1
Soviet Trying
To Make Austria
Puppet State
Marshall Accuses Molo
tov After Rejection of
Compromise Plan
Moscow, April 18 () Secre
tary of State Marshall tonight
accused Soviet Foreign Minister
V. M. Molotov of trying to ere
ate "a puppet state of Austria,'
after Molotov had rejected an
American compromise plan for
the definition of German assets
there.
Bitter exchanges between
Marshall and Britain's Ernest
Bevin, on the one side, and Mol
otov on the other, appeared to
doom the slim hope that an Aus
trian peace treaty would emerge
from the conterence here
George Bidault of France ob
served: "It is clear that no agreement
has been reached on this article
(German assets in Austria) and
the result of this discussion has
not helped our work."
V. S. to Veto Plan
Marshall told the conference
the time had come "to make a
determined effort right here and
now" to compromise the issue.
Marshall said he had the im
pression "we are further apart
than ever," and added:
"Mr. Molotov seems to be say
ing there should be no free and
independent Austria. If Mr.
Molotov's proposals are accept
ed Austria would become a pup
pet under foreign control and
the United States could not sud
scribe to such a treaty."
Marshall offered a settlement
formula retaining the American
insistence that property which
the Germans acquired in Austria
under "force or duress" should
not be considered as assets sub
ject to seizure by the allies.
Austria Asks Speed
On this key point, however,
Marshall made it clear he was
not insisting on the exact words
"force or duress" although
"there should be no disagree
ment among us as to the proprie
ty of excluding from seizable
German assets forced transfers
by coercion."
If a proper definition of assets
could be reached, Marshall de
clared, "I should be prepared to
agree that each of our govern
ments should take necessary
steps to authorize the Austrian
government formally to transfer
immediately to the Soviet Union
those properties, rights and in
terests in eastern Austria which
are German assets as defined in
the formula we agree upon
here."
Earlier Foreign Minister Karl
Gruber of Austria appealed to
the council to finish the Austrian
treaty quickly.
Rejects Yugoslav Demands
At the same time, however,
he asserted that his government
would not sign a pact which
gave to Yugoslavia any territory
which Austria considered right
fully Austrian.
As the council approached a
showdown on the frontier issue
over Yugoslav demands for
southern Carinthia and the ques
tion of what constitutes German
assets in Austria for reparations
purposes either of which could
make or break the chances of
completing the Austrian treaty
here Gruber declared in a pre
pared speech to the council:
"Austria stands tomorrow as
the best evidence of your ability
to settle questions on a basis of
mutual understanding , , ."
Shotton Named As
Manager of Dodgers
j Brooklyn, April 18 (P) Bur
ilon (Burt) E. Shotton, 65-year-fold
former manager of the Phil
adelphia Phils, was named man
ager of the Brooklyn Dodgers
today by Club President Branch
Bickey.
Shotton replaces Leo Duroch
er, deposed as boss of the Brook
lyns by Commissioner A. B.
(Happy) Chandler for acts un
becoming to a major league man
ager 10 days ago.
Shotton, a Dodger scout until
today, was manager of the Phil
lies from 1928 through 1933.
After that he swung into the St.
Louis Cardinal system of which
Hickey then was general man
ager. The Weather
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Cloudy with occasional very
light and widely scattered show
ers tonight and Saturday. No
significant change in tempera
ture. Lowest taught 45-50. Con
ditions will be favorable for dust
ing and spraying until 10 ajn.
Saturday when winds will be too
strong for dusting. Maximum
yesterday 63. Minimum today
W. Mean temperature yesterday
56 which was 4 above normal,
Total 34-hour precipitation to
11:30 ajn. today, trace. Total
precipitation for the month, 1.78
which is .19 of an inch above
normal. Willamette river height
Friday morning 3.6 feet.
Capital
58th Year, No. 93 SBftSTMS
Russia Fails to
Put U.S. Aid to
Greece With UN
Lake Success, N. Y April 18
(iP) Russia's effort to place
American aid to Greece under
United Nations supervision was
doomed today by majority op
position in the security council.
A United States proposal that
the council's Balkan investigat
ing commission leave representa
tives in Greece temporarily to
watch over the trouble frontier
situation appeared assured of
majority approval but might be
vetoed by Russia.
