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t- Wallace Plans 1 Holy Crusade For World Peace To Continue Battle for "Go Easy With Russia" Program Washington, Sept. 21 W Henry A Wallace, private citi zen, threw down the gauntlet to the Truman administration to day for a continuing battle over foreign policy. The ousted secretary of com merce told the department's em ployes in a farewell message he was resigning "in order that I may be free as a private citi zen to continue to fight for world peace." And in a nationwide radio ad dress last night he declared that "winning the peace is more im portant than high public office. It is more important than any consideration of party politics." He removed any doubt that he would battle on for his "go-easy-wilh-Russia" ideas which brought him into conflict with the state department and led President Truman to dismiss him from his official family. Rests In the People "The success of any policy," Wallace said, "rests ultimately upon the confidence and the will of the people. "There can be no basis for such success unless the people know and understand the issues unless they arc given all the facts and unless they seize the opportunity to take part in the framing of foreign policy through full and open debate." Ag the Iowan stepped out he left congress members and oth ers asking two major questions: 2 Major Questions 1. Would the president's ac tion end the uncertainty over American policy caused by Wal lace's New York address 10 days ago which contradicted Secre tary of State Byrnes' position at many points? Some said it would. Others doubted it. Mr. -Truman him self made clear he intended the dismissal as emphatic notice that he is standing four-square behind Byrnes. 2. What would be the effect within the democratic party and particularly on its chances in November's elections and in 1948? A frequently expressed re publican view was that the dis pute emphasized the differences within the democratic party and .enhanced republican prospects winning control of the next congress. ' 'p to CIO-PAC Some democrats contended their party's ranks had now been closed and its chances im proved. One democratic senator, talk ing with the understanding that his name would not be report ed, said he thought it was large ly a matter of what the CIO Political Action Committee does. He said that no votes were going to be changed by the for eign policy row, but if the CIO PAC makes only indifferent ef forts to get out its votes, he de clared, then the democratic party may lose some congres sional districts where CIO help is required to put over its candidates. 'Big Food Chain Found Guilty Dannville. 111., Sept. 21 U. Federal Judge Walter C. Lind ley today found guilty all de fendants in the government anti-trust suit against the Greater New York, Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Judge Lindley took the case k under advisement last April 6 ' At that time the government revealed that it planned fur ther investigations of food dis tribution firms. The hearing of the case re quired almost a year. The gov ernment contended that the A. & P. was guilty of price fixing and conspiracies in restraint of trade. The huge grocery firm claim ed that its policies and business system did not violate anti trust laws. The firm contended that operating at a loss, tem porarily or locally, was stand ard business. The A. & P. and 29 officers and subsidiaries were indicted by a federal grand jury at Dal las, Tex., Nov. 25, 1942. on charges of violating the Sher man anti-trust law. The indictment charged that the defendants' action in viola tion of the anti-trust laws had injured and destroyed food manufacturers, processors, can ners, wholesalers, and thous ands of Independent retail food dealers. In ils charges, the govern ment also claimed that the de fendants had depressed prices paid to growers for fresh fruits, vegetables and other farm crops and had dominated and con trolled the distribution of food and food products in the most important U.S. trade areas. h 58th Year, No. 224 rr.,"6S,o,S Salem, Oregon, Saturday, September Helicopter to Rescue Victims Of Liner Crash Gander Airport, Nfld., Sept. 21 lP) A U.S. coast guard heli copter swooped down upon the scene of the Sabcna airliner crash today and began the res cue of the 18 survivors. Lt. August Kieisch piloted the helicopter, one of two disman tled and flown here from the United States in army transport planes. Kieisch took off from Gander at 1:42 p.m. after mechanics assembled his flying machine in 61? hours, and at 2:30 p.m. (EDT) a plane circling the scene said the first of the surviving victims had been picked up. Flown to Small Lake The survivor was flown to a small lake five miles distant and transferred to a Catalina flying boat for the