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Cods Caught Tunneling Out' : Of Walla Walla Penitentiary romtot BU of Human lights Wins U.N. Approval Russ Bloc Protests, Refuses to Vote PARIS, Dec. 10 -flV The Un ited Nations tonight adopted over Russian objection the first world bill of rights proclaiming freedom and equality for everyone. The vote was 48 to 0 with eight attentions and two delegations absent. When the ballots were counted the delegates stood "to applaud Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt who championed. the declaration since its beginning 2Vi years ago. Rus sia and her satellites sat in sil ence. Chief Soviet spokesman, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, accused the United States, Britain and France of pav ing the way for World War II in one of the bitterest attacks yet against the West during final de bate. The adopted document, entitl ed "Universal Declaration of Hu man Rights," has only moral au thority until the next regular as sembly in September, 1949. Be fore that meeting opens, a human rights covenant is to be drafted. The covenant would obligate Salem Electric to Ask Power Zones Linked A new Salem Electric transmission line to provide alternate source of power in the event of an electricity failure is one of the first steps planned by the utility cooperative as a result of its city operating franchise as recently won in the Salem election. Robert Nordyke, manager of Salem Electric, Monday night will petition the city council for emergency permission to establish the line SQQDjOS to) odds Truckloads of neatly piled Christmas trees, southbound, and trees appearing at local sales lots remind one that-Christmas is just around the corners The trees ex cite mingled emotions. One is the feeling of gayety and brightness as one thinks of a lighted and decorated tree in a home, with cresents piled at its foot, and chil dren looking at its wonders with awe and anxious curiosity. The other is the innate aversion to cutting down what might become tall forest tree. We are veritable pruids or tree-worshippers here. We have been educated so ardently to save the forests that we worry a good deal about, the annual slaughter of infant fir trees to embellish the holiday season. Actually foresters agree that tree-cutting properly done may be beneficial rather than destruc tive to a growing forest. Nature is apt to be lavish and let more seeds sprout than can mature into commercially useful trees. What happens is for the stronger indi viduals to dominate, and the weak er trees die and fall. Selective cutting does a thinning process which gives remaining trees a chance to thrive. Commercial cutting of Christ mas trees has been brought under state control, with permits re quired from the state forester's office. Cutting must comply with good forest conservation. Casual tree-cutting for individual use should observe these rules: get permission from the landowner, and no cutting of trees within 300 feet of a highway. There is one feature of the tree business which can't be put under legal regulation very well, and that Is the tendency to glut the market. Both locally and in the California cities in the past too many trees have been cut and put on the market. Then after Christ mas the sales lots may be piled high with "surplus" which can only be burned. Dealers ought to do a better job of estimating de mand to avoid such waste. One more thought about the Christmas tree: Take it down af ter Christmas or at least right af ter New Year's. Don't throw it out on the back alley, but chop it up and burn it, in the fireplace or outdoors, or put it in the garb age can to go to the dump. Spare the tree the ignominy of a discard on the ashpile. NEW DAY DAWNS ' HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10 -4JP)-Dennis Day, the Irish tenor, has someone else to croon his ballads to. It's Patrick James McNulty, born today to the former Peggy Almquist of Linwood. CHRISTMAS SEALS I 4 0 SHOPPING I signatory countries to respect in dividual rights or face penalities. Dr. Herbert V. Evatt of Aus tralia, president of the current assembly called the moment of adoption "historic" in the U.N.s fight for world peace. Western delegates described the document as a "potent ideological weapon" against communism. Russia and her allies in the Slav bloc charged it would foster fac ism everywhere, and tried to de feat it with a filibuster they be gan last night. Some of its provisions call for, without regard to race, color or sex: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, of opinion, expres sion and assembly. Prohibition of slavery. Freedom of movement within a country and the right to travel abroad. Right to hold prop erty. Privacy of the home. Right to work and to have a free choice of work. Protection against un employment. Right to free edu cation. Right to leisure. connecting me cooperauve s sys tems in north Salem and down town Salem. The latter now draws power from West Salem and the former from a substation near