OOOO C3 C3 O TJJ 3 EDO O OE3C3 OOO O O CIO OC1 OGDO O O Solons Agree on 12-Month Aid han to Cost $5,300,000,000 : .. mm Thieves Decapitate 21 Parkioig tvOeters Similar Robberies Noted over'Valley City police Friday night pa trolled the streets searching for an organized band of thieves who stole 21 parking meters in downtown Salem Wednesday and Thursday nights. Following a pattern familiar In five other Oregon cities, the thieves used a pipe cutter to sever 11 meter heads from their posts Wednesday night and 10 on Thursday night. The thefts occurred in the 100 block on South Church street and in the 400 block on North High street within two blocks of police headquarters. The sum of money contained ln'the meters was, still undeter mined Friday, but police said the meters are valued at about $1,200. Similar thefts have been committed recently in Portland, tr 0S2JJO0 Those interested in the economic foundations of the state will find dependable statistical data in a recent OSC bulletin. "Oregon's Meat Animals and Wool". The Importance of these "crops" is re vealed in its first sentence: "More money is received by farmers from the sale of meat animals and wool than from any other 12 groups of Oregon's farm prod ucts." The total cash receipts from the farm animal source was over $68,000,000 in 1946. Sales for meat bring in the most money, with dairy products in second place. One conspicuous fact is the de cline in numbers of sheep and hogs and the moderate increase in number of cattle. The num ber of milch cows has shown a slight decline in the last dozen years. In the case of sheep and lambs the decrease has been steady since 1931 when a total of 2.679,000 bead were reported to 1947 when the numbers were only 803,000. Restrictions on graz ing in the range country of east ern Oregon, the lack of competent labor in war years and the greater relative profit in beef cattle ac count for the decrease. In the case of hogs the num bers rose from 178.000 in 1935 to 359.000 in 1944. Then the high feed costs led to disposal of stock so there were only 161.000 re ported as of Jan. 1, 1947. The year 1944 was the peak year for cattle also, the total being 1,194. 000 head, with 284.000 of them milch cows. The total in 1947 was 1.067,000. with 251,000 milch cows. The decrease may indicate cull ing in the case of dairy cows and some lightening of risk in the case of beef cattle. One interesting statistical fact is that 1903 marked the peak in the number of animal units (beef cattle plus sheep at the ratio of five sheep equal one animal unit) 1.238,000. Last year the (Continued on editorial page) Woman Defies Withhold Tax LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13 -iJPy-In defiant terms, Miss Vivien Kel lems. Westport, Conn., industrial ist, declared today she will no Jonger withhold federal income taxes from her employes unless she is paid for it. Miss Kellems, cable grip manu facturer, spoke of the withhold ing tax law as an infringement on the rights of the public and in violation of the constitution. "I am not a tax collector and if an American citizen can be fined and thrown into prison for not collecting taxes from his work ers, then let's know about it now. "Let's see what the court has to say about this law it's not the first one passed in violation of the constitution." Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH First of a series: Smail-fish-yes-rew of Pacific Ocean from inside whale's mouth. Oregon City, Albany, Sweet Home and Lebanon. Six meters were taken at Al bany, six at Portland and more than a dozen each at Oregon City, Sweet Home and Lebanon. In Salem the thieves cut the meters off about 28 inches above the base, while in other cities they severed the posts close to the base. In Portland the me ters were taken from directly in front of the police station. ? Police in all affected cities have been unable to explain the reason for the thefts. Theories ranged all the way from an an gered motorist to a town that wants .parking meters and can't afford them. Just plain theft was suggested, too; but police said there isn't much profit in meter snatching. Meters, they said, generally don't contain more than a few dollars. 