) nn n rnn Proposed Treaties itiesman Would Cut Armies, tftoodqs Assure f Freedo POUNDBD 1651 4k SOTEOXOTEB I . 1 : 1 r Congressmen arc heading home arri aJready although the house rt-5-i .lutiun f.r adjournment is not effete vf uri!il Friday. It is farther fekrg with it. work than the er.c!e but the latter will not be for ben:nd :n winding up the 79th M-iK.r; Congress had hoped to c:o'jrr' earlier but the battle tur OPA caused delay. Members will be scurrying home with mingled emotions and rot Without anxiety over reactions of their coriftituents on the work cf tr.xs eftion. They will find cpi.ior.r riarply divided especial ly on such- a controversial subject OPA However that wan so bd!v cr&'iled that a rrwitx-r cmi JuMy hi position if he is at all Already five senators Imve been "oefeared in the primaries well at a number of rongremen, three in Oklahoma lat week and Corireiein- Mansfield of Texan. t,idet member of the hou and fhairrr.arr xf the river and har- tor corfdmitte wf reported trailing h:i opponent. So mem ber In district where politic la unsettled have cause for con rern. With the session cloned they will have the chance to meet the topie personally and campaign In their own behalf. One committee that will not sua texd Labors for the summer is the Mead, committee on war ex penditure It as too much busi nei in tight snd Its member have too much opportunity for national publicity to let their in vestigations drop. Senator Mead may be a candidate for governor c f New York and Senator Mitchell is a candidate in Washington (Continued on Editorial Page) Higher Prices In Foodstuffs, Clothes Seen WASHINGTON. July 30 -(A)-Covemmer.t officials tonight pre dicted higier price ceilings for canned vegetable, breakfast cereals, coffee and possibly bread and other Wkery product. Meanwhile OPA rolled out more X rice ir.crea5s on clothing and Lid tr.e grojrsdwork for still more larmer.t hikes perhaps as much at 15 to 2Q percent under term cf the new price control law. A a first step toward meeting t-ese term, the agency ha Bgreed t' increase cotton textile prices an average of 46 percent, an OPA r-keman said. Higher prices for rotum eiothmg will be based on tre in' reas. Officials who asked to remain ar:nmous siid the government ha yart about decided against !-' rt.ori f ubidies on coffee and three major canned vege table pea. ' corn and tomatoes. fn coffee, officials estimated t'.it with 'subsidies out of the picture retail ceilings would have t te jumped eight to 10 cents a p -u r d Reds Relea&e U.S. Officers BERLIN. Wasdnefday. July 31 W Ruj.an authorities today re leed Cipt. Harold Cobin of NV Vc-rk Ctfy and Lt. George W'yatt of Oklahoma City who had tar.is.hed July 4 on an unauthor ized trip into the soviet occupa tion zvrr Ms; Gen. Walter A. Keating, American commander in Berlin, aaid emphatically that the release Of the two officer? did not in ter, e any exchange of detainees. Mr? Cobir. arrived in Berlin w :th e ther American dependents arter her hu5bnd had been miss Jrjt for a week. She has maintain ed a fearful igil since then. Animal Crackers B, BARREN GOODRICH OK there's not much to Ull -I was twimming along by Bikini, minding my own business ..... NINETY-SIXTH YEAR Marines Hunt For Wounded PEIPTKG. July 31-(Wednesday) i-WT-ine rcipias surac a arri s-are headquarters aaaaaneed effl- rtally tedar that three marine bad been killed and It WMadcf In the ambashing ef a track rea ver by Chinese en Meaday. Fear were weanded serieaslr, eight slightly, earlier aaeffletal revert bad ladlcaled fear killed and If weanded. PE1P1NG. July aOHr-Tbrra hundred motorized VS. marina armed with howitzer spread through a cornfield battleground near Pelping today looking for an undetermined number of com rade missing; after a clash with Chinese communists in which four marines were killed and 19 .wounded. The heavily-armed patrol, sup ported by warp lanes, sped out of Tientsin Monday upon the first flashed word that 100-man truck convoy had been ambushed 33 miles southeast of Peiping and was out-numbered three to one. The relief forte did not arrive. however, until ; the last shot of the four-hour engagement had died away and the convoy had escaped from the danger zone In a storm of rifle fire from Chinese in the corn rows. Gen. Chou En -La I, head of the communist delegation In Nanking, asserted the clash resulted