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United Nations
Deciding Fate
Of Jerusalem
U. S. and Britain in
Final Stand Against
International Rule
County Plans
To Form Keizer
Diking District
Chiang Flies to
Sikang Retreat
Uranium Leaks
From Canada
In Mountains
Being Probed
New York, Dec. 9 VP) A plan
for supreme international rule
over Jerusalem was threatened
with defeat in the United Na
tions assembly today as a re
suit of growing opposition led
by the United States and Brit
ain.
The Jerusalem plan was ap
proved by the assembly's 59
nation special political commit
tee last week by a vote of 35 to
e 13. This was more than the
iwo-thirds majority needed, but
several countries were reported
ready to shift their votes.
Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton,
Canadian delegate, was the first
to announce he was switching
from among the 11 abstainees to
the opposition column. At least
four others were understood to
have agreed to similar switches.
Bitter Local Opposition
Both British Delegate Sir Al
exander Cadogan and U.S. Del
egate John C. Ross warned the
assembly that it would be im
possible to implement the spe
cial political committee's plan
in view of bitter opposition from
both Israel and Hashemite Jor
dan, whose forces occupy the
Holy City in separate sectors.
Sweden and The Netherlands,
which also opposed the commit
tee resolution, re-submitted
their own proposal calling for
progressive demilitarization of
Jerusalem and for UN supervi
sion over the holy places only.
This was supported by the Unit
ed States, Britain and other op
ponents of the committee plan.
Beaten in the special politi
cal committee, which also over
ruled Hashemite Jordan's ob
jections against international oc
cupation, Israel and others kept
dinning into delegates' ears that
it might cost more than $34,000,
000 a year to carry out U.N. rule.
There was intensive lobbying
late yesterday and last night,
with the United States reported
lending strong efforts to upset
the 35 to 13 committee vote.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 4)
Paul Bunyan
Axe Returned
Willamette's famous Paul
Bunyan axe has been returned to
the campus with $2.86 freight
charges attached.
The axe, symbol of football
competition between Willamette
and Whitman, reached the cam
pus Friday morning by freight,
still bearing the cardinal and
gold colors of Willamette. Euss
Tripp, student body president,
dug up the freight charges and
the trophy was returned to its
customary place in Kat Kavern,
basement of Waller hall.
The axe disappeared during
the week-end of Nov. 12, simul
taneously with the presence of
the Whitman football team on
Sweetland field.
The consignor was merely
"Walla Walla College." Since
there is an institution in Walla
Walla by that name there is
some confusion as to who is re
sponsible for the theft of the axe.
McKay to Construct
$22,275 Warehouse
The Douglas McKay Chevro
let company has taken out a
building permit for the con
struction of a warehouse at 635
North Commercial to cost $22,
275. The building will be part of
the present plant. It will be a
concrete structure, one story
high and having dimensions of
100 by 82.6 feet. It is between
Union and Division streets. Lyle
P. Bartholomew is the architect
and Viesko & Post the con
tractors. Other permits today: Paul
Brandner, to alter a 1 -story
dwelling at 2395 North Liberty,
$80. A. H. Rogers, to alter a two
story dwelling at 1081 Parkway,
$300. Marston S. Dunham, to
build a one-story dwelling and
garage at 796 South 24th, $6800.
Wayne L. Trachsel, to build
three One-story dwellings at
2230-2232-2234 Maple, $4300
each. Standard Stations, Inc., to
build a service station at 2487
Fairgrounds, $4000. C. R. Shel
don, to alter a one-story dwell
ing at 1290 North 23rd, $200,
To Protect Populated
Area and Farms from
Floods
By DON UPJOHN
The Marion county court Fri
day laid basic groundwork for
establishment of the Keizer Dik
ing district to protect from the
flood waters of the Willamette
about 800 acres including both
heavily populated districts and
lush farm lands, extending from
Keizer Four Corners west to the
river.
