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Salem, Oregon, Monday, November 7, 1949
(16 Pages)
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Hopes for Labor
Hinge on Steel
Settlement
Several Firms to Come
To Terms; Coal Strike
Up to Truman
Washington, November 1 IPt
Hopes for labor peace in both
the steel and coal industries
hinged today on quickened set
tlement moves in the steel
strike.
Government officials said
they look for several major steel
firms to come to terms this week
with the striking CIO steelwork
ers. They said this probably would
gg on John L. Lewis and soft
coal operators toward an agree
ment. There were reports that Pres
ident Truman may intervene in
the coal situation if it contin
ues hopeless beyond this week.
May Use T-H Law
Some officials favored Mr.
Truman's naming a fact-finding
board with power to recommend
settlement terms. Such a meth
od, which is outside the scope
of the Taft-Hartley act, was
adopted in the steel strike.
But other officials talked of
possible use of the Taft-Hartley
act powers to obtain strike-ending
court injunctions
The coal strike is now in its
49th day, the steel strike in its
87th.
Of the two stoppages, the
worst effects have come from
the coal mine walkout, which
curtailed train service and creat
ed fuel shortages for many
householders. But lack of steel
has hit manufacturers.
Steel settlement prospects
looked brighter with the return
to Pittsburgh of Philip Murray,
president of the CIO and the
striking steelworkers union.
ir.nli(t.l An Pari. K. Column 1)
$119,257,255
In Stale Taxes
The state of Oregon collected
a record total of $119,257,255 in
taxes during the year ended July
1, the state tax commission said
today.
That was $10,000,000 more
than the record set the previous
year.
And it's twice as much as was
collected only four years ago.
Income tax collections were
about half the total. They in
cluded $35,863,474 in personal
Income taxes, and $20,041,257 in
corporation income taxes.
Gasoline taxes were the next
biggest source of income, with
$20,644,980. Then come unem
ployment compensation payroll
taxes, $13,148,900.
Amounts collected from other
taxes include:
Liquor taxes and permits, $8,
963,662; motor truck taxes, $5,
743,268, motor vehicle license
fees, $4,142,399, hunting and
fishing licenses at $1,720,864,
tax on insurance premiums, $2.
377,985, inheritance and gift
taxes, $1,600,189.
All other taxes yielded less
than $1,000,000.
The total Includes only those
taxes levied by the state govern
ment. They don't include those
levied by counties, cities, school
districts, and other local gov
ernments.
$702,000 Paid
On 49-50 Taxes
Taxes paid against the 1949
SO roll when the tax collection
office opened for business Mon
day totaled $702,268.93 paid
over the counter with maybe
that much again received In the
mails against the $4,656,272.70
roll. What has been received
through the mails is still simply
a guess.
Only about a week remains
for payments to be made before
the 3 percent discount ceases
and penalty starts in. The dead
line is 5 o'clock, Tuesday, No
vember 15.
Harold Domogalla, chief tax
collection deputy, warns people
who desire to make inquiry
bout their tax statements to do
0 In person at the office be
fore the deadline. If the inquir
ies are sent through the mail
they are apt not to be reached
In time for an answer to be of
any use to the taxpayer who de-
lira to tecura tht discount.
Court Upholds
Fines Levied on
Lewis, Miners
$1,420,000 Penalty
Stands Refuses to
Pass on Rail Strike
Washington, Nov. 7 UP) The
supreme court today in effect
upheld the $1,420,000 contempt-
of-court fines levied on John L.
Lewis and the United Mine
Workers during a 1948 walkout.
The fines were imposed by
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough in
his district court here after
Lewis ignored a court order to
bring the strike to a prompt end
Lewis was fined $20,000 and the
union $1,400,000.
Attorneys for Lewis and the
union appealed to the supreme
cor-1 to review Goldsborough's
ruling and set aside the fines.
But the court denied a review
by a 5-3 vote, thus letting the
ruling stand unchanged and in
effect upholding it.
