E2CZJ O oo o o C3r. O O O O DCS 'O J-UO (SOP 9 T?0u Don Biudseil: if 39 mimm a. 9 1651 warn POUNDI NINETY -SEVENTH YEAH 10 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Tuesday. January 13. 1948 Price 5c No. 249 Detroit M toy IFOffliraft C0tr Fasts Again On Asks Cut o o o President Slate CRJ SCEHjjQB When Harold E. SUutn elected not to become a candidate for Jte U. S. aenate in 1948 and Instead to go Into the presidential contest a a -free lance." there were many politicians who shook their heads over his decision. He would be lost to the public eye and soon forgotten, they said. Better for him to take a seat in the senate where the office wduld lend wings to his words. Events have not fulfilled the predictions of these wiseacres. Statsen is quite In the public eye and has been for many months. Me is moving about with growing sureness of foot. Alone among the candidates he has moved freely and expressed himself frankly in 11 sorts of situations: forums, press conferences, testimony be fore a senate committee. At the moment his name gets into head lines because of bis charges of speculation by government insid ers; but he has made progress on more fundamental issuer also. While Governor Dewey sits at Albany and avoids most of the subjects of national controversy Stassen wades into them and of ten comes up with a fresh, original viewpoint. It is true that Dewey berated the Truman administra tion for its part in exciting infla tion, in his message to the New York legislature, but that was quite palpably partisan. Stassen has in his speeches been trying to (Continued on editorial page) Mishap Fatal To Salem Baby Probed Here City police today were investi gating Salem's first fatal traffic accident of 1948. which claimed the life of Judy Ann Hakanson. 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Hakannon. 1S95 N. Liberty st The child died in a local hospital at 8 p. m. Sunday from injuries suffered in an auto-"trut-k collision an hour earlier. The girl suffered a fractured skull and numerous other injuries when a car driven by her father smashed into the rear of a parked logging truck at Soulh Commercial and Iowa streets. Also seriously Injured was her sister. Linda, one year old, who was thrown out of the car by the impact. Linda is in Salem General hospital with 10 fractured ribs and face cuts. Hos pital authorities said Monday her condition was "fair. Hakanson and his wife were also injured, but were dismissed from the hospital after treatment. Hak anson told investigating officers he was driving north on Commercial street' and did not see the parked truck in time to avoid hitting it. Owner of the truck is Francis R. Toler, Albany route 1. Tuneral services will be held Thursday. January IS. at 1:30 p. nr. at the Clough-Barrick cha pel, the Rev. M. A. Getrendaner officiating. Weather Max. Mm. Pravip. lalM 4S 11 .S rortland 4 3 00 Kan Francisco .. 44 00 Chicago M S3 trac Naw York 17 25 04 Willamrtt river 1J 4 fat. falling TO RECAST from US ainr bu reau. McNarv timid. Salami fair to day becoming ctovdr tonlfht. Warm er tonight. High today SO. low tonight IS Animal Crackers WARREN GOODRICH "We, if reduced m right barf J gvis orjr week was stick- t -" - . ---V" ATMS $V at puce: V' Vk V Wa VY4 . Rates to Stay To Provide for Grooving Needs City Manager J. L. Franzen Monday advised against lower water rates for Salem and showed the city council an $806,383 blue print tor water department proj ects he said are needed as rapidly as the work can be accomplished. His report accepted by the city council at city hall last night was a reply to Alderman David O' Hara's suggestion that water de partment surplus funds might jus tify reduced water rates. Franzen said 17 projects needed this year would require $94,532 more than the total available wat er department cash of $571,830 plus an estimated $140,000 of wat er department earned income ex pected this year exclusive of bond retirement money. New Reservoirs Urged Chief projects recommended by the city manager are a $450,000 new reservoir tank with 20,000. 