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Newspaper Page Text, ; - . .1 '.' Rammed British Sub Fate of 58 Aboard Marker "Sates . . Unknown . AclhiGSdDirD S Seen on Surface By Sidney Mlrkin LONDON. Friday. Jan. 13 -45V 89A"YEAR 18 PAGES The Oregon Stateamcm. Salem. Oregon. Friday. January 13, 1950 PRICE 5c No. 309 NOW DtP ma n' nvr from the previous session of congress is the bill Hit. 1572, which is pending in the sen ate This is a bill for blanket authorization of proposed riven and harbors and flood control pro jects in the . Pacific northwest. Amendments are proposed which would blanket in son fourteen Irrigation projects. In brief Jhe combined program of the army engineers and the reclamation bureau would receive congression al authorization. The only congres sional action then required would be appropriations to do the work. A proposed amendment would . rninmhia basin account into which would go all the net revenues of power plants and transmission lines for use con structing runner power ouu. and "upon authorization" con struction costs for other uthori ced projects. Specific authority is a rivrt interest charged on the power investment to meeting costs of non-power pruj.-. - We might bail enactment of this bill and the proposed amendments i-twM fnr the northwest. But I seriously question the wisdom of any blanket approval Dy congrcs. cf the whole program of work em hpwt in the reports of the army engineers and the bureau of rec lamation. The president himself put a halt to the Magnuson bill pending review by the bureau of the budeet. The whole .report should be studied by a national board of review, both asto prac ticability, necessity and timing of the items in this development program. The Hoover commission report called for such a body for impartial analysis, unui sum body is created authorizations by congress should be on a single project basis. , . At the risk of seeming disloyal to the northwest, which is not ' (Continued on editorial page 4.) Senate Okehs I WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -P-The senate armed services com mittee today unanimously okayed Admiral Forrest P. Shermon for .chief ot naval operations as re publican members called off a probe of Admiral Louis E. Den feld's ouster from the post- Action came swiftly after Sec retary of the Navy Matthews had testified that: 1. The navy won't put up with a subordinate who disagrees with policies of his superior. Hell get transferred but not "punished or demoted. 2. He didn't fire Denfeld be cause the admiral lambasted pen tagon policies before the house armed services committee. He had called for a change before the ad miral testified. "I could not have administered the navy with Ad miral Denfeld as chief of naval operations Denfeld. now on leave of ab sence, has not decided whether to stay in the navy in other capacity or retire. "' Sherman's nomination now goes before the senate. Committee 1 Chairman Tydings (D-Md) tried , to get unanimous consent for its approval in the senate after the group acted, but Senator McCar thy (R-Wis) objected. It must lie ever a day. Animal Craclteri By WARREN GOODRICH "fridiy th thirteenth thouldn't even htppen to you" WD Board Sherman Nomination p V IFIILES Rescue of Oil x St si t C" ' f ! , . . - " - lot r , , ', , .'.., ... -.. .-. . .. ' v .... . A : V. Ttaffie was impaired between Salem and Stayton Thursday morning as an Arrow Transport Ce. II tanker stalled oni the highway just beyond the dottage Home farm. Above is the tanker being palled eat ef the shoulder by wreckers as long lines of cars fsom both directions wait. Driver of the tanker. Donald Downs, Portland, said that then when he tried to start again on the highway was restored at Trestle Sags (V2an Killed in Car Crash Ititwwn Nw Serrlc WOODBURN. Jan. 12 A Port land man, 56, was killed today on an icy Pacific highway two miles south of here. The deceased, An drew M. Joys, 7223 N. E. Mallory st- was a passenger In one of three automobiles involved in the accident. Two ambulances were dispatch ed to the crash scene from Salem, but attendants reported no one was hospitalized. Joys was traveling southbound in a sedan driven by his son. Richard A. Joys of the same ad dress. Their car,! a 1949 Oldsmo bile, collided head-on with a car driven by William Weiss of Oak Grove, reported state police. The Joys auto careened off the road and back In the) path of a third car, the report continued. The third car. southbound, was driven by J. C. Millar of West Vancouver. B. C. It . struck the Joys car and the elder Joys was hurled to the pavement by the im pact, police reported. Investigating officers said death was instan taneous. The accident happened about 11 ajn. in front of the Belle Pass! school. .1 DEAD WHALE ON BEACH NEWPORT, Jan. 12-OTVCrowds gathered on the : beach six miles south of here today to examine the body of a 30-foot whale wash ed up during the night; The carcass was in front of ai roadside parking area just north of Seal Rock. Lloyd :G irod of Race for State (Picture on Page 5) ' Llyod Girod, Idanha business man who missed a republican nomination