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Governor Herbert Maw of Utah
save a soeech at a democratic
rally here Thursday night He j
sailed Into republicans in old
fashioned hammer - and - tongs
style. He accused republicans of
being determined to root out the
last vestiges of Roosevelt's new j
deal (presumably he means all j
that will be left when Harry Tru
man and the southern democrats I
get through). (
Well, it's a healthy thing to nave
political arguments like thai. Here
in lop-sided Oregon where repub
licans hold most of the offices the
public need to get an exposition
of democratic gospel so they will
know what the "other side is
thinking.
I recall however the last time
I saw Governor Maw at the gov
ernors conference in Asheville,
N. C, in 19A2. There he was ex
pounding with -great eloquence the
necessity for states to stand up
and preserve their "rights." He and
some of the other democratic gov
ernors were vigorous in their de
nunciation of federal encroach
ment. I happened to be sitting be-
side Governor (now Senator) Sal- j
tonstall of Massachusetts. We j
smiled to ourselves to hear this j
democratic tirade against federal j
usurpation which was one of the I
characteristics of the Roosevelt i
new deal. 1 remarked to Salton-
stall that that was what we re- ,
publicans tried to tell the coun-
try back in 1936 without success.
Now Maw is out defending the
new deal, and says nothing about
states rights. He is particularly
fearful over the fate of republi-
can reclamation and power proj- I
ects in spite of the fact that about !
the first thing republican candi-
dates do is to rush to Bonneville ,
and render obeisance to federal I
power. There is danger to the west j
from a change in federal policies
but it will not arise at the power I
and reclamation levels but rather
i" f tl!j&i?fnZ?-
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ests are agitating for states rignu j
again and for curtailing federal j
Dowers. Those concerned with i
public welfare will have to fight
that battle as it develops regard
less of which party is in power.
Solons Seek
To Solve Lack
Of Ammonium
WASHINGTON. May 14-UP)-Eenator
Cordon (R-Ore) has called
for a report on Holland's fertilizer
supplies.
He told Paul G. Hoffman, direc
tor of the European rehabilitation
program, of reports that The Neth
erlands were in a position to ex
port fertilizer and asked Hoffman
to investigate.
"This country is dreadfully short
of fertilizer and the situation is
getting more critical every day,"
Cordon told the director.
Meantime, Cordon and Senator (
Morse (R-Ore) and Rep. Norblad
(R-Ore) have introduced bills to
permit the commerce department
to extend its controls over nitro
genous compound, necessary for
manufacture of fertilizer as well
as the fertilizer itself. But there is
no indication how soon congress
will act on them.
They also are aiding Clay
Cochran of Salem, Ore., in search
ing for other possible methods of
increasing the supplies of ammon
lum sulphate available to north
west farmers.
Cochran is here representing
western states governors who are
wanting to get government fertil
izer plants at Salem, Salt Lake
City and Oakland into production.
He told a reporter today he un
derstands bids have been received
by the war assets administration
on the Cactus Ordnance plant at
Dumas, Tex. This plant has a de
signed annual capacity of 44,000
tons of nitrogen.
HURIAT GIVEN KAISE
BOSTON, May 14-(A)-The CIO
steel workers today gave President
Philip Murray a $5,000 a year
raise bringing his salary to 125,000.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
"I told vo tktf keW mn-
PORTLAND. Ore., May li-(JP)
The much touted debate between
Harold E. Stassen and Gov. Thom
as E. Dewey republican presiden
tial rivals in the Oregon primary,
was set today for Monday over a
nationwide radio hookup.
But after days of quibbling by
rival campaign managers, the re
semblance between next Mon
day's scheduled meeting and the
more familiar concept of a debate
was purely coincidental in me
minds of most Oregonians.
The debaters will occupy sepa
rate rooms. There will be no plat
form and no audience, and the
terms finally agreed to provide
that the debate will be in the pri
vacy of the broadcasting studio.
The issue will be: "Shall Com-
Harold E. Staitsen's debate
with Thomas E. Dewey la Port
land Monday will necessitate a
minor eiuuare tm his Salem area
schedule today. Jim Collins.
Stasoen's Sslera maaager, an
nounced Friday night.
Stassen wlU speak at the Mar
lon county courthouse at 2:15
p.m.. at the Dallas courthouse
at 3:30 and at the Independence
trade school at 4:15.
He will participate In the ded
ication ceremonies of Capital
post 9. American Legion, at
their new home at 5:15 but will
not visit Salem Thor lodge. Sons
of Norway, as previously
planned.
munism Be Outlawed?" It has been
a point of heated controversy, with
Stassen taking the affirmative,
Dewey the negative.