from marine provocation" and "the communists have absolutely no in tention of unleashing a conflict. He said the communists had been provoked by marine Intrusions in to their areas. Marine sources said the four dead had yet to be identified and that two of the 19 were wounded so badly they may die- They were checking their Jists to see how many others were unaccounted for. t Vet Bids in Army Surplus Sides Tested Proof that individual veterans may purchase goods set aside by the war assets administration for job lot sales wit be on exhibit shortly in the office of Col. George E. Sandy, state director of vet erans' affairs, Sandy believes. The "pink slips" which mean that he has purchased two of the 41.000 army sleeping bags the WAA had offered for sale in one lot are in Sandy's pocket today' "I warned them," Sandy said Tuesday with a grin, "that a sate to me meant they must sell to any other veteran. At $4.50 each, those new bags that cost Uncle Sam $32 apiece are good buy. And at that, they'll probably bring more than they would if the whole lot had been held for one bid. I'm to be notified when the first samples arrive in Port land from Hermiston and I'll pick up mine and bring them to Sa lem." Don Goode, a member of San dy's staff, will attempt to have his Legion post of World war II veterans qualified to purchase some of the bags to be resold to its members, Sandy said. The veterans' affairs director made his purchase after veterans had reported themselves unable to buy at war assets administra tion sales because goods were held In such large lots that only a well-established merchant with considerable cash could afford to Invest. State Sets Vacations for Vets; Flax Growers to Get Advance Returning veterans in state em ploy will be given two weeks va cation after three months of work, provided they were regular em ployes for six months prior to entering military s e r v i c e, the state board of control decided Tuesday. The board action followed re ceipt of a letter from H. C. Saal feld, Marion county veterans' ser vice officer, which aid- state em ployes "should not be penalized for answering: the call to arms. Members of the board agreed with Saalfeld's contention. Trie control board Tuesday al so approved an advance payment to new-crop flax growers of $30 a ton for the number 1 product, but said the payment was not to be regarded as Indicative of the final price. The $30 in recent years has equalled half the total price, but the latter figure has not been fixed for the 1946 crop. The state is to make an advance payment 10 PAGES Salem, BIKINI, July StvKAVNi ' - c - i I I f I v- It 1 Iff 1 , , i rt'r? pl - C - : , ' " F : ' j ill . . di ' VJl V I t -..aHafc- s,-.. ... " i-: r "l cr t . j ; , i USS Ilaghes, a flestreyer, beached at Eaya lsUad after the aaderwater ataoa besnb blast at Bikini. They were net allowed aboard because af radie acUrlty. Nate part af ha aging saper-straetare ta left ef center. Joint army navy task feree 1 phata rla nary radio to Saa Franctsee freani USSS AppaUchiaa. (AT Wirepbata) Solons Okeh 5-Year Bonds In Leave Pay WASHINGTON, July S0-iTV A "bottled-ln-bonds" terminal pay bill for servicemen and vet erans was agreed upon today by a senate house conference com mittee. The five-year bonds in which the major portion of the payments would be made are non-negotiable, but the committee which worked out the final form of the bill provided that they could be used for payments on government life insurance. An appropriation bill to provide $2,431,708,000 for GI furlough pay was passed by the house today and sent to the senate. The bill also provides an additional $26,000,- 000 for OPA. ; An estimated $2,400,000,000 would be paid to present and for mer service personnel in lieu of furlough time they were unable to take during service. Grants would be made on the basis of 2V days pay for each month of service since Sept 8, 1939, with a limit of 120 days. On next Sept 1 the carryover limit would drop to 60 days, i The conference agreement went back to senate and house for fi nal approval. An estimated 13, 000,000 veterans are expected to apply for the payments. Army Planes Due j Here Thursday Powerful army planes due over Salem in celebration of JArmy Air Forces Day Thursday will make their local appearance in mid-afternoon, according to word from March Field,; Calif., last night. Approximately 