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I No Way Out of UN Deadlock Seen by Bidault French Spokesman Says All Efforts at Compro- I mise Seem Hopeless New York, Sept. 20 W) French Foreign Minister Geor ges Bidault declared today that the crowing conflict between the United States and Russia has reached such a critical stage that further efforts to reconcile the two viewpoints Seemed hope less. In France's opening policy speech before the United Na tions assembly, Bidault frankly acknowledged that he saw no way out of the crisis sharpened by the speeches of Secretary of State George C. Marshall and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky. "The French delegate deems it futile and dangerous to con ceal the magnitude and serious ness of the crisis," Bidault told the S5 national delegations as the assembly continued its fourth riav of seneral debate. Wcan't Be Reconciled Tn hie maacimictil nnH ctraiffM- forward speech, Bidault said France had devoted her efforts toward compromise and recon ciliation between Russia and the United States since the begin ning of the United Nations but such efforts now seemed lu tile. "Today the means are mea ser for finding a meeting ground for the two main statements the assembly has heard," he declar ed, referring to the Marshall and Vishinsky declarations. "It is but honest to say that one does not see how they can be reconsiled," he said. As a result, he said, France would take her stand squarely on the "question laid before us." He then went on to outline France's position on specific is ues lining up with the United States on almost every ques tion. To ComSnjie Efforts Then 5etuwiin; 4o the split between; ,'-llilsi ViiSoV the United States BidauJt said: "Many ' Of the speakers who took the floor before me here referred to the globe being di vided into two hostile blocs, a division which has unfortunate ly become today a basic phe nomenon. By her geographical situation, by her moral and po litical traditions, by her in- ,rest in and outside Europe, .France is certainly one of the countries of the world for which the setting up of such a sys tem offers the most serious dis advantages. I wish therefore to reoeat that we shall go on wel coming all those who, refusing to give up hope, would want to work witn us in oroer iu uun the world." (Concluded on Page 11, Column 5) Red Reaction To UN Fracas By Eddy GUmore Moscow, Sept. 20 P) Ac counts of Secretary Marshall's and Andrei Vishinsky's speeches to the U.N. assembly have brought home with full force te the Russian people existing dif ferences between the United States and the Soviet Union. Up to now the Soviet people did not believe that the two -nations were working in harmony or anything like it, but the sever ity of cleavage was not so ap parent to them as today. Expressions of Soviet citizens in the wake of the speeches re flected these thoughts: Uncertainty about the future peace of the world. A belief that the United States government is not against war Jfcith the Soviet Union and in some cases that the United States favors war with Russia. A general letdown over the possibilities of world-wide co operation through the United Nations. A .feeling that the United States an ally during the war has now turned against the Soviet Union. However, persons abroad would be mistaken in feeling the current situation and the gen eral assembly activities have brought any war hysteria here. They have not. From time to time this corre spondent has reported that from everything one sees and hears in the Soviet Union there is cer tainly no preparation nor antici pation of war. That still goes. The present status of general assembly declarations can be fairly well summed from the Soviet viewpoint as: "we believe what our people say. We don't believe what your people say." Bids to Be Opened Portland, Sept. 20 (JP) Bids for revetment repair on the Santiam river in Marion county and for construction of bank protection works on the Willam ette river at Brown location In Benton county will be opened Oct. 3 and 6 respectively, the army engineers reported today. I Capital 58th Year, No. 225 Prices of Grains Continue Drop In Chicago Pit (By th Associated Prejj) Corn and wheat prices contin ued to plunge on the Chicago board of trade today for the third consecutive day, raising the pos sibility of a break in the record high cost of living. The break in grain prices was accompanied by the first decline in four weeks in wholesale prices for a long list of such commodi ties as meat, butter, eggs and flour. ihe gram market and com modities price decline, which has ccntinued since early in the week, came as the labor depart ment reported that living costs