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Senate Favors Treaty
Truman to Ask
House Voles
Jo Retain
Death Penalty
SALEM OP) Oregon's death
penalty will remain as a punish
ment for first degree murder, the
House voting 32 to 27 Monday
against a Senate-passed resolution
.to take capital punishment out of
the constitution.
. Last Friday the House had vot
ed, on a committee report, Just the
other way around. That vote was
81 to 28 to abolish capital punish
ment ". There was an hour's debate
Monday, which included gory de
acriptions of past murders.
'Sponsor Argue
t Sponsors of the repeal measure
"argued that under the death pen
alty innocent persons are executed,
that capital punishment does not
prevent murders, and that any
person who has enough money to
hire a good lawyer can get off
with a life sentence.
Those in favor of capital pun
ishment argued that the murder
rat would increase if the death
penalty were abolished.
' The people voted in 1914 to
abolish capital punishment, but in
J 920 they restored the death pen
alty. Vets Bonus Talks Delayed
-" The House had expected to take
up the veterans bonus bill Mon
.day, and finance it with a two
cent cigarette tax. But the heavy
, .calendar caused the House to de
ilay consideration of the bonus un
. til Tuesday.
The Legislative Ways and
-Means Committee paved the way
' for Attorney George Neuner to
take part In the battle by coastal
Jand gulf states to keep the fed
eral government from taking over
-state tidelands. It approved a bill
;to give Neuner $5000 to finance
Oregon's part before Congress and
in the courts.
The Senate Labor ,and Indus
'Iriej Committee introduced a res
'olution for an interim committee,
to study all of Oregon's labor
.laws.
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MAP SPOTS NATIONS which will sign the North
Atlantic Pact and those who were invited to join the
alliance. Portugal has protested against the exclusion
of Spain (1) on the ground that it weakens the pact and
Portugal's own position. Provisions provide for a "se
curity zone" from the Tropic of Cancer north to nearly
the North Pole, including all of North America and ex
tending eastward right up to the Iron Curtain.
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Rests on Arming
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'There will not be another war
"as long as the American people
? are determined their national miU-
' Ury establishment shall not lapse,"
according to Adm. Louis E. Den
. feld, the chief ol Naval operations
... Denfeld, in an address at the
closing ceremonies of the 1949
National Orange Show Sunday,
aid the United States must be
' able to patrol the sea, the air and
waters under the sea and "keep
the enemy guessing."
. "Surprise is a very potent ally,"
he said, "and the Navy of today
is qualified to wage such a war."
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A ROMAN STOPS to read pro-government posters
supporting the De Gasperi administration's efforts to
make Italy a signer of the North Atlantic Pact The poster
on the left draws a parallel between Nazi and Communist
occupation of small nations. It reminds readers of the
Stalin-Ribbentrop agreement of 1939. The other placard
shows a German tank under "1939" and a Soviet tank
under "1949."
Bradley Urges New
Air Force Setup
WASHINGTON (U.R) Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, Army chief of
staff, urged Congress Monday to
approve a 70-group Air Force and
back it up by long-range authority
to maintain an army of 837,000
men.
Bradley told a Senate Armed
Services Committee that one with
out the other would not be enough
to protect this country, and the
Air Force alone could not be de
cisive In war.
He followed Army Secretary
Kenneth C. Royall, who told the
committee the 70-group Air Force
would give this country adequate
strength in the current "chess
game" was being waged around
the world.
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Innocent Plea
Entered by Girl
WASHINGTON W Judith
Coplon, 27-year-old former gov
ernment girl, pleaded innocent
Monday to a charge that she took
secret security Information from
Justice Department files.
She made her plea before U. S.
District Judge Richmond B. Keech
after traveling here from New
York to surrender on a District of
Columbia Grand Jury indictment
alleging such removal.
Miss Coplon is also under in
dictment in New York on an es
pionage conspi-acy charge.
The New York indictment charg
es she conspired to pass secret
information to Valuntln A. Gub
itchev, Russinn engineer at United
Nations headquarters. She was re
leased in New York under $20,000
bond.
After receiving Miss Coplon's
plea, Judge Kcech fixed additional
bond for her at $10,000.
miss iopion was lempuraniy i
Free Hand
In Re-armament
WASHINGTON W President
Truman is expected to ask Con
gress for a free hand in sending
arms to Western Europe under the
proposed billion-dollar military
aid orosram.
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
House Armed Service Committee
predicted the arms program will
be approved in both houses "with
out a particle of trouble."
Tightly linked to the arms pro
posal is the North Atlantic Defense
Treaty, which would virtually
commit this country to go to war
if any of its allies were attacked.
The final decision would be sub
ject to congressional approval,
however.
