THE WEATHER HERE
FAIR TONIGHT and Tuesday,
except for tome morninf fog and
low cloudiness. Cooler Tuesday.
Lowest temperature tonight, 40;
highest Tuesday, 61.
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61st Year, No. 259
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Salem, Oregon, Monday, October 31, 1949
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Price 5c
Strike Ending
Pad Agreed to
By Bethlehem
Major Feature Calls
For Expansion of
Existing Pension Plan
Washington, Oct. 31 (AV-Steel
industry sources said today a
strike - ending agreement has
been reached between Bethle
hem Steel Corp. and the CIO
Steelworkers union.
These sources said an an
nouncement of the agreement
will be made at Cleveland late
this afternoon by Philip Murray,
head of the CIO and its striking
steelworkers union.
They said a major feature of
the agreement calls for expan
sion of the corporation's existing
pension plan, with the employer
still paying the entire cost of
pensions.
Cost to Workers
In Cleveland, it was reported
workers and the company each
would contribute two and one
half cents an hour toward an
expanded social insurance and
hospitalization program.
The company's new pension
plan, it was said, would cost
about nine cents an hour per
worker.
(In Bethlehem, Pa., officials
of Bethlehem Steel Corp. de
clined to confirm or deny re
ports that it was about to come
to terms with the steelworkers
union.)
There were also rumors of a
settlement in the office on coal,
but nothing to indicate that they
were more than rumors.
Coal Strike End Near?
A usually well-informed gov
ernment official said at Cleve
land that announcement of Mur
ray's settlement was being held
up to allow simultaneous strike
end signals in steel and John L.
Lewis' 43-day-old coal strike.
Bethlehem for a quarter cen
tury has had a wholly employer
paid pension plan in effect. - , .
Thus the argument over
whether worker pensions should
be employer-financed as the
steel strikers have insisted, or
partially paid for by the work
ers, as the U.S. Steel Corp. has
demanded, never figured very
prominently in the Bethlehem
situation.
(Concluded on Pare 8. Column f )
Chrysler Plants
To Close
Friday
Detroit, Oct. 31 m The auto
Industry's first major shutdown
resulting from the steel strike is
set for Friday, when Chrysler
corp. plans to close three divis
ions indefinitely.
The move will throw a major
ity of 35.000 Detroit area Dodge,
De Sota and Chrysler plant em
ployes out of work.
Chrysler officials said they
hoped to maintain production
of Dodge trucks until Nov. 11,
and to keep assembly lines mov
ins at the Plymouth plant "as
close to Thanksgiving as possi
ble." The last of the dwindling steel
supplies will go into Plymouth
cars, the corporation said.
"After all our steel is gone,
we won't be able to call our
- people back on any substantial
basis for at least a month after
the steel strike is settled," a
spokesman added.
A few of the Dodge, De Soto
and Chrysler workers will be fe
tained for inventory, parts anu
engine work.
The Ford Motor Co., also run
ning short of steel, expects to
start closing down its big Rouge
plant Nov. 11.
"By Nov. IS, when the assem
bly lines there stop," reported
Ford Vice President Ernest R
Breech. "We'll have 115,000 off
the payroll.'
General Motors Corp., third
member of the automobile in
' dustry's "big three," already has
closed a few of its plants tempo
rarily
Strikes Reversing
Employment Climb
Washington, Oct. 31 (IP) Sec
retary of Commerce Sawyer said
today that strikes have reversed
the late summer climb in em
ployment. He predicted that
once they are settled the number
of people at work will start Hi
in a again
Sawyer called at the W h 1 1 e
House to discuss with President
Truman an employment report to
be Issued by the commerce de
partment later in the day. He
indicated this reDort would showiRosevc't nd Coral Sea. The!
a net drop of about 400.000 in same is true of the 45.000-ton center for the campaign to ef-non-fsrm
employment during the battleship Missouri. ifect changes in unification poli-
month ended Oct. 8. j Tht navy announcement, Icies.
