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Auto-Testing Sought; High By Wendell Webb I j . . Managing editor. The Statesman 1 i Major labor legislation was placed before the Oregoji legislature Unmb niniHnt with the nassace of the first two bills of the 45th session 'and f the disclosure that a Inspection would be formally consiaerea. j The house passed and sent to the senate a measure by Hep. John Steelhammer requiring the names of parents on birth certificates. The GIF S3OGO0 - "fir f T ' While the generals and states- mon of the late war are -writing their memoirs not much has Deen from Secretary of State Earl New luard from or about the men In I Dry saving that if such a system the ranks who did the ngnung, who toted the gear, pitcnea xne camps, made the marches, snot and were shot at The people may come to think that the war was .... . . . won by men sitting In offices to Washington or in, nw omces wtu behind the lines. It is tnereiore timely i to publish "The Jungleers history of the lst infantry oi- vision. Written by William F. Mc- Cartney. 1st lieutenant cnemicai corps, and published by the In- Senate bills, among the 13 new fantry Journal-Press, of Washing- ones Monday, would designate ton. ft is the official story of the more bank holidays; provide that brilliant record of this heroic di- territories seeking to i be includ vision .which the northwest claims ed in incorporated areas need not as its own. hold annexation elections at the ti Mmrvtion of the division was greatly changed from its ori ginal national guard character Transfers of officers and men . made It more of a national divi ion; but it remained the pride oi the northwest People here are " pleased too that It has been reac-1 tivated as a national guard divi sion for the northwest McCartney's book starts with the prewar period when "the divi rflrfi the late idea Dy tne late Hon was commanueu uy u? Mai. Gen. George A. White, who I ..sum command In 1929 and "ntiml1lnf!? ..Hn0 niuic uw auuror - ma . I "General White was a genius at military organization and was (Continued on Editorial page) Moore Return To EifeikTerm - - -. , I : - Aim of Goode ; ALBANY. Ore, Jan- 17 UP) Linn county district attorney Mel Tin Goode plans to ask the court to return Albert Leroy Moore to prison for life. Moore was freed from the state prison by former Gov. John H. HalL as one of the last acts of his tenure Goode said he would seek to put Moore behind the bars again un der Oregon's habitual criminal act He said Moore had been convicted on two burglary counts in Baker county In 1940 and two more In Linn county in 194S. Each con viction was separate, which pro vides the basis for the life con finement suit Goode said. Commie Trial Opens in N. Y. NtW YORK. Jan. 17-UPWThe nation's 12 top communists went on trial today and spent all of the first day charging they were be inar subjected to a "police trial" in an atmosphere of marital law, They are accused of working for the forcible overthrow of the gov ernment For six hours from the" time the ease was called in federal court until adjournment defense coun el hurled accusation after accu aation at the way the case was be ing handled. The communists' heaviest suns were levelled at the police detail of 400 men assigned to the court- house at Foley Square and the aurrounding neighborhood. It was the largest such detail ever called to a court case here. The defendants compose the Na tional Board of the American Communist party, t 1 Animal Cracltcrs By WARREN GOODRICH "Go Oft. tfearo fi earj (This Year Last Year j Average " - 1 f mm ewt a Law Bill flits Car Prices i statewide system of motor vehicle senate passea ana sem w uie house a bill appropriating $200,- 000 for legislative expenses Drobablr about half the total to be required. J The labor bills, introduced oy the house 'labor and industries committeg, would Increase unem ployment . compensation benefits from $20 for ZO weeks to ?Z3 ior 26 weeks; increase ; workmen's compensation benefits: an estimat ed 30 per cent, and remove the one-week waiting period for com- pnsation. Word that statewide car inspec tion would be considered came fmm th legislative hikhwav com i mjttees which received a report i were invoked the state police, not i private garages, should do the in- specting. I More Holidays Sousht Newbry also informed the com- I -- mittee that 33 of 439 traffic fa- talities In l47 were due to