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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1949)
ft ft (ft (nfoo Off Kl SftDfDtrDgs Sffiaidto mam U.S. Sajjs Siege End Possible " i n Br John M. High tower WASHINGTON, April I S- Wistaria Unseats Porch Post 1 v.-'- 1. 'VL ii v i.r 4 POUNDBD HBC4j Sib YEAR 14 PACES The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday. April 27, 1149 PRICE 8c Mo. 37 Salem School Budget Jumps $300,000 FerftSDizeir Process SEATTLE, April JKff)-A $8, 600,000 plant built at Salem, Ore., to produce aluminum from northwest clays may be used to process army ore stockpiles. The plant Is now operated by Columbia Metals for making am monium sulphate fertilizer. Pres. John R. Allen of Man ganese Products Inc., reported his firm had been given 30 days to submit a price to the army on ferro-manganese production. Allen said he would have the plant producing fertilizer and processing ferro-manganese at the same time. He said the army had a large stockpile of ore at Las Vegas, Nev. Eventually Man ganese Products, Inc., would pro duce its own manganese ores OTP SKIDDS TKDODXE Th annual meeting of the Ore gon Chest held Monday in Salem . was a Heartening aiiair. Men wu women gathered from many parts f the state to review the work of the past year and plan aneaa. The Oregon Chest, in case you do not know, Is the vehicle which Tle money for the support prin rinallv of eleven child-caring aeencies In the state. It shares in ihm funds raised by various com munity chests though the largest portion of such funds remain in the locality to support local Insti tutions. The Oregon Chest grew out of the Oregon War Chest which raised money for the National War Fund during the late war. At the meeting Monday Loyal Warner of Salem was reelected president; the executive director is In 5. Mc Sherry and the-Chest has offices In the Ladd & Bush bank build ing. Why. It may be asked, should people contribute for support of these institutions? Why shouldn't ihe state pay the bill and take it out of our taxes? Of what concern Is It to people in this county for example, since the institutions aid- eti are located elsewhere? These are pertinent questions I'll try to answer them. As to state responsibility: the state does contribute at a fixed rate for sup port of court-committed children and the legislature granted an in crease in the rate this year. But the state's -contribution (continued on editorial page) Ship Shelling Stirs Debate LONDON, April 26--Prime Minister Attlee promised parlia mentary critics today Britain will "take every possible step" to pro tect British subjects caught m Chi na's civil war. The shelling of four British war ships on the Yangtze river by com munist artillerymen last week set off a parliamentary debate. Con servative Leader Winston Chur chill and many other legislators attacked the labor government. Labor members drowned out some questions with shouts that The Tories (Conservatives) want war." Animal Crackers BV WARREN GOODRICH "I think if$ about timo tho county did something about thoso roads." PDamft PJllay Armmyj! Ore from the Olympic peninsula, he aaid. (j A. W. Metzger, manager of the plant for Columbia Metals, said Tuesday night at Salem that he was unaware of the project. He said, however, that Manganese Products, Inc., was one of the firms bidding for! the plant. Operations by Columbia Met als will cease Friday except for the disposal of 800 to 1,000 tons of fertilizer still on hand. About 15 of the crew of 65 will be kept on until June 30 to sell the fer tilizer and maintain the plant. (The government opened four bids for the fertilizer plant sev- erai montns ago,;; Dut none was accepted although negotiations continued for disposal of plant.) the Defense Hints At Romance In Spy Trial WASHINGTON, April 36 -UP)-The defense hinted, broadly today that Judith Coplon, 27, pretty former government worker, in tended to marry the Russian agent with whom she was seized in an alleged espionage conspiracy. Defense counsel Archibald Pal mer gave this surprise twist to the case as selection of the Jury was completed In Miss JCoplon's two- day-old espionage trial. Eight men and four women including five government workers were chos en, t is Accused with Miss Coplon in a separate indictment; in New York Is Valentine A; Gubitchev, 22, a Soviet engineer and former United Nations employe. Gubitchev was The Soviet embassy posted the released today on ,$100,000 bail, huge bail. i Step by step, Palmer asked the prospective Jurors t they 'would have any prejudice fin the follow ing Instances: ! Against a divorced person, or an American contemplatlne marry ing a citizen of another country. 