Snow Poses Problem for Chickens, Too , ; , , f ' . . c j 4l 83tla YEAR 16 PAGES Th Oregon Statemoai Salem. Oregon Thursday, January 12. 1950 - . PRICE 5c i Ma. 3CS Flying Arrow Gives Up Shanghai Run r 1 On Ain ff lnln" anow In the , nf bIM iw a rwk f Rhnd - Salem during an early moraine perhaps Jast out to see the snow. (Statesman pnoto.; Weiv Coating of Snow Searchers .Find Lost Crews Sandbag Dikes Against Surging Midwestern Streams By tho Associated Prt ' Emergencr sandbag aquads braced weakening dikes Wednesday awaiting the surging crests of turbulent rivers In Indiana and Illinois. More rain was expected. Sandbag crews worked to plug a leak In the Wabash river levee tPCDCODI-E ' Of all th screwy, Involved deals for the aaje of a utility th one .cooked up with American Power and Light company for sale, of the common stock of its subsidiary. Pacific Power & Light, belongs in the Rube Goldberg class of financ ing. The shade of the late Howard Hopson of pre-new deal days mmii to walk again. AP&P has evidently decided to liquidate, as it was required under the federal holding company law to contract its far-flung interests. The east ern executives, apparently paying no attention to executives of the operating company, proceeded to work out terms of sale of its stock interest. And Guy C. Myers, who has brokered many a deal between private utilities and public bodies, is very much in the picture. 1 Terms of the deal are disclosed in notice of a hearing on it set v RUT. tar 4 -Tanuai-r 23rcL Thirteen corporations and individ uals "ire the buyers, the principal one being Robert R. Young's Allegheny corporation with a pur chase interest of 22 per cent And Guy Myers has an option on two and one-half ner cent of the stock. The price is to be $18,500,000 , of which $10,000,000 is to be in cash. The remainder is to be paid off by turning over to the seller 70 per cent of dividends and dis tributions. This price is for the stock interest, the bonded debt and presumably the preferred stock liability to be assumed by the purchasers. The buyers are not buying for investment but for trading. This is indicated in the SEC statement that purchasers plan to sell off property and stock. If they do not wind up the sales in 23 months then AP&P is to get an additional $1,000,000. And the selling agent U to be '; (Continued on page 4.) Mercy Death Trial Scheduled Feb. 20 MANCHESTER, JUT, Jan. 11- Vfy-Dr. Hermann N. Sander, 40 year - old physician charged with murder in the "mercy" death of a cancer patient, will go on trial Feb. 20. t Superior Court Clerk Arthur S. Healy, who announced the trial slate, said a panel of 160 will be called to choose the 12 Jurors. Animal Crackers : By WARREN GOODRICH "How you wert tying?" if if .j. . . . ; J. S&lem area vomi a problem for Island Rd ehickena crMUi anow snow flurry Wednesday, apparently at Kusseimuc, a town or zzt population on tho Indiana-Illinois boundary line. Sandbags were rushed by boat and 'truck from a supply station about nine miles away. John Ritter, assistant Illinois state police chief, called the Rus sellville and Maunie levee areas "danger spots." Maunie, a village of 525 population, is about 25 miles west of Evansvllle, Ind. But breaks there would add but a few more persons7 to the hund reds j of refugees in the water soaked region, Ritter said. The Wabashvwas expected to crest! at Vincennes, Ind., Wednes day. iVincennes has a population Of 20,000. At Old Shawneetown a few miles south of where the Wabash was dumping Into the Ohio, Chief Ritter said he expected the town to "fill up like a tub full of holes." The 60-foot Ohio river levee there, Ritter said, "has had no re pairs for years," and he expected seepage to fill the streets of the town of 800. The 1937 record flood caused most Shawneetown residents to mov to high ground in New Shawneetown. Floodstage at Shawneetown is 33 feet A crest of 51 is expected this week end. The federal weather forecasters said there will be rain in the soaked area "some time Thurs day. - . .' ii Ri B. Lesher Transferred -To California R. B. Lesher Salvation army captain, Wednesday announced he would be transferred January 22 from the Salem area; where he has served the past five years. Lesher said his next position would be in northern California. No replacement for Salem has yet been named. ! The captain and his wife and three children came to Salem early in 1945 from Alaska