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61st Year, No. 260 ZSS?jrj?oZ Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 1, 1949
(20 Pages)
Price 5c
Quick End to
Steel and Coal
Strikes Hoped
Other Firms Expected
To Follow Lead of
Bethlehem Steel
Washington, Nov. 1 (IP) A
welfare plan agreement that
sends 80.000 striking CIO steel
workers back to their Jobs with
Bethlehem Steel Corp. today
buoyed government hopes (or a
quick -end to both the steel and
coal strikes.
Officials said they expect
other steel firms to follow in the
footsteps of Bethlehem, the na
tion's second largest steel pro
ducer, which signed an agree
ment last night to end the strike
so far as this company was con
cerned. The government officials said
that now that a break has come
in the steel strike, definite peace
moves may be expected in coal
because of the close relations of
the two basic industries.
Steel Line Broken
Bethlehem signed up in
Cleveland last night with Philip
Murray, president of the CIO
and the striking steelworkers.
"We broke the line." Murray
exulted. "From here on we
move with a firmness of purpose
and a determination that victory
will attend our efforts."
The precedent-making con
tract gives Bethlehem workers
employer-paid pensions starting
at $100 a month, including the
benefits they get from the gov
ernment's social security sys
tem. It also calls for a death, sick
ness, accident and hospital cost
insurance plan worth five cents
an hour per worker,- with em
ployer and worker equally
sharing costs.
Final Details Worked Out
Bethlehem has maintained a
company-financed $50-a-month
pension plan for some years, as
well as a wholly worker-financed
insurance system costing em
ployes about l'a cents an hour
The settlement came on the
steel strike's 31?t day and the
dV. walkout's 43rd.
Murray and Bethlehem offi
cials worked out final details
and signed the agreement at a
three-hour conference between
sessions of Murray's CIO con
vention at Cleveland.
The reaction was swift. Gov
ernment Mediation Chief Cyrus
S. Ching said he trusted "this
settlement will lead to industrial
peace in the steel industry gen
erally, at a very early date."
U.S. Steel Corp , the biggest
steel producer, which has been
holding out for workers paying
part of pension costs, invited
peace talks with Murray's
union.
Detroit to Vote
December 13
Election on the second attempt
to incorporate the city of Detroit
has been tentatively called by
the county court for Tuesday,
December 13 from 8 a.m. to 8
p.m. at Detroit high school.
The date and the election it
self, however, are subject to re
port by the district attorney as
to whether the petitions and the
proceedings so far had are all
in regular form.
Members of the county court
pointed out that the extreme fi
nal date for calling election
would have been December 16
but to be on the safe side it was
called three days earlier. This
will give the residents of the vi
cinity a full nine days to regis
ter as books must close 30 days
before the election. Criticism
was directed at the court because
the preceding election was call
ed lust 30 days before the elec
tion date which automatically
closed the registration on the
day of the call and a number of
residents said they had been shut
out from voting for that reason.
It is nqw felt they will all have
ample notice and also ample
time to register.
Also, with the date set. if the
election carries there will be
time to elect officers in February
and sufficient added time given
to prepare a city budget in May
If the election goes ahead on
the date named members of the
election board will be Margaret
Rasnick, Lavele Haseman, Nora
A. Wright, Edna Mattoon and
Florence N. Burt.
38 Bodies Identified
Paris, Nov. 1 (U.R The bodies
of 38 of the 48 persons killed in
the Azores plane crash last Fri
day have been identified, an Ail
Franct spokesman said today.
Big Left Wing
Union Refuses
Dues to Ihe CIO
United Electrical
Workers Reads Itself
Out of Affiliation
Cleveland, Nov. 1 (IP) The
electrical workers, spearhead of
the CIO's rebellious left wing,
today announced it was with
holding any further dues to the
CIO a certain first step toward
its ouster.
In a defiant statement accus
ing CIO leadership of following
a "program of raiding, union
busting and red-baiting hypo
cracy," UE President Albert J.
Fitzgerald said the next step "is
up to the CIO."
U.E. delegates walked off the
convention floor shortly after
wards. Fitzgerald said they were
going home. U.E. officers have
not been attending the conven
tion although delegates were
there.
