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If high climb to put lights on the courthouse tree for Christmas.
Atop the Salem fire department's mobile ladder is TLes Geer of the
Walton -Brown Co-, haalinr ap a string of multi-colored lights to
decorate the tree again this year. Formal lighting will be Friday
night at 7:30 o'clock. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.)
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It is highly gratifying to all who
are concerned about the conduct
of the state's financial affairs that
Walter J. Pearson, the new state
treasurer, will continue as chief
deputy Fred Paulus, who has
served in that capacity since 1927.
While it is, not correct to say that
a man is "indispensable," Paulus
comes as near as anyone in state
fovemment to that designation,
earson will, find he has a most
competent subordinate, as his fa
ther did before him, and the peo
ple will know that the business
affairs of the department will con
tinue to be wol' administered.
Paulus has been of great value
to the state as secretary of the
bond commission, which handles
the investment of millions of dol
lars of state funds. Under his
watchful guidance the state has
ivoided losses in its investments
and has realized as large returns
as possible under the conserva
tive policies required of state in
vestment. In addition, Paulus has aided
cities and school districts in their
financial problems. During the de
pression a number of cities got
into financial trouble. Paulus ad
vised them, helped them to refi
nance and now every city in Ore
gon but one has its financial house
In order.
For years justices of the peace
were delinquent in remitting fines.
While- it was not primarily the
duty of the treasurer's office
(Continued on editorial page)
Theft Attempted at
Marion Postof f ice
MARION, Dec. 15 An at
tempt to break into the safe in
the Marion postoffice Tuesday
night failed apparently because
of Insufficient supply of acetylene
gas. The empty cylinder which
had been taken from the nearby
Huber garage was found Wed
nesday morning when investiga
tion of the attempted robbery
was started.
Entrance to the building was
made by" forcing the lock on the
truill UW1. ini Ac
postmaster and she and her hus
band formerly operated a grocery
tore.
19 RAIL CARS TOPPLE
KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 15-p)
M- J. O'DonnelL Great Northern
train conductor, was injured to
day in a freight train derailment
that tore up 1,000 feet of track
and upset 19 cars of the 65-car
train.
Animal Crackers
6V WARREN GOODRICH
"I tell y, he's been getting
too much starch in his diet."
Floods Over,
Shivers Next
For Mid-Valley
Valley residents shook off the
last flood dangers Wednesday and
prepared for another day of freez
ing temperatures, and the possibil
ity of snow. The McNary field
weather bureau forecast showers
of rain and snow for Salem Thurs
day, with lower thermometer
readings.
Snow flurries in the mountains
caked all highway passes with ice,
and state police reported late
Wednesday that several stretches
of highway in the lower valleys
were icy. Sanding operations were
attempting, to clear danger spots
as the temperature went down
below 30 degrees at Salem early
Thursday.
Pendleton was still digging out
from its thickest snow - fall since
1919. At Chemult the mercury
plummeted to 15 below zero, four
below at Burns, two at Baker and
zero at Klamath Falls Wednesday.
All major highways throughout
the state were open for traffic,
but the state highway commis
sion reported chains are needed
on all mountain passes.;
Woman in Liquor
Store Theft Case
PORTAND, Dec. 15-()-A wom
an's name popped up today in the
search for Russell Eugene Hut
chins, 42-year-old liquor store em
ploye sought on a charge of taking
$7,117 in liquor store funds.
An anonymous telephone caller
gave the name of a woman he said
"was in love with" the missing as
sistant liquor store manager.
Police said the woman a 35-year-old
salesgirl has been miss
ing since Saturday night, too.
Synder Sees More
Prosperity Ahead
WASHINGTON, Dec; 15 -JP)
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
said today he foresees; no busi
ness recession, but instead at
tractive opportunities for further
prosperity in the years ahead.
He told the final session of the
American Municipal association
here that beyond doubt the Unit
ed States has "the essential foun
dation for an incomparable era of
national prosperity." i
His predictions were based upon
"a big unsatisfied backlog of de
mand for goods, machinery and
public works; new products com
ing on the market, and continuing
growth and shift of population."
