kFinal Session 80th Congress to Open Tuesday Problems Vifally Ef fecting U. S. Future And World at Stake Washington, Jan. 5 W) Ques tions bearing vitally on the fu ture of the United States and most of the world confront the 80th congress meeting tomorrow for its final session. Help for Europe and Asia, tax cutting, the high cost of liv ing, rent control and the hous ing shortage, military prepared ness and health insurance are a few of the top issues. And the list probably will grow. A complicating factor is that this is a general election year. Democrats want to regain the control of congress they lost to the GOP in 1946. The republi cans hope to put their presiden tial nominee in the White House for the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt started ffihis first term in 1933. " Colored by Politics The first week of the new session will be devoted primar ily to speechmaking and strategy huddles by congressional lead ers, with a few committees start ing to lay the groundwork for future legislative actions. The senate republican policy committee and the house re publican steering committee will meet during the week for decisions which will go far to ward shaping the majority party's legislative program to counter the proposals President Truman will outline Wednesday in his annual state-of-the-union message. The chief executive will go to the capitol in person to de liver that message to a joint session of the senate and house. His economic report on Friday and his budget message next Monday will be delivered by messenger. Tax Reduction Battle The first actual battle of the session probably will lake place in the house, over the GOP backed tax reduction bill. House leaders want to pass the measure this month so, as Speak er Martin put it, the president will know what to expect. The tax bill under considera tion would cut $5,600,000,000 and about 7,400,000 low income and elderly persons from the y'tax rolls. It goes further than the two bills Mr: Truman ve toed last year. (Concluded on Page 11, Column 5) Cold Eases in Eastern States (By th Associated Press) Heavy deposits of ice and snow in the midwest and the east be low New England faced substan tial melting today and tomorrow as mild temperatures moved into the eastern half of the country. In New York, where a record 25.8-inch snow fell December 26, and New Jersey where even greater depths were reached, the weather bureau predicted after noon temperatures in the high thirties. Northern California had rain fall of more than an inch in some localities. Blue Canyon reported 1.35 inches of rain this morning. Crescent City had an inch, Su sanville .93 inch and Red Bluff .83. The Chicago weather bureau said temperatures would climb well above freezing over most of the midwest today and that most of the snow which fell in the wake of last week's freezing rain and sleet probably would be melted by nightfall, along with , the ice on communications wires, poles and trees. But another day ; ;of similar temperatures probably ! would be required to dispose of I the ice which lies under the snow, said Forecaster W. N. Percy. Except for readings of 14 de grees at Rockford and Moline, 111., last night the mercury dip ppd no lower generally than the 20s in the midwest. Some areas reported a night-long thaw with readings in the lower 30s. Motorists Advised To Carry Chains The state highway commission warned today that strong south winds are expected on highways in western Oregon and in the Cascade mountains tonight. Mountain roads were in bet ter condition today after being sanded, but motorists still were advised to carry chains. The 9 a.m. road report: Santiam Junction 22 degrees. 13 inches new snow, packed snow on all roads, sanded; 69 incnes roadside snow. Odcll Lake, Willamette high way 26 degrees, overcast, 56 mcnes roadside snow, packed east of tunnel, partly sand ed. Capital 59th Year, No. 4 Schuman Wins Confidence Vote From Assembly Paris, Jan. 5 (VP) The French national assembly gave Premier Robert Schuman votes of confi dence today by defeating two communist- peasant - Dc Gaullist amendments to the government's anti-inflation bill. The assembly voted down ef forts to exclude 1,100,000 farm ers from the tax bill and to ex empt small artisans from the choice of paying a special income tax or investing the same amount m government bonds. The votes were 306-273 and 308-272, re spectively. Other Amendments Other amendments still to be voted on would reduce tax lev ies on war, drought and flood victims and on small family-op-crated businesses. Assembly circles predicted