Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1949)
ODu " of l! ! , 1 1 ents Kussia is Refuse to Budge Term Paym tiM ft -iff ""' v t , . ft J". i V. . . . ... J fir FKANKFUST, Mar. tV. 8. soldier Ulk today outside Russian repa triation mission In Frankfurt, Germany, which has been blockaded following Russian refusal to comply with American orders to leav,e the U. B. tone of Germany. Four Russian officers and four soldiers and their families are In the mission. (AP Wirephoto to The Itatesman). . A BlocEtaded Franturt Ask for Water FRANKFURT, Germany, March 2-(JP)-A plea for water came to night from the Russia repatriation mission, blockaded here by U.S. military police because they rejected Gen. Lucius D. Clay's order to leave. In Berlin Soviet Marshal Vassily D. Sokoldvsky denounced the blockade as "shameless police operations." In a statement distributed Folk who are prudent take out insurance to cover possible loss by fire. They may take out In surance against other risks of loss, depending oh the nature and extent of their hazards. Most owners of motor cars get insured against losses that might arise through injury to persons or damage to property that might be caused by their vehicles. It's Just "good business." There is another form pf "ln surance" which- our people take s a group. That is protection gainst disaster. The "company' is the American Red Cross. The "premiums' are not imposed, they are voluntary contributions. The Red Cross is the nationally chartered agency forimeeting need In time of disaster. Come fire or flood, the Red Cross is on the spot promptly to administer relief. Just as an insurance company has to have ample cash resources instantly available to meet its losses so the Red Cross needs to have ample funds to take care of emergencies for which it as sumes responsibility. It obtains these funds through annual Roll Call and collection. ' The nation wide campaign to finance the Red -Cross is now ' under way. From Salem, Ore. to Salem, Mass nd ' from Bellingham, Wash, to Key West, Fla. the solicitation Is in progress. Thousands of volun teers go from door to door, from store to store, from factory to factory to gather in the money from a people , (Continued on editorial page) FERON HONORS HACKETT BUENOS AIRES, March President Peron today- honored First Lt. William D. Hackett, U.S. army infantry officer from Port land, Ore., for his successful as cent of Mount Aconcagua. Hack ett is the first American ever to scale the 23,000-foot peak, - the highest of the Andes. Animal Crackers ; By WARREN GOODRICH wish they'd iUthat clock loses minut every ay. ...... - , i ' y -T.i v ;i j u- r""" "t:. Russians in by the official Soviet news agency SNB he said: the blockade repre sented "new proofs of deliberate violation of International commit ments by US. occupation authori ties in Germany and the : U.S. government.'s The statement did not disclose whether the eight-man repatria tion mission would be ordered to leave Frankfurt. The red flag of the Soviet Union flew over the headquarters. Flea for Water Made . A plea for water was made when a Soviet colonel, not a mem ber of the mission, ,was allowed to visit the besieged mission head quarters with Coi. Sterling Wood, Frankfurt provist marshal, and an American interpreter. Water lines of the mission were cut this morning, along with elec tric telephone and gas service; The house was in darkness, lit only by the rays of a flashlight. Asked whether the Russian plea for water would be granted, Wood 4old reporters; 1 "My orders; were that the "water be shut off. They have not been changed." Singing Russian Songs Wood said the mission members were sitting together, singing Rus sian folk songs, when the party entered. He said np new propos als were advanced by either side, except that the Russians asked for water. PVay asked the repatriation mis sion to get out of the U.S. zone by March 1 on grounds there was little for it to do. The mission members, headed by Col. Vasily L. Argooriov, said yesterday they would be classed as deserters if they left their post without orders from the Soviet command In Berlin. EUROPEAN STORM DIES LONDON, March 2-(P)-The winter's worst European storm blew itself out today, leaving 33 persons dead and hundreds in jured. - 'Heave, Ho9 t i Grants and muscle are helping Salem's navy reserve personnel move into the new naval armory on Air pert read this week. Shown above working a heavy machine tool Into place In the machine shop are regular navy men assigned to Salens In the reserve training program. The building Itself is f 5 per cent completed, hut Installation! of the heavy equpiment called for by the training pro cram will require . several months. Offices of the reserve program will open In the armory Monday. (Photo by Don Dill. Statesman staff photographer). 