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'qjn08lW- Battles, Heavy Winds NeMMska a Newi-Yoifk" Spfeedin OTP to) crocs M Gain I want to report a trip taken with the Chemeketans Sunday to the top of Cedar Butte -in the middle of the the coast range and in the center of the famous Tilla mook burn, not by any report on personal doings but to describe the country traversed- - The party; numbering 22, left by auto early in the mornine. go ing by war of Wallace road, Hope well. Lafayette. . Carlton. Yam hill and Forest Grove to the Wil . ron river highway nd then n- this road to wnere joraan crcc. enters Wilson river, well below the divide. The route via Hope well to Forest Grove and on up Gales creek is one ol the most beautiful in Oregon-. The road f ol lows the foot cf the Polk-YjroMH ridge oi. hill until they run out, and then crosses the vai'ey fiud the gap leading . Into the Tualatin valley. All along it is lined with splendid fanm, im p roved with att-active farm steads. Attractive homes, door yards bright with flowers, prove pot only the prosperity cf the country bit the intere the frr owners take in beautifying their aurrourdine. . ' The towns, too, are flourishing. ' Take Carlton, set in a fine farm ing district, and close, enough" to the coast mountains still to. main tain a thriving lumber Industry, it is almost a picture-book town, with trim cottages and neat varrJ. nothing down-at-heel, an atmos phere of healthy cor ii'ttr-.: ,:, ' ., What a contrast, though, when one leaves Glenwood av.& ui-kl'' leaves the green for the desert of y the burn! It is not treeless, but ' the trees are' - ( Continued .n editorial pare) Board Decrees Rural School Taxing Ninety-five Marion county school districts outside of Salem and Silverton districts were di vided into five rones Monday by the district boundary board In accordance with the county rural school board bill voted by the people in the last general election. The rural school district law, passed by the state legislature re cently, became effective yester day. The law embraces all terri tory within the county except first class districts, Salem, and Silverton. , ; v -4 . ' A member from each' of the live zones will be elected to serve on the rural district board at the . annual school meeting June 16. Nominations for the board, to be filed ' with Mrs. Agnes Booth, county school superintendent, by May 14. are to be made by peti tion and signed by- not less than " 25 voters residing in the candi date's zone, Mrs. Booth said yes terday. -.: Each nominee must file accept ance of nomination with the county superintendent "by June 1, she said. A candidate must be a qualified .voter on a school dis trict Us levy! Members will be reimbursed only for traveling and ether expenses. - " According to the new law, after Jan. 1, 1948, all powers and duties vested in a school district (other than first class districts) to levy taxes will be transferred to the rural school district board. The .board will examine and audit budgets of the districts and will ' have power to reject, increase or i reduce any Item or amount In the J budget. All budgets will be con - - aolidated, - a levy determined and a uniform tax rate made ap plicable In all districts. " (Story Also on Page 2) Filing Closes - Today, Taxes 4 Hundreds, of state income tax payers visited the Salem office of the state tax commission Monday to seek assistance in preparing their 194? returns based on 1949 . Incomes. Both Salem and Portland of fices remained open until 8 p. m. Monday and will be open until midnight today, the deadline for filing this year's returns.-Income tax returns sent by mail and post marked prior to midnight Tues day will be accepted without pen-alty. Animal CracItSrs By WJEN GOODRICH "Ever been in a China Shop?" saiisBssaBBaiiljj NINETY-SEVENTH TEAR Congress WASHINGTON. Amil 14.-UPV- ;A congressional demand for crim j inal prosecution of Henry A. Wal lace mingled today witn iresn de nunciation of his speech-making abroad, but President Truman maintained silence. The house committee on un American activities looked up the old Logan act which provides three years In jail and $5,000 fine for a citizen having "intercourse' with a foreign government to de feat an American measure : and concluded, in the vtfords of Rep. Thomas R-NJ), its chairman: "It covers Henry Wallace just si 'you'd cover a person with a cloak." : - Wallace has been f m a k I n g 'speeches abroad assailing Tru- man s loreign poncy, noiauiy uic 1400,000,000 program to bolster Greece and Turkey against com munism. - ' ' Connally Joins Assault Senator Cphnally (Tex) rank ing democrat on the foreign rela tions committee, joined in the Wallace assault during the day. He issued a statement terming Wallace's actions "regrettable" and saying that "Mr. Wallace is not helping his country nor is ne helping himself by his present course of conduct." Connally con tended that, "the proper place" for the 'former vice president to Issue r his criticism "is here at home." . Wallace Defends! Speeches LONDON. April 14.