3 Judges Dissent
The court's decision was an
nounced in a brief order which
said Justices Black, Reed and
Dough, dissented. Justice Clark
took no part.
That meant that Chief Justice
Vinson and Justices Frank fur
ter, Jackson, Burton and Min
ton voted to uphold the fines.
The court today refused to
rule on the authority of Presi
dent Truman and the federal
courts to ban railroad strikes by
injunction.
Railroad unions had told the
court that unless the question
is settled they may be denied
forever the right to strike with
out first getting a judge's ap
proval. Rail (.'- ns Appealed
The unions obeyed such an
order issued here by Federal
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough
when a strike threatened in the
spring of 1948. The mediation
me hinery provided in the rail
way labor act had failed to pro
duce a settlement on wages and
working rules. The government
had taken over the railroads un
der an old World War I statute.
Although the railroad unions
obeyed the order banning their
strike, they iroceeded to fight
it in court. Meantime their ori
ginal wage dispute was se'"'d.
They then lacked a pending is
sue on which to pin their law
suit. (Concluded on Pare .1. Column t)
Navy's Sea Force
Dwindles Daily
Washington, Nov. 7 () The
navy s active sea force, growing
smaller by the month, is now
less than half the size of its
mothball fleet.
Figures supplied today by the
navy show that to date 395 ma
jor combat vessels have been
pulled out of the Atlantic fleet
and 332 out of the Pacific fleet,
ior a lotai of 727 ships in re
serve. Last July 1 there were 271
major lighting ships in active
service, 174 with the Atlantic
fleet and 97 in the Pacific.
By next July 1. that total will
be down to 237 including three
new submarines and a light car
rieras 17 ships of the Atlantic
fleet and seven from the Pacific
are put in storage.
That will place the total
strength of the mothball fleet at
751 ships.
Idanha on Warpath
Against Detroit Plan
Open war flared up in the canyon Monday when a group
from Idanha appeared before the county court with petitions
seeking an election to incorporate that town in competition to
a proposal seeking another election to incorporate the sister town
of Detroit.
The county court set Decem
ber 9 as the time to vote on the
Idanha proposal. Last week De
cember 13 was set for an elec
tion to incorporate Detroit.
The proposal for a second elec
tion on the Detroit incorpora
tion aroused Idanha citizens so
Saturday afternoon they hustled
out petitions, secured 153 signa
tures, had a map prepared and
were, at the courthouse here
bright and early Monday to lay
the Detitions in the lao of the'melia Lumber rnmnanv Kcit -
enuntv arourt. The court wentizinffer Loffffintf enmnanv. Irianha
into a huddle with the dclcga -
tion and called the election at
the date requested, four days be -
fore the Detroit vote is to be
had.
The Idanha vote would cover
an area roughly two miles long.
(Its west end is to includt the
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Negotiate on
Senators Sale
"We are all set for next year,"
reported Robert Abel, president
of the Western International
Baseball league, following a
two-hour session with the own
ers and directors at the Senator
hotel Monday forenoon.
The meeting was held behind
closed doors and Abel indicated
that there was little likelihood
that the organization would
finish its work during the aft
ernoon. This would mean that
they would reconvene Tuesday
forenoon to finish the job.
The WIL president reported
that it was virtually certain that
Tacoma would remain in the
league with promise of full sup
port from the San Diego Padres.
The Wenatchee and Tri City
franchises have been approved
and league officials are waiting
to see what happens in Salem.
William Mulligan, business
manager of the Portland Beav
ers, who own and operate the
Salem club, said that he had met
with Howard Maple and his as
sociates. "We have not gotten
together as yet, although we are
not too far apart over the price,"
he said. Mulligan was sched
uled to leave for California early
Monday evening on the Cascade.
League officials will be guests
of the Salem Breakfast club at
a dinner scheduled for the Mar
ion hotel at 6 o'clock Monday
night.