Networks to Carry
All four major networks were
expected to carry the debate from
6 to 7 pjn.. Pacific standard time
j (9 to 10 p.m., EST). Detail still
were incomplete.
The sparring over the scope of
j the debate subject enaod abruptly
two .veck, of camoiKnlng on the
road and s:asen neaaen out-iaie
on a barnstorming trip of his own.
j At Bonneville, headed east,
Stis..o:i Issue! a statement saying:
"We've now rac-ed the point
whr; we wiP. let Dewey write
J his own ticket and we will meet
J hi term3 reluctantly."
! Paths Cro
i The paths of the two presiden
tial aspirants crossed this morn
ing, and a first-rate political "in
cident" resulted.
The meeting ooir.t was the little
community of Cascade Locks on
the Columbia river near Bonne
ville dam.
Dewey had planned to stop there
briefly if his schedule permitted.
But Stassen, behind schedule, was
still there when the Dewey bus
hove in sight traveling in the op
posite direction and failed to
stop.
Stassen, busy signing autographs
for a 100 or so townspeople and
school children, smiled broadly as
the Dewey caravan went by.
Dewey, equally affable, waved
from the bus window.
Mayor Angry
But a number of disappointed
townspeople and an angry mayor
were left in his wake. Declaring
Dewey "wasn't very fair to us,"
Mayor Russel Nichols of Cascade
Locks switched his Dewey button
for a Stassen emblem on the spot.
Stassen's comment: "Interesting
things happen on the Old Oregon
Trail."
Dewey explained his failure to
stop was that "I didn't want to
embarrass him" in what the New
York governor assumed
Stassen rally.
was
Registration
Records Fall
Oregon registrations for the
May 21 primary election, with on
ly one county unreported, are
greater than at any time in his
tory, Dave O'Hara, state election
registrar, said Friday.
Figures compiled Friday show
611,153 voters registered and the
missing county is expected to
swell this figure by about 22.000,
O'Hara stated. Jackson county is
unreported.
Republicans lead with 30?,277
registered, while democrats have
291,954. Independents have 2,902,
socialists 352, prohibitionists 375
and miscellaneous 6,923. The high
est registration was in 1944 when
495,909 registered for the primary
election and 602,013 for the presi
dential election.
Marian county registration to
tals show 38,882 voters as com
pared with 34.975 in 1946 a gain
of 4,007. Republicans lead with
23,958 against 14,631 for the dem
ocrats. 1 lb. 4 oz. Baby
Born in Portland
PORTLAND, May 14-0P)-Doc-tors
today disclosed the birth of
what may be the tiniest baby In
the country.
They 'said she weighed only 1
pound.. 4 V4 ounce eight days af
ter her birth on April 7. They
feared to weigh her earlier.
: The girl was born three months
prematurely to a Portland cou
ple, whose names were withheld.
The baby is now 37 days old.
Dr. S. Gorham Baboon esti
mated her chance Jo live at 'bet
ter than 80-50."
NINETY -EIGHTH YEAR
Boys Mourn
BERLIN. May 15 -(JP)- Msgr. Ed
ward J. Flanagan, founder of
Boys Town, Neb., died here to
day after a heart attack. (Story
on page 2.)
Pacific Shores
Await Waves
After Quake
SEATTLE, May 14-0F-Tidal
wave alerts sent shoreline resi
dents in Hawaii streaming into
the hills and caused precautions
to be taken in the Aleutians fol
lowing an earthquake west ofj
Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians.
However, as hours passed with
out a sign of the waves, author
ities expressed belief that the dan
ger was over.
The only report of the quake
being felt on the water came from
the motor vessel Square Knot 100
miles or less northwest of Umnak
island. It reported "a severe earth
quake with a violent bouncing
motion experienced on a smooth
sea."
On the basis of the report, the
Ketchikan coast guard base alert
ed all coast guard stations in the
Aleutians against possible tidal
waves.
The same report, relayed to
Hilo which lost 175 persons in a
tidal wave in 1946, caused a rush
to higher ground. Swimmers were
warned away from beaches and
the military services were alerted.
In the Aleutians also, equip
ment at coast guard stations was
moved to higher ground and all
personnel alerted. However, sev
eral hours after the original quake,
messages from such points as Fort
Glenn, Nikolsky, Cape Sarachef
and Scotch Cap reported no sign
of tidal waves.
Death Takes
Dr. Sheldon
EUGENE, May 14 -(JP)- Death
today claimed Dr. Henry David
son Sheldon, 73, historian, edu
cator and "grand old man" of the
University of Oregon.
