. f l ,!, . f I f i . Nevada Mescal ddh Decision Promises Legal Tangles Income tax, personal finance and juvenile eare problems will loom large lor several hundred Oregon residents who have obtained Nevada divorces of a type declared invalid Tuesday by the Oregon supreme court. Under the ruling divorces decreed m Nevada for Oregon citizens would not be recognized officially here unless the divorcing person i establishes actual residence in Ne ro3 tBDODQCH Republicans have taken some pride in their cooperation with the administrations of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman in the de velopment of a bipartisan foreign policy. Their cooperation was actively solicited by Cordell Hull during the war. with the encour agement of Mr. Roosevelt, who was anxious to avoid the failure of President Wilson aftec the nrst world war. This cooperation was manife-t in the composition of the delegation to the confer ence of the United Nations and in subsequent conferences to pre pare terms of the peace. Just now it is evident in the enact ment bv the republican congress of the plan for European recov ery suggested by Secretary Mar shall and recommended by .Presi dent Truman. I have been questioning how ever whether our foreign policy may not have suffered from thi readiness of republicans to go along with the administration. Our foreign relations have come to a perilous pass. The president calls for resumption of the draft and imposition of universal mili tary training. Secretary Marshall describes the situation as very, very serious. Secretary Forrestal pleads for rearmament and ex pansion of the armed forces. Could this progressive deterioration of our foreign relations have occur red if there had been an in telligent opposition in the con gress? Perhaps so; but the fact stands out that our postwar (Continued on editorial page) Final Plans for Office Building Due April 13 Aiming to contract before June 1 for construction of a new state effice building at Capitol and eourt streets, the state board of control Tuesday said final plans for the $2,000,000 building are ex pected to reach the board April 13. After plans are completed the board hopes to call for bids with in 30 days. The board approved two build ing projects at its meeting here Tuesday. For one of them, a six-unit court apartment for married staff members at the state boys' train- ing school at Woodburn, much of the construction work will be done by older boys of the insti tution, it was reported. The build ing project is estimated to cost $14,105. Also approved by the board is construction of two new cottages for doctors at the Oregon state hospital here. Each will cost $10, 000. ITU Agrees to Sign Contracts WASHINGTON. March 30-UPi-The AFL International Typogra phical union tonight wrote in- ; structions for its local unions to '. offer full-year contracts without : discrimination against non-union job applicants. Government attorneys agreed that the new instructions comply with a federal court injunction issued against the union Saturday. Both union and government lawyers expressed the hope that the new document will clear up ; all current deputes between the ITU and employers - - both in the newspaper and commercial print ing industries. ! Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH TooVe too poejjVer ovoirces iregoim vada. In the first Oregon test case on Nevada divorces, the supreme court upheld a Multnomah coun ty circuit court ruling based on the finding that Emery B. Kelley of Portland had spent three months in Nevada (in 1945) for the sole purpose of obtaining a divorce from Mrs. Anna Kelley. who sub sequently contested the divorce. Short-Term Residence Nevada requires only six weeks' residence before a divorce may be granted. The supreme court's decision affirmed Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg. Of Klamath Falls, who had heard the case in Mult nomah coi1 ay circuit court. The lower couit k. id found the divorce illegal and had granted Mrs. Kel ley her requested separation pLis $10 a month support money. Divorces Worthless After the supreme court an nounced its decision Tuesday, one of the high court officials re marked "this decision means that most Nevada divorces aren't worth the paper they are written on as far as Oregon is concerned. Although there was little time for study of the full effect of the court ruling, attorneys conjectur ed that divorced persons affected might now claim half their spouse's income in filing income tax under Oregon's community property law Complications also are