Republicans
Uphold flashes
In Reclamation
Leadership Defeats
Initial Attempts to Add
To Funds Allotted
Washington, April 25 (P) The
house republican leadership to
day defeated initial attempts to
add to the slashed'down appro
priation for the interior depart
ment.
A voice vote turned back an
amendment by Rep. Gore (D
Tenn.) to add $174,417 and el
iminate a provision barring use
of any funds for the division of
power.
A voice vote also defeated an
amendment to increase funds for
the Bonneville power adminis
tration. ,
"Crucifying Slash"
In the debate, Rep. McCor-
mack (D Mass.) termed cuts in
') the department budget a "cruci-
TJying slash of funds" by the re
publican-controlled house ap
propriations committee.
McCormack told the house
that "I want the people of the
west and northwest to know that
the democratic party has not par
ticipated" in these reductions
"that mean so much to the hopes
and aspirations of these people.'
He served notice that the dem
ocrats, now in the minority, will
seek to restore the interior de
partment appropriations which
figured in the 47 percent slash
proposed by the committee.
Making Pledge Good
Republican leader Halleck
(Ind.) countered by telling the
house he wants the country to
know the republican party is try
ing to do something about reduc
ing government expenditures,
and is meeting "stubborn re
sistance" from democrats.
Up Death Toll
In Texas City
Galveston, Texas, April 25 WP)
Mayor C. J. Trahan of Texas
City today told the coast guard
investigation board that the ex
plosions and fires that wrecked
his city last week claimed the
lives of 433 known dead.
Trahan said 128 persons are
missing.
The board, seeking to deler
v mine the causes of the disaster.
2.a tnlA that 11 Tdvo fitir lira.
men were killed while fighting a
fire that preceded the blast of
the Grand Camp, first freighter
to explode.
Trahan's known dead total is
slightly higher than the latest
figure released by the American
Red Cross.
The Texas City mayor esti
mated that property damage re
sulting from the explosions and
fires would total $35,000,000 and
that it would take two and one
half years to rebuild the city
and restore the production facil
ities of its industrial plants.
He said it would be at least
six months before water traffic
at the port would return to its
normal peak.
Bomb Outrages
In Palestine
Jerusalem, April 25 (U.R)
Four British policemen were
killed and five more were miss
ing today when their billet at
the Sarona army fortress at Tel
Aviv was blown up in an out
burst of "warfare" by the Jew
ish underground.
Authorities believed the blast
Which rocked Tel Aviv was the
first major blow in a "vendetta"
Jeclared by the Irgun Zvai Le
iimi for the hanging of four Ir-.
iunists and the sentencing of
the gallows by suicide.'
I At least a score of persons
were injured in the Sarona ex
plosion, in addition to the dead
and missing.
Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham,
the British high commissioner,
called an emergency conference
with army and police officials.
Cunningham was expected to
declare the Jewish city of Tel
Aviv a "controlled area," in ef
fect isolating some 200,000 of its
residents from the outside world.
The re-imposition of statutory
martial law in Palestine was ex
pected at any time. The army
and police were strengthening
their precautions.
The Weather
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Clear tonight, partly cloudy
Saturday. Low temperature to
night about 40 degrees. Cooler
daytime temperatures Saturday.
Conditions will be favorable for
dusting and spraying Saturday.
Maximum yesterday 66. Mini
mum today 38. Mean tempera
ture yesterday 56. which was 4
above normal. Total 24-hour
precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today
.00 Total precipitation tor the
month 1.96, which is .18 of an
inch below normal. Willamette
river height Friday morning 1.8
feet.
Capital Adjournal
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58th Year, No. 99
Los) Abstract
Of Courthouse
Site Located
The long lost abstract of title
to the courthouse block which
has been missing for nearly 10
years and could not be discov
ered prior to the last election
when the matter of building a
new courthouse was under con
sideration . was recovered f ri-
day in the county clerk's office
'vhere it had been reposing in
a file all the time. John L.
Siegmund, former county judge,
made the discovery going to the
file and putting his finger on
the document.
The abstract carries the title
down to February, 1937, cov
ers the receiver's certificate, the
patent given by Abraham Lin
coln to William H. and Chloe
Willson for 615.02 acres of land
in 1862, shows that the Will
sons left three heirs, daughters,
Kate L. Dillingham, Frances A
Gill and Laura Belle Wythe.
