o o o o o O 0t3p o a o ao o o o d o C3-OC3C3 0GD OOO OO O O . C3 tzs CHlamnniegsiini' Kesigmis Tcip mnwm a 9 j FOUNDBD I&51 -j rnNETY-SEVENTH YEAH T TTiarErTTYT jljLgJJiJL) RjffiCLHS i The United States, whose secre tary of state cave the basis for hope of American aid to Europe, now seems inclined to let mat ten drift- President Truman, borne from his, trip to South America, expresses concern over domestic prices but makes no . commitment on. calling congress together to- Implement the Mar shall plan- He meets tomorrow with congressional leaden, but Apparently as much In the role of listener as proposer or a pro gram. . , , Indeed there Is considerable scoffing, at the Idea of furnishing food and coal and petroleum and steel to Europe on any such scale as Is contemplated In the report from Paris. Some argue that it would be money or foods thrown away, that so long as we feed- Europe tne people were .-ui t fend for themselves. Others argue that government export of scacce commoaiues iires Inflation at home, and the way to solve the domestic problem is fcy curtailing our exports. There ' is grave danger that what aid we may give will prove in h- -trm little and too late," If we wait until the regular ses sion of congress ana tnen wan fnr th alow mechanics of legis lating to operate we may really -miM tne bua.7 woi oniy wwuu the aid be tardy but the United States would suffer a serious loss of prestige. Having in the Mar ahaii rMru at Harvard univer- aitv manifested a readiness to co operate in promoting European recovery and having at Paris .forced a reduction m tne (Continued on editorial page) Kings Prairie Airport Sought '' NIAGARA, Sept 17 San tlam canyon flying enthusiasts r work in out clans to estab lish an airport on Kings Prairie In the region of Gates, west oi bere. . It la recalled that the civil TT.rtiiitir- uthnri last mrinff recommended two air fields for the canyon, one in the Mill City vicinity, the other at Idapha. For the past summer local fliers and students of aviation larve been using the Lany Staf ford place on Kings Prairie and f H are of the oninlon that it can be 'developed -into a fine plane landing strip to meet an specifications of the CAA. '-' . ' The Kuckenberg Construction company officials . have been making extensive use of the Staf ford field during the summer. Rock Slides Block Gorge Highway THE DALLES. Ore., Sept. 28 , (Sunday) -W- Two rock slides had . blocked the Columbia river heighway eat of here early to day near . Rufus, in Sherman , , county, and state police said the road may not be opened until jnoon. Police said the slides weft 'about midway between here? and Arlington and attributed them to keavy rains In the vicinity. j Quints Reported Born in Russia S. MOSCOW. Sept. 27-(aVThe newspaper Evening Moscow, said today quintruplet three boy! and two girls had been born to a farm woman in the Buriat Mon golian republic of the Soviet un ion, A dispatch said the mother was Khonda Perendzapova of a col lective firm near Ulan Ude In the Shitkansky locality of - the - Bargazinsky Airnak region. It reported that the children, born -recently", all were, normal and were progressing and that the mother was well. Animal Crackers fey WARREN GOODRICH vvl,p1 f-tX'T" 21. I' V T corn crop rullf his m 20 PAGES The Oregon Train Wreck Blamed at" C.J- .. V'-f- :V.a;. k1 i j ' .1 , t . . I A derailing switch, mysteriously anlocked (right center), brought Salem Its meat potentially serious train wreck In years early yesterday, and there was plenty of damage as it was. Top photo shows the belterskelter mess ef cars, nine af which left the track and two of which vertnrned, just south ef Salem near Falrriew heme, attendants of which helped give first aid ta the Injured. Left center shows. George Miller, Portland railway clerk, being carried from a mail car a few minutes after the derailment which was being- widely Investlrated Saturday by state and federal aa well as railroad fficlaJs. The train was the 8. P.'s southbound West Coast Limited carrying- 20 passengers. Upper left Inset shews; Chief Express Messenger Jack Dow ling of Portland looking at an overturned car. Ad ditional wreckage Is shewn In the lower pictures. (Photos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer) Rail Accident Investigation Started by Southern Pacific Officials; Baggageman Still in Hospital An open switch, not used by the railroad iince Wednesday af ternoon at 4:30 o'clock, was blamed j for the scrambling of nine cars of a Southern Pacific train near here early Saturday morning. Only one person re mained in the hospital as a re sult-- of Salem's cmont extensive fail mishap In years; Traffic was moving again at 4:30 ajn. Saturday past . the wreck scene, opposite Fairvlew home south of Salem, and all the derailed cars are expected to be back on rails by this even ing. Some lost their wheel truck and all will be sent to repair shops. . '''"''! Saving the wreck from being a worse tragedy was theict that only two of the derailed cars were passenger '.coaches, neither 6f which tipped over. Other cars were for baggage, express and mail. ;- ; Whether the open switch was accidental or of malicious intent 4-1 Foil r-01l Infant Found in Interne's Car PORTLAND, Sept . 