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mo crocs
lissimo Franco U a pain
In the neck to democratic nations.
He vU Mt up in a revolution
against the -republican govern-
it with the help of Mussolini
and HiOer,f while the western
nations withheld' help to the le
gitimate government under a
policy fnon-lntervention. Fran-
. co was friendly to his axis spon
sor? and hoped for their success.
Only his own and Spain's weak
position prevented him from ex
tending active aid to the axis.
It was anticipated that the down
fall of Mussolini nd Hitler would
be followed soon by that of Fran
co, but th generalissimo has
shown treat stick-to-It-iveness as
far as his Job goes, and now seems
snore closely glued to his seat
than for' some ftnonths past.
One thing which helps Franco
. is the fear of a communist suc
cession in Spain. This is -red"
herring across the path. Friends
of the present regime whisper
in : the ears of the Britsh and
American government that it
wouldn't do to kick , Franco out
because the Russian reds would
move in. Bight now, playing up
the. red menace pays, good divi
dends in London and Washington,
t The facts . hardly Justify the
fears because the g ovenunent-In-exile
is not a radical government,
and the communist influence in
Spain has been definitely a min
ority. The turn of the tide In Italy
and France indicates the' way
western Europe Js now leaning,
and Spain would follow along,
particulary If the western nations
moved, to help Spain get rid
. (Continued on Editorial Page)
Valley Project
Money Gels
House Okeh
; Word arrived from Washingt..
Tuesday that the house had ini
tially, approved $35,000,000 for
tho Willamette Valley project and
brouxht a comment of "that's
rjarvelous,"' from Douglas Mc-
ILsy, who has been chairman of
tho croiect committee since its
Inception It years ago --
-- Tho word came in a wire to the
Salem Clumber ; of Commerce
from Rep. Walter Norblad, who
said tho bouse took the action
while acting as a committee-of-tbe-wbole
and that the move
"virtually assured' passage qf the
cmnibus flood control bill when
the formal roll -call is made to
morrow. V. McKay said Tuesday the house
'action - made certain that the
project would go ahead, and that
other authorizations and alloca
tions should be assured when ad
ditional amounts -Were needed.
Stoppage Ends
Oil Vferfron
PORTLAND, Ore., June IB-VP)
Full-scale waterfront activity wax
. resumed here today after CIO
"marine cargo checkers and super
cargoes accepted employers word
that they would receive the wage
increase negotiated Friday night
in Washington.
CIO maritime unions - here re
fused to, return to work until the
checkers were assured that a pay
boost, specifically ordered for Cal
ifornia checkers, applied here also.
The checkers union accepted the
employers assurance at a meeting
. today, and the local committee for
maritime unity - reported its ap
proval late yesterday.
Venison on the Hoof
Tempts Mill City Folk
MILL cmr, June lS-(Special)
. Heat-hungry citizens have had
several mouth-watering views of
venison on the hoof recently. A
doe- recently wandered past the
Hilltop store and went through
the Lowell Cree yard on her way
back to the hills. A buck was seen
tn Charley Gentry's yard the
same day. Arby Johnson found a
deer feeding in his garden two
slays later.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
6f kWr'f
"Wet you expecting com
pony dtcuT
Genera
I l St ' T a
WASHINGTON. Jane 1S-UP)
A sport ef molten metal, start
ing at a speed ef nearly five
miles a second, may become la
time America's defense against
rockets or armored space shlps
packed with atomic bombs.
.The army supplied a. peek
at It today in the research and
planalag stages ef its develop
ment. The new weapon still
Is a long way from . reality, but
Mai. Gea. Everett S. Hushes,
chief of ordnance, says that la
a few years It may . replace the
ballets sad shells fighter pilots
vamped at enemy targets In the
last war.