for city dwellers hit an all-time peak in July and probably have gone "a whole lot higher since then." All Grains Decline Wheat, which at one time suf fered as much as a 10 cent drop on hectic trading on the Chicago board of trade today, ended 3 714 lower, September $2.57 Yt Corn ended eight cents lower, the limit under exchange regu lations, for the third straight day with September $2.38 and oats were 3 -5 lower, September $1.08. In New York, heavy selling forced cotton futures down $2 a bale. A - labor department official said mid-September figures were not yet available, but that liv ing costs probably were whole lot higher now" because of "the steep wholesale price climb we've had in recent weeks." Meanwhile, the country-wide verbal bombardment at the high cost of living grew in volume. (Concluded on Page 9, Column S) Wrecked Plane Sighted in Luzon Manila, Sept. 20 (P) A mass aerial search brought reports to day of the "possible sighting" in favorable terrain of some of the 28 passengers and crewmen who parachuted into midnight, dark ness from a lost U. S. army trans port over northern Luzon. The U. S. 13th air force, to which the abandoned two-engine craft was attached, said its wreckage was definitely located 160 miles northeast of Manila, and that search pilots also ra dioed word of the "possible sighting" of personnel 60 miles farther north. This would place survivors in the vicinity of Tuguegarao, Ca gayan province, in the northeast corner of Luzon. The terrain there was described as "general ly favorable" for parachute land ings. Location of the wreckage in dicated the plane, pushed from its course by foul weather, was about 30 miles west of its direct Okinawa-Manila course when the pilot ordered all aboard to jump. Efforts to locate the craft by, radar and give the pilot his bearings had proved futile, as his fuel ran low. Names of the 28 aboard the missing transport were not an nounced. The last message from the pilot was received at 20 minutes past midnight, Clark field re ported. He said he had already ordered the passengers to jump and was then abandoning ship himself. He had radioed earlier that he was flying on instruments and uncertain of his position. Vacancies in Filled Only for Extra Session By James D. Olson Vacancies in the state legislature caused by death or resigna tion will not be filled by appointment unless a special session of the legislature is called prior to the next May primaries, accord ing to Robert 5. Farrell, secre tary of state today. Prior to this year the law reqiured that in the event of a vacancy in the state legisla ture, the secretary of state was required to notify the county court in the county in which the vacancy existed and it was incumbent upon the court to make immediate appointment. However, this law was amended in the last legislative session and this procedure was changed so now appointments are required only when a session of the legis lature is convened prior to an election. Two seats in the state sen ate are now vacant through death of members, one in Mult nomah county caused by the death of Senator Lee Patterson and another in Clatsop county brought about through the re S'K Salem, Congressmen To Investigate Valley Project Washington, Sept. 20 (P) Rep. Dondero (R-Mlch.) and the house public works committee he heads will investigate Bonne ville and other northwest power projects next week. Dondero is the author of legis lation pending in committee to force the sale at the site of power produced at flood control and navigation dams. This was sharp ly opposed at hearings by wit nesses from the Pacific north west. Expected to come up again in the next session of congress, Dondero's measure would trans fer from the interior department to the army engineers with the requirement the power be sold at the dams. The power commis sion would be given jurisdiction over such sales. Other Projects Viewed The committee will visit Se attle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene Walla Walla, and will inspect Mud mountain dam, rivers and harbors works, public buildings, the Bonneville power adminis tration, the McNary dam site and dams on the Willamette river. Eighteen members are expect ed to reach Seattle Sept. 26. That day and the next two will be spent investigating the Lake Washington ship canal locks federal buildings, the marine hospital and the post office site The committee will go to Port land September 29 to inspect the J. D. Ross substation of the BPA at Vancouver and then visit Bon neville dam. In Portland it will inspect the old courthouse, the customs house and Swan island To Visit Detroit Dam One group will inspect the Fern Ridge reservoir on the Long Tom river, spend