Jury Convicts 11' Top Reds;' Applause Heard from Congress:, scotts imus man nags mg Lat lawy ero r 1 tr ax x Marcantonio : J ' 'pi - , ' ' S3tb YEAB f?- P 12 PAGES Thm Oregon Statesman. 6alm, Orvgon, Saturday. October 15. 1949 PRICE 5c f NO. 210 ir. William Fltike. vctcrmn Seotts MiUa nlmrod. Is ibwa In Salem dis playing the 23-poand bobcat be abet Tbnraday merninir while banU Inr 15 milei eaat f ScotU Mills. The big eat measured seven inches across the ears and 49 Inches aeroH the tips ! Its oatstretcbed paws. lie was hanUnc a deer-slay Inf cencar when he made the . kilL (SUtesman photo). , SESDDQe ' Salem volert' Friday approved the merger of Salem and West Salem. The vote was light, but the majority in lavor of consoli dation was ampler Th lightness of the vote wa -sin that the people generally approved of the merger. Had sentiment been di vided a much larger vote would have. been recorded. -Since the voters of West Salem expressed their approval of the move last July, Friday action was final. Now 11 that Is required Is the canvass of the vote by the city council and then going through the legal for malities to incorporate West Sa lem with Salem and the unifying the city administrations. This consolidation means a lar ger city in terms of population nd area. It permits Salem to rrow in all directions. It makes WmI Salem an integral part of the capital of. the state and the second city in size in Oregon. It Is much safer now to predict a Iread count of 50,000 when the 1950 census is taken, which really will put our city up in the urban class. While we can tuckr our thumbs in our annholes and stick out our collective chest, such self-pride is not for long. With a larger city come larger problems, greater re sponsibilities. Our mayor and city council and the city manager will . have to move at once to bite into them. After combining adminis trative officials .and police forces, obviously the most pressing prob lem will be to provide ample water supplies, for West Salem. The city manager! and the water department have already thought . ahead on , (Continued on editorial page 4) D worshak Named To Senate Vacancy j ' BOISE, Idaho, Oct 14-iip)-Hen-ty C. Dworshak, former republi can senator and representative, was appointed today to the U. S. senate seat vacated by the death of Sen. Bert H. Miller (D-Idaho) Dworshak was named by re publican Govi.C. A. Robins. His selection reduces the senate's democratic majority to 52-44. ' Dworshak was defeated by Mil ler last November in his first bid for election to a full senate term. -Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Left go in I kiren't heard .S good scream for weeks." rum ana Ml Wm i us .r-J -" - ' ' i hut c-ijxy k Property Tax Bill Climbs in Polk County Sutma Newt Service DALLAS. Oct. 14 Polk coun ty taxpayers ! face the highest property tax bill In history as collection time nears. County Assessor Ed C. Dunn today revealed that the 1949-50 tax roll totals $1,356,827. This Is $273,000 higher than the $1,081, 288 levied In 1948-49. Falls City, with a total assess ment of 157.8 mills, will pay the highest rate. The 101.1 mill tax in Dallas Is 20 per cent higher than last year's total. The second ! highest rate, 140.8 mills, will be paid in Willamina. Independence will pay 101.1 mills; Monmouth, 80.7; and West Salem, the part annexed by Salem, 94 2 mills. The increases are principally due to school construction, Dunn said, Roberts Holds Grange Fair Sutetmaa Newt Service ROBERTS, Oct. 14 Plans were completed today for the annual Roberts grange fair Saturday starting at 4 p. m. in the grange halL The hall is located about three miles south of Salem on South River ;? road- Booths will show handicraft, canned foods and fruits, produce and cakes in the day-long fairi Mrs. M. Frederick Hills and Mrs.; Louis Johnson will display theif weaving projects which took blue ribbons at Ore gon state faLf, Mrs. John Croisan will show a unique collection of dolls made from apples. : Ml . A . 