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DIM Lie Holds Soviet, . Iran Replies Final Talk , I WUNDID 1651 IirnTY-SIXTU YEAR' 12 PAGES 'Utjjijuui sv.. . . . rrmrwyr Probably every, person who saw the picture of Gordon Jones," one of the quintet escaping Tuesday ight from the penitentiary, was shocked that auch a Juvenile was ronSned in state's prison. He looted so boyish one felt a pan of remorse that society had per iy4 him up In the regular lineup with other prisoner. Jone's age .was, given as 1$. his age on id iruMion; he's IS now. For that matter he la . not a great . deal younger, than his associates': Brown is 1. Dyson, "Wilson and Long are each 211 v Looks (of course may be deceiv ing -as any criminologist knows. And. some of these youngsters are as tough as many much older in years and, in crime. Still one can not help but wonder if some better provision might be made and areater effort made to redeem these boys, brazen though they may be in their criminality. The . Jones case becomes more affecting when we learn he was scheduled for an early parole. " i The boys' training School at Woodburn Is no place for these chaps. They have "graduated" from such a corrective institution. Yet throwing them in with the regulars is likewise wrong. An Intermediate institution is prob ably the answer; though one should have no illusions about a reformatory like that. Its per rentage of, recovery is not very high and its problems of manage ment even greater than for an ' old line prison., The moral warping which leads youth to crime is a study in itself. Sometimes ltlpring from some psychological mala djustment, which may be corrected. Some times it is due to an utter lack of sense of right and wrong, ac companied by an inner drive to ward a life of crime which yields 'to i no treatment- It does seem clear that we need more expert , guidance in work with juvenile criminals. Younger guards, with better bearing and eyesight to de tect escapes, is not the final an swer for a Jallbreak like that Tuesday night. ' Salem Pilot Hurt in Crash ST. JOSEPH. Mo., April 3.-CP) Three crewmen ef an army Black Widow night fighter were injured late today when their craft crash ed In a forced landing near Blair, The pilot. Lt. Charles Metzler, 23. Salem, Ore, suffered a severe laceration , of the leg and deep facial and icalp wounds. Lt. Paul Dilabbto, 2Bf Fresno, Calif , es caped with apparent minor in juries. .''; Crew chief M. Set. Leonard Sho walter, 39, Tacoma, Wash," suf fered undetermined chest injuries. The men were brought to hos pitals here and tonight removed to Sherman field. Fort Leaven worth, Kas. ; ' The mishap In which the ship was badly damaged, occurred as the pilot attempted to land after ithe gasoline supply became low. I The plane was enroute from Og den, Utah to Boiling field, Wash ington, D. C Animal Craclccrs , By WAR J?EN GOODRICH "OachT : . . '. j?"- r Solent. Oracjon, Thursday Morning. April 4. 1948 Chinese Troops Take Over t t - n ; ' 'Vi.. t . .- - r i " . 1 ,""w :!" f J" W" ' , I-'..' A MUKDEN, April 3 Chinese troops arrive to take ever the Maneharlan city after departure of Russian Oregon 8tatesaaaa) Truman Warns Mine Strike to Cut Production WASHINGTON, April S.-(JP) President Truman said today that production for American civilians has already zoomed to record shattering eights, t but warned that prolongation of the coal strike would wipe out that progress. The output of goods and servt ices "is still going up" after at taining a level higher "than ever before in the nation's history, Mr. Truman reported. The president issued his state ment in releasing a rose-tinted quarterly report by reconversion director John F. Snyder. Snyder said civilian production had hit an "unprecedented" $150, 000,000.000 annual rate and would go "several billion dollars' higher by midyear. He went on: The jobless will not average more than 3,500,000 In the next thre months. This compares with official fears of 8,000,000 out of work. The federal budget will show a deficit "several billion dollars less" than the $26,000,000,000 gap foreseen by Mr. Truman In hit January budget message. Vardaman Gets Senate Okeh WASHINGTON, April 3 -(P) Commodore James K. Vardaman, jr., won official permission of the senate today to begin a 141 year term on the federal reserve board of governors at $15,000 per annum. , By a 66 to 9 roll call,: with only republicans opposing, the former St. Louis, Mo., banker-attorney was confirmed for the appoint ment that his friend, President Truman, sent