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Jito Declares Yugoslavia Has Atomic Bombs Dictator Claimed Also Jet Planes for Annihi lation of Reaction Trieste, Free Territory, Jan. 21 (P) Premier Marshal Tito was quoted by La Voce Libera today as telling Yugoslav com munist leaders that "we shall use our own atomic bomb" in any future conflict for "the final annihilation of reaction." (A version published by the pro - DeGaulle French weekly "Dissidence 40" quoted Tito as saying: "War against the Anglo Americans is inevitable. It is perhaps even a question of weeks." La Voce Libera, a pro-Italian newspaper, said Tito had deliv ered the speech to his party ex ecutive' in Zagreb last November 18. It said he had reported Rus sian arsenals are turning out 30,000 vehicles a month and "our jjjet-propelled lighters and our ar (jjfiillery will eliminate from the Tenemy aviation any desire to come and see us." The paper said it had had the ttt of the speech for a month, but delayed publication, until it learned it was authentic and had been published in "Dissidence 40" pro - De Gaullist French newspaper. Strong Army Ready La Voce Libera quoted Tito as saying that reactionary forces, with the aid of American and British capital, were working against the "Yugoslav proletar iat," but that he had a "very strong, well organized army which we do not feed chocolate and sweets but which stands in readiness, not only to protect our frontiers, but also to oust the division of gangsters concentrat ed in Italy and Austria." The quotations went on: "We are ready to sink their fleet in the Adriatic; against their atomic bombs we shall use our own. We do not stand alone this time. "Our jet propelled fighter planes and our artillery will ef ficaciously discourage visits by enemy aviation. Our materiel comes from an inexhaustible source. Our lines of transport will never be cut. Boasts of Power "Russian workshops turn out 30,000 cars a month. Headquar ters have at their disposal 150 I divisions ready to march on 48 trfhouri notice and capable of-wip 1 ' ins out all obstacles- nbstruetinff their advance up to Paris. Tito was quoted as saying a few thousand "bandits" were in the Yugoslav mountains and were vexing, but of no conse quence. (Balkan government spokesmen regularly use the term "bandit" for opposition forces.) (Concluded on Fate 11, Column 7) 200,000 Strike In Germany Nuernberg, Jan. 21 (U.I!) An estimated 200,000 German work ers struck in the coal-rich Ruhr and in the American zone today in protest against food condi tions. More than 100,000 industrial and office workers walked out in the big Rhineland city of Cologne and a similar hunger strike was reported to have brought out a number of work' ers in nearby Essen. The Co logne strike was expected to last throughout the day. Thirty thousand metal work ers struck for a half day in Nuernberg starting at noon and union leaders said that the city's entire labor force with the ex ception of transport workers would join in. There was no accurate esti LUtte available of the number jV? fuernberg strikers. The city's population is . about 400,000. The food shortage, according to allied officials, is the result of flaws in German food col lections and distribution. Food unrest originated in the Ruhr when the area's fat ration could not be fulfilled for three weeks recently. To mollify the industrial workers, food authori ties reduced rations in the Amer lean zone in favor of the Ruhr Strikes then began in the Amer ican zone. At least 30,000 strikers are expected to demonstrate in Nuernberg's principal square, the Hauptmarket, during the aft ernoon in protest against the state government': refusal to adopt the Bavarian union's seven-point food collection plan The Weather (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Some cloudiness tonight and Thursday. Lowest expected temperature tonight, 28 degrees; highest Thursday, 49. Maximum yesterday 41. Minimum today 28. Mean temperature yesterday 32, which was 8 below normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 a. m. today 0. Total precipitation tor the month 63 which Is ta Inches abort normal. Willam ette river height at Salem Wed nesday morning, 2.0 feet, Jailing. Capital 59th Year, No. 18 ?.r,d". United Nations Again Tackle Palestine Issue Lake Success, Jan. 21 VP) The United Nations Palestine parti tion commission today tackles two major questions: that of asking for an international army to enforce the aplitup of the Holy Land and that of opening Tel Aviv to Jewish immigration February 1. A Philippine request for action by the security council, the only UN organ empowered to provide military units, to enforce parti tion topped the commission pro gram. Immediately after a de cision on that point, the five- man commission planned to hear from Sir Alexander