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I pi pi LFDODLbao rn n 7runn NINETY -SIXTH YEAR 10 'Snowgrani Saga Ends in Confusion Without Lost Plane LA GRANDE, Ore.. Jan. 3-;P-The "sncwgrams" that started the rmy, state police and private (hers on a search for a crashed plane turned out tonight to be the idle work of a hill resident. State Police Sgt. Lewis Johnson emerged from the snow-covered mountains south of La Grande late tonight to announce there was no missing plane. TO5 SKKTDB tKDCDQCl The country must give seme serious thought to its communi cations industries. The telephone system was badly overburdened when the war load fell on it, and strangely the postwar burden is proving worse. Christmas day the long distance lines of the Bell sys tem reported calls of over 300.000. Long delays resulted and many calls had to b cancelled. All the phone companies are straining themselves to add to their facilities. The chief bottle neck is switchboards, although other equipment is in short sup ply and labor remains scarce, par ticularly skilled labor. Despite the Installations of the past year the companies have made little head way in communities like Salem In eating into the backlog of un filled orders for service. This expansion has required huge investments of capital. American Telephone and Tele graph company has Issued deben tures of over $300,000,000 and its subsidiaries also have entered the capital markets. The burden of new financing and other factors have had a depressing effect on telephyne company "stocks. AT&T stock, for instance, has been sell ing on a basis to yield nearly 5 5 per cent, a generous yield for a stock as stable as that. One difficulty with the tele phone business is that as the num ber of subscribers increases oper ating costs per unit are apt to increase, because with every 1000 phones added the number of pos sible connections multiplies great ly. The more names in the tele phone directory the (Continued on Editorial Page) Ike Requests Rumor Cease MIAMI. Fla. Jan. 3-PV-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today as serted that he was a soldier, and that mention of his name as a possible political candidate "is not good for the great organization I command." He said in an interview: "From the beginning of the war whenever there was mentioned the possibility of a future politi cal career for me I have instant ly refused to consider such a con tingency. "It is clear that any mention of my name with politics is not good for the great organization I command. I am soldier.- and it is my duty to command the army. The army is definitely non-partisan and national in character and anything that tends to cloud the soundness of that feature is Inmicable to the welfare of the United States." i ASKS PAID LIQUOR BOARD Reports were current Friday that a bill would be introduced at the 1947 legislature, starting January 13, providing for a paid three-man state liquor control commission. The three present commissioners received only per diem and mileage. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH C1IIIJI "Stop browmtg and eatT MUNDID 1 651 PAGES Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning, January 4. 1947 The mytery messages in the snow w ere the work of Mrs. Gale Vincent, he said. She intended them for an aviator friend who had promised to drop packages to her occasionally. Johnson said. She explained that the friend circled low the other day and shouted at her, asking if she was all right. She said she doubt ed that he could hear her reply. So sne stamped letters in the snow intending to read "Heard O. K. plain' Others Saw Sir But other fliers came over and saw the sign, and the army sent a plane from McChord field. 300 miles away, to see if a: marine transport with 32 aboard, miss ing since December 10, had crashed there. The navy also sent a plane and private fliers lent aid. Ground rescue plans were formulated. The fliers dropped messages, setting up a code, and Mrs. Vin cent said "I must have got ex cited." She used the code wrong ly, indicating that "a plane is down, someone is injured and help is needed." Wrote New Message Thin she realized what she had done and wrote another snow gram, "All OK." Another plane dropped a note asking if a plane really was down, and she wrote then "No." That confused everyone con cerned, and Mrs. Vincent thought to straighten it all out