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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1952)
M ronfiTl WSSi Nl(n)MnM A IF M f 1 I . . V liilll lly KHANK JENKINS I HkoU Iko'a speech. 1 llknil It, I nunimno. because he put into words iiunrly nil the things I've been thinking nboiil whnt'a wrong with our country, lint chief ly, I'm Dure, I liked It becnuna u( the strong li'ollnn It Inspired In me Unit UK MKANH RVKIlYTHINO HK'B BAY1NU. 'I Imt ho Isn't Junt buvIiik It for effect. If there In nny one thing we need more than anything else, It l FAITH In our leadership, After Unit comes fnilh In ourselves nnd FIGHTING fultli In the rlithtiicss of our mnllvcs unci our Idenla. 'I Imven't hud Hint kind of tnlth fur loim, long time, Ike restored It to me. I ciime out of our rndlo room utter listening to him with til? Irrllnu thnt grnve nn our prob lei? ere we'll meet them and solve thrin nnd come out of It ll rlghl. Jnrnt'B the effect hl ipech hd mi. I hone and nm Incllnrd to believe thnt It hud the wmi ef fect on ii lot of people. H oiir inn mil be restored. Uiere la NOT HINU we cun t do. Another thought wis In mv mind an I imtenrd to him. It mn iome- il.l.... Ilk,- it.ix ike WROTE THAT SPEECH I in tired nd lck of ghost-writ-.... ... 1 nrnlil Unit ureal nc- tors ere ureal men. But nclors mid lenders of whole peoples ov u lorciil Jobs. An ctor' Job Is to be a perlect mirror for nomoone eie ii.. .r.,ii.liiv. by hie voice . t.tntttiirUtne he gives life lo what HOME OTHKH MAN h ilf,Klil anil nald When the greet leader of i rrat peiple ntwnks. he must 8FKAK Kill HIMSELF H hl worda re to pui lire end fnilh Into hie followers I urn rin'l believe thnt rn be done bv eomebody who In merely mouth ing word thnt hnve been written bv noinebooy cine. 11 isn't mv lob here to tell whnt Ike ld. Thnnka to the nmnilng f nn ni modern communicn' Hons, everybody hns already heard . . t . -w. i,i mo hut rrtad It. All I'm trying lo'do U to describe the dnri II had on me. 11 etlcol wan lo restore my mor ale. It restored mv morale. I in r hemline It reatorea m tt In TRUE that fnilh can move mountain". To those of u who believe In Ike and who are FOR him because we believe In him. hl npeich lo i,. hnmo In ki In AblierM orouam no nurprlnes. It revenled him n Hint Uie kind of mnn we thought '"it belleven, for exnmpln. thnt n.riv han been In Dower too ijnij. Bound educntlonnl tralnta and wide exrjerlence hnve'lnuglit him that too much power held In too few hands too long la dlanatrout In Inn rlshln ol Uie DeoUJO. He belleven thnt Inflation, which nmountn merely lo kidding our selves nbout the relationship of money and property. l n cruel oe hition. He known that the power to lax la the POWER TO DE STROY, nnd he known thnt "elimination of wnnte, duplication and extravagance" la the only Way to keep Uxen reasonable. He known thnt CONCENTRATION of power I dangerous, especially when It la concentrated nt n point remote from the menses of the peo ple, nnd he belleven thnt If con centration of power In Amerlcn In lo be broken up ns much of govern ment as Is possible must be brought bnck to the atnte houses, the court houses nnd the city hnlls. 1 He known thnt. If the confidence of the people la to be held bv the leaders of the people, the people mum be told simply nnd truth fully, without evasion, equivocation or mental reservation, whnt Is go Inir on. Thnt in the kind of mnn Ike's speech nt Abilene yesterrinv re vealed him to be. Thnt Is the kind of man I think we need ns our leader NOW. Renctlonn lo hln npeech weren't nil fnvornble. Whnt he anld brought Trom Representative Cnrroll Reece, of Tennessee (who hns been respon sible for n lot of the things thnt hnve been wrong with the lender ship of the Republican party) this cynlr.nl crnck: "It lookn like he's pretty much for Mother, home and heaven." Thnt Is all right with me. After whnt hns been going on In this roWMlry ton long, we enn use a lot n of Mother, home and heaven without suffering any harm. Pussy Plops, Pups Pounce Half of yesterday's City Fire Do pnrtmont notlvlty, hnd to do with n cat In a trootop at Orcsctjnt and Cunby Streets. Tho other half centered on nn automobile fire at the S.P. depot. W. O. Nogglo'a car hnd a short In the wiring and lh resultant blaze caused minor dnmnge, firemen re ported. That call was nbout S p.m. Earlier In the nftcrnoon, the fire men were called to Crescent nnd Canny Streets because a cat hnd Kerclied In a trcetop for some 24 ours. - ' The