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Fire Guts Old Apartment House; 21 Lef t Homeless i ' I t ' . I , i i i i i a t; I I .( Li jv " f (rA- irp; pi f r I U Three Salem firemen pass hose Into the turret windows of the old Chateau apartment house at 585 S. 12th si while fighting a stubborn firs which catted the two top floors Friday night. The firemen, left to right, are Walt Mills, Jack Johnson -and Harvey Retake. No one was injured In the fire which Is believed to have started in a front apartment of two students on the second story at right. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) Five Apartments Burn; Red Cross Lends Aid 4 By Thomas G. Wright Staff Writer. The Statninan Twenty-one persons including five children were driven from their apartment homes Friday night by a fire which gutted the top two floors of the Chateau apartment house at 585 S. 12th street. The blaze was discovered a few minutes before 8 p. m., but had already swept through two apartments on the second floor when fire men arrived. Flames went up a cupola at the center of the big made- UU i i That was a great speech which Winston Churchill delivered at M.I.T. Thursday night. But it was not his greatest speech. Neither the times rfor the occasion prompted such flaming oratory as this venerable states . man employed in 1940 when Brit ain stood alone against the forces of evil conquerors. It was not as provocative as his address at Fulton, Mo. when he shocked the world with his frank statement of the need for asso elation of nations for protection -against an aggressive Russia. He dealt with the Russian problem at Boston, but be was not belli cose. He beat no tom-toms of "war, excited no passions. Instead he assured Russia of our desire for goodwill and fair play, held out the hope that war is not "inevita ble." While he condemned Rus sian communism as something "quite as wicked" and in some ways more formidable than Hit ler, and admonished the western nations to stand firm in resistance to soviet aggression, he voiced his own optimism. To our possession of the secret of the atom bomb he attributed the security of west ern Europe from the aggression of the Russians; and he adjured the nations to keep bright the air arm as an instrument of defense. New phrases, sharp with point and full of meaning, were studded through his address. The present he termed a "darkling hour and described (Continued on editorial page) Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH Tm worried about Sonny he han't started smoking yet," o over residence and destroyed xnree aDartments on the third 'floor be fore it could be brought under .control, i Besides the five gutted apart ments, . the remaining live were heavily damaged by smoke and water. Though the flames did not touch the first floor, the entire building was rendered temporarily unliveable by water damage. Fred and Evelyn Miner, owners and operators of the house, were unable to estimate .the damage im mediately; But it was thought damage would run into thousands of dollars; Firemen said the fire apparently started in the second floor front apartment of John Lednicky and Duane Duff, both Willamette uni versity students. The fire had en gulfed the apartment and one ad joining on the north before ten ants were alerted. It was first noticed by motorists on busy South 12th street. It took the firemen an hour and a half to bring the blaze under control. And salvage crews from the department worked long after the fire was over to clean up water and ash in the 10-apartment struc ture. American Red Cross representa tives were on hand to aid in find ing temporary shelter fpr the dis placed tenants, but G. R. Boat wright. chairman of the disaster committee, reported that all had made private arrangements. Displaced by the fire were the Miners, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chevis and five Children. Tommy, Jack, Selwin, Lois and Earl; Mr. and Mrs. Tom McAntee, Mr. and Mnf Gene Hayherst, Mrs. Pearl Rowe, Mrs.. Alva Gillham, Virginia Cur tis, Lo's Ward, Burl Arthur. John Lednicky, Duane Duff and Robert Johnson. The Chevis children's ages ranged from 17 years to six months. . Probe into Hop Tariffs Asked Public notice was issued Friday by the tariff commission at Wash ington, D. C, announcing feceipt of the application recently filed by U. S. Hop Growers association for an investigation of the effect of the reducation last year in im- j port .duty on hops from Czecho- i Slovakia. 