Little Damage
To Cherry Crop
Caused by Rain
If Weather Remains
Cool No Cracking
Expected in Valley
If the weather remains cool
throufh Monday there probably
will be no damage to the cherry
crop by the Sunday rain, even
though the weather may turn
warm again Tueaday.
Thia was the opinion Monday
at the office of the Marion ecu.
ty agent. Should Monday after
noon turn warm, however, there
might be damage by cracking.
Comment was qualified by the
itatement that it is yet too early
to speak definitely about effect
of weather on the cherry crop
Much Hay Down
There is quite a heavy ton
nage of grass hay, clover and
vetch down in the area, but with
ordinary care not much damage
is expected as a result of the
rain.
Since there had been an ab
sence of rain for three weeks the
. week-end downpour was wel
comed generally by the grain
farmers.
One good effect of the rain
was to relieve the water short
age in the Salem Heights and
Vista Heights districts. Because
of new population and increased
demand- the irrigation of lawns
had resulted in a shortage be
tween the hours of S and 9 p.m
The situation was normal Mon
day because the rain made irri
gation unnecessary.
Water Shortage Ends
The shortage was caused by
inability of the pumps to work
fast enough to accommodate
fully the homes about the 450
foot level. There was no short
age of water in the city reser
voirs. The two districts get their
water from the city on a mas
ter meter basis.
(Concluded en Pare 5, Column 5
Need 1000 More
Cherry Pickers
The pressure for cherry pick
ers was increased over the week
end and growers could have used
an additional 1000 Monday
morning, reported Wm H. Bail
lie, manager of the Salem of
fice of the state employment ser
vice. Rain Sunday night creat
ed considerable anxiety among
the growers.
The employment service Is
seeking outside help in Portland
and southern Oregon to aist
in gathering the cherries, since
Willamette valley folk appear to
be a bit Indifferent as to whe
ther the crop Is harvested.
The crop is far above the
average of recent years and
pickers can make good wages,
the labor ofice reports.
"There Is no need of any
young man or husky young wo
wan or adults remaining unem
ployed," said Baillie. Growers
are willing to provide transpor
tation to and from their or
chards. They report at 6 o'clock
each morning at the employ
ment office at South Cottage and
Ferry streets.
Strike Stops All
Sound Busses
Seattle, June 20 U The
north-south intrastate bus driver
strike entered its third day to
day with bus travel in western
Washington virtually at a stand
still. The appearance of picket
lines was the only change in the
dispute. Nonstriking drivers ob
1 served the picket lines and re
fused to take vehicles in or out
of the terminal. Passengers were
being loaded and discharged at
the street curb.
Approximately 550 drivers,
members of the AFL motor
coach employees union, are on
strike.
John D. Parker, business
agent for the striking union,
said, "we are willing and ready
to negotiate. The company will
not meet with us unless we
change our position."
John R. Neely, company
spokesman, said, "we are ready
to meet with the union any time
they want to appear with a pro
posal that will dissolve the dis
agreement. However, no strike confer
ences have been held since Fri
day night, and none are sche
duled. The dispute is over wages
and working conditions.
Man KilledVs. .F
Hotel Conflagration
San Francisco, June 20 W
An unidentified man was killed
and 40 other persons were rout
ed last night by fire in three
story hotel.
( The dead man was found un
Tr a bed in his room. He was
'believed to have suffocated.
There was no immediatt es
timate of damage
61st Year, No. 146
Czechs Tighten
Guard on Palace
Of Archbishop
Prague, Czechoslovakia, June
20 W The communist govern
ment's security police apparent
ly tightened their guard on
Archbishop Josef Beran's palace
today while Catholics weighed
the meaning of organized com
munist heckling of the prelate
at Sunday's cathedral services.
The heckling drove him from
his cathedral and prevented him
irom completing nis sermon.
Attempts of many persons to
talk to the archbishop today
were foiled by security police
supervising the palace recep
tion desk and telephone switch
board. No Visitors Permitted
An attempt to reach his pri
vate secretary by telephone met
a reply from the switchboard
that "they are accepting no
phone calls or visitors." It could
not be learned whether the po
lice had refused them the right
to see or talk to anyone.
