Wred Vinson NommMed for Role of Supreme Court Chief Justice
J.IWY; Snyder Chosen
MSJQQS To Fill Cabinet Post
I U'tD I JjQCE Sullivan Upped in Navy Department
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WASHINGTON, June 6 -P)- Fried M. Vinson of Kentucky,
former congressman, judge and reconversion director and now
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The Oregon Skit mom, Salem, Oregon. Friday. June 7, 1948
Price Sc
No. II
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ttJ!S-,TriSiHr toto,
snotlisht. The ' smashing victory
of Gov. Earl Warren in California
in winning both republican and
- democratic nominations against a
- really strati contender in Attor
ney General Robert Kenny has
projected his name as a" possible
republican- candidate iot presi-
Hit in nua Hi chances' look ra-
, tber slim, however, except as al
possible compromise; because oth-1
i-er names are more closely iden ti
lt ed with the nomination: uewey,
i Staaeen, Vandenberg. B richer.
1 Also It, is recalled tnat warren
nomination.
s The weathervane of politics
: has been whirling like a dervish
dancer in Washington the past
two weeks- The Roosevelt-labor
dl;UAl knkan tin
TJTLa ZThlnhin
. - mMAmfA laKnr zurv-
Sort StSStenJoyed (e-
rent John Li- Lewis and Bill
liutcheson of the carpenters' un
ion). A veto of the Case hill will
not cure the wound. Truman's
reelection now seems Improbable
In fact, there is talkf that demo
cratic leaders will discourage him
from, being a candidate. II that
develops Secretary Byrnes might
: be the favored substitute.
The democratic-labor split will
probably result in the election of
.a - republican congress, in wis
postwar -period people will be
"voting against" rather man ior.
Democratic', congressmen are , iri
line of fire and may well be cas-
lialtie in the November count.
In Alabama the runoff primary
victory of Joe Folsom, war vet-
eran, over Lt. Gov. JEHis can hard-
It be set down as a uiu-i-au
victory. Rather it was a revolt
acainst the tight democratic ma -
chine . which has run Alabama
politics a long time. It is a fore-
cast of other internal shifts that
may liberalize the politics of the
deen south.
From here on through 1948 the
rolitical tempo 1 will ' accelerate.
Prospects look favorable for i
republican restoration. Will re
publicans be smart enough to pick
a man. who not only can win but
can give the country a sanely
constructive administration?
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Plans Gtelied
By State Board
, Preliminary plans for a $240,000
dormitory to house 100 cadet and
graduate nurses at Oregon state
hospital were approved Thursday
by the state board of control.
Architect Lyle Bartholomew ex
plained plans for the two-story
bncJc-Xaced building wmcn wiu 1
be sound-proofed and of consery- J
Iude a f S blSiau.
dry and recreation rooms. 1
Theaalso received a re-
" .T'ihad been speculating oyer the posts for weeks
Hospital
port from a committee recom- ut of the huge five-sided war oe
mending expenditure of $200,000 Partment headquarters after a
during the -next 12 months to luncheon given by the Secretary
equalize salaries of employes of pf War Patterson
state Institutions. This would put " Before they left, he said, be
the state budget's salaries and would show them his own office,
wages and account in the red by He made four, false tries at find
$250,000. i ' tot Then he grinned and ad-
The board failed to agree, and tnitted he was lost. ' ,
asked the committee to study the An unsung, unidentified major
question further. Members of the came to the rescue and piloted the
ittee are George' Aiken, I
state budget director; Roy Mills,
t director; Roy Mills,!
secretary of the board of control.
the board of control.
Ryan, coordinator of
and W. P.
Institutions.
Bullet Wound
T'" "V" a-1 I
XniUTCS XOUtn
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EILVZRTON. June6-(Special-
Robert Goodman. IS, son of the!
