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i ! i i Off The Stale Hospitall S3MIEB Mrs. Paul Geddei, wife of th state representative fropi Rose- burg, recently made a thorough study of the state hospital. Sh tells about It in next Sunday's feature section of The Statesman, POUNDDD 1651 9Sth YEAfil 14 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, : Oregon, Wednesday, July 6, 1949 PRICE 8c N4. Ct s .. . . I Based on data supplied by gov ernments of 18 nations, JJnited Nations has issued a report which goes to show that Russia and its satellite nations exceeded the Marshall plan countries in rate of increase in production in 1948 over 1947. Thus Russia itself claims a gain of 36 per cent, while the United States' gain was cnly 5 per cent. Others in the soviet sphere report: Bulgaria 31 per cent; Czechoslovakia 15 per cent; Poland 32 per cent. Mar shall plan states reported gains as follow! Relcium 7 oer cent: France 14 per cent; Britain 12 j per cent;. Greece and Italy 4 per cent each. The UN report also says that trading among the Soviet satel lites increased 288 per cent as compared with 1938; while trading among west European countries was only 72 per cent and east-west trading only 42 per cent, of the 1938 volume. Without some means of check ing the figures they cannot be accepted as dependable. It may be that the rate of gain has been more rapid in the tightly con trolled countries of the Soviet system than in the west where the mechanics of ERP had to be geared into" independent systems still strongly individualistic. Also, it is harder to show the DroDor- tional increase in a highly devel-J opea economy, use rsmain smu the United States, than' in the countries industrially backward, like Bulgaria and. Poland. A gain on a small base may be high in percentage. - Recently the economic status of the Soviet satellites was reviewed in an article in the New York j Times by M. S." Handler,, its cap- able correspondent in that j area. His a report shows that j (Lontinuea on eauonai page) PerleMesta Protested but Wins Approval WASHINGTON, July 5 -(&)-Washington's No. 1 party giver, Mrs. Perle Mesta was approved by the senate, after a lively row to day, as American minister to the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The lone but emphatic dissent came from Senator Donnell (R Mo) who shouted that the ap pointment of the wealthy socialite widow' marked a step "backwards to. the "spoils system." Mrs. Mesta, a ' buxom, merry woman in her 60s, is an old friend of President Truman and helped raise several hundred thousand dollars for the , Demo cratic war chest as co-chairman of the annual Jefferson-Jackson day dinners for the last two years. X)reon Seals Required on State's Cars The board of control turned down a request Tuesday by two state officials who wanted to drive state cars without the offi cial state seal. . The officials were L. O. Arens and Paul Gurske, state industrial accident commissioners, who gave no reason for their request. C. P. liolgate, commission employe, also was denied a similar request. The board said the seal would be required on all state cars, ex cept those used by police and oth er law enforcement agencies. The seals were intended to curb use of the cars for private purposes. The board approved a request by Arehs and Gurske for new cars. McKay Leaving For Golden Gate Gov. Douglas McKay will leave by airplane Wednesday night for San Francisco to attend a meeting of the Pacific Board of. Intergov ernmental relations. Th governor said he would return to his desk early Friday. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Best delivery boy thstnew papr trer had," 1 t emos DDI; Joidlg Scjdosifoibll Salem Men on List ifrfepared As ?Pref erence A squabblf within the state dem ocratic partj! over appointment of third federal judge in Oregon was brewing tody. A letter fiom three party offic ials in effect protested Vie recent i endorsement- of Gus J. Solomon, ! Portland attorney., for the position : that may be created by a bill now in congress. 