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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1953)
I i THE WEATHER MOSTLY CLOUDY with few Mattered light skewers t eight; ffufawiil raia Taeaday. Little change la teanaoratnxe. Law tonight, 31; high Taeaday, 41. Stale Courts ; Cannot Issue T-H Injunction Top Tribunal Rules Federal : , ' Power Supreme . - ' Wuhlortan Vh Sine courts ". are barred from Issuing injunc- Uoas te enforce state labor lawi which parallel the Tart- Hartley Act, the 8upreme Coart ruled unanimously Mob day. Justice Jackson, speaking for ' the court in rejecting the ap peal of a Pennsylvania truck ing firm from a State Supreme Court ruling, wrote: m "When federal power consti Itutlonally is exerted for the protection of public or private Interests, or both, it becomes the supreme law of the land and cannot be curtailed, cir cumvented or extended by a state procedure merely because It will apply some doctrine of private right." Rests With NLRB "- Jackson'thus sided with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court view that Congress intended it a union activity might be held to be an unfair labor prac tice under Taft-Hartley, the power to determine that ques tion and to act should rest sole ly with the National Labor Re lations Board. The state court held this is necessary to develope and en force a uniform national labor policy in cases affecting firms which do interstate business. The case had its beginning when Central Storage and Transfer Co., of Harrisburg, Pa., granted a county court in junction against picketing by the AFL Teamsters Local Un ion No. 776. The pickets car ried signs urging employes of the transfer company to join the union. . (Cn tinned on Pare 8. Column t) 'Jehovah Child' Trial Set Jan. Wallace, Idaho Wl Judge A. J. Graf has set Jan. 4 to hear the appeal of Mrs. Harry Brandt, the self-styled "Je hovah's Child" who has been convicted of contributing to the delinquency of her four chil dren. Mrs. Brandt's appeal had been scheduled for bearing Monday but was postponed. She maintains that parents must teach their own children and that to force them to at tend school "is against the law of God and hence unconstitu tional." Probate Judge Peter Du- fresne sentenced Mrs. Brandt to a 60-day Jail term but sus pended sentence on the condi' tion she consult a psychiatrist She appealed and won a stay of ; execution. $ Officers said Monday the ? Kellogg woman still hasn't sent . the children to school and they I are powerless to do anything ii until the appeal is heard. Ben Gurian Settles in Negeb Tel Aviv () "Goodby Tel Aviv and let thy sons follow me and setUe in the Negeb." This was the farewell mes sage of Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion to hundreds as sembled outside his Tel Aviv residence when he left Monday for the tiny Negeb desert set tlement of Sdeh Boker Cattle man's fields. In the desert home, Ben-Gu rlon expects to meditate, rest and write after five years as this new country's only prem ier. After Ben-Gurion entered his limousine, 11 other cars filled with high government officials and personal friends formed behind and the convoy moved off. Scattered Showers Forcast for Week The new week has started out a bit cold and with occa slonal rain booked. The mercury dipped to 31 de grees. Sunday, one below freez , ihg. The outlook calls for more scattered showers and little change lif temperature, al though the Monday minimum did get up to 37. The highway department re ported Monday morning all highways are clear except those , closed for the winter. ine Willamette river con tinues to drop slowly, the Sa lem gauge reading 13 feet even, Monday morning. Long Strike in Sabrejet Plant Held Settled . 33,000 CQ Workers Return to Jobs oh Terms First Offered Los Angeles W) Settlement of a maitimilUoa dollar strike which has crippled production f America's fast Sabrejet and super Sabre planes was an nounced Monday, North American Aviation, Inc., spokesmen said the terms were the same the company offered before 33,000 members of the ClO-United Auto Work ers walked out October 23 at plants in Los Angeles, Fresno, Calif., and Columbus, O. That means a Christmas present wage increase of 4 per cent, or 8 to 20 cents an hour. Wage scales before the strike ranged from $1.42 to $2.32 hourly. The union originally demanded 26 cents an hour, then dropped to 10 to 20 cents hourly. Terms of the settlement are subject to approval of the workers at union mass meet ings, which negotiators said would be held soon. (Continued n Pare t. CohunB 1) Sever Remains