a c oisi. u a oniiso on onno e odd o i-2 o o-op lono OOO'C eiM Tod UDGirDg) Sl.DlTDOSglDDllS 'Heat Wave' May Affect Vote; Dewey, Stassen End Drives With Statewide Radio Talks POU NDBD 1651 IjfJJS) ay ft NINETY EIGHTH YEAR 18 Arabs Claim Victory Near in Jerusalem OtP GSEDDDS The tumult and the shouting dies. The captains and the kings depart." Whew! What a campaign' It will take old Oregon two years to catch Its breath. The campaign is one for the his tory books, not only of this state but of national politics. There never was anything quite like it candidates for president running like candidates for constable. And the captains Stassen and Dewey when they write their memoirs the May 1948. story will read like narratives generals write of their military campaigns. The battle for Coos Bay, the skirmish at Cascade Locks, the race for Baker, the strategic mistake (for Dewey) at Corvallis, the poor -intelligence" at Woodburn, and the great climax in the debate at Port land (with Dewey's claim his op ponent 'surrendered"). The 'businessmen for Dewey" pouring out their dollars on bill boards and ads. The young "am ateurs" in politics backing Stas sen with all their energy and en thusiasm. And ,the public left with minds awhirl to decide which one should be voted for for president. Some what wearily the people last night said to each of the candidates, "Here's your hat, what' your hur ry?" Honestly this is the presidential primary at its worst. Interesting and novel as the experience has been it ought not to be repeated. It puts the presidency, the highest office in the world, on the level of a local office. It has been a pleas ure to see and to hear these emin ent men; but obviously they could not repeat this performance In 48 states. To do it In one or a few states distorts the pre-convention test. Oregon's 12 delegate votes do not merit such Intensive cam paigning. When tne sound and fury of this campaign die down, attention will turn to the republican national convention where nominations will be decided. Even there the atmos phere will be electric and delib eration will be diluted with craft and emotionalism. But for years the country will be talking about the 1948 Oregon primary. Stores to Observe Memorial Day on Monday in Salem Salem's Retail Trade bureau Thursday decided that local stores will close on Monday, May 31, in observance of Memorial d; The holiday falls on Sunday this year, but will be observed legally on the Monday following. President Tinkham Gilbert of the board said the closing action was taken after a survey of lead ing stores throughout Salem showed them in favor of observ ing the holiday Monday. TIME CHANGE BILL OFFERED PORTLAND. May 20 - VP) - An emergency ordinance to place Portland on daylight saving time was introduced into the city coun cil today by Commissioner Ken neth L. Cooper, and will be voted upon May 27. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Will you excuse me Tre got a luncheon engagement." w t ii PAGES The Orecjon Idle Plant Gives Proof of Ammonia Lack Now idle but expected soon to resume prodoction Is the Salem fertilizer plant or Columbia Metal? pietcred above in its semi-deserted state. The Cherry avenue plant has been closed over two roontl : for lack of anhydrous ammonia, but local chamber of commerce efforts have resulted In pendlr congressional action to earmark some of the army's supply for western fertilizer plants. The above scenes from the Salem plant show. left, the load In platform and the Idle switch engine used to hunt the freight cars. At right is one of the siphoning stations used in unloading the tank cars rf anhydrous ammonia, and the siding with weeds growing over ties and tracks. (Photos by Don DIJ. Statesman staff photographer.) Fertilizer Plant Supplies Drive Shows Progress By Robert E. Gang-ware City Editor. The Statesman Excel&nt prospects of restoring ammonia supplies needed by western states to reopen fertilizer plants, including Salem's, were re ported from Washington, D.C., Thursday to local chamber of commerce and fertilizer plant officials. Clay Cochrane, Salem Chamber of Commerce manager, who has been in the nation's capltol the past three weeks, today will give his L Soutnerners Win Democrat Conclave Roles PHILADELPHIA, May 20.-UP)- -r 1 . 1 A.l ... ,niifSmri u.