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U.S. to Stand Pat Against Russia On Atomic Plan Firm Stand Maintained Against Retention of Veto Power New York, June 21 (Pi- Backed up by President Tru man's reaffirmation of Ameri can policy, Bernard M. Baruch and his advisors in the United Nations atomic commission maintained a firm stand today against Russia's move to retain the veto, power In relation to world control of atomic energy. The president's statement in Washington yesterday re-em Dhasized Baruch's pronounce ment to the council last week that the United States would not yield atomic secrets to world pool or dispose of her bombs under treaty provisions unless the veto is discarded on atomic control matters. Mr. Truman commented that the Baruch proposals had his i endorsement and said the Amer ican plan and that of Russia presented as a substitute will be subjects of negotiation which mav 'lead to agreement. He emphasized the word "may." With the atomic commission in recess until next Tuesday afternoon, Baruch and his ad visors gave their closest scru tinv to the Russian plan submit ted by Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko two days ago. They were concerned partic ularly with Gromyko's insist ence on keeping the Big Five powers in possession of their veto and the absence in the kus sian plan of any provision for an international authority to search individual countries for evidences of atomic develop ments that might become dan gerous. Difference in Flans The Baruch plan envisions s virtually autonomous interna tional atomic development au thority which would be armed with unprecedented powers of search, seizure and punishment. The Russian substitute would leavn authority with the secur ity council, operating with the veto ever posed so that one big five power could stop any re strictive action against a poten tial atomic aggressor, and would provide sanctions as interna tional punishment. While Baruch proposed an in ternational law "with teeth In Wt" to punish violators, the Rus sian plan would have individual nations enact legislation provid ing "severe punishment" for violations. A long series of negotiations and discussions was foreshad owed, however, and a proponent of the American plan pointed out that the proposed Russian convention would have to pass muster with the security coun cil and be ratified by half the nations of the world before it could become effective. "After all, we have the bombs," this proponent added. OPA Raises Coal Prices Washington, June 21 U. OPA raised soft coal prices an average of 40 cents a ton to day, boosting the nation's coal bill an estimated $22,750,000 for the next year. The increases were author ized to cover the mine opera tors' losses during the recent coal strikes and the cost of the government wage contract with John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers (CIO). All of the thrice increases will be passed on to consumers. OPA said the cost of the wage agreement, including the royalty of five cents a ton for an employe welfare fund, would average 39 cents a ton. The -contract gave wage increases of 18 cents an hour to the 400,000 miners. Extension of the wage ad justments to clerical and ad ministrative workers not cov ered by the contract raised costs an additional six cents, the agency said, making the total cost of the contract 45 cents a ton. The producers were requir ed to absorb 11 cents of that amount, however, leaving a net of 34 cents affecting price. The increase by districts in clude: Washington, Oregon. Alaska All, $1.09. Warehouse Destroyed Fairview, June 21 P) Fire of undetermined origin razed the Union Pacific 'company warehouse in this Multnomah county community last night. The Weather (Released by the United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and vicin ity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with cloudiness tend ing to increase Saturday after noon. Lowest tonight. 52. Con ditions will be favorable for dusting until 10 a.m. and for spraying and harvesting all day Saturday. Max. yesterday, 80. Mai today. 