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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 16, 195 (32 Pages)
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Truman Slates
Time Not Ripe
For Peace Meet
Door Always Open for
Atomic Talks-Cool
On Atlantic Pact
Washington, Feb. 16 (P) Pres
ident Truman made clear today
he still entertains the idea that
a special peace mission to Russia
, might be worthwhile at some
future date.
This is a thought that got his
favor in 1948, but was dropped
because his principal advisors
were against it in that cam
paign year.
But while he still has the
thought, there is no indication
Mr. Truman intends to act on it
unless events take a turn to raise
greater hopes that such a mis
sion could be profitable.
At News Conference
The President's attitude was
made known during a news con
ference at which hp said the
American door is always open
to international negotiation for
control of atomic weapons.
That was all because he had
given an exclusive interview to
Arthur Krock of the New York
Times and reporters were trying
to amplify some of the points in
that interview regarding deal
ings with Russia.
The chief executive said with
obvious heat that he is his own
free agent, he will see whom he
pleases, say what he pleases, and
he isn't going to be censored by
anyone.
. When the president emphasiz
ed that he is going to do as he
pleases, somebody asked wheth
er "You intentionally omitted
'damn.' "
Yes. the president said, but
you can put it in if you like.
After the atmosphere had
cleared a bit, the president said
in response to questions that:
Answers Many Queries
1. He doesn't think the time
lino arrived tn spnH C.hipf Jus
tice Vinson to Russia but the
rinnr alwavs is nnpn for discus
sion of atomic controls. This
doesn't need any dramatizing.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Urges Truman
To Meet Stalin
Washington, Feb. 16 (P) Sen
ator H. Alexander Smith (R., N.
J.) today called on the adminis
tration to explore everymeansof
reaching agreement with Russia
even to the point of a meeting
between President Truman and
Premier Stalin.
"We should not close any ave
nue of approach to a settlement
of our differences," Smith told
reporters.
He said if a satisfactory way
could be found, then President
Truman might be able to "sit
down with Stalin" and try to
work out an approach to the
problem of world peace.
He said also that the United
Nations should be kept in the
center of any moves to bring the
nations of the world together
in a peaceful community.
A White House official said
yesterday that Mr. Truman in
reviewing the deterioration of
Russian-American relations be
lieves the United States ended
the wartime lease-lend program
"too abruptly."
Presidential Secretary Charles
G. Ross said he did not know
whether the president's feelings
now might be the basis for a new
approach to the Russians.
Permit Issued for
West Salem Postoffice
A building permit was issued
Thursday for the branch post
office on the west side, to be
located at 191 Kingwood. The
cost will be $17,840. The permit
was issued to the contractor, C.
A Robertson.
The city of Salem took out a
permit Wednesday afternoon for
the first unit of the administra
tion at McNary field, on which
construction is getting under
way. It is a federal aid project
with a total cost of about $35,-
000.
Other permits today: L. E
Webber, to build a one-story
dwelling and garage at 1775
Berry, $6000. John Johnson, to
wreck a marquee at 1190 South
12th, $a0. Don Woodry, to erect
wallboard at 474 South Com
mercial, $350.
4 Mine Pickets
Shot in Attack
On Coal Mine
Gun Battle at Non
Union Mine Follows
Wave of Violence
Pittsburgh, Feb. 16 ) Gun
fire crackled in the strike-pla
gued soft coal fields today as
the shutdown dealt new blows
to the nation's economy.
Four men identified as miner
pickets were injured in a gun
battle at a non-union West Vir
ginia . mine.
Bill Williams, son of one of
five brothers operating the Wil
liams mine at Junior, said the
shootings took place after about
100 pickets had been driven off
the property by warning shots
fired into the air.
The injured men were taken
to a hospital at Philippi. They
suffered flesh and head wounds.
Wave of Violence
The shootings followed by
about 24 hours a wave of vio
lence in the coal fields around
Harlan, Ky. A swarm of roving
pickets there destroyed property
and warned miners against con
tinuing to work.
CIO and AFL labor groups
came to the aid of striking soft
coal miners today with donations
of food and money in some sec
tions of the country.