88th Y. 16 PAGES Road Cleared to Isolated Miners' Caikp School Bill Sent To Senate By Wendell Webb Managing Editor, The Stateanian The house killed a move to establish a new state-wide school directors' association Wednesday opponents declaring they want ed "no more school lobbies" after passing and sending to the senate an amended bill increas ing from $17,000,000 to $27,000,000 the annual basic school support fund. So far as the house Is concern' ed, the action wound up one of the major issues . of the session. But lt is expected to have an other one before it today the state withholding tax. Committee reports one favoring amend ment to exclude farm labor and the other asking outright repeal are to be debated on the house floor. The .school fund bill passed Wednesday would add $30 to the present $50 per census child. The original bill, returned to commit tee last week, would have add ed $43. The school support measure was passed 43 to 17. The bill to create a school directors associa tion was defeated 44 to 14. French Opposes .Bill Rep. Giles French of Moro, op posing additional school support, said most of the bill's .benefits would accrue to the Willamette valley, and that the $17,000,000 voted .two years ago had brought no school improvement. Rep. H. H. Chlndgren of Molalla contended the 1947 law had im proved the schools and urged ad ditional support. Thomas Replies . Rep. Lyle Thomas of Dallas de clared the proposed bill was a needed step toward equalization and said that "French can't prove education is any worse (as a re sult of the initial basic .school fund) any more than I can prove it is better." Meanwhile, the senate Wednes day defeated 22 to 7 a measure providing for Increasing, the state highway commission from three to five members. It also declined to double the $5,000 auto insur ance required under the motor vehicle liability act, and to ex empt from license fees automo biles used only for display pur poses. Passed by Senate Passed by the senate and sent to the house were measures re quiring property owners to re port improvements to assessors; providing for the election of party committeemen at primary instead of general elections, and requir ing candidates, for president and vice president to file expense ac countings with the state. In the house. Rep. Phil Dreyers motion to recall and defeat the house-approved measure to bar state property tax was beaten 44 to 16. Dreyer contended house failure to put all personal income tax revenue in the general fund would make personal income tax unconstitutional if the ' property tax base were removed from the law. Both the senate and house have heavy calendars today. They will resume at 10 a.m. (Additional details page 6.) as Navy Moves a -A Tho Oregon Skrtestman, Salem, Oracon, Thursday, March 3, 1849 Plane Circles Globe Corvallis Man Pact Wording Settled; Danes Ready to Join WASHINGTON. March 2-(P- Secretary of State Acheson today indicated all major issues involv ed in writing the North Atlantic security treaty have been settled. The seven countries drafting the pact, however, have not yet de- termined what other nations should be brought in as original signers, he disclosed. The question of inviting Italy is receiving es pecially careful study. Late today American officials were cheered by a news dispatch from Copenhagen saying diploma tic informantt predicted Denmark may decide tomorrow to Join in the talks. Acheson told a news conference that he did not know of any out standing differences on the text of the treaty. He expects to meet with the ambassadors of Britain, France, Canada, Belgium, the Ne therlands and Luxembourg to morrow and possibly again early next week to try to wind up details of drafting. The treaty would commit the United States and all other mem ber nations to resist an attack against any one of them, but each country woyld decide what steps it would take in fulfilling the com mitment. Acheson said he hopes to make the text public before it is signed. Kl RILES AIRFIELD PLANNED TOKYO, Thursday, March 3-JPl A former private in the Russian army, Innokentey Zyryanov, who fled to Japan last fall said today the Soviets are planning to build an airfield in the Kurile islands 20 miles from northern Japan. into Armory i V . , . a : " , ml . -i, sssaiii x.i-:. w t f I ' A i V .r? POUNDDO 1651 Navigator of Long'Range Plane FORT WORTH. Tex March t-A-fJ. S. B-50 bomber comet to a halt at CarsweH airforce base hero today (top photo) after circling the globe in 94 hours, one minute. In lower photo 1st Li. Earl Rigor, (left) Corvallis, Ore., and Tech. Sgt. Burgess Cantrell. Pound. Va show weary expressions which resulted from the long flight. Rigor was second navigator on the trip. Cantrell was radio operator. (AP Wirephoto to The SO teaman.) B-50 Aloft 94 Hours In 23,452-Mile Flight By Elton C. Fay FORT WORTH. Tex.. March 2-W)-The United States air force has circled the globe non-stop for the first time in history. ' The Lucky Lady II, a B-50 medium bomber, and her happy, weary crew of 14; surprised the world today by winding up the epochal feat hero. Refueling on the wing made it possible. Ninety-four hours and one Fire Destroys Salem Home The home - of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hammond, Salem route 4, box 7S, was completely destroyed by 4X4 aJ mmw A a II. nro laie weanesaay nigm aeipue efforts of city firemen to halt the roaring blaze. Hammond told police he left the house at 7 p. m. Wednesday and when he and his wife were re turning saw the house ablaze. When firemen arrived shortly af ter 11 p. m. the modest structure was wrapped in flames. The house and its contents were