At the preliminary hearing at
tended by a number of propon
ents of the plan the court ap
proved the boundaries as pro
posed, established the necessity
for the district by taking of tes
timony and also set a date for
final hearing as January 20 at
10:30 a. m. At that time, tin
less 20 per cent or more pro
perty owners remonstrate, the
go-ahead signal will be given
for the diking project. In event
such a protest is filed then an
election will be necessary.
OK'd by Army Engineers
The proposed dike, easements
for which have been granted and
approval had of the plan by
army engineers, will be about
325 to 350 feet long filling three
depressions along the river bank,
will be not more than six feet
high at any point but will be
built to protect the controlled
area from flood waters at a 31
foot reading of the river in Sa
lem. The lands involved are sus
ceptible to flood waters at a 21
foot reading here. The cost is
estimated at about $6000, $5000
for the dike and the other $1000
for engineering and similar
costs.
(Concluded on Pnge 5, Column 5)
Check Cashing
Disclosure that Salem detec
tives had cracked open a check
cashing ring came Friday when
Robert A. Fries, 20, route 3, was
taken before district court under
charges of forgery.
Two separate complaints were
filed against him, and the case
was continued for hearing until
Saturday.
Meanwhile, another member
of the ring, James Campbell, was
being held in Klamath Falls for
Salem authorities on a similar
charge, Campbell's arrest in the
southern Oregon city came on
information secured by local de
tectives. The ring had forged the name
of Dillon Jones, a route 5 farm
er, to at least ten checks in
Salem as well as checks in Yak
ima and other Washington com
munities. Both Fries and Campbell had
been employed by Jones to plant
strawberries, and when their
work ended, they began using
his name on bogus checks, a
statement by Fries admitted.
The check cashing began
about November 1st and contin
ued until the pair left Salem to
enter the veteran's institute at
Klamath Falls. Fries returned to
Salem about December 7th. He
admitted cashing three of the
ten checks. -
Dairy Co-op vs. Safeway
Battle over Salem Milk
Portland, Dec. 9 VP) Oregon's biggest milk firm, the far-flung
Dairy Co-operative association,
chain, Safeway Stores, Inc., ostensibly over retail milk sales in
Salem.
The Dairy Co-op argued that much more was at stake. Safe
way intends to begin selling itg
own milk in all upstate com
munities, the Co-op charged.
Attorneys for the grocery
chain argued back, in a milk
control board hearing yesterday,
that they already have the right
to enter the Salem market.
What's more, they said, they
would give Salem richer milk at
the same price. .
They argued Safeway already
has a distributor's license A
producer's license would not be
needed, since milk would be
brought from dairymen now pro
ducing for the Salem market,
they continued.
The difference would be that
the milk, instead of being pro
cessed by the Dairy Co-op, would
be brought to Portland, process
ed in a Safeway plant and sold
Santa Claus to
Roam Streets
This will be the first Santa
Claus tag night.
Roaming the streets of Salem
tonight and the two more Fri
day nights before Christmas will
be no less than 19 Santa Clauses.
Each of them will represent a
Salem store. They will be with
out whiskers and red jackets or
any of the characteristic Santa
Claus accoutrement. They may
be fat or lean, short or tall, pu
ny or athletic. -
The game is to tap one of them
i the shoulder and say "Tag.
You're Santa Claus," before
someone else does.
If you do that Santa will ad
mit his identity and take you to
the store he represents where
you will get a prize worth at
least $12.
For more details you are re
ferred to the big double-truck ad
in today's Capital Journal. .
Talk around town indicates
the people adults as well as
children will be on the streets
in great numbers - each Friday
night to play tag with Santa
Claus.
Lewis Utilizes
Goon Tactics
Whitesburg, Ky., Dec. 9 W)
The United Mine Workers push
ed its drive to sign new con
tracts with eastern Kentucky
truck coal mines today amid
reports that some operators were
given rough treatment.
