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aoital jkJ International Ownership of Ihnium Asked nal Porter Demands Another Revision Of Senate's OPA Extension Bill Asks $106 Million More Funds Rflfk Yarn- KJa 12 ftrtwe eiw Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 5, 1946 matter SaUem, Orccoa Price Five Cents Price i Bridges Holds That Price Fixing Legally Dead nd Committee Can't Evert Hear Testimony Atomic Control Plan Amplified by Baruch to Control Commission 3XH aoetS-w F'''buster by O'Daniel Looms Washington, July 3 (tj Another weekend without prk controls became a certainly today when Majority Leader Barkley, democrai, Kentucky, delayed ttniO Monday scnats action on a bii! to revive OPA, Washington, July tJ1 Senator Bridges, republican, New Hampshire, tried today to keep the senate appropriation committee from even talking about sew money for ihe sirickes but still-fighting OPA. Bridges took the stand thai OPA is legally dead. He said therefore the committee cannot even hear testimony by Price Administrator Paul Porter on a OPA appropriation Mil, Chairman MrKelUr, democrat, Tennessee, Bridges told reporters, delayed an Immediate decision. Porter called on congress io revise another bill, extending OPA for a year, to get it more closely In line with President Truman's recommendations. His cry of dissatisfaction with the compromise measure worked out under the leadership of Senator Bsrkley, democrat, Kentucky, apparently disturbed its supporters.

Advised of Porter's New York, July .5 (A) The' United Stales submitted a memorandum today to the United Nations atomic energy commission calling for international ownership of all uranium and thorium produced anywhere in the world. The document, aplifying the atomic control plan previously presented by U. S. Representative Bernard M. Baruch, laid down in detail the control measures which the United States demanded as a price for destruction of her stockpile of atomic bombs.

It was submitted to a subcommittee by Ferdinand Eber-stadt. one of Baruch's aides, and was the basis for a two-hour discussion at a closed meeting of the sub-committee. Eberstadt said he would present a similar later detailing the "United States views on enforcement measures and relations between the United Nations and the contemplated atomic control authority. Recommendations Today's memorandum recommended: 1. "Such measures of control over the mining and processing of both uranium and thorium as to insure (international) ownership of all stocks of both these materials." 2.

Authority to search out new deposits of these materials anywhere in the world. 3. International ownership of "all primary production facilities" for all atomic materials. 4. Unhindered access to all installations engaged in the production of atomic energy including those leased to individuals or nations for purposes of inspection.

5. A treaty forbidding any nation or individual from engaging in research in the field of atomic explosives. Other Subjects A communique at the end of the sub-committee meeting merely said that this mcmor ndum was submitted and dis issed and that the delegates alio discussed the relationship between the proposed atomic authority and the security council. The sub-committee will meet again Monday at 2:30 p. m.

(EDT). -J Snell Without Power to Act Governor JSari Snell day he cancel iszuz a prods -nation thai essstsag prices and resits be majiaiamed because hs has ik egal asherHy to lssu such a proelamaias. He said thai prsclama-turn would be advisors? oisi aisd would have absolutely so legal efCeet. He sajd he has received several requests thai hs issue a preclansaUos is keep prices in line. Meanwhile, Aiisrsey General George Keuner, si ihe request of Governor Sncii was making as Investigation to determine what power ihe siaie has to enact price controls in the event ihat congress does not extend ihe OPAt Keimer si so is studying how these state controls could be applied, and he is es-aminisi several eaiy ehariers io deiemune whether caties cais hold down prices and rents.

