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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1948)
d o on o o OOOO O D O O OO O ODD OOO OOOO O O "O D'DO "3 O O O l J W W L I W 1 ' W W W W V- 1 ' ' 1 I L J UJ W i ' WWW a WWW W a- f i-f w W a I w 1 9 I U-J.W Os FFes Asserts SP Owns 30 to 40 Miles of Oregon ComtMn Lincoln County Strip In Question;Railro'ad To Investigate Claim PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 3 -iJPy- A former Oregon governor. Os wald West, startled the state today by declaring that the Southern Pacific railroad is the true owner of a scenic section of Oregon beaches long claimed by the state as public highways. He startled the Southern Pacific, too. SP officials said this was the first they'd heard of owning the beach and they'd have their at OtP SDGUJUB The navy's "memo to the press" Issued Friday announcing the dis patch of a contingent of marines to duty on American warships in the Mediterranean might send shivers up the spines of our peo ple except for the fact that their nerves have become somewhat deadened by war stimuli. But ap- Erehension naturally will arise, ecause of the tense situation in Greece, that this country may become involved in hostilities in that theatre, with consequences that require little conjecture. While the press release merely stated that the objective is "to augment the shipboard training of marines." no one will lose sight f the fact that their detail is to duty in the Mediterranean. What our government may regard as a gesture of warning, Russia will interpret as the shaking of a fist. Thus Is highlighted one of the critical spots for 1948. None of the news from Greece has been good, since the country wr? libe rated. The late proclamation of an Independent government un der communist auspices by the leader of the guerrillas reveals the depth of the divisive move ment, supported by the neighbor communist-controlled states. The victory over the rebels at Konitsa gives temporary relief, but they have a remarkable capacity for revival. The return of Major Gen eral Livesay to Washington was frankly regarded as having for its purpose acquainting our gov ernment with the difficult situa tion in which the Greek govern ment is placed. The dispatch of marines may be a result of his report. Under President Truman's pol icy of aid to Greece and Turkey openly extended as foil to Russia this country has become com mitted (Continued on editorial page) Genuine Snafu, Sells for $45 D AULAS, Jan. 3 -iJP)- There's an electrical gadget on sale at an army surplus good store here the price is $45 but no one knows what it is. Store owner Chester Klingman purchased it from the army medi cal corps. The corps had paid $900 for it but they didn't know what it was. Neither did the manu facturer, whom Klingman wrote. "We don't know what it is," a reply said. "The army asked for it and gave us a plan for making it." Several physicians were stumped. One commented: "It might have been intended for use in cauter izing wounds but you could never cauterize a wound with it." So Klingman has set the price at $45. "The electric motor and generator are worth that," he said. ' Federal Aid for Education Sought WASHINGTON, Jan. 3;P)-A campaign to win congressional ap proval this year of a $300,000,000-a-year program for federal aid to public schools was opened today by the National Education asso ciation. The estimated annual allotment of federal aid to states under the bill would include: Oregon, $1, 125,000; Washington, $1,820,000. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH " didn't think Mitly would be with us this yetrshe hid a mirrow escape. TPCD O torneys investigate. Involved are 30 tod 40 miles of Lincoln county coastline: scenic shores, popular with summer va cationers, midway down the Ore gon coast. Ex-Governor West. 74, declared in an interview that an almost forgotten railroad grant made by the 1874 legislature gave owner ship of the tide and overflow lands there to the Willamette Valley & Coast railroed, a line eventu ally absorbed by the Southern Pa cific. In 1912 the state supreme court voided a legislative act which have repealed the 1874 land grant. West added. State's Only Title "The only title or color of title enjoyed by the state stems from the act sponsored by me in 1913 an act declaring the ocean beach from the Washington to the California boundary a public high way. West asserted. Ht was gov ernor at that time. The issue came up after an argument about beach sand. The last state legislature repealed West's 1913 act and passed similar