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Deny Russian
Inspection Ban
On A-Bombs
Tito Scraps
Cosily Steel
Strike Ended
m& r
V J
Friendly Pact
With Albania
First Time Yugoslavia
Washington
Angered by
Envoy Seizure
No Reply As to Ward's
Fate Setback Seen
To Recognition
Washington, Nov. 12 (P) The
tate department reported to
day that American officials
have been unable to obtain any
Information from the Chinese
communists on the health, treat
ment, trial date or o:her facts
!1about American Consul General
Angus Ward, who was arrested
recently at Mukden, China.
A telegram received by the
department today from Vice
Consul William N. Stokes said
that the consulate staff at Muk
den had supplied food and cloth
ing yesterday to Ward and four
staff members jailed with him.
As usual, Stokes received re
ceipts for these supplies.
Stokes had reported on pre
vious occasions that he was able
to send food and clothing and to
obtain receipts but his mes
sages made clear that he had to
operate entirely through the
communist police authorities.
Setback for Recognition
The communists' treatment of
Ward has dealt f sharp new set
back to communist China's
chances of obtaining American
recognition any time in the fore
seeable future.
Top state department officials
are privately "burned up" at
. the way in which local authori
ties at Mukden have handled the
case of 56-year-old Angus Ward
They are irked, too. at the cold
shouldering which the American
government has received in its
attempts to get any information
on the matter from national
communist leaders at Peiping.
Ward has been held in jail at
Mukden since October 24. Two
American and two European
members of his staff have been
held with him. All are charged
with having beaten a Chinese
employe early in October, as the
result of an alleged wage dis-
, pute. "" .- 1-
' No Reply to Protests
The state department. disclos
ed Thursday that the consul
general at Peiping, O. Edmund
Clubb, had sent a letter to Gen.
Chou En-Lai, the communist for
eign minister, demanding Ward's
release and asking information
about him. The department said
that no reply had been received.
Officials are now confronted
with the problem of what to do
next in the case. Two courses
appeared open as speculative
possibilities.
One is to address the strong
est possible protest to the com
munist leaders at Peiping. State
department officials reportedly
feel that Ward, an official of the
American government, has been
treated in a "barbaric" manner
though they have up to now
avoided saying so publicly.
3 Day Week
From Car.Lack
Dallas. Nov. 12 Lack of
freight cars to ship lumber to-
. dav made itself felt in Dallas
and resulted in 375 men em
ployed by the Willamette Val
ley Lumber company being cut
to a three day week.
Production at the mill will
have to be curtailed beginning
Monday, the rssident manager,
J Paul Morgan, announced Satur
day, and men, instead of work
ing five days a week, will work
Wednesday through rrioay.
Morgan, in making the an
nouncement, stated that in the
Dast three months the plant had
doubled the size of its lumber
Inventory, hoping that the car
situation would improve. Im
nrovement. however, was not
forthcoming.
This is the first time in a num
ber of years that the plant has
been forced to curtail operations
because of a rad car shortage.
Heavy Snow Closes
Chinook Pass Road
Seattle. Nov. 12 Wi A heavy
mow forced closure of the Chin
ook Pass highway last night and
Washington state highways de
partment officials said it may re
main closed until spring.
Western Washington, mean
time, was soaked by a driving
rain storm accompanied by hea
vy winds. Snow turned to rain
under the 8000 foot level in the
Cascades.
The weather bureau predicted
the storm would taper off to oc
' raslonal rains tonight and tomorrow.
Vishinsky Refutes
Report to U N
Panyushkin Angered
Lake Success, Nov. 12 A
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky insisted today the
Soviet Union has offered to open
its territory for atomic inspec
tions.
Vishinsky jumped into the
closing stages of a UN debate on
atomic energy with a fiery an
swer to John D. Hickerson, as
sistant secretary of state. Hicker
son yesterday told the united
Nations special political commit
tee that the Soviet Union refused
to open its territory.
The Soviet delegate said Hick
erson was in error.
"There is no warrant," Vish
insky said, "for his stating we
refused to open up our territory
for inspection."
Yugoslav Issue
Shortly before Vishinsky
spoke in the atomic debate, Sov
iet Ambassador Alexander Pan
yushkin took a walkout from
the NU social committee session.
