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Tbe coming of the Minneapolis
symphony orchestra to Salem
prompts me to turn back the pases
of memory, far back, to where the
leaves -are pretty well yellowed.
For that was tbe first big orches
tra I ever heard, and the wonder
ci it suu lingers in my mma, '
As a college. freshman back in
the region of catfish and fireflies
1 joined the choral society which
labored all' winter on rehearsals
of Handel's -Messiah"- for a May
music festival. It was sung with
the . Minneapolis symphony or
chestra, imported for the occasion,
and the orchestra presented also
r- To see the orchestra arrrive,
bag and baggage, and get ready
.for its public performance was a
great eye-opener to a green small
town youth. .The personnel was
-foreign" to rural America: many
Germans and 'Italians, -'with
strange language or badly broken
English. I Strange musical instru
ments the oboe, the bassoon, tne
lute, the kettle drums. Some of
the names were , familiar . from
spelling book lists (that was be
lore the day "of ' the" crossword
puzzle) but generally knowledge
f instruments was pretty much
limited to those in the town brass
band or a small local orchestra
piano, clarinet, flute, bass viol.
What a medley the dressing
room was before the grand con
cert! Men -fishing white dickys
out of packing cases and hooking
them on for the desired boiled
shirt effect; others digging put
instruments and music stands and
music. Individual musicians walk
ing around, -warming up" like a
ball pitcher cawing on his vio
lin,, fingering his 'cello, toothing
his flute. The dissonance was hard
on the ears, but the spectacle was
diverting. -".7;"--,
Then the orchestra solomnely
filed into the auditorium, taking
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Senate Votes to
Give U.N. Voice
In U.S. Loans
WASHINGTON, April 10
Tbe senate today adopted ; the
Vandenberg amendment : ' which
would give the. United ' Nations
conditional power to halt the pro
posed $400,000,000 U. S. program
cf aid to Greece and Turkey.
Under this amendment, the in
ternational organization could end
the program whenever two-thirds
of the general assembly or seven
of the 11 members of the security
assistance furnished bytne Unit
ed Nations made the continuance
of such (American) assistance un
necessary or undesirable.
Tbe amendment, approved by a
voice vote, was drafted to meet
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by-passed, by the lone-handed
American proposal.
Animal Crcchcrs
; : By WAKEN GOODRICH
toothed yoa not to work
against the wind?
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WOODWARD, Okbu, April 10 Top picture is an aerial view of the Oklahoma town of Woodward, vir
tually wiped eat by a tornade which swept tbe town at night, killing nearly a hundred of the resi
dent, and injuring nearly a thousand. Beneath la a typical street scene threaghent this town of
S500. (AP Wirephoto to Tbe Statesman.) ; .
1 W-Bpch Seciomi em
lAJd!i7a rdl L e ve lied
WOODWARD,, Okla; "April 10-(JP)-A tornado ripped through
western Texas and Oklahoma last night killing 132 persons, injuring
1,073 and leaving millions of dollars of property damage in its wake.
Reports from Red Cross field units to the Texas highway patrol
estimated that as many as 154 may have died In the tempestuous
storms and that even more dead might still be found In the wreckage.
500 Jdle as
Oregon Pulp
Flume Breaks
A crew of the Oregon Pulp and
Paper Co. mill here worked late
into the night repairing a broken
flume that yesterday afternoon
shut down the ; entire plant.
' Manager Karl Heinlein of , the
local plant said about 500 em
ployes were - affected - when all
operations ; of the mill ' stopped
about 2:30 p. m. A washout in
the flume section at . the spillway
requires rebuilding' - or, if jthat
cannot be accomplished, a by
passing temporarily to repair the
Dume,;Heinlein said. . " : ' r
It was expected at a late hour
yesterday that tbe mill would be
in full - operation today,' and all
employes were to report -for "work
on their regular shifts today. .
Severe
Shakes Desert
"! LOS ANGELES, April 10
A severe earthquake, spending its
greatest force on -the sweeping
Mojave desert, rocked 60,000
square miles of Southern Califor
nia, Arizona and Nevada today,
but damage, was minor tind no
serious injuries were reported.
Felt throughout a square bound
ed roughly by San Diego and San
ta - Barbara on the west coast;
Phoenix, Ariz- and Las Vegas,
Nev inland, it ' started sharply,
then leveled off to a rolling mo
tion . lasting almost . a minute. It
disturbed thousands of break'
fasten and a Las Vegas house
wife reported it upset a pot of
boiling coffeer"
Jap Imperial Carp Prove'
Wary in Imperial i Moat
TOKYO, Friday, April 11-V-The
long-forbidden imperial moat
was opened legally to anglers this
week but hundreds who tried
hard went home empty-handed.
