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Rvrnar Rlamar Russia tor big 1 4 Paris Fizzle i . i U. S. to Cease to Attend j i J n r : Big 4 Meers ana nerer ? Treaties to U. N. . Washington, May 21 (IP) Sec- retary of State Byrnes gave Bus- ing a European peace confer ' ence this summer, else the Unit ' ed States 'will walk out of the i.nlH Rlv Vnui. frflfv talks j and carry the whole matter be v fore the United Nations. r Proclaiming an American "of- i fensive for peace," Byrnes lert ' no doubt in his radio address to would be carried out even at the ! expense of the basic postwar ideal that the great victor na .; tions should act in unison to fashion the future, i The cabinet officer made It j perfectly plain that he held Rus- ma rpxrtnnsible for the disap pointing outcome oi tue toreign t IUJM19LCJS ......... . V mccorl in Paris last Thursday until June 15. From the aggressive but con fident tone of his speech, how ever, it was apparent and offi cial mnfirmprt this that Byr nes is counting on Moscow con ferences between Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov and Premier Stalin during the recess to re verse or modify the Russian po sition on these questions. Feace Biggest Need On the one looming biggest in his estimate the making of peace treaties so that the na tions of Europe can begin to live ana Dreaine again, opi nes declared he was confident that there would be a peace con ference of the European nations and other interested powers this summer. Recalling that at Paris Molo- IOV DIOCKeu sui:u a iiuiajsoi, Byrnes said this power to stop "all efforts toward peace" must not be left to any one nation and added: "If a peace conference is not called this summer, the United States will feel obliged to re quest -the general assembly of the United Nations under article 14 of the charter to make re commendations with respect to the peace settlements." The article he cited gives the assembly power to intervene in any situation involving the gen- eral welfare of the world. "There is no iron curtain," Byrnes said, "that the aggre sentiments of mankind -' cannot penetrate." Vandenberg Still Hopeful Washington, May 21 (U.R) Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R., Mich.) said today that whatever its failures, the Paris foreign ministers conference was a complete success in de veloping a constructive bi-partisan and peace-seeking foreign policy for the United States. The Michigan senator attend ed the Paris meeting as a re publican spokesman on foreign policy in the senate. In a brief senate speech, Van denberg endorsed the report on the conference presented to the people last night by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Byrnes stressed the many dif ficulties created by Soviet Rus sia's attitude. Byrnes' surprise threat to re fer peace treaties to the United Nations if Russia continues to veto a peace conference mean while drew strong support from republican and democratic spokesmen on foreign affairs in congress. 4 Vandenberg expressed regret 'that the Paris meeting failed to achieve agreement - on several key questions upon which the V solution of major problems de pend. But, he said, he did not despair, believing that "delay is preferable to error in such vital matters." He urged that the United States continue o srive for allied unity wih pa ient firmness. Ask Franchise for Infracify Bus Line Application to operate a bus transportation route in and around Salem, doing business between points within the city as well as a suburban business, was placed with the city coun cil Monday night by C. B. Costa and William Nelson. Without the intracity business the appli cants say the enterprise would not pay. The proposed route follows: East on State to 12th; south on 12th to Mission: east on Mission to 13th; south on 13th to Hoyt and Pringle road; south on Pringle road to Market road No 839; west on 839 to 12th street cut-off; north on 12th to Fairview avenue; west on Fair view to Summer; north on Sum mer to McGilchrist; west on Mc Gilchrist to High; north on High to Ferry; west on Ferry to Commercial; north on Com- Inercial to State. Capital 58th Year, No. 121 Chinese Claim Great Victory In Manchuria (Br thi Associated Press) Chinese .government .forces pushed on to new attacks in the Manchurian .civil .war .today while .a .Nanking spokesman called for peace and asked for sympathy and understanding for the Chinese from Russia and the United States. The government's central news agency said the new first army, victorious at Szepingkai after being stalled for 32 days by communist forces, drove northward with five spearheads. Its new objective was a red troops concentration at Kung chuling, 40 miles north of Szepingkai on the Mukden Changchun railway. Other new first army troops, meanwhile, attached communist forces in the mountainous area northwest of Szepingkai. 