2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1950
Control of Atomic Energy
Pleaded by Europeans
London. Feb. 1 VP) President Truman's order to build a hydro
gen super-bomb brought a wave
international control of atomic energy.
But Britain's government said there would be no hope of sue
cess now in direct talks with Soviet Prime Minister Stalin.
3
Kiddie Carnival
Ends Saturday
Because of the severe weather
and road conditions, registra
tions for the American Legion
Kiddie Karnival, scheduled to
close Wednesday night, will be
extended through Saturday, Feb
ruary 4, announced John C. Ker-
rick, commander of Capitol Post
No. 9.
Approximately 175 children
had been entered in the program
Tuesday evening, but numerous
calls were being made to com
mittee members by persons ir
districts where travel was diffi
cult. Entries are being taken in
the Jack and Jill store, 357
Court street, where little tots
from 1 month to 5 years old
may be entered in the baby di
ision of the program, and chil
dren from 5 to 15 years may be
registered for the talent contest.
There is no charge to register a
child, Kerrick said, and any ad
ult member of the family can
make the registration without
the child being present.
The program will consist of
numerous preliminary events
end stage and radio p'ograms to
include health examinations for
all baby show entrants, talent
auditions, baby beauly judging,
a diaper derby, and a 'tot and
teen tog show. The grand finale
to the month long affair will be
staged in the Salem high audi
torium on Saturday night, Feb
ruary 25, when winning children
will receive awards, and young
sters in the talent division will
present a variety of songs, dan
ces, and musical numbers.
Senate Votes
Election
Change
Washington, Feb. 1 (P) The
senate today approved a consti
tutional amendment to abolish
the electoral college and change
the system of electing future
presidents and vice presidents.
The vote was 64 to 27, or 3
. votes more than the required
two-thirds. The amendment,
sponsored by Senator Lodge (R.,
Mass.), and others, now goes to
the house. A two-thirds vote
also fs required there.
If approved by the house, the
amendment automatically will be
placed before the 48 state le
gislatures. Ratification by three
fourths of them 36 is neces
sary to write the amendment
into the constitution.
Under the amendment spon
sored by Senator Lodge (R.,
Mass.), each presidential candi
date would receive a part of each
state's electoral vote on the
basis of the percentage of the
popular vole he captured.
In brief, the Lodge amend
ment would:
1. Abolish presidential elec
tors, but retain for counting pur
poses only the electoral vote each
state now has. This is equal to
me state s number of U. S. scna
tors and representatives.
2. Abolish the so-called "unit
rule ' system o counting elec
toral voles. Under this system
the candidate recciying the most
popular votes within a stale cus
tomarily receives all of that
stale's electoral votes.
Instead, the amendment would
award each presidential candi
date an electoral vote in direct
proportion to his number of
popular votes within any state.
Before the final vote on the
Lodge amendment, the senate
accepted a proposal by Senator
Lucas (D., 111.), t require that a
winning presidential candidate
get at least 40 percent or a to
tal of 212.4 of all the nation's
531 electoral votes.
Postal Receipts for
January $77,217
Receipts of the Salem post of
fice during January were $77,-
217.72 as compared with $70,
444.05 with a similar month in
1940, reported Postmaster Al
bert C. Gragg Wednesday. This
is an increase of a bit over nine
percent.
Since certain increases in the
services were inaugurated by
the post office department the
first of 1949, January's receipts
for this year mark the first op
portunity for a basis of com
parable rates.
It was pointed out that the
legislature was in session a year
ago, a circumstance that brings
about a certain amount of in
creased postal business. Post
master Gragg believes the gain
in January is due to greater pop
ulation in this area.
Anne Shirley Expecting
Hollywood, Feb. 1 U.R Screen
Actress Anne Shirley said today
she is expecting a child "the
first week in September."
of new pleas in Europe today for
Europe's newspapers headlin
ed Truman's decision and spurr
ed a running debate on how to
stop the threat of world destruc
tion.
Some editorials said the deci
sion in Washington was inevi
table in view of the inability of
east and west to agree on con
trol of atomic production. The
liberal Stockholm Dagens Nyhe
ter blamed the Truman decision
on the "Soviet union's stubborn
refusal to cooperate."
The communist press in Bri
tain and France jumped at the
announcement as further indica
tion America is preparing for a
"monstrous war" and demanded
immediate abolition of the atom
bomb and prohibition of the
making of the hydrogen bomb.
There was no immediate offi
cial reaction to the announce
ment in any of Europe's capitals.
But a British foreign office
statement, which came just be
fore the announcement, gave an
indication of the official British
attitude toward the atom control
stalemate.
