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Chicago's
Mayor Fails lo
Greet Truman
Report of Party Rift
Strengthens as
Bosses Meet Chief
Ching to Meet
Lewis lo Plan
End of Strike
Rigid Controls
On Exports lo
Foreign Lands
Government Seeks to
Prevent Reshipments
To Russia
Naval Policy
Agency Junked
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BY MERRIMAN SMITH
(United Pr&u White Hoiut Reporter!
Aboard Presidential Special
En Route to Washington, Nov. 4
(U.B President Truman arose at
dawn today to be greeted by
bigwig Illinois democrats but
Chicago's mayor failed to show
up, strengthening reports of a
party rift in the pivotal prairie
state.
The president was traveling
back to Washington after mak
ing a speech last night at St.
Paul, Minn., that drew the dem
ocratic battle lines for the 1950
congressional elections.
He arose at 5:30 a.m. so that
he could meet with Illinois dem
ocrats he had invited to board
the train and confer with him
when it pulled it at 6:05 a.m.
Party Bosses on Hand
The party chieftains who
boarded the train were Sen. Paul
Douglas, D., 111.; Cook County
(Chicago) Chairman Jacob Ar
vey; State Democratic Chairman
George Kells, and former May
or Edward J. Kelly who still
wields power as a national com
mitteeman. Reporters were impressed,
however, by the fact that Chi
cago's present Mayor Martin
Kennelly failed to appear to
greet the president.
Rift Reported
There have been reports that
Kennelly, elected on a reform
ticket that promised to clean up
mispractices by the old Kelly
Arvey machine, was planning to
support Chicago Corporation
Counsel Benjamin Adamowski
for U. S. senator next year in
opposition to the party's current
floor leader, Sen. Scott Lucas of
Illinois.
Although Kelly and Arvey
have paid Kennelly consistent lip
service, reports have persisted of
a widening chasm between them.
Asked why Kennelly had not
appeared, Arvey said he thought
the mayor "had a very busy
night and probably slept late."
In his speech before more than
12,000 persons at St. Paul last
night, Mr. Truman invited the
nation's voters to follow up his
1948 election victory by throw
ing '"reactionaries" of both par
ties out of congress.
His speech was labeled "non
partisan" but actually was about
as non-partisan as a ward head
quarters speech.
(Concluded an Pare 5, Column I)
Nagel Taken to
Stale Prison
Klamath Falls, Nov. 4 (IP)
Two and a half years of legal
jockeying came to an end this
morning in circuit court when
William Henry Nagel of Port
land was ordered taken to Salem
to begin serving a two-year pris
on sentence imposed on a con
viction of contributing to the de
linquency of a minor.
Nagel said he will have a
Baptist pulpit open for him when
he is released from prison.
He appeared in court today
with his wife and two Portland
attorneys and made a last effort
to avoid going to the peniten
tiary by asking for a suspended
sentence or probation. Circuit
Judge Orval J. Millard of Grants
Pass vetoed the request and di
rected that Nagel be committed
The 43-year-old Portland min
ister was convicted here in Sep
tember, 1947 on an indictment
charging him with committing
an indecent act in the presence
of a 10-year-old Klamath Falls
girl in May of that year.
Nagel was in Klamath Falls
at the time for an appearance
at a local church.
Judge Millard was assigned to
preside over the trial after Cir
cuit Judge David Vandenberg
disqualified himself Judge Van
denberg was instrumental in tak
Ing Nagel into custody and ap
peared as a prosecuting witness
during the trial.
It was Judge Vandenberg'i in
terest in the case that Nagel and
his attorneys claimed prevented
the Portlander from getting a
fair trial in Klamath county, and
the contention wan used in ap
pealing the conviction to the
itate supreme court and finally
to the U. S. supreme court
tTl Killed by Typhoon
Manila. Nov. 4 IP) The Ty
phoon that struck the south een
tral Philippines on October 31
killed 271 persons, left 25.047
homeless and destroyed 3.S77
buildings, the Philippine Na
tional Red Cross reported today.
Mediation Chief to
Confer with Coal
Miners' Chief Today
Washington, Nov. 4 UP) Cyrus
S. Ching today arranged a meet
ing with John L, Lewis the
first step in new government ef
forts to end the coal strike.
Word of plans for a meeting
this afternoon was learned by
reliable sources shortly after
Lewis made a new bid to effect
a setlement with a part of the
soft coal industry. Lewis offer
ed to negotiate in Chicago to
morrow for an agreement cover
ing mines in the two states of
Illinois and Indiana.