the Cherry avenue fertilizer plant. Business Increased The cooperative, which did a $16,124,498 business In 1947 after approximately doubling its busi ness annually since its inception in 1942, will take on new custom ers in stride. Nordyke said. But, he added .the cooperative's first interest is in improved service for present customers. Commer cial and industrial users take the major portion of the voltage. Fi nancing will be a primary prob lem for Salem Electric, said the manager, but what form that de velopment will assume Is not yet decided. Follows Front Street Most urgent part of expansion is construction of a line, essential ly following a Front street route according to tentative plans, from the northern substation to the downtown hookups. This is need ed to take care of emergencies in which one line gives trouble, to permit cutting out Of one line to make repairs and to provide addi tional voltage for more customers. The' firm, whose distribution lines are now of the 13,000-volt variety, hopes to erect a second distribution line from the Eola Bonneville substation to the West Salem city limits, along the Dallas highway. This would be not onlv an emergency provision but wou' I allow extra voltage, since the pres ent West Salem line is expected to reach capacity by next falL CIO Union Votes to Make Wives Mind PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 10 -(JP) The CIO International Woorwork ers of America have voted 2 to 1, to make their wives mind. A referendum vote approved a constitutional amendment author izing the union's executive board to suspend or revoke the charter of any ladies auxiliary which "ceases to be of assistance." ; The ladies auxiliaries angered their husbands during the Octo ber convention here by condemn ing the Marshall plan just after the union approved it. Tbief Fi1s to Absorb Yule Spirit, Swipes Trees A low ebb in the Christmas spirit was reported to city police Friday morning by L. W. Caudle, 130 Roberts st. Caudle told police that several Christmas trees had been stolen from his sales lot at Center and Capitol streets during the past few nights. Policemen to Receive Public Hearing Dec. 15 Public hearing will be given the appeal of two discharged Sa lem policemen at a meeting of the city civil service commission at 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 15, in city hall. The hearing will be conducted if at least two of the three com missioners are. on hand, it was stated Friday night by Lyle J. Page, one of the commissioners. He said ; he and Commissioner William Entriss are anxious to delay no longer in holding the hearing. Meanwhile, A. A. Gueffroy, chrirman of the commission who is in Santa Barbara, Calif., visit ing a daughter, is expected to notify Mayor R. L. Elfstrom to nitrht by telephone whether he will return in time for the hear- Gcaffroy in a letter received Pair Captured Day Short of Reaching Walls WALLA WALLA. Wash., Dec. 10 -(TV-Guards tonight captured two convicts trying to tunnel out of the Washington state prison, forestal ling a prison break by as many as eight men. Prison Supt. Tom Smith said the convicts had been working on the tunnel for six days and were only about a day short of reaching free dom in one of the most desperate escape attempts in years. The two men were caught when guards, who heard them working underground, drove a hole down into their tunnel in the prison courtyard, onlv about 15 feet from the prison walls. They came out peacefully. Their tunnel had been discover ed earlier and the entrance had been barricaded. Guards had crawl ed part way into the tunnel and called to the men, trying to get them to come out. The convicts ignored them and kept on digging. Smith identified the caprtTed men as Amada Cadena, Yakima county, serving life for first degree murder, and Harry Callas, King county, serving 10 years for rob bery. Smith said "I know other in mates were involved." He said as many as eight may have taken part at intervals in the digging. An old shovel and kitchen equip ment such as a large spoon were used as digging tools. The captured men worked in the kitchen. Smith said they gained access to a steam pipe corridor un der the building which they wid ened for 30 feet and then started off on a tangent with a tunnel of their own. They had gone 40 feet farther to the hospital building, 15 feet from the walls. Dirt from the tunnel was hauled back into the steam pipe corridor. Hayden Denies Asking Judge To Quit Case Marion County District Attor ney Miller Hayden denied em phatically Friday that he had filed an affidavit seeking to dis qualify Polk County Circuit Judge Arlie Walker from hearing the Kingwood Heights water district suit in Dallas. While hearing Thursday's argu ments by attorneys for the city of Salem and John Lutz, plain tiff seeking to enjoin Salem from assuming control of the district, Judge Walker said Hayden was taking action to request, him (Walker) to" disqualify himself on grounds of prejudice. Hayden said he had filed a demurrer to