Shrill communist interrup
tions of the archbishop's Corpus
Christ! day sermon in St. Vitus
cathedral yesterday brought the
long battle between church and
state to its highest tension. The
archbishop, defiantly resisting
communist efforts to control the
chur'h and break the spiritual
rule of the Vatican over Czecho
slovakia's 9,000,000 Catholics,
had to leave the pulpit and re
turn to his palace, already under
the watchful eyes of the secur
ity police.
Prelate Jeered
The whistling and jeering
broke out from demonstrators
bunched near the altar as the
archbishop began a denuncia
tion of the government's moves
against the church. The rest of
the congregation, many In tears,
burst into a hymn in an attempt
to quell the disorder.
Some Prague priests told their
congregations the ancient ca
thedral might have to be re
consecrated because the disor
ders had profaned Holy ground.
However, a cathedral official
said this would not be necessary.
Vatican Ousts
Czech Hecklers
Vatican City, June 20 (IP)
The Roman Catholic church to
day excommunicated members
of the government-sponsored
Catholic Action society of Communist-dominated
Czechoslova
kia. The sacred congregation of
the holy office issued a decree
which condemned the group as a
schismatic one fraudulently la
belled. The decree, published in Os-
servatore Romano, the Vatican
newspaper, declared:
"Recently the opponents of
the Catholic church in Czecho
slovakia founded a so-called
Catholic action by which they
tried to induce the Catholics of
that republic to desert the Cath
olic church and to deny obedi
ence to the legitimate pastors
of the church."
Archbishop Josef Beran. head
of.the Catholic church in Czech
oslovakia, has denounced the
communist-led group. Yester
day at mass in the Cathedral of
St. Vitus in Prague, he was
shouted down shrilly by heck
lers when he began a sermon
continuing his denunciation 'of
government acts against the
church. Church-state tention is
high in Czechoslovakia, remini
scent of the conditions which ex
isted in Hungary before the Jail
ing of Josef Cardinal Mindzenty
on charges of treason. Hungar
ians connected with that were
excommunicated by the Roman
Catholic church.
P.G.E. to Move Offices to
Pacific Building, South High
Portland General Electric company, which for 32 years has had
its Salem offices at 237 North Liberty street, will move the latter
part of the summer to 136-142 South High, In the Pacific building
The utility offices will takt over by lease two adjacent 20
foot frontages, now occupied by the Jaquith Music company and
the Fashion Lounge, the lat--
ter operated by Ben Wittner.
Douglas Jaquith was out of
the city Monday but it is un
derstood the firm is not yet
ready to announce its new lo
cation. At the Fashion Lounge
it was said that store has several
location's available, but has not
yet made i selection.
The two concerns in the Paci
fic building will move by Au
gust 1, and it will be necessary
for Portland General Electric
company both to remodel the
new quarters and move out of
the old location during the month
of August. The removal will be
completed by September 1.
With a frontage of 40 feet and
a depth of 80 feet the company'!
G apital J Quiriaal
BftlUr at sUlm. Oregon
Salem,
Key Test Votes
On Labor Bill
Loom in Senate
Washington, June 20 (IP)
The senate labor law debate
edged today toward a series of
key test votes on how to deal
with strike's imperiling the na
tional welfare. '
Senate leaders hoped for a
showdown by nightfall on that
issue. It is regarded generally as
a key issue because the outcome
is expected to point up pretty
definitely for the first time the
voting strength of:
(1) Those in the senate who
want to get rid of all or most
of the Taft-Hartley law, and (2)
those who want to preserve most
of it.
Fight Over Injunctions
As the third week of labor
legislation debate began, nearly
all senators in that second group
were backing a proposal by Se
nator Taft (R-Ohio) which
would keep the Taft-Hartley
provision for injunctions against
critical strikes.
Taft's plan also proposes gov
ernment seizure of struck plants
something which is not auth
orized under the present law.
Senators in the other group
those opposed to the Taft-Hartley
law are far from being
agreed on an alternative to the
Taft-Hartley injunction, a pro
vision the labor unions hate.
But the plan which 'appears
ti have the most support in that
camp is one by Senators Doug
las (D-Ill) and Aiken (R-Vt). It
would let the government seize
plants for up to 90 days.
