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Draft Moratorium May Last 18? MontHs I i (Story in Col. 4) 4 1651 ,O0 98th Yar 14 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday. January 20, 1949 Price 5c No. 267 r Trnia DiraaiDD DiroaiiinsriLnirai'fincDirD coon Winter Prox ides Majwigs ofiSnoicball Fights i I'll I ; . ; '' He's our President Harry Trurnan. We ,the American people, elect ed him last November to serve as chief executive for a four-year term. Today he will be inaugurat ed in Washington, the 32nd man to occupy that office. The little man from Missouri, the political accident, often bum bling as chief of state, poorly equipped for direction of large af fairs fooled the prophets and dis comfited the critics so he will continue to hold the most power ful office in the world. More than that, he heads a party which cinched his triumph by winning positive control of the congress.. It has a fresh sense of direction and of unity and regards the election as a command to carry the nation farther along the path ef the social welfare state. Both president and congress are however servants not of party alone but of the whole country, of all the people. They must govern In the best interest of the people, building. on the foundations laid in the past and respecting tradi tions that are sacred to Americans. We salute Mr. Truman this day, sot as party leader but as Our President, called at a moment" of great crisis to define the national policy and direct its administra tion, subject to the constitution and laws of the country. His place in history will not be determined by the plaudits of his partisans nor yet by the criticisms of his op ponents but by the success he makes in leading the United States and the world along the path of peace, justice and progress. Inauguration Broadcasts Set Both Salem radio stations will broadcast the inauguration ot President Truman Thursday morning, and both KOCO and KSLM will have repeat broadcasts f the event later in the day. KOCO will pick up the NBC broadcast of inauguration cere monies at 9 a.m. today, and will replay the broadcast at 9 p.m. for those unable to hear the original program. KSLM will broadcast the MBS program beginning at 8:45 ajn. with p re-inauguration commen tary, and will , air a repeat broad cast at 2 p.m. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "I like old Joe Straight shooter." he's x -e - a .': l r . gnaw. Old Man Winter left a goodly quantity of snowball material on Salem streets and yards Wednesday morning. Shown in top photo are two Bash school youngsters making good use of nature's ammunition j at the corner of Mission and Church streets. The boys are. left. Jimmy Wriglesworth. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wriglesworth of 941 S. Liberty it: and Mark Wolf, right, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Wulf of 809 S. High sk Lower phdto shows a similar scene at Rich mond school daring recess period. (Photos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer). Frigid Air Mass Covers Cold-W eary Salem Area A thin blanket pf wet snow which lay in wait for cold-weary Salem area residents Wednesday morning was the harbinger of another siege of cold weather, the weatherman predicted; early this morning. He expects ; the" mercury to crawl down ? to low readings of about 15 degrees tonight. It was 21 (degrees at midnight last night and a low of 16 degrees was expected later this morning No more snow, fog or rain is predicted by the U. S. Weather bureau at McNarjf field for at least two more days-only clear, i cold weather. The new- freeze is attn buted to cold Alaskan air being ! pushed over the Pacific northwest by a front moving in from the Aleutians. 4" Snowfall Totaled Wednesday's snowfall, the first in any appreciable amount s New Year's Eve, totaled three- j tenths of an inch? at McNary ; field, but drifted about twice that ;deep in city areas.. It fell between 4:30 and 10;30 a. m. c Semi-darkened streets last night indicated that, merchants were cooperating with other local ' bus inesses and residents in conserv ing electrical energy. Power com pany officials said the shortage of electrical energy; was still critical caused by frozen streams. Roads Slippery Although heavjy snows created slippery conditions on roads ver the state road accidents in this area Wednesday Were scarce.; R.J. Davidson, manager of Oregon Mo tor Stages' Salem city bus. line said buses had no accidents but that they crawled along carefully over tricky routes early Wednes day morning. i Amity schools closed down Wed nesday because of difficulties in transportation, f The Associated Press said the Columbia river remained clogi with ice floes. Fishermen thought smelt were probably running in the Columbia - - put they can t be cauzht through : the ice. - Power output on the riyTr was boosted to j some 370.000 kilowatts. BUSINESS LOANS RISE WASHINGTON, Jon. 19 -Business loans by federal reserve member banks in;the nation's lead ing cities increased $54,000,000 during the week ended Jan. 12, the federal reserve board reported today. Weather Max. Salem 39 Portland ... . 