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All-Republican Control Board Seems Assured McKay Chances Run Strong GOP Cause, Aided by Dewey Visits Capital Text of Stalin's jMukden Said Violated Pact iCaptured by TalO " Price Five Cents -.Never Signed Chinese Reds 60th Year, No. 260 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, October 30, 1948 Bfttur at &&, Or mob By JAMES D. OLSON Despite an upsurge In demo cratic registration in Oregon the republican lead In the slate having been cut down to 12,391 all indications point to elec tion of a republican board of control at next Tuesday's gen eral election. Virtually every newspaper In the state has thrown support to Douglas McKay. GOP nominee for governor. Earl T. Newbry and Howard Belton, nominees for secretary of state and state treasurer. Election polls and reports ' from the various counties In the state indicate victory for these three candidates. All three of the candidates served in the state senate last session and all are up state men. If elected, it will be the first time in many years that Port land will not have a man on the board of control. Another republican observers report looks like a winner is At torney General George Neuner, another former state senator and also ex-United States attor ney. Neuner has served In his present post for five years. His opponent, William B. Murray. Portland lawyer, has made an aggressive campaign, utilizing a great deal of bill board space throughout the state. Not Too Much Money One obstacle that the demo crats have faced in the present campaign is lack of funds. Monroe Sweetland, democratic national committeeman, in a letter to democratic precinct workers, made an appeal for funds, stressing that such funds were not for the benefit of any candidate in the present race but would be used for the "upbuild ing" of the democratic party In Oregon. As a result of the lack of funds In the democratic election fund, candidates of this party have been forced to use their own funds or take time to so licit their own campaign funds. Another blow to the democrat ic' aspirants was the fact that the national democratic commit tee' did not send President Tru mai to campaign In Oregon this fall.. Apparently feeling that there was little chance to win the state, the party leaders just passed the state up and the lesser candidates lost an opportunity to shine under the spotlight of a presidential appearance in the state. (Concluded on Page 13, Column 8) Ball Park at Spokane Burns Spokane, Oct. 30 M" The ill fated Spokane Indians home baseball park, destroyed in a spectacular fire last night, will be rebuilt of concrete and steel, co-owner J. Lamar Butler said today. "Spokane will have baseball in 1949," Butler said in a tele phone interview from Los An geles. The fire started from un known causes in the grandstand shortly after 8 p.m. Within a few minutes the flames were roar ing through the wood stands out of control. Acting Fire Chief Charles Burger said there was little chance to curb the blaze by the time firemen arrived. "Our biggest difficulty was lack of hydrants," he said. "We had to lay hose from two blocks away." The destruction of Ferris field was the second major cala mity to strike the team in three yeari. Two years ago the club was virtually wiped out by a bus crash. Last year the "In dian sign" on the Indians was reflected In their losing the western International league pennant race by one percentage point. This year they won the championship in an amazing rally at the finish, only to lose their home park. Butler said that he and co owner Buddy Ryan will start construction of new grand stand as soon as material is available. Bonus and Old Age Proposals Opposed Portland, Ore.. Oct 30 UB Executive Secretary James T. Marr of the Oregon Federation of Labor today was on record) against general election meas ures which would provide a vet eran bonus and old age pension schedules. ' T- i . i : .... .... ...an in m rauio uun saia inr lo measures would "vitally af- tect taxation and Indirectly un dermln fiscal stability." Presidential Campaigns End In Home States 'By the AMOckated Pre&s) President Truman and Gov Thomas E. Dewey ring down the curtain on their presidential campaigns tonight with address es before home-state audiences. But before the final balloting, they plan to return to the na tional stage with curtain call pleas for vote support in next Tuesday's election. Mr. Truman's special train was Missouri-bound, with St. Louis the last stop on a cross country talking tour that in cluded every section of the na tion. Goes to Independence After his speech there tonight, the president will stay at his home in Independence until after the November 2 balloting. Regardless of the outcome, he plans to go to Key West, Fla., later in the week for an extend ed vacation. Dewey winds up his second effort to win the presidency for the republicans with a speech tonight in Madison Square Gar den. Arriving in New York yester day aboard his "Victory Spe cial" train, the GOP candidate expressed confidence his party will get not only the White House prize, but congressional control as well. Dewey rode