Cadogan, British delegate, on London s program in connection with the general assembly's recommenda tion that a port area be cleared for admitting Jews within the next 10 days. Army Held Needed In its present form the Philip pine resolution merely calls on the council to consider whether the situation in Palestine con stitutes a threat to international peace or breach of peace, but informed quarters said it was virtually certain that a specific request for force would be made. The commission already was understood to have reached a mutual understanding that an international force was neces sary to implement the plan to carve up Palestine into independ ent Jewish and Arab countries effective next October 1. Once the commission makes the request, the question will arise as to how the council can raise an army. The UN charter provides for an international force but so far differences be tween Russia and the western powers have blocked agreement on setting up , the units. The council thus can be expected to seek some means of putting into the field a temporary interna tional army. BudgetTrimmed Of $3 Billion Washington, Jan. 21 (P) A GOP determination to slash President Truman's budget by "at least ?3,uuu,uuu,uuu" was re ported by Rep. Knutson (R Minn) today to have formed the basis of house republican leader ship approval of the $5,600,- 000,000 tax reduction bill. Knutson, author of the tax- cutting measure, told reporters both senator raft (R-Ohio), chairman of the senate republi can policy committee, and Chair man Taber (R-NY) of the house appropriations committee had agreed that Mr. Truman's $39,- 700,000,000 , spending estimate can be "cut sharply." Meanwhile, the house ways and means committee bogged down in a detailed reading and diseussion of the 28-page tax bill, and Knutson, the ways and means chairman, said that al though committee approval is assured it probably will not come until next Monday or Tuesday. The measure, which faces a virtually certain veto, will be brought to a showdown vote in the house on Friday or Satur day of next week, he said, with passage practically assured. Strike Closes Plant Detroit, Jan. 21 (U.R) Hudson Motor Car company shut down its main plant "indefinitely" to day, because of a body shortage caused by a week-old strike of S50 foremen. Survey Will Be Salem s Hospital Needs An immediate survey will be made by C. A. McClure, engineer for the Salem long-range planning commission, to determine Salem's hospital facilities and for building funds that havef been proposed by the two hos pitals. The survey by the plan ning commission is at the re quest of the board of control of Salem General hospital and the board of trustees of Salem Me morial hospital, formerly the Deaconess. McClure was assigned to the survey, on motion of George Putnam at a special meeting of the planning commission Tues day night. The survey will de termine the extent and valua tion of property owned by the two institutions, the hospital ownership, condition of build ings, and financial resources. In the process of fact finding it will also show, at the suggestion of Paul B. Wallace, the scope of Salem hospital service to the central Willamette valley area. McClure indicated, among oth er things, that his report would teond elku Sfclem, Orefon GOP Tax Slash Bill Certain to Pass in House Washington, Jan. 21 VP) Ap proved "as is" by the house re publican leadership, the $5,600, 000,000 tax slashing bill moved today toward swift house pas sage and a virtually certain veto. Democrats mobilizing to bat tle the measure claimed enough votes to block its final enact ment, however, unless the sen ate trims the size of the tax cut when the legislation reaches that bedy. Speaker Martin (R-Mass) set the house vote for next week, probably Friday. The house republican steering committee,, in approving the measure late yesterday, refused flatly to make any concessions that might attract democratic support. A two-thirds majority is needed in both houses to over turn a presidential objection. Rayburn Predicts Defeat Democratic Leader Rayburn of Texas told reporters "the bill as it is will never become law, and I think the republicans know it." But Rep. Knutson (R-Minn), author of the measure, shot back that Rayburn is "indulging in wishful thinking" and added: the bill will become law." The GOP leaders ignored President Truman's substitute proposal calling for a $40 "cost of living" tax cut for everyone and a compensating $3,200,000,- 000 excess profits levy on cor porations. The ways and means commit tee was called into closed door session (10 a.m., EST) to con sider the Knutson measure. But with republicans outnumbering democrats 15 to 10, the commit tee's formal approval was vir tually certain. Approval Certain Martin told a news conference after the steering