Ching, the federal mediation
chief, arranged to visit Lewis
at the mine workers' headquar
ters here at an unspecified hour
in the afternoon.
May Pave Way to Peace
The time was left uncertain
because Ching was on his way
here from steel strike talks in
New York.
This afternoon's conference,
authoritative sources indicated,
may pave the way to a joint
meeting between Lewis and soft
coal operators next week in
Washington.
The leader of the striking min
ers had made unsuccessful bids
earlier this week for negotia
tions looking toward a settle
ment with Indiana operators
alone.
In effect, he expanded that to
a two-state proposal with a tel
egram today to Gov. Adlai Stev
enson of Illinois. His proposal
was for negotiations starting to
morrow afternoon in Chicago.
(Concluded on rage 5. Column 5)
CIO May Keep
Some Commies
Cleveland, Nov. 4 (IP) Selec
tion of an executive board pro
vided the big test today of the
new right-wing controls over the
CIO.
In sharp contrast to the pre
dictions of a week ago, there
were few delegates to the CIO
11th convention who would say
that all leftist-controlled unions
would be purged by the time del
egates adjourned tonight.
Some of the reasons for the
shift in opinion were rooted in
the sudden realization that left
wing union like Harry Bridges'
longshoremen on the west coast
and Ben Gold's fur and leather
workers would be hard to cast
out or even to riddle in mem
bership raids.
At least four unions were
certain to get the heave-ho if the
executive board could be satis
field that the membership loss
was worth risking
The unions were the Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers. Unit
ed Public Workers, Office and
Professional Workers, and Food,
Tobacco and Agricultural Work
ers. A widespread merger of weak
unions with strong ones was al
most assured whether they re
mained in the CIO or banded to
gether in a third labor federa
tion devoted to left-wing objectives.
To Start Work at Once
Main Airport Building
By MARGARET MAGEE
When informed by the CAA that Salem has only until Janu
ary, 1950, to use federal funds
administration building at McNary field, the airport advisory
board at a meeting Thursday
the first unit should get underway immediately
Meeting with City Manager J
L. Franzen. the board discussed
the proposed developments for
McNary field and the time cle
ment involved because of the al
ready appropriated federal funds
for matching by the city.
The program will be affected
by the law recently passed by
congress requiring that funds
appropriated for airport devel
opment be used within the de
signated year or revert back to
the federal government.
City funds amounting to $20,-
000 are now on hand for the con
struction of the first unit of the
terminal building estimated to
cost $45,000.
Plans previously were drawn
for the unit by Lyle Bartholo
mew and the advisory commit
tee Thursday night recommend
ed that City Manager Franzen
take the necessary steps at once
to get construction of the build
ing under way. To conform
Find Body of
Missing Pilot
Eugene, Nov. 4 WW The body
of a pilot identified as Robert
L. Rubottom, McMinnville, who
disappeared on a flight early in
1947, was found near Fuji
mountain four miles north of
Gold Lake Thursday by Dep
uty Sheriff Clair Williams and
W. W. Walker. Both are mem
bers of the Lane county sher
iff's posse.
Williams said he and Walker
were on a hunting trip when
they found the wreckage and
the body in the rugged Cascade
hills. The body had been thrown
some distance from the wreck
age and identification was made
by Rubottom's billfold.
Rubottom, a former first lieu
tenant in the air force, lived at
McMinnville. He was about
24 years old. Officials at Mc-
Chord field have been notified,
Sheriff Tomswarts said.
The Lane county coroner's of
fice has also been notifiedVand
forest service officials have of
fered to help bring out the body.
Airport Plans
Changed by Fog
Vna nnH nnnr visihilitv at Sa
lem's airport Friday morning
nhanffed the travel Dlans for
Oregon State college's football
team.
The United Air Lines charter
ed DC-6 was slated to land here
at 10 a.m. and take-off for Spo
kane at 11 a.m. At about 10
a.m. visibility at Salem was at
zero and the plane was cleared
to Eugene by Portland.
By 11 a.m. the fog had lifted
enough to permit southbound
flight 174 of United Air Lines
to make its regular Salem stop
The flight, however, was delay
ed an hour in Portland before
starting because of the weather
Visibility at noon was one mile.
After the game Saturday
with the University of Idaho the
Oregon State team will take the
bus back to Spokane and from
their will leave for Salem. They
are slated to land at McNary
field Saturday night at about
10:15 o'clock.
allocated for construction of an
night agreed that construction of
with CAA rulings three copies
of the floor plan of the unit and
a plan for the building as it will
appear when all units have been
built must be. submitted to the
CAA for approval.