Metropolitan
Area for Salem
After Census
Washington Says
50,000 Population to
Qualify City's Rank
By STEPHEN A. STONE
When the 1950 census is tab
ulated, Salem will qualify by
population for a standard me
tropolitan area.
There seems to be good auth
ority for this statement with ar
rival of information from Wash
ington Monday in reply to a re
cent inquiry by the Capital
Journal.
The message said that "since
standard metropolitan art-is will
be defined only for cities that
have 50,000 inhabitants, Salem
does not qualify."
That, however, is based on the
old census figure of 1940, which
gave Salem only 30,773 popu
lation. The message continues:
Estimates Exceed 50,000
Should Salem attain a popu
lation of 50.000 in the 1950 cen
sus, it could be expected that a
metropolitan area would be de
signated." The 1949 estimate of Salem's
population made several months
ago by the Chamber . of Com
merce puts the figure at 52,800.
However, later reliable esti
mates, based on post office and
utility calculations, heavy influx
of new residents, and recent an
nexations, particularly West Sa
lem, put the city's population
nearer 60,000 than 50,000.
(Concluded on P 5. Column 7)
Murray Pledges
Purge of Reds
Cleveland, Oct. 31 W) CIO
President Philip Murray touch
ed off a rousing demonstration
at the opening session of the
11th convention today when he
promised to cleanse the organ
ization of pro communists.
After referring to abuse di
rected at him by the Moscow
radio Murray, in his keynote
address, said that at meetings of
his own CIO executive board:
"I did not now whether I was
talking to a fink (strikebreak
er), a commie, or an FBI man.
"If we are going to cleanse
this movement, which by the
way, we are going to do at this
convention ," Murray started
to say when the more than 600
delegates broke into the noisy
cheers.
Murray was unable to finish
his sentence.
At least three, and possibly a
dozen unions under so-called
left-wing leadership are threat
ened with ouster from the CIO.
Murray declared that left-
wingers follow the interest of
the Soviet government, even "if
that means destruction of dem
ocratic trade unions."
"They have no devotion to
their unions," Murray shouted.
"They have no devotion to their
country."
Murray got another cheer
when he said that "no subtle
ties engaged in by the represen
tatives of this (left wing) group
that they ere not serving the in
terest of the comriui.ist party in
this convention will satisfy this
delegation."
31 Warships, 42 Other
Ships Laid Up by Navy
Washington, Oct.' 31 UP) The navy is going to lay up 31
warships and 42 other vessels, to keep within the reduced sums
it will have to spend.
The "mothballing" program, announced last night, is part of
the effort to hold the total spending on the armed services to
$13,000,000,000 in the fiscal
year which begins next July 1.
That sum compares with $15,
585,863,493 voted by congress.
By next July the navy expects
to have 237 combat vessels in
operation as compared with 268
on September 1. The fleet will
be reduced by four aircraft car
riers and the craft which sup
port them. Most of the reduction
will be in the Atlantic fleet.
Essex class carriers (?7,000Louis E- Dcnfeld , chief of
tons) will be reduced from five
to three, smaller carriers of
about 14.000 tons will be in
creased from three to four andwho fough, ,he unificatlon prac.
the small "Jeep" escort carriers
will be reduced from seven to
four.
The navy will keep in opera
tion its three big 45,000-ton car
riers, the Midway, Franklin D.
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U. 5. Asks Recall
Of Czech Envoys
Washington, Oct. 31 W The
United States demanded today
that communist Czechoslovakia
recall immediately two Czech
officials now in this country.
They are Dr. Erwin Munk,
consul general at New York,
and Jan Horvath, housekeeper
of the Czech embassy in the cap
ital. 4
The action was in apparent re
prisal for the recent ousting of
two American attaches from the
embassy at Prague. However, in
announcing the order, the state
department declined to give any
explanation except that the two
are both "persona non grata."
That means they are person
ally unacceptable to this govern
ment.
