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Rescue All But One Marooned porm Victim PlowsCutring Through Huge Snow Drifts in Midwest Kanui City, Nov. 20 UP) All but one of the hundreds of tra velera marooned in a blizzard yesterday In the Dodge City, Kas., area were accounted for today. Mri. Hal Laughlin, 30, of Jet more, Kas., still was missing, She was last seen Thursday when she left her stranded auto mobile to seek aid for her 73-year-old aunt, Mrs. Libby Sin clair, also of Jetmore. Huge snowdrifts are hampering wor kers seeking a trace of Mrs. Laughlin, an expectant mother. -Belmont Isolated Plows were cutting through South Dakota's drifts, but the town of Belmont, near Mitchell still was isolated. A northwest ern train, stalled at Adrian, was expected to be freed today. Meanwhile the storm appar ently was venting its fury on the lakes region. The 19.000 ton freighter Ro bert .Hobson, carrying a crew of 33, was blown aground at the entry of the Duluth-Super-ior harbor on Lake Superior. In the east another heavy windstorm damaged 19 planes at an airport in Corning, N.Y., with an estimated loss of $75, 000. , Trains Hours Late Communications still were slow in western Kansas and Ne braska which were hit hardest by the paralyzing storm yes terday. Trains were moving, but ma ny hours late. A derailment near Dodge City added to the Santa Fe's woes. Winter's first swoop across eastern Colorado, southwestern Nebraska and western Kansas had ridged the land with drifts from three to 20 feet deep. Trains, buses and motor cars were stalled. Telephone and power lines were down, and ma ny communities isolated. One death was reported. A 15-year-old girl died at Hut chinson, Kas., of diabetes when drifts blocked efforts to get her to a hospital. Lack of severe cold lessened the hardships. . 20 Hours Delay Trains on the Santa Fe. Union Pacific, and Rock Island lines were moving slowly today as snowplows rammed the tracks clear. Some trains were delay ed as much as 20 hours Friday. (Concluded on Page 13, Column 7) Counties Spurn Liquor Proposal County judges and commis sioners of the state refused to have the buck passed to them by the state liquor commission and to accept full responsibility in the issuance or beer licenses, re ports County Commissioner Roy Rice just back from the state convention of county officers held in Portland this week. "At present,' said the commis sioner, "we observe the request of the commission by the sher iff making an investigation of the character of the applicant for such license. When he turns a favorable report to us we send the same on into the commis sion unless objections are made. f that case we hold a hearing and file our findings with the commission. Whether or not the license is issued is then up to the commission. "We don t want any cnange in this procedure, nor did any of the counties. It is the liquor commission's Job to issue the license and it gets the fees therefore and should take the responsibility as it does now. The courts refused to have it shunted over to the counties or to accept it." Rice also said that the county officers strenuously object to a proposal in the interim commit tee on highways report which would fail to grant counties any share of an extra cent a gallon of gas on increased license fees if the committee's recommenda tions become law. He said if such increases are made the counties should get their 19 per cent of the proceeds the same as they do now from present avail able funds. "The committee's report showed in charts of their own engineers that 50 per cent of the urgent highway needs of the state is for county roads and such being the case they should receive their fair share of any Increase." Jap Officer to Hang Manila. Nov. 20 The Phil ippines war crimes tribunal to day sentenced Japanese Lt. Ichiro Yamanoue to hang for war crimes committed in 1944 on Negroes island. It was the 2ath hanging verdict handed out to Japanese soldiers In the Philippines. 60th Year, No. 278 Sponsors Take Old Age Pension Bill Into Court Portland, Nov. 20 (Pi Spon sors of the old age pension bill. approved by the people and called inoperative by the attor ney general, have retained an attorney to seek legal means of enforcement. Joe Dunne, spokesman for the group, revealed today that counsel had been employed. He said the intent of the pension group was to put a $50 floor under pensions. There was no other intent, he said, and "if anyone had read the bill in ad vance they would have known it." Attorney General George Neuner a week ago said the measure, in its legal standing, was merely an expression of policy. Action Unsettled As soon as passage of the measure became apparent, a state veterans department bond offer had no takers and the state's financial position was questioned on the ground the pension measure was far-reaching in its application and would skyrocket state costs. Dunne said today he would comment only through his at torney, Barnett Goldstein. Goldstein, when asked what action would be taken, said un til he had studied the attorney general's opinion he could not make a flat statement other than to say "the will of the ma jority will not be permitted to be thwarted or ignored by high ly technical and strange inter pretations o f constitutional