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Bf FRANK JENKINI
g BEATfUH man by Uia nam ot
" Bchmo haa I'll n oblnaUon
anar Hue lit Hiroshima bombing to
build A hous lur somoun In Japan,
a, Kinl Urn go, ha started taking
up a collection, chipping In himself,
with hi own money, ha want
along.
II raised 14000, and a couple ol
week henca ha wiii aail (ol Hlro
hlnia W begin hla building )ub.
(TIM houaa, by th Way, will b a
child ear clinic.)
a a
Quixoncr
Wall, let'! look at It Una way.
YuppuM hla Act Impressed all Ui
jspartaa who heard of It. Buppos
otliar American did something
anruewhal almllar. Buppoa. out ol
all ol II. raw a feeling ot frlrndll
dm toward America on th part ot
Uia defeated Jap.
ctuppoa. H raault ol this feeling
ot friendlinee, Japan and Amaru
tamalnad at paaco henceforth.
In Uiat vent. It WOULDNT BE
no quixotic, would ur
PIIKRE It historical precedent aloug
that Una.
Uoni 30 eonlurlr mo, Juliui
Caesar whippad tha Oaula cnmplelt
ly. Whan h finished tha )ob, ha
knew Uia Oaula we.- whipped and
THKY knew they were whipped.
HE THKN DkALT WITH THEM
HO FAIRLY THAT FOB MoKA
THAN JUO YEARS THKKE WA
ho WAH BrrWfcLN ROME AND
OAUL.
Common decency and fairness
and good will OFTEN pay oil.
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WE haar a lot (bout guaranteed
aecurlty In thee days. Famous
Lloyd a ol London propueee to take
whirl at It on A Ire enterprise
If you'ro arared ot Inlanul ps-
alysis, smallpox or typhoid, and II
you llva in l'i United Kingdom. I
Lloyd's will aril you tor M a policy
that. It you ar stricken tn.i any
ol thm draad disease, will pay
)ou to a work until you bav col
Jscted a ltal ot 0O0
N They call It tha "looo-to-l Iruur
' a nca against epidemics." Tha odcu.
uu r, ara pretty good. Evrn aa
(ambling proposition. It beat (lot
machine or playing Uia horse.
THE point la that aecurlty (it trul
la what you want abort every
thing final DOKHNT HAVE TO
COME FHO.M THE POLITICIAN
llm In thi country, you can buy
Irom a res pons lbl liuuranc com
pany A policy Uiat at certain ant
will lai you retire with enough
money to live on for the rent of your
lit. If you lart YOUNQ kNOUOH.
Uia premium won't b prohibtuv.
IF, at lurvey of collet gradual
rocenUy conducted by Fortune
Magaaln atrongly Indlraea, aecunty
la what th present generation want
mar than anything, we ought to get
rid of th Me that ONLY POLI
TICIANS can provlrl aecurlty.
That tin t true. If aecurlty In old
act u what you want, you can buy
aecurlty from reapoiulbl concern
that art managed by bualneaa people
imtead of by poliuclana.
Mayb you'd rather have th kind
ot aecurlty th poliuclana promt.
If ao, Uiat' your biuineu. Thu
t fre country. Your right to
CHOOHE WHAT YOU WANT wa
bought and paid for with the blond
and th treaaur of your liberty
loving inreatora. But at leant It
will do you no harm to realii that
aecurlty la available to you without
political help.
HOP RALE
OREOOM CITY, July 1 (AV
Thirty thounand pounds of fugglea
hops from Ciackauraa county yards
hav been contracted for by a Waah
Ington. D. C. broker at 41 cents a
pound.
Th hops are owned by V. H.
Jackson, Woodburn, and Peter
Hcymamkl, Bllverton. Buyer la John
I, Haaa, Inc.
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DANGER SPOT Spring ond Main streets corner has become o mojor danger spot in
Klamath's traffic situation, and her is an accident scene photographed there yesterday.
The sedan was smashed In a collision with o Peyton truck. Virgil Vowell of Malin was
driving the car ond John Laird the truck. There were no arrests by city police. Traffic
flow is heavy ot the corner, ond many motorists hove not yet realized that the traffic sig
nals ore now working there, police sold. Th signals, though long installed, hav been
inactive until recently.