committee de cision that the republicans will slash Mr. Truman's $39,700,000,- 000 budget to make room for the tax cut and a payment on the national debt of at least $Z, 000,000,000. ' - . . "We need to cut the budget only by $1,500,000,000 to do that," Martin said, "but we are going to reduce the budget much more than that." To which Chairman Taber (R NY) of the house appropriations committee added in an inter view: "When we get through with the president's budget we will have money enough for a $5,600,000,000 tax reduction and at least a $5,000,000,000 pay ment on the debt." Gandhi Has Mercy For Bomb Thrower New Delhi, Jan. 21 VP) Mo handa K. Gandhi said tonight he will ask the police to be mcciful with a youthful Hindu accused of exploding a home made bomb near his prayer meeting last night. The suspect could be imprisoned for life. "We should not harbor ha tred," Gandhi said. "I will re quest the police not to trouble him but to have compassion to wards him and make him see the righteous path." Gandhi, too weak to walk be cause of his recent fast for com munal peace, had been carried to the prayer meeting in t chair. He laughed when an un identified man in the audience demanded that Gandhi proclaim himself a reincarnation of God When the speaker persisted, Gandhi impatiently told him to sit down and be quiet. Made on needs with reference to campaigns show a history of the hospitals, ground plans, investment in equipment, returns from a ques tionnaire to doctors giving their opinion on facilities, a compari son of existing facilities, pres ent and future population data A committee from the commis sion will assist the engineer with the doctors questionnaire. On the basis of the report the planning commission is expected to recommend whether Salem should have one or two new hos pitals, and if two are deemed advisable, whether -the cam paigns for funds should be con solidated. The total cost of the two as proposed would be around $3,000,000. Submitted was the return on a ballot taken among, 33 Salem doctors, who unanimously fav ored one big hospital rather than two small ones. Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, January B i nf'1 .It " Wm r llasMlin hi XWi Chinese Demonstrators at Canton Cantonese mill around the bent and twisted British consulate tearing down the British flag and a demonstration protesting the British from the walled city of Kowloon, across the.bay from Hong Kong. (AP Wirephoto) Hunt $17,000 Cache And Missing Woman Seattle, Jan. 21 VP) Two King the husband of a missing Seattle eastern Oregon in search of a husband said he had written an ment with his wife. 13 Injured in Airliner Crash Boston, Jan. 21 VP) Thirteen passengers were injured as they leaped front h big Eastern Air lines Lockheci-Constellation tHpressed jfo wiiiihghcsi uaj olici me plane aiLiuucu iiilu a snowbank and caught fire when it landed in early morn ing darkness at Logan inter national airport. The $1,000,000 airliner was almost completely consumed by the flames that spread from one of the four engines while 20 passengers and five crew mem bers jumped or dropped 15 feet from a doorway on the opposite side into snowbanks. Enroute from Miami to Newark, the plane was rerouted first to New York and then to Boston be cause of stormy weather. Seven persons were treated in hospitals and six others were given first aid all for hurts suf fered as they escaped from the burning plane to the ground be low. A 14th person not a pas senger who ran to aid occu pants of the plane, was injured by a police car as it sped to the scene. A snowstorm had reduced visibility to "zero" according to one crew member. Flight Engineer Harold Coon- ley of Miami said ice on the run way and not enough braking surface caused the skid into the snowbank and, although Cap tain Merrill E. Thayer, also of Miami, cut his engines, there was a flash from one far at the right, and flames raced over the big craft. Probe Baby's Death In Mayor's Office Minneapolis, Jan. 21 VP) Mayor Hubert Humphrey today summoned for 4:30 p.m. (CST) an emergency meeting of the Minneapolis public welfare board for what he said would be an "exhaustive inquiry" into the case of a four-months-old in fant who died in his office re ception room yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jensen, Minneapolis, parents of Arthur, Jr., told William C. Sims, aide to the mayor, the child died fol lowing refusal of General (City) hospital physicians to admit it Monday night. Dr. Russell R. Heim, Henne pin county (Minneapolis) coro ner, said the Infant died of laryn gcal-tracheal bronchitis. He said an inquiry by his office disclosed physicians at the hospital had administered penicillin injec tions and taken X-rays of the baby for a pneumonia check but had found no traces of that dis ease Monday night. Polio Death