the night in Eugene and inspect the Ferry street revetments. It then will go to Dorena dam, Mcridan dam, Detroit dam and along the Wil lamette river. Returning to Portland the committee will go to Walla Wal la, where it will spend the night and the next day inspecting the McNary dam site. From there the committee will go to San Diego, Calif. Dondero's bill exempts from its provisions the Bonneville power administration, Including Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams. During hearings oif it this year Representative Angell lit Ore.), ranking republican on the committee, had frequent clashes with Dondero. Floods Submerge Northeast Tokyo Tokyo, Sept. 20 M") Ten Jap anese were reported dead, 50 injured and 18 missing tonight as floods up to 15 feet deep swept 20 square miles in three wards of northeast Tokyo. Weary American soldiers fought the still rising waters to save thousands of Japanese trapped when a levee broke Japanese police, fearing an ex plosion, escorted hundreds of refugees from a chemical fac tory where 200 kilograms of sodium and 5,200 kilograms of, lime were stored. Water lapped against the second story of the factory. Army relief authorities esti mated at least 2,000 Japanese had died in the floods which have swept northern Honshu since a typhon hit the area Sep tember 15. A new compilation by Kyodo news agency listed 1,432 dead, 980 injured and 1, 865 missing. Legislature cent death of State Senator Mer ele Chessman. One seat in the house of rep resentatives became vacant when Earl Hill of Lane county re signed after the state supreme court ruled that he could not retain his legislative post and also act as a member of the state fish commission. Hill elected to retain his membership on the fish com mission but word comes from Lane county that republican leaders expect Hill to become a candidate for his seat in the house at the May primaries. These same leaders say there is no other candidate thus far men tioned and Hill would receive the support of the republican organzation if he enters the race. (Concluded on Pate 4, Column 7) jaJonraal Oregon, Saturday, September 20, 1947 m p - ; 5 miu fegfC ffes" I Hurricane Spreads Havoc Throughout New Orleans A large a down town New Orleans, La., in on the city from the gulf. It and then swerved north and west Pinball Games Paying in Slugs Illegal Says Neuner Attorney General George Neuner, in an opinion handed down today, ruled that pinball games that pay out in slugs of no value are just as illegal as those operated by coins and can be legally seized by county sheriffs when found operating. The opinion was requested by Melvin Goode, Linn county district attorney who Labor Turmoil Increasing (Hv Lha Associated Press) Fresh and continuing work stoppages brought new strife to the nation's labor front today. Michigan's governor, who had threatened to send troops into Detroit following violence in a three-months-old strike there, said he had decided against or dering the National Guard "un less and until its absolutely necessary." Also, on the labor front, was a report from Washington that the government had postponed its deadline for signing of non- communist- affidavit by labor leaders from September 23 to October 31. Five thousand striking AFL teamsters who walked off the job Thursday night and caused an embargo on nearly all Rail way Express Agency shipments in and out of New York were under orders by their interna tional president to return to work. The teamsters' walkout had idled all the agency's 1,200 trucks and company spokesmen said the embargo would affect about 25 percent of the firm's national business. The strike in Detroit which was given personal attention by Governor Kim Sigler involved 600 CIO garage mechanics and 77 auto dealers, with the strikers seeking wage increases and a city-wide master contract. Six persons suffered injuries and several others were arrested in clashes Wednesday and Thurs day between police and flying squadrons of local 415, CIO United Auto Workers. Street Name Changes In Council Monday . Street name changes in Salem recommended by a group of city, county, postal and utility offi cials and approved by the Salem planning and zoning commission will be submitted to the city council Monday night for prelim inary discussion. City Manager J. L. Franzen said today that thus far no pro tests have been made against any of the proposed changes. One of the important changes suggested is the change of all of High street to Broadway, the name borne by the northern sec tion of the street. It is under stood that business men on High street favor this change and some will probably be on hand to urge the adoption of the plan ning commission report. Finland Applies to UN New York. SeDt. 20 (IPi Fin land applied today for member ship in the United Nations. The Weather (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Fair tonight and Sunday; slightly warmer temperatures to night. Lowest temperature to night. 