Tpr
Prison Term
Decreed For
Russian Spy
WAHIIINCTOV. July 1 "
Judith I eplea today wa aenleneed
U 49 montha U I year la pram
far apylng foe RimU.
Th Uny brunetu former Juitlr
drpartmeut worker hard the
aentenc unflinchingly.
A enact tlaa WW era hearing bar
penally, aha made aa InpaaalMed
atalfOMtit U Fdral Jndge Albert
L. giem, bt ah did ai aak far
Aetaally, Judg Itaevaa paated lw
ilMice lg anonth ia 1 year a
the first (apylng) want at lb la
dtcUnen! agalnat her, and n I
thre yeara a th end (lhaft af
aeoreta) etui
He atlpulated. however, that th
enience b aerved concurrently.
Jutt belor paaalng aentenc,
Judge Reevea aatd:
"1 thoroughly approve of th ver
dict of th Jury."
New Bond
Judge Beevaa ardered Mlaa Ceplea
la peat a WW bant of (2.g.
Her old bond bare gIMIg aata.
aaaUrally aiplred with th paaalag
at aentenea.
frit aia la ander Ct.M band la
aa eaatanaga aontptracy eaaa la New
Verb.
I nder today'e aenteare, Mka Cap-
lea waald aw altgtal to apply lar
pama la aaatha anoald aha laae
tht appeal her attorney aaaoaaeed
wawM be nude.
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J lid It Keeve recommended that
the aentenc b aerved In the
Women Kef urma lory at Aldvrton.
W. Va.
H explained, however, that Ihl
la a mere recommendation and that
th prtaon will be arlected by the
JtuUo department If Hla Coplou
actually aervea the time.
Jd Meevn rejected a deaaaad
by rraaecalar Jsha M. krilry Jr.
that Maa taptaa ba beld la ball f
HM.ae.
Caution In
7oods Asked
Of Travelers
Manager Hal Ogle of the Klamath
Foreal Protective aaaocutlon today
warned holiday forest vlaltora to
exerclt every precaution againit
fire and alio, to tee to It they don't
run out of gea.
Ogle aatd that there la frequent
call upon Uie KFPA tut loo at
King t cabin. In northern Klamath
county, for emergency gaa. Ttiea
equetu come from people who hv
driven right by gaa auuona at Chil.
oquln and eluewher and hav gone
uno th back country with Insuffi
cient fuel In their tank.
"Our men at Klng'a cabin ar
there to protect th area agauut
fir." Ogl aald. They hav gaao
lit' for uh In fir equipment. It la
not for aale, and It cannot be mad
avallabl to th general public Any
aetulbl driver ahould hav enough
gaa to get around In the area with
out calling on thla auppiy that w
need for other purpoaea.
Nevada Divorces
May Fall Off
SACRAMENTO. Calif.. July I
A bill opponents aald would cut Into
Nevada's divorce business was
passed by the assembly yes'erday
and aent to Governor Warren.
Tha vote was 41 to 12.
The first paragraph of th bill
reads:
"A dtvorc obtained tn another
Jurisdiction ahall be of no tore or
t fleet In tills stal If both parties to
th marriage wer domiciled In thla
slat at the tlm th proceeding for
ih divorce waa commenced."
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KLAMATH FALL. OHKtiON, FRIDAY.
Wage Up Umi
Youngsters To Take Over
Saturday With Five-Secfi'on
Parade For Rodeo Kick-Off
Klamath baaln youngater will
take over th town Haturday after
noon to glv th Klamath Baaln
Roundup an autplcloua kick - off
when Uiey atage their huge five-tee-Uon
parade on Main atreet. The
parad ataru at 1 30 p an. from th
armory.
Parad marihal la Mel Henry of
th aherlftt dom. Reno Browne,
Monogram tUrlrl. Rodeo Queen
Joyce Copeland and her court will
add to Uia fetUv atmoapher.
Don Klrkpatrlck. chairman of the
kid parade committee, la urging th
youngntera to form at th armory by
1 o'clock to avoid delay In alerting
th lln of March.
