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(I Russia Suffers Defeat, Balkan Problem in UN Albania and Bulgaria Barred from Participa tion in Debate O Lake Success, Sept. 25 (IP) Russia suffered a smashing de- I : feat late today in her first test of ;l strength with the United States von the Balkan problem before ' the political committee of the ! ' United Nations assembly t .7 hp tpsr was nn an American. Ii f.UfU.JU, ...... - - I r Balkan satellites be barred : mmee unless vney accepiea me principles o tne uin cnarter in advance. v I The vote was 38 to 6. Only the i. members of the Soviet bloc voted )in the negative. The vole came alter Russia and her followers had made a vigorous fight ' against the move. I Australian delegate W. R. a Hodges today accused Russia of Jllltising "blackmail" aimed at J f forcing flip security council to admit Soviet satellites to United Nations membership. Hodgson made the blackmail charge in referring to a state ment by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko that Russia would vote for ad mission of Italy only if the coun cil also admitted Hungary, Ro mania, Bulgaria and Finland. Gromyko, sitting as council president for this month, then ruled that each of the five ex enemy states would be taken up separately since a majority of the council favored that proce dure. He had advocated voting on them all together. Gromyko finally ruled that the applications would be taken up in the order of their receipt: Hungary, Italy, Romania, Bul garia and Finland. The fight over admission of ex-enemy states was highly sig nificant from the standpoint of how these countries would line up in the growing east-west split. Hungary, Romania and Bul garia were definitely in the Soviet camp. The present Ital ian government could be ex pected to go along with the western powers. Finland's po sition was not definite. 1 (Concluded on Face 19, Column 1) w Watch on Balkans Sought Lake Success, Sept. 25 (IP) The United States whipped a new Balkans proposal into shape for prompt United Nations ac tion today with the evident pur pose of seeking strong interna tional reinforcement for the Tru man doctrine in Greece. The delegation under the lead ership of Secretary of State Marshall was reported to have worked out already a tentative -"draft of a resolution by which the UN assembly would set up what some officials called "fairly large" commission to maintain a constant watch on Greece's borders with Yugo slavia, Albania and Bulgaria The commission, American au thorities contend, would serve by its very presence to mini mize the number of border in cidents and otherwise help pro tect Greece against alleged com munist aggressions which is also the stated political objective of the Truman doctrine in that country. The whole subject was slated for action by the assembly's 55 nation political commission due to meet at 11 a.m. (PST), with Mrs. rraniuin D. Roosevelt desi- (JiCated to assist American mem WSer Warren Austin in meeting 5uung nussian opposition. v Governor Snell Off To Chicago Tax Meet Governor Earl Snell left by plane today for Chicago to at- lenu a ouue-iecerai meeting on taxation. The purpose of the meeting is to decide which tax sources should be left to the ((, a which to the federal government. ine siaies are represented by a committee of the Ninnoi f.. ernors' conference, -of ' which oncu io memocr.-iine federal congressional tav? mmmiu.. The governor will return here bunaay. The Weather (Released by United State weather Bureau) Forecast for Snlem and Vicin. Ity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday with feW showro Uwest temperature toniuht 50 degrees; highest Friday 1 75 Weather will be favorable -for farm work. Maximum vester. day 89. Mirtimum today 51. Mean temperature yesterday 69 which was 9 above normal. Total 24 hour precipitation to 11-30 m today, trace. Total precipitation for the month, 1.01. which ll is on an Inch below norrnal Wil lamett river height twS"; Doming, -4. 