late today by setting out with a broom to erase everything from the snow. Fliers fouled Fliers saw that too, and sat puzzling about it until Johnson came in with his report tonight. He said it took him four hours U .make the round trip to the cabin eight miles into the tim berland southwest of here., Ogden Reid, Newspaper Publisher, Dies NEW YORK. Jan. 3 -OP)- Og den Reid, president-publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, died tonight at Harkness pavilion of Columbia Presbyterian medi cal center. Reid. 64. and a New York resident, had been ill for some time. Reid was one publisher who like several of the reporters on his newspaper. abandoned a promising law career to go on the rim of a copy desk. After being admitted to the New York bar in 1908, Reid chose instead to become a re porter on Horace Greeley's old New York Tribune which later was merged with James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald. After working as a reporter on the Tribune," Reid then moved to the, copy desk, advanced to as sistant city editor, then assistant night editor. In the spring of 1912 he became managing editor, then was named editor in 1913. Businessmen in West Salem Form New Association Walt Musgrave, mayor-elect of West Salem, was elected president of the West Salem Business Men's association at its organizational meeting Friday night at the Chuck Wagon restaurant. Other officers elected are: Roy Tweedie. vice president, and Loren Vosper, secretary-treasurer. The group will meet the first Wednesday of each month, the first business meeting to be February 5th. At that time all West Salem business men attend ing will be named on a charter roll. This association is the first of its kind in West Salem and will be for the promotion of bet ter community, civic and busi ness relations in West Salem. New Quakes Rattle Windows in Japan TOKYO. Jan. J-OVTwo five second earth shocks rattled win dows in Tokyo today, startling residents still nervous over south western Japan's earthquake and tidal "wave of Decemebr 21. American and Japanese experts said the shocks, which occurred at noon, were insufficient to cause damage and probably were felt in no more than a 60-mile radius from Tokyo. XN. If if Missing I i x VCT II - :jr - "1, I I I "V v -T f : I i - W"""' WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 Capt.1 Henry Howard Caldwell (above) of Loomis. Calif-, com under of the S.S. Pine Island, a vessel in the Byrd Antarctic expedition. Is reported misainc with seven others, on a PBM Mariner seaplane exploratory ment In the Antarctic, the navy reported. AP Wlrephoto to the Statesman.) 9 Naval Air Explorers Lost In Antarctic 1 X fl lfltffctC I ACT C1 3 V01 S. hits vk- ! Lai- i Santiam: Clear and 20 degrees. WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 - JP) - ' Packed snow and ice. Sanded and The disclosed tonight that salted. nine navJf air explorers are miss- " odell Lake: Clear and 5 de ing iTthe desolate region of the grees. Packed snow and ice be south polar ice belt, four days twecn m,ieposts 57 and 67. Sand overdue on a scouting flight from the nay's sea-borne Antarctic ex P01"0"- ; fic between Mill City and Gates First reports said only eight because of culvert installation, men were aboard the missing Siskiyou Sammit: Frosty, plane, a two-engined patrol bomb- h Oregon Coast highway: One er, but this was later found to ! w traffic at temporary bridge a; i oe erroneous. . .. ! 12 north of Florence. Also Garbled radio communication hort sections of one-way traffic blacked out reports on a wide- at miiepost 42. north of Man-! spread and developing search for ,t 5 milea and 9 miles the lost aircraft. A faint clicking , of yachat5, and at three oy10c;ntfacllre,b f Gard'-' d-; th. n.w'. ivin ttir,n hrei10 ldes:. . and the expedition's flagship far down at the bottom of the world. First messages teaching the j navy here said the missing plane, took off from the seaplane tender U. S. S. Pine Island at 5:45 a m. (EST) December 30 and was due to return at 3 45 p.m. the same day. The plane is a two-engined i PBM Manner seaplane. Capt. Henry Howard Caldwell, of Norfolk, Va., commander of the Pine Island, was reported among the men aboard the plane. He is ne. ne is a graduate of the U. S. naval Hm .t AnnanrJi nd was a star fullback at the academy and! assistant football coach. French Official Views Warfare PARIS. Jan. 