that the government's margin might be close in the voting on a lax relief for war victims, but it was generally believed that it would win out. The tax bill, as presented by the government, is designed to produce approximately 125,000,- 000,000 francs (about ?1,000, 000,000) in revenue. Saturday when communist and rightist deputies sought to amend the measure with proposals for exemptions for thoes in small income brackets they were de feated by 322 to 262. (Concluded on Page 9, Column 4) Wherry Blasts Meat Rationing Washington, Jan. 5 W) A con tention that meat rationing would not work without price controls and that a combination of the two would "stifle" meat production came today from Senator Wherry (R., Neb.). The Nebraskan expressed this opinion in commenting on plans of Senator Flanders (R Vt.), to introduce legislation shortly authorizing the agriculture de partment to prepare for meat ra tioning to a point just short of putting it into effect. Under the plan Flanders out lined over the week-end, con gress would have to enact still another law to get actual ra tioning under way. The agriculture department already is at work on some pre liminary planning. Secretary Anderson, who has predicted that Americans will be asking for meat rationing by spring, told a reporter he has assigned an assistant, Charles F. Bran nan, to prepare recommenda tions in the event the depart ment should be asked for them. Flanders said his bill will make no provision for price ceilings on meat. But he ex pressed belief that rationing, properly handled, would have a restraining effect of prices. Wherry, one of the chief cri tics of the old OPA, said his theory is "you just can't ration without price controls. Isn't that what Chester Bowles always taught us?" Bowles is a former OPA ad ministrator. Brokers' Records of Graham And Pauley Given to Senate Washington, Jan. 5 VP) A senate committee today obtained records of grain trading by Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, Pres ident Truman's personal physician, by' serving a subpoena on Graham s brokers. T Edward F. McGinnis, senate sergeant - at - arms, handed the subpoena to Sarah B. Herschel, a Washington r e p r esentative of Bache and Company, New York brokerage firm. McGinnis acted for a senate appropriations s u b co m m ittee which is investigating grain spec ulation by federal employes. Kimball Sanborn and Earl W. Cooper, committee staff mem bers, took Graham's records to the capitol for scrutiny by the subcommittee. Senator Knowland (R-Calif.), a committee member, told a re porter the subpoena was "just a formality" followed because of the firm's reluctance to yield its books on Graham's accounts without an order, although it had agreed to turn them over. The subcommittee, headed by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.), planned to begin analyzing the records today together with an- other set of books on the grain: speculation of Edwin W. Pauley, Vntertd Mco&d eliu Witter at Salem, Oregon Salem, Munitions for Palestine Seized At Jersey City New York, Jan. 5 P) An ex planation why crates labeled "used industrial machinery" which were being loaded for shipment to Palestine, contained explosive TNT was sought today by federal and local authorities. The TNT, or tri-nitro-toluene, was discovered Saturday when a crate burst open during the load ing of the American Export Line freighter Executor at a Jer sey City pier. When a second crate also prov ed to contain TNT, police and customs officials ordered 77 Palestine-bound crates impounded and removed by barge to a safe anchorage. 65,000 Tons TNT Police said 26 crates were be lieved to contain 65,000 pounds of TNT enough to devastate a 100-square-miIe area. Custom officials said explo sives for export require special permits and 'must be labeled properly. The state department embargoed arms shipments to the middle east last month after the United Nations general as sembly voted to partition Pales tine. There was no announce ment, however, that the TNT was classified as a military ma terial. A few hours after the ship ment was impounded New York police searched a Bronx ware house and reported finding cartridge-making machinery and a stencil used in labeling some of the crates seized in Jersey City. They returned to the ware house yesterday and examined other crates which they said con tained radio transmitting equip ment, motors, pipe and electric equipment. Other Equipment The 26 crates believed to hold TNT were consigned to Haboreg, Ltd., Tel Aviv, Palestine, by the Oved Trading company of New York