On Sept. 4, 1850, the county
court located the county seat
of Marion county at Salem and
May 3, 1852, fixed the location
of the courthouse on block 6,
Salem, the present location. Pri
or .to building the present
courthouse the county court,
June 15,-1871 instituted pro
ceedings against the city of Sa
lem to quiet title to the county
of all interest in the block.
Under a stipulation between
the city and county the city
consented to the county hold
ing title to the entire block and
the city held itself forever bar
red and estopped from claiming
any interest in the land what
ever or from ever setting up
any adverse claim to the title.
and a decree based on the sti
pulation was entered.
Resents Attacks
By Churchill
St. Andrews. Scotland. Anril
25 (U.R) Prime Minister Clem
ent Attlee nmiSfH Wineinn
Churchill today of displaying
incredible meanness" and "irre
sponsible abuse" in his repeated
oratorical assaults on the lahnr
government.
Embittered by Churchill's
needling, the usually milrt-snnk-
en Attlee made a rjersnnal at
tack of exceptional vigor against
me wartime prime minister
whose deputy Attlee was in the
coalition government.
There was not a drnn nf nnl-
icy in the torrent of irresponsi
ble abuse in which he indulged,"
Attlee said of Churchill's snporh
to the Primrose league last
week.
Attlee tnld th Snnttich Trar1o
Union Congress that Churchill
had been the most disastrous
chancellor of the exchequer of
the 20th century, that he was in
consistent in his attacks nn tho
government's use of the Ameri
can loan and he was doing Brit
air bad service by his attitude
of Indian freedom.
On India. Attlee said. "Mr
Churchill never thinks he only
gives way to his emotions."
Churchill and his foil
servatives, Attlee said, have no
policy and no plan for meeting
the country's problems.
"Thev take refuse in mtm
abuse and attempt to place re
sponsibility for the inevitable
hardships of the present time at
the door of the labor govern
ment.
$5000 for Legless Boy
Maiden. Mass.. Anril 25 (U.R)
More than $5000 has been con
tributed to a fund to pay the
hofiDital pxnpnsps nf 1 1 -voni-.nlrl
Glenwood E. Brann, Jr., whose
legs were amputated after he was
"burned at the stake" hv twn
companions, it was revealed to-
aay.
Wallace Defends Palestine
Jews; Plans Lecture Trip
fans, April 25 (fi Henry A. Wallace declared today that a
Jewish resistance movement in Palestine had been necessary to
"arouse the conscience of the world." Expressing faith that
Britain would solve the Holy
Land problem and hope that it
would "carry out the original
Balfour declaration," the former
American vice president told a
news conference that "there can
never be a peace in the world
until justice has been done the
Jewish people."
"I sympathize with the Bri
tish and I deplore terrorism,"
Wallace said. "I have never be
lieved in force of arms or force
of money."
Wallace, winding up his Euro
pean speaking tour here, today
approveda tentative 15-date
coast to coast lecture schedule
in the United States. He said he
would voice the views he ex
pressed in Europe,
Entered it Meond elft
mitter it SaJem, Oregon
Plan Delay in
Approval of
Italian Treaty
Washington, April 25 (U.R)
Some senators were in a mood
today to withhold approval of the
Italian peace treaty until the Big
Four agree on the future of Ger
many and Austria.
Senators expressed disappoint
ment, but not surprise, at the
collapse of the Moscow foreign
ministers conference and the re
call of Gen. W. Bedell Smith, U.
S. ambassador to Russia.
By Bi-Partisan Group
Delaying approval of the Ital
ian peace treaty was demanded
by a bi-partisan senate group, in
cluding two members of the for
eign relations committee. This
group argued that by ratifying
the treaty now, the senate would
bolster the position of Russia and
of communist dominated Yugo
slavia at the very moment when
this country plans to spend
$400,000,000 to quarantine com
munism in the Near East.
Sens. Carl A. Hatch (D., N.M.)
and Arthur Capper (R., Kans.)
were the foreign relations com
mittee members who urged a de
lay. Sen. Walter F. George (D.,
Ga.), also a committee member,
said he would ask Secretary of
State George C. Marshall's ad
vice on his return from Moscow.