Taft Predicts Approval
The Douglas-Aiken plan says
nothing about injunctions, but
its sponsors have acknowledged
that once the government had
seized a plant or industry, the
way would be open for an In
junction. Taft predicted over the week
end that his plan would be ap
proved. He said he expects that
about 16 of the senate's 54 demo
crats will vote for it, and that
only four or five of the 42 re
publican senators will ballot
against it.
But Douglas took a look at
Taft's estimate and declared:
"I still think we have a good
chance. I am not worried." .
On the other hand, another
democrat who favors the Douglas-Aiken
plan said privately.
after some nose-counting, that it
doesn t have a chance.
13 Death Toll
Virginia Flood
Petersburg. W. Va.. June 20
(U.R) Rainless skies heartened
thousands of Shenandoah and
Potomac valley residents today
as they dug out of the worst
flood devastation in the dis
trict's history.
As the muddy flood waters of
the Potomac and Shenandoah
river branches receded, the
death toll rose to 13 with eight
bodies recovered and five other
victims presumed dead. Authori
ties estimated from 11 to 20
victims still were missing.
The rain-swollen tributaries
of the two rivers in West Vir
ginia and Virginia raged over
their banks Saturday. Hundreds
were made homeless and pro
perty damage mounted into the
millions.
National guardsmen, state po
lice, Red Cross workers and
volunteers joined into a gigantic
rescue force to cope with the
widespread disaster and suffer
ing. Second army headquarters at
Fort Meade, Md., rushed land
and water craft. 200 cots and
400 blankets to the striken area
quarters will all be on the main
floor, but it will also have the
basement space. A move has
been under consideration by the
PGE for several months, but
for some time the company was
undecided whether it would
lease or put up a building of its
own.
The location In the Pacific
uuiiaina is on ine rasi iiae oi
South High street. The building
is owned by Robert L. Elfstrom,
Walter C. Winslow and Roy
Harland.
The present location of the
PGE was built for It in 1917 by
the Steusloff interests. About a
year go it was bought from the
Steusloff estate by the Liberty!
Investment company.
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President Greets 'Boy Governor' James Cooke, Salem, at
President Truman's left, who presided as "governor" during
the Youth in Government convention held here last April
28, 29, and 30, one of a group of boys from over the nation
greeted last week by the president in the nation's capital.
Young Cooke, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Cooke, was
Hi-Y president at Salem high school where he was a mem
ber of the student council and active in debate. He graduated
with the June class. (AP Wirephoto)
Railroad Situation at
Salem to Be Discussed
What may be the first definite
Salem from its steel shackles will
Railroad tracks that hedge
all four sides have long been
and an admitted hazard to persons
Robeson Loves
Russians Most
New York, June 20 Paul
Robeson, addressing a welcome-
home rally shortly after seeing
his son wed to a white girl, de
clared last night he loves the
"Soviet people more than any
other nation."
The Negro singer told a Har
lem audience of 3.500 persons
that he loves the Russians "be
cause of their suffering and sac
rifces for us, the Negro people,
the progressive people, the peo
ple of the future of the world."
Robeson, just returned from a
tour of the Soviet Union and sev
eral countries of Europe, said he
would "defy any part of an Inso
lent, dominating America to
challenge my Americanism."
The Harlem rally was spon
sored by the council of African
affairs, a group listed by Attor
ney General Tom Clark as sub
versive. The baritone said he had ex
perienced discrimination as a
youth and declared:
"I never accepted an inferior
role because of my race or color,
and by God I never will."
Robeson told the crowd that in
Paris he had said "It was un
thinkable the Negro people of
America or anywhere else in the
world could be drawn into war
with the Soviet Union."
"I repeat it with hundredfold
emphasis. They will not," he de
clared. Robeson addressed the rally
after attending the wedding of
his son, Paul Robeson, Jr., 21-year-old
electrical engineer, to
Miss Marilyn Paula Green berg,
21.
.64 Inch Rain in
Salem Area Sunday
Ending a long stretch without
precipitation, .64 of an inch of
rainfall came down in the Salem
area through Sunday night. Ex
cept for an occasional trace, it
was the first measurable preci
pitation since June 2. The total
for the month is now .77 of an
inch, still .06 of an Inch below
normal.
