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rn 5 U U I m Towering Wav&s Subside, 3ft atti Leaving Death, ion ! - NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 12 PAGES Salem. Qroqosy Wodnoaday Morning. April 3. 194S PrlcV 5c . ' Na. t it ME Em PE (Slo7 in Column 74) CRT s!: -VS. if Destrucl BCMJMDBlKa l! .:. v i ri will recall the evident ation of the administra- force through substandial creases in major indus tries. President Truman went on ' the ai to support them and at the same time to brace the line against price increases. There was - report from official sources that the . automobile Industry could raise: its waxes IS per cent in 1946 . and 10 per cent in 1947 without price rise. Secretary Wallace Joined the pack in urging continu ation of high take-home pay. In - such an atmosphere a Truman- - appointed fact-finding board rec ommended a 19c wage increase ; for General Motors workers and the steelwdrkers caught the same 2 . figure in their demands. ' So the increases were pushed through, and as a consequence the pricing policy had to be revived. Price increases were granted to steel : and other major industries. - Auto manufacturers were .given a second boost, for quite a while Indefinite as to amount. The the- cry of substantial wage increases . without price increases was blown sky high. ? ' Secretaiy Wallace now blames ' the' report! on which the wage in- I j crease wif encouraged on an ob snire .government economist. What a confession to make! As, though I a man inj an ivory tower could - compute pn the basis of war- - time opeiFations the finances of reconversion, - renewed competi- : tion and Unsettled production and determine; such delicate matters as wages r and prices for a vast industry.'! The COI13equence has "been not pnly failure of the ori ginal . government policy ; but In dustrial disturbance of damaging proportion. Production has been - slowed dawn; valuable time lost; - unemployment increased; national disunity promoted. An "obscure economist indeed! The rookeries of Washington are full of them, grinding out material by the ream. Often the, computa tions are jslanted by the political prejudices oZtta economist; and always the higher-ups take the findings which best suit their own predilections. The incident is a revelation of bow government policy is deter mined and ought to chill greatly the ardor, of those who want to put the business of the country more andj more into the hands of government. Some day the -pent- up feelings of people may burst In an explosive reaction against government domination because u ii punans- Price of Milk Same Pending Formal Order ' Milk deliveries were back to " normal inl Salem today after the Short-lived producers "strike" t against-the -OPA ceilings on the t price of 4utterfat. ' There were two major devel opments reported by the Associ- ' a ted Press: AY Portland, the district OPA Instructed : dairymen, milk whole- ' salers and. grocers not to charge " higher prices for milk until the formal order Is received here The boost 6 cents a butterfat pound in producers' prices and a half -cent a quart for consumers -, i m as to j have gone into effect at midnight Monday. Translated to grade A" quarts, it would be equivalent to a half cent a bottle At Washington, the house . small business committee predict cd retail knilk prices will go up one: cent la quart as a result of general milk price revisions , looked for within the next few days.-r Animal Crackers 1 By WAOcEN GOODRICH 'At Uut-at UttU privacyr Reaie " determin tion td wilt . In 38 av : QwlMlmt. m- HILO, Hawaii, April Z Lumber the fan effect of the. tidal wave which claimed s possible 309 recovered In HUo. (AP Wlrephotb via radio from Hopolala to L- 4 fcV fc-'' -.' '' - , i ov ; liiiniiiiii r 3 Circles Indicate series of -seismic with an earthquake south of the Aleutian chain, Ten were killed at Unimak (A). To the south (B) naval installations were damaged at Midway and Johnson Islands and seas swept clear 'over tiny East Island. In the major islands of the Hawaiian grop (Cv; 75 bodies were recovered. Inset shows larger islands in ! Hawaiian group where Hilo on Hawaii was hit hardest.' (AP Wirephot to The Oregon Statesman) Aluillilia Piailt Here Held Vital To Reconversion WASHINGTON, April 2-ff)- ContinuciJ productiort of am monium sulphate at the alumina plant of the Columbia Metals Co. at Salem, Ore., was recom mended today by John Snyder, reconversion director. Snyder notified Senator Cor don (R-Ore) he had recom mended "to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that the production be continued until May 13. He said a world-wide shortage of ammonium sulphate makes it necessary that the plant be operated at maximum capacity to .make the -fertilizer ' Sot use on the west coast. Wealher Max . 