2 Tornadoes Leave 5 Dead In Mississippi By the Associated Press Two tornadoes ripped into Mis sissippi 85 miles apart yesterday, leaving five dead in a southland already suffering from flooding rivers and continuing rain. All the known dead were vic tims of a twister that tore a jagged line near Newton, Miss. Another tornado hit 10 miles south of Monticello. some 75 miles southwest of Newton. At least 24 were injured and 30 homes were destroyed in Mississippi. Rain and snow-flushed moun tain streams threatened scores of eastern Kentucky communities with flood waters and caused evacuation of hundred. of bottom-land dwellers. The entire community of Oneida (pop. 500) was ordered abandoned as flood waters from three creeks hit. English Cuttings PORTLAND, Feb. 13 -JP)- An airplane landed here today with 40.000 English hop cuttings in the i Pacific northwest's fight against , downy mildew in the hop fields i The cuttings, taken from 15 English hybrid hops, were trucked at once to Independence Ore ; where planting started. The op-, erauon is expectea to bc """!""- , ed by sundown tomorrow on the ! E. Clemens Horst ranch. The Horst company hopes to find varieties that will resist or be immune to down mildew, a fungus that reduced Oregon's crop one-third last year, causing an estimated $6,000,000 loss in the Willamette valley alone. Paul T. Rowell. Salem manag er of the U. S. Hop Growers asso ciation, said the . alternative to finding immune varieties is a cost ly and continuous dusting pro gram. Marshall Terms European Union ;Our Great Hope' DES MOINES, Feb. Sec retary of State Marshall tonight described the formation of a west ern European union as "our great hope." A "stable and healthy western Europe," Marshall said, would make Soviet leaders "much more inclined" to reach a settlement of problems that now divide Russia and the west. Marshall's remarks were con tained in an address prepared for the National Farm institute. He unreservedly endorsed the western European union propos als of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Taft Claims Title Of True Liberal' OMAHA. Feb. 13-JP)-Senator Taft (R-Ohio) tonight claimed the title of "true liberal." a term he said New Dealers have no right to "appropriate." The OhidKcandidate for the COP presidential tiomination told Ne braka republicans: "You and I ftciay not think of ourselves as heroic. But if we re main firm in our purposes it is possible that the futare will con sider all or us heroes We have still kept liberty alive in Amer ica." Tea Towels Latei Chain Letter Goal The tea towel post card chain is the latest in the chain letter racket. Albert Gragg. Salem post master, has announced. Details of course are easily obtained from the post card and the object Is to eventually get 12 or perhaps 36 tea towels, Gragg said. All such post cards will, when discovered, be turned over to the proper au thorities, the postmaster said. Hop Timetable Cut, Not Fund, Says Vandenberg WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 - (JP) The senate foreign relations com mittee agreed late today on a four-year European recovery pro gram with the U. S. putting up $5,300,000,000 for the first 12 months. President Truman had asked $6,800,000,000 for the first 15 months. Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mich) andenberg (R-Mich) which averages $11,- nth was "a change ible" rather than a said the cut 666,666 a mon in the timetabl net reduction Shortening the 15-month peri od, Vandenberg told a news con ference, will give congress a chance to make "a realistic review of the recovery program" at "the earliest possible moment" and then vote whatever additional funds it thinks necessary. The committee wrote in its bill a section designed to keep exports to Europe from causing shortages in this country. Vandenberg said he hopes for a committee vote on the bill as a whole next Tuesday, after a few details have been worked out. If all goes well, he said, it should be ready for senate debate March 1. Its fate there is uncertain. Sen ator Taft (R-Ohio) and other leading republicans have called for large outright cuts. Taft sug gested a $2,000,000,000 