(o) CO) rui FOLD LnJ J Wf 1 mp mod President Truman says be has not yet received the Hobbs bill to end racketeering py i-oor croup, and will make his decision on the kill after It reaches him. Why he should not be ready promptly to aim the bill U something or mTSlenr because its content and purpose are very well known. The bill Is aimed at a specinc evti. ine ua of extortion and threats in in terferins! with commerce: It spe- fvrIl- nrotects the "rains" of labor in sue- laws as the Wag aer act and the Norris-LaGuard ta act. . The history of this bit of leg ialation is Interesting. Back in 1S33 the Copeland committee worked out a series or bins aimeo at the racketeering practices which had developed in the pre ceding decade. Rackets In liquor. ta labor, in employer groups weje easting legitimate business a huge urn; and the racketeers were pil ing up great fortunes from their . extortion. The easy money led to cans? rivalries and frequent kill tngs. One of the bills, which was passed la 1934, sougnt to stop ine goon tactics f certain labor on ions. By violence or threats of violence goons forced tribute rrom rvon-union workers or employers. Petrillo of course has worked his racket to more genteel style, and gotten away with It until a spe cial law was passed to clip his While the bill was pending in 1934 leaders of ATT. obtained an amendment which exempted "bona fide employes of bona fide employers' from its effect. The administration, being then, as now, very friendly to Continued on Editorial Paecl Board Favors Zone Change On State Street A - controversial petition for change of atone to permit esUb Ushment f a service station at the northwest corner of State and 14th streets won the approval of the city planning and sorting com mission last night and was passed m to city council for disposition. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Marcus, owner f the property Involved, told the commission she had made tenta tive arrangements with the Tex aco Corp. for conversion of the residential property, after having obtained the approve' of neigh bors and more than 10 per rent of property owners within 300 feet. After the original petition with sufficient signatures was filed. jissaHiiMii were sent to the commission by 22 property own ers, some of whom had reconsid ered their earlier approv al. Three property owners. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse A. Bar ham and Rodney Brown, who reside in the immed iate vicinity, told commissioners last night they feared the request -" ed changes would reduce property values, create a traffic hazard and nuisance and would be detrimen tal to Willamette university stu dents living In the neighborhood. Pi Beta Phi sorority. 1445 State at, had submitted a letter of pro test in which it was pointed out that the noise of service station rperations at the comer would study difficult (Additional details on page 4) 1,200 rfaonr Insullrtl In Salem This Year Some 100 new phones have been tnstailed In Salem and vicin ity this year and another 1,400 cure scheduled for Installation by October 1 will be put Into service during the winter. H. V. Collins, district manager here for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany, sa d Thursday. Strikes have delayed delivery not only af the 1.400 telephones but of other equipment, switchboard sections, etc., Collins said. Animzl Crackers By VC'AESEN GOOOCICH Vll kmv you know my grandmother was m custom mad tajf i aaaasaaassss' Key Man I ''v ; - , 1 i - r : WASHINGTON. J a e Vl-iJPY-Clark M. Clifford, a tail yeanc. lawyer-navy efftcer, sneved to day late the key administration peat af "special eeansel" to the arealdeat. a $ 1 2 . 1 1 t-a-year speech-writing, advisory poi Uea. CUfferd new Is his naval aide with the raak af eaptaia. (Af Wlrepheto.) British Ration Bread, Flour in .j 'Grave' Move LONDON. June 27-0VBnt- ain today ration 1 bread and flour effective July 21. cutting food to a point as low as at any time dur- ing the war, and bringing instant protest from nousewives. The long-dreaded step, evaded throughout six years of hostilities, j was announced1 to a glum houe of commons by Food Minister j would be a basic bread ration of nine ounces a day for adults, with less for children and more for mu tual workers. The bread ration will be a bout three ounces a week less than present average