faulty t equipment The statewide inspec I tion plan is being ! pushed by Portland officials. Pqrtland for merly had inspection I on a city wide basis. same time as the area to which annexation is sought; and compel arresting officers to swear out af fidavits before warrants may be issued for traffic violations. Several . highly - controversial issues were included in the 17 ,mmm .... . , , . . --l . "'"" " r. . . . New Club Tax Introduced vie wumu wuiuiuf uua "u ing was destined quickly to sur counties to levy a special tax on render or fall to the encirrlin pUces pellirl' ervinV dispensing, Hi fHh ti .lhr.Hr 5 hvr. distributing alcoholic i beverages. , . , - apparently covering aQ beer par- lors and private clubs as well as r''""V .X"' i inrt nnn nrrun ra piiini; wpii w establishments with club licenses, French and Sen. Eucnene Marsh. TV J J' -mm-srtm 1 Another nouse bill would spe- ciiy contract iorms iori conditional sales of personal property, requir-1 ing sellers to itemize all charges including any amount buyer might agree to pay above the normal I unpaid balance. It wai sponsored I by the Used Car Dealers asso-1 elation and is declared i to be aim - mA at nrir - hikinff and at oral I agreements to pay excessive pre mi urns for cars. j 'Committees Active ' ! Representative French and Sen ator Marsh also introduced a bill to allow the state tax commis- sion, Instead of the separate coun- I ties, to assess forest i properties. Li ULri. uca. I Purpose was given as a uniform assessment Committees remained Z Monday, and introductions tinued to be ahead of the 1947 session. Scheduled Thursday night is tax information forumJ to be held in the house of representatives and to which the public Is invit ed. It is to start at Sip. m. and win om oroaacasu ; 1 1 1 i . Both the senate and ; house will resume at 10 a. m. today. Israel Releases Trapped Troops RHODES, Jan. 17 -JP- Israel milla tnr tha rmmmm nf I AAA Vnm. Man troon.1 tnntvri mt it was believed the Egyptians would be allowed to march but of the pocket immediately. The Faluja pocket Constituted one of the thorniest problems in-1 volved in the talks on la amithern Palestine armistice. Settlement of the point raised hopes that a full Israeli - Egyptian armistice agree ment could be reached Soon. HUNTINGTON SCHOOL BURNS HUNTINGTON. Orel Jan. 17-: yrf xnis eastern uregon town was without a School building today Fire destroyed the $200,000 two- fwiT Dricav grade and high-school building Saturday nighti Payments u" ouiicung mo oeei comptet- TO 7 mouui 8 PLANE BRINGS VACCINE HOWARD FIELD, Panama Ca nal Zone, Jan. n-(JPy-A B-29 Su perfortress, on an errand of peace. landed here tonight with 75,000 units of yellow fever fvaccine to combat an outbreak of the dread disease which has claimed five lives in the Republic of Panama. CALIFORNIA FEARS FREEZE LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 -UPV-I Southern California, gripped by I unprecedented winter jcold since the first of the year, prepared to night for temperatures as low as 22 degrees in citrus districts. Weather Max. Mia Frocip. 43 4 2S Traeo SALEM Portland i Saa Francisco -41 S3 JH -M i S4 M Chicago .S3 new xora 54 44 Willamette river -.1 fet Forecast I from U. S. weather bureau. I McNary field. Salem): ParUy cloudy today and tonight. Slightly cooler to night. High today near 42. Low to night near 24. . SALEM PRECIPITATION M aW.Oa dV.e-e) 98th Year GOT Russia Rejects Chinese LONDON. Tuesday. Jan. lS-flP -Russia announced today she had turned down a request of the Chi nese nationalist government to mediate in the civil war with the communists. This was disclosed in a broad cast Moscow dispatch by the offi cial soviet news agency Tass. which said the refusal to mediate was based on a policy of ''non I 1UKI 1 CUl 1U U1C to other countries. interference in the internal affairs Tass said in making the request on January 8 the Chinese foreign ministry told the soviet ambassa dor in Nanking the same proposal I had been put to the United States, Great Britain and France. Peiping Nears Fall to Reds; Port Evacuated ' " " ' ' '-V I Chinese nationalists fled by sea from the northern port of Tangku today amid indications that Peip- communists. T .s w- WUUU VUUU, Ul (UWIU ment deployed troops estimated at 150,000 - along a 300-mile Yangtze i nn luui , ivM vnn w i va-w river front foV the defense of Nan I UaU UlltUIliau Fnrlra militarv nhurvtri uM the enort looked hopeless and that ou.uuu oi ine troops were in wnat looked like suicidal positions some 30 miles north of Nanking. It was learned authoritatively tnat i angxu, port ior communist- conquered Tientsin 27 miles to the west was abandoned during the Bight. The Chinese navy used small craft of all sorts to move the 33,' 000 man garrison across Taku bar and out to sea where they awaited arrival of larger transports for the flight south. Spencer Moosa, AP correspond- Jtp?