THE WEATHER HERE
PARTLY CLOUDY, scattered
ihowen, slightly cooler tonight.
Thursday partly cloudy, contin
ued cool. Lowest temperature
tonight, 44; highest Thursday,
66.
Maximum yetterdeT, U: minimum to
day. 41- Total at-hour precipitation, .33;
for month, .43; normal, .39. Seaaon pre
cipitation. 1.79: normal. 1.06. River height.
3.9 feat. (Report by U.8. Weather Bureau.)
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Yankees Defeat
Bums in First
Of World Series
Henrich's Home Run
In Last of Ninth
Wins 1 to 0 Game
Yankee Stadium, New York,
Oct. 5 UP) Tommy Heinrich's
dramatic home run clout into
the lower right field seats lead
ing off the last of the ninth gave
the New York Yankees a 1-0
opening world series victory
over Brooklyn today, ending a
sizzling mound battle between
Allie Reynolds and Don New
combe
The count was two balls and
no strikes on "Old Reliable"
when he poled a Newcombe fast
ball into the stands, about 10
rows back.
The crowd of 66,224 which
sat politely quiet through most
of the stirring afternoon, let
loose a mighty roar at the game
winning blow.
Pitchers Battle
Up to that time, it was a
sparkling pitcher's battle that
threatened to set a new series
strikeout record. Going to the
last of the ninth, Newcombe, the
Dodgers' huge Negro rookie, had
11 strikeouts and Reynolds, the
Yankee righthander, had nine.
The record was 22 and the in
dividual mark was only 13, held
by Howard Ehmke since his sur
prise opening start for the Phil
adelphia A's against Chicago in
1929.
Few series games in recent
times were better played than
this thriller In -which Reynolds,
who had pitched only four com
plete games in 31 starts this sea
son, blanked the National league
champs on two hits.
Allowed Only 5 Hits
Newcombe allowed only five
hits but he made the mistake
of giving up the big one to
Henrich.
Just as In last year's opening
game when Johnny Sain beat
Bobby Feller in the 1-0 opener
of the Boston Braves-Cleveland
Indians series this was another
tight-to-the-vest battle.
(Continued on Page 6, Column 4)
Age Insurance
To Be Extended
Washington, Oct. S UP) Speak
er Rayburn predicted today the
house will pass overwhelmingly,
possibly within a few days, leg
islation putting 11,000,000 more
workers under old age insurance.
The newcomers would include
the banker, the baker, grocers,
household serants and public em
ployes. Democratic leaders called the
house to meet at 10 a.m., two
hours earlier than usual, to
ram the measure through. The
senate is not expected to act un
til January at the earlies.
The bill, while expanding cov
erage, would boost old age and
irvivors benefits by 70 to 80
ercent, create new disability in
surance, and increase payroll
taxes to finance the broadened
program.
In might mean the institution
of a stamp book plan for 790,000
servants and their housewife em
ployers, to pay the security taxes.
President Truman asked con-
i gress to put 20,000,000 more pcr-
v sons under old age insurance
But the bill does not include
millions of farm operators and
farm hands. Some of its spon
sors said farmers did not appear
especially anxious to get in.
The legislation won Us first
major test yesterday. The house,
over republican shouts of "gag
rule," voted 189 to 13S to bar any
amendments. Then, although
procedures allow four days of de
bate, a bi-partisan drive develop.
ed with congress adjournment
In the air for a final vote on the
bill late today.
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Conferees Agree
On Waterways
Appropriations
Detroit Allotted $9.5
Million McNary
Dam $35 Million
Washington, Oct. 5 (IP) Rouse
and senate conferees finally
have agreed on a multi-million
dollar waterways appropriation
bill for the fiscal year that be
gan last July 1.
The bill, carrying a total ap
propriation of $664,178,190 for
civil functions of the army, in
eludes $634,920,090 for flood
control and rivers and harbors
projects in many of the 48 states.
One of the big items is $67,-
000,000 for flood control on the
lower Mississippi river and its
tributaries; others are $35,000,-
000 for the McNary lock and
dam on the Columbia river in
Oregon and Washington; $27,
500,000 for garrison dam in
North Dakota and $23,000,000
for Fort Randall in South Da
kota. Detroit Gets $9.5 Million
Other large Pacific northwest
expenditures include:
Oregon: Lookout Point reser
voir, $9,500,000; Detroit reser
voir, $9,500,000; and the Dorena
reservoir, $2,500,000.
