,..... . , I . ' . . - GOP Regains Congress in Special Election 83tb TEAS 16 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Thursday. September IS. 1949 PRICE Sc No. ItO State Senators Scoff at Elliott i POUNDDD 1651 i ' - Pearson, 1 I I V. I I . ,J: 1 v.. V- i. ; ; : .St., .,- r .- v JOHNSTOWN, Pt Sept 1 John P. Saylor. Ticlcrioa? republican In firht for 26th congressional seat, smile tt wife, Grate, at they view election returns In GOP headquarter here early today. Saylor defeated Mrs. Robert L- Coffey, sr.. mother of the late Rep. Robert L. Coffee, jr, plane crash victim. (AP Wirephoto to the Statesman). Ex-Navy Officer Tojps Gold Star Mother in Pennsylvania Vote By Elaine Kahn JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Sept. 14-()-Bepublicans today wpn back the 18th Pennsylvania district congressional seat they lost in the 1948 democratic aweep - - and GOP leaders crowed about a "stinging re buke" to President Truman's domestic policies. John P. Saylor. 41-year-old former navy lieutenant who supplied the flag raised by marines at Iwo The poet Robert Burns Invoked soma power by which wo might "see ourselvea at othra e us." The poet was speaking in personal terms; but a stato bar association, that of Iowa, has used an opinion poll to reflect public opinion of lawyers. Now that Oregon at torneys are holding their annual convention it seems a good time to report on this poll. Lawyers have labored under a shadow of public suspicion. Some persons still regard them as crafty and undependable, more concern ed with winning a case than pro moting the ends of justice. But this Iowa survey showed that the majority dT people have a favor able opinion of the legal profes sion. And this is significant, it showed that most parents would; approve if their son wanted to study law. Of the persons interviewed 49 per cent only had hired lawyers, but Of this number 92 per cent were satisfied with the services rendered. Only one out of five felt they had been "charged too much." ; In response to the question: "Which one of President, Con gress or the Courts do you regard as most important in protecting personal rights?" the response . showed that 47 per cent relied on the courts, 17 per cent on con gress, five per cent on the presi dent; 25 per cent depended on the three equally and 6 per cent was undecided. That shows a high degree of confidence in the courts of the country, which is well de served, even though four out of ten persons said they would pre fer to settle a lawsuit for damages for half rather than go to courts The summary of -this opinion sur vey appears in the August num ber of the Journal of the Ameri can Judicature Society. Legal business has changed greatly, with the years. Criminal (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Shorter hours, sure! 6ut ow do you wy a hilt n egg?" Kprjoe ronn I workers J 1 C I arise j fdg " 6 '"V- V J 7 & :'- i '-'. - 1 !.' . If' - '4 j Jima. coasted to victory at a special election. He defeated Gold Star Mother :Mrs. Robert L. Coffey, sr., who sought; "the congressional post made vacant by the death of her son, Rep. Robert L. Coffey, jr., in a navy jet plane crash. Saylor said even he is surprised by the size of his rnajority. Returns from 317 ! of 325 pre cincts in the three-county district gave Saylor 57,037; Coffey 48,168. The special election held in con junction with the state party pri maries was the first grass roots test of the Truman administration since Jast November Republican leaders hailed Say lor's triumph and Indicated they think they have found a major is sue for their 1930 efforts to regain control of congress; j " That Issue is what the republi cans term "statism! and which they variously defino to imply democrats are trying to substitute a paternalistic government for in dividual initiative i Edward J. Flynnj democratic na tional committeeman from New York, said the race was not a "fair test" of party strength nationally because the district is normally republican. I Chairman William M. Boyle, jr., said republican statements on the election were "greatly exaggera ted as far as repudiating the pres ident's program is concerned." But Rep. Martin of Massachus etts, bouse republican leader, said: "It is a conclusive demonstra tion that the march toward tate socialism can be stopped." Support Rallie To Mayor Lee PORTLAND, Sept. 14 - (TP) - A labor union and a group of coin machine operators i both came out ! in support of Mayor Dorothy Mc- Cutlough Lee today. jThe AFL building and construc tion trades council endorsed Mrs. Lee's "forthright I law-enforcing policy", and asked: its members to refrain from signing any recall petitions. j A group of 60; coin machine operators issued a ; statement say ing! they had no Connection with the recall move started here Mon day; The men. Who run pinball machines, juke boxes, and shuffle boards, said their business opera tions are licensed and fan rot be considered "gambling". Mayor Lee had; attributed the recall to gambling interests. FALLS INTO GRAND CANYON GRAND CANYON. Ariz., Sept. 14-M'i-Mrs. Edith; Kindig, 63, of, Long Beach, Calif.j fell 300 feet to her d'-ath from the south rim of Grand Canyon today. . 