Panyushkin refused to answer
Yugoslav charges that Russia is
moving troops on Yugoslavia's
borders and strode angrily from
the room, leaving his chair sig
nificantly vacant.
"I consider it beneath my dig
nity to answer the slanders of
the representative of the Tito
clique," he said.
tion adviser, listened to continu
ation of the debate for a while
from behind Panyushkin's empty
chair, and then moved up to oc
cupy a position at the table.
(Concluded on Pare 5. Column 5;
IS Percent of
Taxes Now Paid
With only two days left for
taxpayers to save their 3 per
cent discount by making pay
ment in full of their taxes on the
1949-50 roll a little less than 25
percent of the total roll has been
paid over the counter as bus
ness opened at the tax office
Saturday. However, there were
still huge stacks of mail to handle
carrying checks the total of which
cannot be estimated but may
bring payments up to 50 per
cent of the roll or even better.
Total taxes paid over the
counter up to Saturday morn
ing were $1,038,175.75 against a
total roll of $4,656,272.70.
Taxes may be paid over the
counter up to S o'clock next
Tuesday afternoon to save the
discount and prevent delin
quency penalties.
Any taxes mailed into the
sheriff's collection department
must be postmarked by midnight
of November 15 or will be treat
ed as delinquent and the dis
count will not be extended.
Chief Deputy Harold Domo-
galla in charge of the collec
tions said that the 12 o'clock
postmark rule will be rigidly
enforced this year regarless of
what affidavits or showings are
made. He said the auditors are
insisting on this rule being made
binding to comply with the law
and no deadline postmark, no
discount.
Nudism Booming in
British 'Naturist Camps
London, Nov. 12 W Nudism
people are walking around naked than ever before.
Not in public, of course the law frowns on that but in
flourishing "naturist" camps scattered throughout the country.
Leaders of the open-air cult
anvthins like it.
Britain's few hundred timid
pre-war nudists have grown into
a lusty movement so.uuo strong.
In 1938 there were 20 nudist
clubs. Now there are 60. Many
non-club "naturists" enjoy life
in the raw in the privacy of their
own homes and gardens.
The British Sun Bathing as
sociation (BSBA) biggest nud
ist group has just voted to in
corporate nudity. Iff forming
a limited company of 200 share
holders.
Right now the Clammy British
winter has driven all except the
hardiest "naturists" Into long
underwear. But the BSBA hepes
next summer will be the best
ever for the one out of every
1,000 Britons it says likes to
frolic naked in the sun.
The burning question: Will the
sun cooperate?
It did in 1949. It was the
sunniest summer for It years.
Czechs Reject
Catholic Oath
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Nov
12 WPi Czechoslovakia's Roman
Catholic priests were told today
they must swear a flat oath of
loyalty prescribed by the com
munist - controlled government
and ignore reservations demand
ed by the church bishops.
These reservations were that
priests could take the oath "un
less it is in contradiction to the
laws of God and the church and
the rights of man."
The order came from Vaclav
Nosek, communist interior min
ister. He declared in a speech before
nation-wide conference of of
ficials of the Czechoslovak re
gional national committees that
the government would not tol
erate any church-dictated alter
nation in the loyalty oath.
The oath is required under
the new control law, which
makes the clergy of all denomi
nations civil servants paid by
the state and gives the govern
ment control over church ap
pointments, finances and admin
istrative affairs.
Nosek added a 'boast that the
government had'-won its fight
to force the Catholic church to
yield to state control
3 Colleges to
Get Libraries
Portland. Nov. 12 W) Preli
minary plans for three college
of education libraries, to cost a
quarter of a million dollars each,
were approved by the state
board of higher education today.
The board also took steps to
acquire from the war assets ad
ministration the Oregon snip
yard property now used by the
Vannort extension center.
The Vanport cost win be less
than $15,000, Henry Cabell, fi
nance committee chairman, said.
The facilities are to be disposed
of by WAA, he said, and the ex
tension service will need them
until Lincoln high school is
available.
