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aaormLcDLJ odd mm Japanese Count Dead In 60,000 sq. mi. Belt Courtesy Winners 382-396 174-506 331-353 T-366 112-959 332-295 35-924 73-313 207-794 379-059 1947 number Prizes await drivers of these cars at The Oregon States man office. INDBO 1651 NINETY -SIXTH YEAR 24 PAGES Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning. Dtctmbet 22. 1948 Price 5c No. 230 S33JJQ3 wd am Venezuela had an abortive revo lution a few days ago. It follow ed the usual pattern in which the 1 J n...ft.Aj-l c-,rri ot-mv Clin 1"uc" uiumc. oort. but it failed when the" bulk f th armv remained loval to the regime. The government headed ( summer, succumbed at 7 a.m. to by Pres. Romolo Betancourt was a stomach ailment. An attending established after a revolution in physician aaid Talmadge was late 1945 and rode out this threat, j aware since Tuesday that he was Financially Venezuela is one i dying, and voiced anxiety con of the strongest of the South! cerning the political future of American republics. Thanks to its income from oil royalties and tax es its treasury is well filled at all times. The country has no ex ternal debt and its annual budget is balanced. This condition is quite in contrast with the situation dur- ine Grover Cleveland's second ad- ministration when Great Britain bristled against Venezuela over defaults on its foreign debt. Cleve land dusted off the Monroe doc trine and Britain then agreed to negotiate its difference with Vene zuela Although most of the time since . t;. o; . eenturv and a Its liberation a century and a quarter ago Venezuela has been ruled by dictators Guzman Blan co, Cipriano Castor and Juan Gomez it was the first of the South American republics to throw off the Spanish yoke. Sim- , .- 1 E . t c W on Bolivar, nneraior ui oouiit . L . Yl T ' ' ' " V- ! onT.Vi on i. r pH in b Parth ' capital, and is buried in its farm enon- In South America, revolutions: have been about as frequent as big strikes in the United States. The people became accustomed to them. When shots were heard bout the plaza the habitants wbuld scurry to their homes, bolt their doors and windows and then when the shooting and shouting (Continued on editorial page) Chiiieselo Pit Strength Soon PEIP1NG, Dec. 21 -OP) -High-ranking Chinese government and communist leaders agreed today that all-out civil war was immi nent. Gen. Li Tsung-Jen, chief of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Peiping headquarters, declared in an interview that government armies would resume their offen aive shortlv if the communists continued to" ignore the govern ment cease-fire order of Novem ber 11. From Yenan, communist capital city, came a declaration by Li Shao-chi, communist party vice- chairman thi.t the government i and the United States had driven the communists into arms and "we cannot be beaten; we will never surrender." Mistake Fatal To 600 Trees MARTINSBURG, W. Va., Dec. 2lHiT)-Bulldozers went to work in the wrong orchard today, and before anybody realized the mis take, 600 bearing apple trees lay In ruins. Officials, sorrowfully surveying the havoc, explained it this way: American Fruit Growers or- cnira enga)(ra contractor id : clear 15 acres of old trees pre- i paratory to replanting. j The two bulldozers sent by the , contractors got on the adjoining ! property of Smith Orchard com pany by mistake and cleared ex- , ctly 15 acres 'of good, live trees.; Animal Crackers BV WARREN GOODRICH "Why don't you get some of that junk out of your pockets? Talmadge Dies in Georgia ATLANTA. Dec. 2 1-iA)-Eugene Talmadge. 