slash. Waitress Said Improved'; Charge Filed (Pictures on page 5) Mrs. Betty Voecks, 21, Salem waitress critically wounded in a downtown hotel Thursday night, was reported "slightly improved" by her physician at Salem Gen eral hospital early this morning. Her fiancee was arraigned in Marion county district court Fri day on a charge of pointing a firearm at another in connection with the shooting. Mrs. Voecks was listed in "cri tical" condition most of Friday but began to show improvement after returning from surgery about 9 p. m., it was reported. Po lice said a .45 calibre bullet pierced both lungs and left shoul der before striking a wall. Britz, a local construction wor ker who arrived here from Texas M Vv .7.i, k- - k,,i a Tew months ago, told police ,et jrom , which discharged wmle he wa, cleaniDf it .bout g m Thursday c,, Revolver ,n a it(temnt to Brltz -d waJ , . on tne ciebning tne aulomatic revolver , . , , and pulled the trigger not know ing it was loaded. He said he did not know why he had pulled the trigger. In the first aid car on the way to the hospital Mrs. Voecks told Capt. C. M. Charlton of the first aid unit that she had asked Britz not to handle the gun a minute before it discharged. Phoned Desk Clerk Occupants of nearby rooms said they heard no argument or dis turbance from the room prior to the shooting. A man in an adja cent room phoned the desk clerk after hearing the shot. Mrs. Voecks, an employe of the Salem hotel coffee shop, and Britz were registered as man and wife, police said. Britz was arraigned in district court Friday and his case con tinued to February 16 for a plea when he did not have an attor ney. He was transferred from the city jail to the county jail and held in lieu of $1,000 bail. Te Continue Investigation District Attorney Miller Hay den and city police indicated they would continue their investiga tion of the shooting today. Hay den said he was at the hospital Friday night, but that he was unable to talk with Mrs. Voecks because of her serious condition. The charge of pointing a fire arm at another, Hayden said, is an indictable misdemeaner with a maximum penalty of $500 or 90 days In jail or both. 35-CENT RAISE SOUGHT DETROIT, Feb. 13 - i.V) - The CIO United Auto Workers came up today with pay demands against Chrysler Corp. exceeding 33 cents an hour. State Board of Control Denies Illegality Charge of Flax Firm The state board of control de nied Friday that it was unlaw fully engaged in the flax indus try or that it was in direct com petition to private enterprises. This was contained in an an swer filed by Leslie XL Scott. Earl Newbry and Gov. John HalL all members of the state board of Control; L. L. Laws, manager of Orvjon Flax industry and George Alexander, state prison warden, all defendants in a suit brought by twoNSiiverton flaX men. The suit filed recently by Charles H Leonard and T. T. Leonard, co partners of the Sil verton Flax Cp., alleged that the state board, twdsjSalem linen mills, two railroads, and other defend ants were unlawfully engaged in KClTTY-SEVErra TEAB Mtassft mmmm mm Mothers. 9 Children Die Tj I li M ffl 1 I -sLaTM. MM-J Refuses To Jump UTICA. N. Y., Feb. 13 - OP) -Eleven members of one family, including two mothers and nine children, were burned to death today after a 13 - year - old girl vainly pleaded that they follow her second-floor leap from their burning home. The unexplained, early - morn ing fire swept the two-story frame dwelling and the walls collapsed. Fourteen scantily-clad occupants escaped. Three were hospitalized with burns. Young Mary Hoage said she had jumped into a snowbank from a second-floor porch, after fail ing to convince her step-mother, Mrs. Ruth Hoage, 24, and the oth ers to do the same. "I pleaded for them to follow me and throw the babies down, but they said they would wait for the firemen to rescue them," she related. Ten bodies, most of them charred beyond recognition, were recovered- from the three-foot-deep rubble. One mother clutched a baby. The dead as listed by Capt. Eu gene McNally of the fire preven tion bureau: Mrs. Ruth Hoage, second wife of Richard Hoage, sr.; Mrs. Shir ley Hoage, 29, wife of Richard Hoage, jr.; Virginia, It; Dana, 3; Mark, 8 months; Catherine. 