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Hundreds at Youth Conference ILS.Piuts 2,500 Items on Tariff Cut List i nn 41 Orders Crackdown on Crime i r iiman mr l-tr '.V.. . '4 . Hundreds ef youth organization leaden and workers are in Salem attending the governor's conference on youth at the state capitol. ' Part of the opening day crowds of delegates are shown above in the state home of representatives as they listened to Dr. Martha Brsnscombe, (lower right), director of the Elizabeth McCormlck foundation, Chicago, give the opening address. Mrs. Saidie Orr Dunbar, (top left), chairman of the conference, presided. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer). Local Committee Takes Aim at Traffic Hazards By Robert E. I , City Editor, The Statesman Thirty Salem citizens took dead aim Thursday night on local traffic hazards, fingering the trigger of their brand new 30-30 ; safety Council as if they meant business. i This was the mayor's traffic safety council as it organized for the safety campaign which has been Springfield Goj res uncuiJi City Manager i SPRINGFIELD, April IS - (P) -The city council fired City Man ager Fred Cheatham tonight in a surprise movj on the eve of a re call election for Mayor B. P. Lar on. , The council took the action In a 4ri vote after opening what fwas expected to be only a routine meeting to check on polling pla - ces in tomorrow's election. t The fireworks started from -the floor as a resident, Russell God dard, long an opponent of the city ; manager form of government, proposed that Cheatham be asked x to resign. I Cheatham and the mayor long have opposed each other in coun ! cil sessions. i Councilman Alvin Reed then of fered a motion requesting Cheat- ham resignation. It passed, 4-2, When Cheatham refused to step down. Reed offered another mo tion to discharge him. It passed by I ; the same margin. The mayor did ! -- not vote. I The motion gave no reason for the firing, but in discussion of the matter Cheatham a opponents ac cused him of failing to co-oper ! I ate with the council and mayor, of failing to follow orders and of inefficiency. : I The council indicated a succe : tor would be appointed within .two weeks. I The voting tomorrow will be conducted in 11 precincts. (Additional details on page 3) SCHOOL BOND APPROVED I CORVALLIS, April 13-(iP-A 9400,000 bond issue for construe' tion or new schools was over whelmingly approved, 766-163, by the Corvallis school district yester day.. Voters also approved a 1950- 61 budget $198,771 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. Animal Crackers I By WARREN GOODRICH "See wlbat f mean, daughter aJwjys waft tiff AfTf tAtaring time to pick mite." MM. Gangwaro assigned to it under chairman- snip oi Dave hoss. , All agreed to a working basis of persistent, well - publicized 'public education in traffic safety Maimed more at the attitudes of drivers and pedestrians than the making and enforcement of traffic laws. They agreed, too. that the whole safety problem is complex enough to dictate a slow, thoroughgoing approach as evidenced by the va riety of "main points voiced by members in a round of Individual appraisals of the traffic situation. Hoss called for a committee willing to work as individuals to ward the end of greater safety and as members of local groups to enlist the aid of large numbers of the Salem citizenry. 1 From questionnaires circulated last night at the city hall meeting Hoss will fix regular meeting times and form subcommittees to work out details of the safety pro gram recently authorized by Sa em city council. Since a major specific problem. cited by many in addition to in dividuals' attitudes, concerned downtown parking congestion, member James R. Beard pointed out that plans already underway call for new public and private off-street parking space for ; nearly 1,000 cars by the end of this year, (Additional details on page 20.) City Considers Operation of Rock Crusher Salem city council today will. consider the possibility of a city operated rock crushing plant. The move is opposed by Salem trades and labor council, announ ced Herbert E. Barker, executive secretary. Mayor R. L. Elfstrom said last night the city faces a season of heavy! construction and is having difficulty buying the right grade oz crushed rock. In some cases .it has been necessary to substitute a finer grade than needed for re cent works, he added. I A resolution was on the city council agenda Monday night to authorize the city manager to buy $7,750 worth of rock crushing equipment provided suitable land could I be leased for the project. This i resolution, however, was withdrawn without discussion. Labor Secretary Barker said the labor council had resolved its op position to any such move at a regular meeting Tuesday i night Barker said the opinion was ex pressed that in such an operation I the city might circumvent union wage scales by using city-employ ed common labor at scales ? as low as $L 12i. Barker declared com mon labor