27-P)-An infant believed but 14 hours old was found wrapped In a towel in the rear seat of a hospital in terne's automobile here late this afternoon. , . Dr. Dexter Amend discovered the tiny girl when he left the hos pital tq attend the Oregon-Texas football game. The car was parked in the i parking lot of the Good Samaritan hospital. Germans to Oppose Dismantling of Plants BERLIN, Sept. 27 Ger man trade union leaders at Ham burg declared today orders had been issued throughout the Brit ish zone for strikes as "resist ance to British-American plans for the dismantling of large numbers of German factories for reparations. " ' Statesman. Salem, Ore., Sunday. r - "if a w Is under" .investigation by rail road, state and federal officers. L. P. Hopkins, superintendent of the Portland division, said simi lar derailments at the state fair grounds and at Molalla in the past two months had been proved the result of maliciousness. The switch, ' for a spur - leading to the west side of the municipal airport, was. unlocked, it was dis covered after the accident. It had not been thrown, or the breaking of contact points would have ac tivated a stop signal, Hopkins pointed 6ut He said the weight and vibration of the locomotive, which passed safely, evidently had moved the tracks sufficiently for the following seven cars to be derailed. Parting of the air hoses stop ped the engine ' in about 1,000 yards. The crew did not know what had happened to the rest of the train until the engine stop ped and Engineer Victor Parti piio and Road Foreman D. Americans Invited To Visit Yugoslavia NEW YORK, Sept 27 James F. Byrnes, Henry Morgen; thau, Jr., Harold E. Stassen 1 and three other Americans have been officially invite' to Yugoslavia at the request oi Marshal Tito to "see for themselves the true sit uation, Yugoslavian officials announced toayv Yugoslav Ambassador Sava N. KosanOvic said that Marshal Tito had Instructed him to Invite "six eminent Americans' to visit his country and correct sr reat mis understanding." Others invited were Dr, Harry Emerson Fosdick, former pastor of - the Riverside churcl) in. New York, Author John Gunther and Hanson Baldwin, military writer of the New, York Times,. the an nouncement said. Price on Switch May, both of Portland, walked back. Speed: at the time of the wreck was recorded at 42 miles per hour, said Hopkins. Two passengers, who continued so$th with the later train, and three crewman, all of Portland, were injured. George Miller, mail clerk, suffered hip and back in- iuries and was admitted to Sa em General hospital where he was released late Saturday morn ing. Daman Stimson, baggage man, remained in Salem Deacon ess hospital i with head cuts, re ported in "fair" condition. The wreck caused only a bad "kink" In h main lin roll. which was soon repaired, but it ripped out about 80 feet of rails and ties on the spur. Replace ment had i been completed by Saturday noon. Two railway cranes, with 120 ton and. 0-ton capacity,, came from. Portland and Eugene to put the cars back on' wheels. 'MISS OREGON' TO OSC ROSEBURG, Sept. 27-jip)-Jo Ann Amorde, pretty blonde "Miss Oregon," said today she was en tering Oregon State college in January with the $1,000 scholar ship she won by reaching the "Miss America" finals at Atlantic City. A Sutherlin school t teacher, she will finish work toward a his tory major degree. BRITISH TO DEPORT JEWS JERUSALEM, Sept. 27 - (P) -Some 470 Jews were transferred to transports for deportation to Cyprus tonight after their immi gration ship "Despite had been boarded at sea by British sailors in a fight in which one refugee was slain by gunfire and nine others injured. S KILLED AS TRAIN DERAILED KAMLOOPS, B.C., Sept. 27 -(CP)- Five people were killed and a sixth man seriously injured at Angelsey, B.C today when a speeding Canadian National Rail way freight train was derailed by a small gravel slide. Sept. Y& 1947 5c No. 158 Taft Sees Red Tinge On CIO CORVALL1S, ORE. Sept. 27 -(i1) - Senator Taft (K-Ohio) charged tonight "half of tie CIO unions in the country are communist dominated." Taft's charge was made before members of the Oregon State coir lege student body tonight after he had answered the demand of a red ahirted former GI to know why the Taft-Hartley act pena lizes union leaders who are mem bers of the communist party. Henry