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tEvatt Denounces Vishinsky for Attack on U. S. Australian Says Russians Provoking Discord and Friction in UN United Nations Hall, Flushing, N. Y., Sept. 19 (U.R) Australian Foreign Minister Herbert V. Evatt today denounced Russia's plan (or "criminal punishment'' of war propagandists and- her attack on the United States as an attempt to "provoke interna tional friction and discord." He accused Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky of deliber ately creating a "smokescreen" to cover up his own weak case and to prevent careful consider ation of other important proD lems at this UN assembly, i. He said it was a typical tactic when a lawyer has a weak case In the legal profession, he said, there is a saying: "When you have no case, abuse the other aide." Supports America Evatt also told" a press confer rice that Vishinsky's personal attacks were "most detrimental io i.'-lernational peace and a complete disregard of the impor tant job to be done here." He declined to go into the details of the Russian proposal which would deny the American press its freedom to criticize Russia "on pain of criminal punisn ment." Evatt supported in principle the American proposal for set ting up a permanent assembly committee to be a "watchdog" ove rthe security council; denied Russia's charges that it would abolish the security council, but announced that he would seek to limit the jurisdiction over such an assembly committee to cases which have first been vetoed in the security council. He also would seek safeguards to prevent every "frivolous and trivial" dispute coming before the assembly. (Concluded on Fare 11, Column S) China Opposes Jap Peace Pact -, New York, Sept. if (U.PJ-Dr. Wang Shlh-Chief, foreign minis ter of China, disclosed todav Iftnt China will line up with Rus sia in refusing a United States invitation to an immediate 11 nation Japanese peace confer ence. Dr. Wang, in an interview, aaid China must turn down the American plan for the same rea son Russia already had rejected In that the Big Four veto pow er was not included. "China, having fought long and bitterly with Japan," Dr. Wang said, "could not go into a peace conference without some safeguard that her interests would be protected." However, the Chinese foreign minister said, his government will attempt to compromise be tween the Russian and United States positions by asking that the problem of the Japanese peace treaty be referred to the 11-nation far eastern commis sion where the Big Four each have a veto. Russia flatly rejected the American plan with the obser vation that only a four power conference of Russia, Great Britain, China and the United States could possibly deal with Japanese peace. Ralph Barnes Ship Sold Portland, Sept. 19 (IP) The maritime commission has sold ifte Liberty ship Ralph Barnes, nair d for an ex-Salem newspa perman killed when his plane was shot down over Europe in the war, to the Danish East Asi atic Co., Ltd. It has been re named the St. Jan. The vessel was built at Oregon shipyard in 1943. Huge Bear Killed Ending Extermination of 130 Goats By Claude Steusloff ' Three shots from a trusty rifle in the hands of Sam Mathaney Marion county rancher, early yesterday morning brought death to one of the largest bears ever taken in the county and suspended a mass extermination of 130- Angora goats missing on the Mathaney place in the past week. The brute was caught in a trap set by County Trapper Francis Watkins on Silver moun tain about one-half mile south of the Silver mountain service sta tion on the Silver Creek Falls highway. Fifteen goats were killed Wednesday night before the bear stepped into the trap which held him by the hind leg until morning. '. Ben Newell, assistant county agent, tentatively identified the speciman as a five year old male Euarctos Americanus, commonly known as the American black bsar. His weight is variously estimated as 350 to 375 pounds (C apital 58th Year, No. 224 Neuner Asserts Gambling Laws To Be Enforced By James D. Olson Attorney General George Neu ner declared today that reports received In his office indicate that many district attorneys in the state have acted upon his directive banning slot machines and other gambling devices and are taking proper action. 'No doubt there are some of ficers who have not acted yet" he said "and with only five dep uties in my office, all engaged in important work for the vari ous state departments. I have no way to make investigations into the various counties. "However," he added "if com plaints come to me concerning lack of law enforcement and such complaints appear to be based upon fact, I will not hesi tate to call upon the governor for aid from the state police and funds with which to operate against the violators, if need be. To Enforce Law 'The law against games of chance must be enforced as long this law is on the statute books" he continued. "As I have said before it makes no differ ence whether we like these laws or not, they are on the books and must be enforced just as other laws are enforced." The attorney general admit ted that in the past there had been frequent temporary drives against slot machines and other payoff devices, usually just prior to an election but said that in his directive to district