High Street
At Courthouse
Bus Terminal
East Side Between State
And Court to Replace
North Commercial
Going before the city council
next Wednesday night will be a
plan making the east side of
High street between Court and
Slate, the downtown terminal
for city buses, instead of the
present State and Commercial
street district, and removing bus
stops entirely from the central
business area of Salem. Agreed
to the plan are Oregon Motor
Stages, which operates the buses,
City Manager J. L. Franzen and
Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom. .It
will be a matter for the entire
city council to pass on, but little
or no opposition is expected. ,
The bus company, said Mayor
Elfstrom Friday, has agreed to
erect passenger shelters along
ithe entire east side of the block
rbetween State and Court. They
will be sightly in appearance and
according to city specifications.
The Marion county court is not
enthusiastic about the plan,
since the parking area would be
on the west edge of the court
house square, but is cooperative
to the extent of asking for a
copy of the plans.
Comfort Station Plans
"Although only city property
is involved in the plan," said
Mayor Elfstrom, "we want it to
be agreeable to the county au
thorities." Involved is a change to be
made in the operation of the city
comfort stations at the north
east corner of High and State
streets, about which complaints
are often heard. The mayor be
lieves the space for the stations
may be enlarged underground
and that they may be operated
on a concession basis, the op
erators maintaining them m good
order in return for free rental.
It is suggested the concession
might include news and boot
black stands.
Mayor Elfstrom estimates con-
ervatively that removal of the
terminal from State and Com
mercial to High street, together
with the widening plans for
High and Liberty streets, would
add 175 automobile parking
spaces in the central business
rea. Removed from the central
area at the same time would be
space now utilized by several
taxicabs. .
,Taxi Parking Space
' ' It is proposed to establish
parking space for taxis on the
south side of Court street just
east of High. The High street
widening project will extend be
tween Chemeketa and Ferry
with the exception of the block
between State and Court. It is
proposed to widen Liberty be
tween State and Ferry between
Court and Chemeketa.
i If the new terminal is estab
lished there will be no bus stops
in the central business district,
though from no point will the
walking distance to the terminal
be great. Buses coming in from
the northwest part of the city
will come down Marion to
Church, around the courthouse
square into the terminal, while
those from the south part of
town will drive directly into the
terminal.
Oregon Motor Stages does not
now operate on a franchise in
Salem, but only on a permit ba
sis. Mayor Elfstrom said he fa
vored a franchise for the com-
nnnv
While the new plan will prob
ably be introduced next wea
Tiecrinv nioht. th legislation will
not be completed until a later
A-Research Workers
Disease Afflicted
London, April 11 P) Bob
Irjwards, assistant general sec
retary of the British Chemical
Workers union, said today that
atomic research workers in this
country were becoming sexually
sterile and developing skin dis
eases.
Edwards told reporters that
20 out' of 50 men working at a
research center in northwestern
England had been affected, and
said the subject would be raised
in the house of commons.
G. J. Llian, general secretary
of the union, said "They have
been coming out in rashes and
corhplaining of feeling dopey,
but I have not heard of any sex
deterioration."
Readvertise for
Detroit Dam Buildings
. Portland, April 11 W The
army engineers readvertised to
day for bids on construction of
temporary housing facilities and
utilities at the Detroit dam con
struction camp in Marion coun
ty, Ore.
Previous bids, opened March
31, were rejected as too much
above the government estimate.
The electrical contract has been
awarded to W. R. Grasley Co.,
Portland. The new bids will be
' opened April 23.
C apital
58th Year, No. 87
Labor Control
Bills Pushed in
House, Senate
Washington, April 11 liP)
The house labor committee ap
proved today provisions of its
new labor bill to outlaw industry-wide
bargaining, jurisdic
tional strikes and secondary boy
cotts.
The bill still is subject to final
approval by the committee Sat
urday. It is scheduled for house
action next week.
The senate labor committee
also began a section-by-section
vote on its labor bill, but noth
ing conclusive was done at a
morning session.
Outlaws Closed Shop
Besides agreeing to outlaw the
closed shop, which requires
workers to be union members to
get a job, the house committee
voted yesterday to forbid any
strike which do.es not have the
secret ballot approval of a ma
jority of the employes in a bar
gaining unit.