3; Geraldine. 10; Audrey. 8; Charity, 7; Michael, 11 months, and Lee, 5 weeks. Plane Missing; Smoke Seen PORTLAND. Feb. 13-6P)-A re port of smoke rising from Co lumbia Gorge hills today spurred the search for the missing pilot, Billy Guy Holliday. 22. A rancher near Larch mountain, 30 miles east of here, said he saw smoke from a remote area on the Oregon side of the gorge after search planes flew over the re gion. Railroad workers near Bonne ville dam added that they saw a plane answering the description of the missing craft last Saturday. It barely missed the Bridge of the Gods, then turned toward the Oregon hills and disappeared in a snow flurry, they said. Holliday has been missing since Saturday on a flight from his job at Richland, Wash., to his home at Oregon City. 2,750 Oculists Named in Suit CHICAGO. Feb. 13-CP-The government has named some 2,750 oculists in its price-fixing suits against two large optical firms. The suits contend the oculists and the firm conspired to fix prices on eye glasses and violat ed the Sherman anti-trust act. The suits, originally filed July 23, 1946, say rebates were made by the companies to the eye doc tors. They say the rebates amount ed to about one-half the total price paid by the doctors' patients. SOME BOMB PLOT FAILS ROME, Feb. 13-(P)-An attempt to bomb the Rome headquarters of the communist-led Italian par tisan association failed tonight. A night watchman discovered the bomb and tossed it into the street where it exploded. sending prison made flax products through interstate commerce. The state officials Friday denied the charges made by plaintiffs and stated that for the past three years they have not been carry- ping on a flax or any other busi ness as alleged in the complaint. They pointed out that for the past 32 years their predecessors in office have bought flax from farmers, have retted and. dried it and separated the fibres from the woody substance by "scutching." The flax la then sold to manu facturers, the answer declared. The entire operation, it is stated, is carried on through employment and aid of prison inmates by vir tue of present state laws. 10 PAGES Tao ft Leap Year Spurs Feminine Valentine Charm f ST, ' " ( , Jr , ., VT V. 4 V i V i " i - Valentine's day and Leap Tear nuke a delightfully daageraas eambtnatlea as the abeve picture Illus trates (sUry stare 4). far i ,Tbe shy ray here 1m Bob Klmmel. 16 Abrama ave and the mod eat nsaU ' Foster. 14$$ State sL Good sports, these, becanso actually they've ' (Photo by Don Dill. Statesman staff photographer.) v Mercury Sets Year's High Balmy weather Friday nudged the thermometer up to 52 degrees the highest of the year but the U. S. weather bureau at Mc Nary field forecast that warm breezes would bring light rain to day. Despite warmer daytime tem peratures, the bureau predicted night and early morning tempera tures to remain near the freezing mark. Lowest expected tempera- tnr trnieht inH fiiinriav. morn n( is 33 degrees, according to the forecast. Soviet Adds to German Split BERLIN, Feb. 13-y!p)-Russia or dered a Soviet model of the British-American economic adminis tration set up in eastern Germany today. The action was a further step in the partition of Germany be tween east and west It marked a further departure from the uni fied four-zone economy promised by the big three at Potsdam in the summer of 1945. Marshall Vassily Sokolovsky, Russian commander in Germany, Issued directions for formation of a 25-member German "economic commission" in the eastern zone. It closely parallels the German administration set up by the Brit ish and American military govern ment at Frankfurt for their com bined zones. Woodburn Man Said Missing Police of three cities and state police were searching Friday for John L' ne, 74, Woodburn, who reportedly vanished after leaving his home Thursday morning for Dallas. City police Friday received a report from Dallas police stating that a Dallas resident who was expecting Lane to arrive Thurs day had asked police to search for the missing man. He is de scribed as S feet 11 inches tall, with brown eyes and auburn hair. He was wearing a brown