LSS renod eitl
John Geodmans, Is reported get
ting alone as well as could be ex
pected at a. hospital here alter a
bullet entered his left leg above
the knee, when be and his 17-year-old
brother, John, were rabbit
hunting east of Silverton. The
brother's JZ2 rifle Jammed and" in I Kochestw, N, Y., and me runner
trying to release it, the bullet was P award to Postmaster Thomas
discharged, ricocheting off a tree
to Robert s leg. Investigators said.
Animal Crackers
Bv'AJSEN GOODRICH
"Interesting hobby he
(cnldY nhipt inside ol halt
empty, whisky bottles."
toi.y to b. chief justice of the
In an action-packed news
l.
t V, 7,
FKED M. VINSON
Neaalnated far Chief Justice
The office of war mobilization
-: : -
1 X
" successor win oe nameu. n repiy 10 tjiwuim, an . iiuumii
dded reconversion problems It was set up to handle
Kent Milk
Price Rise in
Effect Today
Washington, June 0 -n
An office of price administration
spokesman said tonight milk price
. increases will become effective
tomorrow in all areas of the coun
try not covered by federal mar-
1 keting agreements.
PORTLAND, Or e , June 6 -(JP)
1 The milk Drice increase in west-
j ern Oregon and southwest Wash-
I ington, where a 4 cent boost was
I awarded April 1. will be Vi cent
a quart, OPA officials here re-
ported
It will bring the milk price to
15 cents a quart. Other increases
in this area will be 4 cent
quart on chocolate milk and H
cent per half pint of cream.
The district OPA said infor
mation on butter, cheese and
evaoorated milk Probably would
t Twi?tA In im fnr innniinm.
I ment of a price increase .Monday
mornina?. Dairy r- spokesmen here
said tb,e increases were expected
to bC- about 5 cents a pound on
cheese, 10 cents on butter and 35
Cents on a case of evaporated
tnilk.
Ike9 Gets Lost
In Pentagon
WASHINGTON, June
xhe boss got lost today in the
pentagon building.
LSlS5 anoTwom
nteered to guide a group of wom-
n ene writers and editors
group to the right door.
'
JJaiinegan ins
Rose Show Trophy
PORTLAND, Ore., June 6.-;P-
Postmaster-General Robert E.
Hannegan received a trophy in
the national air mail rose show
2
" .if ' ' 7 . 1
imles. of ficials announced today.
Portland postal employes spon
sored tbe show in cooBectieo with
the S8th annual rose festival now
underway here.
The sweepstakes prize went to
rVBaMMr PP n ' - uauey,
- Dy, wauonai t-uy, liii.
Tester, Doerfler
Two Democratic
Br Wendell Webb
Managing Editor, The Statesman -
The official state tabulation of
primary election votes today con
firmed previous count showing
that Douglas Yeater, Frank Doer
fler, W. W Chadwick and Paul
Hendricks are Marion county's re
publican nominees to the sta$e
house of representatives.
But it left a somewhat confus
ing picture as to democrats who
! might be on the ballot in opposi
tion at the general election m No
vember,
Two of the four possible dem
ocratic nominees were assured,
however - - Yeater and Doerfler.
They received 25 and 17 write-in
votes, respectively, on the dem
ocratic primary ballot.
Today's question - - who will be
the other two democratic nomin-
United State,.
conference, Mr. Truman also an
nounced two other nominations
to high posts:
1. To be secretary of the
treasury, John W. Snyder, now
director of . war mobilization
and reconversion.
2. To be . undersecretary of
the navy, John L. Sullivan, now
assistant secretary of the navy.
Mr. Truman drew a deep
breath and opened his news con
ference with staccato announce
ments of the three appointments.
He made his decision on Vin
son only an hour and a half earl
ier, he said, and his sudden dis
closure of all three nominations
at once startled the capital, which
and reconversion, which Snyder
Mindful of reported conflicting
views in the past between Snyder
and Chester Bowles, former price
administrator and now stabiliza
tion director, reporters also asked
whether Bowles now becomes the
top man in the stabilization set
up. Mr. Truman replied that
Bowles will continue in his pres
ent job as it is now functioning.