Six operators in the Whites
burg area said roving pickets
dumped their coal on the ground
and one said men armed with
pick handles and clubs told him
to sign a contract. -
At Pineville, Ky., a group of
men, some of them armed, slug
ged a maintenance man and the
general manager of a mine.
Tom Raney, UMW represen
tative at Fikeville, said 54 oper
ators in the Pike county area
had signed new contracts pav
ing the way for five-day work
weeks
Mines working under the old
UMW contract are limited to
three work days a week. Those
signing new pacts calling for
95 cents more pay per day and
a 15-cents-per-ton increase in
contributions to the miners' wel
fare fund can work the full
five-day week.
today battled the giant grocery
in Salem under the trade name
of Lucerne.
It would be milk of 3.8 per
cent butterfat content, packag
ed in a paper carton, attorneys
said.
The top Salem milk now is of
3.5 per cent butterfat, they ad
ded. A paper carton costs a half
cent extra now. Safeway does
not plan to charge the extra half
cent.
Dairy Co-op spokesmen as
serted this would upset the Dai
ry industry at Salem, and would
hurt both distributors and pro
ducers. Curley's dairy, which
also provides milk in Salem, sup
ported the Dairy Co-op.
The Portland Independent
Milk Producers' association,
competitor of the Dairy Co-op,
supported Safeway.
Argument grew heated,
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Airliner Crash Fatal to Nine Partially burned wreckage of
a California Arrow Airways DC-3 lies on slope near Benicia,
Calif., where it crashed in a driving rainstorm on a 90-mile
flight from Oakland to Sacramento. All nine persons aboard
the plane, including three children, were killed in the crash.
(Acme Telephoto)
Emergency
$55, 000 School Survey
By JAMES
An appropriation of $55,000
mentary and secondary schools
the state board of education was
board Friday.
Senator Dean Walker of Independence opposed the appropria
Putnam Elected
NAM President
New York, Dec. 9 W) Claude
A. Putnam, the small business
man from New Hampshire who
is president-elect of the National
Association of Manufacturers,
sai today the -weakest link in
managemeht-iabbr relations . is
the lack of personal touch.
Putnam, president of the Mar-
kem Machine company of Keene,
N. H., emphasized that need at
his first news conference after
being chosen head of NAM.
Employers and supervisors, he
said, must take a deep personal
interest in the problems and wel
fare of each employe.
The supervisor, he added,
holds the key to the situation.
But, he said, the supervisor Is
the weakest link in the chain;
he is either pro or con on labor
questions.
Putnam s plant employs about
200 workers. In his new posi
tion he will head an organiza
tion of more than 15,000 indus
trialists and businessmen, many
of them top figures in the na
tion's economy.
The New Hampshire manufac
turers brought a New England
town meeting atmosphere to the
closing session of the NAM's
54th annual Congress of Ameri
can Industry.
Those chosen national vice
presidents of the NAM include:
Thomas J. Bannan, president,
Western Gear Works, Seattle.
Those elected regional vice
presidents included:
Representing Idaho, Montana,
Oregon and Washington Ernest
G. Swi'gert, president, Hyster
Co., Portland, Ore.
Snow Falls on
Cascade Passes
Motorists planning to cross the
Cascades were warned by the
state highway commission today
to carry chains.
A heavy snowfall was report
ed last night at all higher eleva
tions. Chains also are needed on
the Old Oregon Trail at Mea
cham, and on the John Day high
way near Austin.
The east and west Diamond
Lake highway, which crosses the
Cascades between Diamond and
Crater lakes, was reopened to
traffic today after being blocked
for several days by snow.
The state highway commission
listed the following points where
driving conditions are difficult:
Government Camp Snowing
lightly, packed snow, plows op
erating. Conditions getting
worse, 5 inches new snow.
Santiam Pass Snowing light
ly, packed snow, plows operat
ing, conditions improving. Three
inches new snow.