Presumably, state controls could net be applied without a special session oJ ihe legislature. Many staie effksss said ibey believe that if a special session Bikini Atom Bomb Bursts UP) Mushrooming as it climbs thousands of feet into the sky, tower of smoke rises from burst of atomic bomb dropped over "Sitting Duck" naval fleet in Bikini lagoon July 1 by joint Army-Navy Task Force. Rim of Bikini atoll is across bottom of picture. This photo, made from an observation plane, is tirst original photo of test to be released in Washington, ill i VUI 1 21 Nation Peace Conference Set Paris, July 29 Paris, July 3 (IP) The foreign ministers council ended a nearly four-hour session in a deadlock tonisht after Rus sia proposed obstacles in the formal calling of a peace conference July 29, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg reported, Paris, July 5 ff The foreign ministers of the Big Four drafted invilaiions today for a general European peace conference to be held in Paris July 29 for debate in treaties in tended to end world war II for Italy and the axis satellites.

In a seven hour and forty minute session which lasted into the early hours this morning, the diplomatic representatives of Great Britain, France, Soviet Russia and the United States reached agreement on Italian reparations the final major point blocking repara tion of treaty drafts and fixed the date for the peace conference. 5 Treaty Drafts The deputy foreign ministers assembled to draw up a suggested invitation for submission to their chiefs. An American source said that, after approving tile wording and before tackling the German treaty, the ministers probably would clean up odds and ends in the five treaty drafts for Italy, Finland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria they will submit to Ihe conference. The 21 -nation general conference composed of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Byelo-Russia, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia. France, Great Britain, Greece, India, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, the Ukraine, the Union of South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United States and Yugoslavia will not have the final say on tile treaties.

Final Say by Big 4 Russia has insisted on strict adherence to the terms of the Moscow agreement of last December, under which the Big Four are to draw up the final treaties after studying the advice of the peace conference. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and French Foreign Minister Georges Bi-dault all have indicated that they intend to press for serious consideration of the advice of the conferees when the council meets again after the peace conference to complete the final treaties. The ministers settled their last major conflict Italian reparations. By an agreement providing that Italy must pay Russia $100,000,000 from munitions factories, from her assets abroad and from current production over a seven-year period.

Italy was given a two-year period of grace before beginning the payments from current production, however. The only item now on the agenda which still might cause trouble, was the issue of freedom of navigation on the Danube. Measles Passes Peak Portland, July 5 Wi Measles apparently has passed its peak in Oregon, the Oregon health bulletin reported today. In the week ended June 29 there were 123 cases compared with 1S6 the previous week. July 25 Date Set for 2nd Atomic Bomb Test Aboard USS Mt, MeKiniey, July 5 V-Vice Adm.

W. H. P. Blandy today set July 25 as the tentative date for the detonation of Bikini's second atomic bomb, this one "an attack against hulls," It will be exploded slightly under the surface of ihe lagoon. A full-dress rehearsal was scheduled for July IB.

The To Ad Not of Bread The price of flsyr Is due to advance. The price of bread te the consumer possibly may net. This was the local speculation on those articles Friday, "ff we get all the flour we need, sad the manager of a large Salem concern, "I see no reason why the price of bread should increase. Shortage of flour was the only reason for the advance in June, and it hasn't increased since. One of the largest milling concerns on the Pacific coast, in a bulletin received Friday by its clients said "it is too early to form any opinion as io what effect the ending of OPA control will have on the milling industry." Subsidy Eliminated "First of all," She bulletin continued, "the elimination of the subsidy will increase the cost of flour to the buyer by $1.11 per hundredweight.

This figure is arrived at by multiplying the last subsidy rate of 50 cents per bushel by 2.02 bushels, which is ihe amount of wheat required to make 100 pounds of 80 per cent extraction flour, "In addition, we must expect some advances in the wheat market The department of agriculture has taken what we believe to be a very constructive attitude in announcing the discontinuance of their set-aside orders on wheat. This means that the farmer can now sell as much or as Utile of his wheat is he cares to. and that he is under no compulsion to sell any oortion io the CCC. Also the CCC has stated that thev will not pay for wheat a price in excess of the ceilings in effect on June 30 Cut Still in Effect "It must also be kept in mind that War Food Order 144. limiting the production of Hour for domestic use for this country to 85 per cent of what it was last year is still in effect, "in the meantime ihe supply of flour for early shipment is very apt to be smaller than it- has been up io now, smaller than ve had hoped it would be in July "Pending clarification of the present situation, we are quoting no prices, sod while we are continuing to make deliveries when wanted, it is with the understanding that the merchandise so billed will not be priced for a few days," A Salem wholesaler predicted Friday that, with the subsidy off ihe price of flour will ad-ICoticitfded en Fajr 11, Column 5 Stolen $100,000 Painting Returned Cambridge, July A painting believed to be the "Descent from the Cross," for alleged loss of which Mrs, Jean Bullitt Darlington of Westchester, sued Harvard university for 5100,000, has been returned to Harvard, the Boston Globe said today in a copyrighted story.