for state representa tive by less than 200 votes in 1942, said Thursday he would be a candidate for that office again this year. Girod, 39, World War II veteran and a native of Oregon, grew up in the Fruitland community and formerly was a teacher. He was principal of Richmond school in Salem when he left the teaching profession in 1946 to purchase a general store at Idanha. He also taught at Shaw, Gates and Aurora, and in 1937 was coach of the first Leslie ' junior high grid team to beat Parrish. He Is a' graduate of Salem high. holds BA and MA degrees from Willamette university, and has been president of Marion county associations of principals, teach ers, social workers and 4-H lead ers. His interest in sports in earlier years led him to play baseball at Salem high, football at Willamette, and to catch for Pade's state IH1KSIHI EG3 Tanker Stalls Santiam Traffic Mtvfm item his track stalled on the steep hill heavy snows prevented him from noon Thorsaayi (Statesman photo.) with Engine, Tank Car Explosion Kills Two Mothers, Three Children VINCENNES, Ind, Jan. 12-JP)- Two young mothers and three small children were killed today in an explosion at Bowman Ter race, a federal housing project. The dead were identified as Mrs. Wanda M. Cooper, 23, wife of Granville F. Cooper; her two children, Charles Wayne Cooper, S, and Barbara Jo Cooper, 3; Mrs. Rose Overfelt, 21, wife of William H. Overfelt, j and her daughter, Vickie June, 18 months. The bodies were torn to pieces by the terrific concussion of the explosion. Two hundred soldiers from Fort Knox, Ky who are here on flood duty, dug the remains out of the shattered concrete block structure which housed the two families. i I Capt. James Compton and Lt. Paul Keene of Fort Knox said the explosion apparently occurred in a utility room housing a gas fur nace. The room was between the two apartments. LEWIS MOTHER DIES SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 12h(P) Mrs. Ann Louisa. Lewis, 91, moth er of John h. Lewis, died today at her home.: Idanha First in Representative championship nine in 1934. He also won the navy officers trout and halibut derby at Dutch Har bor in 1944.! Currently, I Girod is a member of the Detroit school board and the Idanha lire department, and is a nominee for councilman of the recentlyj-incorporated city ofj Idanha. He lis married and has two childrenl Alan, 11, and James, 7. - Girod is the. first announced candidate for state representative from Marionj county. Two of Mar ion county's four representatives, all republicans, already have an nounced they would run for the senate f. W. Chadwick and Douglas Yeater. Another, Frank Doerfler, has indicated he would seek a senate seat. The fourth, John Steelhammer, is expected to run for another term in the house. I Others being prominently men tioned as likely candidates in clude R. L. Elfstrom, Salem mayor; B. E. (Kelly) Owens, Salem auto mobile dealer, and H. R. (Farmer) Jones, former representative. DC! just i before it began snowing and palling off the shoalder. Service on Icy 99-E 1 (Picture on page 2.) Railroad crews this morning will attempt to extricate a 150-ton die sel engine and a tank car loaded with poisonous chlorine wnlcn dropped four feet through a flood weakened trestle at the Oregon Pulp and Paper company Thurs day morning. The Oregon Electric engine and cari hung periously 20 feet above the; rampaging mill race through out: the day as workers moved at full speed to strengthen the trestle. Oregon Electric' largest wreck er, rushed from Portland, arrived in the early evening. Two shifts, comprising about 35 men. were laboring Thursday night and Fri day morning installing temporary cribbing. E. H. Showalter, Port land, Oregon Electric superinten dent, personally supervised theop eration. . J. B. Henshaw. local Oregon Electric freight agent, said the ac cident occurred at 10 a.m. when the; engine backed onto the siding to j pull out the tank car. Fred Boiithman was operating the en gine. The same car was stranded on the trestle earlier this week when the swollen mill race weakened the pilings. Crews had been working on the structure up to Thursday and it was believed strong enough to isupport the engine. Oregon Pulp and Paper officials said the' tieup would not affect production. The chlorine, used in paper manufacturing, is the same substance which overcame several Salem firemen and caused local residents to cough and water at the eyes when it escaped in an un loading mishap about 18 months ago at the plant. If ire District Needs Chief A fire chief still is needed for the Liberty-Salem Heights volun teer department. tary of the new fire district; said Thursday that no applications had been received for the position tThe board is considering a car al lowance of $50 per month for the position which carries no regular salary, he reported. ' Rosebraugh said a survey of other volunteer departments around Salem indicated that chiefs got similar expense accounts. MALIK BACK AGAIN LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 12-WV Russia's Jakob A. Malik came back tq the United Nations Security