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MJL LOT JK Weather Max. - n 7 SO Win. Precip. 47 4 7 JBO S J 3S - . Jl JO SaVfa . FwrUd . Baa Fraooaco . OUCtf - . w York riett rvr 4 J feet. rOftWAST I from V. wehT tow rru, MrNary Salm: Continued ftr Uir today mnd torn ht twit Wtanuai parity rtewty Ttumday. Mteiwtt looap . lel 44, imrrTYEvnrra yeab 'Pigtail:' Promised WASHINGTON, April lS-CPSecretary of Labor Schwellenbach promised a "fight" tonight after both sides had rejected his formula lor peace in the nationwide telephone strike. He gave no inkling of any intention to seize, the industry, but cored both (ides and called for public pressure 7 on company-and union to settle. -: - ; V :- -1 - vf ' Schwellenbach said in a radio 9331108 'tup mm It is easy to criticize the plan roughed out by the city manager for handling street buses, which contemplates making a general bus terminal in front of the courthouse a plan - which seems doomed by the amount of oppo sition engendered. It U . not so easy to solve the problem which - confronts the city 'and the bus ". company, i An ideal solution would be for the bus company to provide its own terminal where cars may park in the Interval between runs. It must be admitted, however, that little land is available for the - purpose at convenient access 4 to the central business district. . ContimJotfs cruising is proposed which would ; require islands in the middle pf the street to -protect pedestrians. These islands and the stops for discharging and taking on passengers would im pede the flow of trafficr which the . city "hopes to avoid. - It seems to me there is a mod , crate plan that would work. That ' i s. to reserve one bus-length on the right-hand side of the street Just before enterjng the intersec tion on downtown blocks as is done now. Buses could draw to the curb in this space, discharge and take on passengers and then .. move on. They should not park there to kill time or await trans fers, doir.f their parking to ad just their schedules at the end of , ttie run. Suburban buses with only half-hour schedules may need a parking space but -they should provide this' outside the central business district.: This plan gives curb service to bus-rfders, which is much desired by those who are lame. It does not block-traffic. It does not tie up a whole length of . block to bar entrance into stores. It re quires no investment. " The only inconvenience it r causes is to transfer passengers who may have to walk across- the street to get .their connections, and may cause delays in making transfers. : . J This idea is tossed into the hat - for such, consideration as it may "' merit. '-". Grenade Tossed at GI Hitch-Hikers FRANKFORT, Germany, Wed nesday, April army and German police early today started one of theybiggest man hunt's in the Frankfort area since the end cf the war in search of at tackers who tossed a hand. gre nade among a group of American soldiers just before midnight. When the grenade landed on the highway where the soldiers ap parently were seeking to hitch hike a ride, the Americans "hit . the dust,-.' -military police of ficer said. They escaped injury. Animal Crachcrs By WAJSEN GOODRICH , "Wait, what yoa are think ing of Join; u highly tin-eihicaUZ i " " ': , ' -r? CAa syfa io PACES (ABC) broadcast that : the two I parties lorgot that they are "In a public utility industry. I do -not propose to . accept this,- rejection without putting up a fight for my proposal," he said, and appealing directly to, the public, he added: "Whether or not I succeed, in that fight is going to depend on you. ' Appeals to Public .'""" "l made the proposal on behalf of the American; people and l am asking you ..who , want .telephoned service, and who pay the tele phone bills, to demand - of '. each side that they accept the propos al which I made.", ." ,:T ' Schwellenbach said , both 1 sides had resorted "to legalistic tactics to the rejection of my proposal.' -The striking National Federa tion of Telephone Workers turned the secretary's proposal down out right and demanded a general pay raise as a basis for any settlement. The "Bell System companies pro posed 13 modifications of his plan. Sehwellenbach's Plan Under Schwellenbach's plan, both sides would agree on: . 1. Arbitration' of basic money issues by a five-man board. 