Idle diggers also obtained
sacks of free government sur
plus potatoes, distributed by lo
cal government officials.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Little Progress
In Peace Talks
Washington, Feb. 16 VP) John
L. Lewis was reported today to
have proposed to soft coal op
erators that they guarantee 200
days of work a year for his
United Mine workers. '
Such a contract provision
would be in line with Lewis' ex
pressed desire for more stabil
ized employment in the coal
fields, where a full-fledged
strike is in progress and gunfire
crackled on some picket lines
today. x
Lewis and the operators are
engaged in new bargaining talks
by order of a federal court. Thus
far there have been no concrete
reports of progress.
One of the negotiators told
newsmen that Lewis had men
tioned the guaranteed working
year as a contract possibility.
Others close to the negotia
tions also reported that Lewis
had brought this up.
There was some indication
that Lewis had hinted in the ne
gotiations he may be willing to
take less than the $15 a day
wage and 35-cent welfare fund
tonnage royalty he has previous
ly demanded.
The present wage is $14.05 a
day and the royalty is 20 cents
a ton.
Lewis was reported to have
talked of a wage boost of "up to
$15 a day" and a royalty of "up
to 35 cents a . ton" indicating
these are his top figures but sub
ject to compromise.
Experts Join Holy in
School System Study
By JAMES D. OLSON
Educational experts from various parts of the nation are join
ing with Dr. T. C. Holy, of Ohio State university, in a compre
hensive study of Oregon's school system.
Dr. Glenn Featherstone of the United Slates office of Educa
tion, Washington, D. C, has arrived in Salem to gather data
for a study of all p h a s e s off
school transportation in the
state. This study will include
costs of carrying school children
to and from their homes; type
of buses utilized in the school
system and other factors relat
ing to the subject.
Two experts from the Univer
sity of California, Dr Edgar
Morphet and Dr. Theodore Rel
ler, are making a survey of
school organization and its ma
ny categories.
Rex Putnam, superintendent
of public instruction, said Wed
nesday, that the school study
now in progress will be the
most comprehensive ever at
tempted in the state.
"The survey will cover school
organization; present method of
school financing; school building
and other facilities; some phas
es of the curriculum utilized in
Oregon schools and the effective
ness of the entire school oper
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8000 Fleeing
Flooded Areas
(By the Associated Press)
Thousands were driven from
their homes in flooded areas in
East Louisiana and winter's
worst storm raged across the
New England states today.
Flood waters from the swollen
Mississippi and other surging ri
vers spilled out over more than
a million acres of lowlands in
Louisiana and Mississippi. Some
8,000 persons were evacuated;
other thousands were threatened
with evacuation. i
Skies cleared, and tempera.
turcs dropped over the southern
water shed. Fair weather also
was reported in the Ohio and
upper Mississippi valleys, eas
ing temporarily the serious flood
threats in many river areas.
But the rising Mississippi re
mained a potential danger along
a 600-mile stretch from Cairo,
111., to the Gulf.
Six persons died in the storm
which swept the New England
area. Snowballs measured up
to 15 inches in western Massa
chusetts. The snowfall in Bos
ton was followed by sleet and
drizzle,
Flying Arrow Back
From Chinese Waters
San Pedro, Calif., Feb. 16 W)
The freighter Flying Arrow,
marked by 38 shell hits from a
Chinese Nationalist gunboat off
Shanghai last January 9, is rid
ing safely in this port today.
Capt. David Jones, 31, brought
the Flying Arrow in yesterday
and reported that he had "re
assuring" information for the
wife of a navy airman held cap
tive by Chinese communists.
Skipper Jones of Chicago, told
reporters the information he had
for Mrs. William C. Smith of
Long Beach, Calif., was confi
dential. He declined to discuss
the information.
ation in the state," he said.
Putnam said that undoubted
ly new ideas concerning admin
istration of Oregon schools will
be presented in the final feport
scheduled to be submitted to the
legislative committee on educa
tion by September 1.
