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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1949)
? ruman s Mopes ioir Tax Boost Wane: Forecasts Rising StocCs if. ' Still Only Two Drumsticks mijj Hill iMmmnvx'timnw" i.mmimrwMmmmmm!t4!'iwt if V ( -r . . V r - ,--- : ft K I'''- , ' 4l . - A ' vV J "v'l '-"- DES MOINES, July 7 - If you re one of the people who looki carefully over the platter of fried chicken to avoid a winr, then Peter II. Banminn of Dea Moines has rood news for you. He has developed a winfless chicken. Baamann Is shown above examininc one of his winrless flock. At left is an ordinary bird with Us aviation equipment intact (APv Wirephoto to The Statesman). Dtp Krom the evidence at hand it Is clear that the object in the pro posal to transfer the Salem stop " from United Airlines to West Coast Airlines is to bail out the Matter. This line, reportedly a Nick Bez promotion, flies a zig tag court f rom Bellingham to Medford, calling at numerous secondary ctties, especially along the coast. l6had to have nearly $800,000 from the, government in mail pay and subsidy to break even in 1948. Te facts 'about the CAB show cause order are reported in American Aviation Daily. It pro po5es an additional five-year ex perimental period for West Coast, but West Coast is required to show cause why Port Townsend. Kelso. McMinnville. Roseburg and Grants Pass should not be drop ped from its route; but McMinn--viljle a4one in Oregon is being served. And UAL must show why it i should not suspend service at Sajlem to let West Coast take it over. The CAB comment is that Salem's business "would mater ially benefit West Coast." Such a tiroDosltion gives no sign of concern for Salem's wishes and interests. And we can serve no tice on CAB now that Salem will resist any such demotion in air line service. It is on a mainline (Route No. 1) of United Airlines and propose tojcemain there. Salem will present ample facts to -justify its stand, even if appear ance in Washington is necessary. What are the facts? Flights to aind from Salem are chiefly with rnore distance points: San Fran cisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Van couver, and points east. The southbound passengers would not want West Coast service which doglegs out to Coos Bay and ends at Medford. Eastbound service J- I (Continued ' on editorial page) JAPAN REDS IN MINES j TOKYO. July 7-(P)-A violent demonstration by coal miners was added today to Japan's communist fomented labor disturbances. U. S. Eighth army reports said 3, 000 miners at Takahagi. 75 miles porth of Tokyo, demonstrated for jeveral hours and held three mine bfficials prisoner in their offices because of the discharge of two P jndred miners. Animal Crackers Bv mRREN GOODRICH "WAafj maffer? Haven't you erer seen pity pen?- Fraudulent Gas Tax Refunds Show! Increase A big increase in fraudulent gasoline tax refunds was report ed by the Oregon state department Thursday. The gas tax refunds are given to farmers and others who use gaso line for purposes other than driv ing oil highways. For instance, the gasoline tax is refunded to farmers who use the fuel for farm operations. William Healy, assistant secre tary of state, said refunds last year mounted to 12.85 per cent of the $23,000,000 gasolne tax total. He said that tho gas tax refund aud itors are unable to check the frau dulent claims. The favorite way to cheat the refund - system is for farmers to use gasoline in their automobiles and then claim it was used in tractors. Streamliner on Exhibit Today At SP Depot One of the Southern Pacific's new twin "Shasta Daylight" coach streamliners will be on ex hibition in Salem today from noon to 4 p.m. at the SP depot, 13th and Oak streets. ;! The trains will go into service on a new low-fare, record-break- ing schedule between Portland and San Francisco July 10. They will complete the 718-mile run in lSi hours, three hours faster than any previous Shasta route train, i Pulled by a 6,000-horsepower diesel, each train consists of 15 cars, Including a baggage-postal car, nine chair cars, tavern car, parlor-observation and a triple unit comprising a diner, kitchen and coffee shop. 1 Departures fron each terminal will be at 7:45 a.m. and arrivals will be at 11:15 p.m. New Judges bn m i n. .1 lo lake uatnsj Judge E. M. Page and Rex Kim- i mell will be sworn in to their i new judgeships in a public cere- : I mony at 10 a.m.. today at the; i Oregon supreme court. ! Chief Justice 'Hall S. Lusk will ) perform the ceremony in open