4-H Poster fw; -V V Ot I r- - V t. Henlt llipfit ! Ctnm " '' t ? . -i I '' -i ' i t ' ' 3 , - I ; -'r ' f i ' I . 1 ! t I .! ' ... ' ; I 1 i ' : t ' r--A ; - 'i - ' 1 ft-. A?. I ; f I a ' I J , , ; I . m Mv.tMro rwj buw KTvruni wm am contest at Silverton Monday morning which opened the rive-day annual 4-H Spring- Shew being held at Silverten. Gene Is the son mt Mrs. Lillian Fewler ef Bethany school and Keba Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vera Smallweod ef Kelser. Both yeungsters are 13 years and la the seventh grade. (Statesman Farm photo). Vote Due On Extra $717,475 By Robert E. Gangware Cltjr Editor. The Statesman Salem district school voters will be asked to approve a tav levy $717,475 outside the 6 per cent increase limitation in a school election May 20, it was decided Tuesday night by the district school board and budget commit tee. The $717,475 necessary to bal ance the school district budget for the year 1949-30 compares with $420,083 which was voted last I year in excess of the limitation. This . levy if approved wouid result in an estimated tax of 41.7 mills, an increase of 5.7 mills over last year's actual levy of 36 mills, but the estimate is subject to re vision depending upon the year's assessment valuations. Bulk of the increase in the rec ommended levy for this year would permit buildings and grounds im provements and repairs which have been deferred since the war years and, in some cases, before, according to Superintendent Frank B. Bennett. Base salaries for teachers and administrators remain the same in this budget, but the cost of in struction is up some $78,000 due to an expected 17 new teachers, increases in teacher tenure status and in cost of supplies. Figured in the budget as an emergency fund item is a $40,000 item, the amount estimated as possible receipts in federal aid under a new act now under con sideration by congress. (Additional details on page I.) Min. Preeip. 17 .M M jOO 4S trace SS M Salem Portland 71 San Francteeo SS 74 Chicago New York S7 c trace Willamette rlvar J I feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu- reau. MeNary field. Saletni: Mostly cloud r today and tonight. Hlih today jJt 1 r 71. near 71. Low tonight near 43. Weather will be favorable for mont farm acUv- ltiea today. SALEM PRECIPITATION (Sept. 1 te April 27) Thi Year 17 SO Average 13.4ft Awards Made at Show I: "a K'ba Smallweed. Marten eeun- Ahead off By Fred SHANGHAI, Wednesday, April 27-CVCommunist - menaced Shanghai got more Jitters today service to Soochow (Wuhsien). It 50 miles of this great city. ; The break came in mid-morning after red troops, boasting they already had crushed two Nationalist armies, were advancing south Sullivan Quits Cabinet Over Carrier Dispute WASHINGTON. April 26 -UP) John L. Sullivan resigned today as secretary of the navy, firing a roaring broadside at Secretary of Defense Johnson for halting con struction of the navy's super- carrier, the USS United States. The New Hampshire Irishman said he was deeply disturbed be cause Johnson acted "so drastic ally and arbitrarily" without con sultation with the navy. Johnson dismissed Sullivan's attack with a terse statement from his office: "I regret very much that my old friend and colleague, John L. Sul livan, has joined the aircraft car rier issue on personal grounds, and I believe that he, too, will soon regret his action of today." Sullivan's resignation, widely expected since Johnson lowered the boom on the big flat-top Sat urday, came in an exchange of letters with President Truman. Both of their communications were couched in the polite pattern protocol. But Sullivan cut loose his pent-up wrath In a letter to the new secretary of defense. He said that navy planners consider its construction "indispensable" to the continuing development of American sea power" so much so that twice they have sacrificed other construction to give it top priority. SEN. LUCAS IN HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, April 26 - UP) Aides of senate democratic leader Lucas of -Illinois disclosed today that he is in a hospital here for a general checkup and rest. He ex pects to return to duty in two or three days. SILVXRTON, April 26 Paul Cooley, Hayesville, won grand champion honors in the health poster division at the 4-H clubs annual spring show here today There were 394 entries in the contest. Cooley was entered in the 5th and 6th grade divisions. Reserve champion was Gary Webber, West Salem, winner in the 7th and 8th grade section. Second to Cooley