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II County Court 1 Balks on Bus Terminal Plans District Attorney Says County Rights Superior To Those of City While the county court has taken no official action as to the proposal for establishing a ter minal for city bus lines on the High street parking strip of the courthouse properties and to raise the city rest rooms and grant a concession there, the in dividual members of the court Saturday all expressed disap proval of the plan. And in the wake of this District Attorney Miller B. Hayden, on inquiry, expressed his opinion that as a rule of law, the county, being a super- ior municipality to the city, has control over the parking strips around its property out to the curb line, leaving the inference if the county court desires to it i' nifty kfiwin t-tij s jiu(Juoai by official action. County Rights Upheld "While it is true that the city has control over the parking strips up to the property line as against individuals, it is my opinion that this does not apply as against a superior municipal ity, such as the county. The county, in this regard, stands as a superior municipality to the city, the state as against the county and the federal govern ment against the tute, and I would say offhand that the county has the final determina tion as to what happens to these parking strips out to the curb line," said Hayden. Attention was called Saturday also to a condition which arose years ago when the Capitol theater attempted to sink an an chor post into the parking strip of the courthouse lawn on the State street side opposite the theater. The theater secured a permit from the city to sink the anchor post and erect a sign which would stretch across the street to the theater. The recol lection of some who remember the incident is that the county exercised its control over the parking strip, refused to allow the anchor post to remain re gardless of the city's permit, and after some controversy the an chor post was torn out and the overhead archway abandoned. Disapproves Project Individually the members of the county court expressed their disapproval of the project in such a way Saturday that if it is developed that the court feels it has legal control over the parking strips the proposal may have some tough sledding when and if the court does take of ficial action. (Concluded on Page 9, Column 7) Truman Pays Visit to Mother Grandview, Mo., April 12 (IP) President Truman, coming home for a week-end visit with his mother, arrived at Grandview airport at 12:10 CST in his per sonal plane, The Sacred Cow. i Washington, April 12 (U.m. President Truman began his third year in office today, a bet ter than odds-on favorite for renomination in 1948 and more sure of himself than at any time since he was catapulted into the While House by the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt Mr. Truman put aside busi ness for the anniversary week end to fly home to Missouri and visit his ailing, 94-year-old mother. He will reliver a radio tribute this afternoon to Mr. Hoosevelt. The president was scheduled to leave at 8 a.m., (EST), for Grandview, Mo., his mother's me, arriving by midday. He wll visit with his mother who is recuperating from a fractured hip, until early afternoon then drive into Kansas City. His tribute to Mr. Roosevelt will be broadcast nationally be ginning at 4:40 p.m. (EST). He will talk for about three min utes. Mr. Truman is scheduled to return to Washington by plane Sunday afternoon. According to his physician, the president is in excellent physical condition. His staff and advisers feel that his political star is shining brighter as compared with the dark gloom which covered the democratic party immediately after the republican landslide last November. The Weather (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Pair today, tonight and Sunday. Lowest temperature to night about 40 degrees. Condi tions will be favorable for dust ing and spraying. Maximum yes terday 64. Minimum today 39. Mean temperature yesterday 48 which was 3 below normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today .0. Total precipita tion for the month 1.70 which Is .64 inch above normal. Wil lamette river height 6.3. i apital 58th Year, No. 88 Big 4 Take Up Disarmament Of Germany Moscow, April 12 W) The council of foreign ministers de cided tonight to take up Monday the American proposal for a four-power pact to Insure Ger man disarmament. This may of fer the last opportunity for agreement here on a major issue. The decision to bring up the proposal, first offered by the former U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, came in a meeting of four hours and 20 minutes, during which the min isters agreed: Agreements Reached 1. Land reform should be ef fected in Germany by the end of 1947. 2. All fortifications in Ger many be destroyed by December 31, 1948. 