rescue attempt' narrowly mimed writing finis to at least one of the obstlnnte cnt'n nlns lives. Firemen tockoyed the depnrt pnrlmcnt'a shiny new ladder truck Into position nnd Chief Roy Rows braved the heights to Ret the oat. But the cat would hnve no pnrt of tho chief nnd after n lively scuffle In which the chief, the cat nnd tree limbs went round-nnd-round the top of the big aerial ladder, the cat suddenly turned loose and plum meted some SO foet to the ground. At precisely the lnstnnt the pussy plopped to the ground, two alert pooches pounced nt the pussy, Whjin Inst seen, the cat was lead In? Ifie two dogs by half a length nnd tjtilllng! nway ns the streaking trio rounded the Klamath Ltlthernn Church, i i Taft Forces Claim S.D. Victory lly IIAKOLU H. MILNltl RIOUX FALLS. S.D. IA1 Sen. Till I of Ohio held a 601-vnte lend over Oen. Elnrnlniwer Thursday in South Dakota's bitterly contested itnpiioncnii prlinury, with only 10 precincts missing. ' Although Tuft supporters claimed victory, former Oov. George X. Mlckelson. who headed the Flncn- hower nlate of delegates, refused to concede pending the official count of ballots Saturday by the county canvansing board. me returns gave: Taft (14, loo. Elsenhower M.100. At leant five of the nilMtlng pre. duels will not no known until the olllilnl county canvnas SnlurduV The election Judges locked In the ballot cans I hp duplicate poll ing books of four precincts In Per kins county. mere the iwo cnntnauics were running ncck-nnd-neck. Another noil hook wit scaled with the bal lots In n Brookings county pre clnrtji n county which registered heavily for Taft. Taft supporters early Wednesday chinned n victory after their candi date had doggrdly mnintnlned a shaky lead since 10:44 p.m. Tues day night. Mlckclson contended the narrow Tuft margin ttlll left the Taft win III doubt, nnd bi-couse of Uie clono nrnit of the rnre that It wan nn Fllncnhower victory In n Tull stronghold, even II the OlUonn did poll four to five hundred more votes. Mickelson refused to any wheth er he would nhk for a recount or content the bitterly fought pri mary. He hn.i 10 days In which to demand a recount by petition ing the secretary of ntute. Taft supporters (aid the showing Tnlt made proved his strength among farmers. His beat showing was mnde In fnrm district where there were no Urge cities or towns. He spent five, dnys cam paigning In the stnte. In his talks he plunked for pnrily tor fnrm produrtn nnd fnvared farm price lupporut. Elsenhower's vote gelling power In the sparsely settled ranch arena In the ''short-grnnn" country went of the Missouri river surprised those, predicting Uie election re turn. He nlso made big gntns In the cities, enpeclnlly In Aberdeen nnd Sioux Fnlln, where he had daily newspaper endorsement. FBI Arrests Navy Man WA8HINOTON M" The FBI Thursday nrresled two men one a federnl official and charged them with diversion ol surplus gov eminent rope. -me iwo men were namea as Cant. Manuel Oontalea. 42. as sistant chief of the division of ship repair and maintenance lor the U. B. Maritime Administration, ar rested In the Commerce Depart ment building In Washington. Kmlle, Schmidt, 66. used rope buyer, wnn taken into custody by FBI agents In New Orleans. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover said Qontiile was charged with em. ber.ltng nnd selling without nu. thorny somo 110,000 pounds of rope. Hoover nald the rope was valued nt about W.600. me commerce Depnrtment said, however. It hnd a retail vniue oi noout sw.uuu. Hoover snld Schmidt wu clinrg- ed with receiving n. portion of the goods, which hnd been In storage aboard the reserve fleet of Uie Maritime Administration nt Beau mont, Tex. Cnpt. Ooncnles. a former Navy commander, wan in charge of thnt fleet when the rope wnn disposed of between January, 1951, and March, 10S2, Hoover nald. Oonznlra wnn promoted In March of thin year to hln present posltloh in the Maritime Administration. The FBI said the arrests make a total of eight persons who bnve been taken Into custody In recent weeks in nn Investigation Involving mbeKzlciiicnu firm the Beaumont cscrvo fleet supplies. FUNERAL SERVICES for Inez V. Robertson Slum,,' long-time resident of Klnm-' ath Falls who died sudden ly in Medford, June 3, will be hold Friday, 3 p.m., from ' Ward's Funeral Home, 925 High. Commitment services and Interment In Klamath Memorial Park. Mrs. Shutt lived here from 1929 until about a year ago, when -she moved to Medford to, make