to the senate ten weeks ago on January 23. A last minute attempt by Sena tor Morse (R-Ore) to delay this vote until next Tuesday, April 9, was rejected 56 to 17 despite Morse's plea that . he and other senators must oppose Vardaman unless given six days to study the voluminous -ecord. Hope Fades for 81 Missing in Giant Waves, 4 Bodies Found By Don Whitehead HONOLULU. Abril 3-UP-Four more Islanders' names werel moved tonight from the list of missing to the list of dead in Monday's gigantic 'tidal waves but no more survivors had been found. In all, possibly 176 died in the Pacific ocean areas. Recovery of the additional bod ies brought the known death toll in the islands to 83, with 81 still missing. Gov. Ingram M. Stain back estimated the final to tal might reach 100 or 150. Twelve others were drowned 'se where in the Pacific. Property damage in the islands, m . the basis of early tabulations, i. , . . V -.:?' disembark from trains at the Pheasant Dinner Crashes Window ROSCDALE. April X -(Special)- An ont-of -season bat strictly legal pheasant dinner was enjoyed by all recently at the Gas Cole hone bere.y A Chinese pheasant rooster was found under a bed when she investigated the sound of shattering glass and the ; pres ence of bloodstains in the-' room. The bird, possibly frightened by a dog near by, had .flown through the window glass. Gradual Price Control Ease Wins Approval WASHINGTON, April 3.-JP)- Repeal on July 1 ( of OPA'a pro gram requiring manufacturers to make low cost clothing was voted today by the house banking com mittee after approving a plan to end price controls- as supply bal ances demand. Moreover, the committee voted to declare "the policy of the con gress that the general control of prices and wages and the use of subsidy power shall be termin ated, without further extension, not later than June 30, 194?. President Truman would have the final say on when various controls would be lifted. The amendment by Rep. Brown (O-Ga), requiring gradual liquida tion of price controls on .various items as supply catches up with consumer demand was approved 20 to 3. Smallpox Claims 6th Seattle Victim SEATTLE, April 3.-0P)-Sattle recorded - its sixth death fro' m smallpox today a it neared the completion of itsf mass vaccina tion program and f lifted the quar antine on a small hotel where residents were indignant over con finement The three-weeks old son of Mr. and Mrs. August $oushek of near. by Kent,, as yet unnamed, was today's victim. The number of patients was given as 2i;Jy city health officials. 4 was expected to pass the $101000, 000 mark. Sketchy reports prom government officials, businessmen and property owners altfeady showed losses totaling $5,000,000, and the bulk of the damage! was yet to be established. 1 Air-sea rescue units will ( con tinue searching the seas. (An Associated Press dispatch from Tahiti said ; Monday's triple tidal wave caused damage on the north coast of that Island 2738 miles south of Honolulu. High waves still whipped pert of the coast of Chile.) f By a remarkable ' stroke of good fortune, neither the : army nor the navy so far as was; known has had a single death . No. 7 in Mukden Mnkden railroad station as they troops. (AP Wlrepbote to The Railroad Men Scorn 16 Cent Wage Boost CHICAGO, April 3.-(jP)-Two arbitration boards today awarded the equivalent of 16 cents hourly wage boosts to 1,220,000 railroad workers but spokesmen for the 18 Unions involved assailed the amount as "wholly Inadequate." One of the railroads involved, the Santa Fe, announced it would "immediately appeal to the inter state commerce commission for an increase in. freight rates." Bert M. Jewell, chairman of the 15 unions representing 1,100,000 non-operating employes, said addi tional wage increases would be asked "promptly" from the na tion's carriers. Spokesmen for the three operat ing brotherhoods involved said they hadn't decided yet whether to join in a new demand. Fumes Claim Albany Man , DALLAS, Ore., April 3-(,P)-The body of a man Identified as Don ald C. Belt, Albany, was found early this morning in an auto parked near the Polk-Benton county line west of Suver. Deputy Sheriff Tony Neufeldt reported Carl Gardner, Mon mouth; found the car. The deputy said a garden hose was attached to the exhaust of the motor and fumes fed into the tightly closed car. : Identification cards found on the body gave the man's address as 621 Elm st.t Albany. The body has been taken to Dallas. Belt was the son of H. C. Belt, prominent retired Seattle attor