Coming Back
To Oregon Gives
Dewey a Thrill
: Republican Presiden
; Hal Candidate Makes
Brief Speech
Capital
Russia Accused
Of Bad Faith by
Berlin Crisis
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Sent to UN by?
Allied Powers?
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60th Year, No. 231
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By JAMES D. OLSON
"You don't know what a thrill
I get coming back to Oregon.
It's just like coming back
home."
This was the greeting given
by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, re
publican presidential nominee,
as he faced a crowd of approxi
mately 3500, including many
college and high school students
at the Southern Pacific depot
Monday morning.
Dewey was introduced by
Sen. Guy Cordon after B. E.
(Kelly) Owens, county republi
can chairman had introduced
State Sen. Douglas McKay, re
publican nominee for governor.
Congressman Walter Norblad,
Sec. of State Earl Newbry, State
Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, State
Sen. Howard Belton, the latter
republican nominee for state
treasurer.
Dewey Relaxes
Maybe it was the wrong time
of day but there were extreme
ly small crowds at most of the
communities through which
Dewey's train passed between
Salem and Portland. The sole
exception was at Oregon City,
where a good sized crowd was
out to greet the republican no
mlnee. Dewey seemed far more re
laxed than was the case during
his strenuous three weeks cam
paign in Oregon last May After
the special train had left Salem
he took Mrs. Dewey, who is ac
companying him on the trip,
through several of the cars to
greet those who had boarded
the train in Salem, including
those who had been introduced
as well as Mrs. Helen Ficke,
county vice chairman, and Steve
Anderson, state president of the
Young Republicans.
Appreciates Oregon Voting
. It was evident that Dewey has
great appreciation for the vic
tory that Oregon gave him in
May.
"I . had three very happy
weeks living here in Oregon
never traveled so far by bus
In my life, 2200 miles. I never
saw so many people at so many
different places and I never had
such wonderful welcomes from
such wonderful folks any place
in the whole United States.
"It was right here. In Salem
on the steps of the c'apitol that
I had one' of the most delightful
experiences of my life. I finish
ed talking on the steps and as I
walked down through the
crowd, an elderly gentleman
came over and stuck out his
hand and said, 'Hello, Dewey,
I'm glad to see you. I've been
wanting Dewey for president ev
er since he licked them Spanish
in Manila Bay.'"
(Concluded on Page 15, Column 6)
Dewey's Visit
Third This Year
Governor Thomas E. D(
wey's visit to Salem Monday
was the third during the pre
sent year.
Twice during his month-long
primary campaign in Oregon
last May Gov. Dewey visited
Salem and neighboring com
munities.
His first appearance was on
t May 4 after he had spoken in
I Oregon City, Canby, Woodburn,
Mt. Angel and Salem. A huge
crowd greeted the New Yorker
in front of the state capital af
ter which he sped to the Mar
ion hotel where members of the
Salem Kiwanis club had
ranged a meeting for him.
His arrival in Salem on that
day was delayed as the result
of an accident in which a dog
owned by Mrs. H. H. Henry was
killed by the Dewey bus on the
Silverton-Salem road. Gov. De
wey Immediately ordered his
staff to purchase another dog,
and on the following day a four-
month-old pedigreed male was
delivered to Mrs. Henry, and
was promptly named 'Tom
Dewey.'
On May 19 Gov. Dewey again
came to Salem, this time speak
ing at the Salem Labor temple.
Before his arrival here, he had
spoken to crowds in Dallas and
Independence.
Dewey's Oregon campaign
was climaxed with a debate
with Harold E. Stassenon
"Shall the Communist Party in
the united States Be Outlawed.
Political experts everywhere
declared this turned the tide in
his favor and the election re
sulted in his nomination at the
Republican National convention
in Philadelphia in June.
On the communist question
Dewey contended that com
munists should be kept in the
; open and not driven under
ground where they could carry
on their insidious activities un
der cover. Stassen had advo
cated outlawing the commun
ists in the United States.
Allied Air Lilt
In Berlin Crisis
Berlin, Sept. 27 u.fi Russia
has filed with the four-power
air safety center here a list of
regulations" - which would
knock out the western air lift
supplying blockaded . Berlin,
high American sources reported
today.
The proposed Soviet rules
would forbid instrument flights,
mainstay of the Berlin sup
ply run, and would give the So
viets the right to turn away any
plane seeking to land at Tempel
hof field in the U. S. sector.