Reported Butte, Mont., Jan. 21 0I.R Montana's first 1948 polio death was recorded here today. Mrs. Virginia Tippett, 32-year- old wife of a Butte city engineer died of the diseaf last night. Joure ".in 21, 1948 w flagpole at Canton, China, after setting the consulate afire during eviction of 300 Chinese by the county sheriff's detectives and woman set out this morning for $17,000 cache, against which the 'I. O. U." in a property settle- Chief of County Detectives Adam Lyskoski, leader of the expedition, said officers became interested in the reported cache in connection with their invest! gation of the disappearance of Mrs. Ellen Buckingham Coyle Hayton, 46, two weeks ago Lyskoski said the husband nosco i-iee iiayion, 63, parpen; ter and, former merchant, ex to take officers to the cache in the hills near Milton, Ore., to which he said he had been adding money, mostly in $1000 bills, for about 20 years. The officer said Hayton con firmed that he and his wife were contemplating a divorce, but that he could throw no light on her mysterious disappearance or her possible whereabouts. Held without charge for fur ther questioning, Hayton said in signed statement last night that he actually had given his wife but $3000 in cash instead of the $20,000 he originally as serted. The remaining $17,000, he was quoted as saying, was "in the form of an IOU." Mrs. Hayton, 46, disappeared Jan. 8. Hayton said he last saw her that day when he loft a res taurant where they had met to effect a property settlement. Hayton told officers he had started the cache, from which he took the money, about 20 years ago. The officers quoted him as saying that part of the money, hidden in a five-gallon oil can, was "hush money" from a cat tle rustler in eastern Washing ton. He started the cache, he said, because of his fear of bank failures. Meanwhile a suit was filed in superior court against Hayton by Mrs. Edna Rayborn, a sister of the missing woman, to com pel cancellation of deeds assert ed ly given by Mrs. Hayton to her husband, and to restrain him from disposing of the properly. The suit was brought in behalf of Mrs. Hayton's son by a prior marriage, Jack G. Coyle, 15 Mrs. Rayborn is his guardian. The complaint alleges that immediate relatives of Mrs. Hay ton "are convinced she is dead and has been deceased since Jan. 8." Open Temporary Bridges on Umpqua The highway commission said today that the temporary bridg es over the South Umpqua riv er, eight miles south of Rose burg, will be opened late tonight They will replace the continuous truss span that was damaged by flood waters two weeks ago The 9 a.m. road report: Santiam Junction t- 18 de grees, clear, spots of packed snow and ice, sanded. 53 inches roadside snow at summit. Odcll Lake, Willamette high way 28 degrees, overcast, spots of ice, sanded. Road slushy be tu.aan Qolt r.nnl, (nnnnl n n r! nH of Odcll lake. 45 inches roadside snow. Price Five Cents 11-Year-Old Boy Slayer Sent to Boys Town, Neb, Bend, Ore., Jan. 21 Wi Little 11-year-old Cecil Snyder, who sang in his penthouse cell atop the Deschutes county courthouse and roller skated down the cor ridors while held on a charge of murdering his father, was head ed for Boys Town, Neb., and a new life today. Arrested following the Decem ber 12 death of his father, Jo seph V. Snyder, the boy, small for his years, was formally charged with murder. Sheriff C. L.. McCauley said he told a story of abuse at the hands of his fa ther, with whom he lived alone in a farm house five miles cast of here, and admitted putting poison in two cheese sandwiches. Paroled by Hamilton Circuit Judge R. S. Hamilton yesterday paroled Cecil to the juvenile court where Judge C. L. Allen conducted a hearing based on his being a dependent child. Howard S. Page, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, representing Fa ther Flanagan's Boys Town. asked that the boy be released to him to live at the famed Ne braska town. The petition was granted, with the court holding the boy under parole until he is 21. Decked out in new clothes. bought by money which was sent to the sheriff from interested persons in all parts of the coun try, Cecil seemed confused and uncertain of what life at Boys Town would be. Told that he could sing in a choir there jail attendants said he has a "beau tiful" child's voice he only looked about unhappily and said he would rather wear his old clothes because they were "more comfortable." He was unsmiling and seemingly apathetic as he started on the first train ride of his life. Mother Died in Child Birth Cecil's mother died when -he was born. He has seven brothers and sisters, the youngest 16, all of whom had left home previ ously. , . Young Snyder was given No. 1 position over 3300" boys who sought admission to Boys Town. Many local residents and frater nal organizations interceded in behalf of Snyder. To Force Sale of Film Theaters Washington, Jan. 21 VP) The justice department today asked the supreme court to require five motion picture producers, distributors and exhibitors to dispose of their local movie houses scattered throughout the country. Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman told the court in a brief that "the only way in which the domestic film market can now be opened to competition is by divorcing" the five "from their affiliated theaters." The companies involved are Paramount Pictures, Inc. Lowe's Inc.; Radio-Kcith-Or- pheum corporation; Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., and Twentieth Century-Fox Film corporation. The govcrnmi nt in 1940 brought an anti-trust action against these five so-called "ma jor defendants" and Columbia Pictures corporation, Universal corporation, and United Artists corporation, alleging monopolis tic practices. Columbia and Uni versal are engaged only in mo tion picture production and dis tribution and United is engaged only in distribution. New Cold Wave Sweeps From Canada Over East 'By the Auoclftted Prcu After a brief respite from last less severe cold wave appeared the country. surged across the Canadian bor der and moved into the north central sections of the country It was expected to cover the same area gripped by winter's iciest blasts last week. Accompanied by snow flurries and strong winds, the cold air moved down the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys and temperatures dropped rapidly in the Dakotas and Minnesota, reaching sub-zero levels this morning. The edge of the new cold air entered northern Missouri, Illi nois, Indiana and lower Michi gan. The mercury was expected to dip to near the zero mark in Chicago tomorrow. Temperatures had moderated considerably throughout the cold belt in advance of the fresh fri- 'g'd blasts, particularly in the Petrillo Denies Conspiracy in Broadcasting Musicians' Czar Admits Favoring Networks Over FM Washington, Jan. 21 VP) James C. Petrillo denied today there is any conspiracy between his American Federation of Mu sicians and the long-established radio networks to hold back the growth of FM (frequency modu lation) broadcasting. Petrillo told the house labor committee he met with the rep resentatives of the fledgling FM industry a month ago and tenta tively agreed to "make a deal" with them on use of musicians but said he told them: I have got to talk to the regular (AM) networks first." Banned 'Live' Music Petrillo has banned "live" mu sic on FM networks and the dup lication of music programs on AM and FM networks. He also has prohibited union musicians from .making phonograph rec ords. As Rep. Owens (R-Ill) ques tioned him about his relations with the old-line radio networks in connection with FM, Petrillo screwed his chubby face into a grimmage and broke in: "Please, Mr. Congressman, if there's anything in your mind about a conspiracy between the American Federation of Mu sicians and the AM networks, please dismiss it. It's not so." He explained that he wanted to consult the old-line networks first because they pay his union members $23,000,000 a year "and it wouldn't be good busi ness" not to consult them. Prosecution Lax As the hearing opened, Chair man Hartley (R-NJ) told Pe trillo the justice department was "exceedingly lax" in preparing a Lea act case in which the union leader was acquitted Speaking face to face with the labor leader at a committee hearing, Hartley - declared Pe trillo was "clearly in violation of law" despite the acquittal in a federal court at Chicago last week. He added: "I am not particularly upset by the justice department. 1 must say it was exceedingly lax." British Imports Hit Union Petrillo,.. w.ho .Aat . sllqntlyas Hartley took him 1o task, was accused under the Lea act of coercing a Chicago radio station to hire more workers than need ed. He was called before the com mittee to answer charges that he is attempting to throttle the American entertainment indus try through a monopoly on mu sic. Hartley told him the British flew in 12 tons of phonograph records last week, after Petril lo banned union musicians from making records in this country. Moreover, Hartley said, 250 tons of other records arc now en route to the United States by boat. "What effect do you think that will have on American mu sicians, Mr. Petrillo," Hartley asked. Petrillo launched into a long statement contending that the record-making industry Is reap ing huge profits whereas the average pay of American musi cians in making recordings is $400 a year. "Our future is very dark," Petrillo said. British Battleships Slated to Be Scrapped London, Jan. 21 UP) The ad miralty announced today that four British battleships, veter ans of many years of service in the royal navy, will be