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MoIoIoy Says : Goodwill Can ! Insure Peace Connolly Deplores War ! Talk Good Results Accomplished New York, Oct. 21 Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, arriving today to head his coun try's delegation at the United Nations general assembly con vening Wednesday, said Russia would contribute to the work ot the assembly and foreign min isters in strengthening the peace and the welfare of peoples great and small. The arrival of Molotov and Sen. Tom Connally (D., Tex.) from the Paris peace confer ence brought their respective countries UN delegations to full strength. Molotov told a news confer ence aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth that any difficulties before UN could be overcome "given goodwill and the real desire to achieve mutual under- standing." uSen. Connally deplored the tajik of another war and said Ihe peace conference "accomplished substantial results." Vandcnbcrg Rack The completion of the Amen can and Russian delegations sig nalled the intensification of hud dles to determine policies to be carried out in the assembly. Senator Arthur Vandcnbcrg (R., Mich.), who served with Senator Connally alongside Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes at the Paris conferences, rived from Washington last night to join the delegation dis cussions under the leadership of former Senator Warren R. Aus tin of Maine, head of the Ameri can group. At the time Ihe assembly op ens at 4 p.m., Wednesday, with speeches by President Truman, Spaak and Vincent R. Impcllit teri, president of the city coun cil, New York will be host to almost a score of foreign minis ters and well over a dozen am bassadors heading national dele gations. Guests of Truman The delegation chiefs will be guests of President Truman at a reception in the Waldorf-Astoria after the opening session The assembly meeting is expect ed to last well over six weeks. A 21-member French delega tion arrived by plane from Paris yesterday. The White Russian delegation arifived by air yesterday and ad ditional delegations were due to arrive by plane today from Den mark, the Netherlands, Yugo slavia, Poland, South Africa and Sweden. United Nations Week United Nations Week was in auguratcd Sunday in prayer in speeches broadcast over the na tion. Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson was the keynot er in an address from Washing ton reaffirming American sup port of the United Nations and warning against despair over differences of opinion which will be aired In the assembly. Byrnes Tackles New Problems Washington, Oct. 21 W) Sec retary of Stale Byrnes, report edly confident that his "patient but firm" attitude toward Russia . has wider support than ever, tackled pressing new problems today ranging from the Pacific to Turkey. Aides said Byrnes was partic ularly pleased with the week end radio speech of Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich.) empha sizing the "bipartisan" nature of American foreign policy and 5$rith President Truman's com lMendation of his own address setting forth specific points of that policy. While the White House was silent on the field Mr. Truman will cover when he speaks at the opening session of the Unit ed Nations general assembly in New York on Wednesday, offi cials in a position to know said the chief executve, like Vanden berg, will stress a number of the points made by Byrnes. In particular, these officials said they expect Mr. Truman to deplore the fear and suspicion which have hampered inter-allied attempts to create a "cli mate" for peace in Europe, and the talk of the inevitability of another war. The president, they said, will emphasize the necessity of achieving "freedom from fear." And he may, they add, make some pointed, if indirect, refer ences to what the American gov ernment regards as Russian "war of nerves" tactics toward countries supporting American and British objectives on peace making issues. Yeggs Secure $1500 Portland, Oct. 21 m Rob bers, sliding down a rope through a skylight, cracked open a safe in a suburban market dur ing the night and went off with Capital 58th Year, No. 249 SSSfMSrUXS Salem, Oregon, Monday, October Berlin Voters Reject Russian Sponsored Reds Berlin, Oct. 21 (Pi Virtu ally complete returns today showed that the citizens of Ber lin sharply rebuffed the Russian-sponsored 'socialist unity (communist) party in elections for city and borough councils. The social democratic party won 48.7 percent of the tabulat ed voles and the Christian dem ocrats took second place with approximately 22 percent. The socialist unity party, which was formed in the Rus sian zone by merging the com munist and