3 JP) Colonial minister Marius Moutet returned to Saigon today from a fact-finding peace mission to Hanoi, where he got a first-hand view of eerie street warfare in that city and twice escaped what the French said was the fire of Viet-Namese snipers. At the end of his tour of Hanoi he was quoted as saying, "Our first concern will be to guarantee the security of our nationals and soldiers." Two French soldiers guarding the minister's party on its tour of the city were killed within 100 yards of the minister himself, the dispatches said. Installation Ceremonies of Fraternity Triad' Underway on Willamette University Campus "The eyes of the Greek letter world are on Salem, Willamette university and the Miami triad this weekend," Stanley R. Church of Astoria, a district chief of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, told members, pledges and alumni of the Beta Theta Pi. Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Theta fraternities at joint convention services Friday after noon in Waller halL The convocation opened in stallation ceremonies marking the entry of three Willamette uni versity fraternities into the ranks of the national "triad fraterni ties. The installation banquet for members of the three fraternities and visiting dignitaries will con clude ceremonies this evening at Neighbors of Woodcraft hall in Portland. Individual chapter dinners and Prlc 5c No. 241 Cold Snap Continues In Salem Salem shivered with the rest of the nation as the temperature Bli lo 20 degrees last night and the weather bureau predicted 18 Exposed water pipes and frozen car radiators provided problems as local residents hugged heaters and registers to keep warm in Oregon's coldest weather of the year. Snow and ice were reported over the nation with the cold wave extending to the gulf states and temperatures tumbled to new lows such as Baker's eight below in eastern Oregon. Other tempe r a t u r e s ranged from near freezing at Bakersfield, Calif., to 23 below at Bryce, Utah. Coldest reported in the nation was Bemidji, Minn., with -40. Cold weather brought an out break of minor residence fires due to overheating stoves in Portland but Salem has had no serious fire due to that cause, Schools were closed at Clovis, portales and Tucumcari, N. M., as a Bas r-onservation measure. and thc portiand Gas and Coke company delivered a record high of 50,595.000 cubic feet of gas in 24 hours. Roads and highways in eastern Oregon were glazed with frozen snow and ice, making travel dan gerous Friday, according to a report by R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer. Other road conditions are: r.Mt-rnmnt Cm m n ripar anrl 20 degrees. Roadside inches. Packed snow snow 8 !,- I anu lie through entire section. Sanded. North Santiam: One-way traf- Silets highway: Several spots of one-way traffic due to slides. - 111311 IflCCtS TV7.l "l ' ltll tlllIieSe "TV UeiTIOllStratOrS NANKINT, Jan - " . -A. ".' " : -ninese siuaent upor mer a controversial rape case in Peipmg brought a meeting of U. S Am- bassador J. Leighton Stuart with leaders of the demonstrations to day while outside the embassy 1000 others shouted demands that American forces withdraw from I China immediately. The crowd plastered the em bassy walls and doors with anti American posters while Stuart was counseling the leaders to wait for a full report on the Peiping incident involving a Chinese girl and two U. S. marines. After , conducting demonstra tions in Peiping, Shanghai and Nanking for the past several days, the students eased off to the ex tent of cancelling plans to march on the Chinese foreign office and on the home of General Marshall, special presidential envoy to China. In Shanghai, however, 36 uni versity professors issued a state ment charging that American policy endangered world peace and that Americans regarded China as "a semi-colonial nation." initiation programs were planned by the fraternities for last eve ning and this rooming. The new fraternity chapter of Sigma Chi formerly was Sigma Tau on the local campus; Beta Theta Pi was Kappa Gamma Rho and Phi Delta Theta was Abpha Psi Delta. In his convocation address yes terday. Church compared the pioneer work of triad fraternities in "colonizing on western college campuses" with the pioneer edu cational work of Willamette uni versity vthich in 1842 became the first university west of Missouri. Barrett Herrick of New York, who, is a member of the general council of Phi Delta Theta. ex pressed the inspiration he felt in the joint installation of the three fraternities on the Willamete universiy campus, as harmonious Bills to Cut Income Tax, Curb Unions -Introduced in Mouse Congressmen Pray j" "'c Change in Wagner Act Asked WASHINGTON. Jan. -JPf-The drive to change the labor laws began officially today. As the 80th congress came into being: 1. Rep. Howard Smith (D.