con sumption. But the British Housewives e a g u e, claiming thousands of members, immediately declared. "We are not going to take this ly ing down." Former Pr ime Minister Win ston Churchill told the house that This is one of the gravest an nouncements ever heard made in the house in the time of peace." V.fX. BREAD t'ONSl MPTION I NDEX BRITISH RATION WASHINGTON. June 27 iA') Agriculture depatlment officials h rv.w Hr.iuh rs.iia wi.1 bring bread and cere-l con- Bntih consumtion of erain nro-' ducts, a. well a, of Ceeetoble ! and potatoes, increased sharply during the war. reflecting the re duced supply of meats, eggs, fish and sugar. Farmers Ask OPA Bill Veto The National Farmer' Union is recommending a veto of the OPA extension bill in it prevent form, according to Ronald E. Jones, president of the Oregon Farmers' Union, who said he was thus advised by a wire, yesterday, from national headquarters. As it stands now, he said, the bill re moves all restrictions from bus iness, leaving price control effec tive only on agriculture "No bill at all would be prefer able to one that gives the manu facturer a free rem but continues tight control of farm products", the Oregon farm leader said. House Committee Formulates Social Security Law Revisions WASHINGTON. June 27 -Broad revisions of the social se- ' curity Law. including a 50 per cent booat In federal contributions for eedy aged and the blind, were approved today by the house ways t and means committee and set for , 7" , . . wnn conrs , Magnu.von ty-van;. yers l prompt houe and senate action refused to let the secuiity tax in- Pa). Robertson (R-Uyo) and The committee Noted 17 to 8 for "ease n wartime. I Morse (R-Ore). an increase in the public assistance ' program, which through the state- j federal matching system would 1 enable the needy to obtain $60 ' monthly relief against a present $40 top. With this new provision insert ed, the committee ordered intro duction of a bill embracing these other stipulations it already had agreed upon. 1. A 50 per rent increase in the old age and survivors Insurance tax January 1, from 1 per cent to 1.5 per cent against employes' pay and employers' payrolls. This tax on that date will jump auto matically to 2.5 against each if congress does not act. 2. Blanketing over 200,000 mari time workers under the unemploy ment compensation program of social security. 3. Inclusion of all veterans' families under the survivor insur ance provision for three years, without cost. NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 18 PAGES Tha Qragon Sfcxtaamcm. Atom Test July 1 May Be Last KWAJALEIN, Friday, June 28 -P-Aeril bombing of the tar get fleet at Bikini July 1 prob ably will be the last atomic bomb test, Maj. Gen. Anthony McAul jffe, ground forces representative, predicted today. H3 told newsmen he doubted that the United State would make any further experiments with atomic explosives If an interna tional accord to use the energy only for peaceful purp&iaes could be reached and he indicated that he thought it could be. Senator Guy Cordon (R-Ore), was one of a large array of army, navy and congressional observ ers who arrived here today aboard 11 planer. Setsmalegista Say Tresaer to Be Light PASADENA. Calif.. June 27-P) Seismologists on the west coast ex pect on noticeable disturbance of their instruments from the Bikini bomb test. Dr. Charles Rich- California Institute of Tech- logy said today. H disclosed that only minor tremors were registered here from the comparatively nearby New Mexico tests. Dr. Richter said it would prob ably be a week after the Biniki Hnn tfnr. anv rni.nya.nr. could be made, since anv recistra- tion is almost certain to be only on the more delicate seismographs. requiring careful study from Dho- , toeraDhic elates w r s s Tas V Jl 1 11 Off LHlltrt 111 Loot Taken By Burglar Theft of highly-prized exposed films picturing members of her family brought from Mrs. L. E. Hobbs, 2390 Hayden ave., Thurs day an appeal to the burglars In volved for return of the film. The film rolls were stolen l k. . i . . , W nau n ainea by prying a downstairs window. M tgT"T inff In ntv rvAlia rw a i.,, "rr .11 Investigating the crime Mrs. Hobbs sid the films in clude pictures of her deceased mother and of her children, two ni WFUiR) nnw Art. In milltnru . r . " ' . 