'I i The letter wa sent bv Party rhairmim wjllim L. Jos'n Port- 1 land: Mrs. Jtoada Leonard. Klam-; ath Falls, vite-chairman; and Vol- ; ney Martin, secretary, Portland. , to the! 74 fiembers of the state j central; comifnittCe and the execli- i tive committee. j Endorsement Discounted It asserted that Solomon's en dorsement by National Committee man MonroJ Sweetland, National Committeewoman Nancy Honey man Robinson' and Multnomah County Chairman Nicholas Gran- et was a personal one, and not ne- cessarily to be considered a party I endorsement . The letter asked the state com mittee members to express their preference for the projected posi tion, lasted were 12 candidates, including Salomon. The .12 were: Hugh L. Biggs, Portland; A S. Grant, Baker; Al lan Hart, Portland; Henry L. Hess, LaGrahde; Edward C. Kelly, Med ford; Earl C. Latourette, Oregon City; Supreme Court Jutice Hall S. Lusk, Salem; William B. Mur ray, Portland; Gus J. Solomon, Portland; Attorney Bruce Spauld ing, Salem; Orval N. Thompson. Albany; Robert Y. Thornton, Tilla mook. Josslin s( id three others, not listed, also were being discussed. They are: Kftrl T. Huston, Corval lis, and Edwin D. Hicks and Man ley B. Strayfr, Portland. Prompt Reply Asked He abdedi! "My own name is not on the list. 1 am not a candidate. Although I f would accept if by some remote chance I were nom inated,, I arcj doing nothing to get the office fo- myself." Committee members were ask ed to get their replies back to Portland by) Friday at 2 p. m., for counting. Josslin said the matter should not be considered a "break" be tween Ithe state organization and the national committeeman and committeewpmari. In some quarters there was talk, howevtr, tffat the matter might determine -nether patronage would he ifj the hands of Josslin or the national committee repre sentatives. en Back On Job After 60-Day Strike PORTLAND, July 5 -UP)- Ap proximately? 1,000 AFL millmen returned td work today after a two-month 'strike. At the call of union officials, they returned to jobs at 32 mills In the'state j The return was made, subject to 4 ratifying vote of the members, k Union officials recommended mat tney accept an employer of fer of settlement. It reportedly in cluded a pay increase of 6 to 7i cents hourly to a general scale of $1.85 an hour. The approximately 100 millmen in four Salem shops involved in the dispute:; had returned, to work j Tuesday or; were expecting to be at work today. The local action is the result of a back-to-work vote on a wage offer last week. - - I .in m ii i i i ii 1949 Legislature, State's Longest. Costs $165,318 Cost of the 1949 legislature, not including printing of the session laws and t few other less im portant itens, was $465,318. Secre tary of State Earl T. Newbry re ported Tuefiay. The 97-day session was the longest in the state's history. The 194 1 legislature, covering 83 days, cost $335,000. Included in the cost of the 1949 session was $5,000 for a new code. Interim committee expenses were not in cluded in the figures. Foley Hopes for 50,00(X Public Housing Units " WASHINGTON. July 5-P)-Housing Administrator Raymond Foley said today he hopes to get 50,000 public housing dnits start ed in the new bousing program's first. year. H !' i ssdoitd Odea M teooDedl There's Money In Them: There - Calves, Marvin WINTERS, Texiis, July 5-7P)-Marvin Hambright always thought there could be money in calves. Now he's sure of it. Hambright, who farms near Win ters, dropped his wallet in his cow-i lot. He discovered the loss two ! hours later, hurried back to the! lot and found the wallet. But $49 was missing from the. purseand tie glared suspiciously at three calves - - e s p e c i a 1 l.y one which was chewing. Hambright brought the latter calf to Winters and had it killed at a locker plant. Two tens, a five and four ones were in the animal's stomach. Two tens are still miss ing, t. Holiday Brings Record Death Toll-Now 711 By the Associated Presi More persons died violently In the nation during the three-day Fourth of July weekend than in any other Independence day cele. bration period in the country's history. The final tabulation in a state-by-state survey showed 711 died between 6 p.m. local time Friday and-'midnight Monday. Of these, 315 were traffic deaths, 256 were drownings and 140 were from miscellaneous causes. The national safety council, in a statementfin Chicago, called the record toll , 'shameful and dis gracefull." It said "a showoff at titude" was responsible for the high traffic and drowning totals. The previous record of 628 Inde pendence day fatalities was set during the three days in 1941. The heaviest toll for any holi day period was for four days in Christmas week, 1936, when 761 accidental deaths were