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;- Mercury Drops as Cold Weather Returns to NW Snow Meets High Water at Riverfront 1 , . . - fw I 99th YEAH 16 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Satan, Oregon. W4ndar, January 25. 1350 ! PRICE 5c i - No. 321 320, 000-. roved by Senate DP Bill Ann JL JL ,.iv ml r 'aiU My'tt' in l$r if p t y 1 - t ; I ".;. - .. . f- ' - , ,-. ... i, . v " - : '-.. t 't ' - ' v. . v;l- -,;-. 1 ' . . ' ' - . ' " ..,' - wd una Senator Wayne L. Morse comes to Salem today and will give the town the full Morse treatment No horse show spill this time, how ever. There will be a full schedule of what a senator does when he Is running for reelection, with the major effort a speech at the Rotary club at noon- If -the senator has his usual success those who "came ; to scoff will "remain to pray." Morse's announced opponent Fred Robinson, Medford clothier, . was in town Monday. He is run ning because he thinks Morse is too much of a new dealer for re publicans. Dick Neuberger chides Morse with being too much of a republican for liberal democrats, which leaves Morse falling be tween two stools. But that's where he says he drives in the middle of the road, though there is a sus- Eicion he takes his middle on the ;f t side. The reported hard core of the Morse opposition is a group of doctors in Portland. They really get violent when socialized medi cine is mentioned or any inch for ward from the old AMA doctrine suggested. Morse is opposed to so cialized mediciner but these hard shells think he isn't opposed enough. So they have made it known they will lay the money on the line for some likely prospect gainst Morse. 1 Well, the doctors better save their moneys They can t beat Morse, and the report of their conspicuous activity will Injure their own cause. Doctors have the right like any group of citizens to oppose or promote any candidacy; but if they think they can swing the election of a senator here they are mistaken. As a matter of fact ' a crirai many doctors less Durbllnd than the Portland hierarchy will support Morse. . hear the Portland doctors boast that they swung the Oregon prima rr in favor of Gov. Dewey in 1048. I think they claim too much. If they did, look at the consequences! Ther are ma many valid argu ments against socialized medicine and ma many wars to advance them on wonders why the doctors out of sheer panic, nave to resort to what I r?2&ni as ill-advised tactics vto defeat it. But then one should remember that the doctors are doc tors and not politicians or are taey7 Animal Craclccrs By WARREN GOODRICH "Well, Mse you later Ty got to go in ind help dust." hi ' -i A rare sight for Oregon Is snow above at an mat park along. Edsewater street, water from the Willamette surrounds the ntiiity hwie; anew caps, Its roof and whitens nearby trees. (Statesman photo). More Snow Forecast; Gold Checks Threat of Flood A cold wave returned to the Pacific northwest Tuesday and inter est shifted from river readings to crested and receded. A piercing north wind shrunk T4 . - 44 J.u. C 1 At was a ucum oaicju b 12:30 a. m. and a low of 15 to 17 before morning was predicted for this area with, readings slated to remain sub-freezing all day. The Willamette river was back to 20 feet here at midnight after cresting at 20.7 feet Tuesday morning. ' Forecasts elsewhere were for temperatures from 3 to IS degrees below zero east of the Cascades and from 5 to 15 above west of the mountains in Washington early today. Below Zero Forecast Eastern Oregon thermometer! were slated to record from 10 be low zero to 10 above. Travel conditions remained gen erally fair, with some county roads badly iced but main high ways relatively clear. Both Co lumbia river gorge highways were still blocked by snow and earth slides east of Portland and Van couver, Wash. , Train travel was off schedule. Slides hampered rail movement, setting schedules off as much as three hours. Near Richland, Wash, about 10 families were reported forced to leave' their homes when the ice filled Yakima river spilled its banks. The stream has an ice pack stretching for six miles above Richland. Power Pool Survives Late Tuesday night, Bonneville Power administration reported the western power pool had squeaked through the night without being forced to curtail electricity at aluminum plants. Tuesday's snow flurries totaled a bit more than an inch at Salem, the weather bureau said, but only a trace remained on the ground at midnight More snow was pre dicted today with high reading of 30 degrees and a low of 22 to night Slightly higher readings up to 35 degrees with snow turning to rain were predicted for western Oregon and Washington Thursday. Relief Party Takes Food to Isolated Douglas Family ROSEBURG, Jan. 24 -)- A snowshoe relief party was on its way today into the isolated Elk valley in southwestern Douglas county with food for the Floyd Hatfield family. Twenty volunteers began the rugged hike to the family after airplanes were unable to drop sup plies because of clouds. The plight of the family was icarnea yesteraay wnen