W. , Hendricks, the red shirted student of Oregon State college, posed the question at the conclusion of the Ohio senator's explanation of provisios of the new labor law. Hendricks, who told a reporter he served five years in the coast artillery division of the army, said he was not a communist. - Later, Taft was asked to name CIO leaders who were commu nists after he had said in response to another question that the CIO's PAC "had so many communists that it virtually had a communist program." "I can't name them tonight," the Ohio senator replied, "But I would be, glad to furnish a list. Half of the CIO unions are communist-dominated and are so con sidered by labor union leaders themselves." Campaign for Winter Tourist Trade Urged Oregon, with Its favorable wea ther and scenic attractions and its abundance of outdoor play grounds, should have a larger vol ume of year-around tourist busi ness, the state Postwar readjust ment and development commis sion Informed Gov. Earl Snell yesterday. ine commission suggested mat ih winter sports program be ad vertised with appropriate litera ture and developed to provide tourist industry with a better all- year trade. The committee said question naires could be sent to chambers of commerce in Oregon cities ask ing that information regarding tourist facilities' be made avail able to the state's travel agencies. The report noted that tourist host sqhools were held in 16 Oregon cipes this year, compared with only sefen in 1946. The schools were conducted by -the Oregon Advertising club. Mother of 3 Dies Taking Dare to Walk Tight Rope MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 27-P) -The young mother of three chil dren dared and died in a fatal attempt to walk a high wire at the Mid-South fair here. The woman, who fell SO feet to the ground without an outcry was identified last night as Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Davis by Police Inspector Pete Wiebenga. Inspector Wiebenga said Mrs. Davis picked her way up the flex ible ladder l&ding to the high wire in semiidarkness, grabbed for a balance pole and slipped when the unattached pole gave way. I He said she apparently made the. attempt on a dare. 13-Year.OId Boy Given Life Term PIKEVILLE, KY., Sept. 27-) Court attaches disclosed today that Circuit Judge R. Monroe Fields late yesterday imposed a life sentence at hard labor on 13-year-old Crawford Casebolt, con victed of armed robbery. The court decreed that the seventh-grade school pupil be re moved Monday to the reform school at Greendale until he is 21, after which it was directed that he be transferred to the La Grange penitentiary to spend the rest of his natural life at hard labor. Ray Smith to Head State Republican Clubs GEARHART, Sept. 27 -(V Ray Smith, Portland, was elected pres ident of the Oregon Republican clubs here today. Mildred Pearce, Portland, was named secretary, and Frederick S. Lamport,, Salem, treasurer of the group. Weather Mm. Salem 7i Portland 77 San Francisco M Chlcaco 64 Min. Prcclp. S3 S3 17 J00 M M New York 69 WUlamette river -4.1 faet FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau, VtcNaxy field Salem): Partly cloudy today. High temperature 79, low tonight 4S. Weather will be favorable for all iarm activities. Football Scores Utah 7, Oregon State 6. Texas 38, Oregon 13. Idaho 19, Stanfard 16. Minn. 7, Washington 6. USC 21, WSC 0. California 14, Navy 7. So. Meth. 22, Santa Clara 6. a a aaa WV k 4" a 1 uoii. idano 47, uhu 13. Army 13, Villanova 0. Illinois 14. Pittsburgh 0. Ohio State 13. Missouri 7,i Tulane 21, Alabama 20. Mont. State 21, Portland U 0. Pacific U 13, Lewis Clark 0. Dofck Dispute in L. A. Threat to Coast Shipping SAN FRANCISCO, Sept ilf(Jf) President Harry Bridges, of I the International L o n g s h oremen's and Warehousemen's union said today' the impending cessation of all shipping and dock activities in Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors amounts to "cancellation of the coastwjde longshore agree ment" by the Waterfront Em ployers association. j The WEA announced last niight in Los Angeles that the two har bors would be closed Sept.; 30 until the current dispute over the walking bosses Is settled. The WEA contends the walking bosses or dock foremen consti tute supervisory personnel land that, under the Taft-Hartley j act. Bridges union cannot bargain for them. , i Bridges said that the "lockout is a breach of contract which amounts to automatic cancella tion of the whole agreement (cov ering the Pacific coast from Van couver, Wash., to San Diego." Boy Sued for ! Alienation of Dog9 Affection EUGENE, Sept. 27 -(JP)- Ten-year-old Movie Star Gary Gray was sued here for $50,000-Saturday, for alienation of affections. The cause of action was a Welch terrier named "Corky," owned by movie