journey to the Gander hospital. Kieisch started back for an other survivor. Fourteen of the survivors were reported injur ed, two critically. Most of the survivors of 44 passengers and crewmen of the crashed airliner were reported already transported to a small plateau a quarter of a mile from the wreckage. A U.S. army ground rescue team and 30 Newfoundland woodsmen mov ed them. The army team arrived at the scene Thursday night, while the party of Newfoundland woods men reached there only today. Supplies Dropped Splints, crutches, tents and medical supplies were dropped at the temporary rescue camp today. Plans to parachute a small power plant and flood lights were abandoned. The survivors all were cheer ed by the news of the arrival of the helicopters and some were reported singing. The crated whirligig flying machines were brought in crates by army transport planes this morning. (Fernand Martens, North American representative of Sa bena Airlines, said in New York at 1:45 p.m., eastern daylight time, that the helicopters had gone into action, and that the badly injured were expected to be removed before nightfall). (An ABC report from Gander said the first of the survivors, identified tentatively as a stew ardess, had arrived at the air port at 3:44 p.m., eastern day light time). Find No Gold in Crescent Rush San Francisco, Sept. 21 (U.PJ Scientifically, the recent Cres cent City gold rush slacked off to a faltering walk today. The Abbott-Hanks company look a look at a samDle of red volcanic rock sent to the United Press by one of the "prospec tors," and reported: "It contains no trace of gold." Ernest Hev. an luauar u,hn Claims tn hav a vnnfinl for mula for determining the pres ence of the precious metal, pre viously had reported finding $55 to $75 worth of gold in each ton he tested. That's what start ed the mad scramble last week. Abbott-Hanks wa linimnrve ed by the sample it tested here. The state bureau of mines meanwhile ran another accnv on ore samples from the Cres cent i;ny region and expected to report its findings today or Monday. Guam and 3 Mariana Isles Devastated by Typhoon Guam, Sept. 21 (IP: A treacherous typhoon veered unexpect edly and roared today across this big U. S. naval base and three more fortified Marianas islands to the north, leaving heavy mili tary damage. Huge sheets of- corrugated steel from Quonset huts were whipped through the air like leaves in the 100-mile gusts. Rear Adm. Charles A. Pow nall, commander of the Mari anas, issued a statement in mid afternoon that first, fragmen tary reports indicated there were no serious injuries among navy or marine personnel or civilians. The army reported one man suffered a broken back. Wives and children of mili tary men had been removed from small Quonset huts to stouter buildings and military personnel were confined indoors as word spread that the typhoon was shifting course. Pownall said tticre was exten sive damage to buildings throughout Guam, including the apital Charges Against Greece Quashed By UN Council Lake Success, N. Y., Sept. 21 Wl Reported shooting inci dents along the northern Greek frontiers remained under sur veillance of the United Nations today despite Russia's veto of an American proposal in the security council for an on-the-spot investigation. The suggestion of focusing continued attention on the trou bled Balkan situation was made in an unprecedented move bv Secretary-General Trygve Lie last night when the council re jected four proposals arising from the Soviet Ukraine's ac cusations against Greece. Ukrainians Lose (Jul The rejections had the effect of quashing the Ukrainian charges that Greece, with Brit ish backing, was menacing peace on the Albanian frontier, and they ended the council's concern with the case after elev en sessions of bristling debate in the past three weeks. However, Lie's statement that he was reserving the right, under the U. N. Charter, to in vestigate and report on any mat ter which he deemed a threat to international peace and secur ity moved Soviet Delegate Andrei A Gromyko, the coun cil chairman, to remark that he thought the secretary-general was "perfectly right" in raising the question. This right, Lie told the coun cil when the Soviet veto threat was raised over the American proposal for on-the-spot inquiry along Greece's borders with Al bania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, permits him to make any inde pendent investigation he deems necessary Veto Kills Resolution The secretary-general added that an inquiry to determine the facts would be essential be fore he could bring a matter be fore the council and that he was onlj reserving the right to make such an inquiry if he thought it necessary. Shortly afterward, Gromyko invoked the veto to kill the reso lution put forward by