1 me owner; xrom a to 7 a. m. will feature a home-style menu of open-face u baked ham sand wiches, cakei and desserts. A "country store" will sell rummage, candy and popcorn balls. (There will be no admission charge. -" 1 ' McKay Approves Rent Decontrol at Oregon Gty Gov. Douglas McKay Friday approved a .resolution providing ior rent decontrol in Oregon City ine resoiuuon originally was adopted unanimously by the city commissioners following a public hearing on , September 23. The governor said the resolution would be sent to National Housing Ex pediter Tight E. Woods for final action. ' I , - Chest Fund i As Final Push Continues Still about $30,000 short of Its $105,000 goat Salem's community chest drive bad netted an official $74,677 iwhen weary auditors closed the books Friday night H. L. Braden, executive secre tary of the chest pointed out that about $3,000 was turned in that had not been; audited. j . j Workers, j captains and leaders will continue the campaign today in a renewed fight to go over the top. The drive, originally ached tiled to end, Friday, was extended until Tuesday in an effort to reach the goaL .i , -f . Women of the south division ex ceeded their: quota Friday with pledges totaEng $2,801. Mrs. Rob ert Wilson, sjr, in charge of the group, said some pledges still were out and would be brought in next wee.--- ;j -j vl One boost to the drive Friday Brands Jury's ! Verdict 'Crime' . 1 -i- .:: L (Pictures on page S) j NEW YORK, Oct. 14 -iJfy- elev en of America's top communists were convicted today of plot to advocate violent revolution in the United States. . J j They were handcuffed,' hustled into a guarded van and whisked Off to jail within an hour to await sentence next Friday. They face maximums of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine each.; A jury reached its guilty ver dict in seven hours. - Before the stunning impact of the verdict wore r off; Federal Judge Harold R. Medina grimly turned to the five defense attor neys and the top defendant, Eu gene Dennis, who argued his own case, and sentenced each to jail for contempt during the nine- months trial. 1 The Icourt ordered the ; lawyers to begin on November 15 terms varying from SO days to six months. j Lengest Federal Trial It was a dramatic ending to a stormy, bitter trial, perhaps the longest federal criminal case in American history, lasting 39 weeks. Judge Medina refused a de fense request to free the defen dants on bail of $5,000. The judge ordered all 11 jailed until sentenced. Defense Attorney Harry Sacher said the jury's verdict and Judge Medina's contempt sentences will be appealed. The U.S. supreme court will be the. final Judge. Have Statement Ready The defendants were ready with a statement prepared In advance of the verdict. They biamed It on President Truman, Wall street, the repub lican party and war profiteers. Conspire to Overthrew ; The charge against the 11 de fendants was conspiring to advo cate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. They are: Eugene Dennis, 44, national sec retary of the communist party in America; Gus Hall. 39, Ohio state chairman; Henry Winston, 35, Ne gro and national organizational secretary; John Gates, 38, editor of the Dally Worker, communist newspaper; Benjamin J. Davis, 46, Negro city councilman ' In New York. Carl Winter, 43, Michigan state chairman; Jacob Stachel, 49, na tional educational director; John B. Williamson, 48, national labor secretary: Robert Thompson, 34, New York state chairman; Irving Potash, 47, vice president of the International Fur and i Leather Workers union; Gilbert Green, 4 Illinois state chairman. WASHINGTON, Oct 14 -(JP) Both democrats and republicans in congress today applauded the conviction of 11 communist party members in New Yorkj but one American labor party ! member denounced the Jury's 'verdict Credit to U. 8. System i Those who approved the deci sion said It was a credit to the American Jury system. Some hop-, ed Itwould start a movement to' do away with all "subversive" elements in the nation. ! But to Rep. Marcantonio (ALP NY) the verdict was an attempt "to brand as a crime the basic American right of free political opinion and free political asso ciation." i The house applauded as Reps. Scrivner (R-Kas and Quinn (D NY) announced the verdict to the chamber. Sen. Dulles (R-NY) said The verdict proves that I was right when I said there was an un American communist bloc and that all decent Americans should be on guard against them." NEW YORK, Oct 14 -UP)- Wil liam Z. Foster, national chairman of the communist party, tonight termed the guilty verdict in the communist ; conspiracy trial- a "disgrace to the United States" and