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( Monmouth Water Line Repairs R Flood ushed; Threat -Dim ' - -r, ' ? - . V - I r tV. 1 -":'.-.. -V'-. V, "5 f-. MONMOUTH Failure of Monmouth's water system bronchi real dish-waahing problems at the Oregoa College of Education Satur day. Ilere three atadenta battle ever-growing atacka of dirty dlsbea by the hand-and-bucket method In front or the Idle automatic dishwasher. They are, left to right Lava Strout, Independence; Roth Walker, Eugene, and almost completely hidden by a stack of plates, Jay Emmett, North Bend. (Statesman-Kuark photo). Stacks of Dirly Dishes Mounting at Monmouth ' " Stateiman Newt Scrvlea MONMOUTH, Jan. 2 1 Undismayed by total lack of water in the Oregon College of Education system, students here Saturday were making the best of a dry time. - Mew York's got nothing on us," one male student said to a friend in a college residence. "Pass the elects shaver." . Collece authorities had arranged to truck water for the steam In his address at the annual din ner of the Salvation Army Advis ory board Monday night. Major Roderick Durham division com mander, made the remark that it waa a 80-60 chance whether the Salvation Army would exist aome 25 or 50 years hence. Not that there would be no need for its work, and not that there would not be enough recruits to staff the trmt atations: but that funds might not be available to support the Army. ... That is a startling hall-prediction. The Salvation Army seems .r. upII established, so widely ap proved by people In all stations of life, that Its continuity would seem oisured. But as Major Durham el aborated on his comment, the rea son for his doubt appeared. The Army has no endowment fund. Its founder. General Booth, wanted no endowment His idea was that the means would be pro vided as the needs arose. Money received was to be used, not hoarded. So today the Army de pends on current contributio. s. But receipts seem to strike i level which is barely sufficient for the Army to exist on. It lacks funds for capital outlays and maintenance of its buildings eats into Its annual income. Commun ity Chests have difficulty raising their budgets. The present taxing system has an effect on. contributions for philanthropic purposes. Taxes ef fect a "reaistriDuuon oi income -(Continued on editorial page 4) Clues in Case Too Obvious9 MEDFORD, Jan. 21-iF)-Police, who never thought anybody could possibly be that obvious, finally had a bad check suspect in cus tody today. , Since fall they have been In the lookout for' someone who was passing worthless checks, signed Charles E. Lane. The passer had written an address on each one RFD Box 44, Butte Falls. This week they caught up with man who they said admitted writing the checks because he was broke and out of a job. His name was Charles E. Lane, and he lived at RFD Box 44, Butte Falls. Free Buses In Corvallis CORVALLIS, Jan. 21-tfVThree bus lines operate in Corvallis, and you now can get free rides on any ef them. One Corvallis food market be gan paying fares this week for any customer riding to the store on one pf the lines. The challenge was taken up by another market today. It offered free rides on all three lines to customers, - neat DOuers irom inaepenaence, m . 1 J three miles away, and eollege buses were running half-hourly shuttles to Independence elemen tary school, where washing and sanitary facilities were available. Many students were at home for a long week end, since the college shut down classes Friday noon for ack of heat, due to the break in the Monmouth city water supply. But the real problem was dirty dishes. Piles, stacks, tottering mounds of dirty dishes covered a long worktabie in the college kitchen. Shifts of students were battling valiantly with buckets, dishpans and swabs but progress was slow. Mrs. Lorna Jessup, director of dormitories, hoped enough water would be available later in the day to permit use of the dish washing machine. Otherwise it might mean Sun day dinner on paper plates. Near waterless menus were under con sideration, though a minimum supply of drinking and cooking water had been secured. Manning Family Increasing Rapidly lUUtmu Niwi Service GERVAIS Mr. and Mrs. Fred Manning of Gervais really have a growing family. January l a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Manning of Salem; January 8 a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Dav idson of Woodburn; January 17 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Manning of Brooks. All three new babies, born at Salem hospitals, are grandchildren of the Mannings. Arsonists t. n II .s. r Salem Detective David M. Houser Is shown photographing for evidence the Boeing-Stearmao crop dusting plane which was destroyed