1 Wire to this effect was received r from U. S Sen. Guy Cordon Fri- j day by Paul T. Rowell of the Sa- ! lem office of the association. Senator Cordon states that the tariff commission advises that a preliminary study will be made to determine whether a for.nal in vestigation, of the hop import traiff reduction should be made by them. Senators Cordon and Wayne Morse and Congressman Walter Norblad have all advised the U. S. Hop Growers association that they will give any assistane possible on this matter, Rowell said. RED CROSS REACHES GOAL . PO STAND, April 1 -P- The Portland campaign for Red Cross funds achieved its goal tonight. The announced total was $357,201. Red Cross officials said this was 101 per cent of the goal. Senate 99th YEAR Planners Support Baldock The Salem long range planning commission at a meeting Friday night adopted a series of resolu tions approving nearly all of the features of the Baldock traffic plan for Salem, including the con struction of a new bridge at Mar ion street. The commission recommended deferring adoption of the complete grid system presented in the Bal dock report, but accepting it for city streets in the state highway system. The commission's action will be referred to the directors of. Salem Chamber of Commerce and to the city council. On the highly controversial is- j sue of a bridge location the com l mission voted, in secret ballot, i eight to six, to accept the Baldock recommendation or a new one-way bridge at Marion street. A minority report presented by Paul B. Wallace and Hedda Swart had recommended a Division street location. Under the Baldock plan the Marjon and present Center street bridges would overpass Front street, coming to grade at Commercial. Each would permit traffic to flow in one direction only. In West Salem Edgewater street and a new waterfront high way would be used. The latter and Wallace road would be raised above flood levels. (Additional details on page 2.) Blaze Destroys Van Zanten Home In Polk County Fire, apparently starting the vicinity of a fuel tank near the kitchen, completely destroy ed the home of M. R. VanZan ten on Orchard Heights road west of West Salem Friday nirht Starting at about 9 p.m.. the house was entirely in flames be fore Salem firemen could reach the scene. The apartment house blaze on South 12th street pre vented sending more than one engine to the VanZanten resid ence. Firemen set up a pump inn the creek nearby and succeeded in savin- some of the furniture and the garage. -They reported the roof had already fallen in on the relatively new house at the time they arrived and the blaze was nnrheckable. The home was just outside the city limits of the Salem annex ed area In Polk county. Russians May Consider Peace Pacts Broken MOSCOW. April 1 -P- Well informed diplomats said today they feel almost certain Soviet Russia will consider signing of the north Atlantic pact on Monday i j validates her 20 - year - old mu ! tual aid treaties with Britain and , France. j Those treaties, written in the war years, pledged partnership in , the war against Germany "until complete victory" and joint mea sures to safeguard Europe from new aggression after the war. Each treaty stipulated that neither nation should join a coalition di rected against the other. Russia charged in a tart note yesterday to the seven original sponsors of the Atlantic alliance, Britain and France among them that the alliance was aimed against her. : : fKL - f-. CI f( w,ctK lur V"" Goes Unclaimed A $100 r bank check lay on the floor of the Marion County Clerk's office for several hours Friday, and, while many people picked it up, no one seemed to want it. A number of county employes, attorneys and even a few visiting city officials were seen to scoop up the draft, read it eagerly, and hastily drop it. The check was made out to April Fool. FLOOD CONTROL BILL STARTS WASHINGTON, April 1-P)-A bill to authorize the expenditure of $30,501,000 for flood control work on the lower Columbia river and its tributaries was introduced today by Rep. Angell (R-Ort). Refuses 12 PAGES 75-Foot Walnut Tree Falls Wrong Way, Crushes Salem Home f ' mm hmi m mnmwmrmmt ' i 'mm it ' i m. -imn.il. fit , tfi , n-i-s IKS mmmmmTArSTrK ' 'V Z?T ' I v It's no April Fool's Joke to have S 75 foot walnut tree come crashing into one's house, but that Is what happened to the W. R. McCarroll family at 425 S. 22nd st. Friday afternoon, as shown in above photo. A miscalculation evidently caused the tree to fall Into th house Senate Rejects ERP Fund Cut taBy 2-1 Margin WASHINGTON', April 1 -(A) The senate beat down tonight a proposal by Senators 'Taft (R Ohio) and Russell (D-Ga) to slas.n 10 per cent off the new $5,580.