Both Britain and France an
nounced they opposed the Soviet
move for a special security coun
cil commission to supervise the
Greek part of President Tru
man's $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish
aid program.
The negative vote of either
was enough to kill the Russian
resolution. They were backed,
however, by majority support to
block proposal without invoking
the veto.
British Delegate Sir Alexander
Cadogan said he saw no reason
why American aid to Greece
should be placed under U. N.
supervision while Soviet aid to
Poland, Yugoslavia and others
should be treated in another way.
He said Russia had agreed to
supply arms to some of these
countries and had never in
formed the U. N.
French Delegate Alexandre
Parodi said France could not
support the Soviet proposal for a
special security council commis
sion to watch over use of Amer
ican funds in Greece unless the
U. S. government agreed to it.
(Concluded on Page 13, Column 1)
Hoover Grills
Allied Policies
Washington, April 18 (U.R)
Former President Herbert Hoov
er today angrily criticized allied
occupation policy in Germany
and Austria. He charged that
allied forces are destroying fer
tilizer plants needed for Euro
pean food production.
Mr. Hoover told reporters aft
er a closed meeting with the
senate foreign relations com
mittee that U. S., British and
Russian forces are "busy as
bees" destroying fertilizer plants
while "all Europe is gasping
for fertilizers needed for food
production."
Mr. Hoover said that at the
same time, U. S. taxpayers are
being asked to "pay the food
bill" for Europe's starving.
The former president recently
completed a special mission to
Europe for President Truman.
Severe winter conditions in
Northern Europe have killed off
much of the winter wheat, he
said, and floods in Britain have
created food shortages there.
The committee is considering
legislation authorizing $350,
000,000 to aid war-devastated
European countries for which
UNRRA is ending its aid. Mr.
Hoover urged approval, but
recommended "modest safe
guards." Outlook for Peace
Declares Stassen
Helsinki, April 18 (U.R) Har
old Stassen, republican presiden
tial aspirant, today decried talk
of the possibility of war, saying
that the "outlook is for peace."
Stassen came here from Rus
sia, where he conferred with
Premier Josef Stalin in a Krem
lin conference.
At a press conference he said
he was saving his biggest state
ments for his return to the Unit
ed States, where he said he
would report to the republican
party leadership and to the people.
German Gibraltar of North Sea
Blown Up by British Demolitions
Luxhaven, Germany, April 18
iuuy me isiana Dase oi Helgoland, uerman Gibraltar of North
Sea. Watchers in this seaport 38 miles across the water from the
former German naval base saw
a towering grey column of smoke
rise over Helgoland at 1:01 p.m.
Two minutes later three dull
thumping explosions were heard,
sounding like blasts in a quarry.
The British . had announced
months ago their intention to de
stroy the naval stronghold.
Burgomaster Karl Olvers said
the destruction had caused sor
row and indignation among the
Germans of this city. He as
serted that the Germans were
saying the island ruins would al
ways remind the people of the
destruction and would contribute
to everlasting hatred. i
Salem,
Churchill Raps
Wallace As
Crypto-Commie
London, April 18 (U.PJ Win
ston Churchill obliquely de
nounced Henry Wallace today
as a "crypto-communist'.' and by
inference accused him of trying
to separate Britain from the
United States and align her with
Russia.
Churchill spoke of Wallace as
a visitor who foregathered with
"that happily small minority of
crypto - communists" attacking
British foreign policy.
Communist Intrigue
After explaining that a cryp
to-communist was "one who has
not got the courage to explain
the destination for which he is
making," Churchill added:
"The object of this demon
stration has been to separate
Britain from the United States
and weave her into the vast sys
tem of communist intrigue
which radiates from Moscow."
Speaking to the Primrose so
ciety at Albert Hall, Churchill
ranged the domestic and foreign
fields of a tide of oratory remi
niscent, of his wartime reviews
He advocated an "honorable
friendship from strength with
Russia" but appended in in
stant warning that "we shall al
low no wedge to be driven be
tween Britain and the United
States."
Hits Laborites
Turning to the Wallace visit
to Britain, Churchill mentioned
him as "a visitor who lately ar
rived from the United States
and hobnobbed with the crypto-
communists attacking British
foreign policy which Churchill
said had the support of nine
tenths of the house of com
mons.
Ripping unmercifully into the
laborite administration which
succeeded the government he
headed, Churchill said all of
Britain was conscious of an ap
proaching crisis in financial and
economic affairs.