2. ""Intense negotiations" to set tle other issues, chiefly local In nature, by 2 p. m. (P.S.T.) Thurs day so the strike could be ended then and normal phone service re stored. . , Zone Change Recommended By City Board Recommendation of one ' zone change, preliminary approval of another arid preliminary okehs for plats of . two subdivisions com prised the action ,of ! the Salem planning and zoning commission last night Change 1 from residential to business zoning for a block at 21st and Mission streets will be recommended to the city council, at the request of Richard. Young, owner of a trailer camp on the property.' . ; . Construction of ' new ware house for Salem Seed and Imple ment Co. is contemplated if a res idential to business zone change is approved for three lots at Hickory and. Myrtle streets, ac cording: to IL H. Bingenheimer, president of the firm. The com mission gave its preliminary okeh to the request by Mr. and .Mrs. Bingenheimer and Mr. and Mrs. Lester DeLapp.- . Preliminary approval was giv en plats of L. A. Anderson's Tri Mountain View addition at Prin rle. road and Strong street and J. E. Harder' addition along Liv ingston avenue east of , Lansing avenue. A plan for re-subdividing Tryon addition, : comprising the fornrer county poor farm prop erty, - was - rejected .due to street arrangement. - Referred to City Attorney Chris Kowitz for decision was Joseph DeWitt's request for clarification of the setback ordinance, pertain ing to property at Capitol i and Nebraska streets, where he de sires to erect apartment courts. WHARTON RETURNS : Wallace S. Wharton who , five years ago resigned as head of the utihtid division of the state tax commission to enter the naval intelligence service in Washing ton, D.C, Tuesday returned to the commission as head of the as sessment division. . He .succeeds the late Charles V. -Galloway. Truman Asks Retention of Bans On Troublemaker9 Nations WASHINGTON, April 15 HJPf The president asked congress to day for revision of the neutrality act to empower the government to ban arms shipments destined for any international troublemaker.' He said In a special message that the government must be free to act "in . accordance with our position in the -United Nations and to adapt the export of Ameri can weapons - to "changes in , the international situation." In effect, he was asking con tinuance of authority the govern ment already has. Power to permit or deny arms exports is contained in the 1940 Export Control act, which is due to expire June 30. Mr. Truman proposed that sec tion 12 ol the neutrality act, an if SoUm Oregon, Vfdodof Morning, April 18, 1947 A-26 Circles World in 79 Hours Tugs Free St' f f SOUTHAMPTON, England, April 15 TugboaU (above) freeing the Queen Elizabeth today front a sand bar In the harbor entrance which had held her fast for 26 hours. Most of the 620 first class passengers .' had been removed from the 85,000 ton vessel by tenders some hoars before. (AP Wirephoto via radio from London to The Statesman.) British Harig 4 Jews; Clamp on Security Ring ' JERUSALEM, Wednesday, Ap ril " NHAVAn official onnounce ment today said That Dov Bela Bruner and three other convicted members of the Jewish under ground were hanged at Acre pris on at dawn.' r A' few minutes earlier, military and police units clamped a rigid security ring on most of the Jew ish quarters of Palestine,, putting an estimated 400,000 Jews under house arrest. ; Armored cars with loud speak ers awoke sleeping Jews in Jeru salem, Tel Aviv, parts of Haifa and a number of other towns and vil lages to announce the new Air few. Cars attempting to leave Je rusalem and Tel Aviv were turn ed back.: .-,. . "; L. - The security measures were-the most rigid ever imposed by the British in Palestine. f - r Authorities flatly declined to give a reason, for the operations except to state officially that "new military security , measures have been deemed necessary.' -, The four Jews who were hang ed were the first Jewish extrem ists to be executed in Palestine since the hanging of Shlomo Ben Youssef in August, 1938. Fire Perils Alsea Business District; Garage, Barn Burn ALSEA, April 15 -ify- Wind beat back a fire that threatened today , to engulf the entire Alsea business district after flames de stroyed five buildings. . Burned were a garage operated by Rondeau