300,000 in Battle In Nanking, Dr. Sun Fo, chairman of the government legislative council, asserted that China "will have to build her self up economically and poli tically" with the ending of civil strife as the vital step. Correspondents of the gov ernment controlled Chinese press hailed the occupation of Szepingkai yesterday as a "great victory." A field cor respondent for Ta Kung Pao described the 32-day stalemate which preceded the victory as the "greatest battle" of the civil war involving 150,000 men on each side. The government troops were expected to meet with consid erably more determined com munist troops at Kungschuling. (Concluded on Page 11, Column 6) Navy Lists Costs Of Liberty Ships Washington, May 21 (IP) Lib erty ships cost the maritime commission from $1,508,906 to $3,918,779 apiece during the war, and the bill for one was $7,161,234. This was disclosed today In house appropriations committee hearings made public as the 1947 navy appropriation bill was reported to the house. The commission submitted figures on 2,580 Liberty ships built at 17 shipyards. The aver age cost to the commission was $1,800,743. The Permanenle Metals Corp. at Richmond, Calif., built more Libertys than any other yard. It turned out 489, at an average cost of $853,674 to the builder and $1,715,573 to the commis sion. The average builder's profit per vessel varied from-$29,470 for 66 ships built by the J. A. Jones Co., in Panama, to $110, 000 for two build by the Kai ser Corp., at Vancouver, Wash., the average profit was $66,631. The number of ships built, and the total cost per vessel to the commission included: Kaiser Corp., Vancouver, Wash., two ships, $2,665,811; Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland, Ore., 330 ships, $1, 621,597. Truman Approves Postal Pay Boost Washington, May 21 (IP) President Truman signed into law today a bill giving nearly all postal workers a $400 year ly pay increase. Those who don't get the $400 boost are fourth class postmas ters, who receive a 20 percent raise, and part-time workers, who receive a gain of 20 cents hourly. City to Check on Trains That Wait, Wait - - and Wait A city ordinance permits railroad trains to block traffic on the streets for five minutes if absolutely necessary. But 25 or 30 minutes that was too much for Alderman C. F. French, and he got the city council Monday night to order the police depart ment to investigate the situa tion and enforce the ordinance. French said he had received a complaint from someone about the overlong blocking of streets, and Alderman Albert H. Gille expressed astonishment that Mr. French" had just discovered the abuse of privilege. "We have it every day on State and Court streets," said Gille, "and it's only by the grace of God that a serious fire hasn't occurred when trains were ex tended across the streets to block fire equipment." Then Alderman Howard Maple came in with a demand that the check-up also cover the switching trains on Trade street, and the motion was broadened accordingly. Entered bi second eltu matter tt SJm. Orcoa Salem, 5 Killed When Big Army Plane Hits Skyscraper New York, May 21 (Pi An army transport plane, lost in dense fog as it groped for New ark air base, smashed into the world's fourth tallest building amid the towers of the New York financial district last night and hurled foifr army officers and a Wac lieutenant to instan taneous death. The plane, a twin-engined Bcechcraft C-45, sped out of a 400-foot overcast and struck the 58th floor of the 71-story 937 foot high bank of the Manhat tan company on Wall street. The plane disintegrated in a blind ing flash and showers of flaming debris fell to the pavement. Rain of Fire Follows "There was nothing but flame," John Gunther, a Chase National Bank guard, who was an eyewitness, said. "It showered down like a rain of fire." Another witness said "The flames seemed to pour down from floor to floor." Occupants of the building, es timated at the time by police as between 500 and 2,000, were not injured. Five persons were struck by flaming particles in the street below. A five-man army investigat ing board, ordered formed an hour after the crash, began an examination of the tragedy to day. The board visited the scene, made technical inspections and interviewed witnesses. Army officials said the plane was on a navigational training flight from Beaumont, Tex., to Newark. List