36 B29's, B25'a and B26's, escorted by i a squad ron of P51s land P80's and by a squadron of C46's, are to leave Sacramento at 1 p.m. and land at Seattle, their next stop, at 5:13 p.m.. Associated Press i reported from March field. i of $24 for number 2 flax, $14 for number 3. A proposal that four Infirmary type buildings be obtained from Camp Adair for use at Fairview home was tabled by board mem bers, but it was decided that in quiry be made as to the avail ability of a quonset hut for stor age purposes on the property. It was estimated the four Camp Adair buildings could be set up at Fairview far a total : of $5000. Three would have been used for employes (11 employes are now crowded elsewhere at Fari view and 33 others are declared needed now or in the near future), and one for storage. The board de cided, however, that such build ings would nipt be adequate erven as temporary substitutes for a Contemplated permanent building. All board ; members attended the session t Cov. Earl Snell, Secretary of State Robert S. Far rell. jr., and State Treasurer Leslie Scott Oregon, Wednesday Morning. Press Inspects Blasted Destroyer twtawa abaard a aaaail eatter eama alonxsida ' ta lnsaect the bamb-aaaaasred Radio, Concert Singer Visiting Home in Salem Lucile Cummlngs, noted and concert singer who recently com pleted a nine-weeks engagement as ! soloist in Radio City Music HalL New York, (a visiting at the Home or s ner parents, Mr. and Mrs, Arthur X. Cummlngs, touta 2. Miss Cummlngs U her for brief rest j before -leaving Sunday for San Francisco and Hollywood, where she will fill radio singing engagements. She then will re turn to New York. She has sung frequently on national radio networks and has appeared fin concerts and ora torios in the east. She formerly resided in Salem and studied voice here. Housing Area South of City Wins Approval Construction of eight houses in a new development in .24 acres of orchard land south of Salem will begin; within two weeks, it was stated last night by E. T. Reid, who is in charge of the de velopment for the local ' -ion Security Co. Reid received FHA approval from Portland for the project, under veterans" HH priorities in which war veterans get prefer ence when the houses are offered for sale, j Both one and one and a half story houses, which will sell for $7,000 to $8,200. will be built on the ridge in the Ewald avenue vicinity. The development which already has city water service, is being platted as South Village, Reid said. Dairy Seeks j Building Okeh j i Approval; of plans for a $72,583 garage and distribution and stor age building was asked by the Dairy Co-operative association in an application filed with the civil production administ ration! in Portland, TUesday. Specifications call for a paved parking area for trucks and the garage building to be used for servicing and maintaining the company's equipment. The other building is to be used in the or ganization's j feed distribution op erations and for storage spice. W. VV. Henry, Portland, manager said lart night. Both buildings are to be built in back of the present plant! at 2135 Fairgrounds road, he added. Another Salem application Tuesday was by George C. Weller. 949 Shipping st for a $32,000 warehouse. The application states that the building: is to be leased to the Starr Fruit Products com pany, 59S Mill st The Weather i Max, Min. Prectp. Salem i i 1 S .M Portland j 71 SO OO Kan iranctoco! SS so Mf c hicK ; 4 as .00 New York . . I S7 6S M Wltlarrx-tte liver -3.1 feet. FOHECAST from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem 1: Partly cloudy today and tonight with highest 7S UMIMM July 31, 1948 Fair Exhibits Readied for j Prize Money j By Lillie TL. Madsea i . gUff Wrner. Th SUUamSa Over 2,00 sUt fafr'primJtmi Hsts are being mulled over this week for the first time! since 1941 by prospective exhibitors and visitors. More than $50,000 in prizes is being offered, which is a 25 per cent increase ovef 1941 prize money in livestock and poultry as well as an appreciable increase in other agricultural de partments. Radical changes are noted in the' poultry division wherev five years ago. fancy birds held the attention. The show will be held again this year in the original poultry building and only utility and production birds will be en tered. This Is largely in keeping with the work of Oregon