one, which included per mission for sale of beach sand for construction work. West Protested When the state highway com mission last week sold the first of this sand. West protested, and declared ft would endanger Ore gon's title to the beach. He threatened to carry the Issue to the courts of the state. The area involved in the beaches West said were owned by the Southern Pacific includes Newport, Yachats, Seal Rock and Agate Beach. The Oregon ian reported A. T. Mercier. president of the South ern Pacific, said today the Rail road was fully aware of the value of maintaining friendly public re lations with the state of Oregon and of the possibility of the rail road issuing a quit .claim deed to the lands. Miliai Leaves For Hiingary SINAIA, Romania, Jan. Zf-(Jfy-Formar King Mihai and his moth er. Queen Helen, left the royal estate here by special1 train to night for Hungary, enroute to Switzerland where the abdicated monarch may marry Princess Anne of Bourbon - Payna and live in exile. Mihai did not wait until he had obtained a visa for admission to Switzerland, a delay which would have kept him in Romania until Monday or Tuesday. Instead he departed at 8:25 p. m. Romanian - time, a few hours after he had received his visa for Hungary, with the probable in tention of waiting for his Swiss entry permit at Salzburg in the American zone of Austria. Horse, 'Wrestler To Vie in Portland PORTLAND, Jan. 3 -AAy- The horse and the: man are at it again. -Baldy," the 1,900-pound horse which won a tug of war with a 220-pound Irishman at Waterloo Ore., is going to defend his title here January 29. His opponent: R. R. Fredericks, Portland, a former wrestler. "It is my clear duty to mankind to see that a dumb animal it not allowed to get away with this," said Fredericks. "Besides, I can use the dough." Volume of While House Mail Called 'Astonishing' WASHINGTON. Jan. Z-(JP)-The volume of White House mail during 1947 was described by a presidential aid today as "really astonishing." He said it consisted of 882,870 incoming letters and 908,345 cards. In addition there were 124.561 telegrams, or an average of 14.22 telegrams every hour. Farmers Union Meet Opposes Compulsory Military Training Marion county Farmers Union voted approval of a resolution op posing compulsory military train ing at the annual winter quarter ly meeting here Saturday. Seventy-six registered delegates were in attendance from 14 Mar ion county locals with many vis itors from Polk and Clackamas county locals. Hosts lor the meet ing were Bethel. Brooks and Sub limity local and the dinner com mittee was headed by Mrs. Boy Marchand of Bethel. Another resolution voiced op position to members of the legis lature who continue to work for legislation which has been re peatedly repudiated by the peo ple, such as the sales tax. No members of the legislature were named in the resolution. J. . Bennett, member of fee NINETY-SEVENTH YEAH Poirftflaond Zoo deeper Otrntinminis, Captures 700 tPou nd (Polar Bear Fire Accompanies Bad Weather t ... ! aUsW . ; site NEW YORK. Jaa. S A fireosaa standing- a tsastr directs a stream af water acalnst a Masing betiding SSth street west f Bra ad way. The fire, starting ia the five-story straetare, spread ta adjoining buildings. The fire was ene af many which ac companied anew and cold weather ta the New York area. (AF Wlrepbata ta The Statesmaa) General Thaw in Store., For East Coast 'Ice Belt By th Associated Press Forecasts of a general thaw cheered millions of residents In the nations "ice belt" Saturday. : The most destructive storm of ice and snow blanket from the Texas Panhandle to New Ensland. but forecasters said temperalures would day a "considerable portion of the Independence Day in Burma RANGOON, Burma. Sunday, Jan 4 -Ah- Burma, an exotic land of pagodas, Jewels and rice ter races, became an independent country today after more than a century of British rule. The Bur mese constituent assembly now as sumes power as the union parlia ment of free Burma. A three - day celebration has been planned with all forms of gambling banned for this inde pendence day the date of which was fixed in accordance with the directions of a group of astrolo gers. A prominent place has been giv en in the celebration program to physical culture displays, body beautiful competitions and all forms of sports including boxing, swimming and track and field ev ents. There will be boat races in which women crews will partici pate. Burmese already have been told to get busy and tidy up their country. Householders have been cleaning up the sidewalks and roadways in