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ff'i Britain's Biggest Plane. Makes Its Bow Strikes Huirie (Story column four) Weatherman Says: WESTERN OREGON Rain of er interior west portion of itata tonight. Tomorrow generally clou dy with showers. Partly cooler Wednesday. High temperatures generally 10 to 70, low tonight 47 56.

Fresh occasionally strong southwestern winds oft coast 5 CENTS 10 PAGES The Albony Democrat-Herald, Vol. LXXX, No 301 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1948 The Albony Herald, Vol. LXXI1, No. 291 it i tii -i niaAxki PLANE RIPS KILLS PILOT CROP -DUST INTO TREE, 140 MPH Winds Hit Key West; Miami In Path Appointment Of Lemay Seen As Warning to Reds WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 0J.R) The promotion of Lt.

Gen. Curtis E. Lemay to head the nation's strategic air forces was seen today as a veiled go-slow warning to Russia. i mother, Mrs. D.

E. Hocker, all of John Alden Hocken, 32, er of Robert Hocken, Albany hard Corvallis. died this morninir! ware stora operator. Corvallts; a brother, Robert Hock The tough, taciturn, 41 year old shortly after 8 o'clock from' Hocken took off early this morn-i en, Albany, and two aiateta, Mrt, i i r- it I tt i it i airman is well known to the Hm injuries he received when municipal remi.n unrimi ui. liffht rron-dustinir nlane a'rporl' He emPloVd by H.

J. Barnea, Portland. He wai njrnt. ci op ousting plane ne smith-Livingston Air Dusting, Inc. graduated from Oregon State col- sians as the guiding hand behind the fabulous airlift which for the past three months has supplied Berlin with food and fuel despite i According to information a wo- i lege.

man called the Albany fire depart- It was reported by John Sum auuiii iter: vu the McCill farm, threo miles north of Jefferson, and nosed With the long wind gauge tticklng out from 1U nose making It look like a fantastic, monstrous mosquito, Britain'! largest land plane makes its public bow. It's the $24,000,000. 125-ton Brabazon. The ship, 175 feet long with a wingspread of 230 feet, can carry 100 passengers. It underwent fuel and calibration tests at Bristol, England.

Truman. Renews Acid Attacks; ment to secure the services of the men, deputy county coroner for ambulance. It was presumed It Linn county, that the itata police was Mrs. McGill. out of Salem, and tha Marion coun Hocken, a registered pilot, was ty coroner, Dr.

E. Barrlck, were born at Beaverton, October 8, 1915, investigating, and had been a resident of Cor- Funeral arrangements are being vallis since 1925. Surviving are i made by the DeMoss-Youngblaod his widow, Phoebe Ann Bosworth mortuary In Corvallia, where the Hocken, two children, John, body was taken from the Fisher aged 8, and Robert, aged his i funeral home here. Air force sources suggested that i nt lne ground. I-emay's promotion to command1 Hocken, a veteran of Woi Id war the U.S.

fleet of 300-odd Super- 1 H. sustained a crushed chel, brok-forts might serve as a "caution le8. and 'at-'Hl cuts, it was sign" to Soviet leaders familiar announced by Walter Kropp. dep-with his accomplishments in war Linn county coroner. He died and in peace.

enrjnite to the Albany General The Ohio-born general'was nam- i hospital in the city ambulnnce. Dewey Talks West Resourced The deceased pilot was a broth- President Opens; ST" hAS GOP Nominee To en to succeed Gen. George C. Ken- ney ns commander of the strategic air ciinimand. Kenney, who is 59, will become head of the Air University at Maxwell air force base.

where he can give the bene- 1 fit of his experience to younger officers. I One of the top combat com-; manders of the war, Lemay steps into a job in which he will have Officials Clash Over Land Sale SALEM, Sept. 21. (U. Land hoard members.

Secretary of MIAMI, Sept. 21 A hurricane generating winds of from 125 to 140 miles per hour slashed across the Florida keys today and headed for Miami. A 12:30 p.m. advisory from the Miami weather bureau said the storm was 25 miles northeast of Key West and moving on the Miami area at 12 miles pVr hour. Hurricane winds were due to hit Miami at about 5 p.m.