poultry- men during the war. There will be egg competition, and a non competitive display of d reused birds will be held, also for tbe first time. Because of the Increased popu larity of riding in Oregon,,: light horses are also entered in the livestock division this year. Honey, which has gained new prominence with the wartime shortage of sugar, will occupy a leading place in agricultural ex hibits. A special division has been reserved for foods made from honey. A number of former exhibitors have entered already for the' 1946 state fair, but entries are expected to come in heavily during the next three weks, officials said Tues day. Deadline for entry in most of the livestock divisions is Aus ust 20. Deadline for Flax j Contest Set Aug. 3 j MT. ANGEL. July 30-Smple of flax to be entered! in competi Uon for prizes offered for "best flax grown in 1946". must be in Flax Festival headquarters Aug ust 3, the committee in charge is reminding growers. The flax samples should be tied in four inch bundle and marked with the growers name and ad dress. All flax growers are eli gible. Prizes totaling $50 wil be given the top four growers as adjudged by Leo Demytt, state flax expert; Lester Bumning, man ager of St Paul Flax plant and Qua DeVos of Springfield. QUICKIES "Where's today's Statesman Want Ad page?" No. 106 Anderson Alleges Tay-OfT WASHINGTON, July 30.-0") Rep. Coffee (D-Wah) innMed Under oath today that a $2500 check for a defense contractor was a "campaign contribution." He added, in renponae to ques tions, that he had not listed it in either his income tax return Or election contribution report Appearing voluntarily before the senate war Investigating commit tee. Coffee sharply contradicted worn testimony two hours earlier by Kivlnd Arvierson, Tacoma, Wah . contractor, that he had paid the money in 1941 for "serv ice." Anderson testified that a "ver bal contract" on the payment was reached in 1941 in a conversation among himself. Coffee and Paul A. Olson, then the congressman's secretary, in a "lonesome narrow corridor beneath a winding stair case" near the house restaurant. Qoiet Barrelled He related that he had lunched with Coffee and Olson, and "one or the other of them suggested that we walk to the side where there is quietness, where people were not around, where we could talk." He said he followed them to the spot beneath the "wind ing staircase." The contractor testified he agreed to pay $2500 to have rep resentation in Washington. He told the committee that this appeared "gratifying to John" and quoted Coffee as saying that "if you do that, you can depend upon us to look after your Interests." Carree Differs Coffee's version differed. He de nied that he had lunched with An derson but said the contractor "buttonholed me" beneath the members' staircase leading from the house floor to the street floor. Coffee asserted that Anderson "grateful" over assistance lent him by himself and his secretary in obtaining a million dollar con tract to build a war department hospital, and for previous aid had offered him the contribution. Anderson testified earlier that there had been no reference or thought about a campaign contri bution in the conversation. Shot in Head, Man Visiting Woodburn Dies WOODBURN, July 30 James Cookston. 63, of Portland was found dead with a .22 bullet In his ! head this evening near the home of his daughter, Mr. Charles Yuranek, one and a half miles east of here. County Coroner L. E. Ba trick gave a verdict of suicide. State' police who investigated said Cookston had been visiting his daughter from Portland where he is an employe of Good Samari tan hospital and also had been under diabetic treatment for two years. Cookston had not indicated despondency to the family, police said. The daughter found his body near the Pudding river bank a short distance from the house when she went out to look for him, state police said. He appar ently had shot himself with a .22 rifle sometime between & and 6 p.m., lt was said. Nine other daughters and sons survive. The body was brought to Rin go mortuary here. HOUSE OKEIIS GAME BILL WASHINGTON. July 30(rp) The house passed today a bill au thorizing the interior department to cooperate with Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho in conserving fish and wildlife resources of the Columbia river basin. The meas ure now goes to the White