58th Year, No. 229 Grain Futures Rally, Buffer Continues Drop iBy the Associated Press) Grain futures rallied on the Chicago bord of trade today wholesale butter prices drifted as much as 2-M cents lower and storage eggs were mostly un changed. Livestock prices were generally steady. Wheat closed Vt to 1 cents cents higher with December at $2.8714 cents a bushel, corn was IV4 to 2c higher with Decem ber JZ.18-KI-V4 and oats were 1 to 1 higher, December $1.063,i-'a. Lard ended 10 to 40 cents a hundred pounds high er, October $22. City Market Commissioner Eugene G. Schultz said in New York that retail meat price cuts off from 2 to 7 cents a pound had "checked the upward spiral ing of prices." He said both re tail and wholesale prices of meats, eggs and butter were down from recent peaks. Butter Drops In New York, top grades of butter dropped 2 cents a pound on the wholesale market 'with the best grade selling at 77 cents pound, compared with 86 'A cents September 15. Consumer resistance was credited with forcing the decline. wholesale egg prices held steady in New York and cotton futures opened 25 to 40 cents a bale higher. The rally in grain prices fol- lowe dannouncement of Presi dent Truman's cabinet food com mittee that about 470,000,000 bushels of all grains would be available for export during the 1947-48 fiscal year. . Food Index Declines Recent declines m the prices of 18 commodities brought drop of 2.9 per cent in the Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index during the week ended Tuesday, September 23. The index, representing the sum total of the price per pound of 31 foods in general use, stood at $6.91 on that date compared with a record $7.12 on Septem ber 16 and $5.15 a year ago. Salem Butter Cheaper Butler prices continue their downward trend . with house wives paying two cents less to day than yesterday and prices on grade A butter quoted at 82 cents wholesale and 87 cents re tail in Salem. Butter fat, too. was down two cents with the ciuotations 87 cents on premium 85 cents on No. 1, and 75 cents on No. 2. Portland listed a two-cent drop in the wholesale price effective today and stated that house wives were expected to pay from 87 to 90 cents a pound for grade A butter. A price front retreat was also noted in Portland at the live stock exchange yesterday with hogh selling for $29 a hundred $2.50 less than the peak of last week. Commies Win Union Victory New York, Sept. 25 (U.R) Na tional Maritime union President Joseph Curran charged today that nine of the 15 men elected to the union's important creden tials committee were men "the communists want." He said the communist ele ments had won a victory by seat ing the nine men despite his efforts to block their election at the sixth biennial NMU conven tion. Curran had offered a slate of 15 men, six of whom were elect ed. An unofficial report last night said that one of the nine alleged communists elected had "reformed" and could now be considered a Curran supporter 2 More Held in Oklahoma For Sweet Home Robbery Oklahoma City, Sept. 25 (If) Arrest of two additional persons in connection with the $58,000 robbery on the Bank of Sweet Home, Ore., Aug. 29, was announced today by D. A. Bryce, chief of the FBI bureau here. Bryce said Henry Clay Green, 27, was arrested on a warrant charging participation in the robbery and that his wife, For nie Lee Green, 21, was being held as a material witness. Bryce said the two were taken into custody near Woodsville in Marshall county (Okla.) this morning. State Game Ranger Ed Ever ett, Sheriff Joe Everett of Mar shall county and FBI Agents W C. Gentry and Wilson McCully arrested Green and his wife, Bryce said. Green was armed with a rifle but offered no resistance. The two arrests brought to four the number held in connec tion with the robbery. J apital Entered fti second elau matter at Salem. Oregon Salem, Messersmith Aided Entry of Hanns Eisler Washington, Sept. 25 VP) George E, Messersmith, then as sistant secretary of state, ac knowledged today that he wrote the American consul general at Havana in 1939 urging prompt and personal consideration of Hanns Eisler's application for visa to reside in the United States. Testifying before the house committee on un-American ac tivities, Messersmith also said he sent the consul general a copy of a letter that Sumner Welles, then under secretary of state, had written Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt who had expressed interest Eisler s case. The committee is investigat ing the question whether high government officials have know ingly permitted communists to come to this country in viola tion of immigration laws. Eisler, now a Hollywood song writer, testified yesterday that he joined the communist party in his native Germany in 1926, but declared he was never active and is not now a communist. Messersmith took vigorous ex ception when Rep. Rankin CD Miss.), called the letter "almost a directive" for the consul gen eral to give Eisler a visa. Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R- N.J.), committee chairman, com mented: 'If you can explain yourself out of this, you re good." Messersmith said the letter to Coert Dubois, the consul gen eral at Havana, was "merely to make it clear to him that this was a case that had angles" re quiring careful consideration and personal attention. At one point, the letter said: "If, when Mr. Eisler should call at the consulate at Havana, he definitely states that he does not hold views for which he could be excluded under our im migration laws, I do not be lieve that a visa could be with held unless the consul has evi dence which would disprove his statements. Robert Stripling, committee counsel, has asserted that at that time the -state department had information from a labor depart ment report that Eisler was communist. Slavs Ignore U. S. Protest Washington, Sept. 25 Up) The state department announ ced today it will lake up "im mediately" with the Yugoslav government the case of three American soldiers seized and held captive by Yugoslav troops along the. Trieste frontier. Press Officer Michael McDer- mott told a news conference that a protest by Maj. Gen. T. S. Airey, commander of the British-American forces at the free territory at Trieste, has produced "no results." Headquarters of the American forces in Trieste announced Tuesday that an American of ficer and two enlisted men had been "forced across the frontier at gunpoint" by the Yugoslavs rugged terrain between, the boundary. News dispatches have identi fied the three as First Lt. Wil liam Van Atten of East Orange, N. J., Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick, Jr., of Arlington, Va., and Pfc. Glen A. Myers of Edgely, N. D. Undersecretary of State Lov- ett disclosed yesterday the United States had warned the Yugoslavs to stop immediately the "irresponsible practice of serving ultimatums on Ameri can troop along the border in an effort to obtain minor fron tier alterations in their favor. Henry Clay Tollett, Oklahoma ex-convict, was arrested in Ba kersfield, Calif., September 19 after the arrest at Hugo, Okla., of Joe Berry Bishop, September 12. Both Tollett and Bishop have been returned to Oregon. A bond of $50,000 will be ask ed for Green and $7000 for Mrs. Green. Portland, Sept. 25 (IP) Arrest of four persons in connection with the August 29 Sweet Home bank robbery completes the round-up of those wanted "at present," FBI Agent Howard Bobbitt said here today. Bobbitt said the arrests repre sented fine cooperation and ex cellent work by Sweet Home Po- (Concluded on Pare 1', Column I) Oregon, Thursday, September 25, 1947 I Willamette's New Dormitory 220 men students including 96 each. $700,000 Dormitory to Be Completed Feb. 1 Plans for a campaign to raise the men's dormitory now in process of construction on Willamette university campus, and which R. Baxter hall," were outlined of the executive board headed by No Delay in Hunting Season (By the Associated Pres) Lightning rtackled over tinder-dry Oregon today and fire fighting crews were mobilized in the face of a major threat to the forests. Several minor, quickly halt ed blazes were reported from scattered areas last night and Slate Forester N. S. Rogers said the Tillamook burn area south of Wilson rrver would "be closed at midnight tonight. Guy Johnson, fire dispatcher for the regional U.S. forest ser vice, said "I don t doubt there are some fires in the woods now, but they have not been report ed and presumably are being handled without trouble." Rogers added that his office likewise had no fire reports. The weather bureau said higher humidity in most parts of Oregon today was helpful and traces of rain were reported from scattered mountain and Willamette valley points but there was no assurance of meas urable amounts of rain in the next two days. Humidity today in northwest ern Oregon was expected to re main well above the danger point of 30 percent. In south western Oregon it was forecast at 25 to 30 percent, in north northeastern Oregon at about 30 percent and in south central Oregon at 20 to 25 percent. Rogers said that despite the critical condition, there would be no delay to the Oct. 1 hunt ing season opener. The only place hunters will not be allow ed to go, he said, would be in the closed areas. Super-Deluxe Phone Line Perfected New York, Sept. 25 (U.R)-De velopment of a super-deluxe "private telephone line" which permits voice conversation on a narrow beam of invisible light shooting out like a rifle bullet, was disclosed today. The instrument was originally designed for the U. S. army sig nal corps early in' the war, but was not released from security regulations until recently. The "beam telephone" was de signed by a group of Yale uni versity