54 . 5 54 , 55 Mln. Rain 40 .61 40 Trace 42 Trace 44 41 Trace Salem Eufriw Portland San Francisco Seattle 56 Willamette river 2.6 ft. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu beau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today with highest temperature 62. Light variable winds. Control Board Approves New State Hospital Ward Building Over-all plans for a new ward building at the state hospital here, to cost an estimated $500,000, were approved Tuesday by the slate board of control. The action brought one step nearer actual construction operations of the state's $10,000,000 . postwar build ing program. Twd stories high, with base ment, the new structure will have a capacity of 300 patients and will be of concrete and brick. Governor Earl Snell said that while he was not "sold" on some minor phases of the construction he would bow to the experts who have given the project careful consideration. Plans for this struc ture were prepared .by Sutton, Whitney and Aandahl, Portland architects. Two other similar structures, along with a patients' dormitory at the Cottage farm, also are in cluded in the Initial Oregon state hospital construction program. The latter building, for which bids and debris Utters this secUon fof I. ,-!. V - 4. NAWAV waves in Pacific, which 'originated Civilians det 1 Some Say-So In Atom Wlrk WASHINGTON, Ap.ijl 2.-(P)- Senators drafting atomic energy controls decided today to limit the army and navy say-so jfctrictly to the military field. jj The action erased sweeping lang uage of the so-called Vendenbcrg amendment which woul have put the military's hand uponftll atomic energy matters relate to . 1We fense and security." ?f The new amendment ;vould set up a "military liaison committee" which would be concerned ojgly with atomic energy matters which "relate to . military application!.", including specifically thi develop ment and manufacture '4t bombs, allocation of fissionable material for military research and "control of information relating to tljfe manufacture or utilization of atom ic weapons." ; if previously were received but not accepted, was estimateS to coit $540,000. I Board of control menbers said the hospital constructiorj, as now proposed for an early dajte, would involve more than 2,000,000 These buildings do not include the so-called medical center and treatment dormitory to; cost In excess of $600,000. Because legislative appropria tions are not sufficient for con struction of these buildings undr existing high costs, they must re ceive approval of the state emer gency board before actual work can begin. f The ; board Tuesday also ap proved construction of a? $250,000 employes project at the "FairvieW Home (State home for the feeble minded). " If Architects indicated that -It would be approximately t W o months before bids for the stale hospital construction could be so licited. 11 ? t - J f I t j . H . , V .. ... downtown HUo, Hawaii, which felt lives. At least 69 bodies have been The Oregon Statesman) Fatalities Over 150: IsJes Hit By the Associated Press Swift, towering waves that sprang from a sub-sea earth quake to batter shore from Ha waii to the Aleutians to Chile left possibly 152 dead, reports late Tuesday night indicated. The Alaska sea frontier command said the Pacific upheaval, which origi nated in that sector, had subsid ed completely. The Hawaiian islands, hardest hit, hurried the search for bodies to avert possible contagion and already had counted 72. 