U. S. Delegate Hcrschel V. Johnson which called for a three-man commission to examine inci dents along the borders of Greece's three Russian satel lite neighbors and the right to ask all four Balkan govern ments for relevant information. Johnson offered his resolu tion with the remark that the "basic fact is that shooting is taking place along the northern frontier of Greece, and this Ihooting can lead to internation al friction." Room for Vets at 4 State Colleges Portland. Sept. 21 P Four Oregon institutions of higher education have available hous ing for veteran students with small families the veterans' ad ministration said today. The colleges of education at Ashland, La Grande and Mon mouth, as well as the Vanport Center college all have facili ties, a check revealed. All four schools offer fully acccdited lqwer division classes. Veterans attending school un der the GI bill, meanwhile, were advised to report their Au gust, September and October earnings to the veterans' ad ministration by November 5 After that dale subsistence pay ments will be stopped until ad ditional data on earnings is re ceived. navy hospital. Many hangars were reported levelled at Har mon field from where B-29s used to take off for Tokyo. Army airfields on the north ern end of the island, closest to the typhoon center, were report ed damaged extensively. The admiral said he had no reports from Saipan, but he doubted that it was damaged as greatly as Guam. He expressed concern about little Rota island, which has a native population of 750 and only a small number of U.S. personnel. He said, however, the island has a cave large enough to hold the entire population and he presumed they weathered the storm there. The typhoon center passed through the Marianas in the Rota area. Pownall estimated the ty phoon's top velocity at 85 knots. wash's TP '2f&3& m New Horseshoe 1' alls at Niagara ifl'i A huge rock fall 120 feel wide at the top and 30 feet wide at the bottom which shook the nearby city of Niagara Falls failed to change the almost straight face of the American Falls. Huge Rock Slide Fails To Change Niagara Falls Niagara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 21 VPi Niagara frontier parks offi cials announced today an examination of the American Falls showed there was "no perceptible change" in the cataract. The announcement conflicted with opinions of other parks offi cials that the contour of the falls had been changed yesterday by a New Type of Worn Smashers New York. Sept. 21 U.R Construction of new type atom smashing machines, with even more powerful devices to come in the future, was reported to day at the annual meeting of the American Physical society. These new machines, design ed to accelerate 70,000.000 to 300,000,000 electronic volts, will be used in scientific research Intd the further possibilities of harnessing power from the uni verse, particularly from the cos mic rays. The most powerful new ma chine, called the synchrotron, is being 'constructed at Berkeley, Calif. This will accelerate 300.000,000 million electronic volts. Another is about com pleted at the General Electric plant in Schenectady. It will have a capacity of at least 70, 000.000. Reports on both machines were made at today's meeting of the physical society. At the same time, there were discussions on the possibility of machines with 1.000.000,000 electronic volt acceleration. Scientists used the so-called cyclotron in early smashing of the atom, and now they need these new powerful machines to make further study of the atom nuclei. Meat Shortage Closes Mines fBy tlie United Prfs More coal mines were closed today as miners protested the moat shortage and declared a policy of "no meat, no work." In other meat famine devel opments, the Man-o-War Horse Meat market at Milwaukee re ported that business was boom ing, and restaurant owners at Michigan City, Ind., voted to "defy" OPA ceilings. At Denver, Colo., Cleland N. Feast, slate game and fish di rector, reported a sharp increase in the number of hunting viola tions during the three-week an telope season just concluded. He said many hunters were looking for meat instead of sport, and that some "violators used machine guns. Others fell that the fines they received were a fair price for meat, and went out again to kill more an telope. The latest coal mine to close because of the meat shortage was the largest in St. Clair county, Illinois. About 220 members of the Independent Progressive Mine Workers' union quit work. "They can't dig coal with eggs and jelly bread in their dinner buckets," said James Cain, sec retary of the local union. Earlier, five mines closed in Virginia when meal-hungry miners stopped digging. Slate Needs 200 Employes The state civil service com mission today issued an urgent call for 200 to 300 more em ployes in most classifications in an effort to bolster its waning manpower supply. Journal 21, 1946 .r; -.?u, y-i ' .N'v .