-r cratic national convention. But Senator J. Howard Mc- Grath, the party's national chair man insisted the selections were not designed to appease Dixie democrats revolting against Presi dent Truman's civil rights program. The 16-member executive com- , amJ ented to COngrusional del mittee of-the democratic national -ation. frn th t committee chose Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky as key noter or temporary chairman and Representative Sam Rayburn of Texas for the permanent chair manship. Barkley has taken no stand on the controversial civil rights pro gram. Rayburn, former speaker of the house and now minority leader of that body, has come out against the civil rights program but has not been vigorous in his objec tions. Blood Type Note Proposed for Drivers Licenses Blood type information on driver licenses was proposed Thursday by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry as one means of preventing deaths in emergency accident cases involving Oregon motorists. The state official said his sug gestion was prompted by recent report of a death caused by a delay in determining a patient's blood type. He suggested that license cards might be prepared to include a space for blood type information to be filled in by permit holders who desire to do so. GRADT MAY GO TO GREECE WASHINGTON. May 2Q-JPy-Ambassador Henry F. Grady, Am erican envoy to India, was report ed tonight to have been chosen as the next American ambassador to Greece. Weather Max. 71 7S 96 S3 ... 70 MM. Precip. 4S Trace 47 Trace 47 JU 44 .00 90 .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago . New York Willamette lirer 4.1 feet ro RECAST I from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today with light morning fog. clearing thia evening. Partly cloudy Saturday with widely scattered show ers. High today 10. low tonight 45. Weather will be generally good for farm work except formoderate north westerly winds. SALEM PRECIPITATION (Prom Sept. 1 to May 21) This Year 45.0S Last Year 13.13 Average S9.U Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Friday. i final testimony before a congres- I sional committee in support of a bill to make available from gov ernment stocks the anhydrous am monia needed by Salem. Salt Lake City and Oakland plants since eastern suppliers stopped shipping the material here three months ago. Eastern Droducers beean usinff VVA. HAl.the entire output other than the U.S. army supplies for making fer tilizer for foreign use. The plan to relieve the fertilizer shortage resulting from the shut down of western plants was draft ed by Cochran with the aid of other chamber officials of western states, then endorsed by a confer- i ence of 1 1 western states governors Bills to accomplish the plan are now pending in both house and senate, Cochran reported from Washington in a telephone call to James Walton, Salem Chamber of Commerce president. Cochran will leave on his return trip here to day, following his last committee appearance. Cochran has cited the need of such rich western agricultural areas as the Willamette valley for more nitrogen type fertilizer, as a principal reason for congression al action to help resume fertilizer production in the west. EVACUATION IN KOREA SEOUL. Friday, May 21 -tp) U. S. army corps headquarters announced today that all depen dents of army and civilian per sonnel in the American occupa tion zone of South Korea will leave by July 31. Schoolboy 'Mayor for Day', Staff Raid Gambling in Ohio Town ZANES VTLLE, O., May 20.-VP-It goes on in a thousand cities ev ery year, this letting high school seniors play at running the town for a day, but here the boys play ed it hard and straight. They put the pinch on some gambling, added $25 and costs to the city coffers, and confiscated enough punch boards and "cookie jars" to open a casino. The duly elected and appointed adult city officials picked up the pieces today after a "laboratory experiment" in civics that was a dinger. The boys were "Mayor Aubrey Sibbring. "City Solicitor" Frank Schurtz, Jr., and "Police Chief" Jack Harper, all 17-year-old sen iors of Lash high schooL They were elected by fellow students last week to take up Mayor Wil liam S. Watson's annual invita tion to "run the city" yesterday and do the things they read about in civics classes. These three put on a series of raids, with the aid of one patrolman who never knew what was next. When Police Chief May 21. 