Lfeague-L Senators Set for Home Opener Tonight; Hi r 9JLEBB UW ODDS II T h Thornton - Applegate Controversy: The Appleftle Route. On -Aug. 8, 1148 a party of smknd immigrants were -encamped short distance wt of Fort Hall in southeastern Idaho. They had mad the crossing of tha great plains from Independ ence;, Mo., and the easy transit of South Pass over the Rocky moun tains, and were resting before they moved on, some expecting to go southwesterly to California, other northwesterly on the Ore gon trail to the Willamette val ley. On that day Jesse Applegate and three others of his party of IS who had left Polk county the preceding May to lay out a road from the southerly part of Ore gon to the California overland trail arrived in camp. They urged the Oregon-bound immigrants to take the Dew road, urging its superiority, abundance or grass and water save for desert cross ing no high mountain ranges like the Cascades, and shorter dis A laree erouD of the immigrants decided to follow the new route. Among them were J. Quinn Thornton and his wife, who had left Quincy, I1L for a new loca tion la Oregon. Thornton was na tive of Virginia (West Virginia now), was reared in Ohio, stu died law in London, practiced his profession in Missouri ana men la Illinois. He was a tenderfoot. though, unused to rough travel r even care of horses, and, ac cording to DeVoto, ."an asthmatic and something of a hypochon driac The Thornton party consumed great deal of time in the (Continued on Editorial Page) Peace Efforts Of Marshall Fail in China CHUNGKING. April 2-iV General Marshall's last-ditch ef forts to end the Manchurian war fare failed today when Generalis simo Chiang Kai-Shek refused stiffened demands by the high riding Chinese communists. - - Renewed attempts at settle ment were' expected alter the government completes its current move to Nanking, but the confu ion attendant upon the removal and the unrelenting attitude of both sides threatened an indefi nite delay. , Well-Intormed pro-government sources said Chiang had rejected the latest truce program because It would leave the communists in . possession Of battle-won Chang chun and major portion of Manchuria. The communists, who a month ago were willing to settle for re tention of some Interior sectors and giving the government the major cities and the rail lines, were putting a much higher price tag on peace now. Molalla Pilot Hurt Critically in Crash MOLALLA. Ore., April 29.-VT) Two private pilots were injured. one criticaUy, late yesterday when an airplane they were flying crashed. near the airport at Lib eral north of here. : Harvey Moshberger, -Molalla, suffered a broken back and five fractured ribs, and Perry Turner, Portland, fractured skull, when the plane crashed from low alti tude as it was stunting. Both men are patients in the . Oregon City bospiUL INSTITUTE VFW AUXILIARY The auxiliary of Meadowlark Post 0102, Veterans of Foreign Wars, was institated and officers -Installed. Monday night at the VFW halL Mrs. -Marie Dana, Port land, Oregon auxiliary president, and drill team from Portland took part Animal Cracfcers ,WAJN(X30DeiCH "Pap jtt got a good look .cat a Broadway wollT First WIL Tilt Here Since '42 Inaugural Likely To Attract 6000 A( Waters' Park Salent's baseball Senators, alone atop the Western International league -standings after winning their first four games of the cam paign at Yakima, christen the home season at Waters park to night iq an 8:15 o'clock contest with Ue highly - rated Spokane Indiansentry. The cpener will be preceded by brief bit colorful pre-game cere- SpedUl buses te the opening basebajl game tonight will run frem the Ladd and Bosh cor ner from 8:45 te t p. m. on a lS-minnte schedule. Two buses will leave frem the park after the gasnes. monies produced by the Salem Cherrias and the Senator Boost ers. . WeaUier permitting, a record crowd e 8000 will likely view the lnauguryh Box and reserved seats have ben sold for weeks, but Club Business Manager George Emigh has announced that over 5000 grandstand and bleacher seats wijl be available to the pub lic tonight. The grandstand tick ets can; be secured personally caUing at the ball park after 1 p. m. today. The park gates go open at six o'clock tonight and both grandstand and bleacher seats can be purchased at that time. Ed Kewalski, the hard throw ing righthander who beat Yakima last Friday night at Yakima, will be manager Frisco Edwards' pit ching choice tonight Spokane will likely counter with another right-hander, Milt Cadinha. Cad inha allowed Vancouver only two hits in his seasonal debut at Spo kane Friday. Tonight's game wiU mark the first Western International league contest eld In the park since 1J42 the last year the circuit was in operation. (Al Lightner's fuU details of the opener and of Salem's two wins at Yakima Sunday on to day's sports page.) Halt Loading At Portland PORTLAND, Ore., April 29-(JP) Waterfront activity here was at a near standstill today with cancel lation of 4he contract between the CIO Supercargoes and Checkers union and waterfront