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Senate-House Deadlock on Tax Plan Blocks Final Session Dnve OTP ecorooe mo hob The past week hat indeed been n important one in international affairs. Representatives of 12 na tions meeting in Washington signed the treaty for the Atlantic alliance. The senate, with only seven in dissent, passed the bill carrying the requested $5.5 billion appropriation for continuing the European Recovery program. And on Friday announcement was mad in Washington that Britain, Trance and the United States had composed differences so that a German government could be in stalled in western Germany. These trip hammer blows serve to weld the west into a stronger organization. Instead of inviting reprisals by Soviet Russia they should stay Russia's hand. West ern solidarity after all is not some thing to be ignored. But perhaps the best news is the cumulative report that Eu rope's health is fast being restored. American aid has helped initiate recovery. It has given a psycho logical' life to people who are de spairing because they were cold, j hungry and discouraged, rteip un der the Marshall plan was a vert table blood transfusion reviving Europe's economy. The renewed appropriation, for the final enact ment of the ERP bill seems cer tain, will get some color back in Europe's cheeks, and help over come the pernicious anemia caused by the war. This fact of Europe's recovery Is a potent argument for peace. .People will not fight unless they have something to fight for. They may even sacrifice their liberty for a promise of better times. As health and strength return to body and (Continued on editorial page) Columbia Flood Threat 'Worse Than in 1948' BOISE, April WP)-Threat of a more severe flood than .last year's exists in the Columbia basin, the division of irrigation of the U. S. soil conservation service said to day. The month of April will decide whether or not serious flooding will occur, the agency said in a monthly report. April weather will determine whether snow will melt rapidly causing a quick runoff or whether the runoff will be stretched over a longer period. Wayne Criddle, regional direc tor of the irrigation division, said the water content of the snow pack Is 30 -per cent greater than the average for the past 10 years. Criddle said, "if the same com bination of circumstances that arose last year occur this year, then there could be a high water stage more severe than the high water of 1948." Local conditions mentioned in the report included: Willamette River It is 115 per cent above normal and there prob ably will be damaging high water in local areas if not generally, de pending upon the weather. House Debates ERP Measure WASHINGTON, April 9 - (JP - ! The house turned swiftly today to- j ward the issue of providing Eu- rope a second installment of Mar- shall plan aid with approval soon Strongly indicated. Less than 24 hours after the sen ate passed its $5,580,000,000 au thorization bill by a smashing 70 to 7 vote, the house began debat ing its slightly different measure One member who supports the Idea of extending the European aid program. Rep. Lawrence H. mith (R-Wis), announced he will try to cut the authorization by $500,000,000, in the face of admin istration demands for the. whole sum. Animal Crackers 9y WARREN GOODRICH . . and now get ready foe today's recipe: Delicious Turtle SoupT UX5 . 00 Program Rejected In House By Lester F. Cour Staff Writer. The Statesman A senate - house deadlock over Oregon's 1949-51 tax program threatened Saturday to extend the legislature into its first 100-day session. The house Saturday morning highlighted the 90th day of the session by voting 31 to 23 to table the senate's version of the main tax program. The. representatives, led by Rep. Giles French, .Moro, indicated they were thus holding up action on the two primary tax bills in an effort to force the senate tax committee to act upon three house - approved tax measures. The principal issue involved, the third part of the: house - ap proved tax program, would amend the constitution to prevent the state from levying a property tax to pay state expenses. The two other bills involved would amend the constitution to require initia tive petitions 1 to state how much what they propose will cost, and create an interim committee to study Oregon's tax structure. Senate Version The senate version of the two principal tax' bills