eacxEn BiroadleirDedl Foe TTisio I eu Aerial search for three person missing on a Salem-Los Angeles flight, Including a 34 -year -old woman lumber broker of Port land, will be broadened over-a wide area of inland mountains today. The plane, a iBeechcraft Bon anza, left Salem Saturday and was destined for its first stop- ei ther at Sacramento or Red Bluff. It has not been reported at eith er place. A. Reported aboard were Ruth Meyers of the Parilius Lumber company, Portland; Paul D. Starr, S2, pilot sand former B-17 pilot in the 8th air force, and president of the P. D. Starr Lumber company, Southgate, Calif., and .R5bf1ft Starr, 34, former West Point ath letic director, a brother of Paul and associated in business with him. It was feared mountain storms had caught them over the Siski- TOUS. At Eugene last night, the Asso ciated Press quoted Lt. Theodore B. White of the air rescue service, McChord field, as saying the EFtP TKDODDCg The state budget, will create a problem for the" legislature to solve: too "ouch expense, not enough Income as laws now are written. The national budget is living the administration some tough days before congress meets, and will provide plenty of staff for the 81st congress to work oyer. President Truman wants to how the budget down to $40 billion, which is nearly $3 billion from the current budget. To do this he ha Instructed Secretary Forrestal to hold the military budget to $15 billion, up about $4 billion from the present appropriation. Heads of the several branches of the serv ice contend this sum up is quite inadequate. The air force calls for more money to set up its 70-group air power; the army wants more money to get its new selective service enrollment into training; the navy wants money to build huge carriers (floating air bases). Add to the demands of the mili tary establishment the claims of foreign relief ; and rearmament. EBP will ask-fot-anotber $5 bil lion, more or less, for grants and loans. Western Europe is turning to the United States for military supplies, guns, tanks, planes, muni tions. To be able to repel invasion these nations need to be rearmed and look to Uncle Sam to do the rearming. Then if the administration makes good on its promises for federal aid to education, federal housing, more money for reclamation and power plants the requirements for domestic uses will be gregtly in creased. All of this adds up to more taxes. But with business now showing signs of doubt about the future, tax increases hardly look like the right prescription. The great aanger is inai a re vival of the big scale government (Continued on Editorial Page.) Court Resumes Considerations Oh Senate Post Marion county court will re convene today at 10 a. m. to again consider a state senate successor to Governor-elect Douglas Mc Kay. The court met briefly Monday morning and continued the hear ing jpntil today. Court members County Judge Grant Murphy and Commissioners Ed Rogers and Roy Rice were uncertain Monday as to whether a choice would be made today. 4 "Anyone wishing to talk to the court concerning any candidate may do so up to the time the ac tual decision is reached," Judge Murphy said. Several new names were added Monday to the list which already contains the names of more than 20 aspirants. The newcomers in clude John Roberts, hop grower living south of Salem, and Oscar Xdlund, Silverton appliance dealer. Animal Crackers By BARREN GOODRICH "He keeps arguing with submarines." v - centered at Med- ford, but the CAP pilots from Eu- gene would con iinue the hunt in that area. At the Siskiyou mountain town of Yreka, Calif.j a mine operator said he heard a plane circle Mt. Etna for a halff-hour late Satur day, then head away in the clouds. Army search iplanes from Mc Chord field. Wash., Went over the southern Otegon-ri d r t h e r n California area Monday without a sign of the aingfe-engine red-and-silver plane. I Lieutenant tlThite said Paul Starr flew frojhn California last Friday to buyf lumber, heading for Eugene, bi that he became lost in the overcast and landed at Salem with onljr 2.6 gallons of gas remaining in tjpe tank, or about 14 minutes flyiihg time; He went to Eugene Friday night, leaving his plane in Sajlem. Leaves Saturday Noon Saturday nodn he returned here and emplaned j with his brother and Miss Meyers. He was report ed missing by his wife, who called McChord field Sunday. search would be