Bonihsiglit Secret
Said Stolen in '33
WASHINGTON, Deq, 15-P-House
investigators said today
they are digging into a story that
a man now working for; the army
stole secrets of the famous Nor
den bomb sight for the Russians
in 1938. .,
They said details of the instru
ment are reported to have leaked
out of the army proving ground
for new weapons at Aberdeen,
Md., and that the suspect, a civil
ian, still is on the payroll there. .
Weather
Max.
Salem 41
Portland 47
San Francisco 48
Chicago . 46
New York 35
Min. Prectp.
13 trace
86 .05
34 trace
37 .53
30 .40
Willamette river 18.3 feet,
FORECAST from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly
cloudy with few scattered ihocr- of
rain or snow becoming partly cloudy
and cooler tonight. High today near
38. Low tonight near 28.
SAI.RM PRECIPITATIOV
(SepC 1 to Dee. If)
This Year Last Year Average
18.18 16.92 13.79
93th Year
18 PAGES
2 Policemen Cleared of Politics
Peiping in Change of Reds' Guns
30 Die in Colombia Plane Crash
Fireworks on
Plane Cited as
Possible Cause
BARRANQUILLA, Colombia,
Dec. 15 0P)-Lansa airlines said
tonight one of its passenger planes
crashed this morning about 25
miles west of Bogota and all 30
persons aboard were killed.
Lansa officials said packages of
fireworks apparently taken aboard
the plane without knowledge of
the airline were found near the
wreckage and may have caused
the crash. Fireworks are in de
mand during the Christmas sea
son in Colombia, but are banned
from transport in planes.
"The righjwing of the plane ap
pears to have come off by an ex
plosion and was burned together
with the fuselage," a Lansa state
ment said.
The plane, a DC-3 was en route
from Bogota to Barranquilla.
The two-engine plane carried a
crew of four and 26 passengers.
The dead included two British
engineers connected with the Shell
Petroleum company in Bogota.
Their names were given as A. C.
Buchan and E. Howey.
All the other passengers, in
cluding eight women and one in
fant, were apparently Colombians.
Newspaper accounts quoted eye
witnesses as saying the plane hit
a fog-shrouded hill and burst into
flames. Fragments of the plane
were scattered over a wide area
and bodies of the victims were
mangled, many beyond immediate
identification.
10 Prineville Girls
Spend Night in Cold
PRINEVILLE, Ore., Dec. 15-yP)
-The entire city of Prineville turn
ed out today to hunt for 10 girls,
missing overnight in near - zero
weather, and finally found them
stalled in a car on a lonely road.
The Prineville high school girls
had run out of gas, and decided to
wait out the night in the car rather
than risk possible freezing in the
10-mile walk to town.
"It was not comfortable,' said
Enola Hohnstein, 17. But neither
she or her nine girl friends, who
had huddled together for warmth
throughout the night, suffered any
harm.
A-PILE WORKING IS FRANCE
PARIS, Dec. 15-;P)-Frederick
Joliot-Curie, communist high com
missioner of the French Atomic
Energy committee, told Premier
Henri Queuille the nation's first
atomic energy pile began working
today.
Hat Trick
NEW YORK, Dee. 15 As Francis
the New York Foundling Home
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on the Cardinal's biretta. (AP Wlrephote te The Statesman.)
The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Orecon, Thursday, Decembef
Sea Lion Travels
Oregon Highway
In Winter Rain
COOS BAY, Ore., Dec. IS-(JP)
Oregon takes the brunt of many
gags about its heavy winter
rainfall, but a new yarn is in
the making here sea lions on
the highways.
Traffic was snarled for an
hour today at nearby North
Lakeside junction where one of
the animals floundered on
Highway 101 pavement, bark
ing and lunging at all who ap
proached. The sea lion apparently made
its way from the ocean along
one of the nesyby streams.
State police were dispatched
to try to get the young animal
back to its native habitat.