The Globe said the painting, which Mrs. Darlington, a rel ative of William C. Bullitt, form er ambassador to Hussia, purchased in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1921 in belief it was a Rubens, was turned ever to Harvard lawyers by a representative of a man who bought it for $40. The purchaser, the newspaper added, was not aware of its real value or that it had been the object of a six year search. chief of (ask force one told newsmen he had scaled down his original estimates of a 100-foot tidal wave resulting from the subsurface blast.

This would be enough to send green water over Bikini island, Blandy expects some form of radioactive cloud to result from the spray blown up from the underwater explosion. Contamination of ships by the spray and by solid water tossed onto their decks are expected to be a factor in delaying their return for inspection. The admiral in a reappraisal of the airborn drop termed it a "miss of appreciable dimensions because of wind and other uncontrollable factors but asserted, however, that "nothing went wrong with this lest to prevent it from being a complete success." As greater refiiiemenls in calculations are made, he said, the airborne bomb will be shown to be stronger than first estimated and closer to th Nagasaki bomb In potency, "It was not just a firecracker," Blandy declared. The admiral said the test was a success because the target fleet was arrayed to take care of the possibility of a miss. He cited ships heavily damaged as an example of how a good cross-section of a modern fleet can be affected the battleship Arkansas, the heavy cruiser Pensacola, the light cruiser Sa-kawa, a submarine and transports.

In addition, the carrier Independence was damaged beyond repair and five other ships were sunk, Capt, Shields Warren, radiological specialist, reported meantime lhat about 10 percent of the 3,600 animals aboard the target fleet died from the atomic blast, radiation or drowning. Explaining that laboratory examinations are only beginning, Warren said "as far as we can teil, some died of the air blast and others, we think, of radiation." Salvage parties who entered the lagoon a few hours after the explosion saw live animals aboard the Japanese cruiser Sa-wada, which went down the next day. Presumably the animals aboard drowned. The Weather (Released by the United States Weather Bureaus Forecast for Salem and vicinity: Scattered clouds tonight becoming partly cloudy Saturday, Lowest temperature tonight 53. Conditions will be favorable lor ail dusting, spraying and cherry harvesting activities Saturday.

Maximum yesterday 73. Minimum today a. Mean temperature yesterday 83, which was 2 below normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 10:30 a. m.

today 0, Total precipitation for the month 0 which is .11 inches below normal. Willamette river height Bloody Pogrom Staged Against Jews in Poland Warsaw, July 6 (IP) At least 34 persons were reported today to have been killed and 42 wounded 'at the city of Kielce in Poland's bloodiest postwar pogrom, which was finally suppressed by government forces in armored ears. Reinforced military units and security police patrolled Kielce's streets. Anti-Jewish rumors apparently touched off the outbrrak yesterday. One rumor was that a Polish baby had been killed by Jews.

Another was that a Polish boy had been kidnaped and held in a cellar two days by a Jew. The government blamed "fascist reactionary elements" tor the attacks, in which Jewish homes were raided and Jewish shoos were smashed. The pogrom started about It a. m. yesterday and continued well into the afternoon as a call went out for militia reinforcements.