Th parad will proceed down
Main, turn on 2nd at the Wlllard
hotel and flnlah at 2nd and Klam
ath. In addition lo th prlie In elor
Red Police
Beaten To
Death In Riot
PRAOUE. July 1 OPi At least two
communist policemen wer beaten
to death and an undetermined num
ber In )ured In noting between Ro
man Catholic faithful and govern
ment adherents In Slovakia recently,
according to reliable reports reach
ing high diplomatic aourcea her.
These aourcea added that th slU
ration In thla Intensely-Catholic
r'ovtnc now appeared "quiet on
the surface." But they wer Inclined
to glv credence to reports that at
leant small partisan bands of Catrt
olira had been formed then to atage
violent resistance to the communist
In the church-tut fight.
To hush up the ai lust ion. diplo
matic quarters aald. th government
wus restricting travel Into Slovakia.
Other developments In the church,
tute war were:
1. Disclosure that th Czechoslo
vak foreign ministry ao far ha
ignored a protest delivered by the
diplomatic corps here about the for
cible detenuon earlier this week of
Mkgr. Oennaro Verollno, Vatican
diplomat.
i M-agr, Josef Beran, archbishop
of Prague and the nation's primate,
la staging a virtual "alt-down strike"
tn hla palace, refusing government
suggesuona that h leave for a sum
mer holiday.
Chest Budget
Requests Cut
Proposed cut tn th budget alio
caUons to agencies partlclpaUng In
the Community Chest, as compared
with their requested amounts, will be
the subject of discussion at a meet
ing ot Chest directors to be held
tonight at the chamber ot com
merce. Chest President Mslcolm Epley
urged a full attendance and added
that agency representatives other
than those on th board ar wel
come to be present.
Th budget committee men headed
by Elton Thompson, have worked
over the request and have recom
mended ausbstantlal reducUons In
most Instances. They propose a
total goal of about (67.000 for th
Chest, on th grounds that th com
munity cannot be expected to raise
mora than that this year.
Budget requests ran much higher
than that.
The meeting I called for 7:30
p. m.
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for th youngster In the various
sections, they will all receive auto
graphed picture of Koy Rogers and
Mlaa Browne.
Th blond movl western queen
will nde her palomino. Major, In th
colorful procession.
The parade will Include a bicycle
section, mounted section, pet section,
doll buggy section and a costum
secUon.
Soap box derby entrant will also
enter th parad prior to their rao
compeuuon th asm day.
In Uie bike sec uon, awards will go
to th first and second best-decorated
bicycle. The best-dressed cowboy,
cowgirl and th youngest rider will
receive prize in th mounted sec
Uon. Pet honors will be won by the
moat originally displayed pet and
th beat-displayed pel. In Uie doll
buggy secUon, prizes will be given
th beat-decorated aiul most origi
nal buggy.
Costume-wearers who will receive
prizes will be th most original, most
comical, the pretuest and th most
novel outfit.
Groups Included In th parade ar
the Boy Scouts. Olrl Bcouts, Sea
Scouta. Camp Fir Olrl and Trail
Btaaer Cadets.
Judges for th parad ar Mrs.
Charles Perry, Lea Olficld and Paul
Lee.
Saturday morning, g 30. the kid
dies will be treated to a Roy Rogers
movl at th Pelican theatre. -
Prize donor ar Rein nan's Jewel
and Olft shop, Poole s Bicycle shop,
Bell a Hardware, Hal'a Sport shop.
Th Oun Store. Leon Tots-to-Tee
ns. Lost River dairy. Hardy
Manstore. Miller's department store,
Frank Bogotay, Shaw's stationery.
Hlbbs' clothing. CaaUeberry ' drugs
and The Town Shop.
Installment
Buying Curbs
Up To Dealers
WASHINOTON. July 1 0V-The
terms allowed Installment credit
buyer ar up to th nation's dealers
today. The government ba nothing
more to say about It.
Federal rescrv board authority to
limit install item credit terms ex
pired at midnight Congress pur
posely let It laps.
Th controls, quit strict In war
time .wer allowed to laps for an
11 -month period beginning In 147.
Then congress renewed the law last
summer.
For th past nine months the fed
eral reserve board ha made It con
trols more and more lenient to that
those expiring last night actually
were no suffer In most respect than
dealers used to tmpos of their own
accord In pre -control days.
