Ask Approval
rOf $3 Billion
Columbia Bill
Senators Morse and
Magnuson Request
Sanction of House
Washington, May 26 Two
Pacific northwest senators to
day orfed a houie committee to
approve the proposed coorainai
ed S3.000.000.000 plan to de
velop the Columbia basin in the
Pacific northwest.
Senators Morse (R., Ore.) and
Magnuson (D Wash.) spoke for
the plan agreed to by the army
engineers and the reclamation
bureau.
Magnuson. however, called
attention to the administration's
bill to set up a Columbia val
ley administration to handle all
development in the area. He
said his approval of the coor
dinated plan is not to be con
strued as implying that it is a
satisfactory substitute for the
Columbia valley administration.
W Morse Silent on CVA
O Morse did not mention the ad
ministration bill as he called for
Immediate approval of the co
ordinated plan by congress.
Magnuson told the house pub
lic works committee that a hear
ing on the CVA bill will open
before the senate public works
committee tomorrow
Expressing belief the people
of the northwest area should
have an opportunity to voice
their view of the proposed CVA,
Magnuson said he intends to
"exert every influence I have
to Insure that hearings are held
at appropriate places in the
Columbia valley."
"In my Judgment," he said in
a prepared statement, "consid
eration of the Columbia valley
administration bills should not
delay action by your committee
and the congress on the coor
dinated report."
Morse told the house commit
tee in his statement.
"I consider that the proposed
plan is urgently needed at this
time to relieve the flood situa
tion in the Columbia river basin
and that It affords a sound
framework for long-range de
velopment of the basin.
"The early accomplishment
of the work provided plan will
permit the realization of great
benefits in this river basin.
1 -T an In ,,11 anenrA wllh tVlO
1 recommended plan of the im-
provement and I believe that it
ahould be enm-oved bv congress
so that it may be initiated with
out delay.
Morse asked the committee to
authorize more money for con
tinuing Improvement' of the
Willamette basin in Oregon to
date, he said, congress has au
thorized $77,000,000 but more
money is needed to that work
now started can be completed
and needed new work under
taken. Indict Bridges
For Perjury
San Francisco, May 26 VP)
Harry Bridges, leftwing West
Coast labor leader, and two of
his top aides were indicted by a
federal grand Jury yesterday on
perjury and conspiracy charges
stemming from Bridges' citizen
ship hearing in 194S.
The Immigration service im
mediatley filed a civil complaint
seeking to revoke Bridges' citi
zenship. This action declared
Bridges was not only a commu
nist at the time he became a
citizen, but still is.
Many West Coast observers in
V terpreted the double barrelled
action as signalling the start of
a third government attempt in 10
years to deport the 47-year-old,
Australian-born Bridges He is
president of the CIO Interna
tional Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's union.
Indicted with him were J. R
Robertson, first vice president of
the ILWU. and Henry Schmidt
members of the longshore coast
labor relations committee and
former president of Bridges' lo
cal here. Bail for each was set
at (5,000.
The union promptly assailed
the indictments as "a political
frame-up' by the Truman ad
ministration and an attempt to
put the union out of business.
THI WEATHER
(Releawd by U. S.
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Increasing cloudiness, be
coming cloudy vlth showers to
night and Friday. Slightly cool
er Friday. Lowest temperature
expected tonight. 52 degrees;
highest Friday, 73. Agricultural
activities will be hindered by
'howery weather Friday. Maxi
mum yesterday 81. Minimum to
lay 45. Mean temperature yes
.erday S3, which was I abort
normal. Total 34-hour precipi
tation to 11:30 a.m. today 0.
Total precipitation for the
month 3.07 Inches, which Is 21
of an Inch above normal Wil
lamette rlrer height at Salem
rhuraday morning 1.7 feet.
61st Year, No. 125
$29,175,223.04
Income Taxes
Paid This Year'
By JAMES D. OLSON
Collections of income and
corporate taxes by the state dur
ing the first four months of
1949, amounting to $29,175,
223.04 were only slightly under
the collections made during the
same months in 1948, when the
total was (29,425,585.05.
Earl L. Fisher, retiring head
of the income tax Civison of the
tax commssion, said Thursday
that returns thus far made indi
cated that the net collections of
1948 taxes during the present
year would be a least as great
as those collected during the last
year.
Since 1940 income and cor
porate taxes in this state have
grown by leaps and bounds,
Fisher said. For instance, the
total collections in 1940 were
only (3,530,165.78.