Flatly Rejected
Russian authorities tried to
force the western powers to ac
cept the regulations. They in
sisted that the new rules now
were governing flights. But the
proposed rules were rejected
flatly by the American, British
and French military govern
ments.
"You can sum up the regula
tions in a few words," one high
American source said. "They
would make the air lift impos
sible."
The regulations, disclosed as
the aerial operation went past
its 100th day, would provide:
Bars Night Flights
1. "Night flights along the
air corridors are forbidden."
That would eliminate between
50 and 60 per cent of the traf
fic now supplying Berlin.
2. "Flight through dense
clouds is forbidden." That
would knock out from 30 to 50
per cent of the daytime traffic
on a weather basis.
3. Flights over the various
national sectors of greater Ber
lin will be made "only on per
mission of the appropriate com
mand." Since traffic patterns
for all landings and departures
at Tempelhof have to cross the
Soviet sector, the Russians
would have a veto power over
every plane using the main field
in the operation.
4. "Flights are forbidden in
all cases in which there are
storms, thunder, hurricane, fog,
icing conditions, etc., along the
route or in the vicinity of the
landing or takeoff fields.
Spy Confesses
Atomic Theft
Washington, Sept. 27 VP) The
partial confession of a one-time
spy will highlight the promised
congressional report on efforts'
to steal America s atomic sec
rets, it was said today.
This word came from the
house un-American activities
committee which is drafting the
document after a three-month
inquiry into an alleged Russian
spy ring.
The report is scheduled to be
made public some time this
week.
A committee source said the
key witness was one of the prin
cipals involved in the atomic es
pionage.
One committee source said
the document will conrain
"shocking" revelations about a
"professional group of Soviet
agents," aided by "amateurs.
who successfully stole atomic
secrets. .
"It was a complete mission,"
he said,
The same person said the re
port also will be "very critical'
of Presidents Roosevelt and
Truman and Attorney General
uiarK on the grounds that they
"had all the facts" concerning
the spying but took no action
Clark commented: "You can
rest assured that we have pro
secuted every case where the
facts warranted."
En Route With Dewey to Se
attle, Sept, 27 VP) Gov. Thom-
E. Dewey predicted today
that the American people will
"close ranks" behind a strong
firm foreign policy if he Is elect
ed president.
Speaking to a crowd which
overflowed the 4000-seat civic
auditorium in Portland, Ore.,
the republican presidential nom
inee said he wants the world to
know there is no division in this
country over foreign policy, par
ticularly with reference to the
Berlin crisis.
Dewey was greeted with pro
longed cheers as he began to
speak after driving through
crowd-lined streets for two
miles.
He told the auditorium crowd
that "the air out here has a
whiff of victory in it."
To Strengthen Nation
He said that the election is
being held at a time when a se
rious crisis hangs over the Unit
ed Nations, to which the Berlin
dispute has been referred.
One of our former allies is
repudating its obligations, he
said.
"It should be known by all
those who occupy the seats of
power not only in totalitarian
nations, but among our friends,
that although we now are en
gaged in a political campaign
though we are engaged in, I be
lieve, the process of changing
our administration that noth
ing will divide our nation," he
declared.
(Concluded on Page 18, Column 8)
Truman Again i
Raps Congress
Enroute With President Tru
man, Sept. 27 (U.R) President
Truman resumed his warfare
with the republicans in congress
today, telling the people of Aus
tin, Tex., that "this republican
congress is trying to tear up the
bill of rights." ,
Mr. Truman stumped Texas
today with a new series of
charges against the GOP. - He
started speaking at dawn in San
Marcos and after stops at Waco,
Dallas and Fort Worth, makes
a major farm speech tonight in
Bonham, the home town of Hep.
Sam Rayburn, D., Tex.
Mr. Truman said in Austin
that the "Republican do-noth
ing congress" also had tried "to
put the farm co-operatives out
of business.
He praised the long succes
sion of national leaders pro
duced by Texas and pointed to
some of them standing with him
Rayburn, the house demo
cratic leader, and Attorney
General Tom Clark.
Mr. Truman said he was wag
ing his campaign of "telling
the facts" because "between 80
percent and 90 percent of the
press are against the democrat
ic administration because they
(the press) are for the special
interests."
The president also said the re
publicans were not talking
about issues in the campaign
"They're talking about home
and mother and what a beauti
ful country this is," he said.
"I'm telling you the truth."
