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' . ... " i , - - MarsluM CoMpromise, Warns ait (Story in Column 7) fi i v n n x A -nriT nJU L : I r i t - j I V Stymied Telephone! Negotiations In Overnight Halt By the AfcOcitl press Telephone strike settlement hopes dimmed Monday night when Washington negotiations receded overnight following what federal conciliator described as a "stormy session." A Bell system official told newsmen, "We are just where we were 10 days ago,1; - j Blocking settlement of the three-weeks-old tieup was the union's OtP SCKHIDS 'lkd mm I didn't go fishing with the sea son's opening for two reasons: I couldn't find my pole and didn't hav a license. But Sunday aft-; emoon I aia go up w iu Northfork to clear away some - downfall at my place-in-prospect, and noted (the stream was lined ' with, fishermen. Cars parked on the roadside over the river mark ed where fisherman had" taken off. At points of rock or out in the , riffle men and boys could be seen roles-in-hand. casting for trout, wives lingered at lunch tables or bout cars,! "having a wonderful -'. time," 1 The luck? From reports, none. - . iL. w S 1 a. We did hear of two trout ana sucker being caugnt. ine ; reason r None that seemed plausible. Wa-J 4 ... rir nnt muddr: stream Tetauvasy low ior me -Fished out" Is the probable an awer. - ' ! ' The Little North fork used to be prime fishing stream, as did oth er tributaries f the Santiam. Old timers tell of the wonderful cat ches that could be made in Jig t;me. That was before good roads let motorist spill, out all along Its banks to fish the stream. Small fish have been planted but-the catches are uniformly poor, unless perhaps in the upper reaches. The game commission is credited with the view that fish food la lack ing. But whv should It be lacking row when lormerly the stream supported many fish? It still is a good saimort spawning stream. Perhaps one answer, supplied by one f the resident along the stream is that chub or suckers, a Uter arrival, are predators, feed lag on the small trout Over-fining the stream is of course a chief reason for the decline in the cat ches, but these other and not na tive fish which have Invaded the river may account for failure of the trout lo "come back" despite repeated plantings. The situation is deplorable for the Santiam; and it tributaries re most convenient to Salem. They have good water, -with rif lies and pools which any self-respecting trout would love It would seero under proper conservation that good fishing could be main tained there. But it Isn't, and ex planations fill no creels. Land at Adair On Sale List - ' . i - : " ' ' .. PORTLAND, April 28-W)-An-other 7000 acres of Camp Adair is en sale. - j. Government agencies, state and local governments have priority a the land, with owner of the property. at the time the war de partment took it over listed next. Tracts not sold to priority holders will be offered to veterans before the final day of the offering, July 28. The Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Spokane, said an other 9000 acres will be offered ly 10.- . j, : Animal Crackers - Br WAOTslGCX)DR!CH "Where have you been, you v..you dirty stay-out-all" dayV Wait . insistence on a dollars-arid -cents wage offer and management's stand for arbitration, the concil iator disclosed. Telephgn workers in five mid west states rejected Northwestern Bell's offer of a $2.50 weekly raise. Union spokesmen said the nrktrs would hold out for! the $6 weekly, cr approximately 15 cents an hour, asked by the .Na tional j Federation of Telephone workers. The states affected; are Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. j . Lewis Meeting Today ' Meanwhile, national attention centered - on Tuesday's meeting between John L. Lewis and: soft coal operators. : The government arranged 1 the meetings early, in an effort to; ob- tain an agreement by July 1, when the. seized mines automatically must go back to private opera tion, j Harvester Pay Boosted In Chicago International Har vester Co. announced it had of fered a 15-cent pay hike to 62, 000 workers in 21 factories, rep resented by 11 unions. In . addition, the company said the offer would not affeift its pre sent level of prices. Last month the farm equipment concern; cut prices on its products. i -mmr . T 1 ; JllnSS V ICKetlllSf iUUOJ AV'AVVlA-i Bruises Two By the Associated Press Mass picketing . was started In Portland today a the telephone workers' strike Went into its four th week. A few scattered instan ces were reported in Oregon : and Washington of employes return ing to' their Job. - ". j Oregon Men