her home, WOlfllWMiiMlll IP !H siwia)- G s Vs- ' - -- - - - , - J MoIjia Viim I'sMln 99. mmm 1 ri s- s m.r ft-Kf tnim m mr srim.iin m " ' . . '" I. ..v. .... mm ' p jt invBoujii, rfuntv ot Telephone Bill No. 2840 jr r- Wm&MzP Mnnim (ulim Mm , eii'in'yiwliftllllll,lia -v-''pjJpissMaiaassssnaaanaaa SHARON August Draft Call 29.000 WASHINOTON Wl The Army Thursday Issued n drnft call for 29,000 men In August. The Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy do not plan nny drnft calls thnt month. The August quotn rnlscs to 83, 430 Uie total of men drafted by nil services since September, 1B50. The Army got 602,000 of Uiese, Uie Mnrlnes 81.430. A Defense Depnrtment announce ment nald the Army needs the 39.000 In August for replacements and to maintain authorized strength. Warren Vote Record High 8AN FRANCISCO I Gov. Enrl Wnrren's vote in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary nenred the million mnrk Thursday nnd Elsenhower supporters haled his victory as a slnp at Sen. Robert A. Tall. The record-smashing primary close to 3,500,000 Callfornlans voted Insured Wnrren a key role at the OOP National Convention His 2 to 1 defeat of a home state free choice" slate led by Rep. Thomas H. Werdel gnve the gov ernor 70 pledged delegates, in addition he won six votes In Wis consin April 1 to help his own chances as a possible compromise candidate or as a deadlock break er. , The nearly complete count, from 1B.4D3 ,oi tne ituiiu precincts, allowed Wnrren 994,220; . Werdel 508,251 State nnd national Campaign lenders for Oen. Dwlght D: Elsen hower quickly . Issued ' Jubilant statements emphasizing that the Werdel group f nvored Taft while their own organization, naq en dorsed Wnrren. Taft did not enter the primary and personally stayed clear of the bitter Warren-Werdel battle. How-( over, Werdel himself named Taft ns his first choice and splinter factions supporting the Ohio sena tor urged Cnllfornlnns to elect the nntl-Warrcn slnto. On the Democratic front, the election outcome promised a chnnge In state party leadership. Tennessee Sen. Estos Kofnuver irounced the administration slnte to win nil 88 convention .delegates. Tho vote from 19,397 -precincts: Kefanvcr 1,123,378; Brown 478.203. Democratic regulars who bncked Atty. Oen. Edmund O. Brown's uninstruoted slnto (former Truman delegation) will hnve no voice at the national convention. Kcfauver supporters such r.s Stnte Sen. nnnrfr Ulllnr .tr nt DlnhmnnH and James Roosevelt are expected to emerge as powers In Uie new pnrty setup. Roosevelt got off the Trumnn slnto after the1 president withdrew. The 3,500,000 votes eclipsed the 100,000 primary record act In 1950. TRAINING AREAS JAPAN . TOKYO Gfl The U.S. Japan oint committee 'reported Thurs day 13 naval and" 12 air. training areas hnve been created for use by American forces In Japan. All of tne areas are on or near Hon shu, the main Japancae Island,' or Kyushu, tho southernmost island. V ,i V. I 'I J .4- 1fV II FINCHUM Henley Girls Enter Rodeo Queen Trials By WALLACE MYERS Two more girls signed up late yesterday as candidates for the Klamath Basin's highest girl honor. queen of Uie annual Basin Roundup July 2, 3 nnd 4. Roundup Girl Prizes Grow Six valuable and exciting gifts were tossed Into Uie prize pot for Roundup Queen candidates today. The Klnmntn Merchants Associa tion announced that eight member firms were contributing six Kodsk "uunnex a- enmerns with leather enrrying cases to Uie six princesses in this year's court. - Six firms will present the cam eras and- two firms will each pre sent three of Uie leather cases. Cameras will be given bv: Under wood's Camera Shop, Ferebee Stu dio, Oregon Woolen Store. Currlns for Drugs (Camera Depnrtmcntl. Pnyless Drug Store and Poole's Sporting Goods Store. The cases will come, from Uie J. C. Penney Compnny and Sears, Roebuck. BIGGEST YET The gift list for this year's oueen nnd princesses hns now grown to the most attractive ever offered and more gifts are expected to be added. . Besides the big engraved silver trophy for the queen, each princess Is to receive a similar but smaller tropny. Other gifts are: a tailored suede riding habit from Bill nnd Lucille McConron's Westwear Shop. The queen mnv hnve her choice of sev- ernl colors; $100 spending money for the queen from the Roundup Association;. nlso from the associa tion, white' shirts and hats for the queen nnd each of her princesses; n aiamona-stuaaca wrist watcn lor the queen from Rickvs: nnd n sad