3. War factories in the prin cipal category be liquidated by June 30, 1948. The council was unable to de cide whether main government powers in Germany are to be held by a central government or by the individual states. Opposes Marshall Discussing an American pro posal that all governments which were at war with Ger many attend the peace confer ence with equal rights, Soviet Foreign Minister V, M. Molotov expressed surprise that "such countries as Paraguay and Tur key be included on the same basis as the Big Four." He re peated his opposition to U. S. Secretary of State Marshall's proposal. Soviet Deputy A. Y. Vishinsky made it clear earlier today that in his opinion Russia would not accept a German settlement without reparations payments from current production to the Soviet union, on a large scale. Funerals for Tornado Victims Woodward, Okla., April 12 (IP) Relatives were busy today com pleting arrangements for the bu rial of the 84 victims df Wood ward's Wednesday night torna do which left 1000 injured and caused property damage estimat ed in the millions. The northwestern Oklahoma city was hardest hit of the Tex as and Oklahoma communities in the path of the storm. More than 50 other persons were kill ed or died of injuries. Addition al hundreds of injured taxed hospital facilities. Higgins, Texas, told of 39 dead; Glazier, Texas, 14. There were three dead in Gage, Okla. Total casualties in the twister which first struck in the Pan handle of northern Texas and swept northeastward into Okla homa were 140 dead and an es timated 1305 injured. Work crews searched for other vic tims. Donations of money, clothing and food poured into Higgins and Glazier. Plans for mass funeral serv ices in Woodward have been abandoned. Instead, four of the leading churches have arranged separate rites, the first to be held today for 15 victims. Truman Sets May 11 As Mothers' Day Washington, April 12 P) President Truman today desig nated Sunday, May 11, as Moth ers' day. Mr. Truman called on govern ment officials . and the people generally to display the flag that day to show the "reverent es teem in which we hold the moth ers of our country." Western Republicans Consent to Slash in Reclamation Funds Washington, April 12 (P) A western republican representative said today most party members from the west will go along re luctantly with their house leadership in cutting reclamation appro priations for next year, Declining to permit use of his name, the westerner told a re porter a tacit agreement on this issue was reached yesterday for these main reasons: 1. The westerners want to help the party redeem its elec tion pledges on economy. 2. They admit some proposed reclamation projects are not needed right now, and others contain unnecessary features. 3. Because of material and labor costs, all construction in the Immediate future will cost more than it probably will two or three years hence. Salem, Wallace Talks Held Shocking By Vandenberg Washington, April 12 (VP) Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) today termed Henry Wallace's appeals in England "a shocking thing." The republican chairman df the senate foreign relations committee offered this comment to reporters on speeches by the former democratic vice president against President Truman's Greek-Turkish aid program: "I think it is a shocking thing when an American citizen goes abroad to speak against his own government. I suggest that the important question is not what Mr. Wallace will do in 1948 but what he is doing in 1947." (In a speech at Manchester today Wallace declared the United States had embarked on a program of "ruthless imperial ism. He described - proposed loans to Greece and Turkey as "the first down payment in a plan without shape or end.") Questions Propriety Senator Robertson (R-Wyo) said he thought opponents of the Greek-Turkish aid plan had a "perfect right" to express oppo sition views in this country. But he questioned the propriety of a former vice president and pre siding officer of the senate doing what Wallace has done. "I think it's a hell of a situ ation when a man who has held high office in this country goes to another country and tries to persuade them against the poli cy of his own country," Rob ertson said. Pan-American Appeal Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) was reported today to be pre paring an appeal for intensified effort by the Pan-American un ion to seal western hemisphere solidarity. With the senate on a week end holiday from its debate over the Gree k-Turkey assistance program, Vandenberg drafted a major foreign policy speech for Monday's gathering of represen tatives of the 21 American re publics. Several other' senators were still seething over yesterday's salvo by Henry A. Wallace against the Greek-Turkey plan his assertion in London that Britain should refuse to take sides between the United States and Russia. Senator Lucas (D-Ill) told newsmen "it should be thorough ly understood in this country and throughout the world that he is speaking only for him self." Yugoslavs Looting Italians in Trieste Washington, April 12 ( American relations with Yugo slavia were further chilled to day by a state department charge that Yugoslav forces have stripped their Trieste occu pation zone of much Italian property. Dean Acheson, undersecretary of state, disclosed that the Unit ed States in a note to Marshal Tito's government has protested against the removals as unlaw ful and damaging to Trieste's economy. Britain has made a similar protest. The Yugoslav zone and an ad joining sector occupied by American and British troops are destined to be included in the future territory of Trieste to be administered under United Na tions auspices. The new regime will come into being after final ratification of the Italian peace treaty. Royalty on Way Home London, April 12 (P) The royal family will return from South Africa May 11, it was an nounced today. 