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mm TOSS EMMETS : I J Truman Handed Labor Anti-Racketeering Bill Spate's Shipping Reports Said 'Misleading9 The feed shortage k aa M ever. asserted E. L. Peterson, state agTicmltsu-e director. Frl tay, as he enarged that reports from the predaeUesi and mir keUag administration that feed Is mortal la to Oregon arc "mis leading sua false." Peter aaM be has beea to aeeoaat for only mvcb of feed SMvtng into have beea so nZiSTY-SXXTH TEAR 10 xpec the ending of the war would start falling off In their deposit. The government wag , carrying huge balances here to meet its bills for airplane construction, ship building and for the building of cage war potential for the war la the Pacific It was regarded as certain that, with the inevitable decline of government spending after victory' bank deposits out here would fall off. So fax: the' anticipated decline has not occurred. While the latest Teport of member banks in the twelfth federal reserve (Pacific coast) district showed a decrease cf $33,000,000 in .demand deposits over those of the preceding week, . tise total was snU ' $251,000,000 feigner" than a year ago. Savings ieposits actually Increased S5.0O0, C00 In the week, making the year's Increase $271,000,000. This reveals a remarkable capacity on this coast tor business to reconvert from war to a peace basis. Other trends are noted in this reserve district report. For ex ample, commercial, industrial and agricultural loans of member banks Increased $12,000,000 in the week and are up $196,000,000 for the year. Bank- holdings of gov ernment obligations showed a drop in the week of $70,000,000. The banks are letting their gov ernment holdings decline to have funds for lending to private bor- rowers. For the country as a whole, according to late reports, demand deposits have decreased $1,200, 000,000 In a year. Commercial, (Continued on editorialpage) Big 4 Talk of Trieste Issue PARIS, June 21-CTVThe four power foreign ministers confer ence took up again today the key ajuestion of Trieste, but adjourned discussion after two hours with out decision, an American inform ant amid. Two hours later, Soviet Foreign Minister F. M. Molotov, his dep uty Andrei Vuhinsky and Inter preter Vladimir Pavlov arrived at the American delegation .hotel for an intimate dinner with the Am erican delegation headed by Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes. The " dinner party In Byrnes private suite was noted as the probable scene of a frank face-to-face parley by two of the chief figures in the conference. r 1 - - Animal Craclccrs By WAJ8EN GOODRICH "Darling, I have something Sot the third finger of your left hand . . . by tht way, u hich u ur 1-fTF UtD QuOGjj a , ... 3 T " .yir o PeooDftiry Feedl SDucDirSage Uadl as Ever" few as to have beea of little or m effect. Peterson said. He said 1 be Is rem plaining again to the train branch of the federal department of sericulture. "All we hare had so far Is promises, Peterson con tinned. "The IT. 8. department of agri ealtare la deliberately confusing bothi the feed trade and prod Be ers so any direct relief may be avoided until new harvest Is available. The and part of the whole situation la that the government PAGES Hotel Blast in Dallas, Texas Kills Seven DALLAS, June 21 -P)- Seven were killed and 41 injured, five critically, in a flash explosion that ripped the basement of the down town 18-story, 700-room Baker hotel here today. Cause of the blast, which oc curred during installation of a new refrigeration unit in a sub basement room, was unknown. Firemen and salvage crews, work ing with air hammers and cranes, still dug into wreckage tonight, searching for possible .additional victoms. The Baker blast, the nation'; fourth major hotel disaster In 30 days, trembled downtown sky scrapers for blocks around. It was the worst explosion in Dallas' his tory. Investigative groups were sum moned by Fire Chief Penn to study the torn basement. Dam age will approximate $500,000, in surance officials estimated. There were screams of panic as employes and guests, some trapped in the basement, rushed from the hotel through lung-burning fumes and smoke. OPA Raises Price of Coal WASHINGTON, "June 21 -(K)-Soft coal price increases averag ing 40 H cents peri ton, possibly designed to be the first step to ward returning the government seized mines to private