Other immediate improve-
ments, recommended by CAA
and coming up for consideration
at the meeting Thursday night
were extension of the northwest-
southeast runway by 500 feet;
installation of high intensity
lights; extension or construction
of a new taxiway for the north
west-southeast runway; and im
provement and strengthening of
the present taxiway on the west
side of the field, running from
the apron to the runway.
Federal funds for these devel
opments have already been allo
cated to McNary field and must
be used by the city by July, 1950.
or be returned to the federal
government.
(Concluded r a, Column I)
Oregon Republican Clubs Convene In Salem Registering
with Mrs. William M. Burns, Portland, chief clerk of the sen
ate, is Leonard L. Lindas, Portland, president of the clubs.
Others shown are (from left): H. L. Lister, Portland; Rep.
William Chadwick and Dr. E. E. Boring, convention chairman,
Salem. The convention is at the Senator. .
Constructive
Asked for Republicans
By JAMES
Republicans cannot hope for
time tearing down our opponents. We must develop a strong re
publican program and then sell it to the people."
This was the statement of Leonard I, Lindas, of Oregon City,
president of the Oregon Republican club as he opened the 16th
Hired Men to
Slay Husband
Bremerton, Nov. 4 OP) A
blue-eyed, brown-haired mother
of two children was held on a
charge of attempted murder to
day after telling authorities she
had made a $324 down payment
on an unfulfilled plot, to slay
her- husband.
Prosecutor James Nunro said
the woman, Mrs. Margaret Su
san Piatt, 31, was accompanied
by her husband, Willford, 34,
when she appeared yesterday
to tell her story. The husband,
an unemployed navy yard work
er, later hired an attorney for
her defense.
Two men whom Mrs. Piatt
said had taken her money with
the promise to get rid of her
husband also were held on a
charge of grand larceny by em
bezzlement. They were Hollis
D. Scott, 23, a former private
detective whom Mrs. Piatt said
was to arrange the $1,000 slay
ing, and Wallace Mottcrn, 22,
also of Bremerton. Mottern was
introduced to her, she said, as
the "gunman" who was to carry
out the plot.
The prosecutor said both Scott
and Mottcrn denied any inten
tion of killing Piatt. He said
thty told him they were "just
out for the money."
Munro said the woman's
statement related that she con
spired against her husband be
cause he refused to give her a
divorce.
The prosecutor said Detective
Lt. John E. Plouf said Mrs. Pi
att told them she wanted to get
rid of her husband "because he
wanted to make love every
night of our 15 years of married
life and I couldn't stand it."
UN Censures Both
Albania, Bulgaria-
Lake Success, Nov. 4 UP) The
United Nations political commit
tee approved overwhelmingly
today a resolution declaring A1-
bania and Bulgaria endanger
peace in the Balkans by assist
ing the Greek guerrillas. The
vote was 38 to 6, with 2 absten
tions. The resolution was Jointly
sponsored by the United States,
Britain, China and Australia. It
also cals upon Albania and Bul
garia to stop supporting the
communist-led guerrillas.
Yugoslavia joined Russia and
her four satellite countries of
eastern Europe in voting against
the resolution. Nations abstain
ing were India and Israel.
Death Held Suicide
Madras, Nov. 4 ' The death
of Ernest Spencer, young war
veteran Just named policeman at
the Warm Springs Indian
agency, was ruled due to a self
inflicted bullet wound today.
Woodv Joe. head police offi
cer of the agency, said Spencer
had shot himself. He died Tues
day.
Program
D. OLSON
victory if we spend our entire
annual convention in Salem Fn-
day afternoon.
Lindas told the several hun
dred delegates gathered that he
felt tlie keynote of the rcpubli
can campaign was warfare on
government waste.
"We can point to the Hoover
report and show where the an
nual cost of government has
risen from $4,000,000,000 to $24
billions; the government payroll
from 600,000 to 2,100,000 and the
public debt pyramiding from
16.5 billions to 251 billions dur
ing the long democratic admin
istration In Washington."
Lindas stressed the importance
of presenting good candidates,
adding there was no dearth of
good material in the party.
"This is true for candidates
from top to bottom but particu
larly so in local campaigns where
the party label does not bear too
much significance," he said.
Registration of delegates be
gan in the Senator hotel early
Friday morning. At noon a
luncheon was held with Presi
dent Lindas presiding. The in
vocation was given by the Rev
Chester A. Hamblin, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church.
