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Second Pineapple Boat Un Minor Oregon ; TTT.T.AtrOICSeDt. 27-4JP1-A second pineapple bare from Hawaii crept Jntoan obscure Oregon port under fog cover today and began unloading before CIO longshoremen were aware of ft. The barge, carrying 350 tons of the pineapple pack that has been sitting in the island because of a dock strike there, tied up to an isolated logging dock two miles south of Tillamook. j Hours later, CIO longshoremen found! it out and rushed union members from Astoria to set up a picket line. Unloading continued, with truck drivers crossing the picket line to carry the pineapple cases Meanwhile the first barge to slip into alittle-used port was sitting mi . tv.o naiw a erain transfer point 180 miles from- the ocean on u. - - I 3331106 WDCCDt I question it more than one per nn in a hundred stopped to won der how President Truman got his Information about the atomic explosion in Russia. The great majority of the people. I feel sure read the headlines and the initial story so they knew the statement was official and positive. Then they turned to speculate on the significance of the news and the possibility of war with Russia and the threat to our own security. This was a big story; but there is a story behind the story. It was hinted at in the follow-up news the next day when a high official, unidentified, said of the discovery of what Russia was up to: - "It was teamwork involving the state department, the military, central intelligence, the British, Canadians and long range plan ning. "The methods and sources of the discovery Tare a deep, dark se cret It wasn't dramatic. It was plain old grind. Several hundred people were involved. But the ev idence wasn't selsmographlc, and it Is complete." Translated into every day Eng lish this means that British and American combined intelligence "systems got the whole story - and the, sot it from" inside Russia. Just "how it was done - that's the deep, dark secret. rin ran sneculate of course on the methods employed. It wasn't Mata Hart stuff. It wasni aone after the manner of an E. Phil lips Oppenheim story. It wasn't a conclusion drawn from a jarring of a seismograph in Alaska; and there may have been (Continued on Editorial Page 4) Polio Victim's Condition Still Very Critical John Relnwald, Salem's 12 year-old polio victim who was hospitalized iaturday, was still In "vary critical' condition Tuesday night at Memorial hospital. Ralnwald. son of Mr. and Mrs J"rtd H. Relnwald, 890 Plymouth dr has been kept breathing by an iron lung rushed from Portland latt Saturday. Hit breathing wai maintained prior to the lung's arrival by port able respirator equipment that was being displayed here to sup port a fund drive to get Salem its own iron lung. Salem's Eagle lodge, conducting the drive to secure an iron lung hare, had brought the portable equipment to the city for display purposes. Mercury Hits 92 at Salem PORTLAND. Bept. 27-JP)-The thermometer hit 01 here today highest for the date on record. It war one degree above yesterday's SO, also a record for that date here At Salem, the weather bureau f aid the day's high was 02, down three degrees from yesterday's 95 Other highs about the state: Rose- burg 78, The Dalles 88, Newport 92, Eugene 77. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH I &T 1X3 MUSIUM NATOftAi Too should see some o th gtuff tney're get in then its tmtzingr loading at Port r-itHim riv.ri nn nirket i use wwvawi 4 a" - arrived there first, and no unload ing attempt has been made. Non-Union Labor The unloading at Tillamook ap peared I to be by non-union labor, although the Sausei Bros, towing service handling the shipment, said some; CIO loggers were in the unloading crew. Logging union of ficials denied this, j The 1 trucking firms said their drivers5 were AFL teamsters, but longsh6rehen protested that the teamsters : had promised not to go through picket lines. They at tempted to reach teamster union officials at Portland; headquarters, but said they were 'unsuccessful. However, at Portland, Longshore Business Agent Toby Christian sen said he believed the truckers were ijiot lAFL teamsters. I'm; satisfied they wouian t ao he said. Trace Cargo Route Longshoremen then began tracing the route of the pineap ple "hot cargo" from the Sause Bros, dock- Trucks ; carted it sev en miles to a surplus navy sta tion, now leased by Tillamook county to industrial users. The air station has its own rail spur, connecting to the iSouthern Pa cific line to Portland. This enabled the Sause Bros, to avoid the easily picketed railroad freight yard. The pineapple was transferred to railroad cars at the air station, The air j station switch engine later is to take the cars down the Spur to be picked up by a Southern Pacific train. By The Associated Praca Nearly sixty lives were lost in a series of plane disasters the last two days In widely separated areas of the world. The heaviest toll was taken in Mexico as a plane crashed on a volcano. : i Other accidents -were reported in Argentina, Oklahoma, England and Tennessee. In