40 f E co Mm. 2ft 30 40 14 Preclp. .2 .06 .72 .01 Chlcago 27 Willariwtte river - 2 feet. .Forecast ( from U.S. weather bureau. McNary field. Saiem I : Generally fair today. High today 38 degrees; low to night near 16. SAI.EM PRECIPITATION Sept. 1 to Jan. 19) This Year Lat Year Average 21.85 2 23 20.13 Pessimism Dominates Meeting Of Local Hop Growers in Salem By Lillie I.. Madseti Farm Editor, The Statesman Optimism Was not the note sounded at the hop growers meet ing held Wednesday under the sponsorship of the llnited Hop Growers association, at the Salem Chamber of Commerce. That "the pinch"" is being felt, those at the meeting admitted, as they spoke of the Pacific North west hop markets continued weak ness during the month just ending. Inquiry for Pacific northwest hops was reported as "continuing quite slow and , selective.'" Domes tic users vtere still meeting cur rent requirements from supplies purchased earlier and shippers in dicated that export inquiry was also light. Sales of Oregon hops since January 1, range from 25 to clusters th not more tnan 6 j-ent leaf and stem content sold at 30 cents while poorer quality hops brought 25 to 27 cents a pound. It is still a buyers' market," Paul T. Rowt-11. associate manager in charge of the U.S. Hop Growers j association Salem office, and! speaker for the afternoon, said. Mr. Rowell favored revision of parity to bring the base scale up nearer to present prices instead of Raided Policemen Termed Victims Of Circumstances PORTLAND, Jan. lHD-Mem-bers of the Footprinters club, which was raided Tuesday night at the El Rancho club by Multno mah County Sheriff Marion Elli ott, were victims "of an unfortun ate situation," according to Port land's Police Chief, Charles Pray. Gambling devices were confisca ted in the raid- The Footprinters, an organiza tion of police officers, were de fended by their president, . Port land Police Lt. Clyde Sanders. Sanders said he was. seated at the head table when the raid took place. "If there were slot machines in a back room and they were be ing operated," he said, "I was not aware of it." Pray said he found no indica tion that officers knew slot ma chines were in the club. "I have no information that any police of ficer played the machines," Pray added. Army to Use Volunteers as Replacements WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 -4JP)-The armed forces have filled their quotas of men and there are in dications that nobody will be drafted In the next 18 months. There's one "if in this outlook. If voluntary enlistments do not provide enough men to replace those who leave the service, then the draft is expected to be revived. Secretary of Defense Forrestal released figures today showing 1,621,000 men under arms as of December 31. That is all the armed services will be able to pay through the fiscal year ending June 30. 1950. In his budget message to con gress, President Truman set the strength of the armed forces at 1,616,000 for the fiscal year be ginning July 1. Draft calls already have been withheld for February and March. Recruiting in recent months has been more than suf ficient to keep the armed services at maximum strength. Slalesman Ad Has Pulling Power E. W. "Pop" Hirlind opened an Agate and Novel ty Shop at 3994 Portland road and advertised in The Statesman. Customers came and an order for novelties even came from Michigan City, Indiana. "Pop" was curious about how this customer got his name and address. On inquiring he learned that the buyer had read his ad in The Statesman of which he had been a subscriber for 20 years. That shows the Pulling Power of Statesman adver tising. Phone 2-2441 and ask for -Classified" or "Display counters. You will get prompt, courteous service. The Oregon Statesman "leaving it back 30 or 40 years." He referred to the "general let ting down of tariff bars' as "ra ther too idealistic" and generally harmful to all agriculture. The market agreement proposal, similar to the one which growers worked under last year, is expect ed to come up for final referen dum in March, Mr. Rowell an nounced. Hop usage is off about IS per cent at the present time in com parison to last year, was also re ported, as new uses for beer, in cluding the recent cooking reci pes were discussed; Romeo Gouley, Brooks, and Frank Kennedy, Independence, were re-electd chairman and sec- rtary of district 6. Ray Kerr, Sa lem, was elected to the growers J advisory committee to replace Ho mer Goulet, jr. At the Tuesday night meeting at Mt. Angel, Joe Serres was elected to take th place of Rev. Robert Kerber, who had served two years. The hop growers will meet in Silverton Thursday night and at Donald Thursday after On January 26, they will meet at St. Paul and on January 27 at Independence. (Farm news on page 6.) Oleo Bill Back in Li By Wendell Webb Managing Editor, The Statesman There is no doubt about it when more controversial topics are discovered, the Oregon leg islature will get them right In the face. The legislature got more than a few of them Wednesday, too. Colored margarine banged back into the picture Sen. Thomas A public hearing on Oregon's tax problems will be held In the bouse of representatives at 8 o'clock tonight. KOAC will broad cast it. Mahoney introduced a bill to per mit its sale in Oregon. Labor formally went on record for repeal of laws barring secon dary boycotts and requiring se cret elections, in two new house bills. ; Employers sought to reduce their over-all contribution for un employment compensation an esti mated $1,861,000 