scientists, headed by Dr. William W. Watson, chairman of the physics department. The group described their work in the current issue of the "Journal of Applied Physics." The tests, as completed by the Yale scientists, showed that the device could be used by day or night with infra-red filters pre venting detection by an enemy in darkness. Its range was from one to five miles. Peace Treaties Signed Washington, Sept. 25 , (IP) Fi nal American action to seal the peace with Italy, Rumania, Bul garia and Hungary was taken today when President Truman signed the treaties. Mr. Truman put his name on them without any special cere- tnony. Joeraat For Men to cost $700,000 and now 50 percent complete will house unaffiliated and m embers of four $100,000 with which to finance was recently designated as "Bruce Thursday during a joint conference C. E. McCulloch and the building finance committee, directed by Clarence Bishop. Members of the two committees inspected the dormitory during the day and then outlined the fund rais ing campaign during a dinner at Lausanne hall. When the original drive to underwrite the dormitory was started a few years ago $325,000 was thought sufficient. This sum was raised but the, trustees found that costs had doubled. However, because the need for nousmg lacuities for men was so urgent, it was decided to go ahead with the project and the contract was let to the Geo H. Atkinson Construction com pany'.' Completion dale for the dor mitory which will house 220 men is February 1st and the con tractor is reported operating on schedule. All of the concrete has been poured and it is probable the roof will be on in another ten days. The H-shaped struc ture is as fireproof as it can be made. Over-all cost will be $700,000, New Buildings Total $52,000 New construction totaling more than $52,000, including one store building and several residences, is authorized in building permits issued by the office of the city engineer. Marie R. Ling will erect a store building at 454 Marion estimated to cost $14,000. Mar ion county school district No. 24 will spend $2000 in con structing an additional school room at Bush school. The resi dence permits went to Howard Olsen, dwelling and garage, 1565 N. 24th, $9000; Rich L. Reimann, two dwellings and garages at "1835 and 1845 N. 23rd, $6000 each; W. E. Mur phy, dwelling and garage, 1290 N. 24th, $6000; Edith Eyre White, dwelling, 425 S. 21st, $5000 and Frank Danielson, dwelling and garage, 1025 N. 22nd, $4500. Other permits were for Mrs. F. T. Reece, erect woodshed, 2245 Shelton, $50; H. P. Given, reroof shed, 1565 N. Commer cial, $60; C. S. Shaw, repair dwelling, 421 S. 18th, $20; George Schor, alter dwelling, 1883 Saginaw, $350 and to Ray D. Smith, repair dwelling, 198 N. 24th, $30. Produce More But Consume Less Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R) The U. S. Chamber of Commerce said today there are two ways of bringing prices down produce more or consume less. In a statement Issued by Pres ident Earl O. Shreve, the cham ber said that demand, backed by unprecedentel wages and foreign requirements, is "bidding prices higher and higher." "A third round of wage in creases will not increase the sup ply of butter and meat," the statement said. "Such increases will only cause buyers all across the land to bid more fiercely for the scarce commodities." ive Cents fraternities averaging 31 student" Solons Cannot Be Notaries State legisialors cannot serve as notaries public, Attorney General George Neuner advised Governor Earl Snell today. The decision means that the 33 legislators who have notary public commissions must either resign their commissions or quil the legislature. The attorney general's deci sion was based on the recent stale supreme court decision holding that no person may hold lucrative positions on more than one branch of the state government. In that decision, the court ruled that State Rep Earl H. Hill, Cushman, Lane county, could not hold his fish commission appointment while he was in the legislature. NLRB Extends Time to Unions Washington, Sept. 25 (IP) La bor unions will be given until Oct.' 31 to certify to the national labor relations board that they have furnished members with financial statements required by the Taft-Hartley act. The new deadline came to light today following a ruling by Robert N. Dcnham, NLRB general counsel, that unions which fail to fill out forms he will provide will lose their standing before the board. This means any cases the un ions have pending may be toss ed out and they will be unable to file new ones. The ruling