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aODD EDDjoOD 0 00 O 0 O C3 O OO il ooao pdd a 0 Weather ffNYKl Max. . . 43 . 6S . SI Min. 3S 82 31 feet. Prertfv .14 .M Salem Portland San Fianctoco New York Willamette river It FORECAST (from US. weather bo- rrai McNary field. Salem): CloudT with light rain today and tonight. Hlah today 49. low tonight M. FOUNDDD 1Q51 The Oraon Statesman. Salem, (proaon. Wednesday. December 3. 1947 KTNETY-SEVENTH YEAH 12 PAGES Price 5c No. 214 TO & mm IF PAY 1 fD a O O El O O- O DO rf rf 0 mm New,Uiojihim, Plutonium A-Weapons Underproduction RJQDQjQS This week the two millionth customer of Rural Electrification cooperatievs will get . electricity. This will make 1,500,000 farms and 500,000 rural stores, churches, smalt industries, schools that ane being served under REA pro jects. Established in 1935 as one of the projects of the new deal the REA has withstood the oppo sition of private utilities and of political foes, has been able to get appropriations even from economy-minded republicans and is still expanding. In few cases have private util ities been hurt The threat of competition has stirred them into activity with the result that pri vate companies have taken elec tric service to an additional 1,250,000 farms in the same per iod. Often the REA buys its elec tricity at wholesale from a pri vate utility. The, government-aided cooperative is frequently able would be too small to make pri vate service compensatory. REA is a government agency which lends mofiey at 2 per cent interest to cooperatives which construct and operate electric power systems. These coopera tives get a preference for power produced at federal power plants. As true cooperatives the cost to consumers is proportionate to the actual cost of service. Not all of the REAs have been successful. In some instances they have had such poor records that the owners were glad to sell to an adjacent private utility. For the most part the cooperatives have survived though sometimes they have not been able to meet their interest debt to the govern ment. There is social as well as eco nomic justification in this ven ture of the government. Farm life is so isolated, the blessings of electricity to farms so abun dant that the country as a whole has an interest in seeing that farms are electrified. Not only is work m the Qome and in the barns lightened greatly and . liv ing made more pleasurable but productivity is increased through use of power in farm operations. The REA resembles the RFD, rural mail delivery ,,. 'instituted over a half century ago. Both cost the government money; both are helping greatly to -sustain a vital agriculture. Liquor Board Nets Surplus The former state liquor control commission, prior to retirement Monday, turned over to the state .treasurer $600,000 to be applied In payment of outstanding public assistance indebtedness and of public assistance for the month of December, 1947.- After retiring an outstanding loan of $70,138.80 with interest there remained available the amount of $529,844.30 with which to meet claims of $455,237.23. To tal borrowings since May, 1947, aggregated $4,261, 814. (J5 with in terest thereon of $4,114.69, all of which has been paid out of trans fers of cash by the retiring liquor commission to the public assist ance account. The cash balance in the. account Is $74,607.07. "This was an excellent record of-meeting the costs of public assistance," Scott said. Animal Crackers . - BV WARREN GOODRICH "Please shut p, dutitt gtttiog UU." Mug. Cflnao- TraiiiD Sabotaged PARIS, Wednesday, Dec. 3.HfJP)-The French national assembly, engaged in bitter debate over emergency anti-strike legislation sought by Premier Robert Sen u man, was told by a government spokesman to day that 12 persons had died and 40 were injured in the derailment of a Paris-Arras mail train - -which The announcement - - by Finance Minister Rene Mayer - - was greeted by a tumult from the com-1 munist deputies, who turned on their opponents on the right side of the assembly with cries of: "It is you who are the assas sins. Charles Serre, a partisan of Gen. Charles de Gaulle and his com munist hating rally of the French people (RPF), shouted in reply: "Those who provoked it art on your side." Homage Paid After Assembly President Ed- ouard Herriott had re-established order the deputies paused to pay j homage to the victims of the rail disaster. ' Mayer said the mail train wreck ' was caused by the "unbolting" of about 75 feet of track. The derailment was the most serious thus far in a series of rail- j way mishaps which government spokesmen have attributed to sab otage linked with the strike crisis. Override Commanists Prior to Mayer's statement the . assembly overrode communist op-1 position and approved by a ded-l sive margin the first article of j Premier Robert Schuman's five- part anti-strike bill. The article suspends for three months the present French law punishing sabotage by a maximum 180,000 franc t$l,3UU) nne ana three months imprisonment. Ar ticle two, not yet voted, provides substitute penalties up to a auu, 000 franc ($4,200) fin and five years imprisonment for a more broadly defined offense. Only Reds Oppose The vote favoring article one was 402 to 183, with only the as sembly's communist bloc oppos ing it. The other four articles jt the. bill will be debated and voted on one by one, after which there will be a vote on the bill as a whole. The vote came as France's three-week-old strike wave be gan receding. A highly placed neutral official said last night he believed the communists were be ginning to lose their first big of fensive