City, the export declara tion said. Julius Chender, described by police as the owner of the Bronx warehouse, was quoted by an NBC correspondent in Paris as denying that he owned such a warehouse or that he was en gaged in shipping arms or am munition to Palestine. He said that "I have been in terested in the Palestine situa tion since I was a kid." Royall Urges Army Training Los Angeles, Jan. 5 W In a world of unrest and possible fu ture conflict, the United Stales' defense requirement make im perative establishment of uni versal military training, Secre tary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall declared today. Royall, in an address prepar ed for delivery at acivic meet ing, said he had come to this conclusion "reluctantly." He em phasized that he had not aban doned hope for permanent peace, but added: Until world conditions are better stabilized than they are today, we must plan and we must have universal military training in order to be ready properly to defend our nation. special assistant to Secretary of the Army Royall. In response to a committee re quest made December 11, Pauley turned over his personal records to the appropriations unit late Saturday night. Knowland, Fer guson and committee staff mem bers spent several hours Sunday going over the books. Pauley testified last month that when he became Royall's assistant last fall he held 500,000 bushels of grain. He said he had disposed of all but 50,000 bushels and was $100,000 "worse off" as a result and had promised Royall to sell the rest as fast as good business practices would permit. Meanwhile, an FBI investiga tion of Graham's holdings came to light when Knowland wrote Bache and Company about Gra ham and was told by the firm that "the FBI called on us" for information on Graham's ac counts. The FBI informed Know- land that this information had been turned over to the justice 'department. Oregon, Monday, January French Girls Arrive Too Late i.o Immigration Inspector Nicholas I jz-j w- K (Jr . On I I ,,M'1M vjv- fJ V-' sr O landed Jan. 2 too late to enter U. S. outside quota after the Dec. 31 deadline. The French girls deft to right) Fernande Davis, 23; Anna Goch, 34, and Martha F. Donas, 25. Fernande hopes to join her fiance, Harold Skeegs of San Francisco, and Anna Goch is bound for Fall River, Mass., home of Frank Marker. Martha is engaged to Roy Morrison, Atlanta, Ga. (AP wirephoto.) Bennett Renews Claim To City Water Supply Filing his reply to the city's answer in his case against the City of Salem, city water commission, state engineer and watermaster. involving the use of water by the city from its Stayton Island plant, Gardner Bennett declares that since dates in 1936 he has been owner in fee simple of certain specifically described lands, ; that since 1866 his predecessors, 1 Killed, 3 Hurt In Auto Crash One person was killed and i tl,e water,s f North San ih. nihor. orin,,lv ininrpri in ! tiam river taken and diverted imhii ,.riH.nt n t ho Pacific highway a few miles nnrth of Hnhhard Snnrlav after- ., . , . , . .uavio. Murray xjuneny, i(, oi Pendleton route died of in-, juries at a hospital here shortly after his arrival by ambulance. Dean Webb, also of Pendleton, received bruises and cuts and Charles Richard Stamper, of Coos Bay, a pelvis fracture and other injuries. Ralph M. Rath jen, Portland, has a broken leg and internal injuries. Doherly was riding with Webb when their car, according to to state police, was struck by the one driven by Stamper who was on his way to Eugene after his brakes locked as he was passing a third vehicle and was thrown in the path of the Webb machine. Mrs. Harry Humphries, Yaki ma, Wash., and Sam Simmons, Gervais, were hospitalized here late Saturday after an automo bile crash on the highway near Brooks. Mrs. Humphries was riding with her husband, Harry Humphries and Simmons was a passenger in another car with Jack Haley. Their injuries are not serious. Storm Warnings Flying on Coast Seattle, Jan. 5 W) Th. wea ther bureau announced south east storm warnings today from Cape Blanco to Tatoosh, and through the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Port Townsend. Small craft warnings were hoisted south of Cape Blanco to Cape Mendocino. The forecast was for increas ing southernly winds becoming strong to gale force by noon, off the Washington and northern Oregon coasts. U. S. Freighter Hits North Sea Mine London, Jan. 5 w The Unit ed States Lines 6,103-ton freigh ter Pioneer Cove, damaged when she struck a mine in the North Sea yesterday, limped toward port today, buffeted by a gale that battered the British coast with 60-mile-an-hour gusts and heavy rain. The storm delayed attempts to salvage the Silvia Onorato, Ital ian freighter aground on the Goodwin sands, off the Kent coast. A spokesman for United States Lines in London said the Pio neer Cove was expected to reach Victoria docks, in the Thames, some time tomorrow. The royal navy yard at Chat ham reported no further signal from the Pioneer Cove today, in dicating she was making good progress. 