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if sv 84th Year 301st Issue ESTABLISHED 1864 Boise Idaho Friday Morning May 21 1948 ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Price Five Cents Israel Throws New Air Reds 9 UN Delegate Arrives Refuses Press Comment Stassen 0 Meat Union Seen Urging End of Strike Reds Control Greek Strife Bevin States ewey Race een as "4 Against Arabs Power Troops Near Galilee Hit Record Number of Republicans Set To Go to Polls in Primary Election rp i lyr a 1 OCiay to Name 1a Party Helegates PORTLAND Ore Cfl) A prospect for primary Dewe Dewey and Harold Stassen are staking much of their presidential hopes A good' 65 or 70 per cent of all-time high 322490 registered GOP voters are expected to ballot and election interest reached an unprecedented tch Thursday in the closing hours of the slam-bang pri Gary campaign Political prospectors were Toss-Up record Republican vote is In election on which Gov Thomas Oregon Primary Schedule Today By Associated Press CONTESTS: Gov Thomas Dewey and Harold Stassen seeking 12 delegates to the Republican national convention all four congressmen seeking Republican re-nomination governor and other state officers seeking Republican nomination legislative positions President Truman is unopposed for Democratic convention delegates as are Democratic candidates for leading state positions TIME: Polls open 8 a and close 8 Pacific Standard Time No results are released before all polls close REGISTRATION: Republicans 322490 Democrats 302-546 WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with showers In populous Western Oregon clear skies in Eastern Oregon Iowa Guards In Full Control At Riot Scene 1000 Slate Soldiers Move in After Union Worker Fatally Shot Conference Told Britain Will Stay In German Area SCARBOROUGH England Era- (IIE) Foreign Secretary est Bevin said Thursday that while Britain is against any! steps for an aggressive war against Russia she is not I prepared to sit idly by and watch the Communists take! over western Europe Bevin told the 47th annual conference of the British Labor party that Britain must proceed "to develop' pacts of security where we can and not wait for final agreement among To Stay In Berlin He said Britain intended to stay in Berlin "whatever the and appealed indirectly to Russia to halt the civil war in "I am against any active steps to carry out an aggressive war against Bevin said believe this war is inevitable But the danger of where a war is likely to arise is in the hands of Russia it is in the war of nerves which Russia is Policy Approved Despite leftwing opposition delegates to the labor party conference gave overwhelming support to a resolution approving foreign policy and the domestic policies of the labor government Bevin said of started against Turkey and then was carried out against Greece He said the lift of a finger "from a place you would halt the civil war in Greece "I think such a war of nerves does any good to he said "I think those who started It might stop Tables Turned On Soviet US Seals Border FRANKFURT Germany OF) The United States Army Thursday sealed the 200-mile border be- I PLANE CRASHES AP WirephotO One pilot holds his hands to his head while another wrings his hands In grief over death of two pilots in crash of light transport plane at Urbes Field Rome Thursday Wreckage of plane burns In background Plane was one of three en route from Britain to Palestine for use as ambulance ships Killed were Leonard Cohen who had a British passport and flying license and George Buerling Montreal Canadian war ace 1 iSv if 3 Mv- ij Vjg 7 AX -Vr II ifi ss A JCa 4 VI I 'i NEW YORK (INS) Iakov Malik who will replace Andrei Gromyko as Soviet United Nations delegate arrived in New York Thursday on the Queen Mary and said: am Malik I am glad to meet you but I have no He then spent half an hour repeating to newsmen with waning patience his refusal to discuss international affairs He was met at pier 90 by a large group of Russian officials who sped him away in a car Lewis Asked To Come Back For Pact Talk Operators Make Bid While Still Opposing Aim to Split Ranks WASHINGTON The soft coal operators Thursday rejectee a move by John Lewis to spli their ranks and called on him to resume negotiations for a new wage contract on an industrywide basis The mine owners Informed Lewis in a round-robin letter that the are standing by their originar decision to have all sections of the industry represented at the conference table Lewis Takes Walk Lewis walked out of the negotiations Wednesday when the operators insisted over his objections on seating a represents tive of the Southern Coal Producers association whose member companies produce about one-fourth of the soft coal They sought to reassure Lewis however that neither the Southern association nor any other single group of operators could veto wage agreement They asked him to reconvene the wage conference Statement Issued But even as the operators were releasing their letter the United Mine workers issued a statement which made it clear that the dead ock was just as tight as it was when Lewis walked out of the meeting The UMW restated its willingness to resume bargaining but repeated that there could be no conference with the Southern asso