f Sugar Controlled to October 31 a War Powers Act Expires (Story In Column 6) Volcai licAslies Blanhel Iceland Countryside triiMi.e 4 inNETY-SOTH YEAR 10 PAGES Salem. Oracjon, Tuctday Morning. April 1. 1947, , Frier 5c No. 315 r I V- r 1 1 1 UTKJATIK, Iceland, March Jl-t'PMIage clouds ef amok (pictured . Bekla u4 the veleajue ashes today tat a- hlaek desert, covering three to fear Inches deep the surroandlng eeaiitryside. It was fear ed that 13-farmsteads seme 2S U j allcht decrease ef Meant HekJa'a tw feree this morning. Tbe saoantala to la crept km for the first .Tie Statesman). s The Oregon Chest, successor to the Oregon War Chest has suc cessfully ?reconvertedn to peace time -operation. , That was appar ent at the annual meeting of the chest Monday at the Marion hotel. Hot, only did tbe executive direc tor report "that collections came vithM four per cent of the goal, but the spirit of the meeting in dicated confidence and enthusiasm cri the part of the chest leaders. Representatives were present from .widely separated parts of the state, and plans were discussed for con ( ducting , campaigns of enlighten? 'merit so that all the people may, know the work of agencies which the chest supports People are quite familiar with the local agencies which are up iwtd-fcy locst chests. They are ch4fly character-buildings agen cies that develop youth programs to help boys and girls grow up to he useful, honorable citizens. Too .-"w people, i however, know the agencies that take care of the neg lected, the .homeless children, orphans, the girls who in common phrase have' "gotten into trouble." ' These children or;youtli have to bewared for. In fact their cases are more urgent ! than, those of T-ehjSren - in comfortable, normal V homes..'- .-- -j -'- -.1 A number of Institutions serve the needs of children such as I have described, Some of them are operated! by religious bodies; oth ers by boards of trustees who are eonceraed with child welfare. They - receive a certain amount of sup port from the state, but always this must be supplemented - ' (Continued on editorial page) ' One Canby Youth Still Critical After Smashup ,! ' CANB'Xl March 31Physidan's resorts todar on the two Canbr tbuths injured when their csr lft. highway S3E and struck a power 'pole about one-fourth milesouul of Canby late Saturday night show that Roy L Pottratz, 20, driver of the car, isCout of danger, but that his pa&enger, Ray Price, 19, is still- unconscious and in "crit ical condition: Both irurrd brain. ' concussions, according- to t the doctor. Animd Crccftcrs By WARREN GOODRICH 'Alone at last. ..I lov you, darling". OiHlifcaltiSttw I transformed a larg grazing and St miles southwest ef the 4.7 C4 -feet volcano faced devastation. A ereotlea was a ted last mldalrht. bat the release broke eat with iDExe;JBoves As EDiraift WASHINGTON, March Jl - tonight that the end of the draft writing the Insurance against tbe chaos of another war. ; "From now on," said the army chief of staff in a statement, "we are engaged in great test, to American in peacetime the volunteer srstem can give us the stable,' Two Propose Bms to Block Phone Strike - WASHINGTON, March il.-(JP) Two bills to block any long tele phone' strike by Injunction were introduced in the house today. One, by Repy Hartley (R-NJ), is to be voted on tomorrow by the house labor committee which he heads. It could scarcely be passed by next Monday, the iate set by the national federation of telephone workers for a nation wide strike, but it might serve later, to halt any. long walkout. Av similar; measura was intro duced by Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich). His would be permanent, - how ever, while Hartley's Is Intended as a stop-gap until congress pass es ' permanent - legislation and would expire Jury 31 or when congress adjourns.. . V- -j While these congressional moves were tinder way, conciliation di rector Edgar I.' Warren and as sistant - secretary of Labor ' John W. Gibson studied the chances for mediating thr-telephone dispute. Warren said IS conciliation con ferences s - had : been arranged throughout .the nation' but . that negotiations .between the com panies and the union thus far had produced .little progress. , ,'- '. "-. t - - . If - " Gas Firm Asks roval of Loan PHILADELPHIA, March 31. -WVThe Portland Gas , & Coke told the government today it needed $2,500,000 for additional facilities to forestall a breakdown of service nex-v winter. " ; ; : The company filed an applica tion with the (securities and ex- change' commission asking per mission to borrow the funds from three Portland banks. The appli cation said "failure to install ad ditional facilities promptly may result in thousands being without1 service during" periods of" only moderately cold weather. ' Marshall Protests Demands To Leave Reich MOSCOW, March . 