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-- FoSs DdlD SIS - - I 1 Spread of DTP SESEOUQS TTGD DOTHE Closure Forecast mm 19 m - a The suggestion that the book keeping lor all school districts ex cept those of the first class be done at a antral office in the county has much merit. J. F. Rem ington who handles the budget and apportionment work In the office of the Marion county superintend ent of schools has recommended the plan to the interim committee of the legislature which Is study ing taxation.. California and Wash ington both use this system now. At nresent district clerks handle the accounting, drawing warrants for payroll and supplies on approv al of the board. They have other duties such as keeping minutes of board meetings, posting election notices, etc., but for many clerks kwnin? finances I straieht and writing the warrants is a real bugaboo. The job grew much more complicated when the various "deducks" were ordered for with holding taxes industrial .accident insurance. Under the plan proposed the clerk would merely send in the ' payroll and the bills approved for payment to the central accounting office which would issue the ne cessary warrants. Ledger accounts would be kept 'by machine and monthly statements of account mailed to each board. It is obvious that the work could be handled more' economically in - this way, and probably with fewer errors.' A change in the law would be re quired to shift this particular duty from the district clerks to a county disbursing officer.,;-. i t . . . i , ' " ' In this connection another change i impending on the paying of school district warrants. ' A few months ago the court ruled that an Oregon, bank would have to make good on' . . f -0; ".. v -(Continued on editorial page, 4) H-Bombor A-SubThat Is the Question 1 WASHINGTON,' Feb. 12-WVA .race between the United States and Russia to be first to build an atomic-powered submarine is a possibility that may complicate ef forts to produce the hydrogen bomb, informed lawmakers .said today. . i . This question Is known to have been discussed by the senate house atomic energy i committee. Indications are that members gen erally favor giving the naval de velopment every possible priority short -of stopping actual work on the H-bomb project j. Their argument Is that the H- bomb may. take a long time to 'perfect. In fact., some scientists have said that it may never be perfected, although most of them , apparently think it will be. Because development of the H bomb will draw on atomic weapon-making resources, some legis lators say they regard as critical the question of which phase will command top efforts. . - The advantage of a nuclear en gine submarine would lie In the fact that it would have an almost unlimited range of action, could go deeper in the ocean and stay down longer than even the most modern type of submersible. Dr. Vannevar Bush, a too war time military consultant, was re ported to have told members of the senate armed services com mittee last week that torpedoes - with homing fuses . now can be .fired at a maximum range of aooui seven roues. i 'Partial Holiday9 In Effect Today ; This Is what is known as a "partial holidav" -in Salem.v In official observance'- of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, many offices win oe ciosea; but business In general will continue ! to ooerat. Closures include th atat mnA county offices and two banks. Toe aiy nau, schools, the post ffice and most business houses wul remain open. - j . Animal Craclccrs By WARREN GOODRICH "I would Ilk to hrro tome , goofs renoreoV 99th YEAR 34-i DEAD IN". TEXAS Spring Sports Revive in Salem r VI r t ;:c - .Si, . ' r MM A - i 4 v - '-Wjv j!ai (y-W With winter weather a thing of the sters have taken up appropriate (tmrawg ,.11 in ii Mi M ' W I .i -I'M J N i :t v ''.. I-:-'--..,:-.."..-:::::,:-! y. ' ' x 7.-. . " - ' y H ' , nii . i ii . iri'" , - t ' Intent on a marble game in the upper photo are Richard Warner, left, and Robert Biegler. Looking on. left to right, are Deanna Warner, Dorothy. Jean Biegler Evergreen avenue in east Salem, Tommy Hale, 560 Howard str and ing a session of soft ball on Saginaw street are the batter, Barbara KuedelL 1864 Fir st, and the pitcher. Susan Merrill. 1915 Saginaw st. Looking on or fielding, left to right, are Norma Merrill, little Sally Merrill. Sally Frese, 1874 Fir st, and Billy Purvine, 1740 Saginaw st (Photos by Lester F. Cour, Statesman valley editor). County Democratic Rally Speakers Promise Election Competition, Rap GOP 'Stand-Patism' - By ConnUI G. Prange Staff Writer, The Statesman Marion county courthouse and the office-holders in it were a target for democratic party ag gressiveness at a rally Sunday in Salem. Leaders of the county: demo cratic central committee indicated that A. S. '(Andy) Burk, former sheriff, will be a candidate for the post of Marion county commis sioner, now. held by E. .L. Rogers, republican. - Luis Martine-Lally, county dem ocratic chairman, announced that at least two democratic candidates, a man and a woman, would prob ably seek County Recorder Her man Lanke's Job. Martine-Lally outlined plans for a "bang-up drive to make this county democratic party-conscious." The 50 or more present at the dinner meeting hi the May flower hall voted to sponsor a door-to-door' registration cam paign before the May primaries. 