Among other things, the com
mittee also voted to ban union
intimidation and pressure
against workers, set up a list of
unfair practices for employes,
outlaw involuntary check-off
collection of union dues, and
create a new labor-management
relations board to replace the na
tional labor relations board.
Up Next Tuesday
The bill is slated to come be
fore the house next Tuesday.
Rep. Hartley (R., N.J.), chair
man of the labor committee, said
he expects it to be approved
"w i t h o u t any substantial
amendments."
But the measure is certain to
draw the fire of democrats on
the floor.
Rep. Madden (D., Ind.), a
member of' the committee, told
a reporter the bill in its present
form would "impede reconver
sion and promote confusion and
chaos in industry." He said it
would "wipe out all the gains
labor has made in the last 12
years" and set unions back "a
quarter of a century." .
Greek Troops
Trap Guerrillas
Athens, April 11 U.R Greek
troops were reported today to
have trapped several big bands
of guerrillas in swiftly executed
encirclement maneuvers, setting
the stage for battles that may
decide the campaign against the
leftist forces.
Dispatches from Larissa, head
quarters of the offensive against
the guerrillas, said army units
were closing in from all sides on
mountain strongholds where the
anti-government groups would
have to stand and fight.
Military s e c r e cy prevented
identification of the heights on
which the guerrillas were report
ed encircled. Government forces
had been particularly active in
the regions of Mt. Olympus and
Mt. Ossa, north of Larissa, where
sizable guerrilla forces were re
ported. Other Greek forces had been
moving up to guerrilla territory
in the rugged area around Agra
fa, 50 miles southwest of Larissa.
Greek army sources at Laris
sa headquarters said big scale
fighting was expected to begin
tomorrow or Sunday, the ortho
dox church's Easter.
About 150 guerrillas were re
ported to have surrendered in
the Kalabaka area near Trik
kala yesterday when an encir
clement maneuver put them in a
hopeless position.
An air force spokesman re
ported that more than 200 guer
rillas were killed by machine
gun fire and rockets yesterday in
aerial operations.
Halvorson Gets Contract for
129,960 Nut-Grower Co-op Plant
The board of directors of the Salem Nut Growers Cooperative
association Thursday evening awarded a contract to Halvorson
Construction company of Salem for construction of its new build
ing on Cherry avenue on a bid?"
of $129,960, this covering cost of
building and bins. Other bid
ders were E. E. Batterman. Sa
lem, for a little over $139,400
and Robertson, Hay and Wallace
of Portland for a little over
$170,000. It is understood that
the Halvorson company will use
Salem sub-contractors in the
main.
The board also elected E. J.
Allen of Woodburn as president
succeeding A. L. Page of Jeffer
son who asked to be retired aft
er over 20 years of service in
IU-.I nnnn;4.. All..-, i i
l.,,,. mini in "".operative may start moving in
serving as vice president. Frank jits equipment. Delivery of nuts
Way, Salem, was elected vicejto the plant is expected to start
president and members of t h el (Concluded on Pare 13, Column 7)
Salem,
Panhandle Area
Digging Out of
Tornado Ruins
Woodward, Okla., April 11 (A')
The tornado-lashed Panhandle
area of Texas and Oklahoma
counted its known dead at 132
and estimated the injured at 1305
as rescue crews searched for ad
ditional casualties in the ruins of
the hardest hit towns.
The property loss, inflicted on
the rich cattle and wheat area
by the violent winds of Wednes
day night and early Thursday,
ran into the millions of dollars.
Emergency Relief
Field kitchens, emergency sta
tions and other facilities were
set up to care for the thousands
of homeless. Bull dozers rum
bled through the debris-cluttered
communities clearing the
wreckage.
Relief supplies continued to
move into the stricken area by
plane, truck and train. Restora
tion of communication and pow
er facilities was progressing.
This was the casualty toll as
listed by the Rd Cross midwest
area headquarters in St. Louis:
Red Cross Count
Woodward, 85 dead, 1000 or
more injured;,
Higgins, Tex., 34 dead, 232 in
jured; Glazier, Tex., 13 dead, 40 in
jured; White Horse, Okla., none dead,
30 injured;
Gray county, Tex., none dead,
three injured.
