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Holland Tunnel Blast Spews Gac, Fire Flood Danger Fades Despite Warm Su n (Slorv in Column 4) OUNOBD 1651 89th TEAB 12 PAGES The) Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oraooa. Saturday. May 14. 1949 PRICE Sc No. 54 c I -til s! FT KEW YORK. May IS Debris litters the Holla ad Turners east beaad tub today fallowing exploaiea af dram af chemicals aa a track. Explosion was totsebed aff when track (center) esaght fire near the New Jersey end af the tunnel. Flames spread. te ether track and the aaderwater highway was filled with carbon dtsulphide fames. Firemea wearing ga aaaaka brought the fire ander eaatraL (AP Wlre phata to the Statesman.) Business Women 30 Injured in Convene in SaOem Tube Explosion Slate Delegates to Hear Judge Hughes Under River Br Maxine Burea Statesman Woman a Editor : Delegates from 48 Busine? and Profesisol Women's club of Oregon are convening in Salem for a Ihree-day sUta convention this weekend. Special guest and main speaker for tonight s banquet is Judge Sarah J. Hughaa of Dallas. Tex., first ice-president of the national federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs who arrived OtP QJjDjOS PCD ODDS When President Truman last January recommended adoption .f a Columbia Valley adminis tration I urged that we wait to ee what the report of the Hoover commission on governmental re- organization would be. port la now published. That re- Through courtesy of Congressman Norblad I have had copies of the sections dealing with the Interior and agri culture department and certain task force reports. I have been studying them, together with the ! text of the new CVA bill pre faratory to discussing them In he Statesman. , Today's issue of the Saturday 1 Evening Post however contains an article by former governor Leslie A. Miller of Wyoming who was chairman of the task force, on natural resources which throw out for public view the deplor able state of affairs in federal agencies dealing with water re-, source development. This article . puts In language the people tan j unuriitaiiu i tic ivi wi iiw 1 v i v rivalry and disorganization in this vital field. It ought to be re quited reading for eveiy aault citiien. Governor Milher's article is. In deed devastating to thoe who think the corps of engineers of the army and the reclamation bureau are. doing a good job. He rites chapter and verse to prove that both agencies aie guilty of wasteful competition for author ity and gross i miscalculation or else deception On rofts and feasi bility of some of their projects. But 'do not get the notion that this is just a build-up for allev authorities. On the contrary Mil ler and his tak force recommend ed against extension of the TVA plan into other regions. Their recommendation is for a depart ment of natural aeounet which would (Continued on -editorial pge) Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH HI "Wuf Vo yo Jo when you're ttuck with white tlphmt? to : f by plane Friday afternoon. Registration (picture on page o) and routine reports of committees opened the session on Friday with "Gypsy Fun Kighf at the Cham ber of Commerce, the concluding event of the day. The 220 club presidents, state board members and delegates and the 37 registered alternates will get down to business this morning with the format opening of the convention at the First Methodist church at 1:30. Mrs. Arthur Wad dle. Salem, state .president, will preside at the session. Judge Hughes, will be the main speaker at the meeting wmcn lot lows the banquet tonight. The eve- j ning meeting is set for 8 o'clock at I the armory;- banquet guests will be served at the Marion hotel and Legion club4 Judge Hughe in her address. will touch on the opportunities for women in business, the profes- sions and education and how they are meeting tho challenge. She will discuss particularly the chance women have in serving the public through Jury duty. She title her address "Womens Challenge in Today's World. Election of state officers will take place during the afternoon. with installation at the breakfast meeting Sunday. (Additional details page and page 8). Wasn't the Real McCoy Th Smrm rar Mie!rnan sold a $, 4QQ Fcrd to . cuf,tomer named McCov. but it wasn't the real McCoy The $1,400 check, that is. i A a result, local police are on the lookout for a man uuig the name of Bert McCoy, who i subject of a felony warrant charging obtaining money by fale pretense. Police itported that George Renchler. 