J1 L ;0:0 D C C3 :-E3:t3 O O E3 : OQO' ? OOO.'O-O: KMSsia Prepared! T Parley iff U, WoDlly Says Stallion On Basis of Wallace Proposals By Eddy Gilrnore MOSCOW, May 17 -AJf- Prime Minister Stalin said tonight Rus sia is prepared if the United States is willing, to use Henry A. Wal lace's recent "open letter" to him as the basis for two-power nego tiations aimed at ending strained relations between the two nations. Stalin's statement was dated today and issued by the Soviet press department. It replied to Wallace's proposals, made at a political z I rally in New York's Madison t " I I I LI LI I uu aasros WDOOQCa It looks very much as though American diplomacy got its trick trumped In the late exchange with Russia. Ambassador Smith in an oral exchange with Foreign Minister Molotov. later confirmed In writing, indicated that this country was always ready to dis cus the matter of Improving re lations with Russia. Whereupon Molotov responded with assurance of Russia's readiness. Then Presi dent Truman and Secretary Mar shall took a runout ponder and said dealings should go through the United States 1 I1C 1 UIHL iaivw British foreign minister, may have timulated the backtracking or sidestepping of our state aepari- . ment. Perhaps Bevin was fearful J that In a bilateral discussion we would be outfoxed. ) As the matter stands Molotov , took that trick. He can broadcast n . i V,- -, I to tne nussian prui United States Is an Imperialist warmonger, that his country is the only sincere advocate of peace and for evidence can continue to quote from the Smith-Molotov correspondence. When we, add to this fumble the morass into which our diplomacy has gotten us on the Palestine question the American people have right to critlcire the way their foreign affairs are being (Continued on Editorial Page) Sheriff and Clerk Deliver Vote Supplies Delivery of ballot boxes to Mar lon county's 92 precincts for Fri day's primary elections was start ed Monday by the staff of Sheriff Denver Young. Deputy Bert Smith is taking the boxes to precincts in the northern part of the county today. Sheriff Young's deputies also will begin helping election boards set up vot ing booths today. Meanwhile County Clerk Harlan Judd announced that his office is still issuing certificates of registra tion to county residents who have either moved sine e April 20 or who will be out of the county on election day. The cards will entitle the holder to vote in whatever precinct or county he happens to be in on el ection day, as long as tne voter remains within the state. Issuing of absentee ballots for out-of-state voters was concluded May 10. Certificates for voters who have moved to another precinct within Marion county since registration books were closed on April 20, will be given out at the clerk's office even on election day. The office will not be open for regular bus iness Friday but a staff will be on hand to answer telephone inquir ies. Sample ballots are now avail able at the county clerk's office and at precinct headquarters and at banks, stores and business es tablishments all over the county, Judd said. CANADA DELAT8 DECISION OTTAWA, May 17 -0P- Can ada will withhold recognition of the state of Israel until a further study has been made, Louis S. t Laurent, minister tor external affairs, told parliament today. He added that "recognition of a new state Is m matter of very serious consequence.' Anlmsl Crackers by WAKEN GOODRICH , Tm skk of bmWag. build ing, building ef j dtitruct Square Garden May 11 and ad dressed to the Kusian leader. j Stalin said his government con siders that "despite the difference in the economic system and the ideologies, the co - existence of these systems and a peaceful set tlement of differences between the USSR and the United States are not only possible, but also neces sary in the interests of a general peace." "I do not know," Stalin said, "whether the United States gov ernment approves of Mr. Wallace's program as a basis for agreement between the USSR and the Unit ed States." Stalin gave a concise summary of the points Wallace made, list ing them as: Weald Bar A -Bombs 1. A general armaments reduc tion and the prohibition of atomic weapons. 2. Conclusion of peace treaties with Germany and Japan, and the question of evacuating troops from these countries. 3. Evacuation of troops from China and Korea. A tMi--t fnr th mvprrirntv ' Ul inUlVlUUIl VUUIllllCTi BUU 11VII- I interference in their domestic sf- ! ai 5. The inadmissibility of military bases in member countries of the United Nations. 