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tons Sought To End
Strike on East Lines
New York U.fD Nw York Central officials announced
Tuesday that the heads of the stoking rail brotherhoods have told
them they are issuing orders for their members to return to work.
Cleveland U.R) The government Tuesday asked for a re
straining order and an injunction against three railroad brother
hoods to end their crippling "token" walkout against the New
York Central system, western division, and the Terminal Railroad
of St. Louis. '
Acting U. S. District Attorney John J. Kane, after a confer
ence with Department of Justice and Army officials who flew here
from Washington early Tuesday morning, said he would . ask
Federal Judge Emerich B. Freed for the order and injunction.
The government asked for an immediate 10-day temporary
injunction and presented affidavits signed by defense leaders, to
show that the strike would have "serious" effects on the national
welfare.
Meeting with Kane were Edward B. Hickey, special assistant
to the attorney general, representing the Department of Justice;
Lieut. Col. B. K. Phillips of the Judge Advocate General's office,
and two men assisting Hickey, Jess Rosenberg and John G. Roberts.
J Government Still Has ".
Russia Asks Early
Big Four Meeting
On German Treaty
Moscow (U.R) The Soviet
Union called Tuesday for an
early Big Four conference on
a German peace treaty designed
to unify and rearm Germany
but bar it from the North At
lantic Treaty Organization.
The Soviet proposals would:
1. Withdraw all occupation
forces from Germany one year
after the proposed treaty be
came effective and end all for
eign bases on German terri
tory. Bar Military Revival
2. Bar a revival of German
militarism, but permit Germany
national land, sea and air forces
and limited production of war
materials.
3. Hold German borders to
those set at Potsdam, where
Poland was given East German
territory to compensate for the
westward expansion of Soviet
borders.
4. Support Germany for Unit
ed Nations membership.
Peaceful Economy
5. Permit unlimited "develop
ment of a peaceful economy" for
Germany.. -
6. Restore civil and political
rights to all former members of
the German army, including of
ficers and generals, and all for
mer Nazis except those serving
sentences.
The Soviet note said the pro
posals were made in support of
the Communist East German
government's appeal to the four
powers for a German peace
treaty.
The proposals were contained
in a note and a separate draft of
a German peace treaty given to
United States, British and French
representatives here Monday
night.
Sleelhammer Quits
Attorney General Race
Salem (U.R) John Steelham
mer of Salem, who was speaker
of the House of Representatives
in the 1951 legislature, with
drew Tuesday as candidate for
the Republican nomination for
attorney general of Oregon.
He said the press of private
law practice would not permit
him to campaign. Still in the
Republican race for attorney
general are E. O. Stadter of
Bend, Leonard Lindas of Oregon
City and John McCourt and
Alex Barry of Portland. Robert
Y. Thornton of Tillamook is the
lone candidate for Democratic
nomination for attorney general.
Hurricane Winds Hit
Parts of Louisiana
By UNITED PRESS
Hurricane-force winds belted
sections of Louisiana, Mississip
pi, Alabama and Georgia late
Monday as a squall line spawned
by a low pressure area over
southern Illinois and western
Kentucky swept eastward.
Relatively little damage and
no injuries were reported de
spite the violence of the storm,
and weather forecasters predict
ed sunshine would follow in its
wake.
OTI Students
In Protest Against Policy
Klamath Falls, Ore. (U.R)
Approximately 75 per cent of
the Oregon Technical Institute
student body was on a walkout
from classes Tuesday. ,
A student spokesman said the
action was in protest against the
policies of the Oregon Tech ad
ministration.
The walkout involved about
300 students, many of whom
will lose their GI payments be
Charge of Railroads
In a strongly-worded petition.
the government re-affirmed that
it was in charge of the railroads,
taken over by the Army on Aug.
27, 19S0, and asked Freed to
grant it "injustive relief."
The petition asked that the
three unions the engineers, the
conductors and the firemen and
enginemen be restrained "from
acting in concert and from in
any manner encouraging, order
ing, engaging in or taking part
in a strike in the transporting
by railroad systems in the pos
session; control and operation of
the United States."
Will Imperil Security
The petition added:
"Such strike, if permitted to
continue or occur, will imperil
the national security, health and
safety.
"It will interfere with and ob
struct the effective performance
and discharge of vital and
necessary government functions.
"It will deprive the nation of
essential transportation service
and will obstruct the flow of
interstate commerce and the
transmission of the mails of the
U. S." .
The government thus sought to
end the strike by 6,000 union
men that started: Unexpectedly
Sunday morning, idling 20,000
rail workers and paralyzing the
NYC's western division opera
tions in six states.