Dr. Holy has agreed to submit
progress reports to the commit
tee monthly in order to keep the
committee informed and permit
the calling in of Oregon educa
tors for discussion of various
phases of the study.
The educators called in to as
sist in the study are all top
flight men in the educational
field, Putnam said, most of
whom, including Dr. Holy, have
participated in similar surveys
in other states of the union
Dr. Holy has set up head
quarters in the speaker's rooms
in the house of representatives
in the state capitol.
Officers Investigate Rickreall Burglary Police are sifting
evidence, trying to run down the burglars who cut their way
into the Farmers Union cooperative oil building at Rickreall
Tuesday night and stole $200 worth of small electrical appli
ances. Above, Officer James Finney of the state police and
Deputy Sheriff Tony Neufeld examine articles for possible
clues. Below is the hole cut through the office floor to gain
access to the building. '
Building Code Relaxed
For Some Permits
On a certain type of building
issued at the city building inspector's office, appears this notation
in red type:
"Does not meet requirements
building code nor the building
On FEPC Bill
Washington Feb. 16 OT The
house rules committee refused
today by a 6 to 6 tie vote to clear
an anti-job discrimination (FE
PC) bill for house action.
Four democrats and two re
publicans voted to keep the bill
in a committee pigeonhole where
it has been since last summer.
An equal number of democrats
and republicans voted to give the
house a chance to settle the issue.
Voting lo approve the measure
were Reps. Herter (R., Mass.),
Brown (R., Ohio), Delaney (D.,
N.Y.), Madden (D., Ind.), Mc-
Sweeney (D., Ohio) and Sabath
(D., 111.).
Voting against the bill were
Reps. Allen (R., 111.), Wads
worth (R N.Y.), Cox (D., Ga.),
Howard Smith, (D., Va.), Col-
mor, (D., Miss.) and Lyle (D.,
Texas.)
Chairman Sabath told news
men proponents of the bill will
try to pass it next Wednesday
under procedure sharply limit
ing debate. He seemed pessimis
tic, however, about the chances.
Some backers of FEPC had
hoped Allen might change his
vote allowing the bill to go to
the floor. Allen said in advance,
however, that he had no such in
tentions and he voted against the
bill.
Farm Support Plan
Branded 'Disgrace'
Portland, Feb. 16 W The
dean of Oregon State college
school of agriculture said yes
terday the nation's handling of
surplus crops was "an interna
tional disgrace."
"We destroy millions of bush
els of spuds, while the consum
er pays high prices for potatoes
and high income taxes to main
tain the price support plan,"
said William A. Schoenfeld. Ap
pearing before a business group,
he asked "I wonder how long
that is going to last."
He predicted the program
"will break down of its own
weight and bring disaster" un
less adjustments are made.
No More Half Pints
Portland, Ore., .Feb. 16 W)
The Oregon liquor control com
mission said today its statewide
stores no longer will handle
half-pints. Sales of half-pints
"contributed to improper use of
alcohol," the commission said,
permits for alterations, now being
as called for in the city of Salem
department's approval."
v Two - permits have already
been issued, and over 30 more
buildings, most of them apart
ment houses, are said to be in
line for similar permits.
Fire safety requirements of
the city building code are involv
ed. The permits are issued by
the building inspector, who is
City Engineer J. H. Davis, on
approval of the state fire mar
shal and the city fire prevention
bureau, but without Davis' ap
proval. The city code, Davis explains,
requires an enclosed stair well
from the top floor to the bottom
floor and opening into the street.
"Our code is the Pacific coast
code," Davis said, "drawn up
with and approved by the build
ing inspectors of the Pacific
coast. It is used in some 1200
cities and localities, and is the
most widely-used code in the
world."
Captain Ben Faught of the fire
department, who heads the city
fire prevention bureau, explains
that if the city code were follow
ed strictly in the alteration of
existing buildings it would often
run into excessive cost and also
mar the appearance of the in
terior of buildings. Serving on
the bureau with Faught are Ray
McCauley and Warren Lindsay
of the fire department
The three agencies slate fire
marshal, city fire prevention bu
reau, and city building inspec
lor, are not engaged in an
actual controversy over the ques
tion, although it has been the
subject of argument for months.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
8 Dead in B-29 Crash Rescuers probe the wreckage of the B-29 which carried eight men
to their death when it crashed moments after takeoff from Great Falls Air Base, Mont.