Collections Increase
Year by year the collections
increased and in 1943 individ
ual taxpayers and corporations
paid the state a total of (12,150,-
175.37.
Through passage of the so-
called Walker plan, a rebate to
income taxpayers was granted
during the next two years with
the result that the net taxes
credited to the department in
1944 fell to (6,372.599.90 and
in 1945 to $11,679,671.89.
The rebates were suspended
during the years to follow and
again the total taxes paid to the
income tax division began to
climb. In 1946 the collections
totaled $16,074,353.38; in 1947.
$20,339,911.75; and in 1948,
$29,425,585.05.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 8)
Dog Graduates
At Lebanon Hi
Lebanon, Ore., May 26 VP)
uraduatlon exercises were held
at Lebanon high school today
for Freddie, a little brindle dog
of uncertain ancestry.
Principal Burleigh Cash, who
presented a diploma to Freddie
before a student assembly, said
probably no regular student had
attended as many classes In the
past five years as Freddie.
When his master, Jody Blount
who will be graduated next
month was unable to attend
school for a day or two, Freddie
went anyway. There was a seat
for him in each classroom and
he sat, or sometimes dozed, in it.
No athlete himself at some 15
pounds, Freddie managed to get
on the field at every football
game and the floor at every bas
ketball contest Everyone learn
ed to take it as part of the game.
For his graduation nothing was
missing, processional, address by
the principal, and recessional.
AFL Plans Fight on
Sen. Robert A. Taft
Atlantic Citv. N J Mav 2ft
MP) AFL President William
Green promises to muster "ev
ery ounce of strength" of labor
to defeat "that outstanding re
actionary. Sen. Taft" in 1950.
In his address yesterday at
the Inter national Handbag,
Luggage, Belt and Novelty Wor
kers convention. Green also
singled out for defeat southern
democrats who "unite against
labor."
Illegal Used Car Racket
Flourishing in Salem
' By CHRIS KOWITZ
A menacing used car racket is flourishing in Salem.
That innocent-looking newspaper ad from a "private party";
that car with a "For Sale" sign in its window parked at your
neighborhood service station they may be part of the automo
bile curbstonlng trade, a racket which is growing bigger day
by day In this city,
A eurbstoner is one who buys'
and sells used cars regularly
without a lot, license or bond.
He seldom handles a car with
proper title transfer, and he
never guarantees his wares. window. He then drives about
According to an Oregon state town until he locates a used
law, no individual may selPcar lot with an auto of the same
more than three cars within a make and model. Perhaps the
period of 12 months unless he dealer is asking (1095 for his
is licensed as a used car dealer., car. The curbstoner parks his
Any unlicensed person selling, car on the street in front of the
more than his annual quota
and there are quite a few doing
so In Salem right now is con
ducting a practice in direct vio
lation of a state law.
Bow They Got the Name
The name "curbstoners" was
given the racketeers because
many of them operate from the
curbstonei on the city streets.
A pet practice Is to place a "For
Sale" sign In the window of a
vehicle, then park the car next
to the curb in front of a legiti
mate used car lot
G apital A Journ
'ZSXfJSTSZ Salem,
Truman Defends
Lilienthal and
Atomic Board
Washington, May 26 W
President Truman came to the
defense today of Chairman
David E. Lilienthal of the
atomic energy commission who
is under fire in congress.
Mr. Truman told a news con
ference the atomic program is in
good hands and in good shape.
He said he knows of personal
knowledge how the program has
developed. And he deplores, he
added, the blowing up of rela
tively trivial items in an attempt
to reflect on the atomic chair
man.
A senate-house commi'tee be
gan an investigation today of
the commission's work. The in
quiry was touched off in part
by demands from Senator Hick
enlooper (R., Iowa) and others
that Lilienthal resign.
Lilienthal, first witness to be
heard, told the congress mem
bers that the atomic energy com
mission (AEC) had cleared two
men for secret work despite ad
verse recommendations from its
security officer.
The AEC chairman named the
men as Dr. Edward U. Condon,
head of the bureau of standards,
and Dr. Frank Graham. At the
time of the commission action
Graham was president of the
University of North Carolina.
He is now a democratic senator
from North Carolina.
Lilienthal was the first wit
ness as the senate-house atomic
energy committee opened hear
ings into charges of "incredible
mismanagement" in the AEC.
Seeks to Abolish Board
The charges, and a demand
for Lilienthal's removal, came
from Senator Hickenlooper (R
Iowa), a member of the commit
tee and its former chairman.