Woodward, where 100 blocks
of buildings were levelled, .had
more than 2000 homeless out of a
population of about 5500.
The property loss here was es
timated at more than $5,000,000
by Alex Geismar, vice president
of a Woodward bank.
Senator Raps
Henry Wallace
Washington, April 11 (P)
Senator Eastland (D., Miss.) told
the senate today that Henry A.
Wallace is "performing a great
disservice to the American peo
pie" by speeches abroad oppos
ing President Truman s Greek
Turkey aid program.
Wallace, Eastland declared,
"has attempted to induce the
friends and allies of his country
to desert her." 1
Saying that Wallace was in
vited to France by communist
leaders, Eastland added:
"No American citizen has the
moral right to conspire with
foreign peoples in order to un
dermine and to weaken the hand
of his country.
"The least that can be said is
that Mr. Wallace is performing
a grave disservice to the Amer
ican people when he attempts to
induce Great Britain to desert
the United States and thereby
force us to sail the perilous seas
alone."
Eastland's reference was to
Wallace's expressed attitude that
Britain should not take sides m
differences between the United
States and Russia.
Explosion Wipes
Out Entire Family
Tacoma, April 11 iP) A
father and mother and their six-months-old
son were killed last
night in what police said was
the explosion of a kerosene
stove in their South End home.
An unidentified motorist who
saw the flames as he passed
the house gave first aid to the
father, Bennie Mayer, who later
died from the blast. Mrs. Mayer
and son, Arthur, were killed in
the explosion.
northwest board were all re
elected, those named being A. L.
Page, E. J. Allen and D. L. St.
John. This is the marketing
agency for northwest coopera
tives with headquarters at Dun
dee, each of the cooperatives be
ing entitled to three members.
Under the contract for the
new building the construction
company is to start operations
April 14 and the building is to
be substantially completed Au
gust 31 If any part of the i
building is completed during the
process of construction the co
-
Oregon, Friday, April 11,
Storm Wreckage of Iliggms A portion of the wrecked business district of Higgins, Tex., is
pictured after tornado ripped through portions of Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle causing at
least 132 deaths and 1305 injured and $10 million loss of property. (AP Wirephoto)
State Police
Enlarged by
By James D. Olson
Six months time will be required in the recruitment, training
and equipping of approximately 75 additional police officers
who will be added to the state highway patrol force through allo
cation of $1,000,000 of highway funds to the state police fund,
according to H. G. Maison, superintendent of state police today.
The legislature, acting upon'
recommendation of Secretary of
State Robert S. Farrell, enacted
legislation requiring transfer of
highway funds to provide more
adequate highway patrolling.
Farrell contended that the en
largement of this force would
serve to reduce highway acci
dents in Oregon and thus would
be money well spent.
Superintendent Maison said
today that numerous problems
were faced by the department
in connection with accomplish
ing the aims of the legislature.
First, competent and physic
ally fit men must be recruited,
he said. Next these men must
be trained in all phases of police
work in "rooky schools" to be
established. The final phase of
the problem will be in equipping
the men in face of the continu
ing shortage of many items re
quired to outfit a stale patrol
man. (Concluded on Page 13, Column 6)
Soviet Press
Hits U. S. Radio
Moscow, April 11 (U.R) The
Soviet press condemned the
American state department
broadcasts to Russia today as
"not the voice of the American
people but an echo of reaction
ary voices."
The first Soviet attack on the!0" ,nc one way.roaq ' war
American broadcasts appeared in
Culture and Life, published by
the communist party propagan
da committee. It was written
by Ilya Ehrenbourg, one of the
Soviet Union's leading writers,
and occupied two-thirds of a
page.
Until today the American
broadcasts had received no
mention in the Soviet press.
Ehrenbourg cited numerous
examples and lifted many quotes
from the broadcasts to show
their "falseness." Alongside
them he gave what he called the
true picture of the circumstances
on which the American radio
had attempted to mislead the
Soviet people.