already has re sulted in temporary suspension of cases involving the big Ma chinists' union, which previous ly had satisfied Dcnham's first two requirements: (1) filing of similar union financial state ment with the labor department and (2) filing with the NLRB of affidavits by union officers that they are not communists and do not hold communist views. October 31 also is the dead line for the non-communist af fidavits. The Machinists' union an or ganization independent of the AFL or CIO, won the first two union shop elections the NLRB has conducted under Taft-Hartley law terms. J 40 Families at Labor Camp As Eviction Deadline Nears With a midnight deadline Thursday for eviction orders directed at families in the farm labor camp to become effective there were still about 40 families at the camp and just what will happen remained problematical. Camp atlaches indicated there were rumors a number of families were planning to remain at least four or five days yet before leaving the camp arid as near as could be learned there were no showings of a general exo dus Thursday. Notices had been published at the camp that new labor camps are opening up, one the Pnne-ville-Redmond camp in Eastern Oregon, and other at Chelan and Okanogan, Wash., where re portedly labor is needed and a temporary haven may be had, at least, for farm labor fami- ilies. William Linfoot of the com mittee for Agricultural Hous ing, Inc., which will lake over the camp under lease from the President Appeals for Food Conservation at Emergency Aid for West Europe Question of Special Session Left to Conference Monday With Congressional Leaders Careful Study to Precede Action on Marshall Plan Washington, Sept. 25 (IP) President Trumiin asked Americans today to save food for Europe's hungry and said ho still hopes emergency aid can be met without a special session of congress. In a news conference, Mr. Truman left open, however, the pos sibility that the legislators may be summoned into an emergency session. That is a question to be explored at a conference he will have with republican and democratic congressional leaders. Asked whether he thinks a return of rationing and price controls might be necessary, he replied that those are matters for congress to decide. In appealing for food conservation, the president observed that it would help budgets of American families as well as providing food to combat hunger in Europe. His 20-minute talk with reporters ranged over a wide field of the problem involved in helping Europe get through the winter and back on its feet, econoniical - ly speaking. 1. A decision on a special ses sion of congress for emergency aid for Europe will flow from a meeting he has scheduled Mon day with congressional leaders of both parties. He hopes a spe cial session can be avoided and has an open mind on the subject 2. On the long-range Marshall plan for helping European coun tries which help themselves and each other, careful study will precede any action and the gov ernment will move cautiously. 3. A special committee of citizens has been named to con sider the immediate food prob lem and advise "on ways and means of carrying out the neces sary conservation effort." 4. Other committees have been assigned the responsibility of studying the report drawn up bv 16 nations in Paris, outlining their needs under the Marshall plan. Saving, Not Wasting Mr. Truman refrained from terming as voluntary rationing his immediate plan to save food. Repeatedly, he said, it calls for saving food, not wasting food. Mr. Truman said he has been advised that Americans waste the equivalent of .70,000,000 bu shels of wheat. Presumably he meant 70,000,000 bushels a year. The proposal for conserving foods stemmed immediately from a recommendation of a commit tee of cabinet members who have been studying world food pro grams. This committee is Head ed by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson and includes Secretary of State Marshall and Secretary of Commerce Harriman. Cabinet Reports Mr. Truman released their report, plus a statement of his own on it and on the Marshall plan. "' "'-" Mr. Truman said: "The cabinet (food) commit tee made it clear . . . that defi nite steps to conserve on use of food stuffs at home and reduce the feeding of grain to livestock will be essential if we are to make our fullest contribution to wards meeting minimum foreign needs and at the same time re lieve the upward pressure on prices at home."' (Concluded on Pare 17, Column 6) Rogers Urges Credit Control Washington, Sept. 25 (IP) A A. Rogers, Oregon stale bank