House Passes To Apportion Support By Wendell Webb Managing Editor. Th Statesman The house overrode Multnomah county and eastern Oregon ob jection Monday to pass 55 to 4 the amended bill (HB 9) providing for the distribution of the annual $16,000,000 school support fund approved at last November's vote. The vote came after repeated attempts (defeated 44 to 16) to let the bill re-referred either to OOP 333jjQ3 In the course of a senate de bate last week in whrch news paper comment had been referred tc Marion county's Sen. Allan Carson paid his respects to the press in the quoted lemaik: "If we had less of this s-upe -rupreme court of the press we' get along a lot better, no matte, how innocent then intent may be To newspapermen that has familiar ring. There was Gov ernor Berkeley, for example, the tory governor of Virginia coi- onv, who wrote nome to zjigianu. "I thank God there are no tree schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God keep us from both." It is almost inevitable for the office-holder to look on the work of his hands and declare it good, and to feel irritated if newspapers bVcome critical. But I offer no complaint over the senator's remaik. Newspa- pers nave a tenaency to ponun- rat. fr. and easv lik. on mat- ters ' about which they may have j little or no information. Being human their editors are subjett to prejudice and myopia; and their papers often become com- mon scolds. i Their historic role however is providing that two of the five that of critic and guide. To the j sha" be from east of the Cas- I ,ff. A a-aO degree that they desert this duty j cades. It also approved and se nt , IjUXIC I&IIlCl ICct they become f..lse to the tradition to the senate a bill to continue o honest journalism On the ac- under the public employes re turns of men in public office the I tirement act those teachers who By H. D. QmlfK newspaper becomes a court, nei- ! became county school superinten- Representing the combined American ther super nor supreme, which i nevertheless casts judgment. ' whose only validity is the logic to fcU-t.im it If the press lacks the knowledge of intimate contact with partuu- lar problems it has the other ir- Th senate passed two house tue of detachment. It can iev bills, one of which sets up a five matters ith a somewhat broader man commission, through a tax !.r, anH rbt th naitiriilar n "n wheat, to find new markets and the general. Yes. the press is often trouble some and annoying as it tries t be political, economic and moral monitor for the world; but there . , . ..i struction. The measure also pro tating press, and that is a silent . i On press. press. "Gcxl keep us" from that Soviet Admits Conscription of Korean Troop WASHINGTON. Feb. 24 -;PY-Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge said to- day the Russian radio has ac- I knowledged SovKt conscription of ; Koreans into the army in their ! nrn.mtinn rnn and that nesotia- I tlons to unify Korea now "appear i hopeless." "I feel that I have done all that I can on a kcal level." the com mander of the U. S. occupation j forces told a news conference af- I ter a report to President Truman. ! Hodge indicated his negotiations ! With the Russians in Korea for I unification of the two zones lock- ! i vr.o i ment are being abandoned that anything further will have to be done on a higher level. He declined comment as to whether he would ask Marshall to bring up the matter at Mos cow, but said the Koreans would Tike to have the secretary do so. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Junior, come back into this mud this instant!" tf Plan School Fund, 55-4 the committee on education or th committee on state and federa affairs, and tfter proponents led by Rep Lyle Thomas of Dallas had declared in effect the bill constituted the best compromise plan that could be devised. The opposition was led by Rep Giles ! 'French of Moro. whose counties (Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman.' I Wheeler) stood to benefit more (through a congressional district.! , Rep. French also initiated a bill 1 of his own last week, and de- ! maned futilely that amended house bill 9 be re-studied in the light of his proposal. The bill as passed Monday pro vides roughly that 20 per cent of j the school support fund go for . equalization. 