Vanport, Portland
Extensions Merged
Portland (U.R) The State
Board of Higher education Tues
day merged the Vanport Exten
sion Center and the Portland Ex
tension Center into a single pro
gram offering both day and
night classes.
The reorganization becomes ef
fective with the move of the two
units into the old Lincoln high
school building. The program and
building will be called the
"Portland State Extension Cen
ter." -Vanport had operated ' since
1946, resetting in the Oregon
shipyards after the 1948 Vanport
flood forced it from its original
location. The Portland Exten
sion programs had operated at
the various Portland high schools.
Wilhelm Seen Speaker
Of 1953 Oregon House
Roseburg, Ore. (U.R) Paul
Geddes, state representative
from Douglas county, said Tues
day he believes Rudie Wilhelm
of Portland will.be elected speak
er of the Oregon House of Rep
resentatives at its 1953 session.
Geddes, originally a candidate
for the house speakership him
self , Jias now filed for state
senator.
Bones at The Dalles .
Said of Adult Mammoth
The Dalles, Ore. (U.R) Two
geologists Tuesday tentatively
identified the bones of a large
prehistoric animal found near
here as those of an adult mam
moth which roamed this area
during the pliocene ice age be
tween 10,000 and 25,000 years
ago.
Portland (U.R) Union and
management remained . dead
locked Tuesday in efforts to
head off a threatened transit
strike here April 1.-
Quit Classes
cause they are not attending
classes. There has been no com
ment from OTI officials. The
school's director. Winston Pur-
vine, was out of town when the
walkout started.
A meeting of the student
body with state officials was
planned for Wednesday and the
student spokesman indicated the
"strikers" will not attend
until that time.
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Morris Denies
Connection Made
In Tanker Deal
Search Memory,
; McCarthy Warns
f Washington (U.R) Gov
ernment corruption hunter
N w b o 1 d Morris admitted
Tuesday that he probably
grossed S30.000 to $35,000 as
hi share of his law firm's
fees for representing two Chinese-backed
firms in surplus
tanker deals.
Washington (U.R) Sen. Jo
seph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) said
Tuesday that Senate investigat
ors have evidence the White
House set up an appointment
with the Maritime Commission
for Newbold Morris in connec
tion with a 1947 surplus tanker
deal.
Morris, President Truman's
corruption "cleanup" man, ve
hemently denied any knowledge
of it. He said he knew no one at
the White House at the time and
that he went to the Maritime
Commission "absolutely alone
and cold."
Warned To Search Memory
McCarthy then warned him
to "search your memory deep
ly because there will be tes
timony that the original appoint
ment was made by the White
House."
The towering New York at
torney, apparently a little irri
tated and nervous, was the first
witness as the Senate's perman
ent investigating committee re
sumed its digging into the "get-rich-quick"
surplus tanker deals.
Morris had been on the stand
less than five minutes when Sen.
Karl E. Mundt (R., S. D.) asked
him if a December, 1947, ap
pointment with Vice-Adm. W. W.
Smith, then Maritime Commis
sion chairman, was made by the
White House. " '
"What?" Morris exclaimed.
Goodness ' sake, I wish they
had. I didn't know anyone at the
White House."
"Nobody preceded that visit
with - a phone call?" Mundt
pressed. ,
" did, Morris replied testily.
"No one from the White House
helped you make the original
contact?" Mundt asked.
"As many times as I'm asked
that, I'll say no," Morris re
plied firmly. "I swore to tell the
truth and that's the truth."
Mac Believes Russia
Won't Give Up Kuriles
Washington (U.R) Gen.
Douglas MacArthur believes
Russia will not give up the
Kurile islands and the southern
half of Sakhalin island except
by force, Sen. Herbert R.
O'Conor said Tuesday.
The Maryland Democrat .said
MacArthur wrote him that "it
would probably take military
force to dislodge their control"
of the two areas:. But he said the
deposed Far Eastern commander
expressed doubt ' that any such
attempt would receive serious
consideration.
Moscow, Ida.. (U.R)' Grain
elevators and storage " ware
houses in the Palouse area are
virtually empty for the first
time in 10 years, according to
Manager Fred Cann of Latah
County Grain Growers, Inc.
FIREMEN RUSH to extinguish
some 5,000 Communist-inspired
' If Win till
I army truck. Thirty persons, Including two U. S. government officials,
eJllSTRIBUNE
ML 3RD, OREGON,
Ridgway Censures
Communist Ethics
In Truce Meeting
Panmunjon (U.R) Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway and an Allied
truce sub-delegate severaly criti
cized Communist ethics in ar
mistice bargaining Tuesday in an
apparent attempt to prod Red ne
gotiators into giving ground.
