Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Newspaper) - June 29, 1949, Walla Walla, Washington kick tt CM tow WeC kran Walla U EVENING Our Year No 74 Walla Walla Wash Wednesday June 29 1949 Member of Associated Press NBA Service Ire Bi Syndicate Allied Daily Newspapers of Twenty-two Pages House Cuts Housing to Senate Size Urges Scrapping of Labor Senate's Vote to Include Emergency Injunction Clause Blow to Unions Veto Now Forecast WASHINGTON asked Wednesday that the senate kill the administration's labor row amended to embrace the Hartley injunction powers A F L President Willian Green wrote Senator Lucas of Illinois the Democratic leader that the action of the senate in adding national emergency injunction authority to that makes it absolutely un- acceptable C L O officials stunned by day's senate action already bad resigned themselves to keeping the act for two more years Arthur Goldberg C I O eral counsel told a reporter we might as well face the fact that we have the act un- til after the 1950 elections Debate End Sought Green said a meeting of A L union representatives day morning unanimously ed a move by Lucas to bring a speedy end to the senate labor debate We feel that amendments de- Signed to make the Taft more palatable would be useless and a of Green wrote cas He said he hoped the senate would go ahead and vote on other proposals by Senator Taft and then defeat the Taft put through th national emergency injunctions feature by a vote Tuesday Thirty-two other Republicans and 17 Democrats 14 from the South joined Taft in voting for his injunction seizure plan Thirty-five Democrats voted against it but Taft lost only five Republicans hart h Dead Far as Current Session of Congress Is Concerned Observers Say WASHINGTON fl Indications mounted Wednesday that the posed Columbia valley tion is a dead duck for the ent session of congress Chairman Whittington of the public works tee said he is certain no action can be taken at this session on lation to create a to develop the Columbia basin in the Pacific northwest Resumption of hearings on the legislation appeared unlikely be- fore the second week in July at the earliest The senate public works tee announced an indefinite Committee attaches said the committee probably won't be able to get back to the until after July 11 Whittington said the house com- must clear up other work before it can return to the legislation said feel that members of both the senate and house committees would not to vote on the until after many of them have the Columbia basin area Such a trip is impossible at this time and I do not see how the trip can be made until after congress re- cesses and when that will be is in- definite now Late Flashes WASHINGTON able park police were called out late today to guard against a threatened race riot around m public swimming pool Racial segregation at the pool in east Washington was ended re- cently SOUTH BEND tod bers of the Auto Workers local at the Aviation corporation plant voted today to accept a bargaining com- recommendation that a strike be ended Construction Of McNary Dam Talked WASHINGTON OB tration forces after one ary reverse today beat a Re- publican attempt in the house to shear the whole public housing section from President Truman's housing The administration's margin was five to 204 Senators Ives Langer Morse Ore and Thye Minn Victory Predicted The Ohio Republican predicted a victory for the rest of his program which is Assigned keep the essentials 61 the Hartley act while making a on Page 5 Col 1 Coplon Case Goes to Jury WASHINGTON Judith Coplon espionage case went to a federal court jury Wednesday The jury retired to decide the fate of the former justice ment worker after listening to in- by Federal Judge Albert L Reeves on points of law The judge spoke for 25 minutes repeatedly stressing that the de- intent was a major point for the jury's consideration Before the judge began speaking defense attorney Archibald mer demanded that he declare a mistrial Palmer's move was based in part en the closing argument of cutor John M Kelley Jr who de- Miss Coplon as a clever gpy in Russia's behalf Palmer argued that Kelley's peal was based on passion and I deny the motion Judge Reeves said when Palmer finished Processing of Peas to Close In Two Weeks At least another two weeks re- iain of the 1949 season in the Blue Mountain pea processing area Several plants contacted Tuesday both in Walla Walla and Freewater were of the opinion the season would extend to between July 12 and 15 Plant employment is lessening some plants planning to go on a basis soon The reduced production has made this season most erratic from the standpoint of plant operation managers never knowing for sure whether there would be enough peas coming from to keep busy Full crews have been a rarity as have full shifts by workers Production Improving Field production is improving somewhat from the earliest fields the perfection variety running wards to pounds to the acre Perfections generally are showing somewhat larger yields than did the variety The cool weather ol the last few days has helped somewhat by ing back maturity of the peas and resulting in a little better filling of the pods on the plants Other districts of the country apparently are in what the same situation as in the Blue Mountain district which one plant manager said is a little consolation New York Hurt There are reports that New York state is really taking a beating from the standpoint of its pea duction The report added that in Robert Allen Dies at Home Hobert E Allen 72 longtime business leader of Walla Walla died Wednesday morning at his home 703 University He came here 45 years ago and in his earlier life was connected with the Northwestern Electric Co predecessor of the Pacific er Light Co He was its mana- ger then its president and when the flume along the Walla Walla river was constructed he was engineer on the project About 1912 or 1913 he went with the First National bank now the