10 PAGES 1 7" 3 - 1 L . . V 1 1 v past (we hope), Salem's young' spring sports along city streets. and Karen Warner. All live along i lying a kite on Howard street are Karen Schott, 754 Mill st. Enjoy Charging the republican party in Oregon was "doing as little as possible to get by," William Joss-, lin, Portland, chairman of the state democratic central commit tee, said the GOP was "utterly unable to cope with state and county economic problems." Josslin said the new state cap itol building and the Salem post office, which, he added, were con structed under a democratic ad ministration, symbolized the dem ocratic party in this county. But the county courthouse which republican, officials have by-passed, said Josslin, is like the GOP "Good in its day but now ineffi cient'' The republican party, which "has some pretty good peo ple in it" has slowly degenerated to "stand-patism and do-nothing-ism.' The responsibilities of govern ment officials, said Josslin, are not to chase around to fair, fes tivals and "crowning queens," but to make the state and county a -sV I ill ! -m mm - I . I 1 ;. The Oregon Statesman Salem. 1200 Injured as Storms Spread Terror in Area By the Associated Press (Picture on page S) Tornadoes killed 34 persons in Louisiana and Texas Sunday. Nearly 200 others were injured as the storms that started in Texas Saturday roared eastward with deadly force. Property damage was extensive and extended into south Arkansas, But Arkansans apparently escaped without casualties. The New Orleans weather bu reau warned that the twister front could be expected to last until this afternoon. The storms boiled up as a mass of cold air clashed with warm moist air along an arc extending from Little Rock, Ark., through Ruston, La., to Beaumont, Tex. .- Northward of the tornado belt a near blizzard was rising in Nebras ka. It laid snow up to 15 inches in depth -over -most of that state and was spreading southeastward to Kansas. Bad Weather Elsewhere in the midcontinent and- southern regions there were downpours, squalls, snow, sleet and freezing ram. Heavy rains in the Ohio and Mississippi river val leys raised a new flood threat at Cairo, 111. Louisiana suffered most from the tornadoes. The state counted 26 dead and nearly 100 injured Eight persons were killed in east Texas and nearly 100 hurt. Many of the injured were in critical or dangerous condition. The Louisiana death count was nine near Castor, six at Slack air force base near Shreveport, four at Sligo, four at Grand Cane, one at Shreveport and two at Hood's Corner on Shreveport's, outskirts. In Texas there were three dead at Haslam, one in the Jericho com munity near Haslam, two in a community southwest of Lufkin, one at Corley in northeast Texas and one at LaPorte. Arkansas Feels Storm Arkansans felt the storm at Mt Holly, a small community near El Dorado on the southern border. Violent thunderstorms accom panied the tornadoes in Texas, Ok lahoma and Arkansas, dumping heavy rain on many localities. The weather bureau reported 24-hour amounts of 3.6 at Texarkana, Ark., 3.3 inches at Little Rock, Ark., 2.3 inches at Walnut Ridge, Ark., 1.84 inches at Austin, Tex., 1.49 inches at West Plains, Mo., and 1.05 inch es at Tulsa, Okla. U.S. Diplomats Confer in Siam BANGKOK, Thailand (Siam), Feb. 12 JPy Seventeen diplo mats will begin a secret three-day conference Monday on the tumul tous problems of Asia. They will seek means of strengthlng United States' policies in an area which is already half red and half undecided. President Truman's personal representative. Ambassador Philip C Jessup, will hear reports from diplomats whose combined terri tory embraces more than half the world's population. Jessup has indicated the sub jects will range from border ten sion in Afghanistan to a Japanese peace treaty. The basic problem will be communism's march. " better place in which to live. He accused the opposition party in power in the state legislature with the failure to provide a govern ors residence here, something, he said, which three-fourths of the states have. He said he had a high regard for Gov. Douglas McKay, had known him for 15 years, but the governor "unfortunately has fal len into the old republican party line. The democratic party, said Joss lin, stands for "reorganizing Ore gon's economical and political re- cources. (Additional