70 per cent for grants j and aids, and 5 per cent for trans portation and administration. The j original bill would have give 50 per cent to equalization. The bill as pased also provided i for distribution on the basis of I 20 cents per pupil daily attend- ' anc and $500 annually per teach er The original bill would give ; 10 rents per pupil and $450 per teacher. i The measure as approved. Rep. 1 Thomas explained, places the state , Jeve, of education at ,5 per pupil "below Washington and ! far below California" and would "take money from districts most : aDle to pay and place it in dis- tricts least able to pay." To share n the apportionment, counties must have a 7-mill revenue (com- bined county school fund and dis- j trict school tax) based on "time cash valuation;" a school year of at least 160 days, with six or more in average daily attendance, and a transportation setup where needed. t Voting against passage were Reps J. E. Bennett of Portland, i French, Henry Peterson of lone ; and C L. Lieuallen of Pendleton, i Absent was Rep. Burt K. Snyder of Lakeview. It did manage to pass, 39 to 19, its own measure increasing j the state highway commission j from three to five members and : dents, assistant superintendents or supervisors. The house defeated a bill increasing fees for guide li- -censes anu ocuriiig guiues irom hunting or fishing while acting as uses for grain, and three of its own bills including one which would allow school districts to double their maximum indebted ness (to 10 per cent of their eval uation) to facilitate school con- ides for stabilizing school dis trict evaluation at 60 per cent of cash value. Present assessed valuation vary from 37 per cent of cash valua tion in Polk county to 70 per cent in Jefferson county. Sen. Eugene Marsh of McMinnville told the senate Marion county's assessed valuation is listed at 44 per cent of cash value by the state tax commission. The senate was asked to grant the board of control authority to negotiate for the Camp White hos- pital for use as a public health or ufa"""i" insuiuuon in one oi 'hrr" b''' introduced in the upper nHJ Thf others would P"1 PUD1,C "orary employes counties over 100,000 population under the public employes retire ment act and let county courts instead of the legislature set sal aries for county officials starting Jan. 1, 194ff Prepared for introduction in the nat todav by Sen. Thomas Ma- honey of Portland, and sure to P.oe comroversy. is . measure wnicn wouia aoousn me siaie nsn commission and turn its duties sion. Meanwhile, the state's budget ary prospect were not improved any Monday when the house as sement and taxation committee indicated it felt forced to reject r-, v ,ri cir. r,i, (,,.,.f, rL "1- . " " . i i J.OOU.UOO of surplus corporate ex- cise toxes 10 tne general xuna 10 bring potential expenditures in 1 balance with estimated receipts ' for the next biennium. The plan I might be unconstitutional, the j committee w as told. Up for final action in the house today are 16 house bills, including those creating a state agency for ; the acquisition of surplus prop .erty; allowing non-property own -' ers to vote in school elections, and I increasing from $25 to $250 the t fine for hunting with artificial lights. Eight house and eight senate ; bills calling for increases in the salaries of county officials start ing T..I. 1 - l tion in the senate today, along ! with two other senate bills which would standardize business hours of county offices, (making Marion county offices open at 8:30 a.m instead of 8 a.m. on week days) and eliminate a 4 cents-per -yard royalty now paid to the state edu cational fund by the state high way commission on gravel I taken from navigable streams. Both the senate and house will resume at 10:30 am. today. (Other legis. news page 3) mm NINETY -SIXTH YEAR 12 Commodity Prices Zoom to New Highs It's Cold' Richard E. Test, pharmacist's mate 2c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Test f 191$ Saginaw sU, Salem, is with the navy's Ant arctic expedition, and tops a recent letter home with the simple' statement that "It's cold." He also tells of icebergs protruding 296 feet above the water, of seeing his first pen guin, and of tragedies such as that of the man who fell from the wing of a PBM In the Tr V a m l i Island, a tender. He Is pictured ''rT'V UCPtLr 11 one of the first pictures to be Test is on the LSS Pine received from