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o : tsn oop ono oooo C2 o o o O 0 0 :0 O EI 13 Q . O O r Who Gets Debate Laurels?9 Both Speakers Claim Victory PORTLAND, Ore., May IMfl -The big question debated by Oregonlans today wu "Who won the debate?" The Oregon primary Issue nf outlawing the Communiit party was taken over enthusiastically by the man in the street as Harold E. Stassen and ('.,. Thomas E. Dewey, republican presidential aspirants, deserted the rostrum for the road once more. After an hour-long radio de bate last night Stassen in the affirmative, Dewey the negative the issue was as hot as ever. Dewey interpreted his oppon ent's stand as a "complete sur render." Stassen declared Dewey -sort of walked around" the is- The candidates differed widely 00 TRTinrnra The great debate between Dewey and Stassen on the ques- tion of outlawing communism got t . .M.irarir nil mj 1 1 1. tiiii sh v 1 ever the Mundt bill, whether it did or did not outlaw commun ism. Stassen said that was jhat he wanted; Dewey claimed "Stas sen has surrendered" and quoted authorities to prove the bill doesn't outlaw communism. Both were "agin" communism; that much was clear. Now let's get back to the busi ness of indicating a preference for the republican nomination. Having known Harold Stassen rather well and admired him I have been favorable to his can didacy and remain so although I have not been at all enthusiastic about his idea of outlawing the communist party. After this pri mary is over I may discuss the subject which Is presented by the Mundt bill. What I like about Harold Etassen Is his sincerity in trying to make a contribution of leader ship in these perilous times. He followed the farmer-labor reign as governor of Minnesota and gave that state a splendid ad ministration. The great loyalty of his home people to Stassen la one of the most convincing appeals offered in his favor. He made a good record In the navy j during the war. Then he went at the business of politics, with an eye on the presidency, very ser iously. He studied political ques tions, traveled over this country and abroad, met leaders in public affairs. And he has been frank and forthright in his discussions. Stassen has had the courage to express himself on public ques tions and at times to lead out with new ideas. He is strongly In favor of increasing interna tional controls for peace, even with concessions of national sov ereignty. Sometimes his proposals may have seemed extreme or pre mature; but at least they (Continued on editorial page) Preparations Tor Wallace's Speeches Laid John Bollinger of Salem, form er president of the Farmers union livestock association of St Paul, Minn., will be luncheon toast master and Prof. John Rademak er of Willamette university will be public meeting chairman Mon day when presidential candidate Henry Wallace appears at two Salem functions. The progressive party candi date will speak at an 11:30 lunch eon In the Marion hotel and at l.Vf pjn. open meeting In Wal ler hall on the Willamette uni versity campus. He is due to ar rive with his staff and press eorrespondents by chartered plane at the local airport at 11 a.m. He will fly from here to Portland for an address Monday night in the Portland armory. Wallace's appearance here will be bis first In Oregon on his present nationwide speaking tour. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Ufs e eWf tkJnk Jhtfn goutg to food wu" on one point whether the com jnutustk were outlawed in Czarist Rus.ia. Both apparently were right. A spokesman of the Soviet consulate in New York said to day there was no "specific decree outlawing the old Bolsheviks predecessors of the present Com munity party. Tut Var.silly A. Tnrnenko. del egate of the soviet Ukraine to the United Nations, said Russian Communists actually were out lawed and "worked under ground." Historic fact is that there was no Communist party as such in the Russia of the Czars. This and other features of verbal clash, however, served only to add fuel to discussions which raged In the wake of the debate. Arabs Train Heavy Guns on Jerusalem Jewish Hold on Holy City Cracking King Abdullah s Trans-Jordan Arab legion turned Its heavy guns on Jewish positions in Jerusalem Tuesday and the Jewish hold on the Holy City was being broken. Tel Aviv, capital of the new ajr atlack wnen a dive bombing civilian bus terminal in midtown. Associated Press Correspondent I Daniel De Luce, writing from I 1 nfiihin f K eA rttv rst T ri 1 ca 1 rn j said Haganah positions in the Jewish quarter of the old city and on the slopes of adjoining Mon tefiore sector have been under heavy, accurate