'Lw ! ' 'LJa Five Chicago Newspapers, Printers Reach Terms in 22-Month-Old Strike CHICAGO, Septi 14-VRepre-sentatives of the j Chicago's five major newspapers and their strike ing printers agreed tonight upon terms for settliftfithe 22-month-old strike. f j The agreement was reached at an unpublicized meeting in a downtown hotel of officials of the Chicago Newspaper Publishers as sociation and local 16, Chicago Typographical Union (AFL). Terms of a proposed new con tract will be voted upon at a meet- ing of the 1,500 striking printers Sunday. John J. Pilch,' local 16 president, said : terms of the contract had been approved by the executive council of the International Typographical union. ! I . Piich recommended acceptance Solons Register Disbelief State Treasurer Walter Pearson scoffed Wednesday at the charge, that $200,000 was to be raised lor him to run for governor of Oregon on the democratic ticket. s j Marion L. Elliott, the Multho-1 mah county sheriff who is the tar-1 get of a recall campaign, asserted j that two men came to him asking I his office to contribute $60,000 to- ward a campaign; fund for Pear son. tlJiott conienaea nis reiusai turned some democrats against him. Too Ridiculous "The Elliott charges are too rid iculous for much comment," Pear Son said. "If anyone is going to raise $200,000 for me, I'll run, but not for governor. I'd run to ;Ha waii and retire." PORTLAND, Sept. 14-P)-Mult-nomah county democratic state senators today branded as untrue the charge by Sheriff M. L. Elliott that he was being ousted from of- inc u. . v "lopment program td along on a party war chest fund . $1318546173 Tko mn riimtt oisimui passea 10.010,1 .3 was to have been for a guberna torial campaign for State Treas urer Walter Pearson. Not Pointing at Bain State Senator Jack Bain, who has been both a political and bus- iness friend of Pearson, said hej was positive Elliott wasn't refer ring to him. State Senator Austin F. Flegel jr. expressed disbelief in Elliott's story. Flegel said the "reason is he's made so many false state ments you can't believe anything he says." State Senator Thomas Mahoney declined to "dignify" Elliott's charges. Senator Richard L. Neuberger said "State Treasurer Pearson is no political associate of mine, but I am sure Mr. Elliott's story is un true." Soviet Watches Greek Moves Near Albania By Eddie Gilmore MOSCOW, Sept. 14 (A- For eign observers commented here today that if Greek troops invade Albania no matter what the reaso.i j the Soviet Union would probably regard the action in a most serious light. They said recent GreekAlban ian developments contain "diplo matic dynamite." (A Greek source said in Athens Tuesday that Greece will invade j Albania in "self-defense if any new attacks are launched, by the communist guerrillas from the Albanian side. (The informant said his country would notify the United , Nations of its plan of action at the com ing U- N. general assembly. The informant, one of the ranking delegates to the assembly, said Greece had decided on this action to put an en4 to the guerrilla threat on the Greek-Albanian border.) Mows Lawn With Shovel SWEET HOME, Sept. 14 Spe cial) Most local folk are using mowers to curry their lawns these days, but not Tom Kirk. Tom is doing the job with a wheelbarrow and scoop shovel. Reason: His lawn is being sown with sawdust from a nearby mill daily and the grass has bid the sawdust goodbye. Kirk said pro- j tests to the mill have fallen ort' deaf ears "so I guess I'll just keep using the shoveL" by the local's rank and file. Under the proposed contract, the printers would get a $10 weekly wage increase. Frank Semenara, a member of the executive board of local 16, said the agreement "gives the printer the best w'orking conditions possible under the Taft-Hartley act" At the start of the strike in November, 1947, the Chicago pub lishers said they had rejected the union's contract proposals because ! they called for closed shop condi tions in violation of the Taft-Hartley act. The printers also demanded an immediate $15 weekly pay. hike A few hours after a stAike -vote was taken, the printers walked out of the composing rooms of the U.S. Steel Seeks to Halt Project Until CVA Formed WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 Pre sident .Truman wants congress to hold ba'fck on a proposed one-billion-dollar Columbia river basin program . and set up a Columbia Valley Authority instead. Mr. Truman's views, sent to the senate public works committee two weeks ago in a letter by the as sistant secretary of interior, were rmade public today by Senator Cain (R-Wash). Cain had planned to ask the committee today to add the $1,000,000 army engineer-reclamation bureau Columbia basin deyel- td the house- water pro jects bill, but he was, unable to do so. 