elation taking part The union statement closed with the blunt notice that "the next is up to the operators Huge Bomber With Payload Posts Record WASHINGTON (AV-Two strik-ng advances in long-range air lower were notched up Thursday by fighting arms as Russo-American "peace exchanges locked on dead center The Navy disclosed that one of its P2V Nep the plane that holds the 11235-mile distance record has been launched successfully from a 45000-ton car rier The Air Force reported that a huge six-engine B-36 bomber had made what is probably the longest flight in history with a payload It shuttled 8000 miles between Texas and California carrying a "sizeable useful load of dummy which were dropped about midway of the flight The new strides in American warplane operations were announced Just as some diplomats appeared about ready to write off recent Soviet peace feelers as so much humbug The implications of announcement certainly were not lost on air marshals or the strategists AGREEMENT REACHED ROME (A) A spokesman for the Independent Socialists said Thursday night the Socialists had reached an agreement with Premier Alcide de Gasperi giving them three places in the new Italian cabinet The spokesman Deputy Mario Longhena announced the agreement after talking with De Gasperi a Christian Democrat 6 Undecided 7 4- Andrews of the New York Herald-Tribune Barney Livingstone of the AP Roger Johnson of the UP and the other newsmen just shrugged their shoulders anfi a The victory in the Dewey-Stassen primary will be clear cut All 12 delegates will go to the one who gets the majority of the votes Oregon law provides that the delegates must support the Oregon Primary Available onight Vole of Workers On Halting Tieup Continues Today I CHICAGO (HE) The CIC I United Packinghouse Work ers union will recommend I strikers return to work Packers Swift Armour and 1 "J1 was learned I apply toe Wilson Co An informed union 'source said the recommendation would be made by the strike strategy committee to members gathering in mass meetings Thursday night and today Reasons Not Given officers had declined comment on what recommendations would be made in the meetings The strikers are convening to decide whether the violence-ridden strike shall be called off The union source however said members would be advised to cancel the strike against Swift Armour and Cudahy It was not known why Wilson would be excluded although the decision may have hinged on progress of settlement negotiations with all four packers this week At some plants Wilson said it considered the strike and invited strikers to return Agree to Arbitration Presumably thq strike would be called off against the other three with acceptance of the nine-cent hourly wage increase offered by the packers It was understood that all major packers except Wilson had agreed to arbitration of the job security of strikers discharged for "unlawful in the bloody strike The question of job security for strikers was one on which the union stalemated previous efforts to end the dispute House Delays Draft Debate Until June 1 WASHINGTON House Republican leaders decided Thurs- i if ix6I16r8l IVlOtOrS Union Continuing Bargaining Talks off off the automobile industry sec- ond major strike in three weeks brought company and union nego- tiators back to the bargaining ta- ble Thursday They were aimed at settling a contract dispute which threatens to erupt into a nationwide walkout of 225000 General Motors corporation employes soon after May 28 when already-extended contract with the CIO United Auto Banking on I think pretty good A couple of weeks ago I was for Stassen So were a lot of people I probably make up my mind until I get the ballot in my Indecision Confirmed Political Editor Larry Smyth of the Oregon Jaumal whose promotional efforts resulted in the now famed Dewey-Stassen radio debate confirmed the indecision among a large block of voters "The election was decided in the last 72 said Smyth "What I mean is that the fellow who made the most headway in that time will Reluctant to Forecast No one here in other than partisans in the Dewey and Stassen camps will forecast a winner One newsman who "beat the with both Dewey and Stassen said he believed Dewey had the edge But he be quoted by name Clayton Knowles of the New York Times Bert tween the American and Russian Rome zones of Germany against Soviet Authorities said they believed officials the fliers were making a test Maj Gen George Hays dep- flight in preparation for a three-uty military governor cabled in- plane mystery mission to Pales structions to military governors in tine German states occupied by the The men were presumed to be that Soviets were for- George Beurling 26 Ca-merly permitted to cross at any nadian alr ace credited with shoot-authorized crossing point have dQwn 29 enemy planes in the een limited to a single outlet at battie for Malta and Leonard in the British zone hen British air hero known as action turned the tables Df Beurling re on the Russians who for nearly portedly went on the test flight three years have permitted the jUSt for the ride Italian British Canadian of-ficials investigated the crash which starts at Helmstedt They said the inquiry Was ham- th between iissianor- Pered by the sudden departure of J5 sSS the