laws." Attorney's Statement In more detail, he said: "The law's plain purport is to insure more adequate relief for the needy aged of Oregon under more just and humane regula tion than are now available. . . . To have this remedial legisla tion attacked by some as a mon strosity, is not only clearly un warranted, but is likewise in sulting to the 300,000 and more of our citizens who voted for its enactment. To attack it on the ground that the title of the bill was misleading and decep tive is not factually true. ... I can make the assurance that so far as I am able to assist, the will of the majority expressed at the recent election will not be permitted to be thwarted or ignored by highly technical and strange interpretations of con stitutional laws. ... Of course I agree that any law whether di rectly proposed by the people or enacted by their representa tives must square with consti tutional requirements." Says Stalin Living In Fools Paradise London. Nov. 20 OP) Philo- sophere Bertrand Russell de clared today the west must eith er fight Russia before she has the atom bomb or "lie down and let them govern us." ' 'Like all dictators, Stalin and the other Soviet leaders are living in a fool's paradise," 76-year-old Lord Russell told a London conference of school children and teachers. "They don't realize the strength of our resources and that the United Stales, Britain and the commonwealth and oth er western powers would win any war now. That is the main gravity of the situation." ' Russell said if the west wait ed until Russia had the atom bomb, it would find the Krem lin "much more difficult to ar gue with." The p h I losopher-mathemati- cian said he did not believe Rus sia had atomic weapons now because experimental explo sions would have been detected. Fighting Continues on All Flanks of Suchow Battle Nanking, Nov. 20 W Although government dispatches claim that the battle of Suchow is considered closed and a "complete victory" for nationalist forces, it is evident that fighting is still in progress. In fact the battle apparently is coninuing on all flanks of the northern Kiangsu bastion and the decisive action may be yet to be fought. Gen. Ho Ying-Chin, national defense minister, reporting to the executive yuan (legisla ture), said stiff fighting still is continuing in the vicinity of Nienchung, 33 miles east of Su chow, where a major Red force recently was set back. Ho said that government troops south of Suchow, on the line to Nanking, will be reinforced. A report on the Kiangsu sit uation to the Nanking Evening Post said four communist col umns under tha direction of Gen. G apital jk Journal II rt Enured u neon, r!ui . . i n a a i n "lV ..if D Vnurcd a ncood elftif matter at ealtm. Orso : Truman Thinks Any Depression Can Be Averted Key West, Fla., Nov. 20 m President Truman took a final swim in Gulf stream waters to day before returning to Wash ington for a momentous confer ence with Secretary of State Marshall. Mr. Truman will see the sec retary at the White House at 12:30 p.m. (EST) Monday. They will cover the whole field of foreign relations. He departs from the Boca Chica naval air station tomor row at 11 a.m. aboard his air force plane, the Independence, for the four hour flight to the capital. The president also will con fer Monday with W. Averill Har riman, roving ECA ambassador. Charles G. Ross, presidential press secretary, said the time of the appointment with Harri man had not been fixed. Mr. Truman let it be known through one of his closest asso ciates that he believes his admin istration can avert another de pression. Representative Sam Rayburn, speaker-to-be of the house, laid the administration position on the line here before flying, back to Texas and a speaking engage ment at Dallas tonight. If a major recession or de pression should come which I do not expect it will not be justified by our economic situa tion, but will be man-made," Rayburn told a news canference after emerging from talks with the president at the temporary Whie House ' here. Vacation at an End This jibed with Mr. Truman's position in campaign talks in which he contended another de pression could be avoided only by a democratic victory because of his party's position that the GOP would look after the rich and not all classes of the econ omy. Mr. Truman's vacation drew to a close today. He set out for the beach again for a swim and a sunbath his daily rou tine since his arrival two weeks ago. (Concluded on Pare 13, Column 8) Barkley Talks To AFL Meet Cincinnati, Nov. 20 W Vice President-Elect Alben W. Bark ley warned the AFL convention today against hoping for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act in the op ening weeks of the 81st congress. Barkley said that organization and procedure in the house and senate made some delay inevita ble. But he expressed the view that repeal of the labor law would be accomplished "as promptly as the rules of the house and senate permit." The 71 -year-old Kentucky sen ator in a speech to the conven tion reviewed the democratic party's campaign pledges to la bor and said it would be wise to remind ourselves of some of those on Jan. 3". Congress will convene on that date. In addition to repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and substitu