man, laenuuea oruy as a Mr. Alien, hiked out He said he had been staying with the Hatfields, and that they were running low on food. It took him two days to make the trek. He spent one nicht on Cutchman mountain In snow five feet deep. Snowfall at Corvallis Sets Season Record CORVALLIS. Jan. 24-Thls winter's snowfall became a record here today. A four-inch overnight snowfall brought the total for tha monui to 31 Vt inches. The previous high for an entire winter season was 29 inches, in 1937. The previous record for one month was 23 inches in January, ivvv. UNEMPLOYMENT AT HIGHV WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-(yP-A new all-time high in the number of persons on unemployment in surance rolls was reported today vj the government and high water mixed, as pictured thermometer readings as rivers the mercury all oyer the northwest. Lost School Time Won't Need. Make-no Students won't have to make un the three davs that Salem district public schools were , closed during last week's storms, school board directors decided Tuesday night The closure will not affect teachers' salaries nor cause anv loss in basic school support funds, Superintendent Frank B. Bennett told board members. The severe weather froze down spouts at several school buildings including the new Washington plant " reported Gardner Knapp, ine noar's ground and buildings committeeman. An inspection of the buildines to determine necessary corrections will be made by board members, the architect and contractor in volved, said Bennett Board members signed a petition for paving McGilchrist street be tween High and Church streets. McKinley school property Is invol ved in the proposed improvement Several other property owners re portedly favor paving the street E. A. Carleton, Salem high school principal, was authorized to attend a University of Colorado sponsored conference of principals at Denver next summer. The board authorized purchase of 75 new robes for the Salem High scnooi cnoir. The cost, $14.75 each will be paid by the choir through fund-raising events. - Lloyd Girod Files For House Position Lloyd Girod. Idanha retmblican. Tuesday filed for nomination as state representative from Marlon county. Girod, operator of a general store in Idanha, seeks "representa tion for rural areas, according to ms ballot slogan. He is a 1932 graduate of Willam ettc university and later was an instructor of Leslie junior high school and principal of Richmond school in Salem. He now is a mem ber of the Detroit school board. Blizzard Lashes Daltotas; Many Heat Marks Beaten ' By Tht Associated Press A lashing blizzard one of the worst In years whipped over North Dakota Tuesday, stopping traffic, grounding planes, and stacking up high snow drifts. Of North Dakota's more than 7,000 miles of roads, only six miles a stretch between Bismarck and Mandan - remained passable, the state highway department, report ed. In many other parts of the country, city after city reported record-breaking warm January weather. After pummeling North Dakota, the storm center moved on into Iowa and headed northeast over Lake Superior toward eastern Canada, parts of New England-end New York state. Wet snow in eastern Colorado relieved temporarily at least-drought- conditions there. More than foot of snow clung to the high passes and wind drifted snow over roads almost as fast as crews Seel Pirce Ume Bsnronedl WASHINGTON, Jan. Steel testified today that rising items were responsible for driving; If costs come down, ne said, lowering its Drices. Countering the wideiy-neia tne ory that steel prices serve as a barometer for prices in other in-i d us tries, Fairless contended that the recent boost in steel prices should have "no harmul effect whatsoever" on prices in other fields. "The decrease in automobile prices - - which were announced after our price increase - - is a case in point" he said. j Fairless Testifies Fairless appeared as the first witness in a four-day series of public hearings called by the seni ate-house economic committee to investigate steel prices and their effects on the national economy. Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) of the Joint committee said all ma jor steel companies louowea ine lead of U. S. Steel after Fairless "big steel" hiked its prices an ave rage of $4 a ton last December. The committee has produced figures showing that the total net income of 50 steel companies soar ed from $264,525,016 in 1946 to $542,085,610 in 1948. No Fair Return But Fairless told the committee today that U. S. Steel has not made "a fair return either on its sales or investment at any time during the last 20 years." Among U. S. Steel's increased costs, he listed: 1. New insurance and pension programs for steel workers, $67, 500,000. 