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Greek-Turkish Aid Championed By Vandenberg Senator Replies to Gromyko's Charges That U. S. By-passed U. N. Washington, April 8 (JP) Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich,) called on the senate today to ap prove military and financial aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent "a chain of reaction which would threaten peace and security around the globe." Far from "by-passing" the United Nations, Vandenberg de clared in a senate speech, the proposed $400,000,000 aid pro gram is "the greatest act of vol- 'uiitary allegiance to it ... an act of total faith." Thus without mentioning An drei A. Gromyko by name, the foreign relations chairman re plied to the' Soviet representa tive's assertion to the security council yesterday that the Unit Led States had "disregarded" N. N.'s authority, "by-passing" the organization, and undermining its power. In Communist Orbit "I know of no better way to 'destroy the United Nations' than to give it a specific job which it is neither intended nor prepared to do, Vandenberg said. "In no available aspect should we by-pass its functions. But in no available aspect should be ruin its potential by assigning to it functions which it does not possess. Such an assignment would destroy it for keeps. "Meanwhile, under such cir cumstances as in the present in stance, Greece would sink into the communist orbit and the fateful chain reaction would set in both east and west." Leading off the debate which may continue for a week or more, Vandenberg assured the senate that: Not Imperialistic There is no new "doctrine" such as the Monroe doctrine in American aid to distressed' nations. The plan is not '-'imperialistic" but is intended to "forestall ag gression which, once rolling, could snow-ball into global dan ger of vast design." The United States is "not bail ing out the British Emprie'." And "We plot no offense against the Soviet Union." Vandenberg told the senate, in .a prepared speech, that "the ' plain fact" seems to be this: . Turkey in Jeopardy "If the Greeks, in their extremity, are not successfully helped to help themselves to maintain their own healthy right of self-determination, another communist dictatorship will rise at this key-point in world geog raphy. "Then Turkey, long mobilized against a communist 'war of nerves,' faces neighboring jeo pardy. "The two situation are insep arable." Senator George (D., Ga.) cap ped unofficial American reaction with an assertion that Moscow is attempting to stall aid to Greece and Turkey. Price Situation Grows Serious Washington, April 8 (IP) Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the president's economic advis ory council, said today that the price situation is serious at this time. Leaving the White House aft er a conference with President Truman, Nourse told reporters he was "frankly worried" over the inability to bring prices 'own generally and the result ing pressures culminating in in creased wage demands. Mr. Truman, after receiving the report from his advisory council called a special meeting of the cabinet for tomorrow to discuss the price situation in detail. The cabinet ordinarily meets on Friday. Mr. Truman, who has repeat edly expressed concern over ris ing costs, declared in a speech Saturday night that he hoped industry would not go "whole hog for profits. Other members of the council accompanied Nourse to see Mr Truman today. Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said the council would submit a report to the cabinet meeting. The Weather (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Cloudy with Intermittent light rain today, tonight and Wednesday. Little temperature change. Low tonight 40 to 45. Weather will be unfavorable generally for dusting and spray ing tomorrow. Maximum yes terday 53. Minimum today 48. Mean temperature yesterday 46 which was 2 below normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 ajn. today 0.29. Total precipita tion for the month 1.38 which is .67 Inch above normal. Wil lamette river height 8 ft. C apit a! A Jour 58th Year, No. 84 Lumber Prices Cut 10 Percent Effective April 9, all prod ucts of the lumber division of the Oregon Pulp and Paper company will be reduced by 10 percent, according to announce ment Tuesday by E. A. Linden, manager. The reduction is be ing made upon instructions from F. W. Leadbetter, president of the O. P. & P. company, who stopped off in Salem en route to Portland from California. 'I feel that prices of lumber products have been too high; said Leadbetter. He added that the cut, which is in effect in both retail and wholesale depart ments, was made in an effort to encourage construction, especi ally among home builders. There has been no lack of or ders, it was explained. The saw mill has been operating on a two- shift basis while the sash and roof department is working 40 hours a week, the regular sched ule. Truman Policy 'Road to Peace' Portland, Ore., April 8 (P) Dr. Wilson Compton, president of Washington State college, today told Oregon teachers that the "Truman policy is the road to peace, not the road to war." The propasal to aid Greece and Turkey is necessary not only to preserve peace, but also to maintain a free society and liberal, public education in Greece, he told 3000 delegates to the annual Oregon Education Association convention. "No important nation wants war now," Dr. Compton assen ted, adding that education pos sibly could prevent war in the