-!?'? Jf' committee of prominent citizens l If l . .w. :.. " 1 VVIMM fum ss..a that the delegaUon failed to leave Tlo of HoSze- Yuan, former Peiping mayor and a leader of the delegation. writing through censorship, Moosa reported, that the situation at Peiping was "approaching nima1 vax and that within the next few days a decision must be made either to surrender or meet a cer tainly - victorious communist as sault The city has been surroun ded for 35 days. Truman Wins Sjll fl rV Ttnnftt WASHINGTON, Jan. 17-(P)- O1" 1011(1 repub 5roteSi: con" IC5 v "ve rf " a pay raise from $75,000 to $100, 000 a year and boosted his tax-free llowf,nc from M0.000 to lulu"- All it takes now is the signature Harry S. Truman"- to make the nation's chief executive a $190,000- a-year man. By voice vote, without a formal rollcall, the house gave its assent to thTTalary-hike legislation which had already nassed the senae. 68 to 9. it was the first time the nresi dent has had a pay increase since 1909, when congress raised the ante to $75,000 for President Wil- iiam Howard Taft DAM-CEMENT ARRIVES PORTLAND. Jan. 17 -UP)- The Permanente Silver bow began un loading 50,000 barrels of cement here today for barging to McNary dam. i949 Legislature (Defiiniitely New Lookisfii, Air Med By Ralph Watson Things are not like they used to be around the legislature. Everything and everybody has got the New Look and the new ideas about how the show should be nay &u ft u m " l good old days VTI v- when George C. , ) t Brownell used to j A -ff come up from -V V f Oregon City, and m e n r y Mcutnn i and Joe Simon and the rest of the stalwarts represented Multnomah, the Bats Watsoa folks back home got their earful of what was happening under the old copper dome through sedate and dependable channels. 12 PAGES Marion Representatives Busy , v - V- K I ... .-.v )rj r-'wSf-x trr ISjaiVr Vi cc. : . The legislatore doesn't have te be busy. Above are shown a few at ef desks at the left starting at Home; Dantselle Nelson, secretary GUI; Rep. Frank Doerfler ef Salem, and Rep. Fred Adams ef Ophir. Ia row at right starting from top, are Rep. John Steelhammer of Salem; Rep. W. W. Chad wick of te Rep. Douglas Y eater, and T staff photographer). 20 Dead, 20 Missing On Two Lost Planes LOCHGOILHEAD, Scotland, Jan. 17-)-An American B-19 su perfortress crashed in this desolate section of Argyllshire today and 00 ice said all 20 air force men aboard were killed. Eleven bodies had been removed xrom tne wrecxage in laoiatea Succoth Glen by nightfall when search crews stopped work until morning. They said they found no In London, a spokesman xor-ine U. s. airtorce neaoquaners saia until all bodies have been re covered we continue to hold a faint hope that there may be sur vivors who parachuted and be came lost in the difficult country- aide." The bomber, which had been attached to the 301st bomb group stationed at Scampton field, Lin colnshire, was en route home to the states via Iceland. The group's home base is Smoky Hill field, Sa lina, Kas. HAMILTON, Bermuda. Jan, 17 -JP)-A British South American airways plane carrying 20 persons disappeared today on a 1,000 -mile flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Airline authorities declined lo give names of irim passengers aboard. The plane was on a regular flight from London to Kingston, and Hamilton was its last stop before Jamaica. In London, B. S. A. A. said there were Z9 persons aDoara me air liner - - 22 passengers and a crew of seven. It was presumed nine of the passengers had disembarked here. VANCOUVER, B. C- Jan. 17- (CP)-A ground search party to day found the wreckage of a Vampire let plane which crashed yesterday among Jagged mountain peaks about 15 miles north of The plane, which may have struck at 600 miles per hour, was strewn over a l.OCKWoot area near the top of Dam mountain. The pi lot 25-year-old flying officer John Allan Borrie of Vancouver, is believed dead. Reporters