as Sweeps FaSirvaw IHDmi rm iii"f. .mm. v.mimms MUNOID 1651 83th YEAR 16 PAGES Tna Oregon S talesman. Salem. Oregon. Thursday. May State Hiirhwavmen Authorize f f Steffi) '". v., . - " ' ; ': " ' f '" -: " Vi . . :j - '' f 19. 1949 PRICE 5c No. 59 I .: 1111 j: Marion Street Bridge Project OtP SQ3DDQB The only way Anna lxui.-e Rtrong could explain her ouMt from the USSR was that .ome man in the pre. bureau got vexed ofr her persistent effort. 1o obtain a visa for trael oxer land to China, and had her tab bed as a "foreign spy." She want ed to Ret to China to resume her studv of the Chinese communis Her observatio on a prev iou. visit from Julv. 1946 to July. 1947 ere reported iii a book newly published in this country To morrow' China". which by the rwrfp of the reds south across 'the Yangtse might well be re named -Today China " Enthusiastic oer what she found in red China, a. hae been ether writers like Agnes Smeiley and Fdg.hr Snow (Red Star oxer China) Miss Strong'" book is of alue in revealing the p:og-am of the rommnni't?. Sve ru, h.ir nTatforrfi. and I com' tme. " r ------- her surnniatv as foi.ws 1. "China is today a semi-feudal, semi-colonial country. Mei people goal today is not the socialist revolution but to sec .re national Independence from for eign imperialism, to smash feud alism and establish modern in dustry under forms of capitalism and democracy. . . . China's capi talism nd democracy wi! nt copy the forms of the ret but take new forms " 2 "The democratic revolution will not be led by the bourgeoisie as it was in western lands. Nor will there be at present a dic tatorship of the proletariat as in the USSR. The democratic revo lution in China will be led by the working class, with the peasantry us the main force, and with" the participation of progressive peo ple of many classes." 3. I.and to the tiller is the basic economic program " 4. "Capitalistic enterprise must be encouraged to break down feudalism and to develop indus trial production rapidly. But pn vate (Continued on editorial page) Omrel Willi Jailhrrnk Aid l;il)l)ri in .air in A young man ami a 1 girl wer arrested in S. nesd.iy night by M ir Sheriff Denver Yo m rxilicemcn on dintcs -x ear-c Id Ifin Wed n County and city of aiding frcm a an Inmate to ev.-.ipe Biownsville. Tex. l.ti! las William Hoxx.uri Fj.nk month. 28. and Ftella Mae Vi-rKiilh are slated to appear in Marion county district court this mort.ini; on fugitive from justice complaints They were arretted om a down town street after Sheriff Young received a telephone call from Sheriff Otis Shaw of Brownsville. Shaw said he hail xv.irrar.ts on both the m.-in and woman, riclud ing warrants on seven charges of forgery against Franks. STATE PAYROLLS I P Oregon roverel payrolls for April. 1949. aggregated $48,254. 896. as against J45.222.10S for March of this year and $42,611. 161 for April. 1949, the state in dustrial accident commission re potted Wednesday. Animal Crackers By WAHREN GOODRICH ". . . tod Siturdij wtn hiring S brbctrr, we'J oe to kje yea m ... There'll be quite Crowd so being j friend ..." PORTLAND. May 18 -P -river at Se.em was authorized misMuri tddaj . The itmm.s.-.on allocated $1,250 Oftf) for the S-iem-West tridne. of a t ch $50,000 is exjweted to cover acquis. tirri of rig! of-y r.ee-oed for the JUncn tiiet-t bridge site. The i eminder !:. actual ;coi-tructiin. - ' Tw o-Year Job One of Jne largest projects ap prcveci f.cr tjpe 19.Vt-51 rmh ..v K.ftim. 4he Silern hririse c :;1 require lio i'vears to build, the mrrmis'ioh estimated. The new brxifce at Saiem was planned as part of an exentua! larger trajfi development there The commission author, ?ed Statt Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock and Chief iCoiinsel J. R. Deveis to negotiate "with the Salem citv council on a $1,080,000 improve ment. That inoprex ement which would not;be!iciuded in the 1950 51 buildujg. I but might be done M.oitlr afterwards would in volve reconditioning the present Willamette rjver bridge and con necting street. Step-by-Step Plan Highway commissioners had announced Tiiesciay that it would undertake thie compi ehensix e Sa lem traffic development. known as the H.tidok plan, step by step. st.