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Net exactly a scene is Santa's workshop, this shop is where Salem's
Christmas street decorations are beta readied. At left Is John
Campbell handing one of street lamp covers to Charles Wakefield,
Old gas-lamp covers for downtown Salem streets will add a new
Bot to the traditional cedar boughs and the Campbell-Wakefield
Display Co. 1 potting p the decorations provided by 'downtown
merchants- (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.)
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Last wekthstate department
ef agriculture announced that
Grado C milk was being allowed
for human consumption where
supplies of Grade A are deficient
with the requirement that it be
pasteurized. The public was as
sured that Grade C milk is nu
tritious and wholesome and safe,
when pasteurized. .
It was reported that the area
where Grade C would be used
was ''Eugene, but the Register
Guard says that it is used there
only for cooking purposes, in res
taurants. The differences between Grade
A and Grade C concern principal
ly the condition under which) the
two are produced and the toler
ance of bacteria. Grade A has a
maxmum tolerance- of 100,000
bacteria per cc, Grade C 500,000.
Pasteurization takes care of bac
teria. Higher requirements for
dairy barns and milkhouses are
specified for Grade A producers.
The fact that Portland draws
Grade A milk from as far north
as the Skagit valley, and Eugene
has had its milkshed extended to
the California line shows that milk
production has not kept pace with
demand which has increased
through population growth. The
reason for this is not so much that
dairying is unprofitable as be
cause it is so arduous and requires
such constant attention. There is
no holiday at a dairy: cows must
be milked and fed twice a day.
Hired help for dairies has been
hard to get even at the high wages
offered (up to $200 and better plus
house and other living perquisites).
The proprietor finally gets weary
of bucking '
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DOCKS ACTIVE AGAJN
SEATTLE, Dec. 7 -JPy- Crews
scrambled back to more than 30
ships, in Puget Sound harbors to
day as waterfronts came back to
life after the 95-day maritime tie
up. Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
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"It wis a good movie, but my
those seats were smalll"
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Girl, 10, Killed
By Automobile
Near Keizer
Donna Louise Pierce,: 10, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Pierce
of Salem route 2, box 158C, was
killed instantly Tuesday afternoon
when struck by Jan auto after
alighting from a school bus near
her home northeast of Keizer.
A witness told state police the
girl darted around the lend of the
parked bus and directly into the
path of a car driven by Leonard
Adin Patterson, 745 Ferry st. Of
ficers said Patterson was not held.
Police said the accident occurred
at 4:15 p. m. two miles northeast
of Keizer school jwhefe the girl
was a pupil. The county road leads
from Keizer past i the -Lakebrook
Hop farm. Patterson said he was
unable to stop in time to avert
the accident.
Surviving Donna besides her pa
rents are a sister, Wanda Lee
Pierce of .Salem; two step - sisters,
Alice Bennett of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
and Mrs. Dorothy? Moore of Den
ver, Colo.; and brothers, Dale,
Clyde, Ronnie and Archie Pierce,
jr., al of Salem.
The Clough - Barrick company
is in charge of funeral arrange
ments. Missing Plane
Search Futile
Search for the t three-occupant
airplane missing since it left. Sa
lem Saturday morning involved
10 army planes land: numerous
civilian aircraft from Salem to
Medford Tuesday!
The state air search and rescue
headquarters said jio sure trace of
the plane had been found up to
Tuesday night. J
The plane, carrying Paul D.
Starr, pilot and lumber firm pres
ident at Southgate, Calif-his bro
ther, Robert Starry and Ruth Mey
ers, Portland lumber broker, left
Salem enroute to Los Angeles via
Sacramento or Red Bluff. The
search began Sunday. ;
Salem Council Seeks to Speed
Hearings Involving Policemen
Salem city council members
Tuesday took action to expedite
a city civil service hearing on the
appeal of two Sajem police offi
cers who were .fired almost a
month ago on charges of political
activity. J
Public hearing of a reinstate
ment request by Detective Hobart
Kiggins and . Patrolman Leland
Weaver has been delayed since
their dismissal ; November 12,
pending return of Ciyil Service
Chairman A. A. Gueffroy from a
California vacation. Police Chief
Frank A. Minto charges the two
officers with campaigning against
city manager form of government.
