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Bevin Backs Stand;
Door to Improved
Dealings Left Open
By Jehn M. Bl hUwtr
WASHINGTON, May 12 -OP)- Secretary of State Marshall re
jected flatly today any Soviet-American conference aimed at a ; gen
eral settlement between the two great powers. However, he held the
door open to greatly improved dealings with Russia in the United
Nations and other diplomatic agencies.
Marshall even Indicated at a news conference that he suspects the
OTP
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Secretary Marshall has reject
ed suggestions that the United
States and Russia enter into di
rect negotiations looking to a set
tlement of existing differences.
Radio Moscow on Tuesday had
broadcast contents of what it said
was an exchange of notes between
Ambassador Smith and Foreign
Minister Molotov. Smith wa quot
ed as expressing the hope that
good and rational relations could
be established between the two
countries and Molotov's reply in
dicated that Russia has a similar
desire, though it defended the So
viet position in Europe's affairs.
Now Marshall disclaims any in
tent to seek bilateral discussions.
The interchange is much too in
volved lor the outsider to figure
It all out But I think we should
welcome a return to the use of
the regular channels of commun
ication between governments. We
maintain ambassadors and diplo
mats to eonduct their negotiations;
we ought to use them whenever
friction arises in international re
lations. True, there is the machin
ery of United Nation and the so
far fruitless machinery of the for
eign minister's conference; but
perhaps more could be accomp
lished by diplomatic exchange.
The goldfish - bowl method of
big conferences has not succeed
ed. Postwar conferences partake
too much of the nature of an ath-
letic contest. The "stars" In the 1 13 oing to land us exactly ; where
arena pitted against each other, ! we wer"with four " Pwcr con
while their partisans an in the Terences."
amphitheatre cheering them
on
and resisting any concession. Quiet
diplomacy may accomplish better
results.
In our past history American
diplomats have handled many
delicate
(Continued on editorial page)
50,000 Salem
Tour Folders
Await Tourists
Fifty thousand new-type Salem
tour folders or more are to greet
tourists visiting here this summer
in an effort to encourage them to
extend their stay.
Salem Chamber of Commerce
directors Wednesday night decid
ed to make supplies of the newly
approved folder available to mem
bers and other businesses having
contact with tourists. Merchants
would be allowed to have their
firm names on folders they dis
tribute, provided they help defray
expense of the preparation and
printing.
Folders would outline four tours
of varying length in the Salem
area, one each extending east,
north, south and west The folder
plan was reported by Committee
Chairman Edward Majek.
Agricultural chairman Homer
Goulet reported that the farm la
bor camp operated by Salem Ag
ricultural Housing, Inc., which the
chamber helped organize last year
to operate housing in the Salem
airport area, has just been opened
to the season's first five or six
families. Migrant workers from
points out of the valley are elig
ible to stay in the camp provided
they dear through the Salem of
fice of the state employment serv
ice. Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
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Kremlin may have decided to soft
en Russian foreign policy.
He read a paragraph from the
statement which Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov gate to Ameri-
j can Ambassador Walter Bedell
I Smith in Moscow last Sunday de
' daring that Russia's policy to
ward the United States has al
1 ways been and will continue to
be "a peace loving policy and
one of collaboration."
Marshall said that he considers
it a very important statement,
which the whole world wjll be
waiting to see fulfilled.
He also told questioning re
porters that the exchange of notes
between Smith and Molotov and
their surprise publication by! Mos
cow may have helped the cause
of world peace and brightened
the prospects for a settlement of
outstanding differences.
Action Needed New
Marshall said, "The discussion
of any proposals in regard to out
standing issues which the Soviet
government may have in ; mind,
must as a matter of course, be
conducted in the body charged
with responsibility for these ques
tions. What we want is action in
the fields where action is; possi
ble and urgently necessary at the
present time.
"I refer to the matters before
the security council and i other
United Nations bodies, such as the
situation in Korea, questions be
fore the allied control council in
Berlin and the Australian treaty
negotiations where the utmost of
difficulties have arisen and stale
mates generally resulted."