- &&u. 54 huge rock slide when an unex plained earth disturbance was felt over a 10-mile radius. Many residents of this honey moon mecca first thought the earth shock was caused by a rock slide at the falls. Francis A. Seyfried, superin tendent of the parks commis sion, said today that "as far as we are concerned there was no break in the American falls." "We have checked with the army engineers and examined pictures and surveys going back as far as 1906 and there was no perceptible change in the falls," Seyfried said. . ; Asked how it' was- possible that two veteran employes of the park commission could have been mistaken about the fall, Seyfried explained that the "crest of the water at the falls changes from day to day, de pending upon the level; we now have a higher level than normal because of work on removal of a causeway above the falls." Reds' Hold on Tailing Broken Peiping, Sept. 21 (U.R1 Gen. Fu Tso-Yi's rescue troops push ing up from Suiyuan province were reported today lo have made a juncture with the Shansi province garrison troops of besieged Tatung. The nationalist army forces joined up at the Shansi border pass of Tehshengkou, 20 miles north of Tatung and between Fengchen and Tatung, accord ing to a dispatch from the Sui yuan capital city of Kweisui, which is Gen. Fu's headquar ters. The vanguard of the Fu troops which captured Feng chen continued their advance toward Tatung and met the spearhead of the Shansi garri son forces which was in pur suit of a Chinese Communist column. Nationalist military circles hailed the contact as indicat ing the communists' seven week stranglehold on Tatung was broken, enabling supplies to be brought to the beleagured city over the highway and rail line from Tsining. Chinese newspaper reports said communist troops were retreating from Tatung shelter ed by rear guard action. They appeared to be heading for Yangkao, 33 miles northeast of Tatung, for Tsoyung, 35 miles southwest of Tatung, and for Yuyu, 53 miles north of Tatung. White House Denies Stalin Conference Washington. Sept. 21 (Pi The White House said today there is "no truth" in a report that President Truman had said he would try to negotiate direct ly with Generalissimo Stalin if Secretary of State Byrnes fails to win a "durable peace" at Paris. A reporter told Press Secre tary Charles G. Ross at a news conference that such a report was published yesterday by the newspaper PM. 'There is no truth in that," Ross said of the article. Price Five Cents Halian-Ausfrian Pads RightsJjiuYea to iCusaoA.wfl . mm Paris, Sept. 21 "V British 1 demands for specific treaty safeguards for foreign petroleum interests in Romania snagged on a tie vote, 7 to 7, in the peace conference's Balkan eco nomic commission today. The resulting parliamentary tangle caused the American del egate, Senator Arthur Vandcn i berg, to declare "this proced ure has been fantastic." i Earlier, the Italian political ana territorial commission ap proved. 13 to 6. the separate agreement between Italy and Austria for considerable au tonomy rights in the Tyrol, and ordered it inserted in the Italian peace treaty over the objections of the Slav bloc. Local Autonomy t Under the agreement, which was signed here recently by Aus trian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber and Italian Premier Al side de Gasperi, Italy granted local autonomy to German speaking residents of the South Tyrol, guaranteed the right to speak the Tyrolcse langaugc and pledged that German-speaking persons would have equal opportunity to hold public of fice. The two nations also prom ised to work out mutually satis factory rail, transit and trade facilities. The revised British annex to the Romanian treaty which ran into a parliamentary snarl would require Romania to re store or replace the losses of allied nationals in the oil fields, annul discriminatory legisla tion and admit key administra tive officials and technical ex perts into the country to operate the wells. The first three paragraphs were adopted in a series of close votes. A lie vole came on the fourth and last paragraph con cerning admission of key per sonnel, and again on the project ed annex as a whole. Two Clauses Approved The British Empire countries Britain, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa plus Greece carried the first two paragraphs 7 to 6 against the United Stales and (he Slav bloc Russia, White Russia, the Ukraine, Czechoslo vakia and Yugoslavia. The United Stales took the po sition that special provisions for petroleum properties were un necessary because they were covered by general clauses on property rights of allied na tionals. France, which