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Fifth Straight Victory
' Salem's Senators opened their home Western International league
baseball campaign before 4309 fans at Waters park Last night by taking
an X to 5 victory over the Spokane Indians. The win was Salem's fifth
straight in league play against no losses and leaves Manager Leo
VXD CDDCM
' The flood control bill which
awaits only the signature of the
president to become law carries
appropriations for Initiating work
cd the Detroit dam and the Merid
ian dam in the Willamette valley
project and the McNary dam on
- the Columbia river. The former
- two will be nailed by residents of
the valley as great aids in flood
prevention and the latter by those
eager for power development and
Improvement of river navigation.
. ' Loser will be the 'great salmon
fishing industry. All of these dams
are nigh dams which cannot be
surmounted by migratory fish
even with ladders or elevators.
After their construction salmon
propagation on the Willamette and
Columbia rivers will depend on
natural spawning grounds not cut
off by the daens and artificial
pawning in hatcheries. The hope
is expressed that present loss of
email salmon traveling seaward
may be decreased through the in
creased flow of water in late sum
xner which win dilute the present
heavy pollution in the Willamette.
I think that no one in or out of
the fishing business believes that
commercial salmon fishing and
packing will not suffer and suffer
heavily from the building of these
dams. The fishermen have spoken
their piece and pleaded their case
The action of congress -to be fol-
. lowed no doubt by the president's
signature on the bill means their
failure, and the doom, partial or
complete ci. pnee great industry.
I do not tnean to reopen -the
controversy. In many 'respects the
salmon industry's friends put up
poor fight, seeming almost to
accept
(Continued on Editorial Page)
Bomb Topples
3-Ton Franco
Victory Shaft
MADRID, April 30-OPV-A bomb
explosion wrecked the Franco
victory monument in Barcelona
at dawn today.
The blast toppled the three-ton
XnemoriaL set up at the intersec
tion of Paseo de Gracia and the
A v e n i d a Del Generalissimo to
commemorate the entry of Fran
co's forces into the northeastern
city in If 39 in the Spanish civil
A Barcelona dispatch said no
one was Injured and that no ar
rests had been reported by early
afternoon.
In Madrid, meanwhile, the Fal
angist newspaper Arriba declared
the decision of the United Nations
security council to investigtae
Spain was "an insult which we
shall forget with difficulty."
BAXXE1S HOUXS TO END
PORTLAND, Ore., April 30-(JP)
.AH branches of the First Na
tional bank, here will start all
day banking tomorrow 10 an.
to 5 p-nXy at the main office and
19 ajn. to 320 pan. at other
branches. One downtown branch
will continue evening hours.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
Thafs my bonus forty
pounds of peanuts, oncf that
ain't money!"
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(Frisco) Edwards' team alone atop
the WIL standings.
The game was turned to Sa-
l lem's favor in the sixth inning
when Third Baseman Dick Win
ner hit a tremendous home run
far over the left field fence with
one runner on base. That put Sa
lem out in front, 6-4, and the lo
cals were never headed after
ward. - Earlier in the game Catcher
Woody Salmon cracked a home
run over the right field fence with
two runners aboard to give the
Senators a 3-2 lead. Spokane had
scored twice off Salem Starting
Pitcher Ed Kowalski in the first
inning.
The game was the first in league
play for the city, of Salem since
1942. The two teams continue the
week's series tonight in an 8:15
encounter. Paul Soderberg has
been nominated to pitch for the
Senators and Milt Cadinha for
Manager Mel Cole's visitors.
(Complete details and box score
of the opener on today's sports
page.)
Two Salem Art
Groups Plan to
Join Forces
First work of reorganizing two
Salem art groups, the Oregon
State Art Museum association
and the Salem Art Center into
one unit to be known as the Sa
lem Art association, was under
taken at a noon meeting Tuesday,
with representatives of both
groups present. Mrs. W. E. Ander
son, president of the Salem Art
Center board acted as chairman.
Officers chosen fojpthe new as
sociation are approximately the
same as of the former Art Center
group. Mrs. Anderson will serve
as temporary president, E. W.
Acklin, Mrs. J. M. Devers, Doug
las McKay and Mrs? F. W. Poor-
man as vice-presidents, Mrs. Edna
Hamlin, secretary and Mrs. Clif
ford Taylor, treasurer. Carle
Abrams will have power of at
torney.