a "body-blow against de mocracy. at $74,677 was the announcement that J. C. Penney employes had ; bettered their quota of $1,050. Losses in donations compared to last year have been noted mainly among the professional group and in rural areas. Willamette university's campus; chest Friday reported $730 in sub- i scriptions to its $1,200 drive and expects a big jump tonight with' the chest-benefiting production of "Varsity Varieties" at the Salem high school auditorium, f AuditH pledge totals Friday in cluded: Automotive and transpor tation, 1 $8,245; contractors and builders, $4,764; educational, $3, 169; general gifts, $3,562; govern mental. $9,122r industrial. $11,130; mercantile, $12,419; professional, $7,314; rural, $845; West Salem, $786; utility, $2,302; women, north, $1,381; women, central, $4,825; and women, south, $2,80 L. IPS JVL Co: ies ! - ! Move into Canton HONG KONG, Saturday, Oct 15 JP)- The Chinese maritime customs office said today it had received a report that communist troops hav.e entered Canton. The same report was carriedin Chinese press dispatches. ' Other communist troopr cut south of Canton and fighting rages about 60 miles north ofhere. Nationalist troops abandoned their positions on the mainland border of this crowi colony. The border troops were said to be withdrawing Westward to be evacuated by sea. They appeared to be clearing out ahead of the reported push south of Canton. (The last dispatch direct from Canton was delayed 17 hours. It said there were unconfirmed re ports of arrangements to surren der the city Friday afternoon, Canton time, or early Friday, U. Sv'time.) Frost Touches Salem Area The Salem area got its first touch of frost Friday morning but the cold wasn't severe enough to damage crops. The mercury touch ed a low exactly on the freezing mark at 32 degrees. It was the first freezing tem perature recorded since April 30 when the mercury also dropped to an even 32 "W light coatmr of frost was enough, however, to cause drivers some trouble Friday morning, but was quickly eased , by the sun. Hiss Loses Bid To Move Trial ;NEW YORK, Oct 14 0Py- Al ger Hiss today lost his bid to have the scene of his second per jury trial shifted from New York to Vermont. i Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe ruled there was no basis in the former high state department of ficial's contention that the pub licity given the first trial so af fected public sentiment that a fair hearing in New York now would be impossible. Hiss is scheduled to go on trial for a second time November 1. . Doctors Sued By TB Patient BAKER, Oct. 14 -(JP)- Two phy sicians were asked for $50,000 to day because a man got tubercu losis. i Mr. and Mrs. Jack G. Young of Pondosa sued Dr. Palmer McKin and Dr. C. J. Blakeley for $50,000, charging that the doctors had in correctly diagnosed Young's case and consequently permitted Young to go on suffering tuberculosis. Diphtheria Cases Mount in Medford I MEDFORD, Oct 14 -(JP)- The number of diphtheria cases here rose to 10 certain and two possi ble ones today. : The county health department expected to complete immumza Uon of all school children by to morrow. Thousands have already been innoculated. NEW WAGE BILL READY WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 JP) A bill raising the minimum wage in interstate commerce industries from 40 cents an hour to 75 was made ready today for final action by the house and senate. Max. ft seta. S2 . as ! freelo. Salem . Portland Sua Francisco Chicago S4 .74 00 JD1 New York 14 4 Willamette River -J feet. rORCAST rom V. S. weather bu reau. McKary Field. Salem : Mostly cloudy today with intermittent ligut rain, becoming paruy cwuay isie to night and Sunday with ahowers. High today near 5a. Low- tonight near ' 41M Weather will be generally unfavorable for farm activitiea today with consider able improvement Sunday. SAJLEJt rUCIPITATIOW Tide Tear Laat Tear : JTermal 2.72 4.41 - , S-fti Secret Societies in Portland Schools Brought to Light by Harassing of Girl PORTLAND, Oct. 14 .