The broadcasts in Russian
were begun Feb. 17. Reception
in Moscow was bad at first but
later improved sharply. A state
department announcement in
Washington said the Munich re
lay transmitter had been "sab
otaged," causing the broadcasts
to be beamed toward South
America instead of the Soviet
Union.
Murderess Dies
In Lethal Chamber 1
San Quentin, Calif., April 11
(U.R) Garbed in her brown print
dress with floral design and a
house coat, Mrs. Louise Pcete j
IV i c c - convicted murderess
walked calmly to her death to
day in San Quontin's lethal gas
chamber.
The grey-haired, plumpish ap
pearing woman went to her
death without a blindfold. She
was pronounced dead at 10:13
a.m. (PST) 10 minutes after
deadly cynanide fumes choked:
her into unconsciousness. 1
Journal
1947
Force to Be
75 Officers
Road to War
Says Wallace
London, April 11 (U.R) Henry
A. Wallace said tonight' that
President Truman's new foreign
policy is leading the world down
"a one way road to war."
Wallace made the charge be
fore a sell-out audience of 3000
at the Central hall of Westmin
ster, site of the firsy United Na
tions generil assembly.
Wallace's address was the first
ii. a whirlwind scries he is mak
ing in Britain, Scandinavia and
France. He expressed grave
alarm over President Truman's
program of fighting communism
with dollars in Greece and Tur
key and said the present Ameri
can foreign policy would pro
duce not only another world war
but a new economic depression.
"I am thoroughly alarmed by
the spirit that is being stirred
up in America as a result of and
on behalf of the president's pro
gram," Wallace said. "The
American people cannot be man
ipulated like putty.
"Once they are filled with
fear and intolerance for the sake
of a 'hard' policy it may be very
difficult to create any other spir
it or to do anything but move
on from that station to the next
Ask Council to
See Pinball Devices
Members of the city council
and Salem business men have
received invitations to be pres
ent at the new plant of the Wil
lamette Amusement company,
2136 Fairgrounds road, at 5:30
Friday afternoon to sec certain
types of pinball games demon
strated and enjoy a buffet sup
per. The sponsorship of the gath
ering was not clearly revealed,
but t-.ik of it is believed to be
a 'dlure effort to get the so-call-od
Pcrrine anti-gambling ordi
nance overturned and pinball
games legalized in Salem. The
Willamette Amusement com
pany said it was not sponsoring
the gathering, and indicated the
Salem Restaurant association
was backing it. This wasn't
quite confirmed by Robert Leh
man, president of the associa
tion, who said various business
men, including reslaurant own
ers, tavern operators and others
were interested.
The Weather
'Released by United States
Weather Buerau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Generally fair toniRht and
Saturday with local frost to
night. Lowest temperature at
airport will be near 30. Condi
tions will be favorable for dast
Iiir and .spraying tomorrow
morning. Maximum yesterday
59. Minimum today 31. Mean
temperature yesterday 48 which
was 2 below normal. Total 24
hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m.
today .02. Total precipitation
for the month 1.70 which is .72
inch above normal. Willamette
river height 7 ft.
Price Five C' ts
-o.'S-
U. S. to Retain
Atomic Bomb
Lake Success, N. Y., April 11
(U.R) The United States reaf
firmed today that it will keep
the atomic bomb until the world
accepts an atomic control plan
so tight that no country could
even be suspected of violations.
The promise came from Fred
crick H. Osborn, American del
egate to the United Nations
atomic energy commission. He
said an atomic treaty with loop
holes would be worse than no
treaty at all, because it would
let international suspicion con
tinue to grow.
Osborn's statement, delivered
to the New York junior league,
came after he rejected a new
Soviet demand for early de
struction of America's atomic
bombs.
Andrei Gromyko of Russia
asked members of the UN atom
ic commission to start work by
writing a treaty to outlaw atom
ic weapons and require immedi
ate destruction of existing stock
piles meaning America's.
Other commission delegates
however, ignored Gromyko's
request, and decided to try to
plan peaceful use of atomic
energy before tackling the more
touchy problem of controlling
atomic weapons.
Gromyko protested vainly
that this plan "diminished" the
importance of the A-bomb. He
said the rest of atomic control
would make no difference unless
the world agrees to outlaw
atomic weapons.