Return At Klamath Falls, Ore., about 13 of some 50 employes ' who gathered in front of the telephone building went to work and at Medford. Ore., eight toll trans mission men. who had previously observed picket lines, also resum ed their duties. The Medford men said they voted unofficially yes-; terday to take such step, r i At Portland the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company late today unloaded food, cots and other living supplies: for strikebound supervisory worker at the main exchange building despite, a union attempt to .halt delivery of the goods. r Pickets earlier bruised two workers about the ankles as they entered the building through tightly packed picket line form ing the first mas demonstration at the compnay's downtown I ex change; - '. : --.-C M. Bixler. Portland. union president, said the mass picketing would continue until the strike, is settled. - . - Jury to Probe Police Slaying HOOD RIVER. Ore- Am-il 28 -(JP)-A grand Jury session was called today to consider indict ment of John Omar f Pinaon,! 28, in the slaying of Delman E. Ron deau, 32-year-old state patrolman in a gun battle Friday night ' Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson set May IS as the tentative trial date. - ' Pinson surrendered to a posse at Ordnance. He had hopped a freisht train and it stoooed there. Vayne Curdane, state police captain, said i'inson, a paroiee from the Washington state prison, admitted the shooting. He is held in the county Jail. Rondeau was shot when he attempted to ques tion Pinson about six guns: he had : Just stolen from two Hood River home. Nut Growers -Ask Marketing Agreement to j Avoid 'Chaos' SAN FRANCISCO, April 28() Testimony that -the federal mar keting agreement for the handling of walnuts is needed on the Pa cific coast to avoid a "chaotic mess" in the industry this year was brought out at hearings today before representatives of the de partment of agriculture. Purpose of the hearings was to consider amendments to the mar keting agreement, which was sus pended in 1943 because of wartime conditions and reinstated April 1. Because of considerable 1946 crop carryover, said W. E. Good speed, manager of the walnut con trol board, the industry faced the "serious : task "of establishing trade and packer confidence.' John E. Trunk of Newberg, NINETY-SEVENTH : YEAR 300 Find g sets Four Salem' traffic policemen awarded drivers nearly 300 tickets Monday for overtime and double parking and a few . for miscel laneous offenses. Only persons ex cepted from paying $1 fine or bail for such minor offenses are those who , can. show proof that they were in a doctor's office or who have a policeman check and find that their receipt of' the ticket was caused by faulty functioning of the meter. A re-arrangement of working hours for Officers Charles Creasy, Jr., Ellsworth Hewitt, Leland Weaver and Kenneth Seipp has eliminated a once-existing condi tion which left an hour from 5 to 1p.m. when only one policeman was on duty for enforcement of parking regulation downtown. Meanwhile two hundred dollars and a few odd tcents in, pennies alone were counted by the city treasurer's office Monday with the new counting machine which arrived from Portland Saturday. Some difficulty t was encountered with some mutilated coins and slugs, and counting of the nickels was postponed until today. The complete shipment of 1,163 meters has arrived in Salem now, and all but 50 (over sidewalk vault and basements and at bus stops) have been installed, City Manager J. L. Franzen said Mon day. Though the final meters were Installed about one day after the April 25 deadline, the city man ager said that the 25 cents per meter penalty would not be as sessed, as the plane which trans ported the meter here was de layed by weather. ' Morse Delays TPusli' on Vote For Lat or Bill WASHINGTON, .April 28 HP) Senate opponents of writing more union restriction in general la bor legislation rallied their for ce today for a -long" debate-as Senator Ellender (D-La.) de clared the bill as drafted would curb "the most , obnoxious evils." While the Louisianan urged his colleagues to-reject proposed am endments to toughen the measure, Senator Morse (R-Ore.) Jolted plan of the --republican policy committee to push the bill to a final vote by the week's end. ; Morse, a member of the senate labor committee, told the senate it ought to spend "some days" in debate to acquaint the American people with the hardships of ad- f ministering labor legislation. ' Morse also carried to the floor his fight to split the big omnibus bill into four separate measures. He-has contended