employers in a dispute over number of cargo checkers to be hired for each long shore garg. E. P. Mjjrsh, regional director of the U.S. conciliation service, today assigned Commissioner Oliver Goodwin,- Los Angeles, to seek a settlement in the dispute. The original disagreement arose be tween the, union and the Ameri can - Hawaiian Steamship line when the company assigned two checkers fo five longshore gangs. Year-tltl Child Run Over, Dies Carol in Marie Shaeffer, 15-monthi-olj daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Shaeffer, Melrose auto court dieid Sunday as the result of injuries incurred when she was run over jy a car. William F. Whaley, driver of the car told police he was backing his car oat of the garage at the court and' thought the child was at a safe, distance. He was not held by the police. The girl died on the way to the hospital. -t : Approves Move for Early Trial of Soviet Official k SEATTLE, April 29-(;P)-Federal Judge Lloyd L. Black approved today a government motion for an early trial for Lt Nicolai G. Reddin, soviet purchasing com mission' official arrested last month in Portland. Ore., by the federal bureau of investigation on espionage charges. Judge Black said . he wquld set the trial date tomorrow. CRASH ViCTIM IMPROVES John Edward DeBusk, Toledo, who was critically - injured in an accident svuth of here Saturday night was .reported in a slightly improved condition at Salem Dea coness hospital Monday night Emory Coll, Eugene, driver of the car is held in county Jail on a charge of reckless driving.. TYPES Ui PER MINUTE HENGELO, The Netherlands, April 29VPy-A typewriting tea cher, L. H.De Jong, today estab lished what was believed to be the world's speed record for typewritings, by clicking off 445 characters jjper . minute. NINETY-SIXTH YEAR KeveaD Plot To KilD ROacAirtlhuLDD- TOKYO, Aprit-SO-fiT-Allied headquarters announced today that a plot to assassinate General MacArthur had been discovered. The plot reportedly was to have been coincident with a Japanese communist parade. and mass meeting scheduled for May 1. The headquarters announcement said that Hideo Tokayama who has not beei apprehended was the leader of the plot "Other! known plotters are still at large but are being rounded up," it added. The statement said that General MacArthur "again refused to. permit any unusual precautions to be taken for the protection of his life." There have been vague rumors of conspiracies against . allied occupation leaders in the past, but this is the first to be confirmed by headquarters. Col. II. I. T. Creswell, head of allied civil intelligence, said headquarters was tipped by an unidentified informant who merely! reported that "such a plot against MacArthur was sched uled for May 1. "We have been investigating, and- so far have not dug up anybody." He said his section did not know "who this Tokayama is and! we, have no information as to his politics. In fact, no political party was mentioned in connection" with the case. Tojo, Other Indicted For TOKYO, April 29-T)-The na tions which smashed imperial Jap an today : ordered ex-Premier Hi deki To jo and 27 other militarist leaders haled before an interna tional court next Friday to answer war crimes charges ranging from "plain murder" to conspiracy to enslave the world. The 554count indictment issued on the emporor's birthday, did Meat Packers Plants Given Back to U.S. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 30-Ay-The w five nieat packers regained control of their facili ties from i th.es t government early today. s The" plants, of Armour, Swift Wilson, Cudahy and Morell had been under federal direction, since they were! seized along with oth ers January 28 as the aftermath of a strike which threatened to cripple' the nation's meat produc tion. ' ' Only five stockyards, at St Paul, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Los' Angeles, and West Fargo, N. D., remain in government Control and they will be released within a few days, the White House jannounced. Charge Retracted By Chinese Reds CHUNGKING, April 29 -(JP)-The communist new China, daily news said j today that a case of mistaken Identity caused it to charge erroneously last week that United States planes had attacked communist troops in Manchuria. The communist organ saiji that in reality the : planes had, been sold by the Americans to the Chinese government, and that the improper identification;1 resulted from temporary water paint cov ering the American insigna. PRINGLE SCHOOL VOTE TIED PR INGLE, April 29-Special)-Public vote on the question- of transporting students to school was a 10 to 10 tie here tonight A revote will be held later. Governor Undecided on Special Session to Seek School Relief A special legislature session to solve the Portland schools' finan cial problem may not bS- neces sary, Gov. iEarl Snell, laid late Monday on- the advice of attor neys, -y, ' These attorneys are nbt con vinced that the things desired could be accomplished". Governor Shell declared. However, the gov ernor continued, a brief will be