front of their homes. PAULEY TO RESIGN LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3--Edwin W. Pauley has asked to be relieved of his duties as Califor nia democratic national commit teeman, the party's national chair man. Sen. J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island, said today. legislature from Multnomah coun ty, spoke in opposition to the pro posed Oxbow dam over the Snake river. Contributions which the rural community may make to the American way Of life are being re-discovered, Arnold N. Bodtker, fieldman in charge of the produc tion and marketing administration Of the U. S. department of agricul ture, said in a talk, one of three before the county convention. Producer - consumer co-operatives are beginning to operate again in Germany. Hayes Beall told the delegates and visitors. Beall has recently returned from two years civilian duty in Ger many and goes now as education al director for a Wisconsin cooperative. 23 PAGES "mr the winter laid a 2.000-mile-lona rise gradually and that by Mon cover would be melted away. A new snow fall was forecast for the Canadian border and northern Michigan, but elsewhere in the country skies were expected to be mostly clear or partly cloudy over the week end. Meanwhile, the principal dam age from the storm was to power and telephone wires aad officials said completely normal service probably would not be restored for two or three weeks. Icy roads still hampered highway travel In most affected sections. Although Sunday temperatures up to 40 degrees were predicted for snow-harried New York City, thousands still shivered In un heated and unlighted homes. How ever, the city lifted its ban on the use of private automobiles at noon Saturday. Four Youths Held As Buick Radiator Ornament Taken Four Salem youths were being held in city jail in lieu of $50 bail this morning on a charge of dis orderly conduct following the theft of a "bombsight" radiator cap, city police report. The quartet were arrested after the radiator ornament had been broken on a Buick car parked in the 1000 block of Hood street which the police had been watch ing, officers said. The four youths were Glenn Graber, 18; Bernard Phillips, 22; Bruce Hamilton, 18; and Howard Girod. 18. The owner of the car is A. E. Bouffleur, rt. 4, box 39S, Salem. AVC Charges Oregon Pigeonholes S71 Million PORTLAND, Jan. 3 -OP)- Ray Johnson, Eugene, state chairman of the American Veterans Com mittee, charged today that Ore gon has $71,000,000 "pigeonholed" in its accounting system. Johnson urged the annual state AVC convention to work for revision of the state's financial system this year. Weather Max. - M .. 47 97 aa S4 Mift. Precip. it Jt .14 4 trace M trc XS J00 salen Portland San Francisco New Yerk Willamette river 13.7 feet. Ristn. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary fiel. Salem) : Cloudy with Intermittent liirht rain shewert today and tonight. Mostly cloudy with occasional rains Monday. Hlcnest tem perature today M, low Umiftht M. frSX POUIslDBD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Tourists Flee As Huge Beast Roves Area PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 3 -P)-A full grown polar bear romped for almost an hour inside the Washington park zoo's main cage room early tonight, trapping Su perintendent J. L. Marks atop a cage after sending four tourists' scurrying for safety. The 700-DOund beast was lured pinto its cage with a meaty bone zoo Tender William Clark, who earlier had out - distanced the bear in several turns around the octagon - shaped main zoo building. Clark explained the bear named Miscka by Russian sailors who presented the animal to the Portland zoo when it outgrew its mascot quarters aboard a Soviet vessel in port here broke a padlock on an outside cage door. Palat Frantically The first that the zoo keepers realized the animal was free was when several tourists pointed frantically toward the main zoo doors. There, Clark said, the big animal was calmly looking into the building. Clark said the tourists refused to remain in the building and dashed through another exit for their automobiles. Clark, who feeds the bear daily, also stepped outside the building, to distract the animal, and the bear started toward him. In a moment it was a race around the outside of the building. Docked lata Alceve "About the third or fourth lap." Clark said, "I ducked Into a base ment stairway alcove, waiting for the bear to run past." , Clark entered the - building through the basement and Joined Superintendent Marks, who had iniMiiicu uiuur. x iivry uiircicu