EST. Near hurricane force winds of 60 miles per hour whipped through downtown Miami Beach at 10:20 a.m. Key West, home of the sprawling U. S. Naval air and sea base where President Truman has his "Little While House," caught the brunt of the storm at 10 30 a m.

when wind velocity rose to 110 miles per hour. Telephone communication between Miami and Key West was cut off at 10:15 a.m. when the winds ripped loose all overhead lines. In a brief telephone conversation before the height of the storm struck the little island city, a United Press correspondent reported "everything OK." The storm slowed somewhat as it increased its power, the weather bureau reported, delaying the arrival of the hurricane winds but assuring a longer stay when they do arrive. Strong gales covered an area 300 miles in diameter around the whirling center.

UN Elects Evatt Assembly Head PARIS, 21. (U.RV Australian Foreign Minister Herbert V. Evatt was elected president of tha United Nations general assembly today in a runoff ballot with Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia of Argentina. The final vote was 31 to 20 with one abstention and six invalid "bHllots. The voting was secret, but obviously the Russian bloc of six countries refused to vote for either of the candidates who went into charge of B-29s and othet heavy State Earl T.

Newbryand State planes. If this country weie sud- Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, clashed denly attacked, his would be the openly today over last month's U.S. Supports Bernadotte Plan PAHIS, Sept 21. (U K) The United States urged tha third general assembly of the United Nation today to seek an end to Arab Jewish warfare in Palestine by supporting the proposals of the UN's assassinated mediator, Count Felka Bernadotte of Sweden, which provided for recognition of tha Jewish state of Israel.

U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall formally proposed acceptance of BerneHta'- report even before Jiie-general assembly, meeting against a somber back-drop of expressed (ear of another world war, had completed its Speak In Denver EN ROUTE WITH DEWEY, Sept. 21 Gov.

Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee, followed President Truman into Colorado today to talk about the same subject development of western resources. Dewev speaks in Denver tonight at p.m. MST. Paul IiOckwood, the New York Mrs.

Rachel Fry, Rt 2, was arrested Monday by George Miller, Linn county deputy sheriff, on a charge of threatening to commit a felony. She was released after posting $500 ball. In the complaint, Mrs. Fry is charged with threatening to commit a felony by "saying to one Mrs. Oscar Nash.

'I'll kill She will appear before Justice of the Peace Harlow Weinrick tomorrow, at which time she will decide if she wants a preliminary hearing or to be bound over to grand jury for further responsibility of retaliating with bombs. During the war in Europe, Lemay perfected pattern imbing from B-17s. In the Pacific, his planes demolished 125 miles of Japanese industrial facilities in 25 cities. sale of 280 acres of public school pine timber land in Central Oregon. Newbry, who voted with Gov.

John Hall in favor of the sale, said, "I considered it a good deal for the state." Scotl, who opposed the transaction vigorously, said, "Newbry'a explanation of the timber deal o-mite pertinent details." The land, located 30 miles southwest of Bend, was sold August 31 to Ionaid Lundgren, Sisters logging operator, for $104,734 the runoff. On the first ballot Evatt received 25 votes, Bramuglia 72, Zygmunt Modzelewski of Poland, 6, and Josef Bech of Luxembourg 2, with one abstention and one invalid vote. Bramuglia, who waa temporary Governor Issues Liquor Decision president, had to announce his The weather bureau said the hurricane was expected in Miami thia afternoon or earjy tonight end would progress northward tonight. Key West, a city of 17,000, was prepared for the storm. The hurricane had passed in the Florida Straits during the early hours today for "regeneration (Pimm Turn to Pag Twoi I'MJSXIN 'jt a rati of per 1,000 Uafflfd SALEM, Sept.

21 (UP: Gov. feet. The land was also included. 'John H. Hall today sustained his I Ralph Cake, Portland attorney charges of misconduct, neglect of anfi Oregon National Republican duty and inefficiency against Jo- 1 committeeman, represented Lund- jseph Freck, chairman of ti Ore- gre in negotiations for the land.

rtiir ctafa 1 i 1 1 fit eimmiceinri An4 h. fU w.iiJ Hid Newbry, defending the action. own defeat. Evatt took over the gavel Immediately. Policemen Guard Struck Oil Plant LOS ANGELES, Sept.