operation were authorized by OPA. The first-expressed operator re action, however, was that the raise would not cover higher produc tion costs brought about by wage increases and other concessions made to John L.. Lewis' United Mine Workers to end the 59-day mine strike. Sen. Cordon on Way to A-Test WASHINGTON. June 21 (JP) To the envy of their colleagues, at least ten congressmen besides the four officially invited by the administration are going to Bikini for the atomic bomb test. Some already are en route and the rest will leave by plane tomor row. They are going in the capa city of representatives of their committees. Included is Senator Cordon (R-Ore) of the special senate a tomic energy committee. SILVER RISE INCLUDED WASHINGTON, June 21-A boost in the price of silver from 74.11 to 90.3 cents an ounce on July 1 and to $1.29 two years lat er won approval of the senate to day as a part of the annual ap propriation bill for the treasury and post office departments. Nation's Meat Situation Worse Than Any Time During War' By the Associated Press A general nationwide shortage of meat "worse than at any time during the war" was reported last night by spokesmen for the meat packing industry. They said there were "no pros pects of the situation : improving in the near future." One asserted that "the consum ers supply of meat in legitimate channels throughout the nation Is lower than at any time in the country's history." Scores of packing planus have drastically curtailed operations because of Inability to purchase cattle under OPA compliance re strictions, they said. The shortage was reflected by nearly empty pens at large stock Itself holds wheat which eould be used to relieve the feed shertagea at least for poultry, and this without Jeopardising the famine relief export pro gram. "Secretary of Agriculture An derson, his undersecretary! Mr. Dodd, and President Truman have the foil ;! facta concerning this matter. Failure to act can only be Interpreted as paalttve action directed,: so far as we are concerned, directly at ear pro ducers. . POUNDBD 1651 Hi Oregon Statesman. Salem. Ore.. Saturday. June 22, 1946 Firms Wary off HigDi Oregon Real Estate Report Tells Latest Industries in Stale High real estate prices are keeping several large eastern firms from starting Oregon operations now, John W. Kelly, secretary of the state postwar planning commission, reported to Governor Earl SneU Friday. ' He said these firms are willing to wait for lower land prices. Kelly said the Henry J. Kaiser Charges Dismissed By Grand Jury Neither Victor Meier, Vic Mey ers nor Harry Opperman was in dicted on any charge by the Mar Ion county grand, jury this week as erroneously reported Friday morning. Charge! against the men were dismissed when found to be without basts. Summer Bows In With Storm In Washington The longest day of the year and the official beginning of summer found Salem enjoying warm weather in the morning but tend lag toward chilliness later in the day. The weather, bureau record ed a high of 73 degrees with temperature dropping to a cool 47, but no rain was registered. According to astronomical cal culation, summer arrived at 4:45 p.m. local time. Friday when the sun reaches the. point In its trav el farthest north of the equator. Elsewhere In the northwest, high winds and rainfall started fires and interrupted- power serv ice, according to ! the Associated Press. At Lewlsion, Idaho, .79 of an inch of rain fell in an hour and lightning blew out . genera tors in the power plant there and started a fire in the Clarkston, Wash, station across the Snake river. Mexican Workers Arrive in Salem About 50 Mexican agriculture workers from Calexlco arrived in Salem Friday afternoon, the first of several groups expected here. They moved into the former army barracks on the east side of the airport road, which have been fit ted as housing for agricultural workers under supervision of the department of agriculture. Another group of the Mexicans, who come here under contract to specific growers, is expected with in a few days. , RATS SPOIL FOOD STORES PORTLAND. June 21 -(7F)-RaU spoiled $11,113 worth of food in warehouses here last month, the city division of food and health sanitation reported. yards and at packing house plants. In Chicago, once the largest meat slaughtering center in the world, all packers reported slaughtering less than 4000 cattle In