PGE Given More Time To Move West Salem Poles By Winston H. Taylor Staff Writer, The Statesman WEST SALEM. Dec; 8 A reprieve for Portland General Electric company, ordered in August to remove a line of power poles along Second street, vas voted Monday night by West Salem city council. The long sessitip reviewed the history of a dispute over the line and resulted in an exchange of argu ments between the councilmen and four representatives of PGE. On motion oif Councilman Roy Stevens, the Cftn was given time to make a suj-vey of relocation possibilities. j Fred Starrett, PGE division manager here, laid the company's checks had found radio interfer ence scattered throughout the city and no noticeable increase along Second street. j Mountain. States Power com pany recently sold the line to PGE. Feeding from the Bonneville sub station at Eolajit was. on October 5 cut down from 66,000 to 57,000 volts to tie in Hth the firm's val ley grid. It serf ices the West Sa lem substation iand provides PGE a second line frpm Eola across the river to Salem. Starrett's presentation was aided by Larry Flags', Salem, Willam ette valley superintendent; Hi S. Johnson, Portland, general divis ion manager, nd O, O. James, Portland, chief joad dispatcher. The council also: Tabled for thk-ee months action on sale of city-wned property at Seventh and Patterson streets, for which a bid of $1,000 was received. Sentiment was expressed that the lot should not! be sold without open bids. I Approved Albert F. Lamb's audit fo rthe to September quarter, which allowed nearly one third of the city's annual budget already spent 121,098 out of $63, 570. Directed a letter to Southern Pacific railroad to improve the Bassett street crossing. Ordered ditching along Murlark avenue and across Ninth street to allow drainage. Selected Dr. p. A. Olson as Red Cross disaster chairman for the West Salem area, succeeding Dr. A. F. Goffrier. This Family Tree Adds Generation Mr. and Mj-s. Lynn Forrest Woods of Woiodburn are par ents of a new daughter, born Sun day at Salem General hospital. Neighbors art awaiting anxious ly to learn the name of the latest branch of the Woods family. Incriminating Evidence WASHINGTON Dee. f Richard Nixon (R-CaL) (right), wbt made a dramatic night te Washington from Panama-bound steamer today,, views fmierofilns of state department papers with Robert Stripling, chief investigator for the house an -American activities committee. The films were found on the Maryland farm ef Wnittaker Chambers, admitted former Soviet agent (AP Wlrephote te The Statesman.) Lt White said he had five L-9's waiting at Eugene to go to Med ford. Oregon state police will do ground interrogating in the moun tains, he reported. The state po lice search plan is under the direc tion of C. W. Nelson, safety su pervisor of the state aeronautics board, who is having civilian search pilots route-search the air ways to California and also the light line (valleys leading to Cal ifornia). Aiding in the search centered at Medford will be six L-5's, two PBY amphibious crafts, a C-47, and radio trucks and weasels. Miss Meyer came to Portland to work after visiting the northwest in 1939 as secretary to Harold J. Lasky, British economist on a lec ture tour. She was an assistant Portland area director for the war manpower commission during the war years and established her own. lumber brokerage firm in 1947. The Starr brothers were among her clients. She was planning a visit in the Los Angeles area with relatives. Her father, a retired physician, has been ill. Lovers' Lane Deaths Mount; Two Men Die VERNONIA, Ore., Dec. 6 - (PV The boy friends of two 16-year-old girls found dead in a gas filled coupe parked in a lovers' lane near here died tonight. Robert J. Phillips, 21, Mayger, and Allen Jurvakainen, 22, Clat skanie, succumbed in a Portland hospital. They had remained un conscious since the tragedy was discovered yesterday morning by a funeral parlor employe. They died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The girls, Bernadine King and Mary Lou Wolf, both of Vemonia, were found dead in the arms of the young men. , State police said today a piece of innertube had fallen through a rear compartment floor hole and covered the exhaust pipe, forcing the fumes into the automobile. Teamster Union Expels Members For Line Passing Seventeen Pacific Fruit & Pro duce Co. employes in Salem, Al bany