details on page 5) POLICE CLASH WITH REDS TOULON, France, Feb. 12 -Wh Police clashed with demonstrators following a communist meeting today. Ten policemen were - In jured by clubs or stones and two were taken to a hospital in serious condition. Oregon. Monday. February 13, -LOUISIANA T WASTED Prof, Eimtein States tl-Bomb to Make Annihilation NEW YORK, Feb. 12 -(-)-Prof. Albert Einstein said today that if the H-bomb is developed, "annihilation of any life on earth" is "within the range of technical possibilities." It could, be done, he said, through "radioactive poisoning of the atmosphere." Einstein ( called the present armaments race between the United States and Russia "a dis astrous illusion" and called for peace moves to "do away with mutual fear and distrust" He said a "supra-national" body would be necessary to carry out non-violent aims and that international control of weapons would be only "of secondary use as a police measure." Remember Prohibition "It may be wise not to over estimate its importance," he said. "The times of prohibition come to mind and give one pause." Einstein's statement was part of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's first television show over the National Broadcasting company television network. He did not appear personally, but a specially-made film of the famed mathematician, in which he made his statement, was shown on the telecast Illusion of Security Einstein said the fact that the United States first produced the atomic ' bomb had fostered the illusion that this country could 25 Students Walk to Safety In Albany Fire Statesman News Service ALBANY. Feb. 12 Fire In a Catholic boarding school here tonight forced the evacuation of 25 students from a third-floor dormitory room. The blaze was quickly put under control. All walked to safety throurh the smoke-filled St Mary's academy bonding led by 11 sisters of the Benedictine order. The young sters were from age 6 to 14. ' Firemen said the fire broke out in a laundry room closet but was discovered shortly by. Janitor George Bentz, who spread the alarm. Firemen were able to quell the flames and confine them to the small basement room of the frame three story structure. Damage was about $1,000. The fire was discovered at 10:55 p.m. Most of the board students are from nearby rural families, but a few are members of Alaskan In dian tribes sent here by Catholic missions in the territory. Firemen blamed the fire on de fective wiring. The fire destroyed the laundry equipment and quan tities of clothing that had been dropped into a chute for Monday morning laundering. Construction Of Sheridan School Starts SUUsmaa Newt Service SHERIDAN, Feb. 12 Prelimin ary construction of the new $94, 000 grade school building in southwest Sheridan got underway this week. The firm constructing the building estimates the job will require five to six months, de pending on the weather. Contract calls for completion before Sep tember 1. Foothills Construction Co. of Estacada has the contract, orig inally for $112,000 . but scaled down to $94,030. About 20 men will be employed by the firm, with additional crews for plumbing and electrical work. Approximately a year ago the voters of the district approved the bond issue necessary to con struct the building. Additional facilities are necessary to handle a greatly increased grade school enrollment The property on which the new building is being constructed is outside the city limits. The city council voted this week to have a special election to decide whether the area shall be brought into the city limits. HIT-RUN VICTIM DIES PORTLAND, Feb. 12-VP-Henry P. Porter, 64, Portland, died early today of injuries received when struck last night by an automobile The driver failed to stop at the scene, police said. It was the fifth traffic fatality of the year in the citr. 1950 of Life on Earth Possible ' ' ft -.::? 4 A Aim PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN Sees Meuntlnr Hysteria achieve security through mill . tary superiority. ' "This mechanistic, technical military psychological attitude had inevitable consequences," he Said. "Every single act in for eign policy is governed exclus ively by one viewpointM The policy, he said, led to es tablishment of military ' bases around the world and arming Salem Hurt in Traffic Accidents Separate pedestrian accidents residents here Sunday night Mrs. Ruby Oliver, 73, was hit street at Bellevue at 7 p. m. An suffered two broken legs and face and Church streets, Mrs. Oliver, an attendant at the Boyce Nursing home, 593 S. Com mercial st, incurred a fractured hip and pelvis, a broken leg and a broken rib. Her condition at Sa lem Memorial hospital was term ed fair early today. The accident happened as Mrs. Oliver left the nursing home for her residence on Bellevue street City police listed the driver