la arsonist-set fire at tho Farm-Air company shop at Salem air port Saturday. Loss was estimated at about $4,509 by owners. The lncendiarists,set six fires with high-test aviation gasoline around the planes la the shop. (Statesman photo). City and state autorities are seeking clues to Identify arsonists who set fire to a shop building at the Salem airport early Saturday, destroying two planes. - - " The incendiarists struck at the Farm-Air company, a crop dusting service located near Turner road on the east side of the airport. The loss was estimated at $8,000. The blaze was sighted at 3:10 ajn. by James Miller, night con troller at the civil aeronautics au Santiam Spills at Jefferson The Willamette river and its tributaries inched higher Satur day night, flooding some low lying areas, but apparently the valley was losing its covering of snow without any threat of serious damage from high water. At Salem the Willamette had reached the 14-foot level by mid night Saturday; was expected to reach 18.5 feet by noon today and crest short of the 20-foot flood mark sometime Monday. Further up the river, runoff from snows melted by rain and warmer temperatures eased over the banks of the Willamette at Harrisburg. The Santiam spread into pasture lands at Jefferson and was expected to top at 18.5 feet, 5.5 above flood stage, by noon today. Local flooding was forecast for the Tualatin, Yamhill, Luckiamute and Molalla rivers, but little trouble was expected. Water crews from Monmouth, meanwhile, were working through the night again Saturday to repair a broken line over the Luckiamute and restore the city's water sup ply. A seven-man crew swung peri lously over the waters of the Luckiamute at Bridgeport to link pipe which was snapped Friday when the Bridgeport bridge col lopsed under the pressure of high water. The crew hoped to have the supply line back in operation sometime early Sunday. ' Meanwhile, part of the city was struggling along on half rations of water pumped into the line from a creek on the nearby Riddle farm, and the other half were I without any supply. A rising mercury, combined with rain up to the 4,500 foot lev el, sped the runoff into western Oregon streams Saturday, but cooler temperatures were expect ed to add new snow above 3,000 feet and check the melting Sat urday night. The temperature reached a high of 55 degrees in Salem and was expected to approach that mark again, today. The mercury was high enough to nearly complete the Job of cleaning snow from the city area by Saturday night. Elsewhere in the northwest, too, a week-long series of bouts with the weather was apparently near an end. Ground and air travel was returning to normal Saturday and all airports with the exception of Portland were open to use. Salem's McNary field continued to handle all United Airlines traf fic slated for the Portland field Saturday, definitely would through Sunday and possibly Monday. McNary field and UAL staffs with the aid of half-dozen workers from Portland were handling the increased traffic without a hitch, airline officials reported. The Columbia river highway near Troutdale and the Lower river highway to Astoria were the only major routes closed to travel Saturday night. Communications across the Cascades were gener ally reestablished. Despite the thaw, snow still was heavy in the high country. A barn collapsed under 22 inches of snow east of Portland, trapping Farmer Carl Hoffner's cows under the wreckage. Roads around Hood river remained so snow-clogged that reopening of schools was postponed until Wednesday. The body of the Northwest's 18th weather victim was brought out of the hills near the Oregon Caves by Snow-cat Saturday. The victim was Bonnie McNeil, 60. He had tried to walk out of the snow bound Althouse area. GOP TO HEAR REP. JUDD PORTLAND, Jan. 21 JP) Rep. Walter H. Judd of Minnesota will speak at the annual Lincoln day banquet of Oregon republicans here February 14. Set Fire T H..rUkrJ thority's control tower on the west side of the field. Miller summoned the naval air facility located three blocks west of the shop. Two naval air crew men, John Anglin and Phillip Gille, rushed to the scene and con troled the fire by the time city firemen arrived. Destroyed in the fire were a Boeing-Stearman plane valued at $4,500 and a Stinson worth $3,500. The Stearman was not insured. 