2295 Breyman St.. sold a 1947 Ford coach, maroon -ior-ed with Oregon licence plates 20 1 -31 2, to a man who explained he was having his money trans ferred from an Alaskau bank to Salem. The $1.40U check bound ed, police said. MORE TIME CHANGES LEBANON, May 13-ypi-Sweet heme and Lebanon mayors de cided today to proclaim daylight cmi da light time at 12:01 a. m ; saving time. Sweet home will go Monday, and Lebanon at 12:01 a m. Wednesday. Salem Men's Garden Club to Opeil Spring Show at YM Today R lillie I . MidsfB Girtitn Ld't" T! Smr. Psi..- r completed for the Sa lem Metis Garden club spsuig show wh eh Vtll be held in the Sa lm YMCA todny and Sunday. The shew will coe with an auction jsale cf pliOt material at ,:30 Suii jciiy rdthU Hours are from 10 to f p m. Saturday and from 10 10 a.m. to S0 p m. Sunday. fv'. P McKinney. ch3irman of the sIhiw, f.ys its purpose is to sti mu lite amctear (ird?nmg fd that ensoue' i luvitcd to exhibit j iixtntntiK fees. K-sch exhibitor al " arrangement by the Men s may trtcr at many exhibits in Garden club. jcfcch diviskn a. de.red but only Division 4 includes azaleas, clus or.e meacrt cla-. All exhibits mun , ter of rhododendron, three sprays j be m by Ui30 Saturday torenoon. ' of lilacs of one kind, and one or Latex enmes cannot be entered : more sprays c-f any tree, shrub or 1 for'yudcirur- McKinnev savs. He vine, not mentioned. !aks trut the name and telephone- fttimbei cr address of the exhib-( litor b laoand oo the bottom of the U - A, : 1 NEW YORK. May 13--Explosions and fire from a heavily loaded chemical truck ripped through the Holland tunnel today, mangling a line of trucks and fill ing the tunnel with poisonous gas. Eighty drums of Carbon Disul phide. highly toxic and higly in flammable, went off with a aeries of cannon-like blasts. Burning chemicals showered down on other trucks and cars and turned a large section of the underwater tube into a raging in ferno. Thirty persons mostly firemen were overcome or hurt by fall ing chunks of concrete ceiling. Communications lines tele phone, telegraph, television and radio arteries which also go ; through the tunnel were broken. I Several drivers were -blown i from their vehicles. There was a md race onstoot for exits. Rescue squads carried a number of persons from the great $48,000.- DOO tunnel which links New York ; and New Jersey under the Hudson rivr- I Harbaugh of Salem. Joe Dunne. The tunnel is a major connec- Portland, delivered the petition to Uon for transcontinental traffic i the state department, and has a capacity of 48,000 ve- , The law under attack acknowl hicles a day. j edges the need for a minimum $50 In some cases rescuers them- selves were overcome and had to be carried out by others. The blast occurred at 7:59 a m. (EST) in the south or Manhattan-bound tube of the tunnel. It Is unlikely the tube will be re ODened before tomorrow. Six on Societv I wrecked trucks remained in it to night i A alow rush-hour line of cars and trucks was moving through the south tube when a big trailer truck carrying car bo disulphide caught fire. Suddenly there was a terrific blast as the drums of chemical be gan exploding. Within minutes 10 ather trucks one carrying meat, another bundles' of raits, and some loaded with other chemicals were sure, inc neai was so intense inai metal on some of the closely pack ed trucks was fused together Con Leaves Pen Farm. Takes Radio Robert E Lee. 34. walked away from the t-te penitentiary faim east of Salem eaily Frtdav carrv ing an alaim clock and portable radio. Lee was received from Lake county September 4. 