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Newspaper Page TextHouse Passes Bill for Fair Employment Bans Discrimination Because of Race, Re ligion, Sex or Union By Paul W. Harvey, Jr. The house passed, 33 to 14, to day and sent to the senate the fair employment, bill, which dis courages the state and its po litical subdivisions from discrun inating for purposes of employ ment because of race, religion, sex or union membership. The vote came after the house had balloted 30 to 26 against removing sex and union mem bership from the bill. The bill originally prohibited such practices, and also made it apply to persons holding con tracts with the state and its sub divisions. Held Unnecessary Opponents of the bill contend ed it is not necessary, because '.existing laws and the state 'and federal constitutions provide all the legislation needed on the subject. Rep. Lyle Thomas, Dallas, sponsor of the .bill, said discrim ination was prohibited during the war, but a powerful south ern bloc in congress prevented fair employment legislation from being enacted by congress after the war. "Other states, including New York, have enacted laws prohib iting any employer lrom dis criminating because of race or religion, Thomas said. "They enacted laws which are not as feeble and innocuous as this one is. It's true you can't change at titudes by legislation, but we're not trying to do that. Certain state agencies have discriminat ed against persons because of their- color, and this bill aims to discourage that. -Held Spiritual Problem Rep. Ralph T. Moore, Coos Bay, said the bill "is an attempt to legislate righteousness into the minds of the people. This is a spiritual, not a legislative problem." Rep. Manley J. Wilson, St. Hel ms, said Henry J. Kaiser is re sponsible for the thousands of Negroes and whites who were brought to Oregon during the war to work in his shipyards, end many of whom now have obs. "Kaiser failed us entirely," Wilson said. "He promised these people would be taken care of after the war in new Industries he would locate here. But he hasn't located the new indus tries here." (OwMladed on Pate 9. Column 6) Second Note On Hungary Budapest, Hungary, March 17 The United States, in its second note in 12 days to Russian au thorities in Budapest, protested today that minority groups led by the communist party in Hun gary were "attempting to seize power through resort to extra constitutional tactics." The note, signed by Brig. Gen. George H. Weems, American representative on the allied con ; trol council for Hungary was ' addressed to Russian Lt. Gen. V. P. Sviridov. It said com munist tactics were threatening "the continuance of democracy In Hungary." The note renewed demands for an inquiry saying "the United Slates government considers that the power signatory to the agreement concluded at Yalta in regard to liberated Europe are obligated to take concerted ac tion to investigate political con ditions in Hungary." , London, March 17 (IP) Gov ernment quarters said today a iPDSjtlBTi nntp had turned down a British call for an impartial allied probe into charges of Soviet interference in Hungary's international political affairs. The Soviet note said such an Investigation would be an un warranted intervention in Hun gary, the sources said. Soup Kitchens for Germans Established Washington, March 17 (U.F9 Secretary of War Robert P. Pat terson, acting on a recommenda tion of former President Her bert Hoover, today ordered army authorities in Germany to estab lish "soup kitchens" for the re lief of German children and aged. He authorized Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. commander in Europe, to use surplus army food to feed some 3,800,000 German children and 1,000,000 aged In the British and American zones. Clay was authorized to sell the surplus food to British authori ties -at a rair present value. Pending conclusion of the nego tiations with the British, the kitchens will be established first ' in the American zone. apital 58th Year, No. 65 Grange, Labor Leaders Oppose Sales Tax Bill By James D. Otson Opposition to the general re tail sales tax bill was voiced be fore the house assessment and taxation committee at the last public hearing on the bill, Chair man Robert Gile anounced that the bill would be reported out following an executive meeting Tuesday morning. Morton ,Tomkins, legislative representative of the Oregon State Grange and Kelly Loe, representing the State Federa tion of Labor were the two ap pointments to the proposed leg islation who spoke today. "The state grange Is opposed to the sales tax on principal" said Mr. Tompkins. "The sales tax is an