Then the armored cars were brought into play against the mobs. Authorities reported 62 suspected of participating in the pogrom were rounded up last Lnight and said further arrests were under -way, ine streets were cleared. It was officially announced that all responsible for the outbreak would face military tribunals. Mob Attacks Jew A checkup of dead and wounded, the vast majority of whom were Jews, may show higher casualties. It was reported that some security police and militiamen were killed or wounded battling the mobs.

Apartments and homes of Jews were attacked by men the government described as "fascist elements." J'VjL15 were snatched from street '-s and railway coaches. Mobs struck at the headquarters of the central Jewish committee of Kielce, but were repulsed after the Jews appealed to security police and militiamen for assistance. Militia reinforcements sent to Kielce used the armored cars. The government clamped down a curfew effective at 7 p. m.

The'disorder came as the government announced that early returns from the Polish referendum last Sunday gave the government a substantial lead on all three questions it presented. Tension Eases In Holy Land Jerusalem, July 5 (IMS Holy Land tension between the British and Jews eased perceptibly today after a locked packing case was tossed from a truck in Tel Aviv and three kidnaped British army officers emerged unharmed from it. The officers said they were "Okay." They had been held IS days by the militant Irgun Zvai Leumi as hostages for two of its members condemned by the British but given commutations Wednesday. Reports circulated that contacts were going on with a view to a "sensible settlement" of the warlike state between the British and Jews. It had prevailed since last Saturday when the British announced a campaign to root out "terrorism and an archy." and coast but Thursday was one observed here in years.

That the throttle, instead of idling speed, and sent the 65-horsepower plane racing toward Gaylord and his wife. Gaylord shoved his wife from the plane's path, only to receive the full impact of the propellor in his chest. At Pendleton an Ellensburg. man died Thursday night after a minor fire broke out in his rented basement room. He was identified as Pay Col-son, Fire Chief William Balch-elor said Colson apparently had been smoking in bed and suffocated before the fire department arrived.

A freak traffic incident occurred in Portland, where two Tigard men Peter Volk and Liddie Smith careened over a 14-foot embankment and lay under their overturned car. A wrecking car operator was amazed to find them curled up comfortably, unharmed. Concluded so Page 4, Col una a statement, Barkley grimly toidl reporters: "I have no comment. Barkley apparently had counted on the support of both Porter and President Truman for the new bill dratted as a substitute for ihe OPA extender Mr. Truman vetoed last week.

The Kentuckian said he will attempt io bring the measure before the senate as soon as possible. 11 may be delayed until next week by opponents, however. O'Daniel to Filibuster Senator O'Daniel. democrat, Texas, who filibustered to delay passage of the original extension bill, said he intends to talk against the new bill at every opportunity and as long as he can. He hopes.

O'Daniel said, that the continued non existence of OPA will prove to the public that the agency is not needed. On the Senate floor. Barkley said the new measure is not yet printed and he would delay attempts to begin Senate action until copies arrived, possibly later today. However, debate rumbled on. Senator Wherry who opposes revival of OPA control over meat and grains, again called Senate attention to increased marketings of livestock since OPA died.

Livestock Shipments Wherry said hog receipts today were four times those of the same day last week while cattle receipts were seven to eight times larger. The Nebraskan said that as soon as distribution pipelines are filled consumers will be able lo buy meat at competitive prices. A contrary opinion on OPA came from Chairman Wagner (D-NY) of Hie banking committee. He said all polls of pub-lie opinion show an "overwhelming sentiment" in favor of renewal and continuance of price and rent controls. Senator Gurney (R-SD) asked Barkley about "great losses' that elevators and other grain dealers might face if the pro posed OPA bill passes with reinstatement ot June 30 price ceilings.

Breaks Operators The South Dakoian said he had many telegrams from businessmen who had mad big purchases of corn and wheat at prices prevailing since OPA ceilings stopped last Saturday. If former ceilings are imposed again, Curney said it would "break every grain operator In the midwest." Barkley told Gurney the proposed new bill would not allow criminal or civil court actions on transactions during ihe period OPA lapsed but also eould not require the government to pay posses resulting from above-ceiling purchases. The bill as amended by the senate hanking committee over protests of Senator Tall (R- far enough. He said il contains "undesirable features." Of the 30.000 hogs, 23,000 were saiables and the remainder directly consigned to packers. Cattle receipts likewise were higher than anticipated, 8.500 saiables and 3,200 packer consignments against 5,000 expected.