the first five days this week, compared to more than 20,000 head the same week last year. Armour and Company said it had not slaughtered a single beef animal this week. Swift butcher ed S3 head and Wilson slaughter ed 20. The hog situation was similar. Swift said It was able to buy only six hogs yesterday. Armour obtained 16 and Wilson 137. These packers said these purchases were their smallest ever recorded an Chicago. Feed Relief Cars Claimed En Route SPOKANE. Jane 21 -()- The Washington state prod action and marketing administration office reported late today that 19 more cars of relief feed were ready for ejalek delivery to poultry flocks la Oregon and Washing ton. Washington will geVTeur cars and Oregon 15. The PMA disclosed that six of malting barley to be as feed have left Ios An Interests are planning to develop a subdivision in Washington coun ty, using prefabricated houses made in California. 164 Feed Processers Kelly also reported that this season there will be 160 food pro cessing plants in operation In Ore gon, with fresh fruit and vegetable shipments totaling 35,350 cars. About 70,000 persons will be em ployed in harvesting the crops, and more than 25,000 In the pro cessing plants. He said $6,132,000 would b spent this year on new processing plants. Concrete Blocks Made In reporting on new industries. Kelly said the shortage of brick? and lumber has resulted In six concerns commencing the manu facture of concrete blocks. Other new firms Include a furniture plant at Winchester, Douglas county; three plants to make Ven etian bbnds in Coos county; sev eral plants to make home freezers; two companies to make home elec tric heaters; and other firms to make aluminum boats, plywood motor boats, caustic soda and chlorine, and frozen fish. Firecrackers Cause Fire SILVERTON, June 21-(Spe-cial)-The first firecracker-caused fire here since before the war, to day resulted in several hundred dollars' damage including the loss of a garage and a tool shed con taining carpenter's tools. Robert Reedes. set off the crack er which set fire to the garage, the fire spreading to the adjoin ing tool house, both belonging to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Koscoe Reedes. - The local fire department were able to save the Reedes' home. Dallas INT an Hangs 30 Minutes by Foot Before Rescue DALLAS, June 2l.-JP)-G. Brandli, owner of the Dallas Creamery, was recovering today from the shock of hanging upside down for a half hour with one foot caught in a creamery win dow. After checking a cooler on the roof lost night, he started to climb backVtrough the window. His foot missed the edge, but the oth er caught in a v-shaped aperture and kept him from falling. Boys passing through the alley finally heard his weak cries and. with the help of police, rescued him. v 'Invasion' Sends Residents Fleeing VANCOUVER, B. C. June 21. -(CP)-Residents of Kitsilano area took to the cellars tonight as 400 waterborne troops charged their way up the beach, cutting through barbed - wire entanglements, ac companied by the roar of heavy weapons and mortars. The army, rehearsing its part In forthcoming jubilee celebrations, had neglected to warn the resi dents ahead of time. YORK TOWN IN 'MOTH BALLS' SEATTLE, June 21 -(A3)- The carrier Yorktown, the famous "Fighting Lady," was placed in "moth balls" with the reserve fleet yesterday in a brief cere mony attended by 58 , charter members of the crew. geles for distribution in Oregon. Six more cars of the barley are being loaded at Vancouver. Wash., for delivery to Oregon feed dealers after Washington dealers declined to purchase the shipment at regular feed barley prices. Also, seven more ears of oats arrived In Spokane from the midwest Four will go to Wash' lngton and three to Oregon. The new shipments bring the total of emergency supplies di verted towards the northwest la recent days to 42 cars 17 for Washington and 25 for Oregon. Price 5c No. 74 Vets5 Colony Applications To Be Mailed Application blanks for veterans' houses in the project at 17th and Cross streets will be mailed out Monday to the 350 previous ap plicants for the units. Joe Hop kins, project manager, announced Friday. Hopkins said he expected that 24 units would be available about July 15 and that a committee had been set up to examine the ap plications and determine a prior ity order 'in which to rent the units. Total units in the