In the lower grade divi sion was Martha Anderson, Hayes ville. Richard Hein, Cloverdale, was reserve champion in the upper division. Other exhibit winners named Tuesday were David Gilham, Union Hill, woodworking; Sharon Gibby, Silver Crest, water color; Marlyn Shelton, Stayton, and Richard Hayden, Roberts, forest ry; and Doris Lane, Liberty, in termediate knitting. Judging of exhibits will be completed Thurs day. Displays at the Washington Irving building will be open Wed nesday from 5 to 10 p.m. There will be a bread baking demon stration at the Christian church from 8:45 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednes day. Entries in the spring show total 1231 exhibits. Reappraisal of City Property In County Due A plan to appraise real property in Salem, Silverton and Woodburn for county tax purposes within the next year was revealed Tuesday. Marion County Assessor Roscoe "Tad" Shelton appeared before the Marion county budget committee Tuesday and sought a $2,000 fund to have the Job done. The money, he said, would pay expenses of two appraisers from the state tax commission, whose salaries would be paid by the commission. Shelton said he estimated it would take about a year to ap praise all property in metropoli tan areas in the county and that from four to five years would be required to complete the appraisal on all rural property. Red Amniy Hampsen with the disruption of telephones could mean the reds were within ward ' to the west of Shanghai heading for Hangchow Long-distance service to Soo chow, ; 60 miles northwest of Shanghai, went out at 10:48 a. so. Communications officials said the "line was cut." This could mean either of two things: Red troops already had SHANGHAI. Wednesday. April 17 -(IP)- Communist forces have launched an Intensive at tack on Soochow (Wuhsien), the Shanghai garrison command announced today. The announce ment said the reds ls.OOt strong were attacking the key rail; Junction 10 miles west and slightly north of this ner vous metropolis from two di rections.! moved down past Suchow or mere ly that communist guerillas oper ating in the area had cut the line. Shanghai which remained ealm when the reds broke the Yangtse river line, began to show signs of panic. Business was almost at a standstill.! The money market was chaotic. : Nervousness Increased as the United States and Great Britain moved heavier naval units out of the Whahgpoo. They were an chored in the Yangtze to the north to avoid possible Involvement la any fighting. More than 100 Americans and other nationals were getting out. Msny more elected to stay. U. S. headquarters packed up to move economic I administration associa te Cantonj South China city now serving as the Nationalist capital. (The communist radio in Fei- ping announced that lives and property, of foreign nationalists would be protected.) The communist radio said red columns ; had captured Ihlng and Chingtai, about 80 miles west of Shanghai, jlf true they were half way fromf the Yangtze to Hang chow, 15 miles southwest of Shanghai. ( A communist broadcast heard in Shanghai said the "bulk" of the government's 20th and 99th armies were "wiped out." It asserted more than 13JD0O troops were "wiped out" and n equal number cap tured. (The location of this fighting was not given. Presumably it was somewhere; on the front around Nanking, red-occupied. Nationalist capital.) I U. S. Consul John Cabot esti mated 100 Americans had boarded U. S. naval vessels here for re moval in an emergency. Most of them were' women and children. That still would leave 2,400 Ame ricans in Shanghai. Another group of Americans Is expected to board the President liner Wilson, which is due tomor row from Hong Kong. Appeal of Ruling on North pMarion High Vote Withdrawn ' 1 Appeal of the case of the legality of North Marion's Union high school district No. 6 to the state supreme court has been withdrawn and official note from Bartlett Cole, attorney tor the objectors, disclosed; Tuesday. Decision of Circuit Court Judge E. M. Page; supporting the legal ity was announced February 17. Objectors to the union had been William G. Gooding, Jack Murray and Edwin J. Miller. The appeal was abandoned on agreement that im date would be set for voters to pass on dissolu tion of thej district. The district boundry : board recently set the election date for May 16. After withdrawal action had lagged Agnes C. Booth, secretary of the Marion County district boundry ; board, threatened to withdraw the dissolution election. Abandonment of the appeal was in answer to the threat. 