6. World development of inter national trade. No discrimination within the United Nations frame work in assistance to, and econo mic restoration of, countries which suffered in the war. 7. The defense of democracy and ensuring the civil rights In all countries. Stalin spoke of the "inadequa cy" of the recent diplomatic ex change between the two govern ments. On May 4, U. S. Ambassa dor Walter B. Smith conferred with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. (U. S. government sources said later in Washington, however, that Smith had not Issued an invita tion to Russia for bi -lateral talks. Capital Quiet, Waiting WASHINGTON, May 17 - (JPf The White House and state de partment were silent tonight on Premier Josef Stalin's offer to negotiate a settlement with the United States, and the capital generally kept Its fingers crossed. They were waiting to see whether Stalin's .remarks repre sent: 1. An attempt to befuddle and confuse the United States and thereby weaken its hand, or 2. A genuine change in the Russian tactics which have led to one Impasse after another in international gatherings called to straighten out a war-torn world. (Statement of Wallace on page 2) Exports Boom Talk Blasted LOS ANGELES, May 17. -UP)-A department of commerce official said today that any false impres sions that the European recovery program will bring a boom in ex ports "should be spiked right now.' The answer to reports of an ex port boom Is no, "insofar as we can see into the future of the for eign economic picture, and bar ring unforeseen foreign political developments," said George L. Bell, associate director of the of fice of international trade of the department of commerce. Bell, here for a World trade conference, made his statements in a speech prepared for the wom en's division of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce. "We anticipate that export lev els will remain high - - but they are not expected to reach the record-breaking peak of 1847," said Bell. Treble Damages Sought Here in 'Overpaid Rent' A suit for treble damages due to alleged overcharged rent ap peared in Marion county circuit court Monday. Lee M. Neely of Salem is suing Alma A. Chessman for $453 which be charges is due him for his overpaid rent, plus the damages, under the federal housing and rent act of last year. A rent control ruling which re duced Neely's rent from $60 to $32.50 per month, retroactive from Dec. 15, 1947. to July 1. 1947, is basis for the complaint. Attor neys for Neely said the Chessman house is at 1520 State it, i m structure containing five rooms, including one bedroom. The complaint alleges that the defendant failed to register the house in question with the Salem rent control office in accordance with the housing and rent act and refused to register the premises as required by the act MILKMEN ELECT PORTLAND. May 17-(yP-Th Oregon Milk Distributors associa tion today elected John Meilema, Portland, president, succeeding J. L. Sinner, who resigned Friday. NINETY EIGHTH YEAR Gwfey-6(Ssiin)'ft Stooft sum Dtik&SQ wMk Qro SSOOD Galilee Scene of Battles I By TTi Associated Prei I Jewish and Arab accounts told : Monday of a developing struggle for northeastern Palestine the I fertile Galilee region claimed by the new Jewish state of Israel. The Arabs said Egyptian troops, 'advancing through southern Pal estine, had reached positions with in 30 miles of Tel Aviv, tempor- j TEL AVIV, Israel. May 1S-(JPy-Hght bombers raided Tel I Aviv Just after dawn today for the fourth successive day of air attacks against this city. i ; ary capital of Israel. Tel Aviv it self underwent its third straight ; day of enemy air attack. The Jews have driven into the Arab i city of Acre on the coast, a front I dispatch said. i American correspondents in I Jerusalem, in a pooled dispatch ! dated Sunday, said Jewish fight jers held virtually all the heart of the holy city, after 51 hours of i furious street fighting that follow ed the British withdrawal on Fri day. In Cairo, the Arab higher exec utive office said the Jewish agen cy has authorized the surrender of Jews in the old city of Jerusalem to the Arab volunteer command. The Moscow radio said the so viet union has officially recogni zed Israel. The new Jewish state already has been recognized by the United States. At Lake Success, N. Y., the Unit ed States and Russia demanded that the United Nations security council order an immediate cessa tion of war in Palestine. The fighting in northeastern Palestine centered in Jordan riv er bridgehead areas at Samakh on the southern tip of the sea of Gal ilee and Gesber five miles to the south, and along the Palestine Lebanon border in the vicinity of Malikya. H.W.Carter Seeks Write-in For County DA Herbert W. Carter, Salem attor ney, became the only candidate for democratic nomination as Mar ion county district attorney Mon day when literature was distrib uted in Salem requesting demo crats to write in his name on the May 