Deriding the government's
economic program as "a rake's
progress." he said it was "liv
ing on the American dole and
sauandering with profligate ra
pidity this loan which could
only-be justified as a means
Bevin Survives
Cabinet Crisis
London, April 18 () Ernest
Bevin, long under fire from
within his own labor party, sur
vived a British cabinet shakeup
last night and today seemed still
firmly entrenched in the minis
try of foreign affairs.
Prime Minister Attlee chang
ed his ministers for India and
Germany, minister of pensions,
postmaster general and lord
privy seal and added a minister
without portfolio, enlarging the
cabinet from 20 to 21 members.
The new lineup in the offices
affected by the changes:
Secretary of state for India
The Earl of Listowel, heretofore
postmaster general, replacing
Lord P e t h i c k-Lawrence, re
signed. Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, responsible for ad
ministration of the British occu
pation zone of Germany Lord
Pakenham, erstwhile parliamen
tary under-secretary of state for
war, replacing J. B. Hynd.
Postmaster general Wilfrid
Paling, formerly minister of pen
sions, replacing the Earl of Lis
towel. Minister of pensions Hynd,
replacing Paling.
Minister without portfolio
Arthur Greenwood, formerly
lord privy seal.
Lord privy seal Lord Inman,
chairman of the British Broad
casting corporation since last
January, now resigned.
(IP) British demolitions blew up
Reporting from an American
army plane nine miles off Hel
goland, Henry Burroughs, Asso
ciated Press photographer, said
the biggest explosion set by man
in European territory had demol
ished the steel and concrete sub
marine pens but had left the tiny
island almost unchanged.
From the air, the detonation of
high explosives in the submarine
pens and island tunnels made a
spectaclular show. A multitude
of fissures opened in the sand
stone plateau and a column of
billowing smokt ascended about
9000 feet.
A Journal
Oregon, Friday, April 18,
Fires Still Sweep Texas City
continues to burn for the third
(AP wirephoto)
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Red Cross to Accept
Funds for Blast Victims
Voluntary Red Cross contributions for relief of the Texas City
explosion sufferers will be accepted in Salem, along wilh all the
organization's 3754 chapters, the Marion county chapter was in
formed Friday by Chairman Basil O'Connor. Chief Justice George
Rossman of the state supreme court, chairman of Marion county
chapter, said all banks in the- -
county would accept contribu
tions in behalf of the Red Cross
for relief of the Texas suffer
ers. Locally it was said no instruc
tions have yet been received rel
ative to donations of clothing,
but inquiries are being made.
Messages are being handled by
the chapter headquarters for per
sons trying to contact relatives
or acquaintances in the stricken
area.
Mr. O'Connor, in his message
to the Marion county chapter,
said that already a number of
inquiries have been received
from persons interested in sup
plementing the initial Red Cross
appropriation of $250,000 to les
sen the distress, even though
many local chapters are s-till at
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Governor Beauford Jester of
Texas has formally placed the
Red Cross in charge of relief,
While a campaign is not to be
made for disaster relief funds in
the Texas disaster, the local
chapter is advised to announce
through the press, the radio and
otherwise that the chapter will
receive contributions.
The Red Cross has furnished
6000 units of blood plasma, and
a supply of anti-tetanus serum
and gas gangrene antitoxin.
More Bombings
In Holy Land
Jerusalem, April 18 (UP.)
Violence erupted again in Pales
tine today with a series of bomb
ings in which preliminary re
ports said two persons had been
killed and two wounded.
The attacks were believed to
be the first answer of the Jewish
underground to the British ac
tion in hanging Dov Grunner
and three other underground
members the day before yester
day.
One British officer was re
ported killed and two wounded
when a bomb was tossed into a
jeep on Allcnby street in Tel
Aviv. This attack came short
ly after a sentry was killed
when three Jewish underground
members attacked the orderly
room of the 61st field dressing
station near Nathanya with
bombs.
An earlier bombing attack
was made on the Jaffa head
quarters of the semi-military
Arab organization, Futawa, but
it was not certain whether this
was a Jewish attack.