Marshall to Report
Marshall was expected to ar
rive here late tomorrow and
planned to report to the nation
shortly after his return. He also
will be called before the foreign
relations groups of both houses
for a confidential review of the
Moscow meeting.
Chairman Alexander Wiley of
the senate judiciary committee
and house republican leader
Charles A. Halleck urged that
Marshall give congress "the full
story" of the Moscow confer
ence, in a closed joint session if
need be.
Reasons for Delay
Growing sentiment for delay
ing approval of the Italian peace
treaty, as well as pacts with Ro
mania, Bulgaria and Hungary,
was based ori these provisions:
1, Allied troops would be
barred from Italy and the for
mer axis satellites 80 days after
the treaties go into effect. But
Russia, until an Austrian treaty
is completed, could retain lim
ited forces in Romania and
Hungary to protect her commu
nication lines with the Soviet
zone in Austria.
2. The Italian-Yugoslav fron
tier would be demilitarized on
the Italian side of the border and
Italy virtually stripped of her
armed strength.
3. The Italian treaty would
call for payment of $100,000,000
in reparations to Russia and
$125,000,000 to Yugoslavia.
Bez Defends
Cannery Ship
Washington, April 25 (P)
Nick Bez of Seattle said today
the government-owned floating
cannery which -he operates the
Pacific Explorer will free the
United States from "back-door
fishing."
He said the vessel, now oper
ating off Costa Rica, already
has demonstrated that the west
coast's fishing boats, idle for
many parts of the year, can
profitably be employed the year
around and at great distances
from home.
If his plans materialize, Bez
told reporters, the cannery ship
this summer may establish a
new north Pacific industry once
monopolized by Japan the can
ning of king. crab.
Bez said he has already start
ed men and small vessels toward
Alaska to investigate the king
crab situation in the Bering Sea.
The tour will begin April 30
with a nationwide broadcast.
Tentative dates for the remain
der of the tour include: May 16,
Portland, Oregon; May 19, Seat
tle: Wallace was to leave by plane
for the United States tonight.
(In Los Angeles, C. E. Tober
man, president of the Holly
wood Bowl, said the Progressive
Citizens of America had been
denied the use of the bowl for
a speech by Wallace, but Rob
ert W. Kenney, southern Califor
nia chairman of PCA, said the
meeting would be held, "Bowl
or no bowl, even if we have to
hold it in a telephone booth.")
Salem, Oregon, Friday, April
At the 4-H Fair Display of clothing at the Marion county 4-H
club exhibit held at the Salem Chamber of Commerce consisted
of 105 entries judged by Marjorie Tye White who was pleased
by the high quality of needlecraft. Cooking exhibits ranged
frorn 32 entries of home baked bread to dainty pastries pack
aged' in cellophane wrappers. Planes and bird houses were fea
tured in this display of handicraft creations. Bird houses were
entered by Jack Johnson, Robert Carter and Robert Burmeister
of Stayton. Planes were displayed by John McCall of Gervais
and John Paulsen, Liberty.
First Collections Made
From Parking Meters
..' Two metal waste baskets, one
pounds of nickels and the other
pennies, the first weeks lake from the Salem parking meters,
are in the office of City Treasurer Paul Hauser awaiting the
arrival of a counting machine so the money can be totaled. The
weight of the collection is a
pure guess. The city hall has
no scales. If there is a 100
pound bulk of each, Guy N.
Hickok, manager of the First
National bank, says there should
be $455 in nickels and $147 in
pennies. That would be, for the
52 weeks of the year, $31,304,
or better than $2600 a month.
But only a third of the meters
are in. When all 1163 are in
it looks as if rough estimates
that the take should be around
$3200 a month isn't far off.
The counting machine is ex
pected to arrive Saturday. With
no way to count the money un
less it were done by a one-two-three
count of the coins, it was
first planned to have it done on
a machine at the First National
bank. But since the city's ma
chine is due Saturday it was
decided to wait. The machine
will put the coins in 50-cent rolls
of pennies and $2-rolls of
nickels.