000 gallon capacity, an additional 1.000,000 gallon reservoir unit on Candalaria Heights (estimated at $30,000). nearly a mile of 24-inch water pipe from 21st and Mill to 24th and Center streets and small er pipe line extensions In various city areas including the new Ma p let on addition, expected to total another 2 't miles in length. Franzen said present Salem re servoir capacity of 10.600.000 gal lons is less than one day's supply and asserted six days' supply is considered minimum safe storage. He said he doubted the large new reservoir could be completed this year. Maseaaa Approved In another development before the city council, alderman agreed the Bush home on Bush's pasture, called by State Archivist David C. Duniway "a beautiful example of 1870 architecture and furnishings." will become a city museum when the city eventually gains control of the building. Duniway said the Salem Art association, with assurance the city will preserve the building, would buy and store the furnishing until the house passes to city control along with the "pasture" already acquired for city park purposes. Steps were taken by the coun cil to ease zoning code restrictions following requests by A. W. John son for special permission to add an apartment to a zone I resi dential house at 744 N. Capitol st., and by Leo Henderson to exceed marquee size restrictions for the State theatre. City Attorney Chris Kowitz was instructed to draft zone code amendments liberalizing small apartment use in zone I and marquee sizes. Zeae Hearlags Set Public hearing was set for Janu ary 26 on a zone change to re stricted business class for medical dental office purposes of Center street property near Salem Gen eral hospital. J. S. Bu.b. seeking business zoning for a locker plant at Maple and Locust streets, was only dis senter at a hearing on recom mended zoning of recently an nexed areas. The bill was passed on to second reading. Six street Improvement assess ment ordinances were passed. Among new legislation introduced and passed n to possible final action at the next meeting were bills establishing city procedure for elections, referendums and in itiatives (an adaption ef state pro cedure which has been generally followed heretofore) and a bill to control use of fumigants poison ous to humans. (Council news also on page 2.) Old Theatre Hit by Fire SAVANNAH. Ga . Jan. 12 -VP) Fire breaking out in the auditori um ceiling of the historic Savan nah theatre tonight drove about 200 persons into the street from the late evening motion picture show. There was no panic and no in juries were reported in the hasty evacuation of the building. The fire, of undetermined or igin, threw a heavy pall of smoke over downtown Savannah and brought out all the fire fighting equipment In a general alarm. The theatre, oldest in contin uous use in the United States, was designed by the British architect William Jay and opened Dec 4, 1818. IWA TO ASK RAISE PORTLAND. Jan. 12 - UP) - An across-the-board wage increase of 32 'a cents an hour, with an extra cents for a welfare fund, will be asked by the CIO International Woodworkers of America in nego tiations on new contracts opening Aprin 1. The present minimum in most IWA contracts is $1,32 Vi an hour 46 Rescued From Ship Burning in Mid-Ocean NEW YORK, Jan. 12 -iJPy- Two rescue ships, battling danger ously high seas, tonight rescued all 46 persons who abandoned the flaming Joseph V. Connolly, army "funeral ship," in the North At lantic early today. The survivors 45 crewmen and one passenger were in life boats about nine hours in high seas whipped by a northeast gale Reds Release 4 V BEtLTN. Jaa 12 -JPy- Dr. Her aaa B. Wells, president ef In diana aiverslty, whe was ar rested and held for three boars by Seviet occupation aatherities here. (Details en page 2.) Aid Estimates Not f Absolute' To Vandenberg WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-(AV Chairman Vandeberg (R-Mich) hinted strongly today that the sen ate foreign relations committee will not be bound by the $6,800, 000,000 figure submitted by the Truman administration as the in itial cost of the "Marshall plan." Noting that there are many dif ferences in estimates prepared by the state department and those made by the Harriman committee which investigated this country's ability to supply Europe's needs, Vandenberg said: "Does not the whole comparison clearly indicate that there is noth ing sacrosanct about the figure of $6,800,000,000?" Chief backers of the European recovery program expressed will ingness to meet republican de mands for "businesslike" opera tion of the program but stood firm on their insistence that the state department have over-all super vision. Keizer Approves '48 Sc hool Budget KEIZER. Jan. 12.