attor neys he quoted the law and in sisted upon its constant enforce ment. When asked what he thought about the differentiation be tween punch boards that pay out cash or those that pay out merchandise and are called trade stimulators" as was done by Chief of Police Jenkins of Portland, who held the latter type to be legal, the attorney general declared that "just plain ordinary, common sense" would settle that question. (Concluded on Par 13, Column $) -r I Hope Given Up For LaGuardia New York, Sept. 19 VP) For mer Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia grew steadily weaker today and his physicians said they had no hope for his re covery. The fiery "Little Flower" has been in a coma almost continu ously since Tuesday and his physician, Dr.. George Baehr, said today that no immediate change in his condition was ex pected. "Throughout the night Mr. LaGuardia remained in a deep sleep," Baehr said in a bulletin at 9:15 a.m. (EDT). "There has been no material change in his pulse, temperature or respira tion. Three or four times dur ing the night he was able to take small amounts of liquid nourishment. N o immediate change for better or worse anticipated." LaGuardia, one of the nation's most colorful public figures, has been ill since last June and friends reported that he had wasted away to about 100 pounds. Friends had said he was suffering from cancer, but it had never been confirmed until yesterday when Dr. Baehr re vealed that he was suffering from "an inoperable condition of the pancreas." However, Dr. Baehr did not use the term can cer. Dr. Baehr explained that La Guardia had been operated upon three months ago bv Dr. John Garlock. and he measures six feet six inches nose to tail; 15 inches across the pole, ear to ear. Another trap has subsequent ly been sprung in the area in dicating that a pal may have been assisting in the depreda tions. Floyd Fox and Willie Krenz of the Silver Cliff dis trict have been busy since last Friday with hounds in chase of bears which have been taking two lambs nightly. Sam Fenni more, who lives on Butte creek, above Mt. Angel, has reported trouble from cougars killing his lambs and has sighted an old she bear with two cubs bent on the same work. (Concluded on Page 11, Column 8) Salem, Taft Proposes Leveling Off of Prices, Wages San Francisco, Sept. 19 W) Senator Taft (R Ohio) pro posed today that the nation act to level off prices and wages at point 50 to 60 percent above that of 1939. In a politically-important ad dress prepared for delivery here before the Commonwealth club, the Ohio senator asserted that prices must come down and that high wages can be maintained only through increased produc tivity per man. Planned Inflation Accusing President Truman of following a policy of "plan ned inflation," Taft said that nevertheless, "the fundamental reason for high prices is the tremendous income of the American people today due to full employment and high wages." Arguing that "abnormal em ployment" resulting from the present high rate of exports and accumulated domestic demand "will undoubtedly taper off," the chairman of the senate's re publican policy committee said the country had better act to keep this change of pace gra dual. "I believe we may as well recognize that prices are per manently up above prewar prices," he said. "Since Botn wages and prices have risen wages on the whole more than prices we had better work to ward a stabilization of wages and prices at some new level, perhaps 50 or 60 percent over 1939. 80 to 100 Percent Increase He said the present level of both represents an 80 to 100 percent increase above 1939. In a speech prepared for the same forum before which the late Wendell L. Willkie's presi dential aspirations bloomed in 1940, Taft called for an increase in the present 40 cent per hour minimum wage rate to "at least 60 cents." He lashed out at . wht,, he dubbed "the totalitarian school' of thought represented by the new deal wing of the democra-, tic party, dominated by the P. A. C. (Political Action Com mittee' theory that every prob lem shall be solved by giving more money and power to some Washington bureau." Calling for a reduction in tax es which "would permit the citi zen to spend his own money for what he needs instead' of the government's spending it for him," Taft said such action would "tend to prevent further wage increases which now offer the greatest danger of further inflation." Wants A Bomb Used on Russia New York, Sept. 19 Some of the men described as "warmongers" yesterday by De puty Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky of Russia said he was mistaken or being "malicious," but one, George H. Earle III, said that if "he means I advo cate using the atom bomb on Russia, he is absolutely right." "I know implicitly that the moment they get the atom bomb they are going to bomb us, Earle, former governor of Penn sylvania, told a reporter last night at his home in West Grove, Pa. "In atomic warfare the first punch wins. One atom bomb de tonated in Washington would leave this country writhing like a great snake with its head cut off. "From eight years spent in the countries surrounding Rus sia I know they are completely determined to wipe out the only country that stands in their way to world domination. All other issues in the