attack of legion howitzers. He said the legion launched its attack about 4 p.m.. and shelling which ceased at dusk was virtually certain to resume Wednesday. Arabs of the old city who were subject to heavy mortar attack Jrom the Jews at midday were al most tearful with joy over arrival of legion air support. The bomb attack on Tel Aviv occurred at the early evening rush hour. Civilians in the street said a fighter bomber bearing Egyptian green markings dived five times to within a thousand feet of the crowded square and unleashed a fragmentation bomb each time. It was the third raid of the day and the deadliest in four days of successive air attacks on Tel Aviv. The Jews said their Haganah fighters had forced the uncondi tional surrender of Arabs In the port city of Acre 12 miles north of Haifa In the climax to three days of street fighting. It was the only major victory claim of the day from Israel. Moshe Shertok, foreign minis ter of Israel, protested to the Unit ed Nations security council at Lake Success that the entry into the old city of Jerusalem by the Arab legion was a violation of a cease fire agreement. A pooled dispatch from Ameri can correspondents In Jerusalem dated Monday said the Jews In the old city faced annihilation and this wax apparently before the le gion took up the attack. All Police Slugs Not in Pistols DIXON, I1L, May 18 - (JP) - A driver for a soft drink concern. Earl Webb, told the police chief he is going to remove one of his automatic vending machines be cause of losses. The cash box is short some nickels and a number of slugs have been found, Webb told Chief Harry Fischer. Webb was a little reluctant to bring up the subject. The machine is in the Dixon police station. Taf t Sides with Dewey on Reds WASHINGTON. May 18 - (JP) Senator Taft of Ohio declared to night "We cannot outlaw com munism" but should drive it into the open and expose it. The republican presidential as pirant spoke on America's Town Meeting of the Air, broadcast over ABC from Constitution hall. Without committing himself on the merits . of the Mundt-Nixon anti-communist bill now in the house but approving its an nounced objectives, Taft said he fears that a too-strict definition of communism, coupled with the bill's registration requirements, might have the effect of driving communists underground. Ex-Governor Wins Acquittal NEW ORLEANS, May 18-4V Fonner Governor James A. Noe was acquited today of charges of conspiring to influence a federal jury, but three co-defendants were convicted. William T. Burton, Lake Charles oil millionaire; former State Sena tor Joe T. Cawthorn of Mansfield and Marcel La Branche of New Orleans were convicted. The charges grew out of the trial In June; 1945, of Burton on charges of evading $115,000 in In come taxes. Cawthorn was Bur ton's attorney In the trial and La Branche was m member of the Jury which failed j to agree. A mistrial wax declared, The nation's newspapers had plenty to gay, but few of them passed Judgment on which pre sidential candidate won the dis cussion. The Baltimore Evening Sun said, "Millions of Americans at least had an opportunity to clar ify their thinking and size up the performers." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dewey "had sounder arguments" than Stassen. The Minneapolis Star Stassen has succeeded in arousing the nation to a new interest in def inite problems of government" The Washington Evening Star "An excellent debate. It sug gests the advantages of more of them." (Additional details of Dewey, Stassen activities on page 2). state of Israel, underwent its worst plane identified as Egyptian hit a The dead may number 20 Top Man TEL AVIV, May li Dr. Chains We Is ma nn (above), senior statesman of Israel. K-i , hetn elected president ef the council goTernment a post tantamount to provisional president of the new Jewish state. Election took place at the first meeting ef the 27 -member state council. (AP wtrepboto to the Statesman.) Accident Fatal To Member Of Road Crew Ben T. Jackson, 85, of Port land, died In a local hospital Tuesday afternoon three hours after suffering crushing injuries of the chest when struck by a gravel truck. City police reported that he was "spotting" one truck of gravel when another he did not see struck him. The driver was Edwin Ar thur Claus, Salem route 8, box 582, who said he did not see Jack son but felt the impact. The wheels did not pass over Jackson, but he suffered extensive chest in juries and a leg fracture. The iccident occurred Just be fore noon on a private road under construction alongside the Ore gon Electric railway tracks Just north of the Cherry