on comparable union projects is paid about $1.65 per hour. YALSETZ STRIKE CONTINUES DALLAS, April lS-iiVThe week-cld strike of Western Log ging company at Valsetx was still in effect today, with no hint of a settlement. The 200 employes, members of the CIO Internation al Woodworkers of America; struck for time and a half pay on! Satur days. ! ! I Oreson i G Confereni Opens in Salem (Pictures and stories also on pages 5 And B.) Leaders in education, child welfare and health reported on those fields to delegates who fill ed the state capitol s house cham ber Thursday night for a genera session of the governor's youth conference which brought hun dreds of delegates to Salem for the two-day meeting which con tinues today, i "There is growing recognition !that high school of education for is the terminal most students," said Dr. Thomas C. Holy of Ohio State university who is conduct' dng a survey of Oregon schools. j Holy said the 'three r s were getting more attention and noted Ithat more funds i were available to teach physically handicapped and slow-learning children. Predicts Expansion Holy saw increasing public in terest in what schools are doing and predicted a continued expan sion of 'adult education programs He. reviewed coujrses offered by Salem s adult program as an ex ample of what adult education is offering today. Dr. Frank M. Douglass, Seattle, representing the American Acad emy of Pediatrics, said a recent survey showed Oregon had the nation's lowest Infant mortality rate. I In Rural Areas Douglass said the survey show ed deaths among jpre-school chil- Jdren are most frequent in rural areas. He attributed this to fewer health facilities in country areas, but said that more counties are hiring fulltime health officers and nurses. j Public and private child wel fare groups must work together to face increasing problems, said Spencer CrookesJ New York, di rector of the Child Welfare League of America. "There is a need for both," he added, j In a country that seems over flowing with potatoes and pow dered eggs, there are current ser ious deficiences," Crooks said. ! Many child welfare cases spring from the nations 6,000,000 dis rupted families And the 100,000 children born out of wedlock each year, according to Crooks, who stressed the need for more funds and facilities for welfare pro- grams, Wooclburii Garden Club Completes Spring Show Pland WOODBURN, April 13 Plan! for the Wood bum Garden club's annual spring flower show April 29 were completed this week when General Chairman Harold Colgan named committees and listed clas sifications. I ! Invitations to compete have been sent to garden clubs at New, berg, Canby, Mtl Angel, Gervais, Brooks. Lake Labish and Scotts Mills. Commercia! and none-com- petitive displayed are also being solicited. lYouth i Chief Waxes I! Optimistib as 6th Year Starts WASHINGTON. April President Truman said today he has ordered the justice department to get to the bottom Of nationwide crime rackets. The president told: reporters he himself called for setting up a fed eral grand jury which for several months has been at; work on the crime situation in Kansas City, Mr. Truman's home bailiwick. Some senate republicans are in sisting that forthcoming senate investigation of organized gambl ing and interstate rackets in gen eral take in Kansas; City, where Charles Binaggio. a democratic party ngure, was slain this month. mysteriously The senate will fight it out shortly over which committee shall run its inquiry witi republicans opposing the democratic idea of a special panel of five senators. The political battle developing could carry over into the li congressional campaign. i; Killings Brought Up The Kansas City! killin was brought up in the president's news conference when a reporter stated tnat Binaggio. and an ex-convict slain with him, had been witnes ses oeiore tne Kensas City grand jury Investigating rickets. He said that McGrath had call ed the grand jury at the chief exe cutive's suggestion. Ij He also observed; that his re quest for grand jury investigation had included both Kansas City and st. IjOuis, but that the crime prob lem is a national one. ! He said he did not Include other cities in his request at the time because grand juries; already were meeting elsewhere. Ij , i Mr. Truman said j he intended that the Investigation be nation wide in scope, to get at the bottom or the widespread rackets if pos side. Starts 6th Tear i WASHINGTON, April 13 -(JFy-President Truman, who has just embarked on his sixth year in the nation's highest office, said today the United States is prosperous and the world situation improved. I He made this oral report to a hews conference aftei- looking back over five years in the presidency i years that have !i spanned the closing months of a world conflict and the subsequent jperiod of cold war. i! ' I The chief executive appeared in a challenging mood. In some of his replies he snapped! at his aues tioners. He also hinted at the line of attack he will take in his cross country trip next month. For ex ample he: j; 1 Said he expects to take credit lor the nation s prosperous condi uuii, ucsjjiic wmui ne! cauea claims by some parts of the press that these conditions would exist even if a moron were in the White House. i: Raises Question i 2 Raised the question whether it is possible to libel Senator Mc Carthy, Wisconsin republican who charges that Red influence is ram pant in the state;; department (Story on page 6.) j! 3 Upheld the Brannan plan as Kthe answer to the farm surplus problem, and said Maine legisla tors had brought on the chief sur plus potatoes. 