He had been ill for several
months. His connection with the
university started in 1900, and
except for three years he had
been on the faculty continuously.
His "History of the University
of Oregon, 1872-1939," was wide
ly read. Until the school entered
the state system of higher educa
tion he was dean of the school
of education.
Steelworkers Bar
Reds from Offices
BOSTON, May 14 -UP)- Com
munists were barred today from
office in the steelworkers. the
biggest CIO union, whose officers
have refused for ten months to
sign affidavits swearing they are
not communists.
The convention of the 928,000
member union swept away the
opposition of one delegate, who
asked who would judge a com
munist It applauded others who
turned blasts against "crummy
commies' and "agents of the
Kremlin."
Weather
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TORXCAST (from V. 8. weatttcr bu
reau. Uctimry Hold, Salem): Consider
able cloudiness with showers befln
nlnf In afternoon today; Sunday pertly
cloudy with light showers. High today
near ST. low Bear 41. Conditions fair
for farm work- this morntng becoming
poor this afternoon and Sunday.
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Air Raid
Staged on
Tel Aviv
TEL AVTV, Israel, May 15-CT,
Air raiders bombed this all-Jewish
city at about dawn today.
First reports said there were
"some casualties" near the powe "
and light station.
It was believed that six plane
took part in the operation but u
description was not available.
The planes swooped over Tl
Aviv little more than 12 hour
after Jewish leaders proclaimed
the existence of a new Hebre.
state of Israel.
Some bombs fell in the vlcinit?'
of the power station along the
Yarkum river near Tel Aviv.
Persons at the scene said there
was one hit on or near the power
station, causing "some casualties."
Haganah, the Jewish army,
again reported that Syrian arm
ored units were across the Pales
tine frontier in the north and
were attacking Dan. Military
formations of Lebanon. Iraq and
Trans-Jordan were reported mass
ed along the Palestine frontiers.
Buses sped Jewish reinforce
ments to defense posts.
Inside Palestine the Jews
fought irregular Arab volunteers
at Bab El Wad gorge. Other Arab
units wiped out four Jewish col
onies in the Kfar Etzion bloc 20
miles south of Jerusalem.
Seattle Firm
Low Bidder on
Office Building
Construction of a new state of
fice building at Capitol and Court
streets will start before the end
of June, state officials estimated
Friday when opening of bids for
the project showed the Sound
Construction and Engineering Co.
of Seattle low bidder at $1,592,
592. It previously was estimated that
the structure would cost approxi
mately $2,000,000. An alternate
bid from the Sound Construction
company for use of bronze sash
instead of steel sash would add
$77,313 to the cost.
The low bidder is now erecting
two buildings at the Oregon state
hospital here.
Eight proposals were received
with the Guy Atkinson company,
San Francisco, submitting the high
bid of $1,947,000.
Plans were prepared by White
house, Church, Newberry and
Roehr, Portland architects.
The structure will be five stor
ies high, with marble facing, and
will house several of the state's
largest activities. It would face cn
Summer street The bids will be
considered by the state board of
control Tuesday.
Politics on
Who's Running for What
(Editor's note: ComaaeaU m this
ertea ara aaade by or fer the caa
didatea without reatrteoeu, a&4
aay ar may not reflect the edi
torial oeuey ef this newspaper).
Teday't subject:
Howard Maple
Candidate for
7th Ward Councilman
To the voters of ward 7:
Howard Maple is your present
city councilman. You first elected
him in 1942. He was elected be-
cause he, like
other city offi
cials, was a hard
working, suc
cessful business
man. . Proper
y mans gement 01
Mi : city's affairs
.demands the en-
at
s , 1 ergy ana acuity
Uf 1 01 men who are
f qualified by bus
7"iness na a n age
ITeward , Maple ment experience.
Only so tons; as you, the voters,
continue to elect men who are
qualified can we expect a busi
nesslike, efficient 1 local govern
ment. Howard Maple's record is good.
He ! has Always been in attend
ance at city council meetings. He
has consistently advocated better
and larger public playgrounds for
Thm Orsxyon Statesman, Satan, Oregon, Saturday, May IS.
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miles north of Salem early Friday morning. Nine ears left toe
to all of them including one tank car, one flat ear and seven box
rail i believed to have caused
photos show crews working to
pile up of broken trucks. (Photos
National Guard Sent to
Strikebound Meat Plant
NEWPORT, Minn., May 14-;P)-National guard troops mobilized
at two armories late today for duty at the Cudahy packing plant here
where an invading mob of 200
property.
Troops also were designated for
duty at Swift and Armour plants
at south St. Paul across the Mis
sissippi river.