Washington: Chief Joseph
dam, Columbia, $5,000,000.
Congress usually completes
work on such bills late in June
or early in July. One-fourth of
the first year covered by the
measure already is gone.
This year conferees wrangled
for four months before compro
mising differences in the bill as
it passed the house and the sen
ate. (Concluded on Page 5. Column 8)
Senate at Sea
On Farm Bill
Washington, Oct. 5 UP) The
senate agriculture committee
grappled again today with the
knotty problem of what to do
about farm prices after the sen
ate had failed to find the answer
in a day of topsy-turvy voting.
The question was tossed back
to the committee last night with
instructions to return with an
answer within 48 hours.
Just what the committee might
propose was in doubt, but Demo
cratic Leader Lucas of Illinois
said that whatever it was the
senate would go to work on it
immediately.
"We're going to get a farm
bill passed at this session of con
gress regardless of how long we
have to stay here," he said.
A series of votes yesterday
showed only that the senate is
sharply divided over how far the
government should go in holding
up prices of major crops.
First the lawmakers approv
ed a flexible price support pro
gram by a one-vote margin,
then they changed their minds
on a tie, with the deciding vote
cast by Vice President Barkley.
Barley backed senators battl
ing for high-level price props for
corn, cotton, wheat and other
basic crops. In doing so he op
posed Lucas and Senator Ander
son (D N. M.)
21 of 1200 Schools Not
Eligible for Basic Funds
By JAMES D. OLSON
Only 21 Oregon schools out of 1200 have not been standardized
and thus are not eligible for basic school funds, according to Rex
Putnam, superintendent of public instruction Wednesday.
Of the 21 schools 20 are preparing plans, which if approved by
the department, will be declared standard, Putnam said.
Since the basic school law be-
came effective July 1, 1947, a to
tal of 550 schools have been in
spected by department supervis
ors. Putnam expects that by the
end of the school term next June
all schools in the state will have
been inspected. In the mean
time, those not visited are con
sidered standard and are receiv
ing state aid funds.
"There has been a tremendous
improvement In Oregon schools
during the past two years." Put-
nam said. "We started with only
two elementary supervisors and
two part-time high school super-
visors."
Putnam said that when the law
first became effective It was al-'inea witn tne county superin
most impossible to obtain scrv-tendents. If this Is done the
ices of competent persons to school Is declared illegal. Steps
serve as supervisors. However, i have been taken by most of these
the staff inspecting schools has
increased to five supervisors for
elementary schools and three for
high schools.
Under terms of the basic
school law schools must reach
certain standards as to the phy
sical plant, teacher supplies,
$8 Million Loss
Hurricane Toll
Houston, Tex., Oct. 5 U.R The
Texas hurricane took a toll of
two lives and wrecked $8,000,000
worth of property and crops,
officials said today.
The dead were Mrs. A lpha
Hebert of Port Neches, Tex.,
who grabbed a dangling "live"
wire in trying to break a fall
and Jimmie Simpson, 21, Pala-
cios, Tex., who apparently
drowned while trying to swim
from a stalled cabin cruiser in
Matagorda bay.
The 112-mile-an-hour blow
wrecked power transmission
lines and communications wires
Widespread damage was re
ported in the 75,000 acres of
low-lying ricefields from the
heavy rains accompanying the
storm when it roared off the
gulf of Mexico early yesterday.
Texas prison system farms,
which raise cotton, corn and He
gari, suffered loss.
Guerrillas Go
To Bu'naria
Athens, Oct. 5 UP) Reliable
sources reported today that the
Greek guerrilla headquarters
has been moved from Albania to
Bulgaria and that 8000 guerillas
are being transferred between
the two countries.
Veteran observers said the
transfer shows three possibilities.
1. The guerillas might be used
from a Bulgarian base as a spear
head in the Cominform's cam
paign against Premier-Marshal
Tito of Yugoslvia.
2. Guerrilla attacks against
Greece from the Bulgarian bor
der might be renewed.
3. It could mean isolated Al
bania has been written off as a
base of guerilla operations
against Greece or Yugoslavia.