40 degrees; highest, Sun day, 75. Weather will be favor able for farm work. Maximum yesterday 74. Minimum today 38. Mean temperature yesterday 56 which was 5 below normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today .00. Total pre cipitation for the month 1.01 which is .13 of an inch above normal. Willamette river height Saturday morning, -3.9 feet. building lies in the street, the result of the hurricane which roared was the same hurricane which into Louisiana and Alabama. tasked for the ruling August 27 shortly after Neuner issued a di rective to all county law officers to enforce state laws banning all gambling devices. Neuner, in the opinion, said that the "statute is not limited to nickel-in-the-slot machines ex clusively, but covers all other machines or devices of like char acter of which an element of chance enters when such ma chines are played for money or other representative of value." He asserted the slug-operated machines are equipped with a slot for the purpose of insertion of a coin and to that extent arc slot machines. The fact they are referred to as "games," Neuner ruled, indicates that they are dif ferent from ordinary legitimate vending machines which return merchandise to the patron. The machines, He"'ass"ertec(,' contain two elements of a game of chance, namely: (1) "consid eration," the coin inserted in the slot to start the thing in motion, and (2) "chance," by which the number of replays the player is to receive, if any, is determined. For the same reasons stated above, Neuner ruled that pinball machines which pay off in mer chandise are alsp illegal and the state law clearly forbids their use. "The moral sentiment of the state demands this enactment in the interest of the youth of the stale," Neuner said. Answering Goode's question as to whether it is legal to con fiscate the machines, Neuner quoted the Oregon statute: "As further penally for viola lion of this act all machines or devices mentioned and described herein are. declared to be public nuisances, and they, together with any coins therein, shall be forfeited, confiscated and the sheriff of the county shall de stroy such machines and de vices." Neuner's opinion today follow ed a previous directive to Mult nomah County Sheriff Martin Pratt which informed Pratt he must seize all gambling devices, even when they pay off in mer chandise. Pratt asserted earlier that the merchandise machines were perfectly legal. Egypt! ians Shout Against British Cairo, Sept. 20 (IP) Thou sands of Egyptians shouting anti-British slogans thronged Cairo's streets this morning as Prime Minister Mahmoud Fah my Nokrashy Pasha received a royal welcome at Farouk airport on his return home after plead ing Egypt's case against Britain in the United States security council. King Farouk's private car whisked the prime minister to Kouba palace for an immediate audience with the king. Light Quake Tremors In Seattle Area Seattle, Sept. 20 (Earth quake tremors were reported felt at Tacoma and in the Lake Burien and west Seattle areas, south and west t here, about 2:30 a.m. today. Lake Burien district residents said a "booming" noise accompa nied the tremors and that dishes rattled in cupboards. No damage was reported. Price Five Cents sign, torn from its moorings atop swept over parts of Florida earlier (AP wirephoto) Truman Back In White House Washington, Sept. 20 (iP) The White House said today that President Truman probably will confer Monday here with Secretary of State Marshall who is pressing the American program in the United Nations assembly. A secretary said an appoint ment has not been made defin itely but the president prob ably will see him Monday as well as other individual cabinet members who have urgent busi ncss accumulating during the president's 20-day absence in Brazil. Marshall is coming to Washington tomorrow. Mr. Truman met 45 minutes with his staff which he called into meeting only five hours af ter he stepped off the presiden tial yacht Williamsburg. He, with Mrs. Truman and daughter, Margaret, disembarked yester day at Norfolk, Va., from the battleship Missouri, Topping his problems are the rising cost of living, Europe's emergency needs, international differences and special session talk. The yacht bore the presiden tial party up the Potomac river from Norfolk, Va., where the members disembarked yester day from the battleship Mis souri in their return from Rio Dr. Janeiro. The