2. Increased federal social se curity tax, $3,400,000. "These costs alone are $3.88 per ton and more than enough to off set the $3.82 per ton which we hope to obtain from our price in creases," he said. List Expenses He said U. S. Steel earned 5.2 per cent on sales and 6.5 per cent on investment in 1948 when it was operating at 94 per cent of capa city. "On those earnings, you cannot go very far in absorbing still greater cost increases," he said. Enders M. Voorhees, chairman of U. S. Steel's finance commit tee, said IT. S. Steel actually paid out $113,000,000 more than it took in last year. Total expenses, in cluding money spent for replace ment and modernization of plants, ran to $8,084,000,000, . Voorhees testified. Morse Slates Five Stops .j In Salem Visit U. S. Sen. Wayne Morse has at least five "calls" on schedule to day for his whirlwind visit to Sa lem. He is expected to file his candi dacy for renomination at the statehouse before appearing be fore Willamette university stu dents at 10:30 ajn. Following this he will meet with a Young Repub lican delegation, then with a group of Marion county doctors, before addressing the Salem Ro tary club in the Marion hotel noon luncheon. The senator is expected to con fer after lunch with local cam paign supporters before returning to Portland. . In his two speaking appearances Morse is expected to discuss cur rent legislation. USO TO QUIT OPERATIONS NEWYORK, Jan. 24 -0?V The UJS.O. announced tonight it will cease operations because it can't raise enough money "perhaps due to changes in the national and international situations." cleared them. Southern winds gently puffed northward from the Gulf and dan delions popped into bloom in St Louis, where the temperatures, reached 72, just one degree short of the record for the date, set in 1943. Texas basked in temperatures in the 80s, but cold air which Texans call a norther was pre-s dieted. Local heat records for the date were set or equaled in Chicago 1 and Peoria, 111., each with 63: Ok lahoma City and Pittsburgh, Kas., with 81; Jefferson City, Mo., and Birmingham, Ala., with 78; Mont gomery, Ala., with 80; New Or leans, with 79; Augusta, Ga, with 80: Baltimore, Md with 73; Phi ladelphia, with 63, and Richmond, Va., with 75 J. The "mercury plunged fast at Kansas City, Mo., late Tuesday afternoon. From a record high of 75 for the date it dropped 25 de grees, between 3 and 4 p.m. I to Lafooir 24-(iP)-President Benjamin Fairless Costs of labor, pensions and up the price of steeL U. S. Steel will certainly consider Talks Continue As Chrysler Strike Nears DETROIT, Jan. 25 (Wednesday) -(AVWith a strike deadline less than 10 hours away, negotiators for Chrysler Corp. and the CIO United auto workers stuck dogged ly at their pension talks early to day. The report from the conference room was "no sign of a break." The union has threatened to pull out 80,000 hourly-rated workers and shut down 25 Chrysler plants across the nation if there is no agreement on a pension plan or wage boost by 10 ajn. (EST) to day. The company has offered a plan for $100 maximum monthly pen sions but it was turned down by the UAW as "unacceptable." Government mediators, entering for the first time, declared they would try to keep the talks going steadily through the night A wide gap was still reported between the company and union positions. To avert a strgte, the union said, Chrysler would have to agree to pay benefits worth 10 cents an hour to each worker. Roving Pickets Fan Idleness In Coal Fields PITTSBURH, Jan. 24-P)-Rov-ing pickets spread idleness through the soft coal fields today, raising the number of striking miners to nearly 75,000. About 14,000 more diggers join ed the "no contract no work" walkout The bulk of them are in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the two largest coal producing states. Miners who balked at facing pickets are among those who tried this week to obey United Mine of ficials' appeals for a return to work. More than 90,000 refused to work last week in apparent dis satisfaction over miners' failure to get a new contract They also want to work five days a week. They've been on a three day week on John L. Lewis' orders. Jury Selected ToTryCoplon NEW YORK, Jan. 24 -(JP) A jury of six men and six women was chosen today to try Judith Coplon and Valentin A. Gubitchev on charges of conspiring to spy for the Russians. Selection of the jury was com pleted at 4:30 p.m. on the opening of the triaL It came after the defense failed in a series of elev enth hour moves to delay the often-postponed triaL Three alternate jurors will be picked tomorrow. A representative of the Soviet embassy sat at the side of the Russian engineer Gubitchev as the long, involved process of choosing 12 jurors and three alternates got under way. Dallas Apartment Damaged by Fire DALLAS. Jan. 24 Fire today caused $3,000 damage In an apart ment nere. Sam Burck, owner of the prop erty, estimated damage to the building at $2,000. The tenant Mrs. Maude Crawford, listed her personal property loss at $1,000. The fire was believed caused by a defective pipe, which fell through the flue into Mrs. Craw ford's fireplace,' igniting an accum ulation of papers. Max. Mtn. Precis, - Tl - : Z4 .M ai ' u jo . Salrat J Portland San Francisco 49 43 J04 ' Chlcac o - 63 33 .15 Nw York 4S 41 .39 Willamette river 20 feet FORECAST (from U.S. weather bur eau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy with a few snow flurries today becdmlnf oloudy with intermittent snow tonight. High today near 30; low tonifht near 22. SALEM PRECIPITATION This year. Last year Normal 24 Jl 22.03 21J8 Extends Dates or Entry WASHINGTON. Jan. 24-W)-A bill to permit 320,000 displaced persons to enter this country by June 30, 1951, was approved by the senate judiciary committee to night. The total Includes the ap proximately 124,000 who already have entered. The present law authorizes the entry into the United States of only 205,000 persons in the two year period ending June 30, 1950. The committee, by a vote of 10 to 3, approved a bill which would make other changes In the present displaced persons law which Pres ident Truman has urged. Three-Tear Shift For one thing, it would shift the date by which displaced persons must have entered European DP camps to be eligible for entry Into this country. The date in the present law Is December, 1945. The bill which the committee approved would change that to Jan. 1, 1949. The committee's action was an nounced by Chairman McCarran (D-Nev), who termed the measure rf'generally satisfactory.' He said the action was taken by amending a measure already approved by the House in 10 or 12 places. McCarran Protests The agreement was reached in the eve of the date th? senate had ordered the committee to report out a DP bill. The order was is sued late in the last session. The House bill had been approved by the committee over the protests of McCarran, who was In Europe at the time. After a heated floor fight the senate sent the measure back to committee with instructions to bring out a bill by Jan. 25. The new bill is expected to be intro duced tomorrow. A bill sponsored by Rep. Celler (D-NY) and passed by the House last year would have permitted 339,000 displaced persons to enter the country by June 30, 1931. While 'the senate committee cut the total number, it adopted the eligibility date of Jan. 1. 1949 con tained in the Celler bill. Dairymen Take Stand on Three Issues EUGENE, Jan. 24-VThe Ore gon Dairymen's association took a stand on three controversial is sues here today. The dairymen, holding their 56th annual meeting, recommended: 1 Statewide labeling of the but ter content in all grade A milk. Delegates commented that some distributors have been pocketing profits on low-butterfat milk. 2 New support price structure on wheat so that dairymen can use wheat for cattle feed. 3 A premium of at least 3 cents per pound of butterfat for first grade milk and cream. The board of directors was in creased from 11 to 12. Four new members were named: Vernon de Long, La Grande; Floyd Bates, Sa lem; R. M. Lyon, Junction Cityl George Kruse, Mt AngeL Lamar Tooze May Oppose Sen. Morse PORTLAND. Jan. 24-MP)-Lam- ar Tooze, republican attorney here, may oppose Sen. Wayne Morse on the primary election ballot . ' Tooze said so many persons had urged him to run that he might change his previously announced decision not to oppose the sen ator. LEE ESTATE IN MILLIONS LOS ANGELES, .Jan. 24 -W- The estate of Tommy Lee, heir to an automobile and radio fortune who plunged to his death from a Wilshire boulevard tower January 13, today was valued at $9,410,- 429.12. New Plant Construction Will Begin Immediately Construction of a new Salem aluminum products factory will begin immediately, it was an nounced Tuesday by James L. Payne, Salem architect for West ern Aluminum Corp. Contract for initial construction work was awarded yesterday to Viesko and Post Salem contract ing firm, by Carl V. Amussen, president of the new manufactur ing corporation and head of the Norpac, Inc., distributing firm for aluminum building supplies. - Viesko and Post entered low bid among five Salem bidders on the project but the amount of the bids was not disclosed. The initial con tract calls fox foundation, footing Ril odd 5 mm ao om Wage Law Mow ion Effect Passes r SILVEETON George Warren Hubbft, 9, prominent Silvertoa aad Marion county leader, wb died Tuesday from heart ail ment (Story page 1L) Portland Store Shattered By Explosion PORTLAND. Jan. U-fBK-kn ex plosion blasted a grocery store to ' pieces today, but somehow rpred three persons in the middle of it It blew a passing truck off the street and shattered neighborhood windows. It knocked a man out of bed two blocks away. It was felt a mile distant Yet Mrs. Clara Emery, hert daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mann, who were living in the rear of the one-story frame building, escaped with only super ficial cuts. ' ; The Immediate force of the ex plosion apparently was upward. Mann said he saw the davenport and roof fly up. The davenport went higher. It came down atop the splintered roof. Leaking gas was blamed. It went off with such force that only small pieces of the building fell on the family. The store was a $13,000 loss. Flat Tire Forces Plane to Make " 700-Mile Detour SEATTLE, Jan. U-iJPhA north bound airliner flew 700 miles south from Alaska today because of a flat tire. . The tire blew out as a Mt Mc Kinley Airways plani was taking off from