Arsonist Blamed for
Seattle Armory Fire
Seattle, April 11 (U.R)-An ar
sonist was blamed today for the
spectacular three - alarm fire
which raged through the con
demned Seattle armory here
early this morning.
Fire Chief William Fitzgerald
said the fire was probably start
ed by a "firebug" and investiga
tion would be carried out imme
diately. The fire, which did damage to
the interior of the old building i
estimated at $15,000, broke out
snoruy auer mianignt and light
ed the entire sky in the area.
Battalion Chief Merle Kenne
dy, leading a group of firemen
into Ihc building, was overcome
by smoke and carried out. He
was quickly revived.
$500,000 Loss in
Treasure Island Naval Base Fire
San Francisco, April 11 (Pi Treasure island, which glittered
as the site of a pre-war exposition and then became a camouflage
painted naval base, was a scene of charred, water-soaked ruin:
today.
Fire struck the man-made The cause of the fire was un
island in San Francisco bay late known. The flames started in
yesterday. It destroyed five a R""ey.
navy buildings and equipment! An official navy board of in-
al an estimated loss of $500,000.
For a while the entire installa
tion was threatened.
The bay area's largest as
sembly of equipment in history
brought the fire under control
after a three-hour fight. While
it raged, huge clouds of smoke
billowing into the sky were
visible nearly 50 mites away
Thirty-four persons, 29 navy
men and five civilian firemen,
were injured, none seriously
The 12th naval district s esti
mate of damaeo included rler
tronics equipment valued at
more than $100,000.
Marshall Plans
Economic Aid
Korean Program
Note Sent Molotov
Warning Soviet of
U. S. Action
Moscow, April 11 (U.R) Secre
tary of State George Marshall is
prepared to initiate an economic
aid program for southern Ko
rea to make it economically in
dependent of the Soviet zone if
the Russians persist in their re
fusal to take joint action, it was
learned today.
Marshall's attitude was re
vealed after he sent a note to
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
warning the Soviets of unilateral
U. S. action in Korea if they re
fuse to reconvene the joint coin
mission charged with starting
Korea on the road to independ
ence.
Alternative IMan.s
Alternative plans were under
stood to be something of a com
bination of the U. S. proposal to
aid Greece and Turkey, plus the
principle which prompted the
United States and Great Britain
to merge their zones in Germany
when tlie Russians blocked econ
omy unity.
Southern Korea depends on
the Soviet-occupied zone in the
north for coal and electricity.
The United States was under
stood tosbe prepared to help the
southern zone in those respects
if the Sovets insisted on keep
ing the country divided artifi
cially at the 38th parallel.
The Americans, it was under
stood, were ready to go ahead
with the development of a Ko
rean political structure on the
local level, without awaiting
Russian approval to set up a pro
visional Korean government.
Blame Placed for Failure
Marshall blamed Russia for
failure of the allied policy in Ko
rea. He proposed an American
Soviet conference this summer
to review that policy. In his let
tor to Molotov he proposed that
the Russian and American com
manders in Korea be instructed
now to reconvene the Soviet-
American commission at once.
He asked that commanders of
the Soviet and American zones
charge the joint commission
"with expediting its work un
der the terms of the 1945 Mos
cow agreement on the basis of
respect for the democratic right
of freedom of opinion."
(Concluded on Page 13, Column 51
Molotov Stalls
Saar Decision
Moscow, April 11 (P) Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov block
ed tonight insistent attempts by
France to get immediate approv
al by the council of foreign min
isters of an economic merger of
the Saar with France.
U. S. Secretary of State Mar
shall and British Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bcvin had agreed to
the creation at once of a com
mission to work out details of
such a merger. Molotov, how
ever, under constant verbal
pounding by the French foreign
minister, George Bidault, re
peated his insistence that the
Soviet Union wanted time to
think over the proposal.
Molotov also told Ihc four
power council that the Soviet
Union opposed the French pro
posal for an independent Ruhr.
Me said such a step would am
ount to dismemberment of Ger
many and create hostilities with
in the country.