expedition. the south pole All Welcomed But Vandalsin ABOARD THE ICE BUNKER j JRTON ISLAND, Feb. 24-iP- BURTON Little America chill and desert- ed but with the stars and stripes i Repairs for county road dam still rippling over it ,.i the rose- 1 ages caused by alternate freezing tinted early morning, has drop- and thawing periods during the ped over the horizon and we are past winter will" cost approxi butting our way through skim ice mately $100,000, Marion County northward and homeward. Commissioner Roy Rice said Mon- This powerful icebreaker day. shoved off last night with 197 Both gravel and asphalt roads men w ho for five weeks and four j will require repairs, he said, ex days have helped make explora- ' plaining that poor drainage, al tion history in the tent city of lowed because of difficulties in Little America. obtaining labor to properly ditch Twenty-five minutes before roads, resulted in water settling in midnight we moved through the ! the roads. Water seeping through narrow entrance of the Bay of i cracks in road pavements often Whales and out into the fog cov- j loosened chunks of paving and ering the Ross sea. Behind us, the 1 pointed rows of tents of Little America loomed in silhouette atop the great ice barrier and then slipped out of sight. It was decided to evacuate the base five days early to avoid thickening ice. Rear Adm. Rich ard E. Byrd placed the following ; note on a nail for any visitor who might happen along: "This has been a peaceful place. It deserves ! better than to be vandalized. Oth- ! erwise welcome.' Pay Bill Passes Committee, Goes to Floor WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -V The senate judiciary committee ioajr approeu, ;. cm u Kin uie punai pay suits ana seni it to the floor for possible passage this week. It would outlaw all existing and future suits, except claims cov ...j w.. i i j, ' ered by custom in an Industry or , by contract. The committee is i proceeding on the assumption tnat nearly all Dendins suits to- all pending suits to- - nonnonnnn i tallino- narlv t nflfl fWlfl nflO r ',J , ..... ' outside of the excepted category. 1 Funds Asked for More Power Development in Northwest W ASHING TON, Feb. 24.--Support for funds for northwest power development was asked of the house appropriations commit tee today by Reps. Norman (R- na tusworui st i v a ma n v noiowi, in m iiaiciiKiii iucu after his appearance before a closed-door session of the coin- tte-. i1 d?)tion. in full" of the budget of the Bonneville power administration. He said the requested appro priations for Bonneville will be seli-liquidating - - a view echoed by Ellsworth in a statement say ing the funds "will be paid back to the government with interest and ultimately with a profit Ellsworth said that because i the existing transmission line ore which, he said, made possible j iam H. Turner, commanding gen f rom Bonneville to Eugene. Ore., j production of the metal at a price j eral of the ATC's Atlantic division is now used to capacity, it will be making it commercially practical j has recommended the distingu necessary to build an additional "for the first time in history." ' ished flying cross. PAGES Saltan. Oregon, Market Upsurge Spreads CHICAGO, Feb. 24 -(IP)- All time high prices for pork -on-t he hoof today highlighted an upward surge in prices which spread throughout the nation's commodi ty market and also brought broad advance to other meat animals and grains, cotton, eggs and silver. At Chicago, hog-butchering capital of the world, a top of $29.00 a hundred pounds was paid. All wheat contracts sold above $2.00 a bushel. Winter wheat now in the ground was bringing the highest price on record at Chica go for mid-winter. Wheat futures closed 4 to 8"4 cents a bushel higher, March $2.364. and corn 4 to 5i cents a bushel higher, March $1.42s4-,4- October egg futures at Chicago advanced to a new season high at 43.35 cents a dozen. Flax at Minneapolis sold at $8.00 a bush el, a record high and up 25 cents 'rom Friday. Rye was quoted at $3 26 27 1 bushel at Omaha, . The Associated Press average of 35 weighted cash wholesale commodities hit a record peak for the fourth consecutive day at 173 74. Russ Jeter, pork market spe cialist for the agriculture depart ment, said the jump In pork pri ces may result In pork chops at $1.00 a pound retail. County Road Repair Bill Set lOl fil Oft ftftft A ei?lUU.UUV7 increased damage occurred when cars knocked parts of the pave ment loose Limitation of log hauling for several weeks on both gravel and oiled roads partially preserved roads but regular traffic caused considerable damage to the soft gravel roads. Rice said fl o n ft MpTl """t aasta As Bank Robbers PORTLAND, Feb. 24.