84 Missing- on Islands Eighty-four still were- missing in the islands, 10 were presumed lost in the Aleutians and one in California. The Hawaiian 'toll included: Hilo, 48 dead, 74 missing; Kauai, 12 dead, four missing; Maui, sev en dead, five missing; Oahu, five dead, one missing. At Kodiak, the commander of the Alaska ' sea frontier ' said all observations indicated the force of the tidal wave was completely spent in all sections of the Aleu tians, site of the great underwater upheaval which sent the waves rolling out. Rescue Operations On Meanwhile, one of the greatest air-sea rescue operations in the peacetime history of the mid-Pacific was in full swing in the stricken Hawaiian islands, hard est hit by the sea disaster where It was feared many persons might have been swept to sea. Shock after shock, radiating from the southeastern Aleutians, continued to be recorded on the University of Washington seis' mographs, but seismologists said they constituted the normal backwash from Monday's earth Shaking disturbance. Hilo, a city of 25,000 population on the exposed northeast coast. was battered and its streets piled high with - water-swept debris. Rough seas pounded the coast of Peru; still farther south, high waves washed the Chilean coast, and a 30-foot tidal wave pounded historic "Robinson Crusoe's island" Juan Fernandez island, 600 miles off Valparaiso.- Kelso Woman Hd 'Quads? Three Survive KELSO. April 3.-(Wednesday) -Mrs. Ruby Ellen Pierce, 36, wi dowed only a month ago and the mother of 10-year-old twins, gave birth to quadruplets today, but one of them died early today. The father, Leo, a mill worker, was killied in a mill accident March 1. Mrs. Pierce - had expected an other set of twins and the arrival of the quadruplets, three boys and a girl, were a surprise to her and to him. Dr. Thomas C. Herren, her physician, said. Mahoney Gets Job as Prosecutor in Tokyo VfASHINGTON. April 2-VT)-Wiljlis Mahoney, Oregon demo crat defeated for the senate ' in 194 jl by Sen. Guy Cordon, an nounced today he had been ap pointed special assistant to Jo seph Keenan, chief prosecutor of war criminals in Tokyo, and would leave Washington by plane Friday for Japan. . "" ;.:i's . . . . . - Z- f ' 1 " 1 - !. n ' ,.-T' . aaBaaVK3.-A-W'V4MA'b ; iT 'rf yko Stays Out Of UNO Reils Appear to Be Preparing tor Iran Withdrawal By Max Harrelsan NEW YORK. April 2.iJP) Sec retary of State Byrnes tonight held a last minute conference with Sir Alexander Cadogan, the British delegate to the United Nations se curity council, in preparation for Wednesday's meeting called to hear Russian and Iranian replies to Iran's charges of delayed with drawal of Soviet troops from her territory. Cadogan called on Byrnes At the latter's Savoy-Plaza hotel head- TE1IRAN. AprU Z.-FT-Tboo- sands of Soviet troops concen trated at the Caspian port of Bandar Shah, 160 miles north east of Tehran, appeared today to be making busy preparations to leave Iranian soil. A view af the Asters bad province area from a plane showed much ac tivity on crowded wharves, la temporary bivaaaes and In a reg ular Soviet army camp. ; ,,o i t. vir , . i minute review of the situation. Officially there was no report K..t Ar observers said the two statesmen .u r tion to the for. of council : pro- ceedings whether or not Iran and the Soviet reply had been received by the 11 a. m. (EST) opening time set for the council Wednes- day. At - a late hour tonight neither the Soviet nor Iranian answer to the council's request for further information on their dispute had been received. Asked, by a reporter shortly be- fore midnight whether he would attend the Wednesday meeting of the security council Soviet Am bassador Andrei Gromyko said "no." He did not elaborate. Grom yko has refused to attend any council meeting at which the Ir anian question was discussed. CHUNGKING, April 2. -(jT)- Withdrawal of Russian troops from the vital rail junction of Harbin, Manchuria, is m progress, a semi official dispatch reported tonight. While the city was outwardly calm, this report added, an, under- current of uneasiness was notice- able, believed due to rumors that 1 Chinese communists only awaited the Russian evacuation to move into Harbin. Brooks Man Killed as Car Goes Into Skid Alvin Dean, 25, route 1, Brooks, was kiriec early Tuesday evening when his car skidded and rolled over several times on the Ankeny hill road, about eight miles south of Salem.'state police reported MLss Dorothv Murray, route 4. box 220, said by investigators to have been riding with Dean, was in Salem Deaconess hospital with facial lacerations. Her Injuries were not