62, one of Georgia s most colorful public figure?, died looay, scarteiy mrw wctjvs lktiuic would have been inaugurated tor a fourth UmX ri . . , i . in icu-e-iuswu . t . . . i : 4 . . . . . ,,-u A a O 7 wime sumiwij, . SDeeches aeainst doctors' orders in ' Kitt Hrt.r nrimar last Georgia after his death. Governor Ellis Arnall ordered the state capitol closed today and Monday, and said Talmadge's body would lie in state from 2 i to b p.m. Sunday in the capitol rotunda. As an expression ot onl I cial respect, Artiall said he and elected statehouse officers would ll.l.criiu u.t auuoai f K '"- day at Talmadge'. farm home on Sugar creek, near McRae, Ga. Maybe Holdover Authoritative sources said Ar nail, who ousted Talmadge from I oe four years ago, would re- fuse to vacate as governor -Until conflicting views on constitutional requirements are resolved. Arnall was eligible to succeed himself. hnt the constitution nrovides he shall serve until his successor "is tok them to go from the time, have been walking some distance chosen and qualified." Legal i clock to their work benches, don . to their jobs after entering corn sources said this could mean a aprons and prepare for work, j pany property and thus have four-year holdover, until the quadrennial election of a gover - Fred Hand, scheduled to be- rr.i Uor f th ncirt flenroia nouse ot represenUtives, advocat- ed a special election, the sooner, the better.'' But sources high in r. 1 1 : 1 . . iL. laimaage councils luittasi uie legislature wouia eieci nerman Talmadge, ion and campaign manager of the late governor elect. Can Beet Alternate? There waa some uncertainty whether the legislature, which convenes Jcnuary 13, could elect an alternate governor. Constitu tionally, as soon as it convenes, it must canvass votes in the gen eral election and declare as gover nor the man who won a clear majority. Only if no one receives a majority may the assembly elect a new governor from the two top candidates. Talmadge sources, however, said they would argue that a dead man legally is not "a person," thus avoiding the Tal madge majority. Status of M. E. Thompson. elected as Georgia's first lieuten- 1 ant governor under a new censti- j tution adopted Aug. , 1945, was i of his lntervieW with unclear. He would have succeeded ' . if Talmadge had died after in- ; Stalin which, incidentally, was auguration, and held office until ' the first personal interview grant statehous elections two years ' by StaUn to any foreign corre- spondent in many years. Cfirt I) ft llll lTKr of Jlal 1 J-FrCJIllIIIg UI A Wet Christmas PORTLAND, Dec. 21 -(A)- No pressed after his meeting with white Christmas" for northwest . stalin. His wife, too, was lm Oregon, the weather bureau said pressed by the force of the gen today. A wet Christmas, instead, j eralissimo's personality, she said. That was the long range fore- she explained she was merely "a cast issued today: Rain Tuesday very fortunate wife' with nothing and Wednesday. to say beyond confirming what Winter arrives officially this her husband said about how the year at 2:45 am Dec. 22. Courtesy Driving Campaign Prizes Following is the list ot prizes in The Oregon Statesman-War- ner Brothers Courtesy Driving campaign: MAJOR GIAND PBIZK Seventeen-jewel wristwatch. choice of men's or women's (Stevens i Son). GRAND PRIZES 1st: New tire and tube State Tire service I . 2nd: Dishes, service Hardaret. Ira: Sandwich fnU for S (Salem i and fly rod ; (Sears Roebuck). v .th: Permanent wave ( Uritn i Beau ty Studio)'. Sth: Wool auto robe (Bishop's cloth- Ins). 4th : Airplane suitcase (Miller Mer cantile) 7th: Table lamp (Elfstrom's). Sth: Electric room heater i McKay Chevrolet). Sth: Table lamp (Court Street Radio). 10th: Andirons (Doufhton Hardware). DAILY PRIZES 1st: Camellia (F. A. Doerfler At Sons). 2: Three pair nylons (Army A: Navy store). 3rs: Ten gallons gasoline, oil change, lubrication (General Petroleum). th: Umbrella (J. C. Penney CO ) Sth: Car vacuum (Hamilton Furni ture Sth: Album of records (Heider Ra dio). Tth: Auto flashlight (Yeatcr Appli ance). sth: Halt gallon ice cream (The Pike). 