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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Germany