- 000.000 fund for the next 15 months of the European recov ery program. The vote was 54 to 23. (Sens Cordon and Morse of Oregon op posed the fund cut.) The better than two-to-one de feat of the Taft-Russell amend ment came as a surprise, even to the democratic leadership. It generally had been conceded the vote would be close. But 19 republicans joined S5 democrats to give the adminis tration the important victory. Only yesterday President Truman asked tht the full amourtt be authoriz without a cut. Only nine democrats, most of them southerners. joined the backers oof the Taft amendment. Shortly before the senate voted. Majority Leader Lucas (111.) blasted the amendment as "pinch ing pennies on the question of peace." The vote, regarded as the major test of efforts to whittle foreign aid spending, seemingly cleared the way for senate approval of the full amount requested by President Truman's administration for western Europe. The vote on the Taft amend ment came after the senate had rejected, 68 to 14, a proposal bv Senator Wherry (R-Neb) to cut the fund 15 per cent. Stassen Calls for MacArthur Plan To Halt Asia Reds BOSTON, April 1 -(A3)- Harold E. Stassen tonight called for a bil lion - dollar - a - year "MacAr thur plan" to fight communism in Asia the same way the Marshall plan is checking the reds in Eur- ope. 1 The war - veteran president of j the University of Pennsylvania j told a distinguished group of sci- j entists and educators: j "We should move, and move promptly, to bolster the southern j half of China. . " Giving due consideration to European needs and to our own total economic situation and capa city, we should regularly invest a portion of our resources in Asia for the resistance to communism. The amount should be a minimum of a billion dollars a year." Coffee 'Deflation' Ease Strain on Solons' Purses Payless legislators finally got a break Friday and no April fool ing. Coffee was reduced from 10 to five cents in the state capitol restaurant. to Cut BOUNDED Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, XjZ''."" .... f " iVY ' "SHI -- Mrs. W. R. McCarroll points to the ! ' V , ' ' ? TWi ..... itmm.m ' .. ' ' ' ' -: -; -' - i I -. ,'. Ik U-V4 y, r lrj '"y"tr -r' I x:'z"Z'S' -m- -1 AVvWW4- l 1 . :Ayr i " J home when a walnut tree being felled on adjoining property cot out of control and crashed through the roof. (Photos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) Tree Ends Up In Bathroom of Salem Home There used to be a huge walnut tree on the property adjoining the W. R. McCarroll home at 425 South 2nd st., but' since 4 o'clock Friday afternoon it's been in their bath : room. I TV. 4-; 1 ; . . 11 l 1 A,,c irre was oeing ieiiea Dy Louis Myers and crew when ij went out of control and crashed Onto the McCarroIl's house and garage. Considerable damage was done by the 75-foot giant. It tore huge holes in the roof and walls at the rear of the building and crushed the adjoining garage. McCarroll said Friday night that he did not have insurance to cover the freak accident, but thought the fallers were covered against such cases. No one was in the house at the time the tree crashed into it.The whole family was outside watch ing the operation at the time. NEW FERRY IN OPERATION PORTLAND, Ore., April l-P)-A new ferry barge went into operation today at the Wilsonville crossing of the Willamette river. The barge, christened Hunter's ferry, carries 14 automobiles. I I i ERP Fund JO Per Cent 1651 Oregon, Saturday. April 2. 1949 A. . M .'my.. ' - 1 i I X t I rather than Into the back yard house was sprung, holes torn crushed by the falling tree. hnre rent In the bathroom of her Employment Scene Brighter WASHINGTON, Apr. 1-P)-The nation's employment problem took a brighter turn today, as the gov ernment reported the jobless to tal fell off 54,000 in March for the first decline in five month?. At the same time the census bu reau said the number of people having jobs last month increaed 480,000 over the February esti mates. Government officials were sur prised and pleased by the up turn in the work picture. Secretary of Commerce Sawyer told report ers after a White House cabinet meeting that he thinks the trend towards unemployment has been "stopped." Crawford Added to Polk Budget Committee DALLAS, April 1 -(Special)-Frank Crawford, who lives near West Salem, Has been appointed to the Polk county budget com mittee effective July 1, 1949, county judge C. F. Hayes an nounced Friday. Crawford will succeed Glen Hogg, Dallas farmer. The appoint ment is for three years. n PRICE as Intended by the felling crew. The in the wall and roof and the garace Pan American Airlines Strike Settled Quickly NEW YORK, April 2 (Saturday) (JP) A strike of radio officers against Pan American World Air ways was reported settled ' early today; A union spokesman said an agreement was reached shortly af ter midnight hetween representa tives of the comDanv and the CIO transport workers union, meeting with a federal mediator. The spokesman said the terms included a $30 monthly wage boost and a company agreement to re place "obsolete" radio jobs, with other positions. The "obsolete" jobs presumably re'erred to radio posts aboard new Boeing straotcruisers, which the airline has equipped with pilot- j operated radio phones, instead of using fully trained radio flight of ficers. , The union had demanded that radio officers be used. The