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THE WEATHER HERE MOSTLY CLOUDY with occa sional light showers tonight and Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Low tonight, 35; high Wednesday, 50. Miilmum yesterday, 4r minimum tn 41. ToUl 24-hour precipitation, .03; for month, J.4B; normal, 1. 10. Sexion pre cipitation, S4.40; normal, S9.I8. Hirer heliht, S.9 feel. (Report by U. 8. Weather fiarean.) Capital HOME EDITION Till 62nd Year, No. 62 Entered u second etut matter t Salem. Oregon Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 14, 1950 (20 Pages) Price 5c i IT fill , n lr -r-rn Robeson Out On Mrs. F.D.R. Show Sunday NBC 'Indefinitely Postpones' Singer's Appearance on Air New York, March 14 (IP) Paul Robeson's scheduled appearance on Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's television show has been called off. A National Broadcasting com pany spokesman said the left- wing Negro singer's scheduled ' appearance was "indefinitely postponed" and probably will be cancelled. The progressive party, which Rnbeson was to have represent up on Mrs. Roosevelt's weekly forum next Sunday, called the action "censorship of the air." Appearance Announced It had been announced at the close of Mrs. Roosevelt's pro , gram last Sunday that Robeson would be a guest next Sunday in a discussion of "the position of the Negro in American poli tical life." An NBC spokesman said yes terday "an influx" of telephone protests followed the announce ment, and that Elliott Roosevelt and Martin Jones, co-producers of the show, had decided to post pone the racial program indefi nitely. Later, Charles R. Denny, NBC executive vice president, said: "We are all agreed that his (Robeson's) appearance would lead only to misunderstanding and confusion, . . . and no good purpose would be served in hav ing Robeson speak on the Issue of Negroes in politics." Denny said the announcements of Robeson's appearance had been premature. Elliott Declines to Talk Elliott Roosevelt and Jones de clined to comment. Mrs. Roose velt referred all questions to them. C. B. Baldwin, secretary of Henry Wallace's progressive party, issued this statement: 'J "When the owners of a great radio chain use the pretext of a few protests to impose censor ship of the air and attempt to silence the voice of a great American speaking on behalf of civil rights for his people, then the democratic rights of all Americans are placed in jeop ardy." (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Police Clash With Commies Hannover, Germany, March 14 VP) Twenty Red demonstrators were arrested today after an hour-long clash between police and a crowd of nearly 1,000 com munists. The melee started when the crowd, including communist youth members and several wo men gathered to prevent a Brit ish officer from entering the plant of the outlawed commun ist newspaper Volksstimme. , The officer had a court order to impound the paper's print ing plant because four of its edi tor: were convicted of endan gering the ' of th- pUicd occunrtion f-rces. When the officer, Col. Walter Witham, found the crowd had j blocked all entrances to the building he called for police aid to force his way through. About 50 police answered 'the sum mons, but were unable to break through. More arrived with truncheons and pistols. The police managed finally to force the crowd away from the building with their elbows and fists. Eye witnesses said they did not use their weapons. Marion County Stone At Oregon City Church Tufa stone, a gray - specked volcanic sawed rock that is quarried between Silverton and Sublimity, will be used in the construction of a $135,000 church building for the First Methodists of Oregon City. Rev. Orval Whitman, pastor, announces that Harry Osborn, Oregon City, has been awarded a contract to finish the exterior of the building with the tufa stone. All heavy construction on the interior of the building was completed Friday with only plastering and finishing work remaining to complete the inte rior. ' Contract for the exterior fin ishing was awarded by church Authorities late last week. Education Aid Bill Shelved by House Group School Construction Program Up for Consideration Washington, March 14 VP) The house labor committee to day shelved federal aid to edu cation but immediately turned to consideration of a school con struction program. Committee members leaving a closed door session reported the committee voted 13 to 12 to reject the senate-passed bill pro viding $300,000,000 for school assistance to the states. The committee had been try ing for nearly six weeks to crack the deadlock which had blocked house action on the measure. In advance of the showdown vote, members predicted that it stood little chance of approval. Hope Abandoned There have been advance in dications for some time that the committee, abandoning hope of settling the aid controversy, would eventually turn to pro posals for building schoolhouses instead of contributing to their operation. First, however, the committee has scheduled proposals to meet the school emergency around federal reservations where local districts have been forced to take on an influx of children from government-owned areas which pay no local school tax. The aid-to-education contro versy stemmed from clashing differences over federal control of public schools, and over the question of making aid money available to private and paro chial schools for "fringe" serv ices. (Concluded on Pan S. Column 8) Invading Reds Driven Back Taipei, Formosa, March 14 (P) News reports from Hainan island, off the south China coast, today said nationalist troops beat back an attempt Sunday to land another 1,000 communists on the island. Shore batteries drove off the invading reds, the dispatch said, inflicting heavy casualties. Only 30 of the invaders succeeded in