-itir.K x ith the bridge. The pl.in drawn bv State Hignway Kn-fi'iH-r R Jl Baidock also include a opas- 1 thw a and a one-way st:tt-t p aii. ? Highway commission projects costing a total of $23 500.000 were approved ; Vedne-da . Including a S2.100 0OQ allocation to extend the Columbia? Gojge water lexel high .x;iv from Ijbdson to Bonneville. Grading. ; bridge and underpass constructkm would be done the first esr, and paving in the sec ond year; The commission allocated $2, 750 000 for tuning rights-of-way for the Sullitan s C:!ch through wax in Port&nd. Planel Wreck Seareh Ended What -appeared to be plane ii'ci.ff apparently was a patch of clean; snqw. reported Sheriff Demer Vourig Wednesday as he ended a Searefi of the mountainous area southeast of Detroit for an an plane xc leifk. The sheriff and Al Hammond of the state ae(-nautirs department flew oxer the area xesteniay. Young adx ised all airmen to ter minate the siarch. calling air con dition in thesaiea of the propoed dam site so tricky as to mxite otler diH.stei. ISwiwd Germany Commissioner !rr.rum i ' jjftmvmmm i a i m .... "' i ' Ii lit :i A J ! .) l ! WASHINGTON. May If rreaideat Traman Uday appnted Jaha J. MeCtoy abvei U be The Sspnac l'aite4 SUtes Athrity la (rfrmasj - McClT Is resigviag as pnrieemt mt Use WarM teak to lake e;a4gament. lie mw at ate deck today after ta aaaeiat- aaeat;a aaaaaee4. (Ar Wireakoto to The bUtesamam.) -A .-corid bridge over the Willamette formally by the stite highway com- Saiem McCIoy Picked For German Commissioner WASHINGTON'. May 18 (AP) fohn J. McClox'. 54 - year - old lawyer, banker and top-notch ad ministrator, was named by Presi dent Truman today to be "the su preme united states authority in! Germany." j Subject to senate confirmation.! McCIoy will take up his duties as high commissioner in Germany, "xMthin the near future," the; White Houe announced. To Succeed Clay Insofar as administration of: U. . affairs in Oermany is con cerned, McClov will succeed Gen Lucius D. Clay, who retired as ; military governor of the American zone in Germany Sunday. But Mc- ; Cloy s appointment marks the be- , ginning of a changeox er from mil- j iUiry to civilian control in the Am- 1 erican, British and French occu-; pation zones j Officials here also hope it will j inaugurate a more peaceful era in the development of Germany,! pointing her toward an exercise in j practical democracy that will en-j able the ciefeated nation to resume : its place in world affairs. To take the German assignment, McCIoy is resigning as president of the World bank (at a salary of $30,000 a year free of taxes), ef fective not later than July 1. The executive directors of that international agency accepted his resignation today and elected Eu gene R. Black, a senior vice pres ident of the Chase National bank of New York, to succeed him in trie presidency. Black has been executive director of the Interna tional bank since. March, 1947. Loes Salary The World bank presidency pays $30. (KM) a year tax free. Mc CIoy in hi new post is expected to get S2S.0O0 a xear. subject to taxes. Mr. Truman's appointment of McCIoy came two days before tne scheduled departure of Secretary of Stte Acheron for the "big four" foreign ministers meeting in Paris. Those talks opening Mon dav with Russia. Britain and France, involve the future of al! rones of Germanv. -4 I ! tlj-cA; f . ... t i r- , i H. j ir i w rt'n 1 ; nr.!: ' uzfj .fcir IB - - r i . m iii w j ii i i Russians Slow Motor Traffic To Berlin; 4-Power Talks Fail BERITN. May 18 -.-Tr- The Russians put restrictions todav on motor traffic to Berlin and the Soviet zone. Western German officials said the move w as prompted by a decline in the x alue of the Sov iet zone east mark. j An American official charged Health I'erils Follow Flood At Fort Worth Rr t' Ai-itp1 Pe Peril to he:.lth in flood-stricken Fort Worth, Tex. mounted Wednesday and the rampaging Trinity ruer roe to its highest lexe! in n.il'.is in 41 ye;.rs Floocis in Texas and tornadoes in Ok'.rt'ioma-Tfxas a'ea hjxe killed IS persons and injured about 163 in tre last thiee days. Fort Worth health department officials closed all f o i selling establishments in the flooded area pending a check bv sanitation in spectors. Typhoid inoculation