The B-29 was the command plane of a group of 12 B-29's which took off from the air base
to join the search for the B-36 which crashed off the coast of British Columbia. 11 men
aboard the B-36 were found safe after directing rescue units to their British Columbia is
land by sending up a towering column of smoke. Four arc still unlocatcd. Seven men aboard
the B-29 search plane walked away from the crash. (Acme Telcphoto)
4 Crew Members
Still Missing Along
Vole lo Remove
Price Supports
From Potatoes
Washington, Feb. 16 () The
senate agriculture committee
voted 6 to 2 today to remove
all government price supports
from Irish potatoes until rigid
planting and marketing controls
are put into operation.
Senator Lucas (D.-Ill.) won
approval of this move as a pre
liminary to an effort to estab
lish a tight system of govern
ment controls over potatoes. The
aim is to hold down production
and avoid costly surpluses.
The Lucas proposal removing
supports was attached to a
house-passed measure revising
cotton controls. It previously
had been approved informally
late last night by the same
group.
At Closed Meeting
The action was taken at a
closed meeting of the commit
tee. Senators Aiken (R.-Vt.) and
Hoey (D.-N.C.) were said to
have voted against the proposal.
Lucas, the senate democratic
leader, seeks approval of legis
lation to allow the secretary of
agriculture to fix potato produc
tion quotas on the basis of either
bushels or acres. He introduced
the plan and urged quick pas
sage. His proposal would be an
amendment to the present farm
price support act.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
CIO to Purge
4th Red Union
Washington, Feb. 16 (IP) The
CIO's purge of left-wing unions
charged with following every
'twist and turn and zig and zag'
of communist policy was aim
ed today at the United Public
Workers, an organization of gov
ernment employes.
The executive board, consist
ing of the heads of all CIO
unions, voted yesterday to toss
out three unions the Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers, the
United Office and Professional
Workers, and the Food, Tobacco
and Agricultural Workers. Their
membership totals about 80,000.
The public workers has 30,000.
Action on the public workers.
headed by Abram Flaxer, was
expected to be a mere formality
The board was handed a re
port of a special committee
which investigated the charges
of adherence to pro-communist
policy against the Flaxer union
It recommended ouster, as had
the reports of committees which
looked into similar charges
against the other three unions.
With the expulsion of the pub
lie workers, the CIO will have
amputated half of the unions it
lists as left wing once a pow
erful influence in the CIO. Two
unions, the United Electrical
Workers and Farm Equipment
Workers, were fired out of the
CIO at its Cleveland convention
in November, the forerunner of
this week's action by the execu
tive board.
Vets Named to I
Supervise State
AirWarnings
Two Portland army veterans
were named by Governor Mc
Kay today to supervise the
state's air raid warning sys
tem. They are Ivan Brown McKin
ney, Pacific Telephone and Tel
egraph company executive who
will be chief of communications
of the state civil defense agency;
and Edward H. Tolan, who will
bp chief of the agency's air raid
warning and aircraft observa
tion system.
The governor announced last
Saturday that the three coast
states were asked by Secretary
of Defense Louis Johnson to set
up the system. About 6,000 per
sons in Oregon will man the ob
servation posts as was done in
World War II.
During the war, McKinney
was in army communications
Tolan was in the Portland fil
ter center in the first part of the
war, and later was an air corps
officer.
Red China Gives
Ports to Russia
New York, Feb. 16 W) The
New York Times today reported
communist China had agreed
secretly to furnish Soviet Rus
sia with a large labor force and
to give the Russians control of
seven yellow seaports in case of
war.
A Times dispatch from Paris
said the Chinese Reds had agreed
also that Soviet "advisers" would
be given "key positions ir
China's army, secret police or
ganization and communist
party."