89th YEAR 2 SECTIONS-34 PAGES Jury Verdict Brands Hiss as Tucker Car Case Jury Out CHICAGO, Jan. 22-(Sunday)-(A3) - The Jury considering the Tucker mail fraud case had not reached a verdict by 1 a.m. (CST) today and was locked up for the night. It will resume deliberations at 10 a.m. (CST). On trial are Preston T. Tucker, 46, handsome and well groomed president and board chairman of the bankrupt Tucker corporation and seven business associates. The jury of six women and six men are charged with deciding if the multi-million dojr Tucker "dream-car" venture was a frud or just an honest business venture that failed. Receiving the case at 10:55 a.m. yesterday, the jurors mulled over the evidence the greater part of the day and night, taking time out only for meals. At 10:15 p.m. they sent word to Judge Walter J. LaBuy that they would like to have certain portions of his instructions reread. The judge complied. If convicted, Tucker faces a pos sible, maximum penalty of 155 years imprisonment and $60,000 fine. However, the final say in the trial still could rest with Judge Walter J. La Buy. He has taken under consideration a defense motion for a directed judgment of acquittal. Thus, he could reverse any guilty finding, if he saw fit. The defendants are accused on various counts of mail fraud, se curity and exchange commission violations and conspiracy. ' Business Rise Foreseen as Weather Eases Barring renewed onslaughts of the weather, a week-end break in Arctic -like storms gave rise to hopes of normal resumption of business and other activity in the Willamette valley. . Retail buying reached a low ebb last week, due primarily to the dif ficulty in reaching stores, but with continued offerings of merchandise at lower price ranges merchants this week foresaw re-couping their drop in dollar-volume of sales. January Is not noted for Its busi ness activity. But with better val ues than have been obtainable in several years, several merchants said Saturday they anticipate brisk sales In the closing days of the month. 10 DIE IN PLANE CRASH LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 21 -P)-A C-47 military transport plane crashed yesterday in the wilds of Volivia, killing five crewmen and 25 Bolivian soldiers. to Airport Members of the firm are Joseph C. Bello, 2110 Mission st; Richard Poet 1032 Oak St.; L. C. McGloth lin, 2050 Bruce st.; Ernest Mon ner, 2240 Park ave.; and Gilbert Waage, 1225 Chemeketa st Investigating the fire are Salem Fire Chief W. P. Roble, City De tective David M. Houser and mem bers of the state police arson squad led by Lt Eric Tucker. Officers said the arsonists firtt attempted to set a fire outside the ! ! j . siswu'H. ' n i -WW n - )- :-',;; . f" mwi u m i, n inv""i " . .,j--Ymmmm..t-1' "" ' bearing on Airlines WASHINGTON, Jan. 2MP)-A hearing on a proposal to take Sa lem off a United Airlines route and have the city served by West Coast air line has been postponed again, Clay Cochran, Salem Chamber of Commerce manager, reported here today. Cochran, in Washington on a number of matters affecting the Salem area, said the new date may be early in March in Salem. The hearing had been scheduled for February 20 by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Progress on two other matters were reported by Cochran. He said he was hopeful of disposing 17,000 Miners Vote to End Strike U.S. Backs Down in Berlin Wrangle By Thomas A. Reedy BERLIN, Jan. 21 -(A1)- The U.S. army's Berlin command backed down tonight before baiting from the east and returned a disputed building in the American sector to the Soviet-controlled railway system. t Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, the commandant, cancelled seiz ure of the building by the U.S. property control office for the west Berlin city government, or dered west Berlin police to with draw and turned the structure back to the railway system, the Reichsbahn. "The Soviet authorities have seized upon the affair as an ex cuse to harass the residents of west Berlin," Taylor explained. Sources within the U.S. high commission said Issuance of the seizure order Tuesday could be called either an "accidenf or a "blunder." Taking Over Properties The west Berlin city govern ment, with Allied approval, had previously started taking over numerous Reichsbahn properties, which had no relation to opera tions, because west mark taxes were unpaid. The railway system, controlled by the Russians, has mostly east mark income. Shortly before Christmas the question of seizing the main build ing because the Reichsbahn had virtually abandoned It was taken up with Taylor, butj no decision was reached. Then on Tuesday the American property control sec tion issued a requisition order on the main building, using as Its authority the precedent of prev ious seizures. Col. W. T. Babcock, Taylor's deputy, said the Russians had not been notified In advance. Didn't Kown of Action Neither Taylor nor U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy knew the building had been seized and occupied by west Berlin po lice until afterwards. Building, Three owners of the Farm-Air company are shown standing by 