Westinghouse Signs
Wage Agreement
Pittsburgh, April 18 U.R)
Westinghouse Electric corpora
tion and the CIO United Electri
cal Workers today announced
agreement on a 15-cent an hour
wage increase for 75,000 work
ers. Of the increase, 11 cents
will be granted in straight pay
boosts. The remainder will be
given in the form of six paid
holidays, three-week vacations
for employes with 20 years ser
vice and other economic conces
sions. Salaried workers will be
granted straight S5 a week in
creases.
The agreement covers all
production and salaried workers
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j represented py in uiuuu.
This aerial view of Texas City,
day. In foreground is wreckage
House Labor
Bill in Senate
Washington, April 18 P)
The house labor bill, laced with
tight check-reins on unions and
strikes and backed by more
than enough votes to override a
presidential veto landed in the
senate today.
It got a cautious reception
there.
The senate expects to start de
bate next Wednesday on its own
bill, which lacks many of the
union curbs the house voted.
Chairman Taft (R., Ohio) of
the senate labor . committee
hopes to add some on the floor,
But the changes he has in
mind would leave the senate
bill still far less stringent than
the house measure. This indi
cates a big job in Ironing out
differences when the bills go to
a conference committee perhaps
late this month.
The house passed its bill late
yesterday by a lop-sided roll
call vote of 308 to 107. A pow
erful coalition of republicans
and southern democrats pushed
it through, after rejecting all
amendments to tone it down. .
While this was happening, the
senate committee voted 11 to 2
approval of its legislation. Sen
ators Pepper (D-Fla), and Mur
ray (D., Mont.) dissented after
playing a major role in a re
write job which stripped the bill
of several proposed curbs on un
ion activities.
No Move to End
Phone Strike
Washington, April 18 (P)
The telephone strike went into
its 12th day today with no sign
of a new move by the union,
the American Telephone and
Telegraph company or the gov
ernment. Some of the 20-odd compan
ies in the Bell system, of which
A. T. Sc T. is the parent firm,
said workers are returning to
their jobs.
Leaders of the striking Na
tional Federation of Telephone
Workers indicated they are rely
ing on time to bring about a
breakdowi: of equipment.
The labor department show
ed no disposition to offer any
immediate substitute for the ar
bitration plan by Secretary
Schwellenbach which neither
the telephone management nor
the NFTW found acceptable.
Hospital Surgery
Members Named
Three members of the hos
pital survey and construction ad
visory council to the state health
board were appointed by Gov.
Earl Snell Thursday.
The members of the council,
created by the recent legisla
ture, are Robert Schmidt, Al
bany, representing agriculture;
Fred Aandahl, Portland, an
architect; and E. S. Benjamine,
Salem, a labor representative.
The appointments will become
effective July 8, the day the act
becomes law.
1947
Price Five Cents
Texas, shows city docks as fire
of the Monsanto chemical plant,
Longest Strike
Now Settled
Peoria, 111., April 18 (U.R)
With a quietness unexpected in
its long, bitter and bloody la
bor history, the Toledo, Peoria
& Western railroad slipped back
into normal operations today
after settling its dispute with 13
railroad brotherhoods.
The settlement of the nation's
oldest strike came late yesterday
after just 11 days of resumed
negotiation. The strike began
Dec. 8, 1941, and continued for
five years and three months, in
cluding three and a half years
during which the brotherhoods
worked for the government op
erators while still technically
remaining on strike against the
company.
The bitterly fought labor-
management controversy was
climaxed last March 10 when
hard-driving TPWGW President
George P. McNear, 55, who ran
his road with an iron hand, was
shot and killed from ambush
while strolling near his Peoria
home.
lire approximately 500 strik
ing employes will return to
their jobs Monday.
No details of the settlement
were revealed, and actually
were not expected to be com
pleted for a few days.
UAWRejects
Motors Offer
Pittsburgh, April 18 (U.R)
United Automobile Workers
President Walter P. Reuther to
day rejected as "unsatisfactory"
the offer of General Motors
Corp. to raise its 220,000 CIO
employes the equivalent of 15
cents an hour.
Detroit, April 18 (U.R) Gen
eral Motors Corporation an
nounced today it had offered a
15-cents hourly wage increase to
220,000 CIO United Auto Work
ers, a five-cent increase from a
previous proposal.
The offer essentially was the
same as that accepted last week
end by negotiators for 30,000
CIO United Electrical Workers.