-JP- The problem of secret societies in Portland high schools blew into the open today, after ai crowd of boys from one high school at tacked a young European girt ' The girl, who had come to this country recently and tcould not yet speak much English, was knocked down, partly undressed, and called) obscene names by about 50 boys at Washington high school yesterday noon. Superintendent Paul A. Reh mus, indignant at that and other incidents, went to the school board last night and asked them to back up the administration in a crackdown on illegal frateri ties and sororities. He called a special meeting of the board and Lewis Offers Aid to CIO Steelworkers ' ..... ! Aluminum Dispute Peace Talks Fail PITTSBURGH,, Oct. l4-iip)-The Aluminum Company Of America and the CIO Tjnited Steelworkers tonight broke off wage contract negotiations. A strike I is set for 12:01 A.M. (E.S.T. Monday. The strike will affect! 20,000 Al coa workers in nine plants in nine states. The steelworkers; sought an un disclosed wage increase, and a company-paid pension j and insurance program. The pension; and insur ance demand was similar to the one which has closed; down the nation's steel industry.' M. M. Anderson, Alcoa vice president-taHcharge of industrial relations, said the! union "flatly rejected the principle that private pension plans should 'be affected by future changes in social secur ity laws." The company said It proposed a plan increasing existing pension benefits for employes to six cents an hour and insurance benefits to four cents an hour. That is in line with the recommendations of the president's steel! fact finding board. The union, Alcoa said, turned down a company proposal that the pension plan be subject to adjust ments in accordance with future changes in social security laws. Bad Memory for Faces Puts Man in Jail for 6 Months REEDSPORT.'Oct 14 -UP)- His bad memory for faces put Walter McConneU, a sawmill worker, in Jail for six months today. Last January McConneU was fined $500 for selling liquor. The man he sold it to was a state agent i This week he was arrested on the same charge again. Justice of the Peace Fred Wright "finding that McConneU was not a good judge of customers, as he had this time sold liquor to the same state agent to whom he sold a bottle last January," decided to impose the stiff penalty of six months in jail, $1000 fine, and costs. Stuck Plane Wheel Creates Crisis ' f - TULSA. Okla, Oct 14 -4JPy Two quick-witted pilots circled an oil company plane fqr 30 minutes today above the Tulsa municipal airport to avoid a srash landing. While circling, -they work dra matically with screw driver and wrench oh a nose wheel which failed to lowerand finally got it down. i The pilots cut ai small hole through the fuselage hi order to get to the faulty wheel. CHARACTER. ACTOR DIES HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 14 -iffV Fritt Leiber, 65, character actor, died today of a heart attack. A for mer"' Shakespearean piayer, ne came to rioUywood in 1935 and since has played in such films as A Tale of Two CWes," "Hunch back of Notre Dame," and "Hu moresque." He was born In Chi cago. BRIDGES "mGITZTSEjy SEATTLE, Oct 14 -flV Harry Bridges described the conviction of 11 national . communist party leaders today as "frightening." . JUMP AT TBX CHANCE "CHICAGO, Oct'tfy-UtV How ard K. Hansen of Chicago f ot a notice today to serve on the jury that wUl.try him for burglary. administrators for next Monday to set a program. He outlined the hazing that ac companies pledging to the soc ieties, and said the caste system that arises from the fraternity system has an "insidious effect." "Children entering high schools where the fraternity-sorority system is entrenched suffer in a way you cant conceive until your own children go through it" he said. Rehmus appealed to?the school board members to "stand behind us" in a campaign against the secret organizations. "Parents and others," he warned, "will bring legal pressure to bear." The brawl at Washington high school stemmed, school officials said, from initiation hazing. New Draft Call Held Possible BOSTON, Oct. 14 -(JP)- Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, indicated today that there may be a draft caU "in the near future." Here for a tour of state draft facilities, Hershey said at a news conference "there are grounds for thinking that there is going to be another draft caU in the near fu ture." Hershey said, however, he had no orders for such a call but he pointed out that ground forces are now under their quota by about 25,000 men. Five Students Hurt in Wreck Five Salem high school stu dents were