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aaoueoD W. Salem mat S3J3JJUB Support TOODDCB POUKDBD 1651 mmm m a -way d- i A i , Renewed The Portland Chamber of Com merce some time ago organized a 'raw materials survey organization which has done quite effective work in locating and mobilizing the raw material resources of Ore gon for industrial development. Now under its sponsorship a con ference is scheduled for April 22 next on the subject of industrial fuels. With Dr. George Gleeson of Oregon State college as chairman the conference will present a pro gram of experts in this field which embraces fuel In all its major forms, solid, liquid, gaseous, elec tric. Such a conference Is timely be cause the northwest has great need for fuel if its industrial progress Is to continue. It has no local sup plies of petroleum or natural gas; its coal supply is limited and some of it inferior in quality. Wood, which it has in abundance, is not practical in many instances and mill waste is not very dependable. Hydroelectric energy is now in supply and even with new dams may still -be needed for uses of "higher priority than industrial heating. So if we count on develop ment of much industry in this region we need to be looking into the matter of fuel. Without trying to anticipate the findings of the conference I might set down certain supply sources which may help us meet our needs. In the case of heavy fuel (Continued on Editorial Page) 99th YEAR 14 PAGES The Oregon Start iSdsm. Oragoa, Tuesday, April 5. 1949 PRICE 5c No. 18 Aid to Non-Red ChinaApproved By Both Houses WASHINGTON, April 4 Eenate and house today overwhel mingly approved a $54,000,000 token" of American aid to non communist areas of China. In the senate, the action was un animous. The house tally was 279 to 70. Differing only slightly in form. the two bills would let President Truman decide how the money can best be spent to help China. The house foreign affairs com . jnittee said the money is intended to tide nationalist China over un til congress decides on long-range id. But senate foreign policy ex perts said it apparently represents the only aid - to - China program planned by the Truman adminis tration at present. - Actually, the China fund does not represent "new" money. It was appropriated by congress last year, but was never spent because of the uncertainties- of the" China sit uation as Chinese communist arm ies drove deeper and deeper into the nationalist government's ter ritory. The authority to spend the mon ey, under last year's appropriation, expired April 2. "Meanwhile, majority leader Lu cas (D-Ill) sought to speed final action on the administration's re quest for $5,580,000,000 to carry on the European recovery program for the next IS months. Nash Joins Cut In Auto Prices DETROIT, April 4-P)-Nash to Bight Joined the parade to lower prices In the automobile industry. announcing reduction of $zo to $120 on its two series of cars. Nash attributed, its action to greater availability of materials, increased production volume, re ductions in materials and uninter rupted production. The Nash announcement came n the heels of a price reduction by the Ford Motor Co., from $12 to $120 on its Ford, Mercury and Lincoln models. ' Earlier auto manufacturers to announce price cuts include Gen eral Motors, Kaiser-Frazer and Willys-Overland. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Sorry girls Handing room only could you come back tomorrow?" roll in annually. Sponsors esti mated it would require 10 years to pay the bonuses in lull. Oregon veterans Of World War II who were residents! before the war would be eligible for bonus payments on a basis of $15 for each month of overseas, service and $10 a month for domestic service. All but those veterans receiving state educational aid could collect the bonus. The committee also; agreed to tack a fair trades : (minimum price) provision on the cigaret tax to guarantee dealers a fair profit. Unless referred to voters by peti tions, the, cigaret tax would go in to effect 90 days after the legisla ture adjourns. ; Will Boost Pensions ! The point ways and means com mittee had a busy day Monday, approving a $55,000,000 appropria tion for old age pensions and wel fare for the next biennium. The $55,000,000 is $10,000,000 more than last biennium's welfare budget, but $6,000,000 less than what the welfare department re quested. It is not sufficient to pay J the $50 minimum, old age pension voted by the people last Novem ber, but the pension pill proper, as amended, does not set any defi nite minimum payments On other issues, the ways and means committee recommended A $25 increase monthly for state policemen; construction of a $430, 000 state printing plant in the Sa lem area; adoption of 1 a bill re quiring relatives to