dog trainer Henry East, who filed in Lane county circuit court, just as the film company which completed the local filming of RKO's "Rachel," entrained; for Hollywood. The trainer claims that Gary "alienated the affections' of Corky while the. movie company was on location near Eugene, causlngj him "great mental anguish" and the loss of $400 a week, the dog's ap proximate earnings. East asserted that Corky j was his favorite and performed with "great intelligence in movies. The dog trainer said he has owned Cor ky ever since he was four months old. The dog now is three yrs old. Red Plan for Korea Means 'Civil War' SEOUL. Sept. 17 -JP) Twp top Korean leaders often at iodds agreed in alarm today that with drawal of American and Soviet oc cupation forces would plunge Kor ea into civil War ending in total communlzation. j In separate Interviews the right ist Dr. Syngman Rhee and the lib eral Kim Kiu-Sic urged that If the United States contemplated with drawal as suggested by the Rus sians, It quickly organize, arm and train a south Korean defense force to meet what Kim called the "red lava" that was certain to pour down from the Soviet northern rone." Churchill Asks Speedy -Withdrawal in Palestine LONDON, Sept. 27 -P)- Win ston Churchill today endorsed United States moves against "mil itant communism" and said "now that we have announced our de cision to quit "Palestine I trust it will be carried out as quickly as possible." Reds Claim U.S. Seeks to Justify Armed Intervention in Greece LAKE SUCCESS, Sept! 21-if) -Russia today accused the United States was using the Greek ques armed American Intervention in Greece and declared the United States Was using hte Greek ques tion to undermine the United Nations. Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko told hte United Na tions assembly's 85-nation politl caf committee in a bitter 66-mln-ute attack on American "inter ference" that the U. S. action "might cause the collapse of the U. N." I "The United States is ready to act in circumvention of the United Nations if their Greek proposal isn't accepted," Gromyko told the delegates. He then added 1 care Postmaster General to Retain Cabinet Position WASHINGTON, Sept. 27-W-Rcbert E. Hannegan announc ed his resignation as democratic national chairman today apd. Senator J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island, picked to sue ceed him said he would "proceed on the theory hat my task will be to reelect President Truman." j Hannegan, who will sta'orhas postmaster general, said he. was giving up his chairmanship anshtp .rl him becautte doctors had advised him to slow down and that President Truman "indicated his approval" of McGrath on Hannegan's sug gestion. McGrath, 43 year old lawyer, three-times governor, and form er solicitor general of the U. 8., was elected to the senate last No vember. He told a news confer ence he will accept the party post without salary but stay on in the senate. Hannegan's long-expected res ignation announcement was con tained in a call for a meeting of the national committee, here Oc tober 29, when his resignation becomes effective. The meeting is expected to elect McGrath for mally then and pick a site and date for the party's 1948 presi dential nominating convention. Hannegan, 44 year old St. Louis lawyer and former internal reve nue commissioner, became chair man in January, 1944. He di rected the lale President Roose velt's fourth-term campaign. Gael Sullivan, executive direc tor and vice chairman of the committee since last February 12 when he took over full direction while Hannegan was recuperat ing from an operation for high blood pressure, wilt resign e long with Hannegan McGrath is a member of the senate Judiciary committee, the special war Investigating com mittee and the District of Colum bia committee. Ticket-Book Bits Rates Rise Oregon Motor Stages company has been granted a rata increase each commutation ticket-book used by both adults and students, George H. Flagg. state : public utilities commissioner ruled Sat urday. The company's application for. the boost was heard by utiliti commission August 25, In Port land. In granting the increase, Flagg said present rates are not sufficient for the company to con tinue to provide transportation on a sound, economlcalfbasis. The new rates become effec tive " December B, and" will be published before that date. Cordon Stifefiests Voluntary Ration ,'x WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -&)-Oregon's .Senator Cordon, thinks housewives ought to ration them selves. Thumbing down any formal price control or rationing, the Oregon republican declared that "we can solve our own problems of prices if all of us adopt a vol untary rationing of our own pur chases . . . I am satisfied that If the people of the country