expected to result in property settlements, legitimacy and custody of chil dren and the status of remarriages following Nevada divorces. Police, Pickets Clash in Strike At Wall Street NEW YORK. March 30 -;P-i Brief but bitter battling between police and pickets broke out today in Wall street - - the world's most moneyed thoroughfare. The spectacular scrapping open- ed the second day of a strike of : AFL financial workers against the New York stock and curb ex changes. It was fought at the very doors of the stock exchange as striking ; financial workers' and husky AFL j seamen who swelled their picket lines tried to block the main en trance of the building. Police guards met them with clubs swinging. ! Pickets who stretched them selves cut on the sidewalk were hauled to their feeW Policemen were knocked down. Women screamed: Clothing was torn. There were several minor injuries. Two men suffered fractured arms. A detec tive was sent to a hospital, his head bleeding. Calls went in for riot squads and ambulances. Wall street was ro ped off. Private phones in nearby stores were allocated fcr police emergency use only. After the fighting, 43 men and two women had been carted off to the old slip police station. Most of them were charged with disorder ly conduct. Six, identified as sea men by police, were accused of as sault. All pleaded innocent. Some were released on bail and others j paroled. Marshall Raises Red Question at Hemisphere Meet BOGOTA. Colombia. March "0 (A)- U. S. Secretary of State Mar shall tossed the hot issue of soviet inspired communist activities in the western hemisphere into the' conference of American republics today and the delegates voted by acclamation to consider it. The action w-as taken just be fore the ninth international con ference of American states open ed its formal session. The delegates voted unanimous ly that "foreign inspired subver sive activities" could be discussed. Chile. Paraguay and several other republics have said in pre conference statements they were seeking a strong declaration con demning communism, even going so far as to having the confer ence take joint action to curb it in the western hemisphere. Sliaw School District to Vote on Consolidation Shaw, school district 80, will vote upon consolidating with Aumsville district Thursday, April 1. The vote upon the proposed consolidation will be taken at meeting held in each district be tween 8 and 9 p. m Date for the election was set by the Marion county boundary board. Weather Max. Satem 55 j Portland 54 ' San Francisco 56 Chicago 56 New York 59 i Min. Precip. 41 .S4 42 .01 SO trace 27 .04 36 .00 Willamette river 4J feet. FORECAST (from US. weather bu reau. McNirj field. Salem I: Mostly cloudy today and tonight with light rain beginning in late ; aitemocn and continuing throughout evening. High today Dear 90, low tonight near 40.1 NINETY EIGHTH YEAH nn LrU Millions Added for A-Board WASHINGTON, March 30.-TV The house appropriations commit tee voted today to give the atom ic energy commission an extra $150,000,000 in contract authority ; and told the commission to "move i i forward with all possible speed" in its research programs. ! The $150,000,000 authorized was! contained in a $332,407,782 catch- , all appropriation bill granting j funds to supplement appropria-1 tions previously made for various '. agencies of the government. The committee trimmed the bill ' $66,311,478 below the total asked by President Truman, reducing funds which had been sought for the postoffice department, the maritime commission and for out fitting the air force with new blue uniforms. The measure also contained $7, 370,000 in cash and $4,000,000 in contract authority to construct a militarily important road between Seward and Anchorage, Alaska, and $3,000,000 for the U. S. infor mation and educational exchange program. which operates the "Voice of America" overseas broadcasts. Mr. Truman had rec ommended $5,120,000 for the lat ter item. The house is expected to take up the bill tomorrow or Thursday. Hi-Y Clubs Lay Plans for Youth Legislature' - Salem's three Hi-Y clubs will make last-minute preparations at tonight's meetings for participa tion in and acting as hosts to the Youth in Government "legislative session" here this week end. First of the out-of-town dele gates, the speaker of the house ! from Medford, is due in Salem this afternoon, although the first meet ing f officers is not slated until Thursday evening. That session will complete arrangements for use of the capitol. Legislative oemmittees were de cided upon