considered serious. House Approves 500,000,000 Bill To Aid Airports WASHINGTON, April 2-(JT)- A compromise seven-year $500,- 000,000 federal -state airport de velopment bill won house appro val today by a 140 to 81 standing vote. , It requires senate approval be fore going to the White House. The bill authorizes a federal expenditure of half-a-billion dol lars to aid states, municipalities and territories in developing mo dern airport facilities. Salem Boy High In Speech Contest PORTLAND, April 2-(Jj-An address on soil erosion by Lester Grom Demmin, 16, Hillsboro, gave him j pox at Longview, Wash., prompt first place today In the state finals ed health officials there and In of the Future Farmers of America I speech contest. " I Jimmy Carter, Salem, placed I second with Chemurgy and the Postwar Farm," while Lewis Worth, Baker, won third with a I rural electrification topic. The I tHre outranked 1500 FFA conn- petitor throughout Oregon.9 1 General Iloinnia 1 Of Death March 'Fame Executed MANILA Wednesday, April 3.-fP)-Lt. Gen Masaharu Horn- ma, conqueror of Bataan and Corregidor and originator of the death march which killed 17,200 American and Filipino captive, was executed before dawn to day at Los Banos, 20 miles south of Manila, by a U. S. army fir ing squad. The execution took place in the same area in which Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was hang ed in dlsgrare, . Ilomma, convicted Feb. 11 of ordering the Bataan death march and condoning other at rocities In the , Phili pines, died bound to a post A black hood covered his head. At least one of the rifles and perhaps as many as four con tained blanks. Trie men "who fired will never know which of their shots had been harmless. Iran Termed Pawn in Game; Allies Assailed MOSCOW,; April 1MJP-The magazine New Times asserted to- I day Iran was a pawn in a poll jcaI f"1,' ,m British f",ca" "."l, United State and British consuls in Tbm sof havln ,ued d"Ur; I ous Imaginations' in reports of h01 troo? movements. The current Issue of the lnflu- ential foreign policy , organ. In other articles, charged the western powers with falling to ruin 11 a Nazi purge in Germany; spoke of a possible renewal of "imperial istic aggression, and reiterated the claim thit a basis of soviet foreign policy was an attempt to aohieve International eollabora tion for peace. Postal Receipts Increased 70 Last Month Salem postal receipts for March totaled $46,864.71, showing ap proximately 70 per cent increase in a four-year period. Postmaster Albert Gragg announced Tuesday. While 1942 and 1946 are both election years the effect of the pre-election mailing Is not reflect- led that early in the year, it was pointed out. March, 1945, postal receipts were $41,770.49, reflecting a gain of $5,094.22 for 1946 over the same month last year. Postal receipts for March. 1944. were $35,212.45; for 1943 $33,833.77; for 1942, $27,- 648.23. National Cancer Society Drive Starting Today The National Cancer society opens its Marion county drive this morning with 20 members of the Salem Junior Chamber of Com merce distributing contribution cans to local merchants, it is an nounced by Charles McFJhinny, county commander ofc the cam paign. The drives- in Oregon cities to collect money for the prevenlion, research and cure "of cancer are being sponsored by the state Jay- Cee organizations. Marion county's goal is $5245. The overall goal for the United States is $12,000,000 I Smallpox Vaccinations Rushed But Epidemic Appears Halted Physicians and the county health office did a rushing bus iness Tuesday in vaccination asainst smallpox but so far in the Pacific northwest an incipient epidemic appeared to have been nipped. Report of a mild case ox small - other cities along the Columbia river area to accelerate lmmun- ization programs. Number, of persons vaccinated at four Portland clinics Tuesday exceeded previous daily totals and public health authorities appealed for an 8i per cent, of particlpa tion Youths Bend Bars, I Climb Over Fence; Search C I f my CL Henry Floyd Brown, ago 16. raptored Bjran Neal Dysan, 21 Gordon Donald. Joaea, IS Portland so fsr hss escaped having any smallpox rases whUh have broken out in Seattle, where five persons have already died of if U. r. ). ilAv . r A ' ' "f if H -:-:,::rv--- ' ... ' ... -1 " -r, f. ;' J .1 f.:j ... j .... . I !