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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March 20, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Page 8 British Railwaymen DeniedPayDemands, Mass Strike Certain By GEOFFRY MILLER LONDON A nationwide walkout of British railwaymen became a virtual certainty today as government officials struggled to halt or avert two other strikes Involving three million workers. The rail threat was triggered by the award today of a 3 per cent wage increase by a government tribunal acting on a 10 per cent demand from the 370.000-member National Union of Railwaymen. NUB leaders already had re- Probers Rule Out Sabotage In P.I. Crash MANILA W Philippine inves tigators today ruled out the pos sibility that sabotage caused the plane crash in which Philip pine President Ramon Magsaysay died. Col. Ricardo Papa, deputy con tabular chief, said evidence gath ered on Sunday's Cebu Island crash indicated no foul play was Involved. The investigators' announced the crash which killed 26 persons was not preceded by an explosion as the sole survivor, newsman Nestor Mata, originally had reported. The possibile causes were said to have been narrowed down to pilot error and engine failure. Reconstructing the disaster, the Investigators 'surmised that the two - engine plane's right wing snapped off against a tree as it skirted a mountainside. Mata's story aroused specula tion of Communist sabotage against the 49-year-old President, ene of Asia's staunchest anti-Com munists. American air experts have been helping in the exhaustive investi gation, which involved assembling bits of plane wreckage strewn for hundreds of feet over the jungle mountainside. Nearly 200,000 Filipinos kept a mourning vigil around Malacanan Palace and thousands filed past Magsaysay's flag-draped casket, lying in state inside the palace until the funeral Friday. Floral tributes included a wreath from President Eisenhower. Yaquina Cash Up to Senate WASHINGTON fl - An Item providing $19,800,000 for the Ya quina Bay project on the Oregon coast is included in the omnibus bill approved by the Senate Pub lic Works Committee Tuesday. It now goes to the Senate floor for action. , The committee was told by Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) that he had word of definite commitments to develop and encourage maritime trade and commerce in the Ya quina Bay area, provided the pro posed lmrovements are made jected a 3 per cent offer from the British Transport Commission, which operates the nationalized lines. They had warned they would call a walkout if the wage tribunal's award fell far short of their demands. As union leaders met to con sider a strike call, an NUR spokesman termed the wage award "an affront to railway men." 40 Unions In Federation Shipbuilding and engineering workers make up 40 unions in one vast confederation. They are demanding a 10 per cent increase in both industries and are asking direct negotiations witn employers based on a cash offer. Management has declined to set a figure but has agreed to accept any award by an independent arDitrator. Pay for shipyard and engineer ing workers now averages 12 pounds 18 shillings 10 pence ($36.24) a week, about 2 pounds ($5.60) above the national aver age. Employers claim they can not give any more money in the face of mounting competition from Japan and West Germany. $30.60 for Engineers Railroad nav ran?ps frnm m pounds 12 shillings ($30.60) for lo comotive engineers to 7 pounds 4 shillings 6 Dence ($20.02) for station porters. Already the nation s shipyards are idle, with 250,000 men on strike since last Saturday. Engineering workers are sched uled to walk off their jobs in avia tion, auto, power and heavy ma chinery nlants' beeinnin? Marrh 23 in a "phased" series of strikes Dy 2Vi million men that will build up into a nationwide stoppage. Those industries turn out 40 per cent of Britain's exports. A railway .strike on top of all this would cause Britain's biggest industrial shutdown sinrn th ron. eral strike of 1926. Betsy Checks Taxes Chile May Not Grant Asylum SANTIAGO, Chile Wl-Six Per onista leaders who fled an Argen tine prison will be held in custody while Chile decides whether to grant their plea for political asy lum or Argentina's request that mejr d returned. The six, who are to be brought to Santiago, have been at liberty in the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas since escaping Monday from Rio Gallegos prison in southern Argentina. They made a 150-mile automobile dash after fleeing t h e prison. Argentina sources said they bribed their way to freedom. Argentina asked their extradi tion on grounds they were jailed for criminal rather than political offenses. The six deny they are criminal offenders. Extradition of criminals is provided under a po litical asylum convention signed by Argentina and Chile. ' v- r $ H 1 BALTIMORE Betsy, the Baltimore Zon's finger-painting artist, took time out today to study the income tax regulations for "individuals." Betsy had. a long confer ence with Internal Revenue Service per sonnel about the $910 she has earned from selling paintings at $25 to $50 a clip. IRS Agent Richard Edclen ruled that the work is done for the city,, and so not taxable. (AP Wircphoto) Magnuson Organizes John Day Dam Drive the last generator coming into op eration in 1967. By FRANK W.