support needy persons; and a $931,389 budget for the Woodburn Boys' school, $363,065 for the state library and $65,011 for the; state budget di vision. Daylight Saving Limited The senate completed legisla tive action on a bill to prohibit any city in Oregon from adopting daylight saving; time Unless it is proclaimed over the entire state by the governor , .Other bills passed in the senate phd sent to the governor would abolish the postwar readjustment and development commission; reg ulate speed of i motorboats near bathing beaches; and jet legisla tors retain their notary commis sions during sessions. Sent to the house by: the senate were bills to outlaw commercial fishing on the Coquille river; ap propriating $30,000 to match city funds for carrying out local hous ing surveys; and allowing $75,000 to continue operation of the clinic for rehabilitation of alcoholics at Portland for the next two years. Civil Defense Okehed The house passed and sent to the senate bills establishing a civil defense agency to be administered by- the national guard or some ex isting agency; exempting the game commission from contributing $60,000 of license fee receipts to the general fund each year to guarantee continued match money from the federal government; per mitting hiring of IS additional state policemen for game enforce ment; and- setting up a legislative interim committee to study the state's entire tax structure during the next two years. A move to limit party representation on the committee failed. Sen. Thomas VL. Mahoney, Port land, introduced a bill in the sen ate Monday to abolish the entire state civil service commission. He said the commission and act are detrimental to state employes and the state. Another new senate measure would allow Indians to buy liquor, while a new memorial asks the federal government to negotiate with Canada to bring about con struction of a natural gas pipeline from the province of Alberta to the Pacific coast.. Both houses resume at 10 a. m. today. s (Additional legislative news on page 3). Committees Favor Bonus, Cigaret Tax, $55 Million Welfare By Lester F. Cbur -Staff Writer. The Statesman The house tax committee Monday recommended passage of a $600 maximum bonus for Oregon veterans and a cigaret-tax to finance the $47,000,000 proposal. The bills now go to the house which approved the bonus plant 47 to 12 in a test Vote last week. The bonus measure would be referred to the voters, but the committee decided not to refer the 2-cent cigaret tax. The bonus bill, as amended by the tax committee, would operate on a "pay-as-you-go" basis, eliminating hopes for immediate bonus payments. Portions of bonuses due could be collected as an estimated $3,500,000 of cigaret tax receipts i U. N. to Meet; Gromyko Said Readying Blast NEW YORK, April 4 -UF)- Aloof as ever, Russia's Andrei A. Gro myko stayed in seclusion here to day during the ceremonial signing of the North Atlantic pact in Wash ington. Some United Nations dele gation sources believed he was pre paring a blast at the treaty some time during the general assembly opening tomorrow at 3 p.m. (EST) Gromyko, new first deputy for eign minister, has been a familiar figure at U.N. meetings. He is an old hand at keeping his plans to himself. But this time he appears to have outdone himself. He arrived last Wednesday, re fusing to taLk: about the North At lantic pact. He sped to the Soviet delegation home on Park avenue. As far as is known he has stayed there. He has not attended any meeting at Lake Success. Not even the working committee of the United Nations atomic energy committee, which he once insisted on attend ing every time it met. Some U.N. observers who follow Russian moves are sure an attack on the North Atlantic treaty is in tne works. They point out that Moscow al ready; has laid the rroundwork by its protest that the pact is aggres sive and is aimed at Soviet Russia. Moscow also argues that the pact violates the United Nations charter. The meeting tomorrow will be a formality. The first clash in the assembly is expected to come in the 14-member steering commit tee, scheduled to meet tomorrow. Blonde Choice Of Dallas for Cherry Court Dallas hieh school's Dorothv Neufeld, 18, was added Monday to the list of aspirants to the 1949 Salem Cherry land Festival court. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick J. Neufeld. Born in Dallas, Dorothy is 3 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 105 pounds, has dark blande hair and grey green eye. She has two sisters, one older- and one younger. At i the high school, the princess candidate is a senior in the col lege preparatory course, with plans to enter Linfield college next fall. She has had lead roles in school plays, has been Homecoming queen, a state finalist in oratory competition, student body vice president, yell leader, and class secretary. Her activities also in clude membership in debate team, glee club, Girl's Athletic associa tion,; pep staff. National Forensics league. National Thespian society. National Honor society and Tri-Y. Her sport is volleyball. 