1 1 Said every effort will be made to get through a bill for a fair em ployment practices commission. A question "are the first five years the hardest?" I got Mr. Tru man off on a discussion of econo mics and peace. j He said the first fVe years were rather difficult, but that the coun try is still on its feet Despite some unemployment he stated, more people are employed than ever before, and we have a pros perous setup if the Wall Street reports can be believed. Max Tucker Estate Valued Near 3 Million li PORTLAND, April 13 -(JP) The total estate of Max D. Tucker, who left most of his money to charitable and educational pur poses, was appraised today at $2,919,834. 1 Tucker, president of Cascade Plywood company, died two mon ths ago. ; UxJ Kin. Precip. IlltH " i 41 .M Portland 5S ! 41 J3 San Francisco 57 4S .a Chicago . 33 Jl trace New York 44 33 . Willamctt river 3$ fect. FO RECAST (from US. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem : Generally (air and warmer today with increas ing cloudiness this ! afternoon and tonight. Rain Saturday. High today 63-9. Low tonight 44-4S. SALEM PRECIPITATION TJ vear lt Yfcar Normal Judge Blames Government for $200 Million Texas City Blasts Mammoth Damage HOUSTON, Tex., April 13-yp) UA federal judge today pinned responsibility for the Texas City disaster on the U.S. government f and accused the government pf "blunders, mistakes and acts5 pr negugence." More than 500 persons were Hilled in April, 1947, by explo sions and fires which turned the Texas harbor town into a holo caust The disaster began with an explosion aboard the French jowned,. S.S. Grandchamp, carry ing ammonium nitrate. I Federal District Judge T. M. ennerly ruled in a test damage Suit. He then extended his rul ing to cover $200,000,000 in dam age suits filed by 8,485 parties, i The 76-year-old jurist's rul ing three days short of three years after the great disaster means each of the suits must be tried separately before a federal Salem Man From China by Reds HONG KONG. Friday. April 14-JF-Five Americans were among the 88 foreigners who have just by way of Tientsin. I All five said they were happy to be outside red China. They left Shanghai on a special train for Tientsin, in north China, where they boarded the steamer Jessen for Hong Kong. f : ? Soroptimist Delegates Due In Salem Today Several hundred Soroptimist club members from throughout the northwest will arrive in Salem to day for the 13th conference of the northwestern region of American Federation of Soroptimist clubs, j Members : of the service wom en's chib will be here from Wash and Oregon. EHRDLU U SHRU ington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Oregon. Conference head quarters will be at the Marion hotel for the three-day sessions. I Dr. Clifford Patton of New YorW City, liaison officer with the Uni ted Nations, arrived in Salem by plane Thursday afternoon to be the main speaker during the conference.- At the opening session this afternoon at 3 o'clock Dr. Patton will speak. Other convention highlights will include a ranch dinner at the Lee Eyerly home this evening, business sessions Saturday morning at the hotel, nomination of officers, luncheon at noon at the American Legion club with Dr. Patton as guest speaker. His subject will be The Philippines in the UNESCO Program." I Saturday afternoon's business sessions will be at the American Legion hall, with election of offi cers slated. A formal banquet in the evening at i the chamber of commerce will feature Gov. Doug las McKay as speaker. Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee of Port land will speak at a Sunday morn ing breakfast at the hotel. (Additional details In women's section). Politics on Parade . . . j , i Who's Running for What in the May Primaries! (Editor. Bote: CoaeU ta wrie. are T for date witho-t reitreo. and Bay ot reflect Ut opinio- of tU newspaper). Today's .subject: Roy Honck (r) Candidate for State representative (Marion) Republicans in Marion county r. can elect four candidates w house of representatives. Voters have a right to know who the candidates are, : -hat they stand."' tor, and on what education, "and reputation they ire qualified to serve. t i m. In 0nv-mn m tion p r e s ented 6ere covers my u a 1 ifications. ay Which I trust fortifies me witn Sufficient background to promote Ind pass on helpful legislation. ri km ... Bo-ck Suits Filed in