avenue cross ing. Jackson was employed by Warren Construction company. He was taken to the hospital by city first aid men. Survivors are the widow. Myr tle Jackson, 3968 S.E. Mall St., Portland; son, Chester A. Hickok, Portland; daughters, Mrs. H. E. Hansen, Portland, and Mrs. Bertie Myers, Sacramento; and two grandchildren. The W. T. Rigdon company is in charge of funeral arrangements. Gov. Hall to Visit Towns in County Gov. John Hall announced Tuesday he would conclude his campaign for the primary elec tion outside of Portland Wednes day with a visit to a number of Marion county towns, including Stayton, Woodburn, Mt Angel and Silverton. He also will visit Canby and a few other Clackamas county towns. The governor will spend Thursday in Portland, he said. Weather Max. - SI Win. 4J Procip. Traco M Troeo Salem Portland Sam Francisco Chicago . . 7 sa st New York Willamette rim tS (ni FORECAST (trora V. S. woather bu reau. McNvT (WM. Balm): Partly cloudy today end ionisht with wfctety scattered lifht sttowois. High today near S6. low tonlsht near 40. Conditions food tor an farm acUrtttea with tbe exception dusting-, which will bo hindered by moderate winds moot of tne day. lALUf PmSCTrTTATlOW (Freaa Sept- 1 to May It) This Tsar 44J7 LartYeax Average NINETY -OGHTH YEAR 16 Congress Debate on Draft Due WASHINGTON, May 18-(JP)-The congressman who was expected to block the draft bill predicted today that the house rules committee probably will approve the meas ure and send it to the house floor next week. The prediction came from Rep. Leo E. Allen (R-Ill) chairman of J the rules committee which began j hearings today on the draft bill WASHINGTON. May 18 -(JP)-previously approved by the house By a shouted vote, the house re armed services committee. fused today to kill a bill designed Two defense measures were ap- to put tight restraints on com proved by the house armed serv- munist activities, ices committee today. They were: Supporters got behind a drive 1. A bill to let the department to pass the bill tomorrow. The of defense hold on to about 200 start of today's debate had been surplus World War II plants as t held up by a mass of routine busi reseree. 1 ness. 2. a measure to authorize the navy to stop work on 13 unfinish ed warships in order to start 1 building the world's largest shi a , ntAnn lrft Al The bill carries other construction changes. A subewnmitteo okayed it yesterday. Allen, despite his prediction oa the draft bill passage, still con tends the army has never given voluntary enlistments a fair triaL "Brass hats just want this draft that's all." Allen said. But he added the bill probably will be approved by his committee any- way. Seattle Firm To Build State Office Building The state board of control Tues day awarded a contract for con struction of the new state office building here to the Sound Con struction and Engineering com pany of Seattle on a low base bid of $1,592,592, plus $77,315 for the itise of bronze sash instead of V1 sash. The total is $1,669,905. It was originally estimated that the construction would cost ap proximately $1,900,000. W. R. Johnston and R. H. Lukens, man ager and vice president, respec tively, of the construction com pany, appeared before the board and indicated that building ope rations could be completed with in 18 months. Both Gov. John H. Hall and State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott urged that the contractors pur chase a substantial quantity of the construction materials in Ore gon as well as place their insur ance covering construction with insurance agencies in this state. The contractors said actual work would start as soon as materials can be assembled. Funds required for construction will be borrowed from the state irreducible school fund and be repaid out of rentals. The build ing will be occupied by a number of state activities, including the public utilities commission, state police, board of control and the unemployment compensation com mission. The structure will be five stor ies high, with marble facing. The fifth floor will be set back ap proximately 20 feet. The build ing will be located in the block directly east of the state library and face on Summer street. The Sound Construction and Engineering company is now erecting two buildings at the Ore gon state hospital here. China Red Officials In Path of Bombs NANKING. May 19. - (if) - Tha government today announced one which Communist President Mao of its planes bombed a building in Tze-Tung and 200 other Red lead ers were conferring. The announcement, by Lt. Gen. Teng Wen-Yi. said 80 were killed or wounded by the bomb, dropped at Fapinn