t I (U l So MMm PmslooD3 X.J. - J L '-3,11'' '? , $31 . rn. irai m WOW jr WW J S3lb YXAB U PAGES ! Th Oregon Statesman, Satan, Oregon, Tuesday. November 22, 1943 PRICE $c" No. 248 ' - . - ; - , - a ' -' .6 'Munch WDCDQa - . Dr. Paul J. Raver, administra tor of Bonneville Power adminis tration, has announced the con tinuance lor a five-year term of the present $17.50 wholesale rate per kilowatt year. At the tame time he makes it clear that t the end of this period the rates may have to be advanced, to $22.50, because of the higher cost of current construction. That cer tainly should cause no surprise. Bonneville was built in a period of very low costs, and the major part of Grand Coulee dam too. The new power installations at Coulee and the new McNary and Chief Joseph dams now are being paid for with "50-cent dollars". To re turn to the treasury the money ex pended, with Interest, will call for higher rate schedules , for BPA. Even so, the rate wiU still be the lowest of any in the country. With this announcement Dr. Raver also disclosed that he was cutting 59,000 kilowatts from the contracts with five major private utilities for 1950; and said he might cut the private power com panies out completely the follow ing ear. It will be 1953 before power comes in from any of the new dams, according to present schedules. ' --' . Under the law publicly owned utility systems and cooperatives have priority In service from the federal plants. But these now rank third in consumption, falling be low private industries and private utility companies. Dr. Raver has given the private industries (chief ly aluminum) 20-year contracts, but holds - the ; private utilities, - whose service is decidedly more essential than that' of roasting alumina, to one-year .terms. The la w " offers ; no warrant f or this preference.-Denial of (Continued on Editorial page 4.) Seamen, Cab Driver Found Dead in Taxi PORTLAND, Nov. 21 -(P)- The bodies of a cab driver and two merchant seamen were found in side a taxi hauled out of the Wil lamette river today at the edge of Harbor, Pier here. Police said the cab apparently plunged off the pier in a Saturday morning fog while hurrying the sailors to their ship. Cab Driver Frank Wing, 40, Portland, had been missing since about 3:00 a.m. Saturday when he last reported to his employers, the Radio Cab company. The sailors were identified as Don Schrieman, an oiler, and Ed Mazarceth, an engine room wiper. They were from the freighter China Bear, now berthed at Longview, Wash. The - freighter, police said, had remained six hours past scheduled departure tune at" the Linnton dock of the Clark & Wilson mill for the sailors to come aboard. Sailors Union Strike Postponed to Thursday i SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 -VP) Postponement of a threatened strike by the AFL sailors union, until' Thursday at least, was an nounced tonight by Federal; Con ciUator Omar Hosklns. Hosklns announcement came i few hours after Harry Lundeberg, secretary bf the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, was to have begun count of strike ballots case in west coast ports. The union had Indicated a strike might start to morrow. Animal Craclcers By WARREN GOODRICH "Good old Horace always tho jam 1or 50 years Ms been tour puu." ' Wi Says Husband Arrested by Hungarians .. k rj, . , ,:-:,, , , -3 r- - J:: VIENNA, tir. tiHiru Sebert A. A. Vtgeler, Earopean representative of the InUnuUensl Telephone and Telegraph company, was arrested br nnarta police last Friday aad Is betas; held incommunicado. She Is shown with their abb. Kaber.slr-i left Mil William. In m recent nhoto. Tho HanararUn forelrn ministry disclaims any i knowledge iof the arrest. U.S. Business unganans VIENNA, Austria, Nov. 21 -(JF)-The Hungarian foreign ministry in' Budapest declared today it "knows nothing about" Robert A. Vogeler, American businessman who disappeared fin that com munist country i tour days ago." Mrs. I Vogeler reported on Sun day the disappearance of her hus band, assistant vice president of the International Telegraph and Telephone company, while enroute from Budopest to Vienna She said he had been playing a hide- and-seek game with Hungarian secret 1 agents who persisted in shadowing him. Unofficial but reliable reports today said it was believed he was arrested at the Austro-Hungarian border about noon Friday. The report said files of the I. T. 8c T. in Budapest had been confiscated and Vogelefs secretary arrested. American legation officials in Budapest, as well : as representa tives of other western European countries, have - been making in quiries; of the Hungarian govern ment about the 'American. Mrs.iVogeler alsd expressed con cern that Edgar Sanders, a British accountant for International Tele graph and Telephone