Some official thought It possible
used car dealer may now require
less than the usual one-third down
payment.
'Painless1 Gas
War Possibility
WASHINGTON, July 1 Is a
"painless" gaa war In th offing?
Representative Sikea D-Pla.i,
with a alight touch ot mystery, told
the house today such a prospect "Is
not necessarily pure fancy."
He said the army chemical corps
"may. with proper lncenUves, pro
duce a painless ir.
"Th army chemical corps today
may not be far from the producuon
ot a gas which temporarily destroys
the will to fight but doe no lasting
harm," h said.
"That would make short shift of
ny aggressor snd render hi defense
Impotent,
"Such a weapon, properly guarded,
could be much more valuable than
th atomic bomb, for It would be
free from the drstrucUvenesa of the
atomic bomb."
Cops Lose Favorite
Speed-Trap
KANSAS CITY, July 1 (P-Pollc
hav lost one of their favorite speed
trap hideout her parkway shrub
bery In a 20-nille-an-hour son.
They Jumped out from behind It
and stopped John Warrington, park
maintenance superintendent.
Warrington told them if they
didn't atop hiding behind It h was
going to hav th shrubbery cut
down.
Wednesday It wu uprooted. Park
Superintendent J. V. Lewis gave
this explanation:
A traffic hasard.
BIO LOO
SWEET HOMR. July 1 WV-On
ot th biggest fir trees on record In
the Sweet Home area has been cut
by th B. C. M. LogKlng Co. of Hfll
'.cy. The giant log wa 110 Inches In
diameter at th butt and provided
Jd.BOO feet of lumber.
WEATHER
aiawal VH Ba vlelallfl Jalr
tor IhlMfb Balartav. Mlf
Mu M. !. tools! 4. man
Balorar M.
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No. 21
Asked
Union Asked
To Withhold
Pension Plan
DETROIT, Jaly 1 OPi Fr a
aeoend Urn th Frd Motor eaca
pany today asked the t'lO tatted
Attt Workers to skip their wage
aad pension denunda for IS months.
Ford, repeating It wage-freeze
proposal, told the union It wa "con
vinced" that the company plan was
the "best possible answer to our
problem."
There was no Immediate reply
from th union.
On the first occasion. June It, the
CAW rejected the proposal.
'At that lira I'nloa President
Halter Heather termed II -anml-latie"
and said that It wa eanlre
felt security" . for Fard' 1M.M0
worker.
In a letter to R-jlher today Ford
Vice President John 8. Bugs re
peated argument which he aald were
"in th Interest of employ aecur
lty" " We must c o n 1 1 n u a 1 1 y remind
you," Bug as said, "that our ability
to provide well-paid Jobs depends on
our ability to sell automoUv pro
ducts." Chrysler Bay N
The Feed statement cam aa the
beets ot Chryaler'a refasal to dsseaaa
SIM asenthly pensions and a health
and welfare praaraas with the LAW.
Pensions art th N. 1 goal mt the
anion thia year. A a eatueqaenee
of Chrysler's action earreat For
I AW contract aegvtlatiana aataased
aa Increasingly important rale.
Chrysler refusal had the effect
of leaving Ford to talk pensions
alone.
However, union circles have Inti
mated that duplications will be
sought elsewhere if any success at
Ford, contract Interpretations not-
i withstanding. - -
Carvsler took lb poslUoa that It
' two-year contract with lb law
! continuing an til 19i permits wily
; dlaeasaiaa on wares thla year.
Opposed to thu has been the un
ion contenUon that pensions proper
ly fit Into the "economic" considera
tion of th contxac.
Heavy Travel
Over State
Seen For 4th
By Tb Associated Preaa
The annual Independence Day ml
grauons from the dues to th
mountain and beaches get under
way tn Oregon tonight iFrlday) for
the long week-end.
Bus companies In Portland re
ported today Uiat unusually heavy
traffic was expected and extra sec
tions would be provided tonight and
tomorrow on the run to the coast.
Railroads aren't looking for too big
a Jam, but extra coaches will be
placed on the Portland-Seattle run.
United Air Lines has set up 40 extra
sections.