brothers, the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reckon, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Maloney and Mr. and Mrs.i Loren Ball and a barn owned by Fred Mason. The fire department was called from Philomath, 2,0 miles away, to aid in. fighting flames, which were brought under control short ly before noon. Several persons suffered minor burns. - DENMARK'S KING SINKING COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April S-JPy- An official bulletin an nounced tonight that the condition of - King . Christian had - grown somewhat worse 10 days after a heart attack. " . older statute, be rewritten to In corporate the expiring . authority and also to set up a "more flexible and eKicient administration by the existing national munitions control board. ; '.-," Voles the neutrality act is re-, vised, the president says, the sec retary of state will again as before 1940 be required to "treat ag gressor and aggrieved, peacemak er and troublemaker equally by granting all requests for arms ex ports except . where such ship ments would violate a treaty. This principle of impartiality was: written by congress into the neutrality act during the heated pre-Pearl Harbor controversy Ov er means of keeping the United States cut of war. FOUNDBD 1651 Grounded Queen .Ha ; . Mrs. McNary Turns First Dirt for Dam at Umatilla UMATILLA, Ore., 'April 15HP)-Ten thousand Pacific northwest residents flocked to this isolated stretch of the Columbia river today Mrs. Cornelia Morton Aicnary, widow 01 ben. cnaries 4 Mc Nary of Oregon, for whom the dam is to be named, turned over the first shovelful, of dirt to start a construction job expected to last eight years. . '. The dam, which will cost about $180,000,000, eventually .vill provide 1 ,380,000 kilowatts of power for the region. , Governor Earl Snell of Oregon spoke at the ceremony, lauding McNary and those who long ad vocated construction of the, dam, the third in the federal govern ment's long-range plan for de velopment of the Columbia river basin. ; The : ceremonies started on a barge at Pasco, Wash., with Jack Gorrie, . assistant governor of Washington and UJS. Sen. , Earl Coe of Washington aboard. The barge carried Mrs. McNary, Janis Paige, movie starlet elected Miss Damsite, and other officials from Cold Springs, Ore. to Uma tilla, where the official party de barked to ; lead a two-mile-long, one-hour parade through the town. Low Humidity Closes Camps ' By the Associated Press. ' ; Logging operations closed down in some parts of Oregon yester day as temperatures remained at I summer levels and humidity dropped to the danger point. . Several small 1 fires - were re ported in the woods, although no major timber areas were threat ened. ; '.. ' -. v . The -forecast was for a continu a t i o n i of - temperatures that reached 82 yesterday at Medford for the second consecutive day, 82 at Salem, 81 at Eugene and 80 at Portland. ; The weather bu reau said western Oregon would continue warm today, although there would be scattered cloudi ness in southwest Oregon in "the afternoon . with . cooler tempera tures. V- . Pigeons Substitute For Telepliones LOS ANGELES, April 15-(P) Racing pigeons . have taken up long distance service interrupted by the telephone strike. The California State Racing Pigeon" association has handled more than 400 requests for emergency . service, . says Mrs. Helyn Brancato, owner of 50 birds. - - So far, no wrong numbers, and no stopping along . the way for a tall,' cool one, says Mrs. Bran cato. ' : . -. ' RUDOLF HOESS HANGED OSWIECIM, AprU 15-A,)-Ru-dolf Hoess was hanged today on the gallows he used to kill some of - the . 4,000,000 persons put to death while be was the war-time commandant of the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) extermination camp. CIIURCn BUILDING SOUGHT PORTLAND, AprU..15-iiP)-The First Baptist church xf Salem to day filed application for approval construction of a $28,000 church In the Hayesville school district. Price Elizabeth i' ' ' r - , , . .. 