21. (U.R) A hundred policemen patrolled the struck Union Oil refinery at Wilmington, today as a few cars of workers passed through the lines of 100 pickets. The officers were on duty after 32 pickets were arrested yesterday on charges of barricading the re- said the price was the highest of qualified himself from the commission. In a five and one-half page decision, Hall said he had found that Freck had "violated his oath of office by purchasing supplies Jews and the SB nations 'of the UN, Marshall said in an of-' ficial statement, should accept Bernadotte'a recommendation In their entirety "as the best possible basis for bringing peace" to the Holy Land- Tha General Assembly convened in tha plush Palais De Challlot overlooking the Seine amid the gravest, crisis since the war, In which attention of roost delegates centered upon the cold war between Russia and the western powers rather than on lesser problems such as Palestine. Only three hours after the assembly opened, foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and Franca were to meet at the Quai D'Orsey, possibly to agree on showdown action in the dispute with the Soviet Union which has its focal point in the Berlin crisis.

But Marshall seized upon the interest in and concern for the Palestihe situation which followed the assassination last Friday In Jerusalem of Bernadotte to issue (PltftM Tun to Pt rtv) fered up to the date of the sale. He said timber cruises by Lundgren and the State Forestry Board showed a large amount of overripe timber in the area needed cutting. Scott, today, said he was in Portland on August 31, the day Hall and Newbry agreed in Salem governor's secretary, said the candidate would talk about "our land as the basic source of our country's material strength." That was the same subject the president used in his Democratic campaign speech at Denver yesterday. He accused the Republicans of "undercover sabotage of the west' and attempting to turn the country back "to the day when the west was an economic colony of Wall Street." Lockwood said Dewey "will discuss the need to conserve our natural resources and to develop our country for the future." Dewey hit hard on the peace theme in three speeches which launched his western campaign swing yesterday. He told train-side audiences at Rock Island, 111., and Davenport, and a huge crowd at Des Moines that a united America under his leadership would restore the peace of the world.

Colorado is one of the few states where the Republicans figure they have a chance to pick up a seat now held by a Democrat-Sen. Edwin C. Johnson. Dewey carried Colorado against the late president Roosevelt in 1944. The margin was 268,000 a-gainst 234,000 votes.

He is confident he can do it again this year against President Truman. But to help William F. Nicholson, the GOP Senate Nominee, he scheduled an intensive barnstorming campaign on his way to Denver. to vole for the sale. "At Portland i finery gates in defiance of a court Railroad Wage Accord Looms CHICAGO, Sept.

21. (U.RD Union officials representing more than 200.0(10 trainmen and conductors said today that negotiations with the nation's railroads on a third round wage increase are "progressing satisfactorily." "We are hopeful of reaching a settlement without government intervention," a spokesman said. The unions have asked for a 25 per cent pay raise. Negotiations also are being conducted between the railroads and three other unions which threatened a nationwide strike last May. The unions represent engineers, firemen and switchmen.

They seek the difference between the 15H-cent hourly raise awarded under a government settlement of their second round wage demand, and the 30 per cent they originally requested. Negotiations between the railroads and 16 unions representing about 1,000,000 non-operating employes, including shop, maintenance and clerical workers, collapsed last week. The national railway mediation board arrives here Thursday to attempt settlement of the disput. The. non-operating unions demanded a 25-rent hourly increase and an eight-hour reduction in the work week.

from his own firm in c.ontraven-I tion of the state constitution." I "Freck has legally disqualified" 1 himself from holding the office of liquor commissioner. His removal therefrom was justified from the facts and Jaw. Charges contained I in the written notice of removal i have been sustained," Hall said. Utah Campaign Br rlt4 Pma ENROUTE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, Sept. 21 President Truman carried his campaipm into Utah today with new blasts ajrainst "selfish" Republican policies on western land reclamation.