For 74 years it has been illegal
to fish for the emperor's stock of
carp, catfish and turtles. Now it's
illegal only In "front of General
MacArthur s headquarters.
Woman to Preside Qver
Businessmen's Club
OAK HARBOR, O, April 10-(fi-VLia
Luella Zehner has been
elected president of the Oak liar
bor Business Men's association.
A lawyer, she is the first of her
sex to head the association during
its 30-year history. r4
Quake
The Red Cross at St. Louis reported-
132 known dead and ' at
least 1,305 injured as follows:
Woodward,' Okla., 85 dead,. 1,000
or more injured; Higgings, Tex.,
WOODWARD. Okbv, April 1
-(P) A -17 -year-old youth en
tered a funeral home in this
tornado-stricken city today.
"Have yoa got my daddy T
He asked the attendant.
They looked and found dad
dy A. J. Warriner- among the
dead.
"Thanks,- be said, "now all
Tve get to do Is find my
mother."
34 dead, 232 injured: Glazier. Tex-
13 dead, 40 injured: White Horse.
Okla, none dead. 30 injured; Gray
county, Tex, none dead, three
injured. ; . . .
Worst hit was Woodward where
100 blocks of buildings, most of
them residences, were levelled.
The highway patrol estimated that
100 persons may be dead here.
Using Bulldozers
Noland Norgaard, Associated
Press correspondent, reported that
85 were known dead and that
searching parties using bulldozers
were digging in the ruins for ad
ditional bodies.
Fires. broke out In Woodward
and were uncontrolled for sev
eral, hours. Communications
throughout the area were difficult
at best and In many instances im
possible except, by courier.
Newspaper Editor Report
J. L. Swindle, editor of the
Pampa, Tex- Daily. News, said:
"The ferocity of the winds was
evidenced by the fact that the
bodies of two persons known to
have been together at, the time
the storm hit were found almost
three miles apart. Many bodies
were mutilated by the wind alone.
"Only one bouse was left habit
able. Heavy highway construction
equipment was twisted out of
shape. Large trees were shatter
ed." Phone Pickets Can't Use
Telephones; Use Plane
WEIfATCHEE, Wash, April 10.
-(AVTelephone workers picketing
a "telephone company office here
are using planes to keep in touch
with strike headquarters in yaki
ma and Spokane, a picket said to-
day. '
D. L. Moser, Yakima, explained
that the pickets were unable to
get long distance calls through. :
Oldest Congressman
In Critical Condition j
WASHINGTON, April 10-;Pr-Rep.
Joseph Jefferson Mansfield
(D.-Tex.) at 85 the oldest man
in congress, is gravely ill in the
naval hospital in suburban Beth
seda, Md, where officials said he
was in "critical" condition.
Bill Steinkamp
Win 4-Year
Chosen lrom among ' 38,364
candidates . elected to - represent
9,157 of the nation's high schools,
William I. Steinkamp, 18, a senior
at Sacred Heart academy, yester
day received word that he had
been awarded one of the 129 four-
year college -scholarships granted
this year by the Pepsi-Cola
scholarship board
Announcement of the award
was made by Sister Mary Gladys,
principal of Sacred Heart acad
emy, who stated that he was one
of 522 Oregon students from 115
public, private and parochial
schools- who participated in this
national contest, which is fi
nanced by the Pepsi-Cola com
pany.
Sacred Heart academy s win
ner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
F. Steinkamp, route 1. Brooks.
Planning to specialize in mathe
matics, he will apply for entrance
to Gonzaga university following
his graduation in June. He is
class valedictorian and student
body vice president He won
medal for - outstanding achieve
ment, leadership and scholarship.
His father owns a farm near
Brooks.
. . The second .Pepsi-Cola scholar
ship awarded in Oregon this year
was won by a Dayton student R.
Sherman Lehman.-17. a senior at
Dayton high school. He the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Leh
man of route 2.
Sister Mary Gladys reported
that three outstanding seniors of
Sacred Heart academy were
elected by their classmates to
try for . the scholarships. They
were: Ann Carolyn Condra, Leon
ard Jerome Cooney and William
I. Steinkamp.
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SEATTLE ARMORY BURNS
SEATTLE, April lO.-C-A
two-alarm fire in the old National
Guard armory in downtown Se
attle was being fought by firemen
early this morning.