H. W. Anderson, GM vice pre
sident in charge of personnel,
made the proposal in a letter to
Walter P. Reuther, UAW presi
dent, who conferred with CIO
Chieftain Philip Murray in Pitts
burgh apparently after receiving
it verbally from the company
yesterday.
It was a four-point offer, in
cluding an increase of 11 cents
in hourly pay rates and a raise
of 3 Vi cents to cover pay for
six holidays a year. Anderson
proposed that the agreement
continue until May 31, 1948.
Will of Henry Ford Leaves Bulk
Of Vast Estate to Grandchildren
Detroit, April 18 (JPi The will of Henry Ford, noted automobile
industry pioneer, was filed for probate today but gave no inkling
of its extent. It left the bulk of the estate, represented in non
voting stock in the Ford Motor
Co. to the Ford Foundation, and
all of Mr. Ford's holdings of
voting shares to his grandchild
ren in equal shares.
Unofficial estimates of the es
tate'f. value have ranged up of
$500,000,000.
Clifford B. Longley, attorney
for the Ford family, said that
when the will is finally cleared
through probate, control of the
vast Ford industrial empire will
rest with the heirs of Edsel B.
Ford, only son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Ford.
The will, dated Feb., 1936, left
only the Ford home "Fairlane,"
in nearby Dearborn where Mr.
25 New Dead Found in Burning
Chemical Works
More Are Still Buried in Ruins
Known Death Toll Over 300 Mark 8 Bodies
Pulled Out of Water at
Coast Guard Starts Investigation of Cause
Texas City, Texas, April 18
found in the still-smoldering
entered for the first time since
officials said possibly 100 might
Maj. Bernard C. Morris of
bodies today and said they were
John Davis of Houston said he
the water today at the dock where the Gnindcamp blew up, set-
ting off the chain of explosions that wrecked the Monsanto
chemical works, much of industrial Texas City, and two other
ships docked nearby.
The known death toll went over the 300 mark, officials said.
Paul Stokes, Red cross relief worker in the restricted area, said
no victims had been found alive at Monsanto. Earlier, the Hous
ton Chronicle had quoted H. N. Sandcll, in charge of a crew ol
embalmers at the emergency
mortuary, as saying several had
been found alive.
Meanwhile, over at Galveston,
the coast guard hearing was un
derway and the initial witness,
Samuel F. Muecke, deputy col
lector of customs at Galveston,
said 16 cases of small ammuni
tion destined for Venezuela had
been aboard the Grandcamp.
Two other witnesses were heard.
Franklin R. Woodyard, chief
mate of the ill-fated Wilson B.
Keene, and Edward Westerman,
representing the Grandcamp
firm.
A stiff north wind had been
blowing flames and smoke out
to sea, but today it shifted to
the south. By 11 a.m. (CST)
smoke had drifted as far inland
as Palestine and Jacksonville,
160 to 175 air miles north of
the disaster area.
Here, however, the wind was
described as little more than a
breath and smoke from the fires
was rising high before it drift
ed back over Texas City.
Wind Spreads Flames
A stiff ground breeze from
the south might send heat from
burning Humble tanks against
others in the Sid Richardson
plant, and set them off.
However, oil fires have no
flying sparks and officials said
residential and business struc
tures farther to the north prob
ably would not be endangered.
Deaths among the injured
overnight brought the disaster
toll to 271 counted bodies, of
which 194 have been identified
But scores pecsibly hundreds
are missing and the fatality
total is certain to rise.
Hospitals .All Filled
The injured from the series
of racking explosions and rag
ing fires that have beset Texas
City for the last three days are
numbered in the thousands wilh
all hospitals in the Houston
Galveston area filled.
Seven of the 11 fires still
burning today were oil storage
tanks in the Humble company's
tank farm, about one-quarter
mile from the Monsanto plant
Two other tanks were afire
in the S i d Richardson plant
across the road from Humble.
One of the Republic company's
plants was still burning flitfully
in the Monsanto plant.
From three to five other large
storage tanks in the Humble
tank farm were menaced.
Mayor J. C. Tranhan said to
day that "It looks pretty good
in the Humble area now. Most
of the fires there, though still
burning, are under control."
Property loss in the Texas
City explosion may be the sec
ond highest in United States his
tory. Fire Insurance Commis
sioner Marvin Hall said at Aus
tin. He said he believed the loss
will be second in value to that
insurred by the San Francisco
fire of 1906 which cost $350,
000,000. They Paid Too Much
In Income Taxes
Washington, April 18 (U.R)
Michael L. Benedum, Pittsburgh,
received credit Thursday of
$256,607.35 as a result of over
paying his 1945 income taxes
by that amount.