House, Price Sc 20,000 British Troops Begin Hunt for Palestine Terrorists JERUSALEM. July SO ) twenty thouand British troops, ordered to "hoot to kill" viola tors, clamped a 22-hour-a-day curfew on Tel Aviv today and began a systematic street-bystreet hunt for terrori&ta responsi ble for recent outbreak of vio lence in the Holy Land. The entire population of 200, 000 in the modern all-Jewish city was under house arrest as the troops began their vast manhunt, unprecedented in the turbulent history of Palestine. Up to 3,000 arrests were expected. A high-ranking officer said the curfew would last three or four days while the troops hunted down members of Irgun Zvai Leu mi and the Stern gang, Jewish underground organizations, "and other wanted persons." , suddenly and took the residents Troops swept upon the city Foreign MiiiinterH Agreement to Be Considered at 21-Pouer PnrlW in Parin; Boundary CIkiiijich Detailed PARIS. July 30 (A') A master plan to strip Njaly ani r.uW axis satellites of military might. ifpaiations, reshuffle their frontiers and tequire them tf guarantee "fundamental freUim" wan diM lotted tonight with the publicta Uon) of proponed pence treaties drafted by the four-power fonetn minis- US. to Back r Small Nations, Byrnes States PARIS, July 80 -lAt Secretary 1 Italy 15,000 troops and 5 of State Byrne. Mrengthemng 000 miliary fiollee, cparad the voice of the m.,ll nation In 3 7" ,240,CK men-land the F-Airopean peace rrifereme, M'S.ooo trained fesefvlsU; tUrj oledred United States oo..rt lo. night for any change in the Hlg Four treaty draft wmght by a two-third vote of all 21 nation Hi declaration, plainly Mating the American position agaiot ar- bltrary rejection of tmalier n-, pared with pre-war 14100,000; ah tlom' recommendatirms for the f-' 150 planea. 000 inert ; mf nal trealy draft, came after the,'000 Ions, men; anti-air- powerful rules committee approv- j rrafl "tlilkf 5000 anen. ed the principle of complete pub- Finland- 34,000 troops, rom- licity for all conference delibera-I Pred vlln fortt o Ul r Han, 1300; navy 10,000 ton, I personnel Byrnes alo averted that thei4100; ,r rc eo United State never again would , mJ'. M - L. return to a policy of illation, and Dulgaila-Lj nd army SJ.tOo, declared "we do not want a peace ' compared with 70.00O. Antl-d'- of veneeance" that would nlant the seeds of future Wars." "The United Stales." Byrnes said, "will stand by it agreements in the (four-power) council. But if the conference should by a two- thirds vote of the government here represented make a contrary reco m me n d a t i o n , the United States will use its Influence to secure the adoption of that recom mendation by the council," Paul Henri Spaak rf Belgium was elected permanent chairman of the rules committee by a 13 to-7 vote after a protracted ar gument during which the soviet union supported vice-premier Ed ward Kardelj of Yugioslavia. Snell Crowns Queen, Opens Bean Festival STAYTON", July 3P Queen Naomi Morgan officially opened the Stayton Bean Festival tonight following her coronation by Gov. Earl Snell before a crowd of near ly 1000 people gathered at a spe cially built and decorated plat form in the center of the city. Gov. Snell spoke of the great future of the Santiam valley with the building of the Detroit dam. He was assisted by a guard of honor of 30 Salem Cherrians and County Judge Grant Murphy a master of ceremonies. Little Hich ard Brown acted as crown bearer for the ceremonies. Other junior attendants were: Margaret Heat er, Janet Clark, Sharon Brown, Janice Kreitzer and Denny Frank. Princesses and their escorts were: Betty Kinrer Lyons, Phil Schnell; Marilyn Schrunk, Scio, E. Burr Miller; Mary Ely, Stayton, John Meyers; Doris McCoy, Mar ion, Lloyd Demarest; Mavis Mundt. Mill City. Fred' Cars tensen. and Joy Kiersey, Wert Stayton, and Hal Randall. Events of the festival continue through Saturday night with an outdoor dance Wednesday night and the grand parade Saturday. Senate Approves Nourse Nomination WASHINGTON, July 30 -A)- The senate unanimously approved today President Truman nomi nation of Fxiwin G. Nourse to be chairman of the economic council set up by the federal employment act. The -senate also confirmed Pre sident Truman's nomination of Leon H. Keyserling. New York, and John Davidson Clark, Wyo ming, to be member of the coun- cil of economic advUens completely