Lebanon Plans
IZrsatz Cake
LEBANON, Ore., April 30(JP)
To save food for famine relief,
Lebanon will abandon plans for
a 3000-pound shortcake, a feature
of the annual May 31-June 1
Strawberry festival here.
The festival committee voted
today to get along with an imita
tion cake a cardboard replica of
one served in 1941 to 10,000
people.
President Truman, Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson and UNRRA
Chief LaGuardia were advised the
community's vote will release 500
pounds of sugar, 120 pounds of
shortening, 160 quarts of milk,
1200 eggs, 325 pounds of flour,
18 pounds of baking powder, six
quarts of flavoring, 80 gallons of
cream, and 1500 pounds of mis
cellaneous decoration.
TO POST MEAT PRICES
WASHINGTON. April 30-;P)-OPA
Chief Paul Porter announc
ed tonight that beginning tomor
row butcher shops would post
new retail meat price list to help
stores and housewives "in fight
ing off the black market."
Soviet, ILS. Scientists Working
On Machine to Top Atom! Bomb
By Rennie Taylor
Associated Press Science Reporter
BERKELEY, Calif., April 30
(P A machine which may be
able to smash neutrons and pro
tons, and possibly produce sub-
nuclear energy far surpassing that
of the atom bomb, was unveiled
today at the University of Cali
fornia after a. long period of sec
recy. The machine turns electrons
into cosmic ray particles, which
are the most powerful manisfes
tations of energy to come within
the experimental range of scien
tists.
It has been named the synchro
tron. It was conceived and de
veloped by Piof. Edwin M. Mc
Millan, brilliant young atom
smasher, atom bomb researcher,
and co-discoverer of neptunium,
NINETY-SIXTH YEAR
Succumbs
SILVER TON, j April 3 John
Thomas Hoblitt, editor and pub
: Usher af the, Sflverton, Appeal-
. Tribune, who died Tuesday after
: a brief Illness. (Story on page 2.)
Stalin Avers
World Reaction
Tends to War
LONDON, April 30 -(JP) Prime
Minister Stalin promised tonight
that the soviet anion would be
true to a policy df peace and se
curity but charged that what he
described as "international reac
tion" was hatching plans for the
new war,
In an order of the day broad
cast by the Moscow radio the
Russian leader alo declared that
"the nations of tHe world do not
wish a repetition f the calamities
of war." He added:
"It is necessary to be constant
ly vigilant, to proectas the apple
of one's eye the armed forces and
defensive power Jof , our country
(Russia)." I K
Stalin called on soviet workers
to reach and exceed the
production goals set up in the
soviet union's newi fiye-year plan.
Addressing he Russian people,
Stalin said: j 'h-
"We should not forget for a sin
gle minute the; intrigues of inter
national reaction, which is hatch
ing plans of a new war."
Time Chjange
Decision! Due
Prospects that ;a, decision on
daylight savings time might be
made within a! day or two were
seen yesterday wheii Gov. Earl
Snell said he. and Gov. Mon C.
Wallgren might iisue proclama
tions simultaneous If both states
agree to the time change.
AP quoted Gov. Wallgren as
stating he would announce his
decision after an Additional tele
phone conference with Gov. Snell
Wednesday. Decision fir still pend
ing in California, foo
eciretey
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Semae Giroyp Says
By William T. Peacock
WASHINGTON, April 30-P)-A
senate investigating committee
reached a preliminary conclusion
today that safeguards on the
i
the new element which is inter
mediate between uranium and
Plutonium. I f.;
Announcement of Synchrotron
also disclosed that Russian "scien
tists had arrived almost simultan
eously at a machine of the same
kind. j .
McMillan conceived ' the idea
while at Los Alamos, NM, work
ing on the atom bomb. Two
months after hef had evolved the
plan and written a report for sci
entific publication! a Russian
journal arrived saying the soviet
scientist V. Vekjjler of the Lebe
dev Physical Iistitute, Moscow,
had proposed a; similar machine.
The Russian article was published
before McMillan's j report, but
was not received in this country
until last October. Iore recently
the Russian scientist announced a
30,000,000-volt sjyncjhrotron.
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Rise 'Due
In Bread
Ceilings
Rye Loaves to
Increase, White
Slated to Follow
. WASHINGTON, April 30 Hf)
Price boosts for white bread and
other kinds may follow the In
creases allowed today by OPA
on most loaves of rye bread.