remove Marion Coun ty Assessor Roscoe Shelton from the case as a defendant, but said no other action along that line had been filed with the Polk county court. Hayden conferred with Judge Walker before Thursday's hear ing, but did not stay for the proceedings. Seaside Plant Threatened as River Moves SEASIDE, Dec. 10 -(JP)- Sea side's nine-year-old $250,000 sew age disposal plant was endanger ed today by a river which broke its banks and cut a new channel to the sea. The Necanicum river, flooded by heavy rainfall, spewed over a sand spit last night and began flowing into the ocean just 90 feet away from the big sewage plant. The normal channel is a half mile distant. City Eneineer R. F. Shawcross said the Nenacicum was .cutting toward the plant and if the river remains in flood several days might undermine it. The city council held an emerg ency session toddy to consider building a short road to the eroded bank and attempting to halt the river's progress by laying rip rap on the bank. The river also overflowed the hiyhway at the entrance to the city. Some eight inches of water covered the road. by the mayor earlier this week offered to resign if he was un able to return in time for the hearing of an appeal by Detec- tiveHobart Kiggins and Patrol man Leland Weaver who were dismissed from the police force November 12 after being charged by Police Chief Frank -A. Minto with violating civil service .code by campaigning against city man ager government in the November pre-election campaign period. City aldermen have indicated that if Gueffroy submits his res ignation the city council probably will accept it and appoint a re placement at the regular coun cil meeting Monday night. Arthur H. Moore, a former chairman of the civil service commission, is considered a candidate for the post. 12 PAGES Ufi) 1 V3 Inches Rain Fall In Salem Snow slides on the Santiam highway near the summit at Hogg Rock blocked traffic for the sec ond time in three days Friday and some area routes were block ed by high water in the wake of continued heavy rains. State police reported that slide 300 feet long covered the Santiam route with eight feet of snow, bi4 crews expected to have the road 'open to traffic again early Saturday. Police said the Dallas-Kings Valley highway was closed by the flooding Luckiamute river "and portions of the Silver- ton-Marquam road were report ed under water. Several west-bound motorists narrowly escaped death Friday It's Even Wetter Than Last Year Last year was an unusually wet year, bat this year promises te be even more unusual as Fri day's 1.34 inches of rain shoved the September 1 to December 11 total to 17.40 Inches. For the same period last year 1C43 Inches of rain fell. The normal Is far behind both marks at 12.70 Inches. Average yearly rainfall la Salem Is 37.80 Inches and the total reported so far this year Indicates that nearly half of that amonnt has fallen In 102 days and there are 283 more to when an avalanche roared down on the Sunset highway a mile west of Snoqualmie pass in Wash ington. The avalanche buried a 150-foot stretch of highway un der snow 20 feet deep, the state patrol reported. Extremely heavy snows felled trees in Rainier National park. blocking the highway. It was in dicated that the park might not be reopened until after Christmas. The Santiam river overflowed at Jefferson again Friday, reach ing a crest of 14 feet where it was expected to remain until sometime Saturday. Flood stage at Jefferson is 13 feet. The river crested at 14 feet six below flood stage at Salem near midnight Friday and the weather bureau forecast a gen eral drop in the Willamette river level. More snow piled on highway routes through the Cascade moun tains Friday with five inches re ported at Santiam Junction, three at Odell lake and 12 at Govern ment camp. Sanders and plows were in operation in some sectors. Use of chains was advised for all mountain travel over the week end. Weather Could Re Worse: ft Was in 1919' George M. Graves, well-known about town as a retired com mercial salesman, was able to teke Friday's storm in stride. He was looking back over one of his old diaries (George has kept a diary since he was 18 years old), that for the year 1919. His entry for. that date was: "More snow on the ground; 21 inches. No trains or steet cars running." Two days later the diary had an entry: "Reported 12 degrees below zero." That was the famous cold snap of 1919 when the rivers in west ern Oregon froze over. The coal strike was on across the country and communities dependent on coal for fuel were on the verge of suffering when the strike was called off. Typhoid Fever In Brownsville BROWNSVILLE, Dec. 10 -OP) Discovery of typhoid fever here started mass immunization of this Linn county city's 800 residents today. Dr. A. D. Blanchat, Linn county health officer, said there have been three cases of typhoid since Nov. 24, plus two suspected cases. He and his ttaff spent the day here vaccinating school children and adults appearing for treat ment. They will return