of Dead The war department listed the dead as: Maj. Mansel R. Campbell, 27, the pilot, Pontiac, Mich. His wife, Edna, lives at Evart, Mich. The couple has one child, Ross Edward, six. Capt. Tom L. Hall, 29, of Austin, Tex. His beneficiary was listed as his wife, Helen Lind seth Hall, of Sioux Falls, S. D. They have two sons, Randall, 4, and Kenneth, one. First Lt. Robert L. Stevenson, 25, of the Bronx, who served overseas with the 386th and 554th bomb squadrons. First Lt. Angelo A. Ross, 28, Whitehall, N. Y., who served overseas with the Fifteenth air force. His wife, Martha, now re sides with her parents at Port Arthur, Tex., a daughter, Di ane Victoria, was born March 28. WAC First Lt. Mary E. Bond, Newtown, Pa. $30,000 Fire at Bend Airport Bend, Ore., May 21 (U.R) The hangar and seven light planes at Bend municipal airport were destroyed early this morning in a fire of undetermined origin. Total loss is estimated in excess of $30,000. Four of the planes were owned by Tilso Bowman Flying Serv ice of Bend and the other three by Thomas F. Brooks and Ger ald W. McCann of Bend and the Bend Flying club. The hangar building belonged to the city of Bend and was in sured for $11,000. Insurance was also carried on planes and shop' equipment. One plane an army trainer, was outside the hangar at the time and was not damaged. A nearby administration building also city owned, was undamaged. The fire was visible from Bend, six miles away, it was re ported by members of the fire department, who answered the fire call. But that wasn't all. Alder man Lewis Mitchell reminded the council that the Southern Pacific hadn't prettied up its grounds around the depot as promised, and wanted that in cluded in the motion, but was advised to make it a separate motion. The grounds, averred Mr. Mitchell, "are an eyesore to people coming into the city." City Attorney Lawrence N. Brown, questioned in the mat ter, said the company could be ordered by the city to cut the grass if it was over 10 inches high, and he was instructed to write the company a letter with some strong hints about what may be expected if the grass isn't mowed and the spot gen erally brightened up. -TTi ft Oregon, Tuesday, May 21, 7 Communists Release V. S. Newsmen W American newspapermen pause as they leave their plane at Mukden, Manchuria, after three week s of virtual internment in Communist - held Changchun, Manchuria. Left to right: Reynolds Packard, United Press; Tom Masterson, Asso ciated Press; Charlotte Ebener, International News Service; George Weller, Chicago Daily News, and Henry Lieberman, New York Times. Street Improvement Program for Summer Salem's program of street improvement for the summer under the state tax street fund, whereby cities benefit from funds of the state highway department, is estimated by City Engineer J. H. Davis to cost approximately $35,000. His plans and specifications were submitted to the council Monday night and the recorder Morse Blocks Labor Bill Vote Washington, May 21 (IP) An attempt to speed a senate vote on labor legislation was blocked today by Senator Morse (R Ore.) Morse objected to a request by Majority Leader Barkley (D-Ky.) for unanimous consent to limit each senator to a one hour address on the legislation itself, or any of itsmendments. Barkley's move Wajj)rade'tti an effort to clear the senate's decks for action on two other major measures to extend OPA and selective service. Morse served notice that he would continue to object to all speech limitation proposals "until the time comes when I am convinced that a filibuster is in progress." "Then," said the Oregon lawmaker, "I will vote for cloture" a formal method of restricting debate through a two-thirds vote of those present. "In this issue," Morse said, "as long as anyone wants to discuss the merits of the meas ure, I will object to any limi tation." Navy Seeking Alaska Oil Washington, May 21 (U.R) The navy department looked to Alaska today for future oil re serves which it reported Cali fornia fields will be unable to supply after 1955 at the latest. "California is expected in a very few years to be unable to meet its peacetime requirements of oil," said Lt. Cmdr. R. J. Bradley, USNR, petroleum economist. "We said 1955 to be ultra-conservative. My per sonal view is 1949." To prepare for any possible emergency which would catch the navy without enough oil on the Pacific coast to fight a war, navy department spokesman told a house appropriations subcom mittee during hearings released today they planned to complete exploration of Barrows reserve in Alaska. They regarded a west coast oil reserve as a strategic "must." 204 Combat Ships In Russian Navy Washington, May 21 (U.R) The navy department today lifted some of the secrecy surrounding the Soviet Union's sea power when it informed congress that the red navy comprises 204 combat ships the world's third largest fleet. However, the Soviet fleet is a poor third in terms of fire power because the vast majority of its fighting ships consisted of sub marines. At the same time, the navy disclosed plans to maintain suf ficient reserves for the Atlantic fleet to raise its strength above that of the Pacific fleet in an emergency. At present, the At lantic fleet constitutes a less powerful striking force than the Pacific fleet. Jomraal 1946 was directed to advertise for bids. Included in the program are some street widening jobs. These involve extensions of the improvement already existing and do not involve moving back of any buildings. The items in the program are: Minor patching of various streets' and alleys, $1520. Improvement of State street from Commercial to 12lh with 60 feet of six-inch asphaltic concrete, full coverage Cheme ka street, from Commercial to High, 59 feet of six-inch asphal tic concrete, full coverage. Al ley in block 35 from Ferry to Trade between Commercial and Liberty; 16 Vi feet of six-inch Portland cement, full coverage, alternates Broadway from Knapp to Hood; Center from 17th to 21st; Liberty from State to Che mckcta. Total $16,536. Market street widening, Capi tol to 14th, alternate estimates of $12,330.75 and $12,525.25. Hunt street widening, Fair grounds to Capitol, alternate estimates of $2290.50 and 52, 216.45. South 12th widening. Mill to Southern Pacific spur, alternate estimates, $1137.50 and $1, 156.50. South 25th. Lee to Mission, 18 feet gravel, with oil mat, $1600, or with city No. 7 mix, $3000. The council directed the en gineer to. prepare plans and specifications for the following for which petitions by property owners for the improvement were found sufficient: Alley in block 12, Jones ad dition; Saginaw from Lincoln to Lefelle; Saginaw from 'Myers to Lefelle; Saginaw from Wil son to Myers; Saginaw from Miller to Wilson; Saginaw from Owens to Miller; Bcllevue from 15th to 16th; alley in block 25, original Salem plat; Madison from 20th to city limit; Mill from 17th to 19th; Nebraska from 15th to 20th. Petitions for the improvement of Rural from Commercial to John, and of Grant from 18th to 19th were found insufficient. Fall Proves Fatal To Wife of Actor Hollywood, May 21 (IP) Mrs. David Niven, wife of the Eng lish actor, died today in a hos pital from injuries sustained Sunday night when she fell down a ccllarway in the home of Tyrone Power, Niven's stu dio said today. Mrs. Niven is the former Pri mulo Rollo, 'whom he met in 1940 during an air raid in Eng land. She then was a WAAF and he a colonel in the British army. They were married soon afterwards. Mrs. Niven also is survived by two young sons, David, Jr., and James Graham. The Weather (Released by the United Stales Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and vicin ity: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Lowest temperature tonight. 48. Weather will be favorable for dusting and spray ing Wednesday morning. Max. yesterday. 85. Min. today. 49. Mean temperature yesterday. 58, which was 1 above normal. To tal 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 ajn. today, trace. Total precipi tation for the month, .43, which ta 1.04 inches below normal. Willamette river height, 1.3 ft. 51 l!T3 Jve Cents Iranian Issue Before U. N. New York, May 21 (IP) Hopes of effecting an early settlement of the vexing problem of Iran, scheduled for consideration by the United Nations security council tomorrow, faded today following a new Iranian charge that "Soviet interference in the internal affairs of Iran has not ceased." Furthermore, Iranian Ambas sador Hussein Ala informed the council in a report last night, "if the reports of armed con flict in this strategically-critical area are true, obviously the danger to the international peace and security is both serious and imminent." He added, however, that he had received no "authentic in formation with respect to the reported clashes" between cen tral government troops and forces " of the self-proclaimed autonomous government of Az erbaijan province in northern Iran. Ala said his government had been unable to investigate re ports that "Soviet soldiers have been left in Azerbaijan in civil ian clothes and that military equipment has been placed at the disposal" of the separatist government of Azerbaijan. The ambassador, responding to a council request for infor mation as to