--Two members of a gang of five men and two women arrested here with $5,600 in their possession are wanted under federal indictment in North Carolina for a $23,000 bank robbery, the FBI announced today. FBI Agent Howard Bobbin said William N. Sired and D. L. Birch field were named in the indict ment in the Newland, N. C. hold up of January 30. LEGISLATIVE PL'BLIC HEARINGS la.araaca association U1 (HB 302) journmeni. room 3Zi, luirnow. oe- or, houie- commlttee' on fm.ncial tn- ittitutiona. Water control district a an4 art- !" SB . ueaaay. , r foruirr . i j p i Turmdav. February : 300. itatehouse. ury committee. 300. .tatehouse. before senate Judlc- 25,000 kilowatt line from Salem to Eugene. "The coastal area of Oregon," he said, "is suffering now be cause of inadequate power, so I earnestly urge that the recom mendation of the budget bureau for the construction of a trans mission line from Eugene to the coast, through M a p 1 e t o n and Reedsport, be approved. Ellsworth said he also "hoped" that figures in the budget esti mate for operation of the bureau of mines laboratory at Albany. Ore., would be approved and in cluded in the bill. Durinft the war the laboratory develooect a process for extract in zirconium from black sand : INOIO l&SJ Tuesday Morning, February HTex' Rankin, Pioneer of the Air, Dies in Crash 7 J - - h. i I T'--r A L" ana imn j i tT' aV, KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. Rescuers work to remove the bodies of J. G. (Tex) Rankin, veteran west coost pilot, and two other men. killed when this plane, piloted by Rankin had engine failure at the takeoff and struck a power line at the airport here Sunday. A fourth man waa critically In jured. (AF Wirephete to The Statesman) Two Killed in 5-Car Wreck Near Lebanon LEBANON. Feb 24 John Hen ry Elliott, 20, of Lebanon and Delores Irene Ross, 18, of Jeffer son, died here Sunday night as the result of injuries received in a five-car collision north of Leb anon just beyond the Gore school at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Elliott was the son of the El bert Elliotts of Lebanon and had served 26 months with the 96th division and saw service on Oka nawa. He was driving the car in which Delores Ross, Helen Lake. 16, Jefferson, and Warren Lanning. 20, Lebanon were riding. The Elliott car was demolished. Miss Lake is expected to re cover but Lanning suffered a basil skull fracture and was still in a critical condition last night. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lanning of Lebanon. Elmer Nichols, 37, of the Water loo community near Lebanon, was hospitalized with chest in juries. Also involved in the acci 1 in the acci- Deb Fennell dent was Delmar who escaped injury. Four of the five cars were damaged sufficient ly to be taken to repair shops, oficers said. Police said Elliott, the driver, sideswiped one car and plunged into the path" of another on a curve. Senate Delays Vote on Budget Cut Measure WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-(P)-An armistice" proposal in the senate's budget fight was shouted down late today and a debate limitation adopted in efforts to Teach a vote Wednesday on a $4,500,000,000 slash in President Truman's esti mates for the year starting July I. The house has voted a $6J)00, 000,000 reduction In the Truman estimates. The senate debate brought a suggestion from Senator Langer (R-ND) that President Truman meet with Premier Stalin "and get this matter of fear which each country has for the other out of the road." Saved Army Fliers Return In Rescue Plane NEW YORK, Feb. 24-P)-Elev-en army fliers, including M.Sgt. Lawrence L. Yarbrough, Spring field, Ore., maroqned for three days after their B-29 crashed above the Arctic Circle, were fly ing back to the United States to night in a heavy C-54 transport plane which made a spectacular landing on a Greenland ice cap to rescue them from the freezing wasteland. At the controls was Lieut. Bob bie Joe Cavnar, of Oklahoma City, Okla., for whom Mai. Gen. Will- atematt 25. 