Prince Charles
Given Ration
Book, Baptized
LONDON. Dec 15 (&- The
Buckingham palace baby was bap
t i s e d Charles Philip Arthur
George today.
Already dubbed "Bonnie Prince
Charlie" by the London press,
Princess Elizabeth's first bom
"behaved beautifully" through
out his official christening, said
an announcement. He didn't cry.
"He just gurgled," said a specta
tor. Before the ceremony the child
who some day may be king of
England received a ration book.
His name was enrolled in the tat
tered red registration book of
Westminster borough. And a na
tional savings certificate for 10
shillings ($2) was bought in his
name to give him a good start in
life.
The ration book entitles him to
extra milk, concentrated orange
juice and cod liver oil, the same
as any other baby of the realm.
Then came the glittering half
hour ceremony in the music room
presided over by the Archbishop
of Canterbury in the presence of
about 50 persons.
King George was in good spir
its and showed no signs of the leg
affliction which keeps him in bed
much of the time.
The little prince, a bit drowsy
after meeting the archbishop,
slept through part of the picture
taking which followed the ceremony.
Enlivens Cardinals' Party
Cardinal Spellmaa presents Christmas packages to youngsters from j
during the prelate's annual Christmas
1651
Chiang Urged
To Quit; Wife's
Mission Futile
PEIPING, Thursday, Dec. 1WjP)
Chinese communists drove within
artillery range of isolated Peiping
today.
They made no attempt to ahell
the city.
Altogether, there were some
strange developments amid the
rumble of guns outside Peiping
and talk of negotiations with the
communists.
The Reds seized several points
in the northwestern suburbs out
side the city walls.
And yet:
Peiping is full of troops, most of
them in a holiday mood, enjoying
the sights and sounds and the mild
weather for this time of year-
Peiping is more concerned with
mounting prices of food than with
the presence of communists.
The Reds are not expected to
shell Peiping.
What happens next whether
the communists try to occupy the
city immediately may depend on
political factors.
If there is a political stalemate,
the communists can afford to do
here what they did at Mukden
encircle the city and wait for it to
wither and die.
NANKING. Dec. 15 --President
Chiang Kai-Shek's closest fri
ends asked him today to quit and
let others try to negotiate peace
with China's communists, It was
learned reliably.
The suggestion that China's vet
teran leader step down at least
temporarily came as separate
peace talks were reported in north
China, where Peiping is in peril of
falling to the Reds.
Chiang was said to be studying
the suggestion.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - (P) -Madame
Chiang Kai-Shek has fail
ed thus far in her quest for all-out
U. S. backing for her husband's
regime in China. Undersecretary of
State Lovett indicated today.
The United States, he said at a
news conference, is sticking to the
policy laid down by congress last
session, under which limited aid
has been given to the Generalis
simo Chiang's nationalist regime.
BROWN OUT PLANNED
PORTLAND, Dec. 15 -P)- The
city council voted today to sup
port a request of power com
panies that electric signs be turn
ed off from 4:30 to 6:30 each
afternoon to conserve power. City
ordinances now require such
signs to be lighted at dusk.
party here, one youngster tries
POUNDS
it, 1948
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Board Orders Men
Reinstated with Pay
By Robert
j City Editor.
Hobart Kiggins and Leland Weaver Wednesday were reinstat
ed as Salem fity police officers after a 2 -hour hearing of their
discharge appeal before the city
They were awarded retroactive
they were discharged from the
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Shown as they solemnly listened to witness In civil service hearing
which: restored their police status are Hobart Kiggins (left) and
Leland Weaver. (Other photos, page 18.)
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Minto on charges of political activity in favor of a city commis
sion form of government as proposed on a city initiative measure
which was defeated at the November 2 election
After hearing testimony from
man commission overruieu me
reached about 20 seconds after
nounced;immiediately by Chairman William J. Entress. The other
New Bridge
At Salem Tops
Chamber Aims
Salem Chaifiber of Commerce
gave top ! priority to a highway
improvement program Including a
new Willamette river bridge here
when it adopted a list of 10 aims
and objectives) for 1949.
