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- I : I ? I t i I 1 i i CUP" mo ODDS ire ma i . POUNDBD Ji . era nn - a a 11 . i i Satisfaction was felt when an nouncement w ajs made that boards of the two local hospitals had agreed . on a program of financing designed to provide new hospitals- for Salem. The prev ious disagreement had held up all activity on this line. Mean time the -need for added hos pital facilities continued with both hospitals forced to restrict admissions closely, hasten dis charges and continue housing patients in corridors ' or make shift rooms. To the bystander, however, the plan proposed and agreed to does not appear practical. It contem plates a single money-raising campaign, with donors permitted to designate which hespital their money is to g&to; and all un designated contributions to be divided equal. The grea$panger Is that the amounts M'm will not be suf ficient tofr da the job for either institution. Each hospital has had a goal of at least one million dollars in mind. The cost of con structing and equipping a mod ern hospital is such that it will take mat much for an economical unit for a city of this size. But two million dollars seems beyond the reasonable expectation from Salem. The money is her, to be sure, but. not the liberality to provide it The practical goal would not be" in excess of a mil lion and a quarter dollars. Unless virtually all of thit went to one hospital neither one would have enough to i . (Continued on editorial page) Boards Grant FundtoOCE ForRemodeling A $91,100 remodeling program for Oregon College of Education at Monmouth was approved Mon day by the state board of control and state emergency board in a joint meeting here. The boards learned that bids for the teacher training building work already have been received. The money was appropriated from the state building fund. Another $50,000 was appropria ted by the emergency board for paying the cost of Oregon na tional guard service at the Van port flood area this spring. Bal ance of the" $72,173 requested by Maj. Gen. Thomas Rilea, adju tant general, is to be made up by the 1949 legislature after it is spent tfrom current guard funds, the board indicated. The board alsoi pared from $25, 000 to $15,000 a .requested appro- priation for enforcing state brand inspection. Central and eastern Oregon cattlemen made the re quest, explaining that a recent legal action rediicing collectible inspection fees by 60 per cent has lett trie state witn- inspection points only at Oatario and North ""Portland. I Two requests were denied when the board passed over a si4,vuo rannaif frnm stat duration of ficials for maintaining on-the-job training inspection, ana rescind ed a $6,200 statt historical so ciety grant of last month on ad vice from Attorney General George Neuner that it was illegal. Dr. Irvin Hill,; superintendent of Fairview home, advised the board he would later request an emergency appropriation of $8, 405 required to operate a new children's cottage I at his institu tion until the next legislature He said the cottage would be opened September I instead of January 1 as originally proposed. The mo ney would be used for salaries and operating costs. Round World B-29s Arrive at Yokota "TOKYO, Tuesday, Aug. S -VP) Two B-29 bombers landed this morning at Yokota airfield, 20 miles west of Tokyo, on their around - the - world flight. They started July 22 frcan Tucson, Ariz. The planes 'will take off at 9 a. m. tomorrow, for Anchorage, Alaska. - Three planes began the long training flight, but one crashed at Aden last week -t Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Whit do YOU. ikt apogo stick forr NINETY-EIGHTH YEAB GO P Anti-Inflation Proposals Solons Deny Cloture Filibuster Gains 2nd Wind in talk For States' Rights WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -UP) filibustering Dixie senators won a major round today in their ef fort to talk the anti-poll tax bill to death. The presiding officer, Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich), decided that an effort to curb the de bate was in conflict with senate rules, and so the talkathon con tinued. It was highly doubtful whether the senate would reach a vote at this extra session on the bill to outlaw the poll tax as a qualifi cation for voting. The situation was this: Last Wednesday, Senator Wher ry (R-Neb) ' made "a motion to take up the bill which is part of President Truman s civil rights program. Southerners immediately start ed a filibuster against the motion, and since then the senate has been tied up in knots. Cloture Denied Today Wherry proposed that the senate invoke "cloture," which would limit each senator to one hour's talk.: Wherry's proposal would have required a two-thirds vote to become effective. But it never got to a vote. Vandenberg ruled it oat of order He did so reluctantly, he said, because he personally ; favors the anti-poll tax bilL He said it seemed plain to him that when the senate adopted its rules about; cloture in 1917, it meant that they should apply to pending bills, not to pending motions. And the matter pending be fore the senate today was a mo tion to take up the anti-poll tax bill and not a bilL Plan Rales Chance ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -(IP) Senator Taft (R-Ohia) said to day the GOP will try to change the senate rules next. January so that debate can be shut off when ever a majority wants it. Chairman; of the republican policy comihittee, he : made the pronouncement aften southerners had started filibustering an ap peal he made against a ruling by Senator Vandenberg (R Mich), the presiding officer. County Health Proposal Held Not Permitted If Polk and Marion counties go through with a recent proposal to share expenses of a joint health officer, then Polk county cannot share in federal matching funds for its health department, Dr. Gor don B. Edwards of the state health department told Marion county court Monday. At a recent meeting of the two counties' courts it was decided to hire an additional health officer and to split his services between Marion and Polk counties. Polk county has no health officer ser vices at this time, its county court cald, but will 'pay $3,000 toward an officer's : salary. Dr. Edwards said Monday that federal matching funds cannot be used when a health officer is em ployed only part time. He sug gested that the two counties join in a two-county health district As of last night the Marion county court had not been advised of any new plans of the Polk county court. Dr. Edwards said he would advise the 'Polk court of the situation immediately. French Seek 52 Aboard Missing Plane at Sea PARIS, Aug. 2 -UPy Air France said tonight it was forced to con cede that only some mechanical defect could xplain the disap pearance of its huge J flying boat which is missing over the south Atlantic with 52 persons aboard. Therefore, the air line officials said, they were grounding all sea planes of that type . the 73-ton, six-engine La tecoere 631 pend ing an exhaustive study of the plane. . : I , Bad weather tonight hampered rescue ships and pjanes which have been searching the ocean since the giant airliner vanished nearly two days ago. lit failed to arrive at Port Ztienne,- Mauritania, West Africa, after taking off from Martinique; in the French West Indies. V The last radio report from the missing plane said all was well. Air France said since the weather was favorable. It was unreason able to assume the plane had been bothered by storms, i U PAGES Tli Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oracon, Tuesday, Prepared; Bank Credit Curbs, Aids for Housing Said on New Bill By Francis W. LeMay WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -VP)-The congressional republican high command today drew the outlines of a GOP anti-inflation program, flatly- rejecting most of President Truman's proposals. Chairman Wolcott (R-Mich.) of the house banking committee told reporters he probably would in troduce the republican bill on Wednesday. The GOP program, in a pre liminary stage and not formally announced, was reported to in clude: Tighter Credit Included 1. Legislation to tighten bank credit by increasing bank reserve requirements. 2. A housing bill that would enact (a) the so - called "title 6" under which the government insures mortgages oh new dwel lings; (b) legislation giving in vestors in rental property tax savings by increasing the rate of depreciation of the property; and (c) yield insurance, guaranteeing a profit for investors in large rental properties. The housing bill, eliminating the controversial federal low-rent housing and slum clearance, pass ed the house during the regular session and is pending in the sen ate. Mr. Truman has asked for that measure, with the subsidized housing feature back in it, along with price and rationing controls, and a multi - billion dollar excess profits tax Installment Curbs Tabled The republican program outline was drawn at a meeting of house Speaker' Martin, Senator Taft of Ohio, House Republican Leader Halleck of Indiana, and Wolcott. They also discussed whether wartime controls on installment buying should be restored. Indi cations were that no agreement was reached on this subject. The session was