Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Newspaper) - March 28, 1948, Walla Walla, Washington The National Whirligig Newt Behind the Newt By John ruher Mounting apprehension in over Soviet policy is based en the belief that the Rusians now are practicing exactly what they been preaching for years world revolution Most had assumed and hoped that Slav truculence would short of military measures But the violent overthrow of de- in Czechoslovakia the for- mation of action committees elsewhere the signs of approaching civil war in Italy convince diplo- and military authorities that trouble is brewing fast Previously government officials thought Moscow warmongering was chiefly propaganda in the nature of pep talks to arouse the ful it home and abroad They con- cluded that the Communist archy would wait for years until the world masses were converted to communism But failure to win majority port even in nations behind the iron curtain seems to have convinced the politburo that it must grab er now before the United States mobilizes its military potential in opposition The big in Washington are saying if Americans are to combat communism we as a people must understand it We should realize that the Com- munist leaders are career who teach revolution and whose believe all that they have taught These apostles of violence appear determined to have their own way regardless of the consequences A high official in the capital thus de- About warped key men have the power to ruin the peace of mind of the rest of the world These bosses are not workers whom tney pretend to represent but perverted intellectuals backed by professional soldiers Figures re- leased by the last con- gress show that less than 10 per cent were The rest were officials bureaucrats managers engineers and office personnel The fathers of Russian knew only Romanoff potism They founded a dynasty based according to Prime Minister Attlee on an inverted czarism Those still alive and their disciples Continued on Editorial Face to Reach Peak From Snow About June 13 PORTLAND UP The Columbia river's seasonal crest from melting will occur about June 15 at all points below Pasco the wea ther bureau reported Saturday There will be only slight ing in the area that April and May rainfall is near to S Ellison senior ologist The Snake river his report says Is expected to discharge its peak flow about before the Columbia reaches its crest and will not occasion any flooding in the Columbia ANOTHER NEW PIECE OF SERVICE EQUIPMENT At FRED BECKER MOTORS See It and the Men Who Operate It In Becker Ad on Page 14 Walla Walla SUNDAY Our Year No 347 Walla Walla Wash Sunday March 28 1948 Sunday IQc Copy Two Thirty-Two Pages Freedom Train to Arrive Tuesday Pre-Easter Tornadoes Hit Five States 23 Known Dead to Bring Week of Storm Fatalities to SOMETHING FOR NOTHING A WARNING from the BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU A division of the C of In Walla Don't be a sucker for a photographic COUPON DEAL SEE PASE IS Acting Chief 78 CHICAGO AP Pre-Easter tornadoes and gales that ripped into eight states added 23 more fatalities to March's vicious weather The new deaths brought the nation's eight day storm death toll to 78 The latest rash of struck Friday night in the south and injured more than 100 persons and caused property damage of several million dollars A March mixture of snow hail heavy rains and strong trailed the twisters in the midwest Destructive winds and hail storms hit parts of Alabama and Tennessee Stiff northeast wind off Lake Huron pushed ashore a massive six foot wall of ice at Saginaw Bay Mich The ice mass which started a glacier like advance damaged four cottages and threatened 100 others However a shift in the wind from northeast to north re- the danger at least In Chicago the wind pushed high waves over the Lake Michigan breakwater and flooded the outer drive from 23rd to streets Traffic was detoured in that tion Storm Kills 19 Friday night's tornadoes killed 19 persons in Indiana three in bama and one in Louisiana ers or gales also struck parts of Illinois Missouri Georgia sippi and Tennessee The twisters followed by exactly one week a similar series of that struck from Texas to New York killing 42 persons teen persons also were killed in gales that swept Oklahoma day West central Indiana was hardest hit by the new tornadoes Twelve were killed in the little town of Coatesville which has 350 tion The winds smashed 25 homes and several business houses there Danville a town of tion 20 west of Indianapolis I was half flattened by the winds but only one person was killed Three were dead at Hadley a small community between Danville and one in Clay county 40 miles southwest of Danville one near Fortville 20 miles northeast of Indianapolis and one at fordsville Disaster Units Set Red Cross disaster units and state police moved quickly into ville A temporary hospital was set up in a school building and a Continued on Page 5 Col 5 Capt Ed Kanz of the police de- was appointed acting chief Saturday by Mayor R V Borleske He succeeds A L ferls resigned who is on al leave Staff photo Davison engraving Captain Kanz To Be Acting Police Chief Ed Kanz captain in the Walla Walla police department Saturday was appointed acting chief of the department by Mayor R V ke to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of A L which becomes effective April 15 Addressing the civil service com- mission Mayor Borleske wrote