strike started early yester day. The line's planes had been grounded as far west as Honolulu House Blasted At Vancouver; FBI Called In VANCAUVER, Wash-. April 1-(;P)-FBI agents and sheriff's depu ties searched the ruins of a Mc Loughlin Heights home today for clues that might lead to a solu tion of two early-morning ex plosions. The blasts, shortly before 6 a. m., sent Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Sharp to the hospital with injur ies. Plaster was cracked in 20 other homes and window? were broken within a radius of 150 feet. It was the second time in a month that a dwelling occupied by the Sharp family had been bombed. The explosions .believed to have been from dynatnit, ripped away the walls of the Sharp home. The bed in which Mr. and Mrs. Sharp were sleeping was blown from under the mattress. They were treated at a hospital for shock and chest injuries. Sharp's condition was described as' serious. The Sharps could offer no ex planation for today's explosions nor the one that occurred March 1 in another house. At that timet a "bomb" in a land mine can had been placed in the attic and went off when Sharp turned on the bathroom light. He suffered powder burns and the hearing in one ear was impaired. (Slory in Column 4) 5c No. 18 Revision Senate By Lesirr F. Cottr ? ... Staff Wfiltrj Tb StjttMinaa The senate bill which, would doom the $7,600,000 ! Baldwk highway-bridge! program for the Salem area appeared losttj today.j The senate voted 24 ! to 8 to send it back to' its highway com mittee, to malie its terms le.s, stringent, after 'a bitter,; 2-hour debate. Because the session is due to adjour within 10 days, the de velopment virtually buried" tho measure. 5 The bill, signed by 18 senators, would bar the tate highway fiom mission from spending funds for new construction inside cities un til all primary state hiahways are brought up to federal standards. Sen. Paul Patterson. Hillsboro, chairman of the highways com mittee, said the j proposal fin aim ed directly at the Baldock plan in Salem and the Sullivan i gulch project in Portland. Jeopardize Construction We should not take a step to jeopardize highway construction in 204 Oregon! cities when we could just as well ak the high way commission to lay off the Salem and Portland projects," Jie advised. j M ' Patterson stressed that the Sa lem highway improvement plan , was a 10-year piogram, would net entail an immediate outlay of large sums.- ( . : I i i He aid the federal government would furnish f$3,90OJ)00 of the entire cost, and$l,800,0Ol if this immediately, reducing the. - state outlay to $4,700,0001 ! t i He warned Portland signers of the bill if would not only j knock out the Sullivan's gulch project, but also completion of work on the Harbor diive through way. ; Sen.. Allan Carson. Salm, said the proposal wa. merely a "sano bagging" operation which vhi jacked" a worthy project from the city of Salem. 1 1 Seat Oat of Pants' "Salem has been, runninj around here for year with the highway seat out of it. pants. i Carson commented, referring to i what he snid Was m negll:-t of . ! tret8 nd highways in the Salem area. Carson forested that it would . do little cock Id have four-Iarn highways throughout the State :f every city was ai bottleneck. "This is. a trading opt Ration on the pait of southern and eastern Oregon to force the highway commission's hand." Carson , concluded, "and ;I i would hate to see this legislature fall for it. Failed to Inform Senate . j Sen. Frank McAllister, , Med ford, author of the measure,; said he introduced it because the high way commission J has failed to in form the f-enate highway com mittee about its .199-51 highway program. j r. "It is much ;more Important that we have four-lane highways than a $7,600,000 project JLni Sa lem," McAllister iaid. "Th thing this state needs most is develop ment of its trunk highways," ! (Additional legislative news on, page 3.) t House Votes to on Oleomargarine WASHINGTON, April I - (Ai Butter lost a major round tn a spirited battle with a competing spread today as the house voted 287 to 89 to repeal the 63-year-old federal taxes on 61eomarg3rine. The house rejected all efforts to outlaw interstate shipment of ole omargarine, but the tax"-repealing measure stipulates that yellow oleomargarinesold in public eat ing places must- be triangular in shape and identified as oleomar garine. .! i ' II Max. I 52 - U Mtn 1 rrmeip. USC ; trr Portland San rrantiaco( U 41 Chicago 44 34 New York 44 W Wlllimrttf liver SJ fret. .0(1 .00 .00 FORECAST (from US. weauiar bu reau. WcNarr fteld. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight with occa sional light showers ' today, Partly cloudy Sunday. Hirh today near . Law tonight near h. SALEM PaaCIPITATIOf pt. 1 to April 2 , , TM Year X7.41 Last Year 1741 ' Avtrift JlrJ k(d 1. ! r i Asked by Repeal Tax i r 1 A; mf.