that an omni bus bill would invite a veto by President Truman. - Boards Turn Down New School Plan STAYTON. April 28 At a special meeting, here Monday night the Turner and Aumsville school board voted against, and the Stay ton school board , voted for a location for the proposed new union high school to serve the three districts. The location, 2Vi miles from downtown Stayton on the south road, would have served 450 stu dents from this area, but because of the two negative school coard votes will not be referred to the people for final ; action, y Ore., manager of the Oregon Nut Growers Cooperative association, said there was a heavy carryover of 1946 walnuts, that there was no confidence in the present wal nut market 'and that the control program was needed for 1947 or there would be a "chaotic mess" in the market situation. The association is not asking for high prices. Trunk said, but for a fair return to the grower and an orderly market A. C Jacobsen. manager of the Northwest Nut Growers, a non profit group, said his organization unanimously favored the amend ments. The association includes growers in- Oregon and Washing ton. - ; ' . Parkin liel TOO 11 12 PAGES Reports :f'v. c ft T . . T SSl ' " ' '. i'V:i:rrH Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who gave the Ameri can peeple Tuesday night bis report and opinion of the re cent "big four conference In . Moscow. r TO lyovernors nan To Fight Slash In OLYMPIA, Wash., April Governor Wallgren today urgent ly requested governors of 1 1 west ern states to meet in Seattle May ? to organize a fight against inte rior department budget reduc tions. Governors Snell of Oregon and Warren of California already have indicated they will attend, Wall gren said. . A bill, which slashed 47 per cent from the department of interior's budget for the fiscal year start ing July! passed the house Fri day. ' Approximately 60 per cent of the total reduction was on bureau of reclamation requests, including elimination of $16,000,000 for the Columbia Basin program. "There Is still the possibility of using our influence.' Wallgren said today," "as the bill still has to pass the senate." Asked whether he would work' principally through the state's congressional delegation, Wallgren indicated a negative reply, add ing: - ' ; "Two representatives from Washington state have talked about strongly supporting reclam ation. They voted .against return ing the bill to committee, which might . have resulted in some changes in our favor." ... . "The two representatives from Oregon voted . in favor of the move." - Stassen Decries rFederal Owning G7 NEW YORK, April 28-OT)-Har-old E. Stassen, former Minnesota governor, said on his return from Europe today that his trip had convinced him "America should shun government ownership of es sential industries just as she would some paralyzing plague." Explaining he had observed varying degrees of a trend toward government ownership in the 16 countries he visited, Stassen said capitalism clearly could lead oth er forms of government "if we concentrate on correcting some of the evils of capitalism by retain ing its essential strength." Farm Labor Supply Program Extended WASHINGTON. April 28.-(V President Truman today signed legislation extending until Dec. 31, .1947, the goevrnment's farm labor supply program, previously scheduled to expire June 30. Under the program, the gov ernment bears cost of bringing foreign workers to this country. SENT OFFICE TO CLOSE PORTLAND, Ore., April 28-(4V The rent enforcement division of fices for Oregon will be closed here May 6 and cases handled by the Seattle branch of the office of temporary controls- Tenants may continue filing complaints to the Portland OTC office. mi Basiii Funds MUNDBD 1651 Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning. April Palestine Question Hits U. N. NEW YORK. April 28-l)-The Arabs opened a power drive to night for full debate on the whole Palestine question in the first spe cial session of the United Nations assembly. Syria's Faris El Khoury de clared after the assembly had completed its organization and selection of leaders that the 55 nations must hear everything about the Palestine issue before they can set up an inquiry group as asked by Britain. U.S. May Oppose He said most of the delegates were not fully informed on the issue and that it was necessary to have a free and complete de bate. This demand almost certainly will be opposed by the. United States and Great Britain. Both have insisted this session must be confined to the mechanics of set ting up an inquiry committee. The fireworks will pop at the