The supreme Allied command
er, who returned to Tokyo Tues
day night, said the Communists
Schneider Files
On Oregon Ballot
In Surprise Move
Salem (U.R) Coming as
somewhat of a surprise at the
capitol, the name of William R.
Schneider, St. Louis, Mo., law
yer, was added Tuesday to the
Republican ballot for president
in Oregon's May 16 primary
election.
Schneider's personal filing was
accepted because it was mailed
before the Friday 5 p. m. dead
line. Signed by Robert Elliott
His filing, with a $100 fee, was
sent here by George L. Rauch,
Portland attorney. It was signed
by Robert A. Elliott, Medford,
chairman of the Oregon State
Republican Central committee,
attesting that Schneider was a
bona fide candidate for the Re
publican presidential nomina
tion. '
- Rauch said in Portland that
Schneider has practiced law in
St. Louis since 1911.
The St. Louis lawyer became
the . sixth candidate in Oregon
for Republican nomination.
Yoshida Favors Friendly
Relations With Red China
Tokyo (U.R) Japanese Prime
Minister Shigeru Yoshida Tues
day said he favored Japan enter
ing into "friendly relations with
Red China" after solving "many
problems pending between the
countries."
Replying to a Socialist mem
ber of the Upper House Budget
committee, the premier said that
under the treaty of friendship
between Soviet Russia and Com
munist China, the latter "re
gards Japan as a theoretically
hostile country and even if
Japan desired friendly relations
with Red China, it may not re
spond to us."
The Weather Again:
Like Lion and Lamb
The weather couldn't make
up its mind today whether to
be like a lion or a lamb. It
wound up by acting like both.
Three-tenths of an inch of
snow fell in Medford this
morning, with more, at higher
elevations which remained on
the ground during the morn
ing. At lower levels, it melted
well before noon.
By 1 p.m. today bright sun
shine was boring through
white clouds, and pavements
were dry. But then it began to
tn,w again.
blaze in overturned Hong Kong police ear following demonstration by
demonstrators who mauled foreigners, turned police cars end British
" . , " . Cetted Press
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1952
had used "unknown falsehoods"
to run down the United Nations
and that it was impossible for
him to guess what would happen
next in armistice negotiations.
Red Blast Toned Down
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho toned down his two
day long blast at conditions in
Allied prison stockades but con
tinued to blame the UN com
mand for the deadlock on volun
tary repatriation of war pris
oners. Lee accused the Allies of "fab
rications" to cover up abuse of
captured Communist soldiers.
To this Rear Adm. Ruthven E.
Libby replied:
"We are getting fed up with
your attempt to make things ap
pear as facts that are not facts."
Threats Dropped "
Lee dropped his threats and
charges of "lies" under Libby's
warning Monday that the Allies
would walk out if the Reds kept
it up.
All in all, Libby said later, the
45 minute POW meeting was
"quite mild" and minus the vic
ious Communist invective of the
past two days.
Vacancies Reported
In Home Nursing Class
There are several vacancies in
the Red Cross home nursing class
which will begin Wednesday,
March 12, at 2 p. m. in the third
fjoor classroom at the city hall,
according to Mrs. Lester Gil-
man, chairman of the-program
The course will continue
through March 28 with eeven
classes of two hours each.' Mrs.
Faye Penrod Will instruct.
Numerous teachers, private
duty registered nurses and com-
mitteewomen have taken consid
erable time to schedule and train
instructors for the home nurs
ing courses and it is hoped the
Jackson county women will avail
themselves of the training with
out charge, Mrs. Gilman said,
The charge if made in an indi
vidual s home by a nurse would
be $1.50 an hour, she added.
Portland Traffic
Death Toll Now 14
Portland (U.R) Portland's
1952 traffic death toll rose to 14
Tuesday with the death of Wal
ter O. Roosen, 69.
Roosen was struck by a car
February 22. He died at Provi
dence hospital from multiple in
juries suffered in the accident.
By UNITED PRESS
From four to five inches of
new snow was reported Tues
day at Government Camp,
Warm Springs Junction, Santiam
pass and Willamette pass and
motorists traveling those Ore
gon routes were advised to carry
chains.
Oregon City (U.R) Walter W.
R. May has resigned as editor
and co-publisher of the Oregon
City Enterprise-Courier and E.