Snyder, a former St. Louis
banker, has been, one of the pres
ident's closest advisers on eco
nomic, labor and other matters.
His appointment as secretary of
the treasury now will give him
a seat in the cabinet.
Sullivan, now assistant secre
tary of the navy for air, will get
the post of undersecretary to
which Mr. Truman originally ap
pointed Edwin W. Pauley, Cali
fornia oil man; The controversy
over Pauley's nomination, during
which Harold L. Ickes quit as
secretary of the interior, led to
its withdrawal.
Oregon to Get
4 Carloads of
Grain for Feed
SPOKANE, June -(JP)- Nine
cars of whole oats, first of the
emergency shipments of grain be
ing sent from the midwest to
Oregon and Washington to relieve
a critical grain shortage, had been
diverted at Spokane today and
were on their way to eight points
where poultry feed supplies are
critically low.
C. P. Downen,' Washington state
director of the- production and
marketing administration, said
the allotment was -part of 500
cars of oats, barley and com and
one-fourth ; to one-half million
bushels of hominy feed which has
been promised Pacific northwest
poultry and livestock raisers. -
Oregon points sharing In the
shipment include Portland, two
cars; The Dalles, one, and Forest
Grove, one.
Railroad officials said "a day
or two would be required to get
the shipments from Spokane to
destination points.
Chain Itetters
Back Again
Chain letters ("copy this and
send it to five of your friends
it will bring you" handkerchiefs,
good luck. $500 or; whatever) are
once again flooding the mails and
in Salem are : being returned ' to
their senders .wherever possible,
Acting Postmaster Albert C.
Cragg said Thursday.
The letters are illegal and a
nuisance, even; when they carry
full postage and return addresses,
but when they are mailed with
1H -cents worth of postage they
are doubly-illegal and still more
trouble for' over worked postal
employes, Gragg said.
Win Both Party Nominations;
Candidates Are
on the November ballot, if
any?
The situation boiled down to
this:
John Steelhammer, present rep
resentative who finished Just be
hind the four new republican
nominees for that office, received
the highest number (27) of dem
ocratic write-in votes (the demo
crats had no formal candidates on
their primary ballot). But under
Oregon law he cannot accept the,
democratic nomination because he
failed to win in his own party.
Paul Hendricks, one of the four
republican nominees, and Lewis
Judson, who failed to win the re
publican nomination, each re
ceived 16 democratic write-ins. A
drawing win be held and if Hen
dricks wins, he will also become a
democratic nominee. If Judson
wins, he cannot accept the demo
cratic nomination because he did
CapitolHas Busy Day, Gen. Stilwell Confers
With Snell, Victoria Drill Team Parades
Canadian Girls
Anxious to See
Stores in UlS.
By Isabel Chllds R
branch
City Editor, The SUtesmaa
Enthusiastic as any Yankee
matron in a .British Columbia
dish department, 45 Unarming
young women of the i Victoria,
B. C, girls' drill team who visited
Salem on Thursday declared
themselves anxious to "see more
of your wonderful American
shops.
And it wasn t just the native
tact with which the uniformed
misses very apparently are en
dowed that caused them to clutch
eagerly Dorathea Steusloffs gift
of red roses. Miss Steusloff, Sa
lem Chamber of Commerce hos
pitality chairman, explained dur
ing the buffet luncheon the cham
ber directors gave the visitors
that blossoms on the tables came
from her rose garden and mat
when she went to Victoria she
always enjoyed especially the
gardens of that city. With her
sister, Mrs. G. F. Chambers, she
spent a busy IS minutes follow
ing the luncheon telling the girls
the name of each rose.