9th: Two tickets Etoinore theatre. lath: Two tickets Elsinore theatre. In addition, every one of tne prise winners (dairy and grand) will re ceive a certificate entitling him or her to an S x IS brown tone photograph ( Bishop-Moderne) . All prizes are being made available at The Statesman office, with the exception that certifi cates instead of actual merchan dise will be issued for the photo graphs, gasoline-oil, the perma nent wave and ice cream. Portal-Portal Pay to Start $S Billion Fight Suits Begun on Basis of Court Verdict By the Associated Press With suits seekin- mere than $455,000,000 already en file, sev- eral CIO and at least ane AFX. ' . iliselosed oUni for a . . . 1 "P'"a win Him prm . retroactive portal U portal pay , . . ... , naims which some industry lead- ...... 1 . . erm estimated mignt ran between ! j ,i v.n. ci. i.. . v "" filed so far Involve principally sieei ana iiionwouc woraers. By Harold W. Ward WASHINGTON. Dec.-21 -P) American industry and labor union now are Kginning 10 rea- lize the full import of a routine supreme court decision last June involving 1200 employes of the Mt. Clemens, Mich., pottery com pany. That 6-2 decision with Jus tices Burton and Frankfurter dis senting and Jackson not partici- I " j 000,000 bonanza into the laps of ceivably could wipe cut corporations. Workers Paid for Walk . ,J . wi The court found that the Mt. Clemens workers were entitled under the fair labor standards act to back pay for the time it , The same was true in reverse at : the end of the day. That meant tfae companv was hllbe for comJ pensation for this time back to! i lfl.?l when the fair lahor stand. I ards'act wasi adopted. The act es- tabushed the present 40-hour ' Elliott Roosevelt Granted Interview with Joe Stalin By Eddy Gilmore MOSCOW. Dec. 2 -(&y-Elliott Roosevelt was granted a birthday interview with Generalissimo Stalin tonight and reported that the Russian leader appeared in good health and fine spirits. Roosevelt, who was accompanied at the interview in the Kremlin by kis wife, the former Faye Emerson of the films, said that Stalin had just returned to Moscow from well for a man who was observing The late president's son said Moscow by plane early tomorrow for Paris, then fly to Ireland and the United States to be with his mother, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, for Christmas at Hyde Park, N.Y. Subject L'nrevealed Roosevelt did not reveal the He said he would write about it in Look magazine when ' he got home, but he was emphatic in re porting how well Stalin looked. Roosevelt aDDeared rreatlv im- generalissimo looked. Roosevelt said he asked Stalin numerous questions and received answers which he plans to write as soon as he returned to the United, States. 'Certificates of Courtesy' Ready as Campaign Comes to End, Grand Prize Winners Due Tuesday "Certificates of Courtesy" for ' rush. Commendation of the ef all daily prize winners in The fort has come from many quar- Oregon Statesman-Warner Broth- ers Courtesy Driving campaign ' a-prp rparlv for mailinp todav as . the cooperative effort to make- ; ialem-streets-more-sate came to an end. The car license of the 10 win- ners for the final day of the 10- day campaign are listed below, The remaining task of the judges traffic experts in the office of the secretary of state is to choose from the 100 daily winners the 1 1 persons entitled to the grand awards. Names of the 11 will be announced in Tuesday's States- j man. (A "certificate of courtesy" is pictured on page 9 of today's Statesman.) To be eligible for the grand awards (which include a wrist watch, tire, dishes, sandwich grill, fly rod, permanent wave, auto robe, airplane suitcase, heat er, table lamps and andirons), daily prize winners must have claimed their daily awards, or in dicated intention to do so, by S p.m. Monday. Scores of daily prizes already have been given out at The Statesman office. They were do nated by Salem merchants in a move to reduce accidents and make drivinff more nleasurable in Ralom linrinv th Tir-ChristrrLa 1 week and the 40-cents hourly wage minimum. As a result big corporations are being sued by unions for hun dreds of millions of dollars in behalf of employes who have kann ..all,in , -lr . h.,n - - . . Ji ' company property. john L. T-Wj tarted it all. He won nortal-to-oortal oav for his won poruii-io-poriai pay ior nis miner in ana tnis unaer round travel time was UDheid bv the supreme court in the now fa- I mous Jewell Ridge Coal comapny (aSe , Miners' Different The Mt. Clemens pottery case . .. brought the issue down to tne leel of every worker, however The miners position was ac- 1 knowledged to be somewhat dif- ferent from surface workers, i This is why the problem ex ! ists: j The fair labor standards act --.ij that offer 1 QAft the u nrlf . . h an h it . L 1 I. V- ..4.' 