These were the highest in years for a Friday, when receipts normally are low because the week-end closedown of plants and butcher shops. Trailing behind Chicago, where prices were ranging the highest in Ihe country, were receipts at Indianapolis, Ind of 18,000 hogs and at Sioux City, of 12,000 hogs and 8,500 cattle. Twelve leading western markets showed a total of 95.200 hogs received today, compared with 13,863 a week ago and a year ago. Tuesday's total was 111,700 and Wednesday's 88,200. were called, rents and prases would be so high by ihe Urn ihat a new taw became effective that the law wouidni do any good.

They also sand that it would take much tinse to set up ihe large organisation that would bej necessary io enforce state controls. Necessary procedures lo set up price eonirefe ihe state were studied by Attorney General George Neuiaer, Seize Caches of Jews' Munitions Jerusalem Jn1y 5 The British army aflsunced todav thai another large cache of munitions and large quantity of British battle dress had been uncovered In ihe Jewish settlement of Mesheq Yagur. British troops have been searching ihe settlement, whSch is located in the Haifa bay area, since last Saturday, and previously had reported unearthing large quantities pj contraband munitions in ap elaborate im derground storage depot. A British army officer, replying io Zionist charges that ihe Jews wTere being renuded of iheir defenses, declared; 'The presence of British aa baliie dress in the cache ee never be considered defers equipment The officer added: I don't believe any of like to see the Jews stripper those things they have been prodigiously gathering at but the thing we object to is the presence of moiition materials. He said ihe esnfiseaijsns Meshco.

Yagur, where a tt of 20 large caches had found up to last night, wer great loss to the Jews, but seried: is only comn sense thai we msi take eve thing at the present time if are going io suppress vloienc Kathryn McKinnon In Red Cross Post New home service direct UT Marion county chapter, American Red Cross, is Miss Kathryn McKinnon, recently of Sait-Lake City, Utah, who assumed her position here Friday, it is announced by Justice George Hossman, chapter chairman. Miss McKinnon takes the position left vacant when Mrs, Virginia Stevens resigned to become executive secretary or Linn county chapter of Bed Cross at Albany. During the past year. Miss McKinnon was in home service work with the Red Cross In Salt Lake City, and just preceding her arrival in Salem had completed a two weeks orientation course in home service in the ares office of Red Cross st Ssa Francises. 7 Babes Born On July Fourth The stork did not take a holiday Thursday and as a result of busy day seven young men and women, four girls and three boys, will not have any difficulty in remembering their birthdays.

Fourth of July arrivals at the Deaconess hospital were a boy to Mr. and Mrs, Wilmcr McDowell, 1326 State street; a girl to Mr. and Mrs, Walter L. Col-lett, rt. 2, box 206; a boy to Mr, and Mrs.

Claud Whiteson and a girl to Mr. and Mrs. E. Robert Olson, 260 South 17th street. At the Salem General hospital Mr.

and Mrs, James B. Powell, 1175 Colonial street, became the parents of a daughter while a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ward, 143 Abrams avenue and a girl to Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Mix, Albany. Other births reported are a daughter to Mr. and Mrs, Carol J. Jones, rt. 4, box 473F; son to Mr.

and Mrs. Max Stalnaker, 1015 Terrace drive and daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Trus-sell, rt, 2 box 299B. Strikers Return to Northwest Airlines St.