project will be only 172 when construction is completed in September, he said, so the priority system was set up so that most needy cases would be taken care of first, bas ed on information returned on the application blanks. Hopkins added that it was his intention to set up a veterans' housing clearing center in his of fice to list all vacancies in Salem I houses and apartments so that suitable tenant may be sent to fill the vacancy. "This will require cooperation of both landlords and tenants." he said, "and this office mill pledge its fullest cooperation. Pauley Ends Inspection Trip TOKYO. June 21-CP)-Edwin W. Pauley, U.S. reparations com missioner, returned today from inspection trips into northern Ko rea and Manchuria. He recommended immediate transfer of steam power generat ing equipment to Manchuria, and announced receipt of permission to send a party into communist held sections of Manchuria to survey former Japanese property. Pauley said he told General Mac Arthur at a luncheon confer ence that the power equipment was needed at once in Manchuria to prevent disastrous flooding of the huge Fushin and 'Fushun coal mines. Colorful Proceioii Will Be Held Sunday in Mt. Angel Community MT. ANGEL, June 21, The col orful Corpus Christ! procession will be held Sunday, June 23. Solemn high mass will begin at 10 o'clock. The procession with the blessed sacrament will leave the church at the conclusion of the mass and proceed successively to the altars erected at the homes of Mrs. Leo Barr and A. A. Klinger and at the entrance of St. Mary's gymnasium, returning to the church for the fourth solemn benediction. The entire parish, augmented by the Mt Angel band and the St. Mary's choir, will bike part. DORIS McCOY CANDIDATE STAYTON. June 21. -Doris Mc Coy of Marion is the first candi- date for the bean festival, June 30 to August 3. The queen will be named at the queen's ball, July 27 at Forester hall. Weather Speeds Cherry Crop Approximately 120 Salem area cherry orchards, which had not been scheduled for picking until Monday, will begin harvesting this morning due to recent warm weather, the farm labor office an nounced Friday. With picker demand running far ahead of the supply many or chards will not get picked if more workers are not secured soon, the office said. About 1,000 pickers are needed this week and the of fice estimates that 3,000 will be needed Monday when the pick ing should be going full tilt Friday morning 82 cherry grow ers went away from the office Measure Opposed By Unions WASHINGTON June 21 -OF) The Hobbs bfll making unions subject to the anti-racketeering act sailed through the senate .to day and onto President Truman's desk despite bitter opposition from labor leaders. The bill would make it unlaw ful fur union members along with anyone else to hinder interstate commerce by "actual or threat ened force, or violence, or fear of injury, immediate or future." In his veto message June 11 the president wrote that he is "in full accord with the objectives' of the anti-racketeering section of the Case bill. He objected, however, that as it was embodied in the bill it omitted "from the original act the provision that it was not to be con trued so as to 'impair, diminish or in any man ner affect the rights of bona fide labor; organizations in lawfully carrying out the legitimate ob jects thereof." This specific language which the president quoted does not ap pear in the Hobbs bill as passed. But the measure does stipulate that "nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal, modify or affect" the Wagner labor re lations act, the railway labor act or the Norris-LaGuardia anti injunction act. UJS. Plan Keeps Nips Impotent For 25 Years WASHINGTON. June 21-0D- The united States (Today unveiled a plan for four victorious powers to keep Japan impotent for at least a quarter century but deep Rus sian silence rendered its fate un certain. The test of the treaty proposed to Britain, China and Russia was made public. Then at a news con ference acting secretary of state Dean Acheson said London and Chungking had reacted favorably but Russia had made no comment at all. A dispatch from London said the British foreign office warmly welcomed the plan In principle. Acheson left without direct an swer a question as to whether the plan for a four-power control commission had been discussed with Gen. Douglas MacArthur be fore it