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cm Lfll U Faces Spy Charge, Caught in Portland PORTLAND, Ore., March 26.-7P-Assistant FBI agent Julius A- Bernard announced tonight the arrest of Lt. Nicolai Gregoro vich Redin, JSf, a Russian naval officer, on espionage charges in volviM procurement of plans and information regarding the U.S.S Yellowstone, a destroyer tender. FBI agent said the I fail to see much difference be tween the milk strike invoked in this area by producers and the strike of workers in essential serv ices like power plants and trans portation lines. Both teem repre hensible. In both cases those en gaging in such occupations assume obligations beyond those of less essential callings. Farmers have been most critical of city workers when they go on strike. It is re grettable that they have -picked up the same weapon. In this strike it is the patron or consumer who suffers. The milk strike is not against the cus tomer but against OPA, a govern ment agency which iixes prices. The consumers of fresh milk are the ones to suffer; yet they are helpless, caught in the fight be tween producers and OPA. This phase is not without reper cussions. The dairymen themselves were the ones to demand price fixing by government here by the state. They backed the legis lation in 1935 and -have success fully resisted efforts to repeal it aince. With the war, OPA took over pricing of milk along with other commtxijties. Yet it repre ents price-fixing by government. For milk producers to rebel against OPA price and to ?ppcve price fixing by the state board carries the implication that what is want ed i an agency which can be influenced or dominated by the producers. It is by no means clear whether the strike is called because the new price of $1.01 per pound but terfat is not compensatory or be cause (Continued on editorial page) Salem Bakers Poised to Sell 14-Ounee Loaf Salem's bakeries are prepared to bake and sell the smaller (14 ounce) loaf of bread whenever they are encouraged to act, execu tives of the five major plants in dicated Tuesday. One bakery turned out the light loaf one day but found others were still baking pound loaves. The spokesman for one said that instructions had been changed and the loaf size was to remain the same. Another understood that the change was to be entirely volun tary, and expressed theopinion that all must act or the, change would be unsatisfactory to the public. Still another said that as long as the larger loaves were moving into 1he Salem market from Portland bakeries no change could be anticipated heie. No change in baking equipment will be required and no special preparation, it was said. , One bakery has turned out sev eral bakings with the new "cream colored" flour, calling patrons' at tention to the change and has re ceived only re-orders from smil ing customers, it was said. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH 'He uxmii gefilte tishT OTP 1 artrsnrrci) THSCuXg FIFO warrant was issued in Seattle, March 22, and Lt. Redin was ar- rested here as he attempted to board the Russian S. S. Alma Ata in Portland's harbor. The Soviet officer, wearing the uniform of his rank, was arraign ed in preliminary hearing before j U. S. Commissioner Robert A. I Leedy tonight and held in de ; fault of $25,000 bail. FBI agents led Lt. Redin into the chamber before, the commis sioner and after hearing the charge he was asked if he understood English. Pounding the desk of the commissioner, the grim faced youthful naval lieutenant said "I will not talk, I will not talk." He then demanded to see the so viet consul. The soviet consulate here was SAN FRANCISCO, March 26. (JPy-A navy, official said tonight that the Destroyer Tender V. S. S. Yellowstone, in con nection with which a Russian naval officer was arrested on espionage charges in Portland, had been assigned to take part in the forthcoming atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll. The navy source said the Yellowstone ar rived at San Diego on' Feb. 11 for refitting to prepare for the atom bomb test He said she was scheduled to be ready for sea on March 19. not represented at the hearing ?.nd Commissioner Leedy set the bail and ordered the accused of ficer to be held in Multnomah county jail in default of bond un til another hearing is scheduled. Taken to Seattle Commissioner Leedy announced the case would be disposed of in Seattle, where it originated. There was no announcement of how the young Russian officer, who has been attached to the so viet purchasing commission In Seattle, had obtained the docu ments and plans r who the offi cer had "induced" to obtain the information. Wife Sob Lt. Redin has been stationed in Seattle since 1942 and attached to the soviet purchasing commis sion. His wife; Galina Redin is still in Seattle with the couple's infant daughter. Post Intelligencer reporters who called at her apartment said she told them Lieutenant Redin had gone to Portland this morning and she had not heard from him since. She was sobbing. The re porters quoted her as saying "Do they do this to everyone who comes to this c ountry?" Then she slammed the door. Suiifcliine in Oregon, Snowing in Seattle PORTLAND, March 26.