1 V ( O I 111 L 1 III I V lllyiVIJ ers were liable for payment of time and one-half for time worked beyond that. Suddenly it is determined that for years a group of workers has j ben working more than 40 hours j a week, because, under the su- preme court interpretation, they been "working.' The employer is liable for this time, and since he hasn't been paying it, the worker has It com- inff tn him at overtime rates anH doubled because the worker had to go to court to collect it. a vacation and looked surprisingly his 67th birthday. that he and his wife would leave Mail Cancellation Continues Decline Saturday, usually a slack day at the post office, was heavier by 16,000 in the number of letters cancelled than on the same day last year. Cancellations yester day totalled 99,000 as compared with 83.000 last year, E. B. Daughterly, superintendent of mails here, said. The post office will make par cel deliveries today, as well as making one carrier delivery of letters ters to residential sections. No, iveries will be made in down- , deli town business areas, however Weather Max. . S3 4 49 Min. 33 37 Precip. .M trace .00 .03 Salens Portland San Francisro 3S 28 Chicago 34 Willamette river 7.7 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau, McNary field. Salem i : Partly cloudy today and tonight with one or twfi liffht nm;r Kiffhrtl tmnra- I ture 48 Lowest tonight 3S. ters. and it has held "the whole-I hearted approval of high state and ritv officials. Observers who have noted li- cense numbers of courteous driv- ers, and turned in their good deeds to the secretary of state's office for judging, included city police, the high school safety council and others named by the sponsors The Oregon Statesman and War- ner Brothers theatres. Winners who received their prizes at The Statesman off ice Saturday included- E. J. Scharf, Perrydale (camel lia). Mrs. J. H. Hann, 196 S. 23rd st., Salem (camellia). Dora H. Burrough, 2395 N. Front st, Salem (3 pairs nylons). Archer R. Krosch, route 2, box 40, Molalla (10 gals, gasoline, oil change, lubrication). Clifford E. Orey, route 2, box 258, Salem (10 gals, gasoline, oil change, lubrication). John Sauer, 1266 N. 4th st, Sa lem (umbrella). Harry Hutton, 642 Ferry st., Sa lem (umbrella). H. B. Auman. 1495 Marion, Sa lem (album of records). Mary Jane Don, 1350 M3rion, Salem (album of records) Leonard Wittenberg, 265 Fair- British Split with Franco LONDON, Dec. 21 -JP) Great Britain recalled her ambassador to Spain tonight in a quick diplo matic snub of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. The action came only six days after the United Nations general assembly in New York adopted a resolution callinf un all. member ! nations to withdraw their diDlo- matic missions from Spain. The foreign office, acting with- out even formal notification of the general assembly's recommen- i dation, announced that Ambassa- " tL . oV h- utrurted to oint Madrid at the i . , , ., Awaited Notice A terse foreign office statement said Great Britain, which has bit terly opposed proposals in the United Nations for a complete diplomatic rupture, originally in tended to comply with the assem bly's recommendation- only after official notice of the resolution had been received. An nffirial evnlanation rif VTal. , let's recall at an earlier date was that "since this notification has been delayed somewhat longer than had been anticipated, it was decided to recall Sir Victor