This led to an argument bring
ing out additional more or less
secret details of the Tehran and
Yalta conferences.
j King Christian Improves
Copenhagen, April 11 (!' A
bulletin from Amalienborg cas
tie this morning said the con
dition of King Christian X is
better "but there still is some
fatigue." The Monarch suffered
a heart attack Easter Sunday.
Spectacular
iquiry was named to investigate
The navy said a statement prob
ably would he issued in two
or three days. Sabotage was not
suspected, a spokesman said.
Galley "K," an L-shaped
structure almost the size of a
city block, and four smaller
buildings were destroyed.
It was the first time since the
historic earthquake fire oft Portland, April 11 (Pi Thir
Anril 1R lfldfi inat ih San ity-cight buildings at the former
Francisco department had re-
I quested
I
assistance from
Oak-
(land across the
bay.
Phone Strikers
Plan Appeal
To President
Ask Face to Face Meet
: ing Between Union, Com
pany and Government
Washington, April 11 iP
Secretary Schwcllcnbach prom
ised a quick reply to a request
by telephone strike leaders to
day for a face-to-face meeting
between officials of the union,
the American Telephone and
Telegraph company and the la
bor .department.
Schwellenbach told reporters
he intended to talk with Joseph
A. Beirne, NFTW president,
during the day but the time was
uncertain.
No Jobless Pay
Striking telephone work
ers are not eligible for
state unemployment com
pensation for time lost dur
in the strike, T. Morris
Dunne, chairman of the
State Unemployment Com
pensation commission, said
here today. Morris ex
plained that state law pre
vents strikers or persons
who benefit from a strike
from being paid by the
state for time lost.
If the union proposal is re
fused, the union proposes to go
to President Truman with "our
complete story."
A.T. & T. had no immediate
comment.
Final Offer Repeated
The proposal came as gloom
gathered over the strike nego
tiations. Earlier hopes of fed
eral conciliators, for a speedy
settlement were dampened last
night when a "final offer" of
A. T. & T.'s long distance divi
sion got a chilly reception from
the policy panel.
Beirne said the company pro
posal covering "long-lines"
workers only 20,000 of the
320,000 strikers, but a strategic
group did not conform to union
policy.
This was not a final rejection,
However, for the policy commit
tee had not finished scanning
the 17-page proposal.
No Break Reported
There was no immediate com
ment on the union's new pro
posal from either government
or management sources.
Principal negotiations tluu
far have involved only AT&T
and NFTW's long lines affiliate.
Talks between the union's other
affiliates and local telephone
companies are continuing in
many cities but no break has
been reported.
Reliable sources said the
union had considered asking Mr.
Truman to order federal seizure
of the telephone companies. But
the plan reportedly was dis
carded on grounds it might be
taken as a sign of union weak
ness. The strike continued to hold
the nation's telephone service
at around 20 percent of normal
and developments in Washing
ton held out no hope of an early
settlement of the dispute.
Strikers Defy
Jersey Law
Newark, N. J., April 11 (U.R)
Three women leaders of New
Jersey's 14,000 striking tele
phone workers pleaded innocent
today to charges of violating the
state's new public utility anli
strike law and were released oil
$500 bail for a hearing Monday.
The women, Mrs. Mary Hans
corn, president of the Traffic
Telephone Federation of New
Jersey; Mrs. Virginia Wiggles
worth, vice president; and Mrs.
Elizabeth Ryan, secretary, ap
peared before Common Pleas
Judge Richard E. Hartshornc in
the first test of the new anti
strike law.
They faced a maximum possi
ble sentence, if found guilty, of
$500 fine and 30 days in jail for
each day the strike continues.
The law also provides for a fine
of $10,000 a day for unions
which resist the state's back-to-work
order after it seizes a pub
lic utility.
Henry Mayer, counsel for the
union, said after the picas were
entered that a federal injunction
will be sought immediately to
prevent punishment of either in
dividual strikers or the union on
grounds that the New Jersey
law is unconstitutional.
Meanwhile, State Attorney
General Walter D. Van Riper
prepared to file a petition in the
state supreme court at Trenton
asking for the $10,000 daily fine
against the union, which repre
sents 12,000 telephone operators.
North Bend Naval
Buildings for Sale
North Bend naval air station
will be placed on sale April
16. the war assets administra
tion said today.