-(iTVHen-ry A. Wallace replied defiantly tonight to congressional criticism of his speeches here against Pres ident Truman's foreign policy with the assertion that !Only if a state of war existed could I be ac cused of giving aid to an enemy in expressing my point of view." He said that it was his inten tion to "Go on speaking out for peace wherever men will listen to me until the end of my days." Wallace said that his speeches and the American criticism " had brought him only three cable grams fromthe United States, all urging him to continue his cam paign. He said they came from Greenwich, Minn, Seattle, Wash., and Washington, D. C, but did not nam the senders. Senate Group Eases Labor Curbing Bill WASHINGTON. April I4-P) Waving away objections of Sena tor Tsit (K-Ohio), its chairman, the senate labor committee today softened somewhat the provisions of its omnibus labor bill. '- - ! In the house, however, a stnke- curbing, union-regulating bill with more penalties in it comes up ".for debate tomorrow and Speaker Martin (R-Mass) p r e -dieted its passage by more than enough margin to override any veto by President Truman, v y The senate group voted down, S to 5, a provision of its original draft which would have imposed specific penalties on jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts, as the house bill does. Instead it decided to make these "unfair la bor practices" the national labor relations board could tell a union to stop them, and go to court for an injunction if the union dis obeyed. , Also knocked out, 7 to 6, was a ban on health, and welfare funds administered solely by unions. On both these votes a group' of democrats and republicans, in eluding Sen. Morse (R-Ore), over ruled a minority headed by Taft Ce Still nsors Iii Soviet Plan MOSCOW, April 14WP)-Prime Minister Stalin told Harold E. Stassen that some American news correspondents have "an ill mood' toward Russia, and that "it will be difficult In our country to dis pense with censorship, the for mer Minnesota governor disclosed today. Stassen, a candidate for the re publican presidential nomination in the United States, said that Stalin remarked in the course of a conversation on censorship and newspapers -that the Russians "da not see any big. difference be tween the - republicans and . the Oregon Liquor Sale Down,' First Quarter ' PORTLAND, April 14 -Pf- A slight decline In the sale of liquor in the first quarter of this year was reported today "by the state liquor commission. : Administrator William Ham mond said sales were $8,953,548 compared with $9,032,631 for the first quarter last year. Money from 1947 permits alio dropped from Decries i -;y. - ' ' ;y Wallace i $317,33? to S250.092. 10 PAGES (UJdSa PiriM) U Says Thanks Fire Chief W. P. Roble whe, after six weeks at the head ef Sa lem's fire department, express ed his pleasure at the citywide cooperation he has been receiv ing In local fire protect lea mea sares. ' Salem Firemen To Get Tests, v New Uniforms New standardized station clothes as well as formal uniforms are in the Immediate offing for all four Salem fire stations. Chief W. P. Roble made known Monday in re viewing plans for department be took over six weeks ago. The new chief also disclosed that written examinations already have been given all drivers and assist ants, in regard to the location of all hydrants in the city, and that within the next two weeks every member of the department will be required to pass tests regarding the exact location of all short streets (one-way, circular and drives) so no time will be lost in reaching conflagrations by the closest way. . Roble said he was gratified at the cooperation he had received from everyone the city Itself, the chamber of commerce, the depart ment heads and every member of the staff, since he came to Salem from Spokane.