Away from the hearing, Sena
tor Cain (R-Wash), another cri
tic of the AEC, announced he
has prepared legislation to abol
ish the commission and entrust
atomic development' to a board
to be composed of the secreta
ries of the armed sources, the
three chiefs of staff and a scien
tist. . . ; -
Cain .said the confidence of
the people in the AEC would be
increased if Lilienthal would
resign.
Fire Destroys
Dallas Residence
Dallas, Ore., May 26 Fire
shortly before midnight Wed
nesday wrote the final chap
ter In the battle between the
city and the legal owners of the
old Charles Tate residence on
Uglow street when it was prac
tically destroyed.
Fire Chief Walter Young said
the fire was undoubtedly of in
cinerary origin, as this was the
second call to the place this
week and as high as six calls
have been made in one week in
recent days.
Firemen confined most of
their efforts towards saving the
Harold Rosenbaum home on the
north which was slightly dam
aged. The Tate residence had long
been unoccupied and after the
city and the owners had been
unable to reach an understand
ing, the city took legal action
and had the place condemned.
For example, a curbstoner
, may have a 1941 model ear he
'wishes to sell for (1000. He
paints a sign advertising the car
and places the sign in the car's
'dealer's lot. and when a pro-
spective customer visits the lot,
sees the two cars, and compares
the difference in price, he more
often than not contacts the curb
stoner to make a purchase.
By selling from the streets,
the curbstoners also violate a
city ordinance which requires
any person selling any type of
machinery from the street! to
first obtain a license from the
city. This license costs the tidy
sum of (150 per month.
(CenclaM Page 4, Ceiaaaa T)
Oregon, Thursday, May
-'io fli-1 'J- '"P" 1 -", "! aa""""
Goodby Warden in a (102 Cab Imogene Fisher, Indian
parolee from the penitentiary, takes leave of the institution
by paying a (102 cab fare to Klamath Falls. Warden Alex
ander appearing at the prison entrance observes Imogene's
departure and the driver of Pat's cab stowing seven large
pieces of luggage.
Indian Woman Leaves
Prison for K.F. in Cab
An attractive 42-year-old Indian woman finished her state
prison sentence today with a (102 taxicab ride home to Klamath
Falls.
She said she took the taxi because she couldn't get her moun
tain of luggage on a train or
Indictments
For 16 Convicts
Sixteen inmates o f Oregon
state prison were indicted by the
Marion county grand Jury Wed
nesday, and will later be brought
before court to appear on the
charges. Nine of the inmates
are charged with escaping from
the prison, while seven others
face charges of third degree ar-
n.
Those indicted for arson al
legedly participated in the burn
ing of a prison flax plant on
November 20. 1948. It was sus
pected by prison officials that
an escape was planned during
the confusion caused by . the
fire. No one escaped at that
time, however.
Arson charges were made
against Lawrence R. Ogilvie, Al
lan D. Brumfleld, Paul L e R o y
Gardner, Reuben Junior Part-
low, Doyle Clark McCann, John
Edward Ralph and John O. Pin-
son.
Charged with prison escape,
and the dates they escaped: Wil
liam Kidwell, July 15, 1948
Hudson Dodd White, February
21, 1949; Donald O. Jones, Oc
tober 12, 1947; Laurence Ivan
Gates, July 14, 1948; Robert
Earl Lee, May 12, 1949; Michael
D. Lee, May 14, 1948; Henry
Bradley and Ralph E. Neyman,
both May 15, 1949; and Clyde L.
Maitland, November 17, 1948.
$3 Million Veterans
Bonds Purchased
The Oregon department of
veterans' affairs sold (3.000,000
in bonds Thursday morning to
finance the state veteran farm
and loan program. .
The successtul bidder was
Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc., of
Chicago, offering 1.812 per cent
effective interest rate.
The National City bank of
New York was second with a
bid of 1.823 per cent. Seven
firms entered bids. The sale
was In the office of W. F. Gaar
enstroom, state director of vet
erans' affairs.
. The Thursday sale brings to
(18,000,000 the total in bonds
the department has sold since
the summer of 1945 to provide
funds to loan Oregon World
War II veterans for the pur
chase of homes and farms.
On May 25 the department
had loaned more than (13,568,
000 to 3476 veterans since the
program started in 1945.
Lee Tombstone Not
In Place for May 30
The trustees of the Free Mis
sion cemetery regretfully an
nounced Thursday that the Ja
son Lee monument will not be
in place for Memorial Day.