LONDON, May 12 -UP)- For
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin told
the house of commons today he
was anxious for a settlemept with
the Soviet union, but to go into
a conference before "the ground
has been cleared" would ; Invite
failure.
I suggest that to call a confer
ence on the basis of generalities
I without precise preparatory work
Girls Tell of
30-Mile Hike
Two footsore, 14-year-old girls
limped into Salem police head
quarters Wednesday night at
10:30 and told officers they
walked about 30 miles after run
ning away from home in Corvallls.
Rubbing their feet and munch
ing on hamburgers, the girls re
lated they left Corvallis at 2 D.m..
walking to Monmouth and on to
Rickreall Junction by way of
Dallas before hitching a ride with
a motorist into Salem. They said
they were on their way to Port
land, but thought "they'd better
try to find a place in Salem for
the night."
They were still awaiting arriv
al of their parents and a return
trip to Corvallis early this morn
ing. Korean Power
Crisis Nears
SEOUL, May 12-)-Lt Gen.
John R. Hodge has demanded an
immediate conference with the
Russians over the threats of North
Koreans to cut off power to the
American zone in the south.
The American commanders de
mands were contained in a letter
he sent May 8 to Lt Gen G. P.
KorotJcov.
The Pyongyang radio said Mon
day that power will be cut off Fri
day unless a Korean representative
comes up to negotiate a settlement
Asked if a Korean would be sent
to Pyongyang, MaJ. Gen. Charles
G. Helmick, deputy military gov
ernor, told a reporter: "Americans
don't do business on the basis of
broadcasts."
Helmick said more than half of
southern Korea's power comes
from the north and rationing will
be necessary if the north pulls the
switch.
Dinner to Precede
Democrat RaUy
Democrat party leaders pf Ore
gon will meet for an invitational
dinner this evening in Salem hotel,
preceding the county democratic
rally at 8 p. m. in the Salem
armory. Gov. Herbert B. Maw of
Utah will be honor guest; at the
dinner and speaker at the public
rally. f
Former governor Walter Pierce
will introduce Maw at the rally.
Among state democratic j leaders
in Salem for both dinner and rally
will be Lew Wallace, state senator
and candidate for governor, and
Walter Pearson, state senator and
candidate for treasurer.
LICENSE PLATES ON WAY
PORTLAND, May 12-P-Sec-retarj
of State Earl T. Newbry
reported tonight the state's 1949
auto license plates already have
been ordered and wf& have black
figures on aluminum.
NINETY-EIGHTH YEAH
State Employes
Royalty
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SHIRLEY KLASSEN
Independence
MARY L. DORENIIECKEK
Dallas
2 Princesses
Complete List
Of Fete Court
Selections of princesses from
Dallas and Independence Wednes
day completed the nine-princess
royal court for the Salem Cherry
land festival from July 15 through
18.
Mary L. Dorenhecker, Dallas
high school senior, and Shirley
Klassen, Independence high senior,
are the latest princess selections.
The girls and seven princesses al
ready chosen will vie for the
queen's crown on the final days of
the festival.
Miss Dorenhecker, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Doren
hecker, was selected the most pop
ular senior girl in the high school s
1948 "Hall of Fame." She is editor
of the school paper, the Periscope
and a member of the Rainbow
Girls and dramatic club. She plans
to become a primary school
teacher.
Miss Klassen has been Girl's lea
gue president for two years.
Like the Dallas princess. Miss
Klassen is a journalist She is as
sistant editor of the Hopster Her
aid. She also is school cheer leader
and secretary of the senior class.
Taylor Berates
Administration for
Rejecting Red Talk
WASHINGTON, May 12-JP)-Senator
Know land (R -Calif) to
day wrathfully denounced Sena
tor Taylor (D-Idaho) in the sen
ate today after Taylor criticized
President Truman and called Sec
retary of Defense Forrestal a
potential Hitler."