dle blanket from the Klamath Sad dle Club. , Reds Continue Squeeze In East- West Bottle By RICHARD KASISCHKE BERLIN W) Russia demanded Thursday night that the United States pay Communist East Ger many 14 million dollars aa back payments over seven years for telephone lines to Berlin under the 'Implied threat of cutting them off. ... ,i. This ' latest squeeze on Allied Communications into Berlin,- 100 miles behind the Iron Curtnln, wns disclosed In a letter from the So viet Control Commission to the U. S. High Commissioner's office. The action was another pha.ie of Uie East-West tug of wnr in di vided Berlin and came on the heels of a night o frontier kldnaplngs and shootings... - The letter accused U. S. authori ties of refuaing to meet a commu nications blU submitted by the pos tal ministry of the East Zone gov i ANNE CURRY " Slinron Finchum nnd Anne Curry, both 16-yenr-old Henley girls, slRned their entry blanks yesterday afternoon nt Charlie Rend's Sad dler', one of Uie three sign-up spoti. Both girls are Henley High School 3emors, both are brunettes and both are accomplished horsewom en. Slinron Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Finchum. She is a willowy, brown-haired miss with light blue eyes. Her lavorite hobby is, of course, horses and a close second is singing. But Sharon isn't thinking of a singing career; she plans to attend college and major In elementary education. FRIENDS ' Sharon and Anne are close friends and in Uie Roundup. Sharon will ride "Lady", a quarter horse belonging to Anne's father, Howard Curry. Anne's ability with horses la nl rendv widely known. She has par ticipated In previous Roundups, riding in races and even riding calves. Alwnys. she snys now, she was biding her time to come ot ngc for eligibility in the Roundup oueen s trials. (Roundup queen girls must be 16 or over and single.) Aruie's Indoor hobby is cosmetics and she is well on Uie road lo being a top cosmetician, according to her teachers. , CHAMP CALF She's prominent In 4-H work nnd showed a champion cau at ine luir here Inst year. In the Roundup. Anne will tide her own horse, "Smokey," a quar ter horse bred by her father.. Sharon nnd Anne's entries yes. terday brought the queen candi. dates' total to four. Several more clrls plnn to enter and It Is hoped they will sign in time for the big outing Monday. The girls, their parents or guests ana tne girls horses are to nave s. . . (Continued on Page 4.) ernment. Last week the Communists cut 19 telephone lines between West Berlin and West Germany and blocked West Berlin lines to the Soviet sector of the city. Fortunately, the Western powers, antlcipnting such n move, hnve constructed large rndlo telephone and radio teletype transmitters for use in an emergency. But the demand could set a pat tern for Communist- claims for compensation for use of German roads, railways and even the air corridors leading - into Berlin. The Russians slnoocd bnck their bnn on American nntrols ooerntlng on the superhighway from Berlin to1 West Germany nnd the Com munist press tnrentenea a luruier tightening ot the Red squeeae on the city. rne Red pnoers sooke ominously of "direct blows." . . . 1 ; , Poison Takes Hopper Toll ; TULELAKE Millions of grass hoppers were feeling the effect of tons of poison bran scattered alcng the old Tule Lake shoreline, and officials directing the battle against them were hopeful they would drive the insects out of frrainfields. some of which were already damaged. Using three planes, the killing bait was scattered over thousands ot acres of barley fields and ad- lacent areas where the hoppers were hatching out. Grasshopper Control Specialist Sam Smith said this morning he was confident the tide hnd turned In favor of the farmers and other agenciea fight ing Uie infestation. He said Uie insects were either dead or dying by the thousands as they were hit by Uie poison bran. However, he noted there were suc cessive waves ot grasshoppers which must be contended with be fore the fight Is complete. Some 25,000 acres of barley and other crops is threatened by the hopper hordes. Forum to Eye Dairy Field Milk drinkers, eaters of cottage cheese and other consumers of dairy products will get a chance to go to the source next Monday during the Annual Guernsey Judg ing benoot ana Field Day here. The dairy day will be topped oir Monday night with a "Build the Basin" forum discussion on milk, its price, quality and the functions of the Oregon Milk Mnrketing Con