into Manhattan from a New England stumping tour in which he pledged, if elected, to unite the country be hind a strengthening movement for peace, aided by promised harmony between the White House and congress. Both Hit at Records Asserting that the democrats have made "tragic concessions" in dealing with world problems, Dewey told a New Haven crowd: "You can't buy peace by giv ing away other people's free dom." Mr. Truman lashed out at the GOP record on foreign affairs last night in a Brooklyn address which concluded a whirlwind two-day vote hunt in New York City. In the 267th speech of his campaign, the president assert ed that the republicans crippled tne reciprocal trade agreements program and tried to twist the European recovery plan from one of "world reconstruction to one of hand-out relief." Calls GOP Isolationists In addition, he said, "the re publican party's record shows that it is not free from forces of isolationism." "These are some of the rea sons why the American people would make a mistake if they should entrust the future of our country to a republican presi dent and a republican congress for the next four years," Mr. Truman added. Saying he does "not believe war is inevitable," the president promised to explore every pos sible means, "no matter how dif ficult or unconventional," to reach agreement with the Rus sians. Henry Wallace followed the president into Harlem last night with the charge that Mr. Tru man was making "shallow, hol low, worthless promises" on civil rights. "We will not sacrifice them to totalitarian aggression." Greek Cabinet to Resign Athens - Oct. 30 UPi Tti Greek government of Premier Themistokles Sonhnnli. will re sign within three days, the pre mier announced tonight. The cabinet was formed in Sentem. ber, 1947. Polls Favor Dewey But Democrats Discount Them Presidential polls were leaning heavily In Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's favor as the campaign neared its close, but nionificanre of the surveys is discounted by r-rtsiuciii iruman saia in a new York City speech Friday that the voters are "going to throw the Gallup polls right Into the ashcan." t Earlier, Sen. J. Howard Mc- Grath, democratic national chair man, had urged poll-taker Dr. George Gallup to "properly ad Just" his election surveys "so that the voters may know the truth." Gallup released his semi -fi nal round-up fo the nation Fri day, showing Dewey ahead in 31 states, with substantial leads in 19, and Mr. Truman out in front in 10 states, and slightly ahead In four others. Results of the latest newspa per polls in the presidential race, including the candidate each newspaper is supporting, art at follows; I President of Peru Deposed, Exiled to Chile Lima, Peru, Oct. 30 (Pi Jose Luis Bustamante, deposed as president of Peru by the army, left for exile In Chile early to day. Former Interior Minister Gen. Manuel Odria, leader of the suc cessful three-day revolt, prom ised to hold democratic elections as soon as possible in a broad cast from Arequipa, where the uprising broke out. Brig. Zenon Noriega, com mander of the second army di vision, was reported holding the reins of government temporar ily. Odria is expected in Lima today to appoint a junta and start a provisional government. Denounced by Odria Lima newspapers last night carried statements from Odria denouncing Bustamante. H e charged Bustamante had given the left-wing, outlawed Apra party which he characterized as "an international sect" com plete freedom to carry out "plans to proseletize the lower army ranks, inciting them to murder their officers and chiefs." The Apra party had been blamed by the government for an unsuccessful revolt earlier this month at Callao, Lima's port city. Odria, 52 years old, promised to restore order and normalcy in the country. He said he plan ned to convoke a national work ers' congress in which the basis would be laid for a better life for the working class and prom ised to improve the conditions of agriculture, Peru's basic indus try. Resigned to Fate The revolt, which started in Arequipa, named the "rebel city of Peru" because many revolu tions have been hatched there. showed no signs of engulfing L,ima until midday yesterday. Then it was learned the Lima garrison had thrown in its lot with the rebels. Bustamente, upon learning the capital garrison had joined the rebellion, apparently resign ed himself to his fate and waited at the presidential palace for the army to remove him from office. Army leaders met with Bus tamante late yesterday and de manded that he resign as the only way out of the crisis. He refused to resign and waited for the army to oust him. Laborifes Oiler British Steel Bill London, Oct. 29 WV-The la bor government published today its controversial steel national ization bill. Under it the gov ernment would become owner in 1950 of 107 companies capi talized at 195,000,000 ($780, 000). Conservatives, led by Winston Churchill, are fighting the meas ure. Labor, however, holds roughly a two to one majority in the house of commons. This makes adoption of the bill al most a certainty. The government indicated the bill will not be rushed. Poli tical writers