i I. Salons Can Divert Future Taxesi to General Fund'-- Revision Possible Ainrauy $6 WiifclIid!Bayy V,i mat Part off Gioirea Force 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 7fi-JPh The army said tonight it is with drawing a "portion" of its troop strength from Korea, and there were indications the force might be reduced by as much as half.1 It announced plans for a "gen eral regrouping of U. S. army forces serving under General MacArthur," including the trans fer of the seventh Infantry divi sion from Korea to Japan, The "current reduction and re grouping of -forces in Korea of which the United States and Russia each occupy half, was made possible by several factors, the announcement said, includ ing: !. Establishment in the U. S. zone of a government for the Re public of Korea; its assumption of responsibilities; . the United Nations declaration on December 12 that the government "is the only -lawful one in Korea"; the ability of the Korean constabu 12 Airmen on Greenland Rescued by Special C-47 - r -By Kerer D. Greene j ! WASHINGTON, Dec 28-(fl,)-Twelve U. S. airmen marooned atop 7,800 foot ice cap in Greenland were dramatically rescued in '38 fnimtt today by a C-47 transport equipped with jet-assist takeoff apparatus and skiis. Seven of the men had been stranded in the lonely Arctic encampment 0tP SQGEOQS A flock of sheep that leisurely nass br. One after one: the sound of rain, and bees Murmurina: the fall of rivers, winds and seas. Kmnnfh fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I have thought of all by turns and yet do lie Sleepless! . . . Coma blessed bairierTetween day and day."' "j Dear mother of fresh thoughts and Joyous health!" i Thus the poet Wordsworth in bis ode "To Sleep." It -was the in somnia he describes which drove Sumner Welles, distinguished American publicist and former undersecretary of state, out for a midnight walk that nearly ended fatally when he fell in the field from a heart attack. What about insomnia? Is it a growing complaint? Are people mora prone to lie awake now than in former generations? Is it an "occupational disease", of the men tal worker? For all our advance in medical science and in psychology we seem to know little about sleep and in somnia. Sleep Is, of course, a per fectly natural period of rest. But some people find that sleep evades them, and they become chronic sufferers from insomnia. They count sheep fruitlessly and use all the other devices others suggest to Induce repose, without success. In growing use are sleeping tablets- Used under a doctors ad vice they are harmless. The drugs themselves may not be habit forming, but the practice may be come so. Increasingly in the news is the phrase "overdose of sleeping tablets" which may cause death or serious illness. The safer rule is to avoid an use of sleep-indue ing pills except on prescription. But don't walk abroad on a cold night Welles has been one of the ablest ef our men in public life. (Continued on editorial page) DRAFTEES LEAVE FOR FT. ORD PORTLAND, Dec. 28 -JPh Se lective service officials sent 40 men to Fort Ord, Calif, for basic training today and announced the others of the 124 December quota would leave home7 areas tomor row. Animal Crackers BV WARREN GQC6riCH ; "Seems to roe the seating arrangement could hire been better." lary, dvil police nd coast guard to handle the recent uprising at Yuso, in southern Korea. 1 There was no announcement at this time of the total U. SJt army strength in Korea. However, about 30,000 troops were! there last May. I If the Seventh division is at full strength, about 15,000, this would mean that half of the to tal strength would be moved out of Korea. i r The army statement said "the scheduled changes when ! com pleted will be in consonance with a United Nations1 resolution call ing for occupying troops of the United States and of Soviet Rus sia to be withdrawn from! Korea as early as practicable."