-7P)-Oregonians hailed balmy, spring weather today as the mercury climbed to its , highest point of 1946 in most parts of the state. Roseburg residents shed their coats when the thermometer re corded a warm 74 degrees. Eugene wasn't far behind with 70, Port land had 69, and Salem had 68. SEATTLE, March 26-(;p)-Snow was falling in downtown Seattle at 8 p. m. tonight and many cars coming in from the outlying dis tricts carried a thin covering of white. LEGION NAMES DELEGATE NEW YORK, March 26-iJP)-Fred P. LaBoon of Chickasha, Okla., national vice commander of the American Legion and a sur vivor of the Bataan death march, was named by the legion today as its observer at the United Na tions security council sessions. Hundreds of Cars, Trucks on Order in Salem; Sale Price of Backlog Approaches $5,000,000 Nearly $5,000,000 worth of new cars and trucks already are on order with Salem dealers today, and several of them said they quit Liking orders weeks ago "be cause the demand iteemed greater than we could hope" to deliver this year." Only a trickle so far has been available. The estimated amount includes (1) orders totalling more than $2, 500,000 on which down deposits a) ready have been made, and (2) almost another $2,500,000 allow ing for orders with no down de posit but discounting such orders by half or ; two-ttyrds because of probable duplication. El NINETY-FIFTH YEAH 10 PAGES Salem, Oreaon, Wednesday SHS Gym, Field Bids i - : i ' Sought I Large-scale improvements to Salem High school's Olinger Field and construction of an auxiliary gymnasium and heating plant building for the high school were approved tentatively last eight by Salem's school board, which de cided to call for; bids on the two projects nexfr month. j I Work would be done during the summer ; and completed by Sep tember 6. Bids are to be opened April 23. i . ' I The athletic! field project In cludes grading, drainage, turf and track improvements and is part of the $70,000 program proposed last year but rejected. The new building at senior high: would house additional gym space and a heating plant to service jParrish junior high and the senior high, replacing the boiler facilities now located beneath the stage at senior high. Also approved last night was a petition from a small Pringle area south of the city for inclusion in school district 24. The plan will be forwarded to the county school boundary board.! Only a few stu dents would be affected, j Labor Council Opposes City Manager Plan Central Labor! Council renewed its stand against city adminis trator form of municipal govern ment at a meeting here last night, deciding to again oppose the issue at the polls and to call a series of public hearings to feel the; public pulse on two alternative plans the council might advocate, i Local labor leaders identified the alternatives as (1) a commis sion form with three elected full time paid members a mayor and two councilmen, and (2) a paid full-time mayor with one coun cilman elected from each; ward, and compensated for each meeting he attends. J The council also adopted, a res olution favoring construction of a new Marion county courthouse in tvyo or three years when labor and materials are more plenti ful and pledging its cooperation wjth the county court in" devising a taxation plan j to begin Raising necessary funds now and spread the costs over the intervening pe riod. Secretary I Herbert Barker was instructed to; forward the res olution to the county court. Pact to Dictate! German Economy WASHINGTON, March 2&-P) A forthcoming agreement I laying down economic taw for Germany wjll be "tough oh war industries, easy on peacetime industries," a government official disclosed today. j ; iThe accord, reached by the' fojjr-power Allied control council in Berlin, will be announced of ficially there in a few days, he siifd. The official, who requested anonymity, pictured the decision as a victory for the United States because this government had sought strict limitations on metals, machinery and 'chemical manu facture!, with more lenient rules on production of non-war; mate rials. ! Down deposits have been taken oti nearly 1700 cars alone and or ders With no down deposits have been taken on somewhat more than that number. Figuring an as sured side, therefore, of a mini mum of 2400 cars, orders at retail price total well over $3,000,000, and trucks account for at least $1,500,000 more. . Most dealers are asking deposits and keeping one-two-three lists in order of applications, by j models. Others have accepted no deposits and no specific orders, pending determination of OPA prices. All say they believe orders' by no means have approached the satura I' I i f 1 WUNDBD 1651 Eleanor Visits V SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visits with Mrs. Hershey Martin ;(Mayrls Chancy) and the tatter's two-months-old daughter, Anna Eleanor, named for the widow of the late president. Mrs. Roosevelt will be godmother at the child's christ enlng. (AP Wlrephoto to The Oregon Statesman) CPA to Control Building, May Postpone State Plan WASHINGTON, March 2.