reported, 555 of. them as a- result of traffic mishaps. Despite the record death toll this Fourth, none was from fire works. Powers Agree To Resume Berlin Parley BERLIN, July 5-)-Russia and the, three western powers agreed today on machinery to carrv out the will of their foreign ministers on Berlin and Germany. The four deputy military gov ernors announced in a communi que after the meeting that they had agreed meetings of the four Berlin commandmants should be resumed. They also agreed on creation of a special committee of experts on trade, transport and finance to submit recommendations on how to carryout the agreement of the Paris foreign ministers confer ence. That agreement caflled on the occupation authorities to "con sult" together with a view to ex pending eastrwest trade and trav el in Berlin and Germany and "normalizing, as far as possible," the life of Berlin. A western official said their functioning together was not a re vival of four-power government as it existed before. Pboto Prizes Still Available A lot of fine pictures have been taken during the recent good weather and there are awards awaiting the best of them. The Statesman's Summer Photo contest for amateius is well underway, and will con tinue for three more weeks. Next deadline 'for entries is midnight toinght Sunday, the winners in three classifications will be published, (children-animals, portrait character study, pictorial-scenery.) ' Each win ner will merit a $7.50 cash prize. Photos must be on glos sy paper, no smaller than 5x7, and accompanied by data on the subject matter and camera equipment used.; There is no obligation. Grand prize winners will get $20 additional. Just bring or mail your choice photos to : . ' Solons Confer; ReportReadied By President WASHINGTON, July 5-(yP)-Con. gressional leaders leaving a con ference with President Truman to day ridiculed any idea the nation is edging into a depression. They discussed the general econ omic picture and government fi nances. Mr. Truman is preparing a mid-year economic report to con gress. Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) was asked if he thought the country is in either a depression or recession. "When you've got over 58,000, 444 people employed in industry and 30,00t),000 farmers with mon ey to pay for whatever they need, I'll be damned if I see how you can call it a recession,' Rayburn replied. "If it .-is," interjected senate democratic Leader Lucas (111), "its the most prosperous one we've ever experienced. The White house said Mr. Tru man's special economic message may go to the house and senate late this week or early next week. It probably will carry recommen dations for dealing with the de clining price and employment sit uation. Rayburn said the president talked government finances with his con gressional lieutenants. The treas ury has just announced a $1,800, 000,000 deficit for the annual pe riod ended July 1. This was three times the $600,000,000 Mr. Tru man had anticipated. "How about the possibility of new taxes?" Rayburn was asked. "That's got to be determined yet," the house leader said. Killing of Two Men Admitted; Motive Lacking lEUREKA. Calif.. July 5 JP i Henry Brun Guldbrandsen sur rendered tonight and admitted to Humboldt county officers that he killed two men in Jack London's Idyllic Valley of the Moon. He denied however that he rap ped a 27-year-old woman who ac cused him of that crime. His state ment said she "offered herself and I accepted." Guldbrandsen gave no motive. The victims were: Lt. Peter J. Flint, a merchant marine officer and roommate of Guldbrandsen, and Peter J. Jen sen, owner of the isolated moun tain cabin where the bludgeoned ; bodies were found, and Mrs. Eva j Paget, 27. Berkeley, Calif., mother i or two children who was beaten, raped and left tied to a tree. She escaped, sounded an alarm. She is Vi a serious condition in a Sonoma, Calif., hospital. Mrs. Paget said she was lured to the cabin by an acquaintance she knew as "Hank" on pretere that Flint had a broken arm ana need ed aid. I- She said "Hank" slugged her with a stone pestle. The bodies of Flint and Jensen both nude lay on beds in the cabin, covered with sheets. Mrs. Paget said "Hank" had fled in an automobile. Safecracking Too Tough for Utah Convict ' SALT LAKE CITY, July 5-P)- ! A polite convict, handicapped by lack of an expert s tools, failed to day to open a safe legally. With