Knowland shouted that Taylor
"could not if he tried have given
more aid and comfort to the
Kremlin" than be did in his re
marks to the senate.
Taylor said Mr. Truman had
turned down "Russia's willingness
to confer on differences between
the United States and the Soviet"
"It isn't a question of America's
bigness," Taylor told the senate.
"It's a question of the smallness of
the president of the United States."
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'Bonus'
To Start
On June 1
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All state employes will receive
a $20-a-month wage boost effec
tive June 1 under a $233,320
emergency appropriation approv
ed Wednesday by the state emer
gency board.
The only workers excluded in
the 1 across-the-board are those
whose salaries are fixed by legis
lative law. The appropriation will
come from the state emergency
fund and will be used along with
other available money in various
state departments. The "bonus"
will continue through December
31, after which the matter will be
handled by the legislature.
Under the program, one-seventh
of the appropriation will be
taken from the emergency fund
over the seven-month period.
Sen. Dean Walker, Independence
oiiered mis . suggestion so that
the ; bonus could be discontinued
if the situation should warrant
such action.
Governor Approves
Gov. John Hall told the board
he was satisfied with the action,
although he previously suggested
that only employes making less
thah $400 a month be included
in the emergency raise.
State Budget Director George
Aiken, author of the plan, said
between 9.000 and 10,000 em
ployes will be affected by the
new wage schedule. More than
5,000 state employes are now re
ceiving less than $200 a month,
he stated.
Action Deferred
The- board deferred for a month
actldn on a request for $19,936
to employ a staff of workers to
inspect private schools giving G I
training. There are 87 of these
private schools in the state. Rex
Putnam, state superintendent of
public instruction, told the board.
Inspections previously were con
ducted through a sort of a co
operative agreement between the
state educational department and
the federal veterans administra
tion. The veterans administration
recently withdrew its support.
Pending another meeting of the
emergency board the federal gov
ernment will be asked to continue
at least temporarily the inspec
tion program.
Traction Union
Rejects Raise
PORTLAND, May 12-(TVSome
1,300 Portland Traction company
bus and trolley operators here to
day rejected a company wage of
fer which would have increased
wages 10 to 14 cents an hour.
Alex Bain, business agent for the
union, said the workers author
ized the union officers to place the
wage dispute in arbitration. He
said if the issue is arbitrated, a
strike vote made April 30 will be
rescinded.
The AFL Drivers and Shop Em
ployes have demanded 25 cents an
hour increase.
Politics on Parade . . .
Who's Running for What in the May Primaries !
(Editor's sett: CommsnU la this
scries ars matf ky ar for tha caadl
dates wtthoat restriction, aad may
or may ot reflect Ua policy of UU
ncwipaper).
Today's nsject:
Doaclas MeKay (r)
Candidate for
Governor of Oregon
Born In Portland, 1893. Married
in 1917 to Mabel C. Hill. Three
children: Douglas Junior, deceas
ed; 2mriey ic
Kay H d 1 e y ;
Mary Lou Mc- I
Kay. Af f ilia- )
tions: Mason,
' - '-if
Shrlner, Elk,
Eagle, Pre sby
ICIWU UIUIUI. I- i
Combat lnfan- ,
try officer with 1'
the famous 91st I
division durimr m
World War 1. Deulaa McKay
a'ndv-severely . wounded in the
Meuse Argonne offensive. Served
In World War II at Camp Mur
ray and ' Camp Adair, and dis
charged with the rank of major.
Past commander of Capitol post
Na 9, American Legion.. Charter
member of 40 et 8 In Oregon. Life
member of Disabled American
Veterans, Membe of Veterans of
Foreign Wars, PurpleHeart, Mili
tary Order of World Wars, S-AJL
State senator continuously since
1835. Jfo member of tb present
POUNDDD
Th Oregon Statesman, Satan,
Given
McKay,
Dewey-
Aides Argue
For 2 Hours; to
Continue Talks
PORTLAND, Ore., May 12 -UP)
The date of a proposed debate be
tween Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and
Harold E. Stassen as a part of their
Oregon campaign still was in the
air tonight.