31-P-Sec-retary of State Marshall blasted at Russia's uncompromising stand on German reparations tonight and warned that the Unites States opposes "policies which will con tinue Germany as a congested dum. M V ;. ' In his bluntest speech; to the council of foreign ministers,' Mar shall said the four powers could never reach agreements "on the basis of an ultimatum." He added that the United States "categori cally rejects. . the Russian stand that "acceptance . of reparations from current production is an ab solute condition of economic un ity." Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, whose : proposals also were attacked by British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, made no concessions on reparations but ex pressed - hope - that . differences among the four powers could be abort) rise from erupting Menat meadow., area, at southern lee land time since 1145. (AT Wlrepbele te ' lhiaileinif?e Laiv E)Ses PV - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said gives American people "the task of see whether system traditionally weu-trained regular army our current international commit ments requie., i . : : He conceded that the task of providing such; an army (the average- strength for the year be ginning next July 1 i set for- 1, 070,000) "is enormous. '? "rdh-v- - The selective . service system, ended at midnight, Inducted 10,- 022,367 men from 1940 untiHast October, when inductions halted. It will be replaced by a record keeping organization and a sys tern of record depots in the states to keep on file the 44,000,000 records of men who registered. Maj. Gen; Willard S.!Paul, chief of army personnel, reported to day the recruiting program is con tinuing at ' a r fairly satisfactory level. On the basis of the first three weeks in March, that month will bring in about 20,000 , men. About three-quarters of them are three-year enlistment men instead of the high percentage of short- enlistment men who . signed up immediately, after, the war. . ' C President Truman during the day signed legislation setting up the record-keeping agency, called tie office of selective service records. . f . .. He nominated Ma). Gen. Lewis EC Hershey who" has been' selec tive service director, to head the office, subject to senate confirma tion." The post pays $10,000 a year. JJ1UP3 VUCUCU lUl';;- DdiroirDamlWork -PORTLAND, March 2L'-VP)-t Bids: were opened today on three federal projects including the con struction of dormitories, mess halL shop utilities at .the .Detroit dam construction camp. - - - Army engineers divided the De troit1 work into two parts, one of the ; electrical ; work only. Low bidder on the construction job was J; C, Strudgeon Construction Co. Portland, $452,228, compared with the government estimate of $377, 453. Low bidder on the electrical part was Wt H. Grasle Co - Port land, ' $454 compared with the government estimate of $5350. 4Slura Area9 reconciled. - . ' : .." In referring' to the Potsdam agreement and discussions here on reparations, Marshall told Molo tov: "It looks very much, to us as though the Soviet union Is try ing to sell the same" horse twice. Molotov replied: "We -did not approach this problem of repara tions ' from a point of view of merchants, but- we do not want other, merchants selling our horse at a low price without our con sent," ' - i . The American " secretary said that-France, too, had adopted an immovable attitude and had in sisted that her demands for Ger man coal be recognized before the ministers proceeded to other im portant German .questions. t"While we realize that France was not a party to the Potsdam agreement, we cannot accept her request as a condition - to our negotiations, Marshall said. . .. -. -.. . e i - '$43' Million Public Welfare Legislation Passes to Senate , ; . By Wendell Webb .V . . - Managing Xditor, The Statecman Major appropriation bills and the greater Dart of the nroDOsed $43,000,000 public welfare program for the next two years emerged battered- but still intact from a .hectic session of the house late. Mon day; - The senate, meanwhile,' after lengthy but less acrimonious de bate, finished final-legilative action on bills increasing the state's pari-mutuel take by $500,000 a biennium; taxing coin-in-the-slot amusement devices by $250,000 for, cuit court Jurors' pay from $3 to $5 a day ' Defeated in the senate were measures to acquire a $50,000 home for the governor (vote 