tion of a new law based on ex perience under the Wagner act, Barkley said his party advocat ed a 75-cent minimum hourly wage and revamping of social security benefits. He said that old age pensions should be made uniform throughout . the United States and commented that "I am not prophet but the time may come when this obligation may have to be assumed by the fed eral government" in order to bring about at least a 50 percent increase in the benefits. Chen Yl had attacked govern ment positions along the Payi-chi-Nienchuang line, where the troops under Gen. Huang Po tao formerly were trapped in a Red pincers movement. The na tionalist air arm again was ef fective in upsetting the assualt, the report said. In view of the recent govern ment victories, the executive yuan passed a resolution to do nate 10,000,000 gold yuan to chow, Taiyuan and in eastern Shensi and Chahar provinces. Civic bodies throughout the na tion also have started drive to collect donations. Salem. Oreaon. Saturday. November ' cflrw,o W VifT' ;i " i '";X. k. f vB-1 Y v -f szZ LU f ir Prison Flax Mill Fired to Screen Escape Above, scene in Oregon State penitentiary yard Friday where truckload of burning flax was moved from the mill just after seven con victs who had set the fire in an escape attempt had been sub dued. Below, at right, Floyd Fisher, prison inmate who was stabbed when he tried to stop the escape. Others in the picture, top row, from left, Lawrence Ogilvie, John O. Pin- son and Allan Brumfield, lifers; below from left, Doyle Clark McCann, Paul L. Gardner, John Edward Ralph,' and Reuben Partlow. Pitchfork Fight in Prison Escape Plot A fight with pitchforks was the first clash Friday between Oregon State prison guards and seven convicts who set fire to the prison flax plant with intention of going over the wall behind a smoke screen. That's the way the attempted moments today. The short fight with the forks was bloodless, but Roland James. prison laundry superintendent. saved himself with scoop-shovel used as a shield. Guards in this part of the melee were Eddie May, Pete Luthy and George Bixier, all on duty in the flax mill A matter of minutes later, with pitchforks discarded, the guards wielded their saps, sev eral of the convicts were knock ed out, and the fight was over. The break was made soon aft er the noon lunch period. Moving without haste to the mill were the convicts employed there. Others, a large number of them, were trooping toward the island, a gathering place within the walls for inmates who are temporarily Idle. The break was made suddenly. The seven men broke from the lines and made a run toward the mill. They were John O. Pin son, Lawrence R. Ogilvie, and Allan Brumfield, all doing life raps for murder; Paul Leroy Gardner, doing a stretch for robbery; Doyle Clark McCann, doing 20 years for assault with intent to kill; John Edward Ralph, 12 years for robbery; and Reuben Partlow, grand larceny. Between the men and the flax mill was an eight-foot wall. They scaled it, and made the shed, and started setting the flax afire. Floyd Fisher, a prison inmate. made an effort to stop them. He was stabbed by one of the des peradoes. He is in the prison hospital with a body wound, but his condition is good. (Conclude don rase 13, Column I) Two 16-Year Girls Reported Missing To 18-year-old girls, one from Monmouth, were reported missing Saturday by Salem po lice. Eva Orsborn Finn, five feet. six inches tall and weight 120 was listed as missing by her par ents of Rt. 1, Monmouth. She had told them she was going to Portland to receive instruction to become a magazine saleswom an. The other girl, Vernice Bush- ie, five feet, one inch, weight 118. was reported missing by her uncle, B K. Wodezwoda, 740 S. Lancaster. 20. 1948 l&z ....nV0, .3lO ' v. crush-out was recalled in cooler British Liner's Crew Walks Off Southampton, Eng., Nov. 20 HP) A fourth of the crew walk ed off the liner Queen Eliza beth today in sympathy with striking American longshore men. Cunard officials said it would delay her departure for the United States at - least 25 hours. The walkout came suddenly 70 minutes before scheduled sailing time. A Southampton of ficial of the National Union of Seamen said the 300 crewmen involved struck not only in sympathy but also because they feared "being beaten up" by American dockers if the liner sailed for New York. The union official said the seamen also claimed they weuld be breaking faith with Ameri can longshoremen if they took the liner to Halifax, where Cunard ships have been dock ing during the eastern seaboard tieup. Cunard officials hurriedly conferred with strike leaders in an effort to end the walkout. Later they announced the ship could not sail before tomorrow at the earliest. About 1000 pas sengers, their luggage already stowed aboard, Idled about the decks or lolled In their cabins. Another 600 passengers arc waiting to board the ship at Cherbourg, France. Hot Spell In New York New York, Nov. 20 iP) Men shed their topcoats and women their furs today as the temper ature his 71 degrees at noon. Skating was abandoned on the water-covered Rockefeller Cen ter skating rink. THE WEATHER (Released by United Slates Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Colder tonight. Slightly warmer Sunday. Lowest