The Czech ambassador, Vlad
imir Outrata, asked for an ap
pointment with Undersecretary
of State James E. Webb, pre-
Marshall Plan
For Asia Looms
Paris, Oct. 31 () United
States experts are drawing pre
liminary plans for a Marshall
plan in Asia designed to help
halt the spread of communism in
the Orient.
This was disclosed yesterday
by an American official who
predicted that the project would
win support in congress. The
projected program for the Ori
ent would not involve as large
an outlay of money as the sys
tem of American aid now func
tioning in Europe.
Early estimates contemplate a
request to congress next sum
mer for $1,000,000,000 to $1,-
250,000,000 for the first year of
the proposed Asia program, said
the informant, who preferred
not to be identified. Smaller re
quests would taper off the pro
gram in the next two or three
years, just as it is intended to
ease off Marshall plan appropri
ations for Europe.
The informant said the ex
perts believe the following coun
tries should be invited to par
ticipate: India, Pakistan, Ceylon,
Burma, Australia, New Zealand,
the Philippines and perhaps In
donesia and Viet-Nam, the Indo
Chinese state recently given in
creased self - government by
France.
cleared through the unified pub
lic information office,
cold, factual account.
It followed disclosure that
navy and marine corps manpow
cr will be whittled 54,891 men
by next July 1 to correspond
with the reduction in ships.
The breakdown in navy cut
back orders was coincidental
with the uproar over the dis-
staff.
Meantime, the possibility ap
peared that other naval officers
ticcs may be in for trouble.
It was reliably reported that
the navy inspector general's of
fice had opened an investigation
of "Op 23," a navy term for
operations division 23. This
erouo has been called a itratesv
4 W
Where Welk's Body Was Found The X on this picture
shows the spot where the body of Donald Welk was found
on Mt. Hood where he was killed Saturday after falling and
sliding for almost a mile. A pair of skis and a stretcher were
used to move the body over the rough and icy part of the
mountain. The rescue party was from Timberline lodge.
They were James Carskadon, superintendent of the ski crew;
Walter Aeppli. an experienced mountain climber from Swit
zerland: Benjamin Lentell, Jr., and Walter Byrne. Welk, 20,
was a sophomore at Lewis and Clark college, Portland. His
sister. Miss Alice Welk, and Bob Buscho were with him at
the time of the accident. (Photo by Bert Foote).
County to Cooperate
On City Drainage Plans
By DON UPJOHN
The county court at a conference with J. L. Franzen, Salem
city manager, and J. H. Davis, city engineer, Monday agreed to
quick cooperation in carrying out its share of what drainage
plans northeast of Salem are contemplated by the city this fall.
Included in this is the county's agreement to deepen a ditch
between Hollywood avenues and'
Hadley street running north
from the Silverton road where
the city had run into some con
troversy with property owners.
However, the county will deepen
the ditch only about 300 feet
where it was expected no diffi
culty will be encountered.
"IS "deepening the ditch the
county will act under statutory
provisions which allows it to go
on private land when necessary
to take care of water condition
which is damaging one of its
roads.
The main request made by city
officials to the court was the in
stallation of the equivalent of
two 48-inch box culverts under
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west of Hollywood avenue. The
city plans to run a 24-inch pipe
line from about Lansing avenue
for 2500 feet along the south
side of the Silverton road to the
proposed new culvert where the
water will be carried across the
road into the ditch to be deep
ened. The deepening of the ditch
will be necessary to meet the
level of the nw culvrt.
The county's interest lies in
the fact that at certain flood
times water collects at least a
foot high over the Silverton road
near Lansing avenue. It is at
this point children will have to
cross to reach the new Capitola
school, city officials said, and
there is no other way of their
reaching it. Eventually it is ex
pected a sidewalk will be con
structed over the proposed 24
inch pipe line along the south
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National Quest
For Historic Sites
Washington, Oct. 31 '-P A na-
uonai mist, created unner a oui the Marcus Whitman mission
signed by President Truman, (and later built Willamette unl
now can receive donations of versity's first structure. He also
historic sites and buildings. wrote an early history of Ore
It also will receive privalc
conlributions of funds to main -
tain such places.