-P)-A nation wide network of 71 federal offices was created tonight to administer a sweeping new order restricting many building activities so scarce materials can be channelled into lower cot homes for veterans. A civilian production administration order, effective now, re quires advance federaj approval for all types of construction dwellings, industrial and commer cial buildings and repairs; all ex cep small jobs. f Swiftly following thifs move to free the materials foif veterans housing, CPA announced that all new: construction field offices were expected to be opened not later than Thursday. The CPA forbids the start of construction unless each;riew store, factory or dwelling is approved in advance by one of the CPA of fices. This means tha factories and expensive homes mjiy be ban ned wherever the materials are needed to provide shelter for home coming servicemen and;thcir fam ilies, Stale Building Plans May Be Delayed State officials here' Tuesday were wondering whether the gov ernment's stop order, applying to less essential construction, would retard the $10,000,000 state build ing program approved My the vot ers at a special election j last June. Bids for two structures under the building program alifeady have been received by the state board of control. One bid imjblves con struction of a patient's Idormitory at the Oregon State hospital farm while the other is for aniemployes building at Fairview hdme (state home for the feeble minded). Salem building contractors said they were confused as io how to distinguish between essential con struction and Jss-oschtial con struction without a definite ex planation from government of ficials. j Weather Max. Salem Eugene 10 Portland M Seattle 58 San I'ranclsco . 71 Willamette river 3.7 M. iMin Rain 47 42 J 4 I 44 .00 Trc .38 .00 i FORECAST (from US. leather bu reau, McNary field. KaU-rti I : Partly cloudy. occaMonal light ihiturr. High est temperature' 60 degrees Light to moderate wind. i tion! point many folk apparently believing it rather hopeless to get on the end of long lisls at, this time. A few dealers are 'optimistic that they will be able tu catch up with the demand in a few months. I Four-door sedans are the most popular model, in mot instances, with five-passenger coupe also in great demand. Many folic apparent ly aren't too' particular as to style, but a few have passed! up their place on lists to await models more to their liking. At least, Sah m Is ca conscious to the lune of a lot of money already on the barrelhead. ID). BY IF Morning, March 27, 1948 With Namesake At':. ? . we- . e i V Salem Wives to Join H ubbies In Germany WASHINGTON, March 27 -7P)-Nine Oregon wives and four chil dren will be Included in the group of 1200 dependents who will trav el to Europe in mid-April to join army fathers stationed there. The; list includes: Maj, Kenneth J. Schullz, S3 15 N. River rd., Salem; Mabel P. Schult?. Maj; Harold J. Pangle, 905 Mill st., Salem; Vera M. Pangle. The journey, arranged by the war department, will b the first mass movement of military de pendents to the European theatre of operations. The April contingent Includes immediate families of 700 service men, 24 of them from the enlisted ranks. Additional applications for transportation of dependents in future months have been filed, and those groups will make the Journey later. 400,000 Miners Set For Strike Monday WASHINGTON, March 26.-P) -John li. Lewis today signaled the 400,00d members of his United Mine Workers union to lay down their tools next Monday. Spurning the mine operators' offer of wage increases, he moved ot shut off the nation's bitumin ous fuel supply for the second successive year in a bargaining showdown. Operators naid xteel production - - only recently resumed after a lengthy strike - - would be affect ed "immediately" by a coal stop page. Some steel mills would be forced! to cloe within 10 days, the coal men said. The union estima ted, however, that upwards of 49,000,000 tons of coal would be above ground by Monday and that an average 28-day supply would! be available to industry. Lewis said retail coal dealers' stocks averaged about a five-day supply, but that the supply in home fuel bins would be stretched by normal spring weather. The operators said they had virtually assured Lewis' AFL miners a wage increase equal to the 18' cents an hour granted to the CIO steelworkers and auto workers, but that they had reject ed the "principle'' of a royalty to go to a health and welfare fund. They also declined to give federal mine! lnsectoi ' safety recom