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Pope to Talk About Cardinal;
Britain Boosts Defense Budget
By the Associated Press
Britain is planning to increase her defense fcudget by almost 10
per cent to a total of $3,039,440,000 during the next fiscal year.
A government white paper said most of the, increase will go for
new equipment and modernizing present war machines.
A statement Monday by bipartisan foreign policy leaders in the
U S. senate that they would permit no "automatic war clause In
the
nronosed North Atlantic al-
Jiance appeared to have dashed
: cold water on western European
defense Dlannine.
An American skymaster plane
on the Berlin airlift crashed and
burned last night near Celle In
th British occupation zone of
Germanr. but the three crew
members escaped with only in
juries.
PoDe Pius XII will make anoth
er major pronouncement Sunday
on the recent trial of Josef Cardi
nal Mindszenty, primate of Hun
Eary. when he addresses a demon
stration by Catholic Action, mili
tant lav orfianizauon, before it.
Peter's.
The chief spokesman for Hun
garian communists said the car
dinal was tried only after the
Vatican had passed up an oppor
tunity to withdraw him from the
Jfcountrv,
'The Vatican never descends to
such compromises,' an informed
source said without confirming or
denvine such a proposition was
received. He said "the Catholic
clergymen live with their own
people."
The Vatican newspaper L'Os
servatore Romano declared Re-
vai's statement was fantastic. It
said the Hungarian government
felt the need of justifying before
the masses what it dared to do to
the Cardinal.
OSC Students
Jump to Escape
Fire in Home
CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 1HIV
Two Oregon State college students
Jumped from a second floor win
dow today to escape flames that
burned an invalid woman about
the shoulders and gutted the home.
Police said Mrs. John Newman,
19, was carried from the home by
her husband, age 80, and a neigh
bor. Gerald A. Pearce, Portland, and
Mohamed M. M. Oloufa, an ex
change student from Cairo, Egypt,
leaped from the window. A third
OSC student roomer was absent
from the house.
Fire Chief Percy Tallman said
the blaze started in the kitchen
next to a wood stove where some
paper ignited and set fire to clothes
drying nearby.
He described the blaze as the
worst residence fire in recent
years. Total damage was not esti
mated immediately.
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Senator Works
On Wording of
Atlantic Pact
By John M. Hlghtewer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -WV
Senator Conhally (D-Tex.) said
tonight he would favor pledging
the United States to "take such
measures as it may deem neces
sary to maintain the security of
the North Atlantic area."
The chairman of the senate for
eign relations committee issued a
statement as a followup to his
warning yesterday that he would
oppose any language in the pro
posed North Atlantic; security
treaty automatically committing
the U. S. to fight in case:: of an at
tack on a European country.
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.)
gave a similar notice of opposition
to any automatic war commit
ment. Some diplomats expressed con
cern that the senate debate yes
terday might lessen the confidence
of western European nations that
they would get U. S. help in case
they were attacked by Russia.
The debate spurred state de
partment efforts to find some
wording which would be accept
able to the senate, the department
and the nations with which the
pact is being negotiated
It is understood that Connally
regards his proposed wording as
being in line with the Rio security
pact relating to the western hemi
sphere.
The language of this agreement
says each nation "will undertake"
to assist in meeting an attack but
each may determine the meas
ures it may taxe.
Condition of
Livestock in
Oregon Poor
PORTLAND, Feb. lWWanu-
ary snow and severe cold has put
Oregon livestock in the worst con
dition on record.
The federal crop reporting ser
vice noted today that while no
actual check: has yet been made
of losses by death, stockmen re
ported losses up to February 1
had not been unusually heavy
throughout the state. Some local
ized situations varied, however,
particularly among younger cattle.
The worst damge was from loss
of flesh and condition. Shrinkage
has been heavy in the cold belt
since creeks froze over and range
lands were covered with snow.