Counsel for OrC Portland W Frank S. Sev er. Portland attorney, said Monday that he will continue as legal council for the Associ ation of O & C Counties, al though Clackamas County Commissioners have decided he no longer will represent them. The commissioners of that county directed Friday , that he be denied authority to repre sent Clackamas County in O & C timber land affairs. The Associated Press Incor rectly reported Saturday that the commissioners had fired Sever as their counsel. Sever pointed out he never was employed directly by that county, and the commissioners were not In position to dis charge him. He said he will continue to represent the other counties in the association. The Clackamas commission ers severed relations after a difference of opinion over the way to press claims on timber sales of O & C lands, owned by the federal government. Part of the money from such sales goes to the courities in which the timber stands. Clackamas County has insti led a separate suit, claiming a greater share of the money. Rain and Snow Falls in East rnv Th. AumiiM Prtiit Rain, sleet and snow pelted eastern United States Monday and a great mass of cold air from Canada chilled the cen tral plains as it moved south ward. The storm that was expected to dump a heavy fall of snow in western Pennsylvania and New York already had dropped up to .73 of an inch of rain in the Carolina and Virginia. Pennsylvania had varied fare snow, sleet and rain. There was rain and snow in the east ern Great Lakes region. South ern Missouri had snow flur ries. Through the northern and central plains, early moranig temperatures ranged in the 20s. The weather was pleasant on the west coast, except for some light rain in the northwest Showdown Hearing in Hanoi, Indochina The French high command said Monday "everything is ready" for a showdown battle with the Vietminii troops closing in on Dlen Bien Phu, France's last big stronghold in the mountain ous Thai country of northwest Indochina. The army spokesman said Vietminh Division 316, the threatening enemy force, was still 12 miles northeast of Dien Bien Phu's fortified plsin and had made no move indicating an attack was imminent. French and Vietnamese sol diers, aided by partisan fight ers of the Thai mountain tribes. continued wide reconnaissance partols in the area and report ed another light clash with the Communist-led Vietminh. Loss es were not announced. Capital. 65th Year, No. 297 ZJ2ZiZ Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 14, 1953 24 Pc . : FIRE Dupont Cleared Of Monopoly Wilmington. Del. W) U. S. District. Court Judge Paul Leahy ruled Monday that the cellophane operations of the Du Pont Co.. was not a mono poly or conspiracy in restraint of trade as cnargea Dy uie gov ernment Leahv dismissed the com plaint, filed six years ago under the anti-trust laws by the U.S. Justice ' Department. He said that the E. L du Pont de Nem ours It CO., inc. Amnwi largest chemical-making firm should hot "be punished for its success." .- Specifically the government accused du ront ox: - Controlling manufacture and sale of cellophane, limiting pro duction, excluding competition, fixing prices, retaining tight hold on patents. The government asked that Du Pont be required to divest itself of some plants and fac tories and establish a competi tive industry in cellophane, and caps and bands. Du Pont denied tne cnarges. Stereotypers Sign NY Scale New York W Stereotyp ers employed on New York City newspapers have accepted a nackaee of $3.75 a week of fered by the publishers, plus a fact-finding arrangement James J. McMahon, presl- dent-of local 1 of the AFL In ternational Stereotypers union, announced that acceptance was voted by a meeting of 300 of the local's membership Sunday. He caid the vote was taken after he had recommended ac ceDtance. The package, as specified by the stereotypers. includes a weekly wage increase of $2 along with $1.75 in other bene fits. - The stereotypers accepted the same formula agreed on in the strike of AFL photo-en-gravers against six major news papers. Battle Indochina French fighters and bomb ers flew 90 sorties against the rebel positions. . Reinforced by 1,000 fresh troops and cargoes of war equipment flown from Hanoi, 200 miles to the southeast, the French Union troops at Dien Bien Phu were termed fully ready and confident of smash ing any Vietminh assault. . The isolated, thatched hut village became France's last ditch position against Vietminh troops holding most of the Thai country when the French last week abandoned Lai Chau, the tribal capital, As the opposing forces man euvered for a possible fight In the rugged country. Red lead ers of the Vietminh mad an other roundabout offer to nego tiate an end to the 7-year Indo china war. 4" mm i" HITS ALDERMAN FARMS ; - Union vale Damage estimated at between $75,000 and $100,000 was caused, by a fire at the U. S. Alderman Farms in Unionvale Saturday night. Photos show two views of the charred ruins. Three machine shops, a paint shop and part of another building were destroyed, together with six trucks and three tractors, one passenger car, and five overhead irrigation systems. Pro-Red CI Mothers Plea to Return Tokyo W) "Where did I fail. . 