Negotiators Picketting Spreads To Mid-Valley Towns By the Associated Press - Washington negotiations to break the telephone strike deadlock continued into the early morn in a hours today amid an air o hope fulness that a settlement basis was in signt. The New Jersey legisj&ture last night approved legislation to compel arbitration of the strike. . ' . In upstate New York, union councils at Schenectady and Bing- LFTP WDOjQO ' The complexion of the -1947 legislature was conservative. The wire-hair i invasion of the 1930'a was definitely a Ihing of the past. Lawyers. ; farmers businessmen, chiefly composed the assembly, with not a radical thought in a carload. The small group of dem ocrats displayed no consistent liberalism, some being among: the legislative stalwarts on such is sues as labor legislation and sales 1 tax. There was even a tempta tioti to let the state remain out of conformity to the federal social security laws, but the 916.000.000 t stake overbalanced the anti federal ideology. After all, the eld people must eat. ' The conservative character of the members carried through Into the legislation enacted. Two laws restrictive of strike were passed, the first 'strike -control legislation by the assembly, in many years. Another bill limits the filing of Tvu-tal-tn-nnrtal claims for Day to one year. In 1943 a six-months' limit .was imposed, which was knocked "out by the supreme court. Labor's gains this time am ounted to a slight extension of unemployment compensation and a substantial Increase in allow ance fori industrial accident com pensation. - Private utilities 'did not get all they asked for; but they got SB 59. removing the recapture pro visions of the state hydro-electric law from licenses for develop ment. And the holding - of PUD elections was limited -to general elections. PUP o It i e e r sought permission to sell revenue bonds without : vote of , the. people but got nowhere.' A community property law was passed under the frank represen tation that it would save residents of the state , some $15,000,000 in t?TP5t chiefly (Continued on Editorial Page) Smith to Direct rentiee PORTLAND, Ore., April oWP) Robert Lv Smith, 28, Eugene pub lic school trade and industrial training coordinator, today was named state director of appren ticeship by the state apprentice ship council. . Smith, ; who succeeds Lords H. Andrews, Portland, graduated from the University; of Oregon in 1941 and worked at Oregon ship yard until entering the army. He is a graduate of Salem High school and attended Willamette univer sity before enrolling at Oregon. The job has a $5000 a year salary. " Vets from Midwest: Mav Get Bonus .Veterans whose pre-war resi dence was in Illinois or Michigan may be eligible for bonus pay ments, , According to George E. Sandy, - Oregon director of vet erans affairs. Sandy advised yesterday that such veterans write for informa tion to Illinois' Veterans commis sion. 223 E. Monroe sL, Spring field, I1L, or to Office of Veter ans Affairs,. 411-15 W. Michigan ave., Lansing 15, Mich. The bonus Is $10 for each month of service In Jhe U S. and $15 for ' each month in foreign service. ' ; Anirnaf CracFtcrs n By ymm Goodrich "Left not go in this one. The bartender always asks to see my rattles. ship 7 t-tfrAiriKAL. Hopeful nairtDlon. ana suouroan counui of the Empire. State Telephone Workers union, representing nearly 400 workers ni 13 counties, voted to " return - to work. But workers in eight other counties joined the strike yesterday. Otherwise, the walkout contin ued effective over 39 states with lonf distance service at less than a fourth of normal. - ; Dial Systems Working Local calls went through with out interruption on the 18,700,000 Dhones connected to dial systems, but service was crippled severely on most of the 12,900,000 . others requiring operators. " :1 The important question was-- how long would dials systems and nation-wide teased , lines used ..by cress and -- radio- networks and other businesses function without killed . maintenance? Pickets Extend Activity . - Picketing was. extended to West Salem; Dallas and Indepen dence yesterday in Salem district of the Pacific Telephone and Tel egraph Co.. as the nationwide telephone strike went through its second day. . Unionized telephone workers of the three towns, with the air of some Salem workers, put into ef fect a schedule calling for picket ing from 7:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. i daily the telephone buildings In Dallas and Independence and the company's construction and cable garage on. Wallace road. West Sa lem. Meanwhile, 24-hour picket ing continued at the Salem tele phone building. Service Little Chanced Telephone ' service remained little changed Tuesday in Salem, with - dial calls going through as usual ' and emergency i long dis tance calls also getting through. About 30 supervisors and ex ecu tives manned the local PT&T of fice, according