court as Page becomes a justice of the supreme court and Kimmell ! becomes judge of the Marion" coun ty circuit court. Both are Salem men. Page ihavingv served on the circuit bench for many years and Kimmell having served with the attorney general's department. It Was inadvertently reported earlier that, the ceremony would be private. $ - . Ad in -Paper Gives Thanks for Rain POtTSTOWN, Pa, July 7-(P) So' grateful: were farmers in the Pottstown area for a rainstorm last night that broke a six-weeks' drought they published a paid advertisement in Pottstown Mer cury. The; adviertisement said: "For six': weeks we've prayed for rain. , For six weeks we've watched our, crops burn up, our meadows pcorched, our creeks run dry. Now we publically ac knowledge our thanks for the rain that earn, just before dis aster set io. President Says U.S. Economic Scene 'Bullish' By D. Harold Oliver WASHINGTON, July 7 -JP)-President Truman, using Wall Street lingo, said today he is bull ish on the nation's economic out look., j ,A bull is one who bets on good business and a rising stock mar ket. The president was less confident that congress would give him his long-sought $4,000,000,000 in crease in taxes. In fact he appear ed to have given up hope on that. 1 At a news conference, he told that Rep. John ' McCormack (Mass), house Democratic leader, had expressed the opinion last night that no tax increase would pass this year. John ought to know, the president remarked, be cause tax bills originate in the house. President Truman took his op timistic stand on economic condi tions despite Britain's decision ta slash her buying t in the United States to save dollars. I Mr. Truman said that In his mid-year economic message to congress next Mondayhe will an swer many questions in the public mitd, including one a reporter asked today: Do you believe deflationary forces now outweight inflationary forces? He promised also to give his views on whether a vast public works program should he readied to offset possible further declines in employment. Doctors Find Kissing Helps Mental Health SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 1-JP) -The Illinois health department spoke up today in favor of kiss ing. It Isn't a dangerous germ spreader, as most people believe, said the department. , On the con trary, kissing is . , "Pleasant greeting an; agree able salutation and a booh to the mental health of mankind.'' In an article in the ; Illinois health messenger, the department attacked stories that bacteria was spread by kissing. - If a person harbors disease pro ducing germs in his m outh, he may be capable to spreading the germs, the department said. "But most . people have: a false conception of bacteria," it went on. "Each dust particle in the air is covered with hundreds of bac teria most of them harmless. "Some bacteria are .useful to mankind; they make cheese, wiy, beer, vinegar, yeast and dough." "No let Us not condemn the kiss:" Fire Destroys Farmhouse INDEPENDENCE Only the washing machine was saved Thursday morning at 3:25 when fire which started in the flue com pletely destroyed the Pearl 6lack farmhouse north of Independence. The home, now owned by C. W. Batson, was covered by insurance. Batson, an employe of the In dependence Lumber and Manufac turing company is on a week's va cation and the family was plan ning to leave early in the morning for a few days, at the coast. Some possessions were packed in the car, but all else was destroyed in the fire. Rail Schedule Delays Mail "Evening mail" will have to reach the Salem postoffice two hours earlier in order to make prompt connections for points north and east. Postmaster Albert C. Gragg said Thursday. A change in railroad schedules will require a 4 p.m., deadline for receiving mail at the local post office, beginning;' Sunday, said Gragg. Northbound . and east bound mail received after 4 p.m, will not get out f Portland until the following day. This includes mail for eastern I Oregon as well as for eastern states. I Southbound regular . mail and airmail Are not affected by the new schedule. The change in other mail handling is necessary because the mail train to Portland will leave here at 4 p.m., instead of a't 6 p.m., as at present Mam. Mia. rreel SI 4 .M 71 . 