7. fST ' nl ? l !?nd- ,!?. ,n .ur!n"ucy: , was ransacked. i On the same night, the home of j C. L. Roth. 578 N. 23rd st.. wan forcibly entered and ransacked, j but nothing was stolen, police j said. ! Commencement Speaker Honored Honorary degrees from Yale university. Wesleyan university and Allegheny college have been conferred during the past week upon Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. of New York City who will de liver the commencement address at Willamette university's 104th snnual exvrcises in the campus gymna&lum Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Bishop Oxnam, renowned world traveler, lecturer and author. Is at present bishop of the New York area Methodist church and .pre sident of the Federal Council of Churches In America. t, , . , . . j Repeal of a provision of the 4. 1943 revenue act whereby federal treasury guarantees the the solvency of the old sge and sur- vivors Insurance fund. This guar- i Devices To Record Atom Blast By Bewsrd Blakeslee ABOARD U S S. APPALACHI AN, June 27 -iJP)- Like catching the photo finish of a close race. ! a device will measure the speed ssv m v w. sv; M J v biti the atomic bomb explodes. It is one of a number of Ingenious de vices for recording effects of the st. The explosion is scheduled for Monday. July 1, Bikini time (Sun- ! day, June 30, eastern standard time), but It was learned today that unfavorable weather, if It continued into mid-August, might cause postponement of the first test until next year. I The shock wave, a wall of ! compressed air. start out from ' the bomb at a speed estimated at Espionage Trial . . - - ... . 0 SEATTLE, Jaae t7-NiealaI G. Kedia. Kasslaa naval Ueatenaat, hears the praseeatiaa apea its case la his esptonaae trial. Redln. la aal fra (faregreaad). sits at eaaacll table with Attorneys Irvin Gaed- (left) and Tracy F Griff 1b Redin's Lawyers Fail To Shake Engineer's Story SEATTLE, Jun 27-(yT)-Sixty-nine-year-old Herbert Kennedy, Seattle shipyard trial engineer, withstood a searching cross examina tion late today as the defense sought to shake his story that L.U JSi Anisi rzw-maimvinh RHin vraithful P,d 250 for ecrt. flala on Am" er,ca 5W mxJ ' dff lror ! der th U- S- owstone the l wiuirf mju tug. Intensive and detailed quizzing by Tracy Griffin, of defense coun sel employed by the soviet consul general, failed to confuse the ma jor details of the twice-told tale - - once in the government s open ing statement and again in the Scottish-born British subject's di rect evidence. The defense opened its first ma jor attack on the evidence against the chubby, 30-year-old Black sea fleet veteran after suffering a se ries of technical defeats on ob jections to testimony and docu mentary evidence tending to show I tha destroyer tender data was confidential and secret. Time after time. Judge Lloyd L. iJt. l. u:.,v. - finSkU- .Hmiti mnit of the . dance, including $250 In currency Kennedy testified Redin slipped him. Rejected were two offers of .. . . . . . . tesU fieri the FBI lurtusneo rum to ednevl arrested Red.n at Port- land last March before Kennedy had another opportunity to see . FHA Raises Loan Formula PORTLAND. Ore . June 27 -in -Limits for titie insured mortgage loans in the Oregon FHA district have been increased by the Fed eral Housing administration. State Director Folger Johnson said to day. Southwest Washington and all of Oregon except four eastern counties will be affected by the change. The new maximum mort gage amounts are: Two-bedroom single -family house with garage, $6,500 up from $5,400; three-bedroom single-family house with garage, $7,300. up from $5,400; two-family house, $11,300, up from $7,500; three family house. $14,200, up from $9500; four-family house, $18, 200, up from $12,000. Morse on Committee to Seek Navy School Site WASHINGTON, June 27 -OTV Senator McClellan (D-Ark) today was appointed chairman of a ,v.i jmmitt. which will visit the west coast this turn mer to study the best location fur a naval post-graduate schools, Other membeis are Senators possibly 1,500 miles an hour. It slows down rapidly, but In the Maps shewing the disposition f target ships and aircraft at the moment f the atomic bomb blast at Bikini Atoll are U be feod- ma page 7 ef today's Statesi first t it twist3 ftM and fai- tens all kinds of structures. Scientists want to know about this speed at all possible dis tances, but the shock wave is in