ney who has been living in Cali fornia. The father is now on his way to Oregon, it was reported yin Seattle by members of the law nrm or ananx, Beit, node ana Cook. Milk Price Rise Effective April.lv PORTLAND, Ore., April 3-(P-District OPA Director McDannell Brown reported today the formal price notice received today from Washington, D.C., sets April 1 as the effective date of the new milk price increase. (The area included in the rul ing covers all of Oregon with the exception of five southeastern counties). Producers will receive $1.01 per pound butterfat and consumers Will pay one-half cent a quart more. The order may be "re voked, corrected or amended" at any time, the notice said. Wood burn Farmer, 72, To Wed Octogenarian . Mrs. Annie M. Larson, 82-year-old Woodburn woman, will be come a bride for the second time when she weds, Sam A. Peterson, 72, Woodburn farmer. They ob tained a marriage license in the Marion county courthouse Wed nesday. It will be Peterson's fourth marriage. Prica 5c Withdraw Promise Accepted By Francis W. Carpenter NEW YORK, April 3 -(JP)- The United Nations crisis over Iran collapsed tonight when it was learned that Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala had informed offi cials he was prepared to accept a soviet statement to the security council as an unconditional guar antee of the withdrawal of Rus sian troops from Iran. Virtually complete settlement of the Iranian case was forecast by top U.N. delegates for to-morrow's session. Tne key statement was con tained in a letter from Soviet TEHRAN, April 3 Prince Mosaffar Firous, Iranian propa ganda minister, told a news conference today that the Iran Ian government has been "ad vised 'that two or three ship loads ef Russian troops have left Iran through the port of PahlevL" Pahlevi. on the Cas pian .sea, is 165 miles north west ef Tehran. . He also said that the Russian ambassador had presented a memo which said that "within a period of five or six weeks from March 24 soviet forces would have left the whole ef Persia (Irn." Ambassador Andrei Gromyko to the council. Gromyko stated flat ly that Russian troops would be out of Iran within six weeks. Ala was reported by persons fully in formed of his actions to have told U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie that he considered that this assurance met Iran's require ments. His decision was said to have been based on Gromyko's omis sion of the possibility that "un foreseen circumstances" might halt the evacuation as well as on his positive statement that the evacuation was not conditional on current negotiation between Iran and Russia over oil con cessions and other matters. - Soviet Reported, Arming Kurds TEHRAN, April 1- (Delayed) (A)- A Kurdish chieftain said to day Russian arms and equipment had been supplied to forces of the recently proclaimed "Inder dendent Kurdish Republic" at Saujbulagh (Mehabad) In north western Iran, and that Russian technicians had arrived there to train tribesmen for "a general drive for a free Kurdistan." The chieftain would not permit use of his name, saying his life would be in danger if his pres ence in Tehran were disclosed. Dodd Nominated to Agriculture Post WASHINGTON, 'April 3.-W)-N. E. (Ed) Dodd, veteran agricul tural adjustment agency official, was nominated by President Tru man today to be undersecretary of agriculture. He would succeed J. B. Hutson, new assistant secretary general of the UNO. Dodd operates a ranch at Haines, Ore. He has been connected with various phases of the AAA pro gram since its inauguration in 1933. ' BONNEVILLE POWER TO LANE PORTLAND, April 3-(F)-The Lane county Electric Co-operative began receiving power today from Bonneville under a 20-year contract. Emil Sick Says Effect on Planned Expansion of A cut in the ; malt supply will have no affect on the planned expansion of Sicks Brewing com pany facilities, but federal stop building: orders have slowed the construction, Emil G. Sick, pres ident of the company, told stock holders at their annual meeting here Wednesday. The $400,000 put into the treas ury since January 1 for the com pany's development 'will be spent as planned although just how soon the last $300,000 worth of work can be done Is still a ques tion. Sick declared. ' "Very happy" was the expres sion the company's president used in expressing the director's at titude toward cooperation with the federal food orders which have ' cut th brewery's grain - -j " : :. - . x ' k - 3 - ; - -- -. tj s't i A ' NEW YORK, April 3 Trygve Ue. 1 