with out awaiting it." U.S. Ambassador Back (The American ambassador to Spain, Norman Armour, returned to the United States before the United Nations assembly's action.) Diplomatic circles, however, said they believed Great Britain mere ly was beating Spain to the punch in a awift diplomatic "counter move." It apparently had been re ported in London, although there i was no official announcement, that i Franco planned to recall his am i bassador to Britain, Domingo de Las Barcenas. Seal Campaign Totals $11,587 The Christmas seal campaign sales show a total to date of j f.11 7- 'he Marlon county pub- lie health association, sponsor of the drive, reported Saturday. As the present total is only about two-thirds of the sum needed to carry out the battle against tuberculosis next year, the campaign will continue through Christmas, according to Ruby Bunnell, association execu tive secretary. Funds derived from the sale are used to carry on chest X-ray survey units and health educa tion programs. The bangle pin sale in the schools appears to Jbe progressing satisfactorily and the booth sales are far above last year's total, the association re ported. 1 urkey Gets 1 OD billing - . . ,f vif iiiBiuuiiuii jirnus Turkey and all of the trimmings will feature the menus at most of the Oregon state institutions Christmas day. More than 2500 patients and employes of the Oregon state hos pital will eat dinner at noon while more than 1100 inmates of the state penitentiary will participate in a special dinner there. view, Salem (car Vacuum). Vfr H R Mill... 7H1 Ro -ykrA Salem (car vacuum). Elmer Gooding, St. Paul (car Vacuum) T.nu.ll R Mrt-onnHl 10 E . ... .,, . , , . , , i 8th St., McMinnvilIe (flashlight). John Holney, 1110 Jefferson, Salem (flashlight). Arvin Cureton, West Stayton (flashlight). Ruby Reeves, 2575 Cherry ave., Salem (half gallon ice cream). Mrs. L. H. Winger, 490 Morgan ave, Salem (half gallon ice cream). Marlin M. Jones, route 1, box 206, Brooks (two theatre tickets). Vivian H. Roth, 1105 Columbia, Salem (two theatre tickets). . All winners also receive a cer tificate for an 8x10 brown tone photograph. Here are the final 10 winners of the daily campaign (weather, time. location, traffic conditions and other factors considered in the judging): 3S2-3M: Dee. 20: downtown; noon; extremely courteous to traffic and pe destrians tn looking for parking space, good arm signals, turned from and tn proper lanes, lost one parking space by rivtng right of way to pedestrian. 174-SOS: Dec. IS: downtown; 12:49 p. m : careful driver, giving all stop and slow signals adequately, waiting lor lights, on two occasions let pedestrians go tn front when could have crowded them back: moderate speed. 331-313: Dec. 20: State and High; 33S though light In driver's favor, signalled Dm.; slowed at intersection even fh"ry cL,y 1 ,-r7iiK ' Afwj f r itayTT KOBF' JPBeM shipping renter located on the Inland aea that bore the brant of the damagd caused by the reeent earthqnake and tidal waves off the southern roast of Japan. Scene of many B-2f attacks dnring the war. it Is bounded bv the prefecture of Okayama to the south where SS4 buildinrs were destroyed and 2000 damaged. Kobe Itself sustained minor damage al though 12 casualties were reported in neighboring Osaka. Nipponse News Agency Totals 656 Deaths By Russell Brines TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. 22-P)-The official death toll of Saturday's dinantrou earth quake rose to 656 today, with 300,000 otherx left homelesw after tidal waves and fires foU ! lowed the quake across a 450 Scores of cities or towns lay in ruins or under Mater today, hundred of fihinj? ships had vanished or were tossed into streets, and many thousands were left homeles along 60,000 square miles of Japan. Relief officials, speeding food and medicine by boat, plane and rail to zones cut off by shattered communication lines, termed it Japan's wors natural disaster since the great Newspaper Chains Rate Senate Inquiry WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-OP) Chairman Murray (D-Mont) of the senate small business commit tee said today the "rapid growth and concentration f newspaper ownership by chains and individ uals" will be investigated at pub lic hearings beginning January 7. Murray told a reporter the In quiry, which has been questioned by some senators, is "not an at tempt to go into the contents of papers at all it will not try to judge the freedom of the press." "Our sole purpose is to try and learn the problems of the smaller independently-owned newspapers of the country." he said. "The smaller papers, both daily and weekly, are having a difficult time. They face higher costs of labor and everything else from paper to machinery. "We hope to develop what can be done by the government or by legislation to keep these small papers alive and independent. "There Is nothing political about this. As a matter of fact, most of the small newspaper owners and publishers are Re publicans. Murray said one of the key points in the investigation will be the high cost and shortage of I newsprint, a subject that has had attention from other congression al committees and government officials. KAN KIN APPOINTED WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 Walter R. "Barney" Rankin, whose "Rankin's Raiders" scourged the Japs in the New Guinea cam paign today was appointed chair man of the veterans committee of the Young Republican federation. tor right turn. let pedestrian lane clear ! T-344: Drc. 20; High and State; 2 20 p.m ; signalled for stop, proceeded with light, waited until inromine tral- ttc Jane cleared before turning left. careiui at intersection. ! -: Dec 20; Capitol street: 1 10 pm ; slowed to let car in front, which w ,tuo, behind parked car. to get into traffic Jane. JIMS (1947): Dec 18. on Slatr ! iirrti. j .va p.m.; sioppea 10 yieia nsnx of way to pedestrian, then to car on right, moderate speed. ; ": uec. zu: state sireei: i 31 ; m : stopped to allow car coming out of alley to ret m traffic lane ahead 13-924 (147): Dec 20. State and I Liberty. 9 IS ai gave plain hand j signals, slowed to let pedestrian lane th, gejernic waves and damate 1 . m . . . " .,ua"n clear, signalled plainly when found ln "'m,c "f' and "J"- pected to be placed at Salem, Eu-P-rking .pac; " was heavy on both its north and -en ,nd Medord 13-313: Dee. IS; State street. 3:44 p. m : pushed stalled car to clear traffic. 297.794: Dec. IS; Cottage and Center: 1 37 p.m.; stopped to let pedestrians clear crosswalk. The judging throughout the con test was on the basis of license numbers only neither the ob servers nor the judges knew to whom the cars belonged. Some were from out-of-town, a later check on their registration showed. Following is the list of car licenses entitled to prizes which have not yet been claimed: 2Zt 124. 256-426. 259-42 L 7MM, 54 645, 264-4M, 56-622. 6-189. S99 427, 379-812, 263-784, 257-548, 23 781. 76-557. 15-566. 159-533. 336 328. 338-989. 262-258, 256-546, 39 825 ('47 ). 332-528. The grand prize winners? Watch Tuesday's Statesman! ; ' r 'yJ.)S ' f- "L-fc-A. - mile sector of southern Japan. lokyo quake of Wits. The Japanese home ministry raid its official death list had reached 571, Kyodo News Agency said 592, and the U. S. army's far-from-complete score showed 422. The greatest havoc was wrought at three points closest lo the epicenter of the quake, which let go pefore dawn yesterday in the Pacific more than 100 rr l" southwest of Osaka, Japan's sec ond largest city. These were: The southern tip of Vakaynma peninsula, where at least three cities were f mashed, 18,000 were estimated homeless in the single town of Kainan, and 400 fishing boats were swallowed by the rhnrninff nea. The eastern shore of adjacent PARIS, Dee. 21HP)-Full ral Shikoku island, where the loss of guerrilla waifare raged todny in life was the heaviest and where i major cities and towns of north whole sections, as on Wakayama, . , . . . , still were isolated except by