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Portal Pay Case Ban
Defeated; Senate Set
For Sales Tax Fight
, J ' ! By Wendell Webb
Htnagmf Editor, The Statesman i j
Determined to be ut-of-the-trenches-by-Easter, the 44th legis
lature all but disposed of its major work on taxes, , timber, welfare,
zoning and unemployment Wednesday, and the. senate calendared for
final action af-1Q30 'ajri. today its major remaining issue the 3 per
cent sales tax. . . - ' ' J r '
; The bouse, meanwhile, defeated the plan to limit back-pay- suits
i.
- The . Oregon - legislature ' has
been under, criticism from both
within and without its member
' hip because of the length of the.
current session.. The major-difficulty
has been that cl meeting
the financial requirement of the
state, and the assembly does not
have a free hand to exercise its
judgment on. matters of taxation.
. The people have written into the
state constitution "Certain prohibi
" . lions wlych- effectively fence the
' ' legislature in..
One of these is the 6 per cent
limitation, which puts a rigid
ceiling on levies on property for
support of the general fund.,
t A Another is the provision which
bans use of. the emergency clause
co measures dealing with taxa
tion. This exposes every legisla
tive tax measure to a referendum.
' Still another is the mandate
that proceeds of Income 1 taxes
may be used only for reduction
of -property taxes.
The fourth it the constitutional
restriction of use of gas taxes and
fees' and licenses on motor ve
hicles to highway expenditures.
Every one of these limitations
has proved embarrassing at this
session. Something may be said in
behalf of each; but the combina
tion makes tax legislation by the
legislature, exceedingly difficult
The tax problem becomes one
of cleverness in devising some
scheme which will escape the
prongs of-" these - constitutional
pickets. To illustrate: there ap
pears to be enough money com
ing1 in from income and corporate
excise taxes to balance the gen
eral fund budget: but to make
this possible a special , election to
authorize an extra levy on prop
'erty has to be had before it "can
be used. It is quite possible that
(Continued on Editorial Page)
'Copter Here
On Inspection
" A small Bell model 47 helicop
ter landed at Salem airport Wed
nesday morning for gasoline be
fore continuing Its power line
patrol through the Willamette
- valley. -. -v
It was the first helicopter to
land here in the post-war city
management of, the airport and
; wa believed, by airport officials
to be the first helicopter ever to
pay Salem a visit '
Operated by Central Aircraft
Co.' of Yakima, Wash, the plane
has a contract1 with Bonneville
'power administration for patrol
ling high tension wires. It car
ries a pilot and a Bonneville tech-
' zrieian to spot breaks or needed
repairs.--" '.' ' ,.
The "copter flew "over the. 'West
Salem BPA substation yesterday
' headed south along - the" power
line to Albany. The West Salem
station received no report of
necessary servicing as a result of
the initial Inspection. .
10 Slain in India
NEW DELHI, April 2-i-Ten
persons were reported killed and
four villages burned today in
communal clashes in southeastern
Punjab province. Disturbances in
Calcutta showed signs of abating.
The government reported only
nine .incidents between midnight
awl noon.
Anxmz! Crccftcrs
By WARKEN GOODRICH :
mHt called me an
Ulegcu
the so-called portal-to-portal
Bill) to a period of one year, and
tilso the measure which would
have voided payment . of unem
ployment compensation for the
first three days of an injury's
duration unless it incapacitated
a workman .10 days or more."
. Barring an unanticipated r re
verse in ironing out minor amend
ments, the assembly could count
this completed program - as its
day's work -Wednesday:' .r
1 Giving final - approval to a
2-cents-a-package on cigaretr to
raise $4,000,000 in the next bi
ennium '(paissed Wednesday in
the senate 22-6, previously ap
proved by the house). ; - .
V 2 Proviaing for vote to -.tax
property, up to $8,000,000, at the
1948 general election if . a ; state
deficitjexists next year (passed in
senateT25-3, previously approved
in house).' .. -
3 Levying a 5-cents-a-thou-sand-feet
tax on timber to raise
$250,000 a year for six years, as
a fund for research : (passed ' by
senate 25-3, with - house concur
ring in amendments). .