4. The reclamation bureau still has $130,000,000 from funds frozen last year when Presi dent Truman clamped down on all construction. The president released $25,000,000 to finish some projects, but the rest of the money appropriated by con gress last year for reclamation still remains unspent. This member attended the meeting yesterday in which rep resentatives from 17 western states asked for a showdown with Speaker Martin (R-Mass). Ion the reclamation issue. Oregon, Saturday, April ini!'.i i i . an i 9'ft-fgvmmm 1 - SUSRv-: --SBfff Fire Rages on Treasure Island Dense clouds of smoke roll skyward from a burning building as firemen pour water on the blazing navy installation on Treasure island in San Francisco bay. Loss was estimated at $500,000. (AP Wirephoto) 9 Draw $15 a Day Each for Work on House Journal Speaker John H. Hall, Reps. Joe Wilson of Lincoln county and Earl Hill of Lane county, and six employes of the house of repre sentatives are drawing $15 a day for preparing the 1947 legisla tive house journal. Under a resolution adopted during closing hours of the legislature last Saturday, authority was given for Hitler Feared 6-29 Bombers Frankfurt, Germany, April 12 Wi Adolf Hitler had a ter rible fear of the American B 29 Superfortress bomber in the last months of the war and an amazing lack of faith in his own V-weapons, charred records of his secret staff conferences showed today. The partly burned stenb- graphic transcripts of his war time conferences, captured by the U. S. army and released here, disclosed Hitler told Her mann- Goering and members of the army general staff January 10, 1945: "Things are such that the American B-29 now is in action. The Japanese saw them already. I feel a great danger, and one cannot weigh this danger too lightly. The B-29 bomber can be Germany's destruction." The B-29 never appeared in Europe during the war, but Hit ler's repeated references to them showed he feared them perhaps even more than the approaching armies of the allies. "Even now," he told Luftwaf fe Chief Goering, blasting the fat field marshal for fiddling around with the construction of out-of-date fighter planes, "the enemy planes come like a pa rade, and when the big ones come, German planes will liter ally enter a hailstorm of fire." He said German planes would be mowed down ruthlessly. Hit ler felt America could win the world war with the B-29, say ing: "The Americans can produce B-29s in great masses. What else does he need, the American? He can crush everything with them. Nobody can come and tell me they won't attack us." Ask Bids for Well At McNary Dam Portland, Ore., April 12 (U.R) The Portland district, corps oflpartrd from this custom and ig engineers, Monday will invite bids for the drilling of a water well at McNary dam site, about two and one-half miles east of Umatilla, Ore., and for the re pairing of 115 linear feet pile dike on the left bank of the Co lumbia river about four miles above the mouth of Westport slough. Col. O. E. Walsh, Portland district engineer, said bids for the dike would be opened in his office at 2 p.m. April 25 and for the well drilling at 2 p.m. April 28. The dike work must be com pleted 30 calendar days after re ceipt of notice to proceed and the jvell drilling 60 calendar days. Britain on Double Time London, April 12 U.P- Great! Britain goes on double summer time, two hours ahead of Green wich mean time and seven hours ahead of eastern standard time.,by his troops in 1945 in Ncgros at 2 a.m. tomorrow. I Oriental province. Journal 12, 1947 the appointment of the chief clerk, assistant chief clerk, cal endar and reading clerk, secre tary of the chief clerk, the speak er and his secretary and two members to perform this duty during a period not to exceed 50 days. The rate of pay under the terms of the resolution is the same as that paid to the chief clerk of the senate, or $15 a day. In the 1945 legislative session, the chief clerk of the house was paid $12 a day and the remain ing clerical force was paid $6 a day ancV the speaker and two members $8 a day. To perform a similar task for the senate, a crew of six was au thorized including the president of the senate, the chief clerk, assistant chief clerk, the calen dar clerk and two stenographers the latter to be employed when and if needed. Pay for the senate force is the same as that received during the session, or $15 a day for the chief clerk, $10 a day for the assistant chief and calendar clerks and $8 a day each for the stenographers. The house force is identical in number utilized to prepare the 1945 legislative journal but the pay is much higher for the present crew. The 1945 resolu tion provided $12 a day for the chief clerk, $8 and $6 pay per day for the remainder of the force. The speaker received $10 and the two members of the legislature $8 per day. Speaker Hall ran up an ail time high record for the number of employes utilized in the house during the recent session. In ad dition to a sergeant of arms and a chief doorkeeper, Hall em ployed six assistant sergeants of arms and 13 assistant doorkeep ers. There were sufficient door keepers to post two on every door of the house and still leave one who was assigned to the house lounge to "wait" on the members. For many years it has been the custom for, speakers to choose members, of the legisla ture who reside in Marion coun ty to serve on the committee revising and preparing the jour nal Hnunvdr Snn.