An Associated Press survey
showed that at the moment, the
edge is heavily in favor of the
12-nation treaty. But at least 25
Republican and 12 Democratic
senators were still so undecided
about its far-reaching effects that
they were unwilling to commit
themselves publicly for or against
it
Included in this group were
most of the Senate's GOP lead
ers. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) has
said he favors a North Atlantic
agreement, but opposes plans to
help re-arm Europe.
Since two-thirds of the senators
voting must approve to ratify the
treaty, tne opposition of 30 sen
ators might kill the pact. The
treaty is scheduled to be signed
here April 4.
The AP survey showed: 55 in
clined to favor ratification, one
opposed, 37 unwilling to go on
record at this time.
Senator Bridges (R-NH) indi
cated he may vote for the treaty
in tne end, but said it means
'automatic war" if a European
member-nation is attacked.
Meanwhile, taxes and prices
claimed growing congressional attention.
Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wvol
said prices are going up again. He
saia congress should give Presi
dent Truman the "mild powers"
the administration seeks to fight
inflation.
O'Mahoney also declared he
thinks it important for Congress
iu oui taxes as soon as possible,
xsut senator Taft said the na
tion's economy is in fairly good
balance and he doesn't think
mere is any need for the stand
by price-wage and other controls
wmch Mr. Truman has reauested
A modified extension of federal
rent controls began a race against
ume in tne Senate Monday with
several Dig nuraies in its path.
The present law fixing maxl
mum rents for several million
homes and apartments expires
iviaren ai, just 10 days away.
Senator Maybank (D-SC) told a
reporter he wants the Senate to
pasa a 12 to 15 month extension
uiai wouia allow some rents to
increase 10 per cent "sometime
late Monday or at least Tuesday."
Maybank is chairrnan of the
Senate Banking Committee which
sharply revised a rent extension
passed oy the House. He conceded
iic laces powenui senate sup-
yyn mi major cnanges in our
D1U."
Even if the Senate passes the
compromise as it stands now, the
bill would have to go back to the
nouse tor action on Senate amend
menta. Then Senate-House dif
ferences would have to be ad.
justed and both Senate and House
approve the compromise.
Maybank predicted the major
senate oatties win come on these
points:
1. A substitute proposal bv Re
publican Senators Cain (Wash)
and Bricker (Ohio) calling for a
six-month extension of actual rent
controls plus another six months
of supervision of rent ceilings and
evictions. The Senate committee
bill calls for a 12 month extension
taken into custonv of II. S. mar- i
shals again for fingerprinting' P,us ,ne months of supervision.
wnne ner attorney arranged lor
the bond.
Judge Kcech set her trial date
here for April 25.
Miss Coplon and Gubitchev are
scheduled to go to trial on the
conspiracy charge in New York
on April 1. The Russian
accused of an espionage conspir
acy. He is in custody in New York.
Chinese Sink
Red Cruiser
SHANGHAI tu.P.t The 5270-
ton Chinese cruiser Chungking
was sunk in the Communist-held
Htilutao harbor during a
day combine attack hv
bombers of the Nationalist Air
Force. A Navy spokesman in Nan
king said Monday.
The spokesman said that the
cruiser, formerly the Bvitish war
ship Aurora, had settled to the
bottom wilh only her deck and
superstructure above water.
The Cluinsking was handed to
Chinese Communists by her crew,
which deserted last February.
An air view taken after one of
the attacks showed the ship afire
and settling. It was tied to the
dock in the harbor on the western
shore of the Gulf of Chihli, north
west of Russian-held Dairen.
It was not known whether the
crew of deserters was aboard the
vessel when the bombing attacks
stinted. Rut the spokesman said
they had been warned to abandon
ship.
2. A "step-by-step" decontrol of
rents proposed by Senator Cape
hart (R-Ind). He wants to end
controls on all units renting for
$150 or more monthly on Sept. 30
with similar action at $100 and
above Dec. 31, $50 and above next
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3. A House-approved "local op
tion" system of decontrols that
! would allow towns, cities, counties
or states to lift rent ceilings or
take them over. The Senate bill
.would limit this authority to
states.
Both the Senate and House bills
fall short of President Truman's
demand for a full two-year exten
sion with overall tightening of
three- i controls and authority to enforce
B-24jthem.
IOW JONES AVERAGES
Dow Jones closing bond aver,
ages:
40 bonds 98.54 unchanged.
10 higher grade rails 102.02 off
0.09.
10 second grade rails 86.54 up
0.05.
10 public utilities up 0.11.
10 industrials 101.75 off 0.06.
Dow Jones closing stock aver
ages: 30 industrials 175.81, off
0.46: 20 railroads 47.54 off 0.2
15 utilities 35.00 off 0.05. and 85
stocks 83.01 off 0.18.
Sales Monday approximated
620.000 shares against 870,000 last
Friday.
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