Prompted by a i letter in which
Gueffroy offered lo resign if the
full commission's presence is re
quired before he returns in Jan
uary, the city aldermen rrfet in
formally in city hall and decided
to accept the chairman's resigna
tion and appoint a new commis
sioner if the other two; civil serv
ice commissioners; do riot conduct
the hearing before the council
7-State
Strike Set
Dec. 15
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 -JP)-
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen announc
ed tonight a strike against the
Southern Pacific railroad in seven
western states has been called for
6 a.m. Dec. 15.
C. W. Moffitt, western general
chairman for the brotherhood.
said the strike was called as the
"only method'' to obtain" settle
ment of 296 points of grievance,
some outstanding since 1940.
Officials of the railroad had no
immediate comment.
Moffit said the 3,500 firemen
and enginemen took a strike vote
14 months ago after several ef
forts at settlement failed. After
that, he said, company and union
negotiators held a number or con
ferences between February 16 and
May 13 of this year, but succeeded
in disposing of only 60 of the cases.
To Affect 7 States
Main line routes and commuter
service in California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Utah and
Oregon would be affected by strike
action.
Moffit said: "While we deeply
regret that it may be necessary to
discommode the pihlic at this
time of the year, this seems to be
the only method by which we can
bring the carrier in line and com
pel them to comply with our agree
ment' PORTLAND, Dec. 7 -(JPy- West
ern Oregon lumber industries
would be virtually crippled by any
tie-up of Southern Pacific trains.
Cause Unemployment
A West Coast Lumbermen's as
sociation official, who declined to
be named, said a strike of engine
crews would result in closure of
80 per cent of Oregon's lumber
mills. He said this would throw
20,000 to 25,000 persons out of
work.
The Southern Pacific serves all
of major western Oregon cities
south of Portland. The strike
would also knock the branch link
ing Albany and. Lebanon and oper
ated by the Spokane, Portland and
Seattle railway. .
Second School
District Bond
Election Slated
HUBBARD, Dec. 7 The second
vote on a $286,000 bond election
for union high school district 6, in
north Marion county, will be held
Wednesday, December 15, it was
announced today.
The bond issue was rejected on
November 4 by a margin of seven
votes, 283 voting for the bonds
and 290 rejecting the proposed is
sue. The bond issue is to "con
struct, equip, repair and furnish
buildings."
The new high school is to be
built on what has been designated
as the Eppers tract, located near
the White school at the Boone's
Ferry road. Residents of Hubbard
and White districts will vote at
Hubbard; Aurora residents at
Aurora; Donald, Butteville and
Broadacres residents at Donald
Operation on
Sec. Marshall
Successful
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -JP-Secretary
of ,State Marshall to
day underwent a major operation
and informed sources said one of
his kidneys was remeved.
"The operation was successful.
The secretary is doing excellent
ly. No complications are antici
pated," the army's Walter Reed i
nospnai reported snortiy alter tne
8 a.m. (EST) operation.
Seven hours after the operation
a bulletin said "the secretary is
still getting along fine." It added
that no complications have de
veloped, and that no further re
ports will be made until tomorrow
morning.
meets in regular session Monday
night.
Last night, however, Mayor
R. L. Elf strom telephoned Guef
froy at Santa Barbara, Calif., as
suggested by the aldermen, and
learned that Gueffroy will inform
the council by Saturday whether
he will submit a formal resigna
tion or return here immediately.
Aldermen considered these
points at their conference Tues
day: Two civil service commis
sioners are a quorum but might
give a split vote on the appeal
and already have said they favor
s lull commission hearing: ap-
pointment of a newcomer to civf
service might put the new mem
ber "on the spot," but at least one
veteran former civil service mem
ber might be available for ap
pointment (Arthur H. Moore); an
other month's delay in the hear
ing might cost the city $1,050 in
back salary for the two months if
the two officers are reinstated;
neither discharged officer has
been pressing city officials for the
bearing immediately.
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Telerrams and calls ef congratulations are coming to Frederick S.
Lamport since his appointment to the Oregon state senate to fill
Douglas McKay's vacancy. Above, Lamport shows one ef the
congratulatory telegrams to his secretary, Mrs. Carl Raetz, S661
Center st. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.)
Lamport Selected to
Fill Senate Vacancy
Frederick S. Lamport, Salem attorney and former state senator,
stands appointed to the state senate seat vacated by Governor-elect
Douglas McKay.