! Russian occupation forces sta tioned in northern Korea have been withdrawing. The Russians said in September all Soviet troops would be out by Jan. 1, I since December 9. The other five joined them later in a series of unsuccessful rescue attempts. By latest reports, ail the men were in good health despite sub freezing temperatures j of 40 . be low and winds up to 100 m.p.h. Air force headquarters here said the rescuing ; C-47, flown to the scene from its greenland base 270 miles away, landed oh the snow at 9:30 ajn., loaded the happy men on board, and took off at 1008 ajn. i I Tonight the men were resting in snug officers club quarters at Bluie West Eight base in south west Greenland. The air force said no further; details were ex pected tonight. ! f j At least three previous "air snatch" attempts, with gliders and a B-17 Flying Fortress, had fail ed. Today's successful! exploit came as the navy's aircraft car rier USS Saipan, with five heli copters aboard,! sped through the storm-swept north Atlantic toward Greenland. ; : The Saipa which left! Norfolk. Va on Christmas day, was still about 1,000 miles from lis goal. Air officials credited the rescue to a young air force pilot who only a year ago was the hero in another "top-of-the-worid" res cue exploit in Labrador wilder ness. : ! He is Lt. CoL Emil J. Beaudry. 32, a native of i Manchester, N.H., now stationed at Westover, Mass., air base, who is known to his col leagues as possibly the air force's ace pilot of jato (jet-assist) ski- equipped planes. (Details of a sim ilar rescue made by a Salem, Ore., man are recalled on page 4.) Rolling Postoffice To Run Between Portland, Corvallis The Pacific northwest's first mo bile postoffice I went 1 on a trial run Tuesday from Portland to Corvallis. Service will begin Jan uary 10. I The postoffice on wheels - a truck outfitted like s a i railroad mail car began a run! that will serve 24 towns; The route starts at Portland- and goes I through Hillsboro, . Forest Grove, McMlnn ville, Dallas, Monmouth, Indepen dence and ends at Corvallis. It will leave Portland at 8:10 daily and Corvallis, on the; return trip, at 6:40 pjn. Since the Southern j Pacific's electric trains were discontinued several years ago the mail has been delivered by I star route trucks. This has not Sallowed the mail to be worked between towns. Stamp collectors desiring first trip cachets are! instructed to send covers with money for stamps to the Portland postmaster 1 by Jan uary 8 for the outgoing trip, and to the Corvallis postmaster for the return trip. i 1948 Best Year for Mt. Angel Co-Op Creamery, Manager Says MT. ANGEL; Dec. 528 i More than 1,400 were served at the an nual Mt Angel Cooperative creamery patrons' dinner here Tuesday noon. Business men of Mt Angel prepared and served the noon meal in the dining roon of St. Mary's hall. The creamery had its best year in 1948 when $125,000 in retained dividends was accumulated, Frank Hettwer, manager of the cream ery, announced These dividends will be distributed among the members following thei annual meeting, January 31. : Improvements in the co-operative plant during 1948 have in cluded .the cheese aging plant which cures half a million pounds of cheese at a time and a new milk receiving plant, Hettwer said. Actual number of dairy cows in Oregon has decreased while the state's population is increasing, George Fullenwider, Carlton, chairman of ; the Oregon Dairy Producers commission; said in a talk following the dinner. After July j The legislature, through proper enactment, has authority to make available for the general fund for governmental expenses proceeds of both the corporate excise tax revenues and state income taxes received after July 1, 1949, attor ney general George Neuner ruled Tuesday. I The opinion was asked by State Budget director George Aiken. j Neuner said all the legislature has to do to channel these future revenues to the general fund is to amend the personal and corporate excise tax laws. He made it plain, I however, that his opinion applies only to income tax receipts re ceived after July 1 since the state supreme court has ruled that cur rent income tax revenues can be used only for reduction of proper' ty taxes. 1 State tax commissioners said corporate excise tax revenues are being received at the rate of ap proximately s 18,000,000 a year while $45,000,000 of personal in come taxes will have accumulated by the end of the current bien- nium. "It is our opinion," Neuner said, "that an amendment to the per anal Income tax act by which fu ture revenues collected under lt can be used for the liquidation of the state deficit would be germane to the original title of the act and therefore valid." Boggie Meets Widow. Talks , . 