An independent source said
some of the guerrillas in Al
bania are going first to Czecho
slovakia for training before tak
ing up their new base in Bul
garia. course of study and other items
before becoming eligible to basic
school funds.
Putnam said that the legisla
tive act increasing the bonding
capacity of school districts from
five to ten percent of the assess
ed valuation of the district, has
.. i i. :
,Ut-a many oisu-.ck m ",ts mlssion lo end the bitter
necessary improvements. i. d betw,-n Greec. .nd ner
However, some schools have
encountered difficulty in conncc
tion with certification of teach
ers. Under another law passed
by the last legislature all school
districts must have only certified
teachers and a list of such teach
ers together with the certificates
schools to correct this situation,
Putnam said.
When all schools have been
visited, Putnam said that Oregon
will probably be the only state
in the union where complete re -
ports on the condition of every
school will bt on file,
Sheltered from Hurricane The city auditorium at Hous
ton, Tex., is shown filled to capacity with more than five
thousand persons seeking shelter as a hurricane hit the area.
(AP Wirephoto)
To Pay Vet Insurance
Dividends Before Xmas
Washington, Oct. 5 VP) The veterans administration may start
paying the $2,800,000,000 GI insurance dividend before Christ
mas at the rate of a million checks a week.
As soon as the bulk of those
agency will get to work on a
New Proposals
For Columbia
Washington, Oct. 5 (U.R) Sen
Harry Cain, (R., Wash.), today
submitted two new proposals to
the senate public works com
mittee for authorization of the
Columbia river' comprehensive
development program
For more than a week, the
committee has been considering
a proposal from Cain and Sen.
Warren Magnuson (D., Wash.)
for authorization of the program
with $500,000,000 to be spent
during the next three years.
Cain's new and alternative
proposals were:
1. That the committee author
ize the program and authorize a
three-year expenditure of $425,
000,000 which would include the
$108,000,000 already voted by
the house for Columbia river
projects. The house bill would
not authorize the comprehensive
program.
2. That the committee author
ize the program, but merely
agree with the $108,000,000
house figure for projects hereto
fore considered outside the com
prehensive program.
Cain indicated that there was
some reluctance in the committee
to authorize a three-year ex
penditure for the program as
large as $500,000,000. The Co
lumbia river controversy has de
layed action on its omnibus pub
lic workers authorization bill.
The committee will meet again
tomorrow to discuss the new
Cain proposals.
Play Politics tor
Baltan
(Br the Aocltfd Preju)
Big power politics are being
played in the United Nations,
frankly and openly, to get peace
in the Balkans.
A special peace making group
headed by Assembly President
Carlos P. Romulo has held its
first 1 meetings in secret and
separately with representatives
of the big three Russia, the
United States and Britain.
The group, which includes
Secretary-General Trygve Lie.
Lester Pearson of Canada and
Selim Sarper of Turkey, has un
til n.t.k.. 1 T n .. u I i
n vjliu it i a, iu inane rvw hi
Balkan neighbors.
Around here they are saying
"if Romulo can get the United
States and Russia to agree, he'll
win his Balkan peace. The oth
ers will fall into line."
It was probable that the Big
Three minht discuss the prob
lem together after Romulo has
talked with the Albanians, Yu
goslavs and Bulgarians Friday.
Romulo talked separately yes
Iterday with Ben Cohen, the old
Roosevelt brain-truster who is
a wheelhorse in the state de
partment: with Hector McNeil,
veteran British negotiator; ami
1 Alexander S. Panyushkin, the
Soviet ambassador to the United
states.
fe'Attacking B-36
kS'4rr$4 1, Washington, Oct. S UP) '.
payments is out of the way the
second special dividend, the size
of which has not yet been de
termined.
Veterans administrator Carl
R. Gray, Jr., has ordered com
pletion of the first dividend pay
ment, to some 16,000,000 World
War II veterans, by next June 30
if possible.
The VA insurance section had
expected to start the payments
in January, on a 200,000-checks-
a-day basis. But a spokesman
told a reporter:
"There is a possibility that
we might start them before the
first of the year.
"We will go just as fast as we
can, and if we can beat the Jan
uary deadline we will."
About 12,000,000 veterans
have applied for the dividend
since application blanks became
available Aug. 29.
"Dividend checks will go out
roughly in the order that the
applications were received
first come, first served," the
spokesman said.
"Veterans who fail to apply?