1947. to eive an eight year term for assault with intent to kilt. He was de- j cnbed as 5 weighing 170 feet 9 inches pourvds with tall, blue i ; eyes and brown ha:r. He w as a (trusty and had been employed in ' Ihe poultry division cntainers. Proceed of the Sun jjy night plant sale take the p!t? of entry fees, and any receipts above expenses wi!l go into the club's YMCA building fund. The show ha been divided into five diviioriS, annuals and peren- nials: buib and allied plants. How - er arrengements: flowering trees, shrubs, and vine, and jiotted plants. Flower arrangements are divid 1 ed into clause for garden clubf. 1 ju,in-'' i i, iivii- compeutive tiornst atranaements Potted plants include potted plants in bloom, lerna, fuhare claut. cacti Tornado Twists at Klamath Continued warm weather forecast for the Willamette valley during the next several days but weather forecasters indicated lit-J tie danger of floods in snow-fed streams here. Clouds Friday held the mercury down eight degrees below an an ticipated 90. A maximum tem perature today of about 85 de grees was predicted by the U. S. weather bureau at McNary field early this morning. The Willamette river is ex pected to rise only slightly during the next two days. The river guage I read 5.8 feet Friday as the sun I caused a gradual run-off of snow : waters in the surrounding mount I ains. j A small tornado appeared 25 miles north of Klamath Falls but - did little damage. A few forest fires burst out in the Beaver creek burn on the Umpqua national for ; est and a 120-acre slashing blaze ! that started earlier this week near Forest Grove was brought under control. i Threatened floods near Union , and in central Oregon vani.hed. The Kootenai river in northern Idaho burst its dikes and flooded 250 acres of farm land Friday. While the Snake and middle Co lumbia rivers continued to rise slowly, forecasters said a flood of last year'f proportions is almost impossible on the Columbia. Pension Bill Referendum Petition Filed Preliminary petition for referen dum of the so-called $50 a month old age pension law of the recent legislature was filed in the state elections bureau Friday. TH rtt i t inn ua morA hv Onal u Howk and Henry c Menasco. w-.w f portinrf -nrf rrun it a month old age pension but pro- vides that such an amount shall be paid only if funds are avail able. Most opposition to the legis lative bill centered on a section giving the state first claim against the estates of old age assistance beneficiaries, subject to certain ex emptions, up to the amount the old age assistance beneficiaries had re ceived. In event completed petitions con taining 15.928 signatures of quali fied voters are filed by July 15 of this year and referendum meas ure will be on the ballot at the general election in 1950. Independence To Switch Time INDEPENDENCE. May 13 .Special Follow ing the lead of Salem, the city of Indeepndence will go on daylight saving time Monday. Mayor RalDh Spencer, af ter contacting members of the city council this week, announced that Independence clocks will be set ahead Sunday night and residents of this area will awake an hour earlier than usual on Monday morning. "With Salem adopting faster time we couldn t do anything but follow suit." Mayor Spencer de clared. "For us to stay on standard time would only make for confu sion." Baseball Scores Western International At Vancouver 1. S'm S At Victoria S Wcnabrhe t At Yjikina S. Tanvoca At Spokane 1. Bremerton C oast League At Portland . Ho!lvood At Srati' S. Oakland S At San FrantiKO 3. Sacramento At Ixm AnmlM . San l.to 1 National Learae At New York S. Phtladelphia 1 At Boston . Brooklyn 5 1 inn. ) At Ptruburftt 3. St. Loolf At Cincinnati 7. Chicago Americas League At St. Louia 2. Detroit T At Chicago 11. Cleveland It O' 1 4ni aKneduted. Our Senators T7ca 5-1 i I Armed Forces Pay Mike Advances CaptaiitD Police Arrest Wife of Fleeing Red Leader WASHINGTON, May 13 (AP) U. S. efforts to recapture Gerhart Eisler tonight appeared likely to be thwarted by the captain of a Polish ship on which the commun ist fugitive stowed away. A radio report from the vessel quoted the captain, Jan Cwiklin ski. as saying: "I will land him in Gdynia." That is the Polish port where the Batory is headed after It puts into Southhampton. The Polish