where he ! had served the previous 15 years. i I sincerely regret leaving the Salem area where IVe spent some of my happiest years," Lesher said Wednesday. He will attend the annual Sal vation army advisory board meet ing Monday at 6 p. m. at the Senator hotel before leaving the city. , t Major Roderick Durham, Port land,, divisional commander for Oregon and southern Idaho, will speak at the dinner. A short busi ness meeting with election of new board members also will be con ducted, f! Lutheran Hour's Maier Dies of Heart Disease ST. LOUIS, Jan. 11 Jpy-The Rev, Walter A. Maier, who had a worldwide audience for his week ly Lutheran hour radio broadcasts, died today of heart disease at the age of 56. His broadcasts, translated into 36 foreign languages, went out over a network of about 1,200 ra dio stations in the United States and 49 other countries and terri tories, n nOW OTHER nALF LIVES BUENOS AIRES, ! Jan. 1 WJPV Buenos Aires sweltered today in a new summer heat wave. The tem pcrature reached 1(10.5. Max. Mia. rrvel. St -M S3 J01 40 .14 ssirm ; Portland fm rrancisco Chic to , . 17 .as; . Mi . 31 14 JOO Nw York , 4$!U 40 9.S fet. Willamette river , FORECAST Uronv i U.S. weather bureau, McNary field.: Salem): MoaUy cloudy today with occasional rain and snow flurries. Hif h today near 38; low tonifht 35 to 37. . SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year . Last Year Normal 20.4 . 3LS9. U.22 i .,. 1 - ' J . .. , 4l the country fowl both domestic - covered II alscT street In south In search of something to eat or Forecast; Rancher Salem's off-again, on-again snow was pretty well off again Wednesday nigty. Except in the higher elevations that got more than the inch re corded at McNary field weather station Wednesday morning. But weather officials here said there would likely be a new white covering this morning. Tem peratures were slated to fall near 25 degrees in the wee hours after staying Just above 32 up to mid night. Later today temperatures of 38 were predicted, a degree higher than Wednesday. Some Oregon communities still were struggling with deep snow. Schools Dismissed Near Klamath Falls a 32-year-old rancher was found safe after he disappeared in a blizzard 24 hours before. He was Walter Kit tredge, Jr. He was found 17 miles from the spot where he left his stalled truck. Forest, rangers and ranchers formed a search party and were firing rifles as a signal when Klttredge emerged from beside a little fire he had built. About 400 children at Maple ton, near Eugene, got a holiday because debris-filled . Knowles creek battered out part of a bridge linking the main part of town with the school. Phone Lines Restored The logging community of Ver nonia in northwest Oregon Ex pected to have phone lines back in operation today. The hamlet of timber was all but unreach able although some cars got through the deep snows of the coast range. j The state highway department eliminated or modified load-limit restrictions on 15 roads including the Salem-Dayton highway. The limits had been! effective since last week to protect the roads from frost damage. About 25 oth er roads were still restricted. (Ad ditional details on page 6.) State police warned that roads around Salem would be slick again this morning. Only a cou ple of cars were! reported in the ditch here Wednesday night The state highway department went farther with their warning. They advised motorists they would be better off if; they stayed at home under present conditions. Icy streets caused an accident that sent Anna Singleton, 32, Sa lem route 7, box 145, to Salem General hospital for treatment of cuts and bruises! early this morn ing, first aid men reported, She was dismissed j following treat ment. j a a . I one was injured wnen a car she rode in skidded into a tele phone pole at Columbia and Front streets, police 'reported. Swallows Hardware to Escape Routine, Does ' LONDON, Jan. 11 -JPh Ronald Unsworth Stocks had a system for breaking up the drab routine of his life in Dartmoor prison. Authorities V Said . Stocks, by swallowing forks, spoons and needles, he managed to make six trips to hospitals for operations since 1946. Last; week doctors re moved a fork he had swallowed. He died from shock after that op eration. The coroner's verdict to day was: "death by misadven ture." - ! Additional Funds Requested For Paying State's Jobless An additional $15,700,000 for payments, to Oregon's rising rank of jobless workers will be sought here Friday. The state emergency board will be asked to approve the budget request to cover state unemploy ment compensation for the bal ance of the year ending Jane 30. A budget of $11,300,000 for the 1949-50 year was aU but drained during the first six months, rec ords reveal. Payments in Ithat period, which ended Dec. 31, 11949, totaled $10, 599,000. 