310 Poulu Destroyed as Brooder! House Burnt SCIO, April 26 Fire starting from an oil brooder stove destroy ed s brooder house snd 310 seven teen-day-old poults st the M. Binkley place here Tuesday. Loss, estimated at $750, was covered by National Turkey Federation in surance, i ! After St years of snaking 1U way I - i k , x-. . 'i if A i 'S-'i.:'. .-j ; '?'-.''.svtrC?" s- ' . - - " ' A. " : : 1 rKg'V"' k4 . . I "' , :; t -J. (. V" h "jr-,;- t ' I t It, 1 'I-.. v-V '. 1 uauusssseiusJ viae shown above has torn the uoat from Ita mennUnga and now elutehos It firmly la snake-Ilk eolla. The viae la at the home of MJuu Dora Fbernettoa, 1578 Bellevue St., where It was planted 20 years age by her mother. Leaves and blossoms ef the wisteria almost aide from view the porch when the viae Is la full bloom, (States- a photo). County Budgotero Okeh $10 Raise By Coarad G. France Staff Writer, The Stateemaa Approvsl ef a $10 per month wsge increase for Marion county employes sad action on several first day's work of the Marion Tuesday sat down to form this county's 1849-iO budget. The six-man committee will whea three hearings are scheduled. They include hearings on Ihe county agent's budget at 10 S. m , predatory animal control budget at 10:30 and a group of dairy and cattle-men at 11 a. m. The pay increase affects bout 85 county employes and does not Include elective officials. The' vote came after a long discussion. Mar ion County Judge Grant Murphy cast the lone dissenting vote. He said he favored a general increase of $15 per month in most cases and more or less than this amount in others. I Department budgets approved included those of the county- as sessor, for about $40,000 compared with $38,782 as the current pud get; circuit court, $23,265 com pared with $20,265; county coron er, $1,635 compared with $1,585; county court and commissioners, $15,596 compared with $15,878; county court house, $17,264 com pared with $16,264; district attor ney's office, $7,324 compared with $7,160; registrations and elections $18,895, compared with $23,325. Also approved was a $255 budget for the Jefferson justice district constable and a 81,250 budget for the Breitenbush justice court. Dis cussed but not voted into com pletion were budgets for the coun ty clerk and for the county health officer. j Slated for probable balloting to day will be budgets of the county sheriffs office and county jail and district court. Judge Murphy was elected chairman of the committee and D. B. Hill of Mill City, secre tary. (Additional details on page; 7) California Endurance Fliers ! Land Plane After 6 Weeks Aloft FULLERTON, Calif., April (26-(A)-Slx weeks of droning mono tonously through the skies ended today for Bill Barris and Dirk Riedel. They boosted the wofld's endurance flight record to 1,008 hours, landing at 11:45 a.m. (PST) to the cheers of their townspeople. Tired, but smiling snd fresh shaven, the two Fullerton airport employes were sble to wslk away from their little Aeronca mono plane, The Sunkist Lady," with out help. "We're pooped, but we'll be all right in a short time," ssid fthc 36-year-old. graying Barris. "The worst thing was the monotony of the engine. It Just about drove us crszy. We'd never try It sgeln. This is our last try." j His blond psrtner, Riedel, 34, waa first out of the plans. I He around a porch post the wisteria for Employes departmental budgets marked the county budget committee which continue deliberations this morning School Budget Meet Tonight At Woodburn WOODBURN, April 26 (Spec ial) The Woodburn school board will conduct a public hearing Jit 8 fp.m. Wednesday at Lincoln school on the district's proposed $202,900 budget for the 1949-50 fiscal year, The hearing will precede a dj trict election Thursday from 2 to 7 p.m. at the school on a proposal to exceed the 6 per cent tax limit by $107,953. Only $21,496 of this years 8129,450 school tax levy falls within the 6 per cent limit Major increases in the 1949-51 budget are due to increased at tendance and higher operating costs. The district also is faced with losing $40,000 of state basic achool support funds because of non-standard conditions in its grade schools. Surveys of both high and grade school facilities are being made to determine building needs. A district meeting will be called later to cope with this problem. MEN RULE STAYTON P-TA STAYTON, April 26-fP)-The Parent-Teacher association here is an all-male affair - -among offi cers, that is. The president is Ray mond Frey; vice-president, Hal Reynolds; secretary, L. H. Burns; and treasurer, Harold Wodtly, quickly embraced his wife. June, snd two children. Dickie, 10, in a wheel-chair