each Mon day and Friday until the required series of inoculations is complet ed. Source of the disease has not been determined SSfh Yar Sid r D(dn Th Gtrvgon Statesman, Salem Oraaon, Saturday. to IPtmlfeODSih) Spy Pspoirs . jf Yank Penetrates Russ Zone " -0 ' BERLIN, Dee. 10 Former American paratrooper, Edward J. Lada, It, rlrl-friend. Rath Rleekl, 23. of Berlin, and their two-year-old daughter, Nancy, today, bat not the way he had planned. He Is behind bars of U. 8. snilltary Jail In Berlin, charged with being la Germany without a military entry permission. Lada said he had tried to take Rath and Nancy to United States with him In 1947 but waa turned down because of Immigration restrictions, lie was captured In the Russian zone of Berlin where Miss Rieckl Uvea. (A P Wirephote via radio from Berlin to The Statesman.) Martial Law Declared for All of China NANKING. Dec. 1 0-TP) -Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek pro claimed martial law tonight for all nationalist China except the Island of Formosa. Tibet and three semi independent far western provinces. Th communist-threatened cities of Nanking. Shanghai and Peip- Ing already have been under mar tial law for a month. Thw was no explanation for tonight's action extending the mi litorv ml tn hiipe south-China areas thus far untouched by com bat. It came, however, as the com munists were attempting to cut be hind the Hwai river line wnicn is NnniriVie's last barrier north of the Yangtze river, and" as govern ment troops struggled to smash two communist-laid traps farther north. A spokesman for the communi cations Ministry disclosed that communists had temporarily sev ered the railway between tne Mwai river line anchor of Pengu and Pukow, Nanking's railway ter minal on the north bank ol tne Yangtze. Truman Hears Plea for China WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -(P) President Truman "listened sym pathetically" late today to a plea by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek for new American aid to China's hard pressed nationalist govern ment. They talked over the China crisis for about a h-lf hour at Blair house after a 5 o'clock tea which Mrs. Truman attended. Madame Chiang "stated her case and the president listened sympathetically," Eben Ayres, a press secretary, told newsmen. Mme. Chiang, wife of General issimo Chiang, herself told re porters that- "the president is the one" to report on the conference. It was her first meeting with Mr. Truman since she' arrived 10 days 'ago on a hurried, unofficial mission for the anti-communist Nanking regime. Weather Max. Mln. Precip. 44 42 1.34 46 44 -32 54 trace ... 21 16 trace .41 34 .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chlcato . New York Willamette rive 14 feet. FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy with rain today. Partly ctoudy with scattered showers tonight and early Sunday mornin. More rain again Sunday afternoon. High today near 47. Low tonight near 34. SALEM PRECIPITATION (Sept. 1 ( Dec. II) This Year 17.40 Last Year 14.43 Averaee 13.70 1651 1 960-Hours-Worth Of Finjes Paid by Overtijrie Parker Wayne . ii. Colby, Roseburg, could have parked legally for many days) on the $48 fine he paid Thursday for overtime vio-' lations in Salem. Statistician at Salem's city hall figured Coljay could have parked 960 hours on the good side of city laws had he put nickels in the meters rather than ignore over time tags and wind up in munic lpal court. Ghos Scares Hear$e Driver BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 10 (P)- A negro hearse driver aban- doned his : die of a night. Police sa neral car in the mid- idowntown street last ad the driver told them this story: He had i just driven off from the funeral home when he heard something "I got in back. and went around back to shu t the door. I saw some- thing whi ite inside. I closed the door. I o peined it again and saw something move. Then I sort of eased off. "I thought I saw a ghost or soroething.i Officers found a man asleeo in side the hjearse. They took him to city jail. Churcjiill Asks British Recognize New Jewish Slate LONDON Dec. 10-iP)-Winston Churchill tpday urged the British government to abandon it "sulky boycott of recognition state. Israel and give prompt to the new Jewish He askeq the labor government to face thje fact that the Jews "have a vijetorious army at their disposal" iii Palestine. A continu ation of Britain s presefu unreahs tic policy in the middle east. Churchill aid. could .produce a falling out jwith the United States, The lator government gave Britain's Wartime prime minister a prompt (reply. C. P. Mayhew, undersecretary for foreign affairs, said the cabinet was not prepared "at this time" to recognize Is rael. PoRtofflce Windows to Stay Opjen Longer Today To provide extra service for Christmas mailing, the stamp, par cel Dost and general delivery win dows will be open today and next Saturday from 8 am. to 8 p.m. Other windows will close at noon as usual. MUNDBD J . - v r ) ! Dtctmbtr 11, 1948 