Salem Building
720 Unfinished
By Cnr4 Prance
SUIT Writer.. Tb SUtttmta
Building in Salem took an up
ward swing during March, thanks
to a $521,200 permit for a dormi
tory at Willamette which swelled
permits Issued for, the month to
$855,873. a 300 per cent increase
over February. . . -
Forty-four new dwelling units
were included in tbe permits cost
ins; $157,650, according to a re
port issued Thursday by the local
office of the state employment
service. . -
A recent survey by the office
estimated that there are 720 un
finished dwellings in M a r i o n
county. Outside of Salem 100 new
dwellings were started in March
in the county, the office reported.
The report indicated that many of
the unfinished houses showed no
signs of recent progress, with high
material costs given as the cause.
Scholarship
New Mine
Explosion
Fatal to 9
EXETER, Pa., April KHAVTh
nations second coal mine explo
sion in little more than two weeks
killed nine anthracite diggers and
injured nine others i as they
worked 350 feet underground to
day, j
The blast attributed to gas
brought no immediate ! comment
from United Mine Workers Chief
John L. Lewis who closed the
country's bituminous workings in
mourning after 111 died in the
March 25 tragedy at Centralis,
II L However, an immediate re
port was asked in the Pennsyl
vania legislature.
The government operated the
Centralia mine as it does some
2,500 other .bituminous workings
but has no hand in anthracite
setup centered chiefly in eastern
Pennsylvania.
Splintered Timbers
The explosion, so terrific that
it. splintered supporting timbers
and crumpled mine chamber walls,
came shortly after the day work
crew reported at the ; Schooley
shaft of Knox Coal company.
Dust and smoke rose from the
pit head as rescue forces rushed
into the operation near Wilkes-
Barre. Two bodies were removed
immediately. Injured were speed
ed to nearby Pittston hospital
where doctors said some had been
burned, others overcome by
fumes. , ;
No Statement from Company
While no statement was forth
coming f roifl .the company, Joseph
J. - Walsh, deputy state! secretary
of mines, said the blast was
caused by ignition of methane
eas. He reported the! mine in
"first class condition'
cent inspections.
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Imtclieii Invites
Morse to Join
Democratic Party
WENATCHEE. April 10 -OP-
Former democratic VS. Sen. Hugh
B. Mitchell praised the work of
republican Senator Wayne Morse
of Oregon in fighting for western
interests, in a Jefferson day speech
here tonight, inviting him to be
come a democrat.
"He (Morse) now struggles in
the republican fold to preserve
what 14 years of democratic ad
ministration have secured. But by
trying to make the republican par
ty a vehicje of progressive policy,
he makes himself a martyr to a
hopeless cause. He pursues 1
course of political futility."
"... to him, I extend an in
vitation to join the democratic
party."
Winnie Says Red
Plans Surpass
Czarist Dreams
NEW YORK, April j 10 -flV
W ins ton Churchill declared today
the two immediate objects of Sov
iet Russia's policy were "domina
tion of the whole of the Balkan
peninsula" by communist rule, un
der Soviet guidance, and the con
quest and probable incorporation
of Turkey."
In an article copyrighted by Life
magazine and the New York
Times, in which he strongly com
mended the policy enunciated by
President Truman to congress last
month, the former prime minister
of Great Britain added that "the
ambitions of this mighty commun
ist empire (Russia) and oligarchy
go far beyond the dreams of Czar
ist days."
Permits Show Effect of Spring;
Houses Counted in County
Unemployment continued to de
crease over the county, the report
stated, with 3,000 unemployed at
the end - of March . as compared
with 4,000 jobless at the begin-
f ning. The unemployed are" large
ly made up of seasonal industrial
workers, farm workers, and the
technically unemployed.
At the beginning of j April 207
non- seasonal job orders were
waiting to be filled at the office.
During March 575 woVker orders
were received. Of the job open
ings listed at the office 134 were
for trade and service work, 32 for
construction jobs, 15 for Jogging
and lumbering industry and the
rest in railroads and other em
ployment !
Half- of the Job openings were
for women and a high percentage
wanted skilled and clerical and
sales workers. In the building
trades slight labor surpluses con
Fire Rages
Treasure IslandBtise
400,000 Blaze Battled Three Honrs
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10-CP-A
spectacular fire raging for
three hours through the Treas
ure Island naval base was
brought under control tonight
after destroying five buildings
and valuable electronics equip
ment The navy placed the total
loss at $400,000 to $500,000.