was drafted and submitted to the foreign governments. Un der the proposal, the United States would cut the other powers in on the Job of controlling Japan at the end of the present, full-scale occupation. Arnall Tells of Plot by Klan ATLANTA. June 21 P) Gov. Ellis Arnall said today that the federal bureau of investigation had uncovered a "well-organized plot" under which two members of the Ku Klux Klan would be "given the Job of taking rare of me " Arnall quoted an Atlanta FBI agent as saying the Oakhind city klavern of the klan here had de cided to Instigate the plot by hav ing the names of five klansmen dran by lots from each k Tavern, or chapter. "From these names," Arnall said, "the grand dragon is to draw two and the federal bureau of investigation advised me that these two, unknown io each other and to anyone else, except the grand dragon are to be given the Job of taking care of me." Flax Growers Meeting Set for Monday Night MT. ANGEL. June 21. -The an nual membership meeting of the Flax Growers association will be held at St. Mary's auditorium Monday, June 24, at 8 p. m. The annual report will be read and three direcUirs, will be elected each for three years. Directors whose terms expire are Fred Klein, Henry Torvend and Joe Oberslnner. with 264 pickers, while at least another 406 could have been used. Eleven growers left without a single picker. Out of the 264 pick ers who reported, 129 were men, 45 women and 90 were youths. Pickers who can supply thejr own transportation will be refer red to an orchard near their home the office said. Others will be provided with transportation if tbey come to the farm labor of fice. 361 Chemeketa st., by 7 o'clock any morning. The office phone number is 21663. State employees, who are inter ested in weekend picking lobs, should phone the office, Mrs. Gla Released (1 Mm NEW DELI ft. Ba tar day. Jnne . Crippling strikes and stUtarb ances In south India resulting In the death ef twe neraens pretested the arrest ef Jaw aharlal Nehra. (abeve) president-elect ef the all-India r ti er ess party, prler te a dip; h frem Kashmir, saying, he had been released. He mas arrested Tharsday for entering the state against the decree ef a district magistrate. State Highway Plans Delayed By Shortages Oregon's post war highway pro gram is being delayed by mate rials shortage, the state highway commission announced Friday. The program calls for spending $12,000,000 a year for three years, and $8,000,000 of the first year's contracts have been awarded. But contractors are slow to get started, because of shortages of cement, lumber and sleel. The commission said it is hard to get contractors to bid on bridges and other structures because the contractors don't- know what the lumber end steel will cost them. and they don't know when they can get delivery on It. Difficulty In hiring common la bor also is a factor In the con struction delay, One engineer on a public works job said "The men who should be doing plck-and-shovel work now think they should be executives." War Surplus Sale Planned At Camp Adair A sale of surplus commodities at Camp Adair is scheduled for August 28 according to informa tion received here from the war assets administration in Washing ton. DC. . This is one of the sales an nounced by the WAA so that pri ority purchasers, such as school districts would have ample time j to Inspect and purchase needed items Representative Walter Nor blad had complained to the WAA that school districts were having trouble in making suiplu pur chases. He has been notified that all goods in Otcgori will now be sold through the Portland re gional office. "The establishment of the site sales program will give Oregon state agencies and cltirns an early op'iortunity to avail them selves of surpluses in order tf their statutory priority rights," the WAA stated. Steamhoatmeirto Hold Picnic at Cliampocg CHAMPOF.G, June 21 Veteran steam boatmen of the west will hold their 21st annual picnic here Sunday, June "30. Flag-raUing ceremonies at 1 p m , with dedi cation by the Rev. E. A. Smith, will open the program. Other speakers Include W. M. Rartlett, Salem, and Frfd Lockley, Port land. Chairman of the event is Judge Fred W. Wilson of The Dalles. Memorial Service to Open Vet Encampment Memorial services at the First Methodist church Sunday night will open the four-day 38th an nual encampment of the Oregon department of