1 The federal j government con tributes a share to the unemploy ment. - r compensation fund from which payments are made. Expl osion Threat to Freighter By Wayne Richardson ABOARD THE FLYING AR ROW, Jan. 12 -(AV Danger of an explosion today threatened the shell-crippled American freighter. Capt David Jones said "I ex pect an explosion at any time." The danger was due to expand ing cotton bales, jute and caustic soda in the No. 5 bold. NEW YORK, Jan. 11 -(P)- The Isbrandtsen Co., Inc., said tonight it is abandoning its efforts to get its ship, the Flyingg Arrow, into hationalist-patroled Shanghai. The company said in a state ment that the ship has been or dered to Tsinftao, which it called the nearest safe port. Tsingtao also is communist held. However .the company said it did not anticipate any opposi tion by the nationalist govern ment to the. Flying Arrow's dock ing there. "We are not bringing the sub ject up," said Hans J. Isbrandt sen, president of the line. "But we do know there is not the mine menace there that there is at Shanghai. We do not expect any difficulty Destroyers Withdrawn "Anyway, in the condition the ship is in, we cannot consider sending her any farther than Tsingtao." The Flying Arrow was heavily shelled Monday as it tried to make its way into Shanghai against the objections of the nationalist gov ernment. (In Washington, the navy said orders to two U. S. destroyers to stand by the Flying Arrow had been withdrawn, and that the ships were directed to leave the Yangtze estuary. The destroyers had helped the Flying Arrow make repairs.) The company did not say whether other of its ships, poised for an attempt to reach Shanghai, would be similarly diverted. The statement said only: Assured Protection "We ;are not, however, aban doning: or interrupting our regu lar services to Hongkong and oth er Chinese ports which we have maintained for years and intend to maintain." Another Isbrandtsen ship, the Brooklyn Heights, is scheduled to sail from. Hongkong Saturday for Shanghai. Isbrandtsen said it has lately been absorbing "the brunt of the effort to maintain and protect the American foreign commerce with China j. . r. The company said it was satis fied with assurances from Amer lean naval forces in the Far East that navy vessels henceforth will protect merchant shipping outside Chinese territorial waters. Wade Carter Reelected by Labor Council M Wade Carter has been reelected president of the- Salem Trades and Labor council, it was reported wednesaay. Other officers, all reelected this week, are T.J. A. Boehringer, vice president, and Herbert Barker, executive secretary. Three trustees are to be chosen January 24. It was reported Wednesday that a total of 178 union members have signed up for the council's blood donor program this month. s' JETS MAKE FAST TRIP ALBUQUERQUE, N. M Jan. 11 -P)-Kirtland air force base an nounced tonight three F-86 sabre jet pilots averaged slightly over 710 miles an hour on a 325-mile flight from Tucson to Albuquerque today, None of the money is derived from state funds, nor will the ad ditional amount requested by tak en from the state emergency fund, officials pointed out. The state welfare commission will request authority to exceed its $55,000,000 budget by $2,267, 000 at the same meeting. The lat ter sum was carried over from the 1948-49 budget i The 1949-50 budget caused lengthy discussions at the 1949 legislature. The budget approved was opposed by a group who con tended it was not sufficient to as sure a : $50-a-month payment to old age beneficiaries. Despite this, the average payment is now above $50 per month.