initial .meeting of the general (steering) committee scheduled for 7 a.m. (PST) tomorrow at the assembly's headquarters in Flush ing Meadows. Military Report Made Other U.N. developments: 1. The military staff commit tee completed its report to the security council, with the mem bers reported still in disagreement on major sections of that long awaited document 2. The security council arranged to meet Wednesday with the topic likely to be Hungary's letter ask ing admission to the United Na tions. The assembly named Dr. Os waldo Aranha, former foreign minister of Brazil, as its presi dent He received 45 votes of 54 cast on the first secret ballot Tax Collecting Plan Prepared For Cigarets Plans for collecting the two cent per package cigaret tax, al though it does not become opera tive until July 5, already are in progress by the state tax com mission, officials announced Mon day. The tax was imposed by! an act of the recent legislative iession. Administration will be ia : charge of Commissioner Cart Chambers, head of the assessment division of the commission. The cigaret tax bill covers a period of only two years and would be repealed in case the 3 per cent sales tax is approved by the voters at the special election. Chambers said the commission would print tax stamps : which will be affixed to each package of cigarets y wholesalers. Wholesalers will be allowed 3 per cent of the face value of the stamps to compensate them for placing the stamps on the pack ages. , One problem facing the com mission. Chambers said, is to supply stamps to retailers who obtain their cigarets from whole salers located outside of the state. Mental Patient, Hostage Sought SAN FRANCISCO, April 286$") Northern California was search ed in vain today for Frank R. Wallrath, former paratrooper and army deserter whoo escaped ear ly Sunday from an army psycho pathic ward, and for ,the young orderly Wallrath and his three companions took with them as a hostage. The three other escapees were caugm last nignt, au with 100 miles of San Francisco. TEAMSTER TALKS PROGRESS PORTLAND, Ore., April 28-OP) AFL teamsters and commercial truckers were reported to have made progress today in discus sions of their dispute which has tied up hauling here for two weeks. Wealher Salem Portland Ran Francisco Chicago New York .. Max. 51 ... 57 61 65 Min. Preclp. 46 .16 SO .09 ; 47 ; trc 30 .00 36 -- J00 51 Willamette river .6 feet, FORECAST tfrom U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy today and tonight with occa sional ahowcrs- and little' change In temperature. Higheat today 60. Low eft tonight 41. Agricultural outlook: Oc casional light showers accompanied by relatively strong winds will make ef fective dusting and spraying impossi ble today. 29, 1947 Price V. N. Session Lacks Glamor NEW YORK, April 28 -P-The extraordinary session of the United Nations assembly opened today without glamor or incidents. Many of the big boys weren't here at Flushing Meadow, and the crowd was quick to sense it Assembly fans expected a bet ter show after gaping at Molo tov, Vishinsky, Bevin and Byrnes at the last "world par liament" in the fall of '46. Most of the 55 members na tions dispatched their ambassa dors or ministers from Washing ton. But there were two princes on hand H. R. H. Amir Faisal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and H.R.H. Wan Waithayakon of Siam. Rate Increases Asked on State Telephone Call Permission to increase state wide telephone rates for the firrt time in 2 5 years was requested Monday by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., in a petition to the state public utilities com mission. Salem's increase in the propos ed new schedule would ranjge be tween 10 and 25 per cent in prin cipal business and residential classifications of telephone ser vice, somewhat higher than Port land area increases. In one of the 11 categories of service of the Salem exchange suburban business service a decrease in rate from $3.73 to $3.50 per month is proposed. A P. T. & T. statement to the press made no reference to the telephone strike that was three weeks old Monday, but asserted that "our problem is that pre war prices are not enough to meet post-war costs." Receipt of the telephone com pany petition was acknowledged by Public Utilities Commissioner George Flagg, who said no dis position of the request was made immediately. It is expected that hearings on the rate proposals may be held within the next month. Besides general increases in most services offered by local exchanges, an overall change in long distance rates and procedure is proposed, including slightly re duced long distance tolls to more distant points in the state. Initial talking period would be reduced from five to three min utes on 15-. 