social democrats parties, ran third with about 19.8 percent. In All Four Zones The balloting was in all four of Berlin's occupation zones for parties, and not for individual candidates. City and borough councils will be selected on a proportional basis. The new council will replace the city government established last year by the Russians when the red army was the only military force present. Fourth in the voting was the liberal-democrat party with 9.5 percent of the vote. Social democrats leaders said they were surprised at the ex tent of their plurality and that they had expected to win only 40 percent. What Parties Represent The social democrats stand for socialization of industries. The second ranking Christian democrats are staunch advocates of private property rights. The socialist unity party also espous ed socialization of industries, advocating wide expropriation of properties belonging to per sons they call "war criminals, big nazis and capitalists," a means opposed by the social democrats. (Concluded on Page 11, Column 6) Slave Labor Denied by Slavs Belgrade, Oct. 21 W) Char acterizing as a "malicious false hood" U.S. state department charges that Yugoslavs were using "Americans as slave la bor," a foreign ministry spokes man said yesterday the asser tion was part of a campaign launched by certain "Ameri can circles" against Yugoslavia. A U.S. state department note, delivered last Friday, asserted that persons with "a valid claim" to U.S. citizenship were being denied their international rights. American officials am plified this statement by declar ng that at least 165 American citizens had been thrown into concentration camps in Yugo slavia and rented out at forced labor without pay. They said the Yugoslavs had shipped three Americans to Russia and per mitted maltreatment which cost the lives of at least 10. Eric Kosh, press attachce for the foreign ministry, said the persons for whom the Ameri can embassy in Belgrade claims American citizenship were be ing held as Germans. "Yugoslavia is prepared to hand over to the embassy any volksduetsche whom the Amer ican embassy recognizes as an American citizen and whom the American embassy undertakes to send out of Yugoslavia imme diately," he declared. Kosh added that slave labor has never existed in Yugoslavia, which cannot be said of the United States." More Bombings Protest of Denazification Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 21 official said today he expected Blasts in the Stuttgart area, as ' tion program." "The Ameri- can military government ex pects a widespread outbreak against the denazification pro gram," the official, who may not oe named, said in Berlin. U.S. military and German criminal police worked with counter intelligence agents in efforts to crack the bombing of two denazification board head quarters and a U.S. military jail which some investigators thoght to be connected to the approach ing German trial of Hjalmar Schacht. truculent old banker who was acquitted at Nuern berg. No one was hurt. Schacht, under arrest in a German prison some distance from the one which was bomb ed, shouted to a reporter from his cell that the bombings were "obviously a democratic pro test against the Hitlerite meas ures of the Germans who want to try me again." The city of Stuttgart offered Trans-World Airlines Halted By Pilots Strike Washington, Oct. 21 P) A strike by pilots first of Us kind in commercial aviation halted all flights today by Trans-World Airlines planes in the United States and across the Atlantic, The surprise walkout grew out of a months-long dispute over higher wages for the com pany's 1400 pilots and co-pilots Estimates of current earnings varied. Strike leaders calcu lated pay at $7600 to $9100 ear ly whereas the airline negotiat ing committee said it ranged up to $12,598 annually under a complicated formula. Shortly after the strike be gan at 4:59 a.m. (EST), the com pany cancelled more than 90 scheduled flights for a 24-hour period and announced the can cellation would be extended each day unless the strike ends. Passengers Stranded The company estimated that 3000 passengers booked on grounded planes were stranded or shunted to trains and other airlines. Approximately 25 tons of mail likewise was shifted to other transportation. Among those grounded at least temporarily was the In1 dian delegation to the United Nations assembly. TWA report ed it was making efforts to get them aboard other planes from Shannon, Eire, to New York. TWA Planes Grounded TWA, the nation's fourth larg est air carrier, was the only airline hit by the strike which David L. Bchncke, head of the AFL Airline Pilots association, described as a "last recourse' in the prolonged