United Spanish War Veterans and their auxiliary In Salem. Gov. Earl Shell will address the encampment Monday morn ing, when the first business ses sion is held. Officers are to be elected Wednesday. dys Turnbull, farm labor assistant said. Bing cherries being processed in local plants are showing cracks as the result of recent rains but Royal Ann cherries arc showing very little cracking, operators re port Cherry processing is expected to continue for another 30 days. The state pure food department haa checkers on hand at the re ceiving docks to watch for any worms. With cherry fruit fly con trol on a compulsory basis this year, it is hoped that the bulk of the crop may be saved. Major Cut Goes To Military Senate, House To Trade Kill For Final Aolc WASHINGTON. June 2!--Bills pioviding more than $13. 000.000,000 lo tun government agencies in tte. next fiscal year slid through the senate aul houe today kn a break of -the log-jam piled bfT ahead of the June 30 deadline. On voire votes, the senate so proved supply bills for the nsvy. , postof fice, slate, commerce sri Justice departments carrying total of mote than $,0fW.OOO,uM. All these measures return to the house f4r action on amendments. The house passed and sent to the senate the army's largest peace-time Sppropriatim in his tory $7.08 1. 034,700 without a major chanye of its appropria tions committee's recommenda tions The amount Is $!17,l72,7:t lelow budget estimates. Te Return te I lease The navy's $4,100,002,100 sup ply bill passed by the senate mutt go back to the house for action n a senate-add-d clause aimed at alleged idleness in navy yards and plants and on senate reduc tions of $38,708,900 from the houe-apprOved total. The navy bill still ertreeda the budget burrau's estimate of na-s vy needs by $334.6 10.000. t The senate added $152,842,000 to the total of spending by pass age of a bill providing fund f . r the state, commerce anJ Juttie departments 1 II raised agun to $19,000,000 the rontroyersi l al lowance asked by Secretary of State Hy rocs for radii broadratts to foreign countries. The bill gore back to the house for concurrent e rem this and other amendments. The house had nearly halved the broadcast, allowance to $10,000, 000 Billion te Air Cents The army bill carries $373.0oO. 000 for the army's atomic servlt e. $3.0 000 0O0 for army government and relief In cwciiplHI countries, and $1,199,600,000 fr the air forces. The bill is intended t flnar.ee an army estimated to have a. per sonnet of 1.070.OO0 officers ar.4 men on June 30, 1946. It carries funds for perma nent construction at base ntvr held in Alaska, the Mirlmnnf, the Philippine, llawsll and Ok I. nswa. Iloth the stale and justice ap propribtioiw bills, the army r.i the navy bills as well as a de ficiency appiopt iation blM, rrr tallied an amrnitmrnt providing that no monies shall be um ti psy any person who engages in strike against the government i State Pay Rise Boomenuigs In spite of the $10 a month sal ary lnctewe gi anted twi day a ago. state employes' net tMy mill im lra aftti July I, Floyd Query, prtKidrnt of the Oirgoti state em- plover M-itttion, stated Fiidsy, The teason is that the increase will .not coital the deductions whuh will lie made starting July 1 for the new state employes te (ii rment plun The deiluc tiona for men range -from $3 71 to 9 24 ier refit, ainl for women from 4 06 to 10 6 pr cent of their salaries, The amour t of deductions vary acrrijmg 14 age, with older emplvr pyir.g more Into the retirement fund. Navy DeelarcH Earl Kirseli Dead STAYTON. June 21. -.I") -Earl Lyden Kirsch, 20, aviation ord nanceman 3c. United States navy, repeated missing in action near Japan, May 18. 1913. has been officially declared dead by the navy c1eui tment, his parents Mr. and Mrs. I'aul K. Ktrsch, route 1, Salem, were nbtifted th.s week. " Kitsch left San Diego with a crew of eight on a Liberator bomler which went to Tinian as a unit of the patrol bombing squadron, 116. On May lit,' 1945. the bomber failed to return from a mission to Japan. Search was instituttd and no trace was found of either plane or crew members. Weallier Mas. 11 Mlit 41 Pree' p. Salrm , ... I'urlland M ! S4 trsr 4 " Usee Han FrtnciMo ... . . Crura a ......... N-w York Wlllarrvrtlp liver - t fVvt rOHr.CAKT irrwn US. v.-atlier bu reau. MrNaijr ft-Id. ,lilen. Partly c-loudy today and tonight, scattered Our Senators Won i