McKenzie Pass Snowing hard
packed snow, plows operating
conditions getting worse. Three
inches new snow.
Willamette Pass Snowing
erating, 2 Inches new snow.
Board OICs
D. OLSON
for a state-wide survey of ele
of the state to be carried on by
approved by the state emergency
tion of the amount asked, in
sisting that a satisfactory job
could be done with $32,500, an
amount which he declared had
been budgeted during the past
two bienniums for surveys.
'We have had studies after
studies of our schools" said
Walker, "and there is no state
department that has the amount
of information available than
that already collected by the
board of education. I don't think
that the sum asked is justified.'
Other members of the board
pointed out that the last legisla
ture had adopted a resolution
appointing an advisory commit
tee and authorizing the study
and that in addition there were
ample funds in the basic school
administrative fund for the sur
vey. Hence, as Speaker Frank
Van Dyke put it:
'I don't think this emer
gency board has any authority
to cut down the request made
for the survey."
The state board of education
and the legislative advisory
committee presented a survey
program under which it was
proposed to employ Dr. Thomas
A. Holy, head of the bureau of
research of Ohio State college
for $1200 a month for 10 months
and also provide an executive
secretary and two part time
out-of-state consultants.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 3)
Blockade Tito's
Envoys in Berlin
Berlin, Dec. 9 UP) German
communist police, in a new So
viet inspired slap at the govern
ment of Premier-Marshal Tito,
held a Yugoslav military mis
sion under virtual house arrest
for hours today, and then sud
denly withdrew their guards.
A spokesman for the Yugo
slav mission said the blockade
was listed at 2 p.m., and that im
mediately the Yugoslav mem
bers of the mission began scur
rying for the safety of the Brit
ish sector of Berlin.
Marshal Tito's delegation in
the Soviet sector of the city was
disaccreditcd by the Soviet-sup
ported East German government
last night, and charged with try
ing to disturb public order in
the east sector. At the same time
the Yugoslavs were refused per
mission to travel in the East
zone.
After lifting Jheir guard from
the houses, a German communist
police officer announced the
blockade had been "a mistake"
and said an apology had been
offered. The Yugoslavs then
were free to leave the Russian
sector whenever they wished
The officer said the Yugoslav
delegation now has until Dec. 17
to remove its personnel and
equipment from the Russian sec
tor.
Mountain Named "Stalin"
Prague, Dec. 9 Wj Czechoslo
vakia's highest mountain is to
be renamed after Generalissimo
Stalin in celebration of the So
viet ruler's 70th birthday De
cember 21.
The peak is 8.737-foot high
Mount Gerlachovka (Shield of
Legionaircs) in Slovakia's Tatra
range. It was formerly named
for Czech legionnaires
Nationalist Govern
ment Begins Function
ing in Formosa
Taipeh, Formosa, Dec. 9 VP)
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek,
titular leader .of nationalist
China, flew to Sichang, Sikang,
in the mountain fastness of in
land southwestern China today.
His flight preceded reports
received here in this new provi
sional capital of China that com
munist troops were within 60
miles of Chengtu. Until yester
day Chengtu was China's fourth
capital this year. Chengtu air
fields were packed with Chinese
hoping to escape the approach
ing Reds.
The nationalist government
started functioning here today
the bomb damaged building
formerly occupied by the Jap
anese governor general. For
mosa for 50 years was a part of
Japan. American planes bomb
ed it heavily during World War
II.
Face Grave Problems
(Formosa was given to China
at a conference between allied
leaders just before the end of
the war. Its final disposition
still is considered one of the im
portant phases of the Japanese
peace treaty expected to be
written early next year.)
The nationalists face grave
economic problems here. The
island's normal population of
6,000,000 has been swelled to
7,200,000 persons by an influx
of nationalists army, navy, air
and political from the main
land. The island is rtot able and
does not want to support large
mainland forces. Many of the
islanders, in fact, still want to
be a part of Japan or indepen
dent of the Chinese mainlanders.