47. Mean tempera ture yesterday, 72. which was 10 above normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 ajn. today, 0. Total precipitation for the month. .54. which is .41 inchea below normal. Willamette river height, -.8 ft. apital AJonirini al 58th Year, No. 147 m&Lter To Keep Japan Disarmed at Least 25 Years Washington, June 21 VP) The United States announced today It has proposed to Russia, Britain and China the creation of a four power control commission back ed by military force, to keep Japan disarmed for at least 25 years. The commission would take over at the end of the present oc cupation which is being carried out largely by American troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. That action presumably would mark the end of America s virtually single handed domination of Japanese affairs and begin a new period of control by all four powers. Proposed by Byrnes Secretary of State Byrnes pro posed the 25-year Japanese dis armament treaty to the foreign ministers of Britain, China and Russia at the same time in April that he suggested a similar 25 year treaty for Germany. One purpose of the treaties would be to end present mass occupations of both countries as quickly as possible and to sub stitute for the regular occupation armies smaller forces of troops especially trained in disarma ment control duties. Purposes of Treaty The avowed purpose of the treaty is to insure that, follow lowing the total disarmament and demilitarization of Japan by occupation forces, the country shall be kept in a state of dis armament and demilitarization "as long as the peace and secur ity of the world may require." (Concluded on Paire 9, Column 7) Chinese Truce Extension Nanking, June 21 (U.R) An eight-day extension of the 15 day truce that has halted China's civil war was announc ed today by the ministry of in formation today. The extension will make the truce valid until noon June 30. The armistice was scheduled to end at noon Saturday. News of the extension came simultaneously with the an nouncement that naval units of the nationalist government bom barded the communist-held ports of Weihaiwei and Chefoo Wednesday morning. The naval action obviously was designed to cut communist lines of communication between the ports of the Shantung pen insula and southern Manchuria across the Gulf of Hihli. Six U.S.-loaned LSTS (land ing ships tanks) and former Japanese cruisers made up the nationalist -task force. The government announce ment of the truce extension also proposed that the present rule of unanimity needed for the committee of three in executive headquarters decisions be changed to simple majority. Extension of the truce was an nounced by the ministry as an effort to "show their utmost sincerity conciliator attitude, the government has decided the presidential order for the cessa tion of advances and pursuits for eight more days." Higher Wages in Valley Lumber Mills Eugene, Ore.. June 21 (U.R) A new lumber and millworker wage agreement was in effect here today, giving a five-cent hourly increase to workers in the 3" member mills of the Wil lamette Valley Lumber Opera tors' association. Piece workers were to have the boost integrated into their rates while hourly workers were boosted to $1.10 cents per hour. The agreement was reached yesterday by the oper ators and the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers' union. McNutt Confirmed Washington, June 21 (U.R) The senate late yesterday con firmed the nomination of Paul V. McNutt to be ambassador to the Philippine Islands after the Philippines become independent in July. State Employe Oops, There State employes' take-home pay will be less after July 1 in spite of the $10 monthly salary increase granted two days ago, Floyd Query, president of the Oregon State Employes association, said today. The reason is that the ircrease will not equal the deductions which will be made starting July 1 for the new state employes' retirement plan. The deductions for men range from 3.71 to 9.24 percent, and Salem, Blast in Texas Hotel Kills 7 Injures Scores Dallas, June 21 W Seven persons are known dead, and 41 are Injured, and rescue work continued here two hours after an explosion at the 600 room Baker hotel rocked mid town Dallas shortly before noon today. Firemen, police and soldiers are probing the shambles of the lower basement for the possible victims. Firemen, wearing gas masks because of the ammonia fumes, were hampered by pools of beer and food which made the floors slippery. The explosion occur red just under the hotel's coffee shop nnd kitchen. Floors Buckled Floors buckled, dumping the debris into the basement. The known dead have been identified as William E. Cotton, purchasing agent of the hotel, who is believed to have been killed by falling debris in his office. At least 38 ambulances rush ed to the $5,000,000 Baker, one of the southwest's swankiest hotels. Downtown streets were blacked off as thousands of curious jammed the area, im peding rescue work. Injured Crowds Hotels Dallas hospitals were crowded by the injured, many believed to be fatally hurt. Nearby army and navy in slallalions rushed ambulances and doctors to aid the city's doc tors and nurses. Dense smoke poured out of the hotel, one of the