Another credit announced to
day was of $170,793.19 in favor
of Northon Clapp, Tacoma,
Wash. Clapp likewise overesti
mated his income obligations
for 1945.
Ford died April 1, to his widow
along with some personal ef
fects. Other than the bequests to
the Foundation, the grandchild
ren and the widow there were
no specific bequests.
The Ford Foundation, organ
ized in 1936, contributes to the
maintenance of Ford's Green
field Village, the Edison Insti
tute in nearby Dearborn, to the
Henry Ford hospital and to
other institutions. In the latest
report filed by Henry Ford H,
its president and a trustee, It
reported assets of $109,168,005
on June 10, 1945.
and Possibly 100
Dock Where Ship Blew Up
UP) Twenty-five new dead wer
Monsanto chemical works today,
the Wednesday explosion, and
be found.
the Salvation Army checked the
brought in in several trucks.
helped pull eight bodies out of
307 Monsanto
Workers Lost
Texas City. Tex.. April 18 (U.PJ
The Monsanto Chemical com
pany announced today that 307
of its employes still arc missing
in the Texas City disaster area.
The announcement came as
volunteer workers penetrated
the still-smoking ruins of the
company's $19,000,000 30-acre
plant in a grim search for ad
ditional victims of the two-day
disaster which killed hundreds
and injured thousands in this
gulf coast industrial town.
The Monsanto statement seem
ed to suggest that the death
toll ot the scries of explosions
and tiros which began when a
nitrate-laden French freighter
blew up Wednesday morning
might reach 650 to 700, as some
officials have estimated. Thus
far, 279 bodies have been re
covered.
Monsanto said 31 employes of
its plant which manufactured
styrene, a highly explosive in
gredient of synthetic rubber -were
known dead, 41 injured, 71
unhurt. That accounted for 450
persons about the number to
have been in the plant when the
disaster occurred.
Considerable numbers of dead
also were expected to be found
in other ruined factories, ware
houses, and business buildings
in the blast area.
As the last oil fires in the
stricken area subsided slowly,
two oil barges adrift in Galves
ton bay caught fire today and
threatened briefly to cause fur
ther damage to this industrial
town.
On Blasted Ship
Galveston. Tex., April 18 (
Samuel F. Muecke, deputy col
lector ot customs here, testified
before a four-man coast guard
board investigating the explo
sion of the Grand Camp that a
manifest revealed the ship car
ried 16 cases of ammunition.
Only three witnesses appear
ed duiing the morning hearing.
They were Muecke, Franklin
H. Woodyard, chief mate of the
Wilson B. Kcenc, another ship
lost at Texas City, and Edward
Westerman, Galveston, manager
of E. S. Binnings and represent
ing the agent, of the Grand
Camp.
Woodyard broke down ana
cried on the stand and the hear
ing was recessed briefly.
Muecke said sixteen cases ox
small ammunition had been
loaded at Antwerp, Belgium,
for Lagucria, Venezuela, but
had been overshipped and had
missed port. It was to have been
transferred to another vessel at
Galveston, he said.
The balance of the cargo,
Muecke said, included tobacco.
twine, a small amount of gas
oline and paint, 150 gallons of
paint, 384 tons of bunkers, one
ton of coal, and a cargo of ni
trate. Magnuson Opposes
Shipping Bid
Seattle, April 18 iPr Sen.
Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash)
said today he had expressed op
position to a bid by the Coast
wise Shipping lines, operating
out o Portland, for paticipa-
lion in the proposed Alaska in
terim shipping program.
The interim program, design
ed to continue Alaska service
while a permanent solution is
worked out, calls for allocation
of government-owned vessels
on a "nominal" charter basis
to Alaska Steamship Co., North
land Transportation Co., and
the Alaska Transportation Co.
New Mainlincr Due Sunday
Portland. Ore., April 18 (Un
united Airlines' new mainliner
300, a four-engined, 52-passen-ger
Douglas DC-6, will arrive
here Sunday for a one-day visit,
George Hatch, Portland traffic
manager, said today. The ship
recently established a coast-to-coast
speed record ot six hours
and 47 minutes.