abstained on Ihe first two ballots, joined the British bloc in passing the third paragraph 8 to 6, then switched lo the other side on the fourth paragraph, tying the count. The same lineup caused a tic on the annex as a whole. Martin Urges Purge Of Payroll Reds Boston, Sept. 21 iI'i House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., demanded today a purge of communists from high government jobs especially in the war and navy departments, where, he said, they "know the secrets of the atomic bomb and other military defenses," Speaking at the Massachusetts republican state convention. Martin predicted election of a republican congress this fall and declared "First we will di rect our efforts toward cleaning out the communists, their fel low travelers and parlor pinks from high positions in our government." Farley Congratulates Truman On Firing of Henry Wallace Paris, Sept. 21 iPi James A. Farley, former U. S. postmaster general, issued a statement here today congratulating President Truman on having asked for the resignation of Secretary Wallace and declaring that it would have'' been "disastrous for the prcst dent to have done otherwise. Farley conferred at some length with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes last night. He said he was here on a business trip. The text of his statement: "President Truman is to be congratulated on his statement yesterday. The success of the present conference, and in my judgment, the future peace for the world depend on backing, wholeheartedly and without qualification, Secretary of State Byrnes and his associates here This world must have complete confidence in our foreign pol icy and any action other than that taken by President Truman yesterday would have been dis astrous." Members of the U.S. delega tion to the peace conference, Pacific Coast Shipping Still Being Picketed CIO Strikers Return to Work at East and ' " If Ports the Am O mariners filed back to i .... .1. ; .... ;.. v . . . Vnb uj tv u II aiiifrS ill ntH rv harbor today after membership meetings there and in other east and Gulf ports voted an cud to their martimc strike on the basis of an arbitration award establishing an industry wide principle of wage parity. Joseph Curran. president of the National Maritime union, said that the nation's costliest sea stoppage was "officially ov er," but actual end of the strike elsewhere depended on accept ance of the settlement by all seamen involved. The NMU said members in New York, Philadelphia, Hous ton, Newport News, New Or leans and Providence had vot ed to accept the new agreement which also must be concurred in by NMU members in other ports, the CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards, and the Indepen dent Marine Firemen, Oilers, Wipers and Watertenders west coast unions before the na tionwide strike would be end ed. Seamen's Pay liaised The U.S. maritime commis sion last night ordered its ag ents in all ports to pay all sea men the same rates as had been awarded AFL mariners, moan ing wage increases of $5 lo $10 monthly. Establishment of the wage parity principle was contained in an arbitration award made Thursday in New York by Fed eral Arbitrator James L. Fly. On the west coast, meantime, where the shipping lieup ex tended into the 16th straight day, representatives of the Ma rine Cooks and Marine Firemen said they would accept the Fly award but that picket lines would be continued until oper ators gave written guarantees that wage increases Would be paid. Assert Stalling They also accused the ship owners last night of "stalling" after the Pacific American Shipowners association, taking the position that actual wage cuts would be involved in ac ceptance of Ihe award, asked for clarification. The Fly award gives NMU able seamen $172.50 a month, an increase of $10. and $177.50 to firemen and watertenders, an increase of $5, which puts them on a parity with AFL seamen in the same categories. There still was the possibility of strikes by the CIO Interna tional Longs horemen's and Warehousemen's union, led by Harry .Bridges, and the CIO Marine Engineers' Beneficial association. Their contract with employers expires Sept. 30. Hotels Sue Unions For Strike Losses Los Angeles. Sept. 21 HP Several Los Angeles and Holly wood hotels and restaurants, famed as tourist haunts, remain ed strikebound today while op erators sought damages for losses. A temporary injunction, granled by Superior Judge Al len W. Ashburn to enforce an arbitration award, ordered pick eting hailed but striking cul inary workers failed to return lo their jobs at major establish ments. Hotel operators asked $50,000 damages for losses they claim ed they suffered during the first two days of the strike and $28. 