Twenty-seven men, all but one
naval personnel, were treated
for injuries ranging from smoke
inhalation and burns to frac
tures. The fire destroyed the block
long galley "K and four smaller
structure nearby but was
checked before it could reach a
number of buildings on the
northern end of the island.
Maybe It Would
Be Easier to
Chance the Law
The traffic enforcement de-
partment of the city police had
good hunting last night, as mo
torist patrons of the Minneap
olis Symphony orchestra, ap
pearing at the Salem high
school, chose D" street on
which to park.
The south side of D" was
recently named "no parking"
territory by city council action.
Before the symphony program
was over, every car parked on
that side of the street for two
full blocks, had a parking,
ticket
The north side of the street,
where parking' is permitted,
had not a parked car.
Truman Puts
Price Burden
On Business
WASHINGTON, April 10 -(P)
President Truman said today the
responsibility for reducing high
prices is squarely on business, and
Attorney General Clark followed
with a statement that "anti-trust
laws do not interfere with volun
tary price reductions."
The question arose at Mr. Tru
man's news conference as to
whether hiness men would risk
anti-trust prosecution if they got
together to lower prices. Mr. Tru
man expressed belief they would
not be prosecuted if they consult
ed the justice department
Clark's statement said that price
fixing arrangements among com
petitors are normally illegal. He
declared he knows of no industry
in which it is necessary for com
petitors to get together to . cut
prices, but if any such cases arises
the justice department will "give
it special study."
Mr. Truman said that if prices
are not brought down then wage
increases will be justified.
Canada Said Potential
World War Battlefield
TORONTO, April lO.-itfVCun-ada
would be "a tremendous and
bloody battlefield" in a third
world war. Historian Arnold J.
Toynbee said today.
The United States and Russia
would be the principal belliger
ents and Britain could not sur
vive, asserted the London univer
sity professor, here for lectures.
tinued to exist in carpenters, la
borers and painters, while short
ages were shown in electricians,
plumbers, plasterers and cement
finishers.
The building industry will find
a shortage of skilled workers, the
report indicated, and heavy con
struction will suck up all surplus
ses of experienced workers and
many unskilled men in that field.
The separation rate - - the im
portant statistics showing the rate
at which employes are changing
Jobs --was down to 8.9 per cent
for all industries during March as
against 13 per cent two months
ago. .The report also showed that
of the 351 new job applications
received by the office during last
month,- 90 were from veterans, a
fall-off of 70 from February and
a substantial decrease from the
505 new veteran applications re
ceived in March year ago.
in rNcws
Naval officials said $100,000
worth of electronics equipment
in the galley was destroyed. The
building itself, i built for the
1939-40 Golden Gate interna
tional exposition on the 440
;acre man-made island in San
' Francisco bay, was valued by the
navy at $250,000. It was a com
plete loss. ; . - ' l
Fire officials said the largest
mobilization of firefighting
forces and equipment in the his
tory , of the- bay region , was re
quired to s ubdue the wind
fanned blaze. -
Several thousand men. Includ
ing hundreds of the 4,000 naval
personnel stationed on the island,
participated in the fight.
Judge
Lewis, Declines
To Reduce Fine
WASHINGTON, April 10 XSV
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsbor-
ough refused today to cut the
United Mine Workers $3,500,000
fine at this time, declaring there
is evidence John L. Lewis has
taken "advantage of the Centra
lia, 111-, mine explosion to cause a
new coal strike.
The justice, who imposed the
historic f ineTf or contempt of court
last DecerraieT, postponed consid
eration of fthe matter for two
weeks, until April 24. He said he
does not see how he can make the
reduction even then.
The $2,800,000 cut which would
give the union a refund because It
has put up a $3,500,000 deposit-
was ordered March 6 by the su
preme court provided the union
dropped all plans for a strike in
the government-seized mines.
Goldsborough said Lewis and
the union have not yet shown
"good faith in Obeying the su
preme court The soft-voiced, bald
federal judge also said Lewis, has
showed "an utterly contemptuous
attitude toward the courts."
Morse Attacks
New Labor Bill
WASHINGTON, April 10 -PW
Senator Morse (R-Ore) declared
today that "every employer in
America, shoul d oppose the om
nibus labor, bill which will - come
before a senate committee -for ac
tion tomorrow. " ' " . ; ,
Morse" said individual bills" on
different labor problems would be
much preferable to an" omnibus
bill. He recommended bills to reg
ulate checkoff of dues; provide an
independent mediation, - concilia
tion, and arbitration service; provide-
a board of inquiry which
would publish its findings before
a work halt in fields which would
cause national paralysis and hold
unions responsible for unfair la
bor acts and breach of contract.