(Concluded on Page 13, Column 6)
Exposes Plot to
Seize Quebec
Quebec City, April 25 (U.R)
Premier Maurice Duplessis
promised today to reveal more
information "in due course"
about a coded document, seized
in Montreal, which he sajd indi
cated the communists planned a
revolution to seize control of
the province of Quebec in 1948,
the 100th anniversary
communist manifesto.
of the
Duplessis told the provisional
legislature last night that the
document, seized by special po
lice in a recent raid on a com
munist hideout in Montreal,
stated that between 10,000 and
12.000 men could seize control
of the entire province.
He said the document was in
the form of a coded chart, the
key to which showed that com
munists planned to seize the
Montreal city hall with 100 men
and the provincial police head
quarters with 120.
The key to the document was
found after the chart had been
seized and Duplessis promised
to reveal "in due course" the
identity of the man who had it
in his possession. .
The Fames manifesto was
published by Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels in Germany in
1848, setting forth a concise
review of the working class
movement.
25, 1947
filled with approximately 100
with about an equal weight of
Auto Insurance
Rates Boosted
Automobile insurance rates
will be increased from 15 to 30
percent starting May 1, the Na
tional Bureau of Surety & Cas
ualty Underwriters has advised
the state insurance department.
Rates on public liability and
property damage policies will
go up from 15 to 20 percent,
while collision insurance will be
upped to approximately 30 per
cent. Seth B. Tompson, state insur
ance commissioner, said the loss
ratio of automobile insurance
companies is running from 60 to
90 percent, according to the
companies' 1946 statements.
"Loss and expense ratios to
gether arc running as high as
110 to 140 percent of the prem
iums," he added.
He explained that the num
ber of accidents, caused partly
by faulty equipment, has in
creased substantially while at
the same time repair costs have
increased greatly.
Independent companies are
not included in the premium
schedule filed by the rating bu
reau. lNo Peace Move in
Teamsters Strike
Portland, Ore., April 25 Fi
AFL teamsters and warehouse
ancj drayage operators waited
today for the opening move that
would lead to a conference to
settle the freight tie-up here.
The city labor-management
committee demanded yesterday
that both parties get together
on settlement. Both sides said
they were willing. But neither
made an immediate opening
move.
The, com m i 1 1 e e ' s demand
came ' at the same time the
teamsters announced picket
lines would be placed at seven
warehouses. The union said oth
er pickets would go out later
with banners charging a luck
out to parade before warehouses
of all 66 members of the Port
land Draymen's and Ware
housemen's association.
The union called a strike last
Saturday on seven firms after
wage negotiations broke down
Since, the tie-up has spread to
the other firms with the unior
charging a "lockout" and the
employers calling it a "strike.'
Price Five Cents
Phone
Cabinet Meet
Washington, April 25 T
President Truman and his cab
inet discussed the nation-wide
telephone strike today. There
was no indication, however, of
prospective government action
other than federal conciliators'
moves for new union-management
negotiations in the 19-day-old
tie-up.
Cabinet members told report
ers that the strike "came up"
during their 35-minute session
with the president.
Secretary of Interior Krug
said the "only new thing" is
that "they are starting all over
again."
He referred to the union-management
meetings arranged here
by federal conciliators seeking
to end the strike.
Bay City Marches
San Francisco, April 25 (1
Police, aided by a top union of
ficial, today halted and dispersed
a march of striking telephone
workers and sympathizres on the
Central telephone building.
Eight men and four women
marchers were arrested and
charged with "refusing to move
on."
In Oakland a crowd of strikers
and sympathizers estimated at
500 surrounded the telephone
company building without police
interference. Lines moved
around the entire block, but po
lice said that as long as they kept
moving, and did not interfere
with others, the lines would be
permitted to continue.
The San Francisco demonstra
tors dispersed after hearing a
plea through a police loud speak
er by Joe Solly, international
president of the CIO American
Communications asso c i a t i o n.
They reassembled at the CIO un
ion hall.
The march, estimated by Selly
to number 2300 persons, was
stopped by 100 police a block
and a half short of the telephone
building.
Deny Sabotage
Washingtonr-Aprii-- 25 (U.R)
The striking National Federa
tion of Telephone workers lash
ed out today at "company impli
cations" that union members
have had a hand in the sabotage
of telephone company property
across the country.