The statement was a reply to
formal request by British
Quakers that Prime Minister
Clement Attlee try for a per
sonal conference with Stalin,
Truman and other western gov
ernment heads in an attempt to
reach an international agree
ment. The threat or an atomic ar
maments race makes it impera
tive that the beginnings of an
international agreement be
sought," said the memorandum
from the British Society of
Friends (Quakers).
The foreign office reply, writ
ten on behalf of Attlee, said:
"It would be presumptuous to
suppose that personal contact
at even the highest level would
do anything but raise unduly the
hopes for peace which have
been so often and so cruelly dis
appointed in the past."
The reply said that, judging
by their recent conduct, the Rus
sians "are dominated by the
Marxist theory of an inevitable
clash between the two systems
into which the world is divided."
U S to Take Over
Hydrogen Plants
New York, Feb. 1 m The
making of hydrogen, one of the
nation's fair-size industries, can
be taken over by the federal
government under the atomic
energy act.
The possibility comes from
President Truman's decision to
make hydrogen bombs, far more
powerful than present A-bombs.
Furthermore, the atomic en
ergy commission's report today
reveals experiments on three
kinds of hydrogen, enough to
suggest to scientists how to
make a hydrogen bomb. The
suggestion is using the heavier
forms of that gas.
The atomic energy act gives
to the commission control over
all "fissionable materia 1."
Bombs made of any of the three
forms of hydrogen, as described
to date are not fissionable, for
the atoms do not split but fuse.
But Section 5 of the act in
defining "fissionable material,"
after enumerating Plutonium
and uranium, goes on to say that
fissionable material" also is
any other material which the
commission determines to be ca
pable of releasing substantial
quantities of energy through nu
clear chain reaction of the ma
terial ." '
This by definition includes all
the currently mentioned proc
esses of using hydrogen for
bombs.
Rogers Injured in Car
By Switch Engine
truest Timothy Rogers, Route
suffered a possible fracture of
the skull about 12:30 p.m. Wed
nesday when his automobile col
lided with a Southern Pacific
switch engine on Tile road in
Salem.
Rogers was attended by first
aid and taken to Salem General
hospital in an unconscious con
dition. Until examination had
been completed the degree of
seriousness of the injury could
not be determined.
Police had not yet reported
how tile accident occurred.
DANCE SATURDAY
In the Newly Remodelled and Newly Decorated
CRYSTAL GARDENS
To the Old Time Music of POP EDWARDS
And His Nine Piece Orchestra
THE WILLAMET TE VALLEY'S FAVORITE
OLD TIME ORCHESTRA
And to the Modern Music of
BILL DeSOUZA and His Talented Ten-Piece
Band
"THE TALK OF THE TOWN"
TWO FLOORS TWO BANDS ONE PRICE
Acheson Seeks Support Secretary of State Dean Acheson
(left) sits at committee table with Chairman John Kee (D.,
W. Va.), of the house foreign affairs committee as he appears
before the group, in Washington, to seek congressional sup
port for his Far Eastern policy. In center background is John
Myun Chang, Korean ambassador to the United States. Ache
son asked the committee to approve new aid to Korea to
strengthen it economically. (AP Wirephoto)
Tells Highway
Landscaping
While primarily interested in
the beautification of the road
sides, the landscaping depart
ment of the state highway com
mission quite often saves the
taxpayer considerable money.
In making this assertion dur
ing Wednesday's luncheon of
the Salem Rotary club, Mark
H. Astrup, head landscape archi
tect for the department, pointed
out that protection of the road
sides from erosion was a money
saver.
In declaring that "we owe
some responsibility to our visi
tors" in providing eye pleasing
scenery, Astrup said his depart
ment was responsible for the
trees and shrubbery within the
right of way. Often this involves
public utilities which have the
permission by law to construct
and maintain their lines. Astrup
added that in most cases the
utilities were entirely coopera
tive. Stating that people from out
of the state,' as a rule, do not
come here to view the buildings
along the highways, Astrup sug
gested that it was not always
wise to eliminate all trees from
a particular area. In this con
nection he observed "I wonder
if Salem is justified in cutting
its trees one after another."
Oregon has lagged in the con
struction of roadside picnic
areas, Astrup admitted, since
only 20 of these places have
been built or are under construc
tion. Astrup spoke of the fact that
it cost the highway department
$218,000 to pick up the refuse
left along the highways by care
less drivers or passengers. An
other charge of $20,000 was as
sessed against the department
because of vandalism. He sug
gested that parents would do
well to teach their children the
importance of having respect for
public property.