Forecast is for clearing to
night with slightly warmer tem
peratures, Tuesday.
Most concern about any con
tinued rain comes from the
cherry and berry growers gar-
dens, pastures and lawns, etc. to
benefit from the rain.
20, 1949 (18 Pan'
pcsidentAsks
1
step toward freeing downtown
be taken Tuesday evening.
In the main part of the city on
an inconvenience to street traffic
and property. Tuesday evening
representatives of the Southern
Pacific company, the state, the
city administration, and several
other agencies will meet at the
Senator hotel to talk about pos
sible relief.
The meeting will be at 6
o clock, and other meetings may
follow at later dates.
Representing the Southern
Pacific company will be J. W.
Corbett, vice president; L. P.
Hopkins, superintendent, and
perhaps others.
The long range planning com
mission will be represented by
Chairman J. N. Chambers, C. A.
Sprague, George Putnam, W. W.
Chadwick and C. A. McClure.
For the city of Salem Mayor
Robert L. Elfstrom and City
Manager J. L. Franzen will at
tend. The city planning and
zoning commission will be rep
resented by Hedda Swart, the
state highway commission bv R
H. uaiaock, state highway en
gineer, and the state board of
control by Secretary of State
Earl T. Newbry.
Relocation or grade separation
of rail lines enters vitally into
future planning for the city, and
has to be taken into considera
tion in development of the pro
posed street grid system under
the Baldock plan.
For motorists driving toward
the city center Southern Pacific
tracks are crossed on 12th street,
Union street. Trade, and Front
streets. For future consideration
removal or tunneling of the 12th
street tracks has often been
mentioned, and by advice of the
long-range commission the Un
ion street franchise is extended
only a year at a time by the
city council.
Not only do the Southern
Pacific tracks enclose the city
center, but the Oregon Electric
company also has tracks on
Front and on Mill streets.
Women Flogged by Klansmen
Birmingham, Ala., June 20
A 38-year-old mother said to
day that she and a 16-year-old
daughter were flogged near here
by a hooded mob while another
daughter was forced to watch the
beatings with a rope around her
neck.
WEATHER
(Released by United 8tates
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity : Clearing tonight, becom
ing fair and slightly warmer,
Tuesday. Lowest temperature
expected tonight. 44 degreea;
highest Tuesday. 78. Conditions
will be mostly favorable for farm
work. Maximum yesterday 72.
Minimum today 62. Mean tem
perature yesterday 62 which was
normal. Total 24-hour precipita
tion to 11 30 am today 64 of
an Inch. Total precipitation for
the month .77 of an Inch which
is 06 of an Inch below norma,
Wlllametie river height at Sa
lem Monday morning. -1 foot.
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Price 5c
Congress to OK
Reorganization
Washington, June 20 W
President Truman today asked
congress to create a tenth cabinet-rank
department a de
partment of welfare and to
put the commerce department In
charge of public roads.
The plans seven all told
were sent to Capital Hill within
a half hour after Mr. Truman
signed the long-debated reor
ganization bill giving him broad
powers to merge and streamline
government agencies, subject to
congressional veto.
The public roads administra
tion now is in the federal works
agency. Welfare and social se
curity matters are handled by
the federal security agency.
Carry Out Hoover Plans
All the plans. If permitted to
take effect, will carry out re
form and economy proposals of
the commission on government
organization headed by former
President Herbert Hoover.
The other five would (a) give
the bureau of employment se
curity (jobless pay and Job re
placement) to the labor depart
ment, (b) reorganize the post
office department, (c) enlarge
the scope of the executive of
fice of the president, (d) stream
line the civil service commis
sion, and (e) strengthen the
authority of the chairman of the
maritime commission.
All seven plans were describ
ed by the White House as con
forming "quite closely" to the
Hoover commission recommen
dations filed with congress this
spring after two years of re
search.
In Effect In 60 Days
Under the new law, the plans
will take effect in 60 days un
less either house of congress
vetoes them within that time by
a majority vote of the house.
Each plan is to be considered
separately.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column S)
Judith Coplon
Repeats Denial
Washington, June 20 (IP) Ju
dith Coplon repeated today her
denial that she ever gave gov
ernment secrets to Valentine A.
Gubitchev.