world today are absolutely trivial. I am highly honored that Mr. Vishinsky thinks me a warmonger." Britain to Surrender Palestine Mandate London,. Sept. 19 (P) The British cabinet may decide to morrow to surrender the man date over Palestine which the League of Nations gave this country. . Government sources said to day the foreign, colonial and war offices had agreed Britain should quit Palestine, but not attempt to impose singlehandedly a set tlement by partition. Britain's views will be presented later to the United Nations, whose spe cial commission recommended partition but with Jerusalem un der U.N. trusteeship. entered fci lecond cltu matter At Salem. Oregon -rra n Oregon, Friday, September 19, 1947 .0 '3a0Io've Cents I i ' m.w.iiuhi Hurricane-Wrecked Buildings Wreckage is piled high amid buildings at West Palm Beach, Fla., as high winds in the wake east coast city. (AP Wirephoto) Assessed Valuation in County up $2,258,195 Total assessed valuation in Marion county has increased $2,258, 195 in 1947 over the 1946 roll according to figures announced Friday by County Assessor R. "Tad" Shelton, total net taxable property as assessed by the assessor being $46,429,750 and by the state tax commission on public utilities, $6,603,403. Real property Truman Back In United States Norfolk, Va., Sept. 19 (U.PJ President Truman returned to the United States today to face critical domestic and interna tional problems which piled up during his 10,845-mile air and sea trip to South America. As the big battleship Missouri which brought the presidential party home from Rio de Janeiro slid -carefully .through the wa ters of this naval operating base, a 21-gun salute boomed out from shore. The Missouri returned the sa lute while still under way. Then the big battleship nosed into its berth on the south side of pier 7 of the naval base. The presidential yacht Wil liamsburg waited on the north side of the pier to carry Mr. Truman, his wife and daughter, Margaret up Chesapeake bay and the Potomac river to Wash ington. When the Missouri tied up at its berth, Mr. Truman was piped over the side to be greeted by Vice Adm. Gcnrald Bogan, and Rear Adm. W. L. Ainsworth, commandant of the 5th naval district. Mayor Richard D. Cook of Norfolk also met the presi dent, who appeared bronzed and well rested after his 12-day sea trip. The greetings at the pier were brief. Mr. Truman and his pres idential party then strode brisk ly across the pier to the presi dential yacht. There was no hon or guard and no band at the pier in deference to the presi dent's wishes. Bring Bishop Back For Robbery Trial Portland, Sept. 19 (P) Joe Berry Bishop, 27, arrested in Hugo, Okla., and charged with the Sweet Home bank robbery Aug. 29, is expected to be brought here early next week. Howard I. Bobbitt, FBI agent, said he had been informed of Bishop's projected transfer to face trial in federal court here. The robbery netted two ban dits $58,000. Bishop, whose de scription does not fit that of either bandit, has never been publicly connected with the two 1 j- - Puss Adopts Puppies Four fox terrier puppies, whose mother is incapable of nursing them, were adopted by Mrs. George Pcnse's cat, Route 4, Box 136, Salem, and receive nourishment three times daily. The fat puppies are a week old. Pussy's kittens were born five weeks ago. Journal as assessed bv the asspssnr is nn to a $au,iu,zsu valuation as compared with $37,941,800 a year ago or an increase of $1,- 257,450 and personal properly up to $7,503,240 as compared with $6,317,900 last year an in crease of $1,185,340. Biggest share of this increase in person al property is in merchandise and stock in trade assessed this year at $3,598,150 as compared wun $z,34i,ziu a year ago, or an increase of $1,056,940. The new roll shows 511,116 acres of land assessed at $18, 273,200, str u c t u r a 1 improve ments on unplatted lands $4, 993,900. platted lands. $6,014. 030 and structural improvements on platted lands $9,918,120. In 1946 the 511,116 acres of land were assessed at $18,304,820 structural improvements on un platted lands $4,547,950, platted lands, $5,934,880 and structural improvements on platted lands $9,154,150, increases being reg istered in all of these figures for 1947 over 1946. (Concluded on Pare 11, Column 7) Greece Offers Rebels Pardons Athens, Sept. 19 (fP) Gov ernment planes today scattered leaflets over northern Greece offering pardon to guerrillas who surrendered within 30 days, but a guerrilla radio sta tion ridiculed the amnesty offer It was officially reported in Athens that guerrilla leaders were taking ruthless measures to prevent members of their leftist groups from giving up. The guerrilla broadcast said the new liberal premier, Themis- tokles Sophoulis, was continuing the work of the Germans and of Johnk Rallis, a puppet premier during the occupation, and de clared: "Democratic Greece's reply to the Anglo-American tyrants and to their contractor, Sophoulis is that she will not surrender her arms and is calling on them to come and take them. Meanwhile, 1400 political de portees released by the govern ment from concentration camps on the island of Ikaria arrived today at Piraeus, the port of Athens, and were set free. Six hundred others are expected to arrive soon. Since the Sophoulis cabinet took