0 Wedding Plans LEBANON. Ore., Dec. 28 -JPl Pardoned Clarence Boggie and the school teacher he credits with winning his release from Wash ington state prison were talking marriage plans tonight. Boggie met Mrs. Beatrice Nich ols for the; first time today at the Salem bus depot and greeted her with an affectionate kiss and em brace. Later he said "She is the sweetest woman in the world." ?If it hadn't been for her, I wouldn't be free today," Boggie added. i j When and where they will be married and where they plan to make their home hadn't been de cided tonight. But the bride-to-be said in Portland, while en route to j meet the prospective bride groom, that the nuptials may be on New Year's day. Ex-School Teacher - Mrs. Nichols, a former Wiscon sin! school teacher and recently of Sterling, Colo., began writing to Boggle at the Walla Walla, Wash., prison last summer. She had read of his claim that he was impris oned for a slaying he never com muted. She also interested sev eral newspapers and private in vestigators. The resulting re search led to the pardon of the 55-year-old Oregon lumberjack just before Christmas. He had served 13 years of his sentence. Te Make Machine Boggie said his plans after the marriage included development of! a pre-iabricated home plan and a nailing machine which he said he worked out while in prison. The trip to Oregon was a re turn visit for Mrs. Nichhols, a widow who formerly lived briefly in Oregon 20 years ago. She left at : that time to live on a farm near Cumberland, Wis. WELLES "SATISFACTORY" WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -(JPy-Sumner Welles' condition contin ued "satisfactory" today but his physician still was not sure wheth er: the frostbite he suffered after a week-end collapse beside a country road would require am putations of fingers and toes. ALASKA TRAINING SET TERMINAL ISLAND, Calif., Dec. 28 -(fy The navy announced today it will send 18,000 sailors and marines on 34 ships in wide scale tests next month of Alaskan operations. The amount of dairy products has so far maintained the balance of previous years because of the improved feeding programs but not cows available for there are the man who wishes to start out In the dairy business, Fullenwider said. Harold Ewalt, head of Oregon State college dairy department, discussed feeding problems and urged the dairymmen to accept the responsibility for educating the consumer on the actual cost of producing healthy milk. Ed Eastman of Canby, president of the cooperative, welcomed the dairymen and other speakers were Darrel Johnson, quality man for the cooperative; George Kruse, fieldman; Jack Kassney of Oregon City, representing the livestock co operative; John Simon and Cyrus Friedman, Portland fieldmen. Entertainment was furnished by three baton twirlers, Theresa Zel lig, Marylyn Fish and Susan Yost, daughters of dairymen. 88th Year 12 PAGE3 U.N. Asks Indonese Released PARIS, Dec. 28-iSVThe United Nations security council today gave The Netherlands 24 hours in which to release captured Indonesian re publican leaders. The resolution did not say what would happen if the deadline is not met Britain, angling for American support, also submitted a resolu tion demanding an Immediate cease-fire in southern Palestine and withdrawal of Israel's armed forces from the Negev desert bat tleground. The council ordered the release of captured Indonesian leaders over the protest of Dutch delegate Jan Herman Van Roy an that he could read a "note of censure" in the the resolution sponsored by China. The council adso adopted a Co lombian resolution calling on a committee of foreign consuls in Ba- tavia, Java, to supervise and re port on compliance with the coun cil's Christmas eve cease-fire or der. Van Royen told the council yes terday his government is giving the order "serious consideration," The Chinese demand ordered the Dutch to free the captive Indone sian President Soekarno, Premier Mohamed Hatta and other ton leaders "forthwith." The delegates agreed this meant 24 hours. Deliveries of Sawdust Halt As Mills Close Deliveries of sawdust fuel in the Salem area had almost ceased to day as a result of the shutdown of most sawmills in the mid-valley. The situation was expected to last at least a week and possibly a month or more, but one dealer had a hint for burning of wet sawdust The shutdown came recently be cause of weather conditions, the annual repair perior and the slack lumber market. Many ponds were frozen in last week s cold spelL re suiting in considerable icing of the logs. Most dealers said they deliver only fresh sawdust, so when the mills close they also halt, because stockpiles of the fuel are wet and usually considered unsatisfactory xor Durning. However .addition of slack coal to wet sawdust was said to be one answer to the problem. One deal er said two or three glllons of slack coal mixed in