4S .OO 70 v 4 jOO 5 79 .09 S3 i M -1.1 fet. txlrm Portland San Francisco Chicago New York Willamette river FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNarr field, Salem): Fair and continued warm today and tonight with highest temperature today near 82 and low tonight near 46. Agriculture outlook: Weather will continue favor able for farm acUviUca except for oc casional west winds. SALEM FRECrrlTATIOM j iSept I to July ft) ! ' ThU Year tart Year ' Kormal 41J1 eJ3 fUl 99th YEAB Hiss 20 PAGES I , " ' " ' ' ' JOHN FOSTER DULLES Newest U.S. Senator Dewey Names Dulles to Fill Senate Post NEW YORK, July 7-(jP-John Foster Dulles, 61, republicar for eign affairs' expert and a leading, architect of the nation's postwar ; international policies, was ap- pointed to the U.S. senate today by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. He will serve five months until December 1 as successor to the veteran New Dealer and demo crat, Robert F. Wagner, 72, who resigned June 28 because of ill health. Wagner was author of the Wagner labor relations act A special election will be held November 8 to choose a senator to serve out the remainder of Wagner's term from Dec. 1, 1949, to Jan. 3, 1951. Both Dewey and Dulles him self indicated that the . new sen ator will not run as the republi can nominee in November. How ever, statements of GOP senators in Washington, who praised the selection highly, indicated Dulles would be under pressure to do so. Dulles said he will go to Wash ington at once. There will be 53 democrats and 43 republicans in the senate after he takes the oath. The senate now is debating the Atlantic pact. Dewey said this was one of three momentous is sues in international affairs before congress which induced him to name Dulles. Dewey also mentioned military aid to. western European nations and appropriation of adequate funds for the European recovery program as problems on which "fateful decisions" must be taken at this session of congress. POLES HALT TRADE BELGRADE,' Yugoslavia, July 7 -(Ai- Poland stopped all her trade with Yugoslavia today. The ac tion was regarded here. as part of a cominform campaign of econ omic sanctions to oust Premier Marshal Tito's government. 5 Directors of Eagles Lodge Named in Complaint Charging Illegal Possession of Gambling Games A complaint alleging illegal pos session of gambling equipment was filed in Silverton justice court Thursday against five 'directors of Salem's lodge (Willamette Aerie) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. District Attorney E. O. Stadter, jr., filed the complaint following a raid on the Eagles Wednesday night by Police Chief Clyde A. Warren, Sheriff Denver Young and officers of both organizations. .The raid netted 15 slot mach ines and other gambling equip ment. Thursday's complaint was filed against Emory Sanders, Wayne Seipe, L. A. Hamilton, A. C. Burk and A. C. Friesen as directors of the Eagles. Stadter said Thursday the raid could not be termed a "surprise blow." "A representative of the Eaglet came to my office a month ago and left with the understanding that all gambling devices would be removed from the Eagles hall Stadter said. In fact this office warned all organizations and clubs in Jan uary that we would enforce "the statute prohibiting possession of Illegal f ambling equipment," Stadter added. The district attorney indicated he intends to follow through and initiate future raids, if necessary, to clean out gambling equipment, The raid on the Eagles was pre ceded by two messages from what Stadter called "reliable sources' which Indicated gamb ling was being conducted. Fines of $K to $100 against each defendant and permanent confis cation of the machines are possi ble, Stadter said. Jury Deadlocked Waits for Dawn to Continue NEW YORK, July 7-OP)-A fed eral jury failed to reach a ver dict tonight in the trial of Alger Hiss on perjury charges involv ing the prewar leakage of U. S. government secrets to a Soviet spy ring. The ten men and two women decided at 9:33 p.m., (EST), af ter more than six hours of delib eration, to retire for the night and try again in the morning to de cide the fate of the former state department executive. They were taken in custody of deputy U. S. marshals to the Knickerbocker hotel in midtown Manhattan with this crucial ques tion still before them: Did Hiss, a high state depart ment official under the new deal, pass secret government document to ex-communist Whittaker cham bers for transmittal to the Russians before Pearl Harbor? or Is Cham ber, the government's key witness against the 44-year-old Hiss, a lair? Judge Samuel H. Kaufman put the Question to the jurors after the government labelled Hiss "a traitor to his country and the defense called Chambtrs, now a Maryland farmer, a "moral