Greetings were extended to
the delegates by Governor Mc
Kay on behalf of the state and
Mayor Robert Elfstrom for the
city of Salem.
Guests introduced Included
Congressman Harris Ellsworth
Mrs. Marshall Cornctl, republi
can national committecwoman
Ralph Cake, national committee
man, Sigrid Unader, GOP state
chairman and Secretary of State
Earl T. Newbry.
In a brief talk Congressman
Ellsworth warned the rcpubli
cans present that passage of the
CVA bill, now in congress, would
disrupt the orderly completion
of the Willamette Valley project
and place this project and all
others in the northwest under
the domination of a board of
three men from Washington
D. C.
Senator Guy Cordon will make
the principal talk at a banquet
to be held Friday night at the
Chamber of Commerce and Con
gressman Walter Norblad will
be the principal speaker at the
closing session of the conven
tion Saturday morning.
Dr. E. E. Boring of Salem is
convention chairman and Don
Eva of Portland, co-chairman.
YFW Give $266.13
To Polio Chapter
A sum of $266.13 has been
turned over to the Marion coun
ty' chapter. National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, by post
No. 661, Veterans of Foreign
Wars. The money was raised
from a recent amateur boxing
match.
The check was received Fri
day morning. George Malstrom
and D. B. Taylor signing the
latter delivering the money to
the chapter.
Mrs. David Wright, chairman
of the county IP chapter, ex
pressed appreciation for the
money, stating it was badly
needed by the group at this
time in ill work of assisting
those afflicted with polio.
Washington, Nov. 4 The
government slapped rigid con
trols on shipment of strategic
goods to practically the whole
world today to prevent re-shipments
to the Soviet bloc.
Communist China and Latin
America particularly were cover
ed by the new rules.
Officials told a reporter the
step was taken more with the
idea of averting future re-ship
ment difficulties than because of
any great current traffic in re-
shipments to Russian-dominated
areas.
Hitherto the commerce depart
ment has applied these rigid con
trols only to Europe and ad
jacent areas, mostly along the
southern rim of the Mediter
ranean. Canada Excepted
The new action extends the
control powers to exports to any
place in the world except Can
ada, which has always been in
a relatively control-free class of
its own, even in wartime.
By strategic goods, the depart
ment means for the most part
industrial items that might con
tribute to "war potential" of the
Soviet.
Export of military materials is
rigidly controlled too but li
censes for these are handled by
the state department.
The commerce department
(Concluded on Parr , Column 6)
Big 3 Meeting
Called in Paris
London, Nov. 4 (IP) The Brit
ish foreign office announce today
the foreign ministers of the
United. States, Great Britain and
France will meet 1n Paris next
week to discuss German prob
lems. The spokesman said the meet
ing probably would begin Wed
nesday or Thursday, depending
on when U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson could reach Paris.
Some British sources speculat
ed that Acheson would give
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bcven and French Foreign Min
ister Robert Schuman a fill-in
on the meeting he is scheduled
to have Monday in Washington
with Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Rus
sia's foreign minister.
These same sources said they
hoped Vishinsky would not try
to turn the three-power Paris
talks into a four-power meeting
on Germany.
(State department officials in
Washington insisted Vishinsky's
Monday visit would be just a
courtesy call as far as they
knew.)
The British foreign office said
the agenda for the big three
Paris meeting is still under
study.
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Blind School Youngsters Ride the Shasta Seven primary
grade children from the blind school under supervision of
Miss Jean Bolton, member of the school staff, rode the ShaMa
to Albany this morning. For some it was their first train
ride. Those mking the trip: Lmiise Welch. Grants Pass;
Darlene Cummings, Astoria: Roy F.llis, Roirhurg: Ronald Jus
tii, Lakrview; Gary Lowe Pendleton; Judy Kadin, Gates;
Larry Maya, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Circuit Judge Dal King
Judge King on
Pineapple Case
Portland, Nov. 4 U.RlChief
Justice Hall S. Lusk of the
Oregon supreme court today
assigned Circuit Judge Dal
King of Coos Bay to The Dalles
to hear the cases of longshore
men charged with violence in
the recent "hot pineapple" dis
pute.
Judge King will take the
place of Circuit Judge M. W.
Wilkinson of Wasco county.
A change of judges was re
quested by attorneys for the
longshoremen.