in the French "cold war." Drivers Carry Petitions for Bus Franchise In an effort to secure a 10-year franchise from the city of Salem, Oregon Motor Stages city bus drivers are circulating- petitions for bus patrons to sign. The petitions were drawn up and are circulated entirely on the ini tiative of the drivers, Robert Dav idson, company manager here, said. The petitions ask the city council to grant the bus company a 10 year franchise. Drivers began car- trying them Monday. lne onvers arc aciiiiji m u'ci rights as citizens in carrying the petitions,' Davidson said. "They are interested in making their Jobs more secure. They feel their jobs are insecure as lon as the com pany operates on a year-to-year basis." The question of granting the franchise will come up for third reading and amendments at the city council meeting next Monday night. v "By granting us a long-term franchise," Davidson declared, "the bus company will consider it safe to throw, more buses into service and to. open new routes. At the same time a franchise will give the city council a check-rein on our activities and will permit it to make demands or offer suggestions for the good of the public." Deadline Set for Adair Land Claims PORTLAND. Dec. 2 -JF)- Vet erans -i fanners interested in establishing claims to 24,000 acres of government land listed for sale to former owners of Camp Adain property have until December 31 to file claims at Adair Village. H JL Delaney, surplus property disposal supervisor here, said tracts not purchased by former owners under their higher prior ity will be regrouped and offered to veterans and then farmers. Ifteds os as he blamed on saboteurs. In spite ef leaden skies, a crowd I 1. I Ir viewed the General Motors' Train of Tomorrow when it passed briefly at Salem's Southern Pacific railroad station Tuesday after noon. Representatives of Portland and Salem service clabs and civic leaders boarded the train for its trip to Portland. Shown in top picture at right, is a general view of the station showing the crowd and the sleek eoaches with their astra domes on the ears at right. Standing in awe of the smooth-lined nose of the diesel engine, minus the traditional cowcatcher, is three-year-old Johnny Shlnn, son of Mr. jnd Mrs. Lee Shlnn, 795 N. 17th st. In the above picture. Photos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) Officials Take Brief Trip On 'Train of Tomorrow9 By Wendell Webb Managing editor The Statesman The "train of tomorrow" general Motors four-car dream of what the railroads should offer stopped in Salem for 15 minutes shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday. Several hundred persons were on hand for the arrival, but due to a close schedule, only-a few were allowed aboard for a brief inspection tour. Among the latter were Gov. John Hall, Secretary of State Earl Newbry and State Treasurer Leslie Scott. The 400-foot long train seats 216 persons and features glass enclosed "astra domes" above or dinary rail car level, radiophone service and intercar phones, air conditioning and such mechani cal improvements as the "swing hangers" designed to reduce side sway. Boarding the train at Salem for the brief run to Portland were Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom, State Sen. Douglas McKay, City Man ager J. L. Franzen and local ra dio and newspaper representa tives. Also aboard was George Flagg, state public utilities commission er. At Albany the train picked up Ralph Cronise, editor of the Al bany Democrat. Herald, and Mrs. Cronise. Out-of-towners boarding at Salem included Verne McKin ney and Tom Purcell, publishers of Hillsboro and Gresham, respect ively, as well as several score Portland officials, newspapermen and radiomen who were brought here by bus for the trip. Several hundred persons lined S.P. tracks in Salem to view the train in addition to those at the Southern Pacific depot, including many along the tracks near the Salem high school and the entire student body of Chemawa Indian school. . General Motors af approximately 4at persaas 165 Perish in Portugal Gale LISBON, Portugal, Wednesday, wee. a-ijit-.ine worst storm iqj Portuguese history smashed the Portuguese north coast fishing fleet Monday and yesterday, claiming at least 165 lives and sinking most of the ships. Five bodies washed ashore ear ly today at Oporto, where it was feared the toll would mount much higher, since hundreds of men went out Sunday and Monday in fishing boats now long overdue. The bodies of 160 victims of the 117-mile-an-hour hurricane had been counted up to last night It was the worst storm in mod ern Portuguese history and oc curred after the fleet put to sea Sunday and Monday, ignoring storm warnings. ITALY XEDS ADAMANT ROME, Wednesday, Dec. 3-AV Italy's communist party early to day called Premier De Gasperi's Christian democrat party a dicta torship "seeking to enslave Italy to the foreigners" and appealed for a nationwide "labor front" to fight it 'Dream-Train9 Pauses in Salem - -mi Mahoney Avers Out-of-Bounds' Against Slot State Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland democrat, asserted Tuesday in Salem that Attorney legally- direct county law officers frulings on gambling or any other department of Justice bill passed authorized by the governor. Mahoney made his statement to several reporters at the statehouse Tuesday. Ho said he had spent the entire day studying the bill and it had confirmed his contention that the attorney general may nn1 direct the work of county law officers in matters pertaining to civil actions. The Portland lawyer, who was a member of the upper house re vision of