Sheep were reported just a
shade better than their record low
conditions of 1943. Unless the
weather eases in some sectors,
heavy losses may be expected
among lambs and ewes..
The -department of agriculture
said hay supplies were generally
adequate despite heavy feeding,
except in the southwestern por
tion of the state.
Charged with Failure
To Yield Right of Way
City police campaigns against
jaywalkers and right-of-aw grab
bing drivers got under way Tues
day with arrest of Ronald W
Wiebe. 1706 N. 4th st.
Wiebe is cited to appear in mu
nicipal court to answer charges
of failure to yield right of way to
a pedestrian. Police said Wiebe
was errested In the 500 block of
Center street after passing a car
which had stopped to allow a
pedestrian to cross at the inter
section oof Church and Center
streets.
Salem Policeman to
Move to California
Elmer Hicks, Salem route 6,
newest member of the Salem po
lice force,' announced- Tuesday
night he is quitting the force and
moving to California.
Hicks joined the force two
months ago and has been on night
foot patrol since that time. He
was a temporary appointee.
FRESH
ICE ARENA
Ph. 3-666S
At Salem
Schools . . .
By James Cooke
gtterm School Cwtwystf at
SALEM HIGH SCHOOL
Stagecraft club's annual initia
tion and no-host dinner will be
held at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the
Salem high cafeteria.
Certificates for exceptional ser
vice will be presented to the fol
lowing Stagecraft members: Ed
Cummings. Richard Cunningham,
Richard O'Connor, Val Jean Da
vies, Delbert Cleary, Melcolm
Peeler, Michael Tavenner, Gay
lord Weeks, Layton Gilson and
Richard Wyatt.
RICHMOND SCHOOL
Carrol Morris, Booster party
candidate, was recently elected
president of the Richmond grade
school. Sharleen Scott, also a
Booster, was named vice president.
The rest of the candidates elected
were from the Minutemen slate,
including Bob McCandlish, secre
tary; Janice Roseler, treasurer; and
David Ashby, sergeant at arms.
GARFIELD SCHOOL
The Valentin Mkuw" wa
Presented to Garfield student
Monday by Kathryn McKinnon's
uura grade class. Tne students in
ine play dressed in valentine cos
tumes and wore hats resembling
hearts. Each class had a party
and valentine exchange.
PRINGLE SCHOOL
Prinele students, as man v other
grade school students in the Sa
lem area, celebrated Valentine's
day with parties, skits and the tra
ditional opening of the 'Valentine
box.
Police Assert
Theft Averted
By Arrests
Plans to rob the Salem office
of Western Union were apparently
thwarted by city police with the
arrest early Tuesday of Willard
J. Rushing and his wife Teenie,
both of Seattle.
Police reports indicated that a
note pinned to an overcoat pocket
found in the Rushings hotel room
was to be used in the robbery.
The note said: "This is a stickup.
Give me all the bills underneath
the drawer. Keep quiet! And hur
ry up!" Police believe the girl
prepared the note. She is being
held on a vagrancy charge.
Rushing and his wife were ar
rested at a local hotel on a grand
larceny warrant from King coun
ty (Seattle). Wash. He is being
questioned also in connection with
the Saturday morning armed rob
bery of" Salem cab driver, W. C.
Linninger. A Polk county warrant
has been issued charging Rushing
with armed robbery in the case.
Linninger identified Rushing as
the fare he picked up in downtown
Salem early Saturday morning.
After driving out the Dallas high
way the man pulled a gun on the
driver and robbed him of the
cab and $21 in cash. The cab was
located a few hours later by state
police.
Rushing refused to admit any
connection with the robbery and
denied he was in the area at the
time of the crime. Police said they
believed he was registered at a
Salem auto court - Saturday and
Sunday.