Lamport was named by Marion county court Tuesday as senator
from the 12th senatorial (Marion county) district. Also representing
this county is State Sen. Allan Carson, another Salem lawyer. Both
Replies Ready
In Annexation
Dispute Case
Both the city of Salem and a
group of Kingwood district prop
erty owners were prepared Tues
day for conte5ting the Injunction
suit now in Polk county circuit
court to challenge the November
election in which voters favored
annexation, of a Polk county area
to the city of Salem.
City Attorney Chris Kowitz
gave a final check to the city's
answer to the injunction request
by John L. Lutz, a Polk county
owner of property in the annexed
area. The answer is to be filed
today and Kowitz is to appear
in Judge Arlie G. Walker's court
at Dallas Thursday for the sched
uled injunction hearing.
Another filing in the Polk
county court Is an Interveners'
petition by Edward Majek, J. H.
Willett. Barney VanOnsenoord
and Charles E. Ramp, seeking
recognition In the litigation,
maintaining the election was
lefal and proper and asking that
the present temporary restrain
ing order against the city taking
jurisdiction b dissolved. Attornev
Georpe Rhoten is representing the
interveners.
Attorney laul Burns represents
The Thursdav court hearing is i BERLIN, Dec. 7 -iPy- Gen Lu
to decide whether a preliminary dus D c, sajd tod art average
injunction oe oecreea aKainsx '
city m the annexation matter. f ;
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final decicion on the requested
injunction.
Kowitz said the city's answer
will admit that Lutz was denied
a vote in the annexation, but will
maintain that, the action Is ac
cording to the state law under
which annexation elections are
conducted. Lutz in his suit main
tains that he was not allowed to
vote because he resided in a
tract excluded from, but sur
rounded by, the annexation area,
despite the fact he owns property
in the annexation area.
RED CROSS DROPS GOAL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-(-The
American Red Cross announced
today that its 1949 goal Is $60.
000,000. or $15,000,000 less than in
1948. A nationwide drive to raise
the 1949 fund will be conducted
March 1-31.
Weather
Max.
.. 52
Min. Preclp.
.11
J30
44 M
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52
San Francisco 54
Chicago M
New York 55
2 jM
43 M
WUlamette river II feet.
FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloudy today and tonight with little
temperature change. High today 48. low
tonight 32.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
(From Sept. 1 to Dec. ()
This Year
15.27
Last Year
K-21
Average
12.03
The) Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oreaon, Wednesday. December 8, 1848
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are republicans.
Pro-tem senator during the
1943-45 legislative sessions, Lam
port was the unanimous choice
of the county court, consisting of
County Judge Grant Murphy and
Commissioners E. L. Rogers and
Roy Rice.
The court reconvened Tuesday
after continuing an opening ses
sion Monday morning on a di
rective from Secretary of State
Earl T. Newbry. Lamport will
serve out the two years remain
ing in McKay's term. He substi
tuted for McKay when the lat
ter was in the army.
Lamport, attorney here since
1931, said Tuesday he had not
yet committed himself to either
Sen. Carl Engdahl or Sen. Wil
liam Walsh, the two candidates
for the 1949 state senate presi
dency. "I haven't made up my
mind yet," he said.
The 57-year-old Willamette
university graduate also revealed
he had not decided whether he
will be a candidate for re-election
at the completion of his
present term of office.
In a statement immediately af
ter the appointment Tuesday
Lamport said he was grateful to
the county court for the confi
dence shown him and to his
friends in Marion county who
supported him.
He said he would see to It
"that all sections of the county
will have a fair and impartial
representation in the state sen
ate." ( Additional details on naee 2)
GF.RMANS FI.EK RFn RI'I.F
of i,000 Germans a day are fleeing
Soviet rule and slipping into the
western zones of Germany.
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6 Just One More Look9 from Rescue
. Plane Spells Safely for 33 on Rafts
By Leif Erickson
HONOLULU, Dec. 7H;P-Thir
ty-three survivors of a downed
air iorce transport plane owe
their rescue to a search plane nav
igator who insisted on just one
more look before giving up the
bunt.
Exhausted by 40 hours in the
water, the 33 were picked up last
night from two life rafts in the
tossing Pacific 1,200 miles south
west of Honolulu. Four others
were lost.