mendations precedenc e over state mining law Price 5c No. 312 Reds, Iran Still Not Agreed By JOHN IIIGTOWER NEW YORK, March 6-7P)-Word that Russia and Iran have not yet reached a hard and fast arreement for the settlement of their dispute has been received by United Nations delegates here from diplomatic sources in Te heran, it was learned tonight on excellent authority. This fact was described by of ficials as underlying the repeat ed Insistence of Britain and the United States in today's secur ity council meeting that Iran should be given an immediate hearing. NEW YORK, March 2-(P)-The United Nations security . council voted today to hear the Iranian Russian case at its current meet ing. Then, faced by an implied threat from Russia to walk out of the meeting, it turned over to a subcommittee the hot question of Just when and how the Iranian government would be heard here. U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Soviet Ambassador An drei A. Gromyko and French Am bassador Henri Bonnet were nam ed to the group, which wa or 'dered to report to the security council at 3 p. m. (EST) tomor row. The decision to name a subcom mittee to consider at least three proposals affecting procedure in the Iranian case climaxed hours of argument over Russia's pro posal that the hearing be post poned until April 10. It came soon after Gromyko flatly declared that he would be unable to participate in any dis cussion of the substance of the Iranian situation before April 10. Gym Capacity May Get Boost Possibility of increasing the ca pacity of Willamette university's gymnasium in order to retain the state basketball tournament In Salem loomed again Tuesday when Dr. G. Herbert Smith, uni versity president, said school of ficials are giving serious consid eration to an enlargement proj ect that would up the seating capacity from 2300 to 4000 spec tators. Estimates of such a project would approximate $75,000 and the work would Include changing the floor to a north-south axis In order to permit bleacher Instal lation on both sides, it was be lieved. Possibility that the government might step in again as it did last year to end an 11-day shutdown was seen In the announcement of Howard T. Colvin, associate di rector of the United States concil iation service, that "the govern ment will now Interest itself in the case." Control of Uranium 235 Explosive Tendency Effected by Newly-Discovered Denaturation By Howard W. Blakeslee Aioociated Pre Science Reporter PHILADELPHIA, March 26-()-The denaturation of plutonium and of uranium-235 is the great discovery that scientists have been hoping for to make it possible to produce atomic power. This discovery may mean that a piece of metal the sie of a watermelon will produce as much heat as hundreds of tons of the uranium now used to make atomic fires. The huge atomic pile in Wash ington state, each about the bulk of a small pyramid, produced enough heat to nearly equal the peak electric power expected from the Grand Coulee dam. But this Dairies to Deliver To Hospitals, Sell On Doctor's Order The retail flow from the Salem milkshed dwindled to Al most nothing today as major outlets clamped the lid on the at production pending settlement of demands that the OPA in crease the price of butterfat from 95 cents to $1.15 cents pound. Neither the Dairy Cooperative; nor Curley'tr dairy, which supply approximately 30 per cent of the demand ia this area, were delivering to homes' stores, restaurants r schools, but service was continuing to hospitals. Milk also was made available at the headanarters ot both organizations to, tnose who called personally with certificates of need from physicians in regard to children and invalids. The emergency plans were an nounced after conversations be tween dairy chieftains and May or I, M. Doughton. What milk was available re tailed at 134 cents a quart - the dairies not yet having effect ed the half-cent raise which the OPA made permissible late Mon day by increasing the butterfat price to $1.01 - - 14 cents less than producers demanded when they issued their ultimatum several weeks ago. The answer to the popular ques tion as to where the milk now is going lay in these facts: To Milk Powder Dairy Cooperative is sending its surplus to its own plant in Port land, and to the Farmers' Cooper ative creamery at McMinnville, to be made into whole milk powder, greatly In export demand. Curley's is using some of its surplus to Increase its own butter output (but still limits sales to half-pounds), which should be re flected slightly in some increased supplies at stores, and sending the remainder to the milk condensery at Albany. It was understood ice cream and candy makers were getting some what larger supplies, too, in some instances. No Distribution The producers' strike was hav ing no effect at the large Mt. An gel creamery which distributes no milk but uses it for skim milk powder, butter and cheese. Smaller distributors were di