W. D. Bozeman, of Boise, Idaho one of the tourists to herd the animal with his car toward the building's main entrance, which Clark had opened. When the bear entered, .the monkeys, lions and other animals set up a clamorous screeching and roaring that added., to the bear's excitement. By this time Marks was atop the fndoor portion of the bear cage and Clark had left the building through the cage and a passageway leading to the polar bear's outside area. Escaped from Arena The bear had escaped from the outside arena cage door. Clark closed the zoo building doors from the outside and then called police and foremen, who a few minutes later had the building surrounded in case the animal attempted to escape into the nearby fashionable Portland Heights residential district. Clark was still breathless when the animal eventually trailed the scent of meat into his cage. He kept thinking of the merry-go-round chase and said: "Every time around, that bear looked bigger, and I kept feeling smaller." Salem Schools' Vacation to End For more than 9,000 students and teachers locally, today Is the end of a vacation. All Salem pub lic, parochial and private schools will resume classes Monday morn ing. As schools closed for the vaca tion, enrollment in Willamette university, Salem College and Academy, and local high and ele mentary schools had reached 8,967 pupils. The number of teachers included 276 in the public schools. OMS to Extend City Bus Service to Suburban Sections Starting Monday New bus service will begin Monday to include "essentially all" of the territory formerly ser ved by Salem Suburban buses, R. J. Davidson, local manager of Oregon Motor Stages, announced Saturday. City fares will apply for the (full extent of the routes, he said, and Sunday and holiday service will be normal. One route will be an hourly ex tension of the South Commercial street line and will cover the tri angle bounded by Fairview ave nue, 12th street and highway 99 E. The present extension of South Commercial to the Liberty district will be cut from half-hour to hourly runs, but the Hansen ave nue portion of the route will op erate every 30 minutes. For the Swegle school . and FruiUand districts, a shuttle bus will be operated. It will make connections with both Chemeke ta street and 17th and Market streets buses, and transfer slips will be required. Davidson said that oniy the 111 - I " - "! ' ' ' I -S.-V II 1 .! I I I I V Oregon, Sunday, January 4, Large Cache qf TNT for Palestine Found in U.S.jPort JERSEY CITY, N. J4 Jan. S 0P- A quantity of tri-nitro-tuolene (TNT, described by police as sufficient tQ "blow up Jersey City and five Jersey cities to bits" was discovered on a pier here today in packing cases consigned to Palestine. Several hours later. New York police and U. S. customs authorities swooped doWn on a warehouse in the Bronx, seized a quantity of military materiel, and ordered the building closed. Jersey City Police Capt. Pat rick W. Flannagan .said 77 freight cases which were being loaded into the 14,000-ton SS Executor at I the American Ex port line's pier for shipment to Tel Aviv were diseoveted when a cooper was called 1 to fix a case which had dropped on the pier and ad broken. Trucks Reach i Isolated Area; Bridge Readied Installation of the Bailey bridge across the Little North Fork of the Santiam river above Mehama will not be completed until Tues day, but county officials Saturday night said they did cot believe that three expectant mothers ma rooned behind the wrecked Lu in ker span were in immediate dan fer. Residents In the area around Elk Horn, three miles north pf the sunken span, have been partially cut off from civilization since last Tuesday when the old Lumker bridge collapsed beneath a heavy logging truck. Ted Kuenzi. Marion county bridge foreman, who returned from the scene late Saturday night, said that debris of the old bridge had been almost complete ly cleared away by county road crews Saturday. A wooden foun dation to be used In letting the new army-type Bailey bridge In place, has been completed and ac tual assembly of the ; span will start today, Kuenzi stated. Baad Nea-atlaled Kuenzi also reported that a log ging road leading from Elk Horn to Gates on the North Santiam highway Is being successfully ne gotiated by four-wheel drive trucks and that he will drive one of the vehicles over the road to the north side of the bridge today. The truck, rigged with pulley equipment, will be used to pull th rew bridge into place. If favorable weather conditions prevail, a footpath will be strung across the stream