received from the Portland school board Tuesday which will be studied by state officials whom he was asked to explore the situ ation before he reaches a deci sion. Restricted te 28 Days Governor Snell further" stated that there are many other matters which could receive legislative at tention but -that the constitution restricts a special session to 20 days which would make it impos sible to enaci legislation covering all subjects in. that space of time. vv The school directors Contend that a special legislative session is necessary because of a recent 10 PAGES Jap Chiefs War Crimes not name Hirohito among the ac cused, but chief allied prosecutor Joseph B. Kennan commented that omission of a name "in no sense implies exoneration." Packed with the hard facts of death, plunder, ' and ruthless cruelty, the document traced Jap an's aggressive policies back to 1928 and included specific charges of plotting and launching aggres sions, as well as the murder of some 4000 Americans at Pearl Harbor and others In the Philip pines before declaration of war against the United States. The accused included four for mer premiers of Japan, including Tojo; most of Tojo's Pearl Harbor cabinet; three principal negotiat ors of the tri -partite pact with Italy and Germany; Adm. Osami Nagano, former, chief of staff who ordered the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor; and other high military leaders. Coal Strike Talks Reopen WASHINGTON, April 29-OTV John L. Lewis and the soft coal operators resumed contract talks today and Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach reported the groundwork laid to keep them going until a settlement is reached. The 'secretary said that his two representatives at the meeting "made no concrete progress but are both of the opinion that there was an attitude of mind on the part of both sides to sit down and discuss the various issues." It was the first meeting be tween the disputing parties since negotiations were ended April 10. Loaded Bus Near Idanha Narrowly Misses Plunge BEND. April 29-(Ay)-An east bound Hammafi stage went part ly off the road-tour miles west of Idanha on the North Santiam highway today, and only Its un dercarriage catching on the edge of the bank prevented it from hurtling down a 200-foot hill. No one was hurt The bus ran its two right wheels off the road when it allowed too much right of way for an approaching truck. 4 to 2 decision of the state su preme court holding that the re gistrar of elections of Multnoma! county has no authority to refer to the voters of the district a special tax levy which would raise $1, 750,000 for school purposes. Most state officials here pre dicted that Governor Snell would call the special session. The last special legislative ses sion in Oregon was held 11 years ago, starting October 21, 1935, and lasting the full 20 days authorized by the constitution. It was called to vote money for a new capitol building to replace the one des troyed by fire. Portland Solons Approve PORTLAND, Ore., April 2-() -Multnomah county members of the state legislature today ap proved plans of the Portland city school board to ask Gov. Earl Snell for a special session of the legislature but rejected a proposal to .limit the business to one day for revision of a single election law. POUNDED 1651 Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Close Call William W. Blane. Galesburg. 111.. engineer ot the Exposition Flyer, which . plowed Into the rear of the Advance Flyer, at Naper vUle, lit. Uking a Ull of 43 dead and 125 Injured, Is quoted as saying I put on the brakes and cut off the oil, because of the danger of fire. But It was too late. How I came out alive from that cab I'll never know. He stayed in his cab but escaped major Injuries. William Green Urges Senate ToKeepOPA WASHINGTON, April 29.-UFV-President William Green of the American Federation of Labor urged Senators today to give the people a prompt promise that "price control projection against future disaster shall not be re moved." Green asked continuation of the OPA for. a year, beyond. June ,30 and called for senate rejection of house legislation which he said would "amend price control to death." The labor leader appeared be fore the senate banking commit tee which also heard pro-OPA testimony from Caroline F. Ware for the American Association of University Women and Chat Pat erson of the American veterans committee. Miss Ware argued that black market activity is partly attribut able to uncertainty over congres sional action on extending OPA. Green endorsed a suggestion by Senator Murdock (D-Utah) that OPA be allowed more funds to strengthen 1 1 s enforcement. Murdock said he believed "a lot of veterans, could do the job" by conquering the black market Picketing Ends at 2 Salem Theatres Pickets in front of the Capitol and Elsinore theatres were re moved Monday evening by H. C. Barker, secretary of the Salem central trades and labor council. The action followed "satisfac tory settlement" of the several-months-old grievance at a meet ing in Portland Monday of the Building Service Employes and a Warner Brothers representa tive, Barker said. Betty Frahn, business agent of Salem's Local 160, and Glen Blake, internation al representative, attended. Fairview Home Building Permit Requests Filed ' PORTLAND. Ore., April 29.