NFTW Strike Director C. W.
Wcrkau accused Bell System
companies of trying to "discredit
the union by implying that
NFTW members have been re
sponsible for the destruction or
crippling of telephone facilities.
He said damage to company
property was "not extraordinary
. but an everyday, year-round
occurrence."
Meanwhile, the outlook for
settlement of the strike changed
from hopeful to gloomy when
renewed government activity
fizzled out and the union
strengthened its strike fund for
a prolonged walkout.
Agreement Reached
On Prices of Fish
Astoria, Ore., April 25 WP)
Fishermen and packers have
agreed on prices for fish, and
both sides said today there was
a good chance of the spring sea
son opening Wednesday without
a strike delay.
The agreement on prices will
run to August 1. Negotiations
will continue for the period aft
er that.
These prices were recom
mended by the price committee
of the Columbia River Fisher
men's Protective association:
Twenty-three cents a pound
for salmon and blueback.
Thirteen and a half cents for
stcelhead after June 10, and six
cents for roe shad.
General Motors Wage Raise
Sets Pattern for Industry
Detroit, April 25 (UP) Officials of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO) were confident today that the 15-cent hourly
wage increase agreed to by General Motors corporation would
set the 1947 wage pattern in thef
entire automotive industry and
would insure a year of full pro
duction unhampered by major
strikes.
The agreement, which provid
ed a liberalized vacation plan in
addition to the wage increase
was reached last night and will
be signed today. It covers 220.
000 hourly-rated employes of
General Motors and runs until
April 28. 1948.
Both the Chrysler and Ford
Motor companies, the other
members of the big three of the
automobile industry, were ex
pected to agree to similar pacts
The contract provides:
1. An 11!4 cent hourly in-
Senators Plan
Amendments
To Labor Curbs
More Restrictions to Be
Written In Despite
Veto Threat
Washington, April 25 (PI
Senator Ball (R., Minn.), pre
dieted today that the senate will
write more restrictions on unions
into its general labor bill and
Senator Aiken (R Vt.), said
that would "assure" a presiden
tial veto.
Both members of the senate la
bor committee, they expressed
their views in separate inter
views as the senate got set to
resume debate on legislation to
curb strikes and limit union ac
tivities. 50 Votes Assured
Ball claimed that at least 50
senators would vote for four
amendments which would add
fresh checks on labor organiza
tions to the senate measure. That
is two votes more than needed
to assure adoption.
These amendments, sponsored
by Ball and other senators,
would:
Authorize private employers
to petition for court injunctions
to block jurisdictional strikes
and secondary boycotts.
(Jurisdictional strikes usually
stem from disputes between un
ions as to which should do given
work. A secondary boycott is an
effort by a union to hit at one
employer by forcing other em
ployers to stop dealing with
him.)
Ban Welfare Funds
Outlaw union - administered
health and welfare funds.
Forbid national unions to co
erce their locals into accepting
contract terms. ,
Make it an unfair labor prac
tice, subject to injunction, for
unions to coerce or interfere
with workers in the exercise of
their collective bargaining rights.
The Hartley bill approved by
a three to one majority in the
house last week has all of these
provisions and many other un
ion curbs which are not in the
senate measure.
But both bills would outlaw
the closed shop.
Contract Ships
Washington, April 25 W)
The maritime commission an
nounced today it has approved
the form of contracts with three
Alaskan steamship companies
for a temporary commercial
steamship service to the terri
tory. The commission did not go
into the details of the contracts
but said about 30 ships will be
furnished the companies at nom
inal charter hire.
The temporary service is to
replace a government operated
service begun during the war.
It was operated by the war ship
ping administration and the
maritime commission. When
time came two months ago for
the government to turn the ships
back to the private companies
they announced they would not
resume it unless they received
an appreciable increase in rates.
Gerald D. Morgan, counsel for
the Alaska Transportation Co.,
told a reporter the companies
have petitioned for new tariffs
amounting to an overall rate in
crease of 35 percent. He said
the application was filed April
18 and will become effective in
30 days unless objections from
Alaskans cause the commission
to suspend them pending a hear
ing. Delegate Bartlctt of Alas
ka said Alaska will ask that the
proposed rates be suspended.