1947 Gardens, Lawns Get Going-Over; 'Fair' Forecast Gardeners and other out-door enthusiasts who have been having a pre-spring heyday apparently had more of their favorite kind of weather coming up today. .The forecast fair after morn ing fog, for most of Oregon. Mon day's sunshine and 60-d e g r e e temperature after an almost equally balmy Sunday (one de gree cooler) left a lot of mid Willamette valley lawns with their first grass-clip of the year. Flowering trees and shrubs were showing definite signs of color and many a plant already was in full bloom. In Brookings on the coast, the mercury went to 0 Monday. Rain? Not immediately predict- ed but precipitation is consider ably below normal and nothing would be surprising. 60.000 Pupils Get Vacation as rwi 1 o 1 CaCHCl'S Stl'lKe BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 24-UP) Striking teachers demanding an immediate $1,025 annual pay raiye today closed all but 19 of Buffalo's schools and gave 60,000 students an unscheduled vacation. Picketing was light. Most stu dents appeared sympathetic with the teachers and greeted an at tempt to open Lafayette high school with chants of "we want to go home." Sessions there were recessed for 24 hours. Superintendent Robert T. Bapst ordered approximately 500 non strikers of the 2,960 teachers to continue classes tomorrow at 20 schools. City Corporation Counsel Fred C. Maloney, ruled that: "By striking and deliberately absenting themselves from work the teachers have breached their contracts. The striking teachers may be summarily removed with out the necessity of a hearing." The Buffalo situation focussed attention on a state-wide teach ers campaign for a sallary mini mum of $2400 to $3600 annually. Former U. S. Army Worker Seized as Nazi Plot Leader FRANKFURT, Feb. 24-(Jpy-A j icrrner capiain jvno woricea ing German bands to play for ; American entertainment was one of the leaders seized in the i smashing of a widespread nazi I underground movement, it was revealed today. U. S. army officers made the disclosure as the British and Am ericans, continuing an operation launched in a Saturday night snowstorm, made more arrests in the wrecking of an underground plot to restore - German armed might. Authorities said the move ment claimed possession of a se cret bacteriological weapon. In the British zone, where the bulk of arrests was made, an in telligence officer said the subver sive movement could be regarded as "smashed." He described the raids as "extraordinarily success ful," but declined to give the ex- Weather Max. Mln. Precip. 12 Utrt 36 .00 4 .00 13 .01 Sala M Portland 61 San Francisco .., 74 Chicago .... 31 New York 2 Willamette rivr 1.4 feet IT .00 FORECAST if torn U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Falem): Fair today and tonifM with fog In morn ing lifting shortly before noon. Tem perature today. Mgh 0. low 38 No. 285 Pric Sc Three Killed In Crack-up at Klamath Falls KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 24 (ip)-The body gf John G. "Tex" Rankin, 53, who survived more than 20 years of stunt flying only to be killed in a routine flight here, will be sent to Tulare, Calif., tomorrow for funeral services. Rankin died along with two others in the crash of a single engine amphibious plane here yes terday. They were Cy Wallan and Jack Elie, flying service operators here, for whom Rankin was dem onstrating the plane. A fourth man, Milton Thompson, Klamath j Falls, was critically injured Rankin was at the comrois when the plane took off. Fifty feet up, the engine faltered. Ran kin apparently tried to maneuver to a landing in open fields, but jjiiiiit- anaggeu a power line and spun to the ground. A ndtive of Texas, Rankin learned to fly just after his army WIV " .r.;iT' : stunters. In 1931 he established a record that still stands for suc- cessive outside loops. In 1937 he won the international acrobatic championship at St Louis On advice of physician he ended In the war he operated civilian flying training schools in Califor - two children survive. Escaped Con Still at Large State police reported last night that William E. Conley, 55-year-old trusty employed in the barns of the penitentiary annex, who has been missing since the 8:30 p.m. check-up Sunday, had not yet been apprehended. Conley was serving four years for obtaining money by false pre tenses in Coos