-Va.) proposed a new labor policy for the nation. 2. Rep. Hartley (R.-N. J ), bit terly opposed by the CIO in the November elections, decided to accept chairmanship of the house labor committee. 3. Five house Republicans In- vjv.. ... j vent strikes which affect the pub- , : i 1 iic neaun or suieijf iiiuuuing I --il clrilroc Thv rail this the A-C-3H proposal because their names are: Reps. Authincloss (N. J ). Clifford Case (N. J ), Hale (Me.), Herter (Mass.), and Hesel ton (Mass.). Other Labor Bills Still other labor bills were In troduced in the house. Senators will start introducing their labor proposals later. Rep. Smith introduced a whop ping big bill that would rewrite i the Wagner act of 1935, which i unions call "Labor s Magna Car- ta .. He wouId amend the bill to sUte at the nation's pohcy is ! to bring about equality of labor and industry icoUective 'bargaining, subject to the foUow- ing "duty "Not to seriously interfere with the normal flow of interstate commerce, or witn the continuous: operation of those industries and i lacinucfs upJll wnitii uir cvuiiuiii- ic life and general welfare of the nation is dependent." The bill would make it an "un fair labor practice" to interrupt a public utility or "any plant, mine or facility, the continuous operation of which is essential to public health or safety." Court Action Possible Any union or company violat ing this clause could be taken to court. A judge could issue an in junction, and if it were disobeyed, could punish the offender for contempt of court, as John L. Lewis and his United Mine Work ers were ordered punished in De cember. Smith, through other amend ments to the Wagner act, would withdraw collective bargaining rights from supervisory employes, require unions to register and make financial reports, open the way to damage suits for breach of contract, make it illegal to force any employer tohire more workers than needed, and outlaw the closed shop requirement that only union members may be em ployed. SEN. CORNETT ON WAY KLAMATH FALLS, Jan. 3 -OP) State Sen. Marshall Cornett, slat ed to become president of the state senate, left for Salem today to make plans for the 1947 legisla tive session. and cooperative chapter, and he anticipated there would be much friendly rivalry between the three groups of men. Emphasizing the traditions which have grown up in the Mia mi triad fraternities. Dr. W. Henry McLean, Sigma. Chi's grand praeter of Illinois, said, "We are here to establish something tha) will be permanent, something that will withstand the changesH of generations, a youth move ment springing from the desires and convictions of young men. Dr. McLean added that he felt the time of "collegiate horseplay in fraternities was at an end, that they are growing up into organi zations with a purpose to make each member a living interpreta tion fo the fine ideals which are 100 years old in the Miami triad fraternities. TT a4 i Rilhn W.nila T 54. V WASHINGTON, Jan. S (Top) -Led by the Rev. James Shera Mont gomery, house chaplain, mem bers of the House bow their heads In prayer as the first session of the 80th Congress opened at Washington today. (Below) -Senator Theodore Bil bo ( D-Miss) (faclnr camera), leaves a senate gallery after hearing a resolution Introduced to keep him from taking bis oath of office. (AP Wlrephoto to the Statesman.) Department o O 1 1 a. JtOrC tOlCl tO Portland Firm Sale of the Worth departmnet store, familiar Salem business es tablishment on North Liberty street for the past quarter cen tury, to Roberts Brothers of Portland was announced yester day by Harry Worth, present proprietor of the store. The Portland firm will assume ownership January 16 in the Worth location at 177 N. Liberty st where Worth had bought out the old W. W. Moore furniture store and established his depart ment store business in 1921. Lease to the building, now owned by Mrs. W. W. Moore, has been transferred from Worth to