Their dividends will be held for
them."
Unofficial estimates are that
the second special dividend will
be paid in 1951 or 1952. Since
it will cover a span of only three
or four years, the amount to be
divided up may be considerably
less than the $2,800,000,000 first
divided which piled up over an
eight-year period.
Senate Group
Rejects Olds
Washington, Oct. 5 UPi The
senate commerce committee to
rlny spurned an appeal from
President Truman and voted 10
2 against a third term for Lo-
land Olds on the federal power
commission.
The committee's adverse re
port on the president's nomina
tion of Olds for another term
now goes to the senate for ac
tion.
Mr. Truman Joined In the
fight yesterday with letters lo
Vice President Barkley and
Chairman Edwin C. Johnson
(D. Colo.), of the commerce
committee saying that "power
ful corporations wanted to
block senate approval of the
nomination.
Three Admirals Involved In
Adm. Gerald F. Bogan, center,
L. feLO LkZlJ
Go vernmentMo ves to Settle
Strikes in Coal and Steel
nre worm tor
The
house armed services commit
tee today recommended that the
navy fire Cedric R. Worth, au
thor of the now notorious mem
orandum which touched off a
congressional inquiry Into the
air forces' B-36 bomber program.
The committee approved a re
port saying Worth should be per
manently discharged from navy
employment. A civilian aide to
Undersecretary of the Navy Dan
Kimball, Worth has been sus
pended since his authorship of
the B-36 memorandum came to
light.
The committee announced it
will open tomorrow an inquiry
into reports that navy morale
has sunk to a low point as a
result of the way the law unify
ing the armed services has been
administered.
3 Admirals Called
Chairman Vinson (D Ga),
said the first witnesses will in
clude three admirals whose
names were signed to papers that
navy source gave secretly to
reporters on Monday.
They are Adm. Louis Denfeld
chief of naval operations; Adm
Arthur W. Radford, Pacific fleet
commander, and Vice Admiral
Gerald F. Bogan, commander of
the first Pacific task fleet.
The papers were a letter from
Bogan to Secretary of the Navy
Matthews with forwarding en
dorsements from Radford and
Denfeld.
Calling the papers "confiden
tial," the navy has ordered an
investigation of how they be
came public.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column I)
$29,478 Given
To Chest Fund
Funds subscribed to Salem's
Community Chest up to the time
of the Wednesday noon report
luncheon exceeded $5,830.90, the
amount raised by that time in
last year's drive.
At the no-host luncheon at
which reports were made by the
division leaders the drive chair
man, Joe A. Dodd announced that
$29,478.90 had been subscribed
of the $105,000 quota. When the
first report was made last year
the amount subscribed was $23,-
64S.
During the first day of this
year's drive $26,538.50 was con
tributed. The additional $2,
940.40 of the total announced
Wednesday was added before
noon Wednesday.
Marking the progress of the
drive daily this year is a ther
mometcr erected on the court
house grounds. Red feathers
will each day mark the progress
made.
The division bringing in the
largest total contributions dur
ing the first day was the mer
cantile division with a total of
$7,450.50 reported. Two divi
sions, educational and West Sa
lem, made no reports at the
meeting.
Other divisions and the
amounts reported were automo
tive and transportation,
$4,182.50; contractors and build
ers, $2,012; general gifts, $4,363;
governmental, $576.90; industri
al, $5,491.65; professional,
$4,628; utilities, $860; rural,
$245; and women's division,
North Salem. $184.75; Central
Salem. $387.25, and South Sa
lem, $173.50.
Defense Unification Squabble
Adm. A. W. Radford, right,
ft im
Henri Queuille
Queuille Quits
Premier's Job
Paris, Oct. 5 UP) Premier
Henri Queuille offered his re
signation today to President Vin
cent Auriol.
Queuille's coalition govern
ment, in office more than a year
and longer than any previous
post-war French cabinet, ran in
to a crisis with the Insistence
of the socialist party that labor's
demands for wage increases be
saiisiiea.
Queuille heads the radical so
cialist (conservative) party.
The tender of the premier's
resignation followed a maeting
of the cabinet ministers which
had been deadlocked on the
wages and prices issue. Robert
Bruynell, undersecretary of
state, reported earlier that
Queuille was to see Auriol this
afternoon, presumably to offer
his resignation.