- He added that he had received several queries regarding the or der, eriective yesterday, that no open fires should be started with out a permit personally obtained at one of the four stations. The order docs not pertain to outdoor fireplaces or enclosed in cinerators if ' they are properly screened to prevent spreading of sparks, Roble said. Applications now are being re ceived for nine existing fire de partment vacancies. The list Is to close Thursday, and examinations for new firemen will be given April 25. : - HUGE LINER AGROUND SOUTHAMPTON. England. Tuesday, April HS-iVTugs failed to budge the Queen Elizabeth. which ran aground at the entrance to Southampton harbor last night. but officials said they expected the world's largest liner to lift her self free on the rising tide today. ( 1937 Busy at Setting Records In Salem Weather, Says Review Ten years ago this month a record April rainfall of 7.68 inches was recorded' by local weather observers, three months after an all-time high day's snow fall of 25 full inches fell on Feb ruary 1. A record precipitation for June was noted that year-at 4.61 inches, and in November, 1937, an official U. S. weather, bureau was established in Salem. "The department of commerce must have figured Salem needed one after all those " records," Weatherman Gilbert L. Sternes commented yesterday as he an nounced publication for, the first time here of an annual meteoro logical summary, covering 1946 weather in Salem and accompa nied by comparative data based on records of the past 53. year!. A limited quantity of the neat, close-figured eight-page bulletins is on hand for distribution to "per sons who really need them, Sternes explained. Sternes super vised compilation of the report and the printing was done in the Portland printing office for the U. S. weather bureau. . POUNDS D Salem, Orecon, Tuesday Morning, April 15. 1947 n UvLId May Set Industry e Pattern DETROIT, April 14-W)-Gen- eral Motors Corp. and officers of the United : Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of 'America (CIO) announced a wage agree ment today that may set the pat-' tern for the nation's entire auto motive Industry with its more than 500,000 hourly-rated work ers. The agreement affecting about 30,000 employes of four GM ac cessories divisions provides for a IS cents an hour wage - increase. Of this. II1, i cents an hour would be paid in the form of direct wage advances ' and the remainder would go to cover the cost of six paid holidays and other .economic items.' Covered by the agreement, ef fective for one year from today if approved by the union member ship, are workers of General Mo tors' Frigidaire, Delco Products, Packard Electric and Delco Appli ance, divisions. As this agreement was an nounced General Motors awaited action by the United Automobile Workers (CIO) on an offer of 10 cents an hour increase for ap proximately. 265,000 hourly-paid workers in the corporation other plants throughout the country. The latter proposal, if accepted, would be an "interim" increase, effective until next August. The UAW-CIO has demanded Increases of 23 cents an hour for all production workers employed by General Motors, Chrysler .-and Ford. . Currently GM hourly rated workers receive an average of 11.31; Chrysler $1.33, and Ford $1.39. The UAW-CIO also filed a 30 day notice of intent to strike against thrysler Corp. A strike notice has been filed by the Foreman's association of America (unaffiliated), against the Ford Motor Co. Forest Blaze Held in Polk DALLAS, April 14.-Polk coun ty's first forest fire of the 1S47 season was under control today, Morris Slack of the Polk-Benton Fire Protetcive association staff, said. - The fire, thought to be caused by carelessness of smokers, spread Over a fern and reproductive land area ef 300 acres in the Crooked creek section north and west of Grand Ronde. Ten men from fire association headquarters were sent to extinguish the blaze, fire offi cials said here. Independence Sewage Plant Aided by FWA WASHINGTON, April 14MTh Drawings and specifications for a sanitary sewerage system exten sion and sewage treatment plant at Independence, Ore., were as sured today by a $4,900 allotment from the federal works agency. The plant is expected to cost $130,500. The advances must be repaid when building starts. Showing details of precipita tion, temperature, frost, winds and snowfall since 1892, the sum mary shows at a glance, for in stance, that the average precipi tation expected for today, April 15, is a scant .09 of an inch. It shows, too, that temperatures a - year ago this month ranged from 30 to 79 degrees with aver age of 52.4, while the April daily high averaged 61.5 and daily low 39. The year 1946 showed only 60 clear days against a 50-year an nual average of 120 clear days! Last year also' showed 37 foggy days, 21 days with temperature about 90 degrees, seven days with tnow and three thunderstorms. Frost records since 1892 showed an average growing season of 210 days, averaging from April 4 to November 2. But killing frosts are on record as late, as May 26, in 1920, and as early as Septem ber 13, in 1921. Seasons ranged all the way from 128 days in 1934 to 317 days in 1915. 