1948 Price Sc Snell Crash Laid to Lack of Pilot Training WASHINGTON, May 20 -(JP) The plane disaster which killed Governor Earl Snell last October was probably caused by flying in instrument weather without pro per experience, the civil aeronau tics board said today. The board said the crash ap peared the result of "the pilot's flying into instrument weather without the training and exper ience required to control the air plane safely." The plane, piloted by Clifford W. Hogue of Klamath Falls, crashed southwest of Lakeview Oct. 28, killing Snell, Secretary of State Robert Farrell, Senate President Marshall Cornett, and the pilot. The CAB said its inquiry show ed the plane flew into a heavy rain that limited visibility. "All available evidence," said the CAB report, "indicated that the pilot encountered instrument weather conditions and because of his in ability to handle the aircraft by reference to instruments alone, lost control of it and crashed." The report spoke of the "lack of any instrument training or ex perience of the pilot." Swede to Mediate Palestine Dispute For United Nations LAKE SUCCESS, May 20 - (vF) Count Folke Bernadotte, of Swe den, was chosen tonight as Uni ted Nations mediator for Pales tine. Count Bernadotte, vice presi dent of the Swedish Red Cross was picked up by the five great powers after he had accepted a proffer of the assignment. His selection came after the U.N. security council wrangled in two sessions today over whether to use strong measures against warring Arabs and Jews In Pal estine or adopt peaceful media tion. The council adjourned until to morrow without a decision. (real) Clifford Courtney caught up and took away Police Chief (pro tern) Harper's gun and badge, they were planning secretly to knock off a house of prostitution. .Meanwhile "Fire Chief Charles Cooper, "City Auditor" Henry Ab ele, and "Safety Director" John Montgomery tried to keep a cam paign promise to let school out early. They set about having the overcrowded Lash building de clared a firetrap. That fizzled. City officials kept mostly non committal on the affair today, ex cept Solicitor J. Lincoln Knapp. He noted that two of the young sters' hand-written search war rants were improperly drawn and the raids conducted with them wouldn't stand up in court. Earl Freeman, the third person whose cigar store was raided, paid the $25 fine for possession of a punch board. It was a real fine. City School Superintendent Donald Summers didn't say the affair was good and he didn't say it was bad- No. 58 Israel Planes In Air; Arabs . Board U.S. Ship By The Associated Press Fighting in Jerusalem neared a climax last night as Jewish troops and Trans-Jordan's Arab Legionnaires battled in the narrow streets for the Holy City that con trols Palestine's main highways. The Arabs claimed to have gain ed the upper hand in the struggle in and around the ancient walled area. They estimated they had taken 80 per cent of the old city and said they were mopping up remaining Jewish strongpoints there. A Trans-Jordan communi que said the legion's artillery dis persed a concentration of Jews forming up for a counter-attack in the northwestern quarter of Jeru salem. Israel's air force made its first strike, bombing Arab pofitions be low the Sea of Galilee, a Tel Aviv announcement said. Arab planes attacked with cannon fire three Jewish settlements in the north eastern tip of Palestine. Egypt announced that her troops occupied Beersheba and captured two strong Jewish positions on the Palestine coast beyond Gaza. The Lebanese government an nounced the arrest of 69 Zionists, including 41 Americans, en route to Palestine aboard the American ship Marine Carp. It said those held were sent to a concentration camp because they were able to bear arms. A Jewish source in Haifa said more than 100 armed Arabs board ed the Marine Carp and forced 61 passengers to land. The state de partment revealed in Washington that the removal was carried out over the objections of the Ameri can minister in Lebanon. 