wage dispute. Picket lines appeared at the company's shops and adminislra tion building in Kansas City but there was no similar action in other cities. TWA flies over 28,270 miles of routes from coast to coast in this country, and to Ireland, Paris, Geneva, Lisbon, Rome, Athens, Cairo and many other world capitals. Ultimatum Expires The civil aeronautics board, governing agency for aviation mot in Washington, but a CAB official told reporters he knew of no action in prospect. The strike got under way at the expiration of a week-end ul timatum from the union to the company demanding the pay ad justments. It first was set for 3 a.m. and then delayed two hours. The union rejected last month a government fact-finding board's recommendations for settlement of the controversy. Both sides disputed the effect of the board's findings. Behneke contended that the board's proposal for a $750 in crease in the $3000 annual base pay and revisions of allowances for hourly and mileage rates amounted to a pay cut ranging up to 24.7 percent. Hess Recovers Loss of Memory Nuernberg, Oct. 21 VP) Col. B. C. Andrus, U. S. commandant of Nuernberg prison, said today that Rudolf Hess, no longer in the shadow of the gallows, has staged a remarkable recovery from the loss of memory of which he complained during his trial. Hess is listed as "Convict 125." Expected in W) A ranking American armv more bombings like the week-end protests against the denazifica a $2,500 reward for information. American authorities disclosed that an American motor pool was destroyed in an explosion in the Mannheim area early this month and that a week before the Stuttgart bombings, . an American army officer's car was demolished south of here by an infernal machine. The investigators thought both inci dents "possibly may have some connection." With tanks and sub-machine guns, 30 ) United States constab ulary troopers raided a four block square area of downtown Stuttgart tonight in a house-to-house search for suspects in the triple bombing. More than a score of medium and light American tanks roared into the area with jeeps packed with constabulary troopers. German police trucks fol lowed, jammed with 200 blue uniformed German police. jk Jom rir-" rnTTirtiwttwBiXBm Pistol Packin' Mama W) A century ago heaven didn't have to protect the working girl not if she wore a garter pistol like the antique Derringer with Screen Actress Marian Carr is modeling. The garter pistol, used to protect honor and cash, is one of thou sands of antiques shown at the Pacific Coast Antique Show in Los Angeles. Little Damage Caused By Storm in Salem Although the wind and rain storm that swept over the city during the week-end brought precipitation that measures 1.97 inches, little material damage was caused. One and thirty-nine hundredths inches of the total fell during the 24 hour period from 11 a.m., Saturday, to a .similar hour Sunday afternoon. A rise of approximately two feet oc curred in the Willamette river, although that stream is still 1.5 feet below normal. Predictions for the next 24 hours are for continued cloudiness with light rains following Tuesday morn ing. The storm brought the total for the month well above the average for October. . The Portland. General Elec tric company reported a few minor cases of trouble. "Noth ing worth mentioning," said David Wright, superintendent of the line department. There were no major interruptions and most ot the interruptions were cleared promptly. (Concluded on Page 11, Column 1) First Break in Shipping Strike New York, Oct. 21 (UP) Only two issues in the maritime strike remained to be settled between two unions and east and Gulf port ship operators to day as the west coast longshore men offered to return to work following resumption of negoti ations. It was the first real break in the 21-day-old dispute and both sides were optimistic about an immediate settlement. "Great progress" has been made in the discussions between the operators and both the AFL masters, mates and pilots and the CIO marine engineers, U. S. Labor Conciliator Frederick Livingston reported. A meeting between the nego- itators was adjourned late yes terday after 25 hours of con tinuous discussions. The meet ing was scheduled to be resumed at 3:30 p.m. today. Livingston said negotiations were characterized by "give and take" on both sides and that "real collective bargaining re sulted. Still in dispute were the rates of overtime pay and pay for night relief men. A spokesman said the negotiators were ap proximately 25 cents an hour apart on the overtime pay is sue, I State Delays Decision On 40-Hour Week The state board of control will not consider the proposed 40-hour week for state