office, approximate ly 4000 deportees have been re- leased T - .. - """" palm trees and hurricane-wrecked of the hurricane lash this Florida Food Prices Drop On Exchanges (Br the United Presi) Wheat, corn and oats prices plunged downward for the sec ond straight day on the Chica go board of trade today, while butter and eggs dropped sharp ly in what may become a gen eral decline in wholesale food prices. Prices of all grain futures were off the full limits 10 cents for wheat, eight cents for corn and six cents for oats. Pri ces on the Minneapolis and Kan sas City grain exchanges follow ed. Despite the recent downward trend on the big exchanges, there still was only scant indi cation that the family grocery bill was going down. September corn closed today at $2.46 a bushel, compared with yesterday's closing price of $2.54, and with the all-time high of $2.65 a bushel set only four days ago. May wheat futures plunged the full 10-cent limit on the Chi cago board of trade, falling to $2.56 )4 per bushel. Corn drop ped its eight-cent limit to $2.46. Four days ago it was at an all time high of $2.65. July wheat fell the limit to $2.34, and May oats dropped the six-cent limit to $1.01, and lard futures also fell the two cent limit. A drop of 130 to 135 points brought the contract for October eggs down to 54.90 to 54.95 cents a dozen. November eggs closed at 53.40-53.50 cents a dozen, down 1.40-1.45 from yesterday's high. December eggs were off 1.35 cents to 53.50 cents. Tokyo Menaced By New Floods Tokyo, Sept. 19 (JP) An ad ditional 50,000 Japanese were being evacuated from northern Tokyo today as a weakened dike and tidal backwash threatened now inundation of a wide area of the capital's flatlands. Simultaneously, U.S. first cavalry reconnaissance reports placed the death toll on the flooded Kanto plain at a new high of 2000. Kyodo news agency reported 1798 dead, 652 injured and 2143 missing. Allied headquarters' public health and welfare section said three thickly populated wards of Tokyo would be inundated if a weakened dike save way on the Naka river, on Tokyo s north em boundary. Army engineers expressed ap prehension that the swollen Na ka might overflow as high tide came into Tokyo bay. Headquarters said members of the third battalion of the 511th' parachute infantry regi ment marched 10 miles out of the flooded area yesterday. The Weather (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Pair tonight and Saturday. Slightly warmer Saturday. Cool temperatures will prevail again tonight with patches of light frost In low valleys and freezing temperatures in mountain val leys. Lowest temperature tonight 38 degrees; highest Saturday. 76. Weather will be favorable lor farm work. Maximum yeuserday 70. Minimum today 37. Mean temperature yesterday 56 which was 5 below normal. Total 24 hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today .00. Total precipitation for the month 1 01 which is .19 of an Inch above normal. Willamette river height Friday morning, -3.9 feet. Hurricane Smashes New Orleans, Moves Inland on Baton Rouge And Ravages Entire Gulf Coast Calm of 'Eye' of Srorm Pauses Over Metropolis Then 90 MPH Winds Crush Buildings and Pile Flood Waters Over Great Sea Wall New Orleans, Sept. 19 M'1 A howling West Indian hurricane battered populous, historic New Orleans today and pounded in land toward Louisiana's capital, Baton Rouge, and Arkansas. The storm center passed over winds of 90 miles an hour battering the city and smashing many of the city's more flimsy buildings. There was no accurate estimate at New Orleans or along the gulf const both far more vulner able than Florida which was pummelled two days ago by the same storm. Twenty-seven persons had been New Orleans at noon, central standard time today, but only two needed more than first aid. Sixty percent of the homes in the Rene housing project for Negroes were reported destroyed and several Negroes were injured. cola westward, was raked byf- cyclonic winds. More than 1,000 residents of Alabama fishing vil lages raced for high ground from coastal areas where two giant storms took hundreds of lives in 1916. Water three feet deep was reported in the settlement of Heron. 10-Foot Tide at Biloxi Near Biloxi, Miss., stout lim ber piers were snapped like match sticks, and roofs were torn from many homes. A tide 10 feet above normal flooded residential areas, and gigantic waves broke over the city's $3, 500,000 seawall, built 20 years ago against storms. Highway 90 was impassible and was studded with stalled automobiles. The weather bureau at Little Rock predicted elements of the storm would reach southern Arkansas by midnight with winds of 55 miles an hour. No winds of hurricane force (75 miles an hour) were expected, however, but torrential rains were predicted. New Orleans "looked like a jungle," one report said. Streets were cluttered with debris, and transportation was impossible. Power was off. Looks Like Jungle Canal street was littered, and more than half of its colorful signs had been smashed to the ground by the roaring wind. Many store fronts were smash ed. The mammoth air condi tioning system evaporator on the Whitney National bank building showered debris on the street, narrowly missing a passing taxi cab. : , . Roofs on more than 174 homes in the fashionable Fillmore