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I7i!amcs Trap Victims in Hotel Tragedy ALL M0m m 51 51 T Mariti CHICAGO GmU m ipm AmH f restart la mUr, are trapped apper fleers M teagaea af flanac . level at the atari af a fire which sweat Um tewerlag- a tel. claiming jarla aeaae ZN. f AT Wire beta). M r hQj Our own Senator Wayne liana. atI convinced that hi chare of "ban actiivg". made against Presl dent Truman la correct, baa ask ed the senate to Investigate the Trcrnan-WhU-My-Johoston affair. 1X. wwuid hav "the senate call ta th railroad representative! the president advisers, and the people fa th fringe of th nego tiations who might know some- thin of th progress of aventa leading up to th president 'a ad dress to congress and th capitu lation of th railroads. Mors contends that th president knew the settlement was coming, and that th interruption of his rpeech for reading th news of te strike's ending was a phoney. Tha Whit House haa issued ' a statement denying th Morse aharce. While If orse's . request" was re ferred to th labor committee, of which be remains a member. It is very doubtful if it Is granted. After all. this vas but a collat eral and minor episode in the rce controversy which prevail ed In Washington May '24-29. The divinity that hedged a king still helps shield a president; and the senate will hardly conduct in in Testigation to test the president's veracity. j There is a much larger issue involved, and that Is, whether the president's administration of af fairs in this whole period of in uatnal reconversion has been wis. Ilia score to. date Is not favorable. Shortly after V-J day th president approved release of many of th controls which had helped to restrain inflationary forces. Then ha encouraged labor in its demands while blandly seeking to hold th price line. When th creeping paralysis '(-(Continued on editorial page) llormel Packing Head Dies in Los Angeles. ' : LOS ANCniS, Jane 5 -OV Ceorce A. Hormel. 15, founder of tt.a liormel Packing! Co., Austin, 2 "inn., died today at Good Samari tan hospital following a stroke yesterday at his Bel Air home. Animzl Crachcrs PrU'AX2NGOb0ClCH VWg my phon numbct man of, a woman iJjQLg a cJa-s. s: A af the I a Salle hotel la JtwiUwi v. (I CHICAGO -Gaesta at Chicago's LaSaBe betel snake dawn a fire es cape dartag early stages af a eaaflagratlea which killed nearly M asrseaa as M swept the dewatewa hostelry. Bettesa af the aiciar Is near the atreet level af th 2-tery stractare, (AP WlrephaU). 7r f. CHICAGO Sadies ef tare mnideaufled victims are sprawled la a LaaaJJ hate I eerrldar as flresaea heat threagh the fire -scarred CbJeage leap Tsaildlag. (AT WlrephaU). Attlee, Clrarchill Blast Russia For Ignoring 'Spirit of Potsdam' LONDON, June S-CTV-Wlnston. Churchill charged bluntly today that "the seeds of a new world war are being sown" In Soviet Influenced areas of eastern Eu rope, and Prime Minister Attlee declared Russia was ignoring "the spirit" of the Potsdam agree ments. Attlee, however, said the British should not "judge the present state of the. world wholly pessimistic ally,' 2nd cautioned against "the counsel of despair that would di vide Europe into two separate camps. Churchill warned that "it can not be in the interest of Russia to go on irritating the United States. lie said he marvelled that In the single year sine the war's Chleage, laeladlag a leap (raa wisdawi abevf street aearly three-scare lire aad la - v -:s- a I end, the Soviet government could "do themselves so much harm and chill so many friendships in the English-speaking world." Both Churchill and Attlee ad vocated a conference of the 21 belligerent nations if the "big four" were unable to agree on European peace treaties. Attlee, replying to Churchill in the second day of debate on for eign policy, ! said the misunder standing between Russia and the Western powers "is really the iron curtain it is a curtain between minds." He said Russia Insisted on lit eral and rigid Interpretation of the Potsdam agreement, denying all' flexibility to meet changing situations, i 'If NINETY -SDCTH YEAR 12 PAGES Tha Oregon Stataaman, Fire Toll Hits 58 in Chicago CHICAGO. June 5-()-A flash fire killed (8 persons (49 identi fied) and injured 200 others early today in the loop La Salle hotel, and safety, engineering and archi tectural experts sought to estab lish how the blaze started and why the flames spread so fast in the "strictly fireproof hostelry. Within a few minutes after flames were first discovered lick ing out from a dummy elevator door off the main lobby, the first three floors of the 22-story build ing were engulfed in fire. Giant Draft Blamed Patrons In the floors above opened their doors and windows to investigate the smoke and sound of fjre engines. This con certed move, firemen said, creat ed a giant draft from lop to bot tom of the 37 year .old hotel. sucking flames, smoke and pisses up elevator shafts. The hotel amanagement assert ed there was no delay, in notify ing the fire department and that "every precaution has been tak en. The mahagement added that investigation would show "panic and heavy' smoke caused more deaths and injury than actual fire." Investigating officials, after preliminary studies, were unable to fix the origin of the fire. One af City's Worst Fire All witnesses agreed, however. .that the blaze quickly raced out of control as hotel employes at tacked the flames with hand pump. Within minutes the main out side exits and stairway exits from the floors above were blocked by flames. Th fire started at 12:33 a.m. when most of the 1100 patrons had retired to their rooms. It was extinguished three hours later. It was the worst hotel blaze In Chicago's history and the most serious hotel tragedy In the ca tion Ifli more than 13 years. Nash-Sweet Jersey Sets Milking Mark A five-year-old Jersey cow from the Nash and Sweet dairy at Sixes in Curry county has established : the highest twice-a-day milking record for all breeds. This Is. the statement of Jack C. Nisbet. executive secretary of the American Jersey Cattle ctub which acknowledged the record completed 'April 15. Nash and Sweet have another dairy just Outside Salem which has 75 milking Jersey cows. All of their produce is sold as bottled milk in Salem and Coos Bay. The record cow, Josephus C. B. Lady Girl, produced 17.855 pounds of milk containing 1128 pounds of butterfat. This would amount to. 8d27 quarts of milk and. sold at retail in Salem, would bring $1249.78. The milk given Is five times as much as the average cow and more than her own weight. Lady Girl Is of Challenger breeding and her record makes her sixth among all Jersey 1000-pound cows re gardless of ' age or milking fre quency. County Agrees To Help With Airjfort Road Marion county court Wednes day agreed to a tentative arrange ment with the city to Improve the told incinerator road, with the view of making it the main en trance to the, city airport. The city has taken nq action. Under the plan the county would build two lanes to the air port and eventually would expand the road into an 80-foot four-lane highway, County Judge Grant Murphy ; stated. As the city owns all the land involved, there should be no right - of - way problems, Judge Murphy said. The county's share of the improvement would con sist of H-mile of road, and the city's share would be approxi mately the same. The annexation elections will affect both county and city shares of the project. BANKIIEAD IMPROVES WASHINGTON, June $-(JS)-Bethesda, Md., naval hospital re ported today "evidence of slight improvement" in the condition of 73-year-old ) Senator Bankhead (D-Ala), seriously ill after a stroke 12 days ago. OUNDBD 1651 ' Saflernru Bus Service Again ! Threatened Possibility' that Salem may again shortly be without city bus service loomed Wednesday as A. L. Schneider, president of Oregon Motor Stages, announced his company was ready to liqui date its $200,000 worth of hold ings here in the face of recent city council action. Maintaining that members of the council had literally "invit ed" C. B. Costa and William Nelson to establish a competing service operating over two of Oregon Motor Stages routes and that a committee report favor ing granting of a permit to the Costa-Nelson interests had been given to the council "without even granting us the courtesy of a hearing of the chance to pro tect our interests," Schneider said a re-consideration of the matter would be asked . . and a franchise. Hotel Telephone Operator Stands By, Dies in Fire CHICAGO, June 5-P)-A 44-year-old switchboard oper ator, though surrounded by smoke and flames which swept through the La Salle hotel ear ly today, calmly called room after room to notify guests of their danger. The first firemen to reach the phone room on the mezzanine floor found the operator, : Mrs. Julia Berry, dead at her poet. Prison Cuts Bread Ration To : One Slice One slice of bread per! meal will be the ration of convicts in the state penitentiary under the new flour quota for penal insti tutions announced Tuesday by federal agencies. Prison Warden George Alexander declared Wed nesday. In the past some prisoners have consumed as much as i -pound of bread a day, but if people out side the penitentiary can get along on curtailed supplies of bread ther Is no reason why .the in mates of the prison canhot cut down their bread rations," Alex ander averred.