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Price 5c
No Change in
Gold Values
Slates Truman
As Long As He Is
President-, Value of
Metal Is Fixed
Washington, Nov. 10 VP)
President Truman said today
jthere will be no change in 'he
value of gold as long as he is
president.
The president replied with
jwhat he described as a categoric
al no when he was asked if any-
t'ione in the administration was
Jgiving consideration to raisins
jthe price of gold as a means of
reducing the national debt.
tjk Any such action would have to
take the form of a recommenda-
ition to congress.
. I The answer to the question,
j Mr Truman asserted, is a cate
; jgorical no. As long as he is pres
E lident of the United States, he
i (said, the value of gold is fixed.
jOthcr Queries Answered
jti In response to some other
fuestions the president said:
1. The state department has
r sunder consideration plans for a
ji fvisit to the country of the pre
l mier of Pakistan.
i 2. He has been invited to vis-
Bt Bolivia, but he does not think
h- lie can go.
; 3. He had no news on pros-
';pects of a loan to Mexico for the
( Jdevelopment of oil resources in
jthat country. He did not know
f Jhe said, whether negotiations
i -iare now underway.
I 4. He had no comment when a
i: reporter asked if he had written
!i a strong letter to Secretary of
Interior Krug dealing with dif
S !ferences on some reclamation
apolicy.
li The $35 an ounce U. S. price
tf for gold has been in effect since
SxiJanuary, 1935.
fjj It was set when President
i, jRoosevelt "revalued" the paper
dollar by lifting the govern
r ment's buying or selling price
f- from $20.67 an ounce which had
been in effect for decades.
i'i Rumors that the gold price
would be lifted again have been
persistent in financial circles
and elsewhere outside the government.
Shares in gold mining enter-
Sprises have moved up several
Itimes as the rumors became in
tense.
(Concluded on Pa Re S, Column 8)
Martial Law
Rules Bogota
To End Strife
Climaxes Bitter
Political Battle
Preceding Election
Bogota, Colombia, Nov. 10 VP)
Bogota was under a heavy ar
my and police guard today in a
state of siege decreed by conser
vative President Mariano Os
pina Perez.
The decree imposing modi
fied martial law also suspend
ed the liberal-dominated con
gress and introduced censorship
of press and radio.
President Ospina invoked the
decree yesterday after being in
formed by the liberal speaker of
the house that congress intended
to start proceedings to impeach
him.
Liberal representatives and
senators tried to continue con
gressional debates, but .found
they could not. Congress mem
bers and newspaper reporters
were barred from the capital
building.
Climaxes Political Strife
The declaration of a state of
siege climaxed weeks of intense
political strife in Colombia. Par
tisan newspapers say hundreds
were killed in fights between
liberals and conservatives.
Elections are scheduled for
Nov. 27. The conservative presi
dential candidate is Laureano
Gomez. Liberals said they would
boycott the elections. Liberal
leaders threatened to push
through a four-man provisional
government to replace President
next May 5.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Easier to Put
Fair Deal Over
Washington, Nov. 10 VP)
President Truman said demo
cratic election victories Tuesday
should make it easier to put his
Fair Deal program through can
't gress.
Mr. Truman discussed the elec
itions briefly at a news confer
fence after he was asked whether
he thought the results represent-
ied a mandate to the legislators.
I He said the democratic plat-
form of 1948 set out what the
democratic party favored.
He said the vote of the people
would be authority to go ahead,
It will make it easier, he said,
to carry out the democratic plat-
Quirino's Lead
Slowly Grows
Manila, Nov. 10 (iP) Presi
dent Elpidio Quirino's lead over
two opponents mounted slowly
today as tardy returns filtered
in from Tuesday's presidential
election.
Unofficial returns at 11:30
p.m., gave Quirino 1,384,516
votes. Trailing him with 1,125,-
627 was Jose Laurel, critic of
the United States Philippines
policy and favored by leftists.
Jose Avelino, third party candi
date, had 309,220.
The official count from the
commission on elections lagged.
At nightfall with reports from
only 312 of the Philippines' 1212
municipalities, the official
turns stood at: Quirino 525,383;
Laurel 363,479; Avelino 105,364.
A survey by the Associated
Press showed that only seven of
the country's 21 cities had com
pleted their vote tallies and re
ported officially to the commis
sion on elections. Of 50 provin
ces, 15 still had sent no official
count to the commission. Six
others reported only fragmenta
ry returns.