held amid in dications that congress might clean up its extra session work and quit in a few days. The Truman profits tax bill was sent to the capitol earlier in the day. Republican leaders let it be known immediately it has no more chance of enactment that the pre sident's price control. Aug. 4 Quitting Defeated WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 rJJP)r- The senate late today voted down, 58 to 13, a resolution to adjourn the special congressional session August 4. The resolution was offered by Senator Johnston (R-SC). It ga thered support only from his Dix ie colleagues while northern de mocrats and republicans joined forces to defeat it. 51,584 People Now in Salem Population of Salem now Is es timated at 51,584 by Postmaster Albert Gragg. The estimate is based upon residential stops made by postal Carriers within the city limits, Gragg said. This is an increase of 5,680 over August, 1947, when the es timate was 48,904, Gragg said. The stops considered do not in clude any in (he business district although some persons do live in the business district, Gragg said. CITIES SEEK SALES TAX SPOKANE. Aug. 2.-MPV-Wash- ington's cities will ask the next state legislature for part of the state sales-tax funds or a sales tax of their own, it was indicated to day by i Paul Schif fner, assistant corporation counsel for Spokane. Navy Pooh-Poohs Mines SEATTLE, Aug. S -JP)- United States navy and coast guard headquarters early today dis counted a Vancouver (B. C.) News-Herald story that stray Russian; mines are endangering west coast shipping. The 13th naval district said that numerous reports of Russian mines hi Pacific northwest wat ers have been , received during the past year, but all proved false. The 13th coast guard district also confirmed that no Russian mines have been sighted off the Washington and Oregon coasts. Both 5 branches of the service said that each of the 60 mines detonated on northwest beaches since last February has ' been Japanese. Prevailing tides -have prevented any mines from drift ing ashore in the past SO. days and none are expected until con Budens Talks With Cliairmah of Hearing r :. WASHINGTON, D. CL. Aug. t Loais F. Budens, former communist editer, talks with Chairman Homer Ferguson (R-Mleh.) f a senate subcommittee la Washington, D. C, before testifying that -the communist party f the United States Is a fifth eeluma of Soviet Russia." Left te right: Budens, Sen. Irving Ives (B-NY), Edward Thye (R-Mlna.) and Ferguson. (AP Wlrepheto to The States- ) West Salenn Ordeirs PGE Poles WEST SALEM, Aug. 2 - West Salem city council tonight or dered Portland General Electric acquired from Mountain States Power Co. from city streets and also refused the PGE permission to Demand for removal of the by a divided vote Councilman Elmer Burk urged that the company Petitions Seek Franchise for Salem Electric Over 1,000 signatures had been obtained by Monday night on pe titions seeking to place a franchise privilege measure on the Novem ber city ballot for Salem Electric, H. B. Read, manager, announced Only 262 more signatures are needed to place the measure on the ballot The measure would provide franchise in areas where the utility now furnishes service, and in other areas where over 50 per cent of the legal voters or, users of electrical energy request the service by pe titions filed with the city recorder, Read said. Read said that Salem Electric now furnishes over 90 per cent of West Salem electric service and that he hoped through the .new measure to be able to provide more and better service to Salem. Present operations of the co operative -on the Salem side of the river are limited to connections from 20 poles. The city council has denied Salem Electric a gen era! franchise. 'Worthless9 Oil Land Makes Him Millionaire LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 -UP) An oil strike cleared a promot er's record today. George Leingang of Bakers field was convicted in 1944 of grand theft Two- men charged Leingang had sold them worth less oil land. Recently, oil was found in the Cuyama valley, be tween Bakersfield and Santa Barbara. Today Leingang testified he had paid the men $6,500 in restitution. was worth "close to a million dollars' as a result of the strike. A superior court judge ordered the record of his conviction ex punged. ditions change in October. The few located at sea since July 1 have been Japanese-type. In Vancouver the story was challenged by Rear Adm. E. Rollo Mainguy, Pacific coast flag offi cer for the Royal Canadian navy. He said all mines destroyed by the RCN were Japanese. The News-Herald Speculated that Russian