council today. But he made it clear he would walk out again -as he did Tuesday if the council beats down his demand, to oust the na tionalist China delegation at this time. Weatherman Predicts More Snow for Salem A mantle of snow which buried the fringe of the Pacific northwest Thursday began to creep inland at night and the weather bureau said "you have'nt seen anything Some Oregon and Washington coastal points began reporting blizzard-like conditions before noon Thursday with up to 12 inches of snow soon covering the areas. . The Salem weather bureau call ed for a steady snowfall to start late this afternoon and perhaps continue during the night. South westerly winds of 15 to 25 miles an hour were slated . to accompany and weather officials said several inches of snow might fall on the floor of the valley. The weather was making a punching bag of British Columbia Thursday. Seven thousand school children In the province's Fraser valley stayed home as the blizzard forced school closures. Seventeen vehicles, including snowplows, were snowbound in one spot there. ' ' Parts of Washington were nearly as bad off. Sellingham, Port An geles and Grays Harbor reported blizzard-like conditions with tem peratures down to 10 above. mph Wind , A rampaging 60 mile an hour wind accompanied snow at Bell ingham. Roads were blocked by both snow and falling trees. The wind alQ came to the Spokane area "Thursday where highway crews were reportedly fighting a losing battle to keep roads open. One fatal traffic accident was reported on the mid-Willamette valley's Icy highways. Andrew M. Joys, 56, Portland, was killed in stantly in a three-car wreck near Woodburn. state police reported. At least three Salem residents were hurt In falls cm the ice. Nona M.'. White, county juvenile officer, Incurred a fractured pel vis In a fall Thursday afternoon. She was reported in good condition at Sa- em Memorial hospital later. Wrist Broken Gertrude Alfredson. 1810 Trade st, broke her right wrist in a fall near the state capitol where she Is employed. Betty Rhine, 482 S High St., incurred a knee injury in a fall on a downtown street A skid off highway 99-E eight miles south of Salem hospitalized a local woman and three children late Thursday night, state police reported. Taken to Salem Memorial hos pital were Mrs. Frank R. Groat, Joan Chastain, 15, Ann Mc Waters, 12 and Mariorie Ems, 9, all resi dents of 1315 N. Cottage st. Their doctor reported none of them was seriously injured. Police said Groat was driving. Two Salem brothers incurred minor injuries when an Oregon Electric train struck a city dump truck about 3 pjn. at the Hazel and Pine street crossing during a snow flurry. City police listed Ernest Robins as the driver and Arthur Robins as a passenger. Both liveat 3840 S. Commercial st. They were treat ed for; cuts and bruises at a doc tors' clinic. The truck was badly damaged. Suas Scheduled All school buses In the Salem public district were scheduled to make their runs this morning, re ported W. J. Buck, transportation superintendent, late Thursday night. He said drivers encounter ed no trouble during the day but considered roads the most trea cherous of the season. An inch and a half of snow- was measured at the Salem weather station Thursday. Most of it fell prior to 10:15 a.m. although dense flurry briefly blurred visi bility about 3:15 p.m. The temperature hovered Just above the freezing mark early this morning and was expected to drop to 25 degrees before day break. A high of 34 to 36 is fore cast for Salem today. ; Man Accused of Stealing Book on Alcatraz Prison LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12-(P-Of-ficers arrested Rudolph M. Nelson, 30, in a downtown department store today and booked him on suspicion of robbery. Store detectives accused him of shoplifting a book. The title: "Al catraz Island Prison and the Men Who Live There." Max. Mln. Precip. Salem 37 N .as Portland 3 31 M San Francisco 47 33 .29 Chicago . M .02 New York 37 27 .01 Willamette river 4 feet. rOHZCAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy this morning with snow flur ries; increasing cloudiness this after noon and tonight with snow begin ning late in the afternoon. High today 34 to 38: low TonignT Z7 to 29. SALEM PRECIPITATION This year Lat year Normal 20.53 21.M 19M The British Submarine Truculent, carrying 76 men, was rammed and sunk in the Thames estuary last night by a small Swedish vessel. Discovery early today of a marker buoy fired from the sunk en hulk spurred hope that some of the trapped crew might still be alive. Fifteen crewmen were rescued, three bodies were recovered and 58 were still missing 11 hours after the collision. The missing may be trapped alive in the sunken hulk, naval officials said. Fifteen of the TruciUenfs crew were picked up out of the water by rescue craft in the busy ship ping lane where the Thames emp ties into the North Sea shortly af ter the collision. Revives Hopes Discovery of the marker buoy after 10 hours search in the foggy darkness revived the hopes of British admiralty rescue author ities. ' Search vessels sent this