future. "The ethics of a nation in its public and private affairs and its international relations are no higher than those of its people . . . We need public confidence and we need institutions which can preserve it without pulling the shades down . . . only edu cation can foster it and only education can sustain it," he said. Delegates also heard Dr. Kenneth McFarland, Topeka, Kas., school superintendent, urge teachers to raise their per sonal standards so they may be come examples to their stu dents. The convention was to. close following the afternoon forum. Governor Signs Tax Bill Governor Earl Snell today ap proved and signed house bill No. 351, providing for taxation of real properties of state, county cities, towns and other munici pal corporations held under lease; house bill 243 relating to the counting of school days and house bill 262 clarifying assess ment of personal property. Henry Ford Henry Wallace Touring Europe To Seek 'Progressive' Coalition London, April 8 (U.R) Henry A. Wallace arrived today for a tour of western Europe during which he said he would seek an international coalition of progressive forces that "believe most heartily in the unity of thef world on behalf of peace." Wallace, former vice president and now editor of the New Re public, carried a setting of eggs for a British poultry experiment station as he stepped from a Pan American Constellation. Some 100 reporters' and pho tographers were on hand for the arrival of Wallace, who planned to project his "common man" philosophy in a series of speech es in Britain, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm. Proclaiming this to be "a par ticular time of crisis in the world," Wallace said: ' "I seek to discover those pro gressive forces in western Eur ope forces which should be brought together across national Entered second cliu matter it Salem, Oregon Salem, Henry Ford Dies Suddenly at Dearborn Home Detroit, April 8 (.JP) In the flickering light of kerosene lamps and candles Henry Ford, famed pioneer of the automobile industry, died at 11:40 o'clock last night in his home in nearby Dearborn. He would have reached his 84th birthday next July 30. High flood waters of the river Rouge running through the Ford estate had cut power and heat ing services at the residence and a wood-burning fireplace warmed the room. Mr. Ford's death was due to a cerebral hemorrhage. It came after the noted indus trialist had spent a vigorous day inspecting flood-water damage around the Ford plant and was making plans for another spection this morning. Friends said he had never ap peared in better health. At his bedside were his wife, Mrs. Clara Bryant Ford, and a member of the household staff. Funeral services will be held from St. Paul's Episcopal cathed ral in Detroit on Thursday at an hour Jo be announced later The body was taken to a De troit funeral home this morning and will be returned to the Ford Greenfield Village to lie in state all day Wednesday. Funeral on Thursday - All Ford operations through out the world will be suspended on Thursday. Flags on all Ford property wilt be at half staff un til after the funeral. Mr. Ford's death marked the passing of not only one of the world's most noted industrialists but of an individualist who de veloped one of the most colossal family fortunes the world has known out of what often had been ridiculed as "a lot of crazy ideas." He developed his great indus trial empire for which he was once said to have refused $1, 000,000,000 out of an idea for a cheap automobile and an initial capital investment, mainly by his friends, of $28,000. 31 Million Autos Made That was in 1903, and at his death the great empire belonged exclusively to his family and had manufactured more than 31, 000,000 vehicles. He had been planning to cele brate his wife's birthday and their 59th wedding anniversary next Friday. The surviving members of the family, in addition to the widow, are Mrs. Edsel B. (Eleanor) Ford, and her children, Henry II, Benson, William and Jose phine Ford. Edsel Ford, only son of the noted manufacturer, died in May, 1943. Death came to the elder Ford a little more than a year and a half after he had relinquished all participation in the manage ment of his great company. 4. Republicans Win in Michigan Detroit, April 8 (JP) Republi cans piled up majorities of near ly two to one in a dull state election today and seemed as sured of the second sweep of the state of Michigan in six months. ' No upsets appeared in the making, since most of the lead ers already held office. Leland W. Carr, 64-year-old former- anti-graft grand juror, was leading the republican-en dorsed ticket for justice of the state supreme court just as his one-time special prosecutor, Kim Sigler, did in winning the governorship last fall. boundaries by mutual under standing, -acquaintance and sym pathy." While announcing that he sought an international coalition of one-world progressives, he added that he planned no ac tual international progressive or ganization but instead envisaged mutuality such as has long ex isted in the world of science and art." "We need it desperately in the political world today," he said at an airport press confer ence. In a two-minute interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation at the airport, Wal lace castigated the proposed American loan to Greece and Turkey as "not constructive." Oregon, Tuesday, April Molotov Halts Discussion of Disagreements Moscow, April 8 W) Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov agreed under western pressure tonight to halt the long discus sions of Big Four disagreements on current German problems and to turn to other matters the next being the question of German frontiers. The ministers will take up the frontier question tomorrow. In a conciliatory move, Molo tov agreed to demands by U. S. Secretary of State Marshall, British Foreign Secretary Ern est Bevin and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to drop from the plans for a Ger man provisional government the Soviet proposal that security police powers be yested in a cen tral government. Bevin led the fight on this. He declared that "the tendency toward creation of a police state would be dangerous." Threaten to Quit American sources said today that unless the Russians ceased what the Americans called ob structionist tactics in the for eign ministers' council the whole conference could end very soon. The Russian proposal to per mit Germany to choose by plebiscite the form of her fu ture government was regarded by western diplomats as an ef fort to offset the effect upon the German people of the insistent Soviet demands for $10,000,000, 000 in reparations. These demands, thus far blocked by U. S. Secretary of State Marshall, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and French . Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, have created a problem for Russia in German politics. Marines Foil Chinese Reds By John Roderick . Hsinho.wChina, April, 8 W.I The story of how a small band of U. S. Marines foiled a well planned attempt by Chinese communists to destroy a big ammunition dump last Saturday was unfolded here today. Only a small section of the de pot was fired by the commu nists. Witnesses said it explod ed with a great burst of orange light and a thundering roar that smashed windows for five miles around. As the first U. S. newsman to reach this village of mud huts west of Tientsin, I learned how the marines overcame superior numbers in a brief but furious battle which cost the lives of five of the Americans. Sixteen others were wounded. Of the 14 still hospitalized, one is in criti cal condition, the other 13 are making "encouraging progress." Six communists were left dead and many of their com rades fled along a blood-spotted route across the Chinchung river, eight miles to the north. A seventh Chinese a non-participant was killed by a stray bullet. Funeral services for the five dead marines will be held Wed nesday. The Reds struck with what is suspected here of being a fifth column, since they knew in advance some of the secrets of marine communications and cut two buried phone cables. Their apparent objective: De struction of all the ammunition which couldn't be carried away Plans Under Way To Exhume Bodies Santa Ana, Calif., April 8 (U.R) S p e c i a 1 Investigator J. Herbert Mulvey planned today to ask permission to exhume the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Ovcrell, killed in connection with the time bomb explosion of their yacht, for a new au topsy. Doctors who performed a pre vious autopsy made conflicting reports said the officer, named after the state attorney general took over the murder investiga tion at request of local authori ties, j The Overells' daughter, Beu lah Louise, 17, and her fiance George R. Gollum, 21, go on trial May 26 on a charge of murdering the socially promi nent Los Angeles couple. The wills of the victims, who left their $600,000 fortune to the daughter, were admitted to pro bate in Los Angeles yesterday They provide that their daugh ter get one fourth of the fortune on her 21st birthday, half on her 31st and the remaining fourth on her 41st. 8, 1947 Wind Whips New York Telephone Pickets A spanking breeze musses a hair-do and whips a placard but these pickets seem to be having fun in front of the American Telephone and Telegraph company headquarters in downtown Manhattan. (AP Wirephoto) United Nations Delegates Wire Home for Orders Lake Success, N. Y., April 8 (JP) Delegates to the security coun cil hurriedly cabled their governments for instructions today on Russia's surprise proposal which the right to supervise American Andrei A. Gromyko laid the proposal before the council last night after he had vigorously atlackcdf- what he called the "unilateral" action of the United Slates and declared that President Tru man's program to aid Greece and Turkey constituted interfer ence in the internal affairs of those countries. Although the Soviet resolu tion, calling for creating of a special security council commis- ion to supervise aid to Greece, did not mention the U.S. pro gram specifically, it was pointed out by some delegates that this was the only aid m sight at pres ent. - First Reactions The first reaction to the So viet program was that the kind of supervision it envisaged would definitely rule out the use of the American funds for any military purposes. Since this was one of the primary aims set forth in the U.S. program, there appeared to be little likelihood that the United S'ates could ac cept it. Russia's resolution will be taken up Thursday when the council resumes discussion of the Greek question. At the same time the council will con sider a United States resolution proposing that the U.N. Balkan investigating commission keep representatives in northern Greece while the commission's report is being drafted in Gen eva. Oleo Bill Signed By Governor Gov. Earl Snell today signed a bill repealing the law forbid ding the use of oleomargarine in state institutions. The meas ure was introduced by Sen. Thomas Mahoney, Portland. Also approved by the gover nor were bills: Authorizing Oregon courts to enforce collection of taxes due to other states who extend the same service to Oregon in tax collections. Authorizing creation of coun ty and district health boards. Eliminating the necessity of tagging individual pieces of deer meat being stored in a cold stor age locker. Requiring hunters to report to the game commission within 10 days after killing elk. Increasing license fees for fishing and hunting guides from $3 to $25 a year and prohibiting them from hunting while acting as guides. Increasing the salaries of Jackson county officers. Authorizing Harney county o construct and maintain a county hospital. Prohibiting chiropodists from advertising. 