each hopperful of sawdust would make it burn to provide all the heat desired. Medicinal Use Of Hops Seen PORTLAND, Dec. 2MP-Ore-gon interest was reported today in possible medicinal uses of hops. E. L. Markell, editor of the UJS. Hop Growers association magazine. The Hopper, said research at the department of agricultures Al bany, Calif., laboratory was "highly promising, even if it is not conclusive." An article in the December is sue of the publication said early tests of hop derivatives showed some effectiveness in controlling certain bacteria and fungi. ' The University of California be came interested and is unaertax ing additional research, he wrote. Ruhr Area Under 6-Nation Control LONDON, Dec. 28 JPf The western powers today shackled Germany's war potential by plac ing her industrial Ruhr area under international control perhaps for ever. Six powers, without Russian participation, announced they would constitute a board of con trol known as the "Ruhr Author ity" to guarantee that the Ruhr henceforth will produce only for peace. The powers are the United States, Britain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. BREAKFAST COSTS S2S WALLA WALLA, Dec 28 -Wt A Walla Walla woman prepared a $200 breakfast this morning whether she. ate it or not. Police said the woman told them she turned on a gas oven to get break fast and forgot she had tucked away $200 In currency and checks there for want of a better hiding place. The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, Chiang Summons Emergency-Meet NANKING, Wednesday, Dec 28 -VP)- Chiang Kai-Shek today summoned regional military i commanders with one ex ception into emergency con ference. Observers said it might determine the future of the na- tlonal government. Th conference was called in the face of new rumors of -peace in Nanking.. ? Pirst to arrive was Shansi Governor Yen Hsi-Shan. He was closely followed by Hu Tsung-Nan, commanding the Sian area, and Yunnan Gover- ? nor Lu Han. Chiang did not summon Gen. Pu Tso-Yi, government com mander of North China. No reason was given. Thaw Brings Truck Ban on County Roads All trucks and heavy vehicles are ordered off all Marion county roads by Marion county court dur ing the current thawing out per iod. The court expects to issue a for mal notice to that effect today. Heavy log and lumber trucks were taken off the roads Tuesday af ternoon by county patrolmen. Business vehicles and other trucks considered necessary on the roads will be granted permission if the owners call the court. The order includes hard surfac ed as well as graveled roads. While the road beds, which are swelled now with ice, are thawing and HseTOingjinto place .they . ara sus repilLId to extreme damage from heavy vehicles, according to County Commissioner E. L. Ro gers. "The traffic order win be lifted as soon as possible," Rogers said. "Heavy rains would thaw the roads quickly and trucks would be per mitted back on , the roads within several days. If the thaw is slow, however, the order will remain in effect longer.? Prime Minister Of Egypt Slain CAIRO. EffVDt Dee. 28 Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmv Nokrashy Pasha, a victim of Arab zerment over Palestine, was assassinated today by a student disguised as a policeman. Police said the killer was Abdel Hamld Ahmed Hassan, 21, a vet erinary college student. The 60-year-old prime minister was slain a moment after enter ing the ministry of interior where ho had his office. Witnesses said the assassin wore a second hand police uniform. He fired five bullets from a revolver into his back as the prime minister waited for an elevator. Police said the assassin's name was on a list of 140 Moslem brotherhood i members submitted to the prime minister four or five days ago in a move to obtain an order for his arrest. 4 DIE IN PLANE CRASH DETROIT. Dec 29 (Wednesday) -(iPV-Three arm? air force Derson- nel and a Michigan national guard officer were killed Tuesday night when a Michigan national guard plane crashed three miles east of Willow run airport. Newbry to Oppose Doubling Automobile Registration Fee Doubling of Oregon's $3 annual automobile registration fee, pro posed by the 1947 legislative in terim committee on highway de velopment will be opposed by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, he asserted Tuesday. The commit tee suggestion was for the purpose of raising funds for building and malntanence bf the state highws? system. "Most of us recall when lt cost from $23 to $80 to purchase