12 Nations Sign Atlantic Pact Valley's Trees Don New Spring Attire , . . ; .",.,,1 i. I Truman Asserts Treaty.Shielir To Aggression Br RebertE. Gang-ware City Editor. The Statesman A substitute Salem traffic nlaa without one-way streets is in th making by Salem cfty aldemwn. with every indication that thaY. council will -make this plan ita official reaction to ittfir Baldock highway improvement proposal. uouncu memoers Monday, how ever, were'eonsidering no revisioras in the Baidock. plans for a rer bridge at Marion street and a by pass highway east of Salem. r These policy developments em erged Monday after aldermen held their second closed . meeting ia three days to thresh ! out differ ences of opinion; with regard to th $7,600,000 long-range Salem high way and bridge plan- developed " by State Highway Engineer R. H Baidock for the state highway Anti-Merger Mve In Air Meanwhile, the controversial Continued sunny days, rising temperatures, and the advance af the season are bringing forth the Willamette vaUey's famous blossoms. White prune blossoms, pink plum trees and others with bright yellow flowers are showing- ap along parking strips and In yards of Salem homes and along country lanes. With fair days and lock Salem's annual Blossom day, Easter Sunday, should have an abun dance of blossoms. Enjoying the white blossoms of a prune tree just off her back yard is Anne Guthrie, ZH. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Guthrie, 1162 Frederick st. (Statesman photo). Auto Mishaps Kill Boy And Man in Valley Area The Duke of Windsor Visits Brother LONDON, April 4 -6V Duke of Windsor visited his ail ing brother George tonight at Buckingham palace. ' Windsor drove down from Marlborough House. ! home of his 81 - year - old mother, the dow Fifteen-year-old Arthur J. Dick man. jr.. 4035 Gary st., died at a local hospital Monday morning of injuries incurred earlier when tne car in which he was a passenger overturned on a curve south of Liberty. Gene . Van Pellacher, 121 Wil liams ave., was in Salem General hospital with a fractured skull. His condition was described by hospital officials as "fair." Daniel Bouge, 20, 4115 Batting st., driver of the car, William Harris, 22, and Andrew Huggins, 24, 284 N. Comemrcial st., were uninjured. State police said the car appar ently failed to make a curve and tipped over shortly after midnight Sunday. Dickman died at the hos pital about 7:30 a. m. Monday morning. Dickman is survived by parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Dickman, Salem; brother, Richard Dickman, Salem; sisters, Mrs. Beulah Cain and Mrs. Betty Flowers, both of Salem, and Mrs. Dolores Gardner, Rudehouse, 111. Funeral arrange ments are in charge of Howell Edwards company. (Other Oregon traffic fatalities on page 2). Mjx. Mln. Prerip. SALEM 11 37 - Portland 74 0 San Francisco "0 .00 Chicago se w .w New York irace Willamette river 2 leet. forecast (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today -Uh aonve light ahowert. ton flderabfe clearing tonight. High today near (7. Low tonight- near 38. SALEM PRECIPITATION (Sept. 1 to April ) Thi Ytear Last Year Average 37.41 38.71 31.65 Court Upholds State Bans on Union Acts to Restrain Trade WASHINGTON, April 4-UP)-The supreme court held unani mously today that states have the right to curb labor union activities which restrain trade. "The state's power to govern In this field is paramount," Justice Black said for the court, "and no thing in the constitutional guar antees of speech or press compels a state to apply or not to apply its antitrade restraint law to groups of workers, businessmen or oth-ers." The court held that under Mis souri law a union had no right to picket an ice plant with the aim of forcing it to stop sales to non union ice peddlers. The plant it self had no dispute with its own State courts ordered the union, an AFL ice and coal' drivers and handlers locals in Kansas City, to stop picketing. They held the pur pose of the action was to force the Empire Ice and Storage Co., to violate the state law against re straint of trade. The union then appealed to the supreme court, arguing that the picketing only informed the pub lic that the plant "sells ice to non union peddlers." Black said that while congress and the states may grant exemp tions from freedom of trade laws to unions, organized workers are not entitled to "special constitu tional protection denied all other people." (Additional details, on page 2.) ALBANY, April 4-(Special-Wil-11am Daniel Clark, 32, Sodaville sawmill operator, died Monday morning in the Langmack hospital at Sweet-Home of injuries sustain ed early Sunday in a headon auto accident near Sweet Home. John E. Clark, brother of Wil liam and passenger in his car, and Wayne A. Loux, driver of the sec ond vehicle, were both in' the Sweet Home hospital with serious Injuries Monday. Leslie Floyd Mc Elinny, Sweet Home, driver of a third machine involved in the crash, wag not -Injured. William Clark, veteran of two years army service, was born at Foster, Oct. 22, 1916, and had lived in the Foster-Lebanon area all his life. He was married to Edith Irene Conner at Vancouver, July 30, 1941. Two sons, William Leslie Clark. 