trol over station &rijW. SPONSOR The school and field day Is being sponsored by the Oregon Guernsey Cattle Club and the Klamath Coun ty Dairymen's Association, and Is a feature of Oregon's June Dairy Montn ooservauon. The field day begins at 9:30 a.m. with a tour of the Dr. F. C. Adams Adamsdale Guernsey Farm; at 10:30 the tour moves to Retedale El Rnson, a Guernsey farm nenr Merrill operated by Ray Hobson. A noon lunch Is planned, with visitors providing their own sand wiches and everything else in cluding fresh Golden Guernsey milk is furnished free. At 2 p.m. the tour continues to the Willlun Jinnette rnnch nenr Merrill, oper ated by Ramsey and Teers. TROPHIES . . The Klamath Dairymen's As sociation has put up three rotating tropnies to be awarded tne best amateur cnttle Judges in three nge groups. A three-time winner will rctsln the trophy. Official Judges during the com petition will be Elmer Meadows, Held representative of the Ameri can Guernsey Cattle Club, and Harold Ewalt, OSC dairy specialist. Especially Invited- to pnrtlclapte in Judging; are 4-H and FFA club members; housewives, businessmen and other consumers are Invited to participate in the Judging aa well as the tours. sf Denies Bid For Demo Nomination WASHINGTON l President Truman said Thursday he will at- lena ine Democratic national con vention after It has chosen its pres idential nominee and he will not be that nominee. The President added that he'd like to attend the whole Chicago convention but won't do so be cause his presence might create a disturbance. Truman was told at his news conference some Republicans have said be is engaged in a devious plot" to get the nomination for himself. Thin he denied and said such charges usually originated m warp ed minds. Of Wednesday's statement by Gen. Eisenhower that the Demo crats have been in power too long. Truman replied It Is up to the people to decide that. NO COMMENT He declined further comment on speetn. saying he is not at all interested in the Republican pre convention race. Asked if he thought Eisenhower spelled out the Issues of the cam paigo, Truman said be just didn't know. Likewise, Truman declined to get inio the controversy between El senhower and Sen. Taft over El senhower's air power views. He said with a grin that the GOP's quarrels please him very much but he's not going to get mixed up in them. Taft said last sunaay mai a steady deterioration of American air strength began while Eisenhow er was chief of staff.' - Eisenhower replied at a news onffrK!c Tuesday that he always hns favored a strong Air Force ana expects air power to be dominant in any future war. cites policy: . On other matters. Truman said: 1 He does not plan to send Con gress any legislation dealing With the steel strike, and he won't com ment cn the possibility of invoking the Talt-Hattley act. - 2 He has no comment, and nev er will have a comment, on the Su preme Court's ruling that his seiz ure .of the steel industry was Ille gal. A reporter recalled his previ ous statement that nobody can take away his powers of seizure In an emergency, and asked if he would elucidate. Truman said he would at a later date. 3 He doesn't expect war to break out in Europe this summer. If he did. the President said, he wouldn't let his daughter Margaret and a friend go through with their proposed European tour in uie summer. 4 The Democratic party sur mounted difficulties in 1948 and he expects it will do so again. This was in reply to a newsman who asked If he thought the victory oi Republican Sen. Knowland In Cali fornia's Republican nnd Democrat ic primaries meant the people of California are against the adminis tration s foreign policy. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California Fair through Friday. High Thurs day 80 and 84 Friday. Low tonight SO. High temp yesterday ... 