20- and 25-cent long distance calls, and report charges would be eliminated. Reduction of 10 and 15 per cent in calls to Pendleton, LaGrande, Huntington and similar points would result from the new rate schedule, the company stated. (Additional details on page 2) Firemen Fight Cannery Blaze Two pumpers of 1,500-gallon water capacity and a salvage truck battled 2i hours to the finish of a blaze at the Blue Lake Cooperative cannery in West Salem that caused several thou sand dollars damage between 4:45 and 7:15 a.m. Sunday. Cause of th? fire was undetermined. W. E. Ay res, production man ager, said most of the damage was to the roof and ammonia pipe insulation, with some water damage. The plant was- to be in operation today processing pota toes. Fire Chief W. P. Roble com mended the firemen's work, in stopping the fire. He said all the blaze was inside the building ex cept where holes were cut during the fire fighting Youthful Parolee 'Jails' Five Officers; Escape Try Fails EUGENE, April 2MflVA 17-year-old boy turned the tables on five policemen and held them in the Lane county jail here today for nearly two hours. ' He was Herbert L. Higgins, who later was caught as he tried to flee the city. He was placed in a cell in the same jail where earlier he held the police. On parole from the state train ing school at Woodburn, Higgins first was arrested by a city patrolman while riding a motor scooter reported stolen last week. Taken to the county jail, he grabbed a gun from bis pocket 5c No. 28 Hits Red Demands WASHINGTON, April 28 - Premier Stalin told Secretary Marshall that compromises are possible on the great issues split ting the wartime allies, Marshall revealed tonight But the American secretary of state. Just back from the Moscow conference which bogged down in disagreement on all main points,: warned in a radio report to the nation that the fate of Eu rope cannot wait on "compromise through exhaustion." : "Disintegrating forces are be coming evident," he . said. "The patient is sinking while the doc tors deliberate." Action Soon Is Essential Without becoming specific, he said: "Whatever action Is possible to meet these pressing problems must be taken without delay." Marshall reviewed the bitter disagreements between Russia and the other allies at the Moscow conference, which was called to draft a peace treaty for Austria and to make a start on writing a blueprint for Germany's peace time future. ,. The secretary declared -Russia's proposal for a centralized German government and heavy repara tions would have resulted "in a deteriorating economic life in Ger many and Europe and the inev itable emergence of dictatorship and strife." He also accused the Soviets of "propaganda appeals to passion and prejudice." Some Progress Made But he said that some progress was made and "future negotia tions can start with a knowledge of exactly what the issues are that must be settled." Marshall advised that "we must not compromise on great princi ples in order to achieve agree ment for agreement's sake." - But also, he said, "we must sincerely try to understand the point of view of those with whom we differ." Marshall wound up his report with the advice that "the state of the world today and the position of the United States make manda tory! in my opinion, a . unity of action on the part of the Ameri can people." Albany to Keep Mines Station WASHINGTON, D. C, Apjril 28 (T")-A move to abandon the U. S. bureau of mines experiment sta tion at Albany, Ore., baa been' halted by Rep. Stockman (R Ore.). ' , .y: : : During discussions on . approp riation . exits for experiment- sta tions some members of .the sub committee wanted to abandon the Albaiy plant, where-; zirconium experiments are bejng conducted. The committee cut appropriations for such stations throughout the country a million dollars to $600, 000. ; At Stockman's ' insistence all stations will be retained but. will operate on a greatly reduced ba sis and "only the most important and. promising portions" of the program will be continued.' President of Mexico ' Due in Capital. Today WASHINGTON." April 28- (JP) The nation's capital 'laid out its biggest and brightest Welcome to day for President Miguel Aleman of Mexico. Aleman is scheduled to arrive at 1 p.m. (PST) tomorrow, aboard President Truman's private plane, the "Sacred Cow." It is a good will visit primarily, but it might result in a loan to aid Mexico's postwar industrialization. and disarmed the officer.. In the next-hour and a half he did the same thing to another city patrol man and three state police who came into the jail, one at a time. In each Vase he emptied .their re volvers, then returned them. -. After two hours, he left, warn ing the officer not to follow. One quickly reloaded his gun and fired at the fleeing youth with out effect Road block were set up and the boy captured. at the south city limit in a car reported stolen from the university camp- Secretary Win j - : t - '-. -.