5, 1948 for Quota Deadline Three Parisiennes show their credentials Di Franco at New Castle Airport. Wilmington, DoL, after they including his immediate prede cessor, A. D. Gardner, have owned other lands near Stay ton and at all times since that year there has been appurten ant to it the right to use 812 cubic feet or more per second ! through the Gardner-Bennett ditch for development of power and manufacturing purposes. The reply further avers that since 1856 the defendant city of Salem and its predecessors have owned an interest in the right to use 254 cubic feet per sec ond for power and other manu lacturing purposes with a point of diversion about 600 feet up stream from the Gardner-Bennett diversion dam and that plaintiff and his predecessors in interest at all times have rec ognized the date of priority of the city's power right was su perior to the plaintiff's 1866 right. (Concluded on Fajre 9, Column 6) 9 Castaways Await Rescue Kodiak, Alaska, Jan. 5 VP) Cut off both, by land and sea, nine and possibly 10 shiver ing castaways huddled on a rocky ice-coated point of the Alaska peninsula, opposite Ko diak island, today as a navy tug and a coast guard cutler waited out a 60-mile an hour storm before attempting a rescue. For all but three of the men it was their fifth night of ex posure to the freezing cold. Heavy seas whipped up by the gale balked rescue efforts Sun day for the third day, and forced the cutter Clover to seek shel ter in Portage bay, at whose mouth the men are stranded. Three of the men are crew men from the navy tug Mataco They struggled to shore Sat urday night after their surf bost capsized in a daring rescue at tempt. The others have been stranded since their 65-foot cannery ten der, the motorship Spencer struck a reef Dec. 31 and broke up in the pounding surf. Aerial photographs taken by a search plaie showed a group of either six or seven men huddled on the point. Previous reports said six had been seen. "There were no visible cas ualties," the Kodiak naval base said. Pakistan Replies to India's Complaint Karachi, Pakistan, Jan. 5 P) A Pakistan information minis try official said today the do minion foreign office had pre pared a comprehensive reply to India's memorandum to the Unit ed Nations security council charging Pakistan with aiding raiders in Kashmir. It is understood the reply con tains counter charges, offers evi dence intended to show the Pak istan government has nothing to do with the raiders, and express es sympathy with the Kashmir people, who are predominantly Moslems. B5 10 Knee Five Cents .Iflnti-lltMB Palestine Hotel Blasted by Jews Jerusalem, Jan. 5 VP) Res cuers dug today into the debris of the Scmiramis hotel for 16 persons missing after the three- story stone structure was leveled by a bomb which police said the Jewish underground had plant ed." Three persons were known dead. One informant said the hotel was one of five district head quarters for an Arab military group. The known dead includ ed Manuel Salazar Travesedi. acting Spanish consul. Some 17 were injured. A similar act of violence oc curred Sunday in Jaffa, where Arab heaclquaters was bombed and 15 persons were killed and about 100 injured. Police blamed the 'Siern gang, the most ex treme clement of the Jewish un derground. Hagana, the Jewish under- fround defense force, said through a spokesman at Tel Aviv that the Jerusalem hotel attack was executed because "the building was an important meeting place of Arab gangs. where arms were distributed to villagers in the Jerusalem area. At least four persons were brought alive from the hotel wreckage, one a woman who had screamed in pain for four hours before she was saved. The Jerusalem and Jaffa bombings increased to 558 the number of persons killed in Pal estine since the United Nations voted partition on November 29. Board of Control To Meet Tuesday The stale board of control will meet Tuesday for the first lime since the Christmas holidays. Secretary of Stale Earl T Newbry returned to his office to day, while Governor John II Hall will come back tomorrow. Both have been absent since be fore Christmas. Little