annually, in bills introduced through the house la bor and industry committee. New bills to repeal the milk control act (in the house) and lower the voting age to 18 (in the senate) also were entered, and another senate bill by Sen. Rich ard Neuberger would bar the name of the secretary of state from appearing on most state doc uments and papers, on the grounds that political capital was made of the current practice. Corporations Tax Other senate bills included one to levy a corporations tax on any business operated by any religious, charitable or educational institu tion in Oregon. Still another would increase from $3,000 to $5,000 the exemption of veterans' homesteads from liens and liabilities. Other house bills would levy a Vi of 1 per cent tax on gross busi ness in Oregon; exempt tangible personal property from property tax; permit county courts to fix salaries of justices of the peace; extend until 1951 the law letting school districts incur indebtedness up to 10 per cent of their assess ments, and let an Oregon resident hunt oh his own land without a license. Truman Congratulated The house, with 49 republicans and 11 democrats, unanimously passed the senate-apprdVed joint memorial congratulating President Truman on his election. It was the only final action taken either by the senate or house Wednesday. There were four bills in the series of unemployment compen sation measures introduced in the hou.e. One would decrease employer contributions to the fund. Another would raise from $300 to $500 the minimum which an employe must earn to obtain benefits. A third would classify an employer as a person with a quarterly' payroll exceeding $1,500 (instead of $500) with four or more employes work ing at least 30 days (instead of any one day). The fourth would alter provisions for benefits to seasonal workers. Reduces Benefits The state unemployment . com pensation commission said em ployer contributions would be cut approximately. $1,500,000 annual ly by the bill to reduce contri butions, and that benefit payments would be -reduced another $361, 000 annually through the measure increasing the minimum earnings. The two labor bills repealing the 1947 so-called curb laws were in troduced in the house by Reps. Gust Anderson, Alex Barry, Phil Brady and Sens. Allan Carson, Richard Neuberger, Thomas Ma honey and Vernon Bull. The gross income business tax and repeal of the property tax on tangible personal property were sought in bills by Rep. Giles French and Sen. Eugene Mjp.rsh. Another vexing problem ap peared certain of consideration daylight savings time. Rep. Henry Peterson of lone, said he would introduce a bill which, in effect, would prevent adoption of day light savings time anywhere in Oregon. Sen. Robert Holmes of Gearhart said he would sponsor a memorial to compel uniiormity one way or another. And Gov Douglas McKay already is on re cord favoring uniformity between Oregon, California and Washing- ton. At the end of the session's 10th day, the house had 104 bills be fore it. the senate 51. Both bodies will resume at 10 a.m. today. TRUMAN SIGNS PAY RAISE WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 - (JP) -After 40 years the nation's chief executive got a pay raise today as President Truman siened a bill boosting his salary from $75,000 to $100,000 a year. melight President to Take Oath Today If 9mtti4fc&-.-s&A-x':--"y "'. . (P" ":' '' "0" - sasssass- -p WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 President Truman poses today In his White House office with the two Bibles on which he will rest his hand when he takes the Oath of office tomorrow. The large Bible Is a reproduction of the Gutenberg original supplied by his home town of Independence. Mo. The smaller Bible Is the one used when he took the Oath April 12, 1945. to (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman). . PGE Asks Salem, W. Salem Exempt Salem and West Salem are the from Portland General Electric company and Pacific Power and Light company requests for rate increases filed with the Oregon public utilities commission Wednesday. The rates would aggregate about Portland General Electric company and Light company. The increase is needed, the applicants said, to, -- provide new working capital and; ICfrPl T1nt1TPfl to provide a reasonable rate of j iS1 A clIHAAJ. return on investments and opera-i fr-t fs M I tions is I (III Million in The proposed increases involve ! largely the lower residential sche dule. Charge for consumers using 500 kilowatt hours would be in creased from $5.70 to $6.60, with lesser increases in a few other lower classifications of service. Engineers for the utilities com mission said they had not yet ex amined all details of the proposed rate increases but hoped to pre pare a statement later in the week. Officials of the two companies attributed their decreasing returns j $35,000,000 available for immed io higher labor and operating iate use and earmarked $65,000, costs and other factors resulting 1 000 more for the Israeli covern- from the current economic situa tion. Two Polio Cases PORTLAND. Jan. 19-P)-In fan tile paralysis, which subsided in Oregon for a week, returned to strike five more persons last week, the State Board of Health said to day. Two of the cases were in Mai ion county. Two were in Benton, and j one in Clatsop. Ten Coast Guardsmen Killed as Oil Tanker Rams Cutter off New Jersey - al. . T - -. TT- - mill iiiiii m mmvm mt ifHWHft,Kfr",;ir"r:rJ-,'-iffir-"" m.sj.... vr-- fn"r CAPE MAY, N. J.. Jan. 19 Smoke poors from amidhip of the Coast Guard Icebreaker Eastwind about 40 miles off Cape Mar in the Atlantic ocean today while two Guard cutters, aiding in rescue work, stand by. Ten Coast Guardsmen were killed when the East wind and the SS Gulf stream, a tanker, collided In the fog. In fore ground is the Cutter Sassafras. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman). succeed the late President Roosevelt. Rates Hiked; only areas in this locality exempted $2,266,000 annually $1,900,000 for and $336,000 for Pacific Power Loans by U. S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -(P) The United States gave a power ful helping hand to the govern ment of Israel tonight by granting it $100,000,000 in loans needed to develop the Jewish state. The export-import bank made ment to spend before December 31 Jewish sources greeted the an nouncement joyfully for it gave promise of inducing many coun tries to grant full diplomatic rec ornition to Israel. The $35,000,000 is to be spent for agricultural equipment, ma chinery and engineering and tech nical help needed to boost the output of Israel's farms. The $650O0,000 is to pay for projects in communications, trans- poration housirig, manufacturing and public works. Defends Electoral College WASHINGTON, Jan. lfl-tfyin the midst of a spectacular inaug ural whirl that would have amaz ed the founding fathers. Presi dent Truman tonight came to tha defense of an institution those fathers started the electoral college. "I'm In favor of letting the con stitutional provisions for electors stay as they have been for tha last 160 years," he said on tha eve of his inauguration. He spoka at a dinner of tha electoral col lege. Tha president arrayed himself against democrats and republi cans who have introduced con stitutional amendments to abolish the electoral college. They hava complained that it is old-fashioned and has sometimes led ta thwarting the popular will. Leaving the dinner, tha presi dent did a quick change from white tie and tails to a tuxedo, and proceeded to the Washington armory where a mammoth gala was in progress. This event saw stars of stage. screen, radio television and night clubs outdo each other to enter tain an audience cramming tha two-acre auditorium. Inauguration Climax The Inaugural celebration reaches its climax tomorrow when Truman will step up and swear he will do his best in tha toughest job in the world. At noon, on the east side of the capitol, Chief Justice Vinson will give the oath . . . and tha smiling, fighting man from Miss- ouri will become president fov the next four years. , The 'Weather is expected to ba in the mid-thirties in the morn-J ing. in tha lower forties in tha: afternoon. There also may ba some sunshine. After taking tha oath, Mr, Tra-i man will deliver his Inaugural address. An estimated 120,000 will be on hand, and millions of others will listen and watch by radio and television. Beam Account Around World In addition, the Voice of Amer-ft ica win beam a running account of the ceremonies to overseas lis teners around tha world. The speech is not expected to contain many surprises. After all. in his talks up and down tha land during the campaign, and in his messages to the new con gress, Mr. Truman naa maaa nis views pretty well known. And then, tha parade. Mr. Truman himself, and Vica President Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, will head it. Overhead 700 planes will roar. Tanks, jeeps, guns will crawl down historic Pennsylvania ve nue. Marching along with them will be the cadets from West ! Point, the midshipmen from An napolis. ! The National Broadcasting com pany today estimatea mat iu,- iouis, win see tne nrsi inaugura- tion ever to ba televised. Two i people out of every three in tha U. Sr. or 100,000,000, will hear lt I described over the radio. An anticipated 1,000,000 will ba here in person to see tha lnaugu- I ration, or the parade, or both. Si Perhaps 500,000 of these will ba visitors from out of town. (Additional details on page Z) NEW YORK, Jan. 19-(P-A pre- jj dawn collision between tha cytter J Eastwind and an oil tanker in a fog bank today killed 10 coast 1 guardsmen and set fire to tha war honored coast guard vessel. t Nineteen were injured In I tha crash, off the new Jersey coast in j which the cutter was rammed amid ships by the tanker. - ' g Nearly 12 hours after the East- f wind was rammed, 17 of her; in- jured were brought to Brooklyn aboard the rescue vessel, S S. Su zanne. The Suzanne's rescue workers, struggling in chilling winds and rough seas, took an hour and a quarter to transfer tha 17 by life boat from the flaming Eastwind. For a while towering flames threatened to explode the cutter's magazine. But 47 of her uninjurea ; crew, including eight officers, I" stuck to her charred decks and .. broughtjhe fire under control sev- f en hours after the crash occurred. The Eastwind later was taken in f Iniu hv th a mail owurti flittr &a f afras. . -j Although the Ea.-twlnd normally carries a peacetime complement ox 120 men, figures indicated at least 157 persons were aboard at time of tha crash. tha i I t I j i s i I 8 i f i !i a ! I n a