She further testified in her
trial on espionage charges that
Gubitchev never asked her to
give him any government sec
rets. Asked by Defense Attorney
Archibald Palmer whether her
relationship with the Russian
engineer with whom she was
arrested March 4 was on a "per
sonal basis," the tiny brunette
replied:
"Definitely."
"As between a man and a
maid?"
"Definitely," Miss Coplon re
peated. The former Justice depart
ment political analyst told the
jury of eight men and four wo
men that she and Gubitchev had
long conversations about liter
ature, but never even discussed
the nature of her work in the
justice department.
She said she was amazed at
Gubitchev's knowledge of Mil
ton, Shelley and Shakespeare.
Palmer jumped back and
forth from dates and places as
Miss Coplon neared the end of
her story flatly denying that
she ever engaged in espionage
activity and maintaining loyalty
to this country.
Dividend Ordered Paid on
Veterans Life
Washington, June 20 VP) Veterans administrator Carl R. Gray,
Jr., today authorized payment next year of a special $2,800,-
000,000 dividend on national
Gray said he hopes veterans
time in January, 1950," with
in the first half of that year
The dividend payment has been
hopefully anticipated by some
economists as a stimulant to pur
chasing power which might help
offset declining business activity.
About 16,000,000 veterans of
World War II will receive the
dividends,
This would average about $175
for each ex-serviceman, but the
agency said Individual calcula
tions have not been completed.
In general, every veteran who
took out National Service insur-i limit of time on which dividend
an and kept it In force at least accumulations will be allowed
three months will be eligible, is the anniversary date of the
Where policy-holders have died, policy in 1948.
the beneficiaries will receive the Government officials expect
hind Gray said. the dividends to be spent
Application bianKS for tne promptly and In provide a no
dividends are ocing prepared and ticeable "shot In the arm" for'
may be available in August lni business. I
New Meeting of Big 4 Called
At Vishinsky's Demand Alter
Withdrawal of Signed Agreement
Announcement Made Hour After Adjournment
And Announcement of Pact Settling in
Principle Stop Gap Arrangement
Paris, June 20 iPi The Big Four announced agreement In
principle on Austria and a stop-gap arrangement for Germany
today, and then adjourned. Russia immediately threw the final
outcome into doubt, however, by asking and getting a new ses
sion tonight.
The new secret meeting was arranged at the French foreign
ministry. V. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson postponed his
takeoff for the United States.
This was the sequence:
The four powers adjourned the meeting at 6:30 p m., Paris time.
They issued a communique for publication at 8 p.m.
Shortly before that hour, Vishinsky asked that the communique
be held up and a new meeting be convened. The Americans at
first said it didn't seem likely his request could be granted. In
any event, the communique already had been released.
New Moscow Orders j
However, there were hurried
conferences among the staffs of i
the western ministers, and the
French arranged the new night
session.
Vishinsky said he had new
information from Moscow. There
was no indication what this con
cerned.
The west, in the last hours
of the conference, rejected
Vishinsky demand to discuss a
Japanese peace treaty. They
said the 10-power Far Eastern
commission was the proper body
to handle it. Acheson, replying
to a Vishinsky assertion it
should be taken up under the
Potsdam agreement, commented
that when the Potsdam declara
tion was signed, Russia was not
in the war against Japan.
Agreed to Disagree
The ministers announced only
agreement to disagree on Ger
man political and economic
unity, at least until September,
when they will discuss a new
date and arrangements for an
other session. The Austrian
agreement in principle, in which
Russia pulled the props from
under Yugoslavia's demand, is
turned over to the deputies with
instructions to try to reach full
agreement by September.
On the German arrangement,
an American spokesman said
"we did not lose any ground
nor did we gain any." But the
Austrian agreement, he said, was
a "substantial step forward.
Ending a session which began
May 23, the foreign ministers of
the United States, the Soviet
Union, France and Britain dis
closed agreement only on a
"modus vivendi" a sort of live-and-let-live
arrangement for
Germany.
A communique winding up
the talks said the four powers
will discuss in September dur
ing the United Nations assem
bly meeting the date and other
arrangements for a new session
of the council on the manifold
problems of Germany.