today, Kuenzi said. If the stream remains swol len, a breeches buoy will be in stalled, he added. Kuenzi estimat ed it would require at least until Tuesday to complete the Bailey bridge. Rain Swells River County crews have been ham pered by recent heavy rains which swelled the river to a width of 80 feet where the old bridge col lapsed, but the swirling torrent was subsiding slowly Saturday, Kuenzi said. A. J. Franks, operator of Franks' mill, east of the Lumker bridge, told The Statesman in a telephone conversation Saturday night that there are enough men at the mill to bring anyone out of the area should an emergency arise. Franks said any of the three pregnant women could be brought out by way of the logging road from Elk hom to Gates. Trucks Travel Read Franks also reported that sev eral pickup trucks belonging to mill .workers were driven out through the logging road after the bridge collapsed. Most of the men on the trucks, however, spent most of their trip pushing the vehicles through the heavy mud which covers the road, he added. Hansen avenue bus will include sections of Saginaw and High streets, while the other runs on the South Commercial route will stay on that highway for the ex tent of its length in the city. The Liberty run will leave the northwest corner of State and Commercial streets at 0:30 and from then on at 28 minutes past each hour. The new section, de signated as 12th and 99 E, will leave the same corner at 58 min utes past each hour from 8:38 a. m. to 5:58 p. m. and then at 7:03, 8:25, 9:45 and 11:05 in the evening. It will leave Commerces)! at Fairview, go east to 12th street, south to the Junction with the highway 99E. which It will fol low back to the terminal. It will leave the south junction at quarter past each hour during the day. The shuttle bus will have outer terminals at Hollywood drive and Sllverton road, for which con necting bus is Cherneketa street, and FruiUand and Auburn roads. 1948 Price Sc Tramroam) Tail SlasBu WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 0IV Highly placed White House con fidants said today that President Truman has decided to stiff arm republican tax cutting proposals when he delivers hit state the union message to congress Wednesday. -J Two men in daily consultation with the chief executive aal4 be will oppose any changes in the tax laws which would result in an overall reducuon of fed- era I revenues. The pair, who declined to allow use of their names, said Mr. Tru man will make It clear that he will fight any general tax reduc tions "while the national Income is at the highest level in history." Their words implied that the president will go before the law makers prepared to write his third tax veto message If he Is sent a measure sharply reducing the tax rates. Chairman Knutson (R-Minn) of the house ways and means com mittee is drumming up support for a bill to cut 93.600,000,000 from the nation's . annual Income tax bill. He claim sufficient changes since the last bill to draw enough support from previous dissenters to make It "veto proof." Meanwhile house speaker Mar tin R-Mass) has predicted that the house will pass a tax cutting bill this month, although he did not commit himself specifically to the Knutson proposal. Schuman Wins Test Vote on Tax Increase ; ' ' i PARIS. Jan. -aVPrime Min ister Robert Schuman won his first test vote In his drive for an unnooular Income tax measure in the national chamber of deputies today and appeared .assured fit a substantial majority on Monday when ha will sUke the life of his government on a question of confidence The government apparently had succeeded1 in lining up nearly all centrist and moderate votes for the drastic tax bill to provide 129.000.000,000 francs (more than 91.000,000,000) for reconstruction. despite the determined opposition of communists and deputies rep resenting farmers. The test vote came on two rela tively unimportant amendments proposed to the second of the eight articles of the measure. The amendments, bundled under one vote as a time-saving procedure, were turned down, 322 to 282. The first article was adopted by show of hands. The premier then 1 announced that the government was posing a question of confidence on five other amendments to the second article, and demanded that it be adopted unchanged. The vote cannot be held until Monday, f Master List' of Traders Issued WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 -JP)-Secretary of Agriculture Ander son today provided congress with a "master list" of 735 big traders in commodity markets. The list covers the period, from Jan. 1. 