as Captain Ed Kanz is next in rank to Chief A L Jefferis in the police department of Walla Walla So in response to your letter of March 15 1948 I am appointing him chief of police for the time being to fill the vacancy caused by the nation of Chief A L Jefferis this appointment to remain in force un- til the civil service commission is in a position to make a dation for a permanent chief March 15 the commission wrote the mayor answering a letter irom him written March 8 regarding Mirie Operators Hint at Back To Work Move WASHINGTON cropped up among some soft coal operators Saturday that idle miners soon may be heading back to work but a union leader in the field discounted it entirely President John L Lewis of the United Mine Workers busied 0 rescuing w feU meanwhile consulting with ing the vacancy caused by the how to Proceed in the ignation of Jefferis which was pre- face of tne governments campaign sented March 6 The text of an end to the Passage of Foreign Aid Expected House Leaders Expect to Ram Next Week by At Least Vote No Poll of Members Asked Freedom Train Exhibit Car WASHINGTON ers expect to ram the foreign aid to passage week by at least a vote They are so confident that er Martin told a reporter the isn't even polling members on which way they will ballot The is intended to use ican cash and military know how to help Europe and China stem the menace of Communism It is aimed at what Martin in a speech Saturday night in Toledo called the despots of the the men mad with lust for power who are determined to overrun the We must stop them he said we intend to stop them Absence of Poll Martin disclosed the absence of a poll on the foreign aid be- fore leaving for Toledo Chairman Eaton the foreign affairs committee My own view is that there won't be more than 80 and I doubt if there will be that many against the There has been a very great change in the attitude toward this Red White and Blue Streamliner to Bring Documents of Freedom Interior of Freedom Train exhibition car shows how documents are and marines on guard The Freedom Train will be open to the public here Tuesday March 30 from noon to 10 p m Junior High School To Be Included in New Program The top committee democrat Rep Bloom agreed there won't be 80 votes against the The house has 432 members and three vacancies But ordinarily fewer than 400 show up for roll call votes An amendment bombardment 51 Receive Minor When 2 Trains Collide GRAND RAPIDS persons were injured most of them slightly when a westbound Pere Marquette Detroit Grand Rapids streamliner crashed into the rear of a freight train during a storm Saturday of thc injured were aken to hospitals where two were de- The remainder were given first aid at the accident scene All of the injured were from Michigan cities Railroad officials said the accident was caused when the freight train against the will start on the nad to slow down because of the house floor Monday Rep Vorys storm The passenger train crew managing the measure spotted the freight train ahead and he thinks it will be over by were slowing fhe streamliner to says Tuesday So the vote on passage could come late Tuesday or sometime Wednesday May Be Some Changes There may be some tighten up on exports to Russia and to put in of economic help for Japan Korea and the Ryukyu islands for instance But Vorys and Bloom predict the is going through pretty much as is Alter that the senate and house will have to settle some differences That will take several days But congressional leaders say halt when the collision occurred they are sure the will be at the white house for the president to sign early in April The administration wants the to be a law before April 18 That is the date for an election in Italy in which Communists are trying to make a strong showing letter tout In reply to your requisition for Some operators guessed dated March 8 send the the name of the person eligible toj fill the position of chief of police We do not have an eligible list at this time and you are hereby authorized to make a temporary appointment from members of the police department as provided in section 8 of rule 6 general rules and regulations of the civil service commission An examination for chief of ice will be held in the near future and a name certified to you for appointment That letter was ed by Ray city clerk in I his capacity as examiner and for the commission men back to work as a means of making it unnecessary for the to go ahead with sach emergency measures as an in- junction Lewis had no comment on this An aide said I don't know a thing about any plans and Continued on Pace 21 Col 6 Youth Killed In Boat Fall Military Aid May Be Must WASHINGTON officials now believe the United States will have to furnish arms as well as economic aid to strengthen Western European nations against Russia Some authorities speculate that congress may be asked to revive the wartime lend-lease principle of arming nations whose defense is in the interest of American ity Subject Studied The whole subject of American military relations with the free tions of Europe is now being ied by top administration officials Presumably decisions will be made in the near future and Euro- pean governments have been or will be consulted on their own of their requirements White house and state department ers constantly stress the urgency of action to stop Russia and every Soviet gesture at a western I to publish their Freedom Rally Is Set Monday