seereUrygeneral of the UNO Security Council, fields replies f rem both i Russia and Iran to council Inquiries of last Friday as to state of negotiations between them. He received copies here Wlrepbote : to The Oregon! Statesman) -4- 2 Escaped Cons Still At Large, Police Comb City Two of the five escaped j convicts; from Oregon state penitentiary were still at large early Thursday as police continued to comb the city, following several leads indicating the fugitives might yet be in Salem. , S Two others, Wayne LeRpy Long, 21,1 and Gordon Donald Jones, 16, were captured by city police .Wednesday noon while hiding under a holly tree at 360 N. 14th st, and the filth, Henry Floyd Brown, 18, had been apprehended in Sa lem two hours after the orison break at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday j Still at large early today were Byron Neal Dyson, 21, a lifer re cently convicted of stabbing a fellow convict, and Glenn Wilson, 21. State police and prison guards also continued their search. Strongest indication that Iyson and Wilson were still in Salem Wednesday night came from the theft of a man's clothing, an at tempted car theft and several in stances of prowling reported by local residents. ! Police investigated theft fof a tan topcoat, brown coat and vest, army trousers, gabardine (shirt and sweatshirt from the Donald Hinkel residence at 1825 N. 5th st., reported by Hinkel when he returned homeat 10:30 p.m. to find the clothes missing. "Only other items taken were 2 and a watch, although other valuables were in the house. 1 Also closely checked by police were an attempt to steal a car in the 2200 block of Center jrtreet and reports of two prowlers in a woodshed behind 1595 Lee St., at 640 S. 12th St.. and at 940 High land ave. In each case residents had scared the prowlers away be fore police arrived. (Additional details on page 2) Cojv Erased I Parole Chance Gordon Donald Jones, 16, cap tured yesterday after his, escape from the state prison Tuesday, wiped out chances for an i early parole by his action, parole board members said last night.! The young convict was to have ap peared before the board of pa role and probation this month. Convicts of juvenile age are not required to serve one-third j their sentence before becoming eligi ble for parole and they receive special attention from the parole board, lt was explained. Jones, up for 11 years for assault and rob bery armed with a dangerous weapon, had been interviewed three times during his seven months in prison by Dr. Hsrman Dickel, board psychiatrist, j Cut in Malt (barley and corn) supply ty 30 per cent. If the grain is kept In this country to feed cattle and make the overseas shipment of more wheat possible, even the .6 of 1 per cent which the brew ing industry supplies will be;well utllized, be declared. I Brewers will object, however, he predicted. If it . is shipped abroad and made available to Eu ropean brewers upon whom no restrictions have been laid down other than the short supply Avail able. ! . ;j. 'Not only brewers but the fed eral government as well will sac rifice income in the move, be cause the federal government collects $34-50 a bushel In rami fied taxes on all grain used in the brewing Industry, Sick said. Supply today as council reconvened. (AP ess Gets Hint of Atom i i , Plant Growth WASHINGTON, April 3.-63)- Cbngress got a hint today that the army has major new construction underway which produced the atomic bomb. It came from the senate approp riations committee which ! recom mended that the senate strike from a house appropriations bill a prohibition against the army engineers' building "permanent structures within the continental limits of the United States" cost ing more than $20,000. In explaining its recommenda tion ,the appropriations committee mentioned the "Manhattan dist riot," which was the wartime name applied to the atomic bomb pro ject. It said: , Testimony given before the com mittee indicated tnat there are now pending certain construction projects in the Manhattan district in which the necessary structures must be of a permanent nature and each will cost more than $20, 000. . House Ceiling j Recommended f ' t ': 3- ' J WASHINGTON, April jl -0T) The administration's emergency housing legislation emerged from the senate banking committee to day carrying two key provisions $6004)00,000 for building ma terial subsidies and price ceilings on' existing houses. Both were rejected by the house although President Truman called the' subsidies the ."very heart" of the building program. The measure now' goes to the senate. 