Four phases) of. highway devel
opment, in order of priority, were
included in thf first "aim." as fol
lows: (1) New bridge; (2) ade
quate highway through Salem;
(3) improved! highway to Mill
City to connejet with new North
Santiam highway; (4) connecting
link from Salem to the coast high
way at a poinj two miles north of
Dallas.
Added to the list submitted by
James Walton retiring president
and now chairman of aims and
objectives 'werje endorsements for
a Wilsonville (bridge to permit a
cutoff route ip Portland and for
South River rad improvement to
the site of thej new Independence
bridge.
Other aims and objectives,
adopted as reported by the com
mittee, includ continued support
for airport development, farm la
bor camp,; lohg range planning
oommision"s program, the Oregon
mounted posse and governor's
guard; increased tourist promo
tion and lirgilng of members to
raise their chamber qualifications
where possible.
President Ry Harland was au
thorized by trje board to name a
committee to make a study of poss
ible successor jto Glenn W. Prath
er, assistant manager who resigned
this months Harland said applica- '
lions for the position already have
been received) from C. A. Kells
and Gene Malecki.
QUICKIES
"Don't Uke
time to dn
you
know howe; quickly these States-
man Want Ad
bargains are snatch-1
ed up!"
No. 237
Charge
E. Gang-ware
Th Statesman
civil aervice commission.
pay from November 12, the date
force by Police Chief Frank A.
13 sworn witnesses the three-
aiscnarge in a unanimous decision
a huddled conference and an
commissioners are Lyle J. Page and
Richard G. Severin.
Bulk of the questioning was car
ried on by Paul Burris, attorney
for Kiggins and Weaver, and by
Chris Kowitz, the city attorney.
Nearly 100 citizens attended the
public hearing in the city council
chambers at city hall.
Mayor R. L. Elfstrom and City
Manager J. L. Franzen, whose
names were interjected Into sever
al witnesses' testimony, were not
called to the witness stand and
were not present at the hearing.
Both Kiggins and Weaver denied
in their sworn testimony that they
had "injured the public service,"
as charged by improper conduct,
campaigning for abolition of the
present form of city government or
fomenting dissension and disunity
within the police department.
Both officers admitted, however,
that they had given personal opin
ions on campaign issues prior to
the election and Kiggins testified
he had stated he would become a
candidate for commissioner of pub
lic safety if the commission gov
ernment was adopted.
Minutes or MeeUn Read
Attorney Burris had minutes of
a previous civil commission meet
ing read, which showed that the
police chiefs report for October
had indicate "no violations of civil
service.
Burris asked Chief Minto if in a
November 11 conference with City
Manager J. L. Franzen he had been
told to "arrive at that decision,
and Minto replied, "I was not."
Minto had testified he decided to
discharge the two officers a day
or two Derore the November 12 fir
ing date.
At the conclusion of the de
fense case, Attorney Burris said,
"I have no further witnesses on
this matter, but 1 can offer wit
nesses to show what really causes
j dissension in the police depart
i ment." The commission declined
his offer, as irrrelevant to the
case at hand.
Questions as to operations of
the city's civil service system
(which affects only firemen and
policemen) were raised by Attor
ney Burris who produced testi
mony: that the captain's rank es
tablished almoFt a year ago is
not filled by civil service exami
nation; that copies of civil ser
vice rules are not distributed to
new officers on the police force;
that Harvey Tautfest. hired less
than a year ago on temporary
(non-civil service) basis, has
been promoted to juvenile officer
with $30 more in pay and had
been given work hours considered
better than those worked by some
veteran policemen.
Based on Reports
Police Chief Minto testified he
had fired the two officers on the
basis of reports to him by As
sistant Police Chief Carl Charl
j ton. given when Minto returned
j to his post in early November
after almost a month of illness
and hospitalization.
Minto said he had no personal
knowledge of political activity by
either Kiggins or Weaver.