employes tor at least a few more weeks. Board of control members said they would wait until the civil service commission fin ishes its report. The commission recommend ed a 40-hour week spread over six days. The State Employes' association and the AFL Union of State Employes protested, wanting a 40-hour five-day week. Board members said they also want to find out where they can get the money to fi-1 nance a 40-hour week. 21, 1946 Heavy Rain Deluges Oregon (By Uift Associated Press) Rain pelted western Oregon over the week-end and the weatherman's forecast of con tinned showers brought warn mgs today of earth slides on some slate highways. The weather bureau reported a rainfall of 1.52 for Saturday and 1.24 Sunday, in Portland, both the highest since early February. Rain totalled 2.52 inches at Brookings during the 72 hours ending at 4:30 this morning. In the same period Portland had 1.71 inches, Eugene, 2.10, and Salem, 1.96. Highway accidents piled up through the stale. In Portland, the safety department recorded more than 50 accidents Satur day night and Sunday morning, a record. More than half re sulted in arrests and a score of pedestrians and motorists went to hospitals for treatment. During the heavy Saturday afternoon overcast in the Col umbia river area, inbound air traffic became snarled at the Portland-Columbia airport when a non-scheduled charter plane was unable to land due to radio failure. Other air craft were stacked-up at various levels, circling the airport, for an hour until the Los Angeles to Portland craft landed. A rock slide five miles east of Hood River on the Colum bia river highway caused the state highway commission to limit travel to one-way traffic today. The commission said the small slide should be cleared some time today. In spite of the heavy week end rains, highway conditions were normal in all other places. Raver Calls for Power Conference A serious power shortage in the Pacific northwest brought a call Monday from Dr. Paul Rav er, Bonneville administrator, for an emergency meeting in his of fice in Portland for Monday aft ernoon at 2 o'clock. Represen tatives of all members of the northwest power pool were ask ed to attend, also George Flagg. stale utiltics commissioner. "It is imperative." said a tele gram reviewed by Flagg, "that we have a meeting with all agencies represented in the western group of the power pool in my office to discuss means of taking care of the critical power situation in the northwest dur ing this fall and winter. Each member should have present re sponsible member of manage ment and operating engineer be cause of the urgency of this mat ter. I am calling this meeting for Monday, October 21, at 2 p.m. Please reply by telegram. In view of your interest in this matter I would appreciate it if you could be present." 'TTTl A Price Fi wts Inces Move IN .1 mvergentiy Chicago, Oct. 21 -r Prices of various commodities In the nation's markets again moved in divergent directions today, but chances were not as wide as last week. Cotton, poultry, and eggs de clined, grains, butter and live stock were mostly higher. This was the situation: Cotton futures, after declining the limit of $10 a bale al New York. New Orleans and Chica go, staged a rally. With trading active, losses averaged around $5.00. A heavy volume of goods was sold in the cotton textile market at ceiling prices wth de mand strong. Grain futures moved ahead with wheat averaging around two cents a bushel higher at Chicago, Minneapolis and Kan sas City. Corn also was up about two cents and oats gained one lo two cents. Egg futures at Chicago were down around cent a dozen. Egg prices in the wholesale market at New York declined a cent and at Chcago they were off one to three cents a dozen. Wholesale butter advanced one to I1; cents at New York and l'j lo 2'i cents at Chicago. Live poultry was unchanged to two cents a pound lower at Chicago. Hogs and Cattle Higher Hogs were $1.00 to $2 00 higher at Chicago, 50 cents lo $1.00 higher at SI. Louis and steady at Indianapolis. Cattle were steady to 50 cents higher at Chicago, steady at Indianap olis and slightly lower at St. Louis. Trading was resumed in cof fee futures at New York. Trans actions were made at 25 cents a pound compared with recent ceilings of 22 l-i cents. Livestock receipts were near ly double a week ago. Hog receipts likewise were far above those of last Monday. Whereas only 5564 hogs were reported from the 12 markets last Monday, the last day under price controls, 62,500 were re ported today. Good and choice hogs of 180 pounds and over were $1 to $2 higher than Fri day's average at Chicago, with an early top of $25. As the livestock rush kept up in the cornbelt, an