tem perature expected tonight, 34 de grees; highgmt Sunday. S5. Max imum yesterday S3. Minimum to day 41. Mean temperature yes terday W which was 3 above nor mal. Total 34-hour precipitation to 11:30 a m today 03. Total pre cipitation for the month ill which Is 1.5s Inches above nor mal. Willamette river height at Salem, Saturday morning, 4 9 feet. m -w f . ..w - . ft TO,,, mi Price Five Cents tax 1 , -jn 1 "5 8 Ellis Guilty of Manslaughter Eugene, Nov. 20 (Pi Clar ence Ellis, 32-year-old Southern faciiic railroad section gang foreman, was found guilty of manslaughter in Lane county circuit court this morning by a jury of nine women and three men. The verdict was reached after 22 hours of deliberation. Ellis, a former resident of Tennessee, was accused of first- degree murder in connection with the death of Earl Bowers, 30-year-old Negro section hand, on a lonely mountain road near Cascade summit during the early hours of August 11. The trial opened Monday morning and District Attorney Ed Luckey and the defense. represented by William Huey and William Bartle, paraded 25 witnesses to the stand before the jury retired at 11:37 a.m Friday. Key to the prosecution's case was a signed statement made by Ellis to State Police Sgt. Harry Nelson at Oakridge the morn ing following the fatal shooting admitting shooting Bowers with a 12-gauge shotgun. Permit Issued for $44,556. Building A building permit was issued Saturday for a building to go up at 1342 State street which will house a new bowling alley and billiard parlor. The esti mated cost is $44,556. The permit was issued to Louis W. Rath, and the loca tion is the old Otto Wilson home place where the buildings have been torn down and the ground put into shape for the new building. The new building will be of concrete and soundproof A permit was Issued Saturday to Violet Pcnrod to move a one- story dwelling at 125 Abrams, at a cost of $250. CIO to Discipline Leftists Refusing to Follow Policies Portland, Nov. 20 (Pi The state CIO squelched its left-wingers today and followed its national leaders on policy. Resolutions called for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and en dorsed the Marshall plan. Efforts of a minority to keep the Marshall plan off the floor were defeated. The state body also called for: A comprehensive housing pro gram along the lines of tne lau- Ellendcr-Wagner bill. A boost of minimum wages. Extension of social security. Civil rights leg islation. A farm program In cluding price supports, farm credits and soil conservation. Resumption of price controls and curbs on corporation profits. Meantime Walter Reuther president of the United Auto Workers (UAW), firea an early cannon in what Is expected to be a CIO campaign foi a fourth round of post war wage raises Yesterday Reuther told a group of Portland businessmen, the City club, to get ready for a fourth round. He snid the UAW Is "already talking about a fourth round." l). S. and Britain Reject French Pleas for Ruhr Ignore Protest Against Rebuilding Germany's Industrial Power Paris, Nov. 20 M The I'nit ed States and Britain were re ported today to have turned down French pleas against re building Germany's industrial power. Observers said the 10-weck-old government of Premier Hen ri Queuille may not survive mounting parliamentary opposi tion to the British-American pol icy which conflicts with the French people's traditional de sire to keep Germany weak. After talks with French For eign Minister Robert Schuman, Secretary of State George C. Marshall and British Minister of State Hector McNeil were reli ably reported to have turned down a French plea to revise the German policies. Strengthen Safeguards Responsible American and British officials said, however, they promised to strengthen ev ery safeguard against possible renewed German aggression. The French government is ex pected to submit a memorandum this week-end registering their objections to: 1. The projected return of property rights in the Ruhr steel and coal industries to the Ger mans. 2. The British - American re fusal to extend the period of In ternational control of the Ruhr beyond the period of occupation To Revise Program 3. The British - American de cision to revise again the twice- reduced program for dismantl ing Germany's heavy Industries. This decision would cut down German reparations deliveries to France and revive French fears of a reconstructed German war potential. The government clearly con siders communism a greater menace to French security than a revived Germany. But that view is not shared by the French people at large. On the one hand the communists represent one-third of the popu lation and make up the country's strongest single party. On the other hand there is Gen. Charles De Gaulle's intensely nationalist French people's party which also represents about a third of the population. Ship Strikers Cut Demands 1By tht Aocltted Prrsj Striking east coast longshore men were reported today to have cut their original wage de mands in half, but there were scant indications the employers would accept the new figure. A source close to the negoti ations said the AFL Internation al Longshoremen's association has offered to settle the wage issue for a 25-cent hourly in crease in pay. The association