and Corvallis have been ex pelled from the striking Salem lo cal 324 of the teamster union for crossing picket lines, it was report ed Monday by Ward Graham, secretary-treasurer of the union. He said the union's executive board confirmed the expulsion as approved earlier by vote of the lo cal members. The union is seeking to retain a five-day work week contract clause which the company has indicated is impractical be cause of the perishable nature of goods handled. The men who went back to work, about half the membership involved in the strike, last week had asked the union to sign the offered contract with the company and had denied the union's charge that the company violated fair la- bor practice by dealing individual ly with some employes. r 'A . v Ji VT 88th Year 12 PAGES Carrier Four Still Missing In Pacific HONOLULU. Dec. 6 -JPf- The aircraft carrier Rendova radioed tonight it has picked up 33 sur vivors of a ditched C54 transport plane which went down in the Pa cific yesterday with 37 men aboard. (Word received at Johnston isl and, 715 miles southwest of Hono lulu and search headquarters, gave the position of the survivor rafts as 520 miles southwest of Johnston. (This is approximately the same position in which an empty air dropped rescue boat was reported sighted earlier today.) The Rendova was ordered to proceed to Kwajalein island after a check on whether it would be necessary to search for four men still missing. The aircraft carrier was about 900 miles from Kwaja lein, a 2 day run to Oahu. First word on the dramatic pickup of the 33 survivors gave no information on their condition after a day and a half on rafts. The navy arranged for a voice in terview with survivors at 11 p.m. Hawaii time. The Rendova messaged that all 33 survivors were "well and hap py" after spending a day and a half on rafts 1.200 miles south west of Honolulu. The ditched C54 carried 30 airforce personnel and seven crewmen. The aircraft carrier said there appearer to be little hope of re covering the four missing men. The Hawaiian sea frontier still was studying whether a further search will be made. The plane went down Sunday, after radioing that two engines had failed. The C-54 is a four-en-gined land plane, the military counterpart of the civilian DC -4. It was one of five carrying ground personnel of the 98th bomb group home to their Spokane. Wash., base after three months cf training in Okinawa. The other four landed safely and then par ticioated in the hunt. The lost plane's . automatic radio signal was heard for eight min utes after it was ditched at sea. This led to hopes that the 30 pas sengers and seven crew members had a good chance to escape in the adequate life rafts the plane carried. Silverton City Manager Quits; Council Accepts SILVERTON, Dec. 6 Resigna tion of R. E. Borland, city manager of Silverton for the past four years, was accepted at the city council meeting Monday night. Borland had resigned earlier in No vember but upon urging of the council members had withdrawn the resignation at a special meet ing on November 26. TURKEY PRICES UP PORTLAND. Dec. 6 -JP- Tur key prices bounced up 4- cents a pound above Thanksgiving lev els. Willamette valley producers were offered 64-65 cents a pound on grade A hens. New York style dressed. Grade A toms were 49 50 cents. Weather Max. Min. Precip. SALEM 44 37 .19 Portland 44 39 .43 San Franci!co 55 40 .21 Chicago 55 31 .18 Npw York 52 48 .00 Willamette liver 8.2 feet. Forecast (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Sa'.em) : Cloudy with oc casional light rains this morning, be coming partly cloudy with shower tonight. High todav 45. low tonight 37. SALEM PRECIPITATION Front sept. I t Dec. 7) This Year Lat Year Average 15.19 15 M 11.82 Santa and the Snoiv Man . . . This delightful Christmas aerial fa about a little lame bey. Danny, who with the aid ef his Snow Man comes te Santa In search ef a new leg. The first chapter appears est page 7 of ' The Oregoa States man today. The story Is by Lnereee Hedging, one ef the meet popu lar aethers ef children's stories. Its 17 Installments, one each day, will appear In YOUR DOME NEWSPAPER. The Oregon Rescues Victims GRANTS PASS, Dec. Sterling Heater, IS (top), star end, and AI Newman, IS (lower), reserve halfback, were killed In the tragie crash of a bos loaded with home-bound football players Sunday night, five miles north of here. The