To Accept Challenge
There was little doubt that
President Philip Murray of the
CIO would accept the challenge
quickly. The groundwork for
removing the U.E., which pays
dues for 450,000 members, was
laid by constitutional changes
approved last night for action by
the CIO convention today or to
morrow. Eleven other so called left
wing unions also face ouster by
the CIO, but Fitzgerald said it
would oe up to them whether
they followed the U.E. example
of withholding the per capita
tax to the CIO.
(Concluded on Fire 5. Column 81
Operations at
Airfield Gain
Operations at McNary field
despite the foggy weather dur
ing part of October climbed to
328 above the previous - month
for a total of 5211 in October.
During the days of October
23, 24 and 25 poor visibility cut
operations to almost nothing. In
fact on October 24 visibility was
zero and there were no opera
tions at the field. The preced
ing day only two operations
were recorded this an air car
rier and October 25 there were
only four local operations and
six air carriers.
Another low day for the. field
was October 4 with only 20 op
erations. Several other days
fog during part of the day caus
ed a sharp cut in normal operations.
Responsible for the major part
of the increase in operations
were the local navy operations,
which climbed from the 70 op
erations in September to 504 in
October. During the month of
September there were 10 local
air force operations, while the
past month there was none.
Figures for the month of Oc-
torber show: air carriers, 344;
ir force itinerant, 29; navy
itinerant, 15; civilian itinerant
561; local navy, 504; local civi
lian, 3758.
W?lPlane Collision in Air Kills 5 5
Near Washington Airport
Competitive Costumes First place winners in various school
rooms gather after the annual Halloween parade sponsored,
by Carl B. Fenton post of the American Legion at Dallas.
Grand champion and sweepstakes winner is Diane Hague,
hobgoblin shown at left center, front. Jerry Smith, first grand
prize winner for boys is shown at the right as a clock.
At the left center next to the showman is Bobby Wilson, sec
ond grand prize winner for boys, as the headless man. Not
shown are Maydene Curtis, as a Negro, first grand prize win
ner for girls and Joyce Classen, a pirate, second grand prize
winner. (Photo by Abel)
Annual Dallas Parade
Colorful Occasion
Dallas, Nov. 1 Hundreds of elementary and junior high school
children dressed as hobgoblins, witches, scarecrows, pumpkins.
ghosts and all manner of Halloween "ha nls ' here Monday night
to join in the parade of prize competition sponsored by Carl B.
Fenton post, American Legion.
Church Seized
By Czech Reds
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Nov.
1 (u.ra The communist govern
ment today took control of Ro
man Catholic church in Czecho-
Slovakia amid Vatican charges
that the new church control
laws were unconstitutional.
As 7,000 members of the Ca
tholic clergy were converted
into civil servants and the gov
ernment took over supervision
of church affairs, the Vatican
radio charged in a Czech lan
guage broadcast that the new
control laws violated the new
Czech constitution.
The laws became effective to
day. Alexe Cepicka, son-in-law
of President Klement Gottwald,
heads the new government of
fice which will run church af
fairs. The new laws provide:
1. The clergy will be granted
higher salaries, with bonuses for
'good work." Educational grants
and pensions are provided for
aeed priests.
2. The stale takes over tne
business administration of all
churches, charities, institutions
and other properties.
3. Only priests who have giv
an oath of loyalty to the
regime will be permitted to de
liver sermons.
Trick or Treat
Robber Got $80
Portland. Nov. 1 (IP) A sheet-
garbed gunman walked into an
automobile service station last
night and told the attendant
"trick or treat."
Attendant Hjalmcr Amundson1 section of the seventh floor fell
said he stuffed $80 into the pa
per sack. The sheet later was
found by police in a nearby al
ley. Halloween pranks were num
erous, but not as spectacular as
in past years. The fashionable
Portland Heights district, usual
ly the center of activity, had an
open fire hydrant problem. Po
lice said water poured down a
hillside into the home of John L.
Bates. It flooded a den floor
and seeped into a basement hob
by room.
Truman to Name
Adm. Sherman
To Head Navy
Washington, Nov. 1 (API-
President Truman i appoint
ing Vice Admiral Forrest P.
Sherman to be the new chief of
naval operations, the White
House announced today.
Sherman will succeed Ad
miral Louis E. Denfeld, who
was ousted by the president
last week on recommendation
of Secretary of the Navy Mat
thews a an aftermath of the
defense policy row in the Pen
tagon.