The army figures the amas
iag weapon ef tomorrow will
Expenses for
Conventions
Worry Scott
A suggestion that state em
ployes and officials who attend
conventions and other affairs out
side the state pay half their own
expenses., as a means of reduc
ing such attendance, was made
Tuesday by State Treasurer Les
lie Scott, at a: board of. control
meeting. Other members did ' not
comment.
Scott's remark followed receipt
of a letter from Dr. G rover C.
Bellinger, head of the state tuber
culosis hospital here, asking per
mission to. send one of his phy
sicians to San Francisco to at
tend a medical convention. Dr.
Bellinger placed the state's cost
of the trip at $50 which he said
was approximately one half of
the total cost.
Under the existing laws offi
cials and employes attending con
ventions receive a specified al
lowance which,; in most cases,
covers their actual expenses.
The -board awarded a contract
for public liability and property
damage insurance, covering ap
proximately 2,300 state - owned
vehicles, to the Truck Insurance
company at an annual premium
of $15,657.89.
Employment of Dr. Morris K.
Caruthers as part-time physician
at the Oregon state penitentiary
was approved. He will receive
$100 a month.
Voters Adopt
$21,385 Levy
In West Salem
WEST SALEM. June 18-(Special)
-West Salem voters today ap
proved the 1946-47 city budget
providing a levy of $21,385, which
is in excess of the six per cent
limitation, by a vote of 48 to 3.
The budget provides for esti
mated expenditures of $51,560
which is offset by estimated re
ceipts, leaving the $21,385 to be
raised by taxation. The annual
taxpayers meeting was held June
3 when the budget was adopted
by the city council when no pro
tests from taxpayers were re
ceived. The greatly increased levy this
year was considered necessary by
the budget committee because of
great industrial expansion of the
West Salem area which now has
more persons employed than the
number listed in the 1940 cen
sus. Damsite Town
Name Offered
PORTLAND. June 18.-MP)-Col.
O. E.Walsh, district army engi
neer, saia loaay ne naa recom
mended that the temporary pro
ject town to be built at Detroit
dam on the north Santiam 'river
be named M on gold.
The name would honor the
memory of Claude C. Mongold,
who did preliminary surveying of
the dam site and was killed In
an automobile accident in April.
1943. The recommendation was
forwarded to Washington, D. C.
X PAPERS CUT SIZE
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 9-UP)-The
Arizona Republic and Phoe
nix Gazette, standard size daily
newspapers, today announced re
duction to tabloid size and adver
tising restrictions several days a
week because of newsprint short-
W
Strict Enforcement to Bolster
Sanitary Control of Livestock
The state department of agricul
ture has initiated a three-pronged
move toward better livestock san
itary control through more com
plete enforcement of laws cover
ing livestock auction sales stables,
peddjjer markets and bovine bru
cellosis (Bang's disease) and tu
berculosis, it was announced Tues
day by E. L. Peterson state agri
cultural director. .
After months of effort involving
study of legal opinions furnished
by the 'attorney general's office,
complete regulations under the
sales stable and Bang's disease
statutes have been prepared and
filed with the secretary of state
and are now effective, it was de
clared. Under the new policies, sales
stables will be required to meet
prescribed standards of sanitation
be operated something like; this:
An airplane, perhaps of fa ro
bot type, would launch a rocket
Radar or electronics w el a I d
guide thej rocket!' to its target.
As ft Beared the! objective, the
rocket weald spit oat a Jet ef
molten metal with an Initial
velocity of M,et feet a second.
- That speed - Is known o be
possible. 1 comparison, sound
saunters along at 1.1Z ffet a
second. ; ;j bullet ! travels f only
3,004 and a V-X gits ap to 9,000.
Ordnance, experts say a spurt
of liquid metal traveling so fast
could not be turned aside! that
It weald pierce the armor of
a plane carrying j aa A bomb
or knock oat an atomic rocket.