in those days used the U. S. mall and wrote their stuff in long hand. Only the Big Shots used the telegraph and filed sign ed articles and they only did that once a day and about Big Stuff, like the election of United States senators and things like that. . And back in those day every body came to Salem on the S. P." Those who came from Port land and eastern Oregon arrived on the "11 o'clock local" while those coming" from the other di rection rolled in on the "Rose burg local' which was scheduled to toot In at 2 o'clock in the after noon. Once in town the "free bus" hauled them and their luggage down to the Chemeketa hotel, which was what they called the Hotel Marion before the put the fourth floor on it to give it the 19th century New Look and now POUNDB The Oregon Statesman, Salem. ia formal session to keep members work daring a recess. At the row top, are Rep. Max Landon of Sweet to Rep. Warren Gill ef Lebanon; Salem; Valmer Klampe, secretary eater. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman survivors. Bevin Ouster Move Growing, Over Palestine LONDON, Jan. 17-vP-A grow ing snovement within the labor party to force Ernest Bevin's re signation as foreign secretary was reported today as the British cabi net debated his controversial Pal estine policy. There were conflicting accounts as to the amount of cabinet back ing Bevin had. It seems certain, however, that Prime Minister At tlee personally will back him to the hilt Sources within the party said at least three cabinet ministers Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, Air Minister Ar thur Henderson and Health Minis ter Aneurin Be van have express ed opposition to, various aspects of the foreign secretary's views on the Middle East A group of labor party "rebels" met privately today to coordinate their party meeting Wednesday. Dissatisfaction with Bevin's po licy came to a head 10 days ago when the Israelis shot down five British planes near the Palestine Egyptian border. One labor! to has said he will ask for a public Inquiry into the circumstances behind the death of one of the pilots. A Tel Aviv dis patch said two other pilots, captur ed by the Israelis following the clash, will be freed within a few days. have face-lifted everything ex cept her outside skin. But about the legislature. It is full of new ideas, too. It is getting "air minded," if you know what that means. Of course, it is not such an innovation for some mem ber s of the assembly to get up in the air over some piece of legis lation but it is something new when the whole concern goes modern and gets air borne. When you stop to think it over it is not so strange, however, be cause the president of the senate and the speaker of the house both are like that every time the oc casion offers. President Walsh la a sky pilotin his own right who flies hither and yon, while Speak er VanDyke takes to the air with the greatest of ease whenever he wants to go from one place to another more than 10 miles away. 1 D 1651 . . I Oreaon, Tuesday, January 18, at Recess, Too Cold Continues In Salem Area; Trucks Barred McNary field weathermen warn ed Monday night that Salem's cold spell is not over, though the mini mum reading touched only 14 de grees Monday morning. More sub - freezing weather is forecast for the area, and temper atures begin a slow decline Mon day evening to reach 17 degrees before midnight But generally temperatures wtrt well above 1? week's lows. Freezing rains and fog continued to make hazardous driving condi tions throughout the state. The state highway commission reported plows and sanders operating in the Santiam Junction area. Ice-bound tributaries to the Wil lamette river kept readings at a low stage. Monday morning the reading at Salem was one-tenth foot below normal. A month ago the river was above the flood stage here. Minimum temperatures about the state were mostly above the zero stage Monday with Chemult claim ing Oregon's coldest with 9 below. It was 38 at North Bend. 28 at Eugene, 20 at Medford, 33 at Port land and 10 at Klamath Falls Mon day. Early morning fog was predicted for the Salem area today with minimum reading near 24 degrees. Partly cloudy skies are forecast for western Oregon. Marion county court reissued its order Monday barring heavy traf fic from all paved and graveled roads in the county. The roads now are thawing slowly and are parti cularly vulnerable to damage, the court