- - -. Business Buildings Destroyed By Mrs. J. A. Wright Statesman Correspondent DETROIT, Ore:. April 28 A spectacular fire wiped out a clus ter of business buildings on the south side of the North Santiam highway here early today for a loss estimated upwards of $75,000. Only the absence of wind aodi the arrival of VS. Forest Service firefighting equipment prevented the flames from spreading to oth er business structure and to heavily wooded area but a few hundred yards away. Sleepers-Escape Flames No one was injured but Mrs. ' F. L. Noble and her sister. Un. O. Ehler of Hollywood, Calif, oc cupying the former a sleeping quarter above the Detroit Food Market, were awakened barely in time to escape the flames. The fire, of undetermined ori gin, started about 2:15 a m. in the Muir bakery, which opened, only a week ago in the partially-completed theatre building being constructed by Frank Wilson. It spread to the market, owned and operated by Mrs. Noble and Ray mond Sophie, and to Baldwin'' Dry Goods store. Materials, Taets Lest . The buildings were counted a total loss. Wilson estimated hi loss at $15,000, including con struction materials at the site. De stroyed in the bakery was valu able new material, and all tools with the exception of a lathe were lost in Howard Baldin'a work shop at the rear of the dry good store. Valuable papers and some clothing were removed intact. The building destroyed con stituted nearly . a third of the town' business district, the rest of which escaped damage with the exception of the beer parlor and gasoline station acrosa tfle street from the fire. The latter buildings were slightly scorched. The for est service threw water on nearby structures to prevent their burn ing. , : Nearly all of Detroit's estimated i population of, 400, turned out to watch the early-morning flames. Price Cutting Spreads; Many Products Down By the Associated Press - The Multnomah merchants' pro gram of 10 per cent price cuts on most merchandise was still pack ing in the buyers Monday and . there were report from other Oregon communities that the idea " was spreading. I In Portland, Gfll' store adver tised a "President Truman sale i and Compton' downtown cafe and suburban grocer posted 10 per cent reduction of all price. The Hartman Hardware " com pany at Tigard, the .. Muhlausen store at Donald. Ore, and the Pen ner grocery store at Mt. Angel. announced similar general reduc- tiona. - - , - ' . - . - ' NEW YORK, ! April 23WVDe dine in spot commodity price highlighted the nation's cost of liv ing picture today. - ; ' Declines -were reported in steel scrap, butter, flour, cocoa, coffee, turpentine, lard; rye. cotton corn, copra, tallow -and grease -' : The Associated Press Index of the price of 35 commodities, based on 1928 prices a 100, dropped to 17L59 today, 1175 below the year's high of 184JJ2 March -25. The year' low was 164.05 Jan25. k Declining prices in - the ; food commodities might show up in re tail stores within a few days to m few weeks. If the trend remain downward. -.. i -;.:i ' Wallace Jokes Off Politics WASHINGTON, April 28 -CP) Henry A. Wallace roared with laughter today at a suggestion that President Truman anticipate his support in 1948 and declared "it's too early to say about that. Asked whether he plans to join with Senator Pepper (D-Fia.) to head third party in the presi dential election, he said that "we'll make a rendezvous next March to see about that. I suit hope the democratic -party will become the liberal party. If not, there will have to be some steps, taken no doubt about that" . And as to his own political am-, bitions, if any, he, said that "the only question of my running for office would be to benefit peace in the world, and if it would do that I would run as hard as I could." Silverton, Aumsville Construction Sought PORTLAND. April 28.-V Charles A. Hoyt, Silverton. ap plied to the Oregon district con struction review committee today r ' for authority to construct an $18,- 000 warehouse at Silverton. Other applications: Mary B. Woodcock, one-story hardware store and res taurant, $31,000, Aumsville. V n 'v-r-f r . '.rfq-e , iff", ew?,