The weather bureau had reason
ably good new for the enure state
and th scattered celebraUons such
aa Bend's Mirror Pond Pageant, the
rodeos at 8L Paul and Molalla. the
Albany Timber Carnival, Salem
Cherry Festival, Baker's Oregon
Trail Days and the many other
special holiday events.
In the Willamette valley the long
range forecast says, tor Sunday
through Wednesday: considerable
cloudiness, cool dayUme tempera
tures, Utile or no precipitation.
No formal long-range forecast If
made for Eastern Oregon, but fore
casters said It looks like this: partly
dourly to fair, scattered thunder
s terms Monday or Tuesday, temper
ature near normal.
Presbyterian Synod
To Raise Funds
PORTLAND, July 1 Ifl - The
Presbyterian synod of Oregon plans
to raise glOO.000 a year tn 1950, 1B51
and 1062.
The campaign was announced at
the close of the annual meeung yes
terday to raise funds for Lewis and
Clark college, Westminster founds
tltn, and the San Francisco Theo
logical seminary.
The Westminster fellowship, a
Presbyterian youth group, elected
Nancy Pond, Portland, a modera
tor; Kent Lawrence, McMlnnrllle,
vlie-moderstor: Stan McClellan,
Klamath Falls, treasurer: Bob
Sjuthwell, Klamath Falls, commis
sioner. MILK MEET
ASTORIA. July I OPt Milk pro
ducer here will confer this week
end on the possibility of cutting
th retail price, following th Port
land area reduction.
Milk now sells at 21 cents. The
state-fixed minimum is IfO', cents,
allowing a half-rent drop In quart
prlcet without milk board authorisation.
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VICTIM OF POOL SCUFFLE A hord-riding Woshingfon,
D. C, park policeman (unidentified) looks bock ot cringing
girl, identified as Joan Sexton, after his horse roced over
her os police were summoned to holt a threatened roce riot
at o swimming pool where racial segregation recently was
ended. The scuffle storted offer some 70 Negro youths ap
peared ot the pool. The girl ond two other persons were in
jured ond three men were orrested.
Disgruntled Driver Opens
Up With Rifle
Who Failed
A evaiMtsi meiorui ni aJMrxvai; . aeciaea w iutu arouna. inr enr Al Bluefleld W Va where th
west a rifle to flag down kelp waa : went off tha road and became stuck , Sou,hern Co, Producers association
la the canty J.U at Altar,, uday. Ion a high canter. ,, merl Sean-!
BberifTs officers identified boa aa . They tried aasaeeesaf aflv U flag Treasurer John Owen and hi tram
Earar Cappa. K. from Oklsnoms, ; Vwa several awstarlata. Wbea aocjnf union negotiators, there was re
. told thia story akwat bis acth,-!n, nWwed dww and tbe- aped ap! , ef because1t,ey ibeen "1
iuea M tb Canby-Klasaatb Fall. .ln. C.pps la sliced to bav. fire. ; u, tne three-dsy week order Th.
bighw.y early today: leraj , tt wUh h K-4 ; southern operator didn't Uk it. but
r'llI . . Iihey would have been IT
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both of Cedarville. wss driving
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at the wheei. About four and a hall 1
mile north of Canby Junction, they!
California
OK's Hospital
Pay Proposal
SACRAMENTO, Calif.. July 1 I)
The assembly with only on dis
senting vote today sent a bill to the
governor establishing a system of
disability hospltallxaUon benefits
for worker. Only Assemblyman
James W. Silliman. staiina- voted
no. Th ye Tote numbered 64.
There was no doubt Oov. Earl j lty and also picked up Danner for
Warren would write his name on It i lnvesugauon.
in Jig time. Workers will receive j Early tha awning. K lama ID a
U a day for 12 days to apply on I tbarttie aearohad the freight train
hospital bill. In addiUon to t2i a from All eras at tb nwaeat at
week for M weeks. -Modoc officers, vnt foand nothing.
For nearly seven year th gov-
ernor nas oren trying to get a
measur of this kind through.
Warren told newsmen today:
"The solvency of the fund un -
employment aisaouityi snouia oeio lnf
the only measure of the benefit of .LOItQ fV6CkCa1Cl
(ho nlan Tha tnrtert nut nn mrff I
cent that goes Into the fund. They
ar enUUed to hav every benefit
that can be accorded them without
endangering the fund' solvency."