embargo was clamped on cattle and calf ship ments lo the yards at Sioux Cily, Iowa, to remain in effect indefi nitely. Pittsburgh Strike Ended Pittsburgh, Oct. 21 (P) In dustrial life in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area swung back towards normal today upon the end of a 27-day power strike longest and costliest in the na tion's history. Hundreds of induslrial'planls resumed work at full speed to make up for lost production. Street car transportation was normal again and bus line op erations almost normal. With the 3,200 unionized Du- qucsnc Light company employes back at work the Sun-Telegraph estimated the strike cost the steel capital "at least $300,- 000,000" in business and wages. Conciliation sessions to end a 21-day-old hotel strike, also costing the city considerable business, resume today. The eight largest hotels here have been virtually closed, resulting in cancellation of a number of conventions. The power strike ended when the light company employes voted to submit their demands for a 20 percent wage increase and other issues to arbitration. Protest Shooting of Yank By Soviet Police In Berlin Berlin, Oct. 21 M'i The American military government pro tested sharply to Russian authorities today over the fatal shooting of Harry D. Flory, Jr., of Pawnee City, Neb., by a soviet military policemar in the soviet sector of Berlin. The office of LI. Gen. Ducius D. Clay, deputy American mili tary governor, disclosed the pro test, saying that it was con cerned not so much with the shooting as with the fact that an American party was molested at all in this cily where there is free traverse between the oc cupation sectors." Flory 28. was a civilian exec utive4 in the AMG. He was killed Sunday when he failed to follow orders lo proceed to Rus sian headquarters after a Rus sian major and a military po liceman had halted him and his companions two American women and a German chauf- Price Controls fo Drop From Flour, Bread, Other Baker Goods Within the Next Today Deadline for Action by Department of Agriculture on Decontrol Petition of Bakers Auto Makers Denied Further Price Increases Washington, Oct. 21 Wi Both OPA and agriculture department officials indicated today that price controls will drop from flour, bread and other baked goods this week, possibly today or tomor row. An OPA spokesman said there has been some discussion of de controlling bread, rolls and other baked goods while temporarily retaining ceilings on flour and other miller's products. "OPA has opposed this as inconsistent," the agency spokesman said, "We informed the agriculture department that if controls arc to be lifted on broad and baked goods, they also should be lifted at the miller level upon flour." The official pointed out that controls had been removed from all fats and oils, including shortening, which arc a big share ot bakers' costs. Today was the deadline for action by the agriculture department upon a decontrol petition from j the baked goods industry. Agriculture previously had denied a decontrol request by millers but Ihe industry renewed its petition and a public hearing was conducted last week. Freeing of flour, bread and other goods from price ceilings would reduce OPA controls to a small share of the average fam ily's food Cereals make up about 13 percent of the average family budget and about 80 per cent of the food budget had been freed from price lids previously. On Automobile Front On the automobile front, where four industry-wide in creases in the last year have boosted ceilings roughly 22 per cent above 1942 prices, the OPA official told a reporter: "Most of the major manufac turers agree with us that auto mobile prices have gone about as high under ceilings as they should." The official declined to com ment specifically, however, on a pending General Motors request for an additional price boost similar to that granted the Ford Motor company 50111c weeks ago under terms of a hardship pro vision of the new OPA act. The Ford increase amounted lo about six percent and was in addition lo general hikes granted lo offset higher wage and material costs and to restore normal profit margins to deal ers. OPA has refused lo say exact ly how much of a boost GM has asked, although the figure of $100 a car has been mentioned by company executives at De troit. Officials have stressed thai au tomobiles, along with building materials and other similarly scarce items are lo be exempt from the administration's No vember 1 goal of getting rid of most price controls. Allege Plot To Kill Pope Rome, Oct. 21 UP) An Infor mant al Italian police headquar ters said today that "vague re ports" were received there some days ago of an impending at tempt