The couple was registered at
the hotel under the name of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Webb at the
time of the arrest. Along with the
overcoat containing the note, po
lice found a .38 caliber revolver
in the Webb's room. The serial
number of the gun had been ob
literated. 6 New Street
Improvements
On City's List
Six new street improvements
re on the list for city attention
this year as a result of city coun
cil action this week. All projects
are to be at property owners' ex
pense. The Improvements 1 n c lu d e
Grant street from 19th to 20th,
Lee street from 12th to 13th street.
Grove street from Liberty to Com
mercial street, John street from
Rural avenue to Luther street,
Bellevue street from Capitol to
University and a block of Hick
ory street near Valpak- road.
Petitions from property owners
have been .accepted for improve
ment of Boice street from Com
mercial to Alvarado terrace and
for Doughton street from Benvista
drive to Boice, but resolutions
have not yet been prepared.
A remonstrance by 65 per cent
of affected property holders has
resulted in "killing" any proposal
to pave Rose street between Brey
man and Chemeketa streets, the
council decided.
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Traffic Plans
Suggested by
Business Men
By Conrad Prange
Staff Writer, The Statesman
A new traffic route to the city
center via Highland avenue and
widening of Fairgrounds road
from Tile road to the north city
limits were discussed at a meet
ing last night of the North Sa
lem Business association.
The group met to discuss the
project to improve Salem traffic
movements proposed by State
Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock.
Although the association did not
adopt a stand on Baldock's pro
posal it appointed a committee to
do so.
Robert Forkner is chairman of
the committee. Other members in
clude Carroll Meeks, L. T. (Ted)
Johnson, Bert Carr, Walter Dav-
ies and Douglas Wallace, all north
Salem business men.
The committee is to formulate
a plan. It will then be up for pas
sage at the association's next
meeting March 1. The group also
decided to have a representation
at a public meeting on the Bal
dock plan to be conducted by the
Salem city council.
Highland Snrsested
Meeks and Krwin Lindsey pro
jected the possibility of an im
proved Highland avenue route
from Portland road to the city
center. Meeks said that the route
he had in mind would call for
widening of Highland avenue
from Portland road west to the
Oregon Electric tracks just west
of Maple avenue. Then the route
would follow a new right-of-way
along the railroad tracks to North
Commercial or Front streets.
This route, Meeks said, would
siphon a lot of traffic from the
congested Hollywood district.
Although no action was taken,
a proposal by James Tindall to
widen the north part of Fair
grounds road met with general ap
proval. Said Necessary
Regardless of what happens to
the Baldock plan, this proposal
would still seem necessary, Tin
dall said.
"It is necessary to widen this
stretch of road if North Capitol
and North Summer are to be
come one-way streets." he noted.
Wallace Bonesteele struck a fresh
note when he cautioned members
not to adopt a "selfish' attitude
toward Salem traffic problems.
The welfare of the entire city
should be considered when any
one group makes recommenda
tions, he declared.
Earl Mootry noted that "what
we do here now will effect to a
considerable extent this portion of
the city 15 years from now so
we should fight for what we think
is right."
Regular meeting of the north
Salem association will be held
March 8. At that time nomination
of officers and directors will be
opened. Elections are slated for
April.
Taf t Accuses
AFL of Asking
For Privileges
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 - (P) -Senator
Taft (R-Ohio) today ac
cused the American Federation of
Labor of seeking "the most ex
traofdinary special privilege any
organization ever claimed in the
United States."
Taft made the statement after
William Green, the AFL's 75-year-old
president, told the senate la
bor commitee there is no good
reason why unions should be sub
ject to several Taft-Hartley law
provisions. Those included the
ban on closed shops, the section
making unions liable for damages,
and the provision requiring un
ions to bargain collectively.
After Green had denounced
those T-H law provisions one by
one, Taft, co-author of the Taft
Hartley law, said:
"Mr. Green, I don't want to
make a speech. But it seems to me
you are claiming the most extra
ordinary special privilege any or
ganization ever claimed in the
United States."
Green quietly replied, "All
right, senator. We know when a
measure is striking at our heart
and when it is not."
