defense
department came from Senator
Knowland (R., Calif.) and Rep.
Gates (R., Mass.).
Bates is a member of the
house armed services committee
which heard Denfeld and most
of the other high command of
the three armed forces testify
in the bitter military wrangle
over unification.
Claims Matthewi Unfit
He said Matthews, who w
named to his lob last unriw "i.
e absolutely unfit to hold the nf.
f ice; his naval exDerience In nil
land he ean't even row a boat."
I c"'d" P . Column 41
Cordon Starts
Home Monday
Washington, Oct. 29 UP) Af
ter devoting most of his time
since last January to appropria
tion bills. Senator Cordon (R.,
Ore.) looks forward to hunting
geese and fishing for salmon in
his home state.
A member of seven senate ap
propriations s u b c o m m ittees,
Cordon says he worked on more
money bills than any other mem
ber of the senate. And he prides
himself that he attended every
session of the senate this year.
He Is a member of the an
prnpriations subcommittee on
agriculture, armed services, de-
r'cj'nc'pJs' armv civil 'unctions,
,ndpPpnJcnt offices, interior de-
!lor Ilnds.
He plans to leave Monday for
iiis home at Rosehurg. Later he
will go to the Klamath Falls
! area to hunt gecse.
"But. 'he said, "I never did
1 like to eat geese.'
je plans to fish for salmon
iind will visit Depoe Bay and
Newport Congress appropriated
funds for constructing a refuge
harbor at Depoe Bay at Cordon s
insistence. Hc succeeded In get
ling the money included in the
army civil functions bill.
Identifying Victims
Of Azores Crash
Ponta Delgada, Sao Miqucl,
The Azores. Oct. 29 lP Rescue
workers today began Identifying
the burned and broken bodies nf
48 victims killed in the crash of
an Air France Constellation.
The plane plunged into a
mountainside yesterday. It was
hound from Paris to New York.
A French tecnical mission
also was at work, trying to de
termine the cause of the crash.
Boxer Marcel Cerdan, violinist
Ginette Ncveu and painter Ber
nard Boutet de Monvel were
among those killed. There wern
no survivors.
The body of 28-year-old Mis
Ncveu, one of France's greatest
women musicians, was one of
thost so far identified.