Annette Island, near Ketchikan, with seven passengers. It was headed for Anchorage. Instead, Pilot R. P. Baker of Seattle returned south for a land ing with crash and fire crews standing by at Boeing field here. He made straight and safe land ing despite the tire pulL Fire Out of Control In Canadian Town THORNHILL. Ontario, (Wed nesday), Jan. 25-vfHFire which apparently started in tne inorn hill hotel early today was raging out of control in this village of 600 residents 10 miles north of Toronto. Emergency calls were sent out to neighboring municipalities. Three fire trucks rushed from Toronto while other equipment came from Aurora, north of here. Telephone lines were cut in the blaze but one operator said it ap peared "the whole village is on reports listed no casual ties. and steel erection. The new industry for Salem has ordered $100,000 worth of mach f or delivery within a month, inerv which Amussen said is ready Plans call for a 120 by 77 foot one-story building, facing South 13th street at the corner of Lewis street Included will be a 27 by 40 foot office space Off-street park ing is planned and three sides of the building will have 18-foot overhead doors suitable for truck loading. - The plant will manufacture alu minum roofing, siding, insulation and other building materials made from aluminum sheeting produced in the Pacific northwest ' Truman Hails 'Progress in Social Justice' WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 (Wed nesday) -05V The new ?5-cent minimum wage law went into ef fect today with the blessing of President Truman. ' The president hailed the chang es in the 12-year old wage-hour law as being 'dictated by social justice' and a step that will bring "great and lasting benefits." - ! -Our progress in this field," Mr. : Truman's statement said, "points ' the way for our future action. Wa shall not relax in our efforts to provide a better life for all our - . , people. ' - - . :l7)i Per CentBeosi i The 75-cent hourly minimum ,' . wage Is an 87 ft per cent boost: from the old law's 40-cent mini- V mum. It applies, as do all the law' provisions, to workmen employed in interstate commerce or in pro duction of goods for commerce. This and other changes repre sent a general overhauling of rh new deal law which established a : floor under wages, a 40-hour ceil- . ing on the regular work week, and restrictions on employment at child labor. Two CIO union leaders, Jacob Potofxky of the clothing workers and Emit Rieve of the textile workers, also hailed the new wage- , . hour law. But they coupled it wit a caU for an early effort to boost the minimum again, this time to m zi&t dollar an hour. Both also called for broadened coverage of lw Tobla Asked to Check Perhaps with these new union demands In mind, Mr. Truman said he has asked Secretary of La bor Tobin to "keep me informed on the operation of the new law.. The changes exempt somewhere between 200,000 and 1.Q00.000 workers previously covered. Thia Is done through changes in legal language which the court eventu ally will have to interpret The law i will continue to cover about 22,- "i 000,000 workers., Russians Turn Back Berliners oint HELMSTEDT, Germany. Jan. At Checkp 24 -(JP)- The Russians began turn ing back Berlin-bound passenger cars carrying bundles and mar- -ketable merchandise at this check point on the Autobahn tonight At the same time they contin ued their slow-motion checking of , east-bound truck traffie through the second day. West-bound truck traffic from Berlin was going through with out a hitch. So was passenger and freight train traffic. But trucks coming from Berlin were fewer, partly because there are fewer getting through from the west Most of those making the return trip were empties. , Also the two-mile-long queue on. the west side of the barrier' was not growing so rapidly. There was evidence many shippers were waiting to see what happened. There still was no official ex planation for the slow-dowa blockade. Allied officials in Ber lin believed it was a reprisal for seizure last week of the Soviet supervised railway administration building, in the American sector a seizure by West Berlin police" that was rescinded four days later i by the U. S. Berlin commandant, s Ma J. Gen. Maxwell" D. Taylor. Some German customs officials) ' said the slow-down appeared due . simply to the inexperience of new . squads of checkers, who were fol lowing all old orders and instruc tions to the letter. ' Bateson on Tour To Plan Census . Cornelius Bateson of Pratum, Salem district supervisor for the. 1950 federal census, is this week visiting several communities in the district to lay plans for the com ing census work. , lie planned to be out of Salem the remainder of the week, visit ing towns in the five-county "dis trict including Marion, Polk, Lin coln, Benton and Clackamas coun ties. ' . f - V '; . W1DXALL WINS NOMINATIOlf ' HACKENSACK, N. J, Jan. 24 OF). William B. Widnall, a state legislator who bucked the GOP organization, today won the re publican nomination for the con gressional seat vacated by im prisoned J. ParneU Thomas. v.