Most of these members of the
famous drill team, which has
represented Victoria in various
cities of the west, had not been
In the U. S. before the -war
years have "ctirtailed many acti
vi ties. Not the least of these,
they indicated,, is eating. l..Ua7
accustomed to seeing sugar on
the table, they drank their coffee
unsweetened, although there was
sugar in front of them. They were
especially impressed with the
sight of candy in drugstores, ex
plaining that they had seen none
for sale at home, since 1940
Perhaps one of the reasons pas
tures seem to the Canadians
greener on this side of the border
is the rain. But it couldn't keep
them from staging their colorful
and exacting performance in the
rotunda of the captol while many
Salem folk-watched. No word was
spoken by Capt. Norman Foster,
who trained, them, or by their
captain, Gladys Cook, but the
signals of the drummers were
Immediately obeyed. The girls,
who came south for the Portland
Rose festival, were greeted by
Gov. Earl Snell and expressed
their city's good wishes to him
and to Oregon.
Cavemen 'Invade9
Capitol Building
Clad in skins and wielding
knotted bludgeons, 20 cavemen
from Grants Pass Invaded the
statehouse Thursday afternoon-
bellowing appropriately as they
arrived. Two of the "cavemen"
were attractive "cavewomen.
They called at the governor's
office and attracted considerable
attention from the many visitors
and the statehouse office workers.
The cavemen are the Grants Pass
booster group which marches in
Portland's rore festival parade
today.
cost rr on kail ties
WASHINGTON, June $ -(JPl
OPA today announced higher
price ceilings for western pine and
Douglas fir railroad ties, effec
tive June 11.
Still in Doubt
not win In his own pai ty.
Therefore, .the democratic coun
ty central committee will have a
chance to nominate at least one,
and possibly two, to carry the par
ty's banner in the representatives'
race in November. And In any
event, under pregon law there
can be write-ins on the general
election ballot regardless of; party
action.
Disregarding write - ins; how
ever, Yeater and Doerfler appar
ently now can be adjudged elect
ed to the next session of the legis
lature. The final official count as made
known by David O'Hara, state el
ections bureau chief, showed the
following vote:
Yeater 4078. Doerfler 3765,
Chadwick 3413. Hendricks 3312.
Steelhammer 3177. H. R. (Farm
er) Jones 3167. Judson 3048, Ken
neth Brown 1657.
Gen. Joseph W. StilweU. Cth army
"Vinegar Joe" aa he genially greeted Got. Earl Saell la the tatter's
office Thersday (tep nbete). A few salMtes earlier the governor
had inspected the trim, smiling 45-asessber VleUria, B.C., girls'
drill tease en the steps of the oaplUl (lewer pic tare) and watched
them drill la the retanda. Beth phetes by Bill Scott, Statesman
staff photographer.
Truman Silent
On Case Bill
WASHINGTON. June f
President. Truman withheld deci
sion today on the Case union con
trol bill and put in another plug
for his own emergency strike
measure. i
The president told his news con
ference that reports be has decided
to veto thefCase bill are not true
that he is still analyzing it. . J
He said further that he still fa
vors his own emergency measure.
Responding to a question, : he said
be favors it In the form in which
the blouse passed It two hours af
ter he proposed it to the joint ses
sion of congress.
Evicted Woman
Back in Cabin
PORTLAND. June W;P)t-A fed
eral district court judge today
signed a temporary restraining
order to keep Ralph Sowers,
Portland, from evicting Mrs. Re
vetta Crecelius, mother of two air
corps veterans, from a cabin on
Sowers' land near Sherwood.
Sowers was ordered to appear
in court Monday at a hearing on
making the injunction permanent.
Mrs. Crecelius, who slept out
doors in the rain Tuesday night,
said two armed men refused to
let her enter the cabin. Her furni
ture had been moved to a ditch.
She has now moved back Into the
dwelling.
PRIORITIES EXHAUSTED
PORTLAND, June 6 -UP)- AH
HH building priorities for veter
ans' homes to be sold have been
exhausted in western Oregon,
the F11A reported today. The new
quota becomes available July 1.
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(
eemmander, belled his name of
Rods, Argentina to.