the Argentine crash a gov ernment-owned commercial air. liner carrying 25 persons crashed in flames last night 135 miles west of Buenos iAires. Foiir persons were killed, 20 were injured and the ship's navi gator was missing. The plane carried an Argentine relief! mission returning from Ecuador's earthquake - devastated area.: :f Twentyfive persons, two of them possibly Americans, were be lleved to have died In the wreck age of a Mexican airliner which crashed Monday in snow at the 15.000-foot level on Popocatepetl volcano, i '-j Three other Monday crashes caused a total of 27 deaths. A B-29: air force bomber from Smoky Hill base, Salina, Kas., crashed and burned near Talihina, Okla4 on a training flight The wreckage yielded IS bodies. A Collision of two RAF bombers caused 12 deaths in central Eng land. Two other airmen aboard the plane: were missing. A crash of a single engine plane near j Heiskell, Tenn., killed two University of Tennessee students. Atom Bomb Air Crashes Claim Sixty Speed-up Plans Studied WASHINGTON Sept. 27 -fV A swift step-up In American pro duction of atomic bombs was dis cussed tonight as congress pushed action on a $1,314,010,000 arms aid program to bolster non-communist nations. Simultaneously, military plan ners! were reported intent on speeding development of an atom ic erigine for airplanes. There was also! talk of atom- powered missiles, both for defense and offense in the event of war. Chairman McMahon (D-Cona) told newsmen the senate-house atomic committee may discuss the question of expanding American A-bornb production with members of the atomic energy commission tomorrow. I McMahon said Russia's advan ces In the atomic field may also lead to requests that congress pro vide more funds for the US. atom ic weapons program. He noted that congress has al ready .provided $1,100,000,000 for fiscal 1950, over j and above the $4,000,000,000, previously spent in developing the world's deadliest weapon. I McMahon discounted Soviet claims that Russia now has a stockpile! of bombs. If believe tliey teste'd a bomb" as soon as tney nad one, ne said, alluding I to President Truman's announcement lasfFriday that an atomic blast has recently been de tected in; the UJSJL Obviously spurred by news of the Soviet explosion, a senate house committee reached final agreement on the huge global n WiKMSli 99th TEAR 18 PAGES Railroad Union Sets Walkout On Crew Issue WASHINGTON, Sept 27 -(JPy-David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive firemen and enginemen, said to night his union will strike next month against all major railroads in protest against rejection of a union demand for an extra crew man on diesel engines. "We will do it to assure a prop-, er measure of safety for our mem bers and the public, Robertson told a reporter. A presidential emergency board on Sept. 19 turned down the un ion's demand for assigning a sec ond fireman to help run diesel lo comotives on the railroads. Robertson said no date has been set. But he noted that the law bans strikes during 30 days after such an emergency board makes its report. Diesel engine's are now manned by one fireman and one engineer. The same presidentially-appointed emergency board recommended several months earlier against as signing an extra engineer to dies els'. , Soviet Agrees To Return 30 Ships to U.S. WASHINGTON, Septl 27-ttP)-Russla agreed today, after four years of prodding to return soon a batch of ships obtained from tne united states under wartime lend-lease. Soviet Ambassador Alexander S. Panyushkin signed a commit ment to turn back 10 vessels by December 1. Included are three ice breakers and 27 frigates, which are small patrol craft The action followed several weeks of negotiations and was a new break in the long effort to work out a settlement with Mos cow for Russia's over all $11,000, 000,000 lend-lease account. Dip lomatic officials said cautiously it appeared to increase the chances for an eventual general balancing of war time accounts with Russia, such as have been reached with Britain, Trance and other allies. Boy's Death Is Listed as Suicide TOLEDO, Sept. 27 JP)- Sheriff Tim Whelp today listed as a suicide the death of 11-year-old Freddie Walteri. a fifth grade pupil here. The boy's mother, Mrs. Vern Bates, found the boy in the front yard of their home this morning with a bullet wound in the head from the family's J8 caliber re volver, Whelp said. He died a few hours later in i hospital. Production arms-aid program and prepared to rush the $1,314,010,000 legisla tion to the White House. Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of the senate foreign relations com mittee told reporters he was im mensely pleased" that the house conferees accepted the senate's higher-cost program. The house had previously voted $444,595,000 less than the senate. Meanwhile, military men said efforts to develop an atom-power ed airplane capable of spanning vast distances at tremendous speed may be expanded now that it is clear Russia has the A-bomb. Some military planners were re presented today as feeling that a sure means of delivering the bomb is as necessary as the bomb itself. Despite the difficulty of convert ing it into a propulsive force. A program to do that was be gun in May, 1946, under the name nuclear energy for propulsion of aircraft, or NEPA, as an air force project The Fairchild Engine and Airplane corp., Hagerstown, ML, was made prime contractor. Ten other companies are associated with it as well as the navy, atom ic energy commission and the na tional advisory committee for aeronautics. f The project has a staff of sever al hundred persons at Oak Ridge, Tenix,- engaged mostly in devel oping the atomic engine theory on paper. Public statements have in' dicated the theory has been pretty well demonstrated. How soon It will be tested depesda upon the effort made. ivii Truman Gets Armed Service Pay BUI v - i . . : ; . i L Th Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oreaon, Wednesday. Wheel One Way to Keep Shine Iff ,Yl ; 7 v5iLvi .72n t- . Jf-JM o "jm i V6 i vw mm . 9 i ! '". V ? - Taking his first solo flight on a st, while waiting their turn at the top are Michael Cochran, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger CocIva. 841 South st, and Judy Babbitt S. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Babbitt 460 Hickory at Waiting at the bottom at right is Judy's brother, Buddy, 1. The slide is part of new playgronnd equipment Installed at Highland park by swings and a merry-go-round. helping the children use the Office Building Plans Okelied By State Board Preliminary sketches of the new state office building to be con structed in Portland were approv ed Tuesday by the state board of control. The new 10-story structure, con taining 176,000 square feet, will cost $2,500,000 or $12 a square foot, Architect Morton H. Caine told the board. This figure is $1.80 a square foot less than bids last week for the new highway office building in Salem. Caine said the Portland structure will be cheaper to build. The new building will be a one- story structure covering an entire block, plus a nine-story, U-shaped building on top of the base story. The bottom floor will house the unemployment compensation com mission. Caine said the structure would be the first post-war building in Portland to contain off-street park ing. Space is planned for 70 cars. In other board action Tuesday, a fire loss report was reieasea showing $139,400 total damage from the blaze May 18 that de stroyed the hospital at Fairview home. The board appointed Leslie D. HoweU architect for improvements at' the Eastern Oregon state hospi tal at Pendleton. Improvements will include cold storage and pas teurizer, $73,000; bathroom addi tions, $88,000; and shop, $35,000. 40-Mi. Speed Limit Set on Extension Of S. 12th Street A 40-mile-per-hour speed lim it has been established on the South 12th street extension from the south city limits to Fairview avenue. The speed limit was establish ed by the state speed control board and approved by Marion county court Tuesday. County road .crews are to place signs along the road warning motorists. . Action of the state speed board grew out of a petition filed sev eral months ago by D. C. Roberts, chairman of the Salem traffic im provement association.' The peti tion sought a 35-mile-per-hour control. County road crews also are busy this week erecting roadside signs near rural schools warning motorists, of approaching school zones. Dws fmFFt 'Eft VMM! 7 slide Is Terry Alley, 2. son of Mr. the Salem Junior Women's clnb. At left Is Mrs- Byd Babbitt and slide safely. (Photo by Don Dill, Ohlahomans Vote To Remain Dry OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept 27 (P) Prohibition forces tonight won their battle to keep Oklaho ma legally dry. Returns from 3,545 out of 1,720 precincts in a special state repeal election gave: For repeal 258,711. Against repeal 306,905. The state's two largest cities Oklahoma City and Tulsa went wet by comfortable margins. But their votes could not overcome the out-state swing. Cards Lose; Red Sox Win NEW YORK, Sept. 27-VThe Boston Red Sox kept up their slz zling pace and hung onto their one-game lead in the American League race Tuesday but the pen nant drive of the National League leading St. Louis Cardinals hit a snag. The Red Sox beat the Washing ton Senators. 6-4, for their 11th straight victory but the second place New York Yankees kept pace via a 3-1 verdict over the Philadelphia Athletics. The Cardinals bowed to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-4, and saw their top margin melt to one game as the runner-up Brooklyn Dodg ers enjoyed an idle day. (Complete details on sports Page). Mrs. Walter Pearson Files Divorce Action OREGON CITY, Sept- 27-W)-A suit for divorce was filed here today by Mrs. Walter Pearson, wife of the state treasurer. She charged cruelty. She said she and Pearson have been living apart and have arranged a prop erty settlement. Married at Spokane in 1941, she was Pearson's second wife. Max. . 92 . ai . 