on the life of Pope Pius XII. The informant said these re ports which an intensive in vestigation had failed so far to substantiate said the plot had been fomented by Yugoslav ele ments irate at the Vatican's ac tion in excommunicating Yugo slav Catholic officials held re sponsible for the collaboration trial ot Archbishop Alojzijc Stcpinac. Stepinac, head of the Catholic church in Yugoslavia, who was convicted and sentenc ed to 16 years imprisonment. A list of some 20 names of the alleged plotters was furnish ed lo the Italian police, the in formant said, but so far police have not found any of the per sons named or even determin ed whether they really exist. "There are so many unregis tered foreigners in Italy these days," lie commented, "that we find it difficult to keep track of them and of what they arc doing." fcur on rido. picture-taking jeep Reports lo agents of the American army's criminal in vestigation division said the Rus sians halted the Americans be cause they had been taking pho tographs in the neighborhood of Untcr den Linden. Later U S. army headquar ters nere said it had an unofficial version from the Russians that Ihe Russians stopped the Ameri cans while "looking for hood lums in an American jeep who invaded a polling place" during Berlin's Sunday elections. An official report of the Inci dent from Russian headquarters was expected tomorrow. Few Days Plane Dropped Gems in France London. Oct. 21 0J.B Scot land Yard detectives investigat ing the Windsor jewel theft were informed today mat a farmer in France had reported seeing "glittering objects'" on (he ground after a metal cylin der was dropped by parachute from a private plane. The farmer, identified as M. Goasguen. of Argol, said the plane circled over a Brittany road several times before drop ping the metal container. He said the cylinder burst open when it struck the ground and that "glittering objects" were scattered over lie area. "I ran towards the spot," he said, "but two men who had been hiding in the hedge were ahead of me. They picked up the cylinder and the parachute and ran off. "Later I heard a powerful car being driven away. I informed the gendarmerie and I was told they were wondering if the af fair had any connection with the theft of the Windsor jcwels" The story of the parachuted cylinder was first reported by the Brest correspondent of the Paris newspaper France Soir. French police have declined to comment on the report. Chinese Reds Attack Yanks Pelping, Oct. 21 VP) Two United States marines, members of a nine-man hunting party, were captured yesterday by armed Chinese and still were missing today, marine headquar ters announced. In another incident, three U. S. sailors traveling by jeep near Tangku harbor fought off 511 Chinese in a gunbattlc in which several Chinese were wounded. None of the sailors was hurt. Both groups of Chinese were presumed lo be communists. All nine members of the hunt ing party were seized by three separate Chinese patrols but seven were released after being brought together. Authorities sought to negoti ate for the release of the two others. The sailors wero traveling from Tangku toward Tientsin when their jeep was stopped by seven Chinese who attempted to lake their weapons. The Chi nese opened fire when the sail ors resisted, and soon a larger group of Chinese emerged from the brush to cuter the fight. The sailors managed lo wheel their jeep about and retreat lo Tangku. No names were given. Master Plan of m Korean Reds Found Seoul, Korea, Oct. 21 (Pi Untied Stales military sources today disclosed excerpts from a year-old document tilled "Joint Soviet-Communist Master Plan for Korea" directing how a half million Koreans with proper training could become so effec tive they could in time bring about a government "as far lo the left as possible." Authorship of the paper was not disclosed. Responsible sour ces classed it as "completely re liable and said its existence had been known to the Ameri cans since last year. Presumably the word "com munist" in the title referred to the Korean communists. The Weather 'Released by the United States Weather BurcaiM forecast for Salem and vicin ity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with lew scattered showers in nftcrnoon and light rain betinninn Tuesday morn iiik. Lowest temperature to night 45 dcyrces. Conditions will become untavorabtc for agricultural activities Tuesday niornhiR due to rain. Mux. yes terday 58. Min. today 4tj. Mean temperature yesterday 54. which was 2 above normal. Total 24 hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today .30. Total precipitation for the month 2.50, which is .75 Inch above normal, Willamette river height -1.5 ft.