The dispatch, by Times cor
respondent C. L. Sulzberger,
said these concessions by Mao
Tze-Tung, chairman of the Chi
nese communist government, and
Premier Foreign Minister Chou
En-Lai were believed to be in
secret codicls signed in Mos
cow prior to the announcement
Tuesday of a treaty of alliance
between the two communist gov
ernments. The Chinese Reds, Sulzberger
reported, were understood to
have agreed that the ports of
Dairen, Port Arthur, Chinwang-
tao, Haichow, Chefoo, Weihai-
wei and Tsingtao "would be
placed under Soviet supervision
immediately in case of war."
Sulzberger said the Russians
orig'.nally demanded full con
trol of all seven ports, according
lo "responsible information
available in eastern European
capitals on the eve of the treaty
announcement."
The alliance treaty, as an
nounced Tuesday, provided that
Russia would abandon special
rights at Port Arthur and Dai
ren, obtained in the treaty of
August 14, 1945, between the
Soviet Union and the Chinese
nationalist government. The
turnover is scheduled upon con
clusion of a Japanese peace
treaty or by the end of 1952 at
the latest.
ofB-36
BC Coast
Search Renewed
As Survivors
Flown to Base
McChord Air Force Base,
Wash., Feb. 16 P Two more
survivors of the B-36 bomber
from which 17 men parachuted
off the British Columbia coast
early Tuesday morning have'
been found today, the 4th rescue
squadron reported today.
Meanwhile, Canadian naval
officials said they are certain
other men survived. Four men
were still missing.
"The searchers heard shouts," '
said a naval spokesman, "and.
another search team reported
hearing shots."
Shots Are Heard
The shots came from an in
land point on the rocky, wooded
Princess Royal island.
Rescue squadron headquarters
reported both of the newly-found
survivors wereinjured. One was
reported to have a broken ankle.
I our Canadian and American
ground parties were fanned out
over the rugged island in the des
perate race against time and
weather.
Planes continually criss-cross
ed the area in pressing the
search from the air.
A coast guard report last night
that all 17 of the men had been
picked up or located was with
out substantiation this morning.
Search headquarters here and
at Vancouver, B. C, and the
coast guard at Ketchikan. Alas
ka, said a large scale search was
under way today for the four.
At least 14 planes, a helicop
ter and half a dozen ships were
searching for the other men to
day. Four paratroopers were
carried in one of the planes.
They will drop to the aid of the
missing men, if and when they
are sighted. American and Ca
nadian landing parties also were
searching Princess Royal Island
for the four.
One Badly Injured
Eleven men were rescued
dramatically by a fish boat yes
terday and last night from Ash-
down and Princess Royal is-.
lands. They had parachuted
from the burning B-36 during
Monday night after three en
gines caught fire on a flight from
Alaska to Texas.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Tydings Renews
Disarming Call
Washington, Feb. 16 VP)
Senator Tydings (D., Md.) to
day renewed his call for a world
disarmament conference to try
to remove "the fearful darkening
threat" of the possible extinction
of mankind.
The chairman of the senate
armed services committee told
the senate that if Russia would
accept an invitation in good
faith, "progress will have been
made and real achievement
could follow."
But if Russia declined the in
vitation, he said, "then every
one will know where the respon
sibility for the arms race really
lies."
Tydings called upon Secretary
of State Acheson to "try another
roadway" from the one he out
lined in a news conference Feb
ruary 8.
In sum, Tydings said, Ache-
son's statement pointed to one
single conclusion: "That we and
the other democratic nations of
the world, on the one hand, and
Russia and those associated with
her, on the other, must sweat it
out."
But ho went on to note that
Acheson had said it is a good
thing to look at every possibility
that comes up, and commented:
"I believe it is a good thing
for him to try another roadway
than the one ho has selected to
travel. That roadway is to rec
ognize the grim facts of life, and
having done that, to invite all
the nations of the world to a
world disarmament conference
devoted exclusively to th" pur
pose of world disarmament, with
worldwide inspection before,
during and after such disarma
ment as is agreed upon."
Liberty Ship Aground
New York, Feb 16 W) The
Liberty ship Alamar ran
aground a short distance outside
New York harbor early today.
The ship apparently was in no
danger.