Oldtimers who have watched
the slow pace of election returns
in these islands since 1935, when
it became a commonwealth, had
one answer: Once the trend is
established government poll of
mi Ml m
rsr iff".
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Lewis Snubs Mediators Bid
To Coal Peace Conference
Ching Ceases
Audit Asked for
Welfare Fund
Washington, Nov. 10 VP)
Senator Bridges (R-NH) asked
today for a court audit of oper
ations of the coal miners' wel
fare fund since he has been one
of its trustees.
When that has been done and
his own actions as a trustee
have been reviewed, he asked
the U. S. District Court here to
let him get off the board.
Bridges' petition to the court
was in some degree his re
sponse to a plea by tzra van
Horn, former coal operator
member of the board, to be ab
solved of any responsibility for
the way the multi-million dollar
welfare fund has been adminis
tered. Van Horn, separately answer
ing a mine pensioner's suit for
an accounting of the fund, ac
cused Bridges and the third trus
tee, John L. Lewis, of "dissipat
ing" the money. Van Horn told
the court Bridges and Lewis had
in, effect frozen him out in the
making of decisions and con
tended he had even been denied
information about what had
been done with money from the
fund.
The fund is financed by a 20
cents per ton royalty on soft
coal, paid by the operators. Lew
is represents the United Mine
workers on the board.
Van Horn, until he resigned
and was replaced by Charles I.
Dawson, Louisville, Ky., lawyer,
spoke for the operators. Bridges
was the "neutral" trustee.
form.
In reply to other questions, the jjciajj wno are on a daiiy Dav
president said he saw no reason system iike t0 stretch out their
for any modification of the bi- 0DS at five to 15 pesos ($2.50 to
partisan foreign policy as resuii $7.50) a day as long as possible.
of the defeat of senator uuues
(R., N.Y.), GOP foreign policy
expert.
Nobody but Bertie McCormick
and Hearst would have any such
thing in mind, the president as
serted. And he added flatly that
the two publishers are isolation
ists, you remember.
Robert R. McCormick is presi
dent and publisher of the Chica
go Tribune and William Ran
dolph Hearst is publisher of a
group of newspapers.
When Mr. Truman was asked
about Dulles' future In the bi
partisan foreign policy setup, he
suggested that reporters put that
auestion to Dulles. He added
that he did not put Dulles Into
the New York senatorial race.
Mayor Lee Recall
Group About to Quit
Portland, Nov. 10 JP) The
committee working for the re
call of Mayor Dorothy McCul
lough Lee is about to call it
quits.
The members made the decis
ion last night after 21 persons
turned out for a public rally
The treasury is almost bare, too,
and there arc 33 days remain
ing to obtain all but a few of
the needed 26.095 signatures on
special election petitions.
Committee attorney Max Don
nelly said a final decision would
be made Saturday. It hinges on
the money question, he said.
Lewis Orders Miners Back to Work John L. Lewis (right)
announces that he has ordered his striking soft coal miners
back to work, at conclusion of a meeting with his United
Mine Workers policy board 'in Chicago. Listening are Joseph
Kennedy (left), assistant to the vice-president of UMW, and
John Owens, secretary-treasurer of UMW. (AP Wirephoto.)
U.S. Bureau of Roads
To Move Office to Salem
By JAMES D. OLSON
The district office of the U.S. bureau of public roads will be
transferred from Portland to Salem in 1351 and will occupy space
in the new state highway department building.
This announcement was made by R. H. Baldock, state highway
engineer, Thursday. The highway commission agreed to rent
f3000 square feet to the govern
ment in the new building for the
Ban Pinballs
In Washinqton
Olympia, Wash., Nov. 10 VP)
State officials pondered a state
supreme court decision today to
see if jurists had dropped an
other bomb into Washington's
muddled financial picture.
Five members of the court
r.ujed. -: unanimously yesterday
that pinball machines are gamb
ling devices and prohibited by
state law. The decision was
handed down in overruling
Spokane county superior court
order prohibiting the city from
enforcing an ordinance banning
the machines.
Few persons would comment
on the state-wide effect of the
ruling pending a close study of
the decision. Assistant Attorney
General John Newlands said
however, that any crackdown on
the machines would rest with
county prosecutors.