14 to 15), and to expend $17,500 for statutes of Jason Lee and Dr. John McLoughhn for statuary hall in Wash ington, (vote 15 to 12, but. with lit needed for a constitutionality majority.; -;' ; . ' Re-referred ' to . senate commit tee, probably to die, was the house-approved . measure : to . tax timber for. research and conserva tion, but appearing almost simul taneously in the house was a re solution seeking a constitutional -amendment allowing bonds up to 1 per cent of the state s valuation (or around $13,000,000) for a pro gram of . reforestation. Casay White BIU Approved It Was veritable Southern Ore gon day at the legislature, too, with the house writing final ap proval (48-10) to state-acquisition of Camp White near Medford for use as a hospital, and the. Joint ways and means committee voting 9 to 5 favor state acceptance of Klamath I marine barracks as a vocational school. From the- senate's assessment, committee Monday came the ex pected do-pass recommendation on the sales tax, already approved by the house1, vote was 6 to 1, with Sen. . Howard Belton dis senting. A proposal to lower the tax" from 3 to 2 per cent and in clude foodstuffs Is to be con sidered later. Under the bill. In come tax exemptions would . be raised .Jf the sales tax becomes law. Towered if it Is'defeateo - The welfare program which the house sent to the senate would require counties lo levy up , to 4 mills "on property, or what ever was need d up to - that amount for their share of wel fare funds; appropriate $22,000, 000 In liquor revenue as the state's share; permit the state to recover from gifts " or ; legacies whatever recipients had received in public aid, and void the trans fer of . property belonging to those on welfare rolls. Welfare Bill Sent Back Sent back to committee was the fifth' public welfare measure prohibiting .welfare recipients from ! transferring : title to their ' property, It was assailed on con stitutional grounds, and Rep. Frank Van Dyke said he would also ask reconsideration of the bill voiding stfwt transfers already in effect, f oiMhe same reasons. The public welfare program contemplates spending about $10, 000,000 more - than . was made available for the current bien nium but $8,000,000 less than the current rate of expenditure of $5 1 ,000,000 - for two years. Proponents "of the county tax bill said it was essential to as-, sure' $15,000,000 in federal funds starting July 1. An appropriation of $2,143,000 to insure federal participation until then was sign ed by the governor Monday the deadline-set by the federal gov ernment, to offset court decision that counties do not have to levy! . l A Al l : wnirver,ine wcnarc commis sion demands. '-- Rep. , Henry Semon estimated needed tax levies to include: Mar ion county 3.44, Polk 2.94, Yam hill 2.76, Lian 1.69. Mores Affect Salem .Area . Moves directly affecting the Sa lem area Monday included sen ate' approval of bills to permit construction of a $750,000 high way commission office building here and Gov. Earl Snell's sign ing of enabling legislation regard ing boundaries in connection with the proposed West Salem-Salem merger. v - Gov. Snell also vetoed Monday the bill to eliminate the require ments that mutual savings banks must maintain , a 5 per cent cash reserve. The session's first move ta over ride a ruling of Speaker John Hall failed .when the house "re fused to support Rep. J. EX Ben nett's appeal to consider a bill boosting the damage limit in death cases. Hall ruled the bill was similar to one already defeat ed,' and therefore) not subject to consideration. . Legislature Cost Estimated Cost of the current legislature now in its 79th day with prospects of reaching 83 was estimated Monday at $345,000 to date. The previous record, both as to length and expense, was ' the 1945 ses sion which went 69 days and cost $232,500. . -; , ' Heavy calendars 'face both the house and .senate today when they resume at 10 ajn. . (Legis. actions jpage 4)- the same period, and raising cir Plan Advanced fyr UN Check On Greek Aid WASHINGTON, March 31-tfPH To meet criticism that the United States is bypassing the United Na tions, Sen. Vandenberg (R-Mich) proposed today to give the U.N. power to halt the American plan to; bolster Greece and Turkey against communism. I Under the plan, the UJ. could veto the American aid either by a "procedural vote in', the security council or by "a majority vote in the general assembly of the United Nations." Seven of the 11 members 4 the security council are needed for a "procedural" decision. "Sin effect, under the Vandenberg proposal, the United States would give tip its power to