suit and a black hat when he left Woodburn, police said. General Added To National Guard PORTLAND, Feb. 13-JP-Col. William D. Jackson of Portland was appointed brigadier-general In the Oregon national guard to day by Gov. John H. Hall. Jackson will be artillery com mander of the 41st infantry divi sion, with headquarters at Port land air base. IKHJNDID 1651 Oragoa Statesman. Salem, Oregon. ted ay It la a woman's prerogative Catwalk Saves Driver as Truck Totters on Bridge LA GRANDE. Feb. 13 -iff-A truck driver crept along a cat walk to safety today after a frigh tening half hour of dangling 100 feet above the Grande Ronde riv er. The truck and trailer: driven by Reid Blacker, of La Grande, crashed through the rail of the Grande Ronde bridge. It halted with rear wheels on the bridge. i the truck cab suspended over the , ner, Blacker, the doors from his dri ver's seat opening into space, eat gingerly in the teetering truck while passersby ran for rope and fence rail. With rcpe and rail, they strung up a catwalk leading from the truck door to the bridge. Traffic was held up for 10 hours before the bridge was cleared, stalling approximately 700 cars. The route was reopened at 5:38 p. m. Liquor Receipt Decline Shown Revenues from liquor tales in state liquor stores for the last six months of 1947 aggregated 323,009,292, a decrease of $807. 179 when compared with the same period in 1946, State Budget Di rector George Aiken announced here Friday. The report showed an increase in profits of $307,787 or 3.34 per cent over the ame six months in 1948. Total sales during the fiscal year ended June 30 were $42, 995,694. In the previous year the sales totaled $41,268,870. The late Governor Earl Snell, in his message to the 1947 legislature, estimated total liquor revenues during the biennium ending June 30, 1949, of $84,079,062 while the liquor commission's estimate was $55,034,000. Aiken said reports of the com mission up to this time support the late governor's estimates. China Reds Admit Capturing Yanks SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13 -;p) The Chinese communists acknow ledged today that they had cap tured five U. S. marines, who disappeared Christmas day north of Tsingtao, and that one had died of wounds. This confirmed a report by the Chines government at Tsingtao shortly after the Americans van ished. U. S. naval authorities last Monday said they still had no news of the men. The five enlisted men were on a hunting trip in a Jeep when taken. ' ' , - - "J"V a fx A U ''hv . ' . r 1 '- " V." -' : " I Saturday. February It, 1948 in Fire to taataiisa . aay eligible bachelor. idem profcrriag candy Is J earn never seen each ether before! WaMaccT Beery Accused in Paternity Suit LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13 -6P) Beefy Wally Beery, screen bad man, was accused today of fath ering the son of a 32-year-old film bit player, Gloria Whitney. The actor, admitting knowing the actress for IS years, denied the charge. Miss Whitney, suing under her real name, Gloria Schumm, al leged that Johan Richard Wal lace Schumm was born last Sat urday of an intimate rendezvous on or about last May 1. Beery, who was at. the hall of records on another matter when the suit was filed, told reporters wryly: "I have known Miss Whitney for 15 years. She has just been a casual acquaintance. There is absolutely no truth to the charge. I don't know why she is doing this." Miss Whitney listed hi age as 63. Prices Sink in Newport fWar' NEWPORT, Feb. 4-JP)-A price war brought a boon to coastal housewives here today. The Thrifty Market and the Thriftway Market, competing for trade, dropped their prices to lev els like this: Two pounds of oleomargarine for 4 cents. A 49-pounds sack of flour for $1.05. Two pounds of lard for 29 cents. Two pounds of fancy sliced bacon for 43 cents. The price warfare was confined to the two stores Newport's largest. The other, smaller mer chants were carrying on as usual. Ship on Columbia Pulled from Rocks PORTLAND, Feb. 13-Pl-Tugs pulled the Liberty ship Thomas Fitzsimons from a rock ledge in the Columbia river tonight, near ly 48 hours after the vessel ran aground. The 422-foot ship was taken to Longview to discharge its cargo of wheat for Japan, then to under go repairs. The vessel ran onto the ledge when outbound Wednesday night for Japan. Tugs could not free It until the bow was lightened by removal of tons of wheat. MAC DENIES LAB STORY TOKYO, Saturday, Feb. 14-6F) Spokesman for General MacAr thur denied today that the Bri tish are setting up laboratories In Japan to study the long-term effects of the atomic bomb. ?Ho. 229 Butter! at Head Jof Day's. Dip falling market prices pushed moat major cost of living commodities lower today, but the headlong; plunge of prices tended to level off in some lines. 