71 Mia. rreeta. S M 4S trace S3 M ST trace U M Salens Portland San Fraadaco -Chicago New York 69 Y Willamette river -31 feet FORECAST (from US weather bur eau. McNary tekt Salem): Partly cloudy and cooler today and tonlcht with widely scattered showers. Highest today near 73- lowest tonight near 4a. Weather will e most favorable for (arm activities today. SALXM PRECIPITATION This Year Last Year Normal L31 ! i-M IF!rS'S September 28. 1949 PRICE 5a on New Slide and Mrs. Edward Alley, 440 Hickory Other pieces Include chlnninr bars. at right Mrs. Roger Cochran, both Statesman staff photographer.) Alaska Shaken By Quake but Damage Slight ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 27 -;P)-Mother Earth kicked up tremor in her Alaskan joints to day, but did little more than give awakened northerners a thrill. There were a few minor damage reports. The earthquake was recorded here at 5:31 ajn. (7:31 a.m. Pacific standard time). It was felt over a wide area of the territory. It was recorded about a minute later by the Coast and peodetic survey station at Sitka, in south eastern Alaska- Sitka residents did not feel it. however. A tidal surge" of a few inches was re ported at Sitka about an hour and a half later. Joel Campbell of the Sitka Geo detic survey station estimated the quake's center was about 450 miles to the west That would be near ; the center of the Gulf of Alaska, closer to Kodiak than Sitka. Resi dents of Kodiak did not feel it PAT HIKE APPROVED WASHINGTON, Sept The senate today approved a pay hike for doctors, dentists, nurses and certain other employees of the veterans administration. The sen ate action sent the measure to the White house. Cost of the medical pay increases for the first year was estimated at 13,812,669. MM MTf M? Ml -r M wTi H f r J f t " c? h- :A British Labor Party Raloeo Taxoo On Business LONDON, Sept 27 The labor government raised the tax on business profits and threat ened to restrict dividends by law in defending' devaluation of the pound at an emergency session of parliament today. At the same time it turned thumbs down on fatter -wage en velopes to prevent an inflationary cycle arising from cheapening the pound. Sir Stafford Crinps. economics minister and chancellor of the exchequer, i made these moves In the house of commons In open ing the cabinet" a appeal for vote of confidence." But Oliver Stanley, lieutenant of conservative leader Winston Churchill, rapped devaluation as "Just . one more expedient' and cried, "we hare no confidence in the government" He said the Fw ! Fife mrfi No. 193 House Votes Pay Increase For Postmen WASHINGTON, Sept 17 -UP) The house today voted pay in creases for about 800,000 postal employes and sent along to the White House another bill to boost pay for most members of the armed services. The postal pay measure, which goes to the senate, would cost an estimated $180,000,000 a year. The bill raising military pay scales, now ready for President Truman's signature, adds more than $300,000,000 annually to fed eral payroll expense. The house completed congressional action by accepting amendments tacked on by the senate in passing the legislation yesterday. Overwhelming Tote House approval of the postal pay measure, which Mr. Truman has opposed through the budget bureau, was by an overwhelmnig 332 to 2 rollcall vote. Only Reps. Wheeler (D-Ga) and Hoffman (R-Mlch) voted against It Opposition to the bill had been raised earlier by the post office department and also by the civil service commission. The commis sion objected on grounds that It discriminates in favor of postal employes by comparison with other government workers. The bill provides: A flat raise of $150 a year for all employes, plus hourly in creases for workers hired on part-time or hourly basis. Automatic Raises Automatic Increases based on length of service and a raise from $2,500 to $2,900 a year in the starting pay of regular postal employes. Automatic Increases for substi tute mail carriers at well as reg ular carriers. All field service employes, in cluding postmasters, would bene fit. Postal employes would get 20 days annual leave instead of the 15 they get now. Only President Truman's signa ture is needed to give most mem bers of the armed services a hike in income effective next Satur day. It will be the first general revision of military salary scales in 40 years. Congressional action was com pleted when the house agreed by voice vote to accept senate amend ments to the measure. It provides raises ranging from about so a month for recruits with five months' service to $300 and up a month for generals with mora than 30 years service. China Blames Reds for War LAKE SUCCESS. Sept I7-(ff) Nationalist China charged today the soviet union is threatening the independence and territory of China and the peaca of the whole orient China's chief delegate, T. T. Tsiang. called for a moral Judg ment by the United Nations as sembly against the Russians. ; Tsiang told the assembly last week the Russians are directing and backing the Chinese commun ists against whom his government la fighting for its life. In the formal complaint lodged today with the general assembly Tsiang said also that Russia had violated a 1945 treaty of friend ship and alliance