Mother Slashes
Babies' Throats
Sterling. 111., Nov. 7 (iP) A
35-year-old Mother said last
night she slashed the throats of
her four small children because
"saint kept telling her to do
it."
The woman, Mrs, James Mou-
ghan, made the statement at a
hearing in which she was ad
judged insane within three hours
after her husband found her
hacking one of the children.
Hospital attendants said all
the children are expected to re
cover. They are Mary Elen, age two
months; Richard, 20 months; Mi
chael, three years old next
month, and James, four.
At the hearing before Judge
Walter J. Stevens, she asked
whether the children were still
alive. Assured that they were,
she said "it would be terrible
a disgrace for them to go
through life with scars."
Her husband, a steelworker,
testified that Mrs. Moughan had
not been well since the birth of
their last baby.
CCC camp, also known as Hoo- nable observers to track them
ver which .is about two and a on tncir flignl past the warships,
half miles east of Detroit. Ill Tne demonstration was re
would extend to a point about a lgardcd highiy important. It
mile past Idanha and range inmarkcd tne fjrst timP the navy
width on an average of about ait,-, .riming ihn mnrieri missile
quarter of a
mile
and
about
three-quarters
of
mile
at its
widest point.
The map indicates it would in
clude the heavily populated sec
tion of Idanha and take in the
industrial concerns such as Pa-
1 Veneer company and Harvey star, who became a princess by
Lumber company, as well as theimarrying Aly Kahn. has come
heavily populated CCC camp
area. These were excluded fromibaby expected in the next few!at home, and a son Howard,
'the section to be voted on at the
second election to incorporate
I Detroit.
(Concluded an rue i. Column I)
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Western International League officials assembled here Mon
day to discuss the season recently completed as well as plans
for 1950. From left to right: Joe Brownlow, Wenatchee; Rob
ert Abel, Tacoma, president of the league; "Babe" Holling
bery and Dick Richards, Tri Cities; George Emigh, Saiem;
Pat Patterson, Victoria; Dewey Soriano, Yakima; Bob Brown,
Vancouver; John V. Johnson, Victoria; Roy E. Hitchkiss,
Spokane.
Dec. 13 Set for Vote
On Liberty Fire District
By DON UPJOHN
The county court Monday set December 13 from 8 a.m. to 8
8 p.m. as time for election on the question or organization of the
Liberty-Salem Heights rural fire protection district which has
been subject to some heated hearings before the court. At the
same time five directors for the
Pope Hits at
Red Run Courts
Castel Gandolfo, Nov. 7 W)
Pope Pius XII, in an apparent
blow against communist-con
trolled courts, has declared that
Roman Catholic judges must
never recognize unjust laws.
He ruled that Catholic judges
bear grave responsibility for the
application of laws contrary to
Christian concepts.
The pope laid down four fund'
amental rules for Catholic
judges and lawyers in an ad
dress to members of an Italian
Catholic lawyers' congress here
yesterday. The speech was made
public today.
The rules appeared aimed at
strangthening the will of Catho
lic jurists still active in com
munist-controlled eastern tu-
rope. They may apply especially
to Czechoslovakia, current focus
of the church-state battle, where
the communist regime recently
imposed a new church control
law.
The pope also ruled that
"the Catholic judge cannot pro
nounce, unless for motives of
great moment, a decision of civil
divorce (where it does exist) in
a marriage valid before God and
the church."
Subs Send Buzz
Bombs to Target
Honolulu, Nov. 7 (U P) The na
vy's "silent service," the subma
rine branch, set out today to
show the important role it will
carry in the next war by send
ing buzz bombs over enemy
shores to inland targets.
Two submarines, t he Cusk
and Carbonero. were poised to
launch radio-controlled
flying
bombs in Molokai channel. The
bombs, nicknamed "loons.
weigh about 15,000 pounds each.
While newsmen watch from a
destroyer in the firing area
about three-quarters of a mile
away, the subs will launch and
control their loons past 70 war
ships strung along Molokai chan
nel. The warships' anti-aircraft
batteries will attempt to destroy
the 30-foot long missiles which
will be travelling more than 420
miles an hour.