would use a , portion of corporation income tax ; surpluses and anticipated corpor- ate revenues to balance the budg- et. The house program called for : using only anticipated receipts of corporate excises taxes, but left ! a $13,000,000 gap in the budget. The house action Saturday came after a four-hour senate - house informed Speaker Frank J. Van j Dyke they were unable to agree. ! French Dissents Three members of the confer- ; ence committee i Sens. Dean Walker, Orval Thompson and Rep. Ralph Moore said they had reached agreement on the senate program. But Representative French dissented, stating he want ed to force the remainder of the house plan from the senate com mittee. Moore moved to have the house conference committee dismissed, but his motion was overruled By French's motion to table the bills. Late Saturday, the deadlock was still unbroken. The i senate con ferees and French both indicated they will sit tight. Before the tax program can go to he governor, the two main tax bills must be taken from the house table by a two - thirds vote. an repassed in some form or other. Sent te Committee In other action Saturday, the house voted unanimously to send the cigaret tax proposal to the ways and means committee which will probably, use It to finance a higher education and general state building program. The house also passed and sent to the governor bills to give Mar ion, Lane and Clackamas county larger Jury lists and to authorize the governor to direct use of state highway equipment in cases of flood emergencies. The senate moved slowly through a small calendar, sending to the governor house - approved bills appropriating i $875,000 to purchase Lincoln high school in Portland for higher extension courses, and requiring the state land board to call for bids on tim ber or land worth more than $1, 000. The upper house defeated bills which would have licensed all public accountants and allowed the Portland school district to levy j taxes over the 8 per cent limit for three consecutive years after a single election. j Both houses resume at 10 a. m. Monday. (Additional details on page 10) Mel It'll T ' NaillPfl lT-c" lUlllCll Cirfltif TilflfV in vII C II 11 Jlllle 111 Revamped District Fred McHehry, Corvallis, was appointed circuit judge for the 21st judicial district Saturday by Gov. Douglas McKay. The district includes Linn, Ben ton and Lincoln counties. The leg islature transferred Lincoln into the district and authorized an ad ditional circuit Judge. Like New Features? Here's Three More! ; i THEY'LL APPEAR IN THE OREGON STATESMAN STARTING TUESDAY. On Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q. Is it proper: for a bride to exchange wedding gifts? A. Yes; if they have no par ticular sentiment. It is quite sll right for the bride to return to the store from which it came an article for which she has no pos sible use. or a "duplicate" pres ent, getting in exchange some thing she really needs. Q. Should ;a man use his right or left hand when tipping his hat? A. Either hand, but it should be the one farthest away from the person to whom he is speak ing. Q. What is the most formal beginning of a social letter? ? A. "My dear Mrs. Wilson," which is more formal than sim ply "Dear Mrs. Wilson." T m women's pages daily) 99th YEAR KntllV SAN MARINO. Calif., lva"V April 9 Kathy Fis cal, 3i-years-old, center of dramatic efforts to rescue her from a well pipe since Friday afternoon. 2 Die in Car, Bus Wreck at Klamath Falls KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April 9-(P)-Two men were killed and several persons injured tonight when a sedan collided with a bus at the north approach to the city. Three bus passengers, the driv er and one auto passenger were Injured. Dead were Maxey Ellery Prein tice, Jr., 21. and George Lorber, 21, both of Klamath Falls. They were In the sedan. State police said the southbound automobile struck the Pacific Trail ways bus near a state highway de partment construction project. The driver of the bu., Stanley Younger, 49, 710 Newport ave.. Bend, suffered a severed artery of his left leg. Russia Awards Atom Prizes MOSCOW, April 9 -JP)- Soviet Russia today awarded highest Sta lin prizes to two scientists for their atomic and cosmic ray research in 1948. One of the prizes, the first an nounced this year, went to Geofgi Latyshev for his investigations In to the nucleus of the atom. Another was awarded to Sergi Vernov, professor at Moscow uni versity, for experimental studies of cosmic rays in the higher lay er of the atmosphere. sIIumpty Damply' CJi O ! 