Discussions Continue
Meanwhile, discussions will
continue at a lower level among
the occupation authorities of the
four zones on problems of divid
ed Berlin. The authorities will
be guided in these talks by what
has taken place at this confer
ence in discussing steps to re
store normalcy in Berlin's life.
On the Austrian treaty the
ministers agreed on these lines:
(Continued on Pase 5. Column 6)
Reds Say Ready to
Repatriate Japs
Tokyo, June 20 Pi Russia
said today she is ready to resume
repatriation of Japanese prison
ers of war. General MacArthur
has been pressing the Soviet to
speed up their return.
The Russian intention was an
nounced In a letter from the
Soviet mission here to allied
headquarters. It requested that
four Japanese ships of 2.000 man
capacity be sent to Nakhodka.
Siberian repatriation shipping
center 50 miles east of Vladi
vostok. Insurance
service life insurance policies.
will begin receiving checks "some
payment substantially completed
post offices, veterans service or
ganizations, and VA offices.
Meantime the administrator
asked veterans not to write now
about their dividends because
letters "will only cause the pay-
ment to be delayed.
The special dividend will not
be paid on policies Issued after
January 1, 1948. But such poli
cies may participate in some lat
er dividend, Gary said.
The cut-off date that is. the
Cut in Defense
Costs Promised
Washington, June 20 (IP) Sec
retary of Defense Johnson was
reported today to have told sen
ators defense spending can b
trimmed by $750,000,000 in the
12 months starting July 1.
Members of the senate appro
priations committee said John
son told them behind closed
doors that this could be done
mainly by cutting back the fu
ture size of the air force from
the 70 groups proposed in con
gress to the 48 urged by Presi
dent Truman.
The senators had called John-
son for testimony on the $15,
900,000,000 armed forces money
bill passed by the house.
Chairman Elmer Thomas (D..
Okla.) of the subcommittee con
sidering the bill has said he
hopes that at least $1,000,000,
000 can be trimmed from it. He
called defense officials back to
day for more closed-door testi
mony. Chairman Tydings (D..' Md.)
of the senate armed services
committee said in a radio in
terview yesterday that "unless
some new situation evolves we
may get by for $14,500,000,000
or $14,600,000,000 at the out
side" in defending spending for
the coming fiscal year.
Tydings also said at least 30
senators are backing a proposal
which would direct President
Truman to cut government
spending from five to 10 percent
below the total amounts voted
by congress.
Court Upholds
Spy Probers
Washington, June 20 (IP) For
the second time in as many
weeks, the U.S. circuit court of
appeals today upheld the house
un-American activities commit
tee in cases challenging its in
vestigation methods.
The court ruled unanimously
that the committee did not vio
late constitutional rights when
1946 it demanded "all the
books, record, documents and
correspondence" of the National
Federation for Constitutional Li
berties. The decision upheld the con
tempt conviction of George
Marshall, chairman of the fed
eration, who refused to deliver
the records. Marshall was con
victed in U.S. district court here
in April, 1948, and sentenced to
$500 fine and three months in
jail.
In appealing the case. 'Marsh
all contended that ( 1 ) the house
acted unconstitutionally when it
created the un-American activi
ties committee, and (2) the com
mittee violated his constitution
al rights when it subpoenaed the
records.
A week ago, the circuit court
ruled the committee has a rieht
to ask witnesses whether they
are or have been members of the
communist party. That decision
upheld contempt convictions of
Screen Writers John Howard
Lawson and Dalton Trumbo.
Carrier Princeton
In 'Mothballs' Fleet
Bremerton. June 20 (IP) The
aircraft carrier Princeton was
decommissioned and placed "in
mothballs" at ceremonies at the
Puget Sound navy yard here to
day.
The 27,100 ton vessel Is part
of the Bremerton group. Pacific
reserve fleet. One of the Essex
class, she is 888 feet long.
Miniature planks, with small
plaques attached, were presen
ted to 24 of the Princeton's
crewmen who have served
aboard her since commissioning
ceremonies In November, 1945.
Those receiving planks includ
ed Harry N. Moore of Tacoma,
and Walter B. Starrctt of Ban
don, Ore.
Planes from the Princeton
saw action at Tarawa, Makin
Island, Okinawa, Formosa, and
Leyte gulf, where she was dam
aged by a bomb.