Swimming Pool
Hours Rejducefl
In Coining W4ek
i I I
. New hours for the Leslie and
dinger swimming pools wl be
from noon until 8 p.m. on week
days and fromil until 9 p.m. on
Sundays for about a week be
ginning today, Ton Drynan as
sistant director, said last nigbt.
Shorter hour a re! necessary be
cause three jof the life-guards are
gaing to Ben Bow Jn Washington
for a course in life saving, he said.
Suzanne Small, Al Dahleij and
David Putnam; ar making the
trip and in the interim guards at
Leslie will be 'Al Bellinger! and
Katie Copenhaver and at Ounger
Delores Hamilton and Janef Ro
gers. ; K I; j
Post Endorses
i .i '. i i- I
New Controls
Favoring Vets
Four; resolutions for presenta
tion to the state American Legion
convention in July were passed by
Salem post No. 136 Tuesday sight.
One resolution calls on the fed
eral government b tighten! the
controls on building materials so
that 50 per cent of materials, in
cluding household a p p 1 I a n c e a
would be set aside for veterans,
who would be required to present
their certificates in person.
Another asks that equal repre
sentation for veterans be had on
the state and Ideal apprenticeship
councils with labor and manage
ment. A third asks that the maxi
mum state loan for veterans' arms
and houses . be increased from
$3000 to $6000 and the fourth that
the appraisals on these loans be
made by the state department of
veterans affairs Instead of by the
state land board as:, at present
A motion was passed to draw
up another resolution asking' that
labor unions be made accountable
for their funds. ; jj
War lciietaiiy
s-ey
t
WASHINGTON, June uiup)
President Truman got a pledge of
wholehearted ; support" of his
army-navy merger plan from Sec
retary of Wat Patterson today but
a parallel expression from Secre
tary of the ; Navy Forres tal' was
missing. ! ;
Navy officials have made no
comment since the president laid
down, his specific recommendations
Saturday, although Mr. Truman
said at that time that he had been
assured of .the support of both
army and navy hends. 5
The - president's plan calif for
a single secretary of defense In
the cabinet, with subordinate sec
retaries for' the? array, navy3 and
air forces not of cabinet rank.
26 Linn County
Districts Unite
LEBANON. Ore., June lt.Hffi)-
Twenty-six Linn county school
districts were merged today to
form the new Lebanon union high
school 'district t with an assessed
valuation of over $6,000,000.1
The action Was- taken by the
county.district boundary board af
ter a public hearingi: at which no
verbal; or written opposition to
the proposal r was recorded. J
Temporary directors named to
serve until a June 29 election are
Dr. H. J. Wteelan, Lebanon; A. C
Ayers,! Lacomb; Harry Elkins,
Fairview; C M; Price, Crowfoot,
and Ivan Ayers,; Tennessee.
before being licensed. All cattle
moving through such establish
ments must have been tested for
Bang's disease - and j tuberculosis
and have a bealth certificate be
fore a I sales stable operator may
accept them on his j premises for
sale. Peddler markets and indi
viduals selling -cattle also 'must
furnish health certificates with
each animal Unless they are- sold
to licensed slaughterers. '
County veterinarians have been
appointed by the county courts
of most of the counties and test
ing for Bang's disease and tuber
culosis is progressing in a reason
ably satisfactory manner, Peter
son said. The department expects
to give further supervision' t$ this
program as additional personnel
become available for this work.
Snppoi
NINETY-SIXTH YEAH
7-
UN Plan
On Spain
NEW YORK, June 18-(P)-Sovi-et
Russia today vetoed a compro
mise plan supported by a nine
member majority of the United
Nations security council which
would have sent the Spanish ques
ticih .to the U.N. general assem
bly for decision by the entire 51
nations.
i It was the second veto in the
short United Nations history. Rus
sia has invoked. the ban in both
cases. The first veto was in Lon
don in the Levant case.