-iVof Mall rlo. nored the Marion county mem bers, going to Lincoln and Lane counties for his appointments. Speaker Hall has not been in Salem since early this week and it is understood that he will not be here until Tuesday. A large number of bills await his signa ture, with the result that Gov ernor Sncll has few bills on his desk to consider at present. Marshall Cornett, president of the senate, returned from Klam ath Falls last Wednesday and has remained in Salem during the week signing bills and prepar ing his interim committee ap pointments. Jap Officer to Die Manila, April 12 'Pi Col. Satoshi Oie, commander of the Japanese 17 4th independent mixed brigade, was sentenced to death by shooting today by a U. S. war crimes commission. He was found guilty of responsi- bility for atrocities committed Price Five Cents Divide Jap Navy Remnants Washington, April 12 (JP) Nearly twenty months after V-J day the remnants of Japan's shattered navy are ready for equal division among four allied war victors. The United States has inform ed Britain, Russia and China that 239 destroyers and smaller ships are in sound enough con dition to warrant distribution, the state department announced today. Gen. Douglas MaeArlhur re ported that 140 are ready for immediate delivery. They will be distributed by lot at a draw ing to be held in Tokyo at some future date, and delivered to de signated Pacific ports by Japan ese crews. The other craft are being used for the time being at- various occupation tasks. Those of Japan's battleships, cruisers and other larger craft which remained seaworthy af ter their wartime pounding al ready have been scrapped or are in the process of destruction. Lewis Permits 'Safe' Returns Pittsburgh, April 12 u.R President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers today au thorized district union leaders to permit reopening of soft coal mines which they deem safe. Frank Hughes, president of UMW district 3, announced re ceipt of the following message from Lewis: "In order to avoid undue loss of coal production'the president of each district is authorized to grant permission for the imme diate resumption of production at each mine now closed where there is reasonable ground to believe from the information available to him that the mines have been placed in a safe con dition." Hughes said the message did not apply to the 518 pits listed as unsafe by Interior Secretary Julius A. Krug. They will be kept closed until passed by fed eral inspectors. Previously, Lewis had asked the coal mines administration to certify the safety of all but two of the nation's soft coal pits. Program of U.S. Imperialism Denounced by Henry Wallace Manchester, April 12 (U.R) Henry A. Wallace, speaking on the second anniversary of the death of President Roosevelt, charged today that American policy is slipping into the hands of men who seek to embark the United States "on a wild and mad nightmare" of "ruthless im perialism." Wallace, addressing 5,000 trade unionists in the second ap pearance of his European cru sade against President Truman's foreign policy, charged that the American government is con trolled by men who believe that the United Nations is doomed to failure and that war with Russia is virtually inevitable. A program of American im perialism he said, was a dan gerous venture because "Ameri cans will never carry the pro gram through. Americans will never pay the cost and they can not pay the cost." "Today the government and congress are controlled by men who believe that in a world in Negotiations To End Phone Strike Collapse Both Sides Look to Government for Next Move Seizure Talked Washington, April J 2 (P) Secretary of Labor Schwel- lenbach said today thai the American Telephone and Telegraph company has re jected a union proposal for industry-wide bargaining on the telephone strike. Washington, April 12 (fP) Collapse of negotiations to end the important long lines portion of the cross-country telephone ticup left both sides looking to the government for the next move today. "We're settling down for a long strike," said President Jo sepli A. Bcirnc of the National Federation of Telephone Work ers. Both Bcirnc and officials of the mammoth Bell Telephone system left the door open for continued government ctlorts to end the dispute over wages and other contract demands. Possible Seizure Administration officials talked privately of possible seizure of Hie industry by President Tru man under provisions of the fed eral communications act, but they showed little enthusiasm for this solution. Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach weighed his reply to a pro posal by the NFTW's policy committee that the government sponsor a face-lo-face meeting between union leaders and top officials of the American Tele phone and Telegraph company, with press and radio reporters invited. I So far there has been no meet ing between Beirne and C. F Craig, AT & T vice president who helped bring off a settle mcnt of last year's threatened telephone walkout 25 minutes before it was scheduled to begin Craig has conferred several times privately with labor de partment officials. N.Y. Arbitration Meantime in upstate New York a s t r i k c of maintenance and plant employes against the New York Telephone company was settled with an agreement to arbitrate a demand for a $12 weekly wage hike. Company spokesmen hailed the development as the "first break" in the nationwide strike. The settlement affects