boys had played for Grants Pass Saturday when they beat Jefferson high school In Portland for the state high school football title. (AP wlrepboU te the Statesman.) Highway Crash Kills Two Prep Grid Titlists GRANTS PASS. Ore., Dec. 9 -(JPy Five miles from a victory cel ebration, the state champion Grants Pass high school football team crashed into the flames of a highway accident last night. Two were killed, 26 injured. Their special bus. nearing the end of a long trip from the title game at Portland, skidded off the Pacific highway north of here and burst into fire. End Sterlin Heater, a star of the chamDionship game won bv Grants Pas over Jefferson of Portland. 6-0 and Reserve Half back Al Newman were killed.' Five of the injured reouired hospital ization, but none was in serious condition. Celebrants Wait About 1.000 parents and fans were awaiting the team's arrival here, when word of the crash came. Many rushed to the scene. There they found the wreckage, still flaming, on a sharp slope this side of the Sexton mountain sum mit. The rear end of the bus had broken off and tumbled into a gully, 75 feet below the road. The body of one boy was found in the wreckage, the other at the bottom of the gully. Jesse Lofer. athletic director who was aboard, said the driver, Arthur Coale of Portland, began "fighting the wheel" on the slip pery road after passing the sum mit. Helped Others Loffer said the bus veered off the road, and just as Coale seemed about to get the vehicle back on the highway, the bus skidded, spun around and overturned. Flames broke out at once, and Loffer shouted for the boys to re main calm and break panes and crawl out the. windows. They did bo all except New man and Heater. Ray Alpeter, one of the players, said Heater lost his life helping others. The uninjured Heater re fused to crawl out. and stayed to help Alpeter escape. The flames apparently trapped him. Joint funeral services for the two boys will be held at the high school auditorium at 2:00 pjn. Wednesday. Business firms will close during the hours of the fun eral. Attempts Reseae Loffer said he was the last out of the bus. He said he looked Around, could see no one else re maining and then crawled. He ran to the rear and found Keith Bertrand, one of the players, at tempting to crawl back in through the flames to remove Newman. Loffer said he had to pull Bert rand away to save his life. (Bus pictured on page 12) met' 't synejernn ' -rwx ' i '- ' -i -.'4 '-r.- - ' 1 j - :. . . t - v-.. -4 r.'. . . .' . . ' ' f - ','" "A A- POUMDOD 1651 Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, December 7, 1948 33 from Ditched C-54 JJapsS Pecotoon To Cmeaur ippeaD Chinese Reds Claim More Gains in War By Seymour Topping f NANKING,; Dec. 6 - (yp) - The Chinese communists announced to night they had trapped and were rapidly destroying three govern ment army groups which abandon ed Suchow to try to aid another encircled group 60 miles southwest. This was the force which had been "the government's main reli ance to stave the communists off from Nanking less than 200 miles to the southeast. Comprising the second. 13th and 16th army groups, it was estimated to total 250,000 men, of whom 110, 000 were combat troops. The communist broadcast, heard in Nanking, said 20,000 already had been "annihilated" in fighting from Dec. 2 through Dec. 4. It said all the others, including many civilian officials from Su chow, were locked in a "manifold" encirclment and soon would be wiped out if they refused to sur render. It said the whole force to talled 22 divisions. There was no confirmation from government circles of such a stag gering blow, but generalized re ports from the front let strong col or to the communist claims. The Red broadcast said the trap was in an area bounded by Hsiaoh sien, Tangshan , Yungshan and Yungcheng. These towns, 15 to 50 miles southwest and west of Su chow, define an equilateral trian gle 35 miles on each side. They are 190 to 225 miles northwest of Nan king. Previous government dispatches have depicted the army groups fighting due south from Suchow. Just before; the communist an nouncement, however, authorita tive government sources said the groups actually had veered west ward when a Red holding force blocked them on the south. It also was conceded that, havr ing destroyed the huge Suchow supply depots, the groups had only very limited food and munitions. v