Walla Walla Branch of the First National bank as assistant cashier remaining there four or five years then went with the National bank in a similar capacity for a short time In Insurance Business Later he entered the insurance business with the late A K Dice the firm name being Dice len After Dice's death the late Claude Swegle entered the firm as the Co It is now op- by Bruce Swegle son of Claude Swegle who purchased Allen's interest some years ago In recent years Mr and Mrs Continued on Page 5 Col 1 Airport Here First-year operations at the la Walla airport were extremely satisfactory with a it of about shown after expenditures for capital improvements the Kiwanis club was told Wednesday noon by J L Cundiff chairman of the airport board However Cundiff pointed out the that si i e the present indication is picture is not as favorable as it that omy 60 per cent of an average i sounds from this summary since Prospective Bidders on Oregon Shore Phase Advised of Features Bids Opened July 19 Features of the Oregon shore construction at McNary dam the second major contract for the project on the Columbia river on which bids will be opened July 19 were discussed by army engineers and contractor at a pre- j bid conference Tuesday in the air port offices of the Walla Walla dis- corps of engineers Fifty-six representatives of con- tractors suppliers materials and equipment firms heard various phases of the Oregon shore con- tract which includes the first and second stage cofferdams tion for a portion of the house and the concrete ture for two main units of the powerhouse discussed Col liam Whipple Walla Walla district engineer presided Begin in August It was brought out in the dis- that construction work will get under way by mid-August and that 20 months will be allowed for completion Under the con- struction schedule the junior ferdam should be completed in four and half months and the excavation finished by March 1 1950 The contractor will have five months in which to pre- pare a concrete mixing plant teen months will be allowed for concrete placement The second stage cofferdam which will connect the junior ferdam with the present ton shore cofferdam should be completed in nine months under the schedule worked out by the en- In this connection 60 days will be allowed for the final closure of the river which will be started November 1 1951 This is expected to be the most difficult phase of the entire constructions program Water then will flow over the way section now under tion Experts Present In addition to Colonel Whipple representatives of the army eers participating in the conference R H Berryhill chief of design who discussed river flow and velocity Otto Lunn head of the McNary design section who outlined the construction schedule Lt Col W J Ellison Jr resident engineer at McNary dam who de- scribed site facilities and tion procedure Bart G Long chief of foundations and materials who latest French Jet plane rides piggy back over Toulouse airfield near Paris Named the Composite the jet is carried atop a standard plane At high altitude it takes off at supersonic speed under its own power U.S Britain and France Give Details of Agreement for West Germany Judge Declares Moratorium Upon Final Divorce Decrees No final decrees of divorce will Continued on Page 5 Col 5 14 Inch Rain Weather Seen Rain played around several hours Tuesday night and early be granted in Walla Walla county for a period of 90 days after June 9 Judge Timothy A Paul Walla Walla county superior court said Tuesday But first actions in the new family court established by the last sion of the legislature are being heard this week Judge Paul's decision regarding granting of final decrees differs from presiding judges of King Pierce and Spokane counties where attorneys have been told to go ahead at their own risk Interlocutory Ended The new law which does away with the interlocutory decree be- came effective June 9 It is Paul's opinion that divorces filed prior to that time and which have not yet reached the interlocutory or final must wait the full 90 days before a final hearing can be held There is a possibility this will go to the supreme Judge Paul said and it is just possible that all final decrees of divorce granted before the 90 day period is ended will be declared void Under the old law the ant waited 30 days before a divorce action could be heard Then if the action was uncontested an inter- locutory decree was granted Six months later a final decree could be issued Now the whole ure takes only 90 days from the time of filing Cooling Off The family court is charged to try and reconcile couples in divorce actions if the one party so requests If one person petitions for a di- vorce the other party may request I Volta place a hearing in the family court Moving the action into the family Frost Damage court slso stays the divorce action Mrs Hiss on Witness Stand NEW YORK Alger Hiss testified Wednesday at her perjury trial that she be- someone took the keys to the Hiss car and Washington home during the first seven months of 1938 It was during this period that Whittaker Chambers courier for a prewar Communist spy ring claims Hiss passed him copies of state de- secret papers Mrs Hiss denied she ever typed summaries of department ments as she repeatedly contra- testimony offered earlier by Chambers and his wife at the trial of the former state department of- Under direct examination by De- fense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker she said she missed a pocketbook containing keys to the Hiss auto and home on Volte place ington Under cross-examination by the government prosecutor Assistant U.S Attorney Thomas F Murphy Mra Hiss said the loss occurred some time during the first seven months of 1938 Did you report it to the asked Murphy I did not she replied Under direct testimony she de- nied she had ever handed over any of the government's 47 exhibits in- four handwritten notes to Chambers She also said she had never given Chambers