1651 ! Mew It'll Be Cooler Today; 13 -Year Record Topped Salem is due for slightly cooler weather today than Monday, when the hottest April day since April 20, 1934, raised the mercury to 85 degrees here, the McNary field U. S. weather station reports. Traffic policemen observed that the warm weekend! brought out large numbers of motorists so many, they said, that the closely driven cars actually were unable to violate as manyi traffic regu lations as usually expected. "A thermometer placed on the sunny side of Commercial street at Ferry climbed to an unofficial 106 degrees at about 4 p.m. Mon day, i a - - Medford registered the Mate's high temperature of 92. Salem's 85 and Portland's 84 degrees were both tops for those cities for the year. Other high 1 marks were Roseburg 88, Bend I 83, Newport 82, Pendleton, Tillamook and Eu gene 81. Warm weather brought the pos sibility of a halt in logging opera tions. Weather forecasters said relative humidity might drop to a point between 35 and 25 per cent, and woods operations cease when humidity drops to 30 per cent. Only one fire, a 300-acre blaze In scrub timber near Hebo, was reported. T j Meanwhile Silver! Creek falls attracted several hundred "pic nickers" and hikers and people who just like td j admire the scenery. The lodge, ! built shortly before the war, is not yet open. Storage Room, ,Coal Supplies , js a.., i. Seen by By rd WASHINGTON, April 14 (JF) Rear Adm. Richard jE.. Byrd. re turning from the navy's antarc tic expedition, said; today that long-range planes and dynamic ice breakers have cracked the great white south polar continent wide open for exploration and within 25 years men may be tapping its resources. t "There's an awful: lot of coal down there," he said, in an in terview. Byrd also envisaged exploiting the vast ice cap as a natural re frigerator for the storage of .sur plus crops in bumper years. "Surplus food could be stowed away in the polar ice as insurance against lean production years. I'm pretty sure it would keep per fectly. Time stops foil such things down there. Returning with about 700 heal thy, but hungry-forthome men aboard the expedition flagship Mount Olympus, Byrd also said he had never "officially requested the government to claim the ter ritory in the south polar regions. He said the area is not strategic ally important and it is up to the state department to! make any claims "for the enormous amount of area discovered up to this time." Court Limits Vet Job Right Washington; April 14-cp- The supreme court put a one-year limit today on any draft act pro tection that would give a re-employed veteran seniority advan tage over non-veterans. The 7-2 ruling was limited to that one point The court majority declined to pass upon a : conten tion that all protection granted to a draftee by the job security sec tion of the selective service law expires 12 months after he re turns to civilian life. The case came up from Cincin nati, where Lawrence Whirls won a district court ruling that his sen iority rights as an employe of the Trailmobile company extended past the 12 months. The court of appeals also had upheld that view. The CIO United Auto Workers joined the company in opposition to Whirls. Milk Price Iflan Told at Hearing PORTLAND, April 3-W-Ad-justments of Oregon's milk price schedule will be ; based on 1946 cost audits supplied the milk con trol board. State Agriculture Di recter E. L. Peterson told a milk hearing group today. Peterson said increases in labor costs subsequent ta audits of that year would be added at the time of the decision and that any new audits could not ' be ready for months. Flh0D' Mm Soviet to Talk On 11 Billions Of Lend Lease WASHINGTON. April U-4JV) Prodded by six American notes, Russia has finally agreed to be gin discussions aimed at settling its $11,297,883,000 lend lease ac count with the United States, the state department disclosed today. Negotiationr are scheduled to begin "very shortly after Soviet Ambassador Nikolai V. Novikov returns to Washington from Mos cow to head the Russian