said. STORM DRENCHES HAWAII HONOLULU. Jan. 17-?VA fu rious storm out of the South Pa cific, with drenching rains driven by high winds punished Honolu lu and surrounding territory Sun day and today - - and the weather bureau warned that more of the same was on the way. Oahu and Kaukai islands bore the brunt of the storm.. That, however, is not what we are talking about. The big news is that for the first time in the history of Oregon's legislature, it is going to take its tax troubles "to the people," right to their living rooms, by the fire and pour every thing into their ears by radio and remote control. Thursday evening, January 20, commencing at S o'clock the house committee on taxation is going to stage a "Town Meeting of the Air" in the well of the house chamber. Members of the house who want to listen in and be the applauding audience will occupy their usual seats. The taxpayers and Mr. and Mrs. Public will be up in the gallery- . Ralph Moore, chairman of the committee, is to be the interlocu tor, or the moderator if the show gets too hot Rep. Lyle Thomas of 1949 Prlc Struggle Rer Brownout' Helps; Bonneville Flayed Elevator Caught; Dimout of Street Lighting Urged Salem electricity users entered Into a modified "brownout" Mon day as power company officials urged industries and householders to conserve precious electric pow er. ! Most of the city's business houses are using less lighting, industrial plants are cutting power use and state and municipal offices are co operating. Statements urging pow er conservation came Monday from Tinkham Gilbert, president of Sa lem Retail Trade bureau, and from Mayor R. L. Elfstrom. "Our goal Is to use 20 per cent less power now than was used at this time last year," said Fred G. Starrett, divisional manager of the Portland General Electric com pany. "We are 300.000 kilowatts short of the demand." Critical "All Day" v A previous movement to con serve power only at "peak times of usage" hal been abandoned. In view of the "extremely critical" electricity situation, Starrett said, power must be conserved over 24 hours each day. A shortage of water in river headwaters, caused by cold weath er east of the Cascade mountains, is causing the power shortage, Starrett explained. Eight Salem city Jail prisoners were stuck In the city hall elevat or for IS minutes Monday with their guard. Police Sgt Donald Nicholson. The elevator was halt ed by low voltage apd the cage In the Marion county courthouse also slowed down more than usual Monday. Response Scattered Gilbert urged fellow merchants to turn off all outside sign light ing, all day, to reduce window lighting by half and to0 save on in' side lighting wherever possible. Stores were using only a small number of inside lights Monday. Other businesses such as hotels and restaurants also reported they were eliminating unnecessary lights. The appeal to darken neon signs apparently met with only scatter ed response as a number of them blazed on last night. One store manager, however, said electrical men agreed that turning off neon lights would not save very much power. Window display lights were off In some stores and on In others Operators of the larger buildings in Salem Indicated they were co operating with the program. One manager, however, said he was on ly intensifying a program to cut down on power usage started by him In 1933. Street Lights Dimmed Mayor Elfstrom announced Monday the city Will do its share In the dim-out by lighting only the top street light In the clusters along downtown and state capltol area streets. City Manager J. L. Fran- zen. however. Indicated that fur ther darkening of city streets was unsafe. Gov. Douglas McKay called on all state departments and institu tions to help in the effort. The Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph company Is continuing to use its diesel equipment to generate its own power. One of the effects of low power supply became apparent Monday when employes in various Marion county courthouse offices com plained that their power-operated office machines did not function properly. SOUTH AFRICA CALMED DURBAN. Union of South Af rica, Jan. 17 -UP)- Thousands of Indian refugees refused to return to their homes tonight from the protected camps to which they fled during the bitter race rioting here. For the first time since Thursday it was apparent that police and troops had halted the merderous native-Indian feuding. Polk