other two planes in the flight cupied Thuringia and Saxony arrived here from Nice states and American-occupied Ba-varia and Hesse will add from 50 1 WATERLOO la UP) National I debate on Guardsmen with fixed bayonets draft until June 1 when they armored cars and jeeps were in hoPe f61iale have acted full control of strike tension areas mUary manpower legis this city tonight -aaa rT I Meanwhile Chairman Gurney Guardsmen moved I (RS of the genate armeJ Wednesday I services committee was reliably sum: reported to be considering a com- Jv promise to the controversial pro-TTmvAAirjfS afw a I vision of the upper bill death under which 161 thousand 18 year Rath Packing plant en- would be called up for one ranee A woman picket was I year 0f militaTy service wounded I The compromise would permit Roads Blocked rather than compel 18 year olds The Guardsmen sent aid of to enlist for one year and thus civil without procla- escape the chance of being drafted mation of martial law maintained for two years service when they road blocks in the area around I become 19 the Rath plant and were under I Senators said they hoped the orders prevent further blood- compromise would be acceptable to the house where members have As at "Big packing voiced unyielding opposition to the plants the 66-day-old strike training of 18 year olds a substi-against the independent Rath tute for universal military train company grew out of the ing rejection of a 9-cents-an-hour wage Jews Losing Severe Battle For Holy City TEL AVIV (INS) Israel announced Thursday that it has hurled its new air force against the Arabs in Palestine for the first time with an attack on Arab troop concentrations south of the Sea of Galilee Announcement that the Jewish air force had gone into action heartened Tel Jews who had been receiving day-long reports of the losing fight being fought by Jews in old city Return Safely Tel Aviv Jews have gone through six straight days of Egyptian air attack without a sign of a Jewish fighter plane in the skies An official announcement said Jewish planes attacked Arab troop concentrations in the Jordan river valley "60 miles north of shell-tom Jerusalem and returned Trans-Jordan legion troops and Arab Irregulars have virtually encircled the entire Jerusalem area although a Jewish convoy managed to get through from Tel Aviv Wednesday At the time the air force announcement was made Jews and Arabs were locked in bitter streetfighting around Horva synagogue in the southern half of the Jewish quarter and Arab shells were landing thick and fast among Jewish positions in New Jerusalem Parades Held (Arabs in Amman capital began city-wide parades on the basis of a report that the Old City had surrendered to the attacking Arabs) The emergence of the Jewish air force raised the possibility of raids on Cairo in retaliation for the 21 Egyptian raids which have hit Tel Aviv (Italian reports said 30 light planes were waiting to be flown to the Jews in Palestine) A communique Issued in Cairo claimed Egyptian bombers made (Please turn to Page 6 CoL 8) Jackie Horner Piano Prodigy Again Missing LOS ANGELES (INS) Jacqueline (Jackie) Horner Holly-pue XpiScud oirBid pnqa pooM actress is missing again The 15-year-old girl who hit the headlines last January when she turned up in San Francisco after eight days of "innocent with a sailor has vanished into thin air But this time she has skipped out- with her mother Mrs Clara Homer who is believed to have spirited the talented young artist out of the state to escape the authority of thq juvenile court This was disclsoed Thursday when Juvenile Judge A A Scott issued a warrant for the arrest at the request of Probation Officer Margaret Daley Mrs Daley reported that the girl has been missing since she was permitted to leave the rest home in which she had been living to go to lunch with her mother last Saturday The probation officer said Mrs Homer had taken the girl away as a protest against what Mrs Homer construed to be the ruination of her The child pianist has been a ward of the court since March 1 The proposal to remove her mother entirely from her life was set for hearing for next Tuesday Federal Suit Charges Stolen NEW YORK The song hit "Nature by Eden Ahbez was swiped from Herman "Be Calm My Yablokoff charged Thursday in federal court He asked an injunction restraining further publication of the number on sheet music and records suit said he wrote his song in 1935 He now is in Europe appearing at displaced persons camps THE WEATHER FORECAST For Southwestern Pertly cloudy and continued warm today and Saturday High temperature! 