'Would Be Mistake' The, letter, from William E. Warne, said "the president be lieves itx would be a mistake" to mclude authorization for the army engineers-reclamation program in the present bill. "He (Mr. Truman) does not wish to indicate any lack of con fidence in the interior-army con solidated report," Warne wrote, "but rather a strong feeling that the report itself and all who are interested in it would be bene fitted if the regular order were fol lowed and time given fcr the exe cutive review that is contemplated in the normal procedure." Would Take Over Functions The CVA advocated by the pre sident would take over functions now carried on by various gov ernment agencies, including the engineers and reclamation bureau. During testimony on the CVA, Senator Magnuson (D-Wash), In terior Secretary Krug and other administration spokesman urged quick authorization of the projects in the coordinated programs. They saiH then that surh annrnval would not interfere with theXVA 1 if congress should vote to estab 4ish it. Keizer Area Commercial Club Formed KEIZER, Sept. 14 -(Special) Organization of the Keizer Com mercial club, a new merchants'; rliiK frt Irfxir, mr with t-artiH' V 1 hi v . ...... - business developments in this community, was well under way today. Business men, meeting this week, completing initial organi zational work, elected H. P. Teets temporary chairman of the club and Mrs. Dorthee Teeter tem porary secretary. Onas Olson. Louis Cross, Ben Brown and Edward Ferrell were appointed as a committee to draw up a constitution and a set of by-laws for presentation at a meeting of the new club Tuesday at the firehouse. All persons in terested in Keizer's business de velopment have been invited to attend. "It is the desire of members, many of whom have been in business here less than a year," Tects said, "to develop a more cooperative spirit among business t'o:' and foster ways and means to better serve the com munity." , CHANCELLOR NOMINATED BONN, Germany, Sept. 14 Dr. Konrad Adenauer, a staunch anti-communist, was nomina'.ed by President Theodor Heuss to day as chancellor of the new West Germany republic. city'i six major newspapers The Tribune, The Morning Sun and Evening Times, Daily News,! Herald-American and Journal of Com merce. The Sun and Times later merg ed into the Sun-Times. But the papers did not miss a day's publication although ! they took a new look. In place of the printers the pa pers substituted girl typists who laboriously re-typed copy in col umns which then were pasted on cardboards and photographed. Pages made up in such manner then were reproduced by photo engraving. As the strike went on. i the techniaue developed so that it j was hard to tell the final product 1 from printing. 'Refuses to Approve Peace ffffeir A sks Coly mbla River Work StaSIed Smp Oil Intliirtrv Rvnttv J,,r U. S. Gasoline Supply for; Centuries By Howard V. Blakeslre . A ociat?d Press Science Editor RIFLE, Colorado, Sept. 14-(P) The extraction of oil from shale has been solved here, assuring the United States of gasoline for centuries. The baptism of this new in dustry takes place here next week. Then the U. S. bureau of -mines will demonstrate to more than 200 key industrial men- the new shale mine, the oil plant and new processes which make this new kind of oil as cheaply as petroleum. Boyd Guthrie, supervising "en gineer, said today: "Based on Site Selected For Catholic CenterBuildinjf (Picture on page 5) Construction cf a rS50.000 SnUm Catholic center will begin Monday at Shipping and North Cottage streets. ; Funds for the two-story concrete building were raised by members of both Catholic parishes and oth ers of Salem in a drive being spon sored by the local Knights of Co lumbus and Catholic Daughters of America. The center is to be used by both j parishes for social, recreational, meeting and other purposes. Way ne Barham is contractor and Lawrence Kelsh, engineer. Both are from Salem. On the lower floor of the 50 by 110 foot structure will be two commercial rental units facing Cottage street. ladies lounge and clubrooms and the Knights of Columbus clubrooms. A ballroom banquet hall, kitchen and small meeting, cloak and rest rooms are to be on the upper floor. An off street parking lot is provided in the rear. It is hoped to have the center completed in about five months, j The center is the only one of its type in Oreeon Catholic parishes, according to Knight Al Cramer. Water Tower Suggested for West Salem WEST SALEM, Sept. 14-(Special)- What new steps could be taken to improve West Salem's' water supply, particularly if merger with Salem is approved, were outlined to the local Lions club Wednesday night by J. L. Franzen, Salem city manager. Thirty members dined at the West Salem city hall in the club's first regular dinner meeting of the fall season. Franzen told them the next pipe line from Salem's water supply would probably be placed under the river, as he doubted the state would permit a second line to be run under the intercounty bridge. Franzen said a 100,000-gallon water tower should be erected on the heights above West Salem to increase the storage capacity of two present feservoirs. He said he would also study the feasibility of enlarging the present reser voirs. Under merger a local water of fice would be maintained as a substation of Salem's water de partment, Franzen said. The Salem official predicted the new fire station at Glen Creek road and Parkway drive would be completed in six weeks. The Sa lem fire department, which al ready serves West Salem on a contract basis, , will man the new station to serve also newly an nexed Salem territory which sur rounds the city of West Salem, Max. . SS Mia. rreelp. 