The board has bought the high
school building from the Port
land school district but it will
not be available until 1951. Ev
en after it is available, some fa
cilities such as the athletic area
and buildings and the person
nel building still will be needed
J. F. Cramer, extension dean
reported.
is booming in Britain. More
say happily they've never seen
Mrs. Sylvia Bassab, 34, pret
ty Canadian-born secretary of
the BSBA, says the association
is campaigning for three things
1. The legal right to bathe in
the nude on approved public
beaches;
2. More young women nud
ists;
3. To teach skeptics that "na
turism" is "a healthy, whole
some way of life followed by In
telligent people "
Mrs. Bassam, whose own sun
tan. she affirms, stretches un
i broken from too to toe. sav
British nudists don't want mixed
bathing with nudists and non
nudists taking the sun together.
They want certain public
beaches set aside
Biggest pain in the neck for
British nudist rlub directors,
Mrs. Bassam says. Is the unbal
ance of sexes Far more males
than females join, the ratio being'
four to one.
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Martial Law Armed military squads patrol the streets of
Bogota, capital of Columbia, where martial law was imposed
after President Mariano Ospina Perez declared a state of siege
and dissolved the Congress that threatened to impeach him.
Bogota was the center of a bloody battle between the presi
dent's conservative party and the liberal party. (Acme Tele-photo)
City Plans Auction Sales
Of Seized Bikes, Autos
By STEPHEN A. STONE
If you look sharp, young man, you may be able to get a bicycle
pretty cheap.
An ordinance bill will be introduced at the city council meeting
Monday night that will authorize the chief of police to sell at
auction bicycles, automobiles, and any other private property
Corsair on Reef
At Acapulco
Acapulco, Mexico, Nov. 12 W)
The luxurious yacht Corsair,
once the private ship of Banker
J. Pierpont Morgan, struck rocks
and went aground early today in
Acapulco harbor.
Passengers said there was no
panic" and "no great excite
mant," Th 45. Dassenaers and a
crew tT'B2"were taken dff 'in
lifeboats and small harbor craft
Port officials said the 343-foot
vessel struck rocks a few min
utes after midnight. Although
she was going slowly, a large
hole was torn in the bow. It had
left is dock only about 15 min
utes previously.
Capt. H. Nedden of Vancouver,
B. C, who has skippered the for
mer Morgan yacnt since July
1947. pointed her at a small
nearby beach "Ensenada De los
Presso" (Bay of the Prisoners)
The vessel's bow is submerged
short distance off shore and
shipping men said if the captain
had not acted quickly the boat
would have sunk, she was ship
ping so much water.
It was while the Corsair was
being beached that the passen
gers were assembled at their
boats and when the boats touch
ed water they had only a short
distance to go.
Among those abbard was John
M. Allen, Seattle, general pas
senger agent of Pacific Cruise
Lines, Ltd., which operates the
Corsair. Allen telephoned Da
vid E. Skinner, head of the Seat-
Ltle firm, from Acapulco with de
tails of the accident.
Russians to Train
German Police
Berlin, Nov. 12 Uncon
firmed reports from east Berlin
today said three Russian mili
tary experts are enroute to Ber
lin to direct training of the east
zone people s ponce army.
These reports said three Rus
sian generals who are special
ists in tank, air and ground war
fare will set up headquarters in
East Berlin and direct the com
munist police army in the Rus
sian occupation zone.
The American licensed week
ly "Sie" said yesterday that the
Soviet zone is establishing a
full-scale German military po
lice force with tanks and guns
supplied by the Russians.
"Sie" implied that after full
training, the police army would
replace Soviet occupation troops
Observers recalled this pattern
was followed in Russian occu
pied North Korea, where Soviet
troops were withdrawn and
thoroughly trained and indoc
trinated "people s army rs
placed them,
British authorities declared
today the Russians still retain
the right to interfere in all re
snecta nf German life, despite
broad nromises of sovereignty to
the German communist govern
mem.
that gets into the hands of the
city and is not claimed by own
ers.
The ordinance will provide
that the chief hold the auction
sale on the second Saturday of
each January and July. There
will be a provision that, even
after the sale, a negligent own
er may recover from the city the
money for which an article has
been sold if he can prove that
it was his property.
In the city barns at 13th and
Ferry streets is quite an accum
ulation of bicycles, , probably
about 25, Allen McRae, juvenile
officer thinks, and most' of them
have been there for a year or
two. Unclaimed automobiles are
stored in commercial garages.