It hasn't been settled for
sure whether there will be a
debate at all.
Aides of the two republican
candidates for the nomination for
the presidency argued for two
hours today. Then they announ
ced that "agreement had been
reached on some points." They
will meet again Thursday morn
ing. Stassen delivered a speech on
communism here tonight. It was
advertised as a debate. But Dew
ey was st Pendleton in east cent
ral Oregon. He will come to Port
land Friday. At that time Stassen
will be campaigning eastward in
the Columbia river gorge. Both
men will return to Portland Sun
day, and Monday they leave Port
land on the last leg of their cam
paigns. The primary election is
Friday, May 21.
Franzen Calls
Bid on Sewer .
fWay too High'
"Way too high," was City Man
ager J. L. Franzen's comment
Wednesday on a $840,594 bid of
P. S. Lord Mechanical Contrac
tors company of Portland for a
contract to put in an interceptor
sewer system and to build a new
North Church street bridge over
Mill creek.
The lone bid opened by Salem
city council Monday turned out
to be about 50 per cent above
city estimates for the work after
Franzen totaled the itemized bid
prices at behest of the council.
Franzen said yesterday the citjr
could not accept the bid and ex
pect to finance its sewage disposal
system as planned using $158,000
on hand and an $815,000 bond is
sue (including $600,000 for plant
itself) if approved by voters at
the May 21 election. The mana
ger added that information re
ceived this week by the city indi
cates additional interested con
tractors would have bid for the
project had not the call for bids
conflicted with other cities proj
ect bids being prepared for calls
a few days earlier than Salem's.
senate has served longer. Chair
man of the committee on roads
and highways since 1937, and
member of 1947 legislative in
terim committee on highways
member of the executive com
mittee, Port of Portland Develop
ment; chairman, Willamette Val
ley Project committee. Former
mayor of Salem.
Past president of Salem Cham
ber of Commerce. Past state pres
ident of Automobile Dealers' as
sociation. State - director of the
American Automobile association.
Campaign chairman of the Sa
lem Community chest for four
years, past master of Salem lodge
No. 4, AF and AM. At various
times member of many commun
ity boards, including - Salvation
Army advisory board. Boy Scouts
council, YMCA, board of .trustees
of the Presbyterian church. Now
serving as state . president of the
National Society for 'Crippled
Children and Adults. . .
Began his business career as an
office boy in the Union depot,
Portland, at $35 per month. Sold
insurance and automobiles in
Portland, but moved to Salem to
establish with borrowed capital
the : Douglas McKay Chevrolet
comnairr. This firm. : one of the
nm trtanding dealerships on the
coast, last year, moved Into Its;
own plant covering almost an
acre in downtown Salem.
1651
Oraaan. Thursday. May 13. 1948
$20 Monthly Pay BiMit
CHIaDD CateDn debate Fever'
ftassem)
Queen Wilhelmina of
Holland to Quit Throne
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands. May 12 -OP- Queen Wilhelmina
of The Netherlands announced in an emotion-choked voice today
that she will abdicate in favor of her daughter Juliana just after
her golden jubilee.
The ailing 67-year-old queen, senior of the world's monarchs and
one of the thriftiest, told her subjects in a broadcast that fatigue and
the cpmplex problems facing the
throne persuaded her to turn ov
er royal authority to younger
hands.
The abdication will be on or
about September 8.
Princess Juliana will become re
gent for the second time within
a year in a simple ceremony Fri
day. On August 30, Queen Wilhel
mina will reascend the throne
for a week's commemoration of
her 50 years of rule, and then re
tire. Queen Wilhelmina will be 68
on August 31. She ascended the
throne on Sept. 6, 1898.
Last October 14 the queen
turned over her royal functions
to Princess Juliana as regent be
cause of need for a rest. Soe re-
assumed her role on Docember 1.