Rob erts Brothers. Worth said he would remain at the store until the new owners have their business under -way and that after that he would take a rest, with nothing definite planned for the future. Changes in management and other aspects of the business have not been disclosed by Rob erts Brothers. The firm now op erates a Portland store at 222 S. W. Morrison st. Bullet Wounds Lyons Man ALBANY, Jan. 3-;p)-Wayne Ranson, 30, Lyons, was critically wounded by a rifle bullet laft to day as he played a lone round on the Albany golf course. Proprietor Al Fortier, who was at the club house 400 yards away said he heard no shot, but rushed out when Ranson shouted for he4p from the fourth green. Hospital attendants said the bullet penetrated his left arm and lodged in the left lung. Police said they found one man who admitted firing a shot in the vicinity of the golf course, but were not convinced he was the man they sought. No charge was filed. Weather - ) KM Max. Mln. Prvcip 42 21 jM . 40 33 .00 S4 U .00 .. 41 It .11 . 43 32 .09 Portland ........ San Francesco Chicago New York Willamette river A feet FORECAST (from VjS. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Clear to day and tonight, slowly rising temper atures; highest temperature today 43. lowest tonight 23. "TT1TV 1 Many Still Oppose Reduction By Francis M. LeMay WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 Republicans 6ffered as house bill No. 1 of the new congress today a measure to cut individual in come taxes a total of $3,350,000, 000. For most taxpayers it would mean a 20 per cent cut. Controversy broke out immed iately. Some republicans as well as democrats criticized the meas ure. The opposition cried for government economy, budget bal ancing and debt reduction, ahead of tax slashing. The bill was offered by Chafr man Knutson (R-Minn) of the tax drafting house ways and means committee. It proposes a slash by 20 per cen In the tax load of all individual income less than $300,000 annually, effective Jan. 1, 1847. Additionally, the bill sets out: 1. The Income 'of no person, however high it might be, shall be taxed over 76.5 per cent. The present law permits taking away as much as 85.5 per cent of an income by taxes. ' Less Withholding Tax 2. On April 1 att tax withhold ings from pay envelopes and sal ary checks shall be reduced to meet the tax reduction. Each in dividual can figure roughly his own cut in withholdings by de ducting 20 per cent from what is now being withheld. If the bill becomes law he will get a refund on overpayments of with holdings from Jan. 1 to April 1. 3. An added advantage to tax payers over 65 years old is granted, with each person in that age group being allowed an ad ditional exemption of $500, mak ing a total $1000 of income ex empt from taxes. Rep. Engle (R-Mich), follow ing right behind Knutson, intro duced a bill proposing to raise the income tax exemption of sin gle persons from $50tf to $1000 and of married couples from $1000 to $2000. "If we're going to have any tax reduction," Engle told re porters, "let's give it to the peo ple who need it to eat." Opposition Still Strong There was no immediate sign that Knutson' ' late revision of the measure had lessened the opposition by democrats and some other republicans. Senator Byrd (D-Va) told newsmen: "Before we reduce taxes we must reduce expenditures." Rep. Keefe (R-Wis) likewise said "my position is the same. It would be mighty easy to cut taxes now, and then forget about paying the debt." Building Burns In Boys Town BOYS TOWN, Neb.. Jan. 3-UP) -Damage from a fire which de stroyed the top floor of a five story building at Msgr. E. J. Flan agan's home for boys here today, was estimated unofficially at more than $100,000, Patrick J. Norton.j Boys Town general manager said tonight. Norton said the building would be re-roofed, eliminating the fifth floor, which contained four class rooms and a manual training shop. Other floors were damaged by smoke and water. Eight Omaha fire companies fought the blaze for three hours in near zero cold. Origin of the fire was not Immediately deter mined. MORSE CASTS VOTES WASHINGTON, Jan. Senator Morse (R-Ore) was among the senators voting today to table motions by Senator Over ton (D-La) to allow Senator Bil bo (D-Miss) to take his seat without prejudice and by Sena tor Taylor to bar the Mississip pian. The motions lotL Senator Fails to Gaiji