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Wait on Shortages
COOS BAY, Ore, April IfMffj
Sheldon SackeU, Coos Bay Times
publisher, said he hadset no date
for his announced plan to establish
newspapers in Spokane and Boise.
SackeU, who recently acquired
Portland, Vancouver, and Seattle
newspapers, ; said he must ; await
the acquisition of buildings, plants,
and newsprint ' .
Longshoremen Ask U.S.
Industry's Nationalized
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10-C-P)
The nationalization of the nation's
basic industries was urged today
in a resolution adopted without
a dissenting vote by the CIO
longshoremen's and warehouse
men's seventh biennial convention.
Union President : Harry Bridges
declared: This means simply that
we should let, the government
operate what it already owns. ;
Indians Resent' Painting
Of Scalping Scene
WASHINGTON, April 10.-4P)-The
painting "War Whoop" show
ing an Indian brave holding the
scalp of a white pioneer is com
ing down from a house committee
room wall at the request of the
Indians.--':
Rep. Stefan (R-Neb) said Indi
ans from Nebraska objected that
red men "have buried the hatch
et? and the picture brings up
"cruel memories."
Study of
Proposal
Continues
4 WASHINGTON, April 10-tP--A
new jolt was handed tonight
to hopes for an early end to the'
cross-country telephone strike ;
with a union announcement that -the
pending proposal to end one
major phase of it "did -not conf
form to Union policy. ' ;
a The policy committee of the'
National Federation of Telephone,
Workers did not reject the plan
outright, however, and said 1 has '
not completed its study.
Statement Due -!
Further, President J. A. Beirne
of the federation said that when
th policy makers reconvene ' to-
morrow (11 a. m. EST) they wii "
issue a proposak which he re-'
Sards as a "steo - toward settle '
ment of the 4-day strike '
Beirne told reporters that the
settlement plan for long-line
wui ncis contains provisions jcr;
local1 arbitration of some issues.
- xnereiore, it aia noi coniorni
to the policy of the" policy : com-'
mittee, enunciated on two occa
sions, said the head of the 320,000
striking telephone workers.- .
Kstlnna.1 A r hi (ration -
! The policy committee has held
are to be arbitrated, should te
for all unions involved, -v
' lie BUUUUiHXU uidk uim
posal the contents of which are
to be released at lla. m. (EST)
tomorrow. .
Release Slips -Said
Attempt to
Prolong Strike
! Accusation that the American
Telephone & Telegraph company
hopes to prolong the telephor e
strike . was made yesterdav by
Emerson Sims, Jegal counsel for
the Oregon telephone employes.
He said that the company anti
cipates this action to be a boorl
to anti-labor legislation support
Sims cited the company's AoriL
t - and 10 delivery of separation .
v sjivj uvcr Luc , t
an act which will make worker
eligible for unemployment com
pensation, as an attempt to mako
it possible for strikers to "main
tain themselves at public expen
through unemployment benefits,
which might make contiminca
buule possioie ior many
week. Separation slips are dated
April 7, the day of the strike's
beginning.'. -
Canada, Soviet
Minus Envoys i
5 OTTAWA, OntV April -10 -CP)
Canada let it be known today that
she is without an -ambassador to
Russia and may -delay appoint
ment of an envoy indefinitely- -
' There has been no Russia am
bassador in Canada since George
Zarubin left the soviet embawy
and returned home late, in 1945,
just before the Canadian govern
ment made its sensational dis
closure that - a soviet espionage
network involved the Russian em- ,
bassy. . "
An externa affairs department
spokesman said I. D- Wilgress,
Canadian ambassador who is now
in Geneva attending fh interna
tional preparatory trade meeting,
would not return to his Moscow
post ' . - ... .
Wesleners, Plea Fails
To Assure Reclamation
WASHINGTON, April 10 -OFV-Western
republican house mem
bers conferred for two feours with
house leaders today about report
ed drastic cuts in the reclamation
and power construction program
appropriations but received no
promise of more funds. .
! The western group arranged the
meeting to protest against reports
that the interior appropriations
bill total had been cut from $130,-
000,000 to 155,000,000.
Weather
Max.
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91
Kin. ,- Precis
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Portland
San Francisco
Chicago
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New V
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54
WinamcM nvr 1 feet.
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reau. MeNary field. Salem : Fair
weather with occasional acatterwit
ctoudineaa today and tonlctit.. SUshtly
hlxher daytime temperatures wtte
Aighest today 9. Lowest tooight )S