boat. I "n Indochina as French t, And Awaji island, between the ( battled the Viet-NameM? In tloly two, caught in the path of thun-1 street fighting thut reached lit derous seas as six successive tidal ,r.ht-kt intf.n,Hv In ho fltmin waves rushed up from the quake center and on into the inland sea, spreading destruction on both shores. American occupation forces seemed to hve come through un- hcifmos4 fnr nilfite u t n tTl rt tf fit ar ' , r burning Shingu and Kushimoto, on hard-hit Wakayama, caught "all safe" signal from Ameii- i can8 ()n tne Kround In the first direct report from the stricken peninsula, AMto-iated Press "Correspondent Frank L. White said Hainan was smashed, Kushimoto was under water and Shingu was burned to the ground. He said- most of the peninsula was rut off from Kainan south and it wns impossible to set an accurate check of casualties al- thou((h tnere we,re repoits th , 83 were dead and 33 otneri( we at I re misping. The earth still rumbled for a time after the great shok. Kyodo reporting two smaller ones early today on Shikoku and to the west on Kyuriu. Seismic Echoes New earth shocks were record ed during the night apparently the usual echoes of great seismic disturbances but they were felt neither in Tokyo nor Osaka. White said Osaka escaped major , damage. I British army officers said field reports indicated their occupation area on Shikoku, one of the south ern main home islands, was hard jest hit by the quake but they were unable to confirm earlier reports that a British soldier was missing. The new reports spread the pic 1 ture of devastation far beyond the original scene, with deaths reoort i ed in Gifu prefecture, 130 mil-x west of Tokyo, and to the north I of Gifu in Ishikawa prefectuie, on Honshu s western coast. r.u. .1 r.,M Others occurred more than 450 miles iou!hwest of Tokyo in Ihe seasine preietiure ni una, wnit n is rm Kyushu at the west end c,f Ihe I , . , , , . . i jiii-on ust-ii became a funnel for the force of son in snores. Japanese began talking In Tokyo of appealing for allied as sistance for earthquake victims, as they did two decades ago. American and Japanese relief teams rushed into the disaster zone fearftil that the death toll might rise from the tidal wave and earth shock, described offi cially as five times greater than the one which killed 143,000 per sons in the Tokyo area in 1923. BO WD EN JUEY RECESSED PORTLAND. Ore . Dec. 21-cVP) The jury on the first degree mur der trial of James W. Bowden In the trunk bomb death of his wife was retired at 11:05 pm. tonight and ordered to resume sessions tomofiow fasuf iilngv Guerilla War Gains Force In Iiulo China naive quarter of Hnol. The once quiet tree-shaded ae nues rf Hanoi, capital of ii.m 1 Annsimite republic of Viet Ntm, j were (Ut by barricades ant ' . trenches. Many homes in the Viet-Namese section were binn ing. Rifle filing and the elbtter of patrolling Fiench armor and planes were continuous. In Paris, a Viet Nam p.h man, M Maio, told the newsrifcpt-r Fiunce-Soir, "ir the hnHilMirs continue, Indochina ! lost." "We will rienfmv everything nd ue will l,e." he continued fiercely. "There will be a tx-r mu- nent state of war Temporary Bridge Spang Niagara Gap A Marion county road rrw completed construction on a tem porary bridge Saturday replacing the one washed out by a 20-fx.t high wall of water on a small tnbutary of the north Santiam river Thursday about a mile above Niagara. The road is now clear for traffic. County Commissioner Ed Rogers said yesterday. The 4(1 feet of railroad tracks which wtie, also washed away have not been replaced. State engineers are ir the region this weekend seeking the cause of the sudden rush o' water. Bomb Squadron May Get Salem BaHe PORTLAND, Dec. 21-4)-Ai. thority to organize the 305th bomb wing as part of the air reserve has been granted, Portland army air base commander said today t,- .... , . ' !"' Wing, under Command of rtA. Chester V. MoT'i.rtw U,MI had her Uiih , ' n j) SHOPPING 1 DAYS HIT I