49 . 4 JT M trace 42 .60 aleia Portland Saa Francisco Chicago M 73 New York at 70 M Willamette nvr -3.S feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field) : Cloudy today and tonight with intermittent rain this morninf becoming a httle heavier this afternoon and tonight. High today near 70 with a low toniiht near 12. The heavier rains during afternoon hours will hinder farm acttvitie today. SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year Last Year Normal .n j m work to dilte, we estimate, a barrel of crude shale oil can be produced from $2.25 to $2.50' Crude petroleum has been selling for just under or over $2.50 a barrel recently. An act of congress in 1944, five years work and about $6,000,000 produced this indus trial miracle. Congress legislated with the idea that in the fore seeable future the United States snould never run short of oil. The single mass of marlestone shale, a 9000-foot high plateau covering 1000 square miles, which tne bureau of mines has tapped here in west central Lebanon Boy Drowns, Search Precedes LEBANON, Sept. 15, Thursday-($pecial)-A two-year-old boy was discovered oruwned in a millpond here about 1 a. m. this morning alur a six-hour search that drew several thousand volunteers from all over the city. j Tne lnd, Dana Jensen, was the ionly child of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Jensen, 2ia .Fourtn pi. He was lound jin the Fir Ridge lumber company Tne search, directed by police ana fire department officials, be gan about 7 p. m. Wednesday when the boy disappeared from his home in a housing project here. A hired girl had last seen him playing in the yard when she tailed him for dinner. When he failed to appear she went outside to get him but he was nowhere in Signt. Chief lmer Fltlgeraldf was or ganized a few minutes later when the boys father, an auto mechanic came home from work. The hunt, conducted in a steady rain that drenched many workers, had encompassed the entire city by midnight. Swing-shift crews at various plants joined the growing number of volunteers and every house and store In the a?ea had been searched before the child was discovered. Cars were lined for blocks in ! every direction from the housing i project area, bounded by two mill- ! ponds, both of which were drag- ! ged, and railroad tracks. Sen. Morse to Leave Hospital Sen. Wayne Morse is scheduled to leave Salem General hospital this morning where he has been resting since Saturday night when injured in a horse-show accident at the state fairgrounds. Morie indicated he would return to Washington, D. C, today but would be back in Salem next year; to compete for a third and final leg on a horse-show trophy he has won the past two years. Committee Backs State Tax Program The board of control's tax study j committee reported Wednesday that Oregon has one of the best tax systems in the country. j At a conference the committee made plans for investigating ex4 isting taxes. It said the legisla-f ture's tax study committee will in4 vestigate possible new faxes, s that the committees won't dupli- cate each other's work. Albany Petitioners Ask City Manager Resign, Brings Defense ALBANY, Sept 14-(4VMayof Jess Savage and a city councilman tonight defended the administra4 tion of City Manager J. B. Bach-? man against arguments of a group demanding the manager's resigna tion, j The council took no action orj the request. ! The protest against Bachman, who took over the work earliet this year as Albany's first city; manager, was signed by 300 citi zens. It charged he had caused dis sention among the city's depart4 ments, resulting in inefficient opi eration. i In answering the charge. Mayor Savage noted the petition lacked specific charges. ! "I would like to have some evidence," Savage said, "if youj have any." j He added that 100 signatures! represented a small percentage for a city having a population of 15,000. Colorado, contains about seven tunes more oil than the United Spates has used in all 90 years since oil was discovered in Pennsylvania. j The plateau has 22 times more recoverable oil than the proven petroleum reserves of the entire United States. j Crude shale oil is a cross, be tween oil and coal. Unde 9Q degrees Fahrenheit, the new oil) is a soft, black solid. But it makes good gasoline and daesel oil, good fuel oils and promises powerful new. jet plane fuels. Refining still, has to be per fected. -t Bastogne Hero To Head Army Chemical Corps j WASHINGTON. Sept. 14-(P)-jMaj. Gen. Anthony Clement Mc Auliffe, the hero of Bastogne who replied "nuts" to a German de mand for surrender of his hard ;pressed troops in 1944, today was picked to be chief of the army's chemical corps. McAuliffe, fondly known to his GI's as "old crock," was singled I out for the