The raiders entered the Cudahy
plant shortly before midnight
Thursday, routed company police,
tore out a front gate telephone and
rushed the quarters where about
50 workers were sleeping.
Cots were overturned, tele
phones ripped from their cords.
windows broken and several of
fices damaged, H. W. Reister, plant
superintendent said.
About 30 of the workers were
taken as hostages when the raid
ers left, Reister said. Today, how
ever, all but one had been ac
counted for.
Parade . . .
in the May Primaries !
your ward. He has been alert in
his efforts toward improved traf
fic conditions, particularly for
the protection of our children. In
the council, he has championed
the causes he felt were of benefit
to the majority of those he rep
resents and to Salem as a whole.
Howard Maple is a family man
with a home and a business of
his own an average civic
minded, patriotic American like
the rest of us. His record stands
as stout proof that he wants only
the best type of city government
for all the people of Salem and
not for any specific class or group.
Howard Maple has been tried
and found able in his represen
tation of those who elected him.
We conscientiously feel that his
defeat at the polls on May 21
would cause a serious disruption
of the present smoothly-run and
well-managed affairs of .our . city
government.
Vote intelligently. , for. Alder
man Howard Maple.
Your committee - for Howard
Maple for alderman: I E. Bar
rick, W. I Phillips, Ed Schreder,
Chester T. Luther, LeRoy W.
Card, C L. Fritz, John Griffith,
Roy V. Omort, Earl M. Daue,
James Walton. .
(low waSace pose
Recognize New
bonnd Oregon FJectrie freight train
the derailment just south of the
dig out box ears which were nosed
by Don DilL Statesman stair photographer.)
men slugged workers and damaged
Series of Plane
Crashes Takes
Mounting Toll
LONDON, May 14-(vP-At least
13 persons, including the daugh
ter of the former ambassador to
Britain, Joseph Kennedy, were
disclosed today to have died in
major airplane crashes on three
continents. The fate of 35 more
was uncertain.
Searchers today discovered the
wreckage of all three planes a
small charter plane on which
Kathleen Lady Hartington, Ken
nedy's daughter, and Lord FiU
William of Britain died in south
ern France; a Belgian Sabena air
liner in the Congo on which there
were 31 passengers and crewmen,
and an American B-29 Superfort
ress which crashed in the Saudi
Arabian desert with 14 soldier
crewmen and passengers.
Two crewmen also were killed
on the plane chartered by Lord
Fitzwiliiam for a vacation trip to
the French Riviera. He was one of
Britain's richest peers and sports
men. The body of 28-year-old
Lady Hartington was found on a
mountainside near Privas in south
ern France where the plane
crashed in a thunderstorm Thurs
day night.
Marshall Plan
Fund Released
WASHINGTON, May 14-0P)-The
United States today parcelled
out $1,188,000,000 in grants and
loans to 11 of the Marshall-plan
countries for use in the first three
months of the European recovery
program.
Outright gifts of $908,000,000
and repayable loans totaling $279,
000,000 were announced by Paul
G. Hoffman, economic cooperation
administrator.
Britain got the lion's share
$300,000,000 in grants tor food,
fuel and other Items and $100,
000.000 in loans. France was next
with the same amount In gifts and
$73,000,000 in
1943
before being derailed about six
rails and extensive as mare ressuieo
cars. Nobody was Injured. A broken
Chemawa-Ketxer road, smaller
deep Into dirt and graveL and the
9 Railroad
Cars Derailed
North of Salem
Nine cars were derailed and a
quantity of lumber damaged ear
ly Friday morning when a north
bound Oregon Electric freight
train plunged through a damaged
rail at Chemawa.
A flat car of lumber was scat
tered down the right-of-way as
the middle section of the train was
thrown off the tracks. A piece of
the defective rail was thrown
across the Keizer - Wood burn
highway which parallels the
tracks.
One of the derailed cars was
loaded with seed, another with
canned goods and the other six
with lumber. Company officials
said nothing was seriously dam
aged except the flat car of lumber
which , will be sold in Salem. The
other material will be reloaded
for shipment, they said, t - r
- Officials said the accident oc
curred about 1:40 a. m. A wreck
er summoned from Portland clear
ed the tracks by 8:30 a. m. Three
poles of a secondary power line
were severed by the cars, but a
high voltage line on the other side
of the tracks was untoucneo.
Stock Market
Sets 8-Year ;
Speed Record
NEW YORK, May 14-iiP)-Stocks
took a frenzied whirl upward to
day in the fastest trading in eight
years.
Gains of $1 to $7 a share for
principal issues boosted total mar
ket value of Uisted stocks by
around $1,700,000,000.