61 Persons Killed In Morocco Riot ' Casablanca, Moroco, April 8 (JP) Sixty-one persons were killed and 119 were wounded in rioting yesterday. The riot was said to have been caused by a fight between a Senegalese and a Morocan over a woman. m a P . would give the United Nations aid to Greece. Soviet Delegate 80,000 Greek Workers Strike Athens, April 8 (U.R) Approx imately 80,000 Greek govern ment workers went on a 48-hour strike today to bolster demands for an increase from 50,000 to 100,000 drachmas in their annual Easter bonus. Journalists and printers in Athena also were out in a 24 hour strike protesting the mur der last week of three printers in a raid on the Salonika com munist daily, Agonislia. Bank employes also walked out. Reports circulated that railway workers, water and gas workers and perhaps other cate gories would join the strike to morrow. Though telegraph operators were participating in the strike foreign messages were handled by cable and wireless. Meanwhile, unofficial reports stated 103 guerrillas were killed, 160 captured and 250 surren dered yesterday in fighting with government troops in central Greece. People Hanging On To War Bonds Now Washington, April 8 (P) The American people are hanging onto their war bond savings this year in sharp contrast to the way they turned them in for cash in early 1946. Treasury figures today show ed that cash-ins of the scries E savings bond the old "war bond" were 38.5 percent low er during the first .three months of this year than the same pc riod of 1946. As a result, the treasury sales of these bonds exceeded redemp tions by $326,146,000 during the first quarter of this year. He demptions exceeded sales by $204,540,000 in the first quar ter of 1946. Lewis Orders Miners to Return to Work as Mines Certified Safe Washington, April 8 (IP) John L. Lewis today expressed "grat ifirafinn" Hint coal production yesterday was "substantial" and instructed miners to resume work as safe. Lewis, president of the' AFL United Mine Workers made public a telegram he sent to each district president of the union. It said in part: "Let us all. hope that the be lated efforts of the federal gov ernment to establish safety in the mines will not prove td be a spasmodic gesture and will pave the way for mandatory safety legislation by the federal congress." The coal mines administration said its reports last night show ed 100,000 miners, including 54, 000 members of John L. Lewis' UMW, digging coal in 500 pits on the first day of the scheduled safety stoppage after the union's six-day mourning period for victims of the Centralia. III., blast. The UMW has 400,000 soft coal miners. Federal Conciliator Hopeful of Early Settlement in Long Distance Part of Nation-wide Phone Strike Union Officials Not So Optimistic Calls Between Dial Stations Continue But Calls Over Manual Phones Limited to Emergency Calls Washington, April 8 (IP) Federal Conciliator Peter G. Manno reported the government is "hopeful" of a settlement today in the long distance part of the nation-wide telephone strike. As negotiations resumed between the union and the American Telephone and Telegraph company's long lines division Manno told reporters: "We are hopeful that a settlement will be effectuated in the long lines today." Long distance service has been hit hardest by the two-day-old cross-country work stoppage the first in the industry. Manno emphasized that a settlement of the long lines phase would not end the entire walkout of 294, 0U0 telephone workers. John J. Moran, president of the American Union of Telephone workers which represents long distance employes, was less opti mistic. Moran, when asked whether a settlement could be ex pected soon replied "that's up tor tile company." Anything that happens here in this meeting would have to go back to the policy committee of the National Federation of Telephone workers for approv al," he said. A settlement in the long lines division a year ago provided the basis for an agreement for the entire industry. Apparently with that in mind, government conciliators have been concen trating on that phase of nego tiations in the current walkout. The American public adjusted itself to sharply curtailed tele phone service today as the coast to coast strike of nearly 300,000 employes of the Bell system en tered its second day. Calls between dial telephones continued without interruption, but calls over manual phones, or traveling the long distance lines of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, parent organization of the Bell system, generally were limited to emerg ency calls. . Of the nation's 31, 600,000 telephones, 18,700,000 are dial-operated. By using supervisory person nel to take over strikers' jobs, the A. T. & T. said it was able to handle 22 i percent of usual long distance traffic-. The com pany spokesman said in New York that while the company had announced it would accept only emergency calls, it also was handling "necessary calls" which he described as of a seri ous rather than a social nature. 