-(Special)-Vo-ters of the Keizer school district Monday night balloted unanimous ly to approve the district's 1948 school budget. A small turnout of voters ap proved the $116,955 tentative bud get which is subject to review and equalization by the county school ooard. Building " ''''".'':'.: ' , , . . ' ' t ' '-'I f , .- i ' ; " ' 'A ' ' ' 1 This 246 by 9t feet warebease new galag ap in a sew industrial area east ef the Southern Pacific tracks near East Heyt street Is ene ef the properties la a 209-acre southeast suburban area, far which aa annexation petHlaa was filed with the Salem city council Monday nigbt by ewners ef approximately 76 per eeat af the area. IL C Walling Is ewner ef the new warehouse, which will bouse Walling Sand and Gravel Co. offices and a Consolidated Freightways termini L The area also extends a mile south of present city limits from west of 12th street as far east as the Southern Pacific tracks and includes large new subdivisions of Lawrence Anderson and of Ronald E. Jones aad Rich Kelmsnn. The city council last night agreed to extend water service to the area pending annexation. (Statesmaa photo by Don Dill, staff photographer.) before being picked up. The army said 27 of the men were taken aboard the Union Vic tory and 19 aboard the Gen. R. E. Callan, another army transport. Three of the survivors of the Union Victory were believed ser iously injured, the coast guard said. Both the General Callan and the Union Victory were bound for Europe before the rescue's but were directed by the coast guard to proceed to Halifax, Newfound land, with the Connolly's sur vivors. The Connolly, which inaugurat ed the return of American war dead from Europe last October, was reported by the coast guard to be a total loss. It said the ship had heeled over on its side and was burning fiercely. KJndley field, Bermuda, which sent four planes to the scene of the disaster 900 miles east of New York to aid in the search for the lifeboats, said the plane had de scribed the 40-mile gale and mountainous seas hampering the rescue ships. The 7,176-ton Connolly left here last Thursday en route to Antwerp with 6.445 empty caskets to return additional bodies of American war dead from Europe. Police Chase Nabs Suspect For Lebanon BEND. Ore., Jan. 12 -&)- Leon ard J. Michelson, 25. of Bly, Ore., was captured today by state police officers in the Squaw creek area north of Sisters where he hid after smashing through a road block and shotgun fire five hours earlier. State Police Sgt. L. L. Hirtzel I said Michelson was wanted in i Lebanon for an attempted rob bery of the Smith jewelry store last night and also was held for Multnomah county authorities on a stolerj car warrant. Sgt. Hirtzel said the Bly resi dent had been seen by the Le banon jeweler and fled without taking anything after breaking the store window. Earlier today, the 1947 Kaiser sedan smashed through a road block just west of Sisters. Police opened fire with shotguns. They located the abandoned car near Sisters several hours later and traced Michelson to the Squaw Creek area. Police said Michelson did not resist arrest. He was unarmed. The automobile was reported stolen in Portland over the week end. Senate Would Ban Commemorative Coins WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -P-The yenate voted today to end the practice of issuing commemor ative coins and to authorize a medal plan instead. The bill goes to the house. The senate banking committee rejected seven bills for special coins, including one to commem orate the Oregon Trail centennial. Rises in Petitioning Area a. New Rail Spur Asked by Cold Storage Firm A move to enable Terminal Ice & Cold Storage Co. to become the largest refrigerated storage plant on the west coast was underway Monday night when Salem's city council was asked to approve a franchise for a new spur track at Front and D streets. The firm which has a storage plant at 990 N. Front st. was re ported ready to expand its storage space by 50 per cent to more than 1,500,000 cubic feet if it can be served by a spur track which would cross Front and D streets in curving from present railroad tracks on Front street to the Terminal Ice property be tween Front and Commercial streets and north of D street Company officials did not es timate value of the improvement