- The eight convicts who headed a 30-man demonstration at the penitentiary last Thursday be cause there was no bread on the table at the eventing meal , were stilt in solitary confinement, Al exander indicated. While the penitentiary has been able to secure for June ; 6600 pounds or' approximately one third of the flour ordinarily con sumed at the prison during a month, the ration for state hos pitals has been cut only 25 per cent and for other institutions 50 per cent!. Whether or not the ra tion will be available hadn't; been determined today. PORTLAND, June h-VPy-Thc Oregon state prison has been allo cated 58 sacks of flour to supple ment .supplies until and of this month, the department of agri culture office announced today. Woodburn Plant To Employ 1600 Approaching peak production In early fruits and vegetables, the Woodburn cannery plans to operate two shifts of 800 workers by Monday, Wilbert Verboor manager of the Birdseye-Snlder division of General Foods, re ported here Wednesday. The Woodburn plant is : now processing peas, strawberries, spinach and rhubarb, most of which is being frozen. Since Woodburn has a population of only 1900, It has been necessary to recruit workers from communi ties in the northern part of Mar lon county, Verboort said. ; APOLOGIZES FOR BOOING BUENOS AIRES, June liJPy The newspaper Larezon reported today that Foreign Minister Jue an Bramuglia apologized to US. Ambassador George S. Messer smith for booing apparently di rected at him during yesterday's inauguration of President Juan D. Peron. Weather Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago . Frecip. as as 7 SO So as New York Willamette rivr .4 ft. FORECAST (from U S S. weather bu reau. McNary field, Salem) : Partly cloudy today with a few scattered howers. Hufhest temperature 79 de grees. Solent. Oragoa. Thursday. June 6. If re-consideration and a hearing are not forthcoming, he indicated his company would waste little time in getting rid of the Salem investment, which, he said, is currently losing more than $1500 a month. The com pany operates now on a permit. Increased labor costs since the recent long strike and rising costs of parts have boosted op erating costs 23 per cent, while revenue including the one-cent fare raise has gone down 30 per cent, Schneider said. In recent weeks the company has Dut $115,000 worth of new equip ment into Salem, without any protection against suburban lines, which Schneider declared. pick up fares in as well as out of town. The new lines permit expressly states that it may serve city as well as rural rid ers. Bill to Extend Draft Passes Senate 69 to 8 WASHINGTON. June 5 -(JPy- The senate passed a draft exten sion bill today which would con tinue the act until May 15, 1947, permit 18 and 19-year-olds to be drafted again after this month, and raise the pay of enlisted men. The vote on final passage was 69 to 8. It came after the senate defeated, 63 to 14, a proposal that actual inductions be halted while the volunteer system got a further trial with the payof an army private raised from $50 to $75 " a month. The main features of the senate bill, which grants most of the administration's requests, are sub ject now to house action. That chamber voted an extension only to. Feb. 15 with a ban on teen age inductions, and approved pay increases in a separate measure. The senate and house, in seek ing to adjust their differences, will work against a July 1 dead line when the temporary draft extension expires. Truman Picks Sen, Austin for Stettinius9 Post WASHINGTON, June B-CSV Senator Warren R. Austin, life long Vermont republican, lawyer and advocate of international peace organization, was named by President Truman today to suc ceed Edward R. Stettinius, jr., as American representatives on the United Nations security council. Selection of the! 68-year-old senator from the ranks of the