Buying orders buried the ex
change facilities under such an
avalanche of business that high
speed quotation tickers couldnt
keep up with them. For extended
periods. Including most of the fi
nal hour, the tape tell as much as
9 .minutes behind actual trans
actions, t v.:-,:,' --i. ' l
A total : of -3,840.000 i -shares
changed hands, largest total for
any day since May 11, 1M(L - r
SEN. OVESTON DIES I
WASHINGTON. Mayjl4-V.
Senator John H. Overton !(D-La),
72, one of the country's foremost
experts on flood control ' legisla
tion, died today in Bethesda naval
hospital. . i
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No. 53
Moslems
Call for
H
5 MO
Nation
oly
War
w ue AseoaatM press t
The Jewish state of Israel was
born today amid threats of a vast
er, bloodier Holy Land war, one
minute after the British ' relin
quished their mandate over Pales
tine. . j
President Truman announced m -Washington
U. S. recognition cf
the new state. At a United Nations
session in New York, Russian de
legate Andrei A. Gromyko said his
country recognizes : Israel's ex
istence. He did not announce for
mal diplomatic recognition.
As the spiritual leader of the
world's Moslems called for a Jihad
(holy war) against, the Jews of
Israel, Arab troops from the mid
dle east were poised to strike
across the Holy Land frontiers. A
Cairo newspaper said two columns
of the Egyptian army already had
entered Palestine. . i
The Egyptian government ao-
nounced last night it had ordered
its army to enter Palestine. The
troops of Lebanon and Syria were
reported massed on the northern
border awaiting their D-day call
10 cnarge. Sheik Mamoun Al Shin- '
awi, rector of the 10 - century -old
Alazhar university in CaJro,
exhorted Moslems : in j a radio
broadcast to "corne.-to war end
struggle for the sake of AHah.?
Cruiser Leaves r" ...... -I
The end of British rule In Pal
estine, which began during wet Id
war I and was formalized by a
league of nations mandate in 1S23.
was symbolized by- the departs re
of High Commissioner Sir Alan
Cunninghanm, He boarded a Bri
tish cruiser which steamed out cf
Haifa harbor as the mandate end
ed at midnight.
Sixty seconds later the stale cf
Israel, proclaimed In Tel Aviv
yesterday, came into official exig
ence. .1
WASHINGTON. Mar 14 -UTW
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.) :
tonight called PosstSssfit lYuman'e
recognition of the new JUh
state a logical and proper step,"
NEW YORK. Mar 14 -AA- Pr
sident Truman's surprise recogni
tion of the new Jewish state stun
ned United Nations assemblv dele
gates tonight Scenes of confusioir
and expressions of astonishment
followed.
Arabs Cry Take" 1 I
The proclamation bv Mr. Tru
man was attacked immediately y
the Arab bloc in the itvmM h
cries of "mockery" and "fake."
The Arabs said they had been
duped. j
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Linn 4-H Picks
Healthiest-Pair
ALBANY. May 14-fSDecian-
Eleven-year-old Micker UcGuim
and 14-year-old Barbara ' Jsne
Lines, both of Albany route 2, were
judged Linn county's healthiest
4-H club boy and girl in contests
here Friday morning. Mickev; is
the son of Mrs. Felix Muller and
Barbara the daughter of H. Lines.
Other winners in the order they
placed were Barbara Brown, Cor
vallis route 4: Ladell Burns, Al
bany route 2; Patsy Covey, Albany
route 2; Louese Kimes, Lebanon,
for the girls; and Roger Detering,
Harrisburg route 1; Bobby Dur
ham, ' Lebanon; Gary. Wallace,
Tangent, and Wesley Hamilton.
Albany route 3, for the boys, i
Seven boys and 14 girls com
peted, sccording to John Hansen,
county club agent. The firsts place
winners will receive scholarships
to 4-H summer school and com
pete" in the state contest in Sep
tember. 5 1
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Newspapers Controlled
In Russian Zone f
BERLIN, May 14-OVOnly Hu-
sian-li censed newspapers , may bo
sent into the soviet zone under
new regulations Issued by the
zone's main office for post and"
telegraph, the American licensed
newspaper. Tagesspiegel reported
today. : - - ; - - I
The newspaper said the regula
tions were based- on a Russian
Order. , , : j ' f-
snn strikes inxE f ?
SAN FKAXCXSCO, May
Coast gvard headquarters here re
ported today an SOS from the lib
erty freighter William E. Chaa
ning saying It had struck a mine
and was sinking fast about 33
miles off Crescent City, ea ithe
northern California coast. It car
ties a crew at el. J
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