During their flight, the loons
tiill fnrrv imnkp Dpnrralnm tn
program has been brought to the
point at which subs can sneak
into enemy waters and launch a
bomb at a target more than 200
miles away.
Rita In Switzerland
I Lausanne. Switzerland. Nov. 7
'4 Rita Havworth. the movie
to Lausanne for the birth nf her
weeks.
Rita and Aly arrived from
, Paris Sunday and went into
'seclusion in a hotel suit.
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proposed district will be voted on.
The election date was set fol
lowing presentation to the court
by William J. Linfoot, chairman
of the sponsoring committee,
and Mrs. Donald Griffith, its sec
retary-treasurer, an amended
map of the proposed area. The
map eliminates all of the areas
heretofore asked to be eliminat
ed except properties involved
in petitions recently presented
by Andrew Drawson near the
northeast peak of the district
just south of the Salem city
limits. This area, said the fire
district sponsors, contains 88
houses or more besides consid
erable vacant property, but the
petitions covering it were signed
by only 28 names of whom, they
said, only one had signed the
original petition for a fire dis
trict. The sponsors said in re
gard to the petitions submitted
by Drawson, that they had at no
time promised sole financial sup
port would be by donations, as
indicated in such petitions, and
that further the only contract
the city can enter Into for fire
protection to an individual or
group of individuals outside the
city limits is on a basis of 4
mills or over.
The original petitions for the
proposed new fire district car
ried over 550 names. There arc
over 800 property owners in the
district.
The sponsors pointed out that
4 mills is the minimum levy to
support the district and a spe
cial levy up to 10 mills would
have to receive the approval of
the voters as well as any bond
ing of the district and at special
elections. Donations may be
given, they stated, and additional
money might be raised by com
munity projects. The sponsor
ing committee, they ;aid. al
ready had received many con
tributions for the specific pur
pose of helping purchase a fire
truck. A matter of S10 a fam
ily was asked for so it would not
be necessary to vole additional
millage for equipment and to se-.
i cure equipment to go to fires
as early as possible, (he 4 mill
levy being all that the commit
tee expects to be the basic source
of financial support. Contribu
tions were given with the un
derstanding, they said, that if
the district is not affirmed at the
election what Is left over after
cost of organising is taken out,
will be pro-rated back to those
making the donations.
Capf. Gray's Widow
Dies in Portland
Portland, Nov. 7 ') Mrs
Grace Howard Gray, 92, widow
ot Steamboat Capt James T
Gray died here yesterday at a
hospital. Her family had been
prominent in early northwest
affairs
She was daughter of Gen.
Oliver Otis Howard, who de
feated Chief Joseph of the Nez
Perre Indian wars and was
founder of Howard University.
Washington, D. C. He was a close
friend of
President Grant and
jeommanded the
Wash , barracks.
Vancouver
One daughter, Mary A. Gray.
(Portland, and eight grandchil
dren survive. One of three other
daughters perished a week
jearlier in a fire at Milwauki
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Development
Interior Bureau Asks
Budget Approval for
6 Year Plan
Washington, Nov
7 (t The 1
interior department has asked
. ,. - j '
, the budget bureau to approve a
j six-year $1,500,000,000 develop
ment program for the Pacific
northwest.
Budget bureau approval usu
ally is sought before congress is
asked to appropriate money for
such projects.
Assistant Secretary of the In
terior C. Girard Davidson said
this is the first time the depart
ment has proposed a budget pro
gram on a regional basis
He said the program covers !
the years 1950 through 1955.
For Related Activities
About 85 percent of the $1,-
500,000,000 would be for con
struction and operation of major
irrigation and power projects of
the b u r e au of reclamation and
the Bonneville power adminis
tration. The other appro priatlons
would be for related activities
in Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and western Montana of the geo
logical survey, bureau of mines,
bureau of land management,
Indian bureau, national park
service and other integrated
agencies.