laws committee which! drafted the measure creating a state department of justice under the attorney general, said the or iginal bill which first emerged from the house committee gave the attorney general power over all county officers ih any inatter. The amended bill which passed during the final day of i the legis lature, however, clearly; stipulates that the attorney general can only direct or take over duties of coun ty officers in civil suits and does not include prosecution of illegal slot machine operators or other law breakers, Mahoney stated. "The attorney general to my knowledge never received a writ ten order from the late Gov. Earl Snell to enforce the gambling statues to the letter," Mahoney said. "If this is true his recent gambling directive is illegal and without value. And I doubt whether Governor Hall win issue such an order. Jews, British Bolster Forces JERUSALEM, Dec. 2-fifrVJew- ish military forces backing up British police and troops in Pales tine, where 14 met death by un official count in the past 24 hours, bolstered their defenses Wednes day against a new outbreak of bloodshed by Arabs in Ter Aviv. Fighting between Jews and Arabs, the latter stirred to vio lence by the United Nations de cision to partition Ples-tine. spread throughout the Holy Land Tuesday and an unofficial casual ty list showed eight Jews and six Arabs were killed and 32 Jews and sjx Arabs wounded.- Signal Heard from Missing Airplane FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 2 -(JPy-VS. airforces said today ra dio signals indicated that C-47 .transport plane, missing since Friday with 20 persons aboard, was in an area near the French German border, but an all-day search by . airplanes and ground parties failed to. locate it. Air crews and foot patrols started out with high hopes after a search plane had received a ra dio signal, apparently from the missing plane, indicating it was down wjth at least some of the 15 passengers and five crew still alive. The message said: "Am in rough area with trees. Badly need help. Possible me to build fire." . a'' '"' -0 ftm v ............ . , si i . I Neuner in Drive Machines General George Neuner cannot to enforce his interpretations or state criminal statute under the in the 1947 legislature unless Claggett to Rule as Salem '48 King Bing Salem Cherrians Tuesday night elected as their 1948 King Bing Charles Claggett, vice president of W. T. Rigdon funeral company. He succeeds William C. Dyer. jr. Other officers elected are Hal Randall, Lord Governor Wood; Clayton Dyer, Marquis of Maras china; Cedric Reaney, Queen Ann's consort; Vince Rodakowski, King's jester; Don Armpriest,' Duke of Lambert; Wallace Doerf ler, Eari of Waldo; Howard Walk er, keeper of the orchard: Paul Hale, chancellor of the rolls, and Robert M. Fischer, Archbishop of Rickreall. Installation will be conducted at the January 12 meeting in the Marion hotel. Last night's month ly dinner meeting was held in the Golden Pheasant restaurant. METEOR JUST FLARE PORTLAND, Dec. 2-(P)-That was no meteor that flashed over Portland Sunday morning, a war surplus dealer said today. He said the "ball of fire" reported in the sky was his test of a parachute flare. Kindergarten Question Stirs Interest at School Board Meet By Winston H.Taylor Staff Writer, The Statesman Questions of the possibility and feasibility of adding kindergarten facilities to the Salem school sys tem came before the Salem school board Tuesday night, with a de cision to confer with a committee of interested women on problems and suggestions for such advent ture. Most interest has been indi cated on the part of Salem Jun ior Woman's club. Members of the board ex pressed the opinion that the dis trict's "problem is big enough now without considering the ad dition of kindergartens," in view of the increased population and greater building costs. A tentative long range school building pro posal was discussed only as the kindergarten program related to it Directors indicated sympathy with the kindergarten plea but said that pYoper housing for chil dren now in school appeared to be the most important considera tion. The board authorized consul Details of New Atom Reserch Kept Secret By th Atsociatrd Press The atom age observed its fifth birthday anniversary yesterday, toddling forward with precocious strength toward new weapons, new medical discoveries, new displaced persona and possibly toward "the ultimate secrets of nature." ' New atomic weapons, made from both uranium and plutonium, are "in current production and under design" by American scientists and engineers, David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the atomic energy commission, revealed in a speech at Atlantic City, NJ. Whether these weapons are atom bombs or some new and perhaps even more deadly military use of atomic power was not disclosed by Lilienthal, who addressed the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Neither would the commission, in Washington, say whether the "new fundamental data" to be in vestigated behind secrecy walls at Eniwetok atoll in the far Pacific meant that new types' of atomic weapons were to be tested. Lilienthal said 'the U.S. has spent some $2,500,000,000 (billions) on atomic development and the total will rise to ' approximately $5,000,000,000 (billions) in the next few years "if this country really means business.' The fifth anniversary was ob served formally at the Univer sity jof Chicago, where the first self-sustaining atomic chain re action described by Chancellor Robert H. Hutchins as "the most significant event of a modern times occurred on Dec. 2, 1942. Mrs. Dunlavy, Spouse