in Budapest, may hve been srrested. She said Sanders would know of her hus band's .disappearance but she had not heard from him and been un able to contact him. ' Francis Elected Mayor of Dayton Statesman News Senrlca DAYTON, Noy. 21 Carl Fran cis was elected 'mayor here today in the Only contested office of Day ton's municipal, election. Francis, a state; representative, defeated A. J. French 141 to 103. The incumbent' mayor, John D. Jones, j was not , a candidate. New counciimen elected wer H. W. jFrink, Harry Williams and Glenn ; Stewart. S Citv recorder D. S. Filer and City Treasurer Ken neth Ppmeroy also were re-elected without opposition. Official Held ByiH Interim Group Studies Net Earnings Tax Plan PORTLAND, Nov. 21 -CP)- A legislative interim tax committee today explored m 'proposal to re place the present personal proper ty taxi with a state levy on net earnings of business, farming and professions. f ' The committee reached no con clusions,, but heard several argu ments for and against the proposal. State Rep. Giles French said the plan "would raise the same amount of money but f simplify the tax structure so the average person could Understand it without tak ing a five yearstiidy course." He explained the existing personal property levy has so many exemp tions it is confusing and unfair to some people. s French spokef of a 2 per cent levy as a working figure. "It wouldn't need be higher than 2 per jcent and ! might b lower, he added. I ? The proposal .included a provi sion for return of a share of the f 11 Togeler (center) tola newsmen (AF wlrephoto. to the Btateaman.) health Board Okehs Salem -Hospital Fund Ground-breaking for the new Salem General hospital may start next July or August as a result of state board of health approval of a $270,000 federal grant here Monday. The board's action' now goes to the surgeon general of the U.S. Consolidation Plan Expected At School Meet A statement of Salem school district 24's tentative policy to ward further consolidation with outlying districts is expected at tonight's school board meeting. Frank Bennett, city school superintendent, and! Gardner Knapp, school board member, Monday night told a meeting of city, county and state jschool of ficials that such action; would be proposed. ! Policy Suggested j Bennett believed the board would recommend that school dis tricts should not be consolidated unless "the best interests of ed ucation throughout the county would be served." j The plan Jte- formulate a tenta tive policy was suggested by Mrs. Agns Booth, Marion county school superintendent, j Mrs. Booth, who called Monday night's meeting at the! state lib rary building, said such a policy would tend to unite outlying dis tricts in plans to consolidate among themselves. j " View Consolidation j F. W. Cammack, chairman of the Rosedale school board, agreed with Mrs. Booth. - j Cammack's district ihas sche duled a meeting November 27 to discuss possible consolidation with other districts south of Sa lem. He said possibility. that Sa lem would accept the Rosedale district might cause disunity among residents in his area. Bennett,- in agreeing to ask a statement of policy, emphasized that outlying school districts would be not prevented from uniting with Salem at some future date. revenue to the counties to offset present collections from county personal property levies. During the discussion, C C Chapman, editor of the Oregon Voter, a speaker at the committee meeting, said farmers and profes sional people would pay more tax es under the proposed plan. He said "lawyers have little personal property except their law libraries. A net income tax would' bring a large tax income from; such sour ces." f . Committee members' indicated farmers who now pay personal property taxes on large invest ments in machinery would bene fit Their levy would be on their net income. They added that tur key growers, however who they said buy eggs in the spring and sell turkeys in the fall and have comparatively smaller personal property taxes would pay higher taxes. Bridges Trial In Vienna that her husband. Robert Public Health service for final approval. The money is provided by public law 725. the Hill-Bur ton act, which was passed in 1943 to assist communities in the con struction, remodeling and equip- ping mi Hospital idiiiiiicB. Following the state board of health meeting M. L. Meyers, chairman of the board of trustees of Salem General hospital, slated that plans for the $810,000 first unit might be completed within five or six months after final ap proval and that construction could thereby start by late next sum- mer. Plans Already Beran Carl Erikson, Chicago architect who has specialized in hospitals for the past 42 years, already has started plans for the new -build ing. Another