-;P) -Applications for c o n s t r u ction permits filed with the Oregon of fice of Civilian Production Ad ministration today included one for a $940,171 plant by the Penn sylvania Salt Manufacturing com pany and others for Oregon Fair view home, Salem, $150,000 for employes' cottage and $250,000 for patients' cottage, and a con solidated union high school, Springfield, $125,000. WEST SALEM BUS ARRIVES WEST SALEM, April 29.-(Spe-cial)-The new 27-passenger bus for service in West Salem has ar rived in Portland and will be put in operation between here and Salem next Saturday, May 5. This was announced Monday by Rob ert Covert, operator of the Inter city bus. Weather Max. MliC JUin ii 41 .11 .5 43 .15 .67 44 .32 5S 60 JOO .64 41 J7 Salem Kugen. Portland San FincUco Seattle Willamette river SJ ft. FORECAST ( from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Scattered clouds today. Highest 4 degrees. f Morning, April 30. 1946 D Pick Five To Probe Spanish Russia Silent as Council Acts on Polish Charges NEW YORK, April 29 -(41)-The Uiuted Nations security council by 10 affirmative votes, with Russia sitting silent, today order ed a commission of five delegates to Investigate Polish charges that Franco Spain is a menace to world peace. The soviet delegate, Andrei A. Gromyko, restated his opposition to any investigation of Spain as a superflous delaying measure. The council climaxed a bitter fight on the Spanish question by setting up the investigating sub committee of five nations - - Aus tralia, China, Brazil, France and Poland with Paul Hasluck, 40-year-old former history professor who replaced Lt-CoL W. R. Hodgson as the Australian dele gate only today, as chairman. Hasluck told newsmen the group would meet privately Wed nesday. He said some meetings would be closed and some open to the press, depending on the na ture of the evidence to be hand led. The sub-committee' is to re port by May 31. Willamette U Gets 20 More Housing Units Twenty additional housing units from former defense areas have been awarded to Willamette uni versity, bringing that institution's share in the federal properties to 82, Robert Fenix, university bus iness manager, announced Mon day night. Announcement that the hous ing had been allocated to Willam ette came officially from E. Stan ton Foster, Seattle, acting region al director of the federal public housing administration. Fenix said university officials expect the units to be set up and ready for occupancy by student veterans in 90 days. He said Wil lamette has a request in for 40 more units. The city of Salem has asked for 72 more units and should they be awarded, space additional to that already secured and prepared for the city-university veterans' colony will be re quired. Former Statesman Man Sells Newgpaper OSWEGO, April 29-f-E. A. Donnelly, former mechanical sup erintendent of the Oregon States man, Salem, announced today he has sold the weekly Oswego Re view to Mr. and Mrs. William L. Blizzard of Portola. Calif. Donnelly, who has been here four years, has obtained a semi weekly paper in Lakeport Calif. Justice Department Seeking Profiteers for Tax Evasion WASHINGTON, April 2-P)-Attorney General Tom Clark an nounced today that the justice department has started a "vigor ous crack down on income tax evaders alleged to have made huge profits from black markets. "Experts from the department's tax division are being sent out to each United States attorney's of fice to Insure vigorous prosecu tion of income tax evaders," Clark told reporters. "Tax evasion,' he added, Is a big problem now because of black market activities. Many individ uals are afraid to report their correct income because they know they would be prosecuted for black market activities. We're going after-these fellows. ' Prica Snell Confers With Wallgren On Time Charge " PORTLAND. Ore.. April 2-(D-Gov. Earl Snell said tonight be believed it essential fer Ore gen te Join Washington and California if these tw states institute daylight saving time. Snell reported he had a tele phone conversation with Gov. Mob C. WaUgren today and told the Washington governor he was still andecided. Wallgren had announced ta Yakima today that he may soon Issue a proc lamation setting the clock back an hour. City Council To Act Today On Bus Plan A special meeting of the city council will be called for 5 p.m. today to decide whether to grant the Veterans Transit association to operate the strike-bound city busses, which they plan to pur chase from the Oregon Motor Stages. A. H. Gille. chairman of the council committee said last night that he understood the Veterans had . their personnel ready ; and would start operations soon, if they received permission, William B. Adams, attorney for the association, said the veterans would purchase the buses