- DiravasBomi To LHIaiBiian; EedPs Italy Premier, Cabinet to Resign Today ROME, Jan. ll-W-Premler Al cide de Gasperi's coalition gov ernment decided tonight to resign tomorrow, clearing the way for a reorganization he has planned since last October. The decision came, by coinci dence, after a day in which com- ROME, Thursday. Jan. 12-(AF)-Premler Alcide De Gas peri and bis coalition govern ment resigned today as part of a cabinet reorganization planned since last October. munists demonstrated by the thou sands against Italian police for the slaying of six foundry workers in a riot at-Modena Monday. Com munist spokesmen threatened a new anti-government campaign. These demonstrations did not pre cipitate the cabinet crisis. De Gasperi, 68-year-old Chris tian democratic chieftain, is to submit his own resignation and that of his ministers tomorrow morning to President Luigi Einau di, who presumably wiU then ask him to form a new government The premier's party has an ab solute majority in the chamber of deputies and control of the sen ate. He has run the country lately with a coalition of Christian dem ocrats, 1 1 b e r a Is (conservatives ) , middle-of - the - road republicans and independents. ' apers Praised for Freedom Stand PORTLAND, Jan. ll-CP-The Multnomah county democratic cen tral committee tonight commended the Oregonian for its endeavors in the Interest of a free press despite potential reprisals from a large advertiser. The resolution referred to the publication of National Labor Re lations board findings against the Meier & Frank company in a case involving AFL office workers. County Chairman Nicholas Gra net and State National Committee man Monroe Sweetland told the committee that such reprisals had resulted. Sweetland praised Ex governor Charles A. Sprague, edi tor and publisher of the Oregon Statesman, Salem, for first pub lishing the account of the "cold war" between the Oregonian and the big Portland department store. Sprague reported in his column entitled "It Seems to Me" that the store had cancelled 14 pages of advertising as a result of the Ore gonian's printing of the NLRB de cision finding the store guilty of labor law violation. Hit-Run Accident Stops Prineville's Railroad Service PRINEVTLLE, Jan. 11 -(JP)- The city of Prineville's r a i 1 r oa d couldnt make its run today be cause a hit-run motorist hit a switch. The car's blow gave the signal that lets trainmen know the switch is closed, a full 360-degree turn so it looked au right but the switch was open. When the daily train with some 25 cars of pine lumber came along. the locomotive hit the open switch and went off the rails. Work crews said they thought they could get the locomotive back on the track in time for tomor row night's regular run. The city owns the railroad, used to make the short haul to the S. P. & S. line. . Its major cargo is lumber. SMELT RUN BEGINNING PORTLAND, Jan. 11 -CTV The annual Columbia river smelt run started today and the manager ol the Clatskanie Smelt association said it "looks like the real run." Nick Begleries, the manager, said a drzen boats were out seeking the advance guard of the run. Half a dozen 50-pound boxes were checked In today. ROBBERY NETS $38,008 CLEVELAND. Jan. 11- UP) - Three dapper young robbers got away with $38,000 today in a dar ing daylight loan office stickup. Three hours later, police picked up two men and later found $7,721 in cash. Newsp Fleeft Cepprtedl Mike Elliott to Seek Sheriff Post Again To Oppose Appointee Schrunk PORTLAND, Jan. H-(P)-Mike Elliott told the Multnomah cen tral county democratic committee tonight he Intends to again seek the sheriffs office from which he was recalled last October. That puts Elliott into the pri mary ring against Sheriff Terry Schrunk for the democratic nomi nation. Schrunk was appointed by the county commissioners after the recall of Elliott in a special recall election. Schrunk, a 37 year , old ex-city Brochure Explains Underpass Project Briefing the public on what might be done to improve railroad crossing traffic conditions in Salem was undertaken Wednesday night by the Salem long range planning commission, Both tunnel and underpass plans which the i commission has studied are explained in a printed folder made available by the com mission for interested Salem groups. Engineer C. A. McClure also is arranging club programs on the subject In another commission under taking, steps were taken to ini tiate protective zoning of ap proaches to the Salem city air port, which would require joint city-county action. (Additional de tails on page 16). The planning commission, after its two studies of railroad cross ing traffic along the Southern Pa cific mainline through Salem, has gone on record favoring a regrade project calling for a aeries of 11 