income tax in reverse. The income tax is based on abil ity to pay and the sales tax on necessity to spend." Mr. Loe charged the commit tee with "baiting" the bill to attract votes. "The suckers have not taken the bait in the past" he said "and will not take the bait this time." Alternative Proposed As an alternative to the sales tax Mr. Loe suggested reduction of the income tax exemptions; a business tax and a tax on gam bling. The committee, following the hearing laid H.B. 81, providing a tax on slot machines, and other forms of gambling on the table, thus killing any chance of this bill for the session. It was agreed by the commit tee to insert an amendment in the sales tax bill to allow use nf funds allnnat.pH tn rnnntips for an offset to property taxes if the counties are required to levy millage taxes for welfare pur poses, as is now proposed. (Concluded on Pare 9, Column 8) New Search On For Lifeboat Honolulu, March 17 (IP) Nine aircraft prepared to take off from Midway today to search anew for 12 men missing in a lifeboat and feared beyond the reach of planes while 22 other crewmen of the broken tanker Fort Dearborn rode out lashing seas halfway between Midway and Pearl Harbor.- Late reports from the navy command ship El Dorado, es corting the tanker's stern sec tion, said the half-ship with the 22 aboard was "steaming ahead safely, with stern- to sea and wind," and with the storm sub siding. The El Dorado said the men reported the bulkhead still in tact and the tern seaworthy, de spite battering by 45-knot winds and high seas, which had pre vented their rescue. Ten other Fort Dearborn crewmen, taken from the almost-awash bow section, were saieiy aDoara me liner uenerai W. H. Gordon, bound for San Francisco. The bow and stern broke apart in last Wednesday's storm 1,100 miles nortwest of Honolulu. "We thought the weather would moderate two days ago," and permit rescue of the 22 men from the stern, a navy spokes man here related, "but instead it has been worse. The weather is bad and the situation is bad." If the missing Fort Dearborn lifeboat, unsighted since it put out last Wednesday, has drifted at the same rate as bow and stern it now is virtually beyond reach of land-based search planes, the spokesman acknowledged. 14-Year-Old School Boy Admits Hanging 8-Year-Old Companion Albany, N. Y., March 17 () Carl De Flumer, 14-year-old junior high school pupil, is in Albany county jail today awaiting examination Wednesday on a first degree murder charge in what auinormes termea "tne impulse " hanging of eight-year-old Rob ert Wahrman. The slender, dark-haired De Flumer was arraigned in police court yesterday as his sobbing parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. De Flumer, watched. A plea of innocent to a first degree mur der charge is mandatory under state law. The penalty upon con viction could be death in the electric chair. District Attorney Julian B. Erway said Carl had confessed to the slaying. He said he be lieved the hanging was the re sult of "an impulse." Meanwhile, funeral services for "Bobbie," will be held to morrow at the Blessed Sacra ment Catholic church. His third Batm u mob $imm Salem, Withdrawal of Troops in Japan Urged by Mac Tokyo, March 17 (U.R)-Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur proposed today that the allied powers quickly write a Japanese peace treaty, withdraw all their troops immediately after its signature and turn over control of Japan to the United Nations. Conditions presently are ripe to initiate peace conversa tion," the supreme commander told a foreign correspondents luncheon. After the peace treaty, the control of Nippon should be entrusted to the al lied nations." End Economic Blockade MacArthur urged an end to the "economic blockade." Its ef fects on Japan are more deadly than the atomic bomb, he said. He proposed an immediate rep arations settlement. "The present economic stran gulation of Nippon is worse than the atomic bomb," the supreme commander told the foreign cor respondents' club. He said it threatens to endanger millions of Japanese lives. MacArthur in a rare public appearance surprised the cor respondents by answering ques tions for publication. His an swers disclosed his ideas on the future of the defeated coun try. Other Recommendations His recommendations includ ed: (1) Withdrawal of all allied troops from Japan as soon as the peace treaty is signed. (2) The control of Japan should be entrusted to the Unit ed Nations after the treaty. (3) Japan must be restored as a commercial nation because she is unable to feed herself. (4) She must be allowed to trade with the world on a system of private