P. Kaen has purchased May's
equity in the daily newspaper,
a joint announcement by the two
men said Tuesday.
were injured. (lnternaUonal,
mn Leased Wire
No. 306
Southern Oregon
Planing Mill Ends
Union Agreement
Employees Warned
To Report Thursday
The Southern Oregon Planing
Mill company, Central Point, ob
ject of a strike since February
18, has informed Local 3030,
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union, AFL, that the company is
terminating its labor contract
with the union as of yesterday.
(Gene Tedrick, business mana
ger for the union, said this
morning that he has received the
company's notification, but he
pointed out that the union is still
the bargaining agent recognized
by the company, as a result of
the original bargaining agent
election. It will remain the bar
gaining agent unless a new elec
tion rejects the union, he said.)
The company's letter to the
union said the picketing of the
plant and "the concerted refu
sal of your members to report
for work," are violations of the
contract of June 1, 1948, as
modified.
It added that the union's ac
tions are accepted by the com
pany as a determination "that
you do not consider yourselves
bound by the contract," and that
the company is exercising its
option to terminate the contract
as of March 10.
A company spokesman also
revealed that registered letters
were mailed last night to all em
ployees of the company who
have been stnkmg, asking them
to return to work Thursday. If
they do not, he said, the com
pany will consider their employ
ment terminated.
The employees were also ad
vised of the contract termina
tion. .
The dispute arose over the
union status of a former fore
man at the planing mill. The
plant has been operating since
Monday, but Tedrick said today
that only four union members
passed the picket line yesterday.
Pickets on Duty
At the Jackson Creek Lumber
company, near Jacksonville, ob
ject of another strike, pickets
were on duty today, although
the mill is in operation. No un
ion members are at work there,
Tedrick said.
A field inspector for the Na
tional Labor Relations Board
was reported to' have been here
this week to collect data on the
strike, which is over recognition
of the union as a . bargaining
agent. The company has asked
for an NLRB-supervised election
to determine whether or not it
should recognize the union as
bargaining agent for employees.
The union claims a majority of
tne employees at the mill were
union members, but the firm
will not recognize the union
without an election.
Pickets also were on duty at
the Singleton Planing mill in
Central Point, after a Saturday
court ruling lifted a ban on
picketing at the plant. The mill,
where operations . have been
stopped, is involved in the strike
situation through its alleged use
of "hot" machinery from the
Southern Oregon Planing Mill
plant
Attorneys for Aly,
Rita Plan Meeting
New York (U.R) Attorneys
for the fabulous Aly Khan and
his estranged princess, Rita
Hayworth, conferred here Tues
day amidst rumors they were
arranging a meeting for love
or money between the couple
whose romantic shenanigans
have covered half the earth.
Aly's attorney, Charles Tor-
em of Paris, said he and Rita's
lawyer, Bartley Crum, might fly
to -Hollywood within the next
few days to talk to the glamor
ous actress.
Ellsworth Denounces Forest
For Lobbying
Washington U.R) Rec Har
ris Ellsworth Tuesday denounc
ed the forest service for a "lob
bying campaign" against legis
lation to provide for Ipterior De
partment administration of Ore
gon's controverted 0& C lands.
The Oreeon Republican and
Sen. Guy Cordon, R.-Ore., are
authors of legislation aimed at
settline the long-standing dis-
nute between the forest service
and the Department of Interior
TURNING FROM BELT which strangled Nurse Mae E. Mathls la
Los Angeles hotel, William E. Klink, suspect In slaying, hides
face as hands of policeman hold weapon. (International)
Eisenhower Leading
As Tiny Hampshire
Hamlets Count Votes
Concord, N. H. (U.R) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower made a
clean sweep in two of the first
three tiny settlements reporting
returns Tuesday in New Hamp
shire's first-in-the-nation presi
dential primary.
Weather Bad
With rain, sleet or snow fall
ing throughout, the state and
threatening to keep many away
from the polls, Eisenhower re
ceived 13 of 18 votes cast by
Republicans in Millsfield, Wa
terville and Hart's Location.
Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., O.)
Sabrejets Blast
Three More MIGs
Seoul, Korea (U.R) Amer
ican Sabrejets shot down three
Communist MIG-15s, probably
destroyed another and damaged
five of the Russian-built jet
fighters in stepped-up air action
over Korea Tuesday.
The action brought the two
day total to 10 enemy aircraft
destroyed, one probably de
stroyed and eight damaged. The
kills brought -to 205 the number
of MIGs destroyed in the Korean
war.
Meanwhile, ' fighter -bombers
slammed more than 33,300 gal
lons of napalm, 300,000 pounds
of demolition bombs and 45,000
rounds of machinegun bullets at
Red positions over a four square
mile supply concentration, turn
ing it into a flaming funeral
pyre.