Neither slot machines nor pin
ball machines, have ever been le
galized by the state but both arc
taxed. Pinballs pay a 20 per
cent tax on gross revenues and
slot machines, permitted in priv
ate clubs, are assessed 40 per
cent of their return.
federal road agency.
Excavation for the new build
ing will begin within a week by
the Sound Construction and En
gineering company of Seattle,
which was awarded the contract
on a low bid of $1,599,931
The five-story building, under
the contract, must be completed
by February 8, 1951, or 15 cal
endar months from the date of
the award.
The new building will con
form to the other buildings in
the capital group with marble
facing and the fifth - floor set
back. The building, however,
will be constructed in an "H"
shape in order to give additional
air and light, Baldock said.
The successful bidders are
now completing the new state
office building located just
south of the site of the new
highway building. It is expected
that the state office building
will be ready for occupancy by
January 1 or slightly sooner.
The highway department will
occupy all of the new building,
with the exception of the space
allotted to the bureau of roads
and the fifth floor The top floor
will probably be occupied by
some other state department.
Big 3 Appprove
New Policy for
West Germany
Paris, Nov. 10 VP) The Bene
lux nations today approved a
new policy toward West Ger
many, drafted by the Big Three
western foreign ministers and
authoritatively believed to be
more liberal than that in the
past.
The policy, not yet publish
ed, was drawn up by America's
Dean Acheson, Britain s Ernest
Bcvin and France's Robert Schu
man. The Benelux nations
Belgium, The Netherlands and
Luxembourg arc closely asso
ciated with the Big Three i
economic and military affairs,
"You can sec by our faces
we are not dissatisfied," said
Belgium's Foregin Minister Paul
Van Zceland, as he left the Big
Three conference with Dirk U.
Stikker of The Netherlands and
Joseph Bech of Luxembourg.
Gain French Cabinet
Meanwhile Premier Georges
Bidault's office announced the
French cabinet will go into a
huddle with Schuman on the
Big Three talks.
(Concluded on Face S. Column 6)
Bridoux Blames
Airport Control
For Fatal Crash
Washington, Nov. 10 VP)
Erick Rios Bridoux, Bolivian pi
lot of the P-38 which crashed
into an Eastern Air Lines plane
killing 55 persons told invest!
gators he- had reported trouble
before he started his landing
descent.
In a deposition put into the
record of a civil aeronautics
board accident hearing, Rios
said the Washington National
airport control tower "answered
me 'O.K.'"
He told the tower. Rios said,
"I' am going to land on runway
number three. I am having a
little trouble with the right en
gine. "They answered me called
me by Bolivian number.
"I didn't sec anything. I
couldn't get any power. I
couldn't get any more ."
Earlier the investigators heard
testimony that Rios acknowl
edged instructions as he headed
toward the landing approach in
which his fighter and the air
liner collided.
Case Involving Salem
Labor Set December 13
Hearing of charges of unfair labor practices involving the Salem
Trades and Labor council and its affiliates in connection with
the Macco company of Los Angeles, contracting firm erecting
the $846,000 bridge across the Willamette river at Independence
has been set for December 13 by the national labor relations board
Also involved in the control
versy are H. C. Werner, Inc. 'of
Plenty of Coffee to
Go Around Says U. S.
Washington. Nov. 10 U.B
The agriculture department says
there would be plenty of coffee
to so around and there is no
reason for hoarding.
The department also said cof
fee prices probably will drop
somewhat after the recent price
rise. The rise, it said, was due
chiefly to "interpretation" o
the supply and demand situatior
by the coffee trade. Actually, thi
department said, there is ni
acute shortage In tight.
Eugene, building a $23,000 high
way bridge between Indepen
dence and Monmouth, and Barn
ham Bros., contractors for a
school building at Dallas.
The NLRB has petitioned for
an injunction against the unions
with hearing in this matter
set for federal court in Port
land at 10 o'clock November 22.
The NLRB has asked the fed
eral court to enjoin strikes of
the Salem unions and their use
of an unfair list or other boy
cott means against the company
pending a hearing by the board
on the unfair labor charges
F. D. Van Swcringen, execu
tive secretary of the Salem
Building Trades council, repeat
d today that no strike has been
omented at t h e Independence
ob, nor any men pulled off the
io vp)
today
It will all come out at
hearing," he said.
The board also charged that
the Teamsters local of Salem de
manded recognition by the Val
ley Concrete company of Inde
pendence as bargaining agent
although they had not been cer
tified. Later the teamsters en
gaged in strikes and picketing,!
and efforts, states the board,
were made to prevent the use of
the Valley company products by
other companies.