scrapped as obsolete. They are the Queen Eliza beth, Valiant, Nelson and Rod ney. week's frigid weather, a new but In prospect for the eastern half of Lakes region, but the southeast slates continued to shiver in ab normally cold readings From three to eight inches snow was forecast for New En gland as a snowstorm which centered in the Carolinas moved northeastward. The prospect of several more days of cold, dry sunny weather in California emphasized the probability that this winter will be California's driest in 70 years. Farmers, fruit growers, cattle men and forest rangers were re ported concerned over the lack of water and the dryness of farm and range lands. Another peril to agriculture was frost threaten ing deciduous fruit areas of nor thern California. Sub-freezing marks were reported in many parts of the citrus belt. Long and Jones Neck and Neck Louisiana Vote Former Governors Out In Front and Close Together in Primaries New Orleans, Jan. 21 (if) Two arch-rivals of Louisiana politics since the days of the "scandals" former Governors Earl K. Long and Sam H. Jones today were out in front and close together as the slow count of yesterday's democratic guber natorial primary election contin ued. There were four candidates in the race and it was certain that runoff primary, set for Feb. 24, would be necessary. But hun dreds of country boxes remained to be tabulated, so it wasn't yet certain that Long and Jones would qualify as the two high est and therefore eligible to re peat their run-off primary battle of 1940. The prize is a nomina tion equivalent to election. Jones Led Revolt Jones is the man who led a ballot box revolt in that year against the late Huey P. Long's political organi z a t i o n , which backed Earl Long, Huey's broth er, for the governorship. Jones won and was succeeded in 1944 by a political ally, the singing governor, Jimmie H. Davis This year Jones and Long again were made standard-bearers by their respective factions. The old regular organization of New Orleans, breaking an al liance originally imposed by Huey Long, backed its own can didate, U.S. Rep. Jam-;s H. Mor rison. Judge Robert F. Kennon made an appeal for the ex-servicemen's vote with an "all-GI ticket." Long's Lead Slight Unofficial returns from 596 of the 1878 precincts in the statt gave Long 74,115 votes, Jones 69,647, Morrison 45,350 and Kennon 38,574. Some of the worst winter weather seen for years in Lou isiana including snow and ice storms failed to prevent a huge vote from being cast. The large number of ballots and the leng thy lists of local candidates com bined to slow the count. Negroes voted in unprecedented numbers. The Negro vote will amount only to a small portion of th total. . Several parishes (counties) in, Morrison's congressional district and a number of rural boxes in which Kennon supporters claim ed strength remained to be heard from today. Hoarding Due To Ration Threat Washington, January 21 VP) All the hot talk in congress about meat rationing is simply serving to build up private stocks in cold storage lockers, Senator Thye (R - Minn) con tended today. While steering clear of the controversy between GOP Sena tors Wherry (Ncb.i and Flan- dors (Vt.) over Wherry's "kid ding" accusation that his New England colleague is a meat hoarder," Thye said he wishes the whole subject of rationing could be dropped. Otherwise, he told a reporter. housewives will buy all the meat they can and put it into frozen storage. Thye said talk of ra tioning "already is jeopardizing our meal supply" by discourag ing the feeding of beef cattle to full weight. His contention is that produc ers, wary of the future, arc eager to take advantage of current high prices and arc rushing their cattle to market. Flanders and Rep. Javits (R NY), sponsors of a bill to let the administration get set for meat rationing, take the posi tion that if a spring shortage predicted by the agriculture de partment develops, the public will demand rationing. . Under their measure, congress would have the final say on whether any program prepared should be put into effect. The Whrrry-Flandcrs incident came about when the Nebraska senator departed from the pre pared text pf an address he was delivering before the republican national committee yesterday to take note of reports that Flan- oflders has a locker full of meat. Yugoslavia Honors Dead Yank Fliers Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Jan. 21 VP) Yugoslav fighter planes dived In salule, and a military band played a funeral dirge to day in tribute to 700 American fliers whose bodies were slart cd toward home. Their graves had been found during a two and a half years' search by a U. S. graves regis tration unit. The fliers fell whilo bombing the German and Kalian occupation forces. Their coffins will be placed on a ship In Italy.