4 . Oh, where did I f all?" an American mother sobbed Monday after learning from her son that he will not leave the Communists and return home. Tears welling in, her eyes Mrs. r-ortia nowe oi Aiaen. Russians Failed On Ml. Everest Stockholm, Sweden (ff) A Swedish mountain climber and explorer says the Russians tried to beat the British to the top of 29,002-foot Mt Everest but that six of the Soviet climbers died in the unsuccessful try. Anders Bollnder, 29-year-old leader of a Swedish-Italian ex pedition to the South American Andes last year, told the Stock holm newspaper Svenska Dag bladet yesterday of the report ed Soviet assault on the world's highest peak. He said the ac count came from two Tibetan guides who fled to Nepal. The Russians tried to reach Mt Everest's summit from headquarters in Communist- controlled Lhasa, Tibet, in the autumn of 1952, Bollnder said. They gave up after six mem bers of the 32-man party dis appeared on the mountain s icy nortnern slopes ana never ad mitted they had tried, he claim ed. Train Crashes Royse City, Tex. Wl whistling diesel streamliner slammed a station wagon off its tracks last night, killing hard-ol hearing father, h wife, three children and their maid. The hurtling automobile tripped a switch that derailed the twin engines and 10 cars of the sparkling red-and-silver train, en rout from Dallas to St Louis. Five rear cars held to the rails. Five train passengers were sent to hospitals. An estimated 30 more were bruised or shak en up. The twin diesel engines plow ed 200 yards past the demolish ed station wagon and came to rest leaning at sharp angles to the ground. The baggage car flipped onto- Its back, wheels pinning in tne air. The mall car tumbled onto Its side. The other derailed .cars leaned at crazy angles. Weather Details 4r, n. TUI M hwr twwltvtuuoa! i fr lb: 4.r raol. jlm. reiltl., UVfli BOTHal. 14 It fr U f4. Lty C L MltMr Jeers at Minn., held In her lap a two page letter from her soldier son, one of the 22 Americans in the barbed wirit pto-Com-snunlst camp at Panmunjom. "I tfnow that you want to taka & hctle with you, but I have made up my mind and I am not going," Pfc. Richard R Tenneson wrote his mother, who flew 7,000 miles in the hope of persuading him to come back: His letter renounced life In the United States and heaped scorn on his country. (Con tinned an Pas t. Column () British Guiana Jails Mrs. Jagan Georgetown, British Gulna UPi British authorities have arrested Mrs. Janet Rosenberg Jagan, young American-born wife of this South American colony's ousted prime minister, and will give her a hearing to morrow on charges of holding an illegal meeting. The former Chicago nursing student and nine other leaders of the leftist people's progres sive party (PPP) were taken into police custody yesterday at a town 15 miles from Georgetown. They were later released after posting bonds of $73 ($44.50 U.S.) each. Tne police said they were using a loudspeaker to address a gathering of 300 people in defiance of a ban against pub lic meetings without police permission. Mrs. Jagan claimed the meeting was a religious gather ing not requiring a police per mit. Rail Strikes in Britain on Xmas London OP) Santa Claus was key issue today in Brit ain's biggest strike threat since the general strike of 1926. - The National Union of Rail waymen (NUR) has called on its 400,000 members to strike next Sunday at midnight A strike on the state-owned railways would paralyze a na tion looking forward to its gay est Christmas since before the war with plenty of food and drink and unrationed goods. But Santa Claus waa quickly injected Into the dispute. "Railway Scrooges," shouted The People labor party mouth piece, in a front-page headline denouncing union leaders for caUing the strike on the holi day week. "You'd almost think the leaders of the NUR had no children of their own and nev er- believed In Santa Claus,' said the Sunday newspaper. KOOSH?' EJUh Ike Urges Heed