a key to tha WASHINGTON The United States Britain and France Wednesday their formal agreement on ery to run Western Germany be- ginning in mid-September The agreement specifies that the top allied council composed of the United States British and French civilian high commissioners will have headquarters at the seat of the German federal government in a special area directly ruled by the high commissioner rather than in any zone of occupation This means that the western headquarters in Germany will be shifted next fall from Berlin Presumably it will go to Bonn which officials here said will be the seat of the projected new German government The charter of the allied high commission for Germany is a de- tailed statement for the tion of the western occupation into a single unit for supervision of Western Germany under its new government The principles controlling this new were worked out in Washington last spring by tary of State Acheson and Foreign Ministers Bevin of Britain and Schuman of France On June 20 those three meeting in Paris signed the formal charter which was published Wednesday John J McCloy resigning dent of the World bank and former assistant secretary of war will be the United States high for Germany Wednesday crop may be expected and what the ia of heavy expenses re- morning of 14 of a down Monday midnight planning to are installation vorce t t r a cooling off Reported to III inch the The judge then attempts to Klamoth Basin the couple back together KLAMATH FALLS Ore One of the worst frosts of recent years cracked resume Wednesday morning Birds la large amount of painting operated only a day deferred maintenance work shift Tuesday its operations Continued on Paste Col 8 Judge Reeve the eight men negroes must accent the law as he de- The Libby plant is freezing clar it- but that the jurors cherries this the sole of the facts These are put up in retail He said the evidence was Cherries have been that Miss Coplon did copy and processed there each year since take certain documents that in Din and notes from justice Sons were started merit files The jury he Five Derailed whether she took the with i intent 1 the United UHO and plans to of the facilities were built dal to a basis originally for only five years of use TVo with railroad PORT ALBERNI B.C between rival seafaring union members here Tuesday night put men in hospital from knife Two Named to Plans Group Mrs Tom Smith and Roger W Leidy were appointed to the city planning commission Wednesday by the city commission The planning group asks that the city body name still another son but no one has been selected to date Mayor R V an- To curtail fortune telling in the city the commission approved an ordinance classifying all persons down on Southern Oregon's whose income is derived any by GOP Assault On Measure Is Defeated Action Reducing Program To Units May Make Easier Going but Time of Vote Uncertain WASHINGTON W The house trimmed its housing down to senate size Wednesday It cut the public housing program from to units and the yearly subsidy from to as the senate had done The action taken on a voice vote may give the a little easier going from here on in A Republican attempt to make the cut deeper was batted down But it still was uncertain just when the house would get around to a final vote on its revised Rep Albert M Cole tried to put over the bigger cut He didn't say anything about the number of units But he proposed slashing the annual subsidy from to Be got licked by a 90 to 54 ing vote Provision Toted Oat Earlier the house knocked out of the administration measure a vision for continued government op- of migratory farm worker housing The section was voted out of the measure 158 to 99 despite the ment of one member that the gram had helped solve the lem that formed the theme of grapes of wrath Republicans launched another major assault on the housing but administration leaders stuck to their prediction of victory OB main points by nightfall The proposal would pre- vent the government from ing homes for low income families costing more than most people Who house themselves can afford Amendment Planned Rep Halleck said the ad- ministration would allow costs running as high as to f 000 per dwelling unit owned housing with subsidized rents He announced he would offer an amendment limiting the age cost to per unit Mr Truman in a letter to Speaker Halleck said OB Page 6 Col f Negotiations in BOB Strike To Be Resumed SEATTLE IS Negotiations be resumed Thursday by of the North Coast hound lines and local 1384 of tor Coach Employes union CA parties to the dispute which has virtually halted bus operations in Western Washington from couver B C- to Portland for 10 days The meeting was announced by William G Hosie federal tor About 550 workers are on strike 1 I iSC 75 and 80 degrees live found thermometers Potato plants were frozen black Two were given a pro heading grain was badly hit d ordinance approving the dens took a beating and even er and other stands that usually cold nights showed street With Southern Ram began falling a4 9 p m Tuesday p.m The Participants were members of shower occurring between striking Canadian on the recently ed Pleasant street sanitary sewer project With Three Crewmen Injured j southern Mine Sixth week bay one thermometer several days agreed or till could be on 5 Col 5 aided that this meant railroad train derailed i not come back to Ga at of their il there is no KING'S v 1 fir CLOTHES KING'S Thf htrc i c hurt may hare hern by broken rail if there is no new A at Vr SCPA fifth and 400 OOD soft coal The Stroller I've wen mu Walla Walla s STARTS SEARCH PORTLAND IF of an crash Wash Seed Raising in Umatilla County of Growing Import Pacific Power Light Permit for Loan Berlin Rail t Union Charging Made Against BERLIN WASHINGTON Pacific railway and Light of Portland that tic Sov i a v red ra has r against men Bank and Trust part m the Jt trie hss a the a rane clow the 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