He declared, however, he would
not favor Increasing benefits to the
point where it would be necessary
to hike the deduction from the
worker pa) envelope.
The hospital benefits Issue wa
once thought as dead for thu ses
sion, but It csme back to Ufa when
the senate In a quickie move yes
terday passed an assembly bill after
attaching to It a rider providing for
limited hospital payment.
Bus Strike Issue
To Be Arbitrated
PORTLAND. July I (Ai Pacific
1 railways buse were operating as
usual today, after a sero-hour lgree
ment averted a strike scheduled tot
last midnight.
Exactly an hour before the dead
line, negoUator emerged from a
conference to say they were submit
ting all the Lvues to arbitration.
Wages and working conditions are
Involved.
Negotiators had met all dov and
most of last evening with Federal
Conciliation Commissioner Ouy V.
Lintner. The strike would haye in
volved some SO drivers on the Port
; vid-Salt Lake City run.
Solons To Move To
Temporary Quarters
WASHINGTON. July 1 (AV-To-riay'
(esslons of the senate and
house will be their last this year In
the historic Capitol hill legislative
hulls they usually occupy.
When the two bodies meet again
next Tuesday, th senate will crowd
Into the old ai.pr tne court chamber
n th ground floor of the capitol
nd th house will cram Us 433 pres
ent members Into the way and
mean committee room In the new
hotts office building.
There they will stay until ther
finish this year' work possibly tor
several more months whll carpen
ter, upholsterers, painters, decora
tor and other workmen take over
th ent and nous chamber. -
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On Motorist
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To Give Boost
1 This frightened Danner and Fad -
' Al. K . ,
hiked back to Canby. .
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Capps iUyed with the car. Ptt-
entlv Carl Erhardt ot Olendale,
I Art., cam along, driving north.
I Erhardt told officer Cappa flag-
iged bias down by braadisbuig the
inn. He stopped aad was osdertd
1 to pall the stranded snacbine off the
jhigb center.
WhUe Erhardt wss rorafed In this
1 work. Joseph Walter T nam pawn of
Cedarrilfe came aleag. drtving south
ward. Erhardt'a ear at the time waa
I ia tbe left buw fee tbe palL Thosnp-
soa taw tb. light uad assnmed the
car waa la it right lane.
! The Thompson and Erhardt cars
side-wiped and were wrecked.
Th owners of th damaged auto
I Informed authorities, and Under -
sheriff Jack Stark and Stat Patrol
i man Lou Wright invesUgated. They
arrested Capps In the Canby vicin
: Later, the arrests at Altaraa were I
upas Urn aere.
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' wIOlCS 11011
Everyone In town 1 preparing for
a long Fourth of July week-end.
with most business houses planning
to close Sunday and Monday.
The post office will be open It ,
regular hours, until noon Saturday
and will close both Sunday and
Monday with no mall deliveries on
the Fourth.
Other which will be closed Won-
day will be tne banks, courthouse.
city and county libraries, liquor
store, city rail, grocery stores and
other retail stores downtown.
Employes of The Herald and News
will also have a long holiday, since
there will be no newspaper published
Monday.
Honolulu Stevedores Veto
Fact-Finding Board's Plan
For Ending Waterfront Roy
HONOLI LV, July 1 (Pi Honolulu
stevedores orrrwhelmlng'.y turned
down a plan for ending Hawaii
crippling waterfront strike yester
day. Their comrade elsewhere In
the Islands are expected to follow
suit today.
The peace plan, advanced hope
fully by a fact-finding board and
accepted reluctantly by employers,
was batted down (28 to 59.
Thi board proposed a raise of 14
cent an hour. The workers In strik
ing S2 days ago demanded 32 cent
on top of ttielr current hourly wage
of 1140.
Wearily, Acting Gov. Orra E. Long
aald he would ask the lw aide to
resume collective bargaining. "Sure
ly, there must be torn way thia
strike ran be ended " he added.
The CIO IntemaUonal Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's union,
however. Indicated It was preparing
for a long struggle.