4 Appropri a t i n f $22,000,000.
for public welfare to assure a
$43,700,000 fed eral-state-county
biennial program (30 per cent
over current biennium, 20 per
cent less than requested (passed
by senate, previously approved by
house); allowing state to recover
fundsfrom- gifts r legacies re
ceived by welfare recipients
(passed by senate 23-5, previous-
ly approved by house). '
5 Allowing counties to set up
zoning restrictions,; by vote of
people (passed by the senate 26-2,
previously passed by house).
8 Increasing u nemp loyment
compensation from- $18 for 20
weeks to $20 for 22 weeks (passed
by bouse, senate still must con
sider amendments).
Cons to Make Licenses
y 1 Authorizing! p e n i t'en tiary
convicts to make car license
plates, and - furniture and other
goods for state use (passed in
house 47-9, previously passed by
senate). ,
S-Making district courts, with
some of - the powers of circuit
courts, of justice of the peace dis
tricts in Salem, Eugene and Ore
gon City (passed by senate 26-2,
previously passed by house). ; - -
.Rushed through the house Wed
nesday (vote 50-6) and sent to
the senate ; for action today was
a measure appropriating $620,000
for state acquisition of 743-acre
Klamath marine! barracks for a
vocation school, for which Rep.
Rose Poole of Klamath Falls said
all essential equipment was ready,
to permit operation by July l. ; -
Also passed by the house and
sent to the senate were measures
authorizing bonds up to 1 per cent
of the state's valuation to provide
a reforestation fund, and ratify
ing the proposed U, S. constitu
tional amendment limiting presi
dential tenure to two terms. -SUtae
Appropriation Passes
Passed by the senate (vote 20-8)
and sent to the house was the bill
appropriating $17,000 for bronze
statues of the Rev. Jason tee and
Dr. John McLoughlin, to be plac
ed in statuary hair in Washing
ton, D. C, which State Treasurer
Leslie Scott said would be com
pleted, by Alexander - Phimister
Proctor, widely known sculptor,
within three months. . .
On the defeated plan .to limit
back-pay - suits,, the house first
voted 34 to 23 to return the senate-approved
measure to judiciary
committee, on the committee's
promise to bring out a substitute
bill which would expire June 30,
1949, instead of making the limit
permanent Later the house de
feated the substitute plan 39 to 18.
1 RP. Ralph Moore-proponent,
said the logging industry, and
small employers particularly need
ed protection from suits involv
ing alleged wrongs over the six
year period specified in the sta
tute of limitations.
Differentiation Charged x
Opponents, led by Reps. Heis
ler, Carl Francis and Frank Van
Dyke, argued against the princi
ple of limiting employer liability
to one year while employes re
mained liable for their debts for
six years. .
The . house today has a com
paratively short calendar, includ
ing a. few late appropriation bills
and the senate-approved measure
providing, for a $750,000 state
highway commission building in
Salem, but a long session is an
ticipated in consideration ' of
amendments and the eleventh
hour clean-up. ;
The senate, in addition to the
sales tax, will take final action
on many house-passed appropria
tion bills, including one for the
Willamette River basin commis
sion, and on measures providine
for state acquisition of the Klam
ath marine barracks and for a
county tax for welfare.
There - were indications . last
night that the record-long legis
lature (81 days today) might ad
journ late tomorrow, but the
wagering wasn't heavy. There
seemed no chance of tapping
sources to make up the state defi
cit, now estimated at $4,000,000
tarring unforeseen increases in
state revenues,
i (Legis. actions page 7.)
NINETY-SIXTH YEAR 12
Asia-Minded
NEW DELHI India, April X
Jawabarlal . Nehru, Indian na
tionalist leader, wbe Uld the
first Inter-Asian conference :: te-
. day that the "center of events"
was shifting from Europe to
Asia and the Americas and Asia
" probably would be the focal
points of aay- f store wars. .
Workers Drop
in
Portal Pay Suit
CINCINNATI, April 2-(fl-A
motion for dismissal or. an ap
peal in the original portal -to-portal
pay suit 'was filed in the
Sixth U. S. circuit court of ap
peals today by counsel for the
employes of theTuTT Clemens Pot
tery Co- of Mt. Clemens, Mich.