Three judge, on its merits. The mass trial of the $200,000,000 in dam age suits was to determine lia bility. Judge Kennerly, who heard months of technical testimony last year, ruled: "This record discloses blun ders, mistakes and acts of neg ligence both of omission and commission on the part of defen dant, its agents, servants and employes in deciding to begin the manufacture of this inher ently dangerous fertilizer. (He referred to the ammonium nit rate which was manufatcured in government-owned ordnance plants and destined for shipment overseas.) "And from the beginning of its manufacture on down to and af ter the day of the Texas City disaster, the record j discloses such disregard of any lack of Released arrived from communist j Shanghai Among the five Americans is Frank Vernon Miles, Salem, Ore., a relief worker. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Miles, 49 Lansing ave., were overjoyed Jate Thursday night when they learned that their son, Frank Vernon Mi les, was among the 88 foreigners to be evacuated from communist Shanghai. I Miles, a relief worker with the American Friends Service com mittee, has been in China since 1948. He was with a medical team in Honan province at the time of the red conquest there and spent a year in north China. Recently he has been chairman of the Friends unit at Shanghai. Mrs. Miles said Thursday night that she had received a letter from her son last week in which he held the hope he would be permitted to leave Shanghai. He had expect ed evacuation In January but It was postponed. A graduate of Oregon State col lege, Miles took courses in relief and reconstruction at Guilford col lege, N. C. before joining the Fri ends organization. Mrs. Miles expects her son to come directly to the United States from Hong Kong and to visit Sa lem before continuing on to Phila delphia to attend school. Hotel for Sale On Lonei HONOLULU, April 13-;p)-For Sale,, probably very cheap: One 66-room hotel. - The catch is that it's on Palmyra, lonely atoll 1,100 miles southwest of Honolulu. The hotel owner, the Civil aero' nautics administration, has a band oned its station on Palmyra and will accept bids for the hotel at its office here until May 24. A iative Oregonian,! 54 years of age and a life-long republican. A graduate electrical engineer of 'Oregon State college, 1917. A general highway (Contractor, building many sections of the major highways of Oregon. Owner and operator i of a Z3B acre larm, near oaiem ior Tears. L . m Served on Commumty cnesx, Red Cross. Polio, and Bond drives. Past Marion County chairman and state vice-chairmiTi of the advisory board of th National Foundation of Infantile! Paralysis, and now Marion County Rural chairman for the 1950 Red Cross campaign, j Chairman of the Salem Airport Zoning board and a ! registered Dilot Member of the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, Hks 336. and Knife and Fork club, I a Mason, and Shriner. ! Married and have three sons: Roy I, Jr, a general highway contractor. Carlos (Cub) and James, students at Oregon State college. (Tomerrew EL B. Jeaes.) ly Atoll - Year - Old Tragedy care for the safety of the public and of persons manufacturing, handling and transporting and using such fertilizer as to shock one." The e x p i o s i o n s in the French-owned S. S. Grandchamp on April 16, 1947, and in the S.S. High Flyer early the next morn ing turned the shipping town into a bedlam of destruction. It is the largest damage action ever brought against the govern ment. Should the full $200,000, 000 be allowed it would cost each man, woman and child in the U.S. about $1.30. In Washington, Assistant At torney General H. Graham Mor ison said the government will immediately appeal to the cir cuit court of appeals at New Orleans. It was indicated the case will be taken to the sup reme court if necessary. Russ Convinced Fight Involved Lost ILS. Plane By Eddie Gilmore MOSCOW, April 13-(;p)-Pravda left no doubt today that Russians regard the U. S. navy patrol plane hunted in the Baltic areas as the same aircraft the Soviet govern ment said exchanged shots with a Soviet fighter over Latvia Sat urday and then disappeared to ward the sea. A few hours later the govern ment announced the award of the Red Banner to four Soviet air force lieutenants "for. excellent fulfillment of their duty." The de cree, issued here and broadcast Dy ine Moscow raaio, did not ga into detail about what they did to win the citations. "Now the American authorities are trying to hide their faces, said a front-page editorial In Pravda, the communist party newspaper. "The representative of the American air force In Wiesbaden on April 11 declared, for ex ample, that an American plane was missing, allegedly during a normal training flight over north ern Germany and Denmark. He was silent, however, about the fact that mis plane violated the Soviet frontier and engaged in the so-called "pursuit of knowledge' over Soviet territory." April 11, Tuesday, was the day Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky protested to the U. S. embassy, that a bomber of the B-29 super fortress type had vi olated the Soviet frontier by a flight over Latvia Saturday, fired on a fighter group that directed it to land, drew fire in return and then turned toward the sea. (The widely publicized hunt for the navy plane, a four-engined PB-4Y privateer smaller than the B-29, but looking somewhat like it was three days old Tuesday. The search Thursday proved fruitless. Fighting Starts In Indonesia JAKARTA. U. 8. I, Friday, April 14 - Vf) - Scattered fighting broke out in Makassar last night after President Soekamo of the U. S. I. said he had ordered his army to break the rebellion In East Indonesia's capital. Neutral military sources report ed that the outburst of violence had been quieted without serious casualties. i Maj. Harjono, a spokesman for the United States of Indonesia army, said today that the federal army "will invade the lstand South Celibes at any moment" Rebel armored patrols have been crisscrossing Makassar in fiance of Soekamo, after Aziz had spurned a sunimonr to come to the federal capital in jaana ana count for his activities. ac- RA THING KITES TKAMFLE It NEW DELHI, India, April 15-(,P-Thirty persons were reported trampled to death toaay as near ly 1.000.000 Hindu pilgrims swarmed to the banks of the Ganges for ceremonial bathing rites in the sacred river. irnitn i -iti rwt isrrnft ELLSWORTH. Me, April 1- CFr-World Citizen Garry Davis and Audrey Peters, Hollywood dancer, publicly exchanged vows today in a Quaker-like wedding in city hall plaza. U.S. to Discuss Rate Reduction At Conference 4 By Jeha A. Seal! WASHINGTON. April 13'-4V. The United States gave notice to day it would try to lower Ameri can tariffs on about 2,500 items as part of its campaign to help other countries earn more dollars. The state department announced a United States delegation will be empowered to negotiate with IT foreign countries for reduced is lea at a 40-nation trade conferenc to be held at, Torquay, England ' September 28. In return, the United States wl ask these 17 foreign governmenta - to slash their tariff duties m American goods. , j Help Solve 'Dollar Gap' It is the belief of the Unite States that general acceptance cf these principles will help rolva the problems Involved In United States foreign assistance program and the 'dollar gap'," the depart ment said. Along with its formal announce ment, the state department mad- public a 73-page list of foirig products which may be affected by the negotiations. The items ranged front reindeer meat to steam engines and ia cluded such "controversial" pro ducts as these; Wool, fish, rlnck wines, whiskey, paper, textile, toys, china, rayon, and dairy pra ducts. In the past, American producera have objected vehemently any . time that existing tariff baniem on these items have been chan4. Their argument has been that will reduced duties the foreign pro ducers threaten to undersell Amer ican companies and thus cauce un employment la this country. Third and Biggest ' The Torquay conference will ha the third and biggest lnternational tariff-eutting meeting held in tha past three years. The 40 n-tioaa attending account for more thaa four-fifths of the world's trade. Russia and its satellites are net expected to attend. For the first time since the war ended, western German v. Aus tria, arid south Korea will be ia presented. Japan, however, wfll be barred even though the United States sought to get ft Invited. ' r t Price SuDDorts 1 11 I End on Turkey, Chicken drops j PORTLAND, April lS-OTVTe end of price supports of chitnene and turkeys was greeted di tartly today by poultrymen. who foieaaw runner skids In an already declin ing marxe:. The price of heng nromptlr fefl one cent a pound. C. W. Noitoa. manager of Northwest Poultry and Dairy Products company, said tha breeder turkey market might to flooded. Another Industry member. E. I Martindale of Columbia Product company, predicted a squeete be tween the unsupported poultry and supported reed. Trie price of feed has climbed In the last 10 days. "It does not make eerva." ka complained, "to support grain at present high levels and remova price supports on the by-prod ucU." The revenue from Oregon chick ens, turkeys, and eggs fell sharptx ast year, aespiia ine fact that more of them were told. Lower price cut Income from t3S.6SZ.0t0 in jma to 3l,ZBlt0OO in 1949. Last Call Today For Guesses It's going to be a bit of work ascertaining who wins the $40 in prizes off trad by Tha State uua for the three closest gueaa ea as to Salem's 1930 popula tion. 1 I Nearly 1.000 guesses hare been entered. Nona can be ac cepted after . midnight tonight (no matter when they are poet marked). In event of a tie (or ties), itll be veritably a toat-up. Tha winners will be announced tha day after tha official census fig ures arc made known try Dla trict Census Supervisor CernaL lus Bateson probably within a week or two. , vour COMPLETE Newspaper i