Queuille, leader of the radi
cal socialist (middle road) party,
has served as premier since
Sept. 10, 1948 a longer term
than any postwar French pre
mier.
Titoism Scares
German Reds
Berlin, Oct. 5 (IP) Fear of
anti-Soviet Titoism was admit
ted today by German commu
nists hurriedly forming a Rus
sian satellite republic in east
ern Germany.
The republic is due to be pro
aimed in Berlin Friday at i
special session of the commu
nist-ruled German people's
council.
Installation of the first gov
ernment may take place as ear
ly as next week. Eastern non-
communist parties were report
ed promised less than a third
of the ministries as a price for
waiving demands for a popular
election.
Communist appointees as min
isters of interior, economics,
and propaganda were believed
to be already approved by the
Soviet occupation command.
In a vital public declaration
of policy today, communist
chieftHins served notice they
would use the eastern republic
to fight the "Quislings" of the
West German Federal Republic
sponsored by the United States
Britain and France.
They warned the communist
rank and file at the same time
to beware of a "traitorous Tito
clique" within their own party
which would try to stir up hat
red against the Soviet Union and
foster "chauvinism."
Adm. Louis Dcnficld, left, Vice
(Acme Tclephoto)
Mediator Asks
Lewis, Operators
To Friday Meel
Pittsburgh, Oct. 5 (UP) The
government today called war
ring coal union and company
officials to Washington In the
opening move of an all-out ef
fort to settle the economy-shattering
strikes In the coal and
steel Industries.
Federal Mediation Chief Cy
rus S. Ching asked UMW Pres
ident John L. Lewis and the
spokesmen for the three big op
erators' associations to meet
with him Friday. He said a
"formal move in steel" probably
will follow next week.
Ching said the situation aris
ing out of the unprecedented
combination of simultaneous
strikes in two of the nation's
most vital industries "is ap
proaching a crisis."
The Longer, the Worse"
"The longer it goes, the worse
it will be," he said.
Ching said he was not giving
priority to the 17-day strike of
380,000 soft coal miners, but that
he believed the coal shutdown
would produce a national emerg
ency "more rapidly" than steel.
"It is quite obvious," he said,
that you can't operate steel
mills without coal."
In addition to Lewis. Chine's
invitations went to Harry Moses.
president of U.S. Steel corpora
tion mining subsidiaries; George
Love, president of Pittsbureh
Consolidated Coal company, and
spokesman for the northern op
erators, and Joseph L. Moodv.
resident of the Southern Coal
Producers' association.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Violence Flares
In Coal Strike
Pittsburgh, Oct. 5 P) The
coal strike fanned the flames of
a minor war between union and
non-union miners today and the
steel shutdown idled more work
ers in allied industries.
Northern and western coal op
erators sat down in White Sul
phur Springs, W. Va.t for nego
tiations which the more optimis
tic thought might help end the
work stoppage of 38,000 diggers.
Nearly a score of men were
arrested in Virginiaand Pennsyl
vania. This resulted from bat
tling between pickets and unor
ganized miners still working in
defiance of John L. Lewis and
his striking United Mine Work
ers. No one was injured but
several truck loads of coal were
dumped.
In the steel strike, idling more
than 500,000 members of the CIO
United Steelworkcrs, there is
nothing in sight to end the pen
sion war.
The government is consider
ing clamping down on steel ex
ports. Many companies announc
ed precautionary stops to con
serve steel.
The issues arc about the same.
The workers want a better pen
sion and welfare program.
Roofs Torn-off
By Heavy Rain
Portland. Oct. S iiP A gust
of wind tore p;irts of roofs off
two factories in north Portland
today.
The blow, which struck fol
lowing Portland s heaviest rain
since May, tore a 50 by 75 foot
section of composition roofing
off the Montag Stove and Fur
nace factory. A smaller piece of
roof was ripped from an adjoin
ing shed.
Roof fragments blew through
the air and smashed into two
trucks 100 foot away. One wind
shield was broken and the hood
of the other truck was torn off.
The gust blew out panels and
part of a roof at the Nicolal
Door Manufacturing plant in the
me area.
The storm dumped 1.22 inches
of rain on Portland during the
last 24 hours. Only one Ore
gon town was wetter; Brook
ings, which got 1.92 inches.
Lighter showers were forecast
for today.