21 primary election ballot. Republican candidates are Mil ler Hayden. incumbent, and Ed ward O. Stadter. Jr., Salem at torney. If Carter receives a ma jority of votes on the write-in democratic ticket, his name will appear on November's general election ballot. No democrats filed for the office before the deadline March 20. Carter came to Salem from Wieser, Idaho, in 1937 and grad uated from Willamette university law school in 1943. He has prac ticed law since that time from his offices in the Pioneer Trust build ing. He is married, the father two children and lives at 920 N. Church street SALEM PmKCIPITATION (From Sept. 1 tm Mar ! This Tear lrt Year 23.15 39.11 Politics on Parade . . . Who's Running for What in the May Primaries! (K4Mrs mmU: Caauacat ta tkls series arc ai4i fcy er for the caa Sklafes wlUkt restrltiea, aa4 stay mt snaj set rcflact th etfl trtel .ylicy t tfeda Mwsar). Mifi svhject: Alvin C. Twujate Candidate tor 7th Ward Ceunrtlman Alvin C. Tun gate was born In Battle Creek, Mich., June 5, 1894, and attended grade and high schools there. He?'1 moved to South Dakota in 1916. ; Enlisted in the 1st South Dakota cavalry, serving .- ' ' throughout as 1st . -sergeant After 1 V 2' the war worked J tor th 17. S. i ' marshall's office. " - c Later did re search work for the veterans' ad- a. c Trotfata ministration. Came to Oregon in If 40. With . h 14 PAGES The Chrysler Pickets Fight Police; Rail, Packing Parleys Resume By The Associated Press i why "mass picketing, threats and Mob disorder highlighted the I coercion" should not be restrained Chrysler automotive strike Mon- ! at plants in Marysville, Mich. The day and Swift and Company, meet order is returnable Thursday, packers, renewed a wage increase Swift's wage proposal re-offer offer as a settlement for the 62- was made at a meeting attended day-old packing house strike. by federal conciliators and Gov. Special squads of state polic-, Luther Youngdahl of Minnesota, fought pickets at one of the 1C Governor Youngdahl, said He in struck Chrysler plants in High- ! terviewed In behalf of the people land Park, Mich. Two policemen of his state where national guard were reported hospitalized. Gov. units are patroling three areas be Kim Sigler of Michigan said h" cause of packing house violence, was preparing to alert the national The CIO United Packing House guard if necessary. Workers union strike was called GM Strike Threatened first against the major packers It was the first major violence? Swift. Armour, Cudahy and Wil of the six-day-old strike called son on March 16, for a 29 cents by the CIO United Automobile hourly raise. Workers In support of a 30 cents First the packers offered nine hourly wage raise. They now re- cents, then withdrew the proposal, ceive $1.43 an hour. Recently workers have been re- The UAW threatened also to turning to work, the packers said, call a strike of 225,000 General on the basis of the nine cents raise. Motors workers if no wage settle ment is reached by May 28. Chrysler obtained a court order requiring the UAW to show cause Atom Weapons' Pacific Tests Called Success WASHINGTON. May 17 -OPV-The government today announced completely successful tests of three improved atomic weapons, in what was described as a "mile stone in atomic development" Secrecy cloaked all details of what may well be tremendous de velopments beyond the A-bomb which wrote new history in the horrors of war by wrecking Hiroshima August 6, 1945. Today's report came from the White House after Chairman Da vid E. Lilienthal and four other members of the atomic energy commission gave Mr. Truman an oral report on the recent tests. They were held at Eniwetok island far Pacific atoll which Is the proving ground for America's No. I weapon. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the republican-dominated Joint cosn mittee on atomic energy approved II to 5 a bill to extend the terms of the five commissioners a flat 23 months. President Truman has renominated Lilienthal to a five year term and the others to stag gered terms of one to four years. On the labor front, a deadlock continued In efjorts to eliminate the danger of strikes In atomic plants. Commission officials said they have been unable to get unions and operating companies to agree on a program they said is essential: Continuous operation. The specific dispute now at hand, over wages and working conditions. Is between the FL Atomic Trades and Labor council at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Car bide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. No settlement Is in sight and a strike may come June 7. Lilienthal told reporters 10.000 men were involved in the tests at Eniwetok military personnel, scientists, engineers and others. The date