65 to 75 low temperatures tonight 40 to 45 BOISK WEATHER Thursday maximum 72 minimum 41 precipitation trace Bun rises today at 5:14 a sun sets at 8:09 si Station Chicago Kansas City Omaha Denver Bismarck Cheyenne St Louis New York Washington Portland San Francisco Los Angelerf Beattie Salt Lake Reno Burley Idaho Falls Pocatello finding little worthwhile pay dirt in their search for clues to the outcome Important Primary In most qualified quarters the Dewey-Stassen tussle for Republican presidential preference and its 12 GOP convention votes was rated about even What odds were in evidence and they were few ran 6-5 and take your choice As the last presidential preferential primary before the June 21 nominating convention the Oregon primary bears significantly upon the course which the convention may take in nominating a Republican standard bearer for 1948 Chips Are Down The favorable psychological im pact of a primary victory today has been recognized by both Dewey and Stassen As a result the chips were down in a play for stakes considered to be far more important than relatively few convention votes An Oregon win would represent an important primary success for the big balding Minnesotan For the man with the mustache VAvin would cast him in something the role of giant-killer and the Republican contender so far able to stop the barnstorming Minnesotan in a clear test of strength Enjoyed From Sidelines Oregon Democrats meanwhile enjoyed the Republican spectacle from the sidelines President Truman was unopposed for the Democratic preference and his designation was just a formality Overshadowed by the presidential performance a full slate (Please turn to Page 6 Col 2) Alabama GOP Backs Dewey In Convention a ORTLAND Ore Gov Thomas Dewey of New York announced Thursday night that the Alabama Republican convention haatgiven him a majority of its 13 delegates to the GOP national convention At a press conference near the end of his strenuous three-week campaign for 12 votes Dewey announced receipt of the news in a wire from Claude Vardamen Alabama Republican chairman Vardamen' wire did not give the exact figures but it was-re- Eorted that nine will vote for ewey and the other four delegates for Sen Robert A Taft (R-Ohio) The New York governor also received a wire notifying him that a Dewey delegate Spades has been elected chairman of the Florida GOP delegation The New York governor said he will fly to the state of Washington today to "thank the Republicans for electing 16 delegates who favor him Nineteen delegates were elected at the state convention last Saturday Dewey Will Visit Pocatello Monday PORTLAND (Special) Gov Thomas Dewey of New York will visit Pocatello for slightly more than twu hours Monday his headquarters announced Thursday night Dewey and his party are scheduled to arrive by plane in Pocatello at 11:15 am and depart at 1:30 The headquarters said arrangements are being made for Dewey to meet with Idaho and Pocatello political leaders at the Hotel Bannock The New York governor will come to Pocatello from Sacramen to and Reno American Dependents Start to Leave Korea SEOUL Korea (Friday) (ID-Dependent wives and children of American personnel in southern Korea are being evacuated "as rapidly as the Army announced Thursday An Army spokesman disclosed that it is intended to complete evacuation of all dependents of American forces by Aug 1 The operation was described as Jeaning up the in or-CJ to streamline American forces rfi possible withdrawal after the formation of the Korean government as a result of the United Nations-sponsored May 10 elections in the American-occupied zone I 100 miles to 'the traveling dis- tance of Russians entering the 1 zone American officials pointed out that they have to travel this ex-ra distance to and from Berlin order gave no reason for the restriction on Soviet travel Chiang Promises To End Corruption li I Ill Inaugural aik I NANKINGJINS Chiang Kai- kek first constitutional president Thursday md to hl inaugural addresa ut-1 tered a pledge to rid the Chinese boost offered by the company The company for its part refused to meet the union request for a 29- 1 cents-an-hour raise Obtain Court Order The strike marked by several relatively minor disorders since a back-to-work movement was launched by last month erupted late Wednesday when the rmrmnn nhtainpri a aahi nra I company obtained a court order increasing restrictions on strikers caHed out the Guarf at the request of local civil authorities I Israel Names Epstein As Minister to US Mediator Role For Palestine Given Swede LAKE SUCCESS UP) Count Folke Bemadotte of Sweden was chosen tonight as United Nations mediator for Palestine Count Bemadotte vice president of the Swedish Red Cross was picked by the five great powers after he had accepted a proffer of the assignment His selection came after the UN security council wrangled in two sessions Thursday over whether to use strong measures against warring Arabs and Jews in Palestine or adopt peaceful mediation No Decision Reached The council adjourned until today without a decision The council received from Trans Jordan Thursday night a blunt refusal' to answer questions on its role in the Palestine war This action came several hours after the Soviet Ukraine charged that Britain is fighting Israel through the Arab legion of Transjordan Count Bemadotte 53 will go to Palestine as United Nations mediator backed by the authority of the 58-nation general assembly Appointment Approved The assembly approved last Fri day the appointment of a mediator to work to obtain a peaceful adjustment in Palestine The Swedish count nepHew of King Gustav acted as intermedia-tory between Heinrich Himmler and the allied authorities in the closing days of World war II If the security council finally decides to resort to mediation as asked by Sir Alexander Cadogan of Britain that assignment likely will be entrusted to Count Berna-dotte Fom Persons Die In Oregon Mishap HALSEY