president's nominal party oppo sition gave a bi-partisan tone to Mr. Truman s foreign policy de velopment. The post pays $20,000 a year. nd the man who fills It has Im mediate responsibility for carry ing out in the council the devel opment of American foreign Doli- ky laid down by the president ana Secretary of State Byrnes. Austin's approval by the sen ate was considered assured. Offi cially the appointment will not become effective until January when his senatorial term runs out. Drugs Stolen In Local Store An unknown quantity of a vari ety, of such drugs as cocaine and morphine was stolen from the Market drug store, 480 Commer cial, In an early morning robbery Wednesday. City police on then- rounds at 2:55 a.m. discovered that the glass in the northeast door had been broken and removed, and that both entrance and exit had been made there. They called Claude Busick, Market proprietor, who asked that determination of loss be made by Druggist Carl WeUman. A fountain pen and a cigaret lighter apparently were the only items taken from ' the open stock of the store, but Well man said a considerable quantity of drugs issuable only on prescrip tion had been removed. LEGION TO HONOR 4 INDIANAPOLIS, June S -(JP) The national executive committee of the American Legion voted tonight to award the Legion's distinguished service medals to Cordell Hull, J. Edgar Hoover, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey and Bob Hope. STATE CANVASS SOON READY Virtually all counties have re ported their primary election re turns of the official state canvass of votes may be expected .later this week, David O'Hara, state elections bureau chief, said here Wednesday. 1946 Price 5c No. 60 Warren Now in Spotlight By the Associated Press By Harold D. Oliver Associated Press Political Reporters Gov. Earl Warren's unpreceden ted rehomination victory on both republican and democratic tickets in California today projected him into the circle of GOP prospects for the 1948 presidential nomina tion. (Picture on page ). Warren's capture of both nomi nations for another four-year term over democrat Attorney General Robert Kenny was hailed by his friends as a tribute to his "non partisan" administrattion and his personal vote-getting ability. Incomplete returns from New Mexico indicated that Senator Dennis Chavez had won demo cratic renomination there in a tor rid battle with Gov. John J. Dempsey. . In the New Mexican guberna torial contests, Thomas J. Mabry, former chief justice of the state supreme court, apparently had the democratic nomination, as did Ed Safford, former state GOP chairman, the republican. The CIO political action com mittee backed the winner of the Alabama democratic gubernator ial race, but in the losing column were- men it supported for Cali fornia governor, and for the house in the Alabama 9th and New Jer sey 10th districts. In other important senate con tests, Senator William F. Know land won renomination on the republican ticket in California. Will Rogers, jr. son of the late humorist, captured the democratic nomination over Knowland and Rep. Ellis E. Patterson bt Los Angeles. WidowEvicted, Sleeps Outsider At Sherwood PORTLAND, Ore., June 5-(JP) An OPA rent attorney said today court action will be taken against the new owner of a cabin-studio who without prior legal notice evicted a widow who slept out doors in the rain last night. Wilber S. Williams, chief en forcement attorney for the Port land district OPA, said the wom an, Mrs. Revetta Crecelius, route 4, Sherwood, reported two teen age sons of a prospective new tenant "kept her away from the cabin with a shotgun. Williams reported the woman s furniture had been dumped yes terday into a ditch beside a road and mat she slept amid her be longings, wrapped in blankets and with only a hammer for protec tion. - She was back in the house tonight after the OPA intercepted. The new owner Is Ralph Sauers, Portland. Mrs. Crecelius, known in Port land as a composer and verse writer, is the mother of two sons, Charles, 27. now at Willamette university and Ronald, 26, at Pa cific college. PRISONER-BEATER FINED BAD NAUHEIM, June 5 -UP)- A U.S. army private who testi fied he beat American soldier pris oners on orders from his superiors was convicted today by a general court marshal but drew the light est sentence A $60 fine yet met ed out in the Lichfield detention camp case. The soldier is PFC. William