Foreign military observers said these groups were the principal government Strength remaining in all east China. They agreed that a desperate break-through was the only alternative to defeat. Midwest Blanketed By Snow Storms CHICAGO. Dec. 6-(fVThe wind-whipped snowstorm which piled drifts from Kansas to nor thern Minnesota moved north eastward into Canada tonight. A masr of cold air stirred up in the storm's wake, spread over the upper Mississippi valley and the Great Lakes region to the Appa lachians. Meanwhile, heavy snows in the northern California mountains lessened and most of the nation had clear weather. Temperatures were rising today in the chill nor thern Rockies. Lloyd Slet to Elected President Of County's Livestock Group Br Utile L. Madsen Farm Editor. Th Statesman Lloyd Sletto of Lyons was elec ted president of the Marion Coun ty Livestock association at its an nual meeting held Monday night at the Golden Pheasant with more than 50 present. Mr. Sletto re places Claude Steusloff. Salem, who has served for the past two years. Other officers named were Lou is Hennies, Turner, vice president; Ben Newell, Salem, secretary -treasurer; and Robert Sears, also of Salem, director. Adam Hersch is the hold-over director. C. A. Sprague, editor of The Oregon Statesman, speaker of the evening, talked on "Stack Rais ing a Speculation or a Busi ness?" as he urged his listeners not to be "ih-and-outers." ' "Yours," said Mr. Sprague. "is an essential ' industry which has survived through centuries and has been in; the Willamette valley since its very beginning. Don't think of it 'as a speculation in which today you will make a kil ling and tomorrow you will be out of. Treat it as a continuing busi ness. Yours is such an important one that you can look at it as a safe business in which to stay. You can go over the country from coast to coast and see the wrecks of farm speculation the in-and-outers in agriculture." Mr. Sprague stated he believed the livestock business was a "bet ter one than specialty crops where the markets are limited and pro hocked by Cowrt's.- Woman Sues for Injuries Incurred By Falling Bicycle When a bicycle fell on her last March it caused a total of $3,880 worth of damages, according to a complaint filed in Marion county circuit court Monday by a Wood burn woman. Ellen Swofford stated In her complaint that the bicycle fell on her from a shelf while she was working in the Woodburn store of C. H. Ahrens. She is suing Ahrens for $380 special damages and $3,500 general damages. Spy Probers Quiz Chambers For Methods NEW YORK, Tuesday,, Dec. 7 (VP)Whittaker Chambers, admitted former Soviet courier, was ques tioned last night by a congression al subcommittee, here for the an nounced purpose of finding out how top-secret State department information reached his hands. At the end of the sub-committee's session early today. Rep. Richard M. Nixon (R-Calif.). said: "We have accomplished our mis sion." No further disclosure was made of what happened while Chambers was closeted with the House spy probers. . At that time Nixon and Rep. John R. McDowell (R-Pa.). the nthr mmrter of the SUb-COmmit- t aent mit word that thev were hearing a witness, but they did not Identify the witness. A second witness who the sub committee said had been schedul ed for questioning did not appear. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6- (P -Sworn testimony that Alrer Hiss, as a State department official, ob tained government documents for a Russian agent was spread today on the records of the House un American activities committee. Th& testimony was by Whittaker Chambers, admitted onetime Rd courier whom Hiss is suing for libel; it came from preliminary proceedings in the libel suit and named a "Colonel Bykov" as the Russian agent. In New York Hiss said In a statement: "I deny without qualification the accusations made in that testimony." He added "inasmuch as this matter is now before the Grand Jury, I do not feel it appropriate to comment further at this time Hiss said he was making the statement because "I am advised that the committee on un-Ameri can activities has released to the press crtain portions of the testi mony given by Mr. Chambers in depositions taken in my libel ac tion against him In Baltimore." duction often uncertain." He sight ed the rapid increase In straw berry acreage in ;the valley, and expressed the fear that ihis