veto any move to halt its Greek-Turkish pro gram. . - fTestifying before the senate for eign relations committee. Vanden- herff also nmnMUd that tha mc.f- dent b "directed" tn w!thHrtTtew, at the same time forbidding any or all aid to Greece and Tur- key under two additional circum stances: "If requested by any I gov ernment of Greece or Turkey rep resenting a majority of the people of either such nation, and if the president finds that the purposes of the act have been substantially accomplished or are incapable of sausiactory accomplishment March Weatlier Above Normal' Bureau Notes March : temperatures ranged consistently above, the normal with 80 degrees registering on the 15th as tops. This is a new early spring high, the U. S. weather bureau at McNary field states in its month-end report. ' : The normal mean temperature was 49 degrees, in comparison with an average expectation of 46.5. The low was 31, recorded both on the first and sixth. , The average maximum temper ature was 59.5, compared with a normal 55.6. Average daily mini mum was 38.6, compared with an expected 37.5 degrees normal. Rainfall rations were long, as 5.27 inches received surpassed the 3.88 expected normal. Most rain fell on March 9, when 1.44 inches were recorded. Total precipitation for the first three months of the year was 11.93 inches, which fell short of the 14.06 expectation. Selective Service Over, But No Immediate v Discharge for Marion County Boards in Sight A By Winston H. Taylor! Staff Writer. The Statesman The - draft i boards . can't have their, discharges yet even though the selective service act died last midnight Col. Elmer V. Wooton, state director, told Marion county local board chairmen at theic final meeting here Monday. Their re maining task is that of assembling records for storage." With the end of the draft Col. Wootori expressed high praise for the many volunteer workers who sent the well-known "greetings" to Oregon men, ' 73,791 of whom were inducted in the past 6V4 years. A total of 150,737 men from this state entered the service, by induction, enlistment and commis sion.' - 1 Of these, 29,341 were listed as still in service last March 1, with 867 released during March. Woot on said a number of men ! have returned from whom no separa tion report has been received. ' County totals for men placed in service and those stiU in serv ice include: Marion No.; 1, 4178 and' 291:' Marion No. 2, 2652 and 1675; Marion No. 3, 2658 and 1198; President Inks Two Measures WASHINGTON, March 3l-Pr-President Trurnan today signed "with reluctance" a law. extend ing sugar rationing only until Oc tober 31. If e also' signed another rush bill passed by congress during the day preserving federal controls over a small group of scarce industrial and drug items until June 30. Both . measures - were , hustled through senate and house and sent to the White House in a race against the midnight expiration of the second war powers. act, basis of the wartime rationing, priority and allocation power.' ? -. : Truman Kaas Sagar Law The president, evidently more dissatisfied by the short life given sugar rationing - than by the cur tailment of his own broad execu tive powers of allocation, issued a sharp statement on the sugar leg islation. October 31 "appears to be too early for the termination of sugar controls,'' he said. He added that this had been recognized by many congressmen "both - In committee and in debate." The sugar act also extends price control on sugar through October. It otherwise would have expired June 30. The rationing and price control will be administered by the agriculture department In stead of the dying OPA. Ration Is 29 Pounds The bill as signed by Mr. Tru man provides that each person shall have a ration of at least 20 pounds of sugar in the'next seven months.' Air, Truman had asked for a year's extension; of sugar controls and an equal extension of major sections of the second war pow ers act In the latter case, he sought authority to allocate any item In case of a national emer gency. Few ..Other Items Restricted 1 Instead, Instead, congress named these me allocation n any items not un der control on March 24: Tin, an timony, railroad freight cars, the new drug streptomycin, cinchona bark (for quinine), manila and agave cordage and fibre, and tractors built for. export. In addition, the act allows "ma terials and facilities" essential to meeting international ' obligations to be allocated if the secretaries of : state and commerce certify control is essenual Woodburn Boy Dies by Rope Fourteen-year-old Harold Zur linden of route. 