The stone was removed from
its location In the cemetery pi
oneer's grave and spirited away
by vandals who left it at the
Willamette campus where it was
stored by officials.
The announcement of the trus
tees explained that the Memorial
Day season Is the busiest time
of the year for monument work
ers and that it would be Impos
sible for them to re-locate the
monument in time for Memorial
day.
26, 1949 (24 Pag
bus. The dozen pieces of luggage
t lined tne Diet seat ana rear
trunk compartment of the taxi.
The woman, Mrs. Imogene
Fisher, entered prison in 1944
to serve seven year for killing
another Indian during a drink
ing party. But good prison be
havior enabled her to get out
after serving 4ft years.
She couldn t understand why
her picture was taken today.
She said she couldn't see any
thing unusual about riding from
Salem to Klamath Falls in a
taxi.
She had the cab come up from
Klamath Falls last night.
The big pile of luggage was
the accumulation of her busy
days in prison. She is a good
musician, a painter and a silver
worker. Besides p 1 e c e s of her
artistic work, she took home a
mandolin, guitar and banjo.
She lives in Beatty, 42 miles
from Klamath Falls. But today's
trip took her only to Klamath
Falls.
She said she didn't know what
she would do when she got
home. First, she said, "I am go
ing to get myself rehabilitated."
She left her white husband.
Tom Fisher, behind today. He
entered the prison in 1941 to
serve 20 years for assault with
intent to kill an Indian.
She didn't see her husband in
prison. In fact, she said she
wasn't married today.
While posing for pictures in
front of the prison, Mrs. Fisher
said her goodbyes to the 25 wo
men convicts who were shouting
at her through the barred win
dows. Forest Camp Grounds
Placed on Fee Basis
Portland, May 26 VP) Twelve
national forest campgrounds in
Oregon and Washington will op
erate this summer on a fee ba-
i.
The regional forest service of
fice reported today that two fees
50 cents a car for a night's
camping and 25 cents a car for
picnicking will go into effect
this week-end at McKee Bridge
and Dead Indian Soda Springs
camps in the Rogue river forest.
Elsewhere the effective dates
will be late June or early July.
The other fee camps are: Camp
creek and Tollgate, Mount
Hood; Eel creek and Siltcoos,
Siuslaw; Wolf creek, Umpqua;
Clear lake and Paradise, Wil
lamette; Government Mineral
springs, Columbia; American ri
ver and Naches, Snoqualmle.
Coast Mayors Fail
To Agree on Time
Toledo, May 28 IP Lincoln
county's mayors failed to reach
agreement last night on getting
all cities on either daylight or
standard time.
Toledo and the north Lincoln
beach towns are on daylight
time most of their business
comes from Portland, Salem and
McMinnvllle which are on fast
time. But Newport, Waldport,
Yachats and Siletz, less close
ly tied to the fast-time cities.
are on standard time.
Apparently there will be no
change. The mayors talked
about one time for the county,
but none was willing to commit
his city to a change.
Two Die In Plane Crash
Washington, May 26 VP)
Two navy machinist's mates
were killed in the crash of a
surplus war training plane near
here last night.
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Oregon Payroll
'48,$972 Million
Oregon's total 1948 payroll of
(972,000,000 was the biggest in
history, the State Unemployment
Compensation commission said
today.
It was 22 percent greater than
the wartime peak of (799,000,000
in 1944. and was (100,000,000
more than in 1947.
The commission said payrolls
dropped during the first three
months of this year by about 10
percent.
The fourth quarter payroll last
year of $252,000,000 was (8,
000,000 below the third quarter
total, which was the biggest
three-months payroll on record.
Oh last year's (972,000,000
payroll, lumber and logging
workers got (272,000.0000.
which was an 18 percent gain
over 1947.
Construction and trade pay
rolls were up 12 percent, while
food processing was about the
same.
Peak employment was 340.000
last August, barely more than
the wartime peak in June. 1943.
But it dropped to 303,000 in De
cember,
Output Drops
Washington, May 26 VP) The
federal reserve board reported
today th'at industrial production
dropped in April for the fifth
straight month and was contin
uing down in early May.
"The board's Index of Deduc
tion reached the lowest . level
since July, 1947, with a five
point fall in April. This tied the
drop in Mar? for the biggest
aeenne since the war.