43,300 Seek Jobs in Oregon Some 43,300 persons in Oregon were job hunting at th first of May, figures compiled by the state unemployment compensation com mission showed Thursday. Commission officials said new jobs for Oregon unemployed were fewer than expected in April be cause of bad weather, the boom men's strike and continued heavy immigration. The unemployment total was slightly abdve the April 1 mark in the Portland area, it was reported, but lower by some 4,000 in downstate areas. Astoria and Lakeview suffered from unfavorable aspects of the boommen's tie-up, while Umatil la county reported more unem ployment because of many com ing in while dam Jobs were dwind ling. Logging and lumber made gains in Coos Bay, Eugene. Sa lem and th Tillamook areas despite unsettled weather conditions. Hood River and Lebanon report ed best gains in over-all employ ment. U. S. Reveals Air Advances WASHINGTON. May 20 - (JP) Two striking advances in long range air power were notched ud today by U.S. fighting arms as Russo-Araerican "peace exchan ges" locked on dead center. The navy disclosed . that one of its P2V Neptunes the plane that holds the 11,235-mile world's dis tance record has been launched successfully from a 45,000-top carrier. The air force reported that a huge six-engine B36 bomber had made what is probably the longest flight in history with a payload. It shuttled 8,000 miles between Texas and California, carrying a "sizeable, useful load of dummy bombs" which were dropped about midway of the flight. 6 Miners Die As Roof Falls DANTE, Va, May 2Mi"P-Six miners were killed tonight when a roof section in the No. 2 mine of the Clinchfield Coal company here collapsed, burying them un der tons of coal and earth four miles underground. Four other miners were slightly injured in the collapse. Mine dispatcher J. M. Smith, said the accident was caused by the collapse of a ceiling weakened by over-excavation. He said there was no gas explosion. The mine is located in Russell county of southwest Virginia. Mercury Sets Season Mark In Salem Area Fair weather throughout Ore gon today will bring a record vote in the primary, election. Dave O'Hara, state election registrar, predicted Thursday. (List of can didates appears on page 4.) At least 80 per cent of the state's record 635,631 registered voters are expected to go to the polls in one of the most impor tant primaries in history. Thursday's bright sun brought the thermometer in Salem to 73 degrees the warmest day since 76 degrees last October 3 and the mercury is expected to re main in the low 70s again today. Harold E. Stassen. foe of Thom as E. Dewey in the preferential primary for the presidency, is at least one candidate not expected to be favored by the sunshine. Some observers believe rain plagued farmers, known to favor Stassen, may take advantage of the good weather and remain at work instead of going to the polls. In Salem and throughout the state, all banks, state, county and city public offices will be closed in observance of the holiday. Salem liquor stores will be shut and Salem taverns that remain open will be unable to dispense liquor over the bar. A number of high state offi cials, including Gov. John Hall and State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, will spend election day in Portland where they will cast their ballots. Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry left Thursday for his home in Ashland where he will vote. Hall said he will not return to the capital until Tuesday. Flood Dumps Mud on Tracks WENATCHEE, May 20.-P-A sudden cloudburst sent a flash flood over a 500-foot cliff near the Columbia river today, causing a slide that buried Great Northern railroad tracks and state highway No. 10 under 15 feet of mud and rocks. The slide occurred about 300 feet below Rock Island dam, on the east side of the Columbia, only a few minutes after a westbound Great Northern passenger train passed the area. State highway department offi cials reported 100 feet of railroad track was torn out or buried They said the cloudburst occur red on a high plateau above the road, about 1 p. m. water was run ning over the highway several hours later. Soviet Protests as U. S. Retaliates to Publications Rules BERLIN, Friday, May 21. -JP)-The Russian military administra tion today protested as illegal an American action banning Russian sponsored publications from the U. S. zone of Germany and de manded its immediate revocation. The Americans announced their embargo Wednesday and said it would remain in force until the Russians guaranteed to stop inter fering with the circulation of American-sponsored newspapers and other publications in the soviet occupation zone. The U. S. military government charged that hundreds of thous ands of such publications had been confiscated on Russian orders In