architect, probably Salem man, will be retained to do detail work. The first unit will be a com plete maternity wing plus the central admitting and administra tive core of an "X"-shaped bund ing with an overall cost exceed ing $3,000,000. The four wing extensions will be added as soon as finances permit. The federal grant, to come from the 1951 allocation provided money is available, would repre sent one-third of the cost of the first unit. Ratio of local money to federal funds varies by states and is based on per capita wealth of states. Transfer Planned When the first unit is complet ed the obstetrics department will be transferred from the ' present Salem General hospital building. A spokesman for that hospital said this will make about SO more bed --nable for other cases pro vided the state health department does not enforce a stipulation re quiring BO square feet of space for each bed. It is not enforced here currently due to the over crowded condition, he said.. En forcement would mean a net gain of about 10 beds when the new unit is ready. There will be 250 beds In the hospital when it is entirely com pleted. It will be built on a site about 500 feet north and slightly west of the present building. Local money for the project is being provided from the funds of the Salem Hospital Development program, from which Salem Mem orial hospital already has been remodeled. (Additional details on page 2.) COFFE PRICES JUMP PORTLAND, Nov. 21 -(JPy-Wholesale coffee prices jumped 3 cents a pound today by major distributors. The latest advance put the price of vacuumed pack brand to 75 , to 76 cents a pound ai wnoiesaie. 1 trine WGQiifttGQ Min. 33 49 24 Preclti. .1 trace trace trc ,00 Smlem Portland . San Francisco Chicago . 43 - SI 5 S3 New York 49 43 Willamette river -2.7 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Connd crabl cloudiness with scattered show er today and tonight. High today near S3; low tonicht near 32. SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year 9-33 Last Year 10.20 Normal S.69 Testimony by Former Aide; f Raises Debate SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 21-UPi- The government's much-heralded Sunday punch" witness took the stand in the Harry Bridges Der- ury trial today, but he had no sooner testified that he once Join ed the communist party than de fense objections blocked further testimony for the day. The witness, through whom the government has said it expects to establish Bridges' entrance into the commlinist party, was John H. Shomaker, 48, of Menlo Park, Calif., former aide of Bridges and once a local officer of Bridges' CIO longshore union. The Australian-born Bridges is charged with perjury and con spiracy to defraud the government in testifying at his 1945 naturaliza-, tion hearing that he had never belonged to the communist party. Two other high-ranking union member are also on trial, charged with aiding and abetting the con spiracy. Today's session was one of bitter tension, marked by almost con tinuous objections and heated ex changes between counsel. Federal Judge George B. Harris warned Chief Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan that if he persisted along his present lines "you might well be in contempt of court. Shomaker testified to holding several longshore union jobs uia tne time come when you became a member of the com munist party?" asked the govern ment counsel. "Yes, said Shomaker. But his answer was nearly drawned out by Hallinan's heated objection. Hal linan said the question called for opinion and conclusion of the wit ness, and he wanted to argue the point. After some argument, with Jury excused, the point still had not been settled when court recessed. was Libia Yoted Independence NEW YORK. Nov. 2WP)-The United Nations assembly voted overwhelmingly today to make a sovereign nation of Libia, the big gest colony of the African empire lost by Italy In war. " Ljbian independence will be ef fected not later than 1952 under the binding decision left to the U. N. under terms of the Italian peace treaty. The assembly voted also over bitter Ethiopian protests to send Italians back to Africa as trustees for 10 years over Italian Somali land, and set up a U. N. commis sion to decide within a year what to do with Eritrea. The final vote on the three-point program for disposal of the old Italian colonies on the Mediter ranean, Red Sea and Indian ocean coasts of Africa was 48 to 1, with nine countries abstaining. GRANGER RE-ELECT GOSS SACRAMENTO, Nov. 21 -JP)-Albert S. Goss, Washington, D C , was re-elected today to this fifth Consecutive two year term! as mas ter of the national grange. Parrish Students ' '"" : , j lI-T w V rli ' ' -Mfc-i n.g-k 111 in sin mi mm " 11111 35 Lost Aboard ane Discovery of Signal Hare Raises Hopes For Refugee Children OSLO, I Norway, Nov. 21 -VP)-Discovery of a burned-out signal flare raised hopes tonight Ihat some of the 35 persons aboard a missing plane may be found alive in the dense forests of southern Norway. I Among the passengers were 28 Jewish refugee children. The plane, owned by Aero Hol land, last) was heard from by radio at aboutl 6 p.m. yesterday as it neared Oslo's Fomebu airport. Soon afterward a sharp flash, fol lowed by an explosion, was ! re ported near Gjersjocn lake, a mile southeast! of Oslo. The owners said at The Hague the plane was considered lost. Nearly 1. 