April output, measured on
the seasonally adjusted index.
skidded to 179 per cent of the
19J5-J9 average, compared with
184 in March and an all-time
high of 195 last October and No
vember. At that level, April produc
tion was nearly five per cent
below the same month in 1948
and a bare three index points
above the spot passed in July,
if, on the long postwar climb.
Veteran Actress Dies
Newark, N.J.. May 26 (Pi-
Marian G. Ringham, known on
the stages of Great Britain, Aus
tralia and the United States as
Marian Grey, died here yester
day at the age of 74.
Jake Bird Scheduled to
Die Friday on
Walla Walla. Wash., May 26
amitn announced today he had been notified by Justice William
Denman that the ninth circuit court of appeals had granted Jake
Bird an additional 30-day stay of execution.
Walla Walla, Wash., May 26 The violent adventures of
Jake Bird appeared to be nearing their final hour today.
Unless the U.S. circuit court of appeals at San Francisco grants
a last-hour stay, the convicted axe-slayer will die at 12:30 a.m.
tomorrow on a gallows he has cheated for a year and a half.
Behind him, if and when he
goes, the amazing Negro leaves
an almost Incredible story of
bloodshed, guile and hexes.
During his Imprisonment, of
ficers say the 47-year-old tran
sient has confessed involvement
in or knowledge of a fantastic
total of 44 slayings. He was sen
tenced to die in connection with
the bludgeon killing of Mrs.
Bertha Kludt and her daughter
on Oct. 31, 1947, in Tacoma.
During his battle to escape
the noose, the crafty Bird has
brought his case twice before
the U. S. supreme court, three
times before the Washington
state supreme court, once before
a federal district court and a
half dozen or more times in
state superior court on appeal.
He has delayed executions set
for Jan. 16, 1948, and Jan. 14,
1949.
When he received hit first
Air Lift Again
Source of Supply
For Berlin Area
Railway Cargo Piled
Up at Zonal Line by
Railroad Strike
Berlin, May 26 Wi The Am
erican commandant in Berlin ac
cused the Russians today of
"welching" on their promise to
lift the blockade and challenged
them to untangle a fantastic
snarl in rail traffic.
With the airlift once again
Berlin's main source of supply,
roaring in at an 8,000-ton a day
clip, a Russian officer threw out
a veiled threat that rail traffic
into this badgered city once
again might be halted by Soviet
order.
The development coincided
with advices from Paris indicat
ing the council of foreign min
isters might take action in the
dispute.
Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley,
the American commandant,
spoke angrily of the situation
which has piled up millions of
dollars worth of railway cargo
at the Soviet zonal line and in
Berlin's strikebound rail yards in
what amounts to a semi-blockade.
Welch on Blockade
"All they have succeeded In
doing is welching on their block
ade lifting agreement," he said.
'You can be sure they want
things the way they are. If they
did not, they would only have to
issue one of two orders: To let
the striking workers run the
trains and man the Installations
as they have offered, or pay them
in west marks, the only legal ten
der for west Berlin."
The veiled threat to reimpose
me DiocKaae omcially came
from a Russian officer to an
American transport officer at the
Wannsee station where four
trains are held up. He told the
American officer that unless the
Wannsee tracks are cleared, all
train traffic into Berlin might be
halted again. The American of
ficer refused to clear the tracks,
saying that to open the locked
switches would be strikebread-
ing.
Serious Situation
Allied officials accused the
Russians today of imposing
new type of Berlin blockade by
stubbornly refusing" to con
ciliate 12,000 anti-communist
railway strikers who want to be
paid In wester n-sponsored
marks. The Russians replied
that the strikers are to blame
if Berlin has been cut off by
rail from western Germany.
Allies Consult
The western allies command
of Berlin met In extraordinary
session to map new action in the
rail crisis which has caused a
staggering freight tie-up. Un
official reports were that the
three western commandants
might directly order the anti
communist strikers to handle in
coming trains.
The strikers have not handled
the cargoes because the railways
technically are under Russian
control. The strikers want, be
sides payment in west marks
worth four times the east mark
assurance that all strikers will
be taken back on their Jobs and
recogniton of their Independent
union.
(Concluded on Pase I, Column 4)
Spoiled Cream Sauce
Hospitalizes Soldiers
Frankfurt. Germany. May 26
IIP) It was spoiled cream sauce
on bread pudding which sent
116 U. S. soldiers to a hospital
here May 18, the army disclosed
today.
It was the second time in
seven weeks that mass food poi
soning of soldiers was caused by
spoiled cream sauce.