Charles G. Ross, White
House press secretary, said Ad
miral Sherman will be given
his formal commission tomor-
1
Merchant Dies Herbert L.
Stiff, Sr., Salem merchant,
who died at his home Tues
day morning from a heart attack.
row.
Fire in Capital
Postal Building
Washington, Nov. 1 (JP) Fire,
accompanied by a rumbling of
explosions, caused heavy damage
to the $11,000,000 post office de
partment building today and sent
hundreds of government employ
es fleeing to the streets.
The blaze was confined to the
eighth floor. But before fire
men brought it under control
they poured tons of water into
the columned, limestone struc
ture on Pennsylvania avenue
between 12th and 13th streets,
Northwest.
Smoke and water damage was
heavy. There was no immediate
official estimate of the loss, but
a somewhat similar fire in 1935
soon after the building was
constructed caused $400,000
damage.
At least three persons were
injured, either by flying glass
from the explosion, or when a
Halloween Vandalism
Held to Minimum Here
There was a general feeling in the Salem police department
Tuesday that Halloween vandalism has been held to a minimum
as officers scoured the city to check on damage.
By noon, a survey of the city indicated that some 30 street
and stop signs had been knocked over throughout the city on
Monday night. The report!
showed that activity had been
widely scattered.
Only minor damage was re
ported in Salem itself with a
small tree listed as having been
knocked down in the northern
section of the city and some
building blocks smashed on a
parking lot in the 800 block on
north High street.
A 'teen-age party at the re
modeled and renamed club for
merly the Club Combo on Port
land road had a deterant effect
in keeping some of the city's
youth out of mischief
Police also attributed a bene
A sack of garbage and an old
shirt, soaked with gasoline, were
hurled on the porch of the E. K
Piascrki residence at 591 Cas
cade drive. Mrs. Piasecki
quenched the flames with wa
ter. And another nearby resident.
apparently the victim of the same
gang, told police she was show
ered with fragments from a light
bulb which splintered above her
head as she opened her front
door.
A 17-year-old youth, run down
by officers near the scene was
in.
Two were employes of the
Federal Communications Com
mission. They were Richard
Jamison and D. C. Corrigan.
Both suffered head injuries.
Robert Farrington, an Associ
ated Press reporter, got a bad
cut on the shoulder. A glass
door behind him was blown out
on the 7th floor while he was
telephoning a report on the fire
to his office.
Three firemen were taken to
emergency hospital. They were
overcome by smoke while fight
ing the blaze.
The building houses several
agencies in addition to the post
office department.
Lack of Decimal
Point Costs $178
Jennie R. Loveall, proprietor
of the Loveall Miller's Beauty
salon when she listed her per
sonal property taxes with the
assessor last March forgot to in
clude a decimal point and un
less the county court will do
something about it this minute
omission is going to cost her
$178.44 extra in taxes.
In listing the small miscella
neous properties in her beauty
salon she placed a valuation at
$2500 when it should have been
$25, she says in a statement to
the county officials, merely
omitting the dot between the
$25 and the two zeros.
The county court has granted
her a hearing for next Monday
at 10:30 o clock.
Thousands of spectators con
sidered the biggest crowd in the
long history of the event lined
the parade route.
Grand champion winner was
Diane Hague, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jess Hague, and a third
grader in school she was
dressed as a hobgoblin in an
original costume composed of
marshmellows, cranberr ics,
pumpkins, autumn leaves, ferns,
popcorn and nuts. Mrs. Hague
used three spools of thread to
make the costume.
In addition four grand prizes
were awarded: Jerry Smith,
first grade, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Smith, won first prize
for boys. He was attired as a
giant alarm clock. Maydene
Curtis 6th grade, was dressed
as a Negro mammy and her two-pre-school
brothers, Charles and
Jerry, and sister, Merry, com
pleted the entry as her little
pickaninnies. They are the chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Burt Cur
tis. Second grand prize for boys
went to Bobby Wilson, 4th grade,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wilson,
'oute 1, Dallas. Bobby was at
tired as a headless horseman and
carried his "severed" head on a
stick.
Second grand prize for girls
was won by Joyce Classen, fourth
grade, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Norman Classen. She was
dressed as a pirate.
(Concluded on Page S. Column 7)
Washington. Nov. 1 (IJPJ
Vice Adm. Forrest P. Sherman's
return here today from his
Mediterranean command was ex
pected to spark extensive
changes in the navy's top command.
