i Trimmed -D -.Housim 89th YEAR 16 PAGES Q&fleeini .Patricia : to 'Begin .Cherryland Rule" Tomiiglhit Heart-J uggingDogStory Discovered to Be Hoax NEW BRITAIN, Conn , June 29 4JP)-A dog story that tugged at America' heart strings turned out to be a hoax tonight. The writer of a note, signed a broken hearted child." which was left with a mongrel, Kip, at the city dog pound was discovered to be 20-year-old John Burns. Dog Warden Thomas Rouskie said that Burns'had admitted that he hoisled Kip over the fence in to the pound Monday, and left the pathetic note with her in an effort to save the dog from being killed. Warden Rouskie was touched and so were dog lovers thro'ugh ' it the nation. Offers ranging from adoption to promises of a year's supply of dog food came in by the dozens. Rouskie said tonight he'd have to hire a stenographer to answer them all, and to make sure that i Heavy Crop Damage Laid To Freak Cold Weather CRT HHJDOO0 rau)cms Edgar Kaiser, executive of Kai-ler-Frazer corporation which manufactures automobiles at Wil low Run, announces that his com pany will et up two small assem by plants, with capacity of about 20 cars a day One is to be located in Portland, Ore. If the plan suc ceeds additional plants will be es tablished in other parts of the country. Already the corporation has a 10-car assembly line operating in Rotterdam, Holland, supplying the market in western Europe. So sat isfactory has been the experience with this operation that Mr. Kai ser wants to test it in this cdun try. He thinks that working rela tions in such small plants will be better. Workers will know their bosses. They will take greater pride in craftsmanship and feel more intimately a part of the or ganization. Local plants too would be better able to serve local com munities, in his opinion. The plan of regional assembly plants is not new by any means. The big manufacturers have them now in various parts of the coun try. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler all have substantial op erations in California, and Stude baker too, I believe. These are on a much larger scale than that Mr. Kaiser contemplates. Years ago Henry Ford talked a eaad deal about locating parts olants in small communities w here ! workers could have factory jobs, live on farms and produce on them part of their own living. He didn't go very (Continued on Editorial Page) West Salem Voters To Decide on Lew WEST SALEM, June 29 Voters of this city will ballot Thursday on a proposed $3,603 levy to bal ance the West Salem city budget' for 1949-50. ! , The total budget as approved ; by the budget committee amounts to $74,538. about $1,000 under the past year's budgetw hich had in cluded a voter-approved $20,976 levy in excess of the 6 per cent Increase limit. Polls will be open from 9 am. o 9 p.m. daylight time. Animal Crackers : 8 WARREN GOODRICH mnd thes9 are my soni fy formf mtrthgei." Oil Th Oregon gifts already received at the dog pound get back to the right per sons. Burns said he always had been "crazy about dogs," but had been unable to have one until he and his wife mocd from a on t;-room apartment to larger quarters. ( A friend then gave him Kip, hel scid, but the dog was unhappy' confined to a city apartment and wouldn't eat food offered to her. Burns said he then decided to put the dog in the pound, but wanted to make sure that she would be given a good home and not be put to death. It was the.i. he said, that he conceived the idea of writing the note from "a brok en hearted child." The story turned out with a happy ending despite its denoue ment as a hoax. Kip's original owner. Edward Pacyna, said he'd take her back. By the Associated Pre An unexpected gust of winter blew into the Pacific northwest yesterday, dumping heavy snow in the mountains, freezing crops in the Klamath basin, and threat ening destruction of the Hood River valley's bumper cherry crop. The worst summertime frost in recent years 18 degrees in one area struck the Klamath basin before dawn vesterday morning. Potato plants froze. Heading grain was destroyed. Garden vegetables were damaged. Snow fell on the Olympic mountains and along the Cascades. Six inches fell at Timberline JoWge and Mount Hood and caus ed lodge officials to send out a "good skiing'' forecast. Two days of rain seriously damaged the big Hood River val ley cherry crop, despite growers' frantic attempts to dry off the moisture with airplane propellor "wash' and air blast sprayers. County Agent A. L. Marble said it was impossible to tell just how extensive the loss would be but it might prove critical. A com plete test of one tree of Lam berts showed 50 per cent of the cherries cracked. With only a 30 per cent cracking, it is not prof itable to harvest the crop. If the damage does prove that serious, it would be the fourth straight year that the valley's crop has been spoiled at the cru cial time. The coldest point in the Pacific northwest was in the Klamath ba sin, where Coppock Bay reported 18 degrees. Other locales there ranged from 20 to 32. I Hi!Wl V7(Vlf(IlGG 1 4'yg-MJtiyy Max. M .... M . S8 S8 79 Mln. Frerlp. 4 i 48 Oft SO .00 73 01 U .00 Salrm Portland Sn Frnoico rhiiago New York Willamctta river -1 ft. FORECAST I from U. S. weathr bu reau. McNarr field. Salem): Fair to day and tonight with hich today near . low tonight near 49. Af fioutture outlook : Condition! favorable for most farm activities. ALFM PRECIPITATION Sept. 1 to June 30) Thi Year Lat Year Normal 41 61 46 40 38 92 Croicn And Kiss Placed By State Secretary 7-- i ; - v - it It r v ST. PAI L Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry is shown exteadinr enthnsUstie congratulations to Pat Tosrl of Salem Tuesday Bight after crowning her aeea of the 1949 St- Paul rodeo. Looking on, wide eyed, are (left U right) Karen Smith and Charlene Kirk of St. Paul, who marched in the coronation procession. (Statesman photo). POUNDBO 1651 Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday. June 30. 1949 Fairgrounds Program To Honor Court Tonight will see Salem's Cherry land come under the rule of a new queen cute, lively Patricia O'Connor of Stayton. She will begin her reign pver this year's festival at 8 am. at the state fair grounds stadium. Honoring1 Queen Patricia and her court will be dignitaries and entertainers by the score, each with a part t ' play "in the eve ning's program. 7, Members' of the Sslcm Cherrians will escort the court to their places in the shell, facing the grandstand, and then. Thursday, June 39 8 p.m. Coronation and show, state fairgrounds grandstand. Friday, July 1 1 a.m. Grand parade. 12 noon Savin Bond show. Court and Ilirh streets. S p.m. Horse show, fair grounds pavilion. 10 p.m. Public dancing, grandstand. Saturday. July 2 10 a.m. Junior parade. p.m. Start of state drill team contest, fairgrounds grand stand. 8 p.m. , Drill team contest finals, fireworks, grandstand. 10 'p.m. Public dancing, grandstand. attended hv her two little sisters Peggy and'Mauieen. Miss O'Con- j nor will be crowned by King Bing ; Deryl Myers. j A lovely, jeweled scepter will be handed to the new queen by Sidney L. Stevens, festival chair man, -and Gov. Douglas McKay will present the seal of Oregon, followed by Mayor R. L. Elfstrom with the keys to Salem. With the queen w ill be Princesses Katherine Specht. Jefferson: Dorothy Neu Jeld. Dallas: Grace Marie Kirk. St. Paul; and Jeannine Bentley Lyons. Following the coronation cere- -. ton - monies will be " full round of j fhe Civil Aeronautics board sug enrtainment led by the Merlain ted 1h;)t it might require L'nit studio dancers a ballet by Sandra t H . cch hpr. anH aHd Bliven. a Mexican hat dance by Judy Graen, and an interpreta tive dance honoring the queen by Elaine Murphy and partner. Lyle Lorentz will then give his impressions of present day radio programs. Kay Acoff. Salem sing er and composer, will sing and the Paul Armstrong revue will present a dance program of 22 numbers by more than 200 chil dren. First of the three public dances will follow the coronation show grandstand, with Claude Bird's j rche;5tra t0 provide ..velvet rhv. B. i fv -n m linrtor in Tairffrnimrts i thm ' for the enjovment of young i - AH proposed actions wm re sud anj jject to public hearing and argu- . .... f ment before a final decision is nr person werfiuiic . icmivcii i souvenir button will be admitted to all events during the three-day entertainment. In the event of rain, the Thurs day night show will move to the fairgrounds pavilion under cover where reserved seating will be the same as at the grandstand. (Other festival news, page 4 and 5 ) I s" ., X & . -' .. .... ' t V "v I v i U S i Ah? " I Mi l ' v Goes To Court In Rain Ail'' - - i f Or ' vV V I : ' t - f 4 ' If f I ' - III,,,, WASIHNGTON, June 29 Judith Coplon carries an umbrella as she and Attorney Archibald Palmer got to district federal court today In the rain to await the jury's verdict in her espionage case. (AP Wire photo to the Statesman.) Coplon Jury Postpones Deliberations for Night WASHINGTON. June 29-P)-The federal court jury deliberating the fate of Juciith Coplon failed to reach a verdict tonight. The jjTy asked to be taken to a hotel .for the night at 10:40 p.m. after earlier indications that a verdict might be United Airlines May Lose Out To West Coast The possibility that West Coast airline may replace United Air- I Lines -in serving Salem was in i dicated Wednesday in an Associat- Prate Itn'ltph frnm Wlivhinff- Salem to West Coast's route. United's Salem office is awaiting i word from headquarters in Chi I cago regarding their position in the i matter. H. F. Sweeney. United's j local manager, said Wednesday night The chance was one of several recommended hv the board in an- ; Posea Ior cameramen on the court nouncing its intention to extend for ouse stePs nd "gain protested five years the temporary operat- ; her innocence to clicking news ing certificate of West Coast lines, i reels. .... Another proposal was that serv- In charging the jury this fore ice at McM.nnville be discontinued , noon; Judge Reeves said they must There is too little ui - l -' traffic thr.re to justify service, the board said. ' made. No hearing date was et. NEW I'NIT PRODl'CIXG WASHINGTON. June 29 -OP) The first unit of a new $25,000.-' 000 Plutonium refining and fab - ricating facility at Richland Wash., went into production Mon day, the atomic energy commis sion said today. No. 103 near. Only a short time before the jury had come in to ask Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves for further in struction, particularly in regard to interpreting "intent" of the de fendant. When the jury asked for new instructions, its foreman said they wanted, to deliberate further to night. Shortly after they resumed de liberations, however, they gave up hope of reaching arearly verdict. They were taken to a hotel under guard of marshals. At the time, the espionage case against the former justice depart ment worker had been in the jury's hands for nearly 12 and one half hours. Crowds milled about the court room during the night. Miss- Cop lon. too, remained in the building as the hours passed without a ver dict. Miss Coplon herself showed few oi worry, sne smnea as sne miss iopion as a spy n iney iouna sne deliberately com mitted an injury "however slight" against the United States. But the judge said the jurors must acquit her if they believed she had no actual "intent" to aid a foreign power, Soviet Russia.. Casualties Heavv m H.mU- 4 " 1 1 111 UOIHDer AttaCK By Fred Hampson SHANGHAI, Thursday, June 30 -fPi-Forty-three persons were re Pjprted killed in the Nationalists' first raid on Shanghai with heavy bombers yesterday. The casualty figure appeared today in the newspaper Sin Wan Jih Pao. which also reported fi5 persons seriously injured and 126 sliehtSv hurt. The newspaper. China's largest, j was permitted to resume publica tion by the red regime only a few days ago. ' There was no direct announce ment from communist authorities concerning casualties in the raid. At least two four-engine Libera tors flew in low and leisurely. They ignored machinegun fire from the ground and dropped sticks of bombs in the crowded Chapei district of tenements and factories. Czech Reds Use Force To Quiz Vatican Officer PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, June 29-.-P)-Czechoslovakia's commun ist police used force in trying to i question a Vatican diplomat, a source close to Vatican spokes man said today. The informant said secret police forcibly entered the car of Msgr. Gennaro Verolino, counselor and charge d'affaires in the papal nunciature here, nad made him drive to police headquarters at Kosice, Slovakia, last night. SOLOMAf SUPPORTED PORTLAND, June 29 -P-Gus J. Solomon, 42, Portland attorney, won the support of Oregon's dem ocratic national committeeman and committee woman today for i the third Oregon federal judgeship 1 which congress is considering. PRICE 5c I I Rileaswe. Passes IKlowse; Ubudoitds ; iiilourn - Labor Bill 'Improved Taf t' Law Passage Seen Probable WASHINGTON. June 29 -P) Foes of the Taft-Hartley act sur rendered today in their fight to get rid of the labor law this year. The senate debate appeared to be rushing to a conclusion with the entire program of Senator Taft (R-Ohio) generally expect ed to prevail. The senate unani mously agreed to vote on the program tomorrow. they prefer to keep the Talt - Hartley act unchanged using it as a campaign issue in 1950 rather than accept the Taft pro gram for "improving" the law. Senator Lucas of Illinois, the democratic leader, predicted a presidential veto if the Taft bill should pass (he senate and house. It was generally conceded that the bill may never reach the White House. The house has been in a stalemate on labor legisla tion and any senate bill may be pigeonholed AFL. President William Green asked the senate to defeat the Truman administration's amend ed labor bill. He declared that by writing 60-day emergency in junctions into it yesterday, the senate had made the measure "absolutely unacceptable" to la bor. CIO President Philip Murrr.y issued a similar statement, mak ing clear that organized labor has piven up hope of knocking in junctions out of the labor law this session, but is determined to concentrate on the election of a friendlier congress next year. Brothers Fined For Sale of Horseburgers PORTLAND. June 29 -f.-P.-Two brothers were fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months in jail today for mixing horse meat with beef and selling it as hamburger. The "horsebureer" that result ed was sold to Portland restaur ants and retail markets, whose customers ate it" in the assump tion it was hamburger. Ernest M. Crystal and Ivan R. Crystal, proprietors of the Salem Meat company here, were convic ted of two charges: possessing un labeled meat, and selling ground meat containing horse meat. Each was fined $500. The key witness for the city was Fred Adams, who testified that he had delivered horse meat to the Crystal brothers' firm for two years. "All I sell is horse meat," said Adams, who runs a legal horse slaughtering plant at Hillsboro, and who caters to the state game commission, pet food companies, and similar customers. He testi fied that the Crystals had asked him to deliver the meat early in the morning. White House Says Bar ucli Not Informed WASHINGTON, June 29 - OP) -The White House indicated today that Bernard Baruch may no longer hold the presidential ad visory role he has exercised unof ficially over the past three dec ades. It said he was "badly informed' in his charge that the administra tion is taking a "needless gamble" with the nation's security by bot tling up a total mobilization plan drafted for instant use if war comes. This sharp rebuke was issued at a news conference by an aide to President Truman. He said the president himself would have more to say on the matter at his news conference tomorrow. The 77-year-old financier promptly countered . from New York where he told ' a reporter: "My statement goes. I'm not mis informed. I won't reply further until I see who made the state ment. They've got to get rid of this vested interest in 'error." Baruch loosed his blast yester day in a speech to graduates of the Armed Forces' Industrial coV lege. Pretty Girl Murdered In Lover's Lane Date; Escort Said Poisoned CHICAGO, June 29-?-A pret ty. 17-year-old girl was slain to day and her escort on a lover's lane date told police two strangers I had forced him to drink poison, j He said the strangers had mo ; lested them. Nearly nude, bleeding and brui ! sed, Joan Coward was doubled on the floor of an automobile when her fiance of two months, Arthur Marino, 27, drove up to the subur ban Riverdale police station. A fire department squad tried for 45 minutes to revive the high school girl, described by friends as one of the prettiest in Blue Island, another suburb. Marino is a Blue Island music teacher. Burns on Marino's mouth and Nervous Chicks Force Moving of To ten Fire Siren WAYNE, N. J.. June 29-(TVEl-ward Parskala's 4.200 nervous chicks can stay. There'll be no more terror raids by the town's fire siren. "Either the siren or we have to move." Parskala told the township committee. The blast, he said, caused some 20 chicks to suffocate each time the siren sounded. The siren had been set across the street from Parskala's farm. When it sounds, he said, the chicks stampede. Usually between 20 and 30 of them smother before Parsk- ! a, runs :to, th,e I"?: Town officials last night order ed the siren moved three blocks "to the county property by the brook."' Russ Guards Seize Second West Shipment BERLIN, June 30 -(TV Rus sian guards seized another truck shipment outside Berlin yester day (Wed) just after So iet iu thorities had returned seven tons of power plant ,.iriachinery scizt-d . Tuesday on the outskirts of the ' city. The guards took a truck and two trailers loaded with $135,000 worth of electrical equipment and radios consigned to Frankfurt in the U. S. zone and hauled it to : their headquarters without cx I planation. When the power plant machin ; ery. bound from Frankfurt to , Berlin, was seized yesterday, U.S. ! and British officials protested the ! act was a violation of the four j power blockade-lifting egree I ment. When they returned this ship- ment to west Berlin authorities. ; the Russians explained the cargo's ! papers were not in order. It was '. a series of incidents such as these i that preceded the full-stale Sov- iet blockade a year ago. Meanwhile, rail traffic between j west Germany and Berlin remain ed stalled despite the ending of the 38-day strike of 14,000 anti communist workers on Tuesday. The Russian-dominated rail man agement said lengthy repairs were needed because da-mage 1o railway equipment during the walkout was more extensive than had been anticipated. Woodbnrn Sets Public Meeting On School Plan WOODBURN A public meet ing for all citizens in the consol idated Woodburn school district will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Woodburn high school audi torium to discuss school finances and building program. The district faces possible loss of basic school support funds unless a corrective plan is submitted by August I. According to the report to the school board submitted by Dr. C. 1 L. Huffaker of the University of Oregon, school building authority, $375,000 will be needed in order to give the district an adequate school plant. Dr. Huffaker recom mends conversion of the present high school building into an elem entary school and construction of a new high school. The district needs at least 12 additional elem entary rooms. The high school building is in need of repairs, and is not well designed for the mod ern secondary program, according to Dr. Huffaker.'s report. Cost of the high school build ing site was estimated at $20,000, the high school building end j equipment at $300,000, conversion ; of the present high school for 1 grade school purposes, $33,250,"; and new equipment for the con verted building at $10,000. DIES AT 115 YEARS JUNEAU, Alaska. June 29--Funeral services will be held to morrow for Anna Rassmusson, who died this week at the age cf 115 years. She was one of the last old-timers Of southeastern Alas ka's Tlingit Indian tribe. Two sis ters and a brother, much young- survive. 'throat prevented him from giving a detailed, verbal account cf what ! hajpen2n Coroner's physicians re ! ported after an examination of the j girl's body that death was caused j by a skull fracture and cerebral hemorrhage. There was no evidence that she had been raped or was pregnant, the physicians reported. They said also there were no burns on her mouth or lips. Marino was nude except for shoes and a shirt girding his loins. Unable to speak because of acid bums on his mouth and throat, Marino wrote out a story of a my sterious assault by two men at Victory Lake, an abandoned brick yard in suburban Dolton. Major Victory Given 'Fair Deal Program WASHINGTON. June 29 -t. The house pajsed a trimiwct down version of President Tin man's multi-billion dollar htnw ing bill tonight after once e moving, then restoring, the kry section on public housing. The final vote by the tens, nerve-worn representatives w 228 to 185. A mighty shout wnt up from the democratic side s the vote was announced. WASHINGTON. Jane t9 -iA1) Oregon congressmen split in their vote on the housing bill. Votinr for was Angell; afaiaot, Ellsworth, NorbUd and Stork man. Oregon. Supporting the bill on finul passage were 193 demociats. 34 republicans and one Amtiui.n labor party members. Opi.M!.g were 131 republicans mni b4 democrats. v For a couple of hours it . peared that Air. Truman nnj-ht be denied this first major itt.,y for his domestic program tlu.t f- calls the "fjir deal." With reiJu'jIi-'jns crvintr tr,l the bill wa- baei on "social is n," the opposition temporarily lomd through, by 168 to 165. an annul ment which ut.'iid have killtd the publicly- ned housing iu gram. But when the roll was c;)ld two hours later, that optHMtin victory -was reversed, 209 to .(4. The measme with public h us- n. slum clearance and l.nn housing ah's - then was D;.eil and sent tn ; senate-house n- ferem-e. where t:-e slight ciiltr- ences in the bi'N approved kj the two c'lambeis will be iioi.ed out. The sersa'e passed the n oS ure April 21 lr j 5J to 13 te. That m.3.1e the house bill n- form with the trimming the sen ate gave the measure before Uut body passed it. Major provisions of the hc usir.at bill passed today include- 1. A five year slum dearane program, with one-third of ttto cost to be met by the leit i ul government and the balance by local communities. The bill fcolh orizes $1,000,000,000 in loans knd $500,000,000 in grants to sti.tet and local public bodies for tfiia program 2. Federal contribution op tm $308,000,000 a year for 40 vraia to enable construction, tlnonrh local housing authorities, of fin. 000 publicly-owned dwelling units in six years. 3. A three-Dart 1262 500 i f farm housinz nrotfram. The senate bill has 8275 OOfi ron for farm housing. 4. A research ororram desianral to spur home construction by rut ting building costs. The m.1o bill also carrie this provision 5. The house added to the bill a 60-day extension of temncii.n government authority to inline loans by private lenders ur n $2,500 for repairing and ren.on I- ing existing structures. It .Imi added a 60-day continuation f authority to Insure mortcaces u.r construction of small homes irsf- mg up to $5.0')0; and a $500.H'O, 000 increase in the amount of mortgage insurance that the v. eminent can U-ue for single fun ny and multiple dwelling ur.ita. Meat Chicken Contest Won Rhode Islands CORVALLIS. June 29 rSrri.n Rhode Island Red belonging U j. R. McRao of Miiwaukie won t p honors for meat-tvne chicken In the Chicken-nf-Tomorrow conHst which highlightei the annual mat ing of the Oregon Bdby Chick sociation here. Winners were announced by N. L. Bennion. Oregon State iuo poultry speri ilU' ir.d conltit chairman. I; wjs McRae's scund straight wir;. Other top rjrie winners v.ie: 2nd Gi irt Phi! hps, Rosburf, New Hamnhi:'e: 3rd Ih.uy Wicks, ?.1cMinnvi!!(?. New )l;:m shires: 4th C. L. -Anderson. (" r vallis. New Hjovishires; 5th Ore gon State college. White ("ornishts. Samuel Kelchner of Amity, with New Hampshire, won 11th. find Fox's Hatchery, Salem, with Ntw Hampshires. won Uth. (Other farm news page 6) WESTERN INTERNATIONAL, At Salem 1, So)kne 4 At Yakirr.a 3. WrM'eit 0 At Tacoma 1-2. Victoria S- At Bremerton-V incnuveF t-rain. COAST LEAGl'E At Portland 4-1. Sj-r jrr-,nto J-3 At Anceie 2. Han FranciMC At Seattle 2. Saa Dieo 6 At Hollywood 14 Oiitland 2. AMERICAN LEAGl'E At Cleveland 3-. DeTOst 4-7 At Washington 4. Pr-:ide!phia 1 At Boston 7. Nw Y)r At Chicago 0. Sr. Loua 1. NATIONAL LEAGl'E At Philadelphia 1. Brooklyn At Pittsburgh 7. CinnnaU- 3 At New York Boston 3 At St. Louis 7. Chicago 4. :