The trust's program will sup -
plcmcnt the federal govcrn -
ment's efforts to preserve histor-
ic spots.
The legislation designates the
secretary of interior, the dircctorl
of the National Gallery of Arts.
and the attorney Beneral as mem -
bers of the board of trustees of
the trust. At least six addition
al trustees are to be named by
the executive board of the Na
tional Council for Historic Sites
and Buildings,
ization.
a private organ-
Coffee Futures Soar
New York, Oct. 31 n Coffee
prices resumed their upward
trend today, with quotations for
future deliveries advancing the
daily limit or two cents a pound
shortly after the market opened.
Elderly Couple
Die in Flames
Oak Grove, Ore., Oct. 31 IIP)
--An elderly retired dentist and
his invalid wife, both descen
dants of prominent pioneer
northwest families, perished
yesterday in a fire that destroy
ed their residence.
The victims were Dr. C. N.
Perkins, 65, who operated
488-acre Yamhill county ranch
his family homesteaded in 1844
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tain James Gray.
They died in the flames of
their landmark home here while
volunteer firemen tried to res
cue them. Dr. Perkins' char
red body was found crouched
behind a sofa near a fireplace
blamed for the fire. His wife's
body was in her bed.
Fireman E. Hcnkcs reported
the flames were seen by neigh
bors at 9 a.m. He said volun
teer Bruce Schroeder tried to
crawl into the home but the
floor crumbled. Earlier, neigh
bor S. E. Moore had been forc
ed to retreat from the flames.
The two-story frame dwelling
was completely engulfed by the
time firemen arrived.
Dr. Perkins was born Janu
ary 3, 1884. on the ranch his
great-grandfather had home
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1844. He was a
a star athlete and track team
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Mrs. Perkins was born in Van
couver, Wash. Her mother, now
02, lives near the Perkins' home
site. One great grandfather, W
H. Gray, was secretary of the
first provisional government
formed at Champoeg. He ear
lirr had hron a Kpr-ular ntfpnt fnr
gon, snc nan aiicnaea ine uni-
vcrsity of Oregon as an art stu-
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Marketing Plan
Washington, Oct. 31
l Central Oregon and northern
California potato growers have
approved a marketing control
program designed to stabilize
prices.
The agricultural department,
reporting the approval, said low
grade or small size potatoes will
be kept off the market. Affect
cd are Crook, Deschutes, Jeffer
son, Klamath and Lake counties
in Oregon and Modoc and Sis
kiyou in California.
Ninety per cent of growers
voting in
a recent referendum
; favored the proposal, the depart
mcnt said,
West Europe
Warned to Gel
Results Soon
Told by Hoffman to
Promote Trade by
Easing Money Controls
Paris, Oct. 31 (IP) Paul G.
Hoffman, Marshall Plan boss.
warned Western Europe today to
show results early next year in
promoting free trade by knock
ing down national tariff barri
ers and erasing complex money
controls.
He made it pretty plain it
might be hard to get more aid
iunas irom the U.S. congress
unless the Marshall Plan coun
tries showed more willingness to
join in a single economic unit.
Goods in the big western Eur
opean market, he said, must
move freely across the many na
tional boundaries like trade
between the 48 states of the U.S.
Economic Unity Needed
Failure to achieve economic
unity, Homnan warned, means
"disaster for nations and pover
ty for peoples."
He made his call for concrete
action by early next year in a
prepared statement to the gen
eral council of the Organization
for European Economic Cooper
ation (OEEC), the European
organization that helps adminis
ter the Marshall Plan.
Hoffman said the Marshall
Plan countries have made "tru
ly amazing progress" in restor
ing industrial and agricultural
production in the last two years.
But he said cooperative action
between nations is needed if
western Europe's economic
problems are to be solved.
This, I believe, means noth
ing less than an integration of
the western European econo
my," he said.