1 '2 . Solons Erase Iridustry-Wide Bargain Ban WASHINGTON, April 15-OP) The senate labor commiitee to day again toned down its gen eral bill regulating strikes and unions and wrapped it I up to await expected formal committee approval probably Thursday. . A coalition of democrats and republicans once more oVer-rode Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) ;and by a 7 to 6 vote ripped from the bill a provision limiting industry wide bargaining. But Taft, suc ceeded by a one-vote majority in keeping the legislation from be ing split into three bills. Taft said the bill may be called up for senate debate Monday. The house opened debate on another omnibus labor bill Stronger in many particulars but similar in others. ! A number of democrats con ceded the republicans hadj plenty of votes to pass it overwhelming ly. Approval by Friday pected. is ex- Penalty-Free State Tax Filing Closes . Penalty-free state income tax filing closed last midnight after a ""fairly busy" day at the Itax of fice in the state office building. Five tax office staff members worked until . midnight. With a quietly steady flow of cash cus tomers. Most last-minute taxpay ing, however, was -done by mail. The day's mail was described as heavy and an even heavier batch is expected todayt Postmarks be fore midnight, April 15 are "'under the . gun." tax officials said. B-29s TO FLY TO GERMANY WASHINGTON, April 15 -OPh A training mission of nine B-29 bombers will fly to Germany about June 1, then visit royal air, forces bases in England, the arfny air forces announced tonight The AAF emphasized that thej flight is only for training. 1 Four-Faced Clock Two-FacecP; Gives Three-Faced Time . 1 It didn't take seven minutes to walk around the eonrthouse yesterday twe faces of the tower cleek merely took longer to stop when the mechanism failed Tuesday afternoon. S State and Church street sides halted at 128 p. dl, while the High street face added another minnte. and the Court street time was US. County Jodie Grant Murphy said last night that no Investi gation had been made yet as to the cause ( the trouble in the aging time-piece, which normally moves all fear clocks IujmIs in harmony. No. 17 Sets New Record NEW YORK. April 16 (Wed-nesday)-(ifP-Milton-eynolds and his two crewmen set a new un official round-the-world record early today when they crossed La Guardia field at 12:06 JO a. m. (9:06:30 p. m. PST), 78 hours and 55 minutes after leaving the same field in their converted army A 26. . . I wouldn't make the trip" again for a $100,000,000,M the haggard Reynolds, 54-year-old Chicago pen manufacturer, tbld newsmen shortly after the landing. "'We had one-half hour gas sup ply when we came over New York," he said. "We ran into ice at Minneapo lis and were in fog and ice all the way to Detroit We could not get out of It Was worried sick. We came out of the ice at Detroit but we didn't know where we were. We had to' call Detroit and they used finders to locate us." The new record sliced Howard Hughes' previous unofficial rec ord by 12 hours and 19 minutes. Hughes had set his record of 91 hours and 14 minutes in 1938 with a monoplane. Minor mechanical difficulties and extra halts along the route made Reynolds goal of 55 hours unattainable. Stops were made at Gander, Nfld.; Paris; Cairo; Karachi; Cal cutta; Shanghai; Tokyo; Adak, Alaska, and Edmonton. Both the Ada v and Edmonton landings were unscheduled. After taking off from Tokyo, Reynolds put down at Adak to refuel when he ran into headwinds on the scheduled hop to Anchorage, Alaska. Youth Group Held Pro-Red WASHINGTON, April 15-(P-The house committee on un American activities declared to day that -"the specter of com munism stalks our college cam puses masked under the cloak of the American youth for democ racy" and called upon state gov ernors and school heads for a thorough expose of the organiza tion. ; , The committee. In a lengthy blast against A YD. said that "gracing various A YD entertain ments, meetings and campaigns, or contributing to its magazine. Spotlight, is the usual list of sponsors which are invaribly found supporting the communist party and its front organizations. 