Ore A head-on automobile collision killed three men and a woman on the edge of Halsey Thursday night The victims were identified as Ellis William Snyder 47 of Klamath Falls FTed Jackson 37 of Creswell Robert Paul Fraser 26 of Cottage Grove and a woman tentatively identified as Mrs Francis Dooley Cottage Jrove The woman was identified from letters on her body agreed that the crux of election was the swaying at the last minute of the great number of undecided voters Thursday night each camp believed its man had done that very thing Only election will tell the tale Grand Old Fight The campaign turned out to be a grand old political fight Both sides played for keeps In fact both Stassen and Dewey bared their teeth'on the eve of the election after campaigning in polite regard for each other the last three weeks Stassen accused Dewey of spending 5250000 in the Oregon campaign Dewey said it so Thursday night Stassen told reporters he figured his campaign cost about 580000 Dewey said his campaign cost much less than that Support From Alabama At a last-minute press conference Dewey announced the Ala- (Please turn to Page 6 CoL 4) World War II Aces Reported Dead in Crash ROME (IF) Two World war II fAf 5eS Wre rePorte kj1Ied Thursday when a small plane burst into flames and crashed near Tke officials said members of the mysterious air group refused to give any information before they left Dr Condon Says Atom Data Asked 6On One WASHINGTON Dr Condon said Thursday night there has been "only one since he started doing secret atomic re- gearcj1 that person tried to get from me information which he was not authorized to dfrector o( the natlonaI reau of standards said in a speech vention votes out of a total of 1094 Stassen knows he must continue to show that he has what it took to win him victories in Wisconsin and Nebraska Dewey is trying to show for the first time that he too has popular appeal and is no soft shakes in a rough and tumble Stassen has more at stake in the election than Dewey Only by winning in Oregon can he even hope to keep the rolling on which he banks to give him the Republican nomination Similarity in Thinking An Oregon victory for Dewey would cinch his first place position among the GOP presidential candidates and likely would eliminate a lot of talk about a compromise candidate such as Sen Arthur Vandenberg or Speaker Joe Martin The amazing part about this Oregon campaign is the similarity of thinking in the Dewey and Stassen headquarters Both camps dad I nt th waatongton Agdprjf in a Chinese robe with a red sash thC 11101416111 took took the oath on the platform of place 111 1844 le national assembly auditorium "A foreign visitor asked me Nanking before a hushed point-blank if we were working crowd of spectators i I on a uranium he said "And General Li Tsung-Jen assumed I Ucd to him saying that I knew le office of vice president in a no such ceremony which followed Condon did not directly refer inauguration to the fact that the house un- General Li was elected over American activities committee has opposition and is expect- accused him of being "one of the ed to form his own clique within weakest links in our atomic settle government TEL AVIV Eliahu Epstein Jewish agency representative in Washington has been appointed shutdown at the 90-plus plants of Israel State minister to the United (h biggest producer States continued to overshadow the strike Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok of 75000 Chrysler corporation em-said Thursday he had cabled ployes Secretary of State Marshall asking This strike in another of the Infacilities be provided for establish- dus big three companies lining an Israel legation in Wash-1 gered through its ninth day with ington no major developments Workers expires The magnitude of a possible Voters to Turn Tide in Oregon Today candidate who secures the majority of the ballots cast Even the betting forecasts a photo-finish Monday the odds were 3 to 2 for Stassen Thursday they were 5 to 6 and take your choice with the bookmaker taking the difference Psychological Battle The battle between the two GOP presidential hopefuls is a psychological one It is not a matter of collecting a mere 12 con- Election Returns at The Statesman GOP Rivals By JOHN CORLETT PORTLAND Ore (Special) The nation focused its attention on neighboring state of Oregon today figuring that its 322000 registered Republican voters conceivably could point their collective finger on the next president of the United States The Oregonians are overwhelmed and awed at the task before them as they went to the polls to decide whether Gov Thomas Dewey of New York or Harold Stassen of Minnesota should get the 'Beaver 12 delegates to the Republican national convention Close Race Conceded Everyone including Dewey and Stassen themselves believe the race will be a close one Everyone agrees there are a large number of undecided voters and it was to them the candidates made their last-minute pleas Cab Driver' Jack Fisher of Portland is a good example he said "I know Right now Due to the wide interest in the Oregon Presidential primary election The Statesman will provide election Information service tonight starting after 9 Boise time when the Oregon polls close Phone 6000 for Oregon Election Returns.