At the game time that he denounced his opposition, Mr. Truman attempted to build a bijr vote in November by arousing voters with a series of acid charges ajrainst "silent and cunning" politicians of the Republican party. He seemed to be operating on the same theory the late Franklin D. Roosevelt used in 1944. Mr.

Truman believes his best 'chance for election over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey is a whopping big vote. He drummed 'repeatedly on a big turnout as his train stopped at almost every hamlet in the west. "You'd better look out for your own interests on Nov.

2 and vote for the welfare of the United States as a whole by sending the Democrats back." he told an audience at Canon City, last night. Mr. Truman's big speech of the day will be in Salt Lake City tonight. He will speak again on reclamation, conservation and public power in the same vein he used yesterday at Denver when he attacked GOP leaders in Congress for attempting "underground sabotage" of western development. After leaving Denver, Mr.

Truman made four speeches before retiring for the evening at Salida, where he spoke to a cheering crowd gathered near the railroad station. He said voting in November was matter of 'real patriotism." At Canon City, the president coughed occasionally because of a slightly irritated throat while bearing down on the "80th Republican do-nothing congress." This has become his watchword for this trip and he uses the phrase at almost every stop, saying it in slow, measured tones like president Roosevelt's famous "Martin, Barton and Fish" of the 1940 campaign. The crowds also have picked up phrases to throw back at him as he speaks "Give 'em hell, Harry" and "Pour it on." He seems to delight in these words of encouragement. The president has developed an almost theatrical routine for each stop. After he finishes his speech from the rear platform, he asks the crowd if they'd like to meet his family.

A loud cheer invariably says yes. The rear of the car is now draped with a blue velvet curtain and the president says, "this is my boss." Mrs. Truman s4eps through the center of the curtain and takes a bow. Then the president introduces his daughter, Margaret, for a quick waving hello to the spectators. order.

The pickets were arraigned today. As the officers passed out copies of a superior court order limiting pickets, the striking workers jeered and let the papers fall to tha ground. One group made a bonfire of the orders. Conferences were scheduled between representatives of the striking CIO oil workers union and SALEM, Sept. 21.

(U.R) Gov. John Hall's decision on his hearing of Joseph Freck, discharged liquor commission chairman, will be handed to the Secretary of State today, the governor said. Freck went before Hall last I objected by telephone call," Scott said. Scott said he made inquiries a-bout the sale at the State Forestry Department the next day and "the department convinced me the sale (PImm Turn to Two) Taylor Calls Marshall Plan Business Scheme MILWAUKEE, Sept. 21.

(U.R Sen. Glen Taylor, wound up his campaign tour of Wisconsin last night with a blxst at the Marshall plan as "the worst fake the world has ever seen Taylor told about 1.000 listeners that the plan is a big business Jet Plane Explosion representatives of Standard, Richfield and Union oil companies. The CIO struck major oil companies i-! Kills Two Top Pilots Wednesday in an effort to regain i his post and to defend himself Against Hall's charges of miscon Dock Strikers Load 'Independent' Ships SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21 (U.R) Military and commercial cargoes were being stowed aboard Pacific coast merchant ships today for the first time since 28,000 maritime workers paralyzed coast shipping by walking out Sept. 2.

In the first "break" in the west coast supply logjam, striking CIO longshoremen went back on the docks to prepare nearly a dozen "independent" ships for immediate sailing to Pacific ports with vital supplies. The developments in the 20-day strike by five maritime unions included: 1 A Seattle stevedoring firm announced that dock workers have agreed to handle some $10,000,000 worth of strikebound salmon at Seattle terminals. It was believed the salmon would be the first commercial cargo moved since the marine tieup began. 2 Longshoremen "cleared" 10 carloads of heavy machinery destined for Greece and Turkey as UNNRA equipment. While the strikers made no arrangements for handling the machinery, they said thy would let the government remove it from behind Los Angeles picket lines.