- Attorney Edward Lamb's filing
of the omtion was the latest de
velopment in the Mt. Clemens
suit, which was followed by portal
pay suits which now, total more
than $5,000,000,000. '.
The Mt Clemens workers ap
peal was from a decision by Dis
trict Judge ' Frank . Ficard dis
missing-the suit saying the time
involved was- inconsequential.
The appeal had -, been r trans
ferred to the U, S. supreme court
for , an immediate review of the
action; K,'::v . 'A-'-'
Salem Women
In Queen Vote
' 'Willamette university's May fes
Uyal queen will be elected by
v6te of the student body Tuesday
from 10- seniors who. were nomin
ated in yesterday's election.
; The ten named yesterday were
Elaine Cloudy, Ketchikan, Alaska,
Alpha Chi Omega; Margaret Al-len,-West
Salem, Chi Omega; Pa
tricia Mansfield, Portland, Alpha
Chi Omega; Verna Stocks, Port
land. Delta GammaX Melva Wil
liamson, Monmouth, Delta Gam
ma; Nancy Stuart, Portland, Delta
Gamma; Lorraine Murdock, Sa
lem, Pi Beta Phi; Mary East Run
yan, Salem, Pi Beta Phi; Sue Fer
guson, Woodbdrn, independent,
and- Eevelyn Deal, Longview,
Wash., Delta Gamma. .
The election, following the 10
day Easter vacation which starts
tomorrow, will select the top three
as queen and princesses.
Hunt for Convict
Turns Eastward
KLAMATH 'FALLS, Ore1 April
2-WVBelief that Alfred A. Paine,
escaped San Quentln convict, is
headed for Idaho was expressed
today by police after a fruitless
search of this area.
A car in which Paine fled the
gun battle was found near Fort
Klamath on the road to the lake.
It was abandoned because Paine
apparently tried to steal some gas
and picked a pump which was
filled with water. Another car
was then stolen.
All ro ran Arrested
On Jury's Charge
Jens Hamer of Aurora faces
non-support charges in Marion
county jail after his apprehension
in West Linn and return here fol
lowing his secret indictment by
Marion county grand jury last
week, the county sheriffs office
reported Wednesday.
- Sheriff Denver1- Young also
took into custody Powell Clayton
of West linn, arrested on a cir
cuit ' court bench - warrant hy
Aurora authorities. No arrest has
yet been made in the second se
cret Indictment delivered by the
grand jury.
Appeal
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Salem.
imdil
ort
By Ed Lewis
- , Staff Writer, The Statesman t .
! There were fireworks at city
hall last night as the city council
rejected ' City Manager - J. ' 1
Franzen'S recommendation and
proceeded to re-order Mico park
ing meters from the Michael Arts
Bronze company of Kentucky,
whose contract was cancelled last
month for non-delivery. ,
Deciding on the originally-ordered
manually operated meters
against a strong move for auto
matic meters that would have
cost $10 more per meter (for the
order of 1163 meters), the coun
cil agreed to a contract with a
penalty clause to provide for the
company's payment of 23 cents
per day per meter not installed
by April 25. January 25 of this
year was the date of delivery
specified in the original contract
signed more than a year ago.
. The manager's proposal was
for purchase of 'the McGee-Hale
company's automatic Park-O-Me-ter,
used in Oregon City, the cost
of which is $61 per meter, com
pared with the Michael , meter's
$51 price. Quoted prices : include
installation costs. '
Mayor' ,R- L. Elfstrom stated
after the meeting that the con
tract would be signed this morn
ing. -
'Mayor Approves
The mayor said he believed the
manual' Michael meter y would
prove satisfactory, although he
preferred an automatic meter be
cause of the convenience to the
publie and because Franzen's re-,
cent three-day survey1 of 11 cities
in . Washington and . .Oregon
seemed to show that the auto
matic meters ' were superior.
The city now has better con
tract than before the March 19
cancellation of the . first agree
ment. Mayor Elfstrom declared
in calling attention to the com
pany's previous refusal to talk
about a penalty clause in the
contract and its opposition, to
company payment of air express
charges, both of which , arc now
specified.
Franzen. expressed a belief
that the Michael Arts meters are
as good as any manual meter he
has inspected.