mines may have been carried eastward across the Pacific ocean by the : Japanese current from Siberian harbor mine fields. - The story was based Ton re ports from fishermen arriving here from the west coast of Van couver island." . i i Coast fishermen, the Story said, maintain the mines do not con form with known types of Japa nese mines " and are definitely Russian weapons.' Price ;7 KerrDoved company to remove poles recently replace a pole on Edgewater street. Mountain States poles was adopted be directed to come before the council and explain what use was to be made of the Mountain States lines through town which PGE recently' acquired. Burk voted against the motion while Council men W. C. Heise and Chester Douglas did not vote. Councilmen Donald Kuhn, A. F. Gof frier and Roy Stevens approved it. City attorney Elmer Cook re ported -the change in .ownership effective since the last meeting. The long - standing' complaint against the Mountain States lines, that they interfered with radio reception in West Salem, was re peated by several. Councilmen who favored re moval of the poles, were firm but not heated about their demands. Councilman Stevens in discus sing it with Burk said, They have had a million chances to ex plain," to which City Attorney Cook interposed, "Well, at least a hundred chances. The request to replace the pole near Puritan market was dated May 27 and denial was made by adoption of the committee re port which said the "pole was good as it is " (Additional details on page 2) Negroes Denied School Entry NORMAN, Okla., Aug J -VP)- A state coust today denied ad mission to the University 'of Ok lahoma to three negro women, and negro leaders announced they would carry the fight against Oklahoma's racial segregation laws again to the supreme court One of the three rejected was Mrs. Ada Fisher of Chickasha, who for more than two years has waged a court fight to enter the university law school. The others were Mauderie Han cock - Wilson and Helen Maxine Holmes, both of Oklahoma City. District Judge T. Justin Hin shaw denied court orders sought by the three women to ; compel the university touaroD. them for graduate studies. Driver Must Pay $8,000 Damages, In Fatal Crasli f Lloyd C. McKenzle, Salem, was ordered to pay S8.000 damages by a Marion county circuit court Jury decision Monday night in a neg ligence suit brought : against him by Grant C Rogers, " i Rogers is the father of Betsey Lou Rogers, 18, who was killed in and auto-train crash near the state penitentiary last August SO. Mc Kenzie la the driver of the car in which? Miss Rogers was riding at the time of the accident Separate suits brought by Rog ers against the Southern! Pacific railroad company . and Harvey Holzcamn, railroad employe, were dismissed by the court following jury action Monday night 'August 3, 1948 5c No. 121 Y Budenz Claims Commies Busy In Government WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -UP)- A "considerable" red fifth column It was pot known whether the has wormed Its way into the U. S. talks with Stalin will be on an in government senate investigators dividual group basis. Previously were told today by Louis Budenz, it has been customary for the Rus former editor of the communist sian leader to see representatives Daily Worker. from the western powers Individ- wna wruie some communists are "confused" enough to believe their loyalty is to the United States, he went on, the majority of party members would stand with Russia in case of war. The party aim. Budens asserted is to serve Moscow s purpose of world domination, including "dom inance of the Soviet government of Russia over the United States." The party itself, he said, is a Soviet "fifth column." Budenz gave that sweeping out line of communist godlr and tac tics in testimony to? a senate ex penditures subcommittee. Me said he had "every reason to believe" a sensational emimare tnrv nr viouslr told to tha commits bv Elizabeth Rentier. Miss Bntlev. tlHn of wr time activities s a Soviet secret aeenL named dozens of II. s. of- ficials and employes, all the way to the White House, as sources of a flood ot secret information she said she collected. Budens furnished a moment of drama In today's hearing when he turned I the witna chair tn identify the 40-rear-old Vaaaar fSSSS "uLun kn,w " Budenz also told the subcom mittee that the communist party gets "a very big take from Holly wood," as he discussed how- the party financed its operations.. PHPTT ANn rm A., vx William D. Browne, Oregon chair- I EfobblT J?r ftober M1,?en man nf an Am.HMn TAn Toomu Ju. Rilea revealed Mon- mlttee on communism. reDorted to-1 m aH4 