5118 Oil fl oDlKC t? 11 f . l l?all liiXDeCleU NEW YORK, April 9 -JP)- You can plot against a mother pigeon, but you can't teil her where to lay an egg. A mid-town Manhattan building management found that out. It erected a sharp spike barrier about 20 feet over its main en trance to keep pigeons away. Yesterday a pigeon parked an egg on one of the spikes. Today, it's still there teetering but not tottering over the facade of the Airlines terminal annex facing Grand Central station. There'll be no effort to dispos- jsess the egg. If it topples and hits I a passer-by well . . . Better English Br D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "I did not know he was that old." 1. What is the correct pronun ciation of "amperage?" t. Which one of these words is misspelled? Benignity, benificial, betrothal. 4. What does the word "feas ible" mean? i- What is a word beginning I with ad that means "praise "? Answers 1. Say, "I did not know he wan se old." or. "as old as that." t. Pronounce am-per-aj, first a as in am, as in here, second a as in age, accent second syllable. X. Beneficial. 4. Capable of be ing done, or effected; practicable. "It is the solution it It proves feasible." I. Adulation. (Te ft SltarUl paa Sally) I "- WW . j 3 Sections 46 Pages Tha COW Excavation Workers Apply Skills to Rescue Job t - w r5 mm SAV MARINO, Calif., April 9 Teams of excavation workers labor the well she fell into while playing Friday. Hope Is still held that alive in the 14-inch pipe line. Arrow points to the opening of the Statesman. Courtesy of the Oregon Journal). House Group Adds $i Billion To Arms Fund WASHINGTON, April 9 -(JP)-Reflecting the world's Jitters, the house appropriations; committee today raised the armed forces budget to a peacetime; record $15, 909,116,800. This was more than half a billion dollars above Pre sident Truman's request. Nobody said in testimony on the bill made public today that war is near. Indeed; there were signs of easing fears. But the dan ger of a chance event setting off a conflict was brought out. The bill's accent was on aeria might. The navy and army trailed the air force in sharing the gigan tic appropriation. Rep. Mahon (D-Tex.), chairman of the subcommittee that conduct ed hearings on the defense budg et, summed up his conclusions his way: "There seems to be1 no road for us to follow except the road of anxiety and sacrifice' General Omar N. Bradley, army chief of staff, gave some reassur ance when he told the committee he does not expect war to break out within the year for which the appropriation is made. That year begins next July 1 and ends June 30. 1950. Max. ... 75 74 . 1C . 50 Win Precip. Salrm . Portland San Francisco Chicago 3 : J7 4.1 Xi 42 .00 .00 .00 .00 New lork 50 Willamette river 31 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salejn): Generally fair todav. tonisht and Monday. Hich todav near 75. Low tonisht near W. Hish Monday near 73. SALEM PRECIPITATION (Sept. 1 to April It) Thin Year 37 41 Last Year 39.50 Aveiase S3 13 Look and Learn By A. C. Garden 1. At what speed. Is an auto mobile engine performing with the utmost efficiency? Z. Of what substance Is gists principally made? 1. Who was the only graduate of West Point to become Presi dent of the U. S.? 4. What name was given to the flag of the Confederate States? 5. From what animal is am bergris, used in making perfume, obtained? Answers 1. At 20 miles an hour. 2. Sand. S. Ulysses S. Grant 4. "The Stars and.Bars." 5. The sperm whale. (Te as ea feature aast daily) P'OUNDBD 1651 Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, April 10, 1949 2, F" fiTODlTD i i i 4 i t V mm v ft s..-- jj lu t ihttet fill-.. Zv5 .f?dJ& M ML k i m kl ff ' JJS- '. ' '"1. 