getting ashore and all were taken prisoner, the nationalists claim ed. Meanwhile, observers in For mosa said there was no apparent basis for the assertion in New York of former acting presi dent Li Tsung-Jen that the na tionalist army, navy and air force would rise up against Pre sident Chiang Kai-Shek at a word from Li. They said that Chiang is the only man in nationalist China who can hold these forces to gether. Independent foreign reports from Shanghai say nationalist ai raids there have had the pe culiar result of stirring up re sentment against the communists instead of the nationalists. These reports said Shanghai residents blame the reds for not offering effective defense against the na tionalist bombers. At the same time the reports added the United States was getting some blame for the air raids because inhabitants were beginning to believe communist charges that American crews were manning the attacking planes. Arguments Heard On Fringe Zone Change One speaker, Paul B. Wallace, stood alone at the city council hearing Monday night to protest corner of North Capitol and Center streets to allow erection of a service station on the fringe . Written protests, however, came from several agencies. Applicants for the changed were supported by several speakers and one council mem ber, Alderman Walter Musgrave, said in advance he would vote for the project when it comes up for final action. George A. Rhoten, who with Sam F. Speerstra, is the appli cant, said the proposed build ing, with use of reinforced con crete, marble and glass, would conform to the new state public service building, and that drive ways would accord with city re quirements. The office en trance of the building, he said, would face Capitol street, and the service entrance would face north on Center. Labor Leader Gets Jail Term ' Washington, March 14 (fP) Harold Christoffel, former Mil waukee labor leader, was sen tenced today to from two to six years in prison on a charge of lying to a congressional commit tee. Christoffel was convicted last month for a second time on a perjury charge. A federal court jury found he had lied when he denied under oath to the house labor committee that he had ever been a communist. The sentence imposed today by Federal Judge F Dickinson Letts was the same as Christof fel received after his first con viction in 1948. Tiie supreme court threw put the first conviction. Judge Letts -today sentenced Christoffel to two to six years on each of five counts but ruled that the sentences be served concurrently. In reversing Christoffels first conviction, the supreme court held the government had not proved that a quorum, or at least 13, of the 25 members of the house committee were present when Christoffel testified be fore it on March 1, 1947. At the second trial, the gov ernment produced testimony by 14 members of the committee that they were present. Defense Attorney O. John Rogge con tended later in arguments that some of the congressmen per jured themselves in so testify ing. Transit Strike in Sydney Fouls Trattic Sydney, Australia, March 14 (IP) Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, suffered its worst traffic jam and thousands walked to work today because of a strike of streetcar and bus operators. There was chaos in this city of 1,200,000 as all public trans port came to a standstill. The streetcar and bus opera tors have been on strike for 20 days to press their demands for increased wages. The subur ban train conductors walked out at midnight last night, but an nounced they intended to go back to work at midnight to night. a zone change at the southeast of the capitol zone. Rhoten said the intersection was one of the busiest in the city and told why he believed the location unsuited to a dwell ing, an apartment house, a church, or a public building, uses that have been suggested instead of a service station. He said no suggestion had come from the state highway depart ment that it might want the lot for car parking. In reply to a question from Alderman Gille. Rhoten said he and Speerstra had owned the lot since May or June, 1949, and that they knew of the re strictions against a service sta tion when they bought it. (Concluded on Paf 6, Column 1) 9 Tragically Close to Field How close the Avro Tudor transport plane came to reaching Llandow airport, near Cardiff, Wales, when it crashed killing 80 persons is shown in this airview. Wreckage of the huge plane lies in a field at the edge of Sigginston village. At top of picture, on the other side of the village, are runways and hangars of the air port. The chartered plane, returning from Dublin with Welsh football fans, appeared to be approaching for a normal land ing when, without warning, it roared back into a climb. It smashed to earth after making a right turn and side slipping. Curving path of plane is shown by mark on ground (lower left.) (AP Wirephoto by radio from London) . Transit Lines Cite Loss In Suburban Service City Transit Lines, citing losses in the operation, informed the city council Monday night that it wants to quit the Fruitland Swegle suburban run March 20. In a letter to the. council the transportation company says the operation is detrimental to its service for the city proper, and Czech Foreign Minister Quits Prague, Czech oslovakia, March 14 VP) Foreign Minister Vlado Clementis has resigned. Deputy Premier Viliam Siroky has been named as his succes sor. The official announcement to day gave no reason for the res ignation of Clementis, a com munist journalist and lawyer who succeeded the late Jan Ma saryk as foreign minister in March, 1948. (The resignation came on the heels of reports that a whole sale purge is imminent in the ranks of the Czech communist party on charges of Titoism. It gave rise to speculation that Clementis would be brought to trial on charges