Weather Hits
Reserve Flights
Weather the past few weeks
has hampered trair.ing flights
for the Naval Air Reservists at
the Salem Naval Air Facility.
Snow, heavy rain, low ceil
ings and other bad weather cut
the hours during which flights
could be made to only 34 hours
for the entire month of Janu
ary, which had 170 daylight
hours in the 20 operating days
of the facility.
During that month there were
only seven different days that
reservists could have flown. The
remainder of the days the weath
er was either too bad to fly or
marginal. Also cutting down the
flying hours of the reservists
were weather conditions which
prevented those from a distance
traveling to McNary field to
fly.
During the month of January
21 pilots were flown on 23 in
dividual hops for a total of 30.7
hours for the volunteers. Sta
tion keepers flew 13 8 hours in
January, making the total num
ber of hours that the planes were
in the air 44.5. hours.
Men at the facility despite the
fact that there has been little
flying, have not been inactive
the past month. Orders have to
date been received on 78 pi
lots for flying and the facility
has cleared 46 pilots for flying.
A news letter written the
past week-end has been put in
the mail to 519 naval air reserv
ists in the area served by the
Salem facility and arrangements
have recently been made to give
the men their physicals on Sat
urdays and Sundays. Previously
it was only on Wednesday night
that the men could take their
physicals, unless some special
arrangement was made.
Priest Testifies
Bridges Not Red
San Francisco, Feb. 1 (U.R) A
Catholic priest gave accused
communist Harry Bridges a
character recommendation to
day.
Father Paul Meincke of Eure
ka, Nev., testifying as a defense
witness at the CIO Longshore
union leaders perjury-conspiracy
trial, said he "knew"
Bridges was not a communist.
Bridges is accused of lying at
his naturalization hearing in
1945 when he denied he was or
ever had been a communist.
Thirteen government witnesses
placed Brdiges in the party over
a 10-year priod beginning in
1933.
"There is a great difference
between a militant trade union
ist and a communist," the priest
said. "Over the years, I knew
Bridges as a militant trade un
ionist he is not a communist"
Asked if he were able to rec
ognize a communist, Meincke
said, "Not by seeing him, but
let me talk to him, not an hour
or a day but over a long period,
and I can tell.
"A communist would slip. But
he (Bridges) never slipped. He
never said anything which
showed me he was a commu
nist." Don Walker for Congress
Portland, Feb. 1 VP) Don
Walker, Portland attorney, re
signed as president of the Mult
nomah County Young Republi
cans today to run for congress.
Walker said he would seek the
republican nomination for U.S.
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Russia Wants
Hirohito Tried
Washington, Feb. 1 (U.R) Rus
sia proposed to the United States
today that Emperor Hirohito of
Japan be tried as a war criminal
by an international court,
The proposal was made in a
note Soviet Ambassador Alex
ander S. Panyushkin handed
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son at a seven-minute comer
ence at the state department.
Upon leaving, Panyushkin
said the Soviet note proposed
also the trial of a number of
Japanese war criminals who
were not under Soviet control,
including Hirohito.
Panyushkin said the note re
called the recent Soviet prose
cution and conviction of a num
ber of Japanese for planning
bacteriological warfare against
the Soviet union.
He added that the Soviet un
ion now wants additional war
criminals prosecuted.
Although he did not say
directly, he appeared to link Hi
rohito with the bacteriological
plot.
Asked whether he expected
the United States to turn over
the alleged war criminals to
Russia, he said the Soviet union
is interested primarily in seeing
they are tried. Asked if he ex
pected the United States to pro
secute them, he said Russia
wants an international trial.
43,707 Violate
Motor Car Laws
State police reported today
that in 1949, they arrested 43,
707 persons for violating motor
vehicle laws. They handed out
82.896 warnings for similar
offenses.
The state police cars traveled
7,486,796 miles in enforcing the
motor vehicle laws.
The officers made 861 arrests
for drunken driving."
In general law enforcement,
they made 4,660 arrests.
They recovered 480 stolen
automobiles and $103,550 worth
of other stolen property.
They made 3.066 arrests and
handed out 1.135 warnings for
violations of fishint? and hunting
laws. There were 177 arrests for
commercial fishin" violations.
There now arp 3R7.729 finger-
nrnt cards in the files.
The state police crime detec
tion laboratory marie 1.053 in
vestigations diirins the year, in
cluding 20 autopsies
representative, opposing
Homer D. Angell.
Rep.
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Coal Strikes
Before Court
Washington, Feb. 1 P) John
L. Lewis sat down with north
ern and western coal operators
today to renew contract talks
broken off three months ago.