in western Hopeh pro vince on May 13. John L. Lewis Woos Newsmen With 2 Press Rooms, Hires 8 Press Agents By Arthur Edsen WASHINGTON, May 18 -(JP) Something new has beeen added. John L. Lewis often Is so un communicative that by comparison a sphinx would sound like a gig glinjg Bobby Soxer. But the coal negotiations start ed today,! and behold Came the mighty Lewis, with eight press agents. Nobody knows why Lewis sud denly decided to play footsie with the press. But be certainly has gone' whole hog. In addition to the eight press agents, two enormous press rooms have been set up. One- contains typewriters, the other telephones. This isn't alL ' The coal mine discussions are WADE- PAGES IHloaose Ceffoo Backers Drive For Passage Of Plan Today Rep. Miller (R-Conn.) made the motion to kill the bill by striking out the enacting clause. He said the main effect of the legislation .L " the dangerous elements. Rep. Nixon (R-Calif.), co-author of the bill, replied. He said the measure which he and Rep. Mundt (K-S.D.) drew up would strike "only at the subversive activities of communism In the United States and not at commnnism as an idea." Passage Certain House passage of the bill ap peared certain. Rep. Douglas (D Calif.), who opposes it, estimated that not more than 40 votes would be cast against it. But she also predicted that the senate never will accept such legislation. - The Mundt-Nixon bill, which was approved by the house com mittee on unAmerican activities, would make it a crime to try to set up a foreign-controlled totali tarian dictatorship In the United States. Penalties would range up to 10 years In prison and a $10,000 fine. Re aires Registration The measure also would require the communist party to register its membership annually with the department of Justice, failure to register, or registering falsely, would be punishable by from two to five years in prison and a fine of $2,000 to $5,000. Communists would be barred from non-elective federal jobs and would not be granted passports. Communist propaganda, written or oral, would have to be labeled as to source. Groups affiliated with the party so-called communist front or ganizations also would have to register. Blaze Mars Holland Palace THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, May 18-JP)-The big ballroom and the private apartments of Queen Wilhelmina In Noordeinde palace were burned out today. The queen, who is to quit her throne after her golden jubilee in September, was not endangered. She was at her summer residence, Het Loo. The fire, which burst from the roof while painters were burning off old paint, raged for about an hour before it was brought under control. Fire Chief C. W. Otten estimated damage at about 250,000 guilders (nearly $100,000). Some Civilian Defense Branches May Resume PORTLAND, May U-C-Some branches of civilian defense may resume soon. Mayor Earl Riley was notified today by the Wash ington, D. C, office of civilian defense. He described the plan as mere ly part of general preparedness, not a hint of war. Programs for fire protection, policing, evacua tion, and medical treatment as needed under a modern atomic attack probably will be set up. being held in a Shoreham hotel ball room. In front of the speak ers stand, press table has ben set up. ' It is covered with immaculate table linens, there Js room for 48 members of ;the working press. and nine pitchers of Ice water axe located at strategic positions. The newspapermen showed up for these elaborate preparations., r So, roughly, we' have zdxte tenths of pitcher of water and eight tenths' of a press agent to each reporter. So far the water pitchers hare been the most fuL " ' One impressed newsman showed up, surveyed the Impressive scene, and asked: . "Where can I get some plain. MUNDBI 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Satan, Oroaon. Wednesday, May 19. 1948 ddooDds Staloou Peek Through A-Curtain Shows Improved Bomb By Leif Ericksoa HONOLULU, May 1&-(JP)-The recent atomic tests at Eniwetsk proved "how bombs now under development by the United States would work" and their efficiency. Lifting the curtain of secrecy every so slightly, Lt. Gen. John E. Hull, commander of the joint task force, said today: "We got our answers. We liked the an swers." It was implied strongly that the new weapons are a vast improve ment over the Hiroshima bomb and those tested at Bikini. Hull and his staff returned by plane from the remote, closely guarded atoll where three im proved atomic weapons were tested. None of the tests was under water, said General Hull in one of several statements Issued at a news conference. Nor was