largest in the southwest, and forced fire men to don gas masks as they raced to rescue the Injured. Thousands of spectators jam med the scene, impeding rescue work. At noon, injured were still being taken from the hotel and an adjoining parking lot, where many were injured when the blast hurled plate glass and lumber into passers-by. The explosion was unofficial ly believed to have been caus ed by an exploding boiler, and ammonia - gas from shattered pipes in the air conditioning and refrigerating system. Scores were overcome by the fumes and dense, acrid smoke filled the basement, the lobby and coffee shop. A number of early diners were driven from the nearby mural room, swank dimnff room at the Baker. Several trapped employes found escape through a man hole. One of these, Andrews Enrique, 55 said he was un able to see after the explosion. Reclamation Bill Fought Over Washington, June 21 (U.R) The fate of many of the west's major irrigation and reclama tion projects for the fiscal year 1947 rested today with a senate-house conference charged with settling differences of $160,000,000 in bills passed by the two houses. Also at stake were two phases of the government's public power program the southwestern power administra tion and the power phases of California's central valley pro ject. The senate late yesterday passed and sent to conference the $341,000,000 bill after boosting the house-approved funds approximately $160,000, 000 and raising its own appro priations committee's figures by approximately $11,500,000. Typical of the bitter antagon ism against public power phases of the interior department's ac tivities were the votes by which the senate upheld the right of CVP and SPA to build trans mission lines. CVP inched by 36 to 31, while the SPA grant was approved 36 to 30. Even more significant than the conflict which is expected to carry over into the confer ence committee was the 44-to- 19 vote by which the senate approved the bill on final pas sage. Rarely do as many as 19 senators vote against a major department appropriation be cause of disagreement with some of its provisions. Pay Goes Up It Goes Down for women from 4.08 to 10.56 percent of their salaries. The amount of deductions vary ac cording to age, with older em ployes paying more into the re tirement fund. tt SaJem. Orgoa Oregon, Friday, June 21, w;W?c S-;I- vol '"5 is w I ' Atomic Spectators ifP) Bernard M. Baruch (left) and Andrei Gromyko, members of the U. N. Atomic Energv commission, sit at Yankee stadium ringside wnere atomic fists ot Joe Louis blast ed title hopes of Billy Conn. Trust Fund Proposed For Cemetery Upkeep The IOOF cemetery may be in a sad way but it is not beyond recovery, believes Henry V. Compton, vice president of the Pioneer Trust company. Compton today declared that a trust fund providing perpetual care could be established and he of fered the city, the Chamber of Commerce or any other interested Plan to Reduce Army in Reich Berlin, June 21 (&) Gen. Jo seph T. McNarney said today a plan was in existence to reduce American occupation forces in Germany to 150,000 men but "it has not yet been determined if it will be implemented." He told a news conference that German civilian rations would be raised from 1180 to 1225 calories a day on June 26 because the food situation had improved! He said 130,000 tons of feed were expected from the United States this month for the American occupation zone. (In Washington, war depart ment officials said the present strength of American occupa tion forces in Germany and Austria is approximately 300, 000. The American commander said American sources had sup plied 562,550 tons of food for German civilians from last Au ust to June 1. McNarney said the Ameri can proposal to appoint a four power commission to investi gate German disarmament was deadlocked hopelessly and would be referred by occupa tion authorities to the foreign ministers in Paris. The Rus sians were understood to have blocked the proposal because it contained a clause for investi gation of the economic phase of disarmament. Farmer Victim Of Lightning Medford, June 21 (P) Waller Woodridge's barn was struck by lightning, a cow was killed and he was pinned under it in the blazing structure, his cattle stampeded around an ambulance driver, his house caught fire and he wound up in the hospital. This is the story of his hectic night: ( Woodridge, 59-year-old farm er, was in the barn milking a cow last night when lightning struck the building. The cow was killed and it toppled over on him, knocking him uncon scious. Mrs. Woodridge saw the lightning flash and the barn roof start to blaze, and -hurried to the barn where she was able to pull her husband from be neath the cow and drag him into the barnyard. An ambulance was called and as the driver and a neighbor were lifting Woodridge, the barn went up in a sudden "whoosh" of flame and flying embers, frightening cattle in the barn yard. They stampeded past the ambulance threatening but not hitting the group aiding Wood ridge. Then the house caught fire. Neighbors put out the flames as Woodridge, apparently not ser iously injured, reached the hos pital. Paint for Staute New York, June 21 IP) The statue of liberty is going to get a new green inner paint coat for her 60th birthday this fall. 