The names of Fleet Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz and Adm. W.
H. P. Blandy figured Increas
ingly in speculation over the
shake-up.
Sherman was scheduled to
come here directly from New
York, where he was due aboard
a commercial airliner this morn
ing.
Navy Secretary Francis P.
Matthews summoned him home
for a talk before recommending
to President Truman a successor
to Adm. Louis E. Denfeld
(Concluded on Page 5, Column B)
Regulations on Ban
Of Secret Societies
Portland, Nov. 1 (IP) High
school principals met yesterday
with Superintendent Paul A
Rehmus and approved 18 new
rules designed to enforce a
school board ban on secret soci
eties.
Generally, the rules prohibit
club rushing and hazing, clubs
lacking adult sponsorship and
inter-school memberships.
ficial result to the signed Pledge,;'!" ' v juvenile authori
. 1 nnn .nnnnlan who lle He Ils,ed Salem citv ,d
went to free show Saturday
The pledge programs, sponsored
by Busick's markets asked a
paomise to refrain from vandal
dress and refused to explain why
he was in the Kingwood area.
At 2:40 a m two juveniles
and a 20-year-old youth, Dale
m. in return. iicKeis tor a iree: Knwara oasiian. were naDDea
novie were given out. Ifui illegal possession of intoxi-
A double duty patrol from 10 1 eating liquor. Bail on that
j.m. Monday to 2 a.m. Tuesday charge was $25 each. Bastian
necked every report of trou- was released on an additional
tt or possible trouble, but the $5 bail for permitting in un
inly events of serious nature licensed person to drive. One of police last night that someone
vere reported from the King- the youths with him was also stole a purse containing $77 in
.rood district of Salem in Polk charged with driving without a cash and $75 worth of Jewelry
.'ounty. (license, 'from a bedroom of their home.
'We Wuz Robbed'
Yells Durocher
West Los Angeles, Calif., Nov.
1 ip, "We wuz robbed," yell
ed Leo (Lilly) Durocher.
The New York Giants mana
ger wasn't yelling at an umpire
this time. He and his wife, Ac
tress Laraine Day reported to
Reopen Japan's
Peace Treaty
New York, Nov. 1 (IP) The
New York Times said today the
United States and Britain have
decided to reopen the question
of a Japanese peace treaty as
quickly as possible.
Secretary of State Acheson
and British Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin "are understood to
have discussed this step recently
and to have ordered a new and
urgent study of the question,"
the Times said.
This is now under way in
Washington under the supcrvi
sion of Assistant Secretary of
State Walton W. Butterworth
and Maxwell M. Hamilton, ac
cording to a Times Washington
dispatch by James Rcston.
Mabcrly E. Dening, British
assistant undcr-secretary of
state for foreign affairs, was re
ported supervising the review
in London.
Meanwhile, the slory said,
Ambassador Philip C. Jessup has
been detached from most of his
other duties to review U.S. pol
icy in the whole area of Japan.
China, India and southeast Asia.
"He is now studying the Chi
nese nationalist charges against
the Soviet Union in the United
Nations," the Times said, "and
will represent the United States
in the debate at Lake Success
on that subject.
Herbert L. Stiff,
Merchant, Dies
Herbert L. Stiff, Sr., Salem
resident since 1907 and in the
furniture business here since
1911. died suddenly at his home
at 805 North Winter street late
Tuesday morning from a heart
attack.
Born at St. Paul, Minn., May
27. 1889, the son of E. L. and
Mary Harrison Stiff, he came to
Salem with his family in 1907
Graduated from the Capital City
Business college young Stiff for
two years was employed by the
United States National bank.
In 1911, with his father, who
was a prominent building con
tractor, he embarked In the fur
niture business here, with their
first location at the corner of
Court and North Liberty streets,
In 1914 a branch store was es
tablished at Albany. The Sa
lem store in 1920 was moved
from the corner of Court and
North Liberty streets to 450
Court street, the present loca
tlon of the store.
Since the establishment of the
Salem store and the opening
of the branch store at Albany
Stiff had opened two other stores
in Oregon, one In Silverton In
1925 and one in Portland In
1927.
Stiff was a life member of the
Elks lodge, a member of the
Salem Chamber of Commerce,
the Kiwanis club and the Rod
and Gun club.