the status of Rus sian army withdrawals as of May 20, informed the delegates that his government had been unable to establish that "all of the Soviet troops have been withdrawn from all Iran. Navy Air Stations Declared Surplus Washington, May 21 (U.R) Here are the air stations, aux iliaries and facilities in Oregon and Washington that the navy planned to declare surplus dur ing fiscal 1947: Washington NAAS, Arling ton; NAS, Pasco; NAAS, Shel ton; NAAS, Quallayutc. Oregon NAS, Astoria; NAAS, Corvallis; NAS, Klam ath Falls; NAAF Lakeview; NAAS, North Bend. Newport Inflation. Newberg, May 21 (IP) A street vendor who had been selling toy balloons for 25 cents blew them up about twice as big as before and raised the price to 35 cents. American Troops Raid Danube Fleet Suspected of Smuggling Vilshofcn, Germany, May 21 (IP) Four thousand American troops, striking by surprise at dawn today, raided a Hungarian river fleet suspected of smuggling SS fugitives, ammunition and black market supplies along the Danube river in Southeastern Germany. Vilshofcn is on the Danube 12 miles northwest of Passau, which is on the Austrian-German border. Nearly 400 boats, including many former units of the Hun garian navy, were boarded and searched by heavily armed U. S. constabulary troops. Hundreds of the boats' occu pants were removed for inves tigation by U. S. army counter intelligence agents. The report said that many machineguns and other weapons, radio trans mitters and receivers, quantities of U. S. army food, clothing and other contraband were found. No armed resistance was en countered. The only shots fired were by American troopers at three German river patrol boats Truman Orders Coal Mine Seizure Effective at Midnight Uncertain Whether Miners Will Stay on Jobs Secretary Krug to Be Government Administrator Truce Expires Saturday Lewis and Operators Silent But Latter Assure Cooperation Washington, May 21 (IP) President Truman today ordered government seizure of strike-threatened soft coal mines, effective tomorrow, declaring coal production is "indispensable" to the nation's economy. The white house press secretary, Charles G. Ross, said "both sides were sounded out" in advance. He would not say flatly that Mr. Truman expected the miners to work under government operation, but did say that the choice of a federal mine boss, Interior Secretary Krug, was pronounced acceptable to both the coal miners and operators." The chief executive acted after contract negotiations between John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and the soft coal operators bogged down. A two-weeks strike truce, under which the mines have been operating, expires Saturday. Lewis, located in a barbcr- shop, told reporters: "I have no comment of any character." The operators had no com ment, either. However, they had sent President Truman a letter assuring him of cooperation in helping to operate the mines un der a government administrator. Precedent Followed The operators stipulated it was their understanding that the same arrangement would pre vail as in 1943, when the gov ernment sized the mines. At that time, they were consulted on the terms of the contract worked out by former Secretary of In terior Harold L. Ickes. Krug was given the same au thority that Ickes had to ne gotiate an agreement on wages and other issues with the UMW. Effective at Midnight Krug said in a statement the seizure will become effective at one minute after midnight to night and promptly appealed to mine workers and their leaders to keep the mines operarting at full capacity under government supervision. Asserting a renewal of the 42-day-long mine strike would be "disastrous," Krug said he was sking UMW leaders to meet with him immediately to work out plans for continued operations A short time later Lewis showed up at Krug's office. Krug announced that Vice Admiral Ben Morell, federal boss of the oil industry when it was seized last winter, would be placed in direct charge of the mines. Lewis would not disclose whether he has summoned the 250-man UMW policy commit tee to pass upon the question of working for the government, Lewis told President Truman last Sunday, it was learned, that the question of whether the miners would work after the truce expires Saturday even under government seizure, rest ed with the policy committee. National emergency The seizure move followed a day of quiet during which neither side would discuss their dispute. Thus, the government will take over operation of two of the nations largest industries. Railroads were seized last Fri day in an attempt to avert a strike, now postponed until 4 