'r group the free services of his organization. This counsel would include a full study of the prob lem involved and recommenda tions for a solution, via trust fund. "The fund might be small at first but it could be built to the point where it would give ade quate care to all graves," said Mr. Compton. "As it stands to day, the cemetery is getting worse each year. A trust fund could mean that it would get better each year." Compton envisions the fund as one built by the entire commun ity funds from lodges, clubs, in- aiviauais, tne city any persons who had a personal interest in the cemetery or believed the im provement cause a good one. Belcrest Memorial Park now maintains an $80,000 fund with the trust company. Income from the fund, plus income from open ing graves and selling markers, last year provided $20,000 for ground beautification. WFTU Refused Voice in UN New York, June 21 (P) United Nations economic and social council today voted down a strong attempt to give (he World Federation of Trades Unions a voice in the council deliberations. The vote was 12 to 5. Vot ing with Russia were the Uk raine, Yugoslavia, Czechoslo vakia and Peru. France ab stained from voting. The council action means that the WFTU, which includes the CIO in the United States, will have the right only to consult with the council on a basis equal with the American Federation of Labor and similar specific organizations. The council defeated, 10 to 7. a move by France to make consultation by the WFTU and similar organizations with the council much easier than pro vided in a proposal made by the council's committee on ar rangements for consultation with non-governmental organ izations. With Russia's fight for the WFTU lost, the council then adopted unanimously the com mittee report. Nikolai J. Feonov, Russian delegate, and Anatole Baronov sky, Ukrainian delegate, voted for the committee report but reserved their right to bring the WFTU question up in the council whenever they thought it appropriate. Supersonic Center Plans Not Ready Washington, June 21 IIP) Plans for construction of a su personic research center in the Pacific Northwest probably will not be completed until late sum mer, the national advisory com mittee for aeronautics has in formed Rep. Horan (R. Wash.). J. F. Victory, executive secre tary of the committee, told Hor an in a letter it would be at least that long before the plan will be ready for presentation to congress. 1946 W V I Price Five Cents Profit Margins To OPA Bill Washington, June 21 W) Senate-house conferees on OPA agreed on a formula for set ting manufacturers' profit mar gins and passing increased cost along to the consumer. It was a modified version of the Taft amendment which Sta bilization Director Chester Bowles has called a "delayed action bomb" that will explode in an unending stream of high er prices all across the board. Murray at White House As the agreement was re ported from behind closed doors, CIO Chief Philip Mur ray went to-the While House to urge President Truman to take the leadership in the "preser vation of a decent . strong OPA." "We want a resolution that will continue an effective OPA," Murray told reporters after seeing the president, "to establish prices and to protect the interest of the American people." A reporter said: "We are told that if price control is ex tended without emasculation, labor will not advance any new wage goals." Murray termed that report "erroneous" but did not elab orate. In response to questions, the CIO chief said he had not been approached by Bowles or other administration chiefs about giv ing a no-strike pledge in ex change for effective price con trols. Revisions Made Copies of the senate-house amendment were withheld from the press, In line with the con ference committee's secrecy pol icy, and Chairman Spence (D., Ky.) would not even admit that an agreement had been reached. From other sources, however, it was learned that the revised provisions shapes up like this: Manufacturers' ceiling would have to reflect their prices in the base period, Oct. 1-15, 