Island defenders are well train
ed and strong,
(Concluded on Pan 5, Column 8)
Tito Convicts 10
White Russians
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Dee. 9
VP) Yugoslavia sent 10 white
Russians, including a Russian
orthodox priest and a nun, to
prison today on charges of spy
ing for the Soviet Union against
the regime of Premier Marshal
Tito.
The 10 also were convicted by
a Yugoslav tribunal of having
aided the Germans during World
War II. They were given terms
ranging from three to 20 years.
The gray-bearded, black-rob
ed priest, Father Alcksei Krish-
ko, was sentenced to serve 11
years and six. months in prison.
He had denied the charges. Ar
son Boremovic, a judge and state
prosecutor under the pro-nazi
wartime government in Croatia,
was sentenced to serve 20 years.
This spy trial has been con
sidered Tito's answer to the rash
of espionage ?nd Titoist trials in
the neighboring communist
countries. The Titoist trials
have accused the defendants of
plotting against the interests of
the Soviet Union.
Another Witness Saw
Bridges at Red Meet
San Francisco. Dec. 9 Iffl Another witness said today ho saw
Harry Bridges at a communist party meeting.
The witness, Kcrmit C. Krolek, placed the time as late May,
1936, at Long Beach.
Bridges, head of the CIO Longshore Union, is on trial in federal
court here, accused of conspiracy
nd perjury charged with ly
ing when, at his 1945 naturali
zation hearing, he denied he
was or had been a communist.
Two other leaders in his union,
Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robert
son, are charged with conspiracy
in the case.
Krolek. 38, of Belmont, Calif.,
said he was an electronics engi
neer. In 1935, he said, he was
business agent and secretary ol
the American Radio Telegraph
ers' association, local 8, in Port
land, Ore.
In November of that year,
Krolek testified, he was recruit
ed into the communist party by
A. T. Pringlc, whom he identi
fied as secretary of Arta's local
6 at Seattle. Krolek said he
quit the party after 1V4 years;
that he had held a party -dook
under the name of "Conrad,"
and had attended communist
Ik I
Byron Price
Price Rejects
Truman's Offer
Washington, Dec. 9 W) Byron
Price, assistant secretary gener
al of the United Nations in
charge of administration, has
turned down an offer by Presi
dent Truman to name him as
sistant secretary of state for
public affairs.
Informed officials said today
that Price had been offered tho
assignment recently as succes
sor to George V. Allen, now
American ambassador to Yugo
slavia. On one or two previous
occasions Price had also been
picked for this job, which
eludes direction of the Voice of
America radio program and an
influential role in determining
state department? public relations
policies.
It was understood that the
principal i not the sole reason
for Price's decision was that the
state department job carries
lower salary.
As one of the top officials in
the United Nations he receives a
gross annual income of $20,000,
whereas an assistant secretary
of state is paid $15,000.
Price was recommended to
Mr. Truman by Secretary of
State Acheson.
Price was executive news edi
tor of the Associated Press for
several years, and served as
director of the office of censor
ship during the war.
At his home in New York,
Price said he had "no comment."
Dimifrov's Body
Now Embalmed
Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 9 W
Two S.oviet specialists have com
pleted the emoalming of the late
Premier Georgi Dimitrov, a ncro
of European communism, the
communist party newspaper
Rabotnichesko Delo announced
today.
Dimitrov's embalmment was
done by the same two specialists
who embalmed Russia s Lenin,
and the body of the former Bul
garian premier, like that ol
Lenin, will be placed in a spe
cially built tomb.
As Lenin's remains were plac
ed in Moscow s Red Square, so
will Dimitrov's be placed in the
center of Sofia.
party meetings at Seattle, Port
land. San Pedro and Long Beach
The Long Beach meeting in
1936. Krolek declared, was held
in the Venetian Square apart
ments, "at the end of the board
walk at the far end of the Pike."