First Vote Is Tie
The council's first vote on
Franzen's automatic meter rec
ommendation was a tie. Voting
against his advice were Aldermen
Albert H. Gille, David O'Hara,
Claude W. Jorgensen and D. J.
Fry. Those who favored the au
tomatic meters - were Aldermen
Howard Maple, James Nicholson,
R. O. Lewis and Mayor R. L. Elf
strom. , '
' After the council's . deadlock.
Mayor Elfstrom rescinded - his
support of Franzen's advice and
voted in favor of the Mico me
ter. . '
; Aldermen Nicholson and Maple
led the fight for the, automatic
meter, based on Franzen's report
Nicholson was the only .dissenter
in . the re-vote . which approved
the Mico meter order.
Reminded ef Investigation
; Alderman Gille, reminding the
council of the .- "tremendous
amount of investigation" . made
throughout the U. S. by the com
mittee from the previous city
council, of which he was a mem
ber, and Alderman O'Hara were
leading proponents of the Mico
meter.. .
"Our committee found that for
the manual type, as a rule, the
maintenance cost was consider
ably ..lower than for the auto
matic meter," Gille pointed out.
Robert Foote, Michael Arts
Bronze representative, told the
council that the contract was can
celled three weeks before 60 per
cent of the order was due.
Referring to the contract can
cellation, Foote suggested, "Was
this due to lateness of delivery or
just a straw in the wind to grasp
to get an automatic meter." He
then recalled his company had
stood by its original contract
with Salem through the long liti
gation over the city's right to put
in meters.
The first parking meter deliv
ery of 450 units was due Jan
uary 25 but the second, for 713
meters, . was not .placed until
February and was not, the meet
ing brought out, due until 65
days after placing of the order.
(Other council news on page 2)
Weather
Max.
- 4 -
87 ,
59
- 47
Min. Prectp.
44 Xt
M .10
40 trace
Salem V, ';,
Portland
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
45
41 - 1.1S
Willamette river feet.
FORECAST (from VS. weather bu
reau. McNary field, Salem): Mostly
cloudy today with occasional light
showers in the morning. Only one or
two ahowers in the afternoon. Lowest
toolsht 40. Hisbest today SS.
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Fraiizen's
Rep
Rejected
PQUNDQD 1651
Oregon, Thursday Morning. April 3. 1947
Orders
5L Medl ddd Ej0tosiDin) .
CLINTON, Mo, April 2.-(Jty-Ten
persons were burned to
death and five were injured to
' day in an explosion and fire that
demolished a one-stor f'"?
plant of the Brown Manufac
turing company, a fireworks con
cern. Cauee of the blast was unde
termined. , Chief of Police J. D. Peays said
that all of the 28 workers making
toy fourth of July buzz-bombs
in the plant were accounted for.
Thirteen made their way to safe
ty, the 10 dead were burned al
most beyond recognition and five
were injured, four of them criti
cally. . j
The bodies of the dead were
Phone Union
Rejects Pay
Arbitration
WASHINGTON, April 2-iT)-Strike-threatening
Jong distance
telephone operators turned down
tonight a company offer of lim
ited arbitration on wages. '
Government officials, sitting
In ; on the renewed negotiations
on one phase of the dispute said
the net result of the night session
was "no significant j progress
toward heading off the nation
wide telephone tie-up scheduled
for Monday. .
- William N. Margolin, . govern
ment, conciliator, arranged a new
-meeting on the' long lines phase
of the situation for 11 a. m.
(EST) tomorrow. !
The conferees said George S.
Dring, assistant vice president of
the American Telephone and Tel
egraph company, offered arbitra
tion on the wage issue on the
basis of pay for worH of com
parable skill in the various areas.
John J. Moran, president of
the American Union of Telephone
Workers which represents long
lines employes, said the union
was willing to arbitrate the whole
case, but not part of it!
During the day congress aban
doned hopes of enacting anti
strike legislation in time to head
off a nationwide walkout Mon
day. Joseph A. Beirne, president, of
the National Federation of Tele-
fphone Workers, said the stoppage
will take place at B a. m. Monday,
according to the various time
zones, unless the trend of nego
tiations changes for the better.