or dates are still secret. The official White House state ment said: The president gave general ap proval of commission plans for steps it proposed to Initiate at once for further nuclear development, based upon information gained from the tests. the department of interior, Bon neville Power administration, un til 1946. Then Joined the Colum bia Metals corp. as an inspector. Vice - president of the Chemi cal Workers of American, A. F. of L. Sent as their delegate to the 1947 convention. A member of the Salem Chemical council. I believe in making the coun cil more- responsible to all the peo ple and a square deal for all; pub lic power; better conditions for the veterans' colony. Father of seven girls and two boys, I am Interested in seeing Salem made the best possible liv ing place for ourselves and our children. J STEEL PRICES CUT PITTSBURGH, May ll-VPl-Ernest T. Weir, chairman of the National Steel Corp., today an nounced price reductions, effec tive May 15, for Its products to taling $4,600,000 annually. Nation, al thus joins ILS. -Steel and other industrial firms in- slashing prices. fOUNDBD 1651 Oregon Statesmaa. Salem, Orejou. Tuesday, May 18, 1943 einstated May 3. The union said he strike was still "effective." Rail Parley n Today Railroad labor and management West Salem Adopts $78,3167 -Budget; Due for June Vote By Marguerite Gleaaon Valley N.ws Editor. The Statesman WEST SALEM, May 17 Faced with the demands of a rapidly expanding population. West Salem city budget committee tonight adopted a budget of $78,167 for the year 1948-49, of which $38,547 must be raised by taxation and $20,976 is In excess of the 6 per cent limitation. The final figure includes $2,500 to cover the deficit for this year, mostly reflecting increased pay for city employes. "It is only a holding budget; it makes no provision for keeping up with the city needs," was the comment of Mayor Walter Musgrave Boss9 Speech Against Union Gets Approval WASHINGTON. May 17 -UP) The National Labor Relations I RsArr4 nilH tnHav that n rry I ployer may require his workers to attend a meeting on company time a,nd property and listen to anti-union speeches. The board based is decision on the Taft-Hartley act. It re versed the doctrine of a 1946 case which held exactly the op posite under the Wagner labor act. In the earlier "free speech" ruling, called the Clark Brothers Co. case, the theory was that free speech requires an exchange of ideas and the right of a listener not to listen. However, the Taft-Hartley law now says that expression of an employer's views Ts not evidence of an unfair labor practice if the expression contains "no threat or reprisal or force or promise of benefits. Today's decision was by a three member NLRB panel composed of members John M. Houston, Abe Murdock and J. Copeland Gray It involved the Babcock & Wilcox Co., Augusta, Ga., and the United Stone and Allied Products Work ers union (CIO). An unfair labor practice charge brought by the union against the company was dismissed. Dead Radioman Sought Rebel SALONIKA, May 17 -OPh- Po lice disclosed today a letter writ ten by George Polk, American correspondent for CBS, expressing hope he would be able to put Guerrilla Chieftain Markos Va fiades "on the air from his secret radio station." The letter was written the day before Polk disappeared May 9. His trussed up body- was found floating in the bay off Salonika yesterday. There was a bullet hole in the back of his bead. Public Prosecutor Christos Moustakis released a carbon copy of the letter, addressed to Edward Murrow. New York official of the CSS. The carbon was found am ong papers in Polk's room. - , AMAHS SAID DROWNED HAIFA. Palestine. May HVPh A Jewish source said tonight "up to 800 Arab troops were drowned' after the Jews opened a hydro electric dam and flooded plain. Tne region was below sea level m the Jordan Valley along the Pal- estine-Trans-Jordan frontier. atemaii dkfllDDD representatives will resume nego tiations Tuesday in their wage dis pute that came within hours of tying up the nation's transporta tion system. President Truman seized the carriers to prevent the tieup. Lead ers of both sides have been fore casting a settlement of the long dispute over wages and working rules. Lewis to Open Talks The policy committee of the United Mine Workers union Mon day authorized President John L. Lewis to negotiate a new contract for 400,000 soft coal miners. Nego- tiations start Tuesday. Their con- tract expires June 30. Anthracite coal contract .nego tiations, scheduled to start Thurs- j day, will start May 27 in Phila delphia. Lewis has notified the hard coal operators he intends to terminate their contract, covering 80,000 eastern Pennsylvania min ers, July 10. in talking with Phil Kerber, who