- .r'! I ir:.; h I r tJv 'r -:- , Glean Wilson, zi .... . . . - l; : I, i inJ si ' . , - I "- i A Wayne LcKy Istmg. 11 .v 1 f the disease, and In San Francisco and Los Angeles. ! Seattle apparently was winning Its fight, however, with no new cases reported Tuesday and mass vaccination of thai people nearly completed. But precautions con tinued and quarantined residents chafed at restrictions. - Canada tightened its - precau tionary 'program by refusing ad mission to British Columbia to all persons unable to prove they had been vaccinated within a year.' ' k .1 ;'- l- Underwav Atteuiptcd Tlieft Of Car Puts One Back In Custody Fiur 7tin fugitives lnm U ,. Oregon slato prison were vusht -throughout, north we it Orffc-n early today after a group of fua broke out around 1.43 p m. Tues day. One f the five was recsp-' tured within , two anl a half hours by rity police In Si!m. The break occurred apparently in the short time between the end of a movie for the pfiiw-ner and the cell checkup lmmfftuttly ' following, according to Warden George Alexander. !. f The five three of them 21 and the others In thrir teens pr ur.g the bars Jn a window of the f.rtt floor; wing and rlimbe-1 over a 12 ' foot iteel rod fence. , , Two Evade Captaro x . At 11:13 pm4 City Patrolmen Walt Esplin, and AiUm MrRae, . following a radio leai on an at tempted car theft at ti63 Court at; potted three figures st a ' parked tar lhcrr Tliey captured ' one, Henry Floyd Crown, 16 but the other two escape 1. J Brown was Identified at one ef ' tho'five who had escaped front the prison tatlieir. Others tet: , Byron Neal Dyson. 21, life let nv ' er recently found guilty in M-rion - county court 'of j knifing a fellow convict; Glen Wilson, 21, senir.g 11 yean from Multnomah county for larceny; and rape; Warn Le Roy1 Long, 21, serving eight 'years for asault with a dangerous wea pon' In Baker county; Gordon Zn. aid Jones, 1$, serving I! yean for ' assault with a dangerous weapon In Curry rountyj, 1 1 , " Servlnff' f Years ( ... A " L Bak at tlv prison. Ilroin t i l officials that tha - fugti i es ha t split into two groups at 13lh snd State streets, Salem, with ring- leader Dyeon and Wilson, U iking off togetlxT and the otlier, three ' going on to the Court street ad dress where Ilrown was captured. . Dyson, Wilson: an.l. Ing' had made one previous escape, eJh In separate getaways from the pt- on. and tocn nam oeen reiuini'i shortly after his break. Warden Alexander said. RecontrUcting latt night's cape, the wardefHsald the old bars on the window through whkh tha five fled pi'vhahly were sprung by hand. The window it in a p.ar way between the dining half, where the movie was sbn, and the cells. , . . j Home made Weapons Left ' Only traces eft behind t Mm fugitives. Warden Alexander s.d, were twd glass Jan filled with gasoline and home ma te lKii wicks. Found . Just outside tha fence, these apparently, were crudo weapons the five InteriijHt tl ua acalmt cuards If necesary. AJkx- ander asserted. ' "! J City and tate police and tl county" sherif ft j deputies Joined prison guards In searching tha prion area' and keeping stUrp watch throughout Salem and tha county. Im'rnediatfly following no tice of the prlsori break. , (Additional details on page ,2) Oregon jDaffodiln Flown foij Snring ' Fete in California . ' . I;- ! ' PORTLAND, April 2r1VC1l. fornla may have the moit sunnhir a. but It had to' ask Oregon ; f or daf fodils. ' ',i . V . .. , ' ' ; A shipment of. nearly 140.000 fragrant blossoms 'weighing three Ion was loaded today for a flight to San Francisco for U-e In Spring comes t mal(en Ure" fete. United Air lines officials said It was the first plane - load of its type to leave Portland. Wave Damage Home of Former Salem ReflidcntH The Waikikl beach 4tome cf Mark Hutketeln was moved, IS feet and badly, damaged i In tha tidal wave there but the former Salem resident and his wife were uninjured, lt was learned Tues day by his brother, August Hucko teln. 1 t In telegram received here, t)ie Salem brother was Informed that the couple were at their summer home on Maul Island, about 20 rnlles distant, at the tuna of the tidal wave, and were not affected. i t i i 4 i I 4 4 i 4 4 ' t 4 4 4 t 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 " 4 if