3Um f"p iJ which was completely destroyed by a fire set by arsonist w. Salem rport. From , left to right are Richard Poet, 1832 Oak st; Ernest Moaner. ZU9 rwkm, J""" 2110 Mission st The fire was brought under control by navy reserve crewmen. (Statesman photo). shop on the north side a few feet from another company plane. Fail ing In this attempt, they then pried open a side door and set six fires around the two planes Inside, using 46 gallons of high octane gasoline taken from the plane parked outside. The flames quickly burned away the planes' fabric, but failed to spread over the cement floor be fore the navy crew arrived. Papers and wood was found outside where Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Proposed Shift of at Salem Postponed of surplus flax from the 1947 and 1948 crops to large exporting firms. Earlier he had tried to get Federal Commodity Credit corporation and marketing pro duction officials to buy 300 tons of - surplus flax, but he said the agencies reported they did not , have the necessary funds. Cochran said he had arranged for grading of flax grown around Salem in the future in the belief it would make it more marketa ble. He added that he does not expect growers to have future trouble in selling their crops. He also urged the U. S. Cham ber of Commerce to eliminate SP Freight Hits Boulder, 21 Cars Wrecked KLAMATH FALLS. Ore.. Jan. 21 WV A Southern Pacific freight train smashed into a fall en boulder tonirht. scattering the mainline with 21 wrecked cars and injuring one crewman. Fireman James IL White, Kla math Falls, suffered an anklo Injury when he leaped from the locomotive. Engineer Ernest Smith. Portland, and head brmkeman Bill Poole, Klamath Falls, were unhurt although the engine toppled from the tracks; The one track mainline was torn up for 300 yards and a rail road spokesman said all traffic over the route would be blocked until late Sunday night Smith said the boulder had fall en from the bluff along the tracks where the line skirts upper Kla math lake. The wreakage was piled up at Modoc Point, 19 miles north of here. The engineer said the big Steam Mountain division mallet type lo comotive ripped up the rails for 150 feet before rolling over toward the lake shore. He set the time at 10:15 p.m. (PST). All of the train's 84 cars were loaded. The 21 smashed freight cars were scattered, piled and broken for 300 yards along the tracks. Southbound trains were being held at Ccrescent Lake, Ore., to night and northbound trains will be held at Klamath Falls, a rail road spokesman said. HOSPITAL FOR BEND BEND, Jan. 21 -(&)- Construc tion of a $900,000 hospital here will begin soon. (Destroy Two Planes the first attempt was made. "This looks like a deliberate at tempt to put us out of business, one of the owners said. "But I don't have any Idea who would do this to our company." Lieutenant Tucker said I have no comment to make except that the fire was set We will continue our investigation." City police said they had made no progress toward Sunday, January 22, 1950 two points in a proposed airport program, prepared for submission to the Civil Aeronautics Adminis tration. The two points would deny certain benefits to smaller air ports, he said. Cochran said he also had in terested representatives of large New York firms in a plant to aid in financing the Manganese Products Corp. of Seattle, which has a contract to produce manga nese at the government-constructed alumnia plant at Salem. He said he believed plans could be worked out to allow the Seattle firm to acquire the plant. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 21 -P)- A United Mine Workers official in western Pennsylvania said tonight that 17.000 miners had voted to return to work Monday. He said 2.400 voted to continue their strike. "I am very gratified by the vote," said John Busarello, presi dent of district No. 5 of the UMW. "Sixty of my locals voted today and only six of them decided ndt to follow the suggestion 'of John L. Lewis that they end their two week strike." y Earlier in the day another field general for the unpredictable pre sident of the United Mine Work ers advised a bloc of rebellious miners to let your stomachs de cide'' if they, wanted to go back to tho rsHs. Voting on the return of 90,000 strikers in seven states will con tinue through the week end. Many of the strikers are angry and hungry. Scores have besieged state officials at Unlontown, Fa., and the Salvation Army for food slips. William Hynes, president of dis trict No. 4 of the UMW at Union town, called his local officers to gether and ordered them to poll their men immediately. District 4 has about 23,000 miners. Within a few hours at least two locals had called special meetings. One decided to go along with Hynes but another voted against the return to work movement. GRAY RECOMMENDED RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 21 -Wh A nominating committee seeking a new president for the Greater University of North Carolina has recommended that Army Secre tary Gordon Gray be offered the post, Governor Kerr Scott an nounced today. 