Trade Diplomats
LONDON, June 6 -VP)- Russia
and Argentina have established
diplomatic relations, the Moscow
radio announced tonight. The an
nouncement said:
The government of the USSR
and the government of the Ar
gentine republic, Inspired by the
high principles of collaboration
and understanding between peo
ples, declare that they have de
cided to establish from today com
plete diplomatic, consular and
trade relations."
Trainman Dies,
Eastern Oregon
LA GRANDE. Ore.. June -JP
A trainman was killed and 70
passengers were injured, most of
them slightly. In a head-on col
lision today between the Union
Pacific's westbound ''City of
Pprtland" streamliner and its
eastbound "Idahoan" at Hot Lake,
12 miles east of here.
Edward (Ned) Unger. 47. of
Pendleton, Ore., a brakeman, was
crushed to death as he rode the
tender of the "Idahoan"
Five passengers on the "City of
Portland" were taker to La
Grande and Grande Monde hospi
tals. !
Railroad officials began an im
mediate inquiry Into why the
Idahoan" failed to take a siding
to permit the "City of Portland"
to pass. ,
L. M. Zimmerle, La Grande, en
gineer of the leading helper en
gine on the eastbound train, told
a reporter:
"I suppose I'll be held respon
sible. I'm the guy who was run
'Vinegar Joe'
Talks of Guard
Reactivation
Trim, fit and a vigorous (-tampion
of compulsory military train
ing, "Vinegar Joe" Gen. Joseph
W. Stilwell was in Salem today- to
confer with Gov. Earl Snell about
the reactivation of the Oregon
national guard. ,
The general arrived by plane
Thursday noon from Fort Lewis
and plans to return this morning
to San Francisco, headquarters of
the 6th . army he commands. He
was guest last night at a dinner
given by Brig. Gen. Raymond Ol
son of the adjutant general's of
fice, as was his travelling com
panion, MaJ. Gen. Frank Merrill,
noted leader of "Merrill's Marau
ders."
Gets Aeqealated
General Stilwell, who said he
was in Salem to get Acquainted,
estimated the national guard
might be reactivated sometime
this summer. In stressing his
support of compulsto-y military
training, we general saiu men
should be trained to tke the best
possible care of themselves under
battle conditions, and pointed to
the loud objections raised near
the end of World war II when
men were sent overseas with but
17 weeks' training.
"A soft mart haf no place in a
Ne Comment, en Chlas
' The general had iTtrle comment
on the Chinese situation which
he knows first hand by virtue of
long service in the China-Burma
India theatre of war. He was the
hero of the Burmese retreat
through long miles of jungle, and
won fame for frankness early in
the war when he declared in ef
fect that his army "had hell beat
out of us."
General Stilwell and his aides
have been on a tour of the four
western states.
Locomotive
Smashes Gar
A Southern Pacific freight train
last evening smashed a stalled au
tomobile at the Tile read crossing
near the fairgrounds, but the car's
driver. Hazel Wilson, route 1,
Aumsville, had fled the car as the
train approached.
The woman told Investigating
police that she could not restart
her car, so she jumped out and
ran from the path of the oncom
ing freight. The accident occur
red shortly before 6 p. m. The
car, thrown against a'naarby tel
ephone pole when the train hit It,
was practically demolished, police
said.
Weather
Mas. Mln Pwlp,
ItlMI M S . X JSI
PortUad 4 M
San Francis . S7 40 Tra
Chicafo r S M
New York 71 M Tisee
WlllametU river J fret.
rORCCAST (from US. westMr bu
reau. McNary flatd. SaWml: Partly
cloudy today with a law Uht al -wtri
Hiffhost Utnpcrttur aa degree.
70 Injured in
Train Wreck
ning the train. However, If the
streamliner, had got here soon
enough, they would have got the
switch open."
He declined to elaborate.
The streamliner, out of Chicago,
was waiting on the mainline for
the eastbound train. At 3:08 am.
PST., with ! its brakes screaming,
the Idahoan crashed into the oth
er locomotive, newsmen Were
told.