mmiwu VVMl- day that he has an affidavit signed br i rammuniit luritr km.4 Hollywood collections for the party averaged 132,000 a week. Browne, a member of the Port- land police department, said the data was obtained during a 1938-37 probe of communism In the Los Angeles' area. Israeli Warns Of New Fight CAIRO, Aug. ZXAVIsraeli For eign Minister Moshe Shertok threatened today to reopen thejLodi flight instructors were killed Palestine war If Arab armies con- tinue to break the United-Nations- ordered truce. Shertok told a news conference In" Tel Aviv the "nreaence of in- vading armies on the borders of Israel is a continuation of a state of war and is Quite intolerable. He said he had learned the Ef -1 yptians had opened a full scale I offensive in the south today with I air and ground attacks In the Ne- geb desert area. RAF Drops Bombs On Malaya Rebels KUALA LUMPUER, Malaya, Tuesday. An fir. &-(JP-RAT Snlt- 1 fires, dropping aerial bombs for I umj u wujc uuvw i insurrection began, destroyed an i insurgent camp in southern Perak state today, the RAF sanounced. The RAT previously used rocx-l ets and machineguns in fighting I rohIc hut not aerial bombs. The comnnmlpie gave no details of I toaays auaat a rmnju . By Eddy MOSCOW, Aug 2 -UP)- Envoys of the'U. S Britain and Franca emerged smiling and in good spirits tonight after, conferring in the Kremlin with Prime Minister Stalin on the chances of settling e&tt west differences in Berlin and all Europe. ' I 1 j Their two-hour-and- 15-minute meeting was the longest any for-, eign representatives have ever had with the Russian leader. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov also was present.) j j v The western power diplomats left the walled center of the Soviet ' government at 11:15 p. m. (6 p. m. PDT) and hurried to the Ameri can embassy where they immediately fent into conference. I ! At tne emDassy, tne tnree west ern envoys UJ5. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, French Am bassador Yves Chataigeau and Frank Roberts, special British rep resentative! - had no immediate comment to make on their con versations with the soviet leader. Obviously In a great hurry and in good humor, they pounded up three flights of stairs to Smith's office without waiting for the ele vator. ! Progress Said Made Even before their Kremlin visit there were indications of an eas ing of the 'tense international sit uation. Authoritative sources- said progress already has been made among the four great powers. During the night official re ports on the meeting with Stalin will be dispatched to Washington, London and Paris. Other UJS., British and French officials already were in the em bassy waiting for their chiefs to return from the kremlin. Smith told reporters: "General issimo Stalin and Mr. Molotov re ceived us all at a meeting." Then he added: "There wil prob ably be a commurflque to that ef fect tonight. I don't think there will be anything more. I'm sorry, but that's alL" Big 4 Meet Speculated (British diplomatic writers speculated that the meeting with Stalin soon might lead to a con ference of Stalin, President Tru man, Prime Minister Attlee and French Premier Andre, Marie. (A strict official silence was ob served by the U- state depart ment and the British and French foreign offices on a 11. aspects of the western nations' latest approach to Russia. British officials said any leakage of Information about what the western powers are proposing might ruin the outcome of the Moscow talks.) ually. 1 " .o I i ' "i ' O . CraWIOrQ Olte ?,T,-B-vr.A A,V I i ' J ApprOVCCl lOl I X X ; Union School TURNER,. Aug. 2.(Special)-A seven-district vote tabulated here tonight howed that the Crawford site was favored by a 19-vote mar gin for the construction of the new u t n e r - Aums ville union high school. The site is about three miles southeast of Turner at the site of the present Crawford school I on the Turner-Marion road. Its cost ot the district will be $8,000 The ballots showed. 218 in favor I of the Crawford site and 200 in avor t" Darley site, which had betn PProved by an election last December, , ... Voters cast ballots Monday In Turner, Aumsvillc, Marion, ortn, ntim' w f,13?01' LCrawford and Qoverdale districts. Guard Offices To Quit ,Salem Oregon ! national guard offices, located in Salem since World War I i. are ra oe movea to roniana, "?. . I . Gnerai Rilea said plans are now in progress to house the urd offices in the Portland ar- mory. vunaiuerui inicnor re- modeuhg j will be required, for which funds are now available, Virtually all headquarters com- I panies now are located in Port land, Rilea said, and most emer gencies have been handled there. The guard offices were located in Portland before being transferred to Salem. Son of j Toledo Couple Killed in Plane Crash LODI. Calif- Aug. J.