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O U - 1 E2 E3 ZD S 03e O 3 EH O OG O E2 ED Q O O ED O Showiri Each Other How wjpi POUNDDD 1651 ( - a it NINETY -SEVENTH YEAH IS PAGES The Oreoon Statesman. Salem, Oregon. TtMftday. February 17, 184S Price ft Ha. 231 "" I I I III .1 I 1.1 I I Carl Mays (left), formerly a major league pitching great, and Bill Sevens (right), here of the one-hitter he hurled against Brooklyn In last year's world series, were caught buzzing over their, bitting abillties last night daring the Salem Breakfast club banquet fat Marion hotel. Both are Oregonlans. Mays coming from Alsea and Sevens from Salem. Both hurled In world series classics. Almost 20 sat In on too banquet. (Story and additional pictures on sports page.) OTP SCODDQB RTCDCDO The last legislature, worried over demand for new and modern ized highways and streets, crea ted an interim committee charged with the duty of studying these needs over the state and methods of providing means to meet the needs. This committee, headed by Rep. Ralph T. Moore of Coos Bay, on which this county is repre sented bNSen.-Douglas McKay, has initiated a series of hearings over the state. Yesterday was Sa lem's turn and the committee listened to the "want-list" of res idents of Marion and Polk coun ties. It was a formidable list: mod ernizing of 99E through Salem and north; new Willamette river bridge; completion of North San tiam highway 222; improvements to secondary roads. The total would run to around $10,000,000 by very rough estimate. The committee will hear similar pleas in all parts of the state, for the pressure for improved high ways and bridges is tremendous. The highway commission made a similar tour some two years ago and found calls for construction which ran up to over $300 000,000. Obviously on the basis of current receipts this program could not be completed for years. So the real problem the interim committee faces is how and where to gei : more money. ! The ready source is to increase the gas tax, which now i five (Continued on HinH' Canada Seeking Ways To Keep out Commies OTTAWA, Feb. 16 -'jPH Can ada was reported today to be try ing to find a way to keep Com munists, out of the country. The fact that the problem Is under consideration was disclosed by Prime Minister W. L. Macken zie King following a statement by U. S. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R Ohio) that the Taft-Hartley law was driving U. S. communists into Canada. LAST BASE EVACUATED BALBOA. Caral .-.f: , .;b. 16 (Jp) The United States army to day evacuated the Rio Hato air base, last remaining defense site of the 134 maintained in the canal area during the war. The Pan amanian assembly recently re fused to authorize the United States to continue to use the air field. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "I'm his igeot he's i talk ing dog." Stadter Files j For District : Attorney Here Edward O. Stadter, Salem at torney, became the first candidate for office of Marion county dis trict attorney when he filed for nomination on the republican ticket with the county clerk and secretary of state Monday. Stadter was bora in Portland and received his grade and high school education in i that city and Bend. He later attended ..Univer sity of Washington and was grad uated from Willamette university school of law. yj4"'V"J$" ..,- if 4 He was admitted to the bap 18, years ago and was: a legal asso ciate with Ladd and Bush Trust company and Pioneer Trust com pany here for 15 years. He has engaged in the private practice of law with offices in the Pio neer Trust building for the past 2'fc years. He is now vice-president of the Marion County Bar association. Stadter is married and has three children. Their home is at 260 W. Superior st. , In his campaign j slogan, Stadt er pledges: "Conscientious atten tion to county business and ;Jaw enforcement.' Miller Harden, Incumbent dis trict attorney, has not yet filed for re-election. Monday night Hayden said he was " still unde cided as to whether he will! run again. Allied, German j Talks Charged MOSCOW, Feb. 16 -4JPy- The Soviet Union charged tonight that i the United States and Britain talk fed peace terms with Germanydur ing World War II. ' It also accused Britain " and I France of seeking to start a' war J with Russia in 1940 Instead of fighting Germany. Russia said that Allen W. Dulles, a brother of John Fntr DuIIm representing the U.S. in conversa tions with a German spokesman in 1942 which touched on the Ques tion of concluding peace with, Ger many. The Soviet government also ac cused the Allies of failing to ful fill a promise of a second front in Europe in 1942 and 1943. Moscow said it was the final in stallment of charges before publi cation of documents which, it said, the Red army captured from the Germans. Cardinal Pignatelli Dies at 96 Years VATICAN CITY, Feb. L-UP)-Genarro Cardinal G rani to Pignat elli di Belmonte, 96-year-old dean of the college of cardinals who knew five popes, died today. Funeral services will be held Thursday. Informed Vatican' sour ces said tonight Pope Pius XII will read the centuries old abso lution for the dead. The cardinal ranked only to the pope in the church hierarchy. He was the 10th cardinal to die in the past two years. Weather galea Max. ... SS 55 -. 