5. and Ivan Leroy Clark, 3, also survive. Clark and his brother had oper ated the sawmill ; t Sodaville since last December. Also surviving are two other brothers, Nelson Clark, Albany, and Kenneth Clark in Colorado; nine sisters, Hilda DeWall, Albany, Mabel Conoway, Marysville, Calif., Christine Borges, Richmond, Calif., Ethel Rowell; Lebanon, Nancy Bar ber, Salem, Lorene Verley, Lake view, Elsie Murphy, Roseburg, Na dine Trenton, Bend, and Louise Verley, Nevada; mother, Mrs. Mary Clark, Bend. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Fortmiller and Fredricksen chapel with the Rev. Edward Terry officiating. In terment will be in St. John's cemetery. Mercury 77; Clouds Today; Blossoms Set , Bulgaria Reds Oust Rostov SOFIA, Bulgaria, Tuesday, Ap ril 5-JP)-The Central committee of the Bulgarian communist party said today it had removed Traicho Kostov as deputy premier. He has also been removed from the Polit buro, the highest body of the com munist party in Bulgaria. (The Sofia dispatch confirmed a report by Tanjug, the official Yu goslav news agency, last Friday that Kostov had been expelled from the communist Politburo. Tanjug has reported that a spy hunt has been going on in Bulgaria and that Kostov was involved In the case.) , The central committee of the communist party said Kostov had been removed for an insincere and unfriendly policy toward the Soviet Union, gross political and anti party errors, incorrect methods of leadership and nationalistic deviations. By Edward E. Bomar WASHINGTON. April 4-UPl- Arrud solemn diplomatic pageant ry. 12 North Atlantic nations to day signed a treaty designed to Baidock report won strengthen! confront any Russian aggression I support from the West Salem city with a united defense. council Monday! night when Mav- After hearing President Tru- or Walter Musgrave and several man hall it as a "shield against council members said they would aggression, uic ioreign ministers i wiwiaraw-ineir loacxing oi a pro stepped up one by one to put their posed Salem - West Salem mere names to the historic. 1,040-word I if opposition farces succeeded-in' pact. thwarting the proposed Marion Previously they, like Mr. Tru- street bridge. (Additional detail man, had proclaimed to Russia on page z.j t and all the world that their only &aiem Alderman David O Hara, purpose was peace and security, mayor pro ieu, said Monday tr But several of them added blunt cy council members reached warnings to any nation contem- agreement on bn alternative la plating violence. Britain's foreign one - way streets in hopes of minister, Ernest Bevin, declared: bringing this to the attention 4 "Our peoples do not want war the state highway commission at and do not glorify war, but they its April 1112 I meeting in Port- win noi snrinx irom u ii aggres-1 iana. i sion is threatened." The Salem cduncil Dlan. which Secretary of State Dean Ache- City Manager J. L. Franzen waa son drew on the bible. "For those instructed to discuss with the hirh- who set their feet upon the path way department for cost estimates. ui niusiTOioii, nt uu, ji tine i wouid can jor widening or Nona pact) is a warning that if it must Capitol street and the highway needs be that offense come, then north to the tinderDau and uid woe unto mem Dy wnom tne oi- ening of Commercial from Pirn tense cometh. street south to htv limit, an ih.-.t Many members of the senate both arteriali could handle fr.uri wnicn must iavor tne treaty witn jane traffic. a two-thirds vote before it can go pine Street Link L'rred into eneci, witnessed xne signing. Link between th -arlerinl Belgium's foreign minister, Paul- would he Pin. trt f K Henri Spaak, was the first to put tended two blocks to connect wilh his name down. The others follow- the hi?hwav nhhi.t . hww. ea in aipnaueutai oracr - - xepre- OI the Underpass. seniauves oi anaoa, uenmarx, iirform i France, Iceland Italy, Luxem- plan would eliminate; necessity bourg. The Netherlands, Norway, I iMcf at nrLn, , L..fi Portugal, the United Kingdom, lraffi,. uuaia . ,n.i t. and the United States. : L' r?. Projecting American defense "7.. . 