North Fork Bridge Ready for Use Tuesday In all probability the temporary steel Bailey bridge being con structed across the little north fork of the Santiam at the site of the old Lumkcr bridge destroyed last week by a logging truck will be in readiness for use by Tuesday, county court members said Monday. The county crew worked all day Sunday and ex pected to pul all day Monday in on the job. In the meantime no word has been received of the stork expected by any of three expectant mothers marooned be yond the bridge site having as yet even headed into the isolated territory and the county crew was confident it had outwitted the bird. The temporary bridge will take care of one-way traffic only, has a clearance of 10 feet and nine inches on the roadway and the state has allowed its use by the county until April at least, said County Commissioner Roy Rice. In the meantime it is ex pected the county will take steps to replace this with a new bridge expected to be done before April. Building of the new bridge will not interfere with traffic with possible exception of a day or two when the final decking is laid. The new bridge will be built around the Bailey bridge and when it is finished and ready Soviet Nations Boycott Meet Of UN Group Little Assembly Begins Year Round Sittings With Address by Lie Lake Success, Jan. 5 tA"i The United Nations "Little Assem bly" began Its year-round sit tings today with Russia and the five other Soviet bloc nations boycotting its opening session. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, in opening the meeting at 11:25 a.m. (EST) took no official no tice of the boycott but he gave his full approval to the new ex perimental body, originally pro posed by Secretary of State Mar shall. Although ignoring the vacant seats at the huge committee ta ble. Lie took issue with the con tention expressed previously by Russia that the "Little Assem bly" would undermine the se curity council and threaten the entire UN structure. Hope for Co-operation "I am convinced," Lie de clared, "that the interim commit tee (Little Assembly) can make a very constructive contribution to the effectiveness of the gen eral assembly and thereby strengthen the United Nations as a whole." A Soviet spokesman said in advance of the session that Rus sia still felt the U. S. -sponsored 'Little Assembly" was unconsti tutional and therefore would not attend. Informed quarters said the same attitude had been taken by Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yu goslavia, White Russia and the Soviet Ukraine. A representative of the U. S. delegation maintained, however, that U. S. Delegate Warren R. Austin had not given up hope that the Soviet bloc might even tually join in the new body, which was proposed originally by Secretary of Stale Marshall. Other Developments The "Little Assembly," known officially as the interim commit tee of the general assembly, was summoned amid these other de velopmenls: The security council was sum moned to a session tomorrow to take up India's complaint against Pakistan, growing out ot the fighting in Kashmir province The council was expected to take up the Indonesian question again this week. Argentina, Canada and the Ukraine will take their seats on the council for Ihe first time to morrow, succeeding Brazil, Aus tralia and Poland. Burma to Be Red Republic Rangoon, Burma, Jan. 5 (P) President Sao Shwe Thaik said today the policy of the new Un ion of Burma would be the cs tablishment of state socialism and the elimination of capital ism. In the first statement of policy since the stale cut loose from the United Kingdom, the president said Burma would nourish the friendship of all other nations but would "tolerate no infringe ment on the territorial integrity of the Union of Burma. Shwe Thaik said Burma in tended swiftly to establish i highly trained army, navy and air force to defend the country from externa! foos and create auxiliary forces in which all able-bodied Burmese citizens would be required to serve the country. for decking the steel spans can be removed and returned to the slate. While the temporary bridge has been under process of instal lation the county court also had a crew at work rocking Ihe un rocked portion of the partially hitherto unused road running over the ridge from the Elkhorn road on the north fork to Gates, just to have handy as an emer gency outlet. William Shepherd of Mill City who was in Salem Monday said he went lo the top of the ridge from the Gates side Monday in his car and believed that a car could go down hill to the Elkhorn side now but he