It was held at the time of t
convention of the Maritime Fed
oration of the Pacific, he said.
Krolek testified that among
tho eight or nine persons there,
were Bridge and Schmidt.
The defense yesterday finish
cd exhaustive cross-examination
of Stanley Benjamin Hancock,
Pennsylvania newspaperman and
the third self described former
communist party member to
link Bridges with the commu
nist movement.
Hancock indicated his testi
mony would likely cost him his
job as director of public rela
tions for the Eric, Pa., Dispatch.
He left a letter of resignation.
House Spy Investi
gators Seeking More
Information
Washington, Dec. 9 (IP) House
spy probers tracing reported
uranium leaks to Russia turned
their eyes toward Canada today
amid indications that their in
quiry may become a hot 1950 po
litical issue.
Two investigators for the un-
American activities committee
were reported in Canada, where
an official confirmed yesterday
that 1000 pounds of uranium
compounds were shipped to Rus
sia via Great Falls, Mont., in
1943.
Committee sources insisted .
that these two developments
were not related, but reports
persisted that the committee
may renew its once-abandoned
effort to obtain records of a court .
action in New York by the Ca
nadian government in connec- .
tion with uranium sales.
Reactivate Probe
Louis J. Russell, senior com
mittee investigator, has said the
probe of the Canadian angle has
been "reactivated."
Russell is one of two agents
committee sources said loft for
Canada Wednesday night after
the committee had questioned
Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, retir
ed, wartime head of the United
States' atomic bomb project.
The investigators are due to
return before the committee's
next scheduled hearing on De
cember 19, when two former mi
nor officials connected with the.
lend-lease program are 10 r
quizzed. J
May Call Wallace
On that date, also, the w'0.
mittee may reach a final deci
sion on former Vice-President
Henry A. Wallace's request for
a hearing.
Wallace' made his request af
ter Radio Commentator Fulton
Lewis, Jr., named him as a
source of pressure to expedite
wartime atomic shipments to
Russia. Wallace has denied that.
Last night Wallace objected
to the committee's delay in
hearing him. He told the com
mittee the delay made the com
mittee "a party to this attempt
at character assassination."
Russell told the committee
last Monday that a Canadian
company supplied 1000 pounds
of uranium compounds for ship
ment to the Soviet union. Later,
he said, the Canadian govern
ment filed a civil action in New
York against an official of the
company but the court records
were impounded following set
tlement of the case.
Gunfire Radar
Taught Russians
Washington. Dec. 9 (fP) The
secrets of America's wartime de
tection and gunfire radar were
taught to a dozen Russian trai
nees at Fort Monmouth, N.J., in
1844 when the U.S. and the So
viets were allies.
This was affirmed by the ar
my in the wake of a controver
sy over whether the Russians re
ceived radar-equipped planes
under lend-lease.
Fort Monmouth is the signal
corps training and development
center near Rod Bank. So far as
could be determined it was the
only place whore the army
trained Russians in radar tech
nique. Russians were trained in radar
detection and tracking of low
flying buzz bombs and aircraft,
radar artillery direction, and
IFF" radar identification of
planes as friend or foe.
The Soviet training was relat
ed by the army in response to
questions arising out of state
ments by former Air Force Maj
or G. Racey Jordan that at least
one radar-equipped C-47 two
engine transport plane went to
the Russians under lend-lease.
Jordan said ho removed radar
from four Soviet-bound planes
at Great Falls, Mont.
The air force has said that
C-47 planes did not generally
have military search radar at
the time.
Another instance of radar-removal
from a lend-lease C-47
was related last night by for
mer air force Colonel Frank H.
Collins of Washington.
V of W Professor Dies
Seattle, Dec. 9 W) Carl S.
Dakan, 69, University of Wash
ington professor of business ad
ministration, died yesterday. Ha
had been ill for three weeks. Ho
came to the university in 1919.