president remarked to those on the dock: "You don't know how to appreciate your own country till yen are away. Fire Danger in Oregon Climbing (Br the United Press) Fire danger was climbing again in Oregon with humidities dropping to critical lows in the southwest and south central sec tions of the state. The weather bureau in Port land reported Saturday that hu midities in southwestern and south central Oregon were be twecn 20 and 25 percent with 22 to 30 percent humidities re corded in the northwest part of the state. The bureau said the drop in humidities resulted from easter ly winds which developed Fri day night. The winds were ex pected to diminish Saturday night and become northerly Sunday. Bids Asked in Drift Barrier Portland, Sept. 20 (P) The army engineers today called for bids on construction of a drift barrier along the right bank of the middle fork of the Willam ette river at Natron location, 14 miles southeast of Eugene. Bids will be opened here October 6 Gascon Injured in Crash Of Low-Flying Plane Low flying sent Raymond P. Gascon, 21, Salem route 3, box 769 to the hospital in a critical condition and virtually demolished the light plane he was flying when it struck a tree near his home in the vicinity of the Prospect1" school, about four miles south of here and near his home Friday afternoon, Gascon, whose condition is re ported unchanged today, receiv ed a broken and dislocated hip, possible skull fracture, severe in ternal injuries, lacerations and abrasions. After striking a tree the plane was hurtled approximately 1000 feet and rolled over several times after it struck the ground. The pilot was pulled from the wreckage by school children who had been watching him. Investigators immediately aft er the accident expressed the opinion that Gascon had been flying figure eights around two Hurricane Blowing Itself Out In Southeast Texas; Martial Law Rules Devastated Areas National Guardsmen Check Looting New Orleans Battles Serious Floods New Tropical Storm Making in the Caribbean Sea New Orleans, Sept. 20 (IP) Fifty-five persons are believed to have died in yesterday's hurricane, unofficial reports indi cated today as national guardsmen moved in force into the stricken Mississippi-Alabama area. Tourists were barred from the Mississippi gulf coast, one of the nation's favorite vacation spots. The naval reserve armory at Gulfport warned sightseers to stay off the debris-strewn coast. Gov. Fielding Wright of Mississippi and his adjutant general sped to the Biloxl-Gulfport-Pass Christian area where 12 persons are believed to have died. The threat of wholesale looting was acute, and along the Mis sissippi coast National Guard units and army troops from nearby Deesler field were under orders to shoot to kill. At Bay Minettc, Ala., Sheriff Taylor Wilkins reported a National Guard detachment was sent to Alabama beach after looting oc curred. Meanwhile, as the great storm spent its final violence! in diminishing intensity south west of Shreveport, the Miami weather bureau reported a new hurricane in the making. This disturbance appeared boiling up out of the Caribbean, west of Jamaica, and hurricane-hunter planes took off to probe it. Thjrd Storm Watched A third storm, now a week old, was centered 3,000 miles southwest of Miami, and also was being kept under surveil lance. Between New Orleans, Red Cross officials investigated a re port that four persons drowned in St. Bernard Parish. Terrific devastation was inflicted on the bay country, with whole villages carried away by wind and tides. Lake Borgne backed into Ba you Bienvenue, broke through a railroad embankment and flood ed a sizeable section of eastern New Orleans. Police said 2000 had been evacuated from an area 25 blocks long and 16 blocks wide now under water. There wore no estimates of its depth. The storm, as it hit Shreveport and moved northwest into Texas and Oklahoma, was nothing like the terrific, 100-mile terror that struck the coast early yesterday Winds Slackening Winds had slackened to about 40 and 50 miles an hour. Rain was heavy. No damage was re ported in the Shreveport area Reporter James H. Gillis of the Times-Picayune in a commu nication filed from Gulfport, Miss., via naval reserve radio last night said there were uncon firmed reports of at least a doz en deaths from drowning and other causes. No bodies had been recovered, he said, but added five were known to be dead in the Pass Christian, Miss., area. ine entire coastal area was isolated. Communications still were difficult this morning. Refugees continued to pour in to shelters. Landmarks Swept Away Familiar landmarks all along the gulf coast were swept away New Orleans and the gulf coast began to count