1 Butter spearheaded the day's dip parade, breaking as much as 6 Va cents a pound Iri the whole sale markets and selling lower In reUil stores In several cities. More grocery stores clipped meat prices during the day. Rye, soybeans, and some corn contracts for future delivery crashed the dally permissible limits on North American exchanges.; A series of buying and selling waves kept the grain market In a turmoil, with prices skittering. At the end, however, all prices were coming down, j Although many? commodities made their strongest showing of the week, the most that could be said for the recovery effort was that it tended to check the pre cipitate slump. Wheat prices closed both higher and lower in Chicago. J ' i The New York stock exchange mad little Important headway in its post-holldsy session. Individ ual rail and Industrial stotks made recoveries but many mar ket leaders suffered from neglect The overall average' was up for me iirsx ume in a ween. Stocks moved-somewhat higher at London, Singapore and Tokyo. Mill prices of bakery flour c&mo down another five Cents st Min neapolis but home use flour. le- Salem Butter TJron Afi54nrftd Price, Sc Salem dairymen' if iliy n!ghlt jj were expecting Gutter price Ciop , of as much as S cents for today, , but awaited word of marketing ) conditions in Portland before pos ting their prices, Local butter prices ! In ' most f stores Friday was 98 cents. " - Although soma slipping wss no ticed in food prices here this wttk as a result of the slump in nstion al commodity markets, the butter price had remained fairly steady. PORTLAND, Feb! 13 -VD- But- f ter Is going tot be 2 to 4 cents , cheaper tomorrow. Some stores ( sold butter today at 89 cents. 'Synthetib'fGold Like Real Thing, Tends to Vanish i BERKELEY, Califs Feb. 13-CT) f -Vanishing gold has been produc ed on the big cyclotron at the University of California. It's not yet the old ; dream of the alchemists, but a matter cf ; academic interest. : , Dr. Geoffrey Wilkinson of the California radiation laboratory tells about It In "physical review.' ; In a abort time, the cyclotron golds breaks down Into other lesa, valuable elements as its radioac tive energies are dissipated. ' To produce gold, the- Berkeley j scientists bombarded Iridium and platinum with particles of heavy; hydrogen, or helium with a stream : of neutrons. Energies from 18,000- ' 000 to 30,000,000 electron volts are . used. ! Rockefeller Weds PALM BEACH! Fla-jFebhia. (JP) Tall and handsome Wlntjirop Rockefeller, heir to oil millions and one of America's most eligible young bachelors. took Barbara Sears, former actress and daugh ter of Lithuanian Immigrants i as his bride at 12:14 . m, today. Earlier in the evening, some 30 of Palm Beach's most noted winter residents, Including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Wool worth Donahue, Mr. lfudwn Vanderbilt and Mrs. Gloria Baker Kelly, attended a reception In the Guest home. I , MONEY TURNED TO FOOD WASHINGTON,: Feb. 13 -(JTi The $18,000,000 congress voted for additional aid to China will provide 18.600 long tons of wheat and 47,732 tons of rice, the tale department announced today. Weather Mas. . M Mln. Prerlp, 1 M MO i ! 4 . i 24 .IS ' Baton Portland Kan Francisco It 14 3 Chttaro to New York 17 .03 wmmtt river .1 mt a foot. roHECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field, Salem : Cloudy today and tonight .wltft Intermittent light rain, msnesi temperature wouy 43, low tonight 33. f SALEM Pag. CIFIT AXIOM (Slaee Sept. 1 Thla Year Lat Year 34JI Aver r as io i 2S.13