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
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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.