Prlco Sc
(Additional details on page 2)
January
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NEW YORK. Det. iaJirL
k . , . . V "
rk uv-nuniin.r erand turv In-
nfxhl indicted Alger Hint,
former state department . of
ficial, on two counts of per
Jory. g
It accused Ilisa. now! ah
lave of absence from hia
$20.000-a-year post as head ofjithe
Carnegie endowment for interna
tional peace, of lying when he d.
nifls He ffflt'A Ws-A 4... . A
ment papers to Whittaker Cham
bers, confessed soviet courier.
The charges orieinallv had h
a kr uriia i lb
leveled against Hiss by Chambers,
a former senior editor for TJme
magazine, at hearings of the hount
committee on un-American 'ac
tivities, i
Hiss repeatedly denied the chr-
ges. -
U. S. Attorney John F. X. Me
Gohey said he expected Hiss-; to
five himself up to authorities.
Hiss probably will be arraigned
tomorrow or Friday, McGohey
said.
Hiss Denies Charges
Hiss later issued a statement
through his attorney saying: ;i
"Aiy teitimony before the grtjnd
ury was entirely truthful." f
In Washington Rep. Mundt (H-
SD), Rep. Nixon (R-Calif) and
Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) said the in
dictment was a vindication of the .
un-American activities commit li
of which they are leading mem
bers. :'l
Nixon said it vindicated "the
many long months of work ckine
by our committee despite criticism
from all sources from the presi
dent down." ' a t
Clark "Not Surprised" ij f
Attorney General Tom Clerk
said in New York he was "not ap
prised" by the indictment. He w.jd
he thought Hiss would be broujM
to trial some time in January. t
Reporters asked whether Clark
thought the indictment would in
fect President Truman's "rtd-
herring" condemnation f trio
committee probe. Clark repli4:
I don t think it will alter jt.l
His is liable to a $2,000 fine arid.
five years imprisonment on ektfo
count of the indictment if etri- '
victed. ; f
Specifically the indictments si. id
Hiss "unlawfully, knowingly, aid
willfully" lied when: 8 J?
1. He denied that either he or
his wife, Priscilla, gave any docu
ments of the state department W .
any other government agency to
Chambers. jjj .
2. He testified he did not tf.lh
to Chambers during February and
March, 1933. .
A new grand jury, which Is! to '
be sworn in tomorrow, will finish
the probe. If
Hiss and Chambers had pi
Deared daily before the ermr.A
jury since it began Its espionage
probe December . i;
Produced Microfilm I
Three days previously. Charrw
bers had produced five rolls 'of.
microfilms from a hollowed-Out
pumpkin which purportedly bore
approximately 200 pictures .ei
classified documents, three U.t
which aUegedl were In lit;
handwriting. !
The jury said that Hiss furnish-;
ed Chambers "copies of numerousr!
secret confidential and restricted
documents, writings, notes and
other papers, the . originals ? .! i
which had theretofore been rerrio-K
ved and abstracted from the pos-
scseiun ui uie ucparuneni oi siaio
in violation of title 18, United
States code, section 1621.H 1
On the second count, the Indict
ment charged Hiss' testimony was
untrue in that. the defendant did
see and converse with the said
Mr. Chambers in or about the
months of February, and March,
1938, in violation of title 18, U. S.
code, section 1821. I
Husband Slain;
Bride Jailed
HEPPNER. Ore.., Dec. 15 -iVIV
Arthur Lee HugheS was shot to
death in his living room today,
and his bride of nine months was
arrested and placed in the Uma
tilla county jail. . S
District Attorney P. W. Ma
honey said Mrs. Hughes who hd
started divorce proceedings ad
mitted the shooting. The district
attorney said the couple began ar
guing about some checks. i
The shooting occurred about; S
a.m. after Hughes and two friends
returned home. The friends Tom
Loyd and John Hoffnagle weie
in another room of the Hughes
home. I
COSTA RICAN PROBE DI E!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-fP)
A five -man commission waa
named today to make an imme
diate on-the-spot Investigation tt
Costa Rican charges that troop
coming from Nicaragua have in
vaded her territory ci
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