'I he A. T. & T. spokesman added that in 14 large cities. 23 percent of the long distance positions were manned rb super- viuiy inrrsonnci. rie added that about 10 percent of its non supervisory personnel ra 1 s o showed up for work yesterday in New York City. USES Shy of Needed Funds Washington, April 8 VP) Di rector Robert C. Goodwin said today it would be "impossible" for the United Stales unemploy ment service to "carry out its responsibilities" in the next fis cal year because of appropria tion cuts voted by the house. Goodwin appeared before a senate appropriations subcom mittee which is reviewing $13, 714,000 of reductions made in the $31,850,700 budget recom mendations for the labor de partment. Secretary of Labor Schwcl lenbach was to have testified today but the coal and telephone licups forced him to delay his appearance. Goodwin said the house had voted the full amount, $71,728,- 000, for grants to states in the fiscal year that begins July 1 but had approved only $900,000 for administration of the em ployment service. He asked the senate to restore $3,012,900. Otherwise, Goodwin said, sev eral functions of the USES must be curtailed or restricted. He mentioned programs for em ployment of veterans and physi cally handicapped and closing of 12 regional USES field of fices. as fast as each mine is certified - Meanwhile, the government was reported Riving considcia tion to a new court battle with Lewis if necessary to end the safety strike. Some officials were said to be studying a move to have the courts restore the full amount of the $3,500,000 contempt of court fine assessed against the UMW for the strike last win ter. Some government lawyers were understood to believe that the safety walkout violated the supreme court mandate which reduced the fine to $700,000 But there was some doubt whether this p o s it i o n would stand up. Attorney. General Tom C. Clark said no govern ment legal move had been plan ned "up to this time" in the coal situation. Independents Operating Portland, April 8 (JP) Tele phone services from manually operated exchanges and on long distance lines were on an emer gency basis throughout much of Oregon today, but non-struck independent companies were operating normally. The 1946 telephones directory showed 90 exchanges in the state operated by Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company where workers are on strike and 152 opefated by inde pendent companies. Most if not all the independent companies were believed operating nor mally, i In Portland all but two small exchanges, having s total of 2,- 240 telephones, are dial and the strike has not affected them other than for delays on long distance calls. Also with dial installations are Oregon City, Klamath Falls, Mcdford, Salem, The Dalles, Springfield, Ash-, land, Prineville, Milwaukie, Oak Grove and Oswego. The other PT&T installations are manual, and only emergency calls are accepted. Harley J. Barber, Forest Grove district manager for West Coast Telephone company, said his f irm s operations are unaf fected. They cover some 20 cities within 50 miles of Port land including Forest Grove, Hillsboro, McMinnville, New bers. Gresham. Sandv. "Reaver- tj"1, Tigard, Sherwood .ami Ver- noma. West Coast. . also has strike-free operations in its La Grande district covering most of Union and Wallowa counties: its Coos Bay district covering practically all of Coos and Cur ry counties; and its Lakeview district in Lake and Harney counties, Barber said. Other independent companies operate at Hood River, Lebanon, Silverton, Eslacada, Redmond, Sheridan, Willamina, Mount An gel, Nehalem, Cloverdale, Sis ters, Malin, Merril and other small cities. They were believed unaffected. Revise Freight Rates Upward Washington, April 8 (JP) The transcontinental freight bureau filed with the interstate com merce commission today a pro posed schedule revising coast-to- coast railroad freight rates up ward. The schedule will be used in working out a solution of com petitive rate issues between rail and water carriers. The inter- coastal steamship freight assoct- aiton filed similar proposed re visions in water transportation rales between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts yesterday. The railroads proposed rate in creases of 4 lo 15 cents per 100 pounds on some 100 classifica tions of freight including canned goods, aluminum, coffee, drugs and chemicals. The ship lines suggested their rates be boosted 3 to 70 cents a hundred, to maintain the water rail competitive relationship. Explosion Rocks Home; None Hurt The Dalles, April 8 (IP) Sher iff Harold Sexton reported to day that Lonnie Edwards Daw kins, 44, was held in jail after a dynamite explosion rocked the cabin where his divorced wife and seven children were sleep ing. The sheriff said a son of Dawkins told of running out of the cabin and catching his fath er and holding him until offi cers arrived. Five short fuses and dyna mite caps were found on Daw kins, the sheriff said. None was injured in the blast although Mrs. Dawkins and an infant son, sleeping within two feet of the point where the dy namite exploded, were shower ed with splinters.