2 Min. iPreclp. 43 i M i 53 . 49 i trace . 4S ? 00 Portland San Francisco Chicago i Mmt Vnrlc SS 25 3 .00 WillAmtt rim & 7 fet rtinff FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem ): Partly cloudy with scattered showers today, becoming cloudy with rain tonight. Highest temperature today 50, low to niaht 42. j SALEM PRECIPITATION (Since BepC 1) j This Year 29.60 Last Year 23-59 Average 15.63 Truman to Ask More for (Jreece, Urges Restraint for Palestine Rebel Pressure 'GrowingTurk Plan Orderly WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 -JP)-President Truman told congress today he will ask more military help to strengthen Greece and Turkey against communism. Greece in particular cannot be saved from communist-engineered collapse until rebel forces "sub servient to foreign influences" are wiped out, the president said. He was reporting on we aouu, 000,000 program of military aid ir. r.roo and the 1100.000.000 for Turkey, voted by congress last year to help rxtn countries protect their freedom. rhsirman Bridges fR-NH) of the senate appropriaUons com mittee said meanwnue nis group is going to want "much more infor mation " before it decides how much should be spent for Euro pean recovery in general. Mr Truman said the Turkish aid program "is proceeding in an orderly manner." But Greece, he tola congress, i. Hoi nff cuhiected to "ever in- n9cin0 rriiri hv the com munist minority" in a "deter- mined and ruthless" war on we country's common people. r.rMr and Turkev are among h mnntriM which will set help ! under the Marshall program, if congress approves it, dui we president said "additional mili tary assistance" will be sought "at the appropriate time." N. Korea Army And Republic Called Puppets SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 9.-iJPh-The radio in Russian-held North told today of a strong Kor ean army and "democratic peo ple's republic" aimed at ruling all Korea under a hammer and sickle flag. A highly-placed American promptly charged at a news con ference that both were soviet pup pets created in open defiance of international agreements and of the United Nations. The broadcast from Pyongyang, soviet occupation headquarters, said a constitution had been pre sented to the North Korean peo ple's council but would not be fi nally voted until mid-March. The American official, said. "We havo amnle information." on the North Korean army, estimated to total at least 200,000 men. It is re ported equipped with Russian me dium tanks, light planes and oth er modern weapons. The Moscow decision of 1945 provided for creation of a unified Korean government by consulting Koreans, with a five-year trustee ship by the big powers. Charging the Russians caused this to fail by refusing to consult any of the large rightist segment, the United States then handed the problem to the U. N, which named a commission to arrange a nation- uriH lK"t ifn. The Russians refused even to let the commissioners enter their zone. The commission is report ing back to the U. N. little assem bly, which meets in Lake Success, N. Y., February 24. Truck's Wreck Aids in Arrest PORTLAND. Feb. 16.-;P-Chief of Detectives William D. Browne said today an automobile-truck collision helped in the quick ar rest of two ex-convicts who he said later were charged with rob bing a drug store of cash and nar cotics. Browne identified the two men as John Ramay, 37, and William Benson, 43, and said both are for mer inmates of San Quentin pris on. They are charged with armed assault and robbery. The truck driven and wrecked by the two was stolen earlier in the day, Browne said. New Quadruplets 'Fine9 Second Day LATROBE, Pa, Feb. 16 -CP-The two-day-old Zavada quad ruplets a boy and three girls were doing "just fine" today. Their physician said their chances of surviving were "excellent" If they got by the first 72 hours. Their father, Andrew Zavada, 35, didn't go to work today at the Latrobe Die Castings Co., where he is an inspector. The famous babies were in four incubators in a special nursery on the floor above. Pound fRains9 Cats and Dogs City Poundmaster Joe Irish's business was brisk during the rainy afternoon yesterday. Within three hours he sold four dogs and a cat for a total of $9, after the prescribed "waiting time" ailed to turn up owners. Two of the dogs were registered thoroughbreds, one a bull terrier and the other a cocker spaniel, but check of the registering kennels also failed to produce the whereabouts' of owners. Irish said. In the same