predicted parlia ment will debate it for months and that final passage may be delayed until late in 1948. The bill is on the- eve of Britain's next general election, at which the program is expected to be a major issue. The bill proposes the govern ment will take outright owner ship through, a stock purchase arrangement of all firms which produce 50,000 or more tons of iron ore or 20,000 or more tons of other iron or steel products per year. democratic spokesmen. Chicago Tribune (supporting Dewey) straw vote of 82 down- state Illinois cities: Truman, 9, 853 votes; Dewey, 14,749. City of Chicago, Truman 14,998; votes: Dewey, 13,852. Chicago Sun-Times (support ing Truman) straw votes of Chicago: Truman, 12.267 votes; Dewey, 10.895. Chicago sub urbs: Truman, 2.264 votes, Dew ey, 4.491. Downstate Illinois (33 of 101 counties) Truman 6,- 944 votes: Dewey, B.850. New York Daily News (sup porting Dewey) statewide: Truman, 44 1 percent; Dewey. 49 2; Wallace, ( 6. , 4'S- X v i ' w V?-,f A.. i . , r. A I L -vN;v t-1- . Y l( A J5 r.' ''M"-'- - Dallas Awards Juvenile Hobgobblins Annual children's Holloween parade features several hundred youngsters array ed in festive costume. Top prize winners from left- Melvin Schulson, costumed as a duck; Joan Phillips who received the grand champion prize for her owlish regalia; David Marsters as ring master and Patty Lantis dressed as a fairy queen. Arabs Accept Order To Cease Firing Paris. Oct. 30 (U.R) United Nations headquarters reported to- nieht that Arab forces in North oWijmilPtmi, big scale tmmZVi.fW stopped, at least temporarily. '" Jewish military representatives had not accepted the UN order, truce officials notified the UN here, but agreed to refer it to the Israeli government in Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, they said, the heavy fighting which broke out along the entire northern front in Palestine during the night had subsided. The official reports to the UN said the truce took effect aft er the deadline of noon (GMT) (7 a.m. EST). A Haifa dispatch said earlier that the deadline had passed and the fighting still was going on. The official reports to the UN said the truce took effect after the . deadline of noon GMT (7 a.m. EST). A Haifa dispatch said earlier that the deadline had passed and the fighting still was going on. It quoted truce headquar ters officials in Haifa, and ap parently was superseded by the official report of the truce. Shell Strike Peace Negoti iations Fail San Francisco, Oct. 30 W Negotiations to settle the Paci fic coast oil refinery strike, now in its 57th day, broxe down completely at the Shell refinery Glenn Bowers, state supervis-T. or of the California conciliation service, issued the following statement: "Negotiations at Shell Oil company have broken down. Bargaining conferences have ad journed without setting a date for another meeting. "There appears to be no hope for an agreement at Shell Oil company in the early future. "The effect of this deadlock at Shell company on negotiations in other companies cannot be forecast at this time." 4 Die, 9 Injured In Chicago Fire Chicago, Oct. 20 (4; At least four persons perished and nine were injured in an early morn ing fire of unknown origin that destroyed a four-story brick apartment building on the South Side. Police estimated about 100 persons, occupants of the build ing's 35 aparements, fled or were carried to the street by firemen. Firemen carried about 25 oc cupants from the building at 6427-6429 South Harper ave nue. Most of those who escaped from the blazing structure made their way down a firt escape. Palestine had accepted a UN First Break in Maritime Strike San Francisco, Oct. 29 (Pi CIO marine engineers in San Francisco voted 230 to 56 last night to accept an agreement with employers interpreted by some as the first real break in the 58-day-old west coast mari time strike. Locals of the same union in Seattle, Portland and San Pedro will vole on the agreement tonight. Union officers were quick to point out the settlement, if ac cepted, will not mean any split in the maritime strike front, however, adding: "We do not consider signing the contract will bind us to cross picket lines, because under the contract we can terminate it if we are asked to cross picket lines Still on strike are four other unions. The Marine Engineers say they have not been on strike although all five unions at the outset announced none would sign a contract until all had reached satisfactory agreements with the employers, A shipowners spokesman s..c.. c gineers was a significant de velopment but that it could not be termed a pattern for negotia tions with tne other unions CIO Longshoremen; CIO Cooks and Stewards; Independent Ma rine Firemen, Oilers Watcrtend ers and Wipers; and Radio Operators (some AFL, some CIO). The Political Parade 'B th Aw ltpd PtMl What the candidates are do ing today: Tlm"s ire Ptelhe Sllndardl Democrats President Truman speaks at St. Louis, Mo., 7:30 p m. Sen. Alben Barkley, vice presidential candidate speaks at Evansville, Ind., 6:30 p m. Republicans Gov. Thomas E Dewey speaks at New York City, broadcasts over NBC, 6:30 p m Gov. Earl Warren, vice