sta tions xere er up Fort Worth's !1I stood at nine drowned ani n estimated 13.000 home. ess I'ropertv damage will run well o-er $6,000,000" City M.n.er W. ). Jones said. Volunteer Work on Columbia Hiver Dikei PORTLAND. May 19 (API Volunteers were buildinr a dike today near Vancouver. Wash . as a flood crest of the Colui ibia riv- T swept pat Umatill . a.n.. down - popu i 2 Ll Ccaili iuw din inr i l j lated Portland-Vancouv r area The crest, however, was not frightemngly high Most of the northwest's wollen tributary rivers, which h e al ready taken a toll of four lives, were generally falling. "It looks encouraging." said the Portland weather bureau. STAYS OS STANDARD TIME AUMSVILLE. May 18 (Spe cial) The Aumsville city council has voted to stay on standard time. Trje school, however, is run ning on daylight saving time. Mas. II Mta. rrert. 45 .a IliM Portland San Francneo Cfciraco . 73 sa so as i is si ll Kew York WUUmrtte rtver 33 Irtt FORECAST (from v. . eainr i bureau. McNary trii. Saimi. Ctm i drabl hif H ctoudmesa ttxiMr with wn cieartnc tontffhl and rrkiav. Hif.rsl temperature today rvrr ae deree: low tonight Bear dgrs. Ait iarnt artivitv coed todv. IAI.KM raECVTTATION i Sept to May 1S Thlu YaT Last Yr Averse sa 17 sa ea 1 j k i the action amounted to a new in direc blockade. Meanwhile, four-power talks on easing trne and traffic snarls ap parently broke down. All this oc curred only a week after the lift ing of the Soviet blockade of Ber lin and the western counter-blockade of eastern Germany. The Russians suridenlr halted all western German trucks at Helmsterit that did not have a car go stamp from the So iet economic commission. They also shut off Berl;n-Kocnd German freight traf f c :it the Hof chei knoint and told driver- that Helm-terit the bor der station on the main route to Berlin was the only permissible crossing point. This xv as a new" interpretation of an old four-power agreement fix ing He'mstecit as the only general crossing point for allied traffic German -traffic h.-sd always used various entry routes despite the agreement. Western German officials said the Soviet moxe was prompted bv a slow but steady fall of the Soviet zone east maik after western freight started to arrive in Berlin, attracting eastern, as well as west ern buyers. It took 3 20 east marks when the blockade lifted to equal one west mark, which is officaily valued at 30 tents. It now takes 4.50 east marks. SETS TRAFFIC RECORD PORTLAND. May 18 -iPV- This city completed two months with out a traffic fatality today an all-time record. Safecrackers Take Strong Box $3,000 From Busicks Market Salem city police Wednesday were investigating the night-time burglary of the Busick Market Here in which a strong box con taining an estimated $3,000 was carted away by safecrackers. Police said robbers entered the market, located at Marion and North Commercial streets early Wednesday morning through an upper marquee window. They Chiseled the combination lock -handle off the safe and removed the 500-pound inside strong box. This marks the third time the safe at Busick's has been robbed. In September, 184 the vault was cracked for $2,152 and in Novem ber of that same year $1,800 more was removed by thieves. The crime was discovered about I;30 a.m. by a city patrolman on his beat. An immediate investiga Patients Escape Unharmed; j Two Salem Firemen Injured Flame and smke burst through the roof of the Fairview home hospit al (above) Wednesday after the building caught fire In late after noon, eausing nearly $300,000 -worth of damage to structure and equipment. Photo at left shows Fireman Gilbert Xoffsincer taking desperate 12-foot leap to dodge flaming cornice which Is seen fall ing above him. lie suffered non-serious injuries to ankles. (Stales man photos). (Pictures also on page 2.) 21-35 Age Limits Ruled For City Police Officers New age limits of 21 to 35 years were set for Salem policemen Wednesday by the city civ il service commission, but officers now serv ing outside these limits will be g"iven opportunity to take tixil seivice examinations The exception which affects primarily Juvenile Officer Harvey Tautfest, 44, aroused heated controversy in the commission. It was passed when new member Ken neth C. Perry joined Richard G. Severin In overriding protests by Commission Chairman William J. En tress. Status of police radio operators who never have been under civil service was left in doubt when Commission Secretary Alfred Mundt, who also is city recorder, reported that the new city budget probably will list radio personnel in a department separate from the police force. Further considera tion is to be given radiomen at the commission's June meeting. The new age ruling meets the recommendation of Police Chief Clyde Warren, as presented to the commission in March. The city ad ministration had asked earlier that age limits be 21 and 41 years. The civil service regulations have call ed for ages between 27 and 40. which also left outside the service two 25-year-old officers under temporary appointment, James A. Hammack and David J. Bain. Remodeling Plans For Police Station Beiii: Considered - Plans to remodel the Si.lerh city police headquarters at city hall are being considered. C'ty M. pager J. L. Franzen said Wednesday. The project is Mill in the plan ning stage said Franzen and may be presented to the city budget committee if completed in time Presumably work will get pririer w.iy after July 1. if approved. Remodeling will include enclos ing the pocket area between the front out.Mde stairway ani the store building wait on the south of the station. This will be: con verted into front office spa e di d will reach almost to the sidewalk, Franzen said. velopment in the Columbia river Duntlee Boy l)rovn$ ; bam. I.. . is 1 - The revised program recom- II SHI milling I OOl mends authorization of 14 water NEWBERG. Mav 18 .-P Peter , resources projects costing $700. John Groat, 12. drowned today in 000.000. Krug said it has been trie private swimming pool at the sent to basin state governors for Dan Harmon home in nearby Dun- , comment after nhich it will go to dee. the president. The boy was believed to. have J The prooject would Irrigate fallen into the pool while; com- more than 300.000 acres of land pdnions. who had been swimming. I and provide 1.000,000 kilowatts were away momentarily. He was of additional hydroelectric gene a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter eratmg capacity, i Groat. Dundee. t tion was launched by detectives and the area canvassed. A cloth apron found on the floor of the store led to the belief that it was used to wipe away possible finger prints. No lead on the robbers had been uncovered by this morn ing. Marks on the floor showed how the heavy strong box had been dragged to a door on the north side of the building. It was ap parently loaded Into a truck or car parked at the Marion street side of the building. Still under investigation by au thorities in this area are the re cent theft of the safe from the Salem Athletic club on the Dal las high may and the cracking of another vault at the Salem Seed and Implement company several weeks ago. Oregon Herds Scheduled for Jersey Classic I Announcement was made Wed nesday that an even dozen head j from Oregon's best Jersey herds will be consigned to the Western Jersey classic at Sacramento, : Calif., to be held May 31 In con ! nection with the American Jersey Cattle club convention. This is j the first time this convention has i come to the west coast. Those consigning cattle are Nash and Sweet, formerly of Salem but ! now of Sixes; Mrs. M. F. Leabo, j Independence; Rex Ross. Mt An gei; Jack Kay and John Hobin, i Coos Bay; Melott Jersey F.um. HiUsboro; E. E. Goui ley A; Son I and N. V. Shelby and Son. Albany; i W. D. Mongold and Son. Katie ' Point: Mrs. W. E. lil'm in and Daughteis. Cornelius; Ralph K Cope, jr. L-'ingolis and Mi. and Mr. Anton Malar. Sandy. Floyd Bates. S., lem. pi evident of Ihe Oregon J vev C i" i iroong thoe fiom the ette valiev who vil! .'' ' convent. on. (Other faini pa ge 6). ( lub Vi".,m- i the i n e v Krug Approve Revised Plan WASHINGTON. M.v 18 - Pi Secietrfiv of the Intetior hll! said today he ha apiirnvci a revised reclamation bureau pio gr:.m for irrigation and rower de HOT SPRINGS SOLD DETROIT. May IS Sale of the IftO-acre Breitenbush Hot Springs resort by the Healy estate to the Bruchman interests for more than $50,000 was announced today. The buyers have been operating the resort on lease for several years. Baseball Scores WEfTKBN INTER-NATIONAL. At Salem 2-1. Stok Spokane 1-4. At Virtoria 1. Vancouver At Tacoma 7. Bremerton At WcnatctM 4. Yakima 17. COAST I.EAGll At Portlane 17. Oakland S. At Seattle . Hollywood 1 At Lea AnsW-Sacramnto. At San granriro-Sn Oiego. ra'n. ram. AMEBIC AM I.IACII At Phtladelpeita . St. Louie At Waantitftoei t Detroit 1 At New York . Cleveland S. At Boa ton 7. CTuraeo 4. KATIONAL LCACIK At Cincinnati 13. Boston At FttUOorf H 1. New York J. At Ciatcaco 9. Brooklvn 14 At at. Leula 3. Fntladelpoca 3 By Conrad Prange f;if Winer, T;. Salesman i P..tiK.ke ws est i sr. .tied betwt $2('C.000 and $300.') M n the I hum which swept throu.;'i ihe hosi ilal at Fairv iew home i je? Wednt srijiy aftini n. All 2 ii'ik?nts in tt. building escaped unharmed. i Satem firemen wh! battled tia nay- lor over tt.iee pours, weia hand ci rped bv !j,- of sutficieot vvitttr icssuie at tht site. Hi.n.es staiti in tfe basement st i;.M room fiom a undttti minec source about 3 I p m. Tl -J aiikly spread in trough tha tor shaft M i niu t e liJee m ke came bil!:.-;n out t f Irvvtr J,,. i wii:i )v(.)( the tvv st i sliucture, af.'oiciing to Wit nesses j i Spread Quickly ' j Scicn th.e i:p;wr ifc'inn waa ablae tnd with::i 4';minutes lia fiiinies hiked thi,iun the whiIk nt'f The roof vdi ntirely (! 1i vtd Floors insiie jthe biiilriiiif weie ift intact, firemen said, lot looms mid equipmetit were alrrt sl a remf lete loss. Mit Marian W'e'ty.lsttendanf in thine at the time, srrelled smka jut dter 5 o'clock. She repoittd she went into the basement and saw somthing burr.lrf In the stt-i-ge m-m.'Sh then turned in )' alarm. - PatienU Evacuated j Attendants and ward a Idea Quic kly " hustled pjtients out . -f the budding. Most of it hose on iha lof floor slid d.iT an outMda fiie-escape chute. Otjier bed p titnt were remov ed; from 1 ws floor rooms through Svindows.- (nly one tnfjnt an j a few smull rhildien were in the hospitul, at the time of the fire. One teeri-i a putient knocked urv,j'noiou t v other patients who tvame entil ed He slid on.e d rtn the 1 1 nt rid di fagged the o' ler out 0 a m;itti-ss. '; : ij Ixs was estims'i at between f.2t'('.'Mi hn.l .$ i0 by Irvln Mill, suj-ei i!itendv ; and by C'e-l. Wjllij.m Ryan, supe;nor of stuta int. lotion. I ( New Equipment I,ol l.iif tnent i!if ': ii a 1I.M0 v . . l . s . . . . i--v-i..v macnine pi: j c onsiileinti a ! e ther surgical equ : pni.-nt purcitHK j ed in the lavt two rs, toti.ting" , atout S7S.000. I j I The fire occure l ait the ch;,r ve 1 it the 5 o'clock sh rl Mr Ft j Mvt-rs. in charge of! the clothinjr i ci mmisry in' the uMpital. left J al A f)5 und said n-rnke or l is ! way roticeable th-t The fir a l. i.. .... - . ... m.iim syxiem at tre not-pit;il ftirly new and hu4 been titled lirrmui Injured . j ' Fire-figfatiiig equipment at tha tr.e included twes trucks fiim the .Salem central stj(:on. one ficm Ihe m uth and one from the .t Mutton. A pumper at the institu tion also was pie tie-J into service. Two firemen were injured, but not enouly i while fig! V ing the blae. They are Ted Ct.f p. ' who was overcome by smoke and Gilbert Noffjunger. who jumped 12 feet from a lalier when a flaming cornice tum4il down Ha injured his ankles. Hoth men sera resting well at Sa'em Memorial I nospital last night, t i TaberraUr Patients, j' The hospital took! care of jfen eral ill of the Institution inmi-ten. Thirteen of the ho-lpital patint were tuberculosis patients. 5 via were surgical cases, but Dr. ! 11 said all. were removed to otlar buildings safely and were being cared for adequately. The building was a "40-bed pital type- said Dr HilL Itlwaa constructed in 1933 The Intl tu. Ikn includes 13 oter building on the grounds. f U.N. . Itfit to Tack I CrrKart Eilei Gac I NEW YORK. My ISWTha United Nations atsembly late to day slapped down a Polish mo to bring up the cae of Cethart EiMer. fugitive communist. The Eisler question was n.i4 ty Polish delegate ; Juliusz Ktt- Suchy just as-the veary .de leg a tea were ready to end their stormy six-weeks spring test ion. j Ansembly President Herbert vj Evatt of Australia rii'ed the Pi proposal was out pt order. . ' t ! I .