Gromyko Casts Vete
Andrei A. Gromyko. Soviet del
egate, grimly raised his hand when
the negative vote was asked and
the chairman announced the reso
lution had been vetoed. The
Netherlands abstained from voting-
1 Poland promptly demanded that
the council vote on its motion
submitted in April for a complete
and immediate break with Franco
Spain. But the chairman ruled
that the council was. not prepared
to discuss that proposition now
and adjourned., the meeting until
next Monday at 3 p m.
Case Probed One Month
' The Evatt resolution killed by
Russia provided that the security
council submit the findings of a
sub-committee, which investigat
ed the case for a month, to the
general assembly in September,
along with recommendations for
the assembly to call for a rupture
in relation with Spain or to take
such action as it might deem de
sirable. Gromyko told newsmen later
that the veto was not harmful to,
the United Nations but that in
action was.
The Russian throughout the extended-discussions
on the Spanish
case has insisted on an abrupt
arid immediate break by the entire
membership of the United Nations
With Spam because, he said, Fran
co is a proven menace to peace.
42 Unhurt as
Clipper Lands
After Trouble
1 NEW YORK. June 18. -Uf A
giant four-engined Pan-American
cflpper made an emergency land
ing on a field near Williamantic.
Conn., at 6:10 p. m. (EDT) today
little i more than an hour after
leaving La Guardia field on a
scheduled transatlantic flight.
1 Forty-two passengers includ
ing the British actor, Laurence
Olivier, and his wife, Vivien Leigh
-escaped injury. Pan - American
said. The Rev. James O'Conner,
Merrill, Ore., also was aboard.
- The plane radioed back to the
field a few minutes after takeoff
that engine trouble had developed
and it was returning to New York
Next word from the crew came
after the landing on Windham
field, near Williamantic.
' Capt. Leo Carroll of the Connec
ticut state police said that one
engine of the giant plane "fell
off while the plane was over the
town of Plainfield about SO miles
from Willimantic.
Schwelleiibach on
Alaska Vacation
I JUNEAU. Alaska, June 18 .-A)
-SecreUry of Labor Lewis B.
Srhwcllenbach was greeted here
today by Territorial Secretary
Lew Williams, Labor Commis
sioner Walter P. Sharp and Mrs.
Ernest Gruening, wife of the gov
ernor. s Schwellenbach conferred with
Sharp during the afternoon.
Schwellenbach and his wife, on
what they said was a vacation
trip, continued on the Princess
Louise toward Skagway.
Doolittle Flies Houston
To Chicago in 32 Hour
f CHICAGO, June 18 -0P-Jimmy
Doolittle flew a SO-passenger Chi
cago and Southern DC-4 from
Houston, Tex., nonstop to Chicago
today in three hours and 37 min
utes, cutting almost in half the
commercial airline time between
the two cities.
ftUSSIA NOW DE-MINED
LONDON, June 18. -VP)- The
Moscow radio said tonight Sapper
squads had completed the de-mining
of all Invaded Soviet territory,
neutralizing .. 70,000,000 mines
shells and bombs.
Weather
Max.
. SC
S2
M
60
Min.
Precip.
.M
.00
jSO
Sates
Portland
San Francisco
Chicago 60 S3 -
New York 6S
.Willamette river -I ft.
; FORECAST frm the US. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem): Clear
today and tonight except for a Jew ;
nign ciouas. iunex aa aec'ces.
(SO
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LVLJ
Above-Average
Yield Predicted
For Hop Yards
PORTLAND, June 18 -HP)-An
above-average: yield from Ore
gon's hop yards this season was
predicted today by the U. S.
department of; agriculture pro
duction and marketing adminis
tration, i
The monthly Hop Review said
the Oregon crop was making
"excellent" progress, despite
aphis in many yards and a scat-
L teriog of mildew.
i Trading remained at a stand
still, with most of the 1946 crop
under contract
Armed Bands
Attack British
In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM; June 18-P)-Pal
estine seethed tonight with armed
Jewish anger in continuing WaveJ
of violence which already has cost
a two-day toll f of 18 dead and
scores injured, j
In the wake of violent attacks
on River Jordan bridges and on
railway workshops in Haifa, an
armed band in Tel Aviv kidnaped
five British officers at the Doint
of tommyguns. One informant said
the officers apparently were be
ing held as hostages for two Jews
under sentence of death for raiding
a British army damp.