message to Sheerness dockyards: "Marker buoy fired from submarine has been located. Earlier a senior officer at the nearby Chatham -naval .base ex pressed fear that no more survi vors would be found on the sur face of the swift-running tide waters. Admiralty spokesmen, in London, however, said it- would be possible that the men trapped. unaer a ieet ox water could live for days, in watertight compart xnents of the crippled sub. - The Truculent carried , two marker buoys on, deck, one fort and one aft. .The floating , buoy could nave been cut loose by the impact of the collision or released by someone inside the vessel, nav al omciais said. The marker buoy, which was attached to the sunken sub- by a cable, was found by the faint light oi a inin moon just before dawn. Naval authorities said efforts to raise the Truculent would start as soon as possible. Location, of Hoik Until the buoy was found, ten hours after the accident, no one knew exactly where the battered hulk lay. The sea was calm and the sky was clear as dawn approached. The Truculent, a vetesan of Pacific fighting against the Jap anese, was rammed by the 643 ton Swedish Tanker Divina whose prows were built like a battering ram to withstand the icepacks found In northern waters. The Divina, with part of the sunken submarine still caught in her bows, was being escorted in to Shemess harbor by the naval vessel Cadmus. An admiralty statement said six officers, 52 seamen and 18 work' men from the royal naval dock' yard at Chatham were aboard the Truculent. Four officers and one enlisted man, who were on the bridge of we sunacea submarine, were hauled from the water by the Dutch merchant ship Almdijk, which radioed the first word of the collision, r v The Divina was reported to have picked up nine other survivors who later were transferred to a coast guard lifeboat from South end. Reports received immediately after the accident said the Divina was out of control, flying two red ugnts. Flying Arrow At Red Port ABOARD FLYING ARROW. Friday, Jan. 13 JP) The Flying Arrow today reached the commun 1st port of Tsingtao, where it will repair the damage wrought by shells of a Chinese nationalist gunboat. The ship arrived shortly before 1 p.m. Tsingtao time (midnight. Thursday, EST). The US. Destroyer BausselL which had accompanied the Am erican freighter on the 350-mile voyage 'northward from the Yang tze's mouth, left eight miles out side Tsingtao. No nationalist gunboats were sighted on the voyage. It was gunboat that shot up the freighter Monday as it neared the Yangtze enroute to nationalist-blockaded Shanghai. Conflicting Stories Told at Trial Resulting from Morals Case By Winston IL Taylor 1 Staff Writer. The, Statesman The only trial in the , Salem morals case involving 14 men and a 14-year-old girl the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor against taxi owner operator Don Clark was ready today for closing arguments and jury deliberation. Testimony was completed Thurs day, and the case will resume at 9:30 a.m. today before Marion County Circuit Judge George R. Duncan. , Testimony featured the girl's story of a night-time Invitation and visit to Clark's apartment and ef his wrongful associations with her, and the . defendant's denial that she was ever in his apartment or that he ever touched her. nark's testimony Included statements that he had told the girl "half a dozen times" to stay out ot the cabs and away from Asserts Russian Policy Presents U.S. With Chance to Win Far East Friends By Jsha M. WASHINGTON, .Jan. day accused Russia of taking over four vast areas of northern China, including Manchuria, in a far reaching sweep of soviet communist imperialism. He pictured this development as a great opportunity for U.S. foreign policy in the far east. The best way for this country to win friends and stop communism, he contended, is to pursue its policy oi fostering the independence of Asiatic peoples and their Charged 4, 1 t BOCK ISLAND, HL, Jan. 12-Thta picture is identified as Mrs. El sura Epperly, 23, Rock Island, as she arrived at the courthouse here today to discuss Daven port's trade Mercy hospital fire with State's Attorney Bernard J. Moran. A warrant baa been filed in Davenport ehargteg her with "murder committed in the perpetration of arson." She was a patient la the hospital. (AT Wirephot Xm Tha Statesman.) (Story en Fag 2) Trees Provide Food for Birds During Snows By Mrs. Seott Young Statesman News Service MARION FORKS, Jan. 12 Tiny birds by the hundreds brave the winters snows in this moun tain settlement daily to feast on cedar seeds and small bugs on the tops of tall timber. . Busy all the day. they circle a tree and sweep down only to knock snow from the densely lad en branches. The next sweep they make a, landing and it looks like a veritable beehive of busy birds. In a few minutes they again take off to another and better tree. They fly so high one cannot tell their variety or color. They nev er seem to fly low. Every year it can be determined that winter is here when the feathered flocks arrive. FRENCH ACCUSE POLES PARIS, Jan. 12-vT-Fr ance rounded up about 