visible except from the air, where it looks like a gigantic expanding soap bubble. To clock the blast in photo INDIO 1651 V Salem. Or.. Friday. June 28. (right). (AP Wire photo). Russian naval officer, ordered and Big 4 Agrees Greeks to Get Italian Isles PARIS, June 27-(P)-The "big four" foreign ministers agreed to day to give the strategic Italian owned Dodecanese islands to Greece, and the Tenda and Briga regions on the Franco-Italian border to France, an American In formant said tonight. U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes was so pleased over the progress made at the fruitful three-hour session that he said "I'll need a couple of minutes to catch my brenth and recover from the shock" a British source re ported. In today f sesMon Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov also ac cepted a United States proposal concerning Romanian assets in al lied countries and agreed with the other ministers to limit the Bul garian navy to 7,250 tons. No agreement was reported in the key issue of Trieste, freedom of navigation of the Danube, or other major issues at stake as the conference's self - imposed Friday deadline for work on the Italian and Balkan peace treaties neared. YW to Resume Report Meetings In order to stimulate interest in the YWCA building drive until the goal is reached, the executive committee has decided to resume report meetings. A report session will be held Monday noon at the Golden Phea sant restaurant. All division lead ers, captains, workers, and all others interested in seeing re sults of the drive are invited to attend the meeting. Sheep Flooding Salem Packers Lamb chops on the hoof were flooding into Salem shipping and killing plants this week, due to the imminent withdrawal of grow er subsidies. The Swift company shipping station at West Salem, since Mon day, has received 800 head and estimates its dispatch to Portland will exc-eetl 900 head for the week the largest weekly shipment in two years. Valley Pack, which has had an average recent kill of 500 a week, said that number probably would week. Subsidies on sheep end July 1. finish style, strings of explosives are set up, triggered so that the shock e'self will explode them. These explosions take place in side tubes filled with argon gas, which quickly quenches the flash so that despite the speed of the shock wave each flash is sep arate and distinct to the eye of the photo finish cameras. The effect is like exploding a string of firecrakers. Motion pic ture film records the flashes and times them. Scores of other instruments will try to beat the atomic punch by leaving a permanent record be fore they are destroyed. And many others not destroyed will remain in place to tell what happened to ther'larget ships. 1946 Price 5c No. 79 Reds Said Abusing U.N. Veto NEW YORK. June 27 -P)-Dr. Francisco Castillo Naiera. presi- Ndent of the United Nations secur ity council and foreign minister of Mexico, tonight described Rus sia s repeated negative votes on the Spanish question as "abuse of the veto." Castillo Najero, who exchanged sharp words with Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko at last night's stormy council session, told re porters that the Spanish case "did not really merit" Gromyko's con stant use of the veto. Opposes Veto "I have always opposed the veto power in essence," he said, "but I am particularly opposed to the abuse of the veto." Castillo Najera, who voted with Russia, France and Poland for a worldwide diplomatic break with the regime of Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco, declared that the ul timate results of last night's de bate are such that "it would not be strange if Franco, the man who stands accused, would interpret them in his favor." Meanwhile, a final showdown on the veto question loomed as the aftermath of Russia's triple use of the veto in a single session. May Air Issue Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, of Austra lia, long a staunch foe of the veto. was reported ready to ask a full airing on the whole Issue at the September meeting of the general assembly and perhaps to make an outright demand that it be killed. Migrant Help Asked to Visit Labor Office . Migrant farm workers needing housing are advised to go to the farm labor office at 361 Chemeke ta st, Harry Weinstein, Marion county farm labor council man ager, stated