British patrols, some of which
used armored cars, moved through
the streets of Tel Aviv. Beginning
at 5 a.m. tomorrow a strict curfew
will be clamped on the predom
inantly Jewish seacoast city, the
British army announced.
Two British majors were shot
and seriously wounded in Jerusa
lem at a busy street corner by at
tackers who leaped from a taxicab,
fired several shots and escaped in
the same cab in heavy noontime
traffic.
The outbreaks followed an
nouncement last week by British
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
that Britain was "not prepared"
to place another army division in
Palestine, which; he said would be
necessary if the recommendation
for immigration of 100,000 refugee
Jews was carried out immediately.
Field Meeting
At Shav Today
A field meeting will be held at
7:80 tonight at the Vernon Jette
soil conservation farm a half mile
north of Shaw' on the Macleay
road.
A worn-out farm a few years
ago, the soil has been built up
with line, nitrogen, phosphate,
grass sod and legumes straw, W.
G. Nibler, Marion county agent,
said in announcing the field meet
ing there tonight.
Contour farming has been used
in building up the soil and in a
planned program of soil conser
vation. Demonstrations have been
held annually at the farm for the
last three years.:
Paper Plant Work
Starts in Taconia
TACOMA, June 18.-PV-Recon-
version operations tarted today
at the former Cascade Paper com
pany plant, purchased by 14 west
coast newspapers to augment their
supply of newsprint.
Tpe newspapers include the
Aberdeen World, Yakima Herald
Republic, Tacoma News Tribune,
Everett Herald, i Bellingham Her
ald and Daily Olympian in Wash
ington State; the Eugene Regis
ter-Guard in Oreson. and seven in
California. Production was esi-
mated 50 tons daily starting about
December I, wtih ultimate. caps-
city of 80 tons daliy.
Veterans Pension System Due
For Overibajil, Truman Told
WASHINGTON, June 18 -UP)
An overhauling; ef the veterans
pension system was recommended
tonight by a special presidential
committee and endorsed by Presi
dent Truman.
The committee, headed by Dr.
Harold W. Dodds, president of
Princeton university, found that
under the preseet policy the vet
eran "receives a 'premium, from
monetary standpoint, when his
disability is increased." It declar
ed that this "presents an almost
insurmountable psychological han
dicap to rehabilitation."
"The present method of financial
compensation needs careful re
evaluation," the; report continued,
"particularly in regard to the wis
dom of making; lump sum set
tlements in certain types of cases.
"Compensation; for service-con
nected disabilities must include
not only pensions but opportuni
OUNDID 1651
Tho Orocon Statesman. Salem. Ore.,
Ohio Train Wrecked
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CM. E TON, O- Jane ltWiTVVridespread wreckage was left wheal sn
Erie Railroad freight train era-bod threagli a small waahed-eet
bridge near. here. E. F. flleklaser, engineer ef the M-car traJa),
was killed. The Week derailed Z3 ears. (AT Wirt photo)
Big Storms Continue
Striking Midwest, East
By tho Aaaoclated Preaa
Scattered but damaging storms continued striking Tuesday as
heavy rains and cooler air overspread much of the midwest and
east in the wake of the season's first extended heat wave.
An electrical storm accompanied by rain and a 48-mile-an-hour
gale brought Baltimore .6 of an inch of precipitation in 13 minutes.
Housing Chief
Fears Break
In OPA Policy
WASHINGTON. June 18-(P-
Housing Administrator Wilson
Wyatt warned today that a
"breakdown" of price controls will
wreck the housing program.