violation of four-power agree ments for a free exchange of in formation throughout Germany. Repeated protests proved fruit less, U. S. officials said. Commencement, School-Closing Plans Laid for Local District Commenmement and promotion sreakers and other activities for the year's closing days in Salem public schools were disclosed Friday as classes entered the final two weeks. Salem high school's commence ment address will be given Tty, Dr. G. Herbert Smith, president of Willamette university. The program will be at 8 p.m Thurs day, June S, in the school audi torium for the 600 graduates. Baccalaureate services will be Sunday, May SO, at 8 pm. in the high school auditorium, with the Rev. Dudley Strain of First Christian church bringing the message. All ninth grade promotion ex ercises will be Friday. June 4. For Parrish Junior high school, exercises will be at 10:15 ajn. in the senior high auditorium. Speakers will be Jim Boone and Pat Filler, chosen by their ninth grade classmates. Leslie Junior mgn mntn grad ers will be promoted at 120 p.m. at the school auditorium with Frank B. Bennett, Salem schools Four Perish in Head-on Collision On 99E at Halsey ALBANY, Ore-. May Z9-4JP) A head-on eel listen killed all four .occupants of two ears at the tooth city limits of Halsey tonight. Deputy Coroner John Sum mers identified the dead as Ellis William Snyder. 47. Klamath Falls; Robert Paul Fraser. 2, Cottage Grove; Fred Earl Jack son, 27. Creswell: and a woman believed to be Mrs. Frances E. Dooley. Cottage Grove. Snyder was driving sooth In his ear. and the other three were driving- northward In the other. State Police Officer Everett Hoekema said It was not certain who was driving that car. It was owned by Jackson. The cars were completely demolished. Meat Strikers May Vote to End Walkout CHICAGO, May 20-P)-The di rector of the CIO meat strike to night predicted that striking work ers would vote to return to work l at all struck plants except Wilson j and Co. I Some 100,000 CIO Packinghouse I workers voted throughout the ' country today and tonight at mass j meetings whether to end their nine ; weeks old strike on company terms. Herbert March, UPWA strike di rector, said the vote would, be close for returning to work at Swift, Cudahy and Armour plants, but that the union was urging Wil son workers to vote no. He said the voting was being conducted company by company. Workers Voting March said the workers were voting on these proposals: Acceptance of a nine-cent hour ly wage hike. Retention of all seniority rights. Arbitration with the company on possible discharge of those workers accused of unlawful acts. March said that Wilson and company's proposal "would mean destruction of our union. Wilson Proposals He said that Wilson and com pany proposed: "1. That the company can re hire who they want to regardless of seniority rights. "2. That the company reserves the right to re-employ all strikers. "3. That all members of our union who have fought to preserve our union, the company reserves the right to fire them." WATERLOO, la.. May 2Q-UP)-National guardsmen with fixed bayonets, armored cars and Jeeps were in full control of strike ten sion areas in this city tonight. Nearly 1,000 guardsmen moved in without resistance during the night and today. They were sum moned when rioting broke out last night after a CIO-UPWA picket was shot to death at the Rath packing plant entrance. A woman picket was wounded. Portland Man Falls 4 Stories, Lives PORTLAND. May 20.-P)-Har-ry Witham, 48, fell four stories from bis hotel window today and survived. An arm was fractured, some ribs possibly broken, but he was alive when taken to a .hospital. He said he leaned out of a win dow for a whiff of fresh air and lost his balance. He hit a water pipe, breaking it and flooding a club in the hotel building. superintendent, as speaker. West Salem's promotion will be at 2 p.m. Parrish Principal Carl Aschenbrenner will give- the ad dress. Speakers from the ninth grade will be Ray Greene and Beverly Bell on "High School Horizons." While classwork will be com pleted May 28 for graduating seniors and on June 2 for all other students, one holiday yet remains, on Monday, May 31, for Memorial day. Other activities on the; calendar include: ' - Slay 25 SHS athletic award Maim bly (changed tram today); Installation of new SHS student body officer: all school instrumental music 1 estiva). Mar M Parrish award assembly. . May 17 MaUonal Forensic asogoe Jon 1 SHS senior assembly for will and prophecy; Leslie U grade Pfty. Juno a Leslie award assembly; be t lie student body officers' Installation.. CIT Mikir dinner rivvn b, tuning class. 