mariner gave that reply to CBS Correspondent Rich ard Yaffee who is aboard the Ba tory. Yaffee reported to his New York office that he asked the cap tain what he would do "if the United States requests delivery of Eisler at Southhampton?" He said the Pole answered: 'The United States authorities must take that up with the Polish diplomatic service. I can do noth ing without permission from my line and our own diplomatic au thorities. Leaving his wife behind, Eisler : fled as a stowaway aboard the ! Polish liner on May 8. The ship , is due off Southhampton. England, . tomorrow en route to Gdynia, i Poland. j J The justice department announ- ' ced that Mrs. Eisler. 37. a native 1 . T" . 1 .J ...... - .- u t a 1 in ! York this morning and held for deportation. The FBI had asked Britain's famed Scotland Yard to meet the Batory and take Eisler into cus tody as a "stowaway." Wallace Asks DeCiccotoQuit PORTLAND, May 13-UP)-Lew Wallace, former democratic na tional committeeman, appealed to day to Mike DeCicco to resign as party treasurer "in the interests of party harmony. Wallace wrote DeCicco that, while the laws did not appear to make possible his forcible remov al, "in the interest of party har mony you should resign at once and clear the atmosphere. You would be doing a public serv ice by resigning at once." Democratic officials w ho seek to oust De Cicco were reported plan ning to ask Attorney General George Neuner whether they could legally do so. SII.VERTON TO MOVE CLOCKS " SII.VERTON, May 13-ifVCiti-zens her will move their clocks an hour ahead Monday to con form with the change to daylight saving time in surrounding towns. The city council voted to go onto the faster time schedule at a meet ing here tonight. County Trapper Bags 14 Foxes in One Day .. at n.-FRTOV reerteea faxes la erne day I eaite eatck. evee for gavcrmsaeet travper, believes Vlc SShCSSSL elSS predate trapper. Be I W. kere at Mi wft hta e.Uh ef tVedaeaday. alTer t.l Use extres left was trapped aad ber 1 kiU dag eat e the deau The ether fey were Wk frea. a -ear by de. ef termm. three ef watch had bee. killed by Eraser ea'tlerr.ead bag the dea was a fitter el turkey legs, a Uaab care, aad acere ef eblckea and rabbit beaes. At the rlTbt t Johaar Maaldias;. f eraser SUvcrtea Hills faraser, aew retired U Silvertea. wha aseasled 1 tow ard U the take. (SUtesmaa Farm rheU.) j May Take Eisleir to Poland To Inherit Unification Problem OMAHA. Nebr May 13 Francis 1. Matthew la shewa La bis law office today folia wing annoiineeanent ef his appointment as Secre tary af the Navy te succeed John L. Snlllvaa. who resigned recently. (Af Wlrephete te The StalesnaB). (Story page X). Salem High's Musicians Win 11 Superior Ratings KLAMATH FALLS. May I3-(Speefal)-A total ef eleven superior rating and over 20 second rating were won by Salem high school music students in the opening session today of the 2nd annual Oregon State music contest. The 110 student from Salem senior and Parrtsh and Leslie junior high school competed with oVer 3,100 other contestants. The Salem ' - Justice Percy Kellr Undergoes Operation Justice Percy Kelly of the state supreme court returned to his home here Friday after under going an operation at a Salem hos pital. Physicians said he would not return to his desk for twe weeks. HORSE RACE AT LEBANON1 LEBA.N " .-?- races will be held here June l-. Glenn Huston, president of the "T?". ?fPci"Uon, of non' said today. The meet will be on the new wranglers' track. Horse front the three Pacific coast states have been entered. FETE TO ADD DANCING LEBANON, May 13 (AP) A square dancing exhibition will feature the Lebanon Strawberry Festival for the first time this year. The festival, to be held June 3, has always been chiefly famous for its 5,000 pound trawberry shortcake. mJ v mm r f '-TtXt u . - u:-ir:::''i )l ::i:: I musicians sold tags to the public on Salem streets to raise money for their trip. The musical festival, drawing the cream of Oregon's high school music talent, I being held on the Oregon Technical Institute campus just outside the city. It is the for mer U. S. marine hospital now turned