a complete oss. It is located just to the rear of the Consolidated Freightways company across the Southern' Pacific tracks from the intersection of South 14th and Hoyte streets. It is outside the Sa lem city limits. House Flies Ignore DDT House flies are getting used to DDT and don't mind it too much, recent reports from federal en tomologists show. DDT was first tested as early as 1943 in dairies near Orlando, Fla. Late this winter federal en tomologists collected wild flies from this same region. Prelimin ary results of these tests, just re leased, have shown some of the flies now require much longer periods of contact with DDT if they are to be killed, certain strains of house flies have been put under the sam tests with the same results. In some cases the flies didn't die at air but nibbled on the DDT and buzzed right along on their usual business. (Additional Farm Tfews Pages 10 and 11.) Non-Stop ( tn?r W 4 i , - minute after its unannounced take off from Carswell air force base here, Lucky Lady settled gently back down on a Carswell runway at 9:22 a.m., central standard time. She had made an eastward flight around the earth at almost the greatest girth more than 23,000 miles taking on gasoline four times from flying tankers. The grinning crewmen stepped off the plane to a warm welcome by the air force's highest officers. Both the high command and the men who made the flight said they saw some strategic and tactical les sons in the experimental mission. Mlnnesotan Pilot CapL James Gallagher of Mel rose, Minn., the chief pilot and commander, summed it up like this at a news conference: "It seems to me you can go just about anywhere in the world any time." The successful flight was a sec ond start. Another B-50 turned back last Friday shortly after the takeoff because of an engine fire. Secrecy shrouded the project for the whole 94 hours the Seattle-built Boeing B-50 bomber was in the air. Not even newsmen who were brought to CarsweH air base were told the purpose'of their trip un til shortly before the scheduled arrival of the plane. Refueled 4 Times On the 23.452-mile flight the Lucky Lady refueled over the Azores, Dhahran in Saudi Arabia, the Philippines' and Hawaii. General Le May told reporters that one purpose of the secret flight was to find how good mili tary security could be for a mis sion involving upwards of a score of tanker planes based at four points around the world. The bom ber and the tankers had to ' use the radio frequently, but so well guarded were their words that no inklinfof the flight was given. MILL. PRODUCE SOARS ASTORIA, March 2 -)- The kids who fly kites make good bus iness for the Uptegrove Lumber company here. The small lumber firm, which figured out new way to make kite sticks, turns out 21 carloads of the stick a year. That's enough to make a million kites. No. 303 Food Sent To 6 Atop es ELKHORN, March 2-(Special)-A desperate battle to reach a group of five snow-bound miners and one woman marooned high in the Cascades was termed a success late tonight by hard-working res cue workers. Giant 23-ton bulldozers -broke through the last of giant 20-foot deep snow slides on the tortuous road along the little north fork of the Santiam river and freed the employes of the Pacific Smelting and Refining company's mining camp. Although the last of their sup plies had nearly; given out Justin Trippett, of the mining company, told The Statesman last night that rescuers found the snowed-in par ty in good health. Trippett directed the rescue work from the Ken Randall guest ranch, a way point to the mines for the past 80 years. Trippett praised highly the work of the tractor drivers, v "Hung Over Edge" "At times" he said, "these bull dozers were operating on a road so narrow that their machines ac tually hung over the edge. Most of the ledge road is hundreds' of feet above the river." Although the road to the mines is not completely open supplies are being trucked in, Trippett said. ' Ercill Wilson of Mehama, own er of the two 'cats, said they had been battling the heavy snows since last Thursday. The mach ines averaged about one and a half miles per day. Tho mines lie about 11 miles from Elkhom and Elkhorn is about 18 miles above Mehama. : Trucks Took Over The machines Wednesday stop ped two miles short of the mines when they reachedHalf Bridge" a narrow span tod weak to hold a heavy bulldozer. Trucks broke the way from there. Trippett said he visited the marooned, miners on snow shoes several weeks ago and returned to Elkhorn. Some of the miners have been cut off since early De cember and a few snow-shoed out last month. . Remaining at the mines were Mr. and Mrs. William Bowman, Adolph Cavella, Hans Nilssen, Gordon Olson and Darrell La nth ley. They were part of a skeleton winter crew, Trippett said. - The Pacific company mines con tain some copper but most opera tions are directed at the zinc de posit there, said to be one of the largest in the United States. Printers to Get 'Lockout' Pay PORTLAND. March 2-fiGVThe closure of Portland's metropoli tan newspapers was declared a "lockout" today by the Interna tional Typographical union. The action was! taken to enable printers to obtain lockout bene fits from union funds. Al Clayton. secretary of the local, said mar ried men would receive $54 and single men $36 S week. Representatives of the publish ers conferred again today with the Portland labor-management committee and separately with federal conciliators but not with pressmen. Oregon Residents Asked to Observe Day of Prayer Gov. Douglas McKay Wednesday asked Oregon residents to partici pate in the nation-wide observance of the "World Day of Prayer" on Friday. "J Services sponsored by the Ore gon Council of Church Women will be held throughout the state. "Let us Join with members of the council in a prayer for mutual understanding for universal peace and for a deeper communion- with Cod," McKay commented. .