Lt. Cmdr. Steve G. Kona, Ham
mond, Ind., pilot of a navy priva
teer search plane which spotted
them, said he was preparuig to
return to tx.se at Johnston island
when up spoke Ensign L. R. John
son, Minneapolis.
"Johnnie said 'Let's just try one
more - - it will only take eight
minutes, " Kona related. "Two
minutes before the end of that
time my plane captain' sighted a
green dye marker directly beneath
the plane.
"We went down to take a look.
They were hanging on the gun
wales, half inside and half out
side," !
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Santiam
Highway
Blocked
By the Associated Press
A thaw pit Oregon's mountains
and highways yesterday, causing
numerous landslides and killing
one man.
Leightonj Pluard, 20, Valsetz,
was carried 200 feet to his death
in a slide M he worked on a road
for the Vilsetz Lumber company
in westerii Oregon's coast range.
A huge J slide at Hogg pass in
the Cascade range east of Salem
blocked thje north and south San
tiam highways to central Oregon.
The mountain passes were wash
ed by rainf and temperatures gen
erally were higher. Water ran deep
in the gutters at Klamath Falls as
the heaviest snowfall in recent
years turned to slush.
The weSther bureau said, how
ever, thatjthere was little likeli
hood of a flood. Elmer Fisher, riv
er forecaster at Portland, said the
Willamette and its tributaries
would risej only slightly. Even the
oft-flooding Santiam river was ex
pected to tay within its banks un
less rains become unusually heavy.
The death near Valsetz followed
a snowfalL .which turned to ram
yesterday.
J. Paul Bollman, Polk county
coroner, sjiid Pluard was working
behind a tractor, when the soften-,
ed earth $egan to move. A fellow
employe, Lloyd Anderson, snouted
a warning, but it came too late.
Pluard ws buried deeply, and it
took two hours' digging to recov
er the bod,y. He if survived by the
widow, Reth, at Valsetz. The body
was taketi to Dallas.
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250,)00-Man
Chinese Army
NANKiLg. Dec. 7 -AJP- A swift
communis maneuver has trapped
the 250,000 - man garrison from
Suchow, j probably beyond any
hope of escape or help, government
sources admitted today.
With tie best of the govern
ment's trpops in all east China
thus caught in a net, defenses were
rushed alng the Hwai and Yang
tze riversjThese are the last lines
of defense before the capital.
Meanwhile, the communists ap
pear to have launched a drive in
north China against the Peiping
Tientsin area.
(Associated Press Corespondent
Spencer Kloosa in Peiping said the
communists were pouring through
Kupehko pass out of Jehol pro
vince and had taken Huaijou only
30 miles hortheast of Peiping).
Governjment sources said the
Suchow garrison, which . is trying
to fight South and rejoin the de
fenders ojf Nanking, now is com
pressed jn a pocket eight miles
long and five miles in depth about
50 miles Southwest of Suchow.
Gen. C?ien Yi was credited with
welding i trap of steel around the
Suchow garrison.
When he order came through
for the garrison to abandon Su
chow ari fight south, General
Chen left! off his attacks along the
Hwai anj rushed his main force
! northwestward, thus intercepting
j the garrison.
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"BU Oat AlUta4e"
Brings Slides, Death
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Official Asserts Belief Foreign Nation
Solved Code with Aid of Stolen Papers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -Wh A top state department offi
cial expressed belief tonight that foreign nations cracked a "top
secret" pre-war government code with the aid of papers sneaked
out of the department ten years ago.
A quest for new suspects was launched by the house un
American activities committee after several present and former
officials testified as to the delicate I
nature of the "pumpkin papers."
The committee quoted Assistant
Secretary of State John E. Peuri
foy as saying:
"What I regard as most serious
about this whole thing is the
fact that these documents were
taken out of the state department
in 1937 or '38, and to me that
means that our codes were being
read by foreign nations during the
whole period.''
Peurifoy's estimate of the Im
portance of the documents was
shared by former Undersecretary
Sumner Welles, who said the pa
pers could have been used to
break the code used by the state
department.
Committee members speculated
immediately that the code may
have fallen into the hands oi the
Russians, Germans and Japanese.
Rep. Mundt (R-S.D.), acting
chairman, told reporters the com
mittee seeks to check on evidence
that "at least three persons" piped
confidential government docu
ments before the war to Whitta
ker Chambers, then a communist
courier.