At the very moment their con
ference began at the Hotel Stat
ler, an attorney for Lewis was
arguing to a federal judge that
the talks were reason enough to
throw out an injunction suit
againt Lewis and the United
Mine Workers.
Welly K. Hopkins, UMW at
torney, said the mine workers
always "stood ready and willing
to negotiate in good faith."
In the case, Robert Denham,
counsel for the national labor
relations board, is asking for a
court order for the miners to
stop their production-delaying
tactics. He accuses Lewis of re
fusing to bargain with the mine
owners in good faith.
Neither Lewis nor George H.
Love, spokesman for the mine
owners, had any comment when
they began negotiating at the
Statler. They parried questions
with reporters and greeted each
other stiffly.
Denham's suit calls the three-
day week and the current off-
again, on-again strikes in coal
"unfair labor practices."
President Truman has said
that Denham acted on his own,
but had advised the White House
of his intention.
Mr. Truman since has moved
into the coal situation on his
own, but along far different
lines. He asked yesterday for
a 70-day truce while fact-find
ers look into the dispute that had
disrupted production for months.
Neither Lewis, nor the opera
tors had yet replied to Mr. Tru-
man s proposal. He asked an
answer by 5 p.m. (EST) Satur
day.
Dominick Manoli, counsel for
the national labor relations
board, opened the argument be
fore Federal District Judge Rich
mond B. Keech in Denham's
case.
Manoli started off by offering
a score of exhibits. Heading the
list was last week's report from
James Boyd, director of the bu
reau of mines, stating that a na
tional crisis exists or shortly will
exist unless normal coal output
is restored.
Russia Rejects
French Protest
Paris, Feb. i (IP) Russia to
day rejected France's note of
protest against Soviet recogni
tion of the rebel, anti-French
regime in Indochina.
Soviet Ambassador Alexander
Bogomolov sent the French note
back to the foreign office with
a statement that "the govern
ment of the USSR does not con
sider it possible to receive such
a note."
The French note, delivered to
Bogomolov last night, was a
sharply worded warning that
Russia's recognition of the Ho
Chi-Minh regime in Indochina
would "gravely impair Franco-
Soviet relations."
France said in the protest that
the recognition of the Moscow
trained Ho Chi-Minh's guerrilla
government was a violation of
international law.
The only legal government of
the three Vietnam states of In
dochina, France contends, i:
that of former Emperor Bao Dai,
who was installed by the French.
French troops have been fight
ing a jungle war with Ho Chi
Minh's forces in Indochina for
three years.
Ho Chi-Minh's regime has
been recognized by the Chinese
communist government of Mao
Tze-Tung, and has been accused
by the nationalist Chinese of re
ceiving active military aid from
the communists.
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due to cold weather during the
past month.
Weather Kits
Plane Flights
Operations at McNary field
during January were the lowest
that they have been since the
CAA control tower was again
placed in operation here last
February.
Total operations for the month
of January were 2230, which was
1,209 below the previous low
month of December.
Weather both months cut op
erations at McNary field. There
were days during January when
no operations were possible and
other days when there were only
a few operations.
Transfer of air carrier opera
tions of United Air Lines to
Salem from Portland during a
three day period when planes
could not land in Portland kept
the air carrier operations up
with the January total for air
carriers 258.
January 21 the tower record
ed 37 air carrier operations and
the following day there were
42 air carrier operations.
Other figures for the month
of January were air force itiner
ant, three; navy itinerant, six:
and civilian itinerant, 117. There
were no local army operations.
Local navy operations numbered
127 and civilian local operations
were 1,720.
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Delay Hearing
OnPP&LSale
Washington, Feb. 1 U.R The
securities and exchange commis
sion today granted a last-minute
request of the American Power
& Light company for another
24-hour postponement of a new
hearing before the commission
on the proposed sale by Ameri
can of its $77,000,000 subsidiary,
Pacific Power & Light company.
The request, from Howard L.
Aller, chairman and president of
American Power & Light, was
received by the SEC at 8:07 a.m.,
less than two hours before the
scheduled start of the reconven
ed hearing.
Aller notified the commission
that "we have received two pro
posals for the purchase of our
Pacific stock, one of which is
very complicated and requires
time for analysis by executives
and board members.
"The other requires work by
counsel to eliminate certain un
certainties which we are confi
dent can be clarified by Wednes
day afternoon.
"We therefore request a post
ponement of the hearing until.'
10 o'clock, February 2, re our
application for approval of saler
of Pacific stock."
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