that he had not been faithful to the brand of communism demanded by Soviet Russia as opposed to the "inde pendent" communism of Premier Tito of Yugoslavia. Clementis was one of the last links between the present communist govern ment and the old exile Czech government which Eduard Benes headed in London during the war.) Oak Ridge to Study Cancer Washington, March 14 VP) The Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic energy plant soon may become one of the nation's leading can cer research centers. Plans to bring this about were revealed to a house appropria tions subcommittee during hear ings on the atomic energy com mission's spending budget. The committee made public the tes timony today. Dr. Shields Warren, director of the AEC division of biology and medicine, told the commit tee great strides already have been made in cancer treatment through development of atomic energy programs. It is hoped, he said, that the Oak Ridge cancer research cen ter "will be one to which large number of patients can be sent from institutions through out the southeast for treatment that they cannot get in the local area." Oak Ridge, he said, should become "a center for the explor ation of methods for the treat ment of cancer," with special emphasis on the treatment of leukemia in children. Already, he said, medical science has discovered that the radio-active iodine isotope is a deterrent to thyroid cancer. gives figures showing the fi nancial loss. The letter says the company has been operating four round trips daily to Fruitland-Swegle under protest, and that it has been doing so since January 5 at the request of the mayor and his special transportation com mittee. Since that date, says the letter from General Manager Carl Wendt, the company has been keeping a tally of the service. This was hard to do in January because of unusual weather, but a record was shown for Febru ary when weather was normal. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) House Removed From Apartment Location Vacation of the residence at 1165 Chemeketa street by Mrs. Louise J. Corbett Tuesday re moved the last obstacle in con nection with the construction of a modern apartment house at that location by Robert Coalcs. Mrs. Corbett had lived at the address for several years and was given time in which to se sure another residence. Property lines at Chemeketa street site of the apartment building were established a few weeks ago and it is expected Coates will soon start work on the project. The location was secured after Coates had found a site in the capitol develop ment district. i Forgive Me Kneeling over the man he struck down in Detroit, Mich., with his car, John Carrol asks forgiveness of Lebrun Nelson. The victim, wrapped in blankets and raincoat, suf fered minor cuts and bruises, and refused to sign a complaint against Carrol. (Acme Tele-photo.) Council Gels Ordinance to Ban Fireworks County Court Agrees To Ban Stands , Near City Limits By STEPHEN A. STONE. It looks like a quiet Fourth of July. Introduction of an ordinance bill in the city council Monday night to prohibit the sale and use of firecrackers and fireworks in Salem or within the city air port, may extend the ban beyond the city limits. At the recent regional meet ing of the League of Oregon Cities County Judge Grant Mur phy said that if the city passed such an ordinance the county court would cooperate if it has the authority, by refusing licens es for stands just outside the city limits. The bill, introduced at the re quest of Fire Chief W. P. Roble, makes the ban complete, except for certain types of toy guns and public fireworks displays under supervision. Also it would per mit use of guns with blank cart ridges used in theatrical shows and for signalling, such as for starting the sprints at athletic meets. It would not prohibit blasting for construction work. Here are the things that come under the ban: Balloons that require fire un derneath to propel them; fire crackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles, aerial bombs, sparklers, snakes, snake nests, boa constrictors, dewey chasers, star shells, bursting comets, hell-go-booms, "or other fireworks of like construction, or any fire works containing any explosive or inflammable compound, or any tablets other than medicinal tablets." (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Truman Plans Run Into Snag Washington, March 14 W At least one, and possibly another, of President Truman's 21 new reorganization plans appeared today to be headed for plenty of trouble. Many members who hastily informed themselves of the con tents of the plans submitted yes terday didn't like the proposal to strip Robert N. Denham, gen cral counsel of the national la bor relations board, of much of his present authority. And, pending further study, some were inclined to take a dim view of the recommenda tion that the maritime commis sion be abolished and its func tions turned over to the com merce department. In support of the move to curb Denham s power, the pres ident said the plan "will bring to an end the confusion which has resulted from divided re sponsibility." Denham and the NLRB have differed frequently. The general counsel has called the board ma jority "pro-labor," while labor spokesmen have accused Den ham of being pro-employer and have demanded his removal Rep. Hoffman (R , Mich.), top minority member of the house expenditures committee, called the Denham proposal "another attempt to tear down the Taft Hartley law and let John L. Lewis dictate national labor policies." Models Cut Up Didoes in Didie Style Parade Chicago, March 14 (IP) A new type of fashion show a paradi of six cute, little models cut ting up didoes in a didie style parade was staged at the Stev ens hotel yesterday. The children, all about two years old, paraded in the