3 Loading of army ships was underway at Seattle, San Francisco and Stockton, under a "military ttmce" that sent dock workers back to work for independent contractors under pre-strike conditions in order to get military cargoes moving into the Pacific. California Sept. 4 in a wage pute. duct in office. Hall fired Freck, charging he sold the liquor commission supplies from his Portland stationery Plane Takes Body of Bernadotte to Sweden PARIS, Sept.

21. (U.R) The body of Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, assassinated United Na ALP AUG Sept 21. (U.O One of the air force's first all-Jet bombers, a B-45, 'exploded yes- terday during a test flight and killed two of the nation's top jet-plane test pilots. The huge four-jet plane, still the property of North American Aviation company, disintegrated with a thunderous roar and sent a store in violation of State law an IO ream iKeis our- uith Hrauincr on pvlprmi ummint I tnfc WST. the only way the nf npr Him I Taylor said Freck's counterchanges that he tions mediator for Palestine, left' here aboard a UN plane for Stockholm today.

flaming shower of fragments into' United States can achieve peace in the world is by electing an administration dedicated to that ideal. He said he didn't think the Russians wanted trouble. "If the Russians had pushed us around the way we have them, we would have gone to war a long time ago," he said. fields one mile uiiitru iiaiiuna uim-ioi, onu rjootien grain many or me woria top statesmen i nor(n 0f here paid tribute to Bernadotte in an hour's ceremony at Orly Airfield before the plane left. was fired for blocking Hall's pro-! posal to buy 30,000,000 cases of I whiskey frorrt a Colorado firm, I were not aired during the proceedings.

Hall, in complete charge, I blockaded all attempts to bring out Freck's charges, i At the conclusion of the hear-i ing, Earl Bernard, Freck's attor- ney, warned Hall that "this mat- ter might get into court." Freck, in a written answer to Hall's charges, entered into the hearing's written record of alle Reds Demand Withdrawal Of All Occupation Troops Spy Hunter To Ask Indictments WASHINGTON, Sept, 21 (U.R) Rep. John McDowell, said today he believes house spy investigators have assembled enough evidence to indict three persons for espionage. Two of the three, McDowell indicated, had acces to some highly secret atomic information during the war. These two are Americans, he said. He said he did not 'know whether the third person is an American.

McDowell said all three have testified before the committee. A reporter asked if McDowell's position was that he would propose to the full house un-American activities committee that it recommend to the justice department that the three be indicted. "That is correct." McDowell said. Tha first witness to testify today was Joseph Weinberg, nuclear Dhvsicist at the University nf Min North American aviation identl-' fied the dead pilot as George W. Krebs, 30, Los Angeles, and Nicholas G.

Pickard, 31, Manhattan Beach, Cal. Krebs was credited with being the first U. S. pilot to fly a multiple jet plane when he tested the B-45 March 17, 1047. He is formerly from Kansas City, where he was chief test pilot at the company's wartime plant.

One witness, L. L. Ellis, vice president of he Alpaugh Tele- phone company, said the plane "definitely exploded in flight and fell to the earth trailing smoke." The plane was on its final test flight from Ml. doc field for North American before being turned over to the air force. It waa estimated to have been flying at about 10,000 feet The B-45 is one of the air force's newest and most potent weapons and has a top speed rating of 485 miles per hour.

BERLIN, Sept. 21. (U.R) Russia demanded immediate withdrawal of all occupation troops from Germany and blockaded Berlin today the center of attention in the Berlin crisis shifted to Paris. Gen. Lucius D.

Clay left for Paris last night and the three western envoys from Moscow are 5 Killed, 2 Wounded In Negro Gun Battles KANSAS CITY, Sept. 21. (U.R) Five persons including three police officers, a Negro gunman and a bystander were dead today as result of a series of gun battles touched off when officers answered a routine call to quell a disturbance. Two other policemen were wounded, one critically, in the affray just before midnight last night. Authorities were questioning George Bell, 33-year-old Negro, to determine whether he took part in the firing.

Bell was captured early today after police threw a cordon around the Kansas City Negro section. Lt. Charles Welch of the homicide bureau said Bell denied that he was in the apartment where the shootings took place. But Welch said three witnesses placed Bell there-Bell's brother, Wi'liam, 34, was the gunman who died under police bullets. The officers killed were Sandy Washington 28, Charlie Neaves, 30, both Negroes, and Charles Per-rine, 48, white.