-4R-Two msxanuy woen ineir xigni piane crashed at the Lodl air show yes- I??7', v The fliers, Arnold Fachner, 28, Snd Lloyd Brown. 43, were Stunt hig the plane when it plunged 150 feet to the ground. Both men are survived by widows and mine? Children. Brown is the son of Mr. Mrs. Clyde G. Brown, Toldeo, ur- Weather Max. Mia Preelp. ss m M J0O S3 trace M - JM Salm Portland Tt San rraoelaco . as sa Chleago ,;,..,- New York ss , joe Wluamett river -S S feet. FORECAST (from VJS. weather bu miil MeJCarv field. Salem): Generally fair today, becoraln partly cloudy to- f 'h ""!r07Tl cj)5 !al.lJ2 Mraturea wiui hish today as: nicnt si. Amcuiturai outlook cood to- day eept iorBvornlBf ctoudlnaw and fSSS forthwtrt :wd to i - , . : f axmm FmaciWATioit ; . l rr f Left Year Averart im - t scoi wim GUaaore Guard Ordered Td Ohio Plant; Pickets Ready DAYTON,' oJ AugliLCov. Thomas J. Herbert ,iate today r dereii the Ohioi national guard to move in and 'maintain lawr and ordet" ' ft the jUnivis Lens j com pany plant; scene of strike disor ders j v fit ' Company officials Immediately announced plans to ra-oDen trm I plant tomorrow 'morning. ; The governor accused the CIO Unitjsd Electrical Workers Iocs I at the plant of "a complete breach of gooq faith" in riot endlag a 8tf-iy strikje. He saidj it was imperatne thatjthe t. ! send in troops.) Nt t. Co soi Herbert added in a formal statement, would min submission to j the dictates 1 tt a grout) of men Wie seem determin ed t4 pursue a course of violations of obr laws" and in defiance t court orders.' j j As a showdown nearedj; . tr union eppealedi to all Daytorii un ions to ma.s pickets at the bit t entrance re at t Z0 a r ' m. (ESTJ to- morrow, Meanwhile, five TJE bfflrUl irj pickets were found guilty of con tempt for Ignoring a court crc:-r to remain awsy front the plart. Common Pleas Judge Paul T. Klap warned) them they would be Jjailed immediately fit they re appeared therej. He postponed sea tencje until tomorrow. I j p Governor Herbert said1 he left Dayton last night with an agrte menjt to terminate the jstrik'siri-. ed y . UE officials, then !."this moitiing I learhed that this agree- meat was repudiated." A3 group of 225 strikine: workers refused to ratify the settlement approved by i their leaders. Thar vote was mous. , announced as una fa- union reprtesentatiies refuttd i anjrt comment tonight. . ,1 i . The striki originally began sk a wage dispute. !La week the com. panpr gave nl employes an 11-cent-hourly Injcrease. This left ,m mai issue at the company's irr sistence on firing 11 rlrikers whom 1 .tmrrton Iara :i ; it accused of tflazranfc vinlaiinn ox me lawr' -II under the ejrte;r.ent teached 11 would have bn last! night the paid by the company for a 30-rir.y period while their cases were turn rod whil 1 ver to ed over to an i arbitrator. H . U.S., Russians Trade Blasts On Arms Gut LAKE SUCCESS. ST V-fA VP)f- The United SUtes accused Russia today of obstructing Unit- ea piauons attempts to reduce ar,d regulate world arms. Russia heat edly repliedl that the United Stajtes and Britain had sabotaged the arms cutting program, h The flare-up between Freder Ickj IL Osborn. United States riel- egste, and Jackob A.! Malik;! Sov iet! deputy Joreign minister, came at fan open; meeting of the U. S. commission for conventional I arm anients. It . was the latest and apparently the most interna . clash between U. 8J and JSoviet delegates inl a long series c f wdrdy arguments in j the commiv- The commission Virtually has given up 'efforts to write an arms regulation convention because Ruasia and the western powers cahnot agreei :n ' - i H - Binen America gain Private IOBOKEN. N. Aug. M- The liner America 4 largest mer chant ship ef er built in the U. S. 4 was returned to private owner ship today bySthe Ul S. Maritime commission. I ' .'I fThe Maritime -coaimission has operated the ship since 1943.1 At brief ceremonle, the America ' St&tes Linesi' Tomorrow she will sail on her first transAtlanric voy age as a privatelyvowned ship, though she has been in constant 3 rice since 1940. Tien the ship was built, it was ble to enter JU. SJ Lines Service because of the war in lurooe. I4ter, the government requiitioned use liner as a troopship. POSTMAN'S KAISE SOUGIXT jStnNC!TON, Aug. l-'-m-r Jfiiation to Increase the pay of tubst postofflce workers $330 a yiiar and to set up- a 35-hour work week was Introduced today by Senators Langer (R-ND) and Johnson (D-SC). -i3