presidential candidate, in Cal ifornia, speaks at Anaheim, 10 am; Long Beach, 12 noon, and Los Angeles, 8 p m. Progressives Henry Wallace speaks af Philadelphia, 7:30 p m. Son. Glenn Taylor, vice presidential candidate, speaks at Salt Lake City, Utah, about 9 p m. it I French Jail 700 Mine Strikers Paris, Oct. 29 OP) Police said today they have jailed 700 Frenchmen and foreign in an attempt to end the 25-day-old coal strike. ' - The interior ministry an nounced today that police and arrfiy. occupation of the big fiortrlefnTSOal fields was mov ing 12 to 24 hours ahead of schedule. "There was no noticeable re sistance and no incidents,' the communique said. ine pro-communist newspa per Ce Soir said strikers were counter-attacking at the Bonncl mine, one of the 12 occupied to day. Fifty-two foreigners already have been thrown out of the country in fulfillment of Inte rior Minister Jules Moch's threat to expel any foreigner found taking part in demonstrations. rrencn mines employ many Poles and other eastern Euro peans. While the coal stoppage seem ed ebbing, communists pushed a dockers' strike to keep out coal imports. Troops at two French ports. La Rochelle and La Pa 1 1 ice, were unloading American coal shipments. Communist -led stevedores, sympathizing with the coal strike have refused to work at eight ports. Typhoon off Iwo Jirna Tokyo, Oct. 30 IPi A tropi cal storm with winds up to 75 miles an hour at its center was 275 miles northwest of Iwo Jima today and moving in a general northerly direction Center winds of the storm have varied from 65 to 75 miles an hour in the last two days. West Salem Hears Charges Hurled at Public Meeting By VKRNK AXKLSON West Salem, Oct. 30 Merger with Salem and assertions of in efficiency on the ptirt of prior opposition candidates were a public meeting called by Mayor been Indicated that merger was Mayor Musgrave asserted thnt-T the question of merger is not of the essence at this time, but that the voters should determine what type of administration can host conduct the city's affairs if West Salem continues as an in dependent municipality. A decision should be made by the voters, according to Mayor Musgrave, as to whether they de sire an administration which takes the citizens Into Its confi dence or an administration which prefers to keep city issues In the dark. Evidence of marked lnefficl-y bv repr,.nn,ivr of nrn ln. ency by past dministrations!rtu.,tnp, wrio think the qnrs'ion prevailed when he took office,, h,ive bp,inng jnri,. two years ago, he declared. ,rj development. O F. Sni There were no maps or only in- dor. manager of the Blue lake adequate maps of sower Instal-'pdncp,.,, enumerated his Iations, water mains and meter ! plant's worries as maintenance locations, no records of citv!0 iU(fjcient water supply for op property and only 73 percent of eratlon, adequate fire protection, the water consumers were pny-,,PV,Kgt. ritffm,n nd high insur ing metpred rates, he said. anee rates. It was indicated that torn ma-J (Concluded en Past 11. Column li Proposal Drown by Argentine Never Submitted to UN Moscow, Oct. 30 iTi Prime Minister Stalin's argument with the west over Berlin dominated the Soviet press today. Mos- icow newspapers printed the text of what they described as a draft ! agreement on Berlin nullified i by the western powers. 1 Tass said this agreement whs reached between Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vi shinsky and Argentina's Juan A. Bramuglia "as representative ot the other interested powers." It would have called for lifting of the Berlin blockade simul taneously with the estrblishment oi Russian currency as the sole money for Berlin. This would have taken place by Nov. 20. I.ffort Abortive (Bramuglia did not represent tne western powers in the ne gotiations. He was speaking for the six neutral nations of the security council who were try ing to bring about a settlement. (The western powers' posi tion throughout has been that there would be no negotiation under duress and that thus the blockade should be lifted first. Bramuglia and the western powers' representatives denied Pans that any four-power agreement was in existence on the Berlin question. Russia ve toed Monday a Berlin settle ment which the western powers approved. (Western delegates in Paris said Vishinsky and Bramuglia might have agreed on a draft text, but that was as far as it went. They said Stalin was wrong in saying the west violat ed an agreement. Draft Agreement (In London, a British foreign office spokesman said there was a draft agreement, but only be tween Vishinsky and Bramuglia The spokesman said "Stalin's statement that the draft had been agreed to by the western powers bore all the traces of being directed at that part of world opinion which is not al lowed access to other sources of information." (In short he said, "It was in tended for uniinformed read ers.") GOP Outspends Democrats Washington, Oct. 30 (PThe republican party has spent more than 15 times as much money on house and senate campaigns as the democratic party. Final pre-election financial re ports filed with congress show that GOP senate and house cam paign committees spent $715, 749 up to Thursday, compared with a democratic total of $46. 