1'nri" r 't' ' SAN MARINO. Calif.. April Rescue workers shore up the sides of the hurriedly -dug excavation alongside the well shaft where the little girl Is held. Desperate efforts were beinr continued to reach the tot though no sound has been heard from her since about an hour after she fell Into the pipe Friday. Tito Angles for Western Trade BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, April A (P)-Marshal Tito declared in a major speech today it would be "crime against our socialist country" not to trade with west ern nations on a business basis. But westerners would be mis taken, he said, to count on his help In "their war plans," despite attacks upon him by Soviet Rus sia and other communist nations. "All those war-mongers in cap italistic countries will be mistak en if they think, because of the difficult situation in which our country now finds itself ss a result of the eastern countries' attitude, that they can make any plans for our country's contribution to their war plans." Boldly defiant, the Yugoslav premier accused former comrades in Soviet Russia and the comin form of trying to liquidate him by stirring up "civil war." it to rescue little Kathy Flscus from the SVi-year-oTd girl may still be pipe shaft. (AP Wlrephotos to The Blood Rushed From Portland 'Bank' to Dallas A pint of blood needed in an emergency at Dallas was rushed from Portland regional blood cen ter, received at Salem Saturday noon and taken by the local Red Cross motor corps to Dallas. This wss the third time within the past 10 days that blood of rare types has been requisitioned from the Portland center for use here. One ease was in, Salem and an other in Silverton. In all three cases the type of blood needed was not available here and had to be re quisitioned from Portlsnd. As the blood center gets into full operation It is the plan to have supplies of all types of blood avail able at the hospitals throughout the area served. The center was opened in February and serves 16 counties ia the Portland area. Eternal (SoirO Tunnel Being D.iig'to Pipe Near 100-Foot Level; No MARINO, CaL. 4 A.M April 1 (Sunday) (JPV hiU, Z5.000 people watched and the rest of the world waited, a erew of three men early this morning began cross-tunnelling 101 fett underground to a pipe containing 3i-year-old Kathy Flscus. She has been In the pipe for 37 hours. In the last two ihours rescue work has been hampered by water seepage which has necs sitated special reinforcing. Latest reports indicate it will bo I a.m. before the pipe itself is reached and another two hours before the pipe can b ecut and the girl rescued. A hundred feet over the heads of the rescue erew a fully equipped mobile hospital manned by five doctors waits for the girl, from whom no word has been heard since an hoar after she slipped down the pipe while playing with some friends in a Vacant tot rnaay. SAN MARINO, Calif, tfons at 100 feet underground rescuers fought against time r'! . n n a . riscus, irappea hours in an abandoned well. j Bill Yancey, a 38-yer-old Pasadena sewer contractor, swung down on a cable into the rescue shaft to test the tac tions of a pipe from which the rescuers will attempt to dig a passageway to the imprisoned Two weary but eager workmen, H. E. (Whitey)i ensderfer, 43, and Tommy Francis, 26, stood ready to swing down to start digging as soon as Yancey completes his inspection. Raymond A. Hill, supervising operations, estimated that with luck the crew might reach the well pipe, about 10 feet from the rescue shaft, at the point where the girl is stuck, by 3 a. m. There have been no sign of life from the 14-inch pipe since about an hour after little Kathy slipped Into its weak-covered mouth in a vacant lot near her home yester day afternoon. More than 6,000 spectators watched as the fifth and last sec tion of pipe was fitted and welded by men and machines. One exca vation was abandoned earlier after nearly reaching the 94-foot level at which the child is benevea trapped. Pine Carves at Bottom A 1 thou eh the narrow shaft Is onlr three feet from the well opening at the surface, the well pipe curves and is about 10 feet from the bottom oi ine rescue shaft. Hill estimated. BHckensderfer was picked to do the major Job of digging and cutting to reach the child. ran cis, a slim 120-pounder, will worm hut war Into the pipe ana at tempt to bring her out. Machinist O. A. Kelly, working feverishly in one of two rescue shsfts sunk on either side of the well pipe, reported that he saw a motionless arm and a dress hnut 37 feet below him alter cuttina a "window" In the pipe at about the 57-foot level. Kelly used mirrors to shine tne sun's rays down the pipe. Hone Held by Doctor Hooe was still held out lor tne child by the t iscus iamny pnysi- cian and by the motner, Mrs Alice Fiscus. who told reporters: "Our physician has been so hope-J ful that I feel Katny cannot De anything but all right." The child's father. David M Fiscus. asked how he felt about the