is going to tell about the "state budget." Giles French is going to discuss tax revenues and proposals. David Baum of Union is going to discuss "Supposed Sur pluses." Ben Day of Jackson will talk about "The relation of state and local tax programs." J. F. Short will impress upon the audi ence the "Vital need for economy in state government." KOAC, the state-owned radio at Corvallis, is going to spread the news direct from the capitol build ing. It has invited any other state stations to "cut in and listen" should any of them decide they want to cooperate So, there you are, if you want to get the inside dope about taxes and things right hot and fre?h out of the official horse's mouth, just tune in and fill up 5c No. 28S a 1 us: r Warmer Weather, 1UUU1I 111 J Laundry Cretli ted j PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. IT- The Pacific northwest apparently weathered another critical day 1st its power shortage struggle today It took the cooperation of house- wives to do it though. (The pow er supply dipped so low that the Bonneville administration appeal ed to women to postpone I their traditional washday. I Apparently the women did sej Warmer weather enabled them to save on heating, too. f The warmer weather pushed the Columbia river flow up 2,000 cub- ic feet a second at Bonneville? dam today, but the power output still was dangerously low 343.- 000 kilowatts, compared with 374,000 a week ago and a normal of 563,000. T Bonneville officials said f would be a long time before the emergency would be over. j Said Oversold To Aluminum SEATTLE, Jan. H-tH-Speaker at an industrial conference here today blamed the northwest's cri tical power shortage on the Bon neville power administration'a sales to the aluminum Industry. ( Kenneth Fisher, an executive ,of f the Fisher flouring mills,1 and L. E V .1 I u . . a rwanci, iaciuuvc vice prcsiaeni os the Puget Sound Power ic Light company,' said the Bonneville ad ministration oversold its capacity. Karrer.said the normal gener ating capacity of Bonneville is 384,000 kilowatts. He said Bonne- j villa had signed contracts to sup ply the aluminum industry with 080,000 kilowatts, of which all but 80,000 was guaranteed. Industrialists at the meeting said that a IS tter cent reduction Im power use, as requested W utility I officials, would result in laying off I many workers and partly closing some plants. Karrer warned .that the power ; crisis will become even more acute if it is necessary to continue drain ing storage reservoirs to i make xtf the 300,000 kilowatt deficiency ia the western part of the power pooL Raver Says Ridiculous PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. 17 -UP) t Bonneville Power Administrator 1 Paul Raver declared tonight that I any statement that the BPA had oversold its electric power capa- city is ridiculous. ' f He made the statement here to- t night in reply to charges by Se- attle utility and industrial execu- I tives who said sales to the re- ? minn'm aluminum inrititrV wra raw '( sponsible for the Pacific northwest power shortage. J Dr. Raver said he doubted util ity operators are in any position to give an "objective opinion on whether too much Columbia river power is going into aluminum payrolls and production." He then referred to the factf that the army and navy munitions board, the na- j tional security resources board f would disagree with the critics who believe aluminum . mills should be shut down. Raver' said: j "At 2 p.m. today (Monday) we (BPA) delivered 929,000 kilowatts to the private power companies of the northwest over and above the power that we delivered to the aluminum companies and to our public power agencies. This was 225.000 kilowatts more than our contractual committments to these private power companies." State Building For Garden? Construction of a state highway or other state Duuaing on tne statehouse sunken garden was proposed Monday by Rep. William Morse of Prineville, who said the Garden currently was an eyesore. The question came up before the Joint legislative ways and means committee, of which Mor ris is a member, which is con sidering a state board of control proposal that $190,000 be appro priated for purchase of other pro perty on which to erect a si.auu, 000 state highway building. The sunken garden lies between Court and Chemeketa streets, with the state library on the west and the new state office building on the east.