and par- tlnilirlv tt hui&uriva will nut themselves on stricl rationing theli Slliflfl in TTrfllllll problem win be licked." W"1!'0 ait m. 1 uitjJIC $200,000 Stolen, But Football Tickets Left MORRISTOWN, TENN Sept. 27 James R Burke, report ing the theft of more than $200, 000 in cash and securities, from a safe m his home, remarked wryly: "The safecrackers must have read about the man at Knoxville who went to the penitentiary for stealing football tickets. My twa! cvauii wtKcia nciv tut uhii Clocks Back to Normal By The Associated Press Communities at home and abroad return to standard time today and millions of citizens get back that extra hour of shuteye they lost on April 27. Standard time returns in most of the communities at 2 a. m. People will set their clocks back and sleep an extra cBVminutes 88m fully that the United States was attempting to "justify armed U. S. intervention in Greece" and was following a "dangerous path." Gromyko rejected the proposal presented earlier by the United States in a formal resolution and re-offered a counter proposal ab solving Soviet satellites of all blame for Balkan disorders. The Russian resolution, a copy of. one overwhelmingly rejected by the security, council, blamed Greece for border . unrest, de manded withdrawal of foreign troops and foreign-military per sonnel from Greece, and asked the. assembly to create a commis sion to supervise economic aid to Greece, an apparent reference to the Trumao aid program. V- I ! France to Join becuoation Zone Merger LONDON. Sept IT - (jft - French representatives tentative ly have told the United States and Britain that Fraqre win merge her zone of Geiman with their combined zones after the No vember meeting of the council of foreign ministers authoritative sources said today.' ' . ; These sources, representing two of the governments concerned. predicted 'that one of the first major sequels to this move would be that the United States and Britain would back a French re-., iiuri, atuu v ur immiient, ior um political and econorhic incorpora tion of the Germam Saar into France. Asked to comment a French spokesman said In London that the question of the economic inte gration of the Saar into Franc was "likely" to come up before the four-power council of foreign ministers. Expectation appeared general'1 among goveument officials c n cernejl with the future of German that unlets something "ml rat u- bous" happens, exisung east- est differences over German and Austrian peace settlements will crystalize into a break after tr.e foreign ministers council. The foreign ministers are ex peeled to meet In London Ncv. 23 for what British leaders be lieve will be their -last chance to write jointly agreed German and Austrian peace treaties. Slavs Release PUIS. Soldiers TRIESTE, Sept .27 W) Three United States soldiers in Yugoslav captivity Monday re turned to the free territory un scathed tonight riding their own horses and followed by their tig black mongrel mascot, TinyfThey said they had been well treated. The men were First Lt William Van Atten of East Orange, N. J, PFC. Earl G. Hendrick, jr.. of Arlington, Va., and PFC. Glen A. Meyer of Edgerly, N. D. They rode back to outpost No. 5 on the territorial border, where., they bad been captured Monday1' from the Yugoslav village ci Vipaco, about IS miles from Tri este. The only explanation th Yugoslavs gave for their capture at gunpoint waa that they hi.4 "stepped over the line." Atten said he still believed he was on his side of the frontier at thv time, i U" In Atlantic Storm NEW YORK. Sept 23-iSunday (T")-Three vessels are in difficul ties in a northeast storm area off the Southern Atlantic coast the Coast Guard said early today. The SS Gibara of Cuban regis try, sent an S. O. S. fccm 60 nulea east of Charleston, 8; C. A small U. S. freighter, the mo tor, vessel Julius H. Barnes, re ported it had engine trouble and was proceeding at four knots to ward Daytona Beach, TU. A seagoing navy tug, (he ATA 210, reported it was in heavy seas off Jacksonville, rla., unab to make headway. . t GENERAL STRIKES IN ITALY ROME, SUNDAY, Sept 28-P General strike were called today in two cities near Rome, and some 40.000 technicians , and ad ministrative assistants in Italian textile mills continued their walk out into its fifth day. Play Ball! Al Lightner, veteran live wire; porta editor oi THE OREGON STATESMAN, is off to I the World Series' in New;, York, and hip daily side-light itories will appear exclusively In- YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER to augxtrrt the usual rounded coverage of The Associated Press. The first is scheduled for Wednesday morning. A call to Salem 'phone 9101 tomor row, will permit our circula tion department to start your STATESMAN In time for the entire series.