Procedure Suggested
"The substance of such inte
gration would be the formation
of a single large market within
which quantitative restrictions
on the movement of goods, mon
etary barriers to the flow of
payments, and, eventually, all
tariffs are permanently swept
away.
"The fact that we have in the
United States a single market
of 150,000,000 consumers has
been indispensable to the
strength and efficiency of our
economy. The creation of a per
manent, freely trading area
comprising 170,000,000 consum
ers in western Europe, would
have a multitude of helpful
consequences."
Hoffman's speech climaxed
numerous recent demands that
Europe do something more pos
itive toward unification while
me American aid program is
till in effect.
Farm Price Bill
Remains Unsigned
Washington, Oct. 31 fli
President Truman cleared his
desk today of all but four bills
sent to him by the first session
of the Mist congress.
The deadline for action on theltal.
remaining bills, including the' Because Senator Cordon must
farm bill, is midnight tomorrow,
the White House said.
Press Secretary Charles G.
Ross said he did not know
whether Mr. Truman would act
today on the long-range agricul
ture bill.
WOO Children Pledge
Peaceful Hallowe 'en
More than 1.000 Salem children were bound by signed pledges
Monday to be on their best behavior Halloween night but police
laid plans to deal with them or any others who may be tempted
by the witching hours
The pledges were obtained
youngsters who traded awa;
plans for unlawful behavior by
accepting tickets to a special
show Saturday at the Capitol
theater.
For the others, however, po
lice had well prepared plans to
deal with the problem. A copy
of the city ordinance dealing
with curfew hours for underage
persons was posted by the Juve
nile officer so that every patrol
man would be ready to enforce
it.
The curfew ordinance estab
lishes 10:30 p.m. as the hour for
juveniles to be off the streets
Those who arc not at home or
accompanied by adults at that
time are subject to arrest..
The law orders police to bring
the Juveniles to police headquar
ters to be held for parents or
other legal guardians. A fine
up to $250 can he Imposed along
wilh a Jail term up to 60 days,
Every available officer will be1
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Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.
Ex-Secrelary
01 Stale Dies
Greenwich, Conn., Oct. 31 (IP)
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., war
time head of lend-lease and U.S.
secretary of state when the Unit
ed Nations came into being, died
today at the age of 49.
The white-haired, handsome
Stettinius, who at 37 became
board chairman of the U.S. Steel
corporation, was his country's
first UN delegate. He was nam
ed rector of the University of
Virginia after leaving the UN
post in 1946.
Death came at 7:30 a.m. at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Juan
Trippe here. Mrs. Trippe is
Stettinius' sister. Her husband
is head of Pan-American World
Airways.
A rich man's son, Stettinius
went into government service
and shortly became administra
tor of the $60,000,000,000 lend-
lease program that played a
major role in the final defeat of
Nazi Germany.
The former cabinet member's
secretary said members of the
household found Stettinius un
conscious in bed this morning
He died soon after a physician
arrived at the house.
Stettinius had suffered from a
heart condition since last spring,
nis EQcre.tani said. . -
His wife and her mother, Mrs.
W. J. Wallace, were with him
when he died.
His three sons, Edward R.,
Wallace and Joseph, and another
sister, Mrs. John B. Marsh also
survive.
I he Greenwich medical ex
aminer. Dr. C. Manlcy Knapp,
said death apparently resulted
from two forms of heart ailment.
Senator Cordon to
Speak Here Friday
United States Senator Guy
Cordon will be the speaker for
next Friday evening's banquet of
the Oregon Republican clubs'
convention, it is announced by
Dr. E. E. Boring, general chair
man. The banquet is slated for
7 p.m. in the Chamber of Com
merce rooms.
Senator Cordon left Washing-
ton today en route home to Rose-
burg and the Friday talk will be
one of his first in Oregon after
arriving from the national capi-
leave the same evening for Kla
math Falls by train, the banquet
will begin promptly at 7 o'clock
and will adjourn early, Boring
states.
The convention opens Friday
noon for two days here.
by
the Busirk markets from
on duty Monday night.