might soon be overdone. He added that while the prices have been high in specialty crops "we reach the saturation point earlier than in such as livestock. He expressed hope that milk control would not be withdrawn from the producer, and belief that the livestock men could look for' ward to expanding production with i expanding population. The speaker pointed out the "extra dividend" which the livestock pro ducer receives through building up of soil. He admitted that ex pert management would be called for in the next few years and that livestockmen would have to be ready themselves for competition again. Marjorie Jordan appeared In whistling solos, accompanied by Murial Steusloff who also gave a group of piano numbers in a brief entertainment during the dinner. Introduced were W. P. Emery, Silverton, and Ed Taylor. Me hama, two of Marion county's ear ly livestockmen: Robert Sears, pre sident of the Polled Hereford as sociation; A. H. Hanson, district aeent of wild life; Elton Watts, Silverton. president of Marion County Dairy Breeders associa tion: Charles Evans, president of the Western Oregon Livestock as sociation and Victor Howard, Mar ion county tapper. I No. 223 Executions Delayed by Surprise Move By Russell Brines TOKYO. Tuesday. Dec. ,1 -Vtl Tokyo was startled today by a sur-1 prise twist to its death watch on! condemned Japanese warlords. ; f A second extension of life for1,, Hideki Tojo and his six associates appeared inevitable as result of the United States supreme court decision to hear appeals In Jap anese war crimes cases. The average Japanese was' am azed by this decision. Allied legal officers showed frank surprise. Many had Jhought the court would refuse to consider the appeals, ss lt did In the cases of German war criminals. General MacArthur could not be reached for comment. He has said, hnwetrer that irmttititmm et all seven condemned warlords would 1 be delayed until the supreme court acted. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 HffV The supreme court decided today to go into a question of interna tional import: whether it has pow er to interfere with an allied trib unal which sentenced seven Jap anese leaders to hang as war crim inals. : ; The vote to entertain arguments in the case was 5 to 4. Justice Jackson, who was the chief pro secutor at the first war crimes trial in Germany, cast the decid ing vote. He did so although he said the decision is "bound to embarrass the United States." This is because President Truman, as commander-in-chief, invited this country's Pa cific allies to take part in the Jap anese war crimes tribunal. t Hearings were set for Dec. 16. Directly involved in the case are Gen. Kenji Doihara, 64, and For mer Premier Koku Hirota, 70, who were sentenced to die. and five others given prison sentences. Their American attorneys attack ed legality of the Tokyo trials. Wartime Premier Jiideki Tojo and four others doomed to death filed no appeals. But they have, of course, a vital indirect interest in the case. For example, if the su preme court should declare the allied tribunal invalid, it is con sidered highly questionable whe ther the sentences the tribunal imposed would be carried out by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Berlin Election Ups Tension j Of East, West ; BERLIN, Dec. 8-P)-The smash ing municipal election triumph of the bitterly anti-Russian Social Democratic party intensified to day the East-West struggle over Berlin. Completed now was the politi cal division of this German metro polis 100 miles behind the Iron Curtain. Blockaded Berlin wondered what the Russians might do next to counter the rebuff they receiv ed at the polls yesterday. In de fiance of communist threats the Germans of western Berlin turned out a near record vote of 80.2 per cent of the electorate. The act of voting itself was a protest against Soviet occupation policies. From the Russian point of view, the voters added insult to injury by giving a majority to the Social Democrats, a militantly anti-communist organization. The other two parties which participated, the Christian Democrats and the Liberal Democrats, also are anti communist. Although the communists boy cotted the election, persons who analyzed the returns said the size of the turnout gave direct evi dence that communist strength in western Berlin had been cut In half in two years. . D 1 an op p no JL9 DAYS LEFT Price So