but it was considered genera? as a project which would cost well over $100,000. Endorsement for the Terminal Ice building proposal was voiced earlier Monday by the industries committee of Salem Chamber of Commerce headed by William H. Baillie, who said the enlargement of cold storage space is a Salem need. Alderman James Nicholson sub mitted an ordinance bill which would 'enfranchise Oregon Elec tric railway for 20 years to oper ate the spur track, provided the ice company will lay a five-foot paved sidewalk along D street be tween the spur tracks and the street, pave sidewalks at the southeast corner of Front and D street where the track would cut off a corner of Terminal Ice property and allow ho truck load ing on D street. The franchise bill was given initial reading and will come up for possible final action at the next council meeting on January 26. In a letter to the council Low ell E. Kern, executive vice pre sident of Terminal Ice, said the project would be a two-story 187 by 144 foot building along D street behind the present storage plant, of reinforced concrete, with 550, 000 cubic fet of storage space, in the block of industrial zone pro perty the company now owns. "It is imperative the Willamette valley area has available addi tional freezing and cold storage space to take care of crops now in the ground," Kern's letter stat ed, r Grounded Ship Not in Danger SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 12.-4JP)-Eleven seamen whose small Alas ka steamer, the Aleutian Mail, ran aground this morning on the southwest tip of Unimak island were reported tonight to be in "no immediate danger." and awaiting rescue early Tuesday by the coast guard cutter Cedar. A distress call radioed by the craft's owner and Captain Jesse H. Petrich of Seward, said the 263 ton, wooden-hulled Aleutian Mail struck two miles northwest of Arch Point on Unimak, first is land of the Aleutian chain. The steamer radioed the Ketchi kan coast guard station tonight that seas have quieted to a "dead calm," but there were indications the weather would worsen during the night. For Funds WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-(yP)-A $156,767,100 development program for the Columbia basin area was proposed today in federal budget requests submitted to congress. The outlay for 1949 included $52,928,100 for rivers and harbor work in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, $36,275,000 for the Bonne v i 1 1 e administration, $48,000,000 for the Columbia basin reclama tion project in Washington and $19,564,100 for other reclamation projects in the Pacific northwest. The biggest single appropriation asked was the $48,000,000 for the Columbia basin reclamation work - - a project to bring 216,000 acres of land under irrigation by 1952 and expand power facilities. Esti mated expenditures in the current 12-month period were $36,470,968 for the project. Next in size was the Bonneville administration, which asked $36, 275,000 for 1949, and $2,200,000 in supplemental funds for the re mainder of this year. These were asked for completion of 115 addi tional miles of transmission lines and five new substations, plus work to be carried on for 1,519 ad ditional miles of transmission lines and accompanying substations to be completed in future years. The rivers and harbors proposed appropriation listed $30,000,000 for construction of M c N a r y dam, which army engineers hope to complete by 1954. Also in the rivers-harbors bill was $14,155,000 for the Willamette valley flood control project, in cluding Dorena reservoir, $3,500,- 000; Lookout Point reservoir, $7, 000,000; Detroit reservoir, $3,500, 000; Willamette river bank protec tion, $500,000; Fern Ridge reser voir, $155,000: Pudding river, $29, 000. (Additional details on page 2) Stassen Flays Pauley's Right To Army Post WASHINGTON, Jan. Z.