latest in diapers in the show sponsored by the Diaper Service Institute of America. Some 125 members attending the group's annual convention watched the show. Model Janyce Winkelman. wearing an enchanting grin and the new ultra smart "Hour glass"' model, cried a little as she marched past the conven tioneers. The tears came when her diaper started to slip. The Pinfree model, worn with careless abandon by Carl Mc Mahon, was described by a commentator extolling the vir tues of the apparel, as some thing new in the diaper field. It is fastened with snaps at each hip. 2 Opponents of Morse Withdraw Withdrawal of two men from the republican primary left Sen ator Wayne Morse with two op ponents in his campaign for re- nomination. Fred Robinson, Medford cloth ier, and .arl .Dickson, Albany grocer, pulled out of the cam paign yesterday in favor of Dave Hoover, Lane county farm er. Both explained Hoover ade quately represented their views on issues in which they oppose Morse. John McBride, a Portland at torney currently a clerk for a congressional committee, Is the other candidate for nomination Hoover filed for the race a short time before the Friday deadline. He is not known poli tically through the state. McBride ran for the senate nomination won by Guy Cordon polling just over 5000 votes. Al though Portland is his home, he has been living in Washington for several years. Seek Authority For Power Units Washington, March 14 (IP) Two amendments to the pending omnibus rivers and harbors bill were offered yesterday by Sen. Cordon (R., Ore.), one to segre gate revenues from new dams and the other to authorize ad ded power units. The power units would be at dams on the McKenzie and North Santiam rivers already a part of the corps of engineer s plan. Cordon's amendment would lift the power units from the "pro posed" to the "authorized' stage. He estimated cost at $82,000,000. The segregaled-rcvcnuc plan it was turned down by the senate interior committee and Cordon is continuing to press for it through amendment would put all revenue from 13 proposed new reclamation and power pro jects in the upper Columbia ba sin into a special fund. The revenue, coming from power sales, would be used first to pay costs of the power units, then woul be applied to reduc ing amounts charged water users on new irrigation projects More Alleged Reds Named By McCarthy Claims State Depart ment Gave Post to Spanish Republican Washington, March 14 VP) Senator McCarthy (R., Wis.) charged today that the state de- ' partment gave a high post to a former Spanish Republican ar my officer, Gustavo Duran, al though U. S. army reports la belled him a Russian agent. Continuing to detail to a sen ate investigating committee his contention that the department has employed poor security risks, McCarthy also said today: Dr. Harlow Shapley, Ameri can delegate to a United Nations commission, has been affiliated with at least 36 communist- front organizations. A reported sexual pervert he did not identify the person had been "allowed to resign" from the state department in 1948 and now is employed by the Cen tral Intelligence Administration at $12,000 a year. He has heard reports that John Stewart Service, American consul at Calcutta, was consid ered a bad security risk by the loyalty appeal board of the Ci vil Service Commission in a de cision reached last March 3. Mc Carthy asked the senate inves tigators to check on this. Left Under Pressure Duran was formerly an as sistant to the assistant secretary of state in charge of Latin Am erican affairs. McCarthy said he left the state department in 1946 "after intense congression al pressure and criticism." As of yesterday, McCarthy said, Duran was employed as a representative of the Interna tional Refugee Organization, an agency of the United Nations. McCarthy was before a sen ate foreign relations subcommit tee to continue detailing h i s charges that the state depart ment has kept poor security risks on its payroll. Ha had previously named Duran in a speech Feb. 12 at Reno, Nev. At that time Duran said in New York that "I am not now, nor ever have been, a com munist or a communist sympath izer." Duran Denies Charge Duran also said an FBI inves tigation had cleared him com pletely after charges that he sympathized with the commu nists were first made against him some five years ago. Dur an, a Spanish-born naturalized citizen, said that during the Spanish civil war he was a lieu tenant-colonel in "the legal. Spanish Republican army," not in the international brigade. (Concluded on Page 8. Column 7) Reds Cast 99.6 Per Cent Vote Moscow, March 14 (IP) A rec ord 110,964,172 voters account ing for 99.6 percent of the regis tered Soviet electorate cast their single-party ballots in Russia's national elections Sunday, it was announced today. Prime Minister Stalin was unanimously re-elected in his constituency in a district of Mos cow. The vote was 9,290,939 more than had been cast in the Soviet Union's last elections for mem bers of the supreme Soviet (par liament) in 1946. The central election commis sion, which made the figures public, was expected to announce the exact figures on how me Russian people voted later in the week. Under the Russian sys tem, voters can express disap- Droval of a candidate by drawing a line through his name on the ballot. Curious Spectators Prevent Baby Rescue Amite, La., March 14 (IP) Four-month-old Joann Chaveri died yesterday in a blaze which firemen said they could not reach because of so many spectators. Charles Boyd, 52, a neighbor, rushed into the burning house and rescued Luther Chavers, Jr., the girl's three-year-old broth er. But he was not able to re enter the house. Mrs. Jessie Dunkin, another neighbor, was burned on the hands and face in an effort to reach the girl. The fire was said to have started from a trash burner.