84 Low last night 95 Since Oct. 1 15.11 Normal for period 11.35 Samo period last yr 14.84 V , 9 Pdoclt Sftttiai EARLY MORNING smile . on John Coffman's face greeted Tulelakers today. He's with Tulelake Shoe Shop, ; i ""it " f y Lashes Out At Truman Policies ABILENE. Kns Ml nn let. senhower said Thursday the Dem. ocratio administration must take the responsibility for the "trnglo loss" of China to the Communists. Elsenhower has called the loaa of China a great international trag edy of our tlmea. He referred to the loss Thursday SPEECH Reactions and report of Elsen hower's Abilene Speech Wednesday-reported on page 18. , ns "an International disaster of the first magnitude." He refused in a press conference to blame any Individuals for Chi na's loss, but he added: "The party in power ha to take some responsibility for the losses we have suffered." The general geared his personal drive for the Republican presiden tial nomination to the assertion that the top political issue Is "real peace and security in the world." ine smiting live-star general, at tired In a natty srav suit, rtrriar that when he puts his hand to the plow as he has to seek tho nop nomination he works as hard as he can In rapid fire order, he reeled off answers to manv of tho tmu-hv political questions of the day. He thus accepted the challenge of his political opponents who had criti cized his previous silence while In uniform, POINTS . Among other things. Elscnhnw said on foreign policy 1. The country must be helped out from ifnder "the . umbrella ol fear and doubt and hysteria." d. tie nas no political connec tions with the Democrat! admin. titration and is free to criticize its) foreign policies but if we let Eu rope fall we will have "backbreak ing responsibilities" and be is "na tional danger." , 3. It would be "very dnnm. to attempt to extend the Korean war at this moment, until w K,va had a bigger buildup of our own." Declaring that he intends to speak out an franklv an t knmr how." Eisenhower had thnui thtnr to say about domestic issues: 1. He believes the states, rather than the federal government should handle the issue of Fair Emolov. ment Practices Commissions FEPC. This could be a popular stand m tne Democratic Bouth. 2. The state can handl olnes. tlon problems better than the fed. eral government and he la against Hojmg money mio ine ' federal treasury that Just goes back to the states. - ' --' FARMING : 3. Agriculture must have a sound price foundation but he is not nr. pared at this time to say just what price supports are necessary. . 4. He is against "socialization of medicine." . 5. If the St. Lawrence Rlvnr Seaway is an economic necennitv then it is inevitable that it will be constructed. He said there seemed no dispute about the power punse oi uie project out uie con troversy was over Its economic necessity. 6. On labor laws, Elsenhower said "we can not take leaislatinn that compels people to work. That Is regimentation." He said some other means must be found to bring Buuuh uiiueiauuiuing in UUS Held. Jaunty, but not coekv nn- bower made it Plain thnt now ht has taken off his uniform and is campaigning lor the Republican (Continued oa Page 4.) CIO, Industry Meet on Steel WASHINGTON U) Top offi cials of the steel industry and Uie striking CIO Steelworkers union went into a joint bargaining con ference Thursday under White House urging for a quick settle ment of Uie nationwide walkout. The negotiators soon narrowed their number down to three-man teams representing the industry and union a possible Indication they intended to do some real bar gaining. Spokesmen said they could make no comment on the talks. On Capitol Hill, the Senate went ahead with various proposals to curb big labor strikes. The negotiators, meeting in the executive offices building adjoin ing the White House, were told by John R. Steelman, assistant to the President, that they knew the seriousness of the situation aa well ns he did, including the need for speedy resumption of steel produc tion. Steelman bowed out of the bar gaining session, but toll both aides he would be available to either side if needed. ' The talks are the first since the Supreme Court last Monday ruled thnt Truman's two-month-old seiz ure of the industry was unconsti tutional. CIO President Philip Murray led , a ten-man steeiworxer delegation into Steelman's office. He found President Benjamin F. Fair less of the United States Steel Corp. and aix other top - management men already there. ' Questioned as he entered wheth er he expected the meeting to be come a real bargaining confer ence, Murray said he didn't know. A steel industry spokesman aaid he was equally in the dark ns to what might develop. Government stabilization officials iri thev knew of no fresh plan Steelman might have for settllnn the six-month-old ateei dispute. The amount of a nteel price in crease, as well as of a wage in crease, is nt Issue. Nenrly SO.OOO workers Were Idled by the strike. These Included the 650,000 steel workers, along with almoat 100,000 otheri fur leughed In coal mines, railroads, shipping and docks serving ateei mills. ... 4