Swiss Reject Schacht
Bern, Sept. 27 VP) Switzer
land has refused asylum to for
mer German Finance Minister
Hjalmar Schacht, the Swiss for
eign ministry announced today.
German appeals court recently
acquitted him of being a nazl
offender.
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Bones in Polk County
Well May Be Mexican
Possibility that the bones found in the bottom of a 32-foot
well on the old Fry place a mile and a half from the Popcorn
school may be those of a Mexican is being investigated by Tony
Neufeldt, Polk county deputy sheriff.
Deputy Sheriff Neufeldt has found that several Mexican fruit
pickers had lived in the house
during the last four years and
that at least two of these resem
ble the discription of the victim
given by the state police crime
detection laboratory at the Uni
versity of Oregon medical
school in Portland.
The victims, from scientific
examination of the bones, was
said to be between 30 and 40
years old, weighing between
145 and 155 pounds and had
coal black hair. This lends cred
ence to the possibility that it
was a Mexican national. The
jones were in the well as esti
mated two to 10 years.
The house near the well is
jne of three on 320 acres pur
chased four years ago from the
Allen Fruit company which had
operated the property for 11
years under lease from the Ladd
and Bush bank as part of the
Fry estate.
During this period several
hundreds of fruit pickers have
camped on the property, of
which is in orchards, and the
houses have been occupied by
several tenants. That the vic
tim apparently came from this
class is the opinion of Deputy
Sheriff Neufeldt, who says that
no one answering the descrip
tion given by the crime labora
tory has ever been reported
missing in Polk county.
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. ,' Salem Greets Pewey. for President Crowd estimated at
3500 greets Governor Thomas E. Dewey as his Victory -Special
arrives at the Salem .depot this morning. Schools dis
missed, for the occasion and a large number of students
were in attendance. Below: Dewey speaking from the plat
form of his train told his audience that republicans would not
appoint communists to office and then try to get thorn out.
."They would not get in to begin with," Dewey assured his
hearers. From left: B. E. (Kelly) Owen, Mrs. Dewey and
Governor Dewey.
Suit to Shut-Off
City Water Tried
Suit of Gardner Bennett against the city of Salem seeking to
restrain the city from taking more water from the North Santiam
river for Its city water supply than that granted it under, an
adjudication decree in circuit court by Judge David vandennerg
in February, 1945, went to trial in circuit court here Monday
morning before Circuit Judge
Charles Combs of Lakeview, as
signed to the case by the su
preme court. . '
The plaintiff is seeking a de
cree to compel Floyd L. Sieg-
mund, county water master, to
shut the headgates of Salem's
diversion works whenever in
the division of water between
Salem and the plaintiff makes
it necessary to do so.
Bennett as successor to A. D.
Gardner who sold the Stay-
ton island property to Salem and
water use for its city water sup
ply, states he uses water de
creed to him in the adjudication
for generating power for man
ufacturing purposes, part of it
is used by Stayton to drive a
turbine which operates pumps
furnishing the Stayton water
supply and part of it is used by
a public utility company for
generation of electricity for use
by the people of Stayton.
He avers that these uses re
quire all the water to which the
plaintiff is entitled and any dim
inution in the amount inter
fers with these processed so he
asks the city of Salem be en
joined from using any greater
amount of water than what he
alleges it is entitled and that
the watermaster be required to
guard Its headgates against any
greater use.
The city of Salem, on the
other hand, avers that when it
acquired the Stayton Island
property and expended over
$900,000 on It and its develop
ment, it had the promise of A.
D. Gardner there would be
plenty of water for everybody
and his rights would not be in
terfered with and it contends
the plaintiff should be estopped
from setting up his present contentions.
In reply the plaintiff cites
proceedings had previously and-
that the city in turn is stopped
from setting up any such defense.
(Concluded an Page 15, Column 1)
Terror Reigns
In Albania
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Sept.
27 UP) Resistance to the Alban
ian government's split with Pre
mier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia
has caused a reign of terror in
Albania, according to press re
ports here.
The reports said Albanian au
thorities have issued orders for
their militia to shoot on the spot
anyone showing pro-Yugoslav
sympathies.
The Montenegrin peoples
front newspaper Pobeda, pub
lished in Tsetinje, capital of
Montenegro, near (he Albanian
border, was the source of the
dispatches printed in Belgrade.
The newspaper said many Al
banians were fleeing into Yugo
slavia, including army officers
and militia men. It was one of
these militia who said he had re
celved orders to shoot anyone
showing sympathy for Tito.