individ ually and pool their operations in Salem and in Eugene, according to an AP dispatch from Portland. The sale action would mean loss of jobs to most of the strikers, according to A. L. Schneider, com pany general manager, because the veterans intended to drive their own buses. Speculate on Chief Justice Appointment WASHINGTON, April 29-0T)-Charles Evans Hughes former chief Justice, was closeted today for 30 minutes with President Truman while Washington specu lated on the chief executive's choice of a new chief justice. Hughes, tall and straight for all his 84 years, strode out of the White house without a word for reporters. With the president known to be considering one of the court's associate justices for elevation to the post of the late Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, names most fre quently mentioned in speculation were those of Justices William O. Douglas and Robert H. Jack son. OSMENA TO RETIRE. MANILA, April 29-T-Presi-dent Sergio Osmena, defeated for reelection, plans to retire to his Cebu farm after May 23 when Manuel Roxas, victor in last week's election, takes office, to become the first president ot the new Philippines Republic. Clark said the tax division's activities "will be strengthened and accelerated" under Douglas W. McGregor, who was nominat ed assistant attorney general in charge of the division today. McGregor served as United States attorney for the southern district of Texas from 193(1 to 1844. Early this year he was named special assistant to the at torney general as hearing officer in conscientious objector cases. Meanwhile from Administrator Paul Porter came word that OPA soon will have 850 enforcement agents working to curb meat black markets as compared with about 650 at present and about 500 ninety days ago. The Game's On! And THE OREGOV STATES MAN will be the Mly awerolsMT daily to brine .yea cosleto be scores and stories of every game of Salem's ovra Senators. A 'phone call to till wiU start YOUR HOME NEWS PAPER toi 5c No. 23 Proposal ed at Paris. April 2-W-Secretary cf State James F. Byrnes satd to? night he had proposed a four power, 25-ycar mutual asitane pact to insure the demilitarisa tion of Germany. If ratified by the United States senate, and the Other three par ticipating powers France. Gre&t Britain and Russia the pact would commit the United States to participate in European securi ty with American armed forces for at least a quarter of a century after the end of the present mili tary occupation of Germany. Says Stalin la Favor The American secretary of state said Premier Stalin had support ed the idea for the four-power treaty when be discussed the mat ter with the Russian leader in Moscow last Christmas. Rimes put forward the Ameri can proposal as the four-power foreign ministers council placc-d the whole question on its agenda and opened negotiations - on the disposax of the Italian empire. Told After Conference The United States lori-ran? policy on Germany and Europeam security was detailed by Byrcca at a press conference after bo sought to Insert the proposed mu tual assistance pact in the con ference agenda, but V. M. Mclc tov, Russian foreign minister, ob jected. Molotov said he agreed t the discussion of the over-all Ger man problem, but that the treaty was "looking: too far ahead.' Byrnes told correspondents, however, that Great Britain and France agreed to the four-powoc treaty in principle and that Rus sia was willing to discuss the mat ter. The secretary said he pro posed the treaty concerning Ger many to Moscow, London acid . Paris last February.. Keep Secrets, Ike Tells Press HONOLULU. April 29.-vTV General Eisenhower, on a tour cf Pacific army bases, today warned against premature disclosure of any United States military secret, such as the atomic bomb, "to any body." The chief of staff, who arrived by air from the mainland, em phasized to a news conference at Fort Shatter that he was not com menting on political aspects of the atomic bomb. The military "efficacy and pow er of the United Nations organiz ations must be demonstrated, ho said, before it will be safe to re veal military secrets. Allow 70-Pound Parcels In Mail to GFs Overseas WASHINGTON. April 29.-OV The post office department an nounced today that parcels with a maximum weight of 70 pounds and a combined length and girth of 100 inches "may be mailed to army and navy personnel over seas effective May I. Only articles specifically re quested will be accepted fer mail ing to army personnel. No re quests are required from navy personnel. Garden Show to Be Held May 4-5 at YV Promise cf a deluxe of Cowers has caused the committee of the Salem Men's Garden dub. headed by OIlie SchendeL to contract tha YMCA gymnasium for the staging: of the rprinx garden show, Satur day and Sunday, May 4 and, 3. Schendel reports that reservations for display space from cooperat ing garden clubs is being receive daily, but that more are wel comed. "We will accept all entries even if we have to take over the state capitol, too," Schendel said Monday. PACT Aim Germany