Russian Pays Bill
Portland, April 25 ifl-The
Multnomah county hospital was
$200 richer today because it gave
treatment to a Russian immi
grant 35 years ago. The money
came from John Chinitchik, who
said he had been saving his mon
ey since then to repay the hos
pital. crease effective immediately
providing the contract is rati
fied by May 5.
2. Six paid holidays for em
ployes with more than six
months seniority. Wages for the
paid holidays will account for
the other 3'z cents increase.
3. Employes who do not take
vacations will receive extra pay
on the following basis 40 hours
pay for employes with one
year's seniority; 60 hours pay
for employes with three years
and 80 hours for those with fiv.
years' seniority.
4. Workers called in for duty
will be paid for a minimum 6'
four hours instead of three.
Engineers Hear
Pleas for Two
Additional Dams
Seek to Add Rickreall
And Molalla Projects to
Prevent Floods
Addition of two additional
dams to the Willamette Valler
I basin project, one on the Rick
reall creek to protect the water
supply of Dallas and the other
on the Molalla river to prevent
destruction of farms and high
ways through yearly flood wa
ters, was urged at the hearing
conducted by the Corps of En
gineers at the Armory today.
A Clackamas county delega
tion, headed by Walter Buse and
supplemented by the entire mem
bership of the county court, told
Col. O. E. Walsh, district engi
neer of the Portland district, who
presided, that removal of one
million board feet of timber
from southeastern Clackamas
county, was responsible for the
flood conditions on the Molalla.
Farms Threatened
Unless emergency flood con
trol -work is performed in the
area adjacent to this river, the
delegation members declared
that the floods of the next win
ter would destroy many farms
and wipe out several bridges and
county roads.
R. W. Walker, Willamette ba
sin commission director of Polk
county, declared that "Polk
county suffers more from flood
waters of the Willamette river
than any other county in the val
ley." He urged the army engineer
to make a survey of Rickreall
creek, source of the water sup
ply for Dallas, with the view of
constructing a dam on the stream
to conserve the water supply and
provide irrigation for lands along
the creek.
Walsh Reviews Project
Col. Walsh gave comprehen
sive review of the Willamette
basin project, including projects
already under way, together
with projects that would be rec
ommended to congress by the
engineers for future construc
tion. Three floods on the Willam
ette river in 1943, 1945 and
1947 resulted in property dam
age amounting to $23,000,000
Col. Walsh said, proving tha
the flood control project was ah.
economic necessity. " c
He said that in addition to trie
flood control, the project would
benefit navigation, aid in abate
ment of river pollution, provide
irrigation for a large area of
land and also provide recrea
tional facilities for the people of
the state.
(Concluded on Pate 15, Column i)
Bonneville
Slash Upheld
Washington, April 25 Wt
The house today stood by the
action of its appropriation com
mittee in cutting funds for the
Bonneville power administra
tion from $20,278,800 to $6,
907,800. A motion by Rep. Rooncy (D
NY) to restore the full amount
was defeated by voice vote af
ter Rep. Stockman (R-Ore) told
(he house Bonneville has $11,
755,000 left over from this
year's funds.
"I think they have enougn
lo take care of their needs,"
Stockman said, "maybe they
have too much."
Stockman said Paul Raver,
Bonneville administrator and
other employes during testimo
ny before a house subcommit
tee refused "to give us the facts
on their needs."
"They were masters of sub
terfuge and evasion," he said.
At that time Stockman ask
ed Secretary of the Interior
Krug to fire Raver.
Rep. Jackson (D-Wa.sh) urg
ed that the full amount be re
stored to the bill. He said the
sooner the Bonneville trans
mission lines are constructed,
the sooner the government will
get back the money it spends
tor them.
Rep Angell (R-Ore) also urg
ec the house to restore the
funds. He said the lines are
needed to carry power lo cen
ters where it can be used.
Marshall Flying
Home via Iceland
Berlin. April 25 UP) Secre
tary of State Marshall, reiterat
ing his disappointment in the
meager results of the Moscow
conference, took off by plane
today for Iceland and Washing
ton at 3:25 p. m. (5:25 a. m.
PST.)
His pilot changed his inten
ded route from the Paris-Azores
route to the North Atlantic on
hearing reports of good wea
ther on that circle.