- Max. Mln. Frceip. 41 -1 49 Tr 4 . JBS Salrm Portland San Francisco 8S Chkraio New York . . Willamette rlvr 3S SS 1 Tr Jt U 7.4 fact. Forecast (from UJt. weather bureau. McNaty . field. Salem): Partly cknidv today and tonight. High today Mar i; low tonight near 3e. SALEM raCCtPITATIOIT fSpl. 1 to March I) ThU Year Last Year Average MM UJ1 2741 Price. 5c Cascad Extended! By Morgan Reynolds 1 t WASHINGTON, March' 2-(Py-Tht government tonight relaxed its credit controls to make it easier for th public to buy things on the instalL ment plan. " ,1 ' ' i U-f j The federal, reserve boar 4 took this actio n, effective Monday, after President Tru man's economic advisers had assured him earlier in the day that the busines outlook is "still very good, bright and promising. The board's action showed clear recognitionof diminished demand -i- at current prices - -for a num ber of goods that were in shortest supply until a relatively few weeks or months ago! '' " The board itself did not com ment on the state of the nation's economic health in its order ex tending time payments to i 21 months and cutting the amount of down payment from 20 per cent to 15 per cent 'of tho purchase ' price on all goods except automo biles, j J , ir People buying cars' 'still must put up one third of tho cost) in cash, but they now will have a longer time in which I to pay ff tho balance r - thus reducing those monthly installments which auto dealers claim have slowed their sales. . i I ! : Installment Credit Drops The federal reerve board's or der followed shortly after its re port that the amount of install ment credit outstanding dropped $143,000,000 in January, making tho first decline in three years. It said total consumer credit, includ ing charge accounts, which are not controlled, amounted to $13,376,- 000,000 in January. The board has been under In- creasing pressure for a relaxatioa. of the credit controls which were imposed last September and are due to expire 'June, 30. One auto mobile manufacturer, Kaiser-Fra- zer, recently cut back- Its produc tion and said it did so because tho installment, control regulations were slowing up sales. ' No Distinction Made . V As it applies to automobiles, nei ther the present regulation nor the modification makes any distinction between new and used cars. j v Chairman Patman (D-Tex), of the house, small business commit-, tee, who has been the j chief con gressional critic of the way the re serve board administered the con trols, said he Was "disappointed in the changes. He told a reporter he thinks the xJJme I payments should have been put at 24 months,; "especially on automobiles." I j . Truman. Industrialists I Talk I I It was disclosed meanwhile that Mr. Truman has been meeting on. his own with various! Industrial', and financial leaders to get their j ideas on the state of tho nation's ! economic health. . ! it Leon Keyserling, vice chairman i of the president's council of econ- ftomlc advisers, told reporters after ; a White House call today that tho ; business outlook remains "very1 good." He stressed thatjhe season increase in unemployment now ; about 3,000,000 -- shows signs cl tapering off. and that various oth- er 'economic indicators 'point to a new upsurge in production.- Descendant of Linn County's Founder Dies LEBANON; Marchv 1 Charles II. "Jack- Ralston, Jr died at his home here Wednesday of m heart attack at tho age of 73; i i He was the last male descendant ; of his grandfather, Jeremiah Ral ston, who led a wagon train to Oregon and founded Lebanon and Linn county in 1847. He was born : here in 1874 and attended Leb-: anon schools-and Albany college. He was associated with a Port- land leather firm andv later was' superintendent of a Lebanon pa-: per mill, now the Crown-Zeller-' back pulp plant. Ralston was for ; many years chairman of the Leb anon school board and was a civ ic leader until he retired from public Ufe in 1940. ! i Survivors include his Wife, Mrs. ' Jessie Ralston and two sisters, Mrs. Maude Kirkpatrickf and Mrs.' Jessie Landstrom, all Of Lebanon. . Your fSWN limn a treasure house Relaxation and health for you and your family, the Joy that security is, tho peace I that contentment is these are the prizes of, happiness ou get when you own your you get when you own your yard, your own lovely gar- ; den. ' j . 1 Protect your family's hap Iness with a home ; of your own. Thanks to i present plans you can buy out of your Income. p j Many charming homes are offered In THE OREGON STATESMAN Want Ads. See them. Join the millions of contented home owners. ' i