to See Family M ft. 1. ft of Newark, N. J, aees his German Grade C Milk Permitted in 19 Oregon Areas Provisional permission for grade C milk sales, to supplement the shortage of Grade A milk, was granted to distributors in 19 Ore gon areas in an order' released here Friday by O. K. Beals, in charge of the foods and dairies di vision of the State Agricultural Department. These include Albany, Lebanon, John Day, Prairie City, Hermiston, Cottage Grove, Corvallis, Wald port, Newport, Toledo, Tajt, De Lake, Madras, Oregon City, Grants Pass, Tillamook, Springfield, Oak ridge and the suburban area ad jacent to Eugene. The milk must be labeld as Grade C milk, in line with the Agricultural Departments re quirements. Beals said the action was neces sary because the supply of Grade A milk in these areas is insuffi cient to meet their nutritional re quirements. He also reiterated a previous statement that Grade C mijk comes from selected farms, must meet sediment and bacterio logical standards higher than for factory milk and myst be pasteur ized and processed only in ap proved and licensed milk plants. "Actually," Beals continued, "much of the Grade C milk will meet bacteriological standards of Gr&de A milk although the state minimum requirement is not as rigid. He explained the Grade C producing dairies lack the proper buildings- and some f the equip ment required to olliin a Grade A label. Talks Begin on Atlantic Treaty Washington, d. c, pec. 10 (JP)- The key nations of western Europe today reopened negotia tions for the United States and Canada for an unprecedented North Atlantic military alliance. In : the European view the pact should Inst for the next 50 years. The United States may object to making a commitment for such a long period. Top officials here appear fully confident, however, that' a pact will be finally worked out in about three months to co ordinate the military might of North America and western Eu rope for many years to come. Dallas Votes Bonds for Elementary School DALLAS (Special) Purchase of the 18-acre Lyle tract and con struction of a new elementary school were approved here Friday with voters balloting 491 to 97 in favor of a $250,000 bond it&ue. No. 233 Ex-Red Resigns Time Post WASHINGTON. Dec. ld-OPj-A dozen of the secret State Depart ment documents allegedly taker) from official files by Red py ring a decade ago will be released to the public Sunday; : ,; The House committee on Un American activities voted the re lease tonight timing It for Sun day morning newspaper publica tion. These 12 have been "cleared by the State Department as to pres ent national security,' the com mittee said. More than 200 docu ments In all have come under com mittee scrutiny in connection with the "pumpkin papers" case. The "top secret" label remains ( for some even after the passage of 10 years: 1 ' M AO Secret at the Tlaae ! Rep. Mundt I (R-SD), acting chairman of the House committee, said the 12 and all the others were secret when Whittaker Chambers got them in the Course of his work as a Red courier In 1938. j 1 Microfilm copies of the papers came to light last week when Chambers fished them from ; a pumpkin on his Maryland farm and gave them to committee gents ' under subpoena. I : NEW YORK, Dec. 10-4P)-Whit-taker Chambers, central figure in the probe of alleged commurist . spying, today quit his Job as a se f - fwi t hot euuor oi lime xnagaxuic Called U Testify j I His resignation was announced suddenly by his attorneys fas Chambers waited at the federal building to testify before a Federal Grand Jury whose Investigation he reinvigorated this week. , Chambers said In a prepared statement his offer to quit and the acceptance of the offer "became imperative when I recently began to make revelations about ! com munist espionage." i In a companion statement,! Time said it was not "prejudging his recent disclosures" and added: i "Against the admitted disservice to his country j i of a decade ago, must be set the service we are convinced he is trying to per form for his country now.lf j Time magazine officials Would not give his salary but newspaper reports have placed it at ) about $30,000 a year. ; Jap to Witness : To jo's Burial i TOKYO. Dec, 10 -UP)- An Un sophisticated Buddhist priest: is the only Japanese to be permit ted to see Hideki Tojo safely in his coffin after the former pre mier is hanged. As a result, j he has become a prominent figure in Japan. His wife ays he has been Offered bribes, threatened and lied to. The priest Is Shinsho I Hana- yama, 50, "a member of the Judo Shinshu sect and Instructor in In dian philosophy at Tokyp uni versity, j He administers last rites to the condemned and lays them in their carkets after the rope has done its work. , j SCHOOL PROJECT DEFEATED HAYESVILLE. Dec. 10 -4- Con struction of an all-Durpose room at the Hayesvillei school was; voted down overwhelmingly by a 93 10 18 majority in a special election Thursday night. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH - "Co platers? Ys, SiRl" Prlc 5c ei'G