And acting secretary of state
Dean Acheson declared that pro
visions in the pending OPA Dill
which' would alter government
controls on grain will endanger
exports for fsmine relief.
As these officials expressed
their concern. Senator Barkley
(D-Ky) called the senate and
house conference committee to
meet tomorrow to start work on
the final version of the OPA bill.
Retention of price ceilings on
bitter and pork was suggested as
a point to start bargaining. One
bey legislator sounded out repub
lican sentiment on keeping them
and eliminating on July 1 controls
on beef, lamb, poultry, eggs, and
all dairy products except butter.
i
Kmg Returning
With Oregon Aide
i
SEATTLE. June 18 JP) Sec
retary of Interior Krug left for
the east today with a new assis
tant, C. Glrard Davidson of Port
land, after hearing a nnai recom
mendation from Governor Wall-
gren for increased recreational fa
cilities In nauonai paras.
Krug and Davidson took a train
for Kansas City alter tne on
land man, 35-year-old Bonneville
power administration attorney.
was sworn in as new assistant sec-
retary of interior.
ties for re-education, retraining,
and rehabilitation."
The chief executive's observs
tions on the report were made In
a letter to Budget Director Har
old D. Smith directing him to
transmit it to the agencies con
cerned snd to see that other; rec
ommendations by the committee
are. put into effect as quickly as
possible.
These Include establishment of
internships in VA hospitals; ex
tension of the period of post-graduate
training which the VA ; pro
vides for its prefessional person
nel; organization of a Joint com
mittee of the veterans administra
tion, the army, navy and the pub
lic bealth service to draft a com
mon system of medical records and
disease nomenclature, and the im
provement of the medical librar
ies at veterans' hospitals with
books now surplus in army and
navy hospitals.
Wednesday. Juno 19. 1946
felled trees, stalled traffic and
blew in windows. Two
women
were cut by flying glass.
A similar storm lowered Ahe
temperature 16 degrees to 70 in
IS minutes at Philadelphia, Inter
rupting electric service snd trans
portation. Lightning struck sereral
homes, an electric transformer, a
tug moored in the Delaware river,
a hospital, and a trolley. No per
sons were -injured.
CloedbursU In Iowa
Cloudburst and torrential rains.
which ranged up to 83 Inches at
Bloomfield flootied southern Iowa
rivers' and creeks which bailed
over their banks and Inundated
home and farm lands. Firemen
used boats at Mystic, La , to res-
cue ' residents of the flat areas
from the high, waters of Cooper
creek.
Authorities moved swiftly Tues
day to cope with widespread de
struction and suffering left by a
tornado which swept through the
outskirts of Detroit and Windsor.
Ont, Monday night, killing 14
persons and injuring more than
200 others.
Pellce Prebe Wreckage
Police and volunteeis continued
to probe miles of wreckage to
determine if there were additional
victims. All the dead were in
Canada.
Two persons died in the Detroit
sres ss an aftermath of the twist
er. A woman drowned In Roches
ter, Minn., when a dam gave way
and flooded 2000 acres of low
lands. A power company lineman
was electrocuted.
Windsor today , was without
power and lights due to cutting
of the hydro-electric line from
Niagara Falls. Most factories were
closed and the hospital carried on
only with flashlights.
Two Hurt Slightly
In Plane Accident
PORTLAND, .June 18. -A- A
Condon hotel owner received pos
sible serious injuries and his
daughter was slightly hurt when a
light airplane overturned In a
forced landing on a hay field near
Portland today.
Deputy Sheriff Earl Son said
Ray M. Dukek, 31, suffered a cut
forehead and possible neck frac
ture. His daughter Patricia, 19,
who was piloting, received leg
cuts.
Officers En Route for
Trials In Germany
PARIS, June lMAVCol' J. W.