Gallows
UP) State Prison Warden Tom
death sentence. Bird told Super
ior Judge E. D. Hodge:
"Walt and see. All of you who
had anything to do with this
case will die before I do."
This was the famous Bird
hex.
Judge Hodge died a month la
ter of a heart attack. These
others died during the next few
months: Undersheriff Joe Kar
pach, Chief Court Clerk Rav
Scott, Detective Sherman Lyons
and Atty. J. W. Selden, who de
fended Bird.
Bird declared yesterday, how
ever, that the hex "Is a lot of
hooey."
The condemned man mailed
his petition to the San Fran
cisco court Tuesday night after
he railed to win a stay of exe
cution through a petition and
two hours of arguing In his own
behalf In U. S. district court
hare.
Nationalists Fly
White Flag Atop
Of Post Office
Dogged Defense of
Shanghai on Soochow
Creek Collapsing
Shanghai, May 26 VP) The
sound of battle ceased tonight
and it appeared the military
changeover of Shanghai was
near an end.
Nationalist holdouts in build
ings along Soochow creek in the
heart of Shanghai were dicker
ing for surrender. Meanwhile
they withheld their fire.
Reports swept through the
city that the fortress of Woe
sung to the north had fallen.
These reports, which could
not be confirmed, said that 15,
000 nationalist troops were cap
tured on the Woosung front
Woosung, escape hatch for the
Shanghai garrison, is 10 miles
to the north. The sound of can
nonading no longer could be
heard to the north.
Battle Surges Across Bridge
The battle inside Shanghai
surged across Soochow creek
bridges, where nationalist de
fenders had made a 24-hour
stand. It swept on into the nor
thern district.
Nationalists remained in some
buildings along the creek re
fusing to surrender, but they
withheld their fire.
The white flag was run ud
atop the post office building.
one of the main holdout points
on the north bank of Soochow
creek.
The communists crossed the
Szechwuan bridge and began
rounding up nationalist prison
ers. The garden bridge was evac
uated by the nationalists but
still was under fire from tha
nearby Broadway mansions, 17
floor apartment where a num
ber of Americans are trapped.
The communists had not tried
to cross the creek there.
It seemed to be only a matter
of hours before this tough knot
or resistance, which has de
layed communist occupation of
north Shanghai, would be wiped
out completely.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 6)
West Demands
Blockade Lift ,!
Paris, May 26 VP) A Brltlst'
diplomatic source said today trj"
mrao I- -J i A
from Russia that her promise yS
end the Berlin blockade restric
tions will be carried out to the
letter.
The foreign ministers, who
went into their fourth meeting of
the current session on Germany
at 3:27 p.m. (6:27 a.m., PST) ara
reported being kept fully Inform- ,
ed of developments In Berlin,
where western authorities charge
Russia has started a new type of
blockade by refusing to concili
ate 12,000 Berlin rail strikers.
This foreign ministers confer
ence was called on Russia a
promise to end the travel and
trade restrictions in Germany
on May 12, and the allied coun
ter-blockade of eastern Ger
many was lifted on those terms.
The British informant said
that unless the Russian admin
istration in Berlin gives a "sat
isfactory' assurance that "con
tinuing difficulties" will end,
the western foreign ministers
will call on Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei Y. Vishinsky to in
tervene. The Briton called the present
situation in Berlin "continuation
of a modified blockade."
Foreign Secretary Ernest Be-
vin of Britain was expected to
speak first today on questions re
lating to German political and
will demand that Russia relax
economic unity and to four-power
control in Germany. Diplo
matic informants say the west
her grip on east German indus
tries as a condition for economic
unity in Germany.
Canal from Danube
To Black Sea Looms
Bucharest, Romania, May 26
The government announced
plans today to start immediate
construction of a canal from tha
Danube to the Black Sea.
Once planned with British aid
a guarantee against Russian
control of the Danube, the canal
now will be built with Russian
aid, reliable sources said. It will
stretch about 60 miles from Cer-
na-Voda on the Danube to Lake
Tasaul, near the coastal port of
Constanta.
Guns to Boom for Queen
Mother Mary's Birthday
London, May 26 VP) A 41-
gun birthday salute will be fired
today for Queen Mother Mary,
turned 82 In good health. A
troop of 59 royal horse artillery
men will mark the event at
noon in Hyde Park, after pass-
ng through the Iron gates of
Marble Arch, opened only on
I royal occasions.
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