Thursday. If, after screening, a family receives favor able classification, they may ap ply at the Salem Airport to the Salem Agricultural Housing Colo ny for accomodations. There is housing only for those classified as legitimate migrant workers, as stipulated by the U. S. depart ment of agriculture. Twenty five to thirty domestic migrant families are now housed at the airport with 8 to 12 families arriving everyday. The former barrack buildings have been al tered for the present needs. Police Trail Escaped Cons The trail of three com lets who escaped from a state penitentiary work gang at the prison annex Tuesday apparently opened Thursday, but the trio remained at large last night. State police believe the car theft reported from Aumsville Tuesday night probably was the work of the escaped prisoners, for the Aumsville car, owned by Clif ford Willard, was found abandon ed on Highway 87 south of La pine Thursday and another car theft was reported from Bend yes terday. State police and other officers are checking all leads in their search for the convicts. The es capees are LaVerne F. Keller. Frederick. E. Cleveland and Alfred W. Strain, all young men who had been serving short sentences. LIQUIDATOR LIQUIDATED WASHINGTON. June 27 -A)-President Truman today signed an order terminating the office of director of liquidation, effective June 30, and accepting the resig nation of It. L. McKeever as its open rt Ing head. Army Dead, Missing Totals .410 For Five Counties in Mid-Valley Tive counties in the central Wil lamette valley (Marion, Linn, Yamhill, Polk and Benton) lost 410 army personnel, dead or still missing, In World War II, an offi cial war department announce ment said today. Multnomah county had 965 such casualties, Lane was second with 177, and Marion third with 163. Jackson, Klamath and Clack amas were next with 116, 113. and 111 respectively. Linn had 83, Yamhill 72, Benton 55 and Polk 37. The state total of - dead and missing was 2835, representing 0.92 per cent of the army's total dead and missing list of 308,978. The 2,835 also represented 3.69 per cent of all Oregon persons in the army during World War II, com pared with a national percentage of 2.98. Montana was the state Seonate Woie on ExtemiSDdDin) Mean-, EDefoatie Limited i WASHINGTON, June 28. ( Friday )-Pp?rhe tangle agreed at 12:10 a. m. (EST) this morning toflimit further debate on a bill to extend price controls to one! hour to each senator, abrubtly ending a one man filibuster by Senator O'Daniel (D-Tex). )JWWJ V W VAJM V . I. Jl tm MJ tv ;--: '.,. t - :.r- . 1 1 ' ' 1 K j 1 ';. M Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel more time to talk about the bill ment from O Daniel. O'Daniel, a former Texas flour salesman who campaigned for office with the slogan "pass the biscuits pappy," had held the floor since 3:52 p. m. yesterday - - a total of eight hours 18 minutes. Earlier Democratic Leader Bar kley (Ky) had circulated a debate limitation petition in an effort to break the filibuster. Before he started passing the ! talk limiting petition around, Bar klev had proposed also that O Daniel agree to limit debate to ! an hour for each senator, begin ning at midnight. 4 llv -' a4 k.a . .. v. . ing with some of his colleagues to . join him in the attempt t talk until existing law expired at mid- night Sunday, said he might be able to work something out with Barkley if he 'could have few .,.,- . ... ,v,- minutes to talk things over. The democratic leader then t u ,v,- floor after s scheduled short speech by Senator Thomas (D- Okla), who also opposes OPA. Senator Lucas (D-Ill)Twho had asked O Daniel previously if -the Texan was filibustering, squelch - ed that move with an objection. Resignedly, O'Daniel resumed talking in hoarse voice, "well, here we go again." Senate Group Adds to Relief Appropriation WASHINGTON, June 27 -UP) A $7,595,449,868 'war department appropriations bill largest peace- time allocation in the nation s t lorcemeni is invwvea, ine west history was approved today by j c a s 1 lumbermen's association the senate appropriations commit- contended today that OPA dam tee with a boost of $150,000,000, f suits against 40 western lum for relief in former enemy lands. ; Jf r companies were "ordered on That Increase was the biggest ! basis of a desperate policy of -r approved by the appropriations