000 searchers! including home guards, police and hundred of volunteers, struggled; through tangled under growth sf 11 last night and today. F : and a drizzling rain hampered their efforts. j Resume Tomorrow "It is )ike looking for a needle in a haystack," said M. Endresen, who is cireting Red Cross units in the search. Norwegian airforce craft, aided by Swedish and Danish planes, took part in the hunt until dark ness fel4 They will resume' to morrow, j Rescuej vessels searched : in Swedish i and Norwegian waters far out ihto the Skagerrak on the chance the plane came down at sea. Daijiish ships were alerted. The only fruit of today's search was thef discovery of a signal parachute in the woods about 10 miles north of Oslo. It is believed to belong to the missing plane Aviation experts are examining it. ! Terrain Hinders The pSane carried the 28 child ren, three nurses and four crew men. Ajll the children were of Tunisian! origin. A spokesman for the American joint distribution committee, Marcus Levin, said they weife all undernourished i and showed symptoms of tuberculosis. Even though the plane may have crashed jnear Oslo, bad weather and the Jrough terrain may delay discovery for days. Oslo is sur rounded by vast stretches of forest on threej sides. The children aboard the plane were to have had six months of rest and rehabilitation in Scandin avia before travelling on to Israel. Court Rejects Eisljer Appeal j WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 -ip)-The supreme court today rejected an appeal by the fugitive Gerhart Eisler, reputed former No. 1 com munist leader in the United States against a contempt of congress conviction. The hjgh court had previously shelved the case after Eisler jump ed bail Jn this country and fled abroad last summer to find refuge behind the Soviet iron curtain. Today's action means that Eisler, whose flight came while he (was under sentence of a year in jail and $1,000 fine, will face prison if he ever returns to the Uniited States. Give Food Ail the boys and girls at Parrish Airpl brinrtar canned foods and non-perunaoie geoas to scnooi, resmt Inr in! the hose collection shown above. The food will be turned ver to the Marion county welfare commission for distribution to needy! net-sons for their Thanksgiving dinners. An Informal eon . test between the Boys' league nearlyi 1400 pounds of foodstuffs. Ia photo, left to right, are Bob Hushes. 237S Laurel ave. Paul Maison. 345 Manbrin dr.; Lyn liardT. Bresident of the Boys' Stewart, faculty advisor; Dorothy NoU. Girls' league president. 2095 Portland rd.; and Nola Campbell. Girls league rice president. 1575 Madison are. (Statesman Captive Angus Ward, U. 8. consulate of ficer in China, who is being held by Chinese communist forces in Mukden. Li May Form Third Chinese Government' i HONG KONG, Nov. 21 -UPh Well-informed quarters speculated today that the ailing Li Tsung-jen might form a third Chinese gov ernment and seek American aid. in opposing both the communists and Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek. LL acting president of the na tionalist regime since Chiang "re tired" last January, flew to Hong Kong and entered a hospital Sun day. i He long has been at loggerheads with Chiang, vainly urging active warfare against the reds instead of Chiang's prevailing policy of cau tious withdrawals. Although Li came to this British Colony for the announced purpose of treating a stomach ailment, his departure from nationalist China created consternation in Chung king, the provisional capital. Foreign! observers arriving in Hong Kong from nationalist ter ritory about the same time that Li did" said.it was a fair speculation that Li might loxm an anti-communist anti-Chiang 'organization and go to the United States to seek substantial material aid. Stump Blasting Cuts Power in Lincoln Area A brief power outage along Wallace road just north of Lin coln Monday morning was the result of a stump-blasting acci dent, according to Portland Gen eral Electric company officials. . One of the stumps went high in the air, came down onto the primary, 2,400-volt circuit, which snapped back into the 57,000-Tolt line. The latter remained in ser vice after the 8:30 a.m. flash, but at least three transformers and three capacitors were burned out, said Fred Starrett, division manager. ; Extent of the damage on cus tomer premises was not deter mined Monday night, but crews re-established service in a short while. to Aid Needy Junior high school have been busy and Girls league has resulted in league. 