To Prepare for Atomic Attack Waahington W) President Elaenhowar aald Monday It is practically Impossible to exag gerate the aeed for American cities te prepare themselves tor possible atomic attack. Elsenhower told an unprece dented White House conference of mayors there Is time, how ever, to make such prepara tions sensibly and without hys teria, . "Organized haste will save you and panic will destroy you," he said. , The President addressed some 173 chief executives of the country's larger cities at the beginning of a two-day closed door conference, called by himself, on problems of na tional defense. ' Cities In Front Line The White House made the President's remarks public two hours later. In his address Eisenhower said the American city has moved "into the front line1 from Its historical "position of support in the rear." The stage has now been reached, he said, "where the matter of defense can no long er be wholly handled by pro fessional or organized military forces." ( Continued an Para f, Calama 4) PUDs on Snake Ask Expansion Seattle UV-Expansion of the Columbia - Snake River Public Power System to - In clude all state public .utility districts and municipal power systems was recommended". Saturday by the Washington Public Utility District Assn. A spokesman said the organ izatlon would be formed "to take immediate joint action on maintaining a comprehensive maximum river power devel opment." Executive Secretary Ken Billington said the Joint action could include construction of a dam or transmission unit The Columbia-Snake River Public Power System Includes Franklin. Benton, Kickitat, Clark, Pacific and Skamania counties. A resolution passed at the meeting asked all coun ties to come into the group. Another resolution opposed what a PUD spokesman called "artificial reasons as to why Northwest power rates should be arbitrarily forced up. Mundorff Heads State Circuit Judges Portland, VP) Judge Low ell Mundorff of Portland is the new president of the Cir cuit Judges Association of Oregon. Other oficers elected at the organization's convention here Saturday are: Judge O. J. Mil lard, Grants Pass, vice presi dent; Judge R. J. Green, La Grande, secretary treasurer; and Judge Ralph M. Holman, Oregon City, and Rex Kim- mell, Salem, directors. Hall S. Lusk, associate justice. May Commit Saiside Aleno New H Bomb to Exceed 2 Million Tons of TNT AP MMltUT Afiilri SimUrl Washington () The hy drogen weapon blast the Uni ted States plans for the Bikini atoll test this spring may ex ceed the total power of all bombs dropped by the huge American air forces In World War II. That figure was slightly over two million tons of TNT. Pres ident Eisenhower said In his speech Tuesday to the United Nations general assembly that "hydrogen weapons are in the range of millions of tons of TNTs equivalent." The Bikini demonstration weu may neip resolve any doubts left after that speech about the need for internation al atomic accord, although the test was not devised for the primary purpose of giving the IStU-l II y 1umOE3 . .: , Reds Demand Resumption of Peace Talks Panmunjom U.S. spe cial envoy Arthur H. Dead leaves tomorrow for consulta tions In Washington, leaving his chief aide in Korea "to see if the communists wish to resume" the ruptured negotia tions to set up a Koreas peace conference.- ... Even as Dean mad nlana lo depart. Red China and North Korea demanded 'through Pelping radio that the United states resume the talks "or take the full responsibility for destroying" the peace confer ence. "The North Korean and Chi nese side Insist on the resump tion of the conference," said terse communique attributed to the Red delegates. Dean told newsmen- today that his aide, Kenneth Young of the U.S. state department will have "fuu authority to resume the talks ... if the communists withdraw the per- nny cnarges ana give some sign they are ready to negotiate in good faith." 