1941, plus the weighted average in crease in unit costs throughout the Industry in question. The amount of the increase, in dollars, would be passed on in turn to wholesalers, retail ers and consumers, without py ramiding. There would be this excep tion: Where OPA has allowed an industry percentage mark ups or discounts, the ceiling could be computed either way, whichever gave the higher price. The amendment does not af fect automobiles, household ap pliances and farm machinery, which are covered by other pro visions still under discussion. Dangles for 20 Minutes; Saved Dallas, June 21 His foot caugh in the hinge of a slant ing window at his place of bus iness, G. Brandli, owner of the Dallas Creamery, dangled for about 20 minutes, head down ward, Thursday night before his weakening cries attracted a group of boys. Brandli, alone at the cream ery, had gone to the roof of the building to check the cooling system about 10 p.m. He at tempted to step through the window when one foot slipped and the other caught in the hinge The boys hearing his cries for help, called city police, who with the aid of the boys rescued him. In semi-conscious condi tion when released from the window, Brandli was taken to his home after his rescue. Fight on Compromised Draft Bill Looms in the House Washington, June 21 (U.R) Zero hour appears at hand again for the nation's 19-year-olds. Congress today had before it a com promise nine-months draft-extension measure authorizing com pulsory military service for: those youths. The bill, drafted senate-house conference after both bodies disagreed on how the draft law should oper ate after July 1, would make 11 childless men from 19 through 44 liable to induction. And the measure would not bar the 19-year-olds from service overseas. Though all but one of the confi-rees expected quick senate approval of the compromise, a hot fight was promised in the house. Rep. Dewey Short (R., Mo.), lone hold-out of the senate house conferees against draft ing teen-aged youth, promised to lead the battle to kill the pro posed induction of 19-year-olds when the conference agreement Big 4 Discuss Crucial Issue Of Trieste and Yugoslav Border But Fail to Reach Agreement General Exchange of Views Precedes Adjourn ment Dodecanese Islands Also on Agenda As Are Austrian-Italian Frontier and Navy Disposal Paris, June 21 IIP) The foreign ministers council opened Its discussion of the crucial Issue of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav frontier today but adjourned after a two-hour session with no decision. In a free, general exchange of views on the Trieste question th ministers simply restated their respective positions, according to American sources. There was no new proposal introduced re garding the frontier. Along with Trieste, they must decide the entire Italian-Yugoslav frontier question and the matter of the Dodecanese Islands. All four of the ministers agree In principle that the islands should go to Greece, but Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov has indicated in the "past that his country Is not yet ready to discus final terms. Other problems of the Italian treaty to be considered are th Austrian-Italian frontier and disposal of Italian naval units. I Trieste Controversial The question of Trieste, how ever, promises to be the most controversial. Russia has in sisted that the important Adri atic port be ceded to Yugoslav ia, and Britain, France and the United States have maintained that Trieste is ethnically Ital ian. The compromise yesterday, when the ministers expressed general approval of a U. S. pro posal to delay decision on the colonies for a year and to re fer the matter to the United Na tions if the four powers could not agree by that time, gave rise to a new atmosphere of optimism. Colonial Decisions Conference circles were visi bly brightened by what a Brit ish source described as the "conciliatory" manner of yes terday's formal and informal sessions. Under the compromise, Italy would renounce sovereignty of her colonies, which would be under four-power control pend ing either agreement by the Big Four or reference to the United Nations. The ministers approved a motion by U. S. Secretary of Slate James F. Byrnes to name a four-man commission to study the proposal and work out de tails. Named to the commission were Ben Cohen, U. S. state department counsellor; Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet deputy for eign minister; Maurice Couve de Murville, French deputy foreign minister, and Gladwyn Jebb, British deputy foreign secretary. $50,000 Opium Seized in Raid Vancouver, B.C., June 21 0I.R) Royal Canadian mounted po lice and a city vice squad, clamped