The exchange between Taft and
Green came after the AFL. chief
told the committee that the T-H
law is hampering efforts to drive
communists-out of unions.
In sharply assailing the Taft
Hartley measure and demanding
its repeal. Green said the law cre
ated "widespread bitterness, re
sentment and even rebellion
among the membership of organ
ized labor throughout the nation."
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Pat Reel, was en ( several
hundred women victims of a
mysterious sir-borne substance
which disintegrated nylons in
downtown Jacksonville yester
day. City engineers said it
might be snlphmie acid formed
from fuel oil smoke bat they
didn't know. Investigation is
underway. (AP Wlrephoto to
the Statesman).
Plane Crosses
Cascades After
Escaping Pilot
ELLENSBURG, Wash., Feb. 15-
(4V The army's "Flying Dutch
man" a tiny scout plane that
took off from Fort Lewis yester
doy with no one at the controls
was found near here today sitting
jauntily on a hillside.
The two-place L-18, the type
used for artillery spotting during
the war, bucked one of the win
ter's worst snowstorms in cross
ing the Cascades. It came to earth
about 100 miles from its home
base after running out of gas.
The scout plane's identity was
established by Bob Krouskop.
Kittitas flier and businessman. He
went to the scene with a farmer
who sign ted the missing runaway
close to Kittitas, 8 miles south
east of here.
"It looks to me like it may be
a pretty good landingf' Krous
kop said.
"The plane flew for some time
over the Fort Lewis-Tacoma area
yesterday, then vanished.
The pilot had Just cranked the
plane and was starting to board
it when an enlisted man acci
dentally hit the throttle. The lat
ter, Cpl. William G. Keiser, rolled
out of the craft as it lurch down
the runway and took off.
Woman Plans
Haylif t Flight
Into Canyon
JOSEPH, Ore., Feb. 15 -VA
woman was stripping down a light
plane today for a hazardous hay-
lift flight into 6000 - foot - deep
Hell's canyon of the Snake river.
Bessie Halliday, flight instruc
tor for 17 years and owner of a
flying school here, is being helped
by one of her pilots, Frank Hill,
Enterprise.
They plan four flights into a
box canyon in the deepest part of
Hell's canyon, to drop hay to 100
stranded cattle.
They reported the canyon wells
were less than 500 feet apart and
the area is subject to severe tur
bulence. The fliers expect to drop
down as low as 200 feet before
kicking out the hay.
The first drop will probably
be made tomorrow.
REYNOLDS ALLEN ELECTED
Reynolds Allen, associated with
the George E. Allen Hardware
store of Salem, was elected vice
president of the North Coast Re
tail Hardware association at the
close of it' three-day convention
in Seattle Tuesday. Raymond Mil
ler, Forest Grove, was elected pre
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LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 15 -JPy-The
United Nations received
sworn testimony today that labor
slaves are dying by hundreds of
thousands each year from beatings
and starvation in Russia.
The testimony was taken in af
fidavit form by the American Fed
eration of Labor from former in
mates of slave labor camps and
laid before the economic and social
council in a voluminous document.
The United States is backing
the AFL expose with a resolution
calling on the International Labor
Organization (ILO) to investigate
slave labor.
Willard L. Thorp, U. S. assist
ant secretary of state, dared Rus
sia to permit ILO people behind
the iron curtain for a look at la
bor conditions.
Soviet Delegate Semen K. Tsar-
apkin denied the charges com
pletely today. He countered with
charges that the United States en
slaved labor by such measures as
the Taft-Hartley law.-
One of the most graphic de
scriptions was contained in a state
ment by Julius Margolin, Polish
author, who now Lives in Israel.
Margolin estimated that a mini
mum of 10,000,000 persons were in
Russian concentration camps in
side the Soviet union. He said
deaths in these camps run into the
hundreds of thousands every year.
"We may assume that in these
camps of the USSR, from the time
they were established, no fewer
died than were killed by Hitler
in his extermination camps," Mar
golin said.