Surviving are the wife, the
former Rose Breitenstein to
whom he was married in 1914
son, Herbert L. Stiff, Jr., of
Salem; one grandchild; his moth
er, Mrs. Mary stiff of Salem; a
sister, Mrs. Georgena Dowe of
Salem: and a brother, Edward L
Stiff of Salem.
Announcement of services will
be made later by the W. T.
Rigdon company.
'Bolivian Plane
Hits Airliner,
Both Crashing
Washington, Nov. 1 (IP) A Bo
livian fighter pilot collided in
the air today with a big airliner
carrying 55 persons including
a congrets member and other
notables and plunged both
planes Into the Potomac river.
All were believed killed ex
cept the Bolivian.
Based on the tentative death
toll of 55, it was the worst do
mestic commercial aviation dis
aster in history. The top death
toll in previous commercial air
accidents in the U.S. was 53 in
a crash near Port Deposit, Md.,
in May, 1947.
Among the passengers on the
Eastern Airlines DC-4 airliner
were Rep. George J. Bates, 58,
Massachusetts republican; Mi
chael J. Kennedy, 52, of New
York, former member of con
gress and a former Tammany
hall leader, and Gardner W.
Taylor, 60, president of the First
Federal Savings and Loan asso
ciation of New York.
Cartoonist Among Lost
Also believed among the pas
sengers was Helen Hokinson, the
cartoonist who became noted as
a portrayer of suburban life.
Two of the 51 passengers were
infants. There were also four
crew members on the big pas
senger ship.
The only person taken from
the river and wreckage and still
alive in late afternoon was Eric
Rios Bridoux, 28, the Bolivian.
He had a broken back and other
undetermined injuries.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column
Plane Crash Victims
Identity Revealed
San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 1 Ti
The air force has released the
names of four flyers killed yes
terday when two training planes
crashed in flight.
The dead (with next of kin)
Capt. Kent P. Carlson, 31
Portland, Ore., wife and one
child living in Schertz, Texas.
First Lt. John L. Mesick, Jr
28. Fort Sheridan, 111.
Second Lt. Lovlck P. Moore.
Jr., Temple, Texas.
Second Lt. Shelhv L. Castle-
man, 24, ''anton Ohio.
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Announce Wedding Jane Hadley, 14. daughter of Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley, stands between
Vice President Allien W. Bnrklcy and her mother, after Mrs. Hadley announced at a press
conference held at St. Louis, Mo , apartment, that she and the vice president will be married
Nov. 18. (AP Wirephoto)
Fighter Pilot
On Test Flight
Washington, D C, Nov. 1 VP).
The CAA gave this account of
the actual crash between a Bo
livian fighter and Eastern air
liner:
The Bolivian was on a test
flight from national airport. As
he came back toward the field
he asked for landing instructions
and was advised by the tower
that he was second to come
down, behind the EAL flight.
The tower ordered Bridoux to
circle the field so as to come In
behind the commercial ship.
He did not acknowledge the
call, which the control tower re
peated several times.
Tower observers saw him
coming straight in and called to
him to pull up. There was no
indications that he heard or
understood the order.
Bolivian embassy officials said
he was their country's best pi
lot who had been trained in var
ious U.S. schools and at Ran
dolph field. He was 28.
Officials said he had original
ly planned to leave with the
plane two or three days ago but
had delayed his departure in or
der to make further tests of the
plane.
Massive chunks of the passen
ger plane were strewn along the
shore of the Potomac within 30
feet of the highway. Most of the
passenger compartments col
lapsed and sank beneath the
water.
Bodies were hurled more than
150 feet to the shore. Personal
effects, clothing, and other items
were picked from trees and
bushes where the impact had
thrown them.
The big airliner struck at the
river's edge, skidded down an
embankment and nosed into the
mud.
Bear Trails Hunters
But Is Killed Anyway
Cranbrook, B.C., Nov. 1
Two Oregon and Washington
hunters added a grizzly bear to
their bag Sunday but It was
almost in reverse.
The grizzly fell Into the line
of march of the hunting party
and trailed lt as the men with
their guides searched for moose.
One of the guides, Robert
Thomas of Cranbrook, "felt" the
animal's presence, turned and
shot over the head of his fel
low guide while the bear was
35 feet away. He got it.
With the guides were Dr. Wil
liam Carroll. Gresham Ore., and
IVic Cox of Port Angeles.