-VAILLE WASHINGTON Sen. Mag nuson (D-Wash) Wednesday pro posed that Pacific Northwest con gressmen get together to plan strategy for "immediate construc tion" of John Day Dam on the Columbia River. , He said letters proposing the meeting have been sent to Sens. Jackson (D-Wash), Church (D Idaho), Dworshak (R-Idaho) and Morse and Neuberger, Oregon Deocrats. A similar letter, he said, has been sent to Rep. Don Magnuson (D-Wash), who will coordinate the effort in the House. Purpose of the meeting, Mag nuson said, is to determine wheth er to seek appropriation of John Day construction money before the House Appropriations Commit tee, "or whether to make a rec ord for the project there and make the big pitch in the Sen ate. The Magnusons, as well as Dworshak, are members of their respective appropriations commit-tees. Sen. Magnuson said Army En- ginners have advised him that pre-construction planning on the 1,250,000 kilowatt project will be complete by July 1. He quoted them as saying thev could use 8 million dollars for ac tual construction purposes in the year beginning July 1. There is no money for the dam's construction in the administration budget now before Congress. "Ever-increasing nowcr needs of our area are well known," the senator said. "To delay further because of 'partnership' talk would not only be extremely fool ish, out actually border on crimi nal neglect." A start of construction this year, he said, would permit in stallation of power generators at John Day as early as 1965, with (HEMORRHOIDS) fVTULA MKM t MOLAK AND OJHW MCTAt (MOtOCM COLON DISORDERS DEL REYNOLDS NitW'Optlhic Phytkitn Ph. EM 3-9460 NOUtti ttAH.,3.H II CSMTt fTtlCT O Mm br SAIIM, ORISON THE MIGHTY CHRYSLER Most glamorous car In a generation Powder Blast NearTacoma Kills 4 Men TACOMA Ifl A safety expert blamed "human failure" Wednes day for a dynamite explosion that took four lives at a powder plant 18 miles southeast" of here. The blast at the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. Tuesday oblite rated a building where the four victims were working, shook win dows in downtown Tacoma and touched off "earthquake" reports at Seattle. 40 miles to the north. After visiting the plant and questioning workers, Ed Sorger, chief of the safety division of the State Department of Labor and Industries, said the company ob served all precautions and safety regulations and the explosion ap parently ' resulted from "human failure." "Something slipped up some where along the line," Sorger said. "There was no chance of mechanical failure." Killed by the explosion were Al fred B.A. Coon, 34, Tacoma: Rob ert D. Schultz, 33, Yelm, Wash.; Richard Nelson, 26, Tacoma, and James Capps, 24, Frederjckson, Wash. They were working in a 25-by-40-foot wooden building stuffing dynamite into cardboard paper tubes.- Sorger said the building was "obliterated without a trace. Noth ing remains but a hole in the ground." Todds Expecting HOLLYWOOD V-Actress Eliz abeth Taylor and producer Mike Todd expect their first child in late November, her studio ' an nounced. They were married last Feb. 2 in Acapulco, Mexico. Egg Grading Bill Rehearing Slated A public hearing on House Bill 459 providing for grading. of eggs sold in Oregon will be held Fri day at 8 a.m. in Room 326 at the State Capitol. Discussion will center around amendments presented to the Food and Dairying committee of the Oregon House by Barry Brownell, representing the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation. Rep. Richard Greener, sponsor of the bill, contends consumers should have some means of de termining if eggs are freshly laid or are cold storage eggs. The bill has mot with considerable op position. This is the second hear ing on the bill. Honse Group Favors Truck Weighing Bill Mrs. Seiber Services Set Funeral services will be held at the Howell-Edwards chapel Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock for Mrs. Thora Grace Seiber, 41 former Salem resident and a late resident of Glendale, Ariz. The Rev. Donald Ross of the First Christian church will officiate at the service and interment is to be in Belcrest Memorial park. Mrs. Seiber, who was the for mer Thora Grace Wornell, died suddenly last Friday from a heart attack at Globe, Ariz. She was born at Lewiston, Ida., Jan. 5, 1916, and graduated from Salem high school in 1934. Mrs. Seiber was a member of the Methodist church in Molalla. Surviving are her husband, Har old Seiber to whom she was mar ried in Nevada in 1951; her par ents, Mr, and Mrs. Edward Spriggs, Salem; a brother, Leslie Latta, Seattle; and a sister, Mrs. Edith Smith, Beaverton. A bill increasing authority of weighmastcrs was sent to the floor of the house Tuesday with a favor able recommendation by the Ore gon House Committee on High ways. Two members of the committee. Reps. Ole Grubb, D Bend, and William H. Holmstrom, (D) Gear hart, did not feel the bill went far enough and opposed the "do pass" recommendation. The bill had been re-referred to the comittce three times after de bate in the house. Can Bring Driver Back - House Bill 197 now provides a weighmaster can weigh any truck coming through his weighing sta tion. If he has reason to beleive a truck is overloaded he can stop it on the highway and direct the driver to return as far as five miles to the scales. Another amendment placed in the bill would make the weigh master or state police officer re sponsible for assisting the driver in turning his vehicle around on the highway in order to return to the scales. W. A. Mansfield, attorney for the Oregon Highway Department, sold there was now no statute giving specific authority to weigh trucks, with or without reason. Further Amendment Sought Rep. Grubb contended the bill needed further amendment to pre vent drivers from escaping punish ment by pleading in court that the weighmaster had no reason to believe he was overweight when stopped However Grubb's amendment was defeated on the grounds that it might lead to unwarranted search and seizure. The committee also approved a bill requiring a county court to! vacate any county road which has not been in public use for 16 years unless the vacating would deprive a property owner of access to his property. Rebuffs Offer ' I k n em. - - -i i -i? i li i i 1 1 iiiiii -iri ii NEW YORK Ray Sal ycr, above, of the Bowery, central figure In a document ary movie, "On The Bow ery," has turned down a Hollywood contract calling for $40,000, The World-Tel-egram and Sun said today. (AP Wlrephoto) No other car eren diaUenges its performance ! Here are some figures for comparison. We believe they talk louder than words, and that you will find this message worth reading. So mnch has been said abont the pood looks of the 19S7 Chrysler that yon may have the impression its reputation rests on styling alone. The truth is it's even more impressive in action. Three performance figures prove this. Here is the first! 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