doubted if it could get out from that side. Court members did not know how long the rocking would take to get this road in good passable shape, but said probably a jeep could get through now or a caterpillar could pull a car through, but its attempted use was not advised Shepherd said there were three or four inches of snow at the top of the ridge. Stassen Oilers 5-Point Program To Foil Kremlin New York, Jan. 5 (VP) Harold E. Stassen, candidate for the re publican presidential nomina tion, outlined today a five-point program which he said "could" by 1950 result in "the inability ot the Kremlin to successfully wan aggressive war, and diminishing communist strength in other na tions. Adoption of the program by the U. S., the former Minnesota governor said, also should show "continued success of the Ameri can economic system, marked progress in rebuilding Europe with rising standards of living, and a definite trend toward in creased individual economic, so cial and political freedom." The resultant situation in Rus sia, he said in an address befor the New York Young Republican club, would be continued low production and poor living stand ards "compounded rather than corrected by the ruble purge." Five-Point Program The five points, as expounded by Stassen, are: 1. To demonstrate the contin ued success of the American sys tem by "a net work of interre lated measures of limited powers in government, of curbs on ex cessive credit to decrease infla tionary pressures, of supervision of exports to avoid too great an impact of world-wide shortages, of limiting of inventories to pre vent hoarding, of economy in the civilian activities of government, and of a variable federal fiscal program, all to check booms and avoid depression busts." He asked also "supplementary action on Ihe housing and health and education shortcomings." On Marshall Plan 2. Place the Marshall plan "on sound and businesslike basis, establishing proper economic conditions to increase Its pros pects of success, but above all, treating it as the bi-partisan pro gram that it is, and not permit ting quibbling or politics to de lay and handicap or cut in half and destroy." 3. "We should maintain a strong military position and in crease our air power and enlargt our research." 4. "Stop shipping to Russia heavy machinery, machine tools, electrical devices, and other ap paratus and equipment which could become a part of a commu nist war machine . . . unless and until the leaders in the Kremlin show by definite agreement and action that they will co-operatt in rebuilding Europe." Propaganda Campaign 5. "An extensive world-wide campaign of ideas to combat ths propaganda line of the commu nists" which "should go far be yond the Voice of America broadcasts." Stassen said that a positive re publican foreign policy program should include "the calling of a major United Nations convention in 1950 for the purpose of amending and rewriting the charier and strengthening th United Nations for its noble and vital task." Illegal Search Voided by Court Washington. Jan. 5 (U.Ri By a 7 to 2 vote, the supreme court today reaffirmed that an illegal search by officers does not be come valid just because it turns up evidence of law violation. Justice Robert H. Jackson, writing the majority opinion in the case ot a Buffalo man con victed of possessing counterfeit gasoline ration coupons during the war, said: "In law, it (a search) is good or bad when it starts and does not change character from its success. "The forefathers designed our constitution to place obstacles in the way of a too-permeating police surveillance, which they seemed to think was a greater danger to a free people than the escape of some criminals from punishment." By its decision, the court in validated the conviction of Mi chael Di Re, Buffalo, who was one of two men arrested in a parked car in 1944. Di Re was found lo possess more than 100 forged gasoline ration coupons. The high court held that since the arresting officers did not expect to find Di Re in the car, the subsequent search of his per son which yielded the evidence against him was illegal. Tlie Weather (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Cloudy with rain tonight and Tuesday. Lowest expected temperature tonight. 38 degrees: highest Tuesday. 48. Maximum yesterday 49. Minimum today 34. Mean temperature yesterday 42 which was 2 above normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 a. m. today 0. Total precipitation for the month 2.20 which is 1.05 Inches above normal. Willamette river height at Salem Monday morning, 15 feet, Jailing. I