1.1- eL:":"I . .. .i i . . -m. . I ri i'uiT a, auu oiiiuliiiii -W druggists reported the roZ ty wouW 'pledged i MondTy" the "warded thS &ClTuZkon tny oi ttem; It 4- it 1 1 i ...v, M-iicu.rjvcia ucci w uiviue msn .:,"., 4;t tV. .;c,' :;v.(. wr tramc wrough the city, month. I ntHo- Htfinal rnr TfM or I -W" " - way IflUlC WPUIO The weatherman warned, how- Canada, Britain, Belgium, TheNe- on BProacnc ever, that clouds and showers are therlands and Luxemboura. I IT . . . .1" ? due again today, but promised a Mr. Truman termed "absolutely ST1 . wmcn ria warmer than usual 67 foi mid-aft- untrue the charge that the treaty ' V. iT 7r crnoon. Monday's high was the top U aggressive In intent, a charge " I .V . ? Jt VV 1 mark for Salem since September which Russia made informal notes t"eJ and would add a two-lana 19 last year when the mercury I on the, eve of .the sighing. climbed to 78. A 1 . : i .1 t . sxiuug wiui uii spring weainer i i 11 . wj Monday came the announcement AlbailV lllllCl Xllirt from Kinff BinP Dervl P. Mri J that the annual Blossom day has Tri PVlll from JV been set for Easter Sunday. April 411 A 4,11 v4la u. ALBANY. April 4 uiona Myers said the same blossom Jean Otto. S - year - old daughter spectacle routes south and west of of" Mrs. Arthur Otto, Albany, was Salem will be used this year. Don I In Albany General hospital to- Doerfler, Ralph Mapes, Ed Ran- day with a fractured skull, bruises die ana v. t. whitman are the and shock suffered when sne ren Cherrians Blossom day commit from a moving car on the Corval- tee for 1949. iu hlhway Sunday night. Gloria, with three brothers and ilr was returning from Bill to Provide New birthday party at Philomath when State Printing Plant by Joe Winners, Albany, swung oDen ana tne nine gin irn uui. A bill providing for a $430,000 Mrs. Beulah Warning, grandmo- itate printing plant was introduced ther of Gloria, said the car was in the state legislature Monday going about 30 to 35 miles per oy tne joint ways and means com- hour at the time of the accident. mittee. The site would be chosen by the state board of control and FIRE DISTRICT ANNEXES the printing board. FOUR CORNERS. April 4 So far as is known, the only I ProDerty owners of the Four Cor- site under consideration is a state- ners rural fire protection district owned tract just east and across voted 24 to 0 in a special election Airport road from the state high- today to annex Hager s second aa- way laboratory on State street, dition into the district. bridge at Marion! street, ivith sim ilar overpass, eakjrh bridge for one way traffic oty . j 30 Feared bead In Hospital Fire i-un STARTING April 10 PAGES OF COMICS Fourteen of the finest comics available, plus a full page of puzzles, a full page short story and full page alley feature, will comprise the initial 16-page Sunday comic-feature tabloid section of The Oregon Statesman on April 10. The outstanding comics, puzzles, short stories and features will be a regular feature of this newspaper starting on that date. JOI PALOOKA FLASH GORDON MICKEY FINN POLLY HER PALS MICKEY MOUSI GASOLINE ALLEY DIXIE DUOAN ANNIE ROONEY BUZ SAWYER UNCLE REMUS POPEYE ILONDIE DICK TRACY RIGHT-AROUND-HOMI Startiag April It la ODrcjaon Q Statesman By mail ft year; by carrier $1.0 asinth EFFINGHAM. III. A aril Sisters of the Ht. Anthony ho. pltal said an undetermined Bom ber af persons j are believed ia have perished in a fire which destroyed the building late te alght I - I . An unidentified sister said Sf patients might have leal their lives la the blase which: broke at shortly ; before midnight. Nearly 15 others; aha said, were ' badly Injured la Jumplnr frem the fear-story brick building. A sister said normally : about lt patients are in the KasplUI and she believed there were that many in the institution wheu the fire swept through the brick straetnre. f I The nursery, housed an the aeeand fleer, was the first to be engulf ed ia flames. ! 1 SetforSp ring In West Salem WEST S ALE f, April 4-Coun-cllmen of West Salem showed pos itive reaction to spring weather at their Monday night meeting. They served notice on the city that West Salem police will arrest all owners of dogs found running at large, after complaints from property owners that spring gar-, dening was suffering from canine trespassing. . i And the council men went on to direct the sanitary commlttlee to form plans Clean-up day the city of rubbish piles. for a West f Salem next month,! to rid winter-accumulated i -; GOP Leads Early In Michigan Vote DETROIT, April 3 (Tuesday)- ! (AVRepublicans added to ; their : early lead today in the Michigan 1 state elections! but it was still too , early to determine any clear5 trends. Surprising COP . strength was shown in traditionally democratic ager Queen Mary. unionized workers Wayne (Detroit) county. -tf'