delega tion. The talks will determine how much Russia is to pay for the stream of equipment furnished by the United States from March 11, 1941 to September 30, 1946. The disclosure raised the possi bility that Moscow might renew its request for a $1,000,000,000 American loan. Both Great Britain and France, the only two other of the Big Five powers which have agreed to lend-lease settlements, were granted substantial American loans. In settling lend lease accounts, the United States has asked pay ment only for. a portion j of the cost of the durable goods' which have postwar use. France was allowed 30 years to pay $720,000,000, the amount ne gotiators figured the French owed on their lend lease bill, and Brit ain 55 years to pay $650,000,000. Both countries, however, sup plied the United States considera bly more in reverse lend lease than hard-pressed Russia which returned only $2,213,000. Swan Island Delay Irks Portland WASHINGTON, April 14 -WP) A war assets administration spokesman said today that it is negotiating with several industrial firms to take over Swan Island at Portland, Ore., but no decision had been reached. He said the island, used by the Kaiser company as a shipyard dur ing the war, cost the government $15,000,000 and the Port of Port land offered $250,000 for it. Meantime. Senator Morse, (R Ore.) sent to John R. Steelman, assistant to the president, a tele gram from industrial, union and veteran organizations in Portland, saying that unless the WAA agreed to Portland's offer in a few days the Kaiser company would close its business at .the island. Morse urged the president to act to Insure Portland getting the is land, which would be leased to the Kaiser interests. , PORTLAND, April 14 -Vty- A threat to demand a congressional investigation came from several Portland organizations today in the controversy over the proposed sale of Swan Island facilities. The Portland labor management committee, three major yeterans' organizations and a number of civic leaders urged Sen. Morse (R Ore.) to demand the"Tnvetigation unless the facilities are sold to the POrt of Portland. Eagle Scouts Honored at Council Circus New Eagle, scoots pictured above received their badges at the Saturday night Bey Scout CIrtas at the 'fairgrounds, with Mayer R. L. Dfitrem presiding. They are left te right: Seta Forqoer and Ray Seofield. both of Sweet Home troop 11: Dsn Ash ton. Sweet Home troop 63; Richard Wyatt aad Gary Romine, both of Salem troop 1, aad Sam Stutsman of the Oregon school far the deaf, shewn receiving his badge from Thomas Ulmer. scoutmaster ef Deaf School Troop 14. la baekgretaM Is Howard Hlgby. troop 1 scoutmaster. (Statesman pbete by Don Dill, staff photographer.) (Story ea page 4.). No. 16 At 5 P WASHINGTON, April UMPi The government advanced a new arbitration plan late tonight to try to settle the telephone strike by Thursday night Both the, American Telephone and Telegraph company and the National Federation of Telephone Workers, ' independent, have un til 5 p. m., E. S. T.. Tuesday aft ernoon to reply to the idea. . . The. new arbitration plan was pyt forth by Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach in a surprise con ference of top officials of both the A. T. & T. andAbe-union, End Net Immediate Schwellenbach said he was im pelled to offer the - arbitration proposal in an effort to end the eight-day-old walkout becausehe had "lived in mortal fbr! fkat someone in dire need of aid might suffer because "the telephone was not available. It both company and union agree, the 340,000 striking tele phone workers would not be call ed back to work at once. Forty eight hours would be allowed for resumption of negotiations on certain issues. V C. F. Craig, vice president in charge of personnel for the A. T. & T. left immediately for New York with the proposal, Joseph A. Beirne, president of the Telephone (Workers Federa tion, has been! maintaining his base of operations here during the strike. : ' '-."