period Irish was not so busy but that he picked up five new stray dogs. Food Markets List Bounds Up; Butter Off Here CHICAGO, Feb. 16 -WV Prices for many commodities today bounded upward in one of the strongest rallies since the slump began almost two weeks ago at the nation's major primary markets. Grains, hogs and cattle, leaders of the American menu, were up rather sharply at the Chicago board of trade and livestock mar ket. Wholesale butter was up as much as 3 cents a pound in Chi cago and 2i cents in New York. New York stocks also revived, although volume was small. (De tails on Page 9.) Agriculture department econo mists in Washington said retail meat price dips probably would be short-lived. They said meat animals on farms were declining and consumer demand was ex pected to continue high. In Chicago Secretary or the Treasury Snyder discounted the recent heavy market slumps also. He told a news conference that "I do not believe we are heading toward any depression. . . . We've all the elements of continued pros perity and production here." Corn futures at Chicago closed 5 to 8 cents higher, the latter up turn the daily limit and wheat, oats and soybeans climbed. Chicago hog prices advanced 50 cents to $1 a hundred pounds. The top for steers was $34. New York cotton futures fin ished 95 cents to $2.05 a bale higher. Salem butter prices took their expected drop Monday, with stores offering it at 3 cents below the 96-cent price tag on butter of Saturday. The quoted retail price, which prevailed in most local stores, was 93 cents. Feed prices in Salem also were down Monday, by approximately 10 cents per hundred pounds. Warship Sent To Falklands LONDON. Feb. 1HJP-Britain disclosed today her navy's south Atlantic flagship is en route to the Falkland islands, and prom ised "full support" to her gover nor against Chilean and Argentine claims to those bleak subantarctic territories. It was another chapter in the long controversy over the strate gic islands which lie northeast of Cape Horn and the Strait of Ma gellan, and about 300 miles east of the Argentine mainland. A British foreign office spokes man confirmed that the 8,000-ton cruiser Nigeria was definitely on the way to "show the flag" in what the government 'considers British territory. The Nigeria steamed out of its Simonstown, South Africa, base this morning under emergency orders. '43 ILN. Assembly To Meet at Paris LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 16 -iJP) Paris, was chosen by the United Nations today as the site of the 1948 general assembly, beginning September 21. . Secretary General Trygve Lie and an eight - member site com mittee picked Paris after Lie made a month-long survey of European capitals. The assembly will meet at the Palais de Chaillot (Place du T roc ad ero), near the Eiffel tower, the site of the 1947 Paris world's fair. HALL AWAY TODAY Gov. John Hall was not expect ed in his office at the statehouse today as Mrs. Hall yesterday un derwent an operation in Port land hospital. Military Force For Partition Asked by Board By the Associated Presa Adequate military forces to help partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states was asked Monday by the United Nations Palestine commission. The U. N. Palestine commission said in a strongly-worded state ment that time is of the "utmost importance" in carrying out the division. It added that "powerful Arab Interests, both inside and outside Palestine" are deliberate ly trying to alter by force the par tition plan. The report was released a few hours after a Washington an nouncement that President Tru man has made personal and di rect appeals to certain interested governments for "restraint in dealing with the Palestine situ ation." Iraq Minister of Education Mo hamed Ridha Al Shabibi told a reporter the United States "should from her side exert an effort to calm the situation in the middle east areas." The Palestine commission warn ed that a "dangerous and tragic precedent" will have been estab lished if force deters the will of the U. N. Meanwhile, in Palestine yester day, official sources said 30 Arabs were killed in ah attack on the Jewish settlement of Tirat Zvi in northern Palestine. Members of the orthodox Jewish colony and British military units engaged the attackers. Jewish casualties were Jilaced at one killed and two inured. Merger Election Order Sought in Court Suit A lawsuit seeking to clarify possible legal stumbling blocks to the merger of West Salem with Salem was entered in Polk coun ty circuit court Monday. Technically the action seeks a writ of mandamus forcing the West Salem council to set an elec tion on the merger issue, to com ply with state law requiring such an election when 5 per cent of the city's electorate petitions for such a vote. Suit was brought by Joseph A. Benjamin, one of the signers of the West Salem petition, through Polk County District