a li cense for our automobiles," New bry said. "To increase the current fee of $9 to $10 a year for these plates would be a start toward the old system of levying a property tax against motor vehicles." Newbry said he was fully cog nizant of the need for additional highway funds but felt the regis tration fee was not intended as a revenue measure. "Vehicles are registered," Newbry averred, "to protect the rights of the owner, to discourage thefts, and to provide POUND0I o 1651 Rain Melts f L I is IT if" V With warmer rains coming te Salem Tuesday te end the recent eeld weather, the above picture ef Icicles 1 will serve as a reminder ef holiday snow and frost. The photo was taken Tuesday under the loading platform ef the Capitol Lumber Co., where dripping water had formed a curtain of gleaming Icicles. The mill pond waa also frosen ever with two Inches ef lee; suspending mill operations. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman Local School Religion Education Plan By Robert City Editor. A nrooosal for rellaious education classes during school hours was laid before the Salem district school board Tuesday night by spokes men for the Salem Ministerial association, but no action was taken. The ministers' association plan Aging Senator Hits Newsmen WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 - WP) -Kenneth D. McKellar, dean of the senate approaching his 80th birth day, said today he had hit two newspapermen in anger because of references to his age and abilities. The incidents involved Silliman Evans, 84, publisher of the Nash ville (Term) Tennessean and Jack Anderson, 26, reporter for column ist Drew Pearson. McKellar said both occurred this month. The Tennessee senator said that in a chance meeting witn tvana in a hotel corridor he struck the publisher in the face with his fist. In Nashville, tvans saia n w weak blow. He said he Just walked An. Anderson said during a friendly interview he had asked McKellar's age to make conversation. The sen ator "blew up" and struck him powder puff blows as he rose to leave. BUTTER PRICE TO RISE PORTLAND, Dec. 2$ - VP) - Wholesalers reported today that butter, nrices will advance a cent a rxund on tomorrow's market. a method of enforcing traffic laws and regulations." The Secretary of State said the lpss ok about $2,000,000 in high way funds due to the experiment with a new motor transportation U regrettable but does not Justify a new tax on private pas senger cars. , "During the depression," New bry continued, "the federal gov ernment levied a series of excise taxes on gasoline, oil, new tires, tubes and other vehicle necessi ties. These taxes were levied as an emergency to obtain funds for welfare needs. The emergency has been over for several years but we still have the taxes which take away from Oregonlans approx imately $13,000,000 a year." Newbry said he Intends to meet higher costs of the motor vehicle division , by reducing administra tive expenses through Issuance of a permanent license plate. i December 29, 1948 its: Salem Icicles . it i staff photographer). Board Told X. Gangware The SUtosmaa would provide two regular, paid religious teachers to offer a stand ard i interdenominational lnstruc tion course as approved by the as soclation to pupils of the Ird, 4th, Ith and 6th grades whose parents request such instruction for them. Each pupil would attend one 45 mlnute class period a week for the religious instruction to be given at a church or house within two blocks of his school. Instruction would be by school grade groups, at periods staggered through the school day so that the two teach ers could cover all nine elemen tary school areas within city limits. Religious classes have been banned inside public schools this year on the basis of an uregon at torney general s ruling which fol lowed a U. S. supremo court dec! sion in sn Illinois case of similar nature. But It has been ruled In Oregon that religious classes may be held outside school property on "released time" from the school day. Ministers Questioned The Rev. L. G. Uecker, pastor of Englewood Evangelical United Brethren church and weekday education chairman for the nun isterial group, presented the plan to the school board for considers tion. The board took no action but Questioned at some length both Uecker and the Rev. Walter .Fred ericks at the meeting last night in the public school office building. Chairman Donald A. Young of the school board told the church spokesman that he personally considered that each