the help of a prison .guard urm Went a rr L'otrH en Kim ! the prisoner swung a sledgeham mer and pounded chisels. But the strongbox door wouldn't yield. An other attempt will be made to morrow after a drill is obtained. The inmate, unidentified, said he was a safe andt typewriter repair man before he went to prison for robbery. Warden Mason W. Hill put him on the job after the state liquor control commission asked if he had prisnoer who had had ex perience with safes. The prisoner indicated to a reporter that not all his experience with safes was on the repair side. The safe was a small compart ment within larger safe. The combination to the smaller box had been lost.- MINERS BACK TO WORK PITTSBURGH, July 5 -(A)- Al most all the nation's 480,000 hard and soft coal diggers returned to work today on. a new three-day-a-week basis. For the first time in recent UMW history, they were working without a contract. U. S. Swelters; Crop Loss Huge ; '. : : . I Quick OK Of Treaty Sought WASHINGTON, July 5 -P)-Senator Connally (D-Tex) today urged speedy senate approval of the North Atlantic treaty as a warning to would-be conquerors that 300,000,000 people will fight I aggression. ! In solemn tones, opening senate ! debate on the treaty, Connally told his colleagues that Russia's domination of eastern Europe is "a constant threat to world peace." He said the proposed 12-nation pact is "a flaming sign to any ag gressor: 'Do not enter' the North Atlantic area." "Noble Declaration" Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich), ranking senate GOP leader in for eign affairs, is scheduled to make a plea for ratification of the treaty tomorrow. ' Connally, chairman of the sen ; ate foreign relations committee, 1 addressed the senate in the cramp ; ed, historic chamber where the i nation's early lawmakers used to sit more than 100 years ago the ! modern senate chamber is being j refitted. In a two-hour, 9,000 word ' speech, he said: I "The treaty is not directed against the Soviet Union nor its satellite states." . j But, he went on, it is "a noble ! declaration that ho armed aggres sor, no swaggering conqueror, no : military despot shall invade the North Atlantic area." Opposition Slight "We cannot tolerate the grabb ing off of weak or defenseless na tions closer and closer to the Unit ed States," Connally said. "Ag gressors and conquerors must keep their 'distance. They must not extend their mailed hands in to this territory. The treaty has already been ; signed by the United States, Ca- i nada and 10 European nations, but j to become binding on this country j it must be ratified by a two-thirds j senate vote. Less than a dozen ! senators are expected to oppose it. Fabulous Gold Mine on Fire; Loss $150,000 BAKER, Ore., July 5 -(JP)- A gold mine that has produced an estimated $150,000,000 since 1860 burned deep under ground 11 miles east of here today. The shaft of the historic Virtue mine caught fire at the 200-foot level sometime over the weekend. Billie Wendt. president of the Virtue Mining Co., said he would let the blaze burn itself out. It was feared efforts to quench it might bring cave-ins. Wendt esti mated loss would amount to $150,000 in equipment, two-thirds of it put in recently In antici pation of expanded operations. He indicated damage would be re paired and mining resumed when the fire burns itself out. Fire Destroys Planing Mills MADRAS, Ore., July 5-UP)-Fire destroyed the old and new planing mills of the Warm Springs Lumber company tonight, but firemen sav ed the main sawmill of the opera tion. Company officials estimated the damage at $100,000 and said the planer struu would be re built. Two Killed in Plane Crash COLVILLE, -Wash July A young pilot and a girl passenger were killed earfy tonight when their light plane crashed into a house four miles west of Colville after apparently f striking a tele phone pole. Sheriffs officers identified the victims as Warren Hoeck. 22, and Patricia Waters, 16, a high school sophomore. Both were from Col ville. "ri!G wfasniQQ I Max. Mia. Prcdp. ax si .M Salem Portland .... - M San Francuca 60 Chicago t7 Nw York .... 