by rurpriie. Tiger tanks clanked and armored car. rattled through the street at dawn, followed by the methodi cal beat of hob-nailed boots a the soldier began the hunt. Suspects were routed from their beds and their homes and. clad in pajamas, housecoats and shorts, were rounded up In "company screening centers," where their identities were checked against lists furnished by Palestine police. Many were held for irregularities in their papers, or on suspicion of being underground members. Ma). Gen. A. J. 11 Cassel. commanding the operation, tald the search was Instigated because of outrages committed against the Palestine cmmunity In re cent months and added that "by hook or by crook we must find and detain these gangs." Lill them for IlLOO.OOO.OO irt ter. i ne tieaile wtu be roo sidered at the 21 -power peace! con' feience in Paris. Tieatie with Germany anJ Ja pan Mill not be considered iunt.f the allies deem those CO i ft tr lea ready for full self-cvernment I Armies WeatJ Be Ulped li 41 Military restriction, plsceij mi1 thuasis satellites riatl the armed for tee of tho nattona V the miturr role of lofat defense, under the following bmitatJAn' devoid -f submarine and Wm. poxed of 6700 ton nd tr '14 battleships, compared With 717,420 tons Including 130 submarine j air tore 350 planes. i , - Homania Army izt.non, rrm- i artillery low; navy im 3500 men; air force 90 planes, personnel 6200. : ! Hungary Army including fron- f ',TOl'nU"mircttXl flotilla es.000 men. compared w ith 700,000; air force 90 plane, man- J1 bv 50O- liege Raaarattaas Asked The reparations figure of it,. 000,0O0.00 was a minimum, and may be Increased. I; The total amount Italy must pay In addition to $100,000,000 to Rus sia, has not yet been determined. 1 Likewise, the cost which Bulgaria mut pay has not been decided. Hungary, Finland end) Romania each have been ateed I3('0, 000.000. The United Statrs reerv ed the right, however, to oppose the assessment in the case of in flation-ridden Hungary.! I ' Reshuffling of tlia map Cf Eur ope was one of the majer w.cir taking outlined, but prtpoaed ter ritorial changes did not approam in scope the land transfer ) in volved in the peace treaties, tt World War No 1. j I . The mot controversial, territor ial change before the present pear conference would establish Trieta as a free territory and give Yugo slavia "all the territory east, the Ime known as the French line", in Italy, and a group of Inlands Irs the AdriaUc. ! Greece was given the Diideran ese inlands and Franca was' award ed five thin slice of territory or the present Italian-French border. Axis Edict Nullified A 1940 axis edict awarding half of Romanian Traniylvartia n Hungary was nullified, arvl Xhm 12.OO0-su.uare mile territory re stored to Romania. A 1940 Soviet Romanian agreement by which Bessarabia and northern Biko vina was ceded to Russia was con firmed. The question of the Greek-Bulgarian border was left unde iced. The proposed Finnish treaty awarded Russia the Finnish prov ince of Petaamo. on tha (Arctie ocean, with Its Ice-free port cf Petsamo Each treaty contained clause) i rlausa trj.1ivld requiring respect for the i ual liberties of citizens The claue for Hungary, ft example, read: "Hungary shall take all (meas ure necessary to secure U all persons under Hungarian )uti.dic-' tion without distinction of rare, sex. language or religion, enjoy ment of human rights and of fun-! d mental freedom of rxprtsion,j of pres and publication, of relig ious worhip, of political opinion; and of public meeting." Another clause bound defeated! nations to "undertake not t per mit in the future existence and activities'' if fascist organizations. Reda ta Stay la 1 1 angary l The allies agreed to withdraw from all occupied countries under consideration, except Hungary, where Russia won permission to maintain troops to protect icm munitation lines to lhi Rijlan occupation rone of Austria. i The draft also looked Uiward : the (dmisiiin of the former en-j emle into the United Nationejj If the tieaties are conclude, the pieumbles said, allied powers; Willi ! he ahle to "support" applications ff)f Ullilet, N.tUmt rnemberh.p. (Additional details on page ?) LOGGERS' Al'GAE CITED j The district OPA announced to day that loggers in Isolated campa will now receive six pounds of sugar a momn inieai or tnree " 1 It Our Senators , Lost " j 1 ' : 4 4 4