to E. A. Berglund, Salem manager for the company. Berglund said four persons were doing their best to keep the business office running smoothly and to take care of customers coming in to pay their bills or transact other business. Berglund placed "the ; official count of Salem workers off their jobs Tuesday at 229.' i Strike May Cut ras CHICAGO, April 8 -UP)- An proximately 1700 free lance writ ers in Hollywood and New York who turn out the scripts for most f9 . tKa likflt ina! n4v4mn.L wmhM. v- ,tvu.i! iiciwvya )iu(iaiu9 will file a 30-day strike notice tomorrow,. a spokesman for .the Radio Writers Guild said today. The spokesman said five Tissues were involved, topped by the writ ers demand for ownership of ae cepted scripts. Under the present arrangement, the Guild said, the writer surrenders all rights , on sale of a script. - i Hop Growers Slow To Sign Contracts V .... : PORTLAND, April M)-Few 1947 hop . crops are being con tracted by Oregon and Washing ton growers, - the department of agriculture said today. ; The department said . virtually the entire Sacramento valley crop in California had been contract ed, but that northern growers were showing reluctance. The few contracts were for a price of 45 cents a pound for seeded hops. U S. Drops Case Against Pate-Patter TOKYO, Wednesday, April 9 UPy-Tbe international war crimes tribunal today dismissed the in dictment against Dr. Shumei Oka- Sa, who startled the early days of e trial by slapping Hideki Tojo on the head. . The tribunal acted after receiv ing, medical reports that Okawa, who has been on trial in absentia, was Incapable of "standing trial and conducting his defense." Soap Ope Henry Ford to Be Interred Near Scene of Industrial Triumphs By Arthur Everett ' DETROIT, April S.HP-A na tion today mourned the passing of Henry Ford, hailed by his co horts as the father of mass pro duction, who died 'quietly; of a cerebral hemorrhage late Monday. The body of the angular indus trialist will lie in state throughout Wednesday in Greenfield Village, not far from the little red brick building memorialized as the home of his first crude horseless carriage." -.-': ; A public funeral service will be held at 1L30 a. m. (PST) Thurs day at St. Raul's Episcopal cathe dral on Detroit's Woodward ave nue, the street which echoed the Startling sound of his first auto mobile a half century ago. ' ' He will be buried beside his mother and father in a private !''.-. -; pounddd 1651 - NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR .10 21M IP oatpou-a Crawls to 4 Wreck Victim , 7-' y SEATTLE, April 8 Rescue workers eat through the roof of a large bus and remove the body ef one of the eight passengers who died when the vehicle plunged Into the shallow Duwamlsh river after belnx Involved In a collision with an oil track n a bVidae at the Seattle city limits. This picture was made shortly after the accident by a member of the Washington Highway PatroL (AP Wire photoo to the Statesman.) (Story on page 2.) . Vandenberg Opens Turkey. Greek Aid FigKt WASHINGTON, April 8 JF) Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.) opened. the drive for approval of $400,000,000 in aid to Greece and Turkey by "telling the senate today that rejection of the program would "give the green light to aggression everywhere." t The foreign relations chairman declared that unless the aid is giv en, a communist dictatorship will rise iri Greece, Turkey will be menaced and "chain reaction" will imperil world peace. Then, with out mentioning any names, he con tradicted Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Grornyko's assertion to the U. NVsecurity council yesterday that the United States is "by-passing" the United Nations. Vandenberg said he knows of no better way to destroy the United Nations than to give it a job it was neither in tended nor prepared to do. Then he added: - r. v , The only better way to destroy the United Nations of which " I know is to overuse the Veto."- Board Defers Action on Ilillcrest Alarm System The state board of control Tuesday received a letter from the state fire marshal directing installation of a fire alarm system In Hillcrest school for girls. s There would be 24 fire alarm stations with the cost of installa tion estimated at $525. The board deferred action pending investi gation of systems in use in other states. - SNIPER HITS BRITON - JERUSALEM. April 8-WVA British police constable was killed and another was wounded tonight by an attacker who fired a fusi lade of shots at them in an alley of Jerusalem's Jewish quarter, the Palestine government , an nounced. ' ceremony, in the little Addison Ford cemetery near Greenfield Village..