50 more Poles today on charges of Interfering in French politics and 18 were im mediately escorted to the border for expulsion. the taxi stand and that a company policy against women passengers in a taxi's front seat was enforced by suspensions or dismissals. De fense Attorney Bruce Williams presented the contention that the girl's complaint against Clark was in reprisal for and in resentment of such advice. In cross-examina tion. the eirl said, breaking into tears, that she "didnt want to cause anyone any trouble. The defendant said he had is sued such Instructions because "it's bad for business." The girl test! fied that Clark; had advised her not to hang around the taxi stand, that she was "on the wrong track.' Clark was arrested last Novem ber along with 13 other men. All except him faced statutory rape charges later reduced to contn buting to the delinquency of i minor, to which they have plead ed guilty and been sentenced. -(Additional details on Page 4) Hightawer 12-iT-Secretary of State Acheson to economic well being. By contrast. Acheson declared-- Russia's action in northern China will arouse the "righteous anger and wrath" of the Chinese people and show up the soviet union as an imperialistic power throughout Asia. "The only thing that can ob scure it," he said, "is the folly of ill-conceived adventures on; our part ... nothing we do or say rnust be allowed to obscure this fact." ' -, . Enumerates Areas - The areas which Russia is In the' " Process of taking over, Acheson said, are Manchuria, outer Mon- " golia, inner Mongolia and Sinki ang. His accustion was the first such to be made by a top western: official. ' T to ,.!, --- '' ; .For the first time since the is-' suance of the China: white, paper: last summer Acheson .spoke out publicity on the far east in a speech at the National Press club here, w He .touched only briefly upon' " the continuing controversy - over- ' whether the United States should' -intervene with armed forces, Sen ator Taft (R-Ohio) and others hav ' suggested .using the. navy to pro tect Formosa,' but Acheson heavily' emphasized his warning that the United States should avoid any "adventures" . which would turn' the expected anger of the Chinese from Russia to the United States' or cover in any way what the' Russians are up to. ' . Have Money to Fight Reds Acheson recalled that the admin-' istrauon Jias a $75,000,000 fund from the last session of congress wuMinue area of China against communism but did not say how It would be used. As for the pres ent session or congress, Acheson said that what the government wants is authority to do better the things which it has been trying to do all alongthat is to help tha peoples of Asia to help themselves.' The administration is pressinf congress for action soon on a pro gram to make available to back ward countries American scienti fic and industrial know-how and capital investments. Several times Acheson struck out at the critics of the govern ment's far eastern policy. Evident ly referring to yesterday's sugges tion by Senator Taft that there la no doubt that a little American aid now would save Formosa, Ach eson said there are "no infallible judgments" In the field of foreign relations. State Boards In Controversy On Overtime The state tax commission and state civil service board were in volved In controversy Thursday in connection with payment of overtime to employes of the state Income tax division of the tax ' commission. Commissioner Ray Smith, iri charge of the income tax unit, said he had asked members of the civil service board to meet with him January 20 to discus the problem. Objection was voiced by Smith to a ruling of the civil service board banning any overtime for employes who receive a salary in ' excess of $280 a month. "We now have a crew of audit- s ors at work checking the 1938 re- ; turns in an effort to collect un paid taxes-before the statute of limitation expires," Smith said. ' He said that in order to complete this work it was necessary for the auditors to work nights andiks Saturdays. "I believe it is unfair to ask any jf these employes to work I additional; time without compensation,' Smith averred. "I cannot see why the amount of salary paid to ' any employe should have anything to do with the payment for overtime work when such employes put in more ' than the required 40 hours -week," Smith continued. The commissioner added that auditors checking returns of pre vious years are recovering many thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes for the state and should be entitled to overtime pay. Smith , explained that many field auditors, working as late as 10 pjn. in some town, then drive to another town sometimes 100 miles distant. He said no over time was asked for these men ! covering such driving time. i "I will ask the civil service board to waive its salary ruling relating to overtime work by em ployes of the state ' Income tax division," Smith declared. i, POLIO, DIPHTHERIA CASES PORTLAND, Jan. 12-P)-T h state board of health reported two new cases of diphtheria and two of -polio In the first week of 1950 in Oregon. :