U.S. Urges U.N.
Name Palestine
Commissioner
LAKE SUCCESS, May 12 -P)
The United States called on the
United Nations tonight to install
a U. N. high commissioner for
Palestine. The selection would be
made by the United States, Rus
sia, France. China and Britain.
An American delegation spokes
man said the plan would be pre
sented to a sub-committee of the
special Palestine assembly tomor
row morning.
The proposed commissioner
would have no governmental
powers. He would attempt to me
diate Jewish - Arab differences,
arrange for common services in
the Holy Land, provide for pro
tection of the holy places and pro
mote Jewish - Arab agreement on
a future Palestine government.
The new American plan also
would provide that the U. N. Pal
estine partition commission should
be discharged of its responsibility
immediately.
The United Nations assembly
earlier in the day had given up
efforts to create an emergency
government in Palestine.
i
Newport Man
Drowns in Sea
NEWPORT, Ore., May 12 -UFy-The
story of a fisherman who
drowned off this port while com
panions struggled for an hour to
rescue him from the sea was told
here today.
James W. Myers, of Newport,'
fell from his cruiser. His guests,
Mr. and Mrs. George Gruen. were
not familiar with o Deration of the
boat. However, they were able to
circle Myers and toss him a life
preserver.
After an hour's efforts, two
other fishing boats came by and
the man was pulled aboard. But he
was dead. This was on Monday.
Royall Refuses Role of
Rail Peacemaker
WASHINGTON, May 12 -AV
Secretary of the Army RoyaU re
fused today to take on the job of
negotiating a wage contract with
three rail unions, but the door re
mained open for other government
peace moves. - -
. RoyaU - insisted that President
Truman's order taklmr over the
nation's railroads fin Monday on
ly empowered him to run the
trains. -y'.: . :"t ;
Ant travel Increases
WASHINGTON. May 12 -CP)
The civil - aeronati tions board J
said today that : 114,12a trans-.
Atlantic air passenger cleared In
and out of New York, city dur
ing the last half of 1947, an in
case of 4u per cent over the
total for the first bait of the year.
Pric
FoiremisDcs
Chrysler Strike
Starts; Tests
Michigan Law
DETROIT, May 12-P-Chrys-ler's
75,000 CIO employes laid
down their tools today in the first
major automobile strike since
1945.
The walkout, stemming from a
demand, for a third round of post
war wage increases, posed an im
mediate test of Michigan's new
labor law.
It was estimated that the strike
would cost the CIO United Auto
Workers $800,000 a day in wages
and the corporation 5,000 cars
and trucks a day.
The union sought a raise of 30
cents an hour but cut that de
mand to IT cents only 12 hours
before the strike. Chrysler's best
offer was six cents. The p re
strike average was about $1.50 an
hour.
Gov. Sigler ordered his state
labor mediation board to test the
new Bonine-Tripp labor law on
the Chrysler strikers. A court
complaint a gains the- union is
possible.
The law requires a state-con
ducted strike vote before a walk-1
out. The UAW-CIO ignored it on
grounds that Chrysler has plants
outside Michigan.
Vote Poised on
'Secrets' Bill
WASHINGTON, May 12 -CP-
The house left hanging In midair
today the question whether news
men who publish congressional
secrets' shall be liable to Jail
terms, and fines.
After a full day of debate, it
put off until tomorrow a decision
on this and other aspects of ;
pending bilL ;
The legislation declares that ex
ecu tive agencies created by con
gress must furnish information
congressional committees say they
need to do their work.
Then, if the committees decided
the Information should not be
made public, persons who disclos
ed it could be prosecuted and, if
convicted, could-be fined $1,000
and jailed for a year. This would
include newsmen and eongression
al employes.
Dulles Wary of
U.N. Revision
WASHINGTON. May 11
jonn t osier uuiies counseled con
gress today against handing Russia
any take-it-or-leave-it proposal to
revamp the United Nations.
The .republican foreign affairs
expert said such a move might re
sult in a big diplomatic set-back
for the United States.