1, Woodburn. com mitted suicide by hanging himself with a haymow rope.in' his fath er's barn Monday evening, Deputy Coroner Virgil T. Golden said af ter he and Sheriff Denver Young investigated, the incident The body was found at 5:10 p. m. by the boy's father, W.- A. Zur lindeivand was taken to the Ringo chapel at Woodburn. The father told authorities the boy apparently had been despon- dent over difficulty in school work! MAINE RATIFIES TENURE AUGUSTA, Me., March 31-0) Maine became the first state in the nation today to ratify a joint congressional resolution : propos ing an amendment to- the federal consitution limiting the term of the president ' to not more than two full four-year terms, " Linn, 4242 and 1023; Polk, 2305 and 515; Yamhill, 3296 and 706. Figures on rejections are not con sidered accurate, due to continu ally lowered physical require ments. Army and navy casualty lists received here show 3715 Oregon ians died while in service, includ ing, 222 from Marion county. Three hundred eleven men from the state entered civilian public service camps as conscientious objectors. r The . number of men entering service rose steadily from; the start of the draft In October, 1940, to July, 1943, when the state quo ta was 4201. From then on the number - fell, and no inductions have been made since June, 1946. Selective service. employe lists followed the same trend, rising to a maximum of -eight officers and 207 civilians in 1943 and falling to j present three officers and 60 civilians. Col. Wooton said this group would be steadily decreased and that some already have' sepa ration notices., With the signing Monday by President Truman of hew legisla- MADRID, March 31-(AVFrancisco Franco Y. Bahamonde, Spain m revolution-born chief of , state, sent a decree to the cortes i (parii- ament) today which, declaring the nation still to be a monarchy, appeared destined to seat another king on the Spanish throne, vacant for the past 1-6 years. - -: ii w . . .- .. . The bill was introduced in the Franco-dominated cortes on the Early Walkouts For 'Memorial? ; 89. WASHINGTON; March tl-VPh Federal officials said tonight that about 20 per tent of the nation's soft coal .miners stayed home from work during the day in advance of six-day "memorial" stoppage called by John. L. Lewis. The solid fuels administration said Incomplete figures showed 34,619 soft coal miners quit work today, forcing 89 mines to close. " The United Mine Workers chief set the six-day period to begin at midnight tonight, the hour he once fixed but later withdrew, for a new coal strike. Lewis set the "me morial' observance to mourn vic tims of the Centralia, I1L, mine disaster. . !' ' -.: ,. The layout Is scheduled to con tinue through Easter Sunday, but there ,was some conjecture that the miners might continue to stay home in tacit execution of Lewis' original order for a new stodpage. Lewis subsequently withdrew that order, yielding to a supreme court mandate.1.;.;.. ., 'V V John D. Battle, executive sec retary of the. National Coal asso ciation, meanwhile Issued a state ment in which he said reports that the stoppage would have little ef feet on coal production, "are with out foundation." ;. ; i ( . He said that at least 8,000,000 tons of coal will be lost during the six-day period, and added that "in the last analysis, this, is just another coal strike under another name." , : - . . : . . -1 - ? Bntisli Jrian to Exact Payment For Dock Fire ' JERUSALEM, March 31.-MVA government representative assert ed tonight that Palestine Jews will be made to pay for the de struction .at the Haifa oil docks, where flames . still crackled.' 18 hours after an explosion that set off the worst fire in the port'eity's history. -An official information officer, who had spent hours in confer ence with high Palestine govern ment leaders, told a news con ference: "''." .; " r "For this act of wanton de struction, the community involved wiU have to pay. This is terror ism pure and simple as we nave known It before, but in this case the community is going to have to bear' tbe cost" - As the fires continued' to burn, the last of 1,570 Jews taken off the refugee vessel San Filipdwere placed on board two oeportauon ships in Haifa harbor and started oh their trip to detention camps on Cyprus. t ' tion creating the office of selec tive service records, the draft sys tem today becomes essentially a part of that office. Cot Wooton averred probably 1 three months will be required to complete and assemble draft boards' records, liquidate . offices and make the necessary reports. It is expected the state and Marion county of fices will remain at 184 N. Com mercial st, until a