initiative, free from unnecessary government or al lied military restrictions. Military Phase Completed .MacArthur said the military phase of the occupation was completed .and the economic phase in progress. He said the wartime economic blockade of Japan was still rigidly enforced "1here should be no bayonet control over Nippon once the peace terms are arranged," he said. "SCAP (supreme com mand allied powers) should end immediately with the peace treaty. "Conditions presently are ripe to initiate peace conversations. After, the peace treaty, the con trol of Nippon should be en trusted to the allied nations. "By renouncing war in her new constitution, Japan has thrown herself on the mercy of allies. The allies have a moral responsibility to protect the Japanese people from aggres sion. The United Nations should be entrusted with this task . . MacArthur said that if the world organization ever was to succeed, Japan would provide its most favorable opportunity. Failure to undertake the super vision of Japan would mean that the "so-called new world order means nothing," he said. Clay Recommended As Full General Washington, March 17 (IP) President Truman today nomi nated Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, commander of U. S. forces in Europe, for the temporary rank of full general. Mr. Truman also nominated Maj. Gen. Clarence Ralph Hueb ner, Clay's chief of staff, to be a lieutenant general. Both officers hold the per manent rank of brigadier gen eral, ' grade companions will act as bearers. The body's nude body was found by three boys late Satur day hanging in a section of Loudonville, exclusive residen tial suburb. A length of clothes line had been wound around his neck,. looped around a tree limb and tied to another tree. Erway declined to release a statement he said the De Flumer boy had made other than to quote him as saying he "decided to kill" his companion as they played in a barn near the spot where the body was found. He said the boy stripped the body of clothing "to remove the evidence." A crucifix and reli gious medals were found hang ing about the dead boy's neck. Oregon, Monday, March Dutch Seize American Ship B8J'-A"-- - niiiini.il Z2f tin Behrman (top) rides at anchor at Batavia, Java, after being taken there by a Dutch destroyer which intercepted the vessel after it left the Indonesian Republic port of Cheribon with a cargo of rubber, quinine and other raw materials. Below Capt. Rudy Grey of the Behrman leaves after a conference in which he photo) Court Orders Mandate In Lewis Case Advanced ;' Washington, March 17 VP) that its mandate in the John L. Lewis case be issued on March 20 11 days ahead of customary time. The government had asked the court to act immediately to enforce its decision against Lewis and the United Mine Workers. The court's dicision requires that within Crime Records Broken in '46 Washington, March 17 (JP) J". Edgar Hoover, reporting a new 10-year crime record for 1946, said today that wartime ju venile delinquents are "graduat ing from petty thieves to armed robbers and into the field of more serious crimes." The Federal Bureau of Inves tigation director said the 645,431 arrests records received last year represent a 7.6 percent increase in crime throughout the nation over 1945. Of the more serious crimes, only auto thefts declined 4.8 percent in 1946. Murders in creased 23.3 per cent; man slaughter by negligence, 7.2; rape, 5; robbery, 15.7; aggrav ated assault, 12.9; burglary, 11.3; and larceny, 8.8. ' The FBI's study of 1946 crime showed that for the first time since 1938 more persons in the 21-year age group were arrested than in any other age level. Next in order, were 22, 23, 24 and 20-year-olds. The report also noted an in crease of 25.4 percent in arrests of males and an 18.3 percent de crease in arrests of women, com pared with 1945. Arrests of girls under 21 exceeded prewar figures by 40 percent, even though 33.1 percent below 1945. Truman to Return On Wednesday ': Key West, Fla.,"March 17 (ff) President Truman, kept away from the beach again by over cast skies, spent this morning reading telegrams congratulat ing him on his daughter's radio debut. . He decided to fly back to Washington Wednesday, leaving shortly after lunch with a view tc having dinner in the White House. The weather being too chilly for swimming and too cloudy for sunbathing, Mr. Truman slept until 7:30 o'clock again, eating a hearty breakfast 30 minutes la ter. He slept under blankets. The Weather (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 40 to 45. Conditions will be favorable for dusting in the morning. Maxi mum yesterday 76. Minimum to day 41. Mean temperature yes terday 58 which was 13 above normal. Total 24-hour precipi tation to 11:30 ajn. today 0. Total precipitation for the month 3.63 which is 1.57 Inches above normal.. Willamette river height 4 ft. 17, 1947 The American Liberty ship, Mar the Dutch destroyer Kortenaer protested to the Dutch. (AP Wire- The supreme court ordered today five days after its mandate is issued Lewis must withdraw a notice to the mine workers that the union's working contract with the government is ended If not, it will cost the United Mine, workers $2,800,000..