Harry Bridges, union president. Is
flying from San Francisco Tuesday
or Wednesdny to take over personal
direction of the strike.
ILWU Official Henry Schmidt de
clared If violent attempts were made
to break th strike, longshoremen
Operators
Mad, Out OK
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' WHITE Rt'LFHt'R KPRINGS. W.
Vs.. July 1 (At Most root t perm tort
L-sy ahruggrd eft the powlbillte
they would challenge John L. Lew It
three-day work week In court.
"What would be tht ater one
leading operator aald. "Who would
ailne our eoal? StrangersT"
Nevertheless, la a formal state
ment by beorge IL Love of Pitts
burgh, top spokesman for th aoeth
aa west, tbe production limit Ira
posed by tht United Mine Worker
Clef yesterday wa described a
"illegal.-
The alternative to bowing to
lewis- long - cherished stsblllzatlon
t'an was a complete shutdown of
the Industry. The operators vhosa
production will be cut by the short
week declared "half a loaf I better
than none."
Aetaally. some af them expressed
lhe view that production would ba
reduced only a bent ! per cent sine
meat of the workers ar piece er
tonnaxt miners, whose pay Is baaed
a the aasoant of eoal loaded.
.No Mtrlke
Lewis sidetracked his strike threat
for at least another month and a
half maybe longer. He left the dat
for a new contract showdown wide
open. The old contract expired last
nirht at midnight.
Northern and western operators
wh have been eonferrtne with
Lewis tere believed that ander th
Taft-Hartley act the miners could
not end their ton tract before August
14. beeaaM Lewis had to allow i
day front the date when be first
KJr 7- - -
Lewis never agreed publicly to
that, but he didn t shut down the
mines. That was the big thing In
1 isolation if their
mine had been
Lewi did not explain why he ex
cluded the far western mine in th
short week, but both sides at th
Whit Sulphur conferences agreed
that the 20 million Urns oroduced
yearly west of the Mississippi river
","iu uie uwa oojcctive.
Wedding At Sea.
River, At Least
PORTLAND. July 1 (jpv Archie
W. Allen. Portland salesman, and
Mis Nyla Papenfuse. La Center,
Wash., are going to be married In
lie middle of the Columbia river
Sunday.
Dr. Harold S. TutUe of Lewis
Clark college will wed the coupl
tn a 12-passenger speedboat, whil
the guests, esconsed In more speed
boats, listen to the ceremony over
a public address system.
Prom the river they go to dry
land the Papenfuse home in I.a
Center for the wedding reception.
"We both enjoy boating," waa
Allen' explntion.
School Site Row
Gaininq Heat
PORTLAND. July 1 (Pi Th
argument of "where to build th
new high school" hsd popped up
again today.
But the school bosrd. which
thought It hsd pushed the question
down for good, appeared unlikely
to change Its mind.
The city planning commission's
secretary charged at a tax hearing
yesterday that construction of a new
Lincoln high in downtown Portland
is "gambling with $3,000,000 of tax
payers' money."
I Theron R. Howser declared thst
tiie school should. Imtead. be con
structed In the growing West Hill
residenUsl area.
The school board had already
turned down a proposal that a
school be built there, however.
long the whole Pacific Coast would
shut down.
Stevedore cheered message from
Bridge saying $2MK) was coming at
one for strika relief. More finan
cial support waa promised from
Portland and San Irancisco steve
dores. Employers ottered a wage Increase
of 12 cent an bour in an attempt
head off the strike. They Inaiat
stevedore hero have etradirr pay
and better working condition than
those n Hi mainland.
The stevedores wslkcd tlirouirti a
"people picket" line as tliey en
tered a school building where th
balloting took place.
The 250 pickets, mot of them
women, urged the stevedores to ac
cept 14 cents.
President Truman In Wahlnngton
endorsed the plan. Ho did tin news
papers, the Honolulu Cslhnlic dio
cese and the Philippine consul gen
eral. Mit of the stevedores sre Fili
pino. Th Honolulu stevedore local la
llswall'a largest. But a total of about
I to others were voting todav en ll
Islands of llawsil, distil snd Ksual.
It wss believed generally that tht
vote In Honolulu clearly foreeatla a
rejection else where.