injured about 7:15 Friday night in a two-car acci dent south of Tangent state po lice reported. None of the students, enroute to a Salem-Springfield foot ball game at Springfield, was hurt ser iously, but Marvin Jenson, Salem route 6, was confined to an Al bany hospital for observation. Released from Salem General hospital after treatment for cuts and bruises were Betty Thomp son, 779 Breys ave., Margaret and Ruth Pardo, 2595 Bluff st, and Glen Griffin, Salem route 9. A sixth passenger of the Salem car was not injured or identified. Woodburnto Take School Census Statetaaaa News Service WOODBURN, Oct. 14 Frank F. Proctor, Woodburn school district clerk, announced today that a school census will be taken start ing Monday. This year's census will include those between the ages of 4 and 20. Inclusion of this age group is necessary to aUow the district to collect its full share of state basic school support money. The district will receive about $50 per census school child from the state. Wave of Counterfeit $10 Bills Reaches Salem, Store Reports Salem was added to the list of northwest cities on the re ceiving end of counterfeit $10 bills Friday when one business house reported taking one of the bogus tens. A flood of the phony bills have been passed in Portland and Seat tle with Portland on the receiv ing end of 57 of them. Police and banking officials in Salem said Friday that the "ten" passed here was one of the, most clever coun terfeits ever seen. The bill, with the serial num ber 16775911JE, shows only minor differences from genuine $10 bills and takes close scrutiny to determine. The flagpole atop the treasury building picture on one side of the bill is loot quit at tached and a small white dot Assistant Superintendent John S. Griffith said the boys began grabbing girls and kissing them as they left the building part of a pre-initiation order. : When the European girl, stranger to the customs, shied away, someone shouted "knock her down." Griffith said some of the boys formed a fraternity ring around her, while others tore off part of her clothing and called obscenities. The boys were called on the carpet and school officials said the ringleaders probably would be expelled. Their parents were being given a detailed report. Griffith declared that Port land's , secret society problem is probably "worse than that of any other coast city." WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W, Va., Oct. 14-;P)-John L. Lewis made a spectacular bid today for labor unity, offering to contribute to a proposed $2r500,000-a-week pool to help the striking CIO steel workers win a "vital economic conflict.' The unpredictable Lewis thus tossed a bombshell into the coal and steel strikes by shelving for the moment the idleness of his own 400,000 United Mine workers to go to the aid of another union. Lewis appealed to a union foe, AFL President William Green, to ask at least nine of his wealthiest unions to match a contribution of $250,000 weekly by the miners. This financial credit, as Lewis called it would enable the United Steelworkers to win beyond pre- adventure . . . the monumental conflict which is now drawn," he said. In Washington, officials at AFL headquarters were cool to Lewis' proposal. One said: "If the steel workers need any help, they are certainly capable of asking for it themselves.". Hit Jackpot; Also Hits Head DETROIT, Oct 14-jrp)-Mrs. Yo lan Somlo of Cleveland was awarded $5,000 in federal court today because a slot machine bopped her on the head after she hit the jackpot She and her husband Ernest sued a Mt. Clemens, Mich., hotel for damages. - In the suit, Mrs. Somlo said she put a nickel In the slot machine at the hotel in 1945. The jack pot belched forth. A moment later the slot machine toppled off the counter on top of her, she al leged. She did not take time to gather up the jackpot Bids Opened on Detroit Dam Transformers PORTLAND, Oct. 14 -CSV Low bid on six 29,000 kilovolt-ampere transformers for the Detroit dam power house was $470,867, the corns of engineers reported to day. High of the five bids was $614, 500. The bid call specified that the first three were to be shipped to the North Santiam river project by July 1, 1951, and the last three by Nov. 1, 1952. appears at the left of Hamilton's portrait Also the shading on the treasury building is not the