17SS Norway are.; Bruce photo.) AchesoH Issues S Appeal Angus Ward, Staff Held by Chinese Reds in Mukden By Edward E. Bomar WASHINGTON. Nav ' 21 tal- The United States today! askjpd ; 30 nations including soviet I Rus sia to Join in bringing pressor on the Chinese communists to free American Consul General An tut Ward and his staff from a Mukden Jail. I ! . ! j An unprecedented personal ap peal for; urgent concerted action was sent out by Secretary of :Stato Acneson over me weekend to tho foreign minister of every country with representatives in China, t The new step, announced by iho state deoartment, was taken amid a mounting outcry for the use: ot force if neoMaarr t fr th ran. sular officials, who were jailed 'our weeks ago on charges ta-hirh the united States has denounced as "trumoed un." I it l Termed Outrago I If ! Officials said Acheson's personal appeal was I without diplfimalie nrecedenL It rnt mit TVtlv night, a few hours after President Truman caned tne treatment s of Ward! an outrage. ! ill Acheson's move posed: a direct test of the attitude of Soviets Rus sia and of four other Soviet bloe countries to which his; messago was dispatched. ji Some diDlomatic officials voiced the susoiciort privately that Rds sia as the princiDle backer of tho new Chinese Red regime may have instigated the war incident as a blow to American prestige, i i Protest Ignored i t . S - "As a matter of urgency." Ache son asked eath foreign minister; to "express to the highest Chinese in Peiping through such channels ! may be available to you, the con-. cern which your government un doubtedly feels" over the treat ment of Ward. I 1 J AchesoD liimed to the Inter national appeal after communist authorities at Peiping ignored di rect U. S. protests and requests for The state iepartment'i toie jn formation about tho charges, which have come via the com munist press and radio; is! that Ward and the four others were accused of beating a Chinese con sulate emp'oye who asked foif back pay for his services. r I Demands forr Force . Demands that the 1)1 S use force if necessarr la fn Warri have been voiced' by the Ameri can Legion's National Coinminder George r. Craig, and by Senator Knowland fR-Califl. Ther has been no hint, however, that Iheso proposals have received serious consideration at the state depart ment! f . - I Although the IT. S. has a task fleet In the western Pacific which could enforce a blockade! of communist-held ports, both ' Mukden and Peiping are far inland, 'j Aside from other possible, ef fects, the new American finnvm miffht servo to rallv ttntimne ' against tSe" admission of, commu nist China into the United Nations. This is expected to come Up aa an urgent issue, possibly in ' Jan uary, i; r s I ! 1 Suspect Held j InjSIayinffj j Of Little Girl! FRESNO, Calif- Nov. 11 (JPi A 25-year-old cotton picker: war booked tonight on a charge of mur der in the brutal rape slaying cf 17-months-old Josephine Yanez. Deputy Sheriff Hubert Kevins said the man. Paul Gutierrea, ad mitted in a statement that he had "spanked" the baby a bit but had blacked out and did not remember exactly what had happened. !j 1 He was arrested this afternoon, six miles west of Huron; tho tiny cotton growing community linear where the child was raped,; and smothered and thrown in the mud in what police called the most vicious murder ever committed in Fresno county. f! 5 Brilliant investigative Work pre ceded the arrest. ! ij Nevins said prints found in the mud where the child v Lay showed that the coat worn by the; assailant was not a common coat weave, and that it had three buttons on tho cuff. Footprints gave officers' an indication of the man's isize, Running down numerous tips on , men seen with mud and possibly blood upon their clothing,; the offi- cers were led to Gutierrez. i The Little -victim was a daugh ter of Joe Yanez. 29, a ranch work er, and his wife, Teya,! 22J: She was kidnaped from their car; Just after i midnight 'Sunday : morning. After an all-day search,'! her body was found face down i in ! a muddy furrow in a field. Her j head had been shoved into the mud. There were flakes of mud in her lunf i ;. ' j ' NORON'IC FAULT FIXED I I OTTAWA,- Ont, Nov. .21 HJPr" Justice R. L. Kellock reported to day that the captain and owners were i at fault for the disaster to tho Great Lakes steamer Noronlo which burned at her Toronto dock' Sept ; 17 with a loss of 118 lives. ".( V f .