Gar den district were carried away in the initial blast, a hurried count revealed. At Moisant international air port, huge holes, one 20 feet square, were tern in the roof of the administration building. Wind and rain damaged the in terior. Power Plant Out Hospitals, as well as other In stitutions, were without elec tricity. Relief workers went to work during the lull, speeding up evacuation of lowland sections flooded during the first hours of the vicious storm. Louisiana national guardsmen were mobi lized to aid. Across the Mississippi river in Gretna, persons were being cared for in the court house and the high school building. At least half a dozen homes were demolished, and the roof of the Knighls of Columbus hall rip: ped off. The Honeywood thea ter also lost its roof. Over 300 national guardsmen were on duty. Army Offers Help From Texas came offers of help from the army. General Thomas T. Handy, Fourth army commander at San Antonio, in formed the Louisiana governor that all Fourth army facilities were available for help. He or dered Fort Sill, Okla., and Camp Hood, Tex., to stand by for ac tion. As communications re-opened eastward from New Oreans, As sociatcd Press Reporter Elliott Chaze reported one dead and at least one other missing at Gulf port, Miss. NLRB Extends Time for Filing Anti-Red Affidavits Washington, Sept. 19 W) The national labor relations board and Robert N. Dcnham, its general counsel, today allowed AFIj and CIO top officers until October 31 to sign affidavits disavow ing communism. The effect of the action is that the board will not dismiss AFL and CIO cases before that date. Dcnham has interpreted the Taft-Hartley labor law as re quiring national officers of the two big labor organizations to sign such affidavits if any AFL or CIO unions are to make use of the NLRB's services. Approximately 5,000 cases arc pending before the board. Originally, Sept. 23 was set as a deadline when the board would begin dismissing cases if non-communist affidavits had not been signed by that time. Dcnham allowed each union 20 days from the receipt of no tice that the affidavit was re quired. The first such notices were mailed out September New Orleans this morning with of either damage or casualties treated at Charity hospital ill The entire gulf coast, from Pensa- Florida Storm Loss Heavy (By the Associated Preu) Here is Florida's estimated hurricane damage, but with some localities still to be heard from principally in the remote Everglades area. Citrus: Yearly value of slale'a grapefruit crop, $56,000,000; or ange $162,000,000. The storm's northern tip hit the southern edge of the citrus belt where grapefruit da m a g e estimate about 50 percent; orange five to 10 percent. Even much tree- bruised can be used for process ing. Principal portion of citrus belt apparently not seriously damaged; $18,000,000 tangerine crop unreported on. Truck: Reports vary. One re sponsible but unquotable source says not much already planted generally in Everglades and can raise fall crops relatively quick ly if conditions are right. No dollar value possible because of widely varying conditions. Properly damage: No over-all estimate possible yet but while generally minor in character wai widespread and total will be not insignificant. Fort Myers was relatively hardest hit with property dam age of $1,000,000, power, water and sewerage systems knocked out temporarily. Miami: Widespread damage to new commercial construction, roofing blown off, store signs and bill boards smashed, trees down; Boca Raton-Miami army airfield, $3,000,000; Miami Beach $2,000,000. Delray Beach: $1,00,000. State Refutes Overell Claims Santa Ana, Calif., Sept. 19 Iff) The state offered a mass of scientific testimony in the clos ing phase of the Overell yacht deaths case today, to refute de fense contentions that Financier Walter E. Overell was alive and standing hunched between two engines on his boat when an ex plosion killed him. Capt. Ray Pinker, Los An geles police department chemist, told the jury in the case of Louise Overell and her lover, George Gollum, charged with murdering her parents, ,that metal fragments from the blast on the latter's yacht, the Mary E. were found imbedded in the heel and sole of Overell's left shoe. Various defense experts con tended that Overell could have been in no position other than between the engines because there were no injuries to the ankles and feet, protected in the line of blast by the engines. Pinker showed the jury three small vials which he said con tained pieces of metal and wood taken from the baseboard under the starboard engine. Ho said he made a microscopic compari son of these with flooring in the cabin of the Mary E. and therefore the first ones would have been due about Sep tember 23. The board and Dcnham said the extension of time announced today was granted at the re quest of several international and local unions. During the intervening time, both the AFL and CIO will hold national conventions which may reach policy decisions on wheth er their officers should sign the affidavits. The AFL top officers announc ed last week they were "unable to conform" with Denham's rul ing that the top officers had to sign affidavits in order to make the 105 AFL unions and 43,000 locals eligible to use NLRB ma- 2chincry.