-- ;- v Industry circles concede that his passing will have little effect on the Ford Motor Co. since it has been firmly managed by 29-year-old Henry Ford II who took the reins from his aging grandfather in 1945. V It was assumed that the elder Ford's personal fortune of up wards of $200,000,000 will go to his widow,' Clara Bryant Ford, who was with him when he died. They were to have celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary and her 80th. birthday Friday. Ford returned last week from his annual visit to his Georgia es tate and his death was quiet and unexpected. PAGES Scfiool Students Die inQirash Taken from Submerged Bus --x ... , 0 ... v- - v . -eaBsMBssMHBaassseaaaaMBaBassssaassssasstB And They Used to Swallow Goldfish; PITTSBURGH, April 8JP) A three-quarter inch magnet, suspended by a string down the throat of a 16-year-old girl, painlessly removed a two inch sewing needle she had swallowed, doctors at the Uni ; versity of Pittsburgh medical school reported today. The unidentified girl, a pa tient at Western State Psychia tric Institute here, accidentally swallowed the needle last Monday. Recluse Found Under Debris NEW. YOSK, April 8-()-Lang-ley Collyer, 60-year-old recluse, was found dead today under the debris in his fantastic Fifth ave nue home victim of one of the booby traps he set to shield him self and his brother from the world.. , His body, stumbled on by the police as the climax of an 18-day search, lay sprawled only a few feet from the spot where the ema ciated body ot his blind and crip pled brother, 65-year-old Homer, was found March 21. Malnutri tion was a contributing cause in Homer's death and it appeared certain he died because Langley no longer was able to bring him food. The position of Langley's body, detectives explained,, left no doubt that he was burrowing through one of the tunnels which made his house a labyrinth when the debris collapsed around him. Milk Price Hearing To Begin in Portland PORTLAND, Ore, April &-P) Milk distribution costs will be re viewed at a hearing conducted here tomorrow by the state milk control board. . Ervin L. Peterson," director of the state department of agricul ture, said the meeting was called at the .insistence of groups seek ing lower prices for milk in stores than for home delivery. Teachers Undecided On Sales Tax Issue , PORTLAND, April 8-VP)- The Or e g o n Education Association shelved the question of support for the proposed 3 per cent retail sales tax at closing sessions here today. The assembly of the state's teachers voted to postpone indef initely any action on the tax issue. Mrs. Broadhurst Gives Music Lessons in Prison Warden George Alexander said today that Mrs. Gladys Broad hurst, serving life sentence in the Oregon penitentiary for complic ity in the slaying of her husband, is instructing women prisoners to play the piano and accordion dur ing her free hours from the sewing-room. Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, April 9. 1947 Referendum Petition Filed For Power Bill Orange and Farmers Union rep resentatives filed a petition for referendum of the controversial senate bill 99 which permits pri vate' power companies 4 to keep their dams f orhe period for which they are licensed, with the state department today. The move automatically defers operation of the law until after the 1948 election. Morton Tomkins and Bertha Beck, master and secretary of the Oregon State Grange, and Ronald E. Jones and Rep. Ly lei Thomas, president and secretary of the Oregon Farmers Union, signed the petition, ' In order to place the measure, which was passed over the gover nor's veto, on the ballot at the next general election, signatures of 11,856 qualified voters must be obtained. . Tomkins said circulation of pe titions would start within a short time .and he predicted , that no difficulty would be encountered in obtaining the number of sig natures required by law. Traffic Unhampered New Snow in Cascades More snow fell in the Govern ment Camp, Odell lake and Sun Mountain districts Monday night but there was no interruption in traffic R. H. Baldock, state high way engineer, reported here Tues day. ; Rain was reported in virtually all sections of western Oregon. . j Wallace in Europe To Unite 'Progressives' LONDON, April 8.-P)-Henry A. Wallace arrived in England to day on the first leg of a tour of Europe. The former United States secretary of agriculture; and of commerce said the over-all pur pose of his trip was to make con tacts between "progressives" in western Europe and the United States. GREEK OFFENSIVE SET ATHENS, April 8-(P)-As one of the first and possibly one of the most decisive acts of his reign. King Paul of Greece was reported today to be prepared to open a mighty offensive sometime this week against Greek guerilla forces who in the past year have reduced the kingdom almost to a ; state of chaos. VOTE TO EXTEND CCC WASHINGTON, April 8 , -JP) The senate gave . unanimous ap proval on a voice vote today to a one year extension of the gov ernment's commodity credit cor poration, until June 30, 1948. The legislation now- goes to the house. NEWS STRIKE IN GREECE ATHENS, - April