committee In adding $504,418,000 to the measure as it passed the house. The senate committee accepted the house figures of $375,000,000 for the army's atomic research" program. This constituted a boost of $175,000,000 over that recom mended by the budget bureau. House Bars Soviet Relief WASHINGTON. June 21-(JP) The house voted today to bar American relief through UNRRA to any nation censoring press ac counts of Its distribution mean ing Russia. "The time has come to quit ap peasing," declared Rep. Dirksen (R-Ill) who sponsored the provi sion. Despite administration opposi tion, the house adopted the amendment by a 154 to 53 stand ing (non-record) vote. It is sub ject to a record vote tomorrow when the house acts finally on the bill to which It was attached. The senate has yet to consider the bill. suffering the highest percentage casualties among its army person nel 4.53 and Maryland the low est 2.20. Only three of the nation's 3000 counties failed to record an army casualty. Of the national list of 308,978, more than 57 per cent were re corded as killed in action, 8.25 per cent died of wounds. Other cas ualties were not charged to com bat. The official lists for each coun ty were at considerable variance with lists kept by unofficial sour ces, such as The Statesman, be cause so many men enlisted from places other than their home towns and others were drafted from areas which were not their homes. The list announced by the war department does not include na val casualties. Immediately, on Majority Leader Ilark ley's motion, the senate receded until 11 a. m. (EST) today. The action came unexpect edly after O'Daniel had npo ken more than eight hours against the compromise bill, which the house previously approved and' which adminis tration leaders were attempt ing to speed to the Whit House. O'Daniel'a agreement to the de fa a t e limitation apparently as sured a vote today on the rrwaxu re with indications that it would be given senate approval. The bulky Texas senator ap peared to be ready to continue his long talkathon, in which he an nounced he had hoped to speak until the existing law expires at midnight Sunday. But a suggestion by Senator Hayden (D-Ariz) that he be given at a later hour won grudging agree D.CWahlberg Hit by Car on Portland Road J j D M Charle8 Wahlberg 52 c . reooVliH In , j'" ,,J? a ",1, Vl 7V V'f Salem General hospital, after be- , a ... , . t ',t,j j " near the Highland avenue inter- 1 section lasst night j El Wahlberg. who was crossm& the road on foot, was 'truck by a car driven by Miles ""'"f'ln Highland ave 10: Pf pavement ifs enKeJU drv RS3elb w noLbeJ. fol:ct L'e d:d J. the. Pn ur til he wa j Immediately in front of the car I Fl"1 6Ad CF V? ?.lnfr?1"' he had incurred head injuries, possibly a skull fracture, numer- Lous abrasions and possibly In ternal injuries. Lumbermen Lash at OPA SEATTLE, June 2 7-(VP) -Asserting "no question of honest, er.- intimidation.' The association's statement re plied to action of the price control-agency which yesterday filed suit against companies in Califor nia, Oregon, Washington and Ari zona, federal courts seeking a total of $9,043,530 in treble dam ages. The OPA alleged violatiort. of regulations had created "arti ficial lumber shortagees." The lumbermen's association declared OPA "has picked on a small; number of lumber concerns to "smear the whole industry." (Additional details on page 4.) Flood Damage to County Roads Totalled . Damages to county roads and bridges by the December flood, were an estimated $20,439, figures compiled by Roy Rice, county commissioner, show, the Wheat land Ferry market road suffered about $3,637.69 damages, the larg est reported. County road no. 944 had the second largest damages, amounting to $2,105.56. Damage to Wheatland ferry was reportedly $1,005.74. FHA BILL SENT TO TRUMAN WASHINGTON, June 27 -(5-The house approved and sent to the white house today a bill ex tending indefinitely the author ity of the federal housing admin istration to Insure mortgage on existing construction. Without tha legislation the authority would ex pire July 1. The Weather Max . 7J - SO Min. 4 91 Preeip. .SI .00 Salem Port land San Francisco Chicago New York 94 trace ss 64 Willamette river feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, tonight; few light ateow ers. Highest temperature 70 degree. Our Senators fl Won 32