as Ethel Alice Lewis, 610 S. Com mercial st She was not cited. Driver of the auto involved in the Washburn accident accord ing to police, was Emery Hen drickson, 140 Mabel st Wash burn's body came to rest 70 feet from the nearest crosswalk and it was not yet determined where the impact took place, police said. Washburn was taken to Salem General hospital by Eddie's am bulance. His condition early today was reported fair. The driver of the auto was not cited. Agar Arrested As Drunk Driver LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 -UP) John Agar, divorced husband of Shirley Temple, was arrested on a misdemeanor drunk driving com plaint tonight by Sgt E. L. Hoover of the state highway patroL He was booked at the sheriffs West Hollywood substation and ordered to appear tomorrow in Beverly Hills justice court Sheriffs Sgt Don Parker quot ed him as saying "I've done noth ing wrong I dont know what I'm doing in jail. This will ruin my life." Agar and Miss Temple were di vorced December 8. Voters in Idanha fo Elect City Council Wednesday By Mrs. A. R. Snyder SUtetmaa New Serrlc IDANHA, Feb. 12 -Voters of this newly-incorporated city will go to the polls Wednesday, Febru ary 15, to elect five city council men, who will then choose a may or. To date, nine candidates have filed, and observers have predict ed a hot race for the council seats. Those registered with the Mar ion county clerk are Fred C An derson, B. G. Cochran, U. S. Floyd, Ted Gillespie, Lloyd Girod, Char les T. Haseman, Sam Palmerton, Huber Ray and Noyes Whitten. Anderson, in the mercantile business in Idanha. since 1945, was formerly in business at Valley Junction and Willamina. Cochran, 69, came to Oregon in 1892, ''and has spent most of his life in the Santiam canyon, work ing at logging and milling. He has lived at Idanha since 1945. Floyd, a farmer before coming to Oregon in 1940, Is now em ployed as a lumber grader at the Idanha Veneer company. - Gillespie, 50, came , to Oregon from Wisconsin at the age of 9. He has been In the grocery busi PRICE 5c No. 340 and economic strengthening of potential allies. Military Financial Power Within the country, he added, it caused "concentration of tre mendous financial power In the hands of the military, militariza tion of the youth, close super vision of. the loyalty of the citi zens . . . intimidation of people of independent political think ing." Einstein said the armament race now "assumes hysterial character," and "every step ap pears as the unavoidable con sequence of the preceding one." Annihilation Beckons "In the end," he added, "there beckons more and more clearly general annihilation." "It . is impossible to achieve peace as long as every single action is . taken with a possible future conflict in view," Einstein called for "solemn renunciation of violence." "Such renunciation, however, can only be effective if at the same time a supra-national ju dicial and executive body is set up, empowered to decide ques tions of immediate concern to the security of the nations," he said. "Even a declaration of the nations to collaborate loyally in the realization .of such- a 're stricted world covenant' would considerably reduce the immi nent danger of war." Pedestrians seriously injured two elderly Salem i while crossing South Commercial hour earlier, Frank Washburn, 71, lacerations when struck near Center Complete East Reich Gestapo File Planned BERLIN, Feb. 12-(F)-The i com munists are going to build a mas ter card index file showing the political history of every one of the 17,000,000 . persons in eastern Germany, it was announced today. The mammoth political dosser may be valuable to the new red Gestapo, authorized by the Volks kammer (people's chamber) last week, in keeping a tab on all eastern Germans. It also would be useful in conducting periodic purges of "unreliables" from party and governing jobs In eastern Germany. Herbert Warnlce, state secretary of the interior ministry in the east German communist republic, in announcing the task, assured former nazis they are welcome in the "national front" -r- a coalition of all parties tolerated in the east ern zone if they follow com munist leadership. Warnke said the gigantic file will be obtained by Issuing a new questionnaire to the entire popu lation. He declared: "Everyone must answer the new personal sheet' truthfully." "We must know," he added, "the beginning and the end of a person's membership in political parties and organizations.' ness for eight years, two of them in Idanha. Girod, also a candidate for state representative, taught school in Salem and spent three years in the navy before entering the grocery business in Idanha in 1946. A Willamette university graduate, he is 36. Haseman, 69, was born in New York City and came to Detroit Ore., in 1900 from Newport He worked for the Curtis Lumber company