-AJP)-Edwin W. Pauley's right to keep his army department post after making nearly $1,000,000 in com modity speculation was challenged by- Harold E.' Stassen today in an open letter to President Truman. The republican presidential as pirant dictated his new blast against Pauley, special assistant to Secretary of the Army Royall, by telephone from Sheridan, Wyo., to his Washington office. It said: "Now that Mr. Pauley has ad mitted the extensive nature of his operations. I respectfully ask this question of the president. I ask it in particular view of the urgent need for leveling off food prices and of the anticipated heavy gov ernmental purchases of food in 1948. "The question is this: "Does a man who has admitted under investigation that he made approximately a million dollars ($932,703 to be exact) in personal profit, by speculating since the war in increased prices of food and commodities, belong in the position of assistant to the secre tary of the army for procurement and industrial mobilization?" Pauley, in a telegram to Stassen last night, denied that his trading was based on "inside information" and accused Stassen of making "false statements." Land Vehicle At 1,019 mph Passes Sound MUROC AIR BASE, Calif.. Jan. 12.-;P)-The sonic wall, which the fastest airplanes for months have been assaulting, has been effect ively battered down by an unman ned land vehicle which reached 1,019 miles an hour, Northrop air craft engineers announced today. The device, a 1,500 pound metal rocket - propelled sled, traversed 2,000 feet of standard-gauge rail road track in less than two sec onds, then, reaching the end of the line, bounced off across the desert. Northrop Project Engineer S. E. Weaver disclosed that the first high speed test was made Sept. 20. 1946, and that the 1,019 mile an hour run was made March 7, 1947. The tests have been conducted at the air base here under utmost se crecy. The prime purpose of the exper iment, Weaver said, is to deter mine the practicality of an out door wind tunnel which would re verse the process of the conven tional tunnel, in tunnels now in use, air is rammed past a suspend ed model. Under the new system, the model plane would be pushed through free air at supersonic speeds and the effects observed. AIR FARES SLICED SEATTLE, Jan. 12 JP- Fare reductions up to 31 per cent to take effect immediately were an nounced today by West Coast Airlines, operating in Washington and Oregon. PS. i " I , ' i ' i ' ( "'' ' NEW DELHI. India. Tuesday, Jan. 13. (JP) Mohandas K. Gandhi, who announced today he was undertaking immediately a fast in an effort to restore peace among the Hindu, Sikh and Mo hammedan religious communi ties in India. The statement by the aging Hindu apostle of non violence made clear Gandhi's undertaking that many of his disciples., opposed., his . hunger strike. Some followers said they feared that if Gandhi died from any cause while fasting, the non moslem communities of India would take frightful vengence upon tho Moslems. Salmon-Saving Plan in Lower Valleys Asked WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -()-The government today proposed a $13,000,000 salmon preservation program on the Columbia river and its tributaries below McNary dam. A $1,450,000 appropriation was listed in tho rivers and harbors bill to be transferred to the fish and wildlife service to start the program, which would be under taken in cooperation with Oregon arid Washington. As planned, the program would take five years in which time an attempt would be made to estab lish salmon runs in the lower Co lumbia and tributaries. This Is looking forward to the day when high dams on the tipper Columbia and Snake might block salmon runs. The aims of the program would be to eliminate stream pollution, to clear out beaver dams, log jams and other obstructions, and to transplant runs to the lower river. Meat Ceilings Asked; Morse Offers Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 H7P Secretary of Agriculture Ander son asked congress today for pow er to clamp wholesale price ceil ings on meat, and added: We will want both price con trols and rationing on meat and we will want them before this spring is over." Anderson, appearing before the senate Dansung committee, said, however, he didn't think thAr would be a need for retail price ceilings on meat. He said that he thought the time for rationing would come "when meat has virtually disap peared from the counters." The secretary testified in fa vor of .an administration bill which would empower the gov ernment to impose "selective" controls on wages and prices if other methods fail to control in flation. At the same time Senator Morse (R-Ore.) introduced a bill pro viding for an economic stabiliza tion coordinator to fight high prices by emergency measures short of price control and rar tioning. And the justice department or dered a federal grand Jury inves tigation of the food industry "especially into the production, distribution and high price of milk" in the SL Louis, Mo., area. 