Injured officers were Bill Wefls, 34, and Keiffer Burris, 34. A bystander. Burton E. Warren, Negro, elso was wounded and died early today at a hospital. The shootings occurred when Washington and Neaves' answered a routine complain about a disturbance at the apartment of Alpha Russell and Gwindola King, negressea, about eight block from police headquarters.

gations that he was discharged for failing to comply with Hall wishes on the proposed liquor purchase. He said that Hall had told him of an agreement with the whiskey firm under which Hall would become the company's attorney in Oregon when his term as governor expires in January. Freck said the proposed purth- scheduled to pass through Berlin Shanghai Stages Big Buying Spree SHANGHAI, Sept. 21. (U.R) China's largest city today indulged in one of the wildest buying sprees in history with expensively-priced goods selling faster than dime-store trinkets.

Stores were thronged all day with people buying the biggest diamonds, the costliest wrist watches, the greenest jade and the prettiest girls. Moneyed Chinese and foreigners sought "safe" substitutes for greenbacks and gold bars in order ase was voted down at an August today en route to the French cap-i 26 meeting of the commission and jtal. Ford Reports Two-Year Backlog of Car Orders ST. LOUIS. Sept.

21. 0J.P) Benson Ford, vice-president of the on August 31 "Gov. Hall requested my resignation." i Ford Motor company, said last i demand was followed, but Russian-controlled radio Berlin was more moderate. Radio Berlin said Soviet forces "could withdraw within one year after the peace treaty with Germany was signed. Attempts to reach agreement on a German treaty, however, broke up last fall at the Big Four foreign ministers conference in London.

Indications were that the Russian demand was bi.sed on confidence that communist action squads and Soviet-trained German militia easily could seize power in Berlin once troops of the western allies were removed. Observers believed the Soviet demand was timed strategically to coincide with the opening of the United Nations general assembly at Paris. Should Soviet diplomacy fail to block United Nations consideration of the Berlin crisis, as planned by 'he western powers, Russia could i.ffer as aolution that. all four powers withdraw from the disputed German capital. Sew Pole Record SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

21. (U.R) A new world's flagpole sitting re-i cord was being extended today by Milton Van Nolan who said he The Russian withdrawal demand, published in the official Soviet army newspaper Taegliche Rundschau, was believed part of a new Soviet propaganda campaign to win German sympathy and embarrass the estern powers. It compared Germany to Korea and urged Germans to note the Soviet action in Korea, where Soviet troops are scheduled to leave by Jan. 1. Taegliche Rundschau attempted to give the Impression that German independence' wouli be Just around the corner if the Soviet night that it will be two years before the auto industry can catch up with its backlog of orders.

Addressing employes at the dedication of a new Lincoln-Mercury plant near here. Ford said that the orders for higher priced Mercuries and Lincolns may be filled sooner. Ford asserted, however, that the company had a backlog of more than 2.000.000 orders for Fords. "We don't expect to meet the demands for Ford at least until 1951," he said. nesota.

During the war Weinberg was employed in the radiation laboratory at the University of California and came under the jurisdiction of the army's Manhattan district, the atomic bomb project. ALBANY WEATHER Maximum temperature in Albany Monday 74 degrees: minimum this morning 43 degrees. River .5 of a foot above iow water stage. Consolidation Vote) Set For School Districts The Linn county boundary board has set October as the date for a vote on the proposed consolidation of school districts 33, Happy Home; 96, Salt Lake; and 122, Mt Pleasant. Voting will take place in the school buildings frora to pm.

on that date. to protect their wealth. The commission of foreign cur-, rencies said that possession of foreign money or gold bars will be punishable with seven yean' imprisonment after Sept. 30. The commiwion's action was taken to stabilize the gold yuan, new Chinese currency.

I planned to stay alofe '-'indefinitely." Yesterday Van Nolan, who is advertising a local used car dealer, broke the existing record as he completed his 54th day atop a flagpole at Van Ness and Eddy St.