In time storage liens are filed
against them, and if still un
claimed the garage takes pos
session. Most of the bicycles and auto
mobiles have gotten away from
their owners by theft. For many
years the bicycles have been
quite a nuisance for the police.
Before the city barns were built
some years ago they were stored
in the basement of City hal.
McRae says that the number of
bicycles on hand always exceeds
the number that have been re
ported stolen. One reason for
this is that many youngsters lose
interest in bicycles when they
transfer from junior high school
to high school. They feel they
have gotten past the bicycle age,
or find it just as convenient to
walk as to ride to high school. So
they fail to report a bike if
stolen.
(Concluded on Page S, Column 4)
Acheson at
Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany, Nov.
12 W) U.S. Secretary of State
Acheson, fresh from the Big
Three foreign ministers confer
ence in Paris, lunched here to
day with top American military
and diplomatic officials in Ger
many. Heidelberg is the headquarters
for the U.S. armed forces in Eu
rope. Army officials said, how
ever, defense problems were not
up for discussion.
The secretary, first American
official of his rank to visit Ger
many since James F. Byrnes
came here in 1948, was the guest
of Gen. Thomas T. Handy, com
mander in chief of American
forces in Germany, at a mountain-top
hotel overlooking this
old university city.
Accompanying Acheson to the
luncheon were U.S. High Com
missioner John J. McCloy; Lewis
W. Douglas, American ambassa
dor in London; George W. Per
kins, assistant secretary of state
for European affairs; and Hen
ry Byroade, director of the of
fice of German affairs of the
state department.
Representing the aimed for-
cei were Handy, Lt. Gen. Clar
ence R. Huebner, commanding
general of the U.S. army in Ger
many, and Lt. Gen. John K. Can
- 'non, commanding general of the
iu.o. mn lum m .umi.
Has Taken Initiative
In Breaking Relations
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Nov. 12
(IP) Yugoslavia scrapped her
treaty of friendship with Alba
nia today and charged that
country with acts of hostility
she said were provoked by So
viet Russia.
It marked the first time Pre
mier Marshal Tito's independent
communist government has ta
ken the initiative in breaking
off friendship pacts with Corn
inform countries.
Previously Russia, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hun
gary and Bulgaria all cast aside
those ties with Yugoslavia ir
steps verging on a break in di
plomatic relations.
Lists Hostile Acts
The note more than 3000
words long was handed to the
Albanian legation here at noon.
It listed in detail this coun
try's accusations of "hostile"
acts on the part of Albania, but
emphasized at one point that
the Tirana government had been
"pushed into its policy of open
hostility and violation" of the i
treaty by Russia and the other
Cominform countries.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column
81
Singer Denies
Tito Affaire
Paris. Nov. 12 U.R Yugoslav
Opera Singer Zinka Milanov ar
rived in Paris today en route
to the United States and im
mediately sought refuge from re
porters in the Yugoslav embas
sy. Earlier, however, she prom
ised to make a complete state
ment when she reaches the Unit
ed States on Moscow allega
tions that she was an American
spy and the girl friend of Yugo
slavia s Marshal Tito.
Scowling and obviously dis
pleased. Mme. Milanov denied
both allegations when her train
stopped briefly at Lausanne,
Switzerland, on the way to Paris
from Belgrade.
The Moscow story was merely
character assassination intended
to discredit Tito for his defiance
of the Kremlin, she said.
Marshal Tito, I repeat, is not
my personal friend he is the
leader of our country," she said.
Mme. Milanov read the full
report of the Moscow story in a
Swiss magazine in her compart
ment on the crack orient express
last night. The attack aganist
Tito first was published in the
Soviet magazine Literary Gazet
te and broadcast to the world
by radio Moscow.
Moscow was wrong on every
count, including her age, she
said.
'This is a dirty story and I
mean just that, the soprano
star of the metropolitan opera
said. "There's not one word of
truth in it."
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Places Wreath at Tomb President Truman places a wreath
at the Tomh of the Unknown Snldier in Arlington National
cemrtrry. Washington, D. C, during Armistice day ceremony.