Albania has aligned herself
with the Cominform (communist
international information bur
eau) in Its denunciation of Tito
THE WEATHER
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Partly cloudy tonlftht, in
creaslni cloudiness Tuesday with
intermittent rain. Slightly
warmer temperatures In after
noon. Lowest temperature ex
pected Tuesday morning, 48 de
grees; highest, 64. Intermittent
rain will hinder farm work Tues
day. Maximum yesterday 63.
Minimum today 49. Mean tem
perature yesterday 50 which was
g below normal. Total 24-hour
precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today,
.34. Total precipitation for the
month 198 which Is .68 of an
Inch above normal. Willamette
liver height at Salem Monday
morning, -2.1 feet.
The Political Parade
(By the Aaaoctated Preu)
What the candidates are do
ing today: (All times are Pa
cific Standard)
Democrats
President Truman cam
paigns in Texas with speeches
at Fort Worth (12 noon), Dal-
lar (2:30 p.m.) and Bonham
(6 p.m.).
Sen. Alben W. Barkley,
vice-presidential candid ate,
speaks at Asheville, N. C, at
5 p.m.
Republicans
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
moves into Oregon and Wash
ington with major speeches
at Portland (12:15 p.m.) and
at Seattle (8:30 p.m.). He
also makes a 20-minute rear
platform speech in Tacoma,
Wash. (5:05 p.m.).
Gov. Earl Warren, v 1 c e
presidential candidate, con
tinues New York tour with
stops at Rochester, Syracuse,
Utica, Schenectady, Albany,
and then Springfield, Mass.,
where he will deliver a major
talk (6:15 p.m.).
Progressive Party
Henry A. Wallace swings
into Texas with regional ra
dio speech at Dallas (7:30 p.
m.).
Sen. Glen Taylor, vice-
presidential candidate, moves
into New Jersey with Tren
ton and New Brunswick ap
pearances on his schedule. '
No national network broad
. casts.. . .
Seek Contract
With Firemen
San Francisco, Sept. 27 VP)
Pacific shipowners today tried
to woo the independent Marine
Firemen's union away from four
other striking west coast mari
time unions, all CIO.
"We want a contract with
your union," said an open let
ter from the Pacific American
Shipowners' association to Vin
cent J. Malone, firemen's union
president.
"We can and will do busi
ness with responsible union
leadership. . We believe that
means you."
The shipowners also reiter
ated their stand against further
negotiations with unions whose
leaders have refused to sign
non-communist affidavits.
The second army ship loaded
since the strike began made
ready to sail for the Orient to
day. The first, the Tom Trea
nor, got off Saturday. They
were loaded by CIO longshore
men under a contract between
the army and a stevedoring
firm which does not belong to
the Waterfront Employes' association.
Bv JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Washington, Sept. 27 VP) The
complete collapse of secret talks
with Russia over the Berlin cri
sis advanced the cold war to a
new and highly explosive stage
today.
Authorities are frankly uncer
tain what may happen next.
The failure of the secret di
plomacy which the western pow
ers have been practicing in the
of reaching a settlement with
the Kremlin was revealed by the
state department last midnight.
Threat to Peace
At that hour the department
made public a 3,000-word note
accusing Russia of bad laith in
the Berlin negotiations and of
creating "a threat to interna
tional peace.
Published at the same time
was a heretofore secret record
of 24.000 words which top dip
lomats said proves the Soviets
are bent upon using the "ille
gal" blockade to force the west
ern powers out of the German
capital.
The heavy volume ot docu
ments which the state depart
ment released as a "white pa
per" show what really occurred
in the negotiations over Berlin
dealt at length with the role of
Premier Stalin and the unex
pected breakdown that occurred
after he had agreed the blockade
should be lifted.
Stalin's Agreement
American Ambassador Walter
Bedell Smith and the envoys of
Britain and France had two
meetings with the Soviet pre
mier and Foreign Minister Mol
otov. Stalin, at the end of two
hours of talk, said he was ready
to settle the Berlin situation
without delay.
He said, according to the state
department record, that Soviet
occupation currency should be
used throughout Berlin and that
simultaneously with its accept
ance by the west "all transport
restrictions" that is the block
ade would be removed.
Second Stalin Talk
He also agreed that he would
not insist on having the western
powers scrap their plans for
regional government in western
Germany, although it was the
"Insistent wish" of his govern
ment that the plans should be
abandoned.