999. The committees' reports did not include all money collected and spent by the candidates themselves, nor money spent on congressional campaigns by oth er groups such as labor unions. The statements covered only what was collected and spent by the party on Its house and sen ate candidates. The full campaign-spending story will not be told until the end of the year, when all po litical groups are required to file their annual financial state ments. Candidates must file their own final reports wllhin election. The home-stretch figures also showed the republican nntional committee ahead of its demo cratic counterpart on spending. city administrations of whii-h the part, dominated Friday night's Waller Musgrave though it had not to he on the agenda. jor drainage problems could have been averted had proper maps been available. Councilman Don Kulin. ufui attended the meeting, defended the position of accused city of ficials. He said that there had been maps at one time and that the water commission had the responsibility of formulating maps of the watrr and sewer systems and their preservation. Merger with Salem was press ed into the Hicriiacinr, npinit.nl. Greatest Confusion Reigns and Repo'ts Conflicting Nanking, Oct. J!) T Com munist troops swooped on .Muk den today and either wrested that greatest Manrhurian city from the Chinese government or were prepared to do so at their leisure. Usually reliable sources said the reds had won complete con trol of the city. Other equally reliable sources late tonicht said they had closely ringed the city but had not fully completed its occupation. These last accounts, stated tho. last group of government offi cials had fled at S p.m. in auto mobiles, in a desperate effort to break through the communist circle. Greatest Confusion They said no authority what ever remained in Mukden and the entire city was in "the greatest confusion." Foreigners left in Mukden in cluded U.S. Consul General An gus Ward and his wife. Consu late Secretary Mary Eleanor Ra den of Dysart, Iowa, Adminis trative Officer Ralph Rehberg of Rochester, N.Y.; and some other members of the Ameri can and other foreign consular staffs. The American consulate was reported well supplied with food under guard within its compound. Whereabouts of the garrison commander. Gen. Wei Li-Huang was unknown here. Chinese in Flight His troops last were-ported trying to fight their way south ward from the city. Their ob jective was not clear in Nan king but it was believed they were trying to reach one of two evacuation ports in Manchuria Yingkow and Hulutao, both on the Gulf of Chihli and about 100 miles south of Mukden. Sources here considered it un likely that many of the 150,0 nationalist troops managed to escape red forces who held the corridor to Chinhsien, 125 miles south of Mukden. Large forces on both sides have been engaged in a see saw battle for the past 72 hours in the Mukden area. More than 400,000 men were,, reported committed to battle. The nalionnl government has been plagued with large scale desertions of troops in pM.-t months. It was considered like ly some of those in 12 divisions the communists said they cap tured near Mukden earlier this week deserted. Chiang Kai-Shek himself flew here late in the day from his field headquarters at Peiping, where he had been directing the north operations since Oct. 15. His arrival was considered by observers to mean drastic de velopments had sent him rush ing back here. U. S. Election Halls UN Action Paris, Oct. 30 f Tht tum ult of the American elect io reverberated in the nearly empty meeting halls of the Unit ed Nations today as the world body prepared for an extra long week-end holiday. Discussion of nearly all ma jor issues came to a halt as the delegates, including Americans, wailed to see who will be the next president of the United States and what kind of congress the U. S. will have. The security council voted with two abstentions to shunt the touchy Palestine question into a subcommittee until some time after mxt Tuesday. The Soviet Union and the Soviet Ukraine abstained from the vot ing. By a fortunate circumstance the UN virtually was forced to c;ill a holiday for Monday Just at a tune when discretion called for one. Monriiiy, alt Saints Hay, is a national holiday in France and the UN is taking the day off too. The following d;y is elec tion riav in the United States. Top-ranking AmcrU an diplo mats scatterrd for the week end. Secretary of State Marshall went to London on what US em bassy spokesmen in Lend on said was a "purely personal and pri vate visit." THE WEATHER ' Releapi hv United eMa'e Wea'her Bureau Korem.t for Salem and Vicin ity: Mofi'Iy cloihty with ahpners tniuuli! , beroming nMly cloudy with ocfri.nnii.i hnwt--r;, Siinirt.v. llW'Pt lrm;)rrRtlUT I'VtT'TCCl tO niiMit. 42 tW'viPfY Siri rtev. M MnximuM yvH'riiy .'. 'Minimum Uxlnv 4?. Mmp tem perature ysterdv M h.rh 7 he low normal Total 24-hour precipitation to 11 30 am. todtv trac- Total precipitation for tne month 2nt htrh s 71 of an inch brlow normal. WllUmte river hMM a' Rplem Saturday n-orning -2 S feet.