000 for each additional day it lasts. The union estimated that of 6,000 workers on strike, only 1,200 employed at 20 smaller restaurants and hotels whose owners signed at union terms, had returned to work. meanwhile, denied reports in Ihe Paris press today that Sec retary Byrnes had forced the resignation of Secretary Wal lace. The majority of the Paris newspapers said Byrnes had handed an ultimatum to Presi dent Truman demanding that the president choose between Byrnes and Wallace. The only Paris newspaper to comment editorially was L'Hu manite, mouthpiece for the French communist party, which said the resignation was "a vic tory for the war party in Amer ica." Meanwhile, the U.S. delega tion faced the task of regaining the confidence of those nations which had been depending on the support of the "Byrnes policy." 3 Youths Killed Madison Street Rail Crossing New Pick-up Crushed By Southern Pacific Passenger Train In a midnight crash at a grade crossing, where no warning sig nal had been installed for pro tection of trultic, three Salem youths riding in a pick-up truck were instantly killed Friday night by Southern Pacific pas senger train No. 13. The trag edy occurred at the Madison street crossing. The dead: Richard Harold Albin, IB, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Al bin. route 5. Richard Allen Kmmons. 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. De Em mons, 1096 Norway. Norman Dean Schoficld, 17, son of Mrs. Beatrice Schoficld, 1165 Cross. The new pick-up truck was owned by Gilbert Tcdrick. route 5. by whom Schoficld was em ployed. Police headquarters was in formed at 11:46 p.m. that a se rious accident had occurred at the Madison street crossing, and officers were requested to cover in with a first aid crew. Offi cers Walter Esplin, Joseph J. Schuetz and Robert Armpriust were dispatched to the scene. The coroner was sent for im mediately after their arrival. Truck on Engine Pilot Inquiry revealed that the boys were driving east on Madison and the- train traveling south. Who was driving the small truck is not known. The train was in charge of Conductor C. L. McConncll, with L. J. Mecum, engineer of the locomotive, both of Portland. Police reported that the pick up truck was still on the pilot of the halted engine 290 feet from Madison street. The bodies of Albin and Emmons were in Ihe truck and were removed by first aid The truck was moved by authority of the coroner and Ihe train allowed lo proceed. The body of Schoficld was found 90 feet south of Madison street. Witnesses of the accident be sides the trainmen were Jason Evenson, 971 Union street, and Lota Jean Evans, 1144 Madison, who were sitting in a car half a block away. Train Whistled Evenson said the train whis tled while some distance away, but he didn't think it whistled at the crossing. Miss Evans be lieved it did. (Concluded on Tage !), Column 1 100 Mile Gale Hits England London, Sept. 21 iP) At least 11 persons were killed, English channel shipping was battered and thousands of acres of har vest crops in Leicestershire and North Hampshire were leveled in yesterday's 100-milc-an-hoiir winds which struck England's southern coast. The air ministry's weather bureau said that a second gale which had been expected had not developed by late this af ternoon. Farmers said yesterday's storm left their position 'the most serious in memory." H. R. Overman, who farms more than 1 ,000 acres in the area, said, "the losses now run into mil lions of pounds, and many far mers will be facing bankruptcy before the end of the year." Yesterday's storm finished off the 7,176-ton American cargo vessel Helena Modjcska, which had been stranded on Goodwin sands off Deal since Sept. 12. The ship had broken in two forward of the bridge, and the stern portion swung around at right angles to the bow. Re sumption of salvage operations was prevented today by a hea vy swell. At least 22 wore reported in jured by the wind which caus ed devastation from Lands End to Dover and was adjudged the worst September storm in 37 years. Four of the deaths oc curred in shipping accidents. Three Channel islanders, bound for London for a belated celebration of the liberation, were washed overboard when the steamer, ''Isle of Jersey' was virtually swamped by a 60 foot wave which hit her af noon yesterday, 20 miles off the Guernsey coast. The Weather f Released by the United States Weather Bureau) F'orecast fur Salem and vicin ity: Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Sunday morning. Lowest tonight. 49. Conditions will be favorable for harvest ac tivities during the next, 24 hours. Max yesterday 70 Min. today 53. Mean temperature yester day 59. which was 1 below nor mal. Total 24-hour precipita tion to 11 .30 a m. today 0 00. Total precipitation for the month 1.39. which is 0.44 Inches above normal. Willamette river height -3.5 ft.