Davidson presented the pro
gram to the budget bureau. He
told reporters it has no relation
to and is not a substitute for a
Columbia valley administration.
Davidson is one of the leading
advocates of
LVA along lines
urged by President Truman.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column
Russian Heads
Polish Defense
London, Nov. 7 (U.B Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky of
Russia has been appointed de
fense minister of Poland, the
Polish embassy here announced
today.
A later Warsaw dispatch said
government spokesman an
nounced the appointment of Ro
kossovsky as defense minister,
adding that he could give no de
tails. The dispatch said Rokos
sovsky now is in Warsaw.
The new tack in strategy be
hind the iron curtain touched off
startled reaction. The British
foreign office denounced it as
new evidence that Moscow was
in complete con'rol of Poland.
"The appointment may be re
garded as the latest demonstra
tion of the total subservience
of the communist regime In Po
land to the Soviet I'nion," a for
eign office spokesman said.
Other commentators voiced
surprise at the spetcacle of a
national of one country, and
especially Russia being named
head of the army of another
state, particularly a neighboring!
one.
The Polish announcement ofl
Rokossovskv's new oost follow-1
ed word from the Moscow radiolasked Portland police todav tolled that a third world war would
that Russia had agreed to lend i
the ranking military leader ofl
the second World War to Poland,
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Kiss That Blarney Big to-do here about germs on the
Blarney stone. Dr. J. C. Geiger (loft) say yes; Con Lynch,
United Irish Society president, savs no. So the city health
director and his friend compromise after Lynch had kissed
the hunk of the famed stone on display at St. Mary's cathedral
in San Francisco. The compromise was the standard medical
approach to the situation a throat swabbing. (Acme Tele
federal Rent
uumru iu cnu
imer
Washington, Nov. 7 tip
Federal rent controls may end
next summer as a result of
booming home construction.
With new dwelling units go
ing up at a million-a-ycar clip,
some key lawmakers today
raised doubts that another rent
control bill could be rammed
thrmich rnnpress when the
nrpfnt lau, nvnirp. Jnnn 10
'
It is not yet clear whether
the Truman administration will
ask congress to keep the rental
lid clamped down when the ex
piration deadline nears.
In any case, a top administra
tion leader in congress expressed
doubt that congress would agree
to another overall extension of
rent limits.
Rep. Wolcott of Michigpi.
ranking republican member of
the house banking committee
and house leader of anti-control
forces, said he docs not believe
there will be any need of rent
ceilings next June.
"The house industry built
over 1.000.000 homes in 1948."
he said "it built 840,000 in 1947.
And now it is well on its way to
building over 1,000,000 this year.
"This should obviate any ne
cessity for continuing rent con
trols beyond June 30."
Held tor Kiting
$5 Checks to $50
James Clyburn, 25, and Ray
mond David Lopez, 20, both
members of an itinerant maga
zine crew, were taken before
district court Monday on chargcsiations
of forgerv as the result of an
alleged check kiting scheme,
Clyburn and Lopez were
given until Tuesday to enter
picas un me tiitii fto. me diiu- i
sations dealt with altering
checks from Aurora and Gervais
magazine clients from $5 to $50.
The men were members of a
19-man crew headed by Cecil
D. White which was working for
the Union Circulation Company,
Inc., of New York.
Virtually all the men in the
crew were crippled, and several
were bonafide veterans. But
after the pair were nabbed by
state police, Clyburn admitted
j finding a physical handicap
helpful in enhancing sales
State police arrested the men
near Woodburn while flicy were
heading south to Eugene to work
that area. Clyburn was charged
with raising a check from Emil
Zwicker, Aurora, from $5 to
$50.