An OPA official disclosed this
privately to a reporter as the
agency permitted an immediate
two-cent per one-pound loaf rise
in the ceilings for rye bread up
to a maximum of 12 cents.
During the day OPA also ap
proved increas.es in the selling
prices of imported Spanish olives,
washing machines and electric
ironers and removed ceilings en
tirely from a variety of steel
products and toys.
The price agency explained
that bakers of rye bread had been
"squeezed between sharply ad
vancing rye prices and bread
ceilings." Newly ordered ceilings
on rye grain do not become ef
fective until June 1. Meanwhile.
an official told a reporter, bakers
also were seeking an increase of
one cent a one-pound loaf on
other kinds of bread and "some
increase" seemed likely.
Salem Rainfall
Below Normal
During April
Monthly rainfall was below
normal for the first time this year.
in the month of April, when only
1.14 inches were recorded, ac
cording to the monthly report of
the Salem weather station at Mc
Nary field.
Normal April rainfall is 2.59
inches. The precipitation all came
in light showers, with the wet
test day showing a mere J27
inches, it was stated. However,
the year's total rainfall so far,
19 inches, remains well above
the normal amount of 16.88 for
the corresponding period.
The month's hieh was 79 on
April 24 and the low was 30 on
April 6. Mean temperature was
50.2, one degree colder than the
average April mean. Average
daily maximum was 61.5 degrees!
and the minimum 39 degrees.
Yesterday's frost was the lat
est spring frost since 1939. By
weather bureau standards there
were three clear days, nine partly
cloudy and 18 cloudy in April
Prevailing wind was southwest
erly throughout the month.
CHILD HEALTH DAY TODAY
Governor Earl Snell Tuesday
designated May 1 as "Child
Health day" in Oregon.
(Lid Loose.
secrecy of top U.S. military wea
pons are not tight enough to keep
them out of reach of foreign pow
ers. Indications point so strongly
that way, Chairman Eastland CD
Miss) said, that a senate judiciary
subcommittee int ends to "go
much further into the matter."
Eastland explained that a good
many parts of wartime secret de
vices have been now "declassi
fied," or made non-secret. Fur
thermore, the cloak of secrecy
wrapped during wartime about
certain industrial processes has
been lifted.
In buying parts and making
use of this "know-how," Eastland
said, it appears that foreign gov
ernments can put together some
devices still classed as "top sec
ret" Eastland said "some govern
ment people from several agen
cies" would be called to testify
as well as witnesses from indus
try.
He said he was "very definite
ly" of the opinion new legislation
should be enacted. The govern
ment witnesses will be asked
their views on this.
Eastland declared the inquiry
is not aimed at any one particu
lar country but solely at protec
tion of the United States."
POUNDBD 1651
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday
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and forested areas, fftclals af Oregaa Flax Textiles, Iae and a greup f YVUlametU valU business
and political leaders gathered at MeNary field here Taeaday metnHkg. They are; kneeling, left te
right, W. L. Phillips. Leyal Warner, Barry S. Schenk. Ralph Campbell. Geerge Alexander. Eagene
Marsh of McMlnnville, and Linn C. Smith. I SUodlng. left te right. Clay Cechraa. Carl llegg. Rebert
S. Farrell. Jr J. R. MilUr ef Detroit, chairman af the textiles plant directorate; Gev. Earl Snell; E. IL
Welker of Detrelrr F. A. Nealon ef Talede, Ohio; B. A. Olsea. president af Oregaa flax Textiles; Clyde
Everett, plant manager here and L. L. Laws, saperlnteadeat af the state flax tndastry. (McEwaa Phete.)
Gen. Clark's
B-17 Buzzed by
Soviet Planes
By Lynn Ilelnserllng
VIENNA, April 30. - (JP) - Two
soviet fighter planes buzzed Mark
W. Clark's personal plane today
making several swoops but not
firing their guns, and. Clark lm
mediately lodged a third protest
with the Russians.
The American commander in
Austria' was not aboard the plane,
Flying Fortress, at the time.
Las week Clark protested the fir
ing upon two C-47 transports by
Russian fighters. Marshal Ivan S
Konev, soviet commander in Aus
tria, assured Clark that every step
would be taken to prevent further
attacks on U S. planes over Aus
tria.
Clark's plane was being flown
from Vienna to Linz by Brig. Gen
Ralph A. Snavely, commander of
the air division of 'American for
ces in Austria, when the Russians
made their runs at the plane.