same as on the good bilL Police warned Salem merchants to be on the watch for the bogus money which bears the figure 9 in all four corners of the front It was not determined Friday whether the lone bogus bill re ported here had been passed by counterfeiters or whether it had been brought in accidentally from the Portland or Seattle areas. City Detective Wayne Parker said Friday that there is one al most sure-fire method of determ ining whether the bill is genuine and that is to rub it against white paper. The ink of 1 a good bill will smear, while that on the phoney money usually will not. gomi Annex Vote Fails In Area West Salem Added to Salem As Result of Vote By Thomas G. Wright SUff Writer. The Statesman long, heated legal battle to merge the cities of West Salem and Salem was closed Friday when Salem voters approved the mea sure 726 to 307 in a special election held within the city. Voters also approved the addition of an eighth) ward and councilman. y ; But a bid to annex a sizeabiei area lying southeast of Salem went awry when residents of that area voted 138 to 108 to remain out side the city limits. Only slightly more than five per cent of Salem's registered voters went to the polls Friday, but those) West Salem Merger Yes Sell Ward 1 ....105 31 Ward $ ; 104 2g Ward 3 44 16 Ward 4 7 53 Ward 5 1J0 $9 , Ward 6 103 43 s Ward 7 126 54 King wood . . 54 g, Total 726 307 Territory Annexation h Vote in Territory southeast of 1 Salem 108 13$ who did cast ballots favored each of the three issues by a better than 2 to 1 count i 1 About two-thirds of the voters registered in the annexation area cast their ballots. Salem voters ap proved the measure 685 to 292 but the negative vote within the area canceled the action. Controversial Issue The Salem-Wset Salem mercer ended a movement which has seen bitter controversy among West Salem residents. Two state laws were passed by the legislature to allow the merger of the cities, each lying in a separate county and sep arated by the Willamette river; The Kingwood district, completely surrounding West Salem, was merged with Salem at the general election in 1948 and this paved the way for the final action Friday, Voters in West Salem approved the merger at a special election July 26. Only the legal technicalities of certifying the vote remain before the merger and companion char ter amendment are official. Tne charter amendment ap proved 723 to 277, increases the number of wards and aldermen to eight. The present council will lo cate the new ward and choose: a temporary alderman to represent it until the next regular election. Revision of Ward Structure The council indicated that Sa lem's entire ward structure is du for revision, as the heavy new pob ulation on the fringes of the city has resulted in wards of dispropor tionate size. Ward 7 in south Sa lem and ward 5 in North Salem are about two or three times as popu lous as downtown ward 3. Salem Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom greeted the favorable merger vote with a welcome to West Salem residents. Future development ;of the area can now proceed in a more orderly fashion, Elfstrom said. s . Mayor Walter Musgrave of West Salem, one of the leading propo nents of the merger, thanked tha voters of Salem for paving the way for a "greater Salem." (Completer statements by the mayors may be found on page 2). t Vote Consistent h Voters throughout the city were i consistent in their approval of tha ) three issues. Each was approved in 1 each of the seven city wards and ! in the Kingwood area. Ward one) vote 107 yes and 21 no on thai charter amendment 105 , yes to .38 no on tne west Salem merger and ; 94 yes to 40 no on annexation;' Ward two, 101 yes and 25 no, 104 yes and 28 no, 102 yes and 26 no; Ward three, 38 yes and It no, 44 yes and 16 no, 40 yes and 18 ho; Ward four, 73 yes and 47 no, 70 yes and 53 no, 70 yes and 46 no. Ward five, 116 yes and 68 ho. 120 yes and 69 no, 114 yes and 6 J no; Ward six, 106 yes and 35 ho.' 103 yes and 43 no, 97 yes and 37 no; Ward seven, 127 yes and 49 hoi 126 yes and 84 no, 121 yeg and 55 no; Kingwood, 55 yes and 3 54 yes and 6 no, 47 yes and '5 noy NEHRU TO GET DEGREE NEW YORK. Oct. 14 -4VPrma Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from Colum bia University Monday night. 4 ; '- I-' , : i ,3 ' 1 JS. ; " 4 ' -. y ft - -If'-