its cost. Un told damage was done to sugar cane between here and Baton Rouge and north of the slate capital. Thousands of acres were flattened. F. Evans Far rell, New Orleans cane grower, pointed out that "it takes a 120 mile wind to snap cane off at the ground." At least 20 persons were treat ed here for minor injuries re sulting from the storm. Most were cut by flying glass or hit by debris sailing through the air. The central fire station said said that between 200 and 300 fires were extinguished yesterday and last night. Most were blamed on broken electric connections and falling wires. The weather bureau said the hurricane in its dying convul sions would make its way with rain and squalls into southern Arkansas and that by Saturday afternoon the winds should have diminished to 25 to 35 miles per hour with rain confined to Ar kansas and portions of adjacent states. (Concluded on Page 9, Column 7) trees as pylons and evidently had failed to see a third tree that was obscured by the wing of his plane while it was banking. Of ficial investigation of the acci dent is being made today by the civil aeronautics board. Because of numerous roads in the vicinity, the first aid car was unable to locate the wreckage until directed to the scene by Ace Demors, owner of the Ace Flying service, who signaled from the air. The plane was a Luscombe Silvaire owned by the Capitol Flying service. Clement Fischer, owner of the service, said that Gascon was a GI student pilot and had about 15 hours flying time. Six Killed by Storm at Biloxi Bay St. Louis, Miss., Sept. 20 VP) Six persons were known dead and seven others feared killed in this vacation area where yesterday's hurricane pushed giant gulf waves across the sea wall and far inland. , Identified dead were Mrs. Benjamin Hart, 84; her daughter. Mrs. Alice Montgomery, 62; Bea trice White, Negro, 40; and her six-year-old stepson. All were drowned. Their bodies lay in an emer gency morgue set up in Bay St. Louis high school. Two unidentified bodies were in the Fahe funeral home. They were a man about 60 years old, apparently killed by a flying piece of debris, and a woman about 40, who was drowned. stale Highway Jratroiman J. C. Puckett said six others were believed dead along North Boul evard, where water reached the second floors of houses. M. A. Gillis, retftfe'd, sh-my col onel, told of seeirfifcaO... houses destroyed alongi-Mltei' coasjj. be tween Bay St. Louis and Wave land. Forty other homes were heavily damaged. One mile of the two-mile rail road bridge across the Bay of St. Louis was washed away, as were two 100-foot sections of a paral lel automobile bridge. Remain ing portions of both bridges wav ed and swayed in the tide today. To Increase U. S. Forces in Reich Washington, Sept. 20 IP) Senator Bridges (R-N. H.) said today he will insist that United States controls be increased over the American and British occu pied zones in Germany if we as sume a larger share of these costs. Bridges told reporters "What I want to make sure of is that we dont' have to pay all the bills." The cost is now borne equally by the two countries but Britain re cently asked the U. S. to pay a greater share. Bridges, as chairman of the senate appropriations committee, called a special session today to hear top-ranking armed service officials at a closed door session. Bridges said that army depart ment officials are asking-informal congressional approval of plans to spend a part of $600, 000,000 voted by the last con gress for occupation costs throughout the world at a great er rale than intended. If the United States assumes a part of the occupation costs now paid by England, this appropria tion will not last until next July 1. Officials probably would seek a deficiency or supplemental ap propriation when congress meets. Bridges told reporters that army department officials re garded the problems as "urgent" and one which could not be de ferred until after both senate and house members return from in spection trips to Europe. In announcing today s commit tee meting, Bridges said it would take up "grave foreign and do mestic problems." It was indi cated that the occupation costs problems in Germany topped the agenda. 8 Die in Crash Of Bolivian Plane Lima, Peru, Sept. 20 W) A plane crashed two miles off San Juan yesterday, killing at least eight persons. Dispatches from the vicinity said the body of a United States army sergeant, Harry Bocrel, had been washed ashore, and that a woman believed to be his fiance also had been found dead. Others aboard the plane were identified as Bolivian of ficers en route to the United Slates. The U. S. embassy said the plane was Bolivian and not American, as reported last night. l!