p.m. (local standard time) Thursday. The contract negotiations broke down when the operators rejected Lewis' No. 1 demand for a 7 percent payroll levy against operators to finance welfare fund to be handled by the union. The order to Krug said the president acted "to preserve the national economic structure in the present emergency." Coal production, it said, "is indis pensable for the continued op eration of the national economy during the transition from war to peace." Ross said Krug would take over the mines tomorrow at a time to be determined by him The president's executive or der signed at 2 p.m. EST, di rects Krug, in his capacity as solid fuels administrator, to take over the mines and oper ate them in such a way as to (Concluded on Page 11, Column 7) cooperating in the raid, which were improperly marked and slow in heeding commands to halt. One German patrolman was wounded. The raids covered a 45-mile stretch of the Danube from the Austrian border to Deggendorf. At least 30 of the vessels seized including 12 gunboats were formerly part of the Hun garian navy and fought along side the nazis against the Rus sians, army officials said. Aboard them were believed to be several hundred ex-enemy sailors and high ranking offi cers of the Hungarian navy who fled from the Black Sea up the Danube ahead of Soviet forces near the end of the war and found sanctuary in the Ameri can occupation zone. There they remained comparatively unmo lested for a year. Bus Line Asks Higher Fares The strike of Oregon Motor Stages drivers and shopmen which ended Sunday with an in crease in wages for the em ployes after the vehicles had been idle since April 5, had fur ther reaction in Salem Tuesday when a special meeting of the city council was called for 5 o'clock p. m. to consider an ap plication of the company for in creased fares. The company, it was said by city council members, will ask for an increase in the basic fare from 7 to 8 cents per ride, and from four tokens for 25 cents to four tokens for 30 cents. A. L. Schneider, general man ager for Oregon Motor Stages, attended the council meeting Monday night, and it is said he expected the matter to be brought up at that meeting by Alderman Albert H. Gille, chair man of the utilities committee. Gille said later he did not have sufficient information to bring up the subject. Anyway, other council business had kept the members in session until 11:30 and they were anxious to get home. Council members believe an ordinance will not be necessary to grant increased fares, if the council is in a mood to grant them, and that it can be done by motion or resolution. City Annexation Ballot June 28 Before passing the two ordi nance bills calling an election on the annexation of outlying districts the city council Mon day night went into committee of the whole and changed the date of the election from July 19 to June 28. The purpose of the change was to get the areas proposed for annexation on the city tax rolls next year instead of in 1948. Another change will make a double vote in one area south of the city which may be rough ly described as bounded by Hoyt, South Commercial, South Summer and Fairview. The people between Hoyt and Mc Gilchrist will vote on the ques tion of annexing that entire area and also on the question of an nexing their own area which i included in the larger one, so that in event annexation of the larger area is defeated the smaller one might still come in to the city. Navy Costs for Coming Year Washington, May 21 (U.R) The house appropriations com mittee today recommended an appropriation of $4,639,650,000 for the navy in the fiscal year beginning next July 1 more than $1,000,000,000 less than the navy originally requested. The committee restored only $374,260,000 of the approxi mately $2,000,000,000 clipped from the naval budget request by the budget bureau. Most of the restored funds were for re search and the training of re serves, rather than for actual fleet operations. The committee said the $4, 639,000 would provide a fleet of 291 major combat ships, with 42 ships ready in reserve and 632 more in inactive status. It would provide for 437.000 navy enlisted men and 57,800 officers. The navy's air strength would be 8,400 planes, includ ing 2,400 spares. The committee reported that it was difficult to decide just how much the navy should have for its first full year of postwar operations. Bids on Dorcna Houses. Portland, May 21 (IP) Bids on moving 30 housing units from McLoughlin Heights, Van couver, Wash, to the Dorena dam site on the Row river were asked today by the army engin eers. Bids will be opened on June 3.