county and was re ceived at the prison in February, 1945. He was reported by officials to be suffering from heart attacks and hernia. act number of arrests. Previously the British said "hundreds" werei 6C1ZCU- An official British spokesman in Berlin said tonight the raids had resulted in "one or more ar- rests in almost every town in the British zone." He said the opera tion, now 80 percent complete, would end within the next 48 hours. The German ex-captain seized, an employe in the entertainment branch of the headquarters com mand in Frankfurt, was Werner Roepke. His main job was to hire German bands to play in of ficers' and enlisted men's clubs. Roepke had a faultless Ameri can accent and got his job with the army because of his excellent command of the English langu age. He said he had been a radio announcer in Florida in 1935-36, and attended school in Vermont, Purdue U. Tragedy Ends Tilt LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Feb. A new bleacher section, collapsed tonight in Purdue university fieldhouse, killing at least two students and Injuring more than 200. The receiving office t ot ft1" jur Elizabeth's hospital here reported had been told five of the in- ed were dead but only avail- able names of fatalities were Roger Geihauser, Garrett, Ind., and William J. FelJman, East Chicago. Ind., both students. St. Elizabeth's said it had 63 injured in beds and had treated between 125 and 150 persona. Others were taken to Home hos pital, which had not completed its count, but said it had treated more than 100. Collapsed aa Half Ended The wooden bleacher, 62 rcwa of seats on the north end of th fieldhouse, came down with a roar just as the first half ended in a Big Nine basketball game between Purdue and Wisconsin. Purdue led by one point, 34 to 33, and some 4000 students in the stand surged to their feet in an ovation to the home tim. The bleacher crashed to the dirt floor on which the Purdue reuys aie run each rpring. None of the in jured was believed from the Pa cific northwest. Gordon Graham, sporU editor of the Lafayette Journal-Courier, said "hundreds of screaming stu dents and co-eds were spilled out of their teats. The giant bleacherj is lying like a straw stack witn every row smashed." j Game Called Off The injured were laid on the. iriojf i ct tors. basketball floor, with members both teams and student war vi erans helping to rescue spectatc entangled in the splintered planks. Doctors, nurses and spectators with first aid training gave emer gency treatment while officials urged over the loud speaker that the rest of the crowd leave the gymnasium. The rest of the fame was called off and Kenneth L. (Tug) Wilson, western conference com missioner, said in Chicago that he would confer tomorrow with Purdue and Wisconsin officials about rescheduling the tilt. The half game was unique in Big Nine history Court Hands 8-Year Term To Von Papen NUERNBERG, German. Feb. 24 (JP)-A German denazification court today sentenced Franz von bor for hs fectivjtje, as the ,,y ace of Adolf Hitler's diplomatic corps. Von Pi. pen flushed and trem- e( as he heard the sentence. The tcim was considered equiv alent to life imprisonment, since the 68-year-old Von Papen is suf fering from hardening of the ar- t-ries, and is not expected to live In addition to the prison term, tho r inlMs4'e - T 4 Ir r ,u" "lf7 ! SeBrinVand French rit". I BrltIsh d French occuoat.on 500 ! Von PaDen w. nn. fhrM bunal which sentenced Hermann Goering and 10 others to death. The others were Hans Fritzsche, radio propagandist sentenced to nine years by a denazification court, and Hjalmar Schacht, fi nancier, still awaiting trial on de nazification charges. British Ease Coal Rations LONDON, Feb. 24. - (IP) - Brit ain's industrial midlands resumed limited operation today in the first break of the two-week coal crisis, and Prime Minister Attlee announced in the house of com mons that more idle factories would be given the go-ahead next Monday. Near-record low temperatures served . notice, however, that the coal shortage was far from solved and forecasters said the cold wave would continue several more days. Moreton-in-the-Marsh, in southern England, reported night temperature of two below zero, lowest in the British Isles in 29 years. QUICKIES "I've finished the bird soon we'll be selling canaries with a Statesjnam Waat AaU". ti