post by President Tru man. His nomination was sent to the senate. If the senate approves, the World War II hero will succeed Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt about October 1. ' Waitt was suspended from the post last July when his name crop ped up in the senate's investiga tion of "five percenters.' The 58-year-old officer technically was restored to active duty last Sat urday but his application for im mediate retirement was granted. Besides McAuliffe, Mr. Truman also sent these nominations to the senate Stanton Griffis to be ambassador to Argentina, succeeding James Bruce, resigned; Thomas W. S. Davis of Virginia to be assistant commerce secretary; Maj. Gen. Alfred Maximilian Gruenther to be deputy chief of staff for plans and combat operations of the army with the rank of beutenant gen eral. McAuliffe now is commander of the 24th infantry division station ed in Japan. BABIES GET DYSENTERY LITTLE CURRENT. Ont, Sept. 14-iihVBetween 40 and 50 babies are ill with dysentery in the near by Wikwemikong Indian reserva tion, it was reported here today. Between 10 and 20 Indian infants were believed to have died of the disease recently. City Councilman Raymond Bar rett said, "The city is much better managed now than before he (Bachman) came here." Mayor Savage intimated" that the movement against Bachman start ed with the recent dismissal ' ef Police Chief J. O. Byerley and Policeman Martin Holmes by Bach man. Savage endorsed Bachman's ac tion by reading to the assembly that overflowed the council hall a letter charging Byerley with in efficient handling of the police de partment. The letter was signed by most of the policeman who served under the former chief, in cluding Holmes who was discharg ed after the letter was written. Holmes, since his dismissal is a party to the protest against Man ager Bachman. Seven police officers tonight en dorsed management of the police department by Manager Bachman who has directed police activity since Byer ley's dismissal. ! via "srv ! firm UoeSIl t Like Formula, Willing to Talk PITTSBURGH.! Sept 14 -UP) United States Steel corporation today bluntly refused to accopl the presidential! fact findinf board's steel peace formula with out bargaining. CIO Steelworker President Philip Murray forced the 1mu. developing anew I the threat of A nationwide steel Strike at the piration of the presid-ntial true September 25. j Murray told Ut S. Steel Presi dent Benjamin F.i Fairless to rtat plainly whether the nation's No. 1 steel producer would accept th board's recommendations. Murray didn't like Fairless' ini tial answer that they resume bar gaining without committing b4f steel on the board findings. Willing: to Confer Fairless quickly fired back that the steelworker chief can't dic tate U. S. Steel's acceptance as a condition to bargaining but he's willing to renew conferences. And Fairless made it plain for the first time just how bis steel feels about the fact finders' re port. Big steel doesn't like it. President Truman's board rec ommended a 10-cent hourly pack age for the steelworkers million members to coyer company fi nanced insurance tmd pensions but not wages. Financing the pro gram is the thorn in the side of big steel. Production Cost to Rise Said Fairless: ! " i' "In spite of the fact that th cost of producing steel will be increased by arty new contribu tory program of social Insurance, United States Steel is willing to pay up to four tents an hour, the amount suggested by the presi dential steel board, a 1 its proper share, of the cost of a proper pro gram for social insurance on t contributory basis arrived at through collective bargaining, "It s position, i however, is that as a matter of sound principle any program of social insurance be on a 'contributory basis. "At first glance a cost of 19 cents an hour for social security under the recommended non-t on- . tributory program may seem like a small amount.' Cot Estimated "But when applied to the steel industry, the cost of such a non contributory program would b approximately $200,000,00 a year when operating at full capacity, as in 1948. That would be; the equivalent of adding $3 to th cost of each ton of steel produced; in the country last year. . .; Mm ray didn't comment Imme diately. A spokesman said he wsf studying big steel's reply and, that no answer could be expected be fore tomorrow at the earliest. The - close mouthed Scotsman gave up his fight for a fourth round wage increase for his men who average around $1.63 an hour. But he insists j on an lnsufanoe and pension program financed en tirely by the Industry. Permits Issued For 9 Homes! Building permits totaling nearly $55,000 for construction of; nine homes in the Salem area were Is sued Wednesday by the city en gineer's office. t Permits to build six homes at costs estimated from $3,100 to $8, 450 were issued to Ben Meyers. 1139 Union st. The homes all will be located In the 600 block tt Breys street. Two permits for home construc tion were issued to Ness and Nesa construction company for dwell ings at 1880 and 1840 S. 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