An attempt to do the same
thing in Gervais led to infor
mation which enabled police to
nab the men. Lopez had receiv
ed a $5 check from Mrs. Joe
Doran, and he is alleged to have
taken it to a bank there after
it had been raised to $50 with
skillful alteration. The bank
clerk, suspicious over the
amount, went next door to cheek
with the woman's husband. Al
though Lopez left as soon as a
chock was started, the numbcrjcrs and bnnibers. led by Gen.
on a Utah license of the car the Vasily Sl.ilin, son of the prime
men were using was obtained, jminisler, zoomed over the
Bail for each of the men was Square.
$1000. i Vasilevsky made the Red
Find Buried Jewelry
Sweet Home. Nov. 7 M"1
1. inn rnnntv selieriff's cleuuties
help trace ownership of a cache :
of jewelrv found in two jars. I
buried In the ground.
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U.S. Troops to
Stay in Japan
Many Years
Terms of Proposed
Peace Pact Submitted
To Other Nations
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWLR
Washington, Nov. 7 M The
United States intends to keep
troops in Japan for manr years
after the end of the allied occu
pation. Diplomatic authorities said
that decision has been reached
by officials.
The next slop must be consul
tation with Britain and other
nations. U.S. planning has pro
gressed far enough so that Sec
retary of State Achcson will be
able to assure British Foreign
Minister Bevin in Paris this
week of U.S. readiness to start
such talks in the near future.
Ihe major provisions of the
pact as now drafted by the state
department call for:
Provisions of Part
1. An end to the allied occu
pation commanded by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, as soon as
the treaty is signed and ratified.
2. An orderly surrender by
the occupation forces of the
powers and duties of governing
the country, and their subse
quent withdrawal, as such.
3. Denial to the new govern
ment of (a) the industrial capa
city to build a modern war ma
chine and (b) the right to create
an army (which is also denied
in the Japanese constitution).
4. Final cleanup of all reDar-
questions, including dis-
onsifinn nf (n,mr i ,,r,c ,
lemy assets in allied and neutral
countries
Xo Guaralltee Civi, RiRllt,
5. Final removal of territories
from Japanese control in accord
ance with the wartime Cairo
agreement, as well as the sur
rendering of Japanese rights
over the Pacific mandated is
lands, 6. Guarantees of basic civil
rights, including the basic prin
ciples of western political de-
jmocracy, such as free elections.
(Coneludrd on Pare 5. Column J)
Russians Stage
Big Celebration
Moscow, Nov. 7 1P Picked
Soviet soldiers and mechanized
forces and 1.000.000 Soviet
workers paraded for hours to
day through Red Square in hon
or of the Russian revolution.
Soviet leaders hailed the 32nd
anniversary of tile revolution in
speeches accusing the United
States of fomenting a new world
blond bath.
The minister of the armed
forces, Marshal Alexander M.
Vasilevsky, reviewed the march
past, while squadrons of fight-
i Square address. It was siiml.ir
lin tune to the speech last nigut
if Deputy Prime Minister
1 Genrgi M. Mulenkov, who asser-
prove "the grave nf individual
capitalist countries."
Vasilevsky also said that the
material wealth of the Soviet
people is growing, while the
capitalist world faces poverty
and mass unemployment.
A group of Soviet leaders re
viewed the parade from atop the
mausoleum where V. I. Lenin's
body lies in a glass coffin. The
gruup was headed hy Deputy
Prime Ministers V. M. Mnlotov
and Malenknv.
Rain Forecast by
Weather Bureau
The spring like weather fea
turing the week-end is doomed
to end Tuesday, states the weath
er bureau. Rain is forecast to
begin on the coast tonight and
tn spread over the valley Tues
day, with slightly cooler temper
atures. Sunday's maximum was 62,
following a 65 mark on Satur
day. Although a fairly high max
imum. Saturday mark had hern
reached in previous years on a
November 5. the same figure be
ing listed for November 5 of
19H6.
So far. November has had no
rainfall, and the normal figure
for the first six days of the month
is 1 22 inches. The Willamette
river continues to go slightly
lower, measuring -3.3 feet Mon
day morning.