Two major events remain on the Week of Rededication docket be- fore the actual visit of the Freedom Train here Tuesday chairman of various committees said Saturday night Because of Easter Sunday two j gaturday Izvestia Russian After more than a study of existing conditions and ture possibilities the board of cation of school district No 1 week that new junior high concluded last struction of a school here in the near future will be the first step in a school program The program according to Judd Kimball chairman of the board and W A Lacey city dent of schools is destined to be all-inclusive and eventually include everything that goes into an system from text books to teacher's methods Junior High is The junior high Basis school of- of the board declared is the basis of the entire modernization and changes in city grade schools can be made as money becomes available Lacey in explaining the schoo program pointed out that two grades would be eliminated from many of the existing grade schools and one from the high school as it is planned to carry seventh eighth and ninth grades in the ior high The one to be constructed in the near future will be located in the east end of the city although a location has not been decided Later it is planned to build a ond junior high school in the tern portion of the city Aid Grade Schools At the same the junior high building is under construction It is possible the district will build the first unit of a permanent Freedom Train Schedule a m arrival at Union Pacific depot from Boise Train will be switched after arrival here so as to be placed in position for daylong visit at depot a m ceremonies of formal arrival including action of train being welcomed by wagon train Walla Wallans in pioneer costumes Indian chiefs and others This event is good especially for movie and camera shots Walla Walla Cinema club will make photographic record in color a m Preview hour In line with the national pattern and following the same general plan as is in effect in all communities where the Freedom Train visits a one-hour preview is staged for the Representatives of school rooms one boy and girl from each seventh and room and the home rooms of the high schools throughout Southeastern Washington and Northeastern Oregon Representatives of the press and radio visiting mayors and other dignitaries Members of the committees on arrangements and the sponsoring committee Admission to the train during the preview hour is by guest ticket only This is the only time during the day that a ticket is required a m Formal Welcome to Walla Walla ceremony This will take place from a covered wagon at the depot and will be participated in by General Chairman Reuben Denning Jaycee President Al Bradford Mayor R V Borleske and Walter O'Brien train director Noon to 10 p m inspection by the general public This will be entirely on a first-come first-served basis There is no admission charge Children under 12 will not be admitted unless with an adult There will be no admission to the train after 10 p m regardless of how many may be in line Free booklets about Documents on the Freedom Train will be given all who visit the train tion to Green Park school since it was indicated last week that Tuesday will mark the arrival of the originals of those historic documents upon which the American way of life is based when the Freedom Train arrives at the Cradle of Northwest history ior first visit in Oregon and Washington The train will arrive at the Union Pacific depot shortly after 9 where it will be greeted by Indian chiefs of three Northwest tribes and covered wagons symbolic of the earliest efforts to build this portion of the nation The native from reservation Mission Ore that they plan lor on hand at the same time as unit covered wagon train and erous Walla Wallans attired in neer outfits are to be at the Union Pacific depot to the train on Page 5 Col 6 Newspaper Cost Shows Increase NEW YORK paper publishers are paying about country tends to speed up the process Another of these gestures came events have been combined for Monday Freedom of Religion Day and Local Heritage Day orating the religious aspect of dom Jhon Hendricks and members of the Ministerial association have completed plans for a public rally to be held in the auditorium at 8 pm Monday John Rae area director of the I Freedom Train will be the I pal speaker Rae who was recently j called to Xew York because of I ness in his family will return to i Walla Walla Monday to fill the ment newspaper let go with a blast at Norway which some diplo- mats thought might be the start of newspapers today than in 1945 and costs are still rising At the same time their revenue from advertising is up about 50 per cent id from circulation about 35 per cent The bureau of advertising of the Ions feared Russian Newspaper ers association estimates its ber papers received from national advertising in 1947 and in local Continued on Page 5 Col 2 DENIES GUILT j Stanley Roland Gioos 13 engagement PERCELL Okla fP dale and Walla Walla youth Musical portion of the rally will Wilson 47 a lawyer and killed Saturday near Tne Dalles number nem Oklahoma state legislator I Ore in a fail on a river barge under the pleaded innocent Saturday to on the Columbia river f neth Schillin charge of murder in the shotgun i Few details of tne accident directed slaying Thursday of a used car known except Gibbs was dealer in his office He waived pre- working on the barge and