until 1935 when he mov ed to Idanha. He and Wilbur Chestnut built some of the city's first buildings. Palmerton, 43, graduated from Salem high school in lvzt. He scaled logs along the entire coast before coming to Idanha in 1936. He is part owner, of the Idanha Shingle milL Ray, 42, was born in Willamina, engaged in the logging business there from 1935 to 1944 and came to Idanha when he bought shares in the Idanha Lumber company., Whitten, 38, was born in New Hampshire and , came to Oregon from Washington state in 1940. He moved to Idanha in 1944 and is now a partner in the B & W Log ging company. PTTTCmmrn vu ij (Monday) -(AP)-Firet re ports from the soft coal fields today showed strik ing miners ignoring orders) of a federal court and John L. Lewis that they return to work. There is strong indica tion that the majority of the 370,000 idle diggers will re main on strike as whistles blow for early morning shifts. Overnight crews failed to report at six West Virginia mines em ploying 4,690 diggers. Only two mines In western and central Pennsylvania had over night shifts scheduled. Both pits, employing 1,500 diggers, were closed tight The men Just failed to show up," said one operator spokesman. During the week-end, presidents ot three United Mine Workers' lo crl. in Pennsylvania, two in West Virginia-and Ohio and one in Illi- nois expressed this view: Nothing short of a contract win make the diggers produce coal again. Mines In those four states em ploy 250,000 of the 370,000 strik ers. Rebellion Sammarised . Scattered comment from rebelli ous miners could be summed up this way: ;. We're not working without a contract" . A top coal industry source de clared: . A survey of southern fields in-' dicates practically no miners will return to the pits, he said, hw,k "It looks like the same thing everywhere else." tUrit Slid IneviUbU Another coal industry source also said a continued coal strike seemed inevitable today. He was Laurence T i e r n e y , BluefiekL W. Va whose Eastern Coal corpor ation operates mines in Pike coun ty, Ky. Tierney said he had informa tion that his own mines and most of the rest of the nation's pits win remain idle. He said union meet ings are being widely scheduled for Monday mdrning and this alone was a step to keep miners away from work. -", - "The wink and the , nod have been working, Tierney told a re porter. A federal equrt In Washington which found Lewis and the UMW guilty of contempt of prior strike-end injunction used the i- as ..Jit 4k Jm4Ka a signal the court said Lewis gave ' to miners to remain on strike. Wink and Nod' I think the miners have gotten the wink and nod to stay out de spite Lewis' message yesterday for them to go back to work," Tierney said. Lewis wired district UMW of ficials to direct the 370,000 strik ing miners to "cease their strike forthwith" in compliance with a U. S. court order. The government Sred a double barrelled legal blast at the union in an effort to halt the crippling six-week-old "no contract no work" strike. Under Taft-Hartley These swift moves came under the Taft-Hartley law: 1. The president's fact finding board said an immediate resump tion of coal digging is "impera- tive" to protect the national health and safety. 2. President Truman asked for an injunction ordering the miners back to work. I 3. Federal District Judge Rich mond B. Keech issued a 10-day ' temporary order for Lewis and his miners to resume digging co&L He also set a hearing for February 20 to determine whether the direct ive should be continued for the full 80 days provided by theJTafU Hartley law. Te Drop Demands 4. Keech signed an order direct ing Lewis and his union to drop four major demands in negotia tions with operators for a new contract The order was request ed by NLRB- General Counsel Robert N. Denham. He acted at request of major operators wh charged Lewis, with unfair labor practices. . 5. Keech directed Lewis to re sume bargaining in good faith, Lewis Immediately invited major operators to sit down with him Wednesday. They accepted. The government acted as the all out mines shutdown n eared an emergency. Coal supplies are estimated at anywhere from one to three weeks. Layoffs in coal-usang in dustries are past the 35,1500 mark and are due to zoom highei - if the strike continues: - It LOST AS FREIGHTER SINKS DEN H ELDER, The "Nether lands, Feb. 12-(yp)-The 2,2 14-ton Finnish freighter Karhula sank off the Dutch coast today. Ten crew men are missing. Lifeboats res-; cued IS crew members and two stowaways. ; mmmmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ' Max. Mln. 41 Salem .34 Portland ,43 A S7 San rranciaeo t jDO Chicago 39 : S9 j04 New York 4S - SJ jDO FORECAST (from U 3. weather but reau. McNsry field. Salem): Mosuf cloudy with showers today and tonlgtiL High today near 47 low tonlaht Ma SALKM PMCinTATIOX iThUYoar