Only the helper locomotive on
the eastbound train was badly
damaged. There was a service de
lay of about seven hours.
The Idahoan was running six
minutes late. ' The trains met
682.5 feet beyond the swltchpoint
where the Idahoan should have
entered the siding, said G. J. Mu
lick, general superintendent of
the road's northwest division.
The streamliner, standing still
with, brakes set, was pushed back
some 50 feet The speed of the
Idahoan was estimated at - 19
miles aii hour.
Retii
rn
i
Following
Meetings
WASHINGTON. Jane
At'l. seamen talked fraas ahJae
r the theesaads today an4
threatened te bealXlO snariUaae
alena te the peach ea a geaersl
shipping strike.
Twe official ef AFX. sailers aa.
lens said In New York a fall,
scale strike of 02,000 members
seemed certain, perhaps "right
away," perhaps within a week.
Just how that misht be acom
pllahed under the Kmith-ConnaU
ly labor act nd Its requirement
for a 30-day n tire of a strike wus
not Hear. In. the meantime, tie
AFL e.men straggled back ' up
the gangplanks after holding
meetings In the major salt wster
ports.
The government already Is
struggling In negotiations with un
ion officials and ship operators,
to head off a ' nation-wide CIO
maritime strike set for June IS.
Some labor experts said pflvaOiy
that the AFX. now seems bent on
seizing some of the attention the
CIO strike threat has commanded.
MembeTS of the AFX, Seafarers
International union and Its ifMU
ated Sailors union of the Pacif.e
quit work simultaneously today In
30-odd of the nation's chief mar
itime cities.
Uaaucreaafal
SEATTLE, June .-fT) -Secretary
of Labor Sthwellenbach sai4
today he had been unsuccessful in
attempts to bring AFL-maHtime
leaders and ship opera tars bg
ther on the went toast for control
negotiations an Jssus In today's
Istop ,woi a," porl denoavatra ttruu.
ine secretary said or neguua
tions being carried on at Wsh
Ington In attempts to avert the
threatened CIO maritime atrikA
aline IS that his negotiators fe t
there were prospects of ucct"tm
. Attending the International !a
bor organization's maritime con
ference, Schw llenbach UAi a
press conference of his Invitation
to Harry Lundeberg. San Francis-
co, head of the AFL Sailors un
ion of the Pacific, to enme V "
Wsshlngtpn and of Lundeuerg's
declining to do so.
Laadeberg MUtakea 1
"Mr. Lundeberg Is mistaken In
a statement attributed to turn that
I promised I would force Pad fie
coast operators to return to the
west coatt to rarry on negotia
tion,' the secretary aaid.
"I did promise him that I woult
ask the 1'atlfic roast operators '
representatives to return to the
Pacific coHft to negotiate,' but
far they" have declined to come.
I have no power to compel them
to do so."
Widow 79 to
Wed Boy 18
LOUISA, Ky.. June f -W) K
78-year-old widow and an 18
year-old boy hnve app led fr a
marriage license, Lawrence Cwin
ty Clerk W. II. Moore reported
today.
Moore said the applicants are
Mrs. Mattie Lyons Large and DeU
bert (Shorty) Sprouse, both ef
Gladys, IS mile west of here.
Mrs.' Large was quoted by
Moore as having espressed dis
approval of "new fangled law'
which require a three-day wait
ing period between the dates ol
application' and marriage.
Grave Diggers
Picket Cemetery t
FAIRVIEW, N. J., June -W
Twenty-one gravediggers at the
Falrview cemetery struck bxty
for a 12'4 cents hookjy Increase,
and four bodies scheduled f r
burial were placed In a m lino
leum pending settlement of tt.e
dispute.
The strikers, members of lal
907, funeral livery, chauffeurs and
helpers union (AFL), etatIUhel
picket lines at the two gates to
the cemetery and at the mauo
leum, and said there would be
no more burials there until the
dispute was settled.
Our Senators
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