vided this morning in their plans, representatives indicating that the Victor Cooley dairy and Walter flieck's Meadow Grove dairy would probably follow the lend of the two larger concerns, while Valley Farm dairy would contin ue deliveries but would take on no new customers. Physicians to Prescribe Milk A quart of milk per day for children under 18 months of age will be "prescribed" by Salem physicians, and so will be made available by milk distributors during the current strike. On this, child specialists interviewed Tuesday by a Statesman repre sentative were agreed. The question was not treated alike by all physicians and all medical men were not interview ed but there was no divergence from the opinion that for infants milk is a "must", on the diet. Since there can be no diagrre ment on that point, representa tives of the profession declared themselves disturbed at the pros pect of having to Issue letters or certificates to many mothers In addition to carrying their already over-heavy case loads. Ermine Wrap Found In Nazi Parachute BALDWIN, N.Y., March 26 (,p) Barney Brown, former paratroop er with the 82nd airborne, got more than he expected in the way of a souvenir when he picked up a nylon parachute from a ground ed nazis plane in Europe. Opening it months later at home when he found an ermine wrap worth $2000 carefully tucked inside. atomic heat was uxeles for power because it was spread over such a large area. Heat that makes power, such as boiler fires, is concentrated in a small area. It was not possible, when" the war ended, to use a small amount of uranium 235 or of plutonium to make an atomic fire because such concentrated pieces of either metal would in stantly explode. Denaturing is described as ren dering the metals unable to ex plode. But without stripping their ability to produce beat by the ex plosion of their atoms. If that is true then effficient atomic fires can be made to create steam. The discovery means that probably a few hundred pounds of the puri Croups Urge Snell Intervene In Milk Strike PORTLAND, Ore., March J-7P)-Representatives of 32 Portland and state organizations tonight appealed by petition to Gov. Earl Snell to Intervene in the milk strike affecting the Portland area bottle trade. At the same time Mayor Earl Riley warned the four producer groups who have diverted their milk to manufacturing that milk would begin flowing into the city from dairymen located 100 to 1M miles away. State Department of Agriculture Director E. L. Peterson announced that action of the 3500 dairymen diverting their supply to other uses would result In automate cancelling of delivery quotas t Portland. He said that if quota were reinstated they may be smaller. The group asking Governor Snell to intervene also called on consumers to refuse to purcbaa the3 present small supply of milk coming into the area to make cer tain the available milk will reach children and hospitals. The petition charged that durinf the depression the dairymen were protected but now seek to "exact a totally unwarranted price In crease." . Stores Ration Canned Milk, New Stock Due Salem grocery stores which Tuesday were "rationing canned milk to their customers may be well stoc ked with the commodity within a matter of days, a repre sentative of one milk preserving concern told a Statesman represen tative Tuesday night. Milk which is dried and poww dercd may not return to valley consumers, he declared, but mlik which is condensed and canned is fairly likely to move back t Salem. Most processors of pow dered milk are under contract te ship overseas or to sell to InstW tutionn, and a portion of the can ned product is to go overseas, but pait may well be diverted te the local market, he said, parti, culaily Inasmuch as much milk which has been Hold In fluid form appear now likely to flow ir.t their factories. Ships Collide Sans Damage NEW YORK, March 27-(Wed. nedny)-(p)-A collision at ea be tween the troop transport Fay etteville Victory, carrying I1T servicemen, and the SS F. Marion Crawford early thi morning i -suited in '"apparently superficial damage to the Crawford and ne apparent damage to the transpoit. Both ships had radioed on the diMress frequency reporting the collision shortly after pnidnight and a few minutes later reported by radio to the coast guard station at New York they were proceed ing on their course. fied metals will operate a rg power plant for year, or fo years,1 Instead of the millions of tons of old-time fuel. Paul Langevin, French scientist, recently estimated that one car load of only partly purified atomic metals would furnish France with her entire electric power for cn year. The denaturation doe not ap parently remove the great handi cap of deadly rays that comes from the atomic fires. These rays require 50 to 100 tons of shield ing even for the smallest atomic power plant, and make it Impos sible at present to think of using uranium or plutonium to run sjs autoo. r