B. Norris of Mulga, Ala. Banking Committee Drafts Bill to Slash OPA Powers WASHINGTON, June 5 -(JP) A bill ripping great gaps in OPA's powers was approved by the sen ate banking committee tonight in defiance of Chester Bowles' warn ing that he would urge President Truman to veto it as a "mon strous thing." Under the measure, price con trol would be extended - until June 30, 1947, but with amend ments lifting controls from meat and dairy products, -preventing OPA from interfering with, nor mal markups of thousands of merchants, and making other sweeping changes in the stabili zation program. The committee did, however, delete the Wolcott amendment of the house, 'which provided that all producers, processors and dis tributors must be allowed cost plus Ma reasonable profit." As one of its final decisions, the committee adopted a provi sion contained in the OPA bill which the house has passed pro hibiting the price agency from Crisis Nearing By Sterling F. Green WASHINGTON, June 5 H-P)-AFL seaman stole a march on the CIO Maritime unions tonight by calling a work stoppage on all coasts tomorrow at 11 ajn (PST). The stoppage was described as. simultaneous "stop - work meet ings" by John Hawk, vice-president of the AFL Seafarers Inter national union in New York." Hawk said he could not. reveal" the purpose of the meetings. But earlier in San Francisco, Harry Lindeberg, president of the union, issued a statement saying the AFL seaman of the west coast were "ready to take drastic action" to get the Pacific shinowners home from Washington fo engage in collective bargaining with the AFL men. Critizes Schwellenback ' Lindeberg critized Secretary' of Labor Schwellenback for "detain ing the t-hipowners in Washing ton" where negotiations are go ing on -with a group of CIQ. Mari--time unions in efforts to avert a scheduled nation-wide CIO Maritime strike scheduled June 15. . . In tonight's session at the labor department, eastern ship opera tors rejected the latest offer of the CIO National Maritime union. It had been reported that - the union had proposed overtime pay after 44 hours a week on ships at sea. AFL More Unexpected The unexpected AFL entry In to the confuted Maritime crisis came shortly after President Tru man stepped anew into the pic ture with a call to the ship opera tors and CIO unions t? "buckle down and settle this matter through collective bargaining. Lindeberg is president of the AFL Seafarers International union and also the Affiliated Sail ors union of the Pacific. Together tne two groups claim to have 62,000 members. Lindeberg added that the "drastic action" ne referred to might mean stop-work meetings or a sirijce wiuun 24 nours. Chinese Truce To Be Signed At Noon Today NANKING, Thursday, Jiihe 6.-CP)-An agreement for a ' 15-day truce in the Manch'urian conflict was expected to be signed by General Marshall's committee of three at noon today, giving the special American envoy badly needed time to help settle the pro longed civil strife between Chi nese communist and government forces , A communist spokesman pre dicted the action. At the same time, a government spokesman said Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek would insist that General Marshall's power of arbitration be increased. .; The Manchurian truce, announ ced Wednesday after conferences between PresiMent Truman's spe cial envoy and leaders of the op posing factions, was to take effect today immediately after its for mal signature by Marshall's com mittee of three. GiW Drill Team. Of Victoria Here Following this noon's appeal a nee of the 45-member girls drir team from Victoria, B.C., in the sunken gardens In front of tha statehouse, the Salem chamber of commerce will entertain the young women, Capt. Norman Foster, their diretcor, and Mayor Percy George of Victoria at a buffet luncheon In the chamber floral room. - The girls came to Oregon for the Portland Rose festtivaL but are spending most of today in and around Salem. interfering with normal discount or markups of retailers an, wholesalers on "reconversion items' such as automobiles, re frigerators, washing machines and radios. The OPA has estimated that this amendment will raise tha price to consumers approximately -$500,000,000 a year, with, the boost on $1000 cars, for Instance, run ning about $88. The estimate, however, have been contested by senators favoring the amendment Our Senators Lost Double header 61 and