there an air drop, said MaJ. Gen. Will Truman Appoints Board To Probe Phone Dispute By The Associated Press President Truman acted Tuesday to stave off one of two major strikes threatening the nation. Asserting a wage dispute between the American Telephone and Telegraph company and certain long lines workers threatens the nation's health and safety, Mr. Truman appointed an emergency board to investigate. The dispute involves some 25,000 long distance opera tors in 42 states. I ! The move drew a quick protest from the long lines department of the company. Bartlett T. Miller, vice presi dent of A. T. & Ts long lines de partment. Issued a statement say ing the company is "wholly at a loss to understand" the president's order. "The company s opinion was not soueht." he said. "The em ployes affected comprise less than 5 per cent of the total employes in the telephone communications in dustry and we find it difficult- to believe that any em"Keficy exists that imperils the national health and safety. Talks to Continue "Neither the union nor the com pany had broken off negotiations and the company expected to con tinue negotiations with the union tomorrow." The second major strike threat came from the CIO United Auto mobile Workers. The union noti fied the Michigan State Labor Me diation board that a strike "is pending" for 225.000 General Mo tors employes. The union already has some 75,000 Chrysler workers out in a wage dispute. Dismisses Conviction In Washington, Judge T. Alan Goldsborough dismissed a federal civil contempt conviction against John L. Lewis as new contract ne rotiations got under way between the United Mine Workers and the soft coal industry. However, Lewis threatened to end the contract talks if the op erators Insist on Including Joseph E. Moody, president of the South ern Coal Producers association. The southern operators refused to budge from their demand that they participate in contract negotia tions. The showdown may come Wednesday. Lewis said that Moody isn't eli gible to participate as his group did not sign the present contract which expires June 30. WHAT'S IN A NAME? WASHINGTON. May 18 -UP) Business at the Oceana, W. Vs., postoffice should soon pick up. Rep. Kee (D-wva) saia loaay The candidate for postmaster whom Kee recommended is named Please Wright. ordinary writing paper?' Much face-falling by assembled Lewis' press agents. Oh, well, be cant have every thing. . i Tongues got twisted twice dur ing the session.' Harvey Cartwright of Terre Haute, Indiana, "a distinguished Jloosler, was elected conference chalrmaa." ' : Lewis, in turning the chair over to Cartwright, said be was glad to give lt to "a distinguished Hoover.' Cartwright stumbled, too. Tru man XL Johnson ef Fairmont, W.Va, got the Job as assistant treasurer. Said Cartwright: "Mr. Truman has been elected." to C&UI Airoi iam E. Kepner, air force deputj with the task force. Navy CapL James 8. Russell dropped the pointed hint of the efficiency of the weapons. Said he: "The first Alamagordo (New Mexico) test bomb, the Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bibini bombs were about on par. They were a war time weapon." "It (the bomb) had only to work. It needed not to be too efficient. America's preeminence in the field of atomic weapons is not a static thing. It depends upon achievement day to day, year to year, and test to test achievement, "One of the most gratifying re sults of the entire operation has been the confirmation of a large body of ideas, theories and meth ods which have grown out of the oretical and experimental work done since the war at the Lbs Alamos scientific laboratory." Blast Kills 10, Leaves Plant In Wreckage KEARNY. N. J, May 18-p-A sudden, blinding explosion and fire at the Koppers tar and chem ical division killed 10 men and left a section of the sprawling plant a mass of twisted wreckage today. The victims were trapped by the flashing flames within a service unit of the yards at the change of a shift shortly before midnight last night. A dozen other men reportedly inside the structure escaped. Nine bodies, burned almost beyond rec ognition, were found in the build ing. A tenth man died today of burns. The company speculated that a 37,500-gallon tank of tar distillate 75 feet from the two-story brick building overflowed. Some of the inflammable distillate was carried by a high wind against hot pipes on the outside of the building. A company statement said dam age was estimated at $150,000. ; Chinese Reds ; Capture Stores NANKING, May lS.