Tuesday. They will . serve the senate and house jointly, I and include two on education, one '. each on motor vehicles, highways, veterans affairs, health and wel fare, conservation and resources, elections, judiciary. Committee advisors from vari ous state departments were being lined up by William Healy, as sistant secretary of state. Meanwhile, the Hi-Y Mothers club reported not enough housing had been secured for the 78 boys and 18 Tri-Hi-Y girls who are members of the "legislature " Mrs. , Paul Nieswander is in charge of housing. i Each club has two delegates to i the conference and must submit ! bills for consideration. Officials, : including a governor, have alrea dy been selected, including Bob Seamster of Salem as president of the senate WOMAN 104 Sl'CClMBS PENDLETON. March 30 -UPV- ! Mrs. Sarah Jane Endicott. 104. . Umatilla county' oldest resident, died today. Politics on Who's Running for What (Editor' note: CommfnU in this series are made by or for the candi dates without restriction, and but or but not reflect the policy of this newspaper Today's subject: John F. Steelhammer (r) Candidate for State Representative The following laws are two of the bills sponsored and introduced individually by John F. Steelham mer during eight years that he represented Marion county in the state legisla ture: 1. Chapter 220 Ore. Laws 1943. which placed a tax on certain amusement de vices, all of the tax being marked for age assistance The amour revenue raised "f "" . ' "Jon Steelha. cusciosea oj me Oregon state tax commission, from July, 1943, to March, 1948, is $1, 089,393.61. In view of the fact this money is specifically ear -marked for old-age assistance, the fund is entitled to federal match money, making the total of $2,178,787.22 being realized from this tax, all mm ear- S old- J yjl v i of 1 i 7x 1 1 L'iaVJ 12 PAGES The Lewis Denies Causing Union Leader Speaks 'Under Compulsion' WASHINGTON, March 30 -A-Forced by a federal judge to ap pear before a board investigating the coal strike, John L. Lewis to day entered a blanket denial that he caused the nation-wide walk out. He declared that the soft coal miners left their Jobs because "they found out that they had been gold-bricked by the oper ators." The strike started March 15, t K rtA rlsvc aflpr T vs. ic t 1 fi hie j i;nltMi Mm Wnrkcrs in a letter I that the operators had "dishon- ' ored" their contract by failing to arrange pension payments. i But Lewis insisted the miners walked out on their own. Compelled by Court ; The UMW president was com pelled by the federal district court to answer questions before a pres idential board investigating the , strike. i The board may report its find , ings to President Truman tomor- row. When it does, Mr. Truman I can direct the attorney general to seek a federal court injunction to stop the strike. The board is act ing under the Taft-Hartley law. Lewis was forced before the board after he had ignored its own 1 subpoena yesterday. Promptly the I three members turned to the fed i eral court, and in 10 minutes this morning, an order was issued di recting Lewis to appear at 2 p m. Tells Lewis Version So "under compulsion," as he : put it. the miners' chief gave his side of the pension dispute. He confirmed that he wants ev . ery man who reaches 60 with 20 years' mining experience to have $100 a month pension out of a fund raised through a 10-cents a ton royalty on coal. If the fund would ! not support $100 payments "they ( certainly would have to be reduc i ed." he said. Did he mean the pension should go t those retired in the past and those whose companies don't pay into the welfare fund? "Certainly sir. because it was in behalf of those men that a pen sion was negotiated." OMS Walkout Unchanged PORTLAND. March 30 -A'i Scores of northwest Oregon cities still were without bus service today. A dispute between AFL drivers and the Oregon Motor Stages which has halted normal service to coastal points and Willamette valley towns was unchanged m I its fourth day. A. L. Schneider, company gen ' eral manager, said a few towns on the Newberg and Forest Grove run would have normal sched ules by tomorrow. He reported there has been no new bid by the union to ne ! gotiate the situation The union has filed an NLRB complaint charging an unfair labor prac tice by the company. The action followed posting of conditions and pay raises without union agreement. Parade . . in the May Primaries! being expended for old-age assist ance. 2. Chapter 405 Ore. Laws 1943. which provided for absentee vot ing by those from the state of Ore