with the Kuom- intang government Prof its. opposition would challenge the government by seeking to amend the motion of confidence. In an aside to the devaluation debate. Prime Minister Attlee re jected a request from Churchill for fuller information on the Brit ish, American and Canadian an nouncement of last Friday that an atomic explosion had been de tected In Russia recently. He said any further statement would not be "in the public interest.,, i Attlee also made no comment on a proposal by Laborite Capt A. R. Blackburn that the prime minister. President Truman and Prime Minister Stalin hold an atomic conference. i The labor government went Into the special three-day debate on devaluation after a secret cau cus of labor members of parlia ment which was reported to show general agreement to support a Til ! ill 4 i ii 20,000 ? Acres! - ' 1 Burned By The Associated Press Forest fires wer still burnlnJ brightly In western! Oregon Tues day night but a moist southwest wind blowing off the Pacific u slowing the racing flames.' The breexe was easing the task of several thousand men workinj to control the worst outbreak al fires in Oregon in recent years. Near Dallas, in! Polk county. where 24 fires kept more tha 1,000 men busy Monday and Tues day, a drizzle began falling at 11 pjn. Tuesday night answering th prayers of fire fighters who have been on the job for the past 44 hours. i i 1 Early Tuesday afternoon, 'the scorching eastern wind relented at pushing the blaze that has cover ed more than 20,000 acres of tJna berland in Polk, Benton and Yarn hill counties. A coastal fog. drifting over the coast range brought lower humidities and a wind switch that sent the flames back over the burn ed areas. ; See End te Threat Officials manning the mobile V. S. weather bureau station in the Dallas area predicted, hopefully. that the dropping thermometer aad a rising humidity rate would meet today, ending the threat that en dangered NorthwesternvO r e g q a timber land. ; Earlier Tuesday.- Gov. Douglas McKay Issued a proclamation which called for a modified post ponement of the deer season: open ing. It would take effect Saturday in virtually all of western Oregon including the territory north of the Lane-Douglas county line be tween Roseburg and Eugene and west from the summit of the Cas cade mountains, i ' The smell of smoke was evident In metropolitan Portland Tues day night being blown from the fires in the valley and along the coast. ! Coast Towns Saved Residents of the coastal Towna of Cannon Beach and Toloven Park were confident Tuesday night that their homes were out of danger. A S.OOO-acre fire had licked brush and ; trees within a quarter-mile of the main portion of the communities. Crews fought through the night,! aided by ocean fog early Tuesday which slowed the fire advance. I Three fires In the McMinnville sector had merged and a reporter flying over the lector estimated more than 22,000 acres werrburn ed. Foresters, however, consider ed this estimate very high.' I South of Grand Ronde, crews still worked a fire that had 'burn ed over 3.000 acres of timber and logged-off tracts. j s Cottages Destroyed Five cottages were burned Yamhill county areas where ;8' persons were evacuated Monday. Some logging camps and a few small sawmills were wiped out Several small communities wvr threatened for a " time but were saved by firemen j , , i Two fires east of Eugene along the McKenzie river and highway were troublesome Tuesday. Dis patcher Johnson said the two ar eas burned totaled up to 2,00$ acres. He expected them control led by this (Wed.) morning. The only reported victim was James B. Xachary, 41, loggin J camn suoerintenaant who wa crushed when a bulldoaer rolled on him while corralling a smal slash fire. The scene was 10 mllcd east of Molalla. j The farm of Glenn Breacamao, northwest of Sheridan, was de stroyed. j I I At Salem, a bureau of land management forester said his es ttmate of the timber lose was be tween 15 and 10 million board feet ! University oi Oregon student worked the fire lines east of Eu gene. Forestry students at Oregon State eollege were also on the lines in the valley sector. ; ; AMEXJCAM LKAGCT 1 Boston a 5rk . PhUaderphla 1 NATIONAX, UtAOVa Only games scheduled. Moro f I f confidence vote. An Informant aal4 there waa "no fireworks" at i the caucus. ! - ' The small liberal party, hold ing 10 house of commons seats, announced however It would Vote) against the government i .! i Cripps said the tax on busman profit would be . boosted r from the present 2S per cent to 10 per cent "as from today.". The tax as on distributed brofita after; as) income tax of 43 per cent bag been paid. $ - 1. : ) A treasury spokesman j said Cripps had authority to raise; the tax, but probably would submit motion asking commons j ap proval later on. I I' Observers saw the move as sop to the rank fcnd file of labor, which fears the working man wta take the biggest rap from devalu ation besause It will raise the cost ox uving. m l f ? i 1 ! ; !: i ! I, ; Washington 4. It Iw V At Chtaaeo a. oevsiana a Only gaaea scheduled. V.'-l I i