'Wo Didn't Want So they didn't They saw Doakes at home, at play, at Joe Doakeses. And they tell all The Russian Journal "They" are the New York team of Writer John Steinbeck and Photographer Robert Capxz, and their 15-part story in word and pictures will start in Your Home Newspaper TOMORROW ! j v Orr flonCSaOlulrsman i . -Telephone; 9101 , Of Belks I. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -VP-President Truman sent f congress today a $39,669,000,000 budget, a' record-smasher for peacetime, and republican leaders reacted swiftly with cries of "extravagance.! . i ; In asking this sum to run tho government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, Mr. Truman., said it is needed to (l);head off "totalitarian rule" in western .Eu rope (2) maintain "a modern and balanced armed force" for Amer ica's security and (3) strengthen "the foundations of our democracy and the happiness of our people. He also forecast record-break- WASHTNGTON, Jan.' 12 la proposing an $11,000,600, 666 fund to maintain armed ' forces of 1,423.606 men next : fiscal year and to help revamp : the nation's defenses,? President -Truman today warned that; if ; Europe goes red the costs will ? soar. (Additional details on page . .' U- j f ing surpluses if congress does! not cut the nation's overV tax bill. ' Senator Taft (R-Ohio) called the president's spending recom mendations "too high Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) accused! Mr. Truman of "bad faith." Democrats largely went along with the pre sident. . Huge Surpluses Seen j - The total Is about $2,000,000,000 larger than what Mr. Truman asked a year ago for! the fiscal year ending this June $0. f j . "The plain fact is that our bud get must remain high, Mr.! Tru man wrote in his message to (con gress, "until we have met our in- . ternational responsibilities j and can see-tho way clear to a peace ful and prosperous world. J Turning to the expected I sur pluses, he declared the treasury should be in the black by) $7, 500,000,000 June 30 this year and by an additional $4,800,00,000 on June 30, 1949. j ! 'Mr. Truman urged that thi$ mo ney should bo used to reduce the public debt, rather 'than cut the total tax rate. . Yl-t ' . ! -Tax Cot Bill Readied : Republicans, undeterred by Mr. Truman's familiar argument,! went ahead with their plans to push a $5,600,000,000 income) tax cutting bill. ; j ' - s. The president Is counting feder-. al revenues next year of i $44, 477,000,000. For this year he' esti mated receipts would hit a peace time record of $45,210,000,000. Use of the surpluses this year and next to slash the debt would bring it down to $246,200,000,000 by mid-1949. To make that pos sible, along with a flat $40 tax reduction for every taxpayer and dependent, Mr. Truman, j again urged congress to hoist corporation taxes by $3,200,000,000, the amount he estimated the $40, would cost. UMT Included j j j There are items in the budget for universal military training, health insurance, greater help for schools, a long-range housing pro gram, enlargement of atomic plants, improvements In "strate gic" Alaska, expansion of the So cial Security program. The budget would be split among these broad fields: . National defense $11,025,000,000, an increase of $279,000,000 over the present year; international af fairs, including the Marshall plan, $7,009,000,000, up $1,476,000,000; veterans' care and benefits $6,102, 000,000, down $530,000,000;! social security, health and welfare $2, 028,000,000. up $68,000,000;! hous ing and community facilities: $38, 000,000, down $75,00,000; educa tion and general research i $387, 000,000, up 310,000,000; agricul- . ture and agricultural resources $906,000,000, up $292,000,000; na tural . resources $1,626,000,000, up , $447,000,000; transportation and I communication $1,646,000,000, up j $83,000,000; finance, commerce I and industry $190,000,000, down ' $182,000,000; labor, ! $116,000,000, I up $19.00,000; general government ' $1,157,000,000, down; $316,000,000; j interest on the national debt $5,- ' 250,000,000. up $50,090,000; tax re funds $1,990,000,000, down $59,-; 000,000 fe. reserves $200,000,000, up j sO. 00 0,000. it. I to Sec Stalin!' ! j ' . 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