only plant and maintenance workers out side of New York City. New Jersey's governor, Alfred E. Driscoll, was hopeful that full telephone service will be restor ed in his stale shortly pending outcome of a test of New Jer sey's new anti-public utility strike law. Striking switchboard operators are challenging consti tutionality of the new state law. Driscoll said he hoped that a meeting of NFTW officials with State Mediation Board Chairman Walter T. Margctts, Jr., could be arranged today. Traffic Volume Breaks All Records Traffic volume was almost 25 percent higher in 1946 than in any previous year, Robert S. Farrcll, Jr., secretary of, state, announced today. Never have so many cars been going so far so fast," Far rcll said. "Last year's measured volumes were 22.5 percent above the 1941 top record." Gasoline sales indicate that travel is still increasing. Janu ary and February fuel use set new high marks for those re spective months, with prospects that 1D47 will top the 1948 mark. which communism and capital ism live side by side there is little hope of peace," Wallace told 5,000 trade unionists. "They believe that fascism and communism are similar evils and that the United Na tions is doomed to failure. They believe in using the American power to organize the world against the U. S. S. R." Wallace attacked an article in the magazine Life which ad v o c a t e d establishment of an "American empire." "I'm utterly opposed to this policy of imperialism," he said bpcaking on the second an niversary of the late President Roosevelt's death, Wallace said the progressive forces In the United States were divided and seeking leadership. Senate to Lump All Labor Bills And Risk Veto House Committee Approves 18 to 4 Ban On Open Shop Washington, April 12 (Ar senate republicans voted 21 to 7 today to lump all labor legis lation proposals in a single measure and risk the possibility of a presidential veto which would kill all such legislation in this congress. The action taken by the sen ate GOP conference was an nounced by Chairman Millikin (Colo.) after: 1. The house labor committee formally approved, 18 to 4, a bill to clamp sharp restrictions on strike and labor unions, in cluding a flat ban on the closed shop; 2. CIO leaders began a series of meetings here to lay plans for a fight against legislation that would impose a long list of curbs on unions. CIO President Philip Murray said he would have "a lot to say" about labor bills at a rally tomorrow of 250 CIO representatives. Reasons for Decision Millikin said the senate GOP conference decision followed as sertions of some leaders that to divide the labor law proposals into three measures might per mit President Truman in effect "to write the labor legislation in this session of congress." Millikin said the republicans agreed in their closed meeting that the house leadership ap pears determined to include the labor proposals in an omnibus measure instead of taking sev eral bites at the subject. Both house and senate com mittees have included a flat ban on the closed shop in their proposed labor legislation. The senate bill has not yet been completed. Hartley said the house meas ure is so worded as to forbid any industry-wide strike against employers who compete with one another. This means, he explained th'at John L L;wiS( for example, decides his United Mine Workers have no contract next July 1, there can be no strike without running the risk of penalties. (Concluded on Page 9, Column I) ILWU Re-eleds Harry Bridges San Francisco, April 12 UP) . The CIO International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's union, after re-electing Harry Bridges as its president and re solving to make the six-hour work day its goal, turned from waterfront matters to the prob lems of sugar workers today. An international conference of sugar workers got under way to discuss policy and problems of cane sugar workers of Ha waii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the United Slates. The con ference was called by the ILWU. The ILWU, concluding its seventh biennial convention last night, adopted a resolution de claring that "our final aim is to make the basic six-hour day a living reality by fixing a wage by which a man can make a living in six hours." Th resolution was referred to a caucus of longshoremen which is preparing demands for sub mission to ship operators on the reopening of the Pacific coast contract in two months. Pacific coast waterfront em ployers, meantime, appealed to the ILWU to extend the present contract from its June 15 ex piration date to Sept. 30 to avoid "the series of disastrous and unnecessary strikes" which tied up shipping last fall. Winter Returns To Middle West Chicago, April 12 Unsea sonably cold weather covered the entire midwest today. Marquette, Mich., had six inches of snow last night and today, and it was still snowing this morning. Snow fell in the northern suburbs of Chicago, and flurries were reported in Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Duluth and Bemidji, Minn., each had low readings of 15 de grees. Meat Prices Dropping Chicago. April 14 U.RI Th American Meat Institule said to day that wholesale meat prices have dropped about 10 percent from those prevailing a month ago. The institute, which repre sents meat packers, said whole sale prices had dropped about 20 percent from the peak levels reached last October, after the removal of OPA ceilings.