originally demanded 50 cents. However, the New York Ship ping association, representing the employers, fixed a 10-cent hourly increase as Its utmost "concession." Meanwhile, the strike went into its 11th day, with every major Atlantic port paralyzed and 218 foreign and American flag vessels tied up. In South ampton, England, a fourth of the liner Queen Elizabeth's crew walked off their jobs in sympa thy with the striking American longshoremen. The walkout came an hour and 10 minutes before sailing time, and officials said it would delay the vessel's departure for the United States at least 25 hours. Both sides in the dispute will meet again today for further discussions In New York. He said, "If you haven't heard it, you'll hear it next week." By "next week" he meant the CIO convention which starts here Monday. Earlier this week in an in terview at Philadelphia Henry Ford II said a fourth round wage increase is "Inevitable." Reuther spoke with his right arm still useless and In a sling as a result of his mysterious shooting seven months ago in Detroit. But he seemed to have his old confidence and entlnn iasm. He said prices have risen so much that it would t.ike a raise of 15 cents an hour to give work ers the same purchasing power they had in June, 1946, and a raise of 43 cents an hour to put them where they were in 1944. U. S. Palestine Policy Favors Israel's Claims Negev Desert Should Not Be Taken With out Jews Consent Paris, Nov. 20 The Unit ed States told the United Na tions today the Negev desert area of southern Palestine should not be taken from Israel without full consent of the Jews The United States, in a lcr.g- awaited statement on Palestine, also told the 58-nation political committee to look forward to ad mission of Israel to the United Nations. Dr. Philip C. Jessup, the Am erican deputy, said the govern ment in Washington generally is in accord with the conclusions of the assassinated mediator. Count Folke Bernadotte, with the exception of certain princi ples concerning boundaries. Bernadotte Proposal Bernadotte proposed that the Negev be turned over to the Arabs and that the Jews take western Galilee in exchange. The Israelis, now in control of the Negev through a successful military offensive against the Egyptians, reject this. The Ne gev was allotted to them under the original U. S. partition plan. The political committee sched uled this special session on the Bernadotte plan after having in tended originally to adjourn for the week-end. The British already h a v t asked the United Nations to seek a solution in Palestine along the lines of Bernadotte's proposals. The Jews object be cause loss of the Negev would reduce Israeli territory by three fifths. The Arabs reject it be cause it would imply recogni tion of Israel as a state. Jessup Outlines Policy Jessup said: "The distinguished represen tative of the United Kingdom has presented it (the British proposal) with an invitation to amendment, and we might wish to avail ourselves of this invita tion at a later date." While Jessup said the United States supported Israel's claim to boundaries outlined in the or iginal plan, he added: "If Israel desires additions. It would be necessary for Israel to offer an appropriate exchange through negotitions." This was taken by observer! as an invitation to Israel to re nounce western Galilee, which its forces now hold, or to offer some part of the Negev in ex change for it. Preliminary Statement Jessup, whoses peech still was described as a "preliminary" statement, said of final Holy Land boundaries: "Our general view is that we must seek further agreement be tween the parties rather than at tempt at this time to draw spe cific boundary lines." The United States, Jessup said, is "inclined to the view that the conciliation commission which Count Bernadotte recommended should undertake further effort to bring about a settlement of boundary questions." Speaking of some 500.000 Arab refugees in Palestine, Jes sup said: "We believe that they should be permitted to return to their homes and that adequate com pensation should be arranged for the property of those who choose not to return." New Car Purchase Contracts Illegal Seattle, Nov. 20 7P A su perior court ruling yesterday held new car repurchase con tracts Illegal. In denying a suit brought by Seattle auto dealers against four new-car purchasers, Superior Judge James T. Lawlcr said such agreements are "one-sid ed," because they bind the buy er to resell to the dealer but do not bind the dealer to re purchase the car. The dealers contended the buyers viulatrri tluir contracts by selling their cars without giving first option to the firm where they were purchased. Joseph J. Lanzu. auto dealers counsel here, paid repurchase contracts will continue to b written pending a decision by the supreme court. Whistling Swans Killed at Baker Baker, Nov. 20 iP' Baker county' whistling swans aren't whistling much any more. Il legal hunting has killed most of them. State police reported the little flock, which grow from two birds three years ago to 17 this year, was almost annihilated during the geese season. The last state patrolman to go down to the Lower Powder district could sec only one swan. One hunter has pleaded guilty to shooting three of the big birds.