was named chairman of the bud get committee. Items which were boosted over the current year's figures includ ed police, $1,020; water depart ment labor, $500; and $2,590 in the street department, the latter to take full advantage of state funds available. The public works item of $500 was doubled in part to meet matching funds of the Salem school district summer rec- reation program Upon recommendation of A. L Lamb, city auditor, the item for power was lowered $1,000 from the high of $5,000 this year. So far less than $3,000 of this year's budget has been spent. Lamb re ported. Among the needs mentioned but not included were "holes in the streets where we will lose a city bus some day," Councilman Earl Burk said, while L. L Slop er, member of the budget com mittee, suggested putting a side walk around the city park to elim inate a traffic hazard. Also left out were items for auxiliary fire fighting equipment "in case the bridge ts blocked' in which SlopeY had expressed In terest and any appreciable sum for installation of water meters. While the water department has expressed desire to have all cus tomers put on meters, labor and cost of meters keeps installations down mostly to new connections, Musgrave said. Besides Kerber and Sloper other members of the budget board are Verne Axelson. named clerk: Clyde Everett Carl Brown and Jack Watson. R. E. Covert, sev enth member, was not present Besides Musgrave and Burk, councilmen present were W. C. Heise, Roy Stevens, Donald Kuhn, Chester Douglas and A. F. Gof frier. June IS was set for hearing on the budget which will give time for the election which must be held because the amount to be raised Is in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. Weizman Improving After Overstrain NEW YORK, May 17-P)-Dr. Chalm Weizmann, newly named president of the council of govern ment of Israel, Is expected- to be able to resume "normal activities' in a few days, his physician said tonight The physician. Dr. Josef Conn, said the 79-year-old statesman and scientist has had -to take it easy recently because exhaustion brought on by "heavy work and overstrain. He Is at the Waldorf Astoria hotel here. nrrnooN misses guam GUAM. Tuesday. May 1-JP)-A typhoon crazed the most-norther ly Islands ef the Marianas, chain today, its center passing some 200 miles to the north of Guam and causing no reported damage. Pricw vU Surrender Claimed By New Yorker on Plan to 'Outlaw' s 1 i Bt B. L LJ vino ton I PORTLAND, Ore., May 17-VVRepubIican presidential as pirants Thomas E. Dewey and Harold E. Stassen met over the radio tonight to debate their clashing views on outlawing of the communist party in the United States. f - - Before a studio audience limited to reporters and camera men, Dewey hammered on his theme that communism should be kept in the open and that to drive it underground only enabled it to grow in power. " ! "You cannot shoot an idea with a law," he asserted. f On the affirmative, Stassen calfed for a stop to "coddling communists, and enactment of laws to deny them the "blessing cf Jeealitv" under which thev are nermitted to pain rra.r. Dewev's Return To Salem Set 7' T 1 Tj m. r or tailor lTieei .r'w. to, buttal, answered; 1 Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New "I gather from Mr. Stassen that York will revisit Salem and vi- j has completely surrendered., cinity Wednesday during his ex- Th Mundt bill does not outlaw tended campaign swing through communist party. If Mr. Stas Oregon before Today's primary fn that is aU he wants, then election. I be doesn't mean it when he asks The candidate for republican J11 -thecommunist party be out presidential nomination will ad- ! w?-:aue, "uthor of the dress a meetine of orani2ed la- bor at Salem Labor temple at 2:43 p. m. Wednesday, after having appeared at Independence grade school at 1:50 p. m. Salem Trades and Labor coun cil officials said Monday the New York candidate would discuss his views on labor relations at the local meeting, which is open to members of all Salem labor un ions. Governor Dewey recently missed a scheduled meeting with Salem labor officials when his caravan arrived in Salem an hour late after unexpected delays be tween Portland and here. At Independence the candidate will be welcomed by acting mayor James H. Hart and introduced by State Sen. Dean Walker. Republican voters of Oregon will choose between preference for Dewey or Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota In the Friday elec tion. Taf t to Fight To Cut River Work Moneys WASHINGTON, May 17 -0P- Senator Taft (R-OhioX told the senate today there is no justifica tion for increasing public works construction now, "when private construction activity is1 high." Taft Joined in a senate fight to cut $200,000,000 from ; a record $640,253,000 appropriation bill for flood control and rivers and har bors work during thai year be ginning July 1. Flood control is important, he said, but "whether wei do It this year or a few years later Is not vital." "Whether we exceed the na tional budget by two or three billion dollars is a vital question, however." Senator Gurney (R-SD) de fended the $440,253,000 program as necessary to protect the natural resources of the nation. He said it would add to agricul tural production "the backbone of the nation's economy" by preventing crop and livestock loss, adding millions or acres in uooa areas to agricultural lands, and providing additional irrigation for western farms. A vote on the bill Is expected tomorrow. Senators Wherry (R-Neb) and Cordon (R-Ore) termed the $200, 000.000 cutback proposal "arbi trary." EUKOPE FLEET EEFLACED WASHINGTON, May .17 HPV The navy announced tonight that it Is relieving its 14-smp squadron in the Mediterranean and re placing' It with -12 other ships. Some 1400 marines serving a board the major fighting' ships also will come back to the United States. ' ODii SEnMons Weather Max. . S3 M X Mln. FTwtp. 40 .- .f 49 rJBO -S3 Trace Portland San Francisco -? Chicago - , ... 5 New York S3 Jt Willamette river 2 feet. FORECAST (from V. S. weather bu reau. atcKary fleki. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight. High today . tomr tonight 4L WeUir wlU t favorable lor ail farm work today. 5c No. 55 HDD DUDD Clash Over Maadf Bill They clashed sharply over the Mundt bill, now before congress. Stassen held that it would oJt-; law the. communist party, Dewey ' that it would not "If Mr. Dewey," Stassen con cluded, "will agree to support the Mundt bill uneauivocallv. then I ! wiU agree we are in complete un- unal congressional committee both say it does not outlaw the party" - --j. CaiW Kede Flfta Celraoan ... j "Free countries,", Stassen .said, do not have "adequate laws" to safeguard themselves frast . com munism. The communist organiza tions, he said, "are not .political parties. They are fifth columns" Stassen said America needs "a new law to make illegal any or ganization, either above ground or below ground, which is directed by the rulers of a foreign power for the purpose of overthrowing the government' of the United " States." Stassen said that at present in America there is no law which opposes communism and stops it in its efforts "to overthrow" the VS. government No law exists, he con tinued, to "stop the communists from conspiring to call strikes Or follow directions from Moscow." "Ne Danger to Liberty" Stassen avowed his support for the Mundt bill, now before the house, although the' bill as now constituted contains provisions "toward individuals which- go "beyond what I have advocated." To outlaw the communist party. he said, would not endanger the civil liberties of other persons. Stassen then asked Dewey these questions: ' - J. Do you agree that the com munists of the world are directed by the Kremlin? j 2. Do you agree that their ob jectives are the overthrow oLfree governments? J 3. Do you agree that they con- stitute a menace to world peace? "Blessing f Legality" : In concluding his . original 20- minute presentation, Stassen ar gued: . v - "To make my position very clear. I say very definitely that it does not add up to me to say that loyal, patriotic young Americans roust of necessity be drafted, , that their liberties must be taken away in order to make America strong In the face of the menace to peace caused by communist organiza tions of the soviet union, but that none of the privileges and bless ings of legality should be taken away from the communist organi- rations themselves, which in fact ' are causing the menace that makes the drafting necessary." ? Dewey argued in his opening re marks that a law to outlaw com- . munism would be useless because there are already 27 acts which be said outlaw "every conceivable form of fubvesion., ' Cites House Cemmittee Commenting on the Mundt bill. the New Yorker said he was against a law which deprives a person of his civil liberties. He referred to the report of the house un-American activities committee in purported refutation of Staa sen's claim. Dewey said the com mittee rejected the idea of out lawing the communist party. Jle said the report gave these reasons: 1. It would drive the commu nists further underground, i 2. Outlawing has not been ef fective in other countries. . 3. "We could not criticize other totalitarian nations for their ac tions If we adopt similar meas ures," .: -Dewey branded the outlawing proposal Immoral, in violation of the - constitutional bill of ; rights. the method of totalitarianism itself. and "panacea" which won't work. ;