The radioed report said the Bus
sians buzzed tne plane tnree
times.
Truce Seen in
China Struirirle
CO
NANKL5LC. April 30.-(4-A
truce in China s fratricidal strug
gle over Manchuria was foreseen
"within a few days" by a source
close to General Marshall with ar
rival - today of the five-star gen
eral for resumption of negotia
tions which got nowhere in
Chungking. j
The shift from the war-iime
capital to Nanking, capital ef
rebuilding China, seemed to have
cleared away the fog of gloom
that hung over Chungking Only
Monday.
There were predictions now
that the government and the com
munists would soon get together.
Multnomah County
Taxpayers League
Opposes Session
PORTLAND, April 30.-0P)-The
Multnomah County Taxpayers
League, asserting the school elec
tion issue here is being "greatly
enlarged to the public," wrote
Governor Snell today stating its
opposition to a proposed special
state legislative session.
"It would appear extraordinary
indeed to call upon legislators to
leave their usual work . . . at a
great personal loss in most in
stances, to enact any amendment
or law they could well have pre
sented to any one of the lsat five
legislatures," League President
jl. A. Dyer declared.
A federal bill passed by the
house and now before the senate
may provide funds to offset swol
len school costs the league offi
cial said
Morning, May 1, 1948
Wlkoirs
Glimpse of Valley Flax Lfinds
tew by airplane taking them ever
Congress May
Give Cupid Boost
WASHINGTON April 30-CT)
The state department and Sena
tor Russell (D-Ga) gave a boost
to wartime romances today.
Russell introduced a bill to
allow fiancees of American
servicemen to come? to the
United States to get married.
If they do not marry in three
months they will have to go
..back. , ,.., !
The bill was proposed, by the
state department.
Snell to Study
Proposal for
Extra Session
Gov. Earl Snell, before his de
parture yesterday for a trip to
southern Oregon, said he would
study carefully today a brief from
Portland school district stressing
necessity of a special legislative
session. The brief had not ar
rived before the governor's de
parture.
Governor Snell also Indicated
displeasure at the Inability of the
Multnomah county legislators to
agree on a program of restricted
procedure in event he calls the
legislature to consider the finan
cial difficulties of Portland
schools, brought on by the su
preme court's decision that the
Multnomah county elections reg
istrar cannot call a special elec
tion for a school tax vote.
The governor commented that
any state legislation on the hous
ing" situation would be impossible
within 20 days, the constitutional
length of a special legislative
session, particularly in view of
the fact that the federal govern
ment is now handling the hous
ing emergency through Its prori-
ty rights.
RENT CEILING RISE SOUGHT
WASHINGTON, April 30-()-
George M. Englar, president of
the National Apartment Owners
association, asked congress today
to order a 13 per cent increase in
rent ceilings.
Blast Wrecks Navy Destroyer
Escort, 4 Missing, 150 Injured
EARLE, N J., April 30.-OP)-A
series of three explosions follow
ed by fire wrecked a navy de
stroyer escort, the U. S. S. Solar,
while it was unloading ammuni
tion today at the navy's Earle de
pot pier in lower New York bay,
putting one officer and four en
listed men on the missing list and
injuring nearly ISO others.
Commander N. F. X. Banvard,
senior medical officer at the na
val ammunition depot dispensary
here, said 35 of the injured, five
of them in critical condition, were
in hospitals in this area. He said
they were distributed as follows:
naval ammunition depot dispen
sary, 23, one of them critical; Fort
Hancock hospital, Sandy Hook,
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seine ef the valley's flax lands
Arabs to Fight
Board Move to
Open Palestine
WASHINGTON, Aprn SO.-UT)-An
official British-United States
committee of inquiry on Palestine
recommended today that the gates
of the Holy Land be thrown open
immediately to 100.000 European
Jews homeless victims of axis
persecution.
In a 30,000 word report on Its
f o u r-m o n t h Investigation, the
committee went .firmly on. record
against makf Palestine either
Jewish or antArsb state, and said
that the government ultimately
established there "under Interna
tional guarantees' must protect
Christian, Jew and Moslem.