-tfVOae- eyed Gen. Liu . Po-Cheng, com munist scourge of central China, won a major victory today in the rich Han River valley which sup plies food to the big government base of Hankow. He captured Laohokow with Its huge stores of food and gasoline and thereby cut Han river traffic to Hankow, 200 airline miles southeast. j With possibly 25,000 soldiers at his back, Liu was free to strike south to the Yangtze -- river life line of central China --or west ward into Szechwan province with its wartime capital at Chung king. Report from central China said the way to the Szechwan border, about 100 mountainous miles southwest of Laohokow, was un defended. The route to the Yangtze was blocked only by small groups Of local militia, according to the best information available in Nanking. Vaccination Not Sure Cure for Bang's Disease PORTLAND, May lMffV-Tne American Guernsey Cattle dub convention was told today not to count upon vaccinating as a sure control of Bang's disease. A panel of 12 men agreed that the vaccination -of- calves against the fUseass needs further testing. and warned 'that meny fazsaeia harbor too opttmlrtlc an Idea of the method. LAXSON TO HEAD WAA - WASHINGTON, May It - (JP - Jess Larson of Oklahoma, was confirmed as war assets adminis trator by a voice rote in the ate today. mat Price 5c No U - CSedl SoOO 'Propaganda', g' By JoJta M. HUkUwer WASHINGTON. May The United States tabbed Premier Stalin's latest peace statement as -encouraging" today, but put the blame for world tension on soviet hold-outs at international council tables. j It again ruled out, as it bad done last week, any idea that great world problems can be settled by the United State and Russia alooe. In a formal statement, the state department declared that these is-' sues sre matters in which many other countries have an "intimate and compelling interest." Officials noted that the latest move in Stalin's "peace offensive" took the form of comments on a ' peace program put forward by Henrf A. Wallace, third party presidential candidate. They said they suspected the Stalin state ment was a propaganda stroke de signed, among other things, to de pict Russia as a foremost lever of a peace, and to build up -Wallace politically. Moscow Broadcast The newest round of exchanges in the conflict between Moscow and Washington over how the cold war knight be brought to an end began last night when Mos cow broadcast the text of Stalin's comments on Wallace's open let ter. : Wallace, one-time secretary of commerce who was ousted from President Truman's cabinet in 1948 because he split with Secretary of State Byrnes over foreign poli cy, called for settlement of the whole range of major j world is sues. He named, among other aues- I tions: Armaments and atomic con trol, German and Japanese ' peaco treaties, withdrawal of troops from ? occupied countries and interna tional reconstruction of war devas tated lands. Concrete rrograjn Stalin praised the Wallace let- , ter as setting forth "a concrete program for peaceful F settlement of the differences between the -U.S.S.R. and the United States. Officials here said that they saw no indication in Stalin's statement of any basic change in soviet for eign policy. 99E Detour To Start Today Traffic will be halted today over the New Era-Oregon City section of the Pacific highway, which Is to be made a four-lane route. State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said passenger cars can use the county road between Ore gon City and New Era, with trucks routed via Silverton on the Salern Silverton -Oregon City road. Bal dock recommended, however, that these detours be avoided where possible by 'using route 99 W, the Willamette cutoff and the Salero Dayton route. The present Oregon City-New Era section of the Pacific highway . is now carrying approximately 10,000 vehicles a day, Baldock said. Officials said the new construction probably would be completed 3by November 1. ; The state highway engineer said it would be dangerous to use the Oregon City-New Era route dur ing construction because of falling rocks resulting from blasting: op erations. ' Communist Parly J To Answer Debate NEW YORK, May 18-CTVThe communist, party said today it hal asked for radio time to reply to last night's debate by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and : Harold E. Stassen. - ? - At the same time the Mutual Broadcasting system announced it had granted the communists time from 10 to 10:30 pjn. f pjn. PST) on the "Opionionaire" program, to answer the presiden tial candidates statements about the party.; A party spokesman said Mut- ual's off err had been accepted but it had -not been decided who would rpeak. Proposal Said Encouragin ? pun, sfflmiozs feri; LOST vTr - - - l i i L Y -