church should be responsible for its own youth education rather than infringe up on school time. He asserted that the Increasing requests for use of school time for various purposes In recent years has left a bare minimum of time for regular in struction. . Te Consider Proposal But Young assured the ministers the board would consider their proposal. Other board members and Superintendent Frank B. Ben nett indicated from their questions that several matters would have to be worked) out with the ministers' association before any religious class program could be developed. Some of the questions were: What would be done with pupils not electing to study religion while their classmates were dismissed? Can the school district approve a program embracing the nine schools inside city limits but ex cluding ! six suburban schools of the district? Who would be liable in case of accident to pupils dur ing the religious class period? lAoaiuonaj scnoo. ooara news, I m a a a . a a page ioj 'ill 'h 111 L '"'. - No. 243 30 Cars In Ditch! i Due to Ice I'i PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 2S-P-Sleet and rain gave the chilly Co lumbia river gorge a mantle of ice tonight a silver thaw and dis rupted traff( on both Oregon and Washington trunk highways in the area. f- I Tow trucks are working on the! Oregon Columbie river route to put! some 30 cars back on the road after they skidded into ditchesJ Sheriffs deputies closed: VSl Heavy afternoon and evening saewers Tuesday left mere than a half Inch ef rain In the Salem area, ending the weeklong eoia speu. ..fi Gray deads epened ap in the early afternoon and the rain storm was still continuing early this morning. Up to midnight. CI ef an inch was recorded. The showers i brought higher tem- peraturos, the thermometer! reading 38 degrees at mldnlsht. j highway 30 for several hours tot "tut Mi ui rui umq out later r I opened it to travel. Hi mm jwerareen Mihwj ei the Washington side of the gorge. pairounen reported , traffic , was limited to one-way travel In scat tered sections. Gusts as high is 43 miles an hour were recorded In tlte gorge, along with freezing tenf peratures. fu j The weather bureaii said icirtg conditions might abate tomorrow, but travel probably would continue dangerous through tho day. i f i Clouds that rolled in from! the ocean yesterday definitely ended the cold spell that had. gripped tle state for more than e week. ! tho weather bureau said. llj . g Temperatures rose and the moist air even eased the severe cold pt eastern Oregon. Baker still was the state's coldest town yesterday, b (it the reading was 7 degrees aboVe zero instead of the colder marks if previous days. Ii Boys Forced t Flee Without Loot from Tliei Two young burglars, armed wit silver-barreled cap pistols, were forced to flee without their I loot Tuesday night after breaking out a store window and grabbing a money bag.' .. J T. K. Sears, owner of a popcorn stand at 249 N. Church st. tojd city police that two boys,' about) 7 and I. tossed a brick through his display window anil snatched te coin bag containing, a small suha of change. , j f Sears said he found the junior desperadoes in his back yard di viding the loot, coin by coin.! Eah of them was armed with a i hefty cap pistol, but when they f spied the proprietor they dropped the loot and fled. jtt jMeignDors reported that the boys had been observed earlier in front of a nearby church passing out small envelopes. These, police dis covered, were collection envelopes from the church. H I In their hasty departure ! .from tho popcorn store the boys dropped several possessions. Police fourtd 35 "super power" csps and Christmas poem scrawled j In juvenile hand. j Germans Convict American Woman MARBURG, Germany. Dec. 28 -GTVMrs. Wilma Ybarby of; Ma den, Mass., was convicted; anil sentenced to 20 years In prison td- day for killing her soldier S hu si- Dana, ii The American woman, mother of a six-year-old boy, was found guilty of "malice aforethought" in the midnight shooting of Sgt John Ybarbo of Goliad, Tex. The'trUl was held before a three-judge mi t- tary government court instead of jury. An appeal was expected. Weather n J Max. Mln. Prct. SIM Portland tt SS 44 : It n 3S M S7 41 I'40 Saa Francisco Chlcaso Nw York r Willamette river 1.4 fact. FORECAST (from US. wathajitwi rau. McNary imm. mwrii atoaur eknuSy with showrrt today and ' nlfht. Hlftv today S3, low tonight S4 SALEM PRECIPITATION I 1 (Frarn Sepfc 1 to ) Tfcia Yr Lt Yaar IS .11 Avert f S isjs MM Price 5c - i