Retract Divorce Pleas Mrs. Betty M. Dunlavy's suit for her 15th divorce was dismissed from Marion county circuit court Tuesday when she and present husband John S. Dunlavy with drew their complaint and cross complaint with the "permission of Circuit Jndge George Duncan. Asked last night whether this action meant a reconciliation, the 40-year-old Brooks woman had no comment She is operator and own er of the Brooknook restaurant. Mrs. Dunlavy charged her hus band with cruel and inhuman treatment when she filed for a divorce October w. She told the court that since 1924 when at the age of 16 she was first married, she had re-married and divorced 14 times. Her 15th divorce suit the first filed here asked for full possession of the Brooknook restaurant and return by her hus band of a $1,200 diamond ring she had given him. Dunlavy countered with a re quest for half-interest in (he res taurant and full accounting of funds since June 17. 1947. They had been married in February, 1946. CAN OPENER OPENS "SAFE" BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 2 -JPh It had to happen some day. A bur glar last night used a can opener to open a home-made coffee can safe at a Berkeley variety store, escaping with $110. tation with the city long range planning, commission; state high way commission and city council in regard to proposed moving of the Pacific highway to alongside the Southern Pacific tracks and also to suggested grade separa tion for the railroad. In opposmg the former and backing the latter proposal, the board noted that approximately one-third of the city's ' school population attends classes in Salem high school and Parrish junior high school, flank ing the railway south of D street. Use of a small room at Middle Grove school and employment of a first grade teacher there was authorized in order to relieve crowding. In personnel matters, the board voted a contract for. Betty M. Richardson as lip-reading teach er on a half-time basis, in the special education program. Mrs. Harvey Wright was hired to re place Wilford ; Reaper, resigned, as English teacher at Salem high. Resignation of Mrs. Nora Wein miller as Richmond fourth grade teacher was accepted, effective January L Inflation Blamed For Stand WASHINGTON. Dec. 2-P)-CIO leaders today demanded a third round of post-war wage increases for the 6,000,000 members of CIO unions. President Philip Murray and the nine vice-presidents of CIO made the announcement at th end of an all-day meeting. They expressed their determination to "lighten the unbearable .economic burden they said had been brought on by price inflation. Proceed Thrones. Channels To this end," the union lead ers announced, "the CIO and ita affiliated unions shall proceed through the channels of collectiv bargaining to obtain substantial 1 wage increases for the American workers to restore their loss in real income suffered through In flation and assure sustained pur chasing power as the foundation for continued maximum employ ment and production." Murray told reporters that the first of the collective bargaining negotiations probably will start early next year. His own steel workers union, however, will not open negotiations until April. This was taken to mean that somo other CIO group such as tho United. Auto Workers, the mari time unions or the United Elec trical workers will start the ball rolling. Hopes No Strikes Necessary "We are all living in hope that it will not be necessary to havo strikes, Murray told a question er. The so-called first round of wage increases after V-J day amounted generally speaking to 18'fc cents an hour and werst obtained in the spring of 1946. A second round, 'of 18' cents, went' through last spring. Murray said that each interna tional union will determine how large an Increase it will seek this, time. Board Revives Camp White Hospital Deal j The poser of whether the state should acquire the Camp White hospital near Med ford as a men tal institution was again beforo the state board of control Tuesdsy. Action taken consisted of a deci sion to ask the attorney general for an opinion involving legal questions concerning the proposal. ' State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott was emphatic in his opposition to taking over the hospital. He brand er the structure as a "fire trap and declared, "If we want a hos pital down there, we should build it from the ground up." The war assets administration informed the board of control it would give the hospital, to th state provided the state would us it for a period of 25 years for either educational or health purposes and if the state would consent to re turn it to the federal fovemment in event of a national emergency. Figures indicated that the state would have to spend approximate ly $4,000 a month to maintain the) property. Both Gov. John H. Hall and Sec retary of State Earl T. Newbry supported the proposal when It came before the 1947 legislature but the bill later was vetoed by the late Gov. Earl Snell. More rigid inspection of slate buildings, with a view to reducing the number of fires which havo cut the state restoration fund frcm $500,000 to approximately $200,000, was urged by the state treasurer, who said frequent inspections by the state fire marshals office might prove valuable in preventing fu- . ture fires. Scott's suggestion came during a discussion of two fire claims ag Sregating $144,470.83. in connec tion with fires at Oregon State college and University of Oregon. The state restoration fund pro vides protection against fire losses involving state buildings in lieu of commercial insurance. I O 1 JffVnr7viJr