fell mi liminary and was bound over for some unknown manner His at 9 Monday the Local trial without bond Mr and R V of Day committee will take left for the scene late an dance and SCOUTS WANT MIXER i Saturday celebration at the Big SEATTLE The Seattle Boy The was born in The turc of tnis affair will be thc Scout office is looking for a small He later moved to tumes and the grand march of- cement miser nis aa rents and resided there said Saturday Everyone is be used to mix cement for a and in Walla Valla for 10 years i to attend costume as Refugees Tell Of Movements TRIESTE Yugoslav zone of the free ing Costs Skyrocket Costs however Finnish Press Charges Plot HELSINKI Finland con- press charged Com- Saturday with planning a dictatorship in Finland while an iron curtain hid the course of cow negotiations for a Soviet friendship and military pact The report that the negotiations ad reached a serious phase with articles in the Soviet press which strongly accused way of following a dangerous trend of with the United States Finland's strongest independent afternoon newspaper declared the fact that a small minority of our people the Finnish Communists openly ens to use our foreign political tion to force its own will on the great majority of the people cording to the well-known pattern has caused nervousness The paper referred to a speech this week by Herta Kuusinen wife of Finland's Communist minister of the interior in which she said Finland must follow the same road as Czechoslovakia then asked have not our people suffered enough already without having to go the road of brotherly hale for the second time within a few The conservative paper took the same line and newsprint and ink for an the Kuusinen speech erase 50.000 circulation paper are One could not express more to Walla Walli That part of the day's program of events is scheduled for proximately 10 as the red white and blue streamliner comei in from a visit the day before at Boise An invitation has been ex- tended to all folks in the district who want to get into pioneer out- fits to do so and be a part of the welcoming group Cameras expected to be pretty much in dence at that time W H Till heads a special com- working out details for the Continued on Page 5 CoL- the mar said lary official The troops fn 71 per for onsets pef ccn 48 j cent and circulation 35 per T immediate com- lhc m To about BALLOTS COUNTED i SEATTLE Final tabulation expense of union shop balloting held this ivm increased week at the Airplane com- ina 2.009 or rates n thc past year I parry Saturday showed a vote of moved 11.0 -ie that today practically 80 per 1.136 to 663 to maintain existing 500 this newspapers Practically 80 per of m the country Continued on 5 Col 6 union shop agreements be- Boeing and local 51 of the Mechanics union Din of Mortars Guns Drown Out Hymns as Bomb Arabs JERUSALEM IP Four Jewish that have been oT- bombed a in thc Arabs in a -i rife There 1 ave It was not clear Idi fiddlers and dance were n tO addition to the reported by As Easter Sun Is Promised perform ror those not dancing a grand march will be held and tators arc to attend in clothes of years aco TWO DISMISSED other sources Nether v as it cicar whether the troops were Gen -S tish senior civil affairs officer ica earlier Saturday p re- if and ued hi chcr temperatures for church were to include low mass at 6 solemn mass at Gilson pOrts additional Sunday is to mass at 9 and low mass at and George British military pil c -A thc police civil service ljp l0 border pitched battle which enveloped a of Jewish A Ross the removal of th frc a record throne of 11 High mass at St Francis Jewish convoy near Don E- arid George British military c nrs to Wall a churches of church was set for 7 and low mass Wiped Out rom thc The Arab press 33 A Jev ai re- sort said 25 and 30 Arabs to an Arab shown thai the Acre had earlier in denominations which will be'at 9 naif mission Mayor Ross contended the week one of the most Special Prepared that a recent public hearing had from already in tant of all festivals At St Paul's plain thi zone of communion is listed for terms oj ti Italian The Easter message in sons 3 children's service will with the The was th attack had been and reflations peace treaty thc and geantry and sermon revolving British 10.000 troops around the figure of the Risen fire Arab poets of Solomon about a mile ol berr driver off by Arab re Jtv thc vehicle a press release The battle tie a PLANE IS SAFE few before thc bells LONG BEACH Calif A w i for plane from Tev s aid 31 Honolulu here ill crew of more than an hour of on 5 Col 7 about its safety in their and Christ and the significance of the be at and festival service oi holy communion fully choral will come al 11 Central Continued on 5 Col- 4 fitting 3 tne o THE WE and continued mild i with Sunday decrees resurrection will be to ian church has an 8 prayer worshippers young and old j service and will hear Dr J 3 services were scheduled in final messages at the 6 at 11 and the evening service a ol Alhed and An Easier canata The Garden a4 St Paul's Episcopal church i vices St on S 1 GREAT E O M End Of Month SALE for at WARDS There are dozens of money saving values in this paper in Wards advertisement on page 9 DOTTED SWISS yd CROQUET SET Set for 4 GARDEN HOSE 25 ft BOYS SWEATERS Reg 93 E GIRLS BLOUSES Reg SI 59 SI TROWELS Reg MEN'S SLACKS You can see by these savings to be mode at MONTGOMERY WARD 3rd Main St Ttl 620 IN FW SPA PERI