Welles, undersecretary of state
from 1937 to 1943, examined some
of the "pumpkin papers as the
committee re - opened its espion
age hearings. To publish them ev
en now, he said, might endanger
national security.
Mundt suggested tonight after
the hearing that the Russians pre
sumably got some of the papers
and may have deciphered the
code; and perhaps it got to the
Germans and the Japanese before
Pearl Harbor.
He noted that all of the alleged
events were about the time of the
Stalin - Hitler friendship pact, so
"conceivably the Germans also
broke the code." The Germans, he
reasoned, might have passed the
secret along to the Japanese.
GIs to Judge
Court Martials
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-OP)-
Buck privates may sit on army
courts martial beards after Feb
ruary 1,
An executive order signed by
President Truman authorized this
along with other "sweeping im
provements" designed to build up
confidence in military justice.
In the past courts martial
boards, which try soldiers for of
fenses against military laws, were
composed of officers only.
Under, the new ruling, which
will appear in the1 new army man
ual for courts martial to be pub
lished soon, officers still must be
tried by other officers of equal or
higher rank. But an enlisted man
may be tried by a board includ
ing other enlisted men.
Safe aboard the Rendova, Lt
Col. William R. Calhoun, Birming
ham. Ala, calmly told of waiting
in the shark-infested sea for res
cue. He was pilot of the C-54,
which was forced down on a flight
from Okinawa.
"We didn't decide to ditch," he
said in a radio interview with
navy headquarters here, "We Just
ran out of altitude.
One engine began threw&ng oil.
and a second . developed an oil
leak. They prepared foran emer
gency landing 520 miles from
Johnston Island. It was early Sun
day morning and dark.
When the plane hit the water the
life rafts broke loose and the
plane's lights went rut
Only two life rafts could be sav
ed and inflated in the darkness..
The rafts were built to hold only
seven men, and so survivors took
turns in hanging over the sides. A
chemical shark repellent kept the
sharks away.
Capt. James M. Lane of the
Rendova said a rolling sea made
the rescue difficult, but all 33
were taken aboard in an hour and
a half operation.
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Airport Tower
To Operate on
24-Hour Basis
Salem airport's control tower
will go into operation on a 24-hour-a-day
basis shortly after
January 1, City Airport Manager
Wallace Hug said Tuesday. ;
Hug made the announcement
Tuesday night in a meeting of Sa
lem's navy aviation volunteer re
serve unit which received activa
tion orders from 13th naval district
headquarters sTuring the session.
Lt. Ernest T. Eldridge, organizer
of the unit, also received orders
appointing him commander of the
local air arm.
Hug said he had been Informed
by civil aeronautics authority
headquarters in Washington, D..
C that crews would begin Instal
lation of transmitters and equip
ment at the tower after January
1. A CAA spokesman said about
30 days would be required to put
the tower intto operation.
The CAA also said it has adver
tised bids seeking men to operate
the - tower around the clock.
Three crews of two control men-
and one mechanic each are needed
to man the tower. Hug said the
CAA assured 24-hour operation of
the tower indefinitely unless Its
budget is curtailed by a congres
sional slash.
Under a tentative CAA plan, tha
transmitters will be installed in
a city-owned quonset hut located
at the base of the tower. The only
changes required in the hut will
be installation of four windows in
each end of the building. The CAA
control chiefs office will also be
housed in the building. ;:
The tower has been Idle sine
the end of the late war except for
two months of last summer when
Oregon's air ' traffic was trans
ferred to McNary field because
of the Portland flood.
(Additional details on page 2)
Mail Blockade Added
To Berlin's Troubles
BERLIN, Dec. 74fP)-A mail
blockade has been added ' to the
land and water blockade of this
divided city.
Post officials of the a nti -communist
western Berlin city gov
ernment said postal service be
tween the western sectors of the
city and the Soviet sector and
Russian occupation tone of Ger
many has been interrupted by or
der of the communist Rump gov-,
ernment in the Soviet sector.
A-PIant May Be Making
Electricity in 3 Years
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7-C$V
David E. LilienthaL atomic ener
gy commission chairman, said to
day that an experimental atomic
energy plant may. be producing
electricity within three years. ..i
This first plant will be purely
experimental, he said, but within
20 years a sizable percentage of
electricity will be produced by
such plants.
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