12 MISSING AS 8 HIP SINKS MANILA. Sunday, Jan. 22-(AV Twelve persons, including two Dutch priests and an American, were reported missing today in the sinking of the 234-ton Filipino ship Isidrito Wednesday in the southern Philippines. solving the mystery. The loss was particularly serious because the company was plan ning to start dusting operations. The partners had also completed arrangements to move into new quarters on the west side of the field. The shop, a former army barricks building, is owned by the city. It was not damaged. No. 31S - Traitor PRICE 10c 'Guilty' of Perjury -Charges . NEW YORK. Jan. 21-(VA1K Hiss was convicted of perjury to- i day. The Jury's verdict branded him a traitor to his country and : stripped him of a brilliant, hard won reputation. Hiss, a Yalta aide to President Roosevelt was found guilty of ly- . ing in his denial that he sold out " his once-high state department office to prewar communist spies. Sentence was set for January 25. The maximum Is 10 years ia prison and $4,000 in fines. "You can be sure the verdict will be appealed." said Defenoa Attorney Claude B. Cross of Boa- ' ton. Hiss was convicted of lying twice once when he denied giv ing away secrets and again when he denied any contact with Whit taker Chambers, ex-communist spy ring courier, after January L 1937. 1 Upholds Chambers The Jury "a double - barrelled guilty finding upheld the story of Chambers, who was Hiss' chiel accuser. Throughout two long, dramatic trials, it W3S Chambers' word of . communist intrigue against Hiss . cool, stubborn denial- Assistant U. S. Attorney Thorn- . as F. Murphy, who prosecuted " Hiss relentlessly through both trials, asked that ho be clapped behind bars at once to await sen tence. Continues da Ball However, Federal Judge Henry W. Goddard allowed Hiss to con tinue free on his present $5,000 bait, ',..;' Hiss was tried last spring and summer on the federal perjury . charge. But the first jury dis agreed on July S and was dis missed. That Jury ten men and two women was out nearly 29 hours. The second Jury eight women and four men reached its ver dict at 2.50 p. m. (EST), just 20 minutes short of 24 hours after receiving the case. They had re turned from lunch only 42 min utes earlier. No Siga of Emotion Hiss gave no sign of emotion when the foreman, Mrs. Ada Con- dell, announced the verdict His chin went up. His lips tightened. He folded his arms. His wife, Priscilla, was by his -side as she has been since he first was accused. She squirmed in her seat at the vedlct and looked down at the floor. I Later, outside the court, the two embraced for an instant Then they left the courtroom area, lips tight faces stern, with no word to anyone. Down near Westminster, Md, Chambers said of the conviction: "I dont see how any other ver dict was possible. I hope tho American people will realize tho debt they owe to this Jury, Mr. Murphy, and the tireless and splendid efforts of tho FBI." Little Apparent Interest Chambers had gona about his Maryland farm chores with little apparent interest in the tense, tir ing jury debate. Dining both trials the defense branded Chambers a chronic liar, a petty little man voicing ridicu lous charges against a brilliant lawyer and government servant From the beginning. It had been Chambers' word against Hiss. Truman Pleads For Korea Aid WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 - IJTi President Truman announced to day he is urrinf "immediate ac tion" by congressional leaders to retrieve the Korean aid legislation which the house relected bv mm vote Thursday. , j He gave no-limit backing to Sec retary of State Acheson, who ex pressed -concern and dismay" over tho house decision In a letter to the president Acheson said that to let th " measure remain scuttled would have a "disastrous" effect on Uni ted States foreign policy, not only in Korea but in other parts of tho world where communist pressure) menaces self-governing nations. ID 7(?;v 'Hills Max. - $ Pnrlak . -M Jbi ' .os Salra ' Portland San Francisco Chicago so 4 4 41 ' Mew x OTK 38 as Willamette tart H O feet-v- FORECAST (from V. ' S. wathar bureau. McNary field. Salem): Part ly cloudy with scattered showers this morning becoming cloudy with rain by tonight. High today near 14. Low to night near 44. j SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year La it Year Normal -V 212S 12.63 ..... . SOU ,