into a vocation school. Today individual efforts ended with a band and orchestra contest tonight, at which the Salem high school's band and orchestia each .. . :- vf,4 TK ...... t 4 will '"ga urdav 4Additio...Youil. on page 2) . Hofsteller Chairman : Of June DaiTV Month ; j Han Hofrtetter of Curly 's dairy, . Salem, has been appointed June Dairy Month committee chairman for the Marion county area, Lyle Hammock, state chairman for June Dairy months, reports. The program, says Hammatk, is planned to acquaint cunsumer with all phases of the dairy in dustry, "the largest of all agri cultural industries." Economy Drive Clamor Ignored By Committee WASHINGTON. Mar lS-,P-A $400,000,000 pay hike for the na tion's armed force won unanimous approval of the house armed serv . ice committee today despite lis ing congressional clamor fci gov ernment economy. Chairman Vinson fD-Ga) said all 28 committee membei voted for the measure after he lewd a letter of endorsement from cre tary of Denfene Johnson tK al so said the budget bureau i port ed President Truman hlmlf had no objection. If approved by congie. It w III provide the firt general pay rUa for officers since 1908. boosting the basic monthly Income cf gen era Is and admirals, for if. Maine, almost SO per cent. But all military personnel would get more money except the bottom grde enlisted man, with the Increases avciaalrg. about 14 per cent. The new pay bill would apply not only to active membei of tl e armed services, but also to leserv- ed branches, the national guard. the air national guard and to th coast guard, public health servu and the coast and geodetic suiver. Here are some example of th increases: (Although these aie fig. ures for army personnel tl.ey ap ply to equivalent rank in the oth er er vices): Present Monthlr Baaic Psy Ma. Cenerata and above 1733 Bit General MO Cotooel MtolM MaJ rS to ! Captain 2M to 411 1st LJeutonant 309 to 34S See Lieutaoant IS to Sua Prcpuaed feaatc Pay : IS-.S to $1 004 10 to 1 too to 7J 441 Ul tJ xni ui 4 2f tu MT 129 tu The enlisted scale would go tip more gradually, with the sixth grade man getting $2 more and the first grade enlisted man letejvlng $37 additional. This i how it would cpeiate: A second lieutenant, or navy ensign, would enter the service at $225 a' month. As long as he kert that rank he would get automatic in crease until reaching the tcp.par of $.130 at the end of 14 yean. Then, to get more money, he would have to be promoted. This plan worild abolish th present system of giving effk-et and enlisted personnel a bonus of five per cent of their base jay tof every three year of seivhe. LaboritesLose In City Ballots' i LONDON. May IS -(A) British voters handed the ruling labvr (Socialist) parly another setback In returns today from city council elections. Winston Churchill's con servatives scored big gains. In all the 420 Borough voting yesterday, conservative showed a net gain of 893 seats, while tha laborite had a net loss of 715, the British Press association reported. Final figure showed the comer- a: L u mam . .1 l . a I va lives noia i.ojo seats wii vuiiiui ! England and Wale and the lobor ' ites 1.771. A labor spokesman said 1 his party suffered a net losa of 646, of which 263 were in London, China Reds in New Province SHANGHAI, Saturday, May !4 (AP) The Chinese comrnunlsui declared yesterday jthey had thrust into Fukien. the 'southeast pro vince opposite Vormot. ' The communist radio broadcast came a Red forces drove toward Shanghai's last air and sea link with the world Lung w ha air airport and the Woosung harbor entrance. j . The Red asserted they had "liberated" Chungan. This is th frontier town of northern Fukien province to which the Nationalist, said they sent reinforcements sev eral day ago. I Max. - St si Mn. SI 11 Pec . ti ace IM I ales PortUnd 9n frsncioeo S4 Chmto M 41 New York - " 4 jmt Wlltannette river ft- rohECAST (Irom U. weather bu reau. McNary hold. Salsmi: Parti? etotady Ux)a) ane UmujTM. Hrr.l l-i. perature loda Bear SS ore: W Idnifhl noar S3. ConOltibM lart,m tor ait farm attiviian. S4LS.M PBCCIPITA1IOM t 11 Th'm Yar 4 i LiMt Year J..rr-at MM