Violence flared last month
when the Hawaiian Pineapple
company sent over a barge load
ed with some 2,700 tons of pine
apple. A longshore strike, since
settled, was on in Honolulu at
the time, and the bargeload of
fruit was declared "hot" by the
CIO longshore union. The cargo
was intended ultimately for Cal
ifornia canneries to be used in
processing fruit salad.
A company representative
said it was felt that the fruit
could not be unloaded in Cali
fornia, so first attempt was
made to take the pineapple off
the barge at Tacoma, Wash.,
where AFL longshoremen work.
But CIO longshoremen sent
pickets from Seattle, and the
AFL longshoremen refused to
pass the picket line. So the
barge was shunted to the Co
lumbia river and up to The
Dalles, a port not organized by
the union. Violence started
when the company attempted to
unload the pineapple despite
picket lines established by long
shoremen from Portland.
Later, the strike in Hawaii
was settled, and eventually the
pineapple at The Dalles was un
loaded, for overland shipment
to California, without incident.
Columbia Basin
Project Feasible
Washington, Nov. 4 W) The
army corps of engineers final
plan for the development of the
Columbia basin not only "is ac
ceptable to all the stales inter
ested" but also is "economically
feasible," Col. William Whipple
Jr., engineer for the Walla Walla
district, told the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers yester
day. Whipple said adoption of the
engineers' plan would aun to
the national welfare as well as
that of the region.
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By Sherman
"Op 23," Which
Attacked Defense
Program, Gets Axe
Washington, Nov. 4 'Pi "OP
23," a naval agency said to have
master-minded the admirals' bit-
ter congressional attack on de
fense policies, has been junked
by Adm. Forrest P. Sherman,
new chief of naval operations.
Sherman, a strong supporter
of armed forces unification,
cracked down on the 30-man unit
less than 24 hours after taking
over from Adm. Louis Denfeld
as the navy's top uniformed of
ficer. There were reports some days
ago that the navy's inspector
general, Rear Adm. Allen R. Mc
Cann, had seized the group's rec
ords and was investigating its ac
tivities. Headed by Burke
"OP 23" was what the nivy
called its operations division 23.
Actually, its full title was Or
ganizational, Research and Pol
icy division of the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations. It
was headed by Capt. A. A.
Burke, who testified in con
gress against present Pentagon
policy.
Sherman's order dissolved the
group which consisted of 13 of
ficers and 17 enlisted men and
handed its work to other navy
agencies. OP 23's "principal
functions have been completed,"
a statement said.
The unit was said to have map
ped strategy for the broadside
barrage laid down by top navy
officers in sensational hearings
before the house armed services
committee last month.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 7)
Russian Tanks
Better Than U.S.
Washington, Nov. 4 (IP) Gen.
J. Lawton Collins, army chief of
staff, said today that "frankly
our tanks aren't as good as the
Russian tanks."
Collins addressed a luncheon
session of the National Press
club. In it, and a qucstion-and-
answer exchange, he ranged over
a wide field of defense prob
lems. On tanks, he said that Russia
now has the best but that he had
just seen in Detroit a light tank
as good as any in the world and
'all we need is a little money
to buy them."
He said he also saw proto
types of medium and heavy tanks
as good as any in the world.
Collins also said:
1. The armed forces have
plans ready for moving in to
maintain order and handle the
situation in event of atomic at
tack on the United States.
2. As of the moment, the de
fenses of Alaska are inadequate
but would be rcenforccd quickly
in case of an emergency.
3. Troops in Europe are in top
condition. Those in the Far East
will be in four or five months
and in the same period those at
home will be "ready to fight and
ready to take on anybody in the
world, anywhere, any time."
West German
Council Splits
Paris. Nov. 4 WTlic Eur
opean council's upper house split
today on the issues of West Ger
many's admission and the future
status of the Saar.
The 12 foreign ministers of
the member slates represented in
the upper house discussed an ap
proach to the consultative assem
bly's steering committee for ad
vice on the candidacies of west
ern Germany, the Saar and Aus
tria. French ForeiKH Minister Rob
ert Schuman proposed the Saar,
now incorporated in France's
economy, for associate member
ship. This met with spirited op
who said the Saar was not a sov
ereign state and could not be
come one until a German peace
treaty was writlcn.
Officials said there were no
formal proposals on admission
of the West German Republic or
of Austria, but the ministers
agreed to include both in the dis
cussion. The indications were that the
ministers would sidestep the
question of west Germany's ap-
'plication until the American,
British and French foreign min
listers hold their discussions on
Gcrmany here next week.