chances of finding Kathy alive, said: "Lets not discuss It please, nlease don't." r ... . Tears came to his eye? as ne waved the reporter away. The family spent most of the day in sedan parked about 50 yards from the scene. They leafed throuch telegrams from friends and well wishers as they prayed and hoped. Engineers have driven two shafts parallel to the abandoned pipeline that imprisons little Kathy. Abandoned at 70 Feet The first, started shortly after she fell into the abandoned water well, was abandoned a few hours later at 70 feet. It was three feet in diameter. The second, 30 feet across at the mouth, was abandoned at 57 f4 tndav because of the danger of caveins and Inability of the big clam shovels to operate efficient- ly beyond that point. This was tne snail irom wnicn Kellv sighted the arm and dress. But officials deemed it too danger ous to dig deeper there. So ro tary drilling was resumed in the original rescue shaft. Dr. Robert J. mcluuock, tne Dhrsician. said that shock and un consciousness might be sufficient to preclude struggling and fear in the mind of the child and sus tain her until such time as res cuers get to her. Kathy tumbled down the shaft while running after her sister, Barbara. 9. and her cousin. Gits Lyon, 5. The lot is near her home. When the other children noticed Kathy was missing, they started ooking for her and Gus almost fell into the pipe himself. Then they heard faint screams from be low. (Additional details on page 2) World This Week! Top observers of The Associated Press will write and picture a full page review of the world's news fronts--exclusive for The Oregon Statesman in this area each wtt-k. Starting on page 8 today. Price 10c No. 23 DDD Sign oflLife April 9-(AP)-Tunntllntr Wera- began tonight a determined to reach three-year-old Kathr . ' , I , child. Blick- Kathy's Father Sought Law to Seal Old Wells SAN MARINO, Calif., April sU -It was disclosed today that fcyj a strange coincidence David! H. Fls cus, father of 3-year-old Kathy who fell down an old, water vn-11, has been seeking state legislatitei to provide for cementing up of abandoned wells. In fact j he Jt t returned from this mission, to St ramento, the state capital.! yester day. Fiscus Is chairman of the pollu tion committee of the California section. American Water i Woifca association. ... Raymond Hill, the ayerall bom In the rescue efforts for liltla Kathy. Is known In engineering circles as a bis time operator. As San Marino resident, he Is a part ner In the Los Angeles engineerim firm of Leeds. Hill and Jewell Ha was roused from his bed at 11:30 last night to take over the Job a ad has been at the scene ever since.! (i - I Air has been pumped down Info the shaft almost from the start and D. B. Holmes of the Pasadena fira department said all of It has beit pumped by hand. He said they ra certain that It was getting to tha little tot as earlier when a crew man stuck his head t' through a window" from the adjacent tun nel into the pipe, he felt the frta of the on rushing air. That; was I at the 57 foot level. t . r Last night, before itbel rtseaa operation was started,! a plea for help was Issued by radio. And ac cording to Russ Hodges, who livea nearby, within an hear or twa equipment clam shell scoops, oi drilling rigs, trucks, flights aa4 gasoline engines began moving ta the scene. ? ' I i ' "It was the greatest piece' of spontaneity I ever saw," jHedgea said. K 1- I Thousands of motorists drova Into the San Marino area.! Scores' of extra-duty traffic! policemei tried to keep the traffic fluid arid at the same time answer the mil-! ion and one questions: "Do they; i think she's alive?" "laVe they reached her yet?" And on and enjj - T ' t They're Here!!! Starting with today's States man is the new Sunday Comic feature section which from now on will be a regular part of TOUR HOME NEWSPAPER. It is being published in'. The Statesman s own plant, and in cludes tha finest features avail able from the McXaagbt Syndi cate, the Chicago Tribne-Nw York News and the King Fea ture syndicate. We feel the new comic friends will be Valued ad. ditions to the other outstanding features The Statesman' has been successful in obtaining, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy them. "And here's luck in working the new puzzles. By the way, turn ta page 11 first to read a review of the story sequence for Htber new comics Flash Gordon and Joe SitW" o Pop