The second meeting with Stal
In occurred on August 23. It
resulted in a "final agreement
In principle between Russia
and the western powers (a) the
blockade should be uncondi
tionally lifted and (b) the west
would accept Soviet currency in
its sectors of Berlin but under
four-power rather than single
Soviet control.
Around those major points,
the four governments sent in
structions to their military com
manders in Germany to make
the agreement effective in de
tail.
Bad Faith Shown
It was at this point that the
alleged bad faith occurred. Mar
shal Vassily Sokolovsky, accord
ing to the record, began trying
to attach conditions which the
United States, Britain a n
France considered a violation of
their agreement with Stalin. In
the main, the Russian command
er sought to insist that with the
lifting of the blockade the So
viets would take control of all
transnortation into Berlin,
The western powers stood
firm. They feared that would
allow the Russians to impose
new blockade at any time and
west then would be unable to
overcome it with the same kind
of air lift that so far has minim
ized the effect of the present
land blockade.
From that point on, the east
west negotiations went down
hill fast.
Paris, Sept. 27 VP) The
em powers sent the Berlin
the security council tP
and British Foreign Seen)
Ernet Rfvln Immprlintelv
pressed fear it might wreck J
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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
United Nations.
In Berlin, a Russian-con
led newspaper echoed his wi
saying that if the western l
prs force a UN debate on B
a wedge will be driven '
the UN which may split thi
tire world organization." '
If such a thing should ci;
to pass and if the "black f
of atomic war should fo
Bevln told the United NaU,
assembly, the fault woulotid
Russia s and Russia s alone nt
But, he added: 'en
"It is better to have our' r'
ficultles now than to live '
fool's paradise."
Open Attack Thursday
A big four delegate said
western powers B r i 1 1
France, and the United Stat
expect to open their attacljj?
Kussia s inree-montn-oia m
ade of Berlin Thursday in
security council.
Alexandre Parodi. Frat
security council delegate, -1
present plans call for hand
the security council the p
lem of a section of the U
charter which deals v
threats to peace and inte
tional security. That means.
west Is risking a Soviet ve
or a walkout. 1
The three powers acci
Russia last night of threatei
world peace by her action;
Berlin. They re-emphas
their determination to staj
the city an island of four-F
er territory deep In the 1
sian zone and reserved
rignt to take such steps as (
be necessary to do it. I
Bevin's Speech Cheered
Bevin s speech so emotli
that his voice broke as he ca
on Russia to "open up the w
and let light and knowle
come in" got a roaring, ch
ing reception from the d
gates. All the big powers
their chief delegates on the f
for the event. Listening in v.
U. S. Secretary of State J
shal, Soviet Deputy Fori
Minister Andrei Y. Vishin
and French Foreign Mini
Robert Schuman.
(Concluded on Pago 15, Colum;
Moscow Silent,
On Berlin Crisi
Moscow, Sept. 27 U.R)'
decision of the western pow
to take the Berlin crisis to
United Nations Security Co;
cil was not made public here
day.
There was no official c
ment.
It was pointed out that
Soviet positions regarding ju
diction of the United Nations
the German problem was sta
strongly and clearly in the
cent comment of the newspa;
Pravda on a report by UN S
retary Trygve Lie.
Yakov Victorov, Pravda's f
eign editor, wrote that "Tryi
Lie's report tries to go beyc
the framework of the questn
within the Jurisdiction of
United Nations."
"For instance, he permits
possibility of raising questii
regarding Germany though
excellency knows that regu
tlon of the peace and conl
nuentlv the Hprmnn nnpeti
lies within the exclusive iur
diction of the council of forei
ministers," Victorov said.
The Russian people got th
first report on the Berlin cri
only yesterday. Extensive pn
and radio releases blamed t
western powers for the disputi
Russia May Use
Her Double Veto
Paris, Sept. 27 VP) Rus!
may try to bar admission
the Berlin quarrel to the secu
ity council by using the doub
veto, a high eastern delegate
the United Nations said today.
The double veto is a devl
developed by Russia. She h
used It three times in the secu
ity council in the Spanis
Greek and Czechoslovak cases
Here is the way it might wot
In the Berlin dispute: Russ
could vote against admission i
the issue to the security com
cil's agenda and then argue thi
her negative vote was a veto
If the other council men
bers challenge this. Russi
would then use the veto asai
to override their challenge. Ur
dcr the UN chprter. the vet
does not apnly U, questions ri
procedure, but does apply i
there is a difference among th
big powers over vhether I
question is biucedurul, I
;