8 File for 9 Firemen Post9 ; Deadline Today With 5 p.m. today as deadline for applications of prospective city firemen, only eight Salem men have applied for the nine fire department vacancies. Civil Service Secretary Alfred Mundt said yesterday. Examinations are set for April 25 for the applicants who must be between 21 and 31 years old, registered voters and residents of Salem at least one year. .. Oregon, Marion National Level By Conrad Prange ' Staff Writer. "The Statesman Oregon and most of its coun ties, including Marion, are hand ling their current juvenile de linquency problems on a level slightly above most other states in the nation. This was the opinion expressed Tuesday by Mrs. Nona White, Marion county probation officer, who returned to her duties yes terday following attendance at the four-day 40th annual con vention of the National Probation association in San Francisco last week. - , . She was one of six Oregon pro- Lbation officers at the meeting of over 300 judges, district attorneys and probation officers. Included in the Oregon delegation were Airs. Juanita Wesson, probation officer, and Leonard Lindas, dep uty district attorney, both from Oregon City. Mrs. Booth qualified her state ment regarding juvenile progress in Oregon by adding that most counties in the state lack ade quate facilities for the proper care of juvenile delinquents. Great stress was given at the convention to the discussion and formation of detention homes and boys' camps. The need for such 5c ynolds Succumbs r "XI f V i . J. I PORTLAND. Ore, April 1S-UP)-Dr. William J. Kerr. 83. chan cellor emeritus of the state sys tem of higher education and far 25 years president of Oregon State college, who died at his heme here tonight Cause the death was infirmities Incident to his age. (Story on Page 2) : r'. i Cabinet Of ficer Calls Wallace Statement 4T . 9 WASHINGTON, April AS;-(JP)-Attorney-General ; Tom Clark, hi a cabinet-level rejoinder to Hen ry Wallace, denounced as a lie" tonight any .assertion that this country "is committed to ruthless imperialism and war with the Sov iet Union." ' - Without mentioning Wallace by name but leaving no doubt where Wallace 'Surprised' At Criticism of Talks LONDON, April 15-(rvHen-ry A. Wallace said tonight la a broadcast interview by CBS that he was "somewhat surprised to learn that some Americans deny the right today of a private cit izen to tell a friendly people how he feels." - his words were directed, the at torney general said the, American people must not be swayed by "the cheap, blundering assault now be in madp" afainst President Tru man's policy of aiding Greece and Turkey against communism. "One who tells the people , of Europe that tne uniiea s taxes is committed to ruthless imperialism and war with the Soviet Union a If. flark said in a speech ,at Philadelphia, which many oinciais speculate roigni dc the official administration reply to Wallace. Clark called urgently for passage of the $400,000,000 aid program to help Greee and Tur key to let the world know that America is as' 'determined in her purposes as "were the Concord pat riots." . ' . That also, he said, will answer those "who would attempt to ex ploit the respect paid to the high office they formerly occupied. Such exploitation is not only bad taste, it a. bad Americanism." GOP Stymied On Rent Raise WASHINGTON April 15-GPr- The house Republican high com' mand failed today t reach a de cision whether it will sanction a 10 per cent general increase in rents.-"- -, Speaker Martin , (R.-Mass.), who presided over the twohour. closed-door session of the Repub lican steering committee, told re porters the Republican leadership will hold another meeting prob-" ably later this week. , 1 Pending in the senate s legis lation extending rent control be yond the present June 30 expira tion date without' a general rent increase. - ?e in Gare p re-delinquent clinics is ." recog nized on a national ecale. Mrs. White said. "Detention homes are scientific plants where a problem child is recognized as a tick child and is properly diagnosed as such. You can't treat a sick child until you have found . the source of trouble." . ; ' ; The first such modern deten tion home in Oregon will be the one to be built soon fn Portland at a cost of over $1,000,000. Both Washington and California are far ahead of Oregon in building boys' homes and camps, ' Mrs. White said. - 4 It was generally agreed at the convention that juvenile delin quency has decreased from a year ago; due to the post-war calm as compared with war-time frenzy when parents could not adequate ly control their children., "The problem of juvenile de linquency over the nation, as in Marion county. Is still largely a matter of parental delinquency,' Mrs. White said. "Problem chil dren are a result of problem adults. Today the job is to use modern, scientific, healthful methods to treat Juvenile crimi