depository is established for Oregon's records. ; Outside of the primary function of providing - manpower for the war, Wooton said selective-service had been chiefly valuable in the assembly ' of records - which could show, among other things, the nation's educational levels and the incidence of physical impair ment As to skills, be mentioned an experiment performed, in Ore gon for the training of "non essential job" holders to handle more highly skilled war jobs, as well as service-acquired ability. i (Personalities of Marion eoanty draft boards will' appear in a Statesmaa story tomorrow, eon- eluding 'the review of selective service daring the past 64 years.) eve of Spain's -Victory day,?, eighth anniversary of the gener alissimo's taking up the reins of government -following the cspit- ulatiorr of the S Danish renubhran armies in 1939. - - " . l Entitling F ran c o "chief : f state," . the -bUl would give the holder of that post the right to' propose his ' own successor . any. tune he desired and specified that a "council of the kingdom would: advise the chief, of state on the succession. . .- ; : Regency Coaaeil Created , - Designed to provide a govern mental head for Spam's 26,00O 000 population in the event of the chief of state's death or incap- tatioh, the- decree also provided fdr a council of regency to rule in the- interimV The regency would summon the council of the kin dom to meet within three days to elect a successor. The cortes then would have to ratify the council " choice "by a two-thirds majority vote. 1 ' ? The chief of State, the decree stipulated, must be a king or, hi the event there was no person of royal blood who qualified under the law, regent The king, tin der the decree, would have to be Spanish, a male, at least 30 years of age and a Roman Catholic. Spain's late kmc, Alfonso XIII, left Spain In 1931. although he never renounced the throne. He died in exile in 1941. Don Joan Chief. Claimant - The council of the kingdom would have to examine the qua lification of claimants to i the Spanish throne. The chief claim ant would be Don Juan, Alfonso's son and crown prinf?. . .:jranccv. whose xeg;me. has, been castigated by and . barred frcm participation In the United Na tions, made a nation-wide, victory day "radio address after sending the;bill to the cortes and, defend-, ing his eight-year regime, f de dared that the Test of the world bad finally joined him in fearing and shunning communism, r ! The law of succession was the' first, admission ever made: by Franco that his; government wes a temporary one! and that it might be replaced by ! another form rf rule. However, it did not state th tenure of office of the chief of state and presumably would leave Franco in power for life if he so elected. - ? Bond Rejected By Monmouth f MONMOUTH, March SIBy a vote of 83 yes,. 190 no, Monmouth school districts today disapproved need , foe $40,000-- bond issue here. The. proposal was to bond the district for.' the full amount allowed under the law, to acquire) a site and buy Camp Adair build ings to construct an eight-room elementary school unit to relieve the local pupil overload. ' Many felt the temporary build-i ings were not the answer to th problem. Meanwhile Oregon Col lege of - Education has arranged for more space for the training school as it now exists1, and' it is believed this will take care of Monmouth's school housing prob lem for the current . emergency. Consolidation with Independence district was voted down Janu-i ary 20. . - f: ( . Salem Man Buys Dallas Store i - DALLAS. March 31 Glenn Davenport, West Salem, has pur chased the : Serve-Rite grocery here and started operation. ' Cleo M.- Be van was the former owner, Davenport, who has lived in West Salem 15 years, is . former superintendent of Blue Lake Can-; nery and recently has been with: Kelly-Farquahar Co. " John Howard, also of West Sa lem,, will operate the meat de partment in the grocery. He has. had considerable experience' in' the business. Maxine and Shirley Davenport daughters of the new owners, - willwork 1 in the storey Tbe family has disposed of its property in West Salem. O. Dj RawUns of i Salem handled the sales. : .'.. -m - ' - J" --f; Weather ' Max. Mia. PreetSV SaleM' ' ' r , Portland Saa Francisco 51 SS .. s ss -4 : .IS ' 45, , M. M M JOB Ctucaeo New York SI SO '- WiIlBrrMtr river XI feeC- FORECAST i front U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem) t Cloudy todar and torucnt wua continona liabt rain. Little chance in tempera ture with hi best today SS. Lowest to- nicht SS. . - - l "f ! i a.. - t I 1 I7 1 t. 1 f : - -. w V- .. . . i' : . v?-- Hy -'',-ar