a-CPrim. ers, reporters and office person nel will prevent the issuance of newspapers tomorrow in protest against an attack on the com munist newspaper Agonistis of Salonika on March 29. Fee - Geott 'Certified' Pits Ruled WASHINGTON, April 8-P) Coal operators accused John L. Lewis tonight of perpetrating a "hoax" and a "deceitfurdodge" in an effort to delay a back-to-work movement which the government said has boosted soft coal produc tion to 40 per cent of .normal. Lewis, whose United Mine Workers ceased labor last week following the Centralia, I1L, mines disaster, dispatched a telegram to union district leaders today say ing mining should be resumed in any pit the federal government certifies safe. John D. Battle, executive sec retary of the National Coal asso ciation, issued a stafement saying this was a hypocritical, deceitful "dodge" designed to prolong a "deliberate and p r e m editated strike." Inspection Would Be Long ; Lewis, the statement said, "is in reality telling his miners not to return to work until the federal inspectors have had time to re visit all the mines and recertify them a matter of weeks "or months. "Mr. Lewis tried to bluff Sec retary of Interior Krug into tak ing this position and Krug re fused. Mr. Lewis is trying to ob tain the same result by compul sion upon his own members." . - The coal mines administration announced that 1368. mines em ploying 107,738 miners operated today. Estimate; dproduction to day was 40 per cent of normal. The operating mines included 700 United Mine Workers mines em ploying 66,000 U.M.W. men. To Appear in Court Lewis sent out his order forty eight hours prior to his scheduled new appearance before Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, to ask for return of all but $700,000 of the $3,510,000 fines levied against Lewis and the union in connection with 'last fall's 17-day strike. 61 Die, 119 Hurt in Moroccan Riot i CASABLANCA, Morocco, April 8 -(iP)- An official announcement said today that 61 persons were killed and 119 were wounded yesterday in a frenzied street bat tle between Moroccans and black Senegalese riflemen, caused by a fight which began in the city's red light district. Most of the casualties were Moors,! slashed or shot when 50 Senegalese ran ; amok in the streets at the climax of the see saw battle. Three of the wounded vjere Frenchmen. ? 3,000 Operate Pinball, Slot Machines in State PORTLAND, April .-MVFed-eral income tax figures here to day showed more than 3000 per sons operated gambling devices in Oregon last year. The govern ment tax take was $463,002 from the pinball and slot machines. KING CHRISTIAN ILL COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 8P-King Christian X, 76, who stayed with his people through out 'the German occupation, suf fered a "severe" heart attack on Sunday, and a royal decree today deputized his son, Crown Prince Frederick, to act as regent in his illness. Workable Big 4 Admit Deadlock; to Move On to Cerman Boundary Issue Br We? Gallagher MOSCOW, April 8-0P)-After weeks of fruitless arguments, the foreign ministers agreed tonight to shelve the stalemated questions of reparations and the makeup of the German government, and to proceed to the discussions of Ger man boundaries. . The deadlock finally was broken by Soviet Foreign Minis ter V. M. Molotov, who previously had blocked all moves by the United States 'and Britain to take up the next item on the agenda. United States sources; had said before today's meeting that if Molotov persisted in what the Americans called "obstructionist Price 5c On Record LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y April 8 Andrei ' A. Gromyko. Soviet deputy foreign minister, of ficially put his , government on record for the first time tonight as accepting strict inspection and eoBtroI , ef the atom from the mine ere stage to Its oltintatedj preparation as nuclear isei. i Oregon Pulp ' Cuts Prices By 10 Per Cent Ten per cent reduction on prices of all products Is effective today for the Oregon Julp and Paper company lumber division here, Manager E. A. Linden announced Tuesday. The cut, both In retail and wholesale departments, was made to encourage construction, particu larly home building, according to F. W. 1 Leadbetter, presides, who gave the order. Leadbetter said he considered present lumber pro ducts prices too high. I Linden said the mill is con stantly busy on current orders, with the sawmill on two shifts daily and the sash and roof unit on one shift. Scientist Rules Out A-Autos TULSA, Okla, April 8-)-The possibility that atomic energy might someday be used to power automobiles was ruled out tonight by Dr. Arthur H. Compton, scien tist who was instrumental, in work on the atomic bomb, in a speech before alumni of Washington uni versity here. "It isn't .that : atomic energy couldn't run your car. If used. however, those riding in the car would have to wear a three-foot protective sheet of steel to guard against the lethal rays and that shield would weign S9 tons,- ne said.