2 Babies Die
In Home Fire
PORTLAND, April zUPhS
year-old's curiosity about matches
was blamed today by Fire Marshal
Miles Woodword for his death and
that of his 15-month -old brother.
Roy Michael, 3, and Freddie, 15
months, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Si
mon Younger, suffocated in a flash
fire in their second-story apart
ment j
; Fire investigator W. R. Curtis
said the parents told him they ran
to Roy's blazing room, but could
not find -him. Mrs. Younger fell
down the stairs, and her husband,
after descending, was unable to
fight his way back. Both were In
a hospital with burns.
The fire marshall reported find
ing chewed and broken matches
Jn Roy's bed.
Churches to Observe Communions
Masses, Services
Churchgoers throughout Salem
will pause in their workaday ac
tivity tomorrow for Good Friday
services in many of the city's
churches. Many congregations,
too, will take communion tonight
in special holy week Services.
Many Protestant congregations
will join in the Salem Ministerial
association-sponsored uftion Good
Friday service at First Congre
gational church at Cottage and
Marion streets, from noon to 3
p. m.
Taking their themes
last words of Christ on
from the
the cross.
the following . ministers will
preach: the Rev. Alien p.. Wilcox,
"Father forgive . ,
Wilmer N. Brown, "Today Thou
shalt . . the Rev. Dudley Strain,
"Woman, Behold . . .;" Dr. Charles
Durden, "My God, My God;" the
Rev. H. A. Schlatter,
I thirst;"
the Rev. Lloyd T. Anderson,
Price
Original Meters
brought to a. temporary morgue
at the city hall in this town of
6,000 population, about 100 miles
southeast of Kansas City.
C. F. Province gave this graph
ic picture of the explosion and
fire to a reporter on the scene:
"I was tamping powder into
small tubes and Will East was
working alongside me. I saw a
flash in the next room in the
northeast corner of the building
where Herst (J C. Herst, one
of the dead) was sawing the
tubes into lengths and inserting
wings. The wings help the buzz
bombs stay in the air.
"I yelled that there was a fire
and then ran to a door about
15 feet away. I got to the door
Telephone Official
On Waiting List?
Telephones still must be hard
to get
The Statesman, phoning last
night to ask about Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph Co.'s ap
plication to erect a $. qoon
set hat warehouse In Salem,
was told by "Information" that
Elmer Berglund, new Salem
manager ef the telephone com
pany, hasn't a home phone list
ed with the local exchange.
Engineer Dies
In Train Crash
ARMSTRONG. Okla, April 2 -WVRunning
through dense fog,
the Missouri-Kansas-Texas rail
road's crackTexai. special plow,
ed into the locomotive of a 100
car freight train here today, kill
ing a veteran engineer and injur
ing six other crewmen and sev
eral passengers.
Three cars were overturned
and four derailed in the accident,
which occured as the freight train,
was backing onto another track.
Louie Hansen, 70, of Denison,
died beneath the southbound pas
sehge. rlocomotive he engineered.
Sever Probes
Mine Tragedy
PORTLAND, Ore.,' April 2.-JP)
Frank S. Sever, Portland, Ore., at
torney has been appointed special
investigator for a senate subcom
mittee probing the Centralia, 111,
mine disaster. ' .
A former law partner of Sena
tor Cordon (R-Ore) who heads the
investigation, Sever was deputy
state treasurer from 1921 to 1924
and later state director of Ameri
canization programs.
He has served as a member of
the Multnomah county civil serv
ice commission and for seven years
was chief deputy in the civil de
partment. He is veteran of world
war I and a graduate of the Uni
versity of Oregon law school, class
of 1911.
Nationalists Bomb Relief
Ship in Communist Tort
SHANGHAI, April 2.-OVUN-RRA
today charged that Chinese
government planes bombed and
strafed a relief ship, the LST Wan
shen, resulting in injuries to two
Chinamen as the vessel unloaded
supplies at Shihkiuso, a j Chinese
communist port
. UNRRA's China headquarters
said this was the third bombing
of relief ships by . government
planes in two months.
Planned for Good Friday
"Father, into thy hands . . ."