--.. When upholding the contempt convictions of Lewis and the UMW for disregarding a U. S. district court order against last fall's coal strike, the high court reduced a $3,500,000 fine against the union to $700,000. It said, however, that the original amount of fine should be collected if Lewis did not withdraw the order. A $10,000 fine against Lewis was upheld. The effect of today's ruling is to bar the door against a new walkout on March 31. Lewis ended last fall's strike by ordering the miners to work until March 31. Under normal procedure, the supreme court's mandate (order in connection with the contempt decision) would not have reach ed the lower court until March 31. That would have left five days during which the miners could have stayed away from the pits without being subject to the full amount of the original fine. Swallows Return 4 Days Too Early San Juan Capistrano, Calif., March 17 (IP) Four days ahead of schedule, says Father A. J. Hutchison, the swallows of his toric San Juan Capistrano mis sion have arrived for the lum ber, after a winter spent as far south as Patagonia. Father Hutchinson, in charge of the mission, said the swallows usually come back on St. Jo seph's day, March 19, but the ad vance guard rolled in, he said, at sundown Saturday. "We were surprised to i s e e about 200 of them," said Father Hutchinson. "A scouting party sometimes arrives this early, but there are too many for just that." Legend at the mission has it that swallows arrive on St. Jo seph's day and depart Oct. 23, the Feast of San Juan Capis trano. Uses Baseball Bat To Capture Burglar Portland, March 17 (JP) Armed with a baseball bat, Har old B. Slater went out and cap tured a man who had a rifle. It happened in front of his house as Slater returned home. He told police he saw the man walking away from the place with a rifle in his hands. After the capture, the rifle turned out to be one from Sla ter's home, police said. They also recovered from the man's auto mobile $175 worth of goods from Slater's home. The man wis held on $3000 bond. mm Niillinn Kill rVV riimvii VIII For Greek Aid Offered in House Washington, March 17 (U.R) Senate officials, after a confer ence with Acting Secretary of State Dean Acbeson, said a bill embodying President Truman's $400,000,000 program for aiding Greece and Turkey will be intro duced in the house later today. Acheson, it was learned, can vassed the legislative outlook for the president's program to quar antine commnuism and received assurances that early congres sional action will be forthcom ing. The administration has ex pressed hop the program will be enacted by March 31, the date Great Britain has set for with drawing support from Greece. Lodge Fledges Support Meanwhile, Sen: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R., Mass.) pledged his support to Mr. Truman s pro gram. But he warned that this nation cannot "resist commu nism in one place and appear to support It in others. Lodge, in a statement, assert ed that if congress rejected the president s efforts to check com munism, the last hope of ever organizing peace would vanish." "We can be sure of one thing weakness will not avoid trou ble," Lodge said. "There is i much better chance that strength, guided by virtuous mo tiyes, will do so. Wants Secrets Revealed But another republican sena tor, Homer Ferguson (Mich.), wanted a full disclosure of any thus far unrevealed secret agreements made by the late President Roosevelt before con gress acts on the Greco-Turkish loan. He manifested paiticular interest in any agreement on Soviet and British spheres of in fluence. Lodge said the program to check communism in the Near East "is not war-mongering." He described it as a clear warning that "we refuse to be shut out of the Near East." Lodge added that the program was not one of "bailing, out oil companies. It is simple self preservation." Seek to Extend Rent Control Washington, March 17 (IP) Two top government officials to day told the house banking com mittee that control on rents and housing should be extended. Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, temporary controls administra tor, proposed continuance of "es sential" rent controls until June 30, 1948. Housing Expediter Frank R. Creedon told the committee that only those controls necessary to get the housing job done are be ing used now. The committee is considering a bill by Chairman Wolcott (R., Mich.), to repeal the 1946 Pat man housing act in order to free the building industry of ail fed eral control. It would also end rent controls on March 31, 1948 and place them on a different ba sis than at present. Fleming said that the proposed bill would lead to higher rents in many instances and to hardships for veterans and the lower in come groups. Creedon, who followed Flem ing to the stand, told the com mittee: "On the basis of the facts as I see them, it is my considered judgment that the few remain ing housing controls cannot be removed at this time without causing a serious loss in the pro duction of homes for veterans." Bodies of Goering and 10 Nazi Chiefs Cremated; Ashes to River By Clinton B. Conger ICODrrlsht. 194T. bv TTnliarf Prtut Frankfurt,, March 17 flJ.ra The bodies of Hermann Goering and his 10 fellow nazi leaders were cremated on the day of the mass execution last October 18 and the ashes were sifted in a stream at Munich birthplace of the nazi party. Thus, for these 11 top-f light nazis at least, the road ended where it began after a cataclys mic cycle of destruction. Five months and a day after the Nuernberg executions and suicide of Goering, the United Press was able today to reveal how the bodies were disposed of. The U. S. army had dropped a curtain over the events fol lowing the Nuernberg hangings. It had sought to preclude any possibility of furnishing a "shrine" for any nazi fanatics who now or in the future might worship at the place where their idols last reposed. Molofov Asks 20 Payment Plan by Would Pay Soviet Demand Made for 4 Power Control of Ruhr and Immediate Cancellation of American-British Zonal Fusion Also Seeks Moscow, March 17 (IP) Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov de manded of the foreign ministers' conference today a 20-year reparation payment plan by which Germany would pay the Soviet Union $10,000,000,000. MolotoV. asked for a four-power diate cancellation of the American The Russian diplomat demanded also the removal from Ger many of capital goods such as factories for reparations, a division of German assets held abroad and reparations from current pro- auction. He said the 20-year payment period should date from the signing of the Potsdam agreement in 1945. Molotov said the agreed level of German production in steel should be raised from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 tons annually to provide for reparations payment. Molotov proposed that central agencies be created in Germany to administer the reparations program. Demands Held Excessive The Russian demands went be yond what even the most pes simistic western observers be lieved the Soviet Union would seek. British Foreign Secretary Er nest Bevin, first of the ministers to present his views on economic unity, also asked for an increased level of Germany industry. Bevin pointed out, however, that any economic merger of all the occupation zones of Germany would require that all the zones share equally in the cost. He said he would make his full proposal later, but added that the carry ing out of the Potsdam provision for reparations only in capital goods was a British idea of the right method. . Attacks Western Powers The Briton warned that his government under no circum stances would undertake obli gations in Germany that would entail additional cost. Molotov, in a long attack on the western powers, declared that the United States, Great Britain and France had violated the Potsdam accord. He indicat ed that the Soviet Union op posed French action on the Saar, creating a French customs union with that German industrial re gion. He alleged that the United States and Britain had violated the Potsdam agreement by fus ing their zones and that the British had broken the pact by taking over the coal and ateel production of the Ruhr. , . Recalls Yalta-Potsdam , ... Before , presenting . . Russia's reparations claim, Molotov re called the Yalta and Potsdam meetings of the chief of state of the Big. Three powers as proof that agreement had been reached that Russia should get $10,000, 000,000 to the $20,000,000,000 reparations claimed against Ger many.. - British Foreign Secretary Er nest Bevin was reported to have drafted a letter to Soviet For eign Minister V. M. Molotov re jecting Molotov's proposal for a special conference on China. Be vin took a stand similar to Mar shall's but in addition was re ported to have stressed that Britain viewed the Chinese mat ter as primarily between the United States and Russia. Some diplomats said Bevin's reported letter showed a British trend toward a secondary role in issues on which she could gracefully seek a neutral line. 80,000 Irish Stage Broadway Parade New York, March 17 (IP) An estimated 80,000 sons and daughters of the Emerald Isle paraded down Fifth avenue to day as New York paid its an nual tribute to St. Patrick. Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander said he expected 1,250,000 onlookers "despite the chill wind." Everywhere along the sunlit avenue green decorations pre dominated in . the ties and shirts of men, the coats and scarves of women, and the flags of Eire fluttering from office windows. Now the word has come that photographs of the dispersal of the nazi ashes are being offered for sale in the United States. And so the secret, unveiled by United Press correspondents in four German cities after weeks of checking, no longer is a secret. In the Ostfriedhof area of East Munich is a German civil ian cemetery and a gray stone building 40 feet wide and 80 feet long. It is as high as a three- story house, and is surrounded by a six-foot stone wall which contains the chapel. In the base ment is a gas oven for crema tion. Eleven bodies were cremated I there last Oct. 16. Year Reparation Which Germany $10 Billion Removal of Factories control of the Ruhr .nd imme - British tonal fusion. Martial Law in Holy Land Lilted Jerusalem, March 17 (IP) The Palestine government lifted martial law today after 15 days of British army rule, officially reported imposed to check vio lence by the Jewish under ground, over sections of the Holy Land. Some 25,000 of Jerusalem's Jews welcomed the end at noon (2 a. m., PST) in a virtual holi day spirit. They thronged to tha edges of the wire-guarded mili tary zone an hour beforehand to await release. Police had comb ed their homes for terrorist sus pects during the martial law period. Martial law had cut off some 250,000 Jews from the rest of Palestine. The government pro claimed some success in the hunt for armed Jewish opponents of Britain's mandate policies, but violence continued last night. Joyous shouting rose to a high pitch as martial law rules ex pired and grinning troops stood aside. Many soldiers exchanged banter with the Jews as they climbed atop Bren gun carrier! and watched the Jews themsel ves roll away the barbed wira that had penned them in. Gales Take Lives Of 13 Britons London, March 17 (JP) A toll of 13 deaths and property dam age of millions of dollars wai levied by. high winds which swept in from the Atlantic last night and blew themselves out over a still flooded and snow bound Britain today. Milder weather was forecast by the air ministry, although considerable rains and gales were expected tomorrow. The night winds attained a velocity of 98 miles an hour at times, unrooting trees, deroof ing buildings and wrecking houses. Most of the dead were vic tims of falling trees and debris. Five were killed when houses collapsed. A falling pipe killed another, and two school girls were crushed to death in a bus which was struck by a falling tree. A man was found dead this morning under a fallen trea outside his home near Leicester. Two cyclists caught in the gale were crushed by trees. Anotner victim died of head injuries aft er being bowled over on the street. Twenty German pnsoners-ol- war were seriously injured when a tree smashed in the roof of a hut at their camp north of London. Louis to Defend Title in N.Y. June 26 New York. March 17 (IP) Joe Louis announced today through one of his managers, Marshall Miles, that he will make the 24th defense of his world heavy weight boxing title on June 26 in the New orK xannee stadium. Although no opponent was announced, miles said thai Louis is eager to meet tne win . .. . i , r j tu ner of tne doui in luuu tween Bruce Woodcock, tne British empire heavyweight champion, and Joe Baksi of Kulpmont, Pa., provided that contest takes place on or about April 15 and provided, too, that satisfactory terms can be ar ranged." 1250 Buildings On Block Wednesday Portland, March 17 (IP) The largest sale to date of surplus buildings in Oregon will open Wednesday with 1250 Camp White structures on the block. The sale will continue 20 days. The war assets administra tion said the sale would be open to priority buyers and the pub lic concurrently. The offering includes barracks, mess halls, warehouses, repair shops, serv ice clubs and theaters. Camp White is near Medford.