-v--oiv Dlvisloa ef Xssoes Set -. There was no immediate, ink ling of what the reaction might be on either side in the contro versy. But the union advanced a scheduled It a. m, policy meet ing for Tuesday morning by two hours and said it would try to have a reply by -the deadline. President Truman. ,- had kept clear of any direct intervention in the situation. Schwellenbach proposed that wages, reclassification of towns, the length of time required to progress from minimum to max imum pay rates, vacations, leaves of absence for union officials, ret roactivity of wage increases, and any remaining issues all should be submitted to in arbitration board of five persons selected by the parties. Such issues as union security, pensions, job definitions and the host of local issues would be ne gotiated in the 48-hour; period be ginning at 5 p. mv Tuesday. - The basic Issue In the strike has been the union's demand for a $12 a week increase. Russia Blocks f Disarm9 Plan MOSCOW, April I4iP)-The United States asked the council of foreign ministers tonight to appoint a committee to negotiate La four-power, act on German de- mihtarizauon, but Russia lmme d 1 a t e 1 y proposed amendments which would .virtually rewrite the American draft of such a treaty. France and Britain both endor sed the American plan, put for ward by Secretary of State Mar shall, for the appointment of plenipotentiaries to write the treaty along lines ef the 40-year pact recommended last year by Marshall's predecessor, James F. Byrnes. ,. Molotov said - that any four power treaty should include,- be sides demilitarization, such points as denazification, four-power control of the industrial Ruhr, and destruction of cartels. Price 5c Answers Ordered i By Noon NEW YORK, April 15-(Tuesday) Frank Lamb, director of the. round-the-world record flight attempt by, Milton Reynolds, said early today ' te plane had messaged that it was encounter ing strong headwinds on' the Tokyo-Alaska leg of the trip. : Lamb said his information cam from civil aeronautics administra tion's messages received directly from the "BombsheH," Reynolds plane. . V , . Lamb said the. plane messaged that it was flying at an altitude of 19,000 feet, "making 235 milea per hour, slowed by strong head winds." ; The plane messaged that it ex pected to reach Anchorage, Alas ka, at 323 a-ra. PST. May Reach Goal at Neaa i Lamb said Reynolds latest mes sage estimated the plane's New York arrival time at 12 noon Pa cific standard time. 1 YOKOTA ARMY AIRDROME Japan, Tuesday, April 15-W)-Th record -seeking a round-the-world plane of' manufacturer Milton Reynolds took off at 924 a.m. todar 34 p m. Monday PST) for Anchorage. Alaskaa 3C00 mile flight which Reynolds ex pected to make in 11 hours. v, Reynolds reached Yokota ear Ker this morning. 47 hours ar.d 47 minutes out of New York. Repair Need Ignared ; Army ground crews, striving to set a servicing speed record, im mediately began . refueling the converted A-26 attack bomber in preparation for a fast takeoff. Servicemen here reported a small leak on a scavenger oil line in one of the plane's two engines, but the fliers proceeded without repairs. Reynolds, Chicago manufactur er, said he himself intended to take over the controls of his plane "from here in.' The plane has been piloted by William Odoro of Roslyn, N.Y, with Reynolds navigating. The only other person along is Flight Engineer Carroll Sallee of Dallas. Reynolds Still Confident "We will, make it to New York in 65 hours," Reynolds declared as he stepped onto Japanese sciL That is still below the record." The present record of 91 hours, 14 minutes, was set in 1938 by Howard Hughes. Asked it he had experienced anjr trouble since" leaving India. Reynolds replied. "We ran out cf oxygen. Odoro was a little de lirious This apparently was over the Burma hump between India arid China, as new oxygen container were placed aboard during the Shanghai stop. At Tokyo, army briefing officer prepared to alternative routes cn the basis of war. department di rectives specifying the distancea by which American aircraft must avoid Russian territory. Coal Output Near Normal PITTSBURGH, April 14 -Un Coal poured f rem the tipple tf the nation's soft coat mines at almost normal production rates for the first time in two weeks today as a safety shutdown by AFL United Mine Workers ended. The coal mines administration, in Washington, said production in the nation's soft coal mines today approached normal, with 1,883,2 16 tons expected from mines- east cf the Mississippi during the day. - The agency said the district east of the Mississippi, producers of -mart of the bituminous coal, re ported 3.969 mines, employing; 299.276 men. In operation. Still Idle in those districts, the agency said, arc 308 mines, nor- -mally employing 46.863 men and producing 32372 tons a day. Weather Kaleo Portland ss S3 43 0 San franciaca . Chicago - - New York 51 43 JJ7 Willamette river 4J feet. FOBECAST anon U.S. weather bu reau, McNary lurtd. Salm: fair to day and tonieht with clichtiv lower dayttmc temper itum, Hlghet today SO. Lowest tonight 4. Stop