22 Pro-Red GIs Stall Quiz Panmunjom . OrV Indian Lt Gen. K. S. Thimayya aald to day he believes the 22 Ameri can prisoners of the Korean war who refuse to quit the communists are attempting to permanently stall oft allied at tempts to coax them home. Thimayya aaid the Indian command would make every effort to get the explanations started, but there was little possibility they would get un der way. in. less than four or five days. Time Is fast running out; the explanation period ends De cember 23. Only hours before they were scheduled to appear, the 22 balky Americans refused to meet with interviewer. McCarthy Raps Silent Witness New York W Sen. McCar thy (R., Wis.) told a balky witness Monday that his refus al to answer questions "in ef fect" branded him a spy and traitor. The witness was Albert Se- eoi of Long Branch, N.J., a slightly built bespectacled man, aald he worked from to 1847 at the army's Evans signal laboratory, Ft Monmouth, N.J. The senator's subcommittee is probing alleged espionage at the army base. At a public hearing, the wit ness refused to answer ques tions concerning espionage and communism. He cited the fifth amendment, declaring he would not answer on the ground of possible self Incrim ination. "You are in effect telling the country that you art a traitor, an espionage agent, and that you are indulging In treason. declared McCarthy. "You understand that?" The witness ssid nothing. world s citizens the "compre hension of atomic warfare and danger. Planned long before Eisen hower took office as president lt will be another stage of the progressive stcpup in hydrogen explosions. The test at Bikini will show what could happen to the Uni ted Suites as well as to Russia sla in a war with hydrogen weapons an awesome argu ment for atomic peace. The last atomic explosion at Bikini probably will become, by comparison, a puny little pop. The two test bombs used there in the 1946 tests had an energy equivalent to about 20,000 tons of TNT. An air burst sank ships, crushed oth ers with a shock wave, set oth er to burning. FINAL EDITION Stresses Heed of Ratifying Pad ForUr.:!odAmy Pari, Ml Secretary af Stat John Foster Dallas win- Nerth Atlaatic Treaty Organisation eaaaell ' session Monday that If European na tion, decide to commit saletdt by blundering into another m tHhalr Maw havo to. MM salt It alone." , His statement was ma da a he outlined to new corres pondents the attitude of Amor- , lea In event the European , army treaty Is pot ratified and Germany and Tranot fall to settle their age-old rivalries. The declaration brought a gssp from 200 correspondents who bad assembled for tee first full dress new eonfer ence on the first day of th , session. Unity Demanded He said it wa the aim of the European Defense com munity to bring Germany and France together and to pre vent further fighting. Falluro to ratify th treaty, he said, will require America to make "an angonlzing reappraisal1' of its policies toward Europe. "If th European nations decide to commit suicide,' he said, "they may have to com mit It alone." Dulles urged Franc and West Germany to "create a union that would make it "im possible" for war to breaK ens between th two eountrlea again. . .... i .. - - . ICanUnaa on Pago $. Cilasaa I) South Korea ' II g d! jigns UaXKcni ; . Seoul, Korea, (BJB Th Uni ted Nations and South Korea signed a $500,000,000 program today to rebuild th war wrecked country and combat inflation. The agreement wa signed bv ROK Prime Minister Paik Too Chin and C. Tyler Wood, United Nation economic co ordinator, after three months of negotiations on how th money should be spent ' The money, earmarked for fiscal 1954, was contributed largely by the U.S. govern ment but some of It will com from U.N. relief funds. Almost half th total, $200. 000,000, was voted by th U.S. Congress to meet on ox soutn Korean President Syngman Rhee's demands for signing the Korean armistice. ' The elderly President balk ed at ending th war, but U.S. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles, holding out promises of economic assist ance, convinced him he should accept a truce. The relief funds also in clude $81,000,000 from th U.S. Department of the Army and $73,000,000 from . two U.N. funds, civil relief In Ko rea and supply from united Nations. The South Korean govern ment is furnishing $122,000,. 000. 75 on Capsized Naval Launch Norfolk, Va, A 80-foot launch carrying 73 Navy men capsized Monday in the wind swept choppy waters of Hamp- (nn nnaHa IMA varHa off th naval base piers. The submarine rescue -esse! Klttiwake plucked 93 of th men from the water, and th aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt picked up "a hand ful," naval spokesmen reported. Several other ships in th vi cinity picked up an undeter mined number of men. Two hours after th launch capsized a spokesman for th 5th Naval District said "it is believed all hands aboard th launch were rescued." The launch carried 68 pas sengers and a crew of five. It had left the naval base to carry the men to their ship, th cruiser Pittsburgh, which waa anchored In Hampton Roads. DOUBLE TAXATION ENDS Canberra, Australia An agreement eliminating double taxation of Incomes and gift between Australia and th United 8tate cam Into fore Monday.