underpasses between Mission street and Silverton road. This improvement, estimated to. cost $3,500,000, was considered by the commission more feasible than a 13th street tunnel project cost ing an estimated $8,000,000. The regrade and underpasses could be completed in three separate units. The proposed tunnel as studied would extend 4,800 feet from State to Market streets, with open cuts for the railroad grade at both ends. Commissioners have recom mended consultation by dty, state and railroad authorities to Pro rate costs and establish a long range construction program. To stimulate public interest, the commission authorized the printed folder and programs before local clubs and other organizations. Mc Clure. said Wednesday his first few approaches to clubmen result ed in orders for nearly 1,000 copies of the folder. For programs before local groups he offered to bring large maps to illustrate the proj ects under study. Philippine President Undergoes Examination BALTIMORE, Jan. Il-OPf-Presi-dent Elpidio Quirino of the Philip pine islands underwent a long se ries of examinations at the Brady Urological institute of Johns Hop kins hospital today. He was admitted as a patient yesterday. The tests will deter mine whether he wiU undergo a kidney stone operation. They are expected to be completed some time tomorrow. ENROUTE TO FORMOSA HONOLULU, Jan. ll-(AVMme. Chiang Kai-Shek left today for Manila on her way to rejoin her husband at his Chinese national ist headquarters on Formosa. Petitioners Ask Silverton Road Improvement Along Present Route A remonstrance against any re newed attempt to re-locate the Salem-Silverton road from Steffen Corner to Silverton was filed Wed nesday with the Marion county court. The 620 signers of the petition state they want the road improved along its present route rather than over a new roadbed. Tne federal aid project is about three miles long and would cost about $323,000 under present plans. Of this amount $217,000 would be federal funds. In addition to previous remon strances against relocating, the road the petitioners add these rea sons in Wednesday's filing: A proposed railway overhead crossing on the relocated road is not necessary as only one train per day crosses the road. It is estimated this crossing would cost S75.000. - Bases fireman, . had announced earlier today be would run for the party's nomination and be was on hand konight to so advise the committee, Elliott's public career was short lived. He defeated veteran repub lican sheriff Martin T. Pratt in November, 1948, and almost im mediately began making news paper headlines. Later it develop and he admitted " there were falsehoods In his campaign claims and a recall movement got under way. Bus Schedules Altered Again In Compromise City bus schedules were altered again Wednesday in a temporary compromise until City Transit unes oiiiciais can appear before the city council January 23 to de fend first - of - the - year schedule cnanges. The dty council Monday had ordered the bus firm to restore its 1949 schedules. CTL officials said Wednesday this would require at least three weeks and meanwhile they would appear before the coun cil to explain why the changes were made this month. Alderman David 0Hara, who instigated the council order this week, conferred yesterday with Carl Wendt, CTL general manager. CHara said he was convinced the bus management had acted in good faith. "But the council is final author ity and should approve any such changes," OUara pointed out The principal change announced Wednesday affects the Highland avenue run arriving downtown at 7:45 a.m now rerouted via Broad way, Hood and Commerdal streets to serve statehouse workers living in that area. - Wendt said he Is also working for a solution to South 12th street bus service for swing shift work ers, the subject of a complaint to the council by 92 petitioners this week. Security Council Seta Action Without Soviet . LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 11 -Ph The United States feels that the security council can go ahead with its business despite the Russian walk-out, an American spokesman said today. With that in mind, he said, the United States is ready to take up the Soviet resolution demanding the ouster of the nationalist China delegation and then a proposal for a world census of non-atomic arms and armed forces. , The existing grade would be preserved by following