- i - . ; S100,000 Building Permit Sought Authority to construct a $100, 000 warehouse, immediately north of his present warehouse struc ture on Broadway street, v Is sought by D. A. Larmer of Sa lem in an application filed yes terday with the civilian produc tion administration at ' Portland. Larmer says the proposed build ing would be for general storage purposes. A. A. Siewert - of Salem re quested permission to construct a $2500 warehouse here. LABOR BILL IS TEXAS AUSTIN, Tex, April S-O)-Gov. Beau ford Jester tonight signed into law a so-called ."right to work" bill which makes it il legal to deny any person employ ment because of membership or nonm embers hip in a labor union. tactics, the four-power council might end very soon. 7 The ministers also agreed to speed up delivery of war. plant reparations . from Germany,- but no progress was made on the main reparations questions. Molotov, on the insistence of the other three ministers, withdrew, his proposal to set up a nation-wide police sys tem under direction of the pro posed German government Despite the minor agreements, the ministers engaged again in a number of acrimonious . discus sions: and it was apparent that after four and a half weeks of arguments tempers were .wearing short - -, w . fy L No. 11 Total Toll 27 in Air isaster ; CARACAS, Venzuela, April t (P)-An Arc-postal Venezolana two engine plane crashed in a moun tainous . region 23 miles east of here today, killing all 27 persons Students and three professors. , ,:- Police officials from the town of Guatire, hear the scene, loca ted the wreckage about seven hours after the crash and report ed the , bodies of the three crew members and the 24 passengers had been destroyed by fire. The students, returning to' Ca racas from a holy week vacation at Cumani, Included five girls and 16 boys ranging in age from' 14 to 18 years- They were accom panied by one woman and two men faculty members of the Licee Kazetti, school here. The crew members were identified as Pilot Enrique Santa Cruz and Co-Pilot Rodolfo Hermandez. "i -rh tV-S sir 1inr lft riimaM this morning, and was scheduled to land at Caracas' La Carlo ta airport at " 9:30 a.m. When it failed to arrive.0 military and commercial planes b-egan a search. ; I Police went to the scene of the crash, only a few minutes flying time from Caracas, after farmers tn the region reported they had witnessed the disaster, worst in. Venezuela's air history. LimitSouglit on Union Street Rail Franchise Limiting Southern Pacific's Un ion street spur, track franchise to a single year was recommended to the city council last night by Salem's long range planning com mission. . Several members at the meet ing in the chamber of commerce office expressed the belief that the railroad company will remain, more conscious of Salem's agita tion for rearrangement of track age now encircling the business cosinci, li sucn xrancnises as that for the Union street spur are ex tended for short terms only. h Paul Wallace's -parks commit tee was instructed to confer with city officials and the Bush family on a plan for clearing brush ami checking trees on Bush's pasture. City Manager J. L. Franzen, who with Mayor R. L. Elfstrom, was present with the commission, sta ted jtbat the city had no fund at present for development of the "pasture," but would be able to protect it against brush fires and deterioration. 1 The commission's roads and highways committee was author ized to approach, city and county engineers on their plan for ex tending Broadway street as an arterial, as some commissioners felt this conflicts with the long range groups traffic plan center ed on Commercial street and Cherrv avenu arterial Bids Received on Santiam Project 1 PORTLAND. April 4P)-Ko-kenbers? Construction comnanv. Portland, submitted a low bid cf $3,274,342 among five bids re ceived today for relocation of a ten-mile section of the North San tiam highway, the public roads administration said. 1 The project involves grading, masonry and - construction of at bridge to re-route the highway above the level of the proposed Detroit dam. 7-Year Increase in Lumber Costs Illustrated I WASHINGTON, April t -MFi Back in 1939, 35 cents would buy as much lumber as : one dollar would in February of this year, the commerce department said to day. 1 Its March lumber Industry re port said, too, that a 1939 house that required $1000 worth ot lum ber would show a lumber cost of $2828 in February. Weather Max. M;n. ' -M 47 Preelp. -.ae . M - M Portland S4 San Francisco Ovicaro 17 New York -S5 37 Willamette river S Stet. TORECAST (from U S. weather bo- reau. McNary field. - salens : Mostly cloudy today and tonight with totn nutteot IiRbt rams. Luttic ccanr tat tmperatura. liiahart today A3, tea- fl - v . ... 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