Paul, July 5 Wj Operations of Northwest Airlines, halted for more than 30 hours by a strike of mechanics, were back to normal today, following return to work of the men upon creation of an emergency fact-finding board to in vestigate the dispute. The mechanics walked out early Wednesday when union demands for an 18 'A cents an hour wage increase and changes in clauses of their contract with the line were not met, Joseph P. Hamsey of Washington, representative of the International Association of Machinists, and independent organisation, said the agreement to return to work "is temporary in view of the president's order." Under the railway labor act, which governs airlines also, the bosrti has 30 days in which to hold hearings and consider- issues in the dispute. Nursing Consultant Visits Kathcrine Laux, disaster nursing consultant, area office, American Red Cross, visited in Salem during the mid-week, conferring with officials of Marion county chapter of the Red Cross, Her work is to line up organization for disaster nursing to be ready in such emergencies as floods, epidemics, etc. Miss Laux possibly will return in the fall to arrange disaster nursing institutes here.

The conferees already had JT-before them the suggestions of me umiea atciies nu nance that a close relationship between the atomic authority and the security council would be consistent with the intenions of the U.N. In recapitulating their statements of policy earlier this week, both nations recognized the council as the ultimate authority with power to order punitive measures against threats and acts to breach the peace. Such power would be implemented by the envisioned international force which is still on the blueprints of the council's military staff committee. May's Pressure Put on General Washington, July 5 OT Maj. Gen.

L. H. Campbell, testified today he "Got red under the collar" over "special pressure" put on him by Rep. May (D-Ky.) in the interests of an Illinois munitions maker now under congressional investigation. he former chief of army ordnance, bluntly labelled as un fair the activities of May, chair- man of the influential house military committee, on behalf of Henry Garsson, the manufacturer.

Campbell testified before the senate war investigating committee as it resumed hearings on wartime profits of a group of 19 Illinois companies which Chairman Mead (D-NY) has denounced for "war profiteering." He said that it was "all right" with him when congressmen, cabinet officers, or other officials sent prospective contractors to him, or called his attention to prospective manufacturers of much-needed war material. That occurred on numerous occas ions, Campbell said. Campbell added that it was "perfectly all right" for congressmen to ask for introductions "but when it becomes insistent, that's something else again." Two Blood Donors Aid injured Man Two blood donors, whose blood type met requirements, responded to a call from Salem General hospital in behalf of David Wahlberg, who was seriously injured by an automobile on Highway 99 north of Salem a week ago. The hospital said Friday that Wahlberg condition was fair. i Thousands Trek to Resorts; State Avoids Traffic Deaths Ideal weather lured thousands of Salem people to resorts Heaviest Hog Receipts of Year Eases Chieago Prices Chicago, JuJy UP The heaviest hog receipts in six months eaed prices today as much as St.25 lower than ihe levels in Wednesday's trading, but eatlie and sheep remained generally and celebrations in the valley of the quietest Fourth of Julys observation was safe and sane is indicated in reports from the hospitals no accident eases, with first aid, police and firemen having an easy time.

Two arrests were made because of too much noise and two minor fires called out the fire department. Despite highway crowds for the first peacetime Independence day in five years, not a traffic death was reported in Oregon, Violent death came to two a Portlander killed by a plane propellor in front of his wife and son, and a man suffocated in a Pendleton basement fire. A runaway sport airplane, with his 14-year-old son at the controls, ran down Portland Car Salesman Frayne F. Gay-lord Thursday night, slashing him to death with its wooden propellor. Witnesses said the boy had been sitting in the cockpit when Gaylord spun the prop to show him how to start the plane.

The motor apparently caught at full i steady the recent peak prutes. The praeiieai pork top was $16.00, with one load getting $18.25 a hundred pounds. This compared with ihe Wednesday top of $17,50. Fed steers and yearlings continued inadequate to siseet demand, topping at $22.23, oU but 25 cents from Wednesday's figures. Native spring iambs stuck to their $20.00 height of the previous session, going mostly to city butchers.

Neither the cattle nor sheep markets was under the numbers pressure evidenced in the hog pns. Dealers in the previous session had expected but 13,000 head today, but the biggest rush developed since the Krst week in January, At that time receipts were pouring in io beat the deadline for a nationwide strike ot packing house workers..