down on a suspected international smuggling ring to day seized $50,000 in opium, jewels, gold and cash in a Chinatown raid. Striking into the heart of Vancouver's Chinese district, second largest on the Pacific coast, police squads battled briefly with five Chinese arm ed with meat cleavers, before subduing them. One ton of lottery tickets, $1, 200 in U.S. gold coins, in addi tion to ornate jewelry and dia monds, were uncovered in an underground gambling den. Canadian authorities sought cooperation of United States of ficials in tracing a Chinese, said to be in America, in belief he held the combination of a huge locked safe uncovered in the ornately furnished den. R.C.M.P. spokesmen said agentn were busy tracing inter national connections of the al leged ring, both in China and the United States. Police said the r.ng apparently combined narcotics operations with jewel smuggling and running of lot teries In Vancouver alone, raid leaders said, 300 runners were employed at $150 monthly each, to distribute lottery tickets throughout the cily. is presented Tuesday for house approval. Tilt- measure came out of the conference providing for com promise pay increases of from 10 to 50 percent for members of the armed forces. They were desipned to stimulate voluntary enlistments. The conferees, and for that matter, the army, were frankly skopt'eal that the proposed draft extension would provide the manpower the armed forces want. Recent draft calls have been for 51,000 men per month, but draft boards have failed to meet their quotas. This has been especially true since May IS, when congress halted the draft ing of 18 and 19-year-olds. Shipments of Livestock Drop Chicago, June 21 U.R) The nation's food supplies suffered a new blow today as shipments of livestock to the big stock yards sank to the lowest level on agricultural department rec ords. The Curiahy Brothers pack ing house at Milwaukee, closed down until July 1. Cattle de partments of most of the others across the nation were inopera tive as cattle receipts in the 12 markets slumped to 135,000 for the current week. Total livestock receipts in the 12 yards were 442.100, com pared with 41)8,912 last week, which also was a record low, and 585,755 for the same week last year, when the war with Japan stilt was being fought. L. M. Wyatt, government analyst, said receipts during a normal pre-war week would have been more than twice as high. Lack of animals for slaugh tering will be reflected dras tically in the food supply for the next two weeks or longer, chain store officials said. No Beef on Sale A spokesman for one large chain store said each of Its out lets had enough pork chops for perhaps five customers daily, and practically no beef. Nehru Freed After Arrest London, June 21 (U.R) The New Delhi radio said today that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Con gress parly leader arrested yes terday for entering Kashmir, has been released. Nehru, who is president des ignate of the Indian National Congress party, was arrested when he defied a ban on his entry into the state. He was jailed on a charge of agitating against the rule of local au thorities. Other dispatches to London said feeling was mounting rap idly in India wih revolt sim mering throughout the entire congress-influenced territories. The Congress working com mittee deferred a decision on Viceroy Viscount Wavell's plan for the interim government of India. It was believed here that the Congress party would make political capital out of the Nehru incident because it offered the opportunity of further undermining the posi tion of one of India's strongest ruling princes. Kashmir is not a part of Brit ish India ruled from New Del hi. It an independent state ruled by Sir Hari Singh with a British resident at the capital of Srinngar. WilliamS. Hart Critically III Los Angeles. June 21 &) William S. Hart. 76, veteran cowboy actor, was reported in a critical condition today at California Lutheran hospital where he has been under treat ment for several days. Dr. H. D. Van Fleet said he was running a high fever and occasionally was in a coma. Nell linger Named 2nd Vice President Buffalo, N.Y.. June 21 UP) Miss Mary U. Rothrock, Knox ville, Tenn.. new president of the American Library associa tion, will be installed tonight. Other new officers include: Nell linger. Portland, Ore., sec ond vice president. Soldier Must Die Tacoma. Wash., June 21 (UR) C. D. Robertson, 18-year-old negro soldier, today faced death on the gallows following hl conviction on charges of raping a 28-yoar-old WAC. An all male jury convicted Robertson last night after five hours deli beratlon and recommended capital punishment.