St. Vincent de Paul's Catholic
parish will have the mass of the
presanctified celebrated at 8 a.
m. Friday and St Joseph's will
have the same mass at noon, j
Stations of the cross are sched
uled for 2:30 p. m. and 7:45 p. m.
at St Vincent's, and following
noon mass and again at 7:30 p. m.
in St Joseph's. Blessing . of the
Easter fire, Easter water and
Easter candle will precede masses
beginning at 8 a. m. for each
parish Saturday.
St Mark's Lutheran church
will have Good Friday services
from noon to 3 p. m., with the
Rev. M. A. Getzendaner, pastor,
assisted by the Rev. Olafj F.
Braaten and the Rev. Carl
Schulz, and vocal solos by Mrs.
A. J. Sholseth , and Mrs. iWle
Ertsgaard. Christ Luthern church
5c
No. 317
and looked back and the whole
place was a mass -of flames.
"East ran toward another door
but then turned back. The flames
were everywhere by then and he
st a r t e d running to- the door
where I was. . The hair on his
head began to burn but he made
the door all right I put out. the
flames in his hair and then ; the
whole building Went .; up in
flames."
Another' witness said he saw
two bodies blown into a field
some 50 fee,t from the factory
. The blaze, fed by the large
amounts of gunpowder in the
factory, gave forth such neat that
firemen at first were unable to
approach within 100 yards of
the inferno. -
Britain Asks
U.N.I Session
On Palestine
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, April
2-P)-Britain . turned the explo
sive Palestine problem over to
the United Nations today and for
mallyj requested that a special
session of the general assembly
be called immediately to launch
preliminary studies.
, Acting j Secretary-General Vic
tor - Hoo i started the machinery
moving at once. Soon after he had
received , the British note, Hoo
sent a telegram to each of the 55
member nations asking whether
they approved the calling: of an
extraordinary session- - Approval
by 28 members is necessary.";7;
The British request . In effect
passed on to the United Nations
the responsibility for finding : a
remedy for the 25-year-old headache.-
The action had been foreshad
owed as early as, last February H
when British Foreign Secretary
Ernest . Bevin informed ' Jewish
and Arab representatives In Lon
don that Britain would make no
further efforts to negotiate a set
tlement of strife in the League
of Nations mandate territory, but
would turn the problem over to
the UN. ' -, .
- This ' morning .-" France and
China, notified Hoo that they had
no objections to a special session;
Russia and the, United States al
rrady had given similar replies
to an lniormal pou.
Warren R. Austin, chief of. the
permanent U. i S.- mission to", the
United ' Nations, said he under
stood that the special session was
to be confined to setting up ma
chinery for doing the preliminary
work, oft Palestine! s .
Fundi Seeking t
Salem Location, 4
To Employe 400 K
A foundry expecting to employ
400- persons is seeking a Salem
location. Manager Clay Cochran
of the Salem Chamber of Com
merce disclosed Wednesday., f
Cochran added that six requests
for local -space for light manufac
turing and other enterprises have
been, received this weekv-further
indicating the trend toward de
centralization of eastern industry.
Cochran is checking for leasable
space or local interests who might
build to provide facilities ranging
from 5,000 to 75,000" square feet of
floor space.
will observe Good Friday at a
7:30 p. in. service. '
Among other Good Friday pro
grams will be noon to 3 p. m.
services at St Paul's Episcopal
church and a 1'Ai p. m. com
munion at the Assembly ef God
tabernacle. 1
. The First Christian church
choir will sing the John Steiner's
cantata. "The Crucifixion," at 8
p. m. Friday.. Soloists will be Reid
Shelton and Chester Douglas,
tenors, and Peter Larson, bass,
and incidental , soloists, - Fred
Bates, baritone, and Victor Wolfe
and Gilbert Clausman, basses.
Holy week communions tonight
include those . at ? 7:30 o'clock
services at Christ Lutheran,
First Methodist and First Chris
tian . churches and . those at 8
o'clock services at First Presby
terian, Central Lutheran and St.
Mark's Lutheran churches.
ht;
Permits
Arming, :
Ruling
By Francis W. Carpeater
! LAKE SUCCESS. N. April
2.-Hr-The United Nations secur
ity council approved tonight after
sharp debate between the. Urn ted
States and Soviet Russia, an agree
ment giving the United States sole
trusteeship over the vital strateeie
areas of three Pacific Island chains
wrested from the Japanese.