In both cases charges against
the labor council and individual
unions were filed by the Asso
ciated Concrete Products Manu
facturers on behalf of the Valley
Concrete company, member of
the association.
Particular interest is aroused
by the case because it Involves
an attack on labor council s
unfair list, which Is declared to
Murderer Shaved
Bodies of Victims
Vancouver, B.C., Nov.
Police were confronted
with their second murder within
five weeks in which the -slayer
had shaven the hair from the
bodies of his female victims.
A 45-year-old spinster, Fern
Blanche Fisher, was the latest
victim. Her body was found
floating in False creek yester
day, clad only in a coat and
dress.
Her death was similar to that
of 25-year-old Joyce Monaster-
ski, whose nude shaven body
was found Oct. 8 on a Vancou
ver beach after she had been
missing 22 days.
Police said Miss Fisher, a de
partment store employe who liv
ed with a sister and three bro
thers, may have been raped. She
left home Tuesday night to at
tend a movie but was last seen
outside the theater.
Body hair of both victims had
been shaved, police said, but
hair on the head remained Intact.
ib as charged in the NLRB i be a secondary boycott, banned
.omplaint. oy me laii-naruey mcu
Damaged Submarine
Escorted to Base
Groton, Conn., Nov, 10 VP)
The submarine Tusk, damaged
yesterday in a collision with the
supply ship Alderbaran In ma
neuvers off Labrador, was pro
ceeding under escort today to
the U.S. naval base at Argentina
Newfoundland.
A destroyer Is accompanying
the damaged undersea craft, a
submarine base spokesman said
He declared there had been no
injuries or loss of life in the
accident.
Chinese Leave
Chunokinq
Hong Kong. Nov. 10 (U.R) The
families of Chinese Nationalist
government officials prepared to
flee the Nationalist co-capital of
Chungking today as a major por
tion of Nationalist Air Transport
strength deserted to the Chinese
communists.
As Chinese communist ground
forces pressed within 160 miles
of Chungking in a two-pronged
drive, the Chinese communist ra
dio boasted that "all 4,000" em
ployes of the China National Av
iation Corp. and the Central Air
Transport Corp. had joined the
communist war effort.
The airlines are partially own
ed by the Nationalist government
and figured largely in its war
effort.
Nationalist planes scouted
communist airfields In an at
tempt to locate some of the 11
transport planes whose crews de
fected to the communists yesterday.
The planes were flown out of
Kaitak airport on the pretext
they were en route to the Na
tionalist island of Formosa.
Loss of the two airlines left
only one line operating in Na
tionalist China Maj. Gen.
Claire Chennault's Civil Air
Transport.
CAT'S 23 planes probably will
be chartered to evacuate the Na
tionalist government from
Chungking when and if the time
arrives for it to flee.
Plan Ban on
Data to Russia
Washington, Nov. 10 VP) The
commerce department an
nounced a "voluntary" plan to
day to keep important, though
non-secret, American technical
information from going out to
Russia and her satellites.
While Iron Curtain countries
were not mentioned in the an
nouncement the aim was ob
vious.
Under the plan, persons oi
firms thinking of exporting "ad
vanced technical data which
may be important to national
security" are asked to hold off
until they get an "official opin
ion" from the department on
the desirability of transmitting
the data.
Simultaneously, the depart
ment slapped another 60 classes
of "highly strategic" goods un
der rigid export license control
to prevent rcshipmcnt from orig
inal destinations to the Soviet
bloc.
Russia and her satellites have
been banned since March, 1948,
from getting direct from the
U.S. industrial goods which
might add to their war potential
The government is now seek
ing to block chances of such
goods getting to the Iron Cur
tain sector in a roundabout way
by rc-shipmcnts from such spots
as communist China,
Navy Flier Dies
Parachuting
Condon, Ore., Nov. 19 VP)
One naval airman parachuted to
his death as a four-engined
plane crash landed in a wheat
field north of here last night.
The six others aboard the
navy Privateer were safe. Two
parachuted and four rode the
plane down.
A sheriff s searching party
found the body of the victim at
dawn today. Members reported
at the nearby Louie Barnett
ranch that he was killed by
blow on the head in landing. He
was not named, pending notifica
tion of next of kin.