superintendent, r e c o mmended today that banks hold to loan term limitations now imposed under consumer credit controls after the controls are dropped November 1. The regulations generally re quire that loans for purchase of such things as automobiles, re frigerators and washing ma chines be limited to two-thirds of the purchase price and thai they be repaid within 15 months. After the federal reserve board drops the controls Novem ber 1, Rogers said, our banks will be under pressure by a seg ment of society for a drastic re duction of the down payment and for the lengthening of the term of repayment of loans made to purchase commodities." county until such time as the county can turn the property over by conveyance had no comment to make Thursday as to what action might be taken if the evictees prove recalcitrant and refuse to evacuate. "The plans are for the camp to close for the winter," said Linfoot. "We have engaged the services of Joe Gornick, main tenance man who has had that job under the government, to remain as maintenance man at the camp during the winter. His duties will be as watchman and general maintenance work to keep the camp and buildings in shape and under protection dur ing the winter and will have no connection whatever with evac uation of the present tenants." (Concluded on Pa 17, Column 7) Home to Permit f - Russian Press Attacks Truman Moscow, Sept. 25 (U.R) David Zaslavsky, Soviet political com mentator, charged today that President Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall headed a ring of "international reaction and criminal aggres sion" no less dangerous than was that of the nazis. The Soviet press stepped up criticism of the United States to a degree of harshness which for a decade had been used only against the nazis. Zaslavsky spearheaded the in tensified campaign with an arti cle in the periodical "Literary Gazette." He said that Mr. Tru man was not satisfied to be merely the ruler of all America and a considerable part of Asia. 'He wants to be the ruler of the universe, and use England as his lackey," Zaslavsky wrote. Marshall s proposals before the United Nations, Zaslavsky charged, were aimed at the "de struction of the United Nations and preparation of a new, crimi nal war." American congressmen who suggest war against the Soviets, he said, "are criminals who must be prosecuted and condemned, and with whom discussions should not be carried on but who should be put into jails and isolated from the people as mad dogs." New Atomic Pile Planned Washington, Sept. 25 Plans for a new atomic reactor pile at Oak Ridge (n chain eral times more powerful' the one now operating at the Tennessee plant were announ cd today by the atomic energy commission. A member of the commission staff said the pile will open new opportunities to explore some of the "many things about the atom that are still a mystery to science. Ho said it will offer means for developing more powerful atomic weapons and broaden the field for uses of peace-time use of atomic energy. The plans were disclosed in an announcement that the con trol of the Clinton .atomic la boratories at Oak Rridge will be taken over by the University of Chicago under a four-year contract. Since July, 1945, the laoralory has been operated by the Monsanto Chemical Co. Fourteen southern "universi ties, members of the Oak Ridge institute of nuclear studies, will cooperate with the University of Chicago in research at the Clinton laboratories, the an nouncement said. It listed as a principal part of the new program the "de sign and construction of a new high-flux reactor several times more powerful than the existing Oak Ridge pile, for further studies and expanded research requiring intensities not now availabl." The announcement also said the laboratory will continue its efforts to apply atomic power to industry. Engineering and in dustrial firms are cooperating in this program. Russia Held Big Threat to France Paris, Sept. 25 (U.R) The blunt statement of the national assem bly's military affairs committee chairman that Russia not Ger many was now the No. 1 threat to French security was regarded today as a momentous change in official political thinking. Paul Anxionnaz, a radical so cialist and the chairman of the military affairs committee, criti cized French army leaders yes terday for failure to draw up elaborate plans against a possi ble Russian attack. He spoke be fore the Anglo-American Press association. "The French government is two years late when it harps on the Gorma-n menace," he said. "Germany is not a national peril to France."