The onslaught by 8th Wing
planes was probably the most
intense napalm attack on a sin
gle area during the Korean war.
Emanuel Hospital
Pickets Removed
Portland (U.R) There were
no pickets at Emanuel hospital
Tuesday for the first time in
more than 18 months.
The AFL Building Service
Employees' .union reported an
agreement had been reached
with the hospital's management
and pickets were withdrawn
Monday, 550 days after the
first line formed around the in
stitution. Union Agent Glenn R. Blake
said the hospital agreed to rec
ognize the union as bargaining
agent for union members in non
professional employment at the
hospital and granted a 10 per
cent wage increase over the
scale in effect when the pick
eting started. Work week for
women employees was reduced
from 44 to 40 hours.
Displaced President
Of Cuba Takes Refuge
Havana, Cuba (U.R) Ousted
President Carlos Prio Socarras
has taken refuge in the Mexican
Embassy with his family and
about 35 officials of his govern
ment, it was disclosed Tuesday.
Mexican Ambassador Benito
Cocquet officially informed Gen
Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban
"president maker" who over
threw the government Monday,
that Prio had asked and had
been granted asylum as a politi
cal refugee. '
In Prio's behalf, the ambassa
dor asked a safe conduct for
Prio to leave the country if he
desired, along with those who
accompany him. I
Campaign on
over the lands. Tne Dill would
give the O&C administration
jurisdiction over some 450.000
acres of controverted indemnity
or "lieu lands," and would elimi
nate the intermingled jurisdic
tion. The bill would also permit
the distribution of $2,500,000 of
O&C rental timber sale money
to the counties. .The money is
being withheld, pending settle
ment of the dispute.
Ellsworth said that by law, it
had received four votes and for
mer Minnesota Gov. Harold E.
Stassen one.
Kefauver Gets Two
Only three persons voting in
these same three communities
were Democrats. Sen. Estes Ke
fauver of Tennessee received
two votes, President Truman,
one.
Because of the miserable
weather promised for most of
the day it was possible that only
about 100,000 votes, rather than
the 150,000 anticipated, would be
cast. Many roads were virtually
impassable and driving was
treacherous.
Cther than being official, the
early votes carried no political
significance.
Eisenhower Blanked .
Eisenhower was blanked at
Millsfield, where Taft received
four votes, Stassen one and Presi
dent Truman and Kefauver one
each. At Waterville, however,
the general swept all seven
votes.
There were five candidates
favoring Eisenhower running
ahead in the delegate at large
race and the other five were
tied with Taft supporters. The
general had one district delegate
and tied the other.
Suspect Arrested
In Redfield Robbery
Reno U.R) The Federal Bu
reau of Investigation Tuesday
announced the arrest of 46-year-old
Andrew Robert Young in
Milwaukee, Wis., in connection
with the $2,500,000 burglary of
the home of multimillionaire La
Vere Redfield on February 29.
Young, an FBI statement said,
was arrested by FBI agents at
his home in Milwaukee this
morning "without incident."
D. K. Brown, special agent in
charge of the Salt Lake City of
fice, said the Reno police depart
ment and FBI agents late Mon
day night traced to Young two
bills one a $1,000 bill and the
other $100 known to have been
part of the Redfield loot.
A 400-pound safe containing
cash, jewelry and negotiable se
curities, was carted off while
the Redfields watchdog con
tentedly chewed on a hambone
nearby.
Complete List Asked
For Military 'Agents'
Washington (U.R) Chairman
F. Edward Hebert of a House
subcommittee on military waste
formally demanded Tuesday a
list of all military press agents
in the Washington area, "by
whatever name they may be
called."
In a chilly letter to Defense
Secretary Robert A. Lovett, the
Louisiana Democrat said the
Pentagon apparently "misinter
preted" his first request for such
a list, although "I thought it per
fectly clear."
The first list which the de
partment supplied contained the
names of 184 persons, civilian
and military. Hebert estimated
that the actual total of "Penta
gon pitchmen" is about 500.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Incmiinr cloudi
ness tonight with rain Wed
nesday becoming showery
Wednesday afternoon. Low
tonight 35, high tomorrow
42-4S.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday .. 46
Lowest this Morning
To 4:30 a. m. Today
32
Prec.
61
Service
O&C Measure
is illegal for government agen
cies to spend appropriated funds
to attempt to influence legisla
tion before congress.
Ellsworth said the forest serv
ice contended adoption of the
bill would set up two systems of
government administration in
the timberlands of Oregon. He
said this was not true. The bill
provides for one system to ex
change lands between the agen
cies, he said.
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