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Cabinet Shift Secretary of
Interior Julius A. Krug
(above), who announced his
resignation after a day of de
nials by the White House that
such a step was imminent,
was succeeded by Undersecre
tary of Interior Oscar L. Chap
man. (Below) Chapman, a fa
vorite of President Truman,
was named assistant secretary
of interior in 1933 and pro
moted to undersecretary in
1946. (Acme Telephoto)
Anderson Says
Krug 'Crucified'
Albuquerque. N.M., Nov. 12
(u.R) Sen. Clinton P. Anderson
(D-NMT a former cabinet mem
ber, said today that Interior
Secretary J. A. Krug was "cru
cified" because he tried to car
ry out 1948 campaign promises
for reclamation projects.
Anderson said Krug, who will
resign Dec. 1, went directly to
congress with requests for ap
propriations which the adminis
tration's budget bureau had not
approved.
"I hale to see him crucified
for asking for those things which
he said he stood for in the cam
paign," Anderson said. "He went
about the country telling the
people that Truman stood for
progress and reclamation.
"If Krug's campaign activities
meant anything, he was obligat
ed to keen pushing for them."
The New Mexico senator, who
served as secretary of agricul
ture under Mr. Truman, said
that Krug "has not been happy
for a long lime.
After 43 Days
U. S. and Inland Cor
poration Sign-up Pension-Insurance
Pact
Pittsburgh, Nov. 12 The
most costly steel strike In Ame
rican history virtually ended
today after the CIO United
Steelworkers signed the mam
moth United States Steel corpor
ation to a pension-insurance
pact.
Inland Steel corporation
agreed to a similar peace agree
ment on the Bethlehem pattern
three and one-half hours after
the big steel settlement last
night.
That left only 124.600 strikers
idle of about 513,000 steelwork
ers who walked off their jobs
last October 1 in support of de
mands for company-paid pen
sions. Back to Work Starts
The end of the strike against
big steel, largest steel producers
in the world, gave 177,000 un
ionists the "go back to work"
high sign. The agreement cov
ers only 150.000 employes in six
major operating subsidiaries but
the corporation said the union
agreed that all workers should
return at once. Formal contracts
will be signed later with other
subsidiaries.
Union President Philip Mur
ray predicted 90 percent of ba
sic steel the plants which
produce raw steel "will be
signed to the new Bethlehem
type contract by Monday morn
ing." Bethlehem Plan Adopted
The Bet h 1 e h e m settlement.
signed October 31, provides $100
minimum monthly pension pay
ments to workers aged 65 who
have served 25 years. The work
ers do not have to pay into the
fund but they do contribute to
federal social security which is
added to company pensions to
make up the $100 total. Work
ers with fewer years of service
will receive proportionately
smaller pensions.
The agreement also provides
for a five cents an hour social
insurance program. That cost is
shared equally by workers and
company.
Wages are unchanged for
steelworkers now earning an
average of $1.65 an hour.
The Bethlehem pact broke
the log jam in the long strike.
Miners Celebrate
Asked if the settlements now
signed with about 50 large and
small companies would bring
higher steel prices, Murray de
clared:
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 6)
Stalemate in
Soft Coal Strike
Washington, Nov. 12 (IP) Both
the government and coal indus
try leaders looked warily today
at John L. Lewis' peace feelers
for a new miners' contract.
Neither showed any signs of
limping at the union leader's
bid to meet with federal media
tion chief Cyrus S. Ching "or
anybody else." including the
mine operators.
Ching said he had no present
plans to call new coal peace
meetings and the government
contemplated no new moves un
til Monday, at least.
The coal operators said there
seemed to be no use meeting
with Lewis again until he tailors
down his demands more to their
liking. They want an extension
of the old coal contract, the one
that expired last July 1. Also,
they are demanding more assur
ances against frequent mine
shutdowns and closer checks
over miners' welfare fund ex
penditures.
Lewis has said he wants high
er pay. shorter hours and a boost
in the present 20 cents tonnage
royally toward the welfare fund.
from which miners' pensions
and other insurance benefits are
paid.
Ching. in close touch with
John R. Steelman. assistant to
President Truman, was obvious
ly mapping some new moves
for early next week.
Setting up fart-finding board
to hear both sides of the six
monlh contract dispute, and
make recommendations for a set
tlement, was still bring con
sidered. Judge Harlan Dies
Cosan Station. Pa , Nov. 12 m
Judge Byron B. Hnrlan of the
U. S. tax court and former dem
ocratic congressman from Ohio
died yesterday of a heart attack
at the home of his son. He was
63.