Assistant Police Chief E C
Charlton set the theme of the
enforcement program when he
said that the department "would
tolerate no vandalism."
Shifts of police have been
juggled so that a double force
will be on hand from 10 p m
Monday night to 2 a.m. Tuesday
morning. In addition to that,
other members of the force have
been assigned extra duty during
the night.
The stern police plans came on
the heels of reports of vandal
ism at the old IOOf cemetery on
Hoyt street. Sunday, it was dis
covered that vandals had smash
ed out two windows In one crypt
and had left the iron grill work
of the door to the vault twisted
Headmarkers for two Infants
were found along a roadway and
two regular headstones wcrel
found to hav been tipped.
Sherman Over
Atlantic on
Way to Capita
Admiral Refuses to
Comment on Rumored
Appointment
Washington, Oct. 31 iP'
Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sher
man headed today for Washinif
ton, bolstering speculation tint
he will be picked to succeed
Adm. Louis Denfeld as chief of
naval operations.
The commander of the sixth
task force in the Mediterranean
has been mentioned prominently
for the job from which Denfeld
was ousted. He has stayed on
the sidelines in the armed ser
vices scrap which brought Dcn
feld's removal.
Sherman, who landed in Lon
don enroute, told reporters at
the airport "I have no comment
to make on any subject."
Lett Fleet in Beirut
He conferred briefly with
Adm. Richard L. Conolly, com
mander in chief of the eastern
Atlantic and Mediterranean
fleet, before boarding a Pan
American Airways plane again
for New York.
Sherman left his fleet at Bei
rut, Lebanon, and boarded a
Pan American airliner for the
flight to this country. Officials
at London headquarters of U. S.
naval forces in the eastern At
lantic and Mediterranean said
he had been ordered to return
to the capital.
He is due to arive in New
York early tomorrow.
An announcement on Denfcld's
successor as well as a decision
on whether Denfeld will retire
or accept a lesser assignment is
expected soon.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 6)
Claim Johnson
Broke Pledqes
Washington, Oct. 31 (A') Four
congressmen in a joint state
ment today accused Secretary of
Defense Johnson and Secretary
of the Navy Matthews of "brok
en pledges and smearing tactics"
in the case of Admiral Louis E.
Denfeld.
The four lashing out at John
son and Matthews were Reps.
Sasscer of Maryland and Herbert
of Louisiana, democrats, and
Arends of Illinois and Cole of
New York, republicans.
They said the Johnson-Matthews
stand that Denfeld was
ousted for lack of qualification
rather than in reprisal for his
criticism of high military policy
"takes the prize for outright
quackery and injustice."
All four are members of the
house armed services committee
which held public hearings on
differences among the armed
services. They said in their state
ment that Johnson pledged thero
would be no reprisals against any
witness.
The action against Dt-iifi-ld,
thoy went on, confronts future
witnesses "with the gag rule and
intimidation" and raises the is
sue of the right of congress to
secure information on' military
policies.
Truman Thanked
By Wallgren
Washington. Oct. 31 P Mon
C. Wallgren called on Picsidrnt
Truman today to thank him for
appointment a.s a member of tlic
Federal Power commission.
The former Washington oer
nor said he expects lo take his
oath of office within a few Hay..
Mr. Truman nominated Wall
gren, a close personal friend, fur
the power commission post alter
the senate turned clown the reap
pointment of Leland Olds a.;
chairman of that commission.
The commission now must el
ect a new chairman.
Wallgren said he has been va
cationing at Palm Desert in Cali
fornia, where he and Mrs. Wall
gren have a place. She will
join him later in Washington,
where the Wallgrciis have an
apartment at the Wnrdman Park
hotel.
Wnllgren's continuation for
the FPC post came afler the fen
ate armed service committee.
previously had shelved his nom
ination as chairman of the na
tional security resources bo.ud.
Name Change Askrd
Fresno. Cal.. Oct il
Jack Asodorian had his name
changed to Jai k DiTi.ui today
because people always pro
nounced his old name too fast.