Durant and his wife, Wac Captain
Kathleen B. Nash Durant, arrived
today in a C-S4 transport plane
fro,m theZnited States, en route
to Frankfurt,. Germany, for their
courts martial in connectionwith
the Hesse Crownairfield tonight
and are expected to take off for
Frankfurt tomorrow morning.
POLIO CASE IN PORTLAND
PORTLAND, June 18-OP)- Port
land's third case of infsntile paral
ysis this year an eight-year-old
girl was reported by the city
health bureau today.
. , : . 1
No. 71
ecisrve
Vote Cast
By Radio
SoIoiih Ready to
AnnroveDraftiiiff
Of 18-Year-OId8
WASHINGTON, June IIW4V
front a ship in mld-Pj-lfic bound
for the atomic bomb U-l, Krp.
Andrews (H-NY) flahel an ap
parently decisive vole tonight f.r
drafting 1 8-year-old f again after
Oct.J.
Ills radio mesaage from the I.
S. S. Panamint breaks a 3-3 tie
among the house memlters of a
congressional ctwiference commit
tee, of whih le is a member. The
committee is now expected ta ap
prove Ihe plan for inducting 18
year-olds, barring unforeseen d .
veUpments. l j
This will i lrar (he wiy fr f.nal
agreement on the rfUp'lU! dijft
extension bill when the roifrer. e
corimlttce meets again on Thuri
day.
Andrews' message directed that
his proxy, be cast in favor of
compromise which the senate
members jof the committee pro
posed and on which his hnue
colleagues split. It provi let that
indentions of 18-yesr-oUs, r.r w
uvpended, may be reaumei after
Oct. 1 If the president certifies
they sre needed, although they
may erve o(ily in this country
unttl they ber4ne II.
The house had voted to exempt
teen-agers from the draft. Ttat
senate had voted to Induct thern.
In the confeirnee committee, t)
house con friers held out for tle
flat exemption, but senate con
ferees proposed the compromise to
permit IB-yealr-olds to be drafted
without Impoillant restrictins, i.d
18-year-olds Ito be drafted c.n-
ditionaUy.
Senators Ask
For Sliakc-up
Of High Court
WASHINGTON. June Il-lrW
! Congress was given form! uxs-
tfon today for a hak-un of th
disenion-tiddcn supreme court
and for an end to any appease
ment of Runala. , , j '
Senators Eastland .(D'Mtas) and
Bridges (Il-NII) proposed a retro
active const itutionai amendment
thai would limit to three the num
ber of supreme court Justices
president might name. They M
It would ( ompel Justices Dxigla,
Murphy, Jaiaaon and Iluttedg t
reliie. . I
Four memters of the h'ii f. r
elgn afftoiis committee, reoort.rg
on a two-months tour of Europe,
recommended "Immediate' aban
donment" of any appeasement
Runa and a "frank. acros-the
table" meeting as soon as poasitl
between President Truman and
Generalissimo Stalin. ,
The senate military committee,
unanimously rerommenJed pro
motion of Gen. Msik W. CI irk to
the peimanent rank of major gen
eral. Before the senate small buIr.ss
committer, Senator WiJey (H
Wis) contended a "worse scandal
than Teapot Dome" Is lnvflved In
the dUpftl of j surplus war gwts
by the war aaseta administration.
He said It was a "national dis
grace." i
4 Oregon Traffic
Men in Training
Four employes of the! traffic
division of the state highway com
mission have been sent to the Na
tional Institute For Traffic Train
ing now underway at Oregcn
State college, R. H. Baldock, state
highway - engineer, said Tuesday.
The are P. II. Miches I. Mark M.
Taylor, Richard N. Chase and
WSyne MiKeniie. I
KREISLER IMPRO VINO
NEW YORK June 18. ,n
rriU Kreisler. 71-year-old violin
ist who underwent an emergency -
appendectomy Sunday night, was
said tonight by his physician to be
"steadily Improving." His rdndl
tion had been termed critical fol
lowing the operation. ,
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