nals and . thereby . eliminate a great deal of the nation's future adult crime." County A 1 " Juvenile ecreev Envelopes By We Gallagher ....MOSCOW, Apr;l IMHSecre fary of State George C. Man ha II talked with. Prime Minister Stalin for about 90 minutes behind the closed gates of the Kremlin to night following what appeared to be a climax of failure to reach agreement in - the foreign . minis tern council. , ; ;. The American soldier secretary made his long-awaited call on the ' Russian chief of state on the 3"ui day of his stay in the Soviet cap ital and apparently on short no tice. i ; He disappeared behind the gates of the Kremlin at 8 p. m. 9 a. m. Pacific Standard time) and an hour and 45 minutes later was back in Spasso house, his residence. American . officials would not say . how long the con fversation lasted or what was dis cussed, or even When arrange ments were made'foc- the meet ing, s. i - " - '-i - j. Attempt, at Salvage It was evident, however, that Marshall had gone to the Krem lin in a last effort to salvage something from .the foreign min isters conference; and " seek a so lution to the gaping split between Russia and the western powers. The effect of the Marshall-Stalin conference . may.'. not ' become apparent before' tomorrow's for eign ministers session. - - (The Moscow radio . heard Ja London paid Russia Foreign, Min ister V. j M. MdlotoV and - N. V. NovikoV, Soviet arnbaasador to the Unifed States, also were pre- . enl) - . I - - Secretary ' of State Marshall had declared tonight prior to his meeting with Stalin that Ruia had sabotaged enactment of ary four-power pact : to keep Ger many demilitarized by attempt ing to insert "controversial ; mat ters" into the American version. Ne Four-Power Treaty r "This clear .attempt to put in controversial matters in this way means no four-power treaty, Marshall: told the council of for eign ministers at the conclusion of another fruitless session. Marshall made it plain to the council : that he considered Rus-' sia to blame for the stalemate env the four-power accord. The min isters, finally giving up hope of reaching j agreement, decided to proceed with the next item en their agenda a coal report. 1 State Buys 37 Quonset Huts For Scliools The state educationalf tgtrxy for surplus property, created by the recent legislature, announce! Tuesday that it has purchased 37 tropical quonset huts for use of schools which require them for educational and housing facili ties. ' - 1 - The .huts, 20. by 48 feet, cost $750 each, or 40 per cent below the list' price. . State" institutions, according to Roy T.; Todd, executive secretary of the state agency, have received more than $1,500,000 worth of surplus government property in the past ; year, paying only the p a c k 1 n g and' transpprtatioa charges, i Representatives of th agency i 'are now, stationed in, Portland,' Seattle and San Fran cisco arranging for other pur chases, j";.' - $125 Taken in Stick: up on 99E 1 At the point of a revolver Don old Aldrich at 'MiUersburg last night -was held Up by an uniden tified mart, who made away wUht about. $125, state police reported.1 .: Aldrich, operator Of the Rich field oil station at Millersburg on the Pacific highway north of Al bany, told police the hold-up oc curred Just before 9 o'clock. The bandit, who was not masked, left in an auto. State police headquar ters here had no further details early this morning. ,r Injunction Halts Anti-Strike Law NEW YORK, N. J, AprU 15-tP) Federal Judge Guy L.. Fake sign ed an order early tonight tempor arily restraining the state from further enforcing its new public utility anti-strike law against the telephone Operators union which is on strike against the New Jer sey Bell Telephone company, .The restraint is opsrauve until April 23, when a three-judge court will sit to determine the const!- nationality of the strike law. . ' Sprinkler Start to Work: On Courthouse Lawn The new $2227 sprinkling sys tem laid in the courthouse lawn this week was in operation yes terday as 232 sprinkling heads showered I the parking strip . and most of the lawn in a complete circle of the building. Contractor C S. , ,Whitcomb, Portland, installed the system in about two weeks' time. It con tains a quarter-mile of two-inch pipe, 800 feet of one-tnch,. 1200 feet of three-quarter-inch, and , 1000 feet of half-inch. Meeting