He said life In the Soviet camps
was "an indescribable hell."
'International Hop
Planned by YMCA
An "International Hop will be
held February 19 at the YMCA
to help raise funds to transport
foreign Y secretaries to Salem
where they can be employed. Two
secretaries and their families
would come to Salem under the
plan.
The informal dance, principally
for college and high school stu
dents, is being sponsored by the
Phalanx club of the YMCA.
Rent Refunds
Rise Sharply
In Salem Area
Refunds to tenants were up
sharply for the first six weeks
of the year, E. G. Clay, Salem
area rent representative said
Tuesday.
A total of $432.50 was refunded
to five tenants through rent of
fice actions. Clay said. All of the
refunds came through voluntary
action on the part of landlords
after conferences with rent office
officials. No cases were taken to
court.
Clay also announced a grand
total of 2,562 Marion county citi
zens visited the local office dur
ing 1948. Another 3,658 received
telephonic answers to rent prob
lems. In 1948 tenants recovered
$807.90 in rent overcharges with
the bulk coming through informal
conferences. Housing expediter's
attorneys filed one case in federal
court to recover $171 for five ten
ants. Landlords were granted rent in
creases in 204 cases effecting 323
rental units, Clay said.
PAYROLLS SHOW INCREASE
Covered payrolls in Oregon for
January, 1949, aggregated $54,
734,664 as against $48,949,531 for
January, 1948, the state industrial
accident commission reported here
Tuesday. The December, 1948,
payroll was $55,362,517.
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Newport G of C to
Probe Plans for
Bus Line to Salem
NEWPORT, Feb. 15 - OP) - Two
bus companies are seeking to im
prove service between Newport
and Salem.
The chamber of commerce here
is investigating to decide which
one to back.
The two would-be operators are
John Ratzlaff, Salem, and Roy M.
East.
East would operate from Salem
to Valley Junction and connect
there with the Greyhound bus to
Newport Ratzlaff would operate
directly between the cities.
The present bus connection be
tween the cities is via McMinn-ville.
Mac's Plea for
Men Rejected
WASHINGTON. Feb. 15 -VPi-
General Douglas MacArthur's re
quest for more American troops
in Japan has been rejected, Sec
retary of the Army Royall said
today.
"He was told it would be im
practical to put more troops over
there," Royall said after return
ing from an 18-day inspection trip
through the Pacific area. He spent
six days in Japan.
Whether to build up America s
military strength there has been
a behind - the - scenes issue for
months. MacArthur, supreme al
lied commander in Japan, is un
derstood to have reported to the
war department that communist
advances in China have upset
Japan's strategic situation.
State Employes
Discuss Salary
Discussion of salary plans for
state employes now before the
legislature topped the agenda of
a joint meeting of the state in
dustrial accident commission,
chapter 20 of the State Employees
association and Capitol club 19 at
the Woman's club.
A summary of aims and prob
lems of civil service and explana
tions of civil service examinations
and classifications were given by
Warren Dunn, George Robertson,
Jim May, Art Wilson and Ronald
Duncan of the civil service com
mission. Loren White summarized re
cent legislative action in behalf
of state employes. The techni
color film "New Oregon Trail,"
produced by the state highway
commission, was shown by H. D.
Yarbrough.
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Norblad Asks
Importation of
Filberts Cut .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -(Special)-
The house of represents
tives was told by Rep. Walter
Norblad (R-Ore) that if the .ad
ministration does nnt 1irr(t-4nlr
to furnish some protection from
me nuge loreign iiioert importa
tions, "we may see the complete
ruination of one of our important,
stable industries, and that "Such
ruination may not be long in
coming." I
Foreign importations have in
creased 400 per cent over the pro
war figure while the costs to; the
filbert growers have Increased
about that much, Norblad said in
sucsestine that imoort ho ; re
stricted to pre-war totals. ti
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