1 June a West Salem tth grade din ner given by mothers. - ; June 4 SHS Junior -sen tor prom; Parrish tth grade dance: West Salem awards presentation; report cards in all schools i i V State Contests Play Important Role in Election PORTLAND, Ore,, May Ib-VPy-A record republican vote is :ln prospect for tomorrow's primary, election on which Gov. Thomas iL Dewey and Harold E. Stassen ai staking much of their presidential hopes. Election interest reached an un precedented pitch , today in the closing hours of the slam-baria? primary campaign. j In most qualified quarters, &e Dewey-Stassen tussle for Oregoh's republican presidential preference and its 12 GOP convention votes was rated about even. What odds were in evidence and they were few ran 6-5 and take your choite. Oregon democrats, meanwhile,' enjoyed the spectacle from the sidelines. ! President Truman was unop posed for the democratic prefer- ence and his designation was jpst a formality. i Overshadowed by the presiden- , tial performance, a full slate lot state offices also comes up in to morrow s primaries. State Races Important Paradoxically, the .state races are doubly important this year. j . Oregon will choose nominees for all three top state offices governor, secretary of state, and state treasurer for the first time since 1916. The total of state and local contests is unsurpassed J in Oregon history. s The governorship, up for elec tion this year because of the plane crash of the late Gov. Earl Snell, leads the state contents. (Complete list of candidates Ion page 4) With Lew Wallace, democratic national committeeman, unchal lenged for the democratic nom ination, the key race is for he contest of Gov. John H. Hall and State Sen. Douglas McKay for jthe republican nomination to the gov ernorship, j The secretary of state post -ill offer the only major state race with contestants in both parties. Earl T. Newbry. the incumbent, and George H. Flagg vie for jthe republican nomination to secre tary of state: Byron G. Carney and M. A. Silverman for the dem ocratic nomination. j Three-Way Straggle ! The state treasurer republican nomination poses a close three-way. struggle among Ormond R. Btan, former state public utilities com missioner; State Sen. Howard Bel ton, and Sigfrid Unander. f The five Oregon congressmen, whose jobs are up for election Itfcis year anticipate little opposition in tomorrow's primary. Sen. Guy, Cordon is unopposed for there publican nomination; the four rep resentatives have political novices; for opponents. j - The big stars of the Oregon; po litical show meanwhile end their three weeks of campaigning on an acrimonious note. j Stassen accused Dewey of team- ing up with Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio in an "eastern com- bination" to stop him, and spend- ing $250,000 in the process. ! Dewey Retorts . j 1 The New Yorker retorted 'that Stassen was "degrading the cam paign with "reckless and flag rantly untruthful statements," and "desperate irresponsible eleventh- hour tactics." !i From Washington today. Senates Taft got into the act by saying flatly that "no Taft committee or supporter has spent one cent irt Oregon nor hare we participated in any other way in the Oregon campaign. ; . : Both Stassen and Dewey contin ued their campaign activity right up to -the final hour tonight, when both broadcast last appeals iover state-wide radio networks. . Stassen arrived early this eve ning following a full day's junket ing through nearby lower Willam ette valley towns and Portland suburbs. The grand finale was a Stassen torchlight parade through the Portland business district at 10 tonight. - ! Dewey today visited the Shrine hospital, the famed sanctuary cf Our Sorrowful Mother, the Uni versity of Oregon medical college, and a meeting of. Young Republi cans. PRICES STTLL RISING WASHINGTON, May 20 -JP) Living: costs , as measured by the bureau of labor statistics rose to an all-time high during April. The BLS .consumers "price in dex rose 1.4 per cent during the month to a record 169 J5 per? cent of the price average of 1935-29 period., - . . ' otjii sniuTonk woni J-3 i - I . r - . , i Z '