1 ; : The ceiling price on existing houses would be fixed by the first sale after passage of the act. to Have No i Brewery Plant Approximately 1 per cent of the nation's supply of barley and com has gone to brewers in unrestrict ed years, and 40 per cent of that (including the entire protein con tent) has been turned out as a by-product dairy feed, he de clared. ; All directors and officers were re-elected at the annual stock holders' and directors' meetings held here yesterday. Sick Is pres ident; F. W. Shepard, manager of the Salem plant. Is vice presi dent; N. A. MacPhee is a vice president, and G. W. Lancaster of the Salem administrative staff, secretary-treasurer. i Directors are S. F. Chadwick, B. N. Hutchinson, J. XL linn, W. H. Mackie, MacPhee, W. W. Mc Donald, W. F. Pohle, Shepard and Sick. .1 Gongr Today In Portland Walkout to Affect Oregon Mo to r S tages s r Salem faces the threat" of transportation tleup. "tomorrow, with a city, bus drivers, strike Lscheduled for midnight tonight if,' wage, demands are not - met by Oregon Motor ' Stages, Inc. " ".. ; Local No. .1055, Motor Coach Employes, set the Thursday mid night" deadline, in Portland . yes terday.. it was learned by local drivers for Oregon Motor Stages. The union local, which includes; Salem' and Eugene drivers , as well as drivers on Oregon Motor Stage runs throughout the state, has been ' negotiating with the com pany since January 1 for wage increases. '.(.- N ' . Portland Meeting ; Several Salem drivers will join other union members In Portland today for a - meeting with com pany official at 1 p.m . accord- . ing to Paul ll.j Baker, one of . the Salem delegates. Among others attending ftom Arthur G. E3d. Salem will be rate in Salem is , The basic pay 95 cents an hour for drivers and it . is Understood Lthey are seeking an increase to- $1.30. .. Associated Press- quoted Har- ' old Oathes, the union business agent in Portland, as saying the strike, if called tonight, will tic up city .transportation in Port land, Salem and Eugene and would affect bus service between Portland "and the coast, between coast points and between other upstate !. Oregon cities. . . Shop Men Ala Shop men as well as drivers are prepared to strike, with the total workers i involved estimated at 300. j i . - , The union's demand as reported by Associated Press is for In crease in pay to either $1.40 an hour or Gk cents a mile, which ever is higher, it was understood locally, however, that the mileage rate could apply only to intercity bus drivers. ' - - , " I "- Contract Let For Addition; Expansion Set Award of a contract ' for th 100 by 200 foot adition to th Western Paper Converting com pany to Ed K.r Viesk? "of Sak nri was announced Wednesday, by . ; Lloyd Riches, general, manager.. The new ttructurCi to-be built next to the present plant on North Front street, is designed to double the ' firm's capacity and augment its line-production system to in- . elude all kinds of personal fta tionery papetries, in trade. par lance. Equipment already has been obtained and is awaiting in stallation. , ; The adition in its compleWd form is. expected to entail an e penditure of $100,000. , ' Lumber Shipment By Air Scheduled PORTLAND. Ore, ApriT-3-i.-n The first lumber cargo believed shipped in United States by U will leave Portland Thursday fost Galveston, Tex, - the : Long-Bell Lumber company of nearby Long view, Wash, reported today. The company said the two and k half ton cargo of selected parc els for interior finish will be shipped by the Flying Tiger line of National Skyways. . County, Bank' Benefit From Unclaimed Money . Marion '-county and "the Ladd and Bush bank here apparently are $6 richer each today. . The bank , reported to County Clerk Harlan fudd Wednesday that $12 In bills found recently in the bank lobby remained un claimed. According to statute, money found inja public building; is divided equally between thm finder and the fund. county general Z1IUKOV MAY ! STEP OUT i BERLIN, April 3 -"P- Ameri can authorities j have been . told that Marshal Georgi K. Zhukcr soon will relinquish his position . as chief of the i Russian zonefef occupation in ' Germany, an io thoritative source said today. ; Weather V'x. r . M fc 33 Mlru JUk 41 Tea i Jtl - Trac j-43 Tme Sales Eugene Portland SeaUle M 5 San Francisco 40 Trac Willamette rtvrr IS ft. . FORECAST (from US. weather t-a reau. McNary field. Saleral: iPaitJy;" cloudy today.' Highest temperature 4 degree. " J i