gon serving in the armed forces This law permitted absentee vot ing to be efficiently handled and was the justification for not call ing a special session of the Ore gon legislature, resulting in saving taxpayers of the state of Oregon approximately $186,000. Mr. Steelhammer was born in Marion county and with the ex ception of approximately two years with the armed forces dur ing World War II, he has lived in Marion county and is familiar with the problems affecting all sections of this county, not only the metropolitan area but particu larly the problems of the rural communities. He is married and has one child, and is a home owner and taxpayer. He is not the candi date of. any special interest or group and has made no pledges to, or received any assistance from, any financial or other special in terest or group. We submit his rec ord of the 1939, '41. '43 and '45 legislative sessions of active par ticipation in behalf of constructive legislation for the people of Mar ion county and the state of Ore gon. (Toasorrow: KicaartTi H. Spooaer.) K HP aBWB mi M lO III POUNDDD 1651 Oregon Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Wednesday. March 31. 1948 Freedom Train . - y- .-, 'AT'i " ' ! ' 1 : ' jis fer T : ( oTJ 'TIT' - -rrr ! , "' ft - X 1 : -TV Cominc 'round the bend Is the streamlined Freedom Train, to arrive. In Salem next Taesdar rlta IU exhibits of historic doeaments precious to America's heritace of democracy. A foil week program of rededieation to that democracy will precede the train's rUXX. Rededication Week to Start in Salem Today A program heralding both Army day and the Freedom Train's Salem visit will inaugurate Rededication week today when advance ceremonies center in the Salem Rotary club's luncheon meeting in the Marion hotel. Due here on Tuesday, April fl, vhich also is Army day, the appearance of the Freedom Train will climax a week crammed with community rallies, parade .- and group activities focusing at tention to the Freedom Train i theme, "Freedom Is Everybody's Job" ! For today's noon Rotary club j luncheon. Maj. Gen. Thomas E Rilea, Oregon adjutant general, will deliver an Army day talk and Salem Mayor R. L. Elfstrom will make official proclamation of j Rededication week. I Rally Thursday A rally at 8 p m. Thursday iji the Salem armory, will highlight observance of Labor Recognition , day. E B. MacNaughton. chair- man of the First National bank of Portland and rf The Oregonian's board of directors, nd James Lonye Portland attorney, will talk on labor's place in the build ing of America. Mayor Elfstrom will introduce the speakers. Al Schuss will be master of ce remonies and patriotic music by the Willamette university band, directed by Maurice Brennen. the , Elks quarter and Mrs. Uladys no j low are programmed. ! 1 Women's freedom day Friday will include a rally at 8 pm at Leslie junior high school which 1 will emphasize the responsibility I women must take in a democracy.! I Main event on veteran and youth day Saturday is a parade. Events Free All events of the special week including Freedom Train exhibit ! are free and open to the public. Local radio stations are broad I casting the freedom pledge and I prayer of rededication at inter- j vals all week and special pro- grams will be aired. Theatres are screening an 11-minute documen-j tary film on the Freedom Train and urging with a special trailer, the public's participation in the , week's drive to awaken Ameri canism. Russ Threaten to Restrict 'Lifeline' To Berlin Zones BERLIN. March 30 - (A) - The Russians threatened today to re strict the supply lifelines of the British, French and Americans in Berlin. The lines pass through the sov iet tx-cupied zone and are the only ground communication routes of the western powers in Berlin. Lt. Gen G S Lukanchenko. soviet chief of staff, made the threat, the latest soviet act in a series apparently designed to dis rupt four-power rule of Germany. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the Ameri can military governor, refused to comment on the Russian general's statement. High American offi cials not quotable by name indi cated that interference with allied supply lines could lead to serious consequences. Korea Trenches Claimed Useless SEOUL, March 30 - ) - U5. army officers with combat experi ence said today that trenches be ing dug just inside the sovtet oc cupation zone of North Korea would be useless in a battle. (Washington sources have sug gested the trenches axe there jfor propaganda purposes. The propa ganda line is that North Korea must be ready for an attack from the American zone in the south.) These officers said the en trenchments would be easy targets for machineguns and mortars fired from the protection of command ing terrain to the south, MDE) Rounds Bend on Way to Salem Reynolds Ends J Expedition as ! Plaue Dama jed PEIPING. Wednesday. March 31 (A') A takeoff mishap today caused the abrupt cancellation of Milton Reynolds' aerial expedition to ex plore western China's mountains. No one was injured but the plane was damaged. Its right wheel sank in soft earth as it was taxiing out from a parking area The plane tilted; its right outboard propeller struck the ground; the nosewheel collapsed and the big transport settled down on Its belly. ! "The expedition is over Ever est has won again," said Rey- i nolds. millionaire backer of the expedition. He had planned to measure the height of peaks in western China with the expectation that one might prove higher than Mount Everest, now regarded as the woild's highest Damage to the plane, he ex plained, would take weeks to re pair even if parts were available here. Soviet Rejects Palestine Plan LAKE SUCCESS. March 30 (41 Russia declared today the United States wants to kill the Palestine partition project to save American j oil and military interests in the middle east. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei ; A. Gromyko. the Soviet delegate. ' rejected a United States proposal ' for a special assembly of the 57 j United Nations to consider the fu- i ture of Palestine. I The Russian said there are no grounds for this session. Finally Gromyko slapped down j the U. S. proposal for a U. N. trus teeship for Palestine. He said the , , trusteeship idea was "an attempt lo convert 'Palestine into a mili- tary-strategic base of the United States and England under the pre- j ! text of maintaining order in that i country. Bus Loses Race With Train; 14 Die MEXICO CITY. March 30-h?V A bus driver's losing race to a railroad crossing brought death today to 14 persons. There were 18 badly hurt. The bus was smashed by a train for Veracruz at a highway inter section near Xoloc, 20 miles north east of here. The bus driver was killed. With him died five men, six women and two children. Police said survivors and the lo comotive 'engineer agreed that the train whistle blew a kilometer be fore the crossing but the bus driv er kept going. Bid Received on Santiani Project PORTLAND. March 30 -LT)- A low bid of $626,516 has been sub mitted for relocating the North Santiam highway above the pro posed Detroit dam, the public roads administration said today. The Guy F. Atkinson company, Portland, submitted the bid. and will be recommended for the con tract award. A section of 3.044 miles of the highway is involved. Price, Sc Walkout Wallace Likens U.S. Policy to Nazi Germai my WASHINGTON. March 30 -(A') Henry A. Wallace accusd the Truman administration today of Uying to railroad this country into a war which it could not win. The third party presidential candidate charged that 'prepara tions and plans for compulsory military training arid the draft do not differ" from those of the leader, of Naii Germany. Under ometimes caustic ques tioning ir a three-hour es.ion with the senate armed services committee. Wallace taid: I see no threat to us from Rus sian communism today." He declared: "Russia has not taken over Yugoslavia. Bulgaria. Romania. Hungary, Czechoslovak ia or Poland.-. The countries ihe has taken over re Latvia, E thonia " end "LttrTtrania." And. he described the Truman doctrine as a "program of un limited aggression." Sharply, Wallace said: "I charge that an artificial crisis was deliberately manufac tured to stampede congress and the people into accepting univer sal military training and con scription " He said they were part of "a political program to control the American people. Wallace spoke less than 24 hours after President Truman suggested sarcastically that he go , to the Soviet Union and help the j Russians "against his own coun try " Wallace suggested at another point that the men who nerved in World War II could be called . back into service if needed. "I can understand how yod. as a non-veteran, can make that statement " said Chairman Gur ney (R-SD) unsmilingly. Dust Covers East Oregon By the Associated Press High winds that whipped north eastern Oregon and touUieustern Washington into a 'dust bowl" Monday subsided yesterday with spasmodic high velocities report ed without the dust. Winds up to 34 miles velocity were recorded in Oregon from Pendleton, as far east as The Dalles. Monday's "big blow at Her- miton. Ore., halted farm work and hamDered construction at McNary dam. Highway traffic was reduced to a crawl by the henvy dust. Lewiston. Idaho, got the "all clear" signal todav after a dust cloud yeaerdar that Soil Con servationist Clement Ault said was the "worst he had ever wen." Middle Grove to Hear Plan for Fire Protection District MIDDLE GROVE A meeting of all residents of this area to con sider forming a fire protection district will be held Monday, Ap ril 3, at 8 p.m. in the schoolhouse, a committee headed by Dr. Roy Scofield announced Tuesday night. Jack Hayes, deputy state fire marshal, will be present to answer 4-questions. The proposed district .would In clude the entire area bounded on the north by Brooks fire district, west by Salem city limits and Keizer fire district, south by Four Corners district and east by Sil verton district.' Other members of the commit tee are Paul A. Lard on, Hubert Aspinwall, Ted KuenrL Don Ku enzi, George Hardy, George Stro zut and Jimmy Wilson. it, u ... ih-J Senate Approves China Aid WASHINGTON', March 30-i-The senate voted $463,000,000 for China aid today and the houne voted to include Franco's Spain in the Marshall 'plan. In a series of rapid-fire actions wfck h worked closer to a vote on ! a massive "package carrying $6,205,000,000 to astjxt foreign nations. Leaders hope o reach a house decision on the latter me.isure to morrow. Meantime the chamber voted to enable officials In charge ; of the aid program to clamp down on American exports f war sup plies to Rusla and hr Watellitea. , And. the house voted 149 to 52 to invite Spain to share with 16 other western European nations in the multi-billion dollar Mar shall plan fund If the tigrees to terms laid dow n In the plan. Ilesvily In Faver The house apparently was so j heuvily in favor of the Spanbh ' amendment thai It didn't require any speeches of persuasion frcm its backers, once the foreign iif fairs committee agreed to take it. In a report recommending the aid bill, the committee sold 'The possible desirabd tv uf readmitting Spain to the family of western European nations seems to be growing among the countries of western Europe nnd i certainly manifesting Jtelf In opinlort In the United Slates." 'Great BalwarkW Rep. OKonhkl fR-V,"Ia offered the Spanish amend rr. -lit. calling Spain the "great! i bulwark against communism In Europe." Some of the opponents labelled the Franco regime as "fahcist" and said to aid It would be great mistake. j i; Senator Vandenberg (R-Mkh.) indicated there will be little diffi culty In reconciling differences be tween hm and senate relief bills. He told reporters he would not oppose the house plan of wrap ping all foreign 'relief bills Into a single package'' although some of the house provision, might have to be compromised. ;J Vandenberg, fcpparentlr encmtr oged by the swift developments, predicted final passage this week end of the foreign relief; program, ' designed to spur the recovery of nations abroad and boWter them against communism. ;i( i Vandenberg Barks j! The senate pasxed the China aid bill on a voice vote after Vanden berg declared conditions In China were "touch and go." ; Senator Morse (D-Ore.J ex pressed belief that the Chiang Kai shek regime is "more fusclut than democratic." But Vandenberg praised Chiang us a great, coura geous leader, and said (hut at leat his government has set up the country's first constitution. MADRID. March 30-OVAn au thorized aouce said tonivhtSpain "views with satisfaction" the ac- -tion of the United States house of representatives in voting to in clude Spain In the European re covery program. y j Ohioans Cheer As Men Wreek Red's House COLUMBUS. O.. March 30W;p) A gang broke Into the home i f Frank llashmall, self - styled Franklin county communist lead er, tonight and virtually wrecked the Interior. A crowd of 300 to fOO persons cheered from the sidewalk; ns some 50 men broke windows and smashed furniture. f-l) There were two separate at tacks No one was home either time. ! l The gang broke open doors be tween visits of a police patrol car. More than 40 policemen were detailed to the area after the sec-, ond raid. By the time i they ar-' rived, the house wasjtmpty but spectators remained on; the side walk, j j llashmall. a 28-yearoId New Yorker, came here f rora Cleveland several weeks ago. H publicly announced he was directing com munist activities in the Columbus area. 1 ft I REDEDICATION' WFEK . April 1 U I April 1 it 2 Portland April 3 Eugene. April 4 Corvallis. April SALEM. April 7 Astoria i, I;