The plane, on a training mis
sion from Whidbey Island naval
air station on Puget Sound, was
forced down by jcing, the CAA
reported. The air station was in
formed by the CAA that the
pilot, Ens. C. C. Christiansen.
Bennington, N e b., exercised
"superb airmanship" in bring
ing the plane in to a belly land
ing on a newly seeded field in
north central Oregon's rolling
wheatlands.
The plane ran into icing con
ditions at 10,000 feet east of the
Cascade mountains at about
6:30 p. m. yesterday. The pilot
asked the CAA for permission
to drop to 8000 feet but was told
there were commercial aircraft
at that altitude. He turned south
and began letting down.
A crewman said carburetor
ice caused the engines to fail,
and the crash landing was made
18 miles north of here near the
ranch community of Mikkalo.
Efforts to End
Long Coal Strike
Washington, Nov. 10 -t,V)
John L. Lewis today snubbed
the government's bid to a coal
peace conference and Cyrus
Ching, federal mediation direc
tor, said he was dropping his ef
forts to smoothe the way to a
new mining contract.
Ching went to the White
House and reported that Lewis,
instead of showing up for the
peace talks scheduled for this
morning, had sent a wire saying
he would see the mediators on
Monday.
When he left the White House.
Ching told reporters he would
tell the mine owners here for
the conference to go on home.
He said he had other plans
and would be too busy to see
Lewis on Monday.
Ching Indignant
Ching added:
"I haven't any plans at this
time for calling any further
meetings in the coal dispute."
He hedged that a bit later,
however, by saying that he was
not ruling out the possibility that
another government effort to
promote peace might be made.
Asked if he expected Presi
dent Truman to take any action
in the coal dispute in view of
today's developmen t s , Ching
said:
"Not yet. There are no plans
for anything like that yet. No
thing has been decided."
However, if President Truman
should decide that the mediation
service can accomplish nothing
in the situation, he might turn
to other means. He could estab
lish a fact-finding board empow
ered to recommend settlement
terms. Or he coudd Invoke the
Taft-Hartley act's court injunc
tion emergency powers.
It amounted to a sharp slap in
the face to Cyrus Ching, federal
mediation chief. It left him, too,
pretty much in the position of
the parson when the bride-to-
be doesn't show up for the wedding.
(Concluded on Paire 5, Column 7)
Armistice Day Observance
Washington, Nov. 10 VPi
Americans observe Armistice
day tomorrow the 31st anni
versary of the ending of World
War I. President Truman will
lead i long parade of notables to
the Tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier for wreath-laying ceremonies.
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Out Through the Top When this roadster occupied by
J. Carl Felton and C. J. Weston of Independence struck a
telephone pole on the Salem-Dallas road two miles west of
Salem on Wednesday evening the occupants were found near
the car and apparently had gone through the top. Neither
was seriously injured.
Big Steel Opens
Peace Parleys
Pittsburgh, Nov. 10 VP) CIO
United Steclworkers and giant
United Stales Steel opened peace
talks on a legal level today
which might end the most costly
steel strike in American history.
Rumors flooded this steel cap
ital that industry leader U. S.
Steel is making an offer to put
its 170,000 workers back in the
mills across the country.
There was no official comment
from cither Big Steel or union
President Philip Murray. But a
meeting of lawyers for both sides
during the morning mad it plain
they arc exploring the possibili
ties of a settlement.
Chief Negotiator John A, Ste
phens, U. S. Sh?cl vice president,
stood by as did union authori
ties. Steelworker teams were on
hand for a time but were told
to go home and report back at
3 p.m. (noon, EST).
Big Steel and the union heads
were expected to get together be
fore the day is out. Lending cre
dence to prospects of a break was
a union call for meeting of its
powerful wage policy committee
tomorrow possibly to consider
a settlement.
A peace pact with U. S. Stool
would mean virtual end to the
costly 41 -day strike by the Steel
workers for free insurance and
pensions as recommended by a
presidential board.
U. S. Steel is the only one of
the four top producers still hold
ing out. It led Industry's fight
against footing the welfare bill.
AFL Union Rejected
ByM&F Workers
Portland, Nov. 10 VP) Meier
Sc Frank company office work
ers yesterday rejected a propos
al that an AFL union be their
bargaining agent with the big
retail firm's management.
E. G. Stumpf, national labor
relations board examiner, said
the vote was 131 for the union
and 279 against. One ballot was
void and 36 were challenged.