1940 to Nov. 30, 1947, and includes traders in "reporting sta tus in grains, butter, eggs and potatoes, lard, millfeedi, cotton seed meal and soybean meal.' . Anderson said, in sending the new list to congress, that a list of big traders in cotton and other commodities not included in to day's list is in the course of pre paration. for which connecting bus is 17th and Market. It will start from the former terminal, go south on Hollywood drive, east on Sunnyview, south past Swegle school, went on Mar ket street, south on Lancaster, west on D, to connect at 17th and D streets with the 17th and Mar ket bus. It leaves the outer ter minal at 8:30, 7:30. 8:30, 9:40 and 10:40 a. m. and 3;10, 4:10, 3:10, 6:10 and 7:10 p. m. From that connection it goes east on D street, south on Lan caster, east on FruiUand road, south on Morgan avenue, west on Auburn road, to connect at Lan caster drive and Center street with the Cherneketa bus. It leaves the FruiUand terminal at 7:10, 8:10, 9:15 and 1020 a. m. and 3:50. 4:50. 5:50 and 6:50 p. m. After meeting the, bus it returns by go ing north on Lancaster road and east again past Swegle school to the other terminus. t i. No, 242 to FSDii GOP Solons to i - - i i Draw Plan for Meat Rationing WASHINGTON. Jan. Legialation to set up meat ration ing machinery which 1 rongreaa . could slip. Into gear quickly will be introduced in few dy by Senator Flanders (R-VL), he jaaid . today.' -1 t ' J t : , The senator outlined his plans after Secretary of Agricultuie An derson expressed belief that (con gress will restore meat rationing during the session opening Tuc day. " 1- I, i j , Flanders told a reporter' he al ready has started drafting a bill which he expects to have icady In about 10, days. ' 'f f I The measure would ' authorize the agriculture department make aU necessary plans for rationing. Including preparsUon fr j but probably not actual printing of coupon books. These plarJ would go on a hold-in-re serve bails, i "To put them into effect, it would be necessary for tongtea to pass a second, separate bin," Flanders said, adding that' this would dye the lawmaker, rutUr than the executive department,1 fi nal say! on whether the prngtan, should be used. - J , senator Morse (It-Ore.) pck out, in opposition to meat t turn ing. Morse said In a statement he had noUced earlier comment, by Flanders on meat shortages and) added: i . . i I , . -In fact I have noted that a considerable number ' of, eeifern senators seems to be ready and willing to place compulsory! guv eminent checks and controls upon the product o'.the .American farm but crv out about 'police state methods when anyone ; suggests some checks and controls upon corporate profits and allocation of the short supply of basic Indus trial materials. I I 7 TT 1- r ernes, nait ; As River Rises Ferries at Duena Vista and! Wheatland, north of Bali-m.j er both tied to the banks Katuidiiy as the swollen Willamete liver neared crest stage in this area. The rampaging river, fed b heavy rains New Year's ; day.' reached crest stages at Eugen and Harrisburg on Friday and at Corvallis and Jefferson on .Sat urday. A 15-foot creit is ex pet ted? here today, but will be ! five i feel short of the 20-foot flood stage. iteceni heavy rains flooded m portion of the South River road) between Salem and the , Indepen dence ferry, it was reported Sat urday. The road near the McCar thy Hop ranch is also under; wa ter. County Commissioner Ed Ro gers said Saturday. , Meanwhile, the U. S. weather bureau at McNary field predicted Saturday night that light rain would continue in the Salem area today and Sunday. ; , , Driver Tells Pnlirp. S(rnnn' , r.'l v- MOULTRIE, Ca Jan. I -6TV- Two automobiles collided I and police officer met one of the driv ers as he stepped out of hi car. "What's your name?" the of ficer asked. ! I f f Scram, the car owner replied. What's that?" the astounded officer exclaimed. . ' I Scram," said the man. "Joe Scram of Monticello, Fla. 7 Persons Cling to Boat for 5 Days MANILA. (Sunday)-Jan .-;n Seven persons have j been cling- J ing for five days to an overturned sailboat off remote : Palawan island, the Philippine naval pa-, trol reported today, .;. " .It said a subchaser and a U. 8. air force air-sea rescue! plane ex-' pected to reach the scene by. mid- ; night tonight. The seven were drifting between . Caramay and f Puerto i Princess off i Palawan's east coast. The boat capsized De-; cember 30, but no rescue equip-' ment was available there and word of the accident has Just Gp-OsfifiiA a i it reached here. t; j . YYm, II-- ; I