with arthritis, and Barbara, four. Barris' wife. Betty, and their two children, Patty, two, and Steven, one, were right there, too. An estimated crowd of 8,000 half of Fullerton's population and then some turned out to welcome the boys back to the field they left March 15. ; Thus, after three previous un successful attempts, Barris and Riedel became the first fliers to stay up more than 1,000 hours consecutively. Their flying took them to Florida and back. On April 14, they passed the previous endurance record of 726 hours set by Wes Carroll and Clyde Schlieper of Long Beach, Calif. The old mark was j set 10 years sgo. (fiy-Tht western powers vir tually accepted today; tutmWm public proposal to lift tho blockade of Berlin' In chang- for a four power eosa ference on Geraaanj jBut II was made plain that the offer Is accepted only if no secret stiir.au are attached. A state department statement declared that If Moscow's policy actually stands as It wss report4 in a dispatch br the Tass 'Rue. sian) news sgency early today "the way appears elesr for a lift ing of the blockade and a meetin of the j council ef foreign I minis ters." ! ' . At the same time, however, tt waa learned that the Russians hava been told that the United St it Britain and France do not' inter A to delay their plans for unifying! western Germany and creating a German government, probably bj" July 15. I I Since some top officials believe, that the real soviet purpose trn-f be to upset these plans, HI is stin doubtful whether a real and final agreement on the Berlin block i, da will be reached. ' i President Truman was in cle touch with the developments, and there was no question but that ha approved the state department c- lion, as he does all majof foreign -policy steps. Philip Jessup, tm- bassador-at-large who hag bfen conducting talks with the Ruf it-ria. conferred with Mr. Truman on the problem this morning. j State Department Report The 1,000-word state department report on the situation was i ud here as a direct result of the Tfcs report I The Tass article said in substance that if a date can l agreed on by Russia and the u- for a meeting of the big foui; coun cils of foreign ministers then "re ciprocal restrictions on cqmmur.i- cations and trade could be lilltr before the meeting. This ! appeared to be i concession by the Kremlin. Pre viously the Russians hadiinsirled on prior settlement of outstanding currency Issues in Berlin. On soma occasions at least they had taktn the position that s foreigp minis ters meeting should be held m re or less simultsneouHly . with 1la lifting of the blockade. Western Position The western powers have Ur.g taken the position that they vie willing to discuss any German is sues with the Soviets - - after 1 lifting of the blockade. i The state department said; nego tiations j have been undjrr wty since February 15 between Arrv-bassadof-at-Large Phillip! JeM p for the United States and J A. M lik, Russian representative! on tKe U. N. security council. f I Jessup himself appeared r.1i- mistic over chance of reaching agreement with the Ruxsiabs. Ali er making a personal report to President Truman ;m his i Ifclks with Malik, Jessup told rrpoiterf "things look hopeful." Less Optimism in Germany In Germany, both Geni Lucius Clay and Robert D. Murphy; Ui mer political advisor to the mili tary governor ant ' now head f the state department's Gertnan di vision, took a wary attitude, towaid the soviet offer to lift the blk ade. This was in contrast to c-r-ti- mism expressed at the state de partmentjln Washington. J BONN,! Germany. April t-iTh-A battle over the site of west Ger many's capital flared tonight U 1 lowing agreement between the western allies and German politi cians on the outline of govern ment. r ;i' The struggle among Frsnkfurt, Bonn, Stuttgart and Kassel be came so tense that Emil Neujtfcn, who coordinates claims of the ci p ital candidates, collapsed and n taken to a hospital. House Debates T-H Act Repeal WASHINGTON'. April 26-tTTU Before packed galleries, the house nluneed into stormr debate U'r over an administration bill to -peal the Taft-Hartley labor law. Rep. Lesinskt (D-Mich), spom'tT of the repeal measure, shouUi. that the present law was Driven, through congress" two years fo "In spirit of hysteria and - venge ance." f I ' But Rep. McConnell (H-Pa) told the house that the Lesinskt till would cut out a provision of the present law "Whih enabled te atomic energy commission jto I pro t&t atomic secrets from commun ist labor officiali." f I House leaders ssid a final vele Is not expected bef jre late Friday. I otm seiiatods Loil