leper" seeking to blacken the character of an in nocent man. ' Kaufman told the jurors they must acquit Hiss unit recent ly $20,000-a-year president of the Carnegie Endowment for inter national peace unless they be lieved Chambers' story "beyond a reasonable doubt." Missing Files, Sheriff Elliott Center of Tiff PORTLAND, July 7 -UP)- The sheriffs office, which has been simmering with conflict for mon ths, boiled up in new accusations today. i Stanley G. MacDonald, chief of the county bureau of criminal identification, charged Sheriff M. i L. Elliott with "interference" and , disclosed that a number of records j have vanished from his depart- j ment. i A few hours later Sheriff Elliott j suspended MacDonald from his job, pending an "investigation." The sheriff said he wanted to de termine whether county materials had been used in work which MacDonald has done for other parts of the state. The vanished records covered : the files of two men who suported j Elliott's campaign for sheriff. One j of the men had been working . j over MacDonald's objections in j MacDonald's department. MacDonald disclosed their dis- appearance after he was angered by an order to turn over the keys to his confidential files to the sheriff. I S ':: v i iPt! - There are only lemons left as far as the slot machines la the stove photo are concerned. Sheriff Denver Young looks over one of the ehnck-a-lnck machines and some of the 1$ slots taken from the Salem Eaglet elab in a. raid Wednesday night and now lsaponndeg la the Marlon county courthouse. (States man photo.) . ''" f POUNDBD 1651 TH Oregon Statesman, Satan, Oregon. UoSo yiraonDaainn) Mis MaGnaus Men Handle 'Hot Stuff with Bare Hands in Colorado DENVER, July l-(JPy-A state Health department official said today workers in southwestern Colorado uranum mills are exposed to radio-activity and "countless" other hazards without tf guards. The official, P. W: Jacoe, said he and an assistant inspected one of three plants Hhere ncw handling the United States, lone major .source. of the principal element th atomic fission. They found, he said, a chemist stirring refined uranium with his bare hinds, workrnr eating lunch in radioactive areas and rocks in the vicinity, stained yellow by escaping uraniua oxide. r ' ' ' : -' C of C Plans Campaign To Hold UAL in Salem Salem Chamber of Commerce will do everything within its power to retain United Air Lines service for Salem, Chamber President Roy Harland declared Thursday. The civiL aeronautics administration is reported considering a proposal to substitute West Coast Air Lines service for the present UAL station in Salem. Harland said the local chamber is preparing studies of the Salem air business volume and the gen eral importance of UAL to Salem, in order to back up its position favoring UAL over any feeder line operations of the West Coast lines. Salem Chamber will be repre sented by 'W. M. Bartlett. its air port chairman and also the Ore gon state director of aeronautics, in a Portland conference today with UAL officials regarding the proposed change. The delegation also will include Clay Cochran, Robert L." Jones and City Manager J. L. Franzen. They are to confer with Harold Crary, ,UAL's vice president for air traffic. The chamber is soliciting letters of endorsement for UAL from Sa lem and outside business firms who use the present UAL service. Fish Commission Approval Needed For Pel ton Dam The Northwest Power Supply company Thursday was ordered to get approval of the state fish com mission for its proposed $12,000, 000 dam on the Deschutes river. The state hydroelectric commis sion issued the order. The hydroelectric commission will consider granting a prelimi nary permit for the dam if the fish commssion is satisfied that the company's plan to build a hatchery will maintain fish life, The 0-foot high dam would be too high -for fish ladders, and s hatchery is the only solution, ac cording to the order. The fish commission has oppos ed the dam. asserting it would harm Columbia river fisheries and plans to rehabilitate them. TIME, INC. STRIKE NEAR NEW YORK, July 7--CP)- The! Time, Inc., unit of the CIO Amer- j lean Newspaper guild voted to-1 night to request authorization of j a strike against Time, Life, For tune and Architectural Forum magazines and the producers of I Marcl of Time motion pictures. Friday, July 8, 1949 -After 6 Hours Foster Man Dies in South' Santiam River ALBANY. July 7 -(Special) The South Santiam river claimed a Foster man Thursday. Harold Wiley, 24, drowned as