Testifying to the house foreign
affairs committee, Dulles said:
""I could name at least 10 or 15
nations outside the Soviet bloc
who would not go along with us."
Dulles, an adviser to Governor
Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
expressed the opinion that there
is "no . possibility that Russia
would agree at this time to revis
ing the U. N. charter.
Truth Serum Used
To Cure Alcoholics
SEATTLE. May 12 H vP) - A
group of . local - doctors reported
todar that the . so-called "truth
serum' sodium pentothal has
been used with considerable suc
cess in treating the more diffi
cult cases of alcoholisms i
Dr. Paul 0Hollaren,r assistant
chief of staff of the Shade! sani
tarium here, said that of 210 per
sons given the treatment, CO per
cent were cored of alcoholism. '
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Challenge to )
Debate Land '
Sale Accepted
PORTLAND, May llAJPhOttf
gon gubernatorial candidates ar
catching the "debate i fever"! bug
here today. - f : i
State Sentaor McKay of Marion
county challenged Gov. John H.
Hall to debate a school lands sale
issue. The governor quickly replied,
he would be happy to argue the
question publicly. i - ' .
Both men are candidates, for tha
republican nomination for' gover-
nor. I " g
McKay's headquarters said thai,
topic would be "Shall Ore con's
school lands be sold or leased?'
A date has not been set. I
The Marion county leader h&s
protested sale of a parcel of . Coos? -Bay
tidelands to a lumber com
pany. He claims the sale reversed
a land board policy of leasing
school land instead of selling: JJc
Kay added that the sale "opened)
the door to looting of the stste'a
irreducible school fund" tracts.
Gov. Hall said the state stands
to gain because the firm will-erect
a 100,000 dock on the tidelands.
Taxes, he said, Willi returni con-
siderabiy more than the lease fee
of $250 and also t provide for xeW
gional : development and jobs.
Taf t Demands
Senate Slash T
River Projects
, WASHINGTON, May 12 -UF) J
Senator Taft (R-Ohto) Joined to-
day in demanding- the senate
slash $200,000,000 off a $640253.-
000 money bill for. flood control
and navigation projects. i J
Indications were the apprepri-J
a tions measure might come up in
the senate late tomorrow. I
Taft, GOP policy-leader.' told
a reporter he is in favor of tlW
$200,000,000 cutback 1 proposed by
Chairman Bridges (R-NH).!Sen-4
a tor Ferguson (R-Mich) and Sen-!
a tor Reed (R-Kas) of the senat!
appropriations committee. A
"This is not the tune," Taft said. :
"to spend a lot of money on pub-4
lie works." ! . -
Jews Ready, j J
To Take Jaffa
TEL AVTV, Palestine, May I2
WV-The Jews announced toda
their readiness to take over virtu-
ally deserted all-Arab Jaffa
soon as Haganah forces can nova
in from neighboring Tel Aviv J
perhaps tonight. - s ? ,j
With the deadline f or the Briu,
ish yielding! their Holy Land man
date a little more than 43 hours
away, Haganah, the Jewish army,
stepped up its fighting pace in
southern Palestine, reportedly in
vaded by Egyptian : volunteer
troops. Haganah said it captured '
three Arab bastions between Tel
Aviv and Gaza .after night-long
battles in which 60 Arabs and fiv
Jews were killed. . I
Arab infantry and artillery
again closed the vital Jerusalem-'
Tel Aviv highway in a slashing
counterattack at Beit Mahsir.
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Tuberculosis Vaccine "
To Cut Disease 10
PORTLAND. May 12 -CPV- A'
medical school professor- told th
Oregon Tuberculosis and Ileal Hi
association today that use of a vac
cine known for 40 years in France
will cut down the disease for 10
per cent. c j.
Dr Sidney J. Shlpman. clinical
professor at the University of Cali
fornia medical school said the U.
S. Public Health service has de
cided to give the vaccine tests to
determine its effectiveness.-i
con csimiczs