It railed for continuance of
Palestine under a mandate - - held
by Britain since 1922 - - "pending
the execution of a trusteeship
agreement under hie United Na
tions." JERUSALEM. April 30. - (A) -
Arab leaders declare tonight that
the British-A m e r I c a n inquiry
committee's report ofi Palestine
would plunge the Holy Land into
bitter strife land drive "the entire
middle east into the bosom of so
viet Itussia.l
The Arab office in a statement
id the report - - which recom
mends the immediate admittance
of 100,000 European Jews to Pal
estine - - "mst be resisted by lite
unanimous endeavor of the Arab
and oMslemi worlds."
Heir Born to
Swedish Throne
STOCKHOLM. April 30
Eighty-eight year old King Gus-
Uf rejoiced at the birth todsy
of a great grandson. Prince Carl
Gustaf, first! direct male heir to
the throne of Sweden to be bom
in 40 years j
A salute of 84 naval guns an
nounced the blrtn of (he new
prince this morning at Haga cas
tle to Princess Sibylla and
Prince Gustat Adolf. The couple
have four daughters.
eight, two of! them critical; Mon
mouth . Memorial; hospital. Long
Branch, one, critical; Fort Mon
mouth hospital, one, critical.
Banvard said next of kin of the
missing and injured had been no
tified by telegram.
A spokesman for the third na
val district headquarters In New
York said 130 persons had been
treated for bruises, lacerations or
shock at the sick bay at Earle and
that 109 of them, including 23 civ
ilians, were being held for obser
vation in a navy; office at Earle,
presumably to recover from shock.
The naval district spokesman
said a navy investigating board,
headed by Rear Admiral Paul F.
Foster, navy inspector general,
had begun a probe of the disaster.
Ha. 39
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Union to
Wrile Out
Proposal
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i By Kabert K. Gaagware
A Mi slant CHy JLiir, Th lUlnrrtn
, Slm'$ striking bus driven last
night agreed to lay their d.pute
with Oregon Motor Stages before
the Salem city council far f.nal
arbitratlen, and hopes re
throughout the city that the
month-old bus tleup will be un
tied by week's end. '
A union offer to staH buses
rolling again pending settlement
will be presented at ft p. ra. today
to the city council when Its ra
cial session, which opened yes
terday afternoon, reconvenes. A
spokesman for the bus firm is ex
pected to indicate whether Ore
gon Motor Stages will agree to
such srbitration.
allaa Feasibility
Slim possibility remained that
Veterans' ' Transit iatiun will
again be 1 considered j for icrm.
aion to operate a city; bus avrvUe,
for several aldermeit at yester
day's session openly ugxetel the
newly incorporated group, hkh
planned to lease or buy coopera
tively Oregon M4r Stages' Idle
buses, la a subterfuge fur com
pany strike breaking efforts.
T. S. Begum, Portland, aiaint-
ant business 'representative fr
Motor Coach Employes Local It'SS
which -includes the striking driv
ers and maintenance Men here, in
Eugene ami in Portland, enured
the city council yesterday that the
men would go back to work f e
S1.12'fc per hour batic pay perul
ing the final arbitration.
Taael Baggested
Later, the local members of the
union approved the plan suggest
ed by council that sn arbitration
panel include one Representative
each from the company; the un
ion and the council, whiih in ef
fect leaves the derision up to
council, union men indicated.
When the union called its atnka
April 3, the basic hourly
was 83 rents and the tequetted
increase was to 11-27. Attempts St '
settlement or at resumption of bus
service pending settlement have
failed in direct negotiation and In
negotiation with the aid of' feder
al conciliator and city representa
tives. ! , "
Higher Prices
Said Inevitable
ATLANTIC CITY, N. April
30 -(4")- The United States Cham
ber of Commerce, whose board kf
directors Has recommended abo
lition of the major powers of
OPA by next October, was told
today that a general rise in
prices for the next several years
was almost inevitable,
Harvard University Profer
Sumner II. Slkhter said in a
speech before 2000 delegstea to
the chamber's 34th annual meet
ing that the current sellers' mar
ket would keep labor unions in
a strong bargaining potltlon and,
that they would make large rew
wage demands next winter.
Success by the union woult
result in higher prices and stift
further wage demands, he said.
Schooln Join in
Famine Aid Move
Elementary and high stht 1
pupils in Oregon have joined irt
the movement to conserve !.. t,
fats and oils. The action was re
quested "oy Governor Lai I 5m ll
and Rex Putnam, atate superin
tendent of public Instruction,
based on a letter from Secretary
of Agriculture Clinton P. An
derson.
The acho! pupils will da trib
ute check lists covering compli
ance with the saving program in
the homes.
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