he attempted to recross it with a i companion near Foster bridge at j 3 a.m. With Derrill DeWall of Sweet Home he had swum across the river but became exhausted as they swam back, according to the report of Linn county Coro ner Glenn Huston. The river's swift current thwarted DeWall's attempt to save him. Elza Smith of Sweet Home, another : member of the swimming party, was unable to give aid. The body was recovered at 5:30 a.m. by Gordon Scanland of Sweet Home who was summoned to aid in the search. Wiley had been employed until recently by the Santiam lumber company. Surviving are his par ents. Mr. and .Mrs. C. S. Wiley of Foster. He was a grandson of .Andrew Wiley who led the fiist party of white men over the Cas cades through the pass which is now U. S. highway 20. Funeral services will be an nounced later by the Huston Funeral home in Lebanon, Sees Traffic Lights On Television Set NEWBERG, July 7 -JP)- Roy Baker has a television set, and what does he see in it? t Traffic lights, he complained unhappily today. Baker, a radio repairman and amateur fan, said he can't get any telecats on his screen. But every time the" traffic light on the corner near his house changes, something .clicks and lights flash. j No, 111 Jacoe said shovel handles ttt4 5,000 disintegrations a jminute n4 workenm's hands 4,000, Disinteg rations are the spontaneous bieak down of atorm. The danger livel is 1,000. If "The workers dWt know nhat hazards they are ekposjfd to and i attempt has been madMo educate them." Jacoe saki "Its is entirely possible that some o them an suffering from radiation poisoning or silicosis." - j He said he his -asked the U. 8, public health-service ip send rut a doctor to examirfe workers in the Naturita mill of ; the fV'andariiu Corp. of America. Tw.t other mills are now cperatini, Jt Diuraritfe &n4 Rifle. saiu a spot crtecK at ftillw showed condition. thefe are "him. most as bad" m it Njjjirita whrr Jacoe reported nearly fvery one f the 100 workers complained of ill- nes. Jacoe's findiret wer4 confirmed bv Ralnh V R fU rikt r,f r r- - - - ' - i v V' 4 v i s-aresr hetlth and safos brajich of the atomic energy ornmUsjon'? Col ado new material ifr'ue. He thA "definite radiatioa hazard exist la all plants now opSrdtinfc." The state offici j saidTthe mfctee ial handled ijivei off lAlpha and Beta radiation, hirmfi.a when in ha'ed. absorbed in food or tnke into the blood titroug a cut. It may cause cancer of the lung a leukemia or contribute to stilW births, deformities, in offspring and sterility. ? Fired- Doctor May Demand I Airing of Case Dr. Horace G. Miller state he pital psychiatrist! who? was fired Wednesday for insubordination, said Thursday he miiiht demand state civil service ihejrlng. "I have been deeply grieved by some of the trends arjd develop ments at the Oregon stjSte hospital under the superirttendfnev of Dr. Charles E. BatesJ andj, the treat ment that has besh aedprded rem of my friends. I! am considering having a civil service shearing." Dr. Miller vn jirated that hie purpose in demanding a hearing would be to clear himself of Dr. Bates' charges iht ."Dr. Millet "was guilty of subversive activity and insubordination." j William Ryan, state, supervene of institutions, said he, Would wel come a hearing, and that he isn't afraid of any charges; Dr. Miller might present. Ryn supported Dr. Bates, who wa appointed super intendent only last yer. Hard Coal 5Iincr To ConliiiiielUniler Current Contract PHILADELPHIA. Tply 7 -iPi John L. Lewis met hard cool operators today with tjhe announ ced purpose of negotiating new contract and then qjuickty end ed the meeting . by ssaying tho nation's 80,000 ahthratite miners will go on working lender termo of the current pact, s ? Sources close io the United bushy-browed union leader wants to devote his full time to work ing out a stabilization policy te the soft coal industry. The decision tot continue term, of the present "anthracite con tract, which date back to Jum 7, 1948, came as a surprise. Soo expected Lewis .to make brood demands of the anthracite opern- Western InternaUonat At WenatehM 7, Sa!m D. At SeokM IS. Yk.tm At VinoHim 1. DignitoB 10. At Victoria Trntrmm f. Coast Leajriw At Portland 1-1. Snti( O-O. At SeatU 1. SacrarMtt 4. At Hoilywood 1. Salt rranciac X. At Oakland f. Lo Angqles i. . NaUonal'Leaioo . At Boston a. Brooklyn j. At Pnuburste 1. Si Lomi 0. At Cincinnsfi 7. Cf . At New Yrk 11. Ph0dlphia t. merfcan League At WatKtnrton X, Boatoo I. 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