! Andrei, A. Gromjko, Soviet del
egate, voted with the other ten,
members of the council on the
final tally, after abstaining on a
critical vote on an , American
amendment giving the security
council and the United States ttm
right to change or discontinue the
agreement. ' r
Keaalre Senate Approval i
The trusteeship agreement now
must be ratified by the United
States senate to become effective."
The United States gained the
right to fortify the islands. nuDdl
naval military and air bases, and
station U. S. troops on them, i
. ;The islands Include 53ipan, Tin-:
lan, -Truk, Eniwetok. Kwajilein,'
and Majuro, some of the most im
portant bases f the war, all in
the Marianas, Marshall and Caro
lines chains. !
Iwo Jima and Okinawa, part cf
the old Japanese empire and not
mandates, were not included. They
will be handled in the Japanese
peace treaty. . j
Staecie SUtas ADewed
- Thecouncil approved without
argument the first article of the
agreement formally designating
the islands as a strategic area
where fortifications, fnay be sec
reted. Other major provisions cf
the agreement were:
1. The U.S. shall have full pow
ers of administration, legislation
and jurisdiction lover the islands. '
- 2. The U. S. must promote the
development of the Inhabitants to- '
ward self-government or indepen
dence. The independence provi
sion was written in at the request
of Russia.
No New Reich
Until Big 4 .
Sets Economy
MOSCOW, April IHP'h'Tb
four-power foreign " minister'
agreed tonight that no provisio&ai
German gov trnrjier.t would be es
tablished until the deadlocked
question of economic tmityi ,fcr
that country had been decided. "
.The ministers once again found
themselves deadlocked on macy
important Issues. The only con
cession ef the t day was an ' ap
parent compromise - by French!
Foreign Secretary Bidault, who
agreed . conditionally to - British,
proposals for establishing a pro
visional government in Germany,
by stages.'. .; . .. t
American . officials disclosed ;
that U. S; Secretary of State Mar
shall had informed Russian For-'
eign Minister Molotov by, letter
that when present withdrawals ,t
U. S. armed forces in Chinawer
complete,- nly 8180 , personnel
would remain there, and these at
the: request of the , Chinese gov-f
ernment"; -J-i-: , ', . t '. - i
In .the. sessions on Germany,'
Marshall suggested the ministei
abolish the veto principle in th
Allied control council, as applied
to any future provisional German .
government , 1. . f '
" Molotov objected immediately.
He said this would destroy ; the
principle of unanimity in the con-:
trol council, and the Russians
were against that, ' -j- i - v
Sugar Beets Get
Local Fertilizer
CORVALLIS. April 2.-iP-Si
thousand tons of ammonium sul
fate fertilizer from the S a 1 e mv
alumina plant about month
production will go to Oregon.'
Washington and Idaho sugar bt.t
farms. ; . . -. . ;,. : V"
i A. S. King.' Oregon State eoHege
extension service, reported that
UNRRA had authorized use of thw
tonnage on northwest farms In
stead of shipment to China. The
Salem TIant has .been producicx
the ferUHrer for UNRRA relict
in China. r r
Bevin to Keep Pot$l L
OustcivMove Denietf i -
LONDON, April 2-f.Py-Newe
paper reports that Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin would r hm
moved out of his job and ma (a -Britain's
economic boss were de ,
nied tonight by Sir Stafford
Cripps, president of the board cf
trade and; hunseif ; frequently
mentioned as Bevin's possible; suc
cessor.; - 1 ' : : '
He said Deputy Prime Minister
Herbert Morrison will direct the
government's- economic program
as soon as Morrison recuperate
from a lengthy illness. - . V
Harvester Strike Set I t" ;
CHICAGO April 2-MVThe "
CIO farm equipment workers to
day filed a 30-day strike notice
against the International Harvest
er company on behalf of 30,000
workers in 10 plants.
CANADIAN A-CENSORSmr
OTTAWA, April 2 .)- The
Canadian government today for
mally placed atomic energy : in
formation under peacetime cen
sorship replacing war controls.
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