the present route thereby saving money which would have to be spent on grading a new right-of-way. A savings of about $25,000 will be made in right-of-way costs by using the old route. Re-location - would demand a new Pudding river bridge at an additional cost of $60,000. A re-located road would not adequately serve the Salem-Silverton traffic nor the "in-between communities - through which the present route passes.) Proponents of the new route say that it would coordinate with the proposed Cascade highway; but this project is speculative and even if built its route through the Silverton area has not been def initely fixed. In commenting on the petition Wednesday Marion County Judge Eunroniifte Q)DHDlbedl Nationalists Add Warships To Patrols By Spencer Moosa TAIPEI. Formosa, Thursday, Jan. 12-(;P)-The Chinese national-' ists today sent additional warships on patrol as a safeguard against the expected communist invasion of Hainan bland. Naval headquarters said, how ever, it had nothing to confirm rumors that a red invasion fleet of 1,000 craft already was bound tor the big island off the south' China coast. Nor did the alp fare which hM been raiding invasion base ports on the red-held south China main-. land, have any reports' that any operation against Hainan had be-( run. Niether did army headquar ters. . ... . ., , ' Shanghai. Canton nit The navy said its reinforring . craft had been assigned to Hainan , strait ; . . . : . Nationalist planes yesterday m rained bombs on bases where the reds are building up strength for invasions of Hainan and other na tionalist islands. , The air force, which said Shang hai and Canton were among the cities attacked, declared the raids were the most extensive in weeks. ; ing boasted that the campaign on" the mainland was at an end. A broadcast said that next to be "lib erated" were Tibet, Hainan island and Formosa.) lOOO.Tnn Shin fflt Bombers and fighters struck at Lulchow peninsula, whose tip is but 10 miles from Hainan island off the south China coast. The air force said a 2,000-ton communist ship was hit and badly damaged. Attacks also were made on red troops massing on the peninsula. The air force reported a 1,000 ton ship received a direct hit on the stern during radio on Shang hai. Medium bombers struck , at red bases where preparations are being made for the invasion of Chu Shan, island blockade base 100 miles Southeast Of Shanghai. Fermoaans Reassured Foochow, seaport between For most and Chu Shan, also was at tacked. Fighter planes ranged up , and down the enact ctr- f 1 n r rrcft which the reds miaht use for an invasion of Formosa. The nationalists sought to give assurance that .Formosa was safe from revolt and that the figM'ng on the mainland was not over. 'The defense ministry said there still are 100,000 regulars and -000,000 guerrillas on the mainland. These figures were believed to be rather generous, particularly in the case of guerrillas; Czechs Order U.S. Agency Director Jo Leave Country PRAGUE,' Czechoslovakia. Jan. II -VP) Henry Levy, director of-, the American joint distribution 1 committee (AJDC) in Chechoslo vakia, was ordered to leave the country today and to liquidate the . Jewish relief agency by the end of the month. ; s His notice from the foreign min- i Istry came less than a month after the arrest of Israel Jacobson, di- rector of the same agency in Hun--' gary. Jacobson was expelled from . Hungary Dee. 28.' c ' . v - That AtvlaMi Trta T rm AVMiTelAai r u wa. va t j m imieivii apperenuy wn m move u gei ria of western-sponsored internation al organizations here and in east- . era Europe, western diplomatic sources said.- " ; Grant Murphy said the points made in the petition would be considered. He said that it would be up to the county court, the state highway commission and the federal bureau of roads to decide soon on which route to choose. The section of the Silverton-Salem highway from Salem to near Cen tral Howell was completed two years ago. , . "A survey has shown the coun ty," said the Judge, "that relocat ing a new road will be more ex pensive than Improving the old one. However we have not yet made up our minds on which route to use." , . The petition filed this week as one of several lodged with the court recently concerning the road. A strong petition favoring re-locating the route was received by the court about three month age from a group of Silverton dtlzena, v