Seat WASHINGTON. Jan. 3-) A southern filibuster in sup port of Senator Bilbo (I). Miss.) threw the new senate into chaoH today before It could even open officially for business but the houe organ ized smoothly. Only the whoops and yells of Jubilant republicans electing Jo seph W. Martin, jr., of Massachu setts speaker after their 15 years in eclipse disturbed the calm of the house. It received bills for the 20 per cent tax cut and for labor controls, adopted the congression al reorganization plan without a fight, and recessed until Monday. But the senate was something e.e. Only Senata Baldwin (R-Conn) had been sworn in when a recess was voted, 31 to 18, "after six angry hours. It will meet again tomorrow to try to com plete the swearing in of the other new and reelected senators and give the dominant republicans their chance to set up shop. Compromise Offered Senator Barkley of Kentucky, democratic leader, told reporters after the senate quit for the day that he is offering the republicans a compromise under which Bilbo would be seated for the time be ing and his case called up for senate action January 17. Tla Rortr lav r rrnj ai I utAi include a provision setting out that the senate should decide Bilbo's fate by a nvjority vote. But Senator Taft. (R-Ohio), an anti-Bilbo leader, told reporters he doubts that the senate could bind itself in that matter.. He ex pressed belief a two-thirds vote would be needed to oust Bilbo once he was seated, even tempo rarily. In an interview, tonight he threatened to hold the senate in continuous session unless the southern bloc abandoned their stand. Conference Planned The Ohio senator said the re publicans would discuss the Bark ley proposal and other angles of the Bilbo case at a conference to morrow morning. A democrat, Senator Taylor of Idaho, moved to deny Bilbo the oath on the contention that his credentials "are tainted with fraud and corruption." Southern colleagues of Bilbo sprang to his defense. They called the move a "lynching." Senator Overton (D-La) moved that Bilbo be seated. Debate was hot and heavy be fore overflow naileries. In mid afternoon Serlatjor Tart (R-Ohio) moved that both motions be "ta bled." or set abide. This carried 38 to 20. Bilbo Appeared The battle began after Senator Baldwin (R-Conn), first of the newly elected senators in alpha betical order, had been sworn in, and Bilbo then presented him self. It resumed wheia move was made to swear in Senator Brew ster (R-Me), after the Taft mo tion had been adopted. Bilbo's fellow southerners, de bating this motion as they had the others, disavowed any filibuster. But as long as they talked, all matters remained at a standstill. The formal accession to power of the senate republicans and the election of Senator Vandenberg (R-Mrch) as president pro tem pore, or presiding officer, was de layed. Cordon Absent Senators Magnuson (D-Wash) and Cordon (R-Ore) did not ar rive in time for the opening. Plans were announced for Pres ident Truman to deliver his mes sage on the state of the union to a joint session in person at 10 a.m. PST Monday, provided the senate could get itself organized in time. The president virtualy com pleted the message during the day, and watched the house opening by television at the White Home. The 80th congress was the first in history to have its opening televised. The house session lasted just two hours and 22 minutes and went like a clock, ftep. Martin Elected Martin was elected speaker by a strict party-line vote of 244 to 182 over the retiring democratic speaker, now plain Rep. Rayburn of Texas. The lone minor party member, Rep. Marcantonio (Al NY), voted with the democrats, with whom he sits. Martin delivered an address expressing hope for "a degree of cooperation . . . unsurpassed in the history of our nation" between the republican's and democrats in the house, and between the house and senate. But he said nothing specifically about cooperation be tween the republican - controlled congress and the democrat in the White House. The house accepted by a voice vote the 1946 reorganization plan. This reduces the number of regu lar committees from 46 to 19 and merges its former military and . naval committees into one of "armed forces." Threatened mov es by Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) and others to block it never materi alized. 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