Attorney R. S. Kreason, after its preparation by City Attorney Chris Kowitz of Salem. Named as defendants are West Salem Mayor Walter Mus grave and all members of the West Salem city council. The possibility of merger of West Salem and Salem came into the open last year when the state legislature passed a law to permit such a merger of cities with a river as common boundary and when, later, 51 West Salem vot ers petitioned their council in July for a merger election. Opponents of the merger in West Salem's council and city ad ministration said they would base their opposition on the fact that Min to island, which is Marion county but not Salem territory, lies in the river between the two cities; hence they do not have the river as common boundary. West Salem councilmen favor ing the merger agreed that this point should be cleared legally before an election was called, rather than after such an elec fNo Mail's Land' in City Merger Proposal i This aerial phete Is aa exhibit la the mandamus salt filed In Pelk eeanty circuit eeart Meaday te feree a vote ea the prop ed merger ef West Salem with Salens. With the latereoaaty bridge at left, there appear parts ef Salem In left background. Miate island la right backgreand aad West Salens la foreground. Wallace read, center feregreaad. and the selld line at water edge belew are West Salens beandaries. Salem's boundaries thaws as A-A1-AJ gad the river channel centerllnc as A-A1-AZ. The salt prepared by City Attorney Chris Kewlts ef Salem maintains that the legal cemmea river boundary exists between the C and D lines Jest Berth ef the near Up ef Miate Island. Merger op ponents assert Miate island prevents a "cemmea beandary." Oa the Salem side petal C as approxi mately tha feet ef Ceort street and D tha feet ef State street. New Bridge, Santianni Highway Meed Urged By Cenrad Prange Staff WriUr. The SUUsmaa The urgent need for a new Sa-lem-West Salem bridge, comple tion of the North SanUam-to-Sa-lem highway and improvements for Polk and Marion county roads were major items laid before the state legislative interim commit tee on roads and highway Mon day in Salem. Meeting in Marion county court house in an all-day session the committee, headed by Rep. Ralph D. Moore of Coos Bay and In cluding Sen. Douglas McKay of Salem, listened to reports from city, county and organized units on road improvement needs in the two counties. Charles A. Sprague. speaking for the Salem Chamber of Com merce and the city long range planning commission pointed out the major need of completing highway 222 along the North San tiam river from Mill City to Me ns ma to Stay ton and Salem. Marion county court recom mended a four-lane Wilson ville cutoff highway to Portland In Its report, which also endorsed the North Santiam highway continu ance from Mill City to Salem, in creased federal aid in Marion county and new taxes for county road purposes. (See story on page 12.) Sprague and the Polk county road report both Indicated that the highway was needed to fun nel traffic from the Cascade mountain region through Salem and on to the coast. The necessity of rerouting high way 99E through the east section of Salem, thereby by-passing the city center, also was outlined by Sprague. He Indicated that in creased road finances could be found in boosting the gasoline tax or by upping the state motor li cense fee, and urged a state bond issue to care for urgent highway needs. tion. The Salem city attorney was called upon to draft the man damus action which, if allowed by the Polk county circuit court, would Indicate that the "common boundary" of Salem and West Sa lem comes within the new state law on merger. Kowitl' petition to the court maintains that over 300 feet of the Salem and West Salem river boundary fine are separated only by the river. (See picture ) If the suit Is won by Benjamin the election might coincide with the May primary. Salem could vote at the same time or anytime within a year of the West Salem merger election. fGoop' Taking Admitted by 6 PORTLAND. Feb. 16 (&) Federal officers debated today whether to prosecute six farmers who admitted taking incendiary material from Camp Adair. FBI agent Howard I. Bobbin said the farmers were released after admitting they took 45 to 50 barrels of "goop", a substance useful in burning stumps. They explained they thought the "goop" had been left behind by the army as surplus and could be picked up without prosecution. Army engineers said electric motors and other equipment have disappeared from the camp in the pat year. They said they would increase the guard at the camp. Prepeeed Eagcae te Oregea City stale hlglnray, a vtctared m abeve sma, 'wu enaWrsed by a Bllveriev ' telefaUe - appearing at a aeartar ef the tatertai eeaa rnitiea la. Sale Meaaay. This "CatadeBlghway weald pam near SUvertea. Staytea aad Lebanea far te the east ef the present highway 99E. Eeaseaa advaaeed la fever ef the high way tacladed argasneaU that sach a read weald be tearhed by winter flaads. be vi tal la a military eenflirt. ereate easier aeeesa te the SaaUani area and bring a asajer threaga highway eleaer te cities aad Uwaa east ef 99E. NMU Officer Held as Alien NEW YORK, Feb. 1 -JJPh The Justice department's drive to re port aliens accused of communist activity snared a top official of the CIO National Man time union to day. Ferdinand Christafer Smith, 54, NMU national secretary and one of the founders of the militant Seamen's union, was arrested at his Harlem home and taken to El lis Island to await a hearing on the deportation warrant. Smith, a West Indies Negro born in Jamaica, also Is a member of the CIO national executive board The deportation warrant charg ed he was a member of an or- ganizaUon advocating violent over throw of the UJS. government at the time of his entry Into the coun try at New Orleans In 191 1. NO TIIKEAT INTENDED PITTSBURG IL Feb. 16 -0V Presldent Philip Murray of the CIO - United Steelworkers of America today promised wage ne gotiations with the steel industry in April would be conducted with out the threat of a strike. 4L Month's Extension Favored WASHINGTON. Ttb. 1 -(- stopgap bill to extend the present rent control law until March 29 was approved today by the houaa banking committee. Almost at the same time, the cupreme court declared ' the law constitutional. It said It was a val id use of the war powers' of fon gr'ss : Unless extended, the law ex pires February 29. Chairman WoU rott (R-Mlch.) announced the IS to S committee decision to fx tend It one month. MeanUme, he said, the commit tee will: 1. Seek to learn what effect changing economic conditions will have on rents. Oae-Year BUI Ceaaidered 2. Work out a bill which, aa things now stand, would continue rent control 'st least for a year in some form." . The supreme court decision, a unanimous one, was delivered by Justice Douglas. It said; "Since the war effort contribut ed heavily to that (housing) defi cit, congress has the power r m after the cessation of hoatllHlee to act to control the forces that a short supply o( the needed ar ticle created." The ruling reversed a decilif ' by Federal Judge Paul Jones In Cleveland that oongres cannot use Its war powers to control tenia when "In fact" the war is over. Seaete reader. Tea Meanwhile, the sen ale tanking committee worked on t new rent control measure. Chairman Tobey. (R-NJI.) said that he doubts it will recommend a stopgap 20-day extension unless congress cannot pass a bill , with longer controls by the end of this month. Whatever the results of tha house and senate committees, they I must be passed - by both branches ef congress. Then, ir urn senate and house versions differ, the two must be adiusted to a final form acceptable to both branches. Rain to Stay; Winds Slowed In Northwest More than an Inch, of rain fell in the Salem area over one vt lha wettest weekends of the year, and the U. S. weather bureau at Mc Nary field forecast continued jie cipitation throughout today and tonight. 0 ' .. Since the downpour started Sat urday 1.21 Inches had been te corded at midnight Monday, Mere than a half inch -It Inch - fell on Monday. j; SEATTLE. Feb. liAVGr1u ally decreasing winds still buff ti ed the Pacific northwest tonight, bringing In a warm front that tent temperatures rising rapidly and Increased slide dangers on moun tain highways. The week-end storm, one of lha winter's worst, hit Saturday night with winds up to 15 miles ir hour. f ' The weather bureau continued storm warnings along the Wath Ington and Oregon coasts for strong southeast winds, occasion ally reaching gale force. CHICAGO, Feb. ll.-(Vlf you live anywhere In the country out side the upper mldrOntinent, you can stop shivering for the rest cf the week. Federal forecasters said today that most of the nation ran enjey a spell of mild weather through rriday. Excepted is an area Including North Dakota, northern Minneso ta, northern Wisconsin and north ern Michigan. Mild weather was general arrets the country today, ranging from 70 degrees along the gulf, to 49 degrees along the latitude of Chi cago. 1 Tlirrr-I'owcr Talks j On Germany Delayed LONDON, Feb. 16 -AV Three power talks on western Germany's j future were' postponed today until ; next Monday at the request of the ' United States. There was speculation that tha delay was arranged In order to lan a bigger shsre for Germany I n the Marshall plan for European , recovery. j MILL TALKS OPEN PORTLAND, Feb, lMVOre-; gon fir operators and the CIO In-1 ternational Woodworkers of Am erica today opened negotiations on the union's request for a 40-cent wage Increase. BBl'SSEUI STftIKE SET j IJHUS.SELS, Teb. 10 -iAy- Vnlon ' employees on street cars In Urus sels tonight voted to go on strike tomorrow. Meanwhile strikes by. 4 other utility workers sppeared to be on tha wana. . .