84 Willamette river S3 .00 St trace 77 .6 71 .00 ' 1.1 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bur eau. McNarjr field. Salem): MoUt cloudy this morning becoming partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight. Highest temperature today, near 72 degrees; lowest tonight, near 45. Con ditions favorable tot most farm activi ties today. . SALEM PBtCTPTTATIOX i Sept 1 to July ) This Year Last Year Normal 41.fl 4S.51 triM Reno Won't Let 9Em Starve hi- kv-- ---- 483 RENO. July 5 Fourth of July tourists flock to emergency food center set up in downtown Powning Park here, after culinary workers and bartenders left their jobs in a wage dispute with their employers. Most of the city's eating houses were closed tight, but many bars Mere operating with makeshift help.- (Associated Press Wircphoto to The Statesman.) , " Maybe He Just Wanted His Eatin' Tee tb Sliined Up SAN PEDRO, Calif., July 5-(P)-A silver fox showed up today at a dentist's office,- of all places. Whether he came for a silver in lay or for a toothache nobody took time to learn. The dentist's assist ant. Miss Regina Johnson, found him in her chair when she report ed for work. Having no appointment, the fox got the bum's Tush. He's in the city pound, and unless someone claims him. Miss Johnson is going to have a fur neckpiece this fall and the fox won't be worrying about tooth aches. Secret Britain Dollar Plan Gets Approval LONDON, July 8 -()- Cabinet leaders approved today a drastic new plan to save Britain's dollars. Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the exchequer and economic boss, laid the secret new pro gram before the cabinet's eco nomic policy committee before going to the house of commons tomorrow. As Britain's economic leaders met, French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche proposed a series of possible solutions to the dollar crisis to U. S. Secretary of Treas ury John Snyder In Paris. These WASHINGTON, July S -(f) Without mentioning dollar-shoit Britain. President Truman's ad visers on foreign finance suggest ed today that "some" European countries might well cut the value of their money. Such a move might help them sell more goods in the western hemisphere - and attract private investment to their Industrie, said the six-man national advis ory council. LYNCHING OUTLAWED AUSTIN, Tex., July MP)-The legislature today passed and sent to the governor Texas' first spe cific law against lynching. Sweet Cherry Quality Good; Harvest Large By Lillie L. Madaen ' Farm Editor. The Statesman While not so large as the record 1948 crop, the sweet cherry har vest in t he Willamette valley was larger than average and the qual ity was better, Robert Shlnn, man ager of the Willamette Cherry Growers, Incj said Tuesday.' The entire crop of sweet cherries going to the association has - now been harvested, Shinn added, and the Montmorency harvest is now underway. While this, too, is bet ter than average; the acreage in this variety is considerably smaller than a few years ago. Late June showers, which wer feared might damage th. cherries, only improved them, Shintt said. Spraying and dusting in most all instances had bn done thorough , if- Tokyo Rose'p Trial Starts in San Fr ancisco SAN FRANCISCO. July 5 4V The treason trial of Mrs. IvaTo- guri D'Aquino Tokyo Rose opened in federal court today. The prosecution said it would not seek the death penalty. Six women and six men were picked to hear the case. Mrs. D'Aquino, S3, Is charged with eight acts of treason In broadcast ing to allied troops In the Pacific war. .Th Los Angeles-born defen dant aat almost motionless thro ugh tpe firpt day of the trial. She waspale and serious. That defense insists that she simpi4 read the scripts others had prepared and that she was under compijsion to work In the Tokyo studio, just as prisoners of war were forced to perform ether tasks. Further, the defense argues, she was not a citizen of this country, but a citizen of Portugal, by rea son of marriage. Family from Estonia Due Here Friday A familv of disolaced cersons 'from Estonia is expected tot arrive in Salem Friday morning, Salem YMCA said Tuesday. The A. Tarera family, consist ing of husband, wife and three daughters, was reported to have left New York Tuesday morning. Members are to be met in Port land Friday by Gus Moore, gen eral secretary of the Salem YM CA. A house at 96 Lansing ave., fully equipped, stocked and furnished, will await the travelers, who were living in Germany at the conclus ion of the war. Tarem will be em ployed here by the YMCA and Willamette university. The monthly meeting of the YMCA board of directors has been postponed from Thursday to Fri day noon so that Tarem may be present at the session. ly, resulting In a minimum turn down because of wormy cherries. One processor reported that In the last week of picking, he had turn ed down a few lots. Evidently, he said, the growers failed to dust or spray following the heavy rain of June If. Many of the growers dusted or nmvAtfl fi rrvanv ii civ tinv this J "' season, they said- Showers came at such intervals that extra dust ing was. necessary to keep the fruit projected. The Willamette Cherry Growers' plant will be busy during the next several months handling and pit ting the cherries, Shinn said. The sweet cherries, which are brined, all go to marischinos and glazed products, whil the Montmorency ar pitted and packed with sugar for pies and other bakery goods. Blazes Plague! Oregon By the AswclaUdPrea f A mass of cool air heading south from Canada fizzled out over cen tral Wisconsin Tuesdiy, leaving the middle west to swelter in four or five days more of i hot, sticky weather. ' From the Rocky mouhtain to ti eastern seaboard the country tuf-. fered through another jday of tor rid temperatures. For jthit section Showers are expected t tm4 the Salem area's fine! Independ ence Day weather. he l S. Weather Bureau at MfNary fieU reported early this mornins. TU lonr range forecast shows rain ex pected late Thursday night or ral ly Friday. . there Is no relief in sight for al least another four or ij five day the weather bureau saijil. Nor was there a signrof a bieak in the sorchin 43-d4y drought that was burned up jrnore th $50,000,000 worth -of crops in th farmlands of eiiht npi thtater states. I Relief Temporary s Scattered showers cooled off of New York statje and New nd today bat thejj relief ap to be only temporary. Bos here it wai 100 decrees Mtn epdrted a high of88 &t noon ay. New York Ciiv Mill Vat sweltering in 91 degree heat la early afternoon. At Baltimore, the mercury tut S9J, the highest since last August, when it reached 102. Qne eliiery man succumbed to thji "heat t4 several other persons -were pros trated, i Fires Hit Dry Orecon In Oregon, the firecrackAs scourge was largely over today but only after hundreds of Oregon rangeland acres hd bfen burneL at least two houses destroyed and scored of grass fires had bioken out. - .1 The range fires, blamed on fire crackers, were in eastern Oiegoa. It took a 24-hour fight by a fir crew to get a 100-acre fire nea Pondosa under control. Another 100 acres burned near! TelocaM-L and 80 acres In Pylt canyon mut La Grande. Most of J Oregon la tinder-dry. - A firecracker drw the blame for a blaze that destroyed a two-family residence near:Tigad. Anothes house in the hilU west f Poitland was destroyed, but origin was not determined. 1 ' Firecrackers Blamed i Eugene called In tUHts volun teers and off-duty firemen to han dle a dozen grass flr4 tht. fire crackers, set On the city's out.-kiits. Portland firemen handled SI grass fires in the last fight hours of the Fourth of July; Celebration. Smaller communities r'eorted pro prtionate blazes.- A firecracker also was blamed for flames that destroyed the San- tiam Feed store St Sieet Horn Sunday, a structure that had t tc4 since 1895. A firecracksr stand to that town exploded, aboijit the stir time. No one was injured, but tw plate glass grocery store window wer broken, and $300 "worth of fireworks destroyed, i John Boetti i Asks Divorce PHOENIX, Arti July 5-P)-John Boettigcr, former publisher of th Arizona Times, Jtoday filed suit for divorce asainst his wif Anna, a daughter of the late Pre sident r rankim u. Ropsevtlt. K charged "extreme mental cruelty. PHONE TOLLS TO BE CUT PORTLAND, July 5-P-Paciflsj Telephone and Telegraph announ ed today it plans to eliminate toll charges between Portland and Oak Grove, Milwaukie and